Chapter 119 Rescue
Su Qingqing was stunned for a moment, then she started laughing.
With a nonchalant expression, "My identity? Why? Besides being the princess of Zhao State and the crown princess, do they think I have another identity? A spy from an enemy country?"
Rong Que looked at Su Qingqing, "Is there?"
Su Qingqing smiled and said, "What do you think?"
Rong Que said nothing and just looked at her quietly.
Su Qingqing was silent for a moment, then said, "I asked Wang Yu to raise private soldiers, and the people he recruited were also the original members of your Great Yan State's Su Family Army. Since you trust your General Su, you should trust these people. They will definitely not do anything to rebel and betray the country."
Rong Que didn't want to hear this.
Of course he knew that there would be no problem with those people. Ever since Wang Yu started to raise private soldiers, he had never doubted anything.
He wanted to hear Su Qingqing admit in person that this Su Qingqing was that Su Qingqing.
As the two were talking, Ming Lu came in and reported, "Your Highness, General Wang wants to see you."
Wang Yu is here.
The purpose of the meeting was also to see Su Qingqing.
However, Su Qingqing did not avoid Rong Que and just said, "Let him in."
After rearranging the pillow behind Rong Que so that he could sit up straighter, Su Qingqing moved to a chair in the room and sat down.
Wang Yu came in disguise, wearing a short coarse cloth coat, and kowtowed as soon as he entered the door.
Rong Que raised his hand and said, "General Wang, there's no need to be so polite. Stand up and talk."
Wang Yu glanced at Su Qingqing, sat down below her, stopped talking nonsense, and got straight to the point.
“Although it was His Majesty who proposed the idea of raising a private army, since the Duke of Zhenguo already knows about this, he will definitely obstruct it.
Perhaps Your Majesty can hold on for a while, but in the long run, I am afraid that Your Majesty's private army will die.
Even if Your Majesty can deal with the Duke of Zhenguo, and eventually this private army can be legitimately maintained, the expenses of the part we raise ourselves will be a problem. At first, we can hide the expenses by using Your Majesty's part, but as the number of people increases, the expenses will also increase, and then it will definitely be exposed."
These days, Su Qingqing has been imprisoned in Tianlao, and Wang Yu has been worried about this matter.
As soon as I learned that she was coming out, I came here immediately.
With Rong Que around, Su Qingqing did not speak directly, but served the tea in silence.
Rong Que knew that she didn't want to reveal her identity in front of him, so he sighed in his heart and said, "The first problem to be solved is food and grass ?"
Wang Yu shook his head. "Food and grass is not the primary problem. After all, we are still in the starting stage. What needs to be solved urgently is horses and training grounds. Military horses are different from ordinary horses, and the training grounds cannot be perfunctory."
It happened suddenly at that time.
Wang Yu only received the news sent from Suihonglou and immediately went into the palace. Nothing had been decided yet.
This is not a trivial matter. Every step must be done carefully and without mistakes. If there is a problem in any link, the whole thing will be a failure.
Rong Que knew that Su Qingqing must have had some plan when she brought this up, so he asked her, "What do you think, Crown Princess?"
"The Su family was raided. I remember that the Su family had a large farm in Fengtai. We can rebuild the farm and turn it into a small racecourse for the nobles of Kyoto to pass the time. I will ask His Majesty for this place in a few days."
Wang Yu said anxiously, "Just put it out in the open like this? It's easy to be discovered."
“If you want to raise private soldiers near Kyoto, there is no way you can avoid being discovered.
Private soldiers are different from secret guards. Secret guards practice kung fu, while private soldiers not only practice kung fu, but also cooperation ability and combat strategies, so the noise cannot be small.
When the manor was built, secret passages and underground secret rooms were built, which were just right for the people you support to live in. Usually, fixed people would be reserved to greet the children of nobles who come to play, and the rest of the people could practice in the underground field.
As for horse racing, after the guests have left, we can form groups of a dozen or so and treat it as daily practice at the racecourse, and train them first.”
Wang Yu grasped the key point.
Let’s train him first.
In other words, this is only a temporary situation and there will definitely be other arrangements later.
He said no more and responded directly, "The issue of food and grass..."
Su Qingqing said, "I'll take care of it. Just focus on recruiting people. Once we have contacted them, we can send them to the secret room in the manor to live there."
As for the Su family’s farm, because the Su family got into trouble this time, all the people in the farm were arrested, and now the farm is just an empty shell.
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It took Rong Que a full month to fully recover from his injury.
Coincidentally, the palace celebrated the Queen’s birthday.
The second prince was under house arrest for a month, and the emperor's anger subsided a lot. In addition, Wang Yu's side has been back on track these days, so the emperor is in a good mood.
As for the private army issue, the Duke of Zhenguo had interfered, so the Emperor decided to go all out and put the private army out in the open. He only said to the outside world that the Imperial Guards would rectify military discipline, expel some of the veteran soldiers, and recruit a new batch to supplement them.
In this way, even if the Duke of Zhenguo wanted to interfere, he could not do it openly, and could only find a way to place his own people among the newly recruited people.
However, this time the selection of newcomers was personally inspected by Wang Yu, so it would not be easy for the Duke of Zhenguo to get people in even if he wanted to.
In the Xishan camp, undercurrents are surging and the situation is treacherous.
The Queen's birthday banquet in the palace also began in full swing.
This might be the most peaceful banquet Su Qingqing had ever attended.
It was a joyful atmosphere from beginning to end, as if everyone had put aside their party disputes and prejudices, eliminated their barriers and hostility, and truly became a family.
When the palace banquet was about to end, Qin Wanru, who had almost recovered, suddenly asked Su Qingqing, "Does His Royal Highness know about the Xishan camp?"
At the banquet tonight, Qin Wanru sat next to Su Qingqing as usual, but this time, she remained silent. Su Qingqing thought she had just stopped there because she had achieved her goal, but she didn't expect her to suddenly say something like this.
Su Qingqing tilted her head to look at her but didn't answer.
Qin Wanru laughed at herself and said, "I put so much effort into it, but I still couldn't get out of that prison."
Su Qingqing heard that Qin Wanru had mentioned to the emperor several times since the last palace banquet that she was unable to bear children and was not qualified to be the second prince's wife, and hoped that the emperor would allow the second prince to appoint another wife.
Qin Wanru's father also submitted memorials many times.
However, they were all rejected.
"I have a message for you. Can you help me again?" Qin Wanru held the wine cup and looked at Su Qingqing.
This woman, she was not familiar with in her past life or this life, and they had almost no contact. Su Qingqing smiled and said, "What's the use of me needing your information?"
"You will be interested. You don't want to know about the military rations of the Xishan Camp..."
Before Qin Wanru could finish her words, a sudden scream came from above.
Immediately afterwards, there was the roar of cups and plates falling to the ground and tables collapsing, and angry shouts of "Help!"
Su Qingqing suddenly turned her head to look.
