The Princess of Northern Land

The two girls nodded vigorously.

"Your Majesty, you have brought hatred for me." Lin Ziyin sat on the pavilion in the center of the lake, looking at the defeated lotus leaves in the lake with ease.

Seeing her lazy look, Chu Suifeng smiled and helped her peel a few grapes and put them into the bowl in front of her. "As long as you scare them, they won't dare to be presumptuous in front of you in the future. Maybe not long after." , the imperial court will cut off our supply of food and grass."

Lin Ziyin knew what he meant. The grain and grass Chu Suifeng mentioned did not refer to military rations, but to the grain trade shipped to the North by ordinary merchants.

"The grain we asked the merchants to carry should be enough to last until next autumn. Moreover, the prince, Zhuangzi and my village will have harvests soon. As long as we don't requisition food from the people, the people can hold on until next autumn." Lin Ziyin Analysis, "The biggest shortage in Northland now is manpower. Has the prince ever thought about letting more people come to Northland?"

"The Northland is vast and sparsely populated, and it is a bitterly cold area. Who would be willing to come here for no reason?" Chu Suifeng replied with a wry smile.

"If the prince wants to bring in people, it's not completely impossible." Lin Ziyin replied after thinking.

"What method?" Chu Suifeng's eyes lit up.

"The prince has a lot of soldiers, and many of them are injured and disabled, and they don't want to go back to their place of origin. In other words, even if they are allowed to go back, they may not have a good life when they return to their place of origin. Now we are in the north Fengcheng, for example, is already developing rapidly. Your Majesty, why not ask these soldiers to write letters back and ask their families to come over. We are willing to provide them with free houses and allow them to open up wasteland." Lin Ziyin said what he thought of. .

"I'm afraid their families won't want to." Chu Suifeng was not optimistic about this method.

"Not all places are fertile places, and of course most people are not willing to leave their hometowns and come to the North. Moreover, the 'fateful fate' of the North is out there, so it is indeed difficult to attract people. But everything has two sides, Your Majesty You can choose those who are from poor places to lobby and let them see the development model of Prince Zhuangzi. I think there will always be some people who are willing to come." Lin Ziyin is much more optimistic than Chu Suifeng.

"I will give it a try." Chu Suifeng sighed, obviously not having much hope for this method.

"If someone is willing to come over, we can entrust a caravan to bring them over, and all the expenses will be borne by us." Lin Ziyin said.

Chu Suifeng's eyes lit up, this was a good idea.

The two discussed some more details before finally finalizing it.

The nobles in Fengcheng City have been watching the palace of Prince Ling in the past few days. When they learned that Prince Ling severely punished the beauty in the backyard for his beauty, all the mansions became panicked. Everyone also paid more attention to Lin Ziyin.

On the third day, many people came to visit me with gifts.

It's a pity that Lin Ziyin himself was not seen. Because Lin Ziyin had already returned to Shili Village early in the morning.

"Miss Lin likes to be quiet. I don't want anyone to disturb you these days." Bai Xian smiled and copied Chu Suifeng's words, "If you have anything, you can let me do it for you."

Even though Bai Xian was just the steward of Prince Ling's Mansion, no one from the various mansion masters who came to visit dared to look down upon him.

"Since Miss Lin is busy, we naturally won't come rashly to disturb her."

"Please accept these gifts, Butler Bai, because our Zhang family shows some affection for the prince."

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Naturally, no one who comes to visit comes empty-handed. Bai Xian refuses no one who comes and helps Lin Ziyin accept all the gifts.

Although the people who came to visit did not see anyone, they all left happily when they saw Butler Bai accepting the gifts.

"We can't keep it. We can't keep anything except the spare food at home." In the Hou Mansion, Li Jiesong was a little impatient. "Hurry up and find Mr. Hei and transport the food away as soon as possible."

"What's the hurry?" Youshi looked at him unhappily, "Master Hei told us to check closely along the way. Let us wait for two days. If necessary, he will send someone to notify us."

"How long will it take to wait for two days?" Li Jiesong was furious, "If we don't take action, I'm afraid we won't even be able to save our lives in the end."

"But what did the prince say the day before yesterday?" Youshi asked in surprise.

"The rice grown in Lin Ziyin and the prince's farm has a good harvest. I heard that the prince has started to investigate the grain merchants in Fengcheng. If he knows that we have purchased so much grain and hoarded it, he will definitely force us to sell it according to the market price. If it comes At that time, we will be at a loss." Li Jiesong said with a sneer, "If you cheat on us after working for a long time, I'm afraid even Master Hei won't be willing to do it."

Youshi was stunned, but that was not the case. Food can be sold. According to the strength of the Hou Mansion, it is not impossible to suffer a slight loss. But it doesn't work this time. The couple really can't afford the loss. Who told them to be greedy and borrow so much high-interest money to buy food and hoard it?