Chapter 164: Secret layout

Chen Ying'er was very sad, and she couldn't say anything.

How bad is she compared to Princess Jiangdu? What is different is not the identity. She knew that Xiao Fan was not a person who valued his wife's identity. At that time, he fought against the Chen family and almost left the streets without food and clothing. He also had to take care of the life of a little beggar. At that time, he did not know that the little beggar was the identity of a princess, but he still left the Chen family without hesitation.

In his eyes, identity is nothing!

Chen Ying'er asked herself countless times these days, where is the difference between him and Princess Jiangdu? Why did Princess Jiangdu come from behind and gain Xiao Fan's favor, but she still guards the dark days and sigh alone?

After thinking about it for many days, Chen Ying'er finally figured it out.

She was not alone in her normal heart, she was not alone in her heart in her heart with too much resentment and self-pride. In the face of feelings, she was a completely weak person, and she was not as direct and fanatical as Princess Jiangdu, and she could only try to pretend to be a strong person to maintain the dignity that was tortured day and night in her heart.

She's so different...

Now, she wanted to change herself, and she suddenly recalled what she said to Princess Jiangdu, "Is face that important than the happiness of her life?"

Jiang Du listened to her words and did it without hesitation. She temporarily gave up the face of her daughter's family and reaped happiness.

Chen Ying'er also decided to do what she said. - I hope it's not too late, I hope this unfaithful person can still have a lot tolerate her former fiancée.

The hatred that used to be was already the past. When facing Xiao Fan, she found that she could not even hate her.

This is a woman's sorrow, perhaps also a woman's fate...

Youyou sighed, Chen Ying'er straightened her back. She decided to be a strong woman and a woman that Xiao Fan cannot live without. Whether it is public or private, Xiao Fan feels that she is indispensable. Only in this way can she truly enter Xiao Fan's heart.

"Okay, after talking about private matters, Lord Xiao, let's talk about official affairs now." Chen Ying'er's resentful expression instantly turned into a smart and capable strong woman.

Xiao Fan opened his eyes wide and looked at her with his mouth wide open: "..."

What material does a woman make? She changes her face when she says she changes her face. She just accused him of losing her virginity, and now she immediately talks about business affairs calmly...

Such a jumping rhythm made Xiao Fan very uncomfortable...

Seeing Xiao Fan's stunned look, Chen Ying'er couldn't help but laugh a few times, still with a pretty face, saying, "My Lord Xiao means that my Chen family business wants me to gradually grasp the grain procurement matters of Peking Mansion in my hands?"

"Ah? Ah..." Xiao Fan was wandering...

Chen Ying'er impatiently tapped the desk in front of him and said seriously: "Sir, the young lady is talking to you about business now. Please concentrate?"

"Ah! OK, okay!... Yes, what you have to do now is to gradually move the focus of the Chen family business northward, and it is best to take root in Peking Prefecture, establish good relationships with local governments, gentry, and even the people of the Yan Prince's Mansion, and lay a foundation for personal connections..."

"Then what?"

"Then send someone with strong trust from his subordinates to approach the King of Yan and negotiate with him about food trading. There is a shortage of grain in Peking, and... and the King of Yan has made plans in the past two years and will inevitably hoard large amounts of grain. He will definitely welcome the merchants selling grain to him. You can easily take this deal and gradually monopolize the grain supply of Peking Prefecture. But the difficult thing is that it is not easy to gain the trust of King of Yan. It depends on you to find a way. The Jinyiwei cannot come forward in this matter, so he can only help secretly, otherwise it will cause the King of Yan to suspicion."

Chen Ying'er curled her lips and said, "Monopolize the grain supply of Peking Mansion? I have a big appetite. How can I eat these dozens of boats with my Chen family rice shop?"

Xiao Fan smiled and said, "So I said that your scale should be expanded, buy ships, hire people, drive, and go on land. If the Chen family has capital, you might as well invest all of them and cooperate with the government. The risks can be minimized. You don't have to worry about losing money. With the Jinyiwei supporting your Chen family, the government will not dare to make things difficult for you or exploit you. Everything will go smoothly, but when you go to the north, everything depends on yourself."

Chen Yinger nodded: "How long should a woman do these things?"

"You only have half a year to establish relationships with the Yanwang Mansion and the government in Peking, open up the joints of the governments at all levels to the south of the Beiping Mansion, and then spend another half a year to sell grain to the King of Yan, gain the trust of the King of Yan with practical actions, and form good goodwill."

