I was a prince in ancient times

His inheritance is everywhere.

No wonder it has been able to subsidize the national treasury from the private treasury.

It seems that his second brother is a hidden business genius. If these brothers in front of him had been alert, they would not have come to him to beg for food.

Xie Anlan paused for a moment, looked at Xie Guanchao, who was pressing his chest, and was on the ground slowly, and asked, "Fifth brother, are you okay?"

Xie Guanchao slowly opened his eyes wide, looked at him with a little horror, and said slowly, "Don't...don't call me brother."

Before Xie Anlan finished speaking, his face turned pale again, "I'll call you brother."

At the end, he nodded affirmatively, "Yes, from now on I will call you brother, Seventh Brother."

"Don't..." Xie Anlan felt uncomfortable when he called him brother, "Fifth brother, I won't."

"As for." Xie Guanchao seemed to have recollected the blow just now, stood up, pulled Xie Anlan's sleeve, and said eagerly, "Seventh brother, why don't you see me return the saddle business to you, and you take Return my wasteland?"

As long as you can return my iron ore, don't call me brother, you can call me dad.

Facing his hopeful eyes, Xie Anlan mercilessly cut off his thoughts, "Fifth Brother, do you think it's possible?"

of course……

impossible!

Xie Guanchao is not a fool, if he gets an iron mine for nothing, he will definitely hold it tightly in his hands, and no one will give it to him.

But... don't you still have some possible thoughts in your heart.

"There is no other room for negotiation..." Xie Guanchao felt that Xie Anlan was not a stingy person. He would not say anything to himself about a business as big as a saddle. It was unreasonable for such a large iron mine to be monopolized by himself. Bar.

He personally sent someone to measure the wasteland, and he knew how big it was. It was unrealistic for Xie Anlan to occupy it all by himself.

Besides, can the second brother agree?

"No." Xie Anlan was very ruthless, "Second brother has already promised to give me the iron ore, fifth brother, give up."

When Xie Guanchao heard that even Xie Cangming agreed, his ears were shocked, his eyes were dull, and he murmured, "How is it possible, how is it possible, how is it possible."

It would be fine if Xie Cangming would agree to other things, but this is iron ore.

The Yong Dynasty fought repeatedly, and it was not clear to him how much iron the court was short of. How could Xie Cangming surrender such a huge iron mine?

Xie Guanchao really couldn't figure it out.

Not only did he not understand, Xie Anlan and other brothers, even the entire court did not understand.

When His Majesty told the story of cotton and iron ore in the court hall this morning, he directly blew up the people in the court hall.

First, they congratulated His Majesty on his acquisition of cotton, and then when they heard that His Majesty gave the iron ore to Prince Chen, they immediately wanted to say something sweet to His Majesty.

An emperor who can even give away iron ore for nothing, can he be a Mingjun?

He is even more stupid than his father, the emperor who likes wine pools and meat forests.

But they only praised His Majesty. He was diligent and conscientious when he took office, and he worked hard for governance.

All the courtiers were quite depressed, and Xie Cangming felt uncomfortable looking at those melancholy little eyes, so they retreated early.

"His Majesty."

When Xie Cangming went down to court, Queen Ran Ruyan rushed over upon hearing the news. Xie Cangming hadn't explained this to her yet, and she was also in the dark.

"Yan'er is here." Xie Cangming saw the Queen's whole body relaxed, pulled her over, raised his eyebrows, and said a little happily, "It just so happened that Li Youqian sent over the gambling book from a while ago, let me take a look together."

Ran Ruyan wanted to ask him about the iron mine, but after hearing what he said, she had no choice but to put the matter aside and go through the account books with him.

"This is a bet on what the seventh brother got this time?" Ran Ruyan was surprised, and flipped through the thick account book, "There are quite a lot of people betting."

"Well, Seventh Brother caught many people by surprise this time. Some bet on the military and some gambling shops, but there were few people betting on the clothes. We bet one and paid three, and we made a lot of money." When Xie Cangming spoke, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, anyone with a discerning eye could tell that he was very happy.

Ran Ruyan didn't want to spoil his interest, but she gritted her teeth when she thought of what her father asked someone to ask, "Your Majesty, why is the iron mine..."

"I have my own concerns about the iron mine." Xie Cangming raised his hand, interrupting her questioning.

"Yan'er," Xie Cangming called out, and then said slowly, "Do you think that since the seventh brother got married last year, has he done any useless things?"

