When King Luo returned home, it was already after noon, and after a hasty meal, he called his adjutant to close the door to thank the guests, and called a few good ministers, in the pavilion between the rockeries in the backyard, talking about today's meeting.

Mo Longxiang and the leaders of various parts of the Central Military Region listened to Mo Hu's orders on budget arrangements. At this meeting, Mo Hu arranged orders while eating lunch, while the rest of the people sat upright in a military posture and did not dare to speak. The meeting was very simple, that is, the troops immediately submitted their own military training plans and military budget expenses for the new year. When the meeting finally ended, Mo Hu stopped Mo Longxiang.

"Long Xiang, you have not been in the Central Military Region for a short time. I have always taken good care of you, but you lost the face of my Central Military Region in handling the cross-regional exercise of the King of Chu some time ago. ”

Mo Longxiang explained: "The Central Fleet is still under construction, and our flagship is just a second-class ship of the King of Chu. ”

"I don't have to worry about this matter for now. At the meeting just now, the military budget was requested, and the military expenditure of your Central Fleet has always been divided into the military expenses of the Central Military Region, and it is really unreasonable to take the money of the Military Region and not listen to the words of the Military Region. The military district plans to appoint some more inspectors, to the Central Fleet, you arrange. ”

Mo Longxiang: "Marshal, you know the situation of the Central Fleet. Personnel issues, I can't arrange either. ”

Mo Hu's face drooped and said, "This is a military order!" ”

Mo Longxiang replied: "Personnel independence within five years is what Your Majesty said. ”

Mo Hu: "Zhong Shan is gone, his old Cantonese army, even if it is a small squad leader, has now been promoted to colonel, you are not from the Cantonese army, why do you still protect them like this?" I heard that in the six months since you took office, Li Guangya will listen to you. ”

Mo Longxiang: "Thank you Marshal for your concern." ”

Mo Hu gritted his back molars and said: "Then you deal with the matter at hand as soon as possible and return to the fleet in time, you are different from other generals, you must quickly prepare the army." You don't have to attend tomorrow's meeting, and when the meeting has a decision, I'll ask the Military Command Department to send it to you. After that, Mo Longxiang saluted and said, "Yes, please rest assured, marshal." ”

As soon as Mo Longxiang walked out of the door of the military mansion, he saw a carriage with a black shed parked at the corner of the street not far away. Mo Longxiang looked around, and drove towards the street in his own car.

Just as the car staggered towards the black shed carriage, a red shadow was thrown into Mo Longxiang's saddle, which turned out to be a small note squeezed with a red rope.

The note read: King Hua is looking for the four kings to make mistakes, and wants to punish the four kings for two days. King Luo was involved in the lease of land.

When Mo Longxiang arrived at King Luo's mansion, it was already around dusk, King Luo watched his children walk into the mansion, and casually beckoned the two subordinates to prepare dinner.

When Mo Longxiang entered the house, he took off his military uniform, saw King Luo, and asked, "Didn't my mother and brother come with you?" King Luo replied, "I thought I would only come for a few days this time, so I didn't bring her." Your brothers are all abroad, so it's good for the two of us to mix these things. Mo Longxiang smiled and said, "Is the lion's head still handy?" King Luo was stunned for a moment, only then did he remember that Mo Longxiang stuffed two walnuts in the morning, looked at the jade ball in his hand, and said, "I asked people to look for it in the car, and I may have put it in the car." Mo Longxiang knew this, so he took the initiative to say: "That's what I asked for in Master Hagrid's commentary, you can order it properly." Mo Longxiang laid so much groundwork, precisely to settle down in this sentence.

Dinner was eaten for two people, and it was extremely sumptuous and gorgeous. During the meal, Luo Wangping retreated left and right, and did not even leave the adjutant, and when everyone left, he whispered: "Today's meeting, King Hua will come over, and finally let us stay in Huadu, saying that there is another important use." ”

Mo Longxiang responded: "Mo Hu asked me to hurry back to Wangdao Port, tomorrow is a few meetings on next year's military training decision-making, but now let me go back, obviously not wanting me to participate, for fear of leaking the military deployment of the Central Military Region." King Luo blinked and said, "It's really stingy, I won't even let you participate in a training meeting, as a commander in one aspect, you are also aggrieved enough." Mo Longxiang shrugged his shoulders and said with a helpless look: "How can there be any commander, if it weren't for the marine division you brought to my flagship fleet and Li Guangya, how would anyone be willing to listen to me." ”

King Luo asked, "Erke, where are you now?" Mo Longxiang ate the fish on the plate and whispered: "When I entered the palace, the interior is quite strict." ”

King Luo asked again: "Can you send a message into the palace?" ”

Mo Longxiang: "Impossible, the information coming out now is also intermittent." ”

Only then did King Luo put down his chopsticks and said, "Your Majesty, how much do you know about the situation?" ”

Mo Longxiang replied: "I'm afraid it's less than 3 points, or even lower, the second branch passed the text, saying that he went to Xiyuan, and asked King Hua to approve the fold before the ceremony." ”

"The excerpt is now Hua Wang's look?" King Luo said this a little loudly.

