Beauty is poisonous

Chapter 181 Cooperation
"Recover the defeat? How to recover?" Prince Lu's handsome and extraordinary face showed a look of annoyance: "Brother Dahuang captured the Queen's mother, and the King threw a mouse, so what?"

When he looked up and saw Tao Zhijian's eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, he looked away a little guilty.

It’s just that Taozhizhang picked up the old god of tea and tasted it, which made him feel uncomfortable like a cat scratching his heart. After a pause, he compromised and said: "Princess, just open it if you have any conditions. If this king can be satisfied, he must work hard to satisfy it!"

"Hey!" Tao Zhizhi snorted and said, "It's another empty promise. What do you mean by satisfying as much as you can? Why do you high-ranking people always like to fool others like fools?"

An unnatural look flashed across Prince Lu's blue eyes, and he argued, "Princess is paranoid. This king really wants to cooperate with the princess!"

"Cooperation?" Tao Zhizhi sneered and said with a sneer: "Who can I not cooperate with right now? Why must I cooperate with the prince? The prince also understands that the risk of cooperation with you is greater. It seems that the palace wants to ensure the possibility of cooperation. You have to pay first, right? And I have to bear the risk of whether the promise will be fulfilled after I pay, so I am at a loss anyway, it would be more cost-effective to directly cooperate with the eldest prince of your country!"

An anxious look appeared in Will's eyes, and he was about to yell at Tao Zhijian.

Prince Lu grabbed Will, stopped drinking, and smiled at Tao Zhizhang: "Princess is really smart, presumably she already knew that the king has a back hand before negotiating with the king."

Tao Zhijuan just smiled and said nothing, if Prince Lu was as innocent and innocent as he showed, he would have died long ago, as far as she knew, that eldest prince was very vicious and sinister.

But this Prince Lu is not a good thing, even his own mother can take advantage of it so thoroughly, it is really crazy!
As if sensing Tao Zhijian's thoughts, Prince Lu showed a sad look, and said quietly: "The princess must think that this king is too unfilial, right?"

Tao Zhizhang took a sip of tea noncommittally.

Prince Lu didn't care about it either, and sighed softly: "I have been a prince since I was born. Compared with the princes of other countries who are fighting for the position of prince, I don't know how lucky I am. The opportunity that the king took was just the birth of his mother, and the country of Lu was the country of the king's grandfather. Even if the father and king liked other brothers, there was no way to change it.

It’s just that if possible, this king actually wants to be an ordinary person, at least..."

He dragged on a long ending, and looked at Tao Zhizhi intentionally, hoping to arouse Tao Zhizhi's curiosity, but he didn't know that Tao Zhizhi was not an ordinary person, so he was not moved at all, let alone pick up any words.

There was a trace of disappointment in his eyes, but he was relieved immediately. Didn't he already know that Princess Xinxin is extremely intelligent?Since he is so smart, how could he be easily led by his emotions?
Forget it, don't need to use any brains, let's speak with sincerity.

He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes were cold and cruel: "Actually, as long as I can remember, I have wanted my father to die and my mother to die! If this king said so, would the princess think that this king is the king? Is it a vicious person?"

Tao Zhizhang finally spoke, and said lightly: "Everyone has their own ideas in doing things, as long as you are worthy of your own heart!"

Prince Lu laughed, yes, it's not like he doesn't know about Taohou Mansion!Wasn't Master Tao Hou also made life worse by this young princess?Master Taohou is the biological father of this little princess!As for those brothers and sisters, this princess has done some tricks too!

After all, they are still the same kind!

Momozhizhao glanced at him and said coolly: "If you want to cooperate, then cooperate, don't think about what you have!"

Prince Lu's heart trembled, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his gaze towards Tao Zhijian became more complicated. After a long time, he retracted his gaze, forgetting that this woman is too wise, every thought he thought seemed to be It was impossible to hide from her eyes, and in front of this woman, he seemed to be a transparent person without secrets. This kind of feeling is not so wonderful!

