The next day, Yan Falcon came to the face of hardship, and his smile was like the sunshine of this autumn. "Ku'er, the master agreed, from today onwards, you will be transferred to the inner house of the official residence, and you will be a maid in the master's study, and you will no longer have to be a flower girl."

It's true? worked hard to pretend to be surprised and happy, "Brother Yan Falcon is so good!" The slave knows that only Brother Yan Falcon can help the slave, and only Brother Yan Falcon is willing to help the slave! ”

Yan Falcon also pretended to say: "Sister Ku'er, when I see you, I feel like I see my sister, of course I can't bear to see you endure hardships, I always have to help you find a light and decent errand." Don't look at the master as a big official, in fact, he is the most benevolent and kind. ”

"As long as you serve well and keep your duty, the master will not treat you badly. The master's study is very important, it is all official documents of the imperial court, and it involves major affairs of the imperial court. ”

The hard expression became more well-behaved, and he said gratefully: "Brother Yan Falcon, thank you so much, the slave must serve well, keep his duty, and not embarrass his brother." ”

She said this, but she slandered in her heart: "Hmph, look at your dog-like appearance, you are young, and you are also a Han person, but you are willing to be an eagle dog for a Tartar official, you are really a mother with milk." also let the old lady keep her duty, how can it be true. ”

Of course, Yan Falcon knew that this little traitor would not be grateful to him. But he didn't expect that the little thing not only scolded him secretly, but also called himself an old lady.

Soon, hard work followed Yan Falcon into the inner mansion of the official mansion and saw Li Luo in the inner study.

"Slave and slave, meet the master, meet the father!" As soon as Ku'er saw Li Luo, he immediately knelt down shyly and timidly, and his little head slammed a few times on the floor, "The master has no father or mother, he is lonely, if it weren't for the master's kind rescue, the slave would have starved to death, and the master is the slave's reborn parents!" ”

Li Luo laughed very gently, not like a Yuan court official, but like a big brother.

"Bitter son, poor boy, get up quickly, see what you knock." Li Luo gave him a look, and Yan Ying immediately helped up the hard work with gratitude on his face.

"Nunu thanked the princess. Slaves must be cattle and horses to repay their masters' kindness. "The little thing is just the mouth.

Li Luo nodded, pointed to the word "Jing" on the wall, and suddenly asked, "What is this word?" ”

looked hard, shook his head blankly, pinched the corners of his clothes, his little face flushed, and said, "Master, slave... Illiterate. Slave... It's useless. ”

At the same time, she sneered in her heart, who doesn't know this word? The old lady can know thousands of words, and she has read several ancient books, what is this? Joke.

Li Luo smiled and waved his hand generously: "It's okay, it's okay, it's best not to know how to read." Well, when the main hall is not in the study, you clean up the study and guard the study. ”

Hard work, sure enough. If this dog officer knew that he was literate, he would not have let himself tidy up his study. Illiterate is what suits his heart.

"Mmmm, don't worry, the slave can be saved." Hard and well-behaved nodded.

Li Luo can be regarded as a cunning ghost horse who understands this little thing. When he himself was twelve years old, he was not as good as hard work.

Isn't Li Luo afraid of hard work to discover his secret?

Unafraid.

Everything about his true identity, everything about Haidong, will not leave the slightest trace in the study. The official documents in this study are indeed very important, but they are all the affairs of the Yuan Court.

Anything in the Yuan court, Li Luo was willing to leak it to the White Lotus Sect, which was secretly anti-Yuan.

For example, someone in the DPRK and China wrote a letter suggesting that the matter of the White Lotus Sect be recognized, which is the true information. After the death of Kublai Khan, the White Lotus Sect was indeed legalized, and even many officials began to believe in the White Lotus Sect.

The White Lotus Sect took the opportunity to expand its power and grew rapidly, causing the Yuan court to be jealous and banned again.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the White Lotus Sect was twice recognized as legal and banned twice. But most of the time, it was in a state of illegality that was outlawed, because the purpose of the White Lotus rebellion remained the same.

Next, this great-great-grandson of Xin Qiji, became Li Luo's study maid.

Of course, when Li Luo was in the study, she couldn't be in the study. The reason is very simple, hard work is a big ghost, not a good stubble. Xin Qiji is such a tiger, his descendants are very Xiao Zu, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will not use Li Luo as a Tartar.

On the one hand, of course, through her use of the White Lotus Sect. At the same time, Li Luo was looking at Xin Qiji's face, and he didn't want to let hard work and the White Lotus Sect get together.

