The prime minister narrowed his eyes and said coldly, "What bet?" ”

Yuan Fang smiled and said: "If you are all demoted to civilians, and find a few people to take over your positions, remember, I mean just look for them, market hooligans, country vendors, beggars who ask for food can do it, in less than three years, they will be able to do what you are now, or even better, do you believe it or not?" ”

As soon as Yuan Fang's words came out, the civil officials were dissatisfied again, Yuan Fang stood up and looked at everyone: "Let's make a bet, you give up your official position, I will go to the street to find a few people to replace you, three years, if they can't do your current level after three years, my head is yours, on the contrary, if they do it, you and your whole family's head will be mine?" Do you dare to bet? Well, except for a few of you bachelors, I'm only talking about government officials, and I have nothing to do with you Confucian officials who are rich in learning. ”

A few bachelors wanted to take this opportunity to teach Yuan Fang a good lesson, but they didn't expect Yuan Fang to be like he was soft, and he also slapped a small sycophant by the way, which made several bachelors very surprised and quite useful, and the previous grief and grievances disappeared, replaced by unconcealed pride and pride.

The civil officials who were still talking about it just now suddenly shut up and looked at each other, although their faces were full of grief and humiliation, but to be honest, they didn't dare to bet, in all fairness, if they put aside the officialdom's sophistication and power struggle, their job is to convey layer by layer, a little more things, just spend more time, and there is basically not much difference from skilled workers, if it is really according to what Yuan Fang said, plus Yang Xing's push to help the blue, they will lose nine times out of ten, so no one dares to fight, all of them bow their heads and are silent.

Yang Xing was afraid that things would get out of hand, and he didn't want to have turmoil within the empire at this time, so he said: "Okay, today's matter is just a misunderstanding, let's stop here, and the matter of the merger of the local military and government will be discussed later." After speaking, Yang got up and pulled Yuan Fang to leave through the side door.

Yang Xing and Yuan Fang left, many civil officials were secretly relieved, they were really afraid that Yang Xing would remove them all in anger, and a group of military attachés, gloating three or five groups left, the prime minister and a few cronies stood in the Xuanzheng Hall for a long time, the prime minister looked around, sighed and said nothing, turned around and left, he was very aggrieved, he felt that he had done so many things for the empire, but in the end he did not return the respect he deserved, he was very chilled, chilled that his people worked hard for the empire, but His Majesty turned a blind eye, He was a little dissatisfied, dissatisfied with Yang Xing's favor and belief in villains, he was also a little jealous, jealous of Yuan Fang's good luck, why would His Majesty value so much trust, and he was always able to make meritorious deeds by luck, but the Prime Minister never thought about the reason for this, Yuan Fang did not learn and did not know, but he was only for the empire, and there were real materials, and although they were full of poetry and books, they were too selfish, and the things of the world were defeated by laziness and selfishness, each of them was very diligent, ten times or even more diligent than Yuan Fang, however, although Yuan Fang was usually lazy and did not do business, But at the critical moment, he never dropped the chain, took risks, took the lead, and treated everyone fairly (except for those who are not pleasing to the eye), which are incomparable and surpassed by others.

In the left study, as soon as the two of them sat down, Yang Xing laughed heartily: "Hahaha, boss, what you just said is so relieving." ”

Yuan Fang said disdainfully: "I said that you, the emperor, are you a little too cowardly, you obviously don't like them and you have to keep them by your side, you can't be decisive?" ”

Yang Xing spread his hands and said aggrievedly: "How can you be decisive? I also want to replace them all, but that's not realistic, boss, tell me, from my accession to the throne to the present, our empire has never stopped, wars, plagues, natural disasters, there is almost no time for peace, if we drive them all away now and promote new people, the empire will fall into chaos for a period of time, we can't afford it. ”

Yuan Fang sighed and said: "You're right, I know your difficulties, just complain casually, okay, let's get down to business, you said you have a way to deal with the Qingwu Empire, what is the way?" ”

Yang Xing smiled proudly: "Boss, the fighter manufacturing period is relatively long, and there is no way to meet the needs of the Air Force in a short time, but the manufacturing speed of artillery is not slow, we have a lot of steel, and we can produce a lot of artillery every day." ”

Yuan Fang frowned and said, "You don't plan to use anti-aircraft artillery only to deal with the Qingwu Empire's air force, right?" ”

Yang Xing shook his head: "Boss, am I so superficial?" Excluding the boats for the Wen'an Empire and the Rather Empire and Dongzhou, I transferred all the boats, airships, and fog balloons that the empire could mobilize to Xizhou. ”

Yuan Fang was surprised and said, "Damn, you don't plan to play the trick of ants biting the elephant to death, right?" No, do we still have a lot of airships? Besides, the airship and the fog balloon are not fast enough, so I am afraid that they may not be opponents when they really fight. ”

Yang Xing smiled: "Boss, after you listen to me, we don't have many airships, and together they are less than two hundred, most of them are airships and fog balloons, but I let them go to the military factory first." ”

Yuan Fang asked suspiciously: "Go to the military factory?" ”

Yang Xing nodded: "That's right, I asked these airships to dismantle the heavy crossbow and assemble the artillery." ”

Yuan Fang frowned and said: "Even if this is not good, didn't I say it just now, the speed of the airship and the fog balloon is too slow, and it really can't take advantage of the fight, if people want to run, we can't catch up at all." ”

Yang Xing rolled his eyes and said, "Who said they were going to chase it?" Let's only defend, as long as we block the Qingwu Empire, and then clean up the Qingwu Empire after we subdue the Wanliu Empire. ”

Yuan Fang slapped his forehead: "Why didn't I think of it, yes, Xizhou doesn't need to attack at all, as long as you block the Qingwu Empire, look at my head." ”

Yang Xing laughed: "Boss, you just always want to completely suppress the enemy and beat the opponent so hard that you can't fight back at once, but sometimes you don't need to do that at all." ”

Yuan Fang smiled: "You kid, this method is good, there are two passes on the Xizhou side, as long as those airships and fog balloons are all equipped with artillery, they don't need them to attack, they can be used as aerial batteries, it is not so easy for the airships of the Qingwu Empire to come over, well, this method is good." ”

Yang Xing added: "I also asked the military factory to step up the production of anti-aircraft guns, and get an anti-aircraft gun group at each pass, plus those aerial batteries, I don't believe that the airships of the Qingwu Empire can still rush over with three heads and six arms." ”