"Yes, Huawang estimates that he has been watching it for more than half a month."

King Luo listened to his son's words and asked, "I feel that there is a problem with the information here, why didn't you tell me this information earlier." ”

"Your Majesty's situation in the past two years, you also know it. Every day, I can read the review for one or two hours. Most of the affairs of the empire were handled by Master Hagrid, and some major matters were also delegated to the discretion of the political council headed by him. Half a month ago, His Majesty received the British and French ministers, and the two ministers also raised the question of how long the left-behind government would last, and His Majesty was very unhappy, but still said that the congratulatory court meeting on October 30 will announce the members of the new government, and continue to let the government hall carry out reforms and end the current state. In the afternoon of the same day, he went to Xiyuan, saying that during the period before the ceremony, let King Hua approve the folding, and in the past half a month, Master Hagrid, who was in charge, would hardly go against his will. When Mo Longxiang said this, he sandwiched another chopstick dish, and King Luo heartily picked up a few dishes that he thought were delicious, and put the plates in the area where Mo Longxiang got it.

"Stay in the government, this foreign minister can really come up with a name." There was some sarcasm in King Luo's words.

Mo Longxiang: "Britain and France are mainly here to negotiate, and the renewal agreement of Nandu City will be renewed for another 50 years. was rejected by His Majesty, and the British and French ministers were not happy and proposed to stay in the government. ”

King Luo: "This is the great powers, what others dare not say, they dare." Others refuse to shatter the fact that they dare! Humiliation! ”

Turning the conversation, King Luo said: "King Hua has always been by his father's side, there is such a thing, it is not surprising, this caged bird is expensive, but it is not as powerful as the wild sparrow, and no foundation is a weakness." But the meaning of the father's 'paving the way' is also too obvious! What else is the information? ”

As soon as King Luo asked, Mo Longxiang had just taken a bite here, so he had no choice but to take a sip of soup and send food, and then said: "The army is still what Mo Hu said, and there should be a consensus within the political committee to 'pave the way', just take today's military expenditure, and let King Hua participate in the discussion of military expenditure is also a worthy attitude, otherwise according to the past, Master Hagrid himself would have to come." ”

"The trick of military spending is also a cliché, as the saying goes, 'how much money can do a lot of things', this time the money is cut off first, and when the money is gone, naturally things will not be able to make trouble, and when we can't make trouble, it will be much easier to clean up us. When did you learn about military spending? King Luo asked again.

Mo Longxiang didn't talk, but asked: "Father, how long can the funds of the military region last now?" ”

"Some time ago, I just drove a few ships of engineering, and now the funds are not much, at most it will last for about half a year, and the trade has not been good recently, and the king of Chu has robbed it very much, you know this. If there is a war during this period, my side will be the money for a war. After King Luo finished speaking, he looked at Mo Longxiang and blurted out: "Can you have some way to get some funds from the Central Fleet now?" ”

After Wang Luo finished speaking, he and Mo Longxiang glanced at each other, and they were happy again, and said, "I shouldn't ask you, the Central Fleet can't afford to spend that little military budget." ”

Mo Longxiang: "Lao Yuejun and Mo Hu wish I could have any problems with money, so that I can get out, I am looking for an idle errand, and let me be a serious 'proton'." ”

After King Luo finished speaking, he seemed to remember something, and asked in a low voice, "You still have to eat this bitterness." Is it possible that the military spending is still the same as before, and the court wants to see our hearts. ”

Mo Longxiang heard it clearly, and could only pretend not to hear this obvious fact: "Father, what did you say?" ”

"My father is really old, otherwise with my father's means, how could we see it so clearly, alas." As he spoke, King Luo stood up again, turned his back to Mo Longxiang and prepared to leave the house.

"Father." Mo Longxiang stopped King Luo in the back, and when he saw King Luo turn around, he said: "I got a letter, this morning's matter, King Hua is not very satisfied, he is looking for your mistakes in the palace, I don't know about other princes, but for you, it is estimated that you are starting on leased land." ”

King Luo stopped, turned around, and said, "He dares!" King Luo then asked, "Whose attention, is it King Hua's or his father's?" ”

"I don't know, this is a dismount, you handle it carefully." After Mo Longxiang finished speaking, he also put down the dishes and chopsticks.

When Mo Longxiang spoke, King Luo touched his face, looked at his hand again, and seemed to have touched something dirty, after doing these actions, Mo Longxiang also finished speaking, King Luo pondered for a while and said, "When did you know?" ”

"When the military government comes out, you will know."

"Your news is better than mine, you try to visit Taifu tomorrow, after all, you are a disciple in the room, probe the mouth, and see what we are doing with it." After King Luo finished speaking, he walked towards the back garden step by step, there were too many things for him to consider. But he didn't notice that Mo Longxiang sighed expressionlessly.