Seeing that Zhang Wenshan simply chose to surrender, Li Xiancai secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Ever since he guessed that the person who wanted to contact him was the Alliance of Despicables, he had been very wary of this alliance.
No matter what kind of power, only the one that can withstand its own test is a good power. The Alliance of Despicables, if used properly, is a force that cannot be underestimated, but if used improperly, it can also poison people into the abyss.
Therefore, he would belittle the advantages that the Alliance of Despicable People thought were powerful from the beginning, down to nothing. It's like bargaining. The more you like it, the more the boss will stick to the price. If you show disdain, the other party will lower the price.
The same goes for the Alliance of Despicables. To be honest, Li Xian was ecstatic about their appearance, but he just didn't show it.
His biggest worry at present is that he does not have his own news network and does not have many manpower of his own. The emergence of the Alliance of Despicables is simply a timely help.
There is no doubt that they are a ready-made information network, which may even surpass the queen's.
As for manpower....
All these despicable people want is a good ending in the future. As long as they can see some hope, they will be willing to die for this hope. It can be said that these people are all natural dead soldiers.
Although he thought of this, Li Xian has no plans to use them as dead soldiers yet.
Judging from the current situation, it is not yet that step. However, it would be too late to prepare when things are about to happen. There is no problem in preparing in advance.
Squatting down, Li Xian reached out and pulled Zhang Wenshan's head.
Zhang Wenshan raised his head in confusion, wondering what His Highness meant.
He took out a piece of paper from his arms and placed it in front of Zhang Wenshan. Li Xian stood up and returned to his seat.
Zhang Wenshan opened the paper and saw that it was a letter, written by a man named Zou Hao to the prince.
The letter mentioned that Changpingcang has determined the amount of wine making this year. Due to drought in many places, it has dropped a lot compared to last year.
Although the grain quota has been reduced, wine still has to be made, so they plan to plant some fruits such as grapes to try and see if wine can sell well.
If you want to grow fruits, you must have land, and occupying cultivated land is not acceptable. The country attaches great importance to cultivated land, and no one dares to invade cultivated land. Therefore, if you want to grow crops such as grapes, you must level the land.
After reading the contents of the letter, Zhang Wenshan raised his head and asked in confusion: "Your Highness, why do you want to show this to this slave?"
Li Xian crossed his legs and said, "I have already given an order to Xiao Desheng to go out of the city to see if there is any suitable place in the surrounding area to buy and plant crops such as grapes."
"You don't know, Gu has improved the wine-making process. The wine produced in the winery has a much better taste than the previous light wine. Therefore, there is no need to worry about sales. No matter how much is produced, it will definitely be... .Forget it, you know you don’t have to worry about selling it.”
"For this piece of land, I originally planned to pay for it myself. Now I'm giving you an opportunity to collect your money and count it as a share. I will give you a part of it, but you can withdraw your share every year. Therefore, this plantation, although in name only, It is alone, but its true master in the future will be you."
"You can choose a trustworthy person and find a way to get him to serve in the East Palace. If he makes a mistake, he will be expelled from the palace. After leaving the palace, let him manage the plantation himself. In the future, the profits of this plantation can be used for Provide care for the elderly palace maids and eunuchs. As for those who can still support themselves after being kicked out of the palace, they can also work here."
"Actually, what you are afraid of is that there is no one to support you. Even if you form your own property outside the palace, it will be occupied in the future, and even the emperor and empress will find out about it and destroy it."
"I can give you a guarantee. In the future, when I become the emperor, I will set rules for you and bring this matter to the table and form a system."
After saying that, Li Xian shut his mouth.
For the Alliance of Despicables, these are exactly what they urgently need. And besides these, he is not prepared to provide more. Sometimes being kind to others will not attract gratitude, but will lead to increased demands.
The Alliance of Despicables, these are enough. If there are more, who knows, will it give birth to people like Zhao Gao, Gao Lishi, and Wei Zhongxian?
Zhang Wenshan pondered for a while and asked cautiously: "Your Highness, are you agreeing to my request? I don't know, what can we do for Your Highness?"