There are so many beauties in this world, so why choose this woman?

Having said that, Prince Lu still looked at Tao Zhijian with some reluctance.

Tao Zhizhang frowned and said: "It's getting late, if Prince Lu just wants to appreciate the beauty of the palace, it can be changed to daytime, so that it can better show the beauty of the palace!"

"Pfft!" Prince Lu couldn't help laughing, and the distance between the two seemed to have narrowed a lot: "The princess is so cute, she can even say such outrageous words!"

Just when Tao Zhifang was about to get angry, he said quickly: "Okay, okay, okay, it's because this king doesn't know how to use adjectives, the princess is called confident and beautiful."

Momozhizao stopped talking.

"Ahem..." Prince Lu coughed lightly before he said in a dejected voice: "I don't need to talk about my father, he married my mother with bad intentions, and he didn't have any affection for my mother at all. , let alone the son of this king! To him, this king is just a witness to the humiliation of his humiliation for the sake of power, so as long as this king can remember, he has been indulging other concubines to treat this king. With poisonous hands.

Hehe, you can hardly imagine that this king has had different poisons in his diet since he was two years old, and he dared not sleep at all at night, because there might be some poisonous snakes running up to him. One after another, if this king hadn't had a good master, it would be a miracle that he could survive till now.

And the queen mother of the king, actually attributed the fault of her not being liked by the king to the king, thinking that it was the king who made her be neglected by the king, and even tried to please the big brother because the king liked my brother. , not only watched other people's persecution of the king with cold eyes, but also personally killed the king many times.

Haha, princess, can you imagine how this king feels?This king can not blame his father for being cruel, because this king is not the existence he expected, but this king is the biological son of the queen mother, and she treats this king so cruelly for a man who doesn't love her. You say this king How could he still be filial to her? "

Tao Zhizhi looked at him with some emotion, and sighed slightly when he saw a line of tears streaming from his blood red eyes.

She was luckier than him. Although she had the same scumbag father as him, she was lucky to have such a kind mother as Feng.

No wonder Prince Lu would plot against his own mother so cruelly!In fact, Prince Lu was not feeling well when he was calculating!
At this time, Prince Lu sneered and said: "Princess, I am not afraid of your jokes. There is another shame that this king cannot bear, that is, my queen mother has an affair with the elder brother!"

"..." Tao Zhizhang looked at Prince Lu in shock, this Lu is unreliable and can't do such a thing, right?
Although the eldest prince Nalu is not her own son, he is also an honorary son, and she is almost 20 years older than the eldest prince Nalu!

Well, even if this is not a reason, but Prince Lu's mother robbed her man, shouldn't she hate Prince Lu to the bone?How did you hook up?

This is too weird, right?
"Don't believe it?" Prince Lu laughed at himself: "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe it! But when you know why my queen mother did this, you can't listen!"

"What reason?" Tao Zhizhang looked at Prince Lu in a daze.

Facing Shang Taozhi's clear eyes, Prince Lu almost couldn't continue, and after a long time said shamefully: "Since the concubine has robbed her man, she has robbed the concubine's son! Let the concubine regret it forever !"

Momozhizao is speechless, what reason is this?
"It's a weird reason, isn't it?" Prince Lu snorted contemptuously: "In fact, she has always been so selfish. From the time she married her father, she was selfish only for herself, and when she found out that something was wrong, she was selfish again. To evade, and even use all kinds of weird reasons to evade responsibility, this is the queen mother of this king... Heh... this time the big emperor imprisoned her to restrain the king, she probably thought that the big emperor was just for She pretended to get the throne, and maybe even worked very hard to smear me in the country of Lu. How could she know that the elder brother really wanted to use this to get rid of her!
Just watch, as long as this king doesn't agree to exchange him for her, the elder brother will definitely kill her, and then take advantage of this king's unfilial, cruel and immoral public opinion to sit in that position!

