Eat the whole family? I emptied the storehouse of the Marquis' Mansion and married the crippled

On the first day in Ningchuan City, Ye Jintang was full of curiosity and excitement facing this strange city. As the Princess of Qin, she could show her talents here and start her new life, instead of being subject to so many restrictions like in the capital.

Xiao Mo was also excited. He finally escaped from the cage and began to gather his strength for a counterattack.

Traveling all the way from the capital to the west, Ye Jintang experienced so much along the way that when she woke up in bed, she couldn't even react for a moment where she was.

"Your Highness, you are awake. The prince just told me to have breakfast with you later."

"Oh, where's the prince?"

Ye Jintang went to bed very early last night and she didn’t know when Xiao Mo came back. This morning, he probably got up and left before dawn.

He was so busy on the first day after arriving in Ningchuan City. One can imagine that he would be busy as hell in the days to come.

"The prince is currently discussing matters in the study with several advisers in the palace."

While Luzhu was helping Ye Jintang get up and wash, she was talking about Xiao Mo.

"Well, has anyone sent a visiting card today?"

"No."

Speaking of the visiting card, Lu Zhu curled her lips and continued, "These ladies in Ningchuan City are so arrogant. Your Majesty is the princess, but they don't even come to pay their respects. Aren't they afraid that Your Majesty will punish them?"

Ye Jintang didn't care.

"They all want to test the strength of the prince now. If the prince is useless, it will be difficult for us to gain a foothold in Ningchuan Prefecture."

It is estimated that all officials in Ningchuan Prefecture hope that Xiao Mo is an incompetent prince.

Even though he was very good at leading troops in battles and even had the title of Tian Qin, fighting and managing a fiefdom are completely different fields. Xiao Mo's goodness in fighting does not mean he is also good at managing a fiefdom.

Not long after Ye Jintang got up, Xiao Mo came back from outside, feeling cold.

When breakfast was placed on the table, she didn't rush to pick up her chopsticks. Instead, she asked Xiao Mo about the content of today's meeting.

"The advisers hope that I can give the four major families in Ningchuan City a warning, but they can't give a good idea on how to do it. They are really a bunch of good-for-nothings. When I want to use them, they don't think about it."

Xiao Mo has just arrived in Ningchuan Prefecture for one day. To be honest, he still hasn't figured out the details of the four major families. What can he use to intimidate them? He can't use his title of prince to suppress them. If that were the case, Xiao Mo's title of prince would be in name only.

This is Ningchuan City, the farthest city in the northwest of Tianqin State. What matters here is not who has a higher official rank, but who has the stronger fist.

Currently, Xiao Mo only has the trump card of more than 10,000 private soldiers. If he shows it now, he may be able to suppress the various forces in Ningchuan City in a short period of time. But as long as time is a little longer, those suppressed forces will counterattack frantically. By then, even if Xiao Mo has three heads and six arms, he will be too busy to handle it.

"We don't have to show our strongest side to scare the enemy. We can show half of our strength and hide the other half, so that the enemy can't figure out our true colors."

Xiao Mo was completely confused by what Ye Jintang said.

"What do you mean by half exposed and half hidden? I don't quite understand."

"What is the most scarce thing in Ningchuan City right now?"

Ye Jintang's question stumped Xiao Mo. If one were to ask what the scarcest thing was in Ningchuan City, there were so many things.

But among these scarce items, there is only one that is relevant to our lives - green vegetables.

No one in Ningchuan City knows how to grow vegetables in a greenhouse, so the only two kinds of vegetables people eat in winter are radishes and cabbages.

Some wealthy families would also have some leeks and bean sprouts, but as for other green vegetables, forget it.

"Since food is the most scarce in Ningchuan Prefecture, why don't we hold a banquet and let the nobles of Ningchuan City see that the vegetables, which are extremely precious in their eyes, are freely available in our palace."

"what?"

Xiao Mo looked at Ye Jintang in disbelief.

"Jintang, this is no joke. Where can you get so many dishes to hold a banquet in the freezing snow?"

"Since I dare to take this job, it means I have a way to deal with it. If Your Majesty trusts me, send an invitation to the officials of Ningchuan City and invite them to the banquet tonight. As for where I got the food, Your Majesty will ask more."

"This, this is a bit too hasty, Jintang, don't make it too hard on yourself. We will take a long-term view on this matter, and there will always be a solution."

Seeing the worry on Xiao Mo's face, Ye Jintang smiled indifferently.

"It's settled now. Your Highness, please think about who to invite to the banquet tonight."

"By the way, clean up the front yard of the palace so that all the guests can see how deserted our palace is. All this is thanks to City Lord Hua. Since he has already declared war on us, there is no need for us to hide it."

"What I mean by hiding half is to let everyone know that Hua Cailiang is not on good terms with us, and they'd better choose to stand up now. As for revealing half, it means to show the financial strength of the palace. We want to tell everyone that the Qin Palace is not as bad as they imagined."

Xiao Mo finally put his mind at ease after hearing Ye Jintang's analysis which made some sense.

"Okay, I'll leave the banquet to you."

"Just wait."

There are a lot of vegetable seeds in Ye Jintang's space. She just throws a handful out, and in just a few breaths, she can harvest a large area of ​​green vegetables.

The vegetables that seemed extremely precious in the eyes of others became extremely ordinary in her eyes.

In addition to vegetables, Ye Jintang also prepared some chicken, duck, fish, and a sheep.

In addition to these, her space also has some dried delicacies from land and sea.

The Wen family used to be a royal merchant family, so naturally there was no shortage of all kinds of delicacies from land and sea in the house.

There was also a warehouse in the Danyang Marquis Mansion, where several boxes of bird's nests, abalone wings, scallops, and even pickled kelp were found.

In the hands of the palace chefs, these ingredients can be turned into delicious dishes in no time.

Not to mention an ordinary banquet mainly with vegetables, she could even host a palace banquet.

"Since we want to make a show of force, it's not enough to just show our financial strength in terms of ingredients. We need to add some fuel to the fire."

"Oh, you have another trick?"

"Keep it secret for now, you'll know later."

Early in the morning, many dignitaries in Ningchuan City received Xiao Mo's invitation.

Hua Cailiang, with gray hair and wearing a blue brocade jacket, had just come out of the concubine's courtyard when the steward beside him handed him an extremely exquisite banquet invitation.

He only took one look and muttered, "When did we find such a refined person in Ningchuan City? The invitation card looks like it is worth at least one or two taels of silver. Those golden peony flowers on it are probably made of gold foil."

The dignitaries in Ningchuan City are generally not so particular. They are lucky enough to spend ten cents to make an invitation. Some families don't even need invitations, but directly send a servant to notify every household.