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The first major event after Li Luo returned to Quanzhou was to plan to remove Pingzhang Menggu from Henan Jiangbei Province and let Sappler take over.

Now that Fujian's immigration has come to an end, Sappler, who has tasted the sweetness, will definitely continue to preside over the "slave trade" if he is promoted to Pingzhang, Jiangbei Province, Henan.

A few months ago, the Special Investigation Bureau formulated a plan to target the Menggu gangsters in Pingzhang, Henan, and after several months of hard work, they finally found evidence of the crimes of the Menggu gangsters.

Yuan Court members, how many can stand up to investigation? The Special Investigation Bureau found a lot of evidence of Meng Gu's crimes, such as embezzlement of taxes, illegal occupation of pastures and salt farms, embezzlement of Han military salaries, and so on.

Meng Gu was a Mongolian nobleman who had made great contributions to the Song Dynasty from Boyan, and he lived in Pingzhangtang, and these charges could not bring him down as a feudal official.

However, there is another crime that Meng Gu can't bear.

It is to collude with the prime minister Ahma, who has been broken and killed, to do witchcraft and have evil intentions.

The members of the Yuan Court did not have any sense of counter-espionage, and they lacked confidentiality measures for this kind of private matter that had become a thing of the past, and finally let the spies of the Special Investigation Bureau know.

The spies of the Special Investigation Bureau, under the command of the Haidong Headquarters, took advantage of the contradiction between the Henan Youcheng Bayan and Meng Gugang to deliberately leak Meng Gugang's crimes to Bayan.

However, what Bayan didn't know was that his own lawlessness was also deliberately leaked to Meng Gu by the spies.

Youcheng Bayan is also a Mongolian nobleman, because he has a personal grudge with Meng Gu, he has been suppressed by Meng Gu, and he has long been waiting for an opportunity to take revenge. Historically, it was Bayan who succeeded Meng Gu and made the Pingzhang of Henan Jiangbei Province, and did not forget to attack his predecessor Meng Gu.

Now, when Bayan learns about the crime of colluding with Ahma and committing witchcraft, where will Bayan let go of the opportunity? The next impeachment book flew to Dadu to expose the five major crimes of Meng Gu.

The spies immediately leaked the matter to Meng Gu. When Meng Gulu learned that Bayan had impeached him, he was furious and impeached Bayan for his illegality, and even used his authority to suspend Bayan's office.

Kublai Khan received the impeachment of Pingzhang and Youcheng in Henan Jiangbei Province, and he was immediately furious. Especially the matter of Ahma and the disgusted witch Gu is now the emperor's rebellion, and whoever has anything to do with it is a traitor and a rebel.

Kublai Khan said at the court meeting: "Meng Gu is a party of Ahma, and he will be removed from his post and investigated, locked and brought into Beijing, and handed over to the Imperial Historical Platform and the Criminal Department. Once verified, immediately executed! ”

"Although Bayan exposed Meng Gu's crimes, he himself was not clean, and he was not an honest and trustworthy minion. He was immediately escorted into Beijing and confronted Meng Gu. If he is falsely accused, he shall be punished as a slave. ”

The Imperial Doctor couldn't get out of line and said, "The slave obeys the order." ”

At the end of August, the first and second leaders of Henan Jiangbei Province fell together.

And Li Luo, who had been prepared for a long time, recommended Fujian Youcheng Sapler to serve as the recital of Jiangnan Province, and he was also sent to Dadu by a fast horse. Li Luo said in the recital that Sapler is extremely talented, loyal, and is actually a capable official of the Great Yuan, the dry city of the country, and can be the provincial level.

At the same time, Prince Zhenjin and Zhang Sanfeng, who received Li Luo's letter, also recommended Sappler.

Because Li Luo had shared a lot of credit for Saple before and said good things about Saple, Kublai Khan also had a good impression of Saple.

Moreover, Saple has been a Zuo Cheng for several years, his qualifications are completely sufficient, and he is a nobleman with color eyes, plus three weighty recommenders, so Kublai Khan did not hesitate much, and ordered Saple to be the political affairs of Pingzhang in Henan Jiangbei Province.

In mid-September, just a few days after the last Fujian refugees left for the sea, Dadu came to the holy decree of promoting Sappler to the post of governor of Pingzhang in Henan and Jiangbei provinces.

The second-in-command Sappler finally became the number one.

In order to thank Li Luo, Sapler invited Li Luo to the Youcheng Mansion, set up a banquet to entertain Li Luo, and after he was full of wine and food, he invited Li Luo to the study to talk.

"Pingzhang official, this hall would like to thank you for your recommendation. is not a Pingzhang official, and this church can't do Henan Pingzhang so quickly. Sappler said with a big tongue, and because he was happy, he drank a little high, and he couldn't help but get a little carried away.

