Seeing the maids carrying the target and the bow out, Princess Yongning said with a worried look on her face: "Royal sister, why don't you take a rest and start moving again!"
Jiang Wan'er said softly, "It doesn't matter. If I don't move around a bit, my body will soon become rusty."
"By the way, weren't you looking after the expansion of the workshop? Why did you come to my sister's place at noon?"
When Princess Yongning heard Jiang Wan'er's question, she became furious.
"Royal sister, I want to ask, is there any envoy from Wu?"
Jiang Wan'er was stunned. "The Wu Kingdom's envoys? I just received the letter from the Wu Kingdom this morning. How did you know about this?"
"Are you really here?"
Jiang Wan'er shook her head: "The person hasn't arrived yet, but the letter of credence was sent in advance."
"Why, what happened?"
Princess Yongning immediately recounted in detail what happened to Zhao Hao when he was attacked by thieves last night.
After hearing this, Jiang Waner's pretty face immediately turned gloomy.
"You mean, Zhao Hao was attacked by thieves last night?"
"Do you think it was done by the Wu people?"
Princess Yongning said, "It's still unclear, but Zhao Hao feels very strange that the thief doesn't seem to want to hurt him."
"But this morning, Princess Li Ge of Shu Kingdom found Zhao Hao and asked him for no reason whether he had encountered any problems recently."
"Zhao Hao felt that she seemed to know something."
"But if it was the Third Prince of Wu who took action, Zhao Hao felt that it was not likely."
Jiang Wan'er nodded slightly: "No matter who it is, this matter must be thoroughly investigated. In my great capital, such a thing actually happened. Is this bullying me?"
As she spoke, she turned her head and looked at the maid Qing Xing beside her.
Qing Xing said nothing, just nodded slightly and went out.
Jiang Wan'er asked again: "Does Zhao Hao have anyone he suspects?"
Princess Yongning shook her head: "No, he thought about almost everyone he had offended in the past, but he didn't think anything was wrong."
Jiang Wan'er said, "This little bastard has offended so many people in the past, so it's normal that we can't think of who it is."
Princess Yongning said, "Sister, what should we do now? We can't just let the thieves run rampant like this."
"A thief can steal for a thousand days, but you can never be on guard against thieves for a thousand days."
Jiang Wan'er said softly, "Don't worry, I have my own arrangements, you don't have to worry about this matter."
After hearing what her sister said, Princess Yongning finally felt relieved.
With the royal sister's guarantee, there will naturally be no problem.
When Princess Yongning left, Jiang Wan'er's beautiful eyebrows couldn't help but frown again.
"Wu State..."
"I hope you guys will be more sensible."
"Behave yourself."
"Otherwise, don't blame me!"
After a pause, she coldly ordered outside: "Send Lord Zhao, the Internal History, to come see me!"
Eunuch Qu at the door immediately took the order and left. Not long after, Zhao Wenxiang came over.
After greeting, Jiang Wan'er immediately asked, "Mr. Zhao, how are the disaster victims in the two states doing?"
Zhao Wenxiang said quickly: "Your Majesty, everything is progressing in an orderly manner."
"The snow roads are gradually melting and all the materials are ready. We just need to wait until the roads are completely clear of snow before we can transport them to the two states."
"Then the refugees from the two states can be resettled and this year's spring ploughing will not be delayed."
“However, although the noble families have fully cooperated with the resettlement and sold various materials to the court at the lowest price, there is still a huge gap.”
“It’s extremely difficult to arrange everything at once.”
"It may take two to three years, step by step, to complete the resettlement work."
Hearing this, Jiang Wan'er sighed helplessly.
There is nothing we can do about it for two to three years.
In theory, the court was doing its best by providing a certain amount of food to the victims.
But this time, the snowstorm caused extremely serious damage to houses in the two states.
If the imperial court does not resolve this issue, the victims will not be able to be properly resettled.
And if the two states remain empty and starving for a long time, there will be no stability in the north.
So, you have to do it even if you don’t want to.
And it has to be done quickly.
Jiang Wan'er asked, "Can we advance the time? Zhao Qing should understand that if the two states are not stable, then the north will not be stable."
Zhao Wenxiang nodded: "Of course I understand, but Your Majesty, two to three years is already a very optimistic estimate!"
"There are at least 100,000 disaster victims. I have calculated it over and over again. It will take at least 1.2 million strings of cash to do this."
One million and two hundred thousand strings of cash is simply an astronomical figure.
After a pause, Zhao Wenxiang continued, "This is the result obtained after taking into account all the income I received from expanding the sales of dry wine."
If it weren't for the super income from dry wine, it would take him ten or eight years, let alone two or three years, to resettle the victims.
If it takes that long, then there will be no point in settling them down and the victims will be left to their own devices to live or die.
Jiang Wan'er said with a serious expression: "Zhao Qing, in addition to resettling the victims, I also need to reorganize the army as soon as possible and produce a large number of bombs."
"You must leave the money for me!"
When Zhao Wenxiang heard Jiang Wan'er say this, his expression suddenly changed.
"His Majesty……"
Jiang Wan'er waved her hand to interrupt: "Zhao Qing, I am not discussing with you now, but I want you to do it!"
"If it was just the big battle with Huang Man last year, I could have scared off those villains with my might!"
"But in winter, there was a once-in-a-century snowstorm, which made some people unable to sit still!"
“They will think that this is their chance!”
"Therefore, I, Da Gan, must prepare for war as soon as possible and not give anyone an opportunity to take advantage of us!"
Zhao Wenxiang's expression changed when he heard this: "Your Majesty, is there any movement in the south and west?"
To the south of Dagan were the Chu State and the Yi Rong, and to the west were the Wu State and the Shu State.
To the east is the State of Yue.
In comparison, the Yue State in the east was the least tempered, because it was the weakest and had always followed the lead of Da Gan Ma.
Therefore, there is no need to consider the east.
After the battle of Mubei City, Huangman was also devastated and did not need to be considered either.
So.
With the army prepared for war, all we have to deal with are the south and the west.
Jiang Wan'er said coldly: "There are no clear signs yet, but I have a hunch that they will never let go of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
"If it were me, I would not give up this opportunity either!"
Zhao Wenxiang understood it, but still looked embarrassed.
"Your Majesty, I am afraid that the tax revenue I have collected is not enough to support the resettlement of the disaster victims in the two states and the preparation of the army for war."
"unless……"
"Postpone the resettlement of disaster victims!"
Jiang Wan'er shook her head and said, "No, if the two states cannot be stabilized, it will be even more difficult for the upper and lower levels to work together under the pressure from both inside and outside!"
Zhao Wenxiang said: "But Your Majesty, with our current national strength, we really can't do it!"
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