It really is killing three birds with one stone, using the queen mother's hand to kill the emperor's father, and using the king's reputation to kill the queen mother who has been pestering him all the time, and then using the queen mother's death to claim the king's scum of the country!Really brilliant! "

Obviously, his heart was wounded and riddled with holes, but Prince Lu's heart was still throbbing with pain.

No matter how many times Empress Lu chased him down and treated him ruthlessly, he would hypnotize himself. The empress mother was just confused for a moment, blinded by love. One day, the empress mother would understand that he was her closest person.

But the queen mother finally figured it out, and killed her father, but she threw herself into a new fantasy, repeating her previous painful life again.

She chose to rely on the eldest brother!

Haha, the queen mother will always live so selfishly, living for self-righteous love!

In the past, she thought she loved her father, so she let her father kill her grandfather and grandmother, and even persecuted herself.But when she fell in love with the big emperor brother, she once again supported the big emperor brother's killing of him without hesitation. This is his mother!
Always live only for yourself!

Forget it, this is the last time!After more than ten years of chasing and killing him, he has paid off the grace of her birth.

Momozhizao sighed softly, "How do you want me to help you?"

The pain was fleeting, and the harmless harmony between humans and animals was restored in a blink of an eye: "Take back the power of Lu State, this king promises you that if you do business in Lu State, you will only collect half of all taxes!"

Tao Zhizhang said with a half smile but not a smile: "This condition is estimated to be agreed to by your elder brother."

Prince Lu's expression tightened: "Then what else do you want?"

Tao Zhizhi straightened his face and said, "I want your musket skills!"

Prince Lu was startled. People in Lu country have always been very secretive in developing muskets. There are only a handful of people in Lu country, including him, who know about this matter. How could this Princess Xinxin know about it?Is there a traitor?

No, not possible!
The eyes looking at Momozhizao became very apprehensive, a little unsure if it was right for him to seek Momozhizao's cooperation.

Tao Zhizhang smiled slightly, thanks to her previous life, she heard Zhuo Lingyun talk about muskets before she married Zhuo Lingyun, because at that time the iron-producing Tu country had not been exchanged with Long Aoyi, so she was discovered in her previous life. With a lot of iron ore.

Although the state of Lu has the technology of making guns, iron ore is relatively scarce, so at that time Zhuo Lingyun signed an agreement with the prince of Lu to transport iron ore from the Zhuo family to the state of Lu at the price of one or two gold per catty of iron .

Speaking of which, Zhuo Lingyun is really a fool, actually putting himself in danger just to covet those little money!

If it weren't for the fact that the Lu State and the Zhuo family were too far apart, separated by a vast ocean, it would be difficult for the Lu State to manage it even if it controlled the Zhuo State. It is estimated that the first person to fight after the Lu State has muskets is the Zhuo family!

However, she didn't know whether the previous life happened, because she died not long after.

But in this life, she will never let any potential hidden danger exist. Whether it is for the Zhuo Kingdom or the Dragon Kingdom, she will not allow the musket to be owned by the Lu family.

"How could the princess know such a secret thing?" Prince Lu probed.

"There is no absolute secret in this world, it just depends on whether people want to know!" Tao Zhizhang explained vaguely, so she would not tell Prince Lu that she knew it from her previous life.

She is so false, true and false, so that Prince Lu can't figure out her bottom line, that's why she feels jealous of her, so he dare not do the thing of tearing down bridges!

Prince Lu stared at her for a while, making sure that it was impossible to get more information from her, so he stopped asking.

So what if it's musket technology?The Zhuo family's smelting level is not high, so it is impossible to make a musket with blueprints!What's more, there is gunpowder, which is a secret that is not passed on. If you don't know how to make gunpowder, muskets are just decorations!
Thinking of this, Prince Lu calmed down, and said slowly, "Yes, but the princess must promise not to spread the word!"

