The Evil Emperor Pursues His Wife: Sheng Chong Shifei

Chapter 194

Shangguan Qing stayed in the palace and did not leave immediately, she still had to explain the future construction plan of the iron factory to Emperor Chu Huaitian.

"Recruiting refugees from the Jingdong area to build roads is only the first step. I hope to train them into qualified craftsmen who have a family and have a living craft. I believe that there will be very few people who will rebel. Through their words and deeds, the Jingdong area will also can stabilize."

Chu Huaitian nodded in agreement, and suddenly asked worriedly: "Will the new iron method be leaked?"

Shangguan Qing pointed to the plan and said: "I divided the ironmaking process into many steps, and let the workers be divided into groups to only be responsible for one of them, which can minimize the possibility of leaks. Even if the secrets are leaked in the future, the Jingcheng Iron Works will have a certain scale. Don’t be afraid of being overtaken.”

"Very good, very good." Chu Huaitian looked more and more satisfied with the proposal.

"It's all right, you let go and do it."

Shangguan Qing didn't agree immediately, but said in a very calm tone: "I have one more thing to say to Your Majesty, whether I will be in charge of the iron factory in the future depends on His Majesty's decision."

Chu Huaitian frowned into a word Sichuan.

"What's the matter?"

Shangguan Qing told her about the fact that the tenth prince Chu Qianren gave her the universe bag, and then said: "My grandfather said that this is not a secret, but I think such things should not be spread casually."

Shangguan Qing picked Chu Qianhan out and let Zhou Cang take the blame. Firstly, it could serve as a deterrent, and secondly, it was to explain the source of the intelligence, all in order to protect Chu Qianhan.

"Ten boy is really capable." Chu Huaitian's face was frighteningly cold.

Shangguan Qing clenched her fists in her sleeves, ready to deal with Chu Huaitian's attack at any time.

Chu Huaitian did not attack, but took out half of the Tiger Talisman from his sleeve and threw it over. Shangguan Qing caught it, and felt the pure vitality contained in the Tiger Talisman when his fingers touched it.

"This tiger talisman can summon a divine beast, a white tiger, to fight for you for a quarter of an hour. Besides, it can also store five thousand stones of grain, which can be fed by five thousand troops for half a year. Making tiger talismans is the secret of our Chu royal family. See the performance of the ten boys. Those brats should know about it."

Shangguan Qing put the Tiger Talisman in his sleeve, bowed together and said, "Thank you Father for your trustworthiness."

"Okay, that's great."

Chu Huaitian called Shangguan Qing to sit down and asked: "I still hope that you and the second boy will return to Beijing, but the second boy has a stubborn personality and it is difficult to turn back. What do you plan to do when you go to the Qiongya Army in the future?"

Shangguan Qing thought about it and told Chu Huaitian a story about a great voyage.

"The world is very big. According to records, there are five continents of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Ours is the continent of fire. If there is a chance, I would like to visit other continents."

Chu Huaitian was shocked by the story told by Shangguan Qing. The restoration of the Chu Kingdom is only the southeast corner of the Fire Continent. How vast the whole world will be.

When Shangguan Qing left, Chu Jiguan, who had just been demoted, came out from behind the screen and asked, "Why didn't Your Majesty kill her?" Seeing Chu Jiguan's demeanor, he was not at all disappointed by being demoted, on the contrary he was full of spirit.

"Zhou Cang is guarding outside, even if she is not the second boy's lover, I still want to save some face for Shenjitai." Chu Huaitian also weighed for a long time before making such a decision. "I plan to let you manage the salt and iron affairs after three years. In the past three years, Shangguan Qing has offended everyone. When you take over in the future, things will be much easier."

"Your Majesty is holy." Chu Jiguan remained calm on the surface, but his heart was indeed ecstatic.He had just heard a series of plans by Shangguan Qing, and he understood that this was a lucrative project. Shangguan Qing would spend three years trying to lay a solid foundation and hand it over to the court for management in the future.

As long as Chu Jiguan doesn't make mistakes, he will be a great achievement. When the iron factory becomes independent and becomes one of the main sources of income for the imperial court in the future, his name will go down in history. Who would remember a little girl named Shangguan Qing.

Compared to those courtiers who can only speak nice words, Chu Jiguan felt that Shangguan Qing was the loyal minister of Da Chu, and felt that it was right for Chu Huaitian to let Shangguan Qing go.

Back home, Shangguan Qing changed out of court clothes, washed and changed into normal clothes, suddenly felt exhausted, today was too tense, physically and mentally exhausted.

When Shangguan Qing recovered from fatigue, it was already dark, she got up and went to the rooftop on the third floor, where Zhou Cang was drinking and enjoying the moon under the service of Nian Ci.

There was a crescent moon hanging in the night sky, and the dim light of the moon made the stars shine brighter instead.

Shangguan Qing sat down at the table and put the Tiger Talisman on the table.

"Chu Huaitian is really generous." Zhou Cang clicked his tongue in amazement, took a look at the tiger amulet, put it back on the table and said, "Since he is so generous, I can't be stingy, grandpa." He took out a Qiankun from his bosom Put the bag next to the tiger amulet, "Grandpa won't be as stingy as Chu Huaitian, first I will give you a bag with a capacity of [-] shi for fun."

"Thank you, Grandpa." Shangguan Qing hugged Bao Bao happily, and a bigger business plan began to grow in her heart.

Under the same crescent moon, in the secret pavilion of Princess Anyuan's mansion, Ma Yuhua thumped the table: "That lowly servant girl actually spoiled my good deeds again."

Sitting across the table, Ma Feidu was holding a sketch in his hand, which showed a Taiping car.This was sent to An Yuan by Luantai Division during the day, telling An Yuan that if he wanted to buy fine steel, he had to buy it by purchasing a Taiping car.

Ma Feidu knew that An Yuan wanted to scold him the most.

Formulating such a delivery method is an ambition for today's affairs, but Ma Feidu looks down on Shangguan Qing a little bit, and he is not decisive enough in doing things.

An Yuan finished cursing and asked, "How did the family agree that the quantity of those goods can be determined."

Ma Feidu put down the blueprint of the Taiping car and gave An Yuan a list.

"Why are there Liuli and barbarians? And there are so many of them?" An Yuan looked at Ma Feidu suspiciously.

"This is arranged by the prince."

"Shangguan Qing's character, she won't take the goods she doesn't want. We can only sell the colored glaze and barbarian slaves, and then exchange them for supplies and gold and silver to trade with Shangguan Qing."

"Are you sure?" Ma Feidu didn't want to hear An Yuan's words. He looked down on Shangguan Qing and An Yuan. In his eyes, women are greedy fools.

An Yuan held back her breath and said, "If you don't believe me, you can go see her in person, I think you've seen her before."

"I will."

An Yuan really wanted to cover her face and sigh.Why are men so self-righteous and arrogant.

Under this crescent moon, there were also people with sad faces.

The tenth prince, Chu Qianren, looked at Sun Qu, the head of the servants in front of him, and took out two Qiankun bags with great distress: "It's all here, keep the things inside for me."

Sun Qu tried them one by one, and the capacity of each Qiankun bag was not large, the largest one could only hold five hundred stones of goods, and the smallest one could hold more than a dozen stones, which was the one he wanted to give to Shangguan Qing.

Seeing Sun Qu lead the people away, Chu Qianren wailed, "Why is this happening? Shangguan Qing, you crazy woman, you and I are at odds."

(End of this chapter)