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"Shixin, you are in charge of the army's salary, money and food! You divide these 200,000 taels of silver tickets into dozens of parts, send someone to the nearby state capital to redeem them, and transport them back. This is the timely rain sent by my brother-in-law Shen Fu! Zhang Shicheng immediately summoned Zhang Shixin, Lu Zhong, and Li Bosheng after dinner.

At this time, Lu Zhong and Li Bosheng were waiting outside, waiting for Zhang Shixin's summons.

Zhang Shixin in the study hurriedly knelt down and took the silver ticket, and said respectfully to Zhang Shixin: "Thank you, Brother Wang, the minister will definitely exchange the silver taels back as soon as possible." ”

Although there is a lot of wealth in the land of the three cities, there is a huge gap in the military salary used in the army, not only the food and salary must continue to be prepared, but also the weapons and equipment are far from the combat power of the regular army of the Yuan army, and there is a gap of at least 100,000 taels in detail.

Although Shen Fu did not agree with Zhang Shicheng to become king immediately, the 200,000 taels of silver sent did solve Zhang Shicheng's temporary needs, and all the generals in the army had an excellent impression of Shen Fu.

But Shen Fu refused to participate in Zhang Shicheng's ceremony of claiming the throne in Gaoyou on the second day of the Lunar New Year on the grounds that he desperately needed to go home for the New Year, Zhang Shicheng was also a little displeased, but he and Shen Fu were righteous brothers, and the other party sent so many silver taels, he couldn't keep it, so he sent someone out of the city.

"Fourth brother, you get up and talk back. If you have time, you also advise the brothers, don't put all those coins into your own pockets, we have a few cities, if you only know how to take care of yourself, then you will lose the name of the teacher of benevolence and righteousness, if the army is not satisfied, it is not what I want! When our territory and power are truly secured, everyone can enjoy the life of their dreams, do you understand? Zhang Shicheng said worriedly.

It is not unreasonable for Zhang Shicheng to say this, the eighteen brothers in the place where the incident started now have the status of a very professional general, but it is as if they have never seen silver money and women, if they take care of looting money, it will inevitably cause dissatisfaction in the army.

"Brother Wang! I can't do this kind of thing, that will make the brothers riot among themselves, and the army will be directly divided into several factions, which is not what the younger brother thinks! If you directly order Li Qing to take charge of the supervision of the army, give him the authority to inspect such things! Then, after it has an effect, he is bound to offend most of the brothers, and it will be easier for you to deal with him in the future! Zhang Shixin did not get up immediately, but still knelt on the ground and replied.

"Hmm! That's a good idea! Then tomorrow I will grant him the official position of supervising the history of the general, fourth brother, I didn't expect you to become more and more Kongming now! Hurry up, you and I are my own brothers, why bother kneeling without outsiders," Zhang Shicheng nodded approvingly, and motioned for the fourth brother to get up.

For Li Qing, he has always had a headache, he can lead tens of thousands of soldiers to submit to him, then Li Qing has also had a relationship with him, if it weren't for Li Qing agreeing with him behind his back, he wouldn't have come to this point, but Li Qing is a descendant of the royal family of the Song Dynasty, which makes him a little uncomfortable now.

As long as he meets, he will be polite to Li Qing, which is an extremely embarrassing situation for Zhang Shicheng, who controls all the military and political power in the hundreds of miles area, and he will have to hand over most of the power in the military to Li Qing in the future, which has always made him unhappy.

But if you want to kill Li Qing directly, I am afraid that it will cause Li Qing to bring those soldiers to mutiny. That is the elite of the elite in the army, only with their strength, when attacking Gaoyou, they entered the city smoothly, and now Zhang Shixin's idea just solved Zhang Shicheng's problem, as long as all the generals in his generals are offended, not only Zhang Shicheng can take the opportunity to stop the corruption in the army for a while, but also make Li Qing completely lose his status in the army.

When the war is going on again, send Li Qing in front, if you find an opportunity to convict, you can kill him if you find an opportunity, and naturally no one in the army will oppose it at that time.

"Thank you, Brother Wang, for the compliment!" Zhang Shixin immediately stood up with a smile on his face.

"You start looking for a suitable candidate tonight, and we will continue to expand our territory after the year, otherwise we will not be able to last! After you go out, you will ask the two brothers, Lu Zhong and Li Bosheng, to come in at the same time, and I have something to tell them to do. Zhang Shicheng nodded with satisfaction and said.

