Night, Ningyuan Hall.
"Atong, why hasn't Cao Zhengchun come yet? He hasn't even seen the three thousand factory guards. Is there a traffic jam on the road?"
Lin Xu walked back and forth anxiously.
"Kowtow to Your Majesty!"
"Old slave Cao Zhengchun is late, please forgive me!"
A sharp sound suddenly sounded from the shadows in the hall.
Then a soft-looking eunuch walked up to him and knelt down. He was thin and mature in appearance, completely different from the Cao Zhengchun in his memory.
"Is this Cao Zhengchun?"
Lin Xu looked confused.
【Ding...】
[This is Cao Zhengchun of this system, not the one in the host’s memory. He will only be loyal to you. 】
Lin Xu suddenly realized.
It turned out to be the same name.
Not the one in the TV series.
Fortunately, his identity has not changed, he is still the owner of Dongchang Factory.
"Pingsheng!" Lin Xu waved his hand: "Cao Zhengchun, why did you come now?"
"Your Majesty, I know your situation very well. The appearance of three thousand factory guards at the same time is too ostentatious."
"The old slave was so bold that he secretly placed them in various places in the palace to ensure His Majesty's safety."
"I see."
"Get up!"
Lin Xu nodded and didn't care.
Cao Zhengchun is controlled by the system, and everything he does is centered on him. Besides, he still knows how much he weighs.
He was very pleased that Cao Zhengchun took the initiative.
He didn't want to have a group of robots under him, which would be exhausting.
"Thank you for your forgiveness, Your Majesty!" Cao Zhengchun stood up.
"Cao Zhengchun, are you a land god?" Lin Xu asked doubtfully. With his great master strength, he actually failed to notice Cao Zhengchun's approach.
"Your Majesty, this old slave is indeed a land god!"
Lin Xu suddenly realized that his guess was indeed correct.
"Cao Zhengchun, I want to completely control this palace. Even an ant must know its movements. How many people do you want?"
"Your Majesty, three thousand people are enough."
"What about monitoring the entire imperial city?"
Cao Zhengchun thought for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, can you give me a moment? I want to go and investigate first!"
"Go!"
Lin Xu nodded and agreed directly.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Cao Zhengchun left directly from the door.
His move also meant that the area of Ningyuan Palace was already under the control of Dongchang.
Lin Xu was secretly pleasantly surprised. As expected of Dongchang, his work efficiency was incredible.
"A Tong, I want to recruit Dongchang factory guards."
[Each ordinary factory guard gets 1W silver, first-class strength]
[10W silver for each member of one hundred households, innate strength]
[100W silver per member of thousands of households, powerful master]
[Each deacon earns 500W silver, a powerful master]
[Note: Recruiting 100 households requires 100 ordinary factory guards; recruiting 1,000 households requires 1,000 ordinary factory guards, 10 100 households, and so on! 】
Lin Xu took a breath when he saw the price.
Ten taels of silver is almost the annual income of an ordinary family.
Recruitment costs tens of thousands of taels.
If it were anyone else, I really wouldn’t be able to afford it.
"A Tong, first recruit thirty hundred households and three thousand households." Lin Xu thought for a while and planned to make use of the existing three thousand factory guards.
[Recruitment is successful, six million taels will be deducted. 】
After a while, Cao Zhengchun came back.
"How's the exploration going?"
"Old slave's preliminary calculation shows that it will take about 30,000 people to monitor the entire imperial city!"
"So many?" Lin Xu was startled.
"The imperial city is such an important place that I don't dare to be careless. Moreover, the court ministers and various agencies in the city need manpower."
"The framework of Dongchang has not yet been formed, and more manpower will be needed. Later, if Dongchang is on the right track, Lao Nu will send most of its people to all parts of the country."
It turns out that most of these people are used to build frameworks.
Indeed, when Dongchang first arrived, the Xue Mu family were not vegetarians.
"I'll give you 50,000 people, 530 hundred households, 53 thousand households and five deacons!"
"Can the layout of the imperial city be completed within half a month?"
Cao Zhengchun's eyes lit up and he said with great joy: "I will never disappoint His Majesty's will."
"I will give you another five hundred thousand taels, and you can find a secret place outside the palace to temporarily use as the Dongchang office."
"The remaining money will be used to fund activities in the East Factory. It's not enough to tell me."
"Remember, any action must be secretive."
Lin Xu spoke with sincerity and sincerity. The less people know about an organization like Dongchang, the better.
Otherwise, the difficulty of detection will increase linearly.
"Old slave obeys the order!"
"Well, back off first!"
After Cao Zhengchun left, Lin Xu had a look of helplessness in his eyes. This wave almost wiped out all his savings.
There are only a few thousand taels left.
At first glance, it looks like a lot.
But as the king of a country, he is in charge of thousands of miles of territory and countless people, so a few thousand taels is really too little.
What's more, the recruited people still need food, clothing, housing and transportation. Tens of thousands of people is not a small number.
"It seems that we still need to get money!" Lin Xu thought, and then shouted: "Come here, I want to go to the Zhengqing Palace."
Zhengqing Hall is the residence of Queen Mother Xue Jingruo.
If you want to say who is the richest in the entire harem, it must be the rich woman Xue Jingruo.
In recent years, I have been in charge of the government, and I don't know how much money I have embezzled.
As the Queen Mother and Xue Rong's daughter, money is just a number to her.
Earn the enemy's money to support your own soldiers.
Develop in a vulgar way and then amaze everyone.
Very good, very good.
Zhengqing Hall.
The exquisite and unique smoke stove on the table is exuding curls of smoke, and the quiet woody fragrance envelopes every corner of the hall.
On the bed, a graceful and graceful figure leaned there.
Her facial features are exquisite, her appearance is stunning, and her skin is as white as snow, as if it could be broken by a blow.
Wearing a lavender undershirt, his eyes were closed tightly, as if he had fallen asleep. The proud figure is looming, as if you can see a hint of white inside.
"The Emperor has arrived!"
A sharp sound sounded, and Xue Jingruo opened her beautiful eyes, with confusion on her pretty face: "Why is the emperor here?"
Just as he was about to speak, Lin Xu stepped in and saluted, "My sons and ministers are here to see my mother and queen."
"Get flat!"
"It's late at night, why is Xu'er here?"
Lin Xu raised his head and looked at the figure on the bed, slightly distracted.
Even after watching it countless times, it is still haunting.
This woman is not his biological mother and has no blood relationship.
It would be abnormal to say that there is no reaction!
There is a taboo for "mother"...
Well, it's more exciting...
Of course, he was just thinking about all this.
Xue Jingruo is not simple.
According to the laws of the Qianwu Kingdom, only ten concubines were buried with the emperor after his death.
The remaining concubines who have no heirs will be placed outside the palace, and the palace will send eunuchs and maids to take care of them for the rest of their lives.
After the death of the late emperor, dozens of concubines were captured and buried with him, and no one survived.
To say that there was no Xue Jingruo behind it, I wouldn’t believe it.
Although the Xue family has all the power in the government and the public, this is a deep palace matter and it is inconvenient to interfere.
If Mu Jiushan gets caught, it will be very troublesome for them.
That old guy would definitely not do something like shooting himself in the foot.
Since then anyway.
Apart from the maids and eunuchs, there was only Xue Jingruo in the entire palace. As for him, the emperor, sometimes he is worse than a eunuch.
