"Toot, toot"

The chirping of elephants appeared in the wilderness of Lingnan, and one hundred and twenty elephants carried heavy loads on their backs and marched slowly on the wasteland, which was full of frightened pheasants and all kinds of small beasts.

The thick-skinned elephant ignored the thorny forests and bushes, and the four elephants trampled over the top with sixteen thick paws, and the soft ground was trampled by the elephants behind it, turning it into a road more than a foot wide that could barely be navigated.

The elephants were followed by 300 Quang Nam soldiers, who held shovels in their hands to quickly fill in the potholes that the elephants had not stepped on, and these soft lands were then trampled by the hooves of the Wusheng cavalry, and became solid land, although it could not be compared with the official road, but it was very suitable as a one-time road to guò.

Wen Yanbo and Yun Zheng lazily lay in the small attic on the elephant's back, looking around to watch the intoxicating scenery of Lingnan. The two of them quarreled all the way out of Liuzhou, and when they arrived in the hinterland of Lingnan, they had no interest in quarreling anymore.

The fifth month of the lunar calendar is the time when lychees are ripe, so the small table between the two is full of lychees.

Wen Yanbo peeled a lychee, admired the silver-white lychee flesh in front of him and exclaimed: "Sure enough, it is a Lingnan fruit, no wonder there was an allusion to the laughter of the Hongchen concubine, the ancients did not deceive me." ”

Yun Zheng casually threw away the lychee shell in his hand and laughed: "I eat 300 lychees a day, and I don't want to be a Lingnan person, Mr. Kuanfu, this is a treasure land, why do those people in the court always think that this is a wild place, and they are unwilling to come, even those degraded officials will look for death and life when they come here, I really don't know what they think."

Let's talk about it, if I make a mistake, you just remember to demote me to Lingnan, and don't get me to other places. ”

Wen Yanbo didn't argue with Yun Zheng either, he found that arguing with Yun Zheng was likely to lose in the end, so he pointed to the elephant in front of him and said, "Didn't you say that it is enough to transport sixty war elephants to Kyoto?" Why is it doubling? These animals eat a wide range of raw foods. Aren't you worried about not being able to afford it? Do you still have to expect the government to help you raise elephants?

During the Qingli period, Dali paid tribute to His Majesty Xià an elephant, but was reprimanded by His Majesty for his life and money, and was slaughtered by Dali's envoys before he arrived in Tokyo, if you want to use an elephant to please the official. That's a mistaken idea. ”

Yun Zheng spit out a lychee core and said, "How can we go back to Tokyo without an elephant?" Damn, there is not a good road in Lingnan, and if you don't open up a branch road to the Meiling Ancient Road, you can't keep up with the big competition of the imperial court if you go around in circles. ”

Anyone who gets along with Yun Zheng for a long time will be contaminated with some problems that should not be there, such as Wen Yanbo is like this now, lazily lying on a soft chair, spitting out a lychee core with one mouth, such an image would not have appeared in the stereotypical Wen Yanbo before, but sitting straight on the back of an elephant is too uncomfortable, and the elephant walks very bumpy. It doesn't take much time to make people dizzy, and there is no way to learn to lie down on the soft chair like Yun Zheng, the soft chair sways with the pace of the elephant, as long as you adapt to the frequency of this swaying, it is very comfortable to sit in it.

"Your Wenxin Marquis's mansion outside the Suzaku Gate is not small. But if you want to put 120 elephants in it, I'm afraid it won't work. ”

"You said my house is in the alley outside the Suzaku Gate? It's too much, I've heard that street is full of brothels! You are harming me, you deliberately arranged me there when I was young and vigorous, didn't you? ”

"Whew! The streets and alleys outside the Suzaku Gate are not only brothels, but also Wheat Straw Lane and Zhuangyuan Building. Your home is in the south of Longjin Bridge, with Taixue and Guozijian, and to the east is Liu Lian's house, which is one of the best places in Tokyo, oh yes. The house that His Majesty gave to Di Qing is next door to you, and the two families are separated by a wall, this time His Majesty has made a bloody investment, you must know that the king of Pu wants to come over to the emperor's stepson Zhao Zongshi to make a house, and His Majesty did not agree, this time it is cheaper for you and Di Qing. ”

"I've always wanted to ask one thing. Don't fool me, for I'm going to help you deliver your money. ”

Wen Yanbo glanced at Yun Zheng and said, "Let's hear it!" ”

Yun Zheng squinted his eyes and asked, "I've always wondered, no matter where it is, why is the Great Song Academy's hall built next to a brothel?" Think about it, those students are reviewing their homework while thinking about whether the girl in the brothel is convenient today, can this be a good study? What exactly is this for? Could it be that students should learn to be human before they do knowledge? ”

Wen Yanbo's eyes were confused, he couldn't figure it out, Yun Zheng was right, the schools of the Great Song Dynasty were generally very close to the brothels, and it was impossible to say which one was stored first, the school hall of Ying Tianfu was by the Qinhuai River, and the Taixue of Tokyo went to the brothel with his legs on Suzaku Street, the school hall of the Daimyo's mansion......

