When he was young, Li Yi went to the atrium, and Bai Liyan took the initiative to ask him:

"But I came to ask about the dispatch of troops from Xianguo."

"Yes and no. The news just sent by Dejin Ye that smallpox had increased significantly, more than 40,000 people were infected, and more than 6,700 people died, and the Son of Heaven had taken refuge in the city, and his nephew was worried about the comfort of his mother and father. ”

"So you're here for medicine."

"Hmm." Li Yi nodded, feeling guilty and ashamed.

Bai Liyan sighed and comforted him, saying:

"Don't worry, when you and Ji Kang came, I had already received the news of the smallpox outbreak in Jinye, so I asked people to rush to Jinye with medicine and my letters, and the whole Jingshang Mansion will be fine."

Li Yi was shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly asked:

"Uncle's words are true!"

"Seriously."

In fact, this batch of vaccines was not prepared for Li Dai and Bai Lijuan, but for the Yuncang faction. At the beginning of the outbreak of cowpox in Liang State, he asked Bailiyan for help, and Bailiyan had to travel thousands of miles to load the equipment and vaccines in the ship, and sent a medical team to send people to deliver medicine.

At the same time, the excess share is used to sell to those powerful people, which can also open up some markets.

Hearing this, Li Yi was grateful, and hurriedly thanked:

"Uncle is very kind, and my nephew will never forget."

"Eh, you and I are all of the same root, and thank you for it. Now let's talk about Ji Kang, he was refuted by me before, this time he can't give up face, he learned that Xianguo wants to send troops to attack, and he wants to know the exact news, so you and him go separately, he must have gone to Zhang Jie, Xihuan, and you came to me to find out the truth, but so. ”

"I really can't hide anything from my uncle, alas...... My cousin wanted to compete with his uncle, but in the eyes of my nephew, my cousin was no match for my uncle, and he was afraid that he would fall deeper and deeper in the long run. ”

"As far as wisdom is concerned, Na Ji Kang is indeed particularly good, and he is more than enough to deal with the princes of various countries, but as far as I am concerned, it is not worth mentioning at all. In this world, you have to speak with strength, and you have to have the ability to play conspiracy and tricks. A little cleverness like Liang Guo is just a waste of his life, not the right way. ”

"What my uncle said is, but there are very few people who really understand this principle, and the princes all follow the example of Xianguo to implement new policies, but few have achieved results, and Liang Guo is just a vain appearance. Thinking that twenty years ago, Jinye was the first Huacheng in the Central Plains, and now the prosperity of Xianguo is far above Jinye, not to mention the tomb, which can't help but sigh. ”

"Hehe, so it is said that 'it is easy to watch a play and it is difficult to sing a play', everyone is saying that the head is the way, but if you have to work hard and make a career, how many people can succeed. Outsiders think that your uncle's achievements today are easy to come by, but a few people know that the rise of Xianguo today is not a matter of walking on thin ice with all kinds of difficulties and dangers, how can it be that the princes can follow suit, but just learn some skins. ”

"According to my uncle's words, can't all the princes in the world do the effect of the Xianguo law?"

"It's not that it can't, but it takes a lot of effort to innovate and accumulate evils, and if the people farm the land for others, and at the end of the year they don't have much benefit, how can the people be happy.

However, the people did not farm the land, and they had no food to eat, so they had to be forced to farm, anyway, as long as they were enough to make a living, no matter whether they planted more or less, and how much they planted, they still had to eat for themselves, and what good was a variety of grain? ”

Countries follow the example of the agricultural reform and planting technology of the Xian country, although the yield per mu has increased substantially, but the people at the bottom have not actually benefited, at best, the grain is basically enough to eat, and people do not die of hunger, and the consumption of other non-staple foods and daily necessities has hardly increased.

Most of the commodities exported by the Xianguo were eaten up by the existing elite and wealthy class, as well as the nouveau riche class supported by the elite class. Most of the industrial products exported by Xianguo were digested by the ever-increasing elite of the upper class, and even hoarded, and half of them could not flow to the lower class.

In addition, there was a terrible phenomenon in which the number of powerful people and merchants in general increased dramatically, and due to the abundant supply of industrial products and daily necessities, the increase in grain output gave the ruling stratum of various countries a "material illusion."

Since commodities can be produced indefinitely, and agriculture can also increase its grain output indefinitely as long as it continues to obtain advanced technology from the Xian countries, which also means that resources have increased and more powerful people can be divided.

In particular, the core elite class, in order to consolidate its own rights and attack others, needs to constantly support and expand its own power, so it continues to expand the elite group, as well as the rich class that is dependent on the elite group.

Although the income of the people at the bottom has increased slightly, the gap between the rich and the poor and the gap in the quality of life are seriously polarized, further intensifying social contradictions and conflicts of class interests.

The most important thing is that when the reform cannot be effective in other vassal states, everyone's eyes are on him without exception Bai Liyan alone, he has become a stumbling block for others to grab benefits at this moment, to put it simply, it is pink eye.

In the end, Li Yi failed to get any definite answer from Bailiyan's mouth, and Ji Kang contradicted himself in the news he heard from Zhang Jie and Xihuan, and the news of whether Xianguo would send troops became even more confusing.

However, the next day, news suddenly came out that Bailiyan was sick and did not attend the regular court meeting.

But by noon on the same day, a news exploded in the city of Chenling, it is said that two years ago Bailiyan asked Weiguo to return the land of Qiguo, and then reached a secret deal with Weiguo, after Weiguo captured the eldest grandson, Weiguo returned the land of Qiguo, Bailiyan for this reason to prevent King Xian from using troops, missed the great opportunity to send troops to attack and defend.

