Thinking about this section, Wang Meng suddenly said: "Deputy Head Li, there are so many smart people in the world today. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThose families who have been ostracized because they refuse to donate will inevitably find ways to stir up public debate in an attempt to disrupt the matter. When the time comes, I wonder if Deputy Head Li will have a countermeasure? ”

"Hehe, I've been prepared for this. Don't forget, what do I do? As soon as Li Deyi said, his whole body suddenly became murderous.

Wang Meng instantly remembered those rumors in the world. It is rumored in the world that this deputy head Li is the most jealous and hateful, and those big families in the former Ping Zhou Dynasty who brought disaster to the country and the people, as long as they are encountered, they will inevitably raid the family and exterminate the clan, and they will not be spared. In the former Ping Zhou Dynasty, the ancestor Wen Gu said when he was a zaifu: "This world is governed by His Majesty and scholars, so why bother about whether the small people have land, and scholars should occupy more fields." ”

It is said that the Wen family was copied and destroyed by Deputy Head Li that year, and this sentence is one of the evidence of his crime. During the Ping Zhou Dynasty, because of Wen Gu's private words, I don't know how many small people were annexed to their fields and became proletarians, their families were ruined, their children were sold, and their wives were separated. The people killed by Wen Gu's private words were even better than the slaughter of a city by the Tuliao wolf thieves. The descendants of the Wen family, even if they die a hundred times, it will be difficult to repay this heavy blood debt.

Wang Meng was still not at ease and said: "Now that the garrison army is outside, those big families are spreading rumors in the two countries. Even if Deputy Regiment Commander Li is decisive, he is afraid that the whip will not be able to reach him. ”

Wang Meng's words are very true, although Deputy Commander Li, you are notorious, but now you are leading the army to attack the Tuliao State, and you are thousands of miles away to plug the grassland, where can you manage those big families in the two countries.

Besides, in the past, Deputy Head Li was able to slaughter those families who endangered the world because the world was in turmoil at that time, and there was no king in the world. If it is three points today, the Three Kingdoms are already at their peak. How can he lead troops to slaughter the troublesome families in the two countries like he did back then? After all, those big families now belong to two countries, and the emperors of the two countries have no reason to condone the garrison soldiers and horses to run rampant in their own countries at will.

As soon as Li De heard the implicit meaning of Wang Meng's words, he knew that Wang Meng was abiding by the dignity and humility of his superiors and subordinates, and he was afraid of face when admonishing, so he didn't say the meaning of his words directly.

Wang Meng's words, if they had been placed two months ago, Li Deyi might not have been able to understand the meaning of his words. But now, after experiencing the recent war and the resulting chaos in Tongwan City, Li Deyi has made great progress in figuring out people's hearts. After the end of that battle, Li Deyi, under the inspiration of his senior brother (with pain stimulation), has realized a lot, and he is no longer the stupid person who never saw the situation clearly. Li Deyi's sudden enlightenment was like spewing out all the accumulated in the previous decades, and his vision and means jumped to a new realm.

The change in Tongwan City sounded mysterious and unpredictable, and the situation was changing. In fact, if you hold on to the core point of power and always observe from this angle, you will see through all the fog and go straight to the truth behind it. Fan Guoshi was scheming, and Ashina Huo'er did not hesitate to turn his face and monopolize the victory, all in order to obtain the supreme power in Tuliao.

After that battle and his brother's suggestion, Li Deyi has learned to observe and look at things from the perspectives of power and interests. Starting from these two points, Li Deyi now looks at the people and things in the world, and it is really much clearer.

Wang Meng said it implicitly, and Li Deyi's answer was also interesting, "Have you heard of it?" Nowadays, most of the children and grandchildren of those big families who donate money in the two countries have been called by the imperial court, and a few of them have become young and promising officials in the heart of Jane Zaidi. ”

Wang Meng listened, thought for a while, and said in disbelief: "The selection of officials by the imperial court is all in the selection of materials for the country, governing the country, serving the Son of Heaven, and being in peace." This donation can make the children and grandchildren of the clan become officials, isn't it the act of selling officials and lords in the former Ping Zhou Dynasty to lose the country? ”

Hearing Wang Meng say this, Li Deyi couldn't help but laugh and said, "A good one to choose materials for the country." Do you know that Tang Guowei said bluntly? ”

Wang Meng said: "Lord Wei is a capable minister who governs the world, and I have heard of his name for a long time. ”

"Ruler of the world? What's more, let me tell you, that Wei bluntly said, both civil and military, is a rare talent in this world. However, until now, Wei Zhiyan is still only a mere servant in the court of the Pingtang Kingdom. "Li got a piece.