Ran Ruyan lowered his head and thought for a while, but he really didn't. Although he made everything to make money, it also greatly facilitated the people of the Yong Dynasty.

"Seventh Brother, he has a delicate and exquisite heart, and he can always turn decay into magic." Seeing her like this, Xie Cangming chuckled, "This time he took the initiative to ask me for this iron ore, I miss him I’m afraid I’m going to have to toss again on this iron.”

"As long as he wants to give it to him, it's better than us holding it. This iron is better than iron." Xie Cangming said with his eyes slightly raised, with a sense of strategic planning.

Apart from being able to make a bunch of iron products, what else can iron do?

Ran Ruyan frowned slightly, took a deep breath, and said tentatively, "But... Your Majesty is not worried... worried..."

Rebellion, she couldn't say those two words no matter what.

This is suspected of provoking His Majesty's siblings, so I can only speak vaguely.

"Don't worry." Xie Cangming shook his head, "If he has that kind of thought, he doesn't have to wait until today. I think he just wants to earn more money just like his brother."

"Alright," said Xie Cangming with a smile, not as cold as before, like a ruthless emperor, "repaying his favor of gunpowder, and allowing him to increase taxes for the Yongchao treasury."

"Tax increase?" Ran Ruyan didn't understand what Xie Cangming was talking about.

Xie Cangming took out a booklet from the imperial table, and handed it to her to read, "This is the commercial tax paid by the seventh brother and the others in recent months, as well as the commercial tax from all over the country, compiled by the household department. Take a look."

At this time, Xie Cangming did not have the idea that he would not be able to interfere in politics without the harem at all, but was like an ordinary couple, talking with his wife about the big and small things at home and abroad.

Ran Ruyan opened the thick memorial and frowned slightly when she saw the long string of numbers inside.

No matter how ignorant she is about state affairs, she also knows that the national treasury is now depleted. The little tax collected by the Ministry of Households every year is enough to pay the salaries of the government and the opposition. Now it is only a short year, and the tax on it seems to be alive. , more than doubled.

"Encouraging businessmen from all over the world to build cement roads, and now roads are being built everywhere in the Yong Dynasty, which greatly promotes the development of commerce, not to mention other places, but once the cement road outside the imperial capital is repaired, many people in the outskirts of the imperial capital are here There are stalls on both sides of the concrete road selling some of their own fruits and vegetables, not to mention how many merchants will move after hearing the news of this road? The business tax will naturally increase." Seeing that she was puzzled, Xie Cangming took the initiative to talk to her in a good mood.

Hearing his explanation, Ran Ruyan instantly understood that the economic downturn in the Yongchao Dynasty was because the Yongchao shopping mall was like a pool of stagnant water, motionless, but now the road construction has completely stirred up the stagnant pool of water, and the tax revenue has also been reduced. Followed live.

Ran Ruyan rolled her eyes, "Your Majesty gave the iron ore to the seventh brother because of this intention?"

Xie Cangming hummed lightly, "When the iron ore came into my hands, it was also handed over to the people below. Their group of people has always been colluding, colluding, and all their thoughts are spent on how to hide from me. It's better to leave it to the seventh brother, at least he won't hide anything from me when the iron ore is in his hands."

Xie Cangming narrowed his eyes slightly, the bureaucratic system of the Yong Dynasty has long been rotten from the root.

Wanting to dig out these rotten meat is not a matter of one day and one day, and it will affect the whole body. Even if he is the Ninth Five Supreme, he dare not act rashly.

"Your Majesty has worked hard these years." Ran Ruyan felt a little sour in her heart. For this precarious dynasty, His Majesty has paid too much in these years.

"No... hard work." Xie Cangming's eyes darkened, and he replied with a bit of gritted teeth.

Quickly changed the subject, "Let's not talk about this, the proton from the Grassland Department will arrive in the imperial capital in two days, and I need to trouble you to make some arrangements."

In Prince Chen's Mansion, Xie Guanchao hugged Xie Anlan's arm and begged for a day, but he didn't let Xie Anlan loose his lips.

Completely played a rogue, wherever Xie Anlan went, he would follow.

"Fifth brother, you sent the land yourself, or you delivered it to the door yourself, so just be generous and don't pester the seventh brother." Xie Qiongxi hugged Du Ling with great difficulty, watching Xie Guanchao eat the turtle , smiling happily.

For three whole months, for three months, Xie Guanchao took the matter of the 1 taels a month and took turns showing it off in front of them.