Li Luo sneered in his heart. So quickly changed your name to call me Pingzhang Guanren? Didn't you belong to Nakado before? Before taking office, you call yourself the Hondo? You can do it, Sappler.

Obviously, with Sappler officially promoted to the provincial level and on an equal footing with Li Luo, he no longer has the respect he had before. Officialdom is so realistic.

Of course, Li Luo doesn't care. This year, Fujian immigrants, as the host, Sapler divided millions of taels of "slave silver", and made a lot of money and made a windfall. These silvers are all Li Luo's money!

Hmph, you can happily go to Henan Jiangbei to take office, continue to "sell" homeless people, and continue to earn my money. When you take the Central Plains, you have to spit it all out for me. Is my money so easy to take?

Li Luo said with a smile: "The Pingzhang official is a capable official, and the Great Khan is wise, how can he forget you?" Even if you don't have a recommendation from this church, sooner or later you will be able to serve as a peacemaker. ”

Saple smiled: "Pingzhang official is polite, no matter what, this church is grateful." In the future, you and I will take more care of each other. ”

Li Luo said: "This hall and the officials and colleagues of the peace chapter naturally have to support each other. ”

Both of them call themselves Hondo, and the atmosphere can't help but be a little weird.

The two said something unnutritious, and Li Luo left with a secret smile in his heart, leaving the smug Sappler.

The next day, Sapler left Quanzhou with a large cart and a small cart to take up his post in the north. Of course, Li Luo led the officials of all sizes to see him off.

Sappler sat upright on the horse, saluted Li Luo with a reserved chest, and said with a faint smile: "Pingzhang official, please don't send it again, this hall is ashamed!" Another day, the Pingzhang officials will go north, and they must go to Yangzhou Pingzhang Mansion, you and I will drink and talk happily! ”

Li Luo also smiled faintly and replied: "Have a good journey, there will be a period in the future, and the hall will not send it." ”

Li Luo looked at the team that saw Sapler leave, and said in his heart: Sappler, Sappler, what will be the situation next time we meet? I'm looking forward to it.

He knew very well that when Saple arrived in Jiangbei Province, Henan, he would definitely continue to sell displaced people in the same way. Musardin, who was under Li Luo and pretended to be slave traders, had long been "friends" with Sapler.

Saple would never have imagined that Li Luo used the power of the Special Investigation Bureau to help him seek the position of Pingzhang, and actually used himself as a tool for immigration.

Although Sappler is snobbish, he is still shrewd and capable, and he is a veteran politician, and he is also familiar with the routine of selling displaced people, and Li Luo believes that he can do his errands well.

After completing this big event, Li Luo was also a lot easier. Well, the next step is to seek the position of the second general of Zhengnan for himself.

In October, he had to personally escort him to Dadu to report on his work and beat the side drum for Kublai Khan.

After a few autumn rains, it's October in the blink of an eye.

At the beginning of October, Li Luo returned to Haidong and immediately had a surprise. Cui Xiuning told him the good news that she was pregnant again and had been more than a month. The farrowing date is estimated in June next year.

"I hope it's a daughter this time. However, Tang Guo definitely hopes to still be a son. Cui Xiuning said a little helplessly, touching her still flat belly.

Li Luo smiled: "I'm the same as you think, but for the sake of the overall situation, it's best to be a son." ”

Li Zheng, the Yongzhou Mu in the cradle, suddenly burst into tears when he heard his parents' words.

Cui Xiuning hurriedly hugged and coaxed, "Even if I give birth to a younger brother, I won't snatch your seat, and I can still play with you, why are you crying." ”

Li Luo scolded with a smile, "You still can't understand people's words, that's all you do!" "Take Li Zheng and hold a ceremony to hold his son.

When Yongzhou Mu was tired of crying and drank enough to sleep, the two began to discuss major matters again.

"Now we have a population of 900,000. I recruited another 15,000 recruits, 140,000 new and veterans. But we can't recruit anymore, otherwise the food pressure will be too great and agricultural production will be insufficient. Moreover, there is no good source of soldiers. Re-recruitment will reduce the quality. ”

"Also, there is not much room for migration in the largest and most fertile plains of Haidong today. I have calculated that I can only resettle another three or four hundred thousand, and no more, and there will be no land allocation. Cui Xiuning said.

Li Luo nodded: "It's a pity that other places are not easy to manage, otherwise they can feed two million people." ”

Why is only the largest plain in the eastern and western parts of the sea designated as a settlement area? To the east of Haidong, there are many small plains. The reason is simple: if the resettlement area is too large, it will not be able to effectively ban the sea.

