The legitimate daughter was reborn, and the emperor’s little Jiaojiao went crazy.

Chapter 968: Two Brothers Share Life and Death

"If they find it, will they tell you with a bang?" Cen Che said coldly, "Besides the advantage of being the eldest son, you are the Prince Huiqing of Liang State. I really don't see any chance of winning."

Your brain is still useless!

"The Luo family has taken refuge with me." Cen Ji informed him in a deep voice, throwing out his chips, "They dug up the gold mine in Youzhou, the northern wing."

Cen Che suddenly smiled, his black hair brushing across his slightly drunken cheeks, outlining his androgynous face with a breathtaking beauty. "The Luo family dug up the gold mine and took refuge with you. Then why did you come to the North Wing to find me? Big brother, listen to what you say, do you believe it yourself?"

Cen Ji's sore spot was touched, and he was so angry that he couldn't utter a word for a long time.

He took a sip of wine before continuing, "A part of the gold mine in Youzhou has been dug out. Over the years, the Luo family has gradually washed the gold through business. But the wealth of the Luo family is in the hands of the current head of the Luo family, Luo Feng, and he has disappeared."

"Even if he hadn't disappeared, Luo Feng wouldn't necessarily have come to you for help." Cen Che always felt that there seemed to be layers of whirlpools here, attracting people to fight.

"But the rest of the Luo family have joined me. Half of the Luo family are under my command. They are willing to help me ascend the throne. Fifth brother, I really have no money now, and the wealth of the Luo family is nowhere to be found. But if you help me ascend the throne, I will grant you the richest fiefdom, the greatest power and the most freedom. If you are willing, I can even welcome you as the regent..."

Tsk! This cake! It’s so big! Cen Che smiled faintly and said nothing.

Cen Ji's cake was not finished yet. "You like the girl named Hong Que. I will try my best to marry her to be your princess. Is that okay?"

Cen Che finally raised his eyelids, "What do you want to do?"

"When I get back, I will propose to my father that we form an alliance with the Vina tribe and marry the little princess as your queen."

Cen Che turned the cup in his hand slightly and said leisurely, "Okay, when you succeed, I will lend you a helping hand. But there is one thing, you can't touch Hong Que. If she loses a hair, I will blame it on you."

Cen Ji: “…”

It makes no sense!

He gritted his teeth and promised, "I won't touch her."

Cen Che raised his glass, "Then I wish you immediate success and may all your wishes come true."

"I'll leave some people here to help you find the gold mine?" Cen Ji convinced his brother and felt a little better.

Cen Che thought for a moment and said, "Okay, but will they listen to me?"

Cen Ji was prepared. He clapped his hands and a man who looked like a shopkeeper came in.

The man was about forty years old, with a smart look, wearing a silver silk jacket, and said neither servilely nor arrogantly, "My humble self is Qian Fang, and I am honored to meet the two princes."

Cen Ji nodded slightly, "Qian Fang, from now on your master is my fifth brother. All the manpower deployments in the North Wing will be subject to my fifth brother's arrangements."

Qian Fang should be.

Cen Che asked, "How many troops can be mobilized?"

Qian Fang replied, "There are four guards, each with ten people. The rest are some miscellaneous people, and they can obey the orders of Prince Jin."

Cen Che asked some more questions, and after Qian Fang answered them one by one and left, he smiled and said, "It turns out that Big Brother had already planted secret agents in the North Wing."

Cen Ji did not hide the truth from him, "This is my way out if I lose, and it is also your way out. From now on, we brothers are like grasshoppers on a rope, sharing life and death. What do you think?"

He raised his glass.

Cen Che also raised his glass in response.

The two men drank the cup of "life and death together" wine with their own ulterior motives and formed an alliance.

Cen Ji completed his mission and prepared to return to Liang State.

Cen Che concealed the deep meaning in his eyes.

They already had each other's eyes and ears around them. If he didn't accept the arrangement of the eldest brother, the people around him would also be bribed, and it would be hard to guard against. Instead of doing that, it would be better to openly use the other party's manpower to do some unimportant things, such as helping the North Wing with disaster relief.

It can not only win the favor of the princess, but also conceal his intentions. Cen Che was in a good mood.

He knew that his elder brother came to the North Wing with the intention of capturing Hong Que and threatening him to hand over the gold vein drawings.

The only person who knows that he likes Hongque is Huiying...so, Huiying is Cen Ji's man.

After he figured this out, he gave up the idea of ​​killing Cen Ji. He decided to let Cen Ji go back to Liang State to muddy the waters, so that he could live a more relaxed life.

Maybe once he finds the gold mine, he can go back to Liang State and continue to reap the benefits.

He originally wanted to be a jerk.

Thinking of this, Cen Che regained his usual clear stupidity. He always felt that Princess Beiyi was just putting on airs, and the powerful ones were the civil servant under her and the military commanders around her.

And the one named Shi Chengyi, who is very decisive in doing things without any procrastination.

Cen Che knew what was going on, so he went back to find Xie Huai and told him that the matter had been settled and asked him not to worry.

Xie Huai looked at him deeply, and felt his heart beating faintly between his eyebrows. "Why don't we tell the princess the truth?"

Cen Che glared coldly, "Now the Xie family has the princess's trust, and you sold me out out of the blue. Do you think the princess will still use the Xie family?"

Xie Huai was embarrassed and scared.

Cen Che patted his shoulder and said, "Wait a little longer, let's make some achievements and then confess to the princess. This will give us more bargaining chips, don't you think?"

Xie Huai was really reluctant to give up the current situation. Once he surrendered, not only would he be exposed, but he would also incur the wrath of the princess.

He nodded, determined to seize this disaster opportunity and maximize the light and warmth of the Xie family.

At that time, Anxia received 500,000 taels of silver from Cen Ji, and allocated 100,000 taels to the Xie family to manage, and another 100,000 taels to Lingzhou to subsidize disaster relief.

She sat cross-legged on the warm kang and carefully looked through the lantern festival register.

Qiu Zhiyan also sat cross-legged opposite her, with a small desk between them, and they worked on the accounts together.

The two of them talked to each other from time to time, reducing and adjusting every expense. All the fancy and unnecessary expenses were cut.

Every penny was spent wisely, and some opera troupes were even dismissed and replaced with more porridge stalls.

Only when you are full can you listen to music. Shi Anxia wanted to let all the people eat warm thick porridge during the New Year, and they could queue up to get it if they wanted.

Qiu Zhiyan suddenly spoke up, "It is a lucky thing to be a commoner in my cousin's fiefdom."

In fact, what he wanted to say was that women are as good as men, and if his cousin became emperor, the people of the Northern Wing would be the luckiest.

But Qiu Zhiyan didn't dare to say such outrageous words and could only keep it in his heart.

And he suddenly remembered that his mother and cousin were against each other in their early years, and everything went wrong.

Since he made up his mind to join his cousin's camp, everything went smoothly. He entered Yunqi Academy, won the second place in the imperial examination and entered the official career, and then followed her to Lingzhou.

When Qiu Zhiyan first started doing his job, he was a little nervous, fearing that he would make a mistake, and also afraid that he would embarrass his cousin and make people think that he got the job through the backdoor.

His cousin comforted him, "Just go for it. If you can't make up your mind, let's discuss it together."

Although she said it was a discussion, she actually considered his proposal seriously, made slight modifications, and finally did it his way.

After a long time, Qiu Zhiyan became confident and felt that he could do it on his own and had endless energy.