Chapter 514: Zuo Ling's beauty amazed everyone

A guy came over with a plate of sweet and sour fish, and when he saw Zuo Ling, who had taken off his veil, he immediately turned into a statue as if he had been enchanted.

The shopkeeper didn't know what was going on, and he didn't dare to reprimand loudly, so he walked out of the counter and wanted to kick this stupid guy quietly, and when he walked halfway, he also saw Zuo Ling's true face, and immediately became the same as the guy.

Besides, Xiao Nier expressed a lot of incomprehension about this, when they began to know Zuo Ling, they did think that Zuo Ling was as beautiful as a celestial, but it didn't have such a big magic power, right?

Besides, he shook his head, and was speechless, and he didn't know if it was his own or someone else's aesthetic ability.

Xiao Nier shook her head and said nothing.

The little girl looked at the expressions of these people proudly, the corners of her mouth twitched, and she said silently: Virtue.

Zuo Ling glanced at it, her face was full of distress, she had seen this scene so much, even she didn't understand why her beauty had such a big impact on men. When I was in Fengyang, there was no such thing, and after arriving in Nanjing and Suzhou, the situation became more and more serious, especially when I saw it for the first time, many men were stunned like this, and it was okay to be like a clay sculpture and wood carving, and many people were eager to do it, and they were full of ugliness. She was so annoyed that she simply put on the veil.

Zuo Ling's beauty is like a touchstone, so that a man's character and virtue are exposed in an instant, even if a person who is good at hiding and disguising himself, he will also show his feet at that moment.

With a "clang", the sweet and sour fish in the man's hand fell to the ground, waking up the dreamer.

"I'm sorry, I'm distracted." The little prince was calm and wiped the sweat on his forehead.

He only heard that Zuo Ling was as beautiful as a celestial, but he had never seen it with his own eyes, and when he saw it this time, he understood what a goddess was. It's no wonder that in order to prevent her from being restless, Pomegranate let herself be strictly guarded against the situation, and she must not let Zuo Ling have a chance to succeed.

Looks like I really have to guard against it. The little prince now has a deeper understanding of the pomegranate's instructions.

"Let the little prince smile." Zuo Ling was a little embarrassed and owed his body.

"It's not you who made me laugh, it's me who made you laugh."

The little prince honestly admits that this is not a shame for him, because no one dares to laugh at him, and this sentence is the most beautiful praise for Zuo Ling.

The guy who smashed a plate of sweet and sour fish over there hid his face and fled back to the kitchen, and the shopkeeper forgot to scold him, just lowered his head to clean up the mess, but he didn't dare to look at Zuo Ling again.

The sweet and sour fish was remade, changed to a different man, hurried to the table with his head down, and hurriedly put it on the table as if he were carrying a red-hot iron block, and then fled with a red face.

Everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter when they saw this scene.

After the meal, besides, there was no Youxing, and a few people took the car home, and sent Zuo Ling home first, which can be regarded as getting to know the gate.

Zuo Ling invited everyone to come into the house and sit down, besides, it has been said for a long time, I am afraid that Mrs. Tai will worry, so let's hurry back to the Marquis's Mansion, and there will be more opportunities to meet in the future. Besides, I am indeed a little worried, I don't know if Mrs. Tai knows about today's fight, if she does, it will be another mess.

Seeing that the little prince didn't go in, he naturally didn't want to go in, so he had to send him back to the marquis.

"Senior brother, is it lovesick?" In the car, besides, he pushed the little prince with his elbow.

"What's the use of lovesickness, God is unfair, you already got a pomegranate, why are you still dominating such a beauty? Forget it, it's your woman anyway, I don't think much about it, I'm just unwilling. "The little prince was heartbroken.

Besides, he said very obscenely: "Senior brother, you are wrong, Miss Zuo is her own, not mine, if you really like it, you might as well pursue it boldly, don't worry about me." ”

"Forget it, she doesn't have me in her eyes, I know, when we sit together, she has no one in her eyes but you." The little prince hung his head.

When he arrived at the door of the Marquis's Mansion, he was invited to come in and sit down, but the little prince didn't seem to hear it, just waved his hand, and the car started again without stopping.

Xiao Nier looked at the luxury carriage in the distance, and said with a wry smile: "Alas, Sister Zuo is miserable again, who is to blame?" ”

After staying for another ten days, I began to pack up and prepare to go back to Suzhou. In the past ten days, he has basically accompanied Mrs. Tai to talk, or he is wandering around the house inside and outside the house, if it weren't for the tailor in the house who needs to measure him to make clothes for the four seasons, he can't stay anymore, but Xiao Nier is calm and relaxed, not in a hurry.

The clothes in the marquis's mansion are all tailor-made by their own tailors, and the handiwork is much better than the outside, and they are more exquisite than the clothes customized by the Zuo family last time.

Besides, the housekeeper said that this is the rule of the house, from Mrs. Tai to the owners of each house, he has to make several sets of four-season clothes every year, and since it is a regulation, he has to obey his fate.

On this day, he drank with Wu Chenghou in his room, and it was really rare for the two brothers to drink alone, and they usually ate at the same table in Mrs. Tai's room.

