Ye Xiaoxiao nodded with a smile, but she couldn't care less about that at the moment.
"How is it? Is there a gold mine inside?"
Shangguan Lingyun nodded, and a smile appeared in Ye Xiaoxiao's eyes.
"It really is a gold mine! That's great! The national treasury will be filled up soon."
Shangguan Lingyun smiled faintly, "All this is thanks to you."
"If you hadn't insisted on leaving the palace, perhaps all the gold mines would have fallen into the hands of others."
Ye Xiaoxiao smiled awkwardly. When she learned that there were still a lot of gold mines inside, she immediately fell into deep thought.
"With so much gold, we need to send a few trustworthy people to mine it. Do you have the right people?"
Shangguan Lingyun took a look at the huge Maoshan Mountain and immediately had an idea in his mind.
"I heard that your second brother has returned to Beijing. I think it's just right to hand this matter over to him."
Ye Xiaoxiao frowned, "This mine is not small. It will take a lot of time to mine it all."
"My second brother just got married not long ago. If I rush into this mountain, I'm afraid Jingjing will blame me."
Shangguan Lingyun rubbed his brows and explained with a faint smile.
"I asked your second brother to come here not only for mining, but also to use the terrain of this mine to train soldiers."
Upon hearing this, Ye Xiaoxiao took a look at the steep Maoshan Mountain, which was indeed more suitable for raising troops.
However, she still didn't want Ye Rong and Li Jingjing to be separated for too long.
Shangguan Lingyun saw what she was thinking, so he continued.
"Training and maintaining troops, mining and transportation are indeed huge projects."
"But you don't have to worry. I remember that Li Jingjing is also the daughter of a general. You can ask your second brother to bring her over and take care of his daily life."
"If your second brother doesn't want her to suffer, this place is not too far from the capital, so it's not impossible to visit her back and forth."
When Ye Xiaoxiao heard this, she felt that what he said made sense, so she stopped trying to stop him.
"However, this place is still some distance away from the capital. How should we deal with these people in the next few days?"
There is not much food left on the mountain, and they can't stay here for long.
Shangguan Lingyun saw that she was worried and comforted her with a faint smile.
"You don't have to worry too much. Just leave these things to Wang Xiao."
Wang Xiao: “…”
However, he still tactfully came to Ye Xiaoxiao and replied respectfully.
"Your Majesty, Commander Zhou is on his way. He will arrive in a day."
Ye Xiaoxiao then remembered Commander Zhou who had protected the emperor in Luancheng before.
Seeing that the matter was resolved, Ye Xiaoxiao finally breathed a sigh of relief.
However, although she was relieved, the bandits were not so relieved.
The bandit leader looked at Ye Xiaoxiao hesitantly. Seeing this, Shangguan Lingyun immediately hugged her in his arms.
Ye Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, then reacted. She glared at Shangguan Lingyun helplessly, then looked at the bandit leader.
"You can say whatever you want to say. It's easy for my husband to misunderstand you if you do this."
The bandit leader only then realized that something was wrong with Shangguan Lingyun, and knelt down in front of the two of them in embarrassment.
"I, Liu Da, greet the Empress and His Majesty."
Seeing this, the other bandits also knelt down.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I was blinded by my ignorance and offended you. I beg Your Majesty and Your Majesty to forgive me."
After Liu Da finished speaking, he kowtowed to Ye Xiaoxiao and Shangguan Lingyun, and then said.
"My Lady, please let us go for the sake of us leading you."
"We are not the bandits they claim we are. We are just refugees who fled from the West City."
Hearing about Xicheng, Ye Xiaoxiao suddenly became interested.
"You said you were from West City?"
The bandits nodded immediately, and Ye Xiaoxiao asked again.
"What happened in West City? Why did you flee here?"
Seeing Ye Xiaoxiao's curiosity, Liu Da began to tell her about his own experience.
"We were originally villagers living on the outskirts of West City, but one day, for some unknown reason, a lot of bandits suddenly arrived on the West City mountain."
"They killed anyone they saw, and many surrounding villages were completely wiped out by them."
"Our village is not far from Xicheng Mountain, but not too close either. The villagers are very worried."
"So, I discussed with a few villagers and decided to sneak away through an unknown path while they weren't paying attention."
"We fled all the way, but there were too many of us and other villages couldn't accommodate us."
"In desperation, we headed towards Maoshan."
"But before we could even get to the top of the mountain, we were intercepted by a group of soldiers who suddenly appeared."
"They said we were fugitives and insisted on locking us up."
"We couldn't resist, so they took us into the mountains."
"Later, they let us mine in the mountains. We saw there was no danger and no one was chasing us, so we set up camp here."
"We really never did any house-raiding."
"They were responsible for all that, but we did eat the food they looted."
As Liu Da spoke, his voice gradually lowered.
Ye Xiaoxiao knew that they were not bandits, but she didn't expect that they were actually villagers who were coerced.
[No wonder they are so naive, they are fleeing from disaster.]
[I don't know if the place those people occupy is where we want to go.]
"If you dare to damage the herbs I want, I will dig up their ancestral graves."
Shangguan Lingyun listened to Ye Xiaoxiao's thoughts with some amusement, and then spoke.
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