Chapter 660 The Manipulator
Chapter 660 The Manipulator
But in fact, she was still afraid that King Nan Xiao would find out.
After all, she had promised him personally that she would never let any man other than him touch her in her life.
Now it seems that the promise has been broken.
Concubine Li was sad, so she said aggrievedly: "It's not that I don't want to bear a son for the emperor, but I'm already over 40 years old, how can I compare with my sisters who are only in their teens and twenties?"
"Your Majesty, instead of asking me to help you bear a son, you should give those young sisters a chance so that they can give birth to children for the palace."
Upon hearing this, Emperor Jingyang said with a straight face: "They are them, and you are you."
"As the saying goes, they are still young, and there will be plenty of opportunities for them to bear my son in the future."
"But you are different. You are a generation older than them and you are already the mother of two children. If I don't hurry up, I'm afraid you won't be able to get pregnant in the future."
Concubine Li: "..."
Concubine Li: "!!!"
She felt extremely disgusted when such words came out of Emperor Jingyang's mouth.
She spoke as if she was willing to have a child for him.
He doesn't even look at his own character. Does he deserve it?
Concubine Li thought so in her heart, but she said softly: "Your Majesty is right, but it is not easy to get pregnant with a dragon child."
"If I still can't get pregnant after eating the thousand-year-old ginseng, Your Majesty, please don't blame me."
Emperor Jingyang patted the back of her hand and said, "Don't worry, my beloved concubine. I will certainly not blame you. As long as you serve me wholeheartedly, I will never treat you unfairly."
As he spoke, he glanced at the bowl of contraceptive soup on the table, and his eyes dimmed.
"Things like contraceptive soup are very harmful to your body. I'll ask the imperial physician to give you some thousand-year-old ginseng. Don't drink this stuff behind my back anymore."
"If I find out that you are still secretly drinking contraceptive soup, don't blame me for being ruthless."
Concubine Li: "!!!"
She almost burst into anger and cursed.
If Emperor Jingyang had not forced her to stay here and sleep with him, how could she have secretly drunk the contraceptive soup?
Concubine Li knew that drinking too much of this stuff was not good for her, but what else could she do?
Although she thought about it, Concubine Li didn't dare to really scold him. She said softly, "Yes, Your Majesty, I understand."
Emperor Jingyang was satisfied when he saw that she had behaved herself.
The imperial physician brought a medicine soup made with thousand-year-old ginseng, and Emperor Jingyang watched Concubine Li drink it with his own eyes.
The two of them hugged each other tenderly all night.
At this moment, King Nan Xiao, who was far away in Canglan Villa, had no idea that he had been cuckolded by Concubine Li.
At this moment, he also received a letter in his hands.
After reading it, King Nan Xiao felt his blood boiling in his head and he crushed the teacup in his hand with force.
The letter he received was none other than that sent by the spy from Liangzhoukou.
King Nan Xiao read it several times, and after confirming that he had not read it wrongly, he crumpled the letter in his hand and said with gritted teeth:
"Jiang Wangbei is dead, all the iron ore is lost, and even the entire mountain is empty. How is this possible!?"
That’s right, Jiang Wangbei is his man.
He had long seen that the other party was a very greedy person.
Therefore, when King Nan Xiao's people discovered an iron ore mountain range at Liangzhoukou, the first person he thought of was Jiang Wangbei.
The reason is simple: people with such greed are actually very easy to control.
As long as you give him some gold, silver and treasures so that he has endless money, he will listen to you and help you do things.
It was precisely because they knew Jiang Wangbei's character well that the Southern Xiao Dynasty used their connections in the court and resorted to some trickery to get Emperor Jingyang to transfer Jiang Wangbei to Liangzhoukou and appoint him as the city lord there.
On the one hand, he asked him to help him mine iron ore in Liangzhoukou and then transport it back secretly.
In this way, he will have an inexhaustible supply of weapons, and when the prince forces his way to the throne later, they won't have to worry about not having enough weapons.
On the other hand, Luo Junhe’s two confidants were imprisoned in the dungeon at Liangzhoukou.
The reason why King Nan Xiao let Jiang Wangbei be the city lord there was also to let him get some information out of An Qi and Long Yin.
But I didn't expect that these two people's mouths were harder than bones.
Jiang Wangbei often used lynching to torture them, but they just wouldn't say a word.
Or he would talk about all sorts of irrelevant things, making Jiang Wangbei so angry that he almost vomited blood.
King Nan Xiao had finally managed to get Luo Junhe's two confidants to Liangzhoukou to keep them away from Luo Junhe. Naturally, he didn't want them to die so easily.
You know, in order to frame An Qi and Long Yin, he lost a full 5,000 kilograms of contraband salt.
After spending so much effort and money, how could he be willing to accept that if he couldn't get any answers?
In this way, Jiang Wangbei struggled with An Qi and Long Yin in the dungeon for three years.
In the past three years, the two men had been thinking about escaping many times, and they even poisoned the well water in Jiang Wangbei's backyard many times.
Jiang Wangbei was furious, but without the order of King Nan Xiao, he did not dare to kill the two men.
Because he couldn't pry the two people open their mouths and ask King Nan Xiao what he wanted to know.
In the eyes of King Nan Xiao, he is a complete waste.
Jiang Wangbei is a man with a strong sense of self-esteem, and he is eager to prove his strength.
Therefore, he frantically ordered people to mine iron ore in Liangzhoukou and secretly send it to the capital.
Although the mining progress is relatively slow, in the past three years, King Nan Xiao has received tens of thousands of kilograms of iron ore and forged thousands of weapons.
The entire iron ore mountain range has not been mined yet, but who would have thought that at this moment, he would receive the news that Jiang Wangbei is dead?
This made King Nan Xiao very angry.
What made him most angry was that Ji Yuntang and Luo Junhe actually went to Liangzhoukou.
Luo Junhe's legs are healed, he can stand up!!!
Not only did they break into the prison and release An Qi and Long Yin, they also released everyone in the dungeon.
They even paid out of their own pockets to distribute rice and meat to the people in Liangzhoukou for free.
Because of their arrival, the dry fields in Liangzhoukou were irrigated and nourished by water.
It won't be long before food starts growing again.
King Nan Xiao would have relied on Jiang Wangbei to exploit the common people in Liangzhoukou and seek greater benefits for himself.
This is because, whether it is training an army or forging weapons, it is an extremely wasteful thing.
Most of the money he had came from exploiting the people.
And people like Jiang Wangbei are just pawns under his control.
There are many people like him.
King Nan Xiao did not value Jiang Wangbei, but he valued those iron mines.
You know, if all the iron ore in this mountain is mined, whether you use it yourself or sell it, it will be a considerable income.
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