"Yes, Brother Wang, the minister will go and call them in at once." As he spoke, Zhang Shixin immediately saluted his brother respectfully, and then walked out.

After a dozen breaths, Lu Zhong and Li Bosheng walked into the study, and when they saw Zhang Shicheng, they knelt down and saluted.

"See the prince, but I don't know what important things you have to summon your ministers to come?" Li Bosheng first knelt on the ground and asked.

"Bosheng! This time I summoned you to ask you to go to Gaoyou immediately to complete the matter of the king ceremony, and the time is pressing! Can you be prepared? Zhang Shicheng asked solemnly.

"Lord, as early as after the attack on Gaoyou, the minister built a palace for you in Gaoyou, which can be used as your palace for the time being, and if you get more cities in the future, you will choose where the capital and the palace are located, and these things have already been prepared." Li Bosheng immediately squinted his eyes and prayed.

After hearing this, Zhang Shicheng glanced at Li Bosheng carefully, and thought in his heart: "This Li Bosheng is not only strong in martial arts, but also has such a deep scheming!" No wonder he used a lot of silver taels in the treasury of Gaoyou's mansion, but I don't know how much he put in his pocket, these people under his command have just eaten a few days of food, and they don't know how many catties and taels they have. ”

But there was a smile on his face and he said, "Good! Bosheng, you have done a great job! Thank you for your hard work, tomorrow morning you will take people to continue to prepare, the day after tomorrow the king will drive to Gaoyou, and celebrate the New Year with all the people Chinese New Year's Eve, you see good! If you need any manpower, you can choose from the army. Go back and rest early, this king still has something to talk to Brother Lu Zhong! ”

Li Bosheng was overjoyed by Zhang Shicheng's praise, and immediately kowtowed and said: "The minister will definitely hold a grand and elegant ceremony for the prince's title to the king, and the minister will retire now!" He kowtowed again before standing up and bowing out of the room.

Seeing Li Bosheng so respectful, Zhang Shicheng felt more and more that Li Bosheng was hypocritical, but he still had a smile on his face and watched Li Bosheng leave.

"Brother Lu Zhong! There is a secret matter that you need to handle for my brother, and this matter cannot be done by your skill. Zhang Shicheng waited for Li Bosheng to leave before talking to Lu Zhong.

"Big brother, oh no, lord! Please forgive me, I can't change my mouth for a while! You are the king, the younger brother is the minister, even if you let the little brother die, you will not blink an eye, if you have anything to do, you will directly say it to the little brother, and the minister will do it for you immediately! "Lu Zhong is a very strong martial artist, and his mind is also very smart, but he doesn't understand the etiquette of officialdom at all.

It's just that it is very useful to listen to Zhang Shicheng, Lu Zhong has done business with him in the coastal area several times, and he knows him very well.

"Brother! This time, my brother asked you to go to Quanzhou Mansion to find a book, and try to inquire about a person! Zhang Shicheng immediately told Lu Zhong about the conversation with Shen Fu.

"That little kid has such a great talent, and he actually has a map of the world and the situation of various places, if it is in the hands of the eldest brother, wouldn't it be extremely military value? The younger brother is willing to go to Quanzhou to help the eldest brother find this book! I just think that he is a teenager and falls off a cliff, it must be difficult to survive, but since the eldest brother has a life, the younger brother also tries his best to visit! ”

"Lu Zhong! After you get the book back, make a copy of the book, send the original to the Shen Fu brothers, and the copied part will be handed over to the brothers, those maps will be extremely important to our army. The merchant's map of the trade route was carefully drawn by countless people over hundreds of years, and it was rare that the little boy was not discovered by the Quanzhou government that he was doing this, otherwise he would have been hanged to the execution ground. ”

"Look for his whereabouts along the way, I don't think such a genius will die so easily, if Zhang has such a talent, then when he gets older, Zhang will definitely be able to win the world and save the humiliation of more than 100 years for the people of the Central Plains!" When Zhang Shicheng said this, he looked excited! When he killed many rich families in Taizhou City, he was not so happy.

"Yes! Chancellor understood. In the last sentence, Lu Zhong called himself a minister.