Now the feng shui has turned, and the deserted wasteland has become a valuable iron mine. The words he used to show off are like slaps one after another, slapping his face hard, to see if he will take this matter in the future talk about things.

"Yeah, fifth brother, think about it, if you don't trade with seventh brother, you are still holding on to that piece of wasteland doing nothing, and now at least you can still earn a few hundred thousand taels of silver a year. Not bad, we want to pay back No." Xie Guangchi changed his position and thought about it, and felt that Xie Guanchao was not at a disadvantage.

After all, the iron ore was in the hands of Xie Guanchao, and the second brother might not give it to him, maybe he didn't have the current treatment.

"You said it lightly. That's iron ore, iron ore, iron ore. If you don't have one, of course you can say these words lightly. If you did, I think you can still laugh." Xie Guanchao's heart was glowing. Blood, I wish I could go back in time and strangle the self who gave up the iron mine to death.

"Fifth brother's matter is over, sorry." Xie Anlan listened silently, no matter what he slobbered, he stood still.

"You will lose my brother like this." Xie Anlan didn't let go after a day of grinding, and Xie Guanchao knew in his heart that there was a high probability that the iron mine would not come back, but he was just vaguely unwilling.

The third concubine came to Xie Anlan's house for the first time, and the unfamiliar environment made her cautious, and she didn't say much. When she heard Xie Guanchao's words, she finally couldn't help laughing, "He has many brothers, and he doesn't miss you. It doesn't hurt to lose one or two."

This knife stabbed straight into Xie Guanchao's heart.

"Anyway, if you don't change back, seventh brother, I will follow wherever I go in the future, and I will annoy you to death." Xie Guanchao had no choice but to threaten and lure like this.

However, Xie Anlan didn't like him at all, "If Brother Wu isn't bothering you, please go ahead."

Now that the sky was getting dark, Xie Anlan couldn't let these brothers and sisters-in-law who had helped him talk about Xie Guanchao all day go back on an empty stomach, so a meal was set up in the main hall.

After eating, several brothers and sisters-in-law left one after another, but Xie Guanchao sat motionless.

"Fifth brother really won't come back?" Xie Anlan cast a sideways glance at him.

"No." Xie Guanchao was determined.

After a day, the fifth princess was already sore, and she felt a little ashamed of Xie Guanchao's shameless behavior, and advised, "Why don't you come back, Your Highness, and let's pretend that we have never had this iron mine before."

As she said that, she couldn't help but her eyes were sore and red, and her heart felt like colic, but fortunately, she still wanted to show her face, and she was not as rascal as Xie Guanchao.

"If you want to go back, I won't go back anyway." Xie Guanchao was determined to follow Xie Anlan until he annoyed him, until he returned the iron ore to him.

"Then...then I'll go back to the mansion first." The fifth princess really couldn't persuade him, the sky was getting darker and darker, and the eyes of the servants of Chen Wang's mansion were getting more and more strange, she really couldn't hold back her face , I feel ashamed and flustered if I stay a little longer.

Xie Guanchao hummed, and ignored her, just staring at Xie Anlan.

"Your Highness..." Lu Chengjie panicked when he saw that the fifth concubine really didn't care about the fifth prince, how to deal with this.

Xie Anlan raised her eyelids calmly, and said calmly, "Don't worry about him, let's see how long he can follow."

After finishing speaking, Xie Anlan put down the teacup, got up and pulled Lu Cheng's boat to take a bath.

Sure enough, as soon as they moved, Xie Guanchao followed them, using the dog skin plaster to the extreme.

When he reached the bathing pool door, Xie Anlan paused and sneered at the people who were following him who were about to follow them in, "Fifth brother, I will take a bath with my princess and you have to follow."

Xie Guanchao's face turned red in an instant, and he said sullenly, "Even if I don't go in, I will stick to you outside the door."

"Okay." Xie Anlan raised his eyebrows, dropped a word, and really led Lu Chengjiao into the bath.

Lu Chengjie pushed him, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, it's not good for us to bully Fifth Brother like this."

"There's nothing wrong with that. You have to deal with people like this." Xie Anlan thought it was nothing, so she tore off her belt and entered the bath.

Lu Chengjie lowered his eyelashes, remained silent for a while, and finally couldn't think of a good way, so he had to follow Xie Anlan into the bathing pool.

After the two had finished washing, Xie Anlan suddenly whispered something into Lu Chengjiao's ear when they got out of the bath.