"Naturally, I promise not to spread the technology. In business, the prince also knows that I just want to make money and doesn't want to participate in political affairs. By the way, if the prince is interested, I can help Selling the finished muskets to the prince will save the prince's transportation costs, won't it?"

Prince Lu thought about it, and had some thoughts, you must know that iron ore and muskets are completely different things!That is, only one-third of a plate of iron ore can be used. Not to mention the high cost of such a long journey, it will also increase countless labor.

The State of Lu is not like the State of Zhuo, with a large population, but a small country with a vast land and sparse population. It is still difficult to find so many people who have traveled across the ocean to transport iron ore to the State of Lu for many years.

But if the musket is different, the transportation volume can be reduced by at least three times, but the cost is the same as before, and he also saves labor!

What's more, it's a way to get the best of both worlds if you can have a good relationship with Taozhizhang.

Anyway, I gave Momozhizao all the technical drawings, so it doesn't matter if I buy her gun.

Tao Zhizhang smiled, she wanted to make money on the one hand, and on the other hand, she was afraid that Prince Lu would give her fake blueprints, so that she could guarantee to get the real blueprints.

Moreover, she can also contain Prince Lu, so that Prince Lu dare not send troops to attack Zhuo Kingdom easily.

The two have their own thoughts, and they are both thinking for themselves. Although Crown Prince Suo Xing has ambitions, but this ambition is only aimed at the countries around the Lu State, he has never had any covetous heart towards the Zhuo family. It's too far away, but he can't control it if he swallows it.

"Okay, this suggestion is very good. After this matter is over, the king and the princess will make a total calculation together."

"That's great! Then let's talk about how to bring the crown prince back home!"

Prince Lu smiled wryly: "It would be nice to be able to return home now, why would you want to go back home in full glory? The princess is really making fun of me!"

"Why are you making fun of it? Could it be that the crown prince is so willing to be tricked by the eldest prince and be charged with unfilial piety?"

"Of course not reconciled!"

"That's fine. Bengong believes that the prince must have someone he can trust in the country of Lu, right? And he's also very capable!"

Prince Lu nodded and said, "Nothing can be hidden from the princess! The princess is so wise!"

Tao Zhizhang said unconcernedly: "But it's nice to say, with the wisdom of the prince, how could he break into a foreign country single-handedly without letting capable people there?"

Prince Lu smiled sarcastically: "Princess's words really made me ashamed. Although I did make some arrangements, some of them rebelled against me, so I was caught off guard! The Batu I just mentioned is in charge of the Imperial Forest Army. Those who have always been loyal to this king, have been used by the eldest prince!"

"I'm afraid it's not because of this that you rebelled against the prince. Those who rebel must be veterans, right?"

"How does the princess know?"

"Since you said that those veterans miss the old days, how can you be sure that you are thinking about your old days and not your mother's old days? Just now, I heard you talk about your mother's affairs, and I know that those old officials must be loyal to your mother when they defected. .”

Prince Lu sighed softly: "The princess always speaks so sharply, which makes me a little bit heartbroken!"

"A soft knife poking the heart won't kill someone, but it will hurt, but it's better than a real knife poking your heart! You should be lucky, they did it after you appeared in Zhuo Kingdom, otherwise you might be sitting in prison with your mother at this time inside!"

Prince Lu remained silent, with a sad expression on his face.

"Okay, I believe that the prince will keep his word, so naturally I want to make suggestions for the prince!"

Prince Lu happily said: "I don't know what the princess can do?"

A cold light flashed in Tao Zhiyan's eyes, and he said word by word: "An indirect plan!"

"A countermeasure?"

She stood up slowly, walked casually into the bamboo bushes, gently tore off a bamboo leaf with her white jade hands, and gently twisted it...

The voice was light and erratic, like a Sanskrit voice from afar: "The betrayer pays his oath with blood!"

(End of this chapter)