"How did you come up with that? The old man found that you think differently from everyone else, and you can always look at some issues that we all ignore, such as you can find out the relationship between the academy and the brothel, and you can also find that the elephant can be used to open the way, how did you come up with it? ”

Wen Yanbo sat up and asked Yun Zheng.

Yun Zheng's lazy road; "It's very simple, you just have to look at one thing from a different angle, and you will find that different angles will make you have different perceptions, but the elephant opening the way doesn't count, he has been there since ancient times.

There is no road in the world, and it becomes a road when there are more people walking, this is a truth, we go back 10,000 years, when there were almost no ready-made roads on the earth, even if there were roads, they were also roads that beasts stepped on, since 10,000 years ago beasts could step on the road, can't they step on it now?

We have a shovel in our hands, we have a rammer, and we forget how the earliest roads appeared, this is not progress, but a kind of regression, which method saves money, which method saves labor is a good way. ”

Wen Yanbo lay down again and arched his hand: "I have been taught." ”

Yun Zheng sighed and said: "Di Qing has made a bloody investment this time, he has to pull me to be unlucky, what is this." ”

Wen Yanbo laughed, patted his thigh and said: "What a Yun Changsheng, live up to your reputation for wisdom, the old man just told you that you and Di Qing are neighbors, so you immediately know the cause and effect of rewarding the house, this is only one of them, I also said the second, can you guess it?" ”

Yun Zheng glanced at Wen Yanbo and said: "Di Qing knew that he would inevitably reach the pinnacle of martial arts this time, and he would inevitably become the target of the literati's arrows, in order to save a few cold arrows on his ass, he begged His Majesty to put me and him together, and His Majesty took pity on him for his hard work and agreed, it should be like this."

You also mentioned two other people, one is King Pu, and the other is Zhao Zongshi, who had a good chance to be the emperor's stepson before, and said that King Pu wanted the house in my house very much, so you pushed the boat down the river and instigated His Majesty to give me that house.

There must be your idea in this, otherwise you will be in charge of the affairs of the Majesty's reward for the house. Before I arrived in Beijing, you found me a good enemy, and the opponent really looked up to me. ”

Wen Yanbo smiled very happily, like a fox that caught a chicken, clapped his hands and said: "I want you to help Di Qing disperse the impeachment, this is a little grace from His Majesty to pity Di Qing and give the old minister." As for Zhao Zongshi and King Pu, to be honest, we have no face to fight with others, the year before last we all thought that His Majesty would not have a dragon son anymore, so they wrote to ask His Majesty to accept Zhao Zongshi, the son of King Pu, as the emperor's stepson, I don't hide it from you, I also have a share in this matter, and now that His Majesty has his own flesh and blood, it is naturally impossible to ask for any emperor's stepson, so King Pu and Zhao Zongshi were hung in the air, very dissatisfied, and began to make trouble in the court, we are ashamed to have a bad attack with others, After all, their current status is the result of our instigation.

After you arrive in Beijing, it will be very easy to do, whether you and King Pu or Zhao Zongshi, there is nothing involved, there is no psychological burden to deal with him, plus you have already had a grudge with Zhao Zongshi and King Pu when you suppressed bandits in Luzhou, you are a capable person, who will go if you don't go to the top tank? ”

"This method of eating three chickens is up to you to think of! King Pu and Zhao Zongshi are both royalty, followed by a large number of princes and princesses and other guys, which one is easy to mess with? I just entered Beijing and didn't even have a clue, so I'm not afraid of killing me alive? ”

Yun Zheng said the grievances on his lips, but his face was light, and he was aggrieved, who wouldn't.

Wen Yanbo got up and leaned close to Yun Zheng's head and said: "Judging from your experience in Western Xia, you are very suitable to be a minister, you don't have to be arrogant, from Pang Gong to Han Qi to Fu Bi Lao Bao and finally to me, we have been studying you all these days, to be honest, Di Qing is not qualified for this." ”

Wen Yanbo picked his thumb and continued: "It's really amazing, with thick skin and black heart, only taking advantage of it and not suffering losses, being good at leveraging strength, and there is no trace of the antelope's horns."

When you bow your head and do it small, it makes people impeccable, and when you look up, it is like a tiger roaring and a hundred beasts tremble.

Since you appeared penniless on the construction site in Dousha County, until you led the army to look at the eagle, Pang Gong claimed that looking at your resume in the winter made him sweat soaked with sweat.

Di Qing can be the best commander, if he is in the court, he will only be drowned alive by those terrifying saliva.

You are different, the whole person is like a ball smeared with oil, you can be a boiler official, you can be an official of the Ministry of Works, you can be a master of arithmetic, and you can also be the commander of the army, after reading the account books of your Wu Shengjun, the old man thinks that you are more than enough to serve as the third envoy that the old man is now serving, Zeng Gongliang also said that you can be a general who will be a supervisor.

As long as others do a good job, they can settle down, and even soar, but you can do anything, Zhang Fangping even said that you are the world's first-class chef as a cook, this is unreasonable, you say, what do you plan to do after entering Beijing? ”

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Chapter II