Hearing such a stern order from Zhao Lang, although Nu didn’t know the reason, he replied without hesitation.
“Yes, master!”
Of course he didn’t give a damn about what was right or wrong, making his master so unhappy was the biggest sin these people could commit!
Zhao Lang’s standards were his standards!
The people on this island, just prepare to dig for their master until they die!
Only after the slave led the order to leave did Zhao Lang exhale fiercely.
Because of the time, it was impossible to punish those true beasts, so let’s completely exterminate all these seeds!
But speaking of that, Zhao Lang felt that exterminating more disgusting seeds wasn’t a bad thing.
Lying on his bed, he pondered over some small plans.
Zhao Lang slowly fell asleep.
The next morning, just after waking up naturally, Nu was already waiting outside.
It was time to go to the court.
I have to say, these noble ministers in the court, their days are not that good.
At the very least, one must get up early to go to court.
Nu came in with a few maids and started to help Zhao Lang wash up.
Zhao Lang quickly said.
“Nu, after that I’ll say something inside the palace, you go and fetch Xiao Qi, Xiao Jiu and the girls in.”
He was still used to his own people some, besides, it had been a long time since he had seen Xiao Qi, Xiao Jiu, he still missed them too.
After washing up, for the first time formally put on the Da Qin’s crown prince’s official uniform.
“Master, this outfit really fits.”
Nu gently slapped a horse’s arse.
Zhao Lang smiled and said.
“Go.”
After saying that, he headed towards the court hall in front of the palace.
Just as he passed by the palace gates, he vaguely heard a faintly familiar sound coming from outside the palace gates, and was about to take a look, but from afar, he saw Zhao Gao welcoming him, and shouted.
“Uncle Zhao.”
When Zhao Gao heard the shout, he only felt that his bones were two points lighter, so he hurriedly smiled and said.
“Your Highness the Crown Prince, His Majesty has asked the old slave to come and fetch you.”
With that, he reached Zhao Lang’s side, and the slave on the side was extremely sensible and stepped back.
The master and disciple were extremely smooth in their co-operation.
Zhao Lang didn’t even feel the slightest bit out of place.
“Your Highness the Crown Prince, you don’t have to be nervous, when the time comes…”
Zhao Gao gave Zhao Lang some precautions while leading him towards the court hall.
Although both of them vaguely felt that they had forgotten something, thinking about it, it was certainly more important to go to the court now.
Soon, the two were far away.
At this time, outside the palace gate, Hu Hai shivered and said to the guards that
“When can we send a message to Father?”
The guard looked at Hu Hai who was staring at his black eyes and shivering from the cold, and said with an odd expression that
“Duke HuHei, it was too late last night, and now it’s time for the court, so let’s wait a little longer.”
“Just, why don’t you go to an inn in the city?”
Yesterday, they had watched Hu Hei hard at the palace gate for a night.
It was freezing enough.
Hu Hai said at this time, sadly.
“I just don’t believe it, such a big living person, these people don’t remember this imperial son?”
Looking at the stubborn Hu Hai, the guards could only pitter patter and say.
“Then you can wait first.”
At this time, in the courtroom, all the courtiers had already arrived long ago.
Today was the first day of the Crown Prince’s Supervision, so everyone naturally had to arrive a little earlier.
Can’t you see that even Marquis Wucheng Wang Jian is here today?
Usually the First Emperor doesn’t even see each other at court, so isn’t this just to stand in.
If Li Si hadn’t been relegated to his home, I’m afraid he’d be here too.
And they were also a little worried about Zhao Lang’s nature.
Judging from the other party’s progress in fighting the war, it could be said that his nature was as fierce as fire!
The chaos of the Six Kingdoms was pacified in less than two years.
Not to mention Goguryeo, there are still Qin troops over there to help maintain law and order.
But the dynasty is different, everything can not be rushed.
To put it mildly, the First Emperor was always in a hurry.
The results are there for all to see.
It almost moved the foundations of Qin!
So, no matter what, today, we must send a signal to Zhao Lang that Great Qin can’t afford to be hurt right now.
Everyone is holding a lot of bad news in their hands, just waiting for today.
Not long after that, with Zhao Gao’s call, Zhao Lang walked in, and the group of ministers immediately saluted and said.
“Greetings, Your Highness the Crown Prince.”
Zhao Lang also had to return the salute, this was Great Qin, between the ruler and the ministers, yet it was not the relationship between the master and the lackey.
After the monarchs and ministers had met and saluted, Zhao Lang sat down on the side of the throne.
He couldn’t sit on the throne yet.
Although Zhao Lang acted extremely calm, he looked at the group of courtiers below, who were not very familiar with him except for his teacher Wang Jian.
In his heart, he was more or less muttering.
Fortunately, there is Zhao Gao in the side to assist, but also not panic.
“Ministers, can there be something to report?”
The entire court hall was slightly quiet for a moment, the ministers looked at each other, or a slightly fat middle-aged minister said.
“Your Highness the Crown Prince, I have something to report.”