Tens of thousands of sailors, of course, can blockade the west coast of the iron pass, but to blockade the entire Haidong, but it is impossible to do it, once a renegade defects to the sea, it will be dangerous.

Therefore, it can only be developed in the largest plains, which is convenient for the blockade of the water division.

Li Luo stood up and took a few steps back and forth, "In a year or two, we must raise troops." More than 100,000 soldiers and horses train hard every day, but they are slow to become soldiers, and I am afraid that things will change over time. ”

"By the end of next year, how many muskets, how many cannons, how many armor will we have?"

Cui Xiuning counted with his fingers, "After the application of the hydraulic forging hammer, it can produce up to 1,008 guns per month, more than 60 small cannons with 3 catties of ammunition, and 40 light cannons with 6 catties of ammunition each. By the end of next year, there should be 20,000 guns and 1,200 light artillery pieces. It can arm 30,000 firearms. ”

"Ten catties of cannons, no samples have been released yet, and the official production will be at least until the beginning of tomorrow. Fifteen-pound cannons, I have tried my best, only this ability, I don't know if I can build it, even if I can build it, it will be until tomorrow summer. If all goes well, maybe ten cannons by the end of next year. ”

Li Luo groaned: "That is, it can arm at least 30,000 firearms soldiers, which is almost enough." What about the Xuanjia? ”

Cui Xiuning said without thinking: "From now on, there will be a maximum of 60,000 pairs of Xuanjia." If there were no hydraulic hammers, there would be no 20,000. ”

Li Luo said: "I'll do the math, we now have more than 70,000 pairs of various armors, plus 60,000, it is 130,000 pairs, well, the armor rate can reach eighty percent by then." ”

Cui Xiuning shook his head: "Don't forget, once you conquer the southeast and recruit troops, where will the armor of the recruits come from?" ”

"Even if the army is doubled by then, our Tang army still has a forty percent armor rate, which is not low." Li Luo said optimistically.

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On the third day of October in the 19th year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan court finally issued an edict to conquest Annam, saying that the Chen father and son were not subservient, and it was necessary to lock up the capital and punish the crime.

Two years ahead of the time in history.

Kublai Khan ordered the right man to write to him, and Marshal Du instigated Du to be the general of the expedition to the south, and dispatched 200,000 troops from all over the country to assemble in the Xuanwei Division of Liangjiang Province in Guangxi, and attacked the Shenglong Mansion in Annam from Siming Road.

It was also strictly ordered that all armies must assemble at the Xuanwei Division of Lianggang Province by the end of this month and attack Annam at the beginning of November.

In view of the fact that the Yuan army was now weak in sailors and lacked warships, this time it abandoned the sea route and attacked completely by land.

A few days later, Li Luo and Cui Xiuning finally received the news that the general of Zhengnan had instigated the capital to go on the expedition.

Li Luo also hurriedly returned to Quanzhou, wrote a chapter and prepared to personally escort Fujian to Dadu, brush his presence in front of Kublai Khan, and take over as the general of Zhengnan.

Now, it's just a matter of waiting for the news of the defeat of the instigation.

Will the instigation be a big defeat?

The Special Investigation Bureau has sent all the military intelligence to Annan, and Annan has also prepared several months in advance, and occupies a favorable geographical position, if it cannot defeat the instigation, it will be a waste, and the country deserves to die.

On the eighth day of October, Li Luo took the sea route, and under the escort of Luo Yu's sailors, he personally escorted the tax into Beijing.

On October 17, the escort team led by Li Luo entered the capital. After completing the handover formalities at the household department, Li Luo returned to the post house and waited for Kublai Khan to summon him.

His recital should have arrived in Kublai Khan's hands, and according to the rules, he could only wait for the decree in the post house.

It wasn't until October 20 that a lieutenant came to the post house and announced that Li Luo would meet him. However, this visit was not in the city, but in the suburbs of the capital, the "dismount and fly and release" hunting ground, that is, the Nanyuan of the later generations.

"Li Pingzhang, please change into a hunting outfit and come with me." The lieutenant said.

Li Luo smiled bitterly: "Forgive me, the nobles, I didn't carry hunting clothes below." "How did he know that Uncle Kublai Khan would be summoned in the hunting ground?

Zhongguan said: "It's okay, Li Pingzhang is too worried." Let's go. ”

Li Luo was wearing a purple grandson suit with a jade belt around his waist, and he followed the lieutenant out of the south gate of Dadu in this dress, hoping to "dismount and fly away".

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