As he spoke, Ge Ribu Subarcher walked out unhappily, but Shang Yu suddenly remembered something at this time, and immediately said: "By the way, the county master, if you bathe in incense these days, and you don't see outsiders for the time being, and you are not close to women, then the effect of taking medicine will definitely be several times higher than usual!" ”

When he heard this, he turned around and said in surprise: "That's good! Later, I will go back to bathe and change clothes, tomorrow will be three pillars of incense a day, women, if I can get close, then you don't need to make medicine! As he spoke, he turned around again and hurried away.

The servant surnamed Zhou hooked the maid with his eyes and motioned for her to leave here.

Shang Yu then turned around, re-entered the room, bolted the door, and began to open the lid of the medicine.

"The fat pig is gone, I have to quickly take out the essence of these medicines, make the pills I need first, and then make the remaining land residues to the Yuan dog fat pig to make pills!"

In order to separate what he needed as soon as possible, Shang Yu began to get busy, and it was not until midnight that he made powder one by one from the center of the drug condensation, mixed it according to the prescribed ratio, and added honey and glutinous rice flour to knead it into the required pills, and then put it into the baking oven that had been prepared for a long time.

Next, he also ground most of those medicines into powder, and then also made pills, and said in his heart: "My essence can only be made into five pills, and these waste materials are made into hundreds of pills, enough for fat pigs to eat until they die!" Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile slightly.

After being busy for a while, he heard the sound of gongs from outside the house in the distance, and this was saved, and it was already the second watch, and the medicine he wanted should have been formed.

Thinking of this, Shang Yu slowly opened the baking oven, and used a sand spoon to take the pills placed on the shelf on the wall of the stove one by one, but there were only five of them, and an extremely rich aroma rushed to his face.

Shang Yu picked one up and threw it into his mouth, this pill that had been baked hard melted in his mouth, and a stream of heat passed into his body, and the feeling was very similar to the heat flow that the shirt gave him, Shang Yu couldn't help but be secretly surprised, but he didn't know what the reason was, and said in his heart: "It seems that the medicinal power and the seamless shirt have the power to make the body recover quickly, but I don't know what the truth is, and the knowledge left by the master does not mention this phenomenon!" ”

Despite the thought in his heart, he quickly packed the other pills into a small porcelain bottle, then tugged it into his bosom and placed it with the tiny crossbow.

After that, he began to put those pills the size of a sheep's eye into the baking oven, and changed some charcoal into it, and said in his heart: "It's good to roast these pills until they lose some of their medicinal power, that fat pig is just a county magistrate, and he actually lives in this kind of place that is even more luxurious than the prince's mansion, he is naturally not a good official, and most of you are also from Naza Kecha." Thinking of this, Shang Yu couldn't help but despise this county lord even more.

The official surnamed Zhou was hiding in a firewood room with the maid who had just been summoned in his arms at this time, and gnawed on it indiscriminately, but the maid didn't dare to make any sound, just gasped and kept pushing the official surnamed Zhou with her hand.

"You damn ghost! Wouldn't it be better to meet on the street tomorrow? Why do you want to meet in this firewood room, just now the master drove away the gift-giving place, you are so anxious, you are really annoyed! The maid was made sore, but she complained softly.

"Hey! I haven't been plowing the land in your good field for almost ten years, and I really think about it in my heart, right! What was the gift from the man who was driven away at night? The lord doesn't look down on ordinary gifts. ”

"Speaking of which, those items are not bad, they are all items from the South Seas, and the most special thing is the three-foot-tall five-colored coral!"

"What? Five-color corals? Isn't that one of the gifts that the old man is trying to find and send to him? There are actually three feet, why didn't you say it earlier! I immediately rushed to wake up the master! ”

"What are you messing around? The master is sleeping soundly now, if he is noisy, it will not be good if he hits you! The maid's face was delicately red, and a trace of fire had been stirred up by the official surnamed Zhou, and she was reluctant to let him go at this time.

"Nonsense, it's too late for the lord to rejoice! How could he blame me? By the way, did the giver leave a name? ”

"Stay, I said let him come back tomorrow, he was still a little reluctant! Call... His name is Lu Cai, and I heard that he came from Quanzhou to visit the master. The maid thought for a moment, and then immediately replied.

"It turned out to be him, that man is really generous! It's a hard-to-find treasure along the coast, and I need to go see the lord immediately. If the lord is pleased, and asks for you to be given to me, will not everyone be happy? The official surnamed Zhou immediately stood up excitedly and wanted to run outside, but when the belt was half-undone, his pants fell off in an instant, but he mixed him with a.