Besides, he asked about the financial situation of the house, and explained that he wanted to know how much silver he should pay to the house in a year, and he couldn't always take the monthly silver in the house, and besides, the expenses of the servants were not small.

Hearing this, Wucheng Hou was shocked at first, and then laughed and said, "Second brother, you are too careful." Last year, when my mother was critically ill, it was indeed a little ineffective, but now it has improved, and you don't have to worry about money, you just need to study with peace of mind and do whatever you want. ”

Besides, he smiled bitterly: "You can't rely on the eldest brother alone to support this family, right?" ”

Wucheng Hou said: "I can't support this family, in fact, my mother is still supporting it." We still live on ancestral property, although I have a lot of money in those years, but I can't afford to support these people, the title has some fixed income every year but it is not much, but the title you gave up made my brother and me get a windfall, and I was able to get better. This contribution is sufficient. ”

Besides, he still felt uneasy, and the Marquis of Wucheng leaned down in his ear and whispered to him that in fact, a large amount of military spending every year was divided between them who held military power, which was not a small amount, and the court also knew that even the emperor turned a blind eye.

"The emperor doesn't care about your embezzlement of military spending?" And it's shocking.

"Of course, when there is something to do, call Lao Tzu to fight, and when there is nothing to do, treat the military general as a grandson, if you don't come up with silver to compensate, who will give the emperor his life in the future." What Wucheng Hou said was reasonable.

Besides, he knew that the Ming Dynasty was poor in civil affairs and rich in military generals, but civil officials had power, and military generals were equivalent to captivity, except for nobles such as Marquis Wucheng, even so, he didn't expect the imperial court to privately allow them to divide the military expenses.

The imperial court's annual military expenditure is huge, but many places still mutinier because they can't pay military salaries, because the main generals embezzle military salaries to do business.

"Second child, don't even think about these things, otherwise you'll be out of sight. My wife and I treat you as a family. Wu Chenghou said.

Besides, he was so shocked that he was speechless for a while, he knew that Yan Song's corruption was mainly in the area of military spending, and the local oil and water were limited. It is not bad that a state and a government can collect tens of thousands of dollars of silver a year, but the military expenditure here is often several million taels, and there is a temporary shortage of money, and the emperor is forced to take out his own money to fill it.

He originally thought that this matter would be put an end to after Yan Song's death, but he didn't expect that changing the soup would not change the medicine, it would still be the same.

"This has been the case since the time of our ancestors, and now it is not as good as when our ancestors were born. The emperor wants to honor relatives and military ministers, and he must not interfere in political affairs, so he can't block the way for us to get rich. ”

Besides, Mu Ran nodded, he really thought too much, that is, no matter how high his ability to make money was, he couldn't compare to the Marquis of Wucheng, as for the ancestral property and the amount of silver brought by the title, he didn't ask, if he asked, it seemed that he wanted to divide the family property.

"Second brother, don't worry, even if we don't have to do anything, as long as the title is there and the ancestral property is there, there is no reason to be poor. It doesn't matter if there is military spending or not. Wucheng Hou gave him a reassuring pill again.

Marquis Wucheng told him a lot about the army, including the governor's offices of the two major armies of Beijing and Nanjing, the garrisons and guards in various places, and the nine border passes.

Besides, after hearing this, I have despaired of the future of the Ming Dynasty, the entire military and political government is rotten to the core, from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside, all the generals only know how to make a fortune, embezzle military spending, and deduct military salaries, and these money are used to make money in various places.

Wu Chenghou saw his thoughts and said with a smile: "Second brother, you studied moral articles with that Chen Zhengjun, so you think we are all despicable and morally corrupt, right?" ”

Besides, I glanced at him and thought to myself, isn't it?

Marquis Wucheng asked, "But have you heard of the princes, marquises, and generals who were punished by the imperial court for embezzling military funds?" ”

Besides, after thinking about it, there really isn't, but there are many cases of civil officials being punished for being corrupt.

"In the army, this act of dividing up military expenses is not corruption, but a disguised distribution of benefits, and it is the court's compensation for taking away the rights in our hands. However, the deduction of military salaries is an act of corruption, and that kind of person makes me find out that I will never forgive. You may think that an army like ours may not be able to fight, this is also a lot of worry, the army of Taizu and Chengzu is not better than we are now, once there is a police on the border, this army can still go straight to the north and plough the court to sweep the holes. It's just that today's emperor is not good at martial arts and likes to rule by culture, so the lords and generals will be restrained. ”

Moreover, after listening to his words, I did not feel much comfort, and I was skeptical of his views. But thinking of the war against Japan during the Myojin period, although there were many twists and turns in the middle, it was still won, and the adverse consequence was only to wipe out the treasury, which led to many problems in the later period.

He nodded silently, maybe this kind of system of civil officials having power, military attachés having money, and using civil affairs to control military force is really a game rule specially set by the imperial court and mutually restrictive. This kind of distribution of special interests is only because Emperor Taizu condemned the civil and military minister's fortune to death, and the later Son of Heaven did not dare to change it, so he adopted this kind of indulgent behavior of dividing up military expenses with a blind eye.

"Follow the old master to study hard, and be a Zhengjun in the future, our family will work together in civil and military affairs, and life will be prosperous." Marquis Wucheng patted him on the shoulder to show his high hopes.

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