The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 486: suitable
Chapter 486 Suitable
Xiao Rongyan has just started to open up the business in Xiliang, but it is not a difficult task for him.
More importantly, Xiao Rongyan now has shops all over Jin State. He carries goods to other countries and brings back special products from other countries. Both transactions are profitable.
Xiao Rongyan told Dong about his business in detail, and he was very sincere. Dong smiled and said, “Mr. Xiao’s business is spread all over the world, it makes sense!”
Seeing that he had almost finished talking, Xiao Rongyan stood up to say goodbye, and pretended to bow in the direction of Bai Qingyan: “The matter of suppressing bandits is beneficial to the people and merchants like us. If there is anything that the young lady needs help with, please let me know, and I will do my best to help.”
Bai Qingyan nodded and asked Lupin to send Xiao Rongyan out.
Dong looked at Xiao Rongyan’s tall and slender back, picked up the teacup, and couldn’t help feeling that it was a pity for Xiao Rongyan to be a businessman.
In terms of temperament and appearance, Dong felt that there were very few people who could compare with Xiao Rongyan. If he were not a businessman, there would be countless noble families who would be willing to marry their daughters to such a person.
Mrs. Dong wanted to test whether Xiao Rongyan was willing to marry into the Bai family, but when she thought about her daughter’s lack of interest in having children and that they had little chance of having offspring, she was afraid of delaying Xiao Rongyan.
Putting down the teacup, Dong saw that Bai Qingyan seemed to be thinking, so she asked tentatively: “Abao, what do you think of Xiao Rongyan?”
“Mother… I have something to do. I’ll have dinner with you tonight.” After saying this, Bai Qingyan stood up and bowed to Mrs. Dong, then hurried out of the main hall with Chuntao and called Lupin to go with her.
Mrs. Dong looked at Bai Qingyan’s hurried back and sighed in her heart. She persuaded herself to give up the idea of matchmaking between Bai Qingyan and Xiao Rongyan. Her daughter didn’t seem to be concerned about her lifelong event at all.
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Bai Qingyan instructed Lupin: “Send reliable people to the southern border to deliver letters to Shen Kunyang, Gu Wenchang, Wei Zhaonian, Cheng Yuanzhi, and Shen Liangyu, saying that… the emperor is sending troops to the border of Xiliang, so tell them to be careful!”
Instead of asking them to be careful, it would be better to say… ask Bai Qingjue to be careful, hide his troops well, and not reveal any flaws.
However, with Shen Kunyang and the others here, as long as they get the news in advance, they will be able to cooperate with each other to protect Bai Qingjue.
“Yes!” Lupin responded and left.
Bai Qingyan stood by the lake, thinking carefully about the emperor’s intention to deploy troops on the border of Xiliang.
What Xiao Rongyan said… that Dayan sent envoys to Jin and presented treasures to persuade the emperor to deploy troops on the border of Xiliang as a deterrent, which means that the emperor had no intention of going to war with Xiliang, but only wanted to intimidate Xiliang.
Xiao Rongyan calculated very clearly that the reason why Great Wei deployed troops on the border of Dayan but had not taken action was simply because they were afraid that Dayan had not revealed its strength in recent years and they could not figure out Dayan’s national strength. However, if they joined forces with Xiliang to attack Dayan, they would have the confidence.
However, at this time, if Jin State restrained Xiliang, Xiliang would not dare to send troops rashly, and Xiliang would also be afraid… Jin State would take advantage of them to transfer all its main forces to Dayan and seize Xiliang’s territory and cities.
Xiao Rongyan already had the reputation of being the richest businessman in the world. If a caravan entered Xiliang at this time and spread rumors that Jin had deployed troops on the Xiliang border… they were waiting for the main force of Xiliang to be trapped by Dayan and then occupy the cities of Xiliang. Even if Xiliang had some suspicions and sent people to Jin to inquire, it would definitely hesitate.