Li Xian waved his hands and said nonchalantly: "When you are needed, Lonely will give orders. I heard from Li Yun that you have been transferred to the East Palace? In that case, you and Xiao Desheng should be the foreign affairs manager, but Xiao Desheng is in charge It’s a lonely industry, just manage your industry exclusively.”
Zhang Wenshan nodded, and he accepted this arrangement. only....
After thinking for a while, he hesitated and said: "It's just that, Your Highness, you always have slaves and others to do something for you. Do you think this is good? Aren't you practicing martial arts recently? It just so happens that there is a priest in our alliance. , has extraordinary martial arts skills, why not transfer him to the East Palace, firstly, he can teach His Highness, secondly, he can guard His Highness's safety, and thirdly, you have to train some people, right?"
"Although you now have guards from the royal palace, the outermost are the Prince's Sixth Commander, and some of the Qianniu Guards that the saint has entrusted to you to command. But, those guards are also from the Qianniu Guards. So many people, it can be said that they are all They are the eyes and ears of the saint. As for the six princes, although they are nominally your personal soldiers, since the saint ascended the throne, it is the saint who really commands them. You can only use these people as facades."
"As the crown prince, you always have some things that you can't let these people do for you, so you have to train your own people, right?"
Listening to Zhang Wenshan's words, Li Xian couldn't help but feel excited.
Indeed, as he said, Qianniuwei and Prince Liuliu are actually under the control of Li Zhi himself. It is okay to do some things on the surface by himself, and he can use them, but they cannot be put on the table. It's really hard to use them.
Looking at Zhang Wenshan, Li Xian nodded and said, "That's true. In that case, just let that person come to the East Palace. In addition..."
"How many people in the East Palace are your people?"
Li Xian wanted to ask this question from the beginning.
There is no doubt that Li Yun is not one of their people. Although he has connections, he certainly has not joined them.
Seeing that he is so familiar with things in the East Palace, there is no doubt that there must be someone from them in the East Palace.
Zhang Wenshan opened his mouth and answered honestly: "To report back to Your Highness, there are more than 200 people in the East Palace who belong to the Alliance of Lowly People, 60 of them are eunuchs, and the rest are maids. For example, the Crown Princess's personal maids are our people. .”
"...."
Although he was prepared, Li Xian was still shocked by this number.
There are currently only a thousand maids and eunuchs in the East Palace, but there are actually more than two hundred of them? Sure enough, even if Prince Li Hong was prepared, he could not completely prevent the infiltration of despicable people. After all, there are still traces of the emperor's and empress' arrangements, and the infiltration of the humble is as silent as the spring rain.
"Where is Daming Palace? How many people do you have in Daming Palace?"
Zhang Wenshan answered honestly: "The Daming Palace is the territory of the Queen of Heaven. When we had a secret meeting last year, the Daming Palace reported more than 3,000 people. However, because the Queen of Heaven has never stopped investigating the alliance, plus we and others I don’t dare to have too much contact with there, they can take in new people on their own, so you have to summon them to report how many people there are.”
More than three thousand.
Li Xian was secretly dumbfounded. Although the Queen of Heaven had burned bridges and tracked down the members of the Alliance of Despicables over the years, she probably never dreamed of this. These despicable people are like weeds that cannot be burned away.
I don’t know how these people did it, what branch secrets were involved, and it looked like a spy movie.
However, what they did was right. The genius is the master of the harem. Once their traces are discovered, they will definitely give them a thunderous blow. After all, she relied on the power of the Alliance to rise to power, and no one knew the horror of the Alliance of Despicables better than she did.
only....
It's just that she chose to die as a cunning rabbit, and ended up pushing such a terrifying power here.
After coming back to his senses and seeing Zhang Wenshan still lying on the ground, Li Xian said: "Get up, since you have such a large scale, how should I contact you if I want to use you in the future? I can't have to find you as a middleman. "
Zhang Wenshan stood up, cupped his hands and said: "Don't worry, Your Highness, we have already discussed it. When Your Highness needs our help, you only need to wear this jade pendant."
