After traveling through time, I led the whole village to become rich!

Zhang Hulan was puzzled and asked, "What do you mean, Lord Qin? I don't think I said anything wrong today, did I?"

Qin Bingrong said, "You just said you wanted to donate all your money. This is a big deal. Fortunately, there are only a few of us here. If there were other officials here, wouldn't you be forcing the others to donate money as well?"

Not everyone is devoted to the country. For some people, asking them to pay money is like asking them for their lives.

If you ask in front of many people, will they donate or not?

If they were to donate it, they would be reluctant to do so.

If they don't donate, it will make life difficult for them.

So they will eventually donate some money, but in the end they will all hold a grudge against you."

Wu Bangtai nodded. "That's right. You'll offend a lot of people by doing this. Don't do this again. If you have anything to say, you can talk to the emperor in private."

Zhang Hulan felt a little embarrassed. She bowed to Qin Bingrong, the Duke of Wei, and the Marquis of Jing'an, and said, "I'm so sorry. I was wrong today. I will pay more attention next time."

Wu Bangtai smiled and waved his hand. "We are all family. Everything will be fine. Just remember to be careful when other people are around."

Zhang Hulan looked at several people. Except for Qin Bingrong, the Wu family, the Wang family and Duke Wei were all relatives. Since Zhang Dahua married into the Wang family, she did have a little bit of kinship with these families.

Wu Bangtai and others went about their own business, and Zhang Hulan also returned to the village.

She couldn't help with anything else, but as long as she could develop hybrid rice, it would be the greatest help to Yongning Kingdom.

This year, not only will her village carry out large-scale hybrid rice cultivation, but she will also help other villages to do the same.

Zhang Hulan was not too worried about the possible war and conscription. Changning County was in the southwest, Tubo was in the west, and the grassland was in the north. His hometown was very safe unless Tubo and the grassland people invaded Yongning Kingdom.

She wasn't worried about conscription. She was an official now, and officials' families were exempt from corvée and military service. Furthermore, the Zhang family was related to Marquis Jing'an, so he would definitely take care of her.

……

Qin Bingrong and Wu Bangtai worked very efficiently, and within a few days all the provincial capitals received the conscription notice.

Qin Bingrong found the Tubo envoy and said that Emperor Yongxing had agreed to send troops and that conscription had already begun, and asked Tubo to quickly prepare the silver and send it over.

The Tubo envoy also agreed and sent someone to send a letter back to Tubo.

The round trip took nearly two months.

Within two months, the spies sent to Tubo and the grassland had already sent back news.

A large number of grassland tribes were grazing on the border between Tubo and the grassland, and their behavior was very suspicious.

According to the news sent back from Tubo, several aristocratic forces have captured several cities and many people have fled.

But the spies from Yongning State mixed in with the refugees and saw some interesting war scenes.

The nobles' soldiers were still far away from the city walls, or before they could attack the city, the defenders on the walls started shooting arrows.

Or the nobles' soldiers would hold their shields on their heads and stand there to be shot by those on the city walls.

After attacking the city wall or breaking open the city gate, the defenders inside immediately surrendered.

The shouts and cries of killing were deafening, but the number of casualties was very few.

Just this information is enough to prove that the Tubo royal family and the nobles were just acting.

Emperor Yongxing was furious. How dare Tubo do this? But then he sneered, "Well, well, since they dare to plot against me, don't blame me for being cruel..."

Emperor Yongxing asked Wu Bangtai, "My dear Lord Wu, how much gold and silver did Tubo send? Have you counted them?"

Wu Bangtai replied: "Your Majesty, they have been counted.

This time, Tubo sent 30,000 taels of gold, 500,000 taels of silver, and various gems, which should be worth about 3 million taels of silver."

Emperor Yongxing frowned, "Why are there so many gems? But so little gold and silver?"

Qin Bingrong hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, this Tubo is playing tricks on us.

Gold and silver have real value; those gems are worthless in war."

Duke Wei cursed, "These bitches are so dishonest.

Your Majesty, have them transport the stones back and send more silver."

Emperor Yongxing said, "Send it back? Since it's already been sent here, why would we send it back?"

Emperor Yongxing sneered, "Qin Aiqing, go find the Tibetan envoy.

Tell him that we are going to send 300,000 troops to help the Tubo royal family, and then you calculate for him how much silver it will cost to train new recruits, build weapons, armor, and war horses for the 300,000 troops.

The little silver they sent is only enough to equip the army. Let them send more silver. Once the silver arrives, our army will set out.

And he told him that this time we only want gold, silver or grain, and nothing else."

Duke Wei laughed heartily, "Haha, haha... Your Majesty, you've also learned bad habits..."

Qin Bingrong, Wu Bangtai and Marquis Jing'an all smiled but said nothing.

Qin Bingrong left the palace and then found the Tibetan envoy, and then settled the account with the Tibetan envoy according to Emperor Yongxing's wishes.

The Tibetan envoy looked constipated. "Lord Qin, Tibet is in dire straits right now and can't muster much gold, silver, and food. As long as the Yongning army helps our king put down the rebellion and raids the rebels' homes, we'll have as much gold and silver as we want."

Qin Bingrong had a blank expression on his face, "You want our soldiers to fight for you in vain?

Confiscating the property after suppressing the rebellion? What if no silver is found?

Are those nobles stupid? If they can't win, won't they flee? Won't they take all the gold, silver and treasures or hide them? What will you give us then?"

"This..." The Tibetan envoy was speechless after being asked this question.

Qin Bingrong continued, "To march out an army of 300,000 men would require at least 800,000 taels of silver and one million dan of grain per month.

It's impossible for Yongning to pay for these silver and food, right? We are going to help you fight the war.

You should write a letter back and tell the King of Tubo to send silver and food as soon as possible.

Our army is ready and will set out as soon as your silver and food arrive.

By the way, please don’t send us any more gems or anything like that. We only want gold, silver and food.

Are you sending those things so that the soldiers can chew on the gems?"

Qin Bingrong finally said, "Alright, hurry up and send the letter back. We can't waste time, otherwise the Tubo royal family will be divided up by those nobles, and then our army will be useless if we rush over."

After Qin Bingrong finished speaking, he walked away with his hands behind his back.

The Tibetan envoy's chest heaved. The people of Yongning were really treacherous...

Although the Tubo envoy was angry, he immediately wrote a letter and had it sent back to Tubo. He was just a messenger, and the specific plan depended on what the Tubo king planned.