"What effect do adults want to achieve?"

Xiao Fan raised a sneer on his lips: "When I decided to cut off the food route, the soldiers under the King of Yan must go hungry. The court will not waste any casualties and remove firewood from the cauldron. This is the effect I want to achieve."

Chen Ying'er looked at Xiao Fan who was full of confidence and exuded a majestic momentum invisibly. He was in control of power, as if he had decided on the life and death of thousands of living beings. Chen Ying'er was drunk and murmured: "Xiao Fan, you... are more mature than before."

Xiao Fan's sneer suddenly turned into a embarrassed look: "Is this... the truth or the scene?"

Chen Ying'er chuckled, gave him a small glance and said, "Just treat it as a folk girl, and forget it after hearing it."

Xiao Fan was very obedient and immediately forgot about it, and then said, "...The King of Yan knew my origin and my relationship with the Chen family. Therefore, when you send someone to the north, you cannot call the name of the Chen family's business. It is best to hang the name on the person below. The further the relationship, the better, so as not to doubt the King of Yan..."

"Are you happy with Princess Jiangdu?" Chen Ying'er interrupted Xiao Fan's words with slightest touch.

Xiao Fan blurted out: "It's so happy, the place I broke yesterday... The Jinyiwei will send experts to protect your subordinates' safety. You don't have to worry about your subordinates' safety issues..."

Speaking of this, Xiao Fan immediately stopped talking, stared at Chen Ying'er with a black thread, and said in a deep voice: "Are you talking about business or private matters now?"

Chen Ying'er chuckled and covered her mouth and said, "You are more interesting than before..."

Xiao Fan didn't say anything with a dark face: "..."

He now seriously suspects that this woman came to tease him today.

"If the civilian girl stops supplying grain to Beiping Prefecture, won't the officials and grain merchants from Henan, Shandong and Shanxi continue to supply grain to Beiping? In this case, what's the use of the civilian girl doing?"

"Ah?" Xiao Fan opened his mouth wide again, looking dumb.

Chen Ying'er knocked on the desk and said with a pretty face: "Can you concentrate? You are talking about business now."

Xiao Fan felt a little congested...

"I... will control the governments and grain merchants in the three places!" Xiao Fan said word by word.

Chen Ying'er nodded and said lightly: "In this way, the folk girl is relieved and can let go..."

After spending a whole morning, Xiao Fan finally finished his business, and Chen Ying'er also stood up to say goodbye.

Xiao Fan breathed a sigh of relief. It was a torture to talk to a woman about serious matters.

Looking at Chen Ying'er with a graceful figure walking out the door, Xiao Fan blinked and his prank was suddenly intrigued.

"Miss Chen..." Xiao Fan stopped her.

Chen Ying'er turned around and raised her fine eyebrows slightly.

Xiao Fan sat calmly behind the desk and said seriously: "...the eyebrows are sparse but not condensed, the legs are spread apart, the eyes are impure, and the face is full of love. These characteristics... are used to judge a virgin and have nothing to do with a virgin. Don't make common sense mistakes in the future."

Chen Ying'er pursed her lips and said, "Then... how to judge a virgin?"

"It's easy to tell, virgins have a film..." Xiao Fan said seriously.

Chen Ying'er opened her eyes wide in disbelief: "Men have... films?"

"There is a film!" Xiao Fan nodded authoritatively like an expert.

"Then... do you still have a membrane?"

Xiao Fan suddenly became melancholy: "It's gone... I just disappeared yesterday."

Chen Ying'er's pretty face was full of confusion and thought for a long time, and finally she looked stern and said with a little angrily: "Mr. Xiao, who do you think you are? What's the matter with me if you have any membranes? Do you think I am the kind of casual frivolous woman? Bah! I'll give me a disciple!"

After saying that, Chen Ying'er shook her sleeves hard and left quickly.

Xiao Fan stared at the empty door for a while, murmured innocently: "...I'm not literate for you? You are generous when you talk about virginity. Why did I become a disciple when I talk about this? What an unreasonable crazy woman!"

Chen Ying'er angrily left the gate of the Jinyiwei Fushimen. Her pretty face was frosted and her face was red. She put down the curtains of pearls and jade inlaid, and the sedan chairman carried the sedan chair forward.