After speaking, he dug around in his arms and took out a jade pendant, holding it in both hands and placing it on the desk.
Seeing this jade pendant, Li Xian couldn't help but look at his waist.
Good guy, I don’t know where these people got such a jade pendant. It’s of better quality than the one sent by Zongzheng Temple. Even someone like me, who doesn't know how to appreciate it, can see the difference between the two.
"As long as His Highness wears this jade pendant, as long as it belongs to the Alliance of Despicable People, after seeing it, he will come to contact you, and he can die for His Highness!"
In the last sentence, Zhang Wenshan's tone was very serious and decisive.
In his opinion, His Highness just came into contact with them and found a way out for them. He was obviously more trustworthy than the Queen of Heaven.
As for how His Highness the Crown Prince will treat them after he becomes the emperor in the future, I don't know.
Before, they chose to be the Queen of Heaven. After the Queen of Heaven came to power, they chose to burn bridges across the river. But this time, their bet was bigger and they chose a future emperor. If this one made the same choice, it would really be their doom.
With so many people at his disposal, Li Xiancai felt that he had made up for some of his shortcomings.
This is only right. A prince whose eyes are limited to the East Palace is not qualified to participate in any game.
Now that he has them, he is wearing myopia. Only when he can see clearly and know himself and his enemy can he be victorious in every battle.
Putting away the jade pendant, Li Xian stood up and said: "Okay, you go and deal with your own affairs. Tomorrow you will ask Li Yun for money and go out of the palace to choose a suitable place for you. As for those who will be kicked out of the palace in the future The palace maids and eunuchs, even if they are not from your alliance, you still have to take care of me."
Zhang Wenshan nodded and said: "Your Highness, don't worry. When the alliance was founded, we never had the idea of just seeking a way out for ourselves. We will also help the maids and eunuchs who are kicked out of the palace."
Seeing Zhang Wenshan say this, Li Xiancai showed a look of approval.
That's good. Since their purpose is very simple, they can let down their vigilance a little bit.
After paying homage again, Zhang Wenshan left with the letter.
Although he was defeated in today's confrontation with His Highness. However, at least he got permission from His Highness the Crown Prince. A grape-growing manor could accommodate many people as long as it was far away from human settlements and had a place where food could be grown. Not to mention that they can still make a profit, but even if they are not profitable, they can survive with some help from the eunuchs and maids who are still in the palace.
Zhang Wenshan was very happy when he thought that he would not be miserable when he grew old in the future.
Zhang Wenshan left, and Li Yun walked into the study.
"Your Highness, do you agree?"
"I agreed, why not? Li Yun, since you know their existence, you should also understand their power. It is no exaggeration to say that with them, at least in the palace, it can be said that there are lonely spies everywhere."
"Indeed, Your Highness, this slave has taken the initiative to contact them for you. Aren't you angry?"
Li Xian looked at Li Yun strangely: "Why are you angry? Although you are doing this without orders, at least you are doing it for your own good, right? They will send a eunuch tomorrow. I heard he is a master. You can arrange it for him in the East Palace. In a secret place, let him train some more skilled eunuchs, so that when Gu makes arrangements in the future, at least there will be someone available."
Hearing this, Li Yun was surprised and said: "Expert? Your Highness, why do you sacrifice the near for the far? My skills are pretty good. You can appoint me to do this."
Li Xian said helplessly: "Who are you? The dignified housekeeper of the East Palace, you have three pairs of eyes looking at you every time you take a step. Can such a thing be left to you? I don't think about it carefully, really."
Standing up, Li Xian took two steps outside, stopped again, and did not look back. He said to Li Yun who had already started to clean up the study: "Now, the Alliance of Despicable People and Gu have just reached an agreement. At least, they cannot be completely trusted now. . You should keep a close eye on me. If they have other ideas or act without orders, I don’t need to tell you what to do."
Putting down the rag in his hand, Li Yun nodded and said: "Your Highness, don't worry, I know this."
"Um."
After responding, Li Xiancai walked out of the study.
Trust requires a foundation. At least, Li Xian is not ready to trust them completely yet.
