"What's next for General Shuangmu?"

Qu Shiyun raised his glass and took a sip, and seemed to ask casually.

Lin Xiao's heart moved slightly when he heard this, and he immediately understood that this stubborn old man not only wanted to introduce him as an ally, but also faintly worried that he would become Sun Kewang's second by supporting the army and respecting himself, and the idea of loyalty to the monarch in his bones was still deep-rooted.

Lin Xiao raised his eyes to look at this venerable old man, and couldn't help but feel a little sour in his heart.

Naturally, he could not tell the truth that he was a modern man from 400 years later, nor could he divulge to him their plan to cross the crowd.

All he could do was try to convince Qu Shiyun that he would not do anything to be sorry for the people.

……

"Settle the people, recruit soldiers, make firearms." Lin Xiao chewed a piece of pig's head meat, and replied vaguely in his mouth.

"So, how many soldiers is the general going to recruit?"

"That'...... Naturally, the more the merrier. ”

Lin Xiao glanced at Qu Shiyun and saw that his face was stiff, but he smiled brightly and continued,

"The new army under only needs to recruit another 10,000 people, and the rest is recruited by Governor Zhang and Xuan Guogong, so they urgently need to expand the army."

Qu Shiyun's face was embarrassed when he heard this, and he sighed in his heart, Lin Xiao here is not self-interested, he has already been planning for the imperial court, but over there, he is still planning and calculating him.

"If you knew this was the case, why bother sneaking around!"

Thinking of this, Qu Shiyun frowned and said in a deep voice: "If it is the army recruited by Beishan and Ruiting, they will directly obey the orders of the imperial court...... I wonder if the general can share a little new firearms in the past? ”

Lin Xiao's eyes froze, and his heart suddenly understood, today's meal is not simple!

Are you so afraid of Sun Kewang, do you treat me Lin as a fool?

"Don't hide it, my lord, I've thought about this matter below, but I can't create a musket of the same power now, and there are not many of them, so I'm sorry...... You've also seen that the White Sand Island side is trying to build a batch of firearms, which only need to be far more than the Tartars have in their hands...... Therefore, Governor Zhang and the Xuanguo Gong Department plan to help him equip some ......"

Seeing that Qu Shiyun's face was slightly gloomy, Lin Xiao raised his eyes and looked directly at him, and the words changed:

"However, there are two conditions below."

"What conditions? But it doesn't hurt to say it, the old man must try his best to help. Qu Shiyun saw that Lin Xiao readily agreed to the matter of firearms, and his heart was happy.

"The first one is that the imperial court must try to go to Yunnan and Guizhou to mine copper, which is not negotiable. Otherwise, there is too little copper, and the matter of building weapons will not become a cake? As for how the King of Qin communicated, that was a matter for the imperial court. Lin Xiao's eyes were blazing, and he said undoubtedly.

You can't communicate, Lao Tzu comes by himself, there is no room for this matter.

When Qu Shiyun heard this, he already understood in his heart that the little fellow in front of him was already quite forbearant in doing this, if it weren't for the fact that the three-hundred-year-old Ming Dynasty was orthodox in China, Sun Kewang's generation, no, even if it was Emperor Yongli, how could he still be qualified to bargain!

On one side is his master, on the other side is his benefactor, and he is the mouse caught in the bellows. It seems that this errand is not easy to do.

After being silent for a long time, Qu Shiyun opened his mouth and said slowly:

"It is not difficult to say that this matter is actually difficult, then although Kewang is the king of Qin, but his subordinate Li Dingguo, the king of Xining, and Liu Wenxiu, the king of Funan, each have heavy troops, and they are divided into Yunnan and southern Sichuan...... I heard that Li Dingguo is different from Kewang, he has repeatedly expressed on many occasions that he will jointly assist the current emperor, and he has no two hearts, and for this reason, he also has a dislike for Kewang. ”

"General Shuangmu, don't worry, I plan to make people contact Li Dingguo directly, and this matter is expected to take a turn for the better."

