Chapter 81: The Curve
"Lin Mu, I have wronged you, I didn't expect this reward to be so unfair, it must be these traitors in Li Wenfu who bewitched the officials."
The banquet dispersed, and King Duan left Liu Jiangbai and Lin Mu behind.
Liu Jiangbai, who was full of alcohol, could no longer hide the dissatisfaction in his heart at this time.
King Duan was silent, he was actually more anxious than Lin Mu.
In Jiangning, he still has the Ning army under his command, but when he returns to Lin'an, he is the powerless prince, who seems to be promoted, but he has been stripped of his military power, and this plan has to be said to be very vicious.
And let Qin Shiren be in charge of the military and political power in Jiangning to supervise Lin Mu, I am afraid that this Qin Shiren will do everything possible to make things difficult for Lin Mu.
"Loyalty to the country is the duty of the general, and what does it matter if the reward is more or less." Lin Mu smiled on his face, but in his heart, he scolded the eighteen generations of the ancestors who were destroyed behind the scenes.
He led Ning Jun to life and death, turned the tide, and pulled the broken ship of Hua Chao ashore, the bastards on these ships had no gratitude at all, and they had to put him together, how could he bear this grievance.
It's just that he understands that now is not the time for him to do whatever he wants, and now that Jin Guo hates him to the bone, and then turns against the court, it will be a bit difficult if the two are embarrassed.
So after thinking about it for a while, he decided to put up with it for the time being.
But even so, he will not let villains like Li Wenfu and Qin Shiren gain their ambitions, it is difficult to be a loyal minister in the Chinese Dynasty, but it is easy to be a traitor.
These bastards can turn Zhao Ji's tuantuan to absorb the internal interests of the dynasty, and he can also do it.
Don't you Zhao Ji like to play? Do you like foreign goods? Do you like all kinds of weird things? Li Wenfu, these people have the ability to have more space for him?
"Lin Shi said, you can see it, but can the soldiers of the Ning Army think about it?"
King Duan showed a look of appreciation, but he had a deeper worry, there have been countless cases of mutiny because of unfair rewards in the past.
If the Ning army is in chaos, I am afraid that Jiangning City can be overturned.
"If the last general can think about it, they must think about it, and the Ning army is not an army that can be chaotic because of a little profit." Lin Mu was very confident in the Ning Army he had built himself.
King Duan breathed a sigh of relief, only hoping that Lin Mu could control the Ning army, otherwise the Ning army's mutiny would only give the people in the court more excuses to attack.
Speaking of this, King Duan was silent for a while, and then he continued: "Lin Shi said that this king will do his best to protect the Ning army whether he is in Jiangning or Lin'an. ”
Lin Mu understood King Duan's extraneous voice, this young prince intended to recruit him, and now he was giving him a promise.
Bowing down, Lin Mu thanked him, he was not a person who was fooled by two or three words and went to the pole to die.
At present, he does not believe in the Hua Dynasty except himself, and only interests are eternal and unchanging in the game of rights.
After talking about the reward for a while, it was getting late, and Lin Mu and Liu Jiangbai left Duanwang's mansion.
On the way, Lin Mu said: "Uncle Liu, no matter what Lin Mu does in the future, I hope you understand that the little nephew is for the Hua Dynasty and the country." ”
Liu Jiangbai was so frightened by Lin Mu's words that he woke up most of the time, and he said vigilantly: "Lin Mu, you can't do stupid things. ”
"Uncle Liu, you want to be crooked, the little nephew has no intention of rebelling, but sometimes it is inevitable to take the road of saving the country with a curve."
"What do you mean by that?" Liu Jiangbai stared at Lin Mu stubbornly, and he probably didn't want to go home if he didn't make his words clear tonight.
Looking up at the full moon above his head, Lin Mu said: "As soon as the victory of Jiangning is over, the Ning army will be suspicious from all sides, among which the most uneasy about the Ning army is only afraid of the official family, because of this, the official family will acquiesce in this unfair reward, and I am afraid that the official family also wants to tell the little nephew through this, who is the master of the Hua Dynasty." ”
"Well, I can also see this, but it is not easy to say it in front of King Duan, the emperor's family only has monarchs and ministers, no father and son, and King Duan's victory in the battle of Jiangning has aroused the vigilance of the official family, but I am afraid that it will be difficult for him to do anything when he returns to Lin'an." Liu Jiangbai is also an old bastard in officialdom, so he is naturally clear.
Lin Mu smiled, "Because of this, if you want to give Ning Jun a stable development environment, the little nephew must stabilize the official family, so that with the support of the law-changing faction led by King Duan, and the official family turning a blind eye, Ning Jun can continue to grow and eventually restore the old country of the Hua Dynasty." ”
"The old country." Liu Jiangbai repeated so drunkly, this is the day he wants to see in his dreams.
Noticing Liu Jiangbai's expression, Lin Mu continued: "The only person the little nephew of the Hua Dynasty can believe in today is Uncle Liu, and there is no second person, these words are inconvenient to say to His Royal Highness, I can only tell my uncle, I hope that in the future, my uncle can go back and forth between the little nephew and the Fa Change, so as not to beat his own people." ”
"I see, I see." Liu Jiangbai nodded slightly, "So you have a way to win the favor of the official family?" ”
"Naturally, there is, otherwise the little nephew would not have said such a big thing." Lin Mu gave Liu Jiangbai a reassurance.
After pondering for a while, Liu Jiangbai seemed to have made a major decision, "It's okay if you want me to be this middleman, but you have to promise me one thing." ”
"Uncle Liu, please speak." Lin Mu had a bad premonition.
"Marry like smoke!" Liu Jiangbai blurted out.
Lin Mu was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse, thinking that this old man had fought hard to spy on him, and even his daughter had been released.
"Uncle, is the marriage event a child's play, the little nephew is already married, and there is a daughter, I am afraid that I will be wronged by my sister." Lin Mu was extremely helpless.
Liu Jiangbai laughed, revealing a sly look, "As the so-called, the words of the matchmaker of the parents' orders, such as the smoke of the mother's mother, her marriage is naturally up to me, moreover, except for you, who can compare with you among the young and promising children of the Chinese Dynasty today, and although you are married, Li Susu and you have the name of husband and wife, but there is no husband and wife for a long time, and it is still the main room to marry you, and there is nothing to be wronged about." ”
Lin Mu opened his mouth, and finally chose not to say anything.
He doesn't care, Liu Ruyan is knowledgeable and reasonable, and he is also stunning, and he will not lose anything if he marries.
In this era, three wives and four concubines are the normal standard of society, and he is a man, so he will naturally not denounce this article for his own interests.
So after thinking about it, he said: "If Ruyan doesn't feel wronged, the little nephew won't say anything." ”
"Well, that's fine, I'll talk to this girl tomorrow." Liu Jiangbai's eyes flickered, he married Liu Ruyan to Lin Mu naturally not all because he liked Lin Mu's future, he also had a purpose to make Liu Ruyan the link between him and Lin Mu, so that when Lin Mu did something out of the ordinary, he could still have an identity to persuade him.
He believed that Lin Mu naturally understood this, and the two of them tacitly agreed.