Chapter 200

Speaking of this, Su Lie's expression became serious, and he warned Su Xuan: "Of course, once you really marry that Cai Yuan into your home, you must not look down on her or treat her badly because of this, understand?"

"Our Su family and the Cai Clan are in-laws for generations; we cannot become enemies because of this, understand?"

"Understood!"

Su Xuan nodded with a smile: "Father, don't you know my character yet?"

"As long as they are my women, which one of them do I not treat equally and treat extremely well?"

As a transmigrator and reborn person, in his concept, the boundary between wife and concubine is very blurred. In his eyes, they are all his women, so naturally, they should all be treated well.

Otherwise, don't go and harm others.

He only admits to his own philandering, but he absolutely does not admit to, nor does he want to be, a scumbag.

"Hmm!"

Su Lie heard this and nodded with a smile: "That is true! Then this matter is settled!"

"Aren't you also planning to marry Zhen Jiang a period of time after you marry Xun Cai, and also supplement a wedding for Zou Qian and Bian Yu'er?"

"When the time comes, just add Cai Yuan to it!"

Anyway, it's just taking a concubine; the actual impact is not big.

"Hmm! Let's do it that way!"

Su Xuan naturally had no objections.

Speaking of which, this Cai Yuan is also a historical beauty!

Now she belongs to him.

As for Liu Biao?

An old man, how could he have the nerve to marry a young girl?

He can't give her happiness, so let him take on this responsibility!

2 months later,

Jiangling City, compared to 2 months ago, has taken on a new look and has become completely different.

Several main roads have been replanned and constructed.

To speed up the process, Su Xuan even used newly produced cement.

Of course, it was all produced in a newly built secret base in the mountains near Jiangling City;

To keep it secret, he not only signed spiritual contracts with all workers and researchers, but he also separated the processes and handed them to different people.

This ensured the technology would not be leaked to the greatest extent possible.

Because of the addition of cement, the construction of streets, houses, and even city walls has accelerated by who knows how many times.

The streets are wider and cleaner.

There are also many new high-rise buildings and the like.

Su Xuan took advantage of the expansion opportunity to thoroughly replan Jiangling City.

The city renovation and expansion are still ongoing, but the outline can already be seen. The future Jiangling City will inevitably be a grand and prosperous large city.

Of course, in order not to attract covetous eyes, he told the outside world that cement was a special type of 'three-in-one soil', and that the cost was extremely high, the manufacturing difficulty was extremely great... and so on.

He also didn't use cement to plaster walls on a large scale; it was mainly used as an adhesive and for paving roads.

This greatly dispelled the covetousness of outsiders.

Additionally, he also signed spiritual contracts with the workers who used this material for construction to keep it secret.

This greatly reduced the speed and possibility of the news spreading.

As for those who saw the finished product?

They would only think it was a special method, and they wouldn't know the specifics.

This day,

"Lord! The newly appointed Jingzhou Inspector Wang Rui requests an audience!"

A personal guard ran over, handed over a visiting card, and reported.

"Oh?"

Su Xuan heard this, his brows raised, he took the visiting card, looked at it, and nodded: "Invite him in!"

At the same time, Su Xuan pondered with some suspicion in his heart: "What could this Wang Rui have come to find me for at this time?"

"Zhicai, what do you think?"

As he spoke, he looked at Xi Zhicai, who was burying his head in handling government affairs on the side.

Xi Zhicai heard this, stopped his pen, looked up, and replied: "I heard that this Wang Rui arrived in Jiangling City a few days ago;"

"The people below have already mentioned it to me, but I didn't pay attention to it before;"

"Now it seems that this person is likely coming with ill intent. Lord, you should be careful."

Of course, Xi Zhicai felt that Su Xuan didn't need to be afraid of anything at all.

He is merely a provincial inspector. Even though the status and power of inspectors have been gradually increasing in recent years, he is still just an inspector.

He still only has a certain amount of supervisory power and military power, not even comparable to a Prefecture Governor, let alone Su Xuan, who is also the General Who Guards the South.

If Wang Rui is not sensible, Su Xuan can completely ignore him.

"Hmm!"

Su Xuan nodded in understanding.

Soon, a personal guard brought a middle-aged man in.

"Jingzhou Inspector Wang Rui, greets the Prefecture Governor!"

As soon as Wang Rui came in, he bowed slightly to Su Xuan with an arrogant look, somewhat impolitely.

"Hmm?"

Su Xuan saw this, his brows raised slightly, looked at Xi Zhicai, and thought: "It really was as Zhicai guessed; this person is indeed coming with ill intent!"

"This is interesting!"

Logically speaking, Wang Rui should have called Su Xuan 'General Who Guards the South'.

After all, the position of General Who Guards the South is higher and more honorable than that of Nanjun Prefecture Governor.

But he insisted on calling him 'Nanjun Prefecture Governor', which is very interesting.

Is this because he doesn't want to be crushed by Su Xuan's status? Or does he have ulterior motives?

He really wanted to know where this Wang Rui got the guts to come and find trouble here?

Could it be because he is young?

With these thoughts, Su Xuan didn't put on any act. He leaned back in his chair, waved his hand indifferently, and said: "Inspector Wang, there is no need for such formalities. Speak! What is the matter for which you have come to find me?"

"You..."

Wang Rui saw Su Xuan's attitude and immediately became furious, wanting to lose his temper.

But he happened to meet Su Xuan's indifferent gaze, and he felt a shiver, only feeling his back go cold.

"Bad! I forgot that this little brat killed his way out from the battlefield;"

"I originally thought that because he was young and hadn't been in the officialdom for long, he should be easy to manipulate. Now it seems I miscalculated!"

"I also underestimated this person!"

Thinking this in his heart, Wang Rui hurriedly suppressed the anger in his heart, took a deep breath, and swallowed this humiliation;

Immediately, he straightened his clothes, changed to a business-like tone, and bowed slightly to Su Xuan: "It is like this! The development of Hanshou has not been able to keep up with the development of the various commanderies in Jingzhou over these years;"

"It is somewhat inappropriate for the Inspector's mansion to continue to be located there;"

"Coincidentally, Jiangling has been developing very well recently, and Prefecture Governor Su happens to be expanding this Jiangling City;"

"Therefore, I intend to move the Jingzhou Inspector's mansion from Hanshou to Jiangling City. I ask the Prefecture Governor to make it convenient."

After speaking, Wang Rui thought with a cold sneer in his heart: "I bet you can't figure out the problem in this;"

"Once you agree and let my Inspector's mansion take root in this Jiangling City, even if you want to drive me away, it will be too late!"

"After all, I am the Inspector and have supervisory power over you;"

"If you dare to oppose me, I can completely impeach you to His Majesty;"

"As long as I take root in Jiangling, who will have the final say in this Jiangling City and even Nanjun will no longer be up to you!"

"Tsk tsk! You just go ahead and build this Jiangling City for me, and develop this Nanjun well!"

"By then, all of this will be mine!"

"Coincidentally, I can also take the opportunity to pick on your faults and find trouble for you, hehe..."

Wang Rui didn't know at all that all these thoughts in his heart had been read by Su Xuan using mind-reading.

Immediately, Su Xuan was also speechless in his heart: "Who gave this guy the confidence and courage to covet my Jiangling City and Nanjun?"