Now that King Xian insisted on sending troops to attack and defend, Bailiyan saw that the secret agreement could not be fulfilled, so he knelt down and begged Lu Jia to implore Wei Guo to raise his noble hand.

As soon as the news spread, it spread rapidly under the impetus of some people, and by the afternoon it was already full of storms in the city, and there was even news that Bailiyan fell ill last night, which shows that he was weak-hearted.

As soon as the news broke, the reactions were mixed. King Xian convened another cabinet meeting in the afternoon to discuss the matter, and the cabinet's reaction was generally flat, but the crown prince's reaction was very intense.

"Father, Baili Yan's public weapons are used for private purposes, and he ignores the interests of our country, and he has the audacity to conceal his father's private dealings with the defense of the country, which is not only a deception of the king, but also a foreign country, and the son thinks that he should be punished."

King Xian paced back and forth behind his back and hand, pretending to be anxious and uneasy:

"How can the rumors in the market be relied upon, the prince is reckless!"

"Father, Baili Yan is a Qi person, and his heart is always towards the country, so he must be guarded against."

"Humph!" King Xian was displeased, ignored the prince's words, and said to the other cabinets: "The Marquis of Yongxing has worked hard for the widow for more than 20 years, and you Aiqing also rely on this reason, does it make sense?" Zhao Qing, you are the mentor of Yongxing Hou, can Yongxing Hou do such a rebellious act. ”

"King Qiyu, Yongxing Hou is a person for all to see, his hard work for more than 20 years, our country can have today's situation, this alone can show that Yongxing Hou is brave and loyal. The old minister thought that there were two doubts in this matter that were worth scrutinizing, one of which was that Yongxing Hou was so wise, how could he not know the ambition of the wolf son of the country, and how could he be credulous in the defense of the country.

Second, the country of Qi is thousands of miles away, occupied by the Jin State, and it is not the turn of Yongxing Hou to ask about this matter, even if Yongxing Hou made a deal privately, this Qi Guo is the person who benefits the most, and the Qi envoy should always know, otherwise the Qi Guo does not know, the Jin State does not know, only Yongxing Hou alone has reached a secret agreement with Wei Guo, if Wei Guo breaks the contract, Yongxing Hou will not lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot. ”

"Well, what Zhao Qing said is extremely true, such a stupid thing can still be known by few people, let alone Yongxing Hou. Nuoqing, what do you think? ”

Nuo Yiyan stepped forward and said:

"King Qiqi, what Zhao Sima said is deeply understood. If the Marquis of Yongxing had any private transactions with Weiguo, the minister thought that it should also be a trade of traders, and thought that Zhang Jie had sent troops to lobby our country, and the Marquis of Yongxing offered 1,500 stone of raw silk at the price, but was rejected by Zhang Jie. After that, there was the trade of cattle, sheep, horses, and livestock with the Patriotic Guard, and the trade with slaves and the pearl of the night.

Therefore, it is impossible to say that there is no private transaction, and the minister often acts like this when he goes abroad, otherwise there will be no means for diplomatic relations, not to mention that Yongxing Hou brought huge benefits to Xianguo, and it is a bit far-fetched and malicious to say that he has a private transaction with Wei Guo to disagree with the country. And with such an eye-catching handle, how could Yongxing Hou give it to outsiders himself. ”

"Nuo Qing is right, the patriots are untrustworthy and unrighteous, who can be stupid enough to give people a handle, let alone Yongxing Hou. Even if you want to help the country, you can sell more swords and artillery, and let the people of the country take it back by themselves, so much trouble to hide it from the widow, isn't it stupid! ”

In fact, there is a paradox in this matter, Bai Liyan followed Zong Botaiyi's suggestion and used Qiguo as a bargaining chip to trade with Lu Jia, and it was this paradox that played a decisive role.

First of all, Wei Guo is not clear about the internal national strength and state system of Xianguo, although there are high-level spies lurking, but all they obtain are some data secrets, the real institutional ideas and the institutional power exerted by the state system, such abstract things cannot be understood and stolen by people at the moment. Therefore, Weiguo's judgment of Xianguo is positioned at the level of "princes and small overlords".

Second, the generation gap in technology gave Xianguo the strength to defeat the Wei State three years ago, let alone now.

Third, the real core data is in the hands of Bailiyan, Qianfang, Yongxingcheng and Xianwang, even the cabinet does not know the core economic data, so the content obtained by Weiguo, or the information obtained indirectly, only reflects what Bailiyan wants to know to outsiders, and outsiders who he does not want to give it have no way to know at all.

Even if they know, can they believe the data of tens of millions of catties of iron produced annually in Xianguo, and even if they believe it, can they not be scared to death, converted into cannons, how much do they have to have, not to mention that there are copper, tin and other metal resources.

In the end, the Xian Cabinet is roughly aware of the domestic situation, so it is completely untenable to think about the secret agreement between Bailiyan and Wei Guo from the standpoint of the Xian State.

Obviously, Bailiyan does not need to make peace with Wei Guo by private means to bring benefits to Qi Guo, and it is completely possible to export a large number of arms to arm Qi Guo and create more trouble for Wei Guo in the West Sea, wouldn't it be more beneficial to Xian Guo, why be stupid enough to make peace with Wei Guo in private.

But from the perspective of the patriots, it is reasonable for Bailiyan to take the initiative to propose the bargaining chip of disagreement. In the eyes of the defenders, Xianguo is just an agricultural prince of equal strength, at best, it has more products, more iron, and more artillery, but the population is small and the soldiers are small, even if they are not afraid of defending the country, but it is not beneficial to Xianguo to go to war, so the defense will inevitably believe in Bailiyan's request.