Wang Meng responded: "The imperial court selects officials, and it has its own laws. Although Lord Wei was a great man for a while, he was able to minister a lot in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, in the court of the Ping Tang Kingdom, Shizhong was the governor of the province under the door, and the emperor was close to the minister, which was convenient for admonishment. Lord Wei still needs to be gradual ......" At this point, Wang Meng suddenly stopped, because he couldn't say the following words.

"Seniority? Do you want to say this? Li Deyi spoke it up for him.

Wang Meng wanted to nod, but this was really against his heart, and in the end he didn't nod his head. Wang Mengsu comes from a high-level talent, and he is extremely disdainful of the stereotypes of officialdom in the world that appoint meritocracy and seniority. In the early years, Wang Meng traveled all over the world, and met many heroes but always refused to go out, a big reason is that he can't be reused, and he has to work hard in officialdom. In Wang Meng's heart, if the king wants to use himself, he must appoint himself as the prime minister and let himself monopolize the government and politics, so that he can let go and show his strengths.

"That Wei bluntly said that such a talent needs to be ranked behind several other prime ministers, which is nothing more than the scheming of Emperor Li Shiluan, balancing the situation in the court and preventing a dominant family. That Li Shiluan is known as the Ming Jun, and it is still inevitable to fiddle with the emperor's mind and engage in this set of tricks to balance his subordinates. It can be seen that the stability of the court is what the emperor really needs. What you just said about selecting and using talents and governing the country must be ranked after this. Yes and no? ”

Wang Meng was silent for a long time, but finally had to nod his head to admit this fact. Then, Wang Meng realized that the method secretly carried out by Deputy Head Li to donate money to the children of the clan to become officials was probably in line with the emperor's intentions of the two emperors to balance the court situation, so he could get such support from the two emperors.

Take the Pingtang Kingdom as an example, due to its westerly location, it was buffered by the terrain and has not been affected by the iron hooves of Tuliao. Later, the Western Tuliao soldiers entered Luodu, but provoked the monster of the Dingbei garrison, and a big flood drowned the Western Tuliao. Therefore, the power of the great clans in the Pingtang Dynasty had to be well preserved in the last years of the Pingzhou Dynasty and the chaos in the world.

Although the Li family of the royal family is also a big family in the Shang Jin Dynasty, to be honest, in the entire Pingtang Dynasty, the strength is not high. The strongest family in the Pingtang Kingdom is the seven families known as the five surnames and seven wangs, namely the Longxi Li family, the Zhaojun Li family, the Boling Cui family, the Qinghe Cui family, the Fanyang Lu family, the Xingyang Zheng family, and the Taiyuan Wang family. These great families have stood tall for thousands of years, intertwined with each other, and have countless in-laws.

These great families are not only intertwined with each other, but also have strong power, and they also occupy absolute power in the court of the Ping Tang Kingdom. Among the prime ministers of Emperor Li Shiluan, Wang Youjun is from the Taiyuan Wang family. Other high-ranking officials of the imperial court above the fourth grade, these seven families account for as much as sixty percent. It is said that after Wang Youjun is old, the prime minister who will succeed him in the future will be from the Li family in Longxi.

These seven families are all vested interests in the officialdom of the Pingtang Kingdom, they don't need to donate money to the royal family at all, and their descendants can successfully pass the imperial court public examination and enter the court as officials. Moreover, under the support of each other's in-laws and elders, the children of these seven families are often promoted very quickly.

What the? Doesn't it mean that the imperial examination was revived in the Tang Dynasty, and there were many subjects examined, which was quite fair? Why can these children of big families still pass in large numbers? Of course, the content of the exam is fair, but don't forget that the examiners must be court officials, and there are a lot of shady things that can be operated here. In addition, the disciples of the big clans of the family relied on the support of the clan to receive a better education, and the number of people who passed the imperial examination was higher.

Li Shiluan's original intention of reopening the imperial court public examination was to select more children of small clans and poor families, so as to balance the unbalanced power of the big families in the court. But I don't want to, it backfires, and the family still firmly controls the situation in the court and occupies the majority. Of course, Li Shiluan refused to give up, and was always looking for an opportunity to reduce the power of the Century Clan in the court.

The Dingbei Labor Dispatch Company established by Li Deyi this time, through this unique operation model, made Li Shiluan see a glimmer of hope to break the monopoly of the family.

