There are always sick girls with ill intentions towards me.

Chapter 117 Do you want a hat?

"The Emperor summoned you back to the capital?"

Li Lingge was a little curious. Jiang Li shouldn't be in the capital at this time.

Jiang Li shook his head gently and looked up at the bright moon in the sky.

"I returned to Beijing secretly."

Hearing this, Li Lingge turned around again.

Jiang Li joined the Southern Border Army three years ago and was the person arranged by the Emperor to succeed their Li family.

His father had obviously reached some kind of agreement with the emperor. Over the past three years, he had been helping Jiang Li build up his prestige in the army and gradually taking control of the southern army.

Today, the other party is able to stand on his own.

He didn't really dislike this successor.

After all, the emperor would only allow him to live if he left the southern border.

So it made no difference to him who succeeded Prince Wei's Mansion as the master of the southern army.

What's more, this person is his fellow disciple, so there couldn't be a better outcome than this.

"Leaving the station without permission and returning to Beijing privately is a serious crime. If someone with ulterior motives catches you, then—"

Before Li Lingge could finish his words, Jiang Li interrupted him.

"I have a reason to come back."

"What reason?"

"I--"

Jiang Li opened her red lips slightly, and then changed the subject.

"I want to know what exactly is the plan of the eldest brother for the two countries to negotiate and trade?"

At the beginning, when Li Lingge left the southern border, he asked her to petition the court to allow the two countries to negotiate and trade with each other.

Relying on her trust in Li Lingge, she did as she was told.

But Li Lingge did not say why he did this.

Of course, the final result was just as she expected, the memorial fell into oblivion.

I thought the matter was over, but I didn't expect that a few months ago, the court actually sent envoys to South Vietnam for peace talks.

Of course, the reason she returned to the capital this time was actually because she was worried that Li Lingge had died in the Tianshu Secret Realm.

Li Lingge leaned his arms against the window and bent slightly.

"I just want South Vietnam to change its ownership."

"South Vietnam...change of ownership?"

Hearing this, Jiang Li's heart was stirred.

The Great Chu and Nanyue were in a stalemate for decades, and even the father and son of the Li family died in battle in the south.

No one in the entire Great Chu dared to say something like changing the master of Nanyue.

Even though she had once fantasized about riding a horse to conquer the imperial city of Nanyue, when she thought about it carefully, it seemed too far-fetched.

"Where does Big Brother get such confidence?"

In her impression, this senior brother was only devoted to studying business and paid little attention to the war.

A war to annihilate a country can only be won by soldiers fighting with swords and guns, and cannot be bought with gold and silver.

Now that things have come to this, Li Lingge simply stopped pretending and came clean.

"I can completely cut off the food supply of the Western Zhou Dynasty."

"End of the Western Zhou Dynasty..."

Jiang Li didn't react at first. The two people were talking about Nanyue, so how did they suddenly mention the Western Zhou Dynasty?

But as the lord of the southern territory, she quickly understood the relationship.

Once she understood it, she understood everything, and she even figured out the whole story.

Gauze and Viet brocade are both specialties of South Vietnam, as both fabrics are woven from white jade silk.

The white jade silk only eats jade-leaf mulberry, a type of mulberry tree that can only be grown in South Vietnam.

Once the people of South Vietnam plant jade-leaf mulberry trees on a large scale, food will inevitably be in short supply.

By then, food became the lifeline of South Vietnam.

As long as this lifeline could be completely cut off, the South Vietnamese army, without food supplies, would be lambs to be slaughtered.

Nanyue borders Da Chu and Western Zhou. Da Chu can cut off Nanyue's food supply by prohibiting trade, and finally only Western Zhou will be left.

If the Western Zhou Dynasty also ran out of food, then Nanyue would be completely finished. But——

"What if South Vietnam restricts people from growing mulberry trees?"

If she could think of it, there was no way Wenren Houcong couldn't have thought of it.

As long as the people are restricted from planting mulberry trees and the farmland is guaranteed to be self-sufficient, everything she had just thought of will fall apart.

Li Lingge shook his head.

"You still don't understand human nature."

After a slight pause, he explained slowly.

“Since ancient times, the imperial power has not extended to the countryside. With huge profits, who would be willing to farm instead of growing mulberry trees?

Besides, do you think the people who want to plant mulberry trees are really ordinary people?"

It is impossible to ascend to heaven in a short period of time. Since he wants to support his junior brother to ascend to the throne, he has to say more things.

It is impossible that in the future you will only be able to go on wars and not be able to govern the country.

"The price of Vietnamese brocade has skyrocketed. The wealthy families in South Vietnam will certainly annex a large amount of land to make huge profits. By then, it will no longer be up to the emperor of South Vietnam to decide."

Jiang Li frowned slightly.

"They shouldn't dare to openly go against Wenren Houcong."

A gentle breeze blew by, and Li Lingge's hair fluttered slightly.

"Most of the court officials come from aristocratic families. This is not a confrontation between the aristocratic families and the emperor, but a confrontation between the officials and the emperor."

Jiang Li felt as if he had grasped something, but also as if he had grasped nothing.

She was really not good at these things in the court. If she could become the emperor, she would definitely capture the eldest brother and make him her "queen".

There is no need for the eldest senior brother to give her advice. She can just let the eldest senior brother supervise the country and she can go out to conquer all the countries.

Li Lingge didn't know that during this time, Jiang Li had even thought of what to name their future child.

Seeing that she still seemed to understand, Li Lingge continued.

"The aristocratic family is permanent, but the dynasty is transient. They don't care what happens to Wenren Houcong. Even if Nanyue is destroyed, what does it have to do with them?"

As long as there is enough benefit, they will flock to it.

Dynasties change, but the families remain the same.

Even if the rule of Nanyue changes, it will still have to rely on these aristocratic families in the future.

Moreover, he was well aware of South Vietnam's current predicament.

It costs money to build palaces, it costs money to guard against the Great Chu, it costs money to fight against Japanese pirates, it costs money to repair river embankments, and it costs money to provide disaster relief.

The national treasury was empty and the Emperor of Nanyue was in desperate need of money.

Although the treasury of the Great Chu was also weak, it was much stronger than that of the South Yue. At least it had surplus every year and no deficit.

It's not easy for Yan Donglou to be a cabinet minister. If he can't come up with the money, Wenren Houcong will probably raid his house the next moment.

So, he didn't need to go to South Vietnam to do anything.

As long as the big-sleeved shirt becomes popular in Da Chu, the entire South Vietnam will move forward according to his ideas.

Even if he wanted to stop now, the other party would not agree.

Jiang Li pondered for a moment, with only one last question left in his mind.

"Then what method do you have to cut off the food supply to Xi Zhou?"

Li Lingge raised his hand and pointed at the starry sky.

"The weather is good."

Seeing that Jiang Li wanted to ask more questions, he waved his finger.

"The secret cannot be leaked."

Originally, he thought that he would die at the hands of Chu Feng after entering the capital.

So he has basically explained all the follow-up matters.

However, he did not tell the specific reason.

You can't say that he has read the plot in the book, so he can predict the future.

Now, he has told Jiang Li the whole story, and the only thing left is to write on his face that he can predict the future.

As if he had thought of something, he raised his head slightly and looked towards Jiang Li's forehead.

"Would you like me to give you a hat?"

(End of this chapter)