“There are urgent letters from all the counties in the Chu land these days, now that autumn has begun, but there is not enough food and clothing everywhere to survive the winter.”
“An early response is needed.”
Even if they had already known about this news, the faces of the various ministers became ugly.
It was not uncommon for the Chu land to lack food.
After all, the war had been fought for so long, but once it was not handled well.
I’m afraid a lot of people will die this winter.
There may even be a rebellion.
However, this was a good way to make things difficult for Zhao Lang, throwing a difficult thing first to make things difficult for the other party was.
The other party was the head of the farming family, and they knew it.
Since this is the case, now that the southern side of Great Qin can no longer guarantee even the most basic food, you can not engage in some big action.
Sure enough, they then saw that Zhao Lang couldn’t help but frown as well.
Because there was indeed no way out now.
The counties within the Great Qin Pass actually still had some food, after all, they hadn’t been affected by the war.
But don’t forget that there are still hundreds of thousands of troops in the northern border.
We can only rely on these people to fight hard.
Zhao Gao also looked at Zhao Lang, his mission today was also clear, no matter what the situation was, he wouldn’t help out.
He would only tell His Majesty the truth about today’s situation.
Because this will also be Zhao Lang’s battlefield in the future.
Under everyone’s gaze, Zhao Lang slightly pondered for a while at this time, then said.
“This matter, I already knew about it a long time ago.”
“The counties in the north will pull out some grain and send it to the south, then distribute it according to the amount to ensure that there are no starving people in the winter.”
“Just stay up until the first batch of grain comes out next year.”
The winter in the south was fairly short, which was a good thing.
Listening to Zhao Lang’s three words of command was good.
The ministers directly froze, and the gazes they looked at Zhao Lang afterwards were more like looking at a fool.
If there was still so much grain inside Great Qin’s warehouse, would they still need to be so entangled?
This is a typical general’s style of fighting a war, do you really think that you can have everything with a single order?
They are trying to tell Zhao Lang today that governing the world is not marching and fighting, and that you can’t just fool around with brute force.
The minister who just reported quickly said.
“Your Highness the Crown Prince, there isn’t that much food left in the treasury.”
“The grain from the northern counties must also be secured first for Great General Meng’s military rations in the northern border.”
“Otherwise, once the border is lost, it will be a great disaster.”
After the minister finished speaking, the other ministers also helped in succession, saying.
“Yes extremely! Yes!”
Even the Confucian and Legalist officials who had the intention to help Zhao Lang couldn’t object.
Because this was the truth.
Less food for anyone, not less food for the army.
Zhao Lang also nodded and said.
“This is a reasonable statement.”
Hearing this, the ministers were slightly relieved, it seemed that Zhao Lang wasn’t a master of using brute force either.
He was about to praise them, but then he heard Zhao Lang continue.
“But there’s no harm, I’ll make my own arrangements for these grains.”
“You guys are just responsible for executing it.”
“For the convenience of execution, Chen Ping and Xiao He, will help you.”
When Zhao Lang had finished speaking, the ministers’ eyes, however, were first confused, and
What do you mean, ‘I will arrange these grains on my own’.
You have this much grain?
That’s the whole of Chu!
Even if it’s supplied in quantity, it’s an extremely large number!
After the confusion, there is doubt.
Who are Chen Ping and Xiao He?
But Zhao Lang didn’t give them a chance to look deeper and said directly.
“Since none of the ministers have any other solutions, let’s carry it out.”
“Is there anything else?”
It would be a shame for a talent of Chen Ping, Xiao He’s calibre to only be placed in Liaodong.
Of course, there’s no way to just convert the two to high positions, giving the opportunity to show their heads first that is.
As for the matter of the lack of food in Chu, he has long been arranging.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have let Little White Lotus stay there.
The farmers would play the role of organising the distribution.
Liaodong, Qi Di, Yun Meng Ze, all these places will also be fully supported.
The people of Chu will suffer a bit this winter, but they will not have to worry about their lives.
Looking at Zhao Lang’s few words, which ended the crisis in Chu Di, the ministers were a bit dumbfounded.
In theory, such a big matter was enough to be discussed for a morning!
And it was gone?
Just as the other ministers wanted to say more, an urgent report suddenly rang out from outside the court palace, the
“A letter from the northern border! The Huns are moving! It seems to be intent on travelling south.”
Upon hearing the news, the ministers’ faces changed slightly.
Zhao Lang’s face was extremely calm at this time.
He didn’t think that Xiongnu would go south on a large scale now because it was too late, this was just a deterrent.
Besides, if something really needed to happen, Meng Tian would have already used the 100,000 fire emergency.
Sure enough, after the messenger sent in the urgent report, Zhao Lang saw Meng Ten’s report, and it was the same as he had guessed.
This autumn Xiongnu is not going to move, just deterrence and small-scale entry.
But next spring will not be certain.
The other side is now claiming 300,000 cavalry, so I’m afraid they won’t give Great Qin two years of recuperation time.