In the trembling sedan chair, Chen Ying'er's anger suddenly changed, then she laughed out loud, with a faint blush on her face, and her snow-white teeth bit her lower lip and murmured: "Men... have that kind of thing? Could this guy be lying to me?"

With a slender hand, Chen Ying'er said coldly: "Stop the sedan."

The sedan chair stopped on the side of the road. Wang Gui, the manager of Taifeng Rice Store, came forward and asked respectfully through the curtain: "Does the shopkeeper have any instructions?"

Chen Ying'er said coldly: "Wang Gui, you will send a thousand stones of rice to Peking Mansion tomorrow. You will follow the grain team yourself. I want you to do something big."

"Yes, the shopkeeper. I wonder which company sells this thousand stone rice to Peking Mansion?"

Chen Ying'er's cold tone was a bit mysterious, and she said, "This thousand stone rice will not be sold! After you arrive in Peiping Prefecture, give it to the King of Yan..."

Wang Gui was shocked and said, "Shopkeeper, this is a thousand stone of rice! Free gift?"

"Free gift!" Chen Ying'er's tone was extremely firm.

Wang Gui heard Chen Ying'er's determination through the curtain. He didn't dare to ask more questions at the moment, and hurriedly replied: "Yes."

"Don't use the name of the Chen family business. You once caught the monk Daoyan in the Mixing store. He may know you. You arranged for a dough-dished person to deliver the food. After delivering the food, you should open a new business in Peking. Remember, that business has nothing to do with my Chen family business. Do you understand what I mean?"

Wang Gui's heart was thrilled, and he didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly said, "I understand, the shopkeeper."

Chen Ying'er hesitated for a moment and asked coldly with a little shyness: "There is another thing, your Wang Gui is thirty years old this year? Haven't married yet?"

Wang Gui was stunned and bowed and said, "Yes."

"Uh...Is your membrane still there?"

Wang Gui was stunned: "What membrane? I don't have one..."

After a moment of silence, Chen Ying'er's angry shout suddenly came out: "Shameless! Be more ignorant! Where is the membrane going? Get out! Get away! A slutty man! - Get out of the sedan!"

The sedan chair continued to move forward tremblingly, Wang Gui opened his mouth silly, stood in the middle of the road, crying without tears...

June 18, 19th year of Hongwu.

King Zhu Di of Yan was ordered to lead dozens of thousands of households and houses in Henan, Shandong and Shanxi, and more than 80,000 officers and soldiers, and quickly marched northward to lift the siege of Beiping.

The 100,000 Yan soldiers trapped in Beiping City, led by Zhang Yu, the commander of the left guard of the Yan Prince's Mansion, went against the passive defensive momentum, cooperated with the Yan King Zhu Di, and attacked from both sides, defeating the Beiyuan Qierjis tribe. In this battle, more than 10,000 young men in the Qierjis tribe were killed in battle, and the rest were all defeated to Taining in the north. The leader of the tribe Gui Li was naked and was injured. He was rescued by his subordinates, fled into the grassland and desert, and retreated without a trace.

The Beiping army was in danger, and it was completely resolved on the first day after Zhu Di led his troops to Beiping City.

As Zhu Di expected, he won a great victory in this battle.

When Zhu Yuanzhang reported to the war army, he arrived at the capital. He was overjoyed and issued an order to reward the three armies.

Half a month later, Wuding Marquis Guo Ying rushed to Beiping under the order and gathered 80,000 officers and soldiers from Henan, Shandong and Shanxi in three places, leading the officers and soldiers out of Beiping Prefecture, and placed the 80,000 officers and soldiers in Zhangde, Henan, Weinan, Shandong, and Taiyuan, Shanxi respectively. More than 20,000 new houses were built at the junction of the three places and Beiping Prefecture, and thoroughly implemented Zhu Yuanzhang's orders. The three places were semicircular, forming a semi-encircle vaguely encircled the Beiping Prefecture. Once there was a change in Beiping, these 80,000 officers and soldiers could attack Beiping's Yan Palace in the shortest time.

King of Yan Zhu Di did not say anything about this situation, and he still trained and led troops as usual, as if he did not understand Zhu Yuanzhang's warning to him, and his words and deeds were not abnormal.

The court in the capital has been peaceful these days. Qingliu and the "treacherous parties" led by Xiao Fan, as well as those fencemen, as well as the nobles, all remained calm, or had differences due to political affairs. Qingliu and the treacherous parties seemed to have made an appointment and compromised and concessions were taken at the same time.
To be continued...