"Okay, then there is Master Lao, as long as the copper material is solved, the matter of distributing firearms will not be broken. However, there is a second rule...... Maybe it's even more difficult, I wonder if the adults can convince the emperor to give permission? ”

“…… I would like to hear about it. "Qu Shiyun didn't dare to pack the ticket.

The second one is...... We are going to set up a school in Qinzhou to recruit some literate children and pass on the Western skills we have learned. I don't know what adults ...... about this."

In Lin Xiao's opinion, the first condition is not difficult, it is nothing more than to force Sun Kewang, if the court can't do it, then he will personally go out to fight until he is served, anyway, the copper mine is going to be decided.

He didn't feel the need for mercy for this kind of person who claimed to be king regardless of the overall situation.

The second condition is to open the school hall to teach science, which is to compete with Confucianism for orthodoxy, which is to destroy the hegemony of Confucian culture that has been respected for more than a thousand years!

Moreover, Lin Xiao knew that what he was going to do in the end was not as simple as Confucianism, in fact, the spearhead was precisely aimed at the wealthy families of the scholar clan who rode on the heads of the people under this pretext, so Lin Xiao was very cautious to use the opening hall as a breakthrough.

Unexpectedly, Qu Shiyun laughed after hearing this, and said, "General Shuangmu thinks that the old man is stubborn and will definitely resist Xinxue?" ”

Belch! Lin Xiao looked embarrassed! This old man, also knows Xinxue?

"Does the general know that the old man was baptized into the foreign religion? Not only the old man is like this, but the queen mother and the crown prince have been baptized. Qu Shiyun said with a narrow smile.

"Do you know that when the Tartars first invaded Guilin, the old man also recruited hundreds of francs to carry cannons to help defend the city...... Don't worry, the old man will naturally not resist science, and he will definitely help you ask for a holy decree to complete this matter. ”

Lin Xiao immediately perked up and made up his mind, as long as he successfully took this first step, things would be much easier to do in the future.

At the beginning, the matter of recruiting soldiers and running a school was originally planned to be raised in the court together with the opening of the mine, but Lin Xiao hesitated again and again and did not say it.

Now it seems that this is not too difficult at all, and these people are still more open-minded than expected.

"Perhaps, at this critical time of survival, you can't care about the battle for Taoism, right?"

……

While speaking, Qu Xuanpin served the last dish, which turned out to be a steaming pot of flower chicken, which is the real specialty of Changshu's hometown!

This dish comes from a legend.

According to legend, a long time ago, there was a man named Huazi, who begged along the way and lived in a village in Changshu County.

One day, he got a chicken by chance, wanted to slaughter and cook, but there was no cooking utensils, and no seasoning, so he came to the foot of Yu Mountain, after the chicken was killed and washed, wrapped the whole with fresh lotus leaves, and then coated with yellow mud and placed in the fire to simmer, wait for the mud to dry and the chicken was cooked, peel off the sealing mud, the chicken inside was actually fragrant and delicious.

Later, the improved production method is similar to the "cannon dolphin" of one of the "eight treasures" of the Zhou Dynasty, that is, to stuff all kinds of meat, precious mushrooms and a little Chinese medicinal materials into the chicken belly, only need to break the mud shell when eating, take out the cooked chicken and heat it in a casserole, because its color is red and bright, fragrant, the taste is fat but not greasy, the entrance is crispy and delicious, and it has gradually become a famous dish in the south of the Yangtze River, Jin Yong's novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" Huang Rong made for Hong Qigong, it is this dish.

"I really didn't expect that I could eat authentic hometown food thousands of miles away, and the Inspector is really blessed."

Looking at the fragrant casserole, Lin Xiao swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva and said with a flattering face.

Unexpectedly, when Qu Shiyun heard this, his expression suddenly froze for a moment, slowly put down his chopsticks, and asked in a deep voice: "Does General Shuangmu know about the perch?" ”

Lin Xiao looked confused, I don't know.

(PS: Thank you for the reward of the fourth alliance leader in this book!) Thank you to the fifth alliance leader for the reward! Your love makes me feel terrified! What to do? Just say thank you again! ）