Lu Chengjiao's eyelashes trembled, the back of his ears turned red, and he lowered his head and murmured, "I really want to do this."

"Yeah." Xie Anlan nodded, "If you want to let this kind of shameless person leave, you have to be even more shameless than him. Anyway, this is in our Chenwang Mansion, so don't be afraid of him."

"Okay." Lu Chengjiao nodded obediently, and immediately realized what he had promised, and the heat came straight from the back of his ears to his cheeks.

The two got out of the bath, Xie Guanchao really was still guarding them outside the bath, seeing them coming out, he showed them a simple and honest smile.

Xie Anlan, "Fifth brother, you really don't have to go back. I'll ask my servants to prepare a room for you. How about you go and rest."

"No, I'll follow you." Xie Guanchao refused relentlessly, as if following to Xie Anlan's bedroom, eating and sleeping with him.

Xie Anlan squinted at him, he was so shameless, he was still afraid that he would fail.

Embracing Lu Chengjiao who bowed his head and pretended to be a quail, he leaned over and kissed him on the forehead.

This bold move of his scared Xie Guanchao with a look of astonishment, he opened his lips and said for a long time, "You...do you know shame..."

Xie Anlan couldn't hold back a chuckle, "Fifth Brother, this is my Prince Chen's Mansion. Tonight it will be a full moon. My princess and I will spend the night together in my mansion. Why are you shameless?"

"On the other hand, fifth brother, you are shameless if you stay at someone else's house at such a late hour."

Xie Guanchao gritted his teeth, knowing that what Xie Anlan said was reasonable, but he was a little annoyed, and he didn't answer him. He just stayed here, and he couldn't believe that Xie Anlan could really do something in front of him.

Seeing him like this, Xie Anlan raised her eyebrows silently, and then as if he didn't exist, she pulled Lu Chengjiao over, held his face and kissed him.

At first, Lu Chengjiao was a little cautious. After all, there was a big living person next to him, so he couldn't ignore it.

However, Xie Anlan's offensive was so strong tonight that he had to blush and close his eyes.

He said silently in his heart, closing his eyes as if nothing had happened.

However, the disadvantage of closing the eyes is that the senses are wirelessly magnified.

The fiery touch between the lips and teeth, the sound of the two people's breathing intertwined, and the ambiguous sound of the tip of the tongue rolling, all stimulated him.

Gradually, Lu Chengjiao fell under Xie Anlan's offensive, his legs softened, and he collapsed into Xie Anlan's arms.

Sensing the actions of the person in her arms, Xie Anlan smiled lightly, picked him up, put him on her waist, and kissed him all the way back to the bedroom, without even giving Xie Guanchao a look.

Xie Guanchao's whole body was red from the head to the soles of his feet. While scolding Xie Anlan for being shameless in his heart, he followed up step by step in a daze.

He didn't believe that with him as an outsider, the two of them could really do something out of the ordinary, most likely it was just a show for him.

When they arrived at the dormitory, Xie Anlan kicked open the door of the dormitory, but did not close it, allowing Xie Guanchao to watch, the two kissed on the bed all the way, the clothes they just put on were still loose.

Lu Chengjiao's fingers lightly hooked the edge of Xie Anlan's collar, and the clothes slipped off, revealing his thin upper body.

Xie Anlan picked up Lu Chengjiao's black hair, followed his ears all the way down, covered Xie Guanchao's sight with her upper body, and kissed his back lightly.

Xie Guanchao followed behind them, seeing that the two had no tendency to stop, he was completely stunned.

"Cough cough cough-"

I really couldn't help but cough to remind the two of them that there is still a big living person here.

The two on the bed were hugging each other, inseparable, as if they didn't realize it, no matter how much he coughed, they just ignored him.

Until the clothes on Xie Anlan's body almost fell to the waist, Xie Guanchao finally couldn't take it anymore.

Blushing, she left the dormitory, kicked the door outside the dormitory unwillingly, and said angrily, "Xie Anlan counts you as ruthless, then I will give you the iron ore, you are ruthless, you win! "

After Xie Guanchao finished speaking, he left towards Chenwang's mansion. He was shameless and didn't like to watch his younger brother's erotic life. Xie Anlan was more open-minded than him, and he was willing to bow down.

As soon as he left, Xie Anlan got up from the bed and put the clothes back on his shoulders. Lu Chengjiao under him was not loose at all except that the clothes were a little messy.

Lu Chengjie covered his eyelids weakly with the back of his hand, still daring not to open his eyes.