And the Huns are a scourge after all, getting rid of them earlier is not a bad thing.
After a slight contemplation, Zhao Lang quickly said.
“Tell General Meng that holding the Great Wall is a great honour.”
He was still relieved on Meng Ten’s side.
“Also, tell Han Xin to prepare his troops in the winter and be ready to go next spring!”
Listening to Zhao Lang just arranging the military and state affairs, and popping out Han Xin, another not-so-familiar name, the minister was a little taut.
Feelings this there is no us, as if the problem is not big ah?
Still wanting to say something, he heard Zhao Lang say.
“Ministers, these two things are urgent matters, please do your best to co-operate!”
“If there are no other urgent matters, then all go about your business.”
The ministers looked at each other for a while, though they wanted to rebel slightly, so as to at least express their attitude.
But Zhao Lang’s military expenses, rations, and generals didn’t have to pass through them.
There was simply no room for resistance!
This is even stronger than the First Emperor!
But he can only salute and say.
“Yes, Your Highness the Crown Prince.”
Zhao Lang nodded his head and saluted and bid farewell to Wang Jian, who had been at the forefront and seemed to have dozed off the entire time.
Only when Zhao Lang left did Wang Jian happily, like nothing else, leave.
Although he hadn’t spoken the entire time, standing here was an attitude.
Back inside the palace.
Led by Zhao Gao, Zhao Lang was ready to meet his old man.
By the way, he reported the situation of today’s court.
Then he was ready to go meet the others.
Firstly, I went to Mei’s place, so at least I had skin to skin, so of course I had to meet the others when I came back.
Just before leaving the courtroom, Nu came over with a slightly odd face and said.
“Master, the merchant team outside sent a message over, Miss Shang Yan’er wants to see you.”
Hearing Shang Yan’er’s name, Zhao Lang was slightly stunned, the other party had been bringing a merchant team to serve him.
Why did she suddenly want to see him for something?
Soon Zhao Lang’s heart moved slightly, and he already had a guess.
It should be for the merchant’s matter.
Because of himself, nowadays, everyone in the Hundred, almost all of them gave the chief’s to him.
Even the Taoist family is no exception.
The merchants probably couldn’t sit still.
Trying to get Shang Yan’er to deal with herself.
But the people of the merchants, this is a wrong calculation.
Although Shang Yan’er did look good, he had always cared nothing about a woman’s looks.
He just wasn’t that shallow!
What’s more, Great Qin’s current productivity was not suitable for large-scale commerce for the time being.
It will be at least another four or five years.
At that time, we will see the opportunity to move the merchants.
It’s good to hang the other side out to dry now.
He was about to refuse, when suddenly Zhao Lang’s eyes lit up and two options appeared…
“One, meet Shang Yan’er and be alone in a room, reward all types of fruit and vegetable seeds.”
“Two, don’t see, reward a fierce general.”
Seeing these two options, Zhao Lang froze slightly.
Various types of fruit and vegetable seeds?
It was rare for the Dog System to be so generous for once.
People can not just eat, all kinds of fruits and vegetables is also extremely important.
It is that this requirement looks a little strange, why must be alone with Shang Yaner to get these seeds.
As for the fierce generals, there is a say, with gunpowder, Da Qin actually does not need too much personal courage of the generals!
Besides, he could try and get both.
Just not waiting for him to make a fine distinction, Zhao Gao on the side reminded with some caution that
“Your Highness the Crown Prince? His Majesty is still waiting for you.”
Zhao Lang thought about it, if he went to see his old man at this time, I’m afraid that it would take quite a bit of time for another fine chat.
Those seeds were still more important.
So he said.
“Uncle Zhao, please tell my father that I have some urgent business to go out.”
“Be back soon!”
After saying that, he ran towards the outside.
Zhao Gao couldn’t even stop him before Zhao Lang was already far away.
Zhao Gao could only go back to report first, at this time a guard came over and reported.
“Imperial son Hu Hei is outside seeking an audience.”
Zhao Gao was directly confused and puzzled, saying.
“Seeking an audience outside which one?”
Hearing this, the guard’s expression immediately became odd.
Zhao Gao was such a perceptive person that he instantly realised what was going on and slapped his forehead and said.
“Quickly take me to see Emperor Hu He!”
This time it was his dereliction of duty!
With Hu Hai’s temperament, I’m afraid he’s only going to make a scene.
Zhao Gao hurriedly rushed to the entrance of the palace, and saw that Hu Hai was hugging Zhao Lang, who had a bitter smile on his face, and wailing that
“Brother Long, promise, you can’t forget me like this in the future.”
“Good good.”
“No, you swear!”
“Roll! Get the f*ck up! I’m in a hurry!”
“Oh! Then promise me you’ll let me have the chance to pretend to be a beeper in the future.”
“OK!”
Then Zhao Gao saw that Hu Hei obediently followed behind Zhao Lang.
“Is this a one thing to one thing?”
Zhao Gao let out a bitter smile before heading towards Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s palace.