Seeing Su Xingran looking at him as if he were a fool, and even seeing a hint of pity in his eyes, Chen Xiaomu's heart sank. It's over. It was hard to rely on the two copied poems in Su Xingran's mind. The little bit of glorious image built in China may have collapsed at this time.
"Your Highness, what do you use these stones for?" Su Xingran asked coldly.
"This..." Chen Xiaomu was speechless for a moment, but his mind was running rapidly. He was thinking about what excuse he could use to give Su Xingran a perfect answer.
"I use it for making alchemy!" Chen Xiaomu almost blurted out, as if he had already thought of an excuse in his mind!
"Alchemy!" Su Xingran asked in an incredible tone.
"Yes, it's alchemy!" Chen Xiaomu nodded with certainty!
Su Xingran suddenly couldn't help but want to laugh. Who on earth is this person? He is a man who reads Feng Shui and makes elixirs. He can't stop talking nonsense!
"Oh, what kind of elixir do you want to make? Do you need so many stones?"
"You must keep this a secret until it's finished, otherwise it won't work if you say it!"
"It's not like you go to the temple to burn incense when making elixirs. Why doesn't it work just by saying it?" Su Xingran asked with a frown.
"Princess, the elixir I make is different from the elixir made by others. My elixir is spiritual. In fact, even after I make it, I can't say it. You won't know its effect until you eat it!"
Seeing Chen Xiaomu's serious talk, Su Xingran felt desolate in his heart. His country was about to be destroyed. His mother and sister were still alive and dead. At most, tomorrow he and the small group of soldiers he led would spill their blood on the battlefield. This husband in name only seemed indifferent to this, and didn't even ask. Even a stranger who was a stranger probably wouldn't be able to do such a thing! Su Xingran's dislike for Chen Xiaomu suddenly reached the extreme. She stopped listening to Chen Xiaomu's nonsense and turned around without saying a word. Su Xingran felt that if she said another word to Chen Xiaomu, her mouth would be dirty!
When he saw Su Xingran turning around and leaving, Chen Xiaomu immediately panicked. He said to himself that I am not familiar with the place here. Who can I ask for money when you leave? He quickly followed Su Xing and chased after him!
"Princess, princess, please walk slowly. I have something I want to discuss with you?"
Su Xingran stopped and asked coldly, "What else do you want?"
Chen Xiaomu stood behind Su Xing then, rubbing his hands in embarrassment, "This, this, your highness, I want to borrow some money from you!"
"Oh!" Su Xingran swung the cloak on her shoulders back, turned around, and her eyes were as cold as a sharp knife piercing Chen Xiaomu's chest, which made Chen Xiaomu's heart tremble.
"How much silver do you want?"
Chen Xiaomu touched his bald head and asked cautiously, "How about two thousand taels?"
"Well, I will give you five thousand taels now, but you must agree to a condition! How about it?"
"What conditions?" Chen Xiaomu had a bad feeling in his heart.
"After you take the money, you must write a letter of agreement to terminate our marriage, then leave us and return to your country of Chen!
Chen Xiaomu was stunned. Originally, he estimated that Su Xingran might let him take the money back to China, but he didn't expect that he would also add a clause to terminate the engagement. If the engagement with Su Xing was really terminated, then what was the point of his quiet efforts? Zheng Guo Whether the country would perish or not was none of his business. He just wanted Su Xingran to live well and get married to him. He even took the time off from traveling to name the children he and Su Xingran would have together. The boy had five names to spare. The girl had five names in mind, but now Su Xingran wants to break off the engagement with him, making it all come to nothing!
"How is it? Make a decision quickly, we are about to set off!" Seeing Chen Xiaomu not speaking, Su Xingran was a little impatient!
Chen Xiaomu gritted his teeth, "Yes, but I also have a condition!"
''tell me the story! "
"You must give me at least another hundred soldiers, twenty carriages, and fifty horses! In addition, you must give me at least enough food and grass for five or six days!"
"Only this?"
"that's it"
"No, you ask for too much. We only have more than a thousand people in total. There may be a big battle waiting for us tomorrow. I will give you at most twenty soldiers, five carriages, and five horses to escort you back to Chen Kingdom!"
"Then fifty soldiers, ten cars, twenty horses and provisions! This is my minimum requirement. If you don't agree, I will follow you wherever you go, let alone ask me to write a letter to dissolve the engagement. Agreement!" Chen Xiaomu was also willing to go all out. After saying the minimum conditions, he stood motionless like a wooden stake.
Looking at Chen Xiaomu who was standing in front of him looking like a rogue, Su Xingran gritted his teeth and cursed: "It's no wonder you can write a few good poems. I didn't expect you to be so shameless. When our country of Zheng is about to be destroyed, you can still feel at ease with the lion." Open up, did you really let a dog eat your conscience?"