Bai Qingyan clenched her fists. If she wanted to just deter and not start a war, there was actually a way to avoid mobilizing so many troops and wasting food and supplies. If she could go to the border between Jin and Xiliang, it might have a better deterrent effect. Bai Qingyan had killed 100,000 surrendered prisoners from Xiliang, and the soldiers of Xiliang must be afraid of her. She didn’t believe that the prince and the emperor would not think of this.
It’s just that… the Bai family army is right at the border, so the emperor and the prince would rather spend time and effort deploying troops on the border than send Bai Qingyan to southern Xinjiang.
That afternoon, Bai Jinxiu’s message was sent back. What was written in the letter… was that the emperor and the prince seemed to intend to send troops to southern Xinjiang.
Bai Jinxiu’s news was considered fast, but compared to Xiao Rongyan, who was in power, it was much slower.
Bai Qingyan was not afraid of the emperor sending troops to southern Xinjiang. She was just thinking about how to take advantage of this matter to maximize the interests of the Bai family army.
The soldiers in the battle of Northern Xinjiang were all those who had fought with her in Southern Xinjiang before. Most of them had already followed their own general. For example, that Du Sanbao… was Wang Xiping’s man.
If such an army goes to southern Xinjiang, it may not necessarily obey the orders of Shen Kunyang, Cheng Yuanzhi and others.
However, if the soldiers sent over are newly recruited soldiers and trained by the Bai Family Army, then in the future… these soldiers will most likely be used by the Bai Family Army.
A caged bird longs for its old forest, a fish in a pond misses its old home. Just like when my uncle Dong Qingyue had trained in the Bai family army, he had a different feeling towards the Bai family army…
The important thing is, who should be entrusted with persuading the prince…
Bai Jinxiu is pregnant, and Bai Qingyan doesn’t want to let her suffer.
Since the prince didn’t send anyone to ask her about this matter, she couldn’t bring it up… otherwise the prince would suspect what her purpose was in always paying attention to the situation in Dadu.
She thought of the Left Prime Minister Li Mao, but if she handed the matter over to Li Mao, it would be equivalent to telling Li Mao that she wanted to expand the power of the Bai family army.
The breeze blows the willows, the green leaves sway, and the cicadas chirp louder.
The spots of light that penetrated the gaps swayed and fell on the hem of Bai Qingyan’s skirt. She turned around, her back to the rippling green water of the lake, her eyes calm and composed.
She needed a very reasonable excuse to get her people back to the capital.
Now, the only reasonable excuse she had was to catch the people sent by King Liang or the Wang family to pretend to be robbers… and kidnap children, as witnesses of King Liang’s inhumane use of children to make elixirs.
But who would be the most appropriate person to send back to the capital? Bai Qingyan wanted to go back to the capital in person, but it would be too deliberate for her to send someone as a witness back to the capital.
But if we send a trusted confidant to the capital to deliver the person, there is no guarantee that he will be able to meet the prince.
After much thought, Bai Jinzhi is the only suitable person.
Bai Qingyan sent Chuntao to call Manager Liu over.
She ordered Manager Liu to send highly skilled and reliable guards to the group of “robbers” who were robbing the children. They only needed to capture one of them alive. After catching him, they would wait for the Fourth Lady in Kongtong Mountain and interrogate him to find out who ordered him to pretend to be a robber and capture those children. Then, they would go to Dadu together after the Fourth Lady Bai Jinzhi arrived.
After Manager Liu took the order and left, Bai Qingyan went to Bai Jinzhi’s yard in person.
At this time, Third Madam Li was in Bai Jinzhi’s yard. She had just changed Bai Jinzhi’s clothes and was planning to let Bai Jinzhi go to play with Dong Tingzhen. She heard that Dong Tingzhen was making perfume in Shaohuayuan with Bai Jinzhao and Bai Jinhua today, so Third Madam Li also wanted Bai Jinzhi to go and learn from them.
Dong Tingzhen, the eldest daughter of the Dong family in Dadu City, is famous for her ability to make perfume.
As for Bai Jinzhi, although she was not very good at these things, she knew that Dong Tingzhen was skillful. All the incense blended by Dong Tingzhen smelled very good, so she wanted to ask for some.
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