Xie Anlan put on her clothes, saw that Xie Guanchao had really left, exhaled a breath, closed the door of the bedroom, and was silent for a while to Lu Chengjie who was on the bed.

"Are you okay?" Xie Anlan asked gently.

"It's okay." Lu Chengjiao opened his eyes tremblingly, his cheeks were still a little hot, he calmed down with his cool palms, and it took a long time for him to show signs of subsiding.

However, when he remembered that he and His Highness kissed from the bathtub back to the bedroom in front of Xie Guanchao, his face became uncontrollably hot again.

He took a few breaths of air, forcing himself to forget those images, and finally got better, but was broken by Xie Anlan's words.

"You look so cute when you blush."

Xie Anlan had been watching Lu Chengjiao's blushing cheeks for a long time, she couldn't help touching them with her fingertips, it was red and hot.

Xie Anlan didn't need to say it, Lu Chengjia could feel the fingers that were gradually turning red by him.

"Sleep..." After holding back for a while, Lu Chengjie choked out these two words.

"...Sleep." Xie Anlan agreed, and lowered her head to press her hot lips.

I don't know how long it took, Lu Chengjie took out a silk ribbon from under the pillow and tied his eyes.

He wanted to experience it again, the clearer touch.

The iron ore matter has been completely settled, and Xie Anlan is recruiting miners everywhere.

Miners in ancient times were not easy to recruit. They didn’t have any insurance, and they didn’t even have any protective measures when mining. They were only paid a few taels of silver when they died. Therefore, this industry has always been called coolies and is not treated by the world. See.

Except for those poor families who really can't survive, they will work as miners, and most people don't want to.

Therefore, many unscrupulous mine bosses even cooperate with human traffickers to deceive people when they really can't recruit people.

The lives of those who cheated in would suffer.

Apart from being able to barely eat every day, there is no wages at all, and no one collects the corpses after death, and throws them randomly in mines or in the mountains, allowing the coyote, tigers and wolves to eat them.

No matter how much Xie Anlan was a businessman, he would not be so cold-blooded and heartless.

Therefore, during the mining, someone was specially asked to analyze the mine, and strive to ensure the life safety of the miners during the mining process.

Instead of mining randomly like other businessmen, they don't take human lives seriously.

Then some simple protective measures were given to the miners.

Every miner recruited will undergo a seven-day escape and self-rescue training.

Even the treatment of each miner has been adjusted. In order not to disrupt the market, the salary remains the same, but a monthly subsidy called welfare is added.

Even the compensation for the accidental death of miners has been thought out.

And these will be written in the contract, signed and pledged with the miners.

It made all the staff say that Xie Anlan is kind-hearted, and this is not making money, it is clearly doing good deeds.

Xie Anlan just smiled, although doing all this will make him earn less, but he strives for peace of mind.

After arranging these things, Xie Anlan waved his hand and handed over all these matters to his subordinates.

And he got some pig iron alone, and ran to the glazed kiln that he hadn't stepped into for a long time.

After returning from Yicheng, he set up a kiln outside the imperial capital to burn colored glaze with quartz sand.

However, progress was very slow in the past few months, and Xie Anlan didn't rush.

Knowing that under the condition that nothing can be achieved by this process, it is not easy to burn crystal clear glass.

Craftsmen and craftsmen need to ponder bit by bit, and when the technology is fully understood, mass production can be performed.

He came here today because of another matter, he wanted to play some tricks on this iron.

When he returned from Liulichang, it was getting dark, and Lu Chengjiao was waiting for him at the gate of the palace.

The temperature in the imperial capital suddenly dropped in October, and Xie Anlan knew that he was afraid of the cold, so she jumped off the carriage, held his cold hand, and frowned, "Why don't you wait in the mansion and run out to do something. "

"I have something to tell you." Lu Chengjie bit his lip, ignoring the cold on his body.

"What's the matter?" Xie Anlan raised her eyebrows.

Lu Chengjie, "The proton from the Grassland Department has arrived in the imperial capital today."

"That's it?" Xie Anlan thought it was a big deal, and it was worth talking to herself impatiently at the door.

"The proton is not a prince, but a princess." Lu Chengjia felt the warmth in his palm, and his heart warmed up. "At the same time, a princess from Snow Country arrived."

"Then what's the matter?" Xie Anlan took him by the hand and entered the mansion without paying any attention.

作者有话要说：感谢在2020-07-1923:54:59~2020-07-2023:55:28期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

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