"Princess, swearing won't solve anything. If you agree to my terms, I will leave immediately. If you don't agree, I will follow you. Before I write a letter of termination, you are still my wife in name at least!" Chen Xiaomu waved. Put on a cynical look!
"You are shameless!" Su Xingran was trembling with anger, "Don't think that I don't know about the things you and Chen Huang did together. I can kill you right now and declare the engagement null and void!"
"Haha, please don't forget, Princess, that the name written on the engagement book is my name, Chen Xiaomu, not the person you are referring to. At that time, you also signed the name in front of the special envoy of Emperor Chen at the Honglu Temple in Chen Kingdom. Agreed, even if your Zheng country is destroyed, you must not leave an eternal infamy in history!"
"You,...!" Su Xingran was choked by Chen Xiaomu's words for a moment, her body was trembling but she couldn't say a word!
Chen Xiaomu smiled and said, "Your Highness, in fact, if I want these fifty soldiers, you can give me some old, weak, sick and disabled veterans. As for the horses and vehicles, you can also give me some inferior ones. I have no requirements for these! In the end, Take it as my begging, please let these veterans live, okay?"
"Okay, I promise you, you will write me a letter of termination now!" Su Xingran finally calmed down, thinking that Chen Xiaomu's words did make some sense.
Chen Xiaomu really didn't know how to write the contract termination letter, but under the guidance of Su Xingran and Zhong Xin, he still finished it according to their wishes, and finally signed it with Chen Xiaomu's name and it became effective!
After getting Chen Xiaomu's contract termination letter, Su Xingran also breathed a sigh of relief. Since the Chu invasion, she finally encountered something that made her happy from the bottom of her heart. She no longer had anything to do with the person in front of her who disgusted her. !
Following Su Xingran's instructions, Zhong Xin quickly gathered fifty older veterans and some horses that were about to be eliminated and left them with Chen Xiaomu. Without even saying hello to Chen Xiaomu, he headed straight towards Tianquan County with the large group of people.
Although Lu Yi was young and strong, he was retained by Zhong Xin because he took the lead in doing things for Chen Xiaomu. Even though the ones who stayed were all veterans with mixed skills, Chen Xiaomu was still happy from the bottom of his heart. It had only been a few days since he traveled to this world. After a while, he had a small team of his own. He didn't understand the organization of the ancient army, and he was too lazy to ask these veterans for advice, for fear of being looked down upon by them, so he combined these troops according to the organization of the army in that era when he traveled back in time. Veterans were reorganized.
Based on age and physical condition, he first appointed Lu Yi as the leader of the team. After thinking for a long time, Chen Xiaomu still felt that it would be better to give him a bigger name in order to expand the team in the future, so he named Lu Yi as the leader. Chen Xiaomu also appointed a soldier named Wang Wu as the battalion commander based on Lu Yi's introduction, and all the remaining veterans as squad leaders. Their monthly salary was doubled, and he declared to the veterans that whoever can get five people to serve as soldiers will be worthy of the name. For a squad leader, his monthly salary will be tripled. If he recruits more than ten people, he will be promoted to platoon leader, and his monthly salary will be increased five times. If he recruits more than twenty people, he will be promoted to company commander, and his monthly salary will be increased tenfold. In short, the more people he recruits, the bigger his official position will be, and the higher his salary will be. many!
Lu Yi has been in the army for many years and has never heard of the official title of regimental commander in the army. He doesn't know whether it can be ranked high. However, he knows that Chen Xiaomu is the prince of Chen State, so the official title he has given him is no small matter! But he still wanted to find out how big his commander would be in a serious army!
Looking at Lu Yi standing in front of him with a longing look on his face, Chen Xiaomu thought about it seriously, and then said with great certainty: "The regiment leader should be at the county regiment level, which is equivalent to the current county magistrate. In terms of rank, he should be a regular It’s level seven!”
"What?" Lu Yi, a top soldier, was suddenly promoted to a seventh-rank official by His Royal Highness. Lu Yi was so surprised that he quickly knelt down and kowtowed to Chen Xiaomu to thank him! Wang Wu and Lu Yi were from the same hometown. They came to see Chen Xiaomu together. Now that they saw that Lu Yi had become a seventh-rank official, their eyes suddenly became hot. They hurriedly stepped forward and bowed and said: "Your Highness, what about my camp?" Can the commander be ranked high?"
Chen Xiaomu nodded and said: "The battalion commander is at the township level, which is equivalent to today's administrative official position. In terms of grade, he can be ranked as high as the eighth grade!"
Even though he was two grades lower than Lu Yi, Wang Wu was very content. His ancestors had never even served as a government official for eight generations. Now that he could be an eighth-grade official, he was able to honor his ancestors!
Originally, Chen Xiaomu wanted to hold another military parade, but looking at the veterans in front of him, some of whom could not stand straight, he thought to himself that it would be better not to lose that person. It was important to do business, and he could not bear to let a stunningly beautiful girl like Su Xingran really do it. Just fighting to the death in vain.