Those big families were originally vested interests, and they were not willing to donate an extra sum of money to the royal family in exchange for the opportunity for the children of the clan to enter the court. But in this way, Li Shiluan was given a ready-made excuse.

The dynasty rules the world with benevolence and filial piety, and the royal family is so benevolent to the people, you don't support it. Needless to say, your family must not know what benevolence and filial piety are! Emperor Li Shiluan waved his hand, and most of the children of the seven great families who had passed the imperial court examination this year were deposed by him in the palace examination. Through this move, Li Shiluan finally dealt a heavy blow to the strong momentum of the seven great families in the court, making more opportunities for those small and medium-sized families.

And those small and medium-sized families can finally let the children of the clan rely on the support of the royal family in the court and gain a firm foothold. They quickly became a new interest group, clinging to the emperor, waving their flags and shouting in support of the Dingbei Labor Dispatch Company, and began to subconsciously safeguard their vested interests.

The Emperor of the Ping Tang Kingdom was like this, and the Emperor of the Ping Han Kingdom was similar.

Inadvertently, Li Deyi, the country boy who acted frizzily back then, also has the methods of the city government now. A seemingly frivolous move, but there is such a deep meaning behind it. With a clever act, he stirred up the situation between the two countries, and used the imperial skills of the emperors of the two countries to successfully achieve his goal.

However, Li Deyi is so laborious and so profound, that he even counts the situation between the two countries and the emperor's mental tricks, why? Wang Meng's heart suddenly rose with great doubts.

"I don't know what Deputy Head Li intends to do like this?" Wang Meng blurted out.

Li De twisted his head outside the tent and motioned for Wang Meng to look out, "Look, the strong people outside who braved the cold to transport grain can dress warmly and receive a subsistence wage for their work." I don't have to be a coolie for the court in vain, and I don't have to freeze and starve to death halfway, it's what I did. ”

After Wang Meng heard this, he suddenly realized. It turns out that the current Deputy Head of Li, although he has become scheming and the city is deep, is still the Deputy Head Li back then. The heart has not changed.

In the two countries of Pingtang and Pinghan, there were indeed some noises as Wang Meng expected. But it didn't take long for it to dissipate on its own.

This is the business of that Li Killing Star, dare to go against him, do you think your family has a long life? What, you say he dares? In broad daylight, Lang Lang Qiankun, Wang Fa Zhaozhao, he dares!?

How dare he! You forgot about the last time you made peace, this Li Killing Star didn't hesitate to make a big move, if it wasn't for the emperor who stopped in time and didn't give him a reason to provoke a war, he didn't know how to end up in the end. Do you remember, after the fact, this killer slaughtered the three major tribes of the grassland in one go, and it will calm the anger in his heart.

Forget it, we can't afford to mess with him, let's bear with it. Don't worry about money first, for the sake of the future of your children and grandchildren, you should donate, and it's a big deal to wait until you become an official and then hug it back.

Gradually, there was no opposition from both countries. Those big families whose interests were damaged and wanted to oppose it were also taken by Li Deyi's fierce power, and they did not dare to completely make things deadlocked. Dingbei Labor Dispatch Company has so smoothly rolled out business in the two countries.

Now these people are transporting grain and grass back and forth, and they have long since stopped using officials at all levels to supervise and whip and insult them along the way, urging them to go quickly. Arrive on time and you'll receive a full amount of money! Who doesn't want to arrive on time! Still need to urge? If you do it for a month, it's nine silver coins. After working for a few months, you can earn a year's income from planting at home. These people are now very active and serious, and they don't need to be urged at all.

Moreover, officials at all levels along the way of the two countries did not dare to do anything to these people. These people are now under the management of the Dingbei Labor Dispatch Company, which belongs to the emperor and that Li Killing. In case of hurting these people, the emperor will be able to explain it, and it will be a big deal to hang up the crown and leave, but if he provokes that Li Killing Xing, he will kill the whole family.

The people who deliver the grain are enthusiastic about their work, and they are not the only ones who have benefited.

After Pharmacist Li led the army to the area of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, he was shocked to find that the logistics of grain and grass transportation was much better than before! In the past, the transportation of grain and grass was often late or insufficient, and the loss on the road was great. But now, since the Dingbei Labor Dispatch Company was used to transport grain and grass, this logistics transportation was simply fast and sufficient, and the condition was so good that it completely exceeded Pharmacist Li's expectations.

When Pharmacist Li arrived at the garrison battalion with the elite of the Tang Kingdom with 60,000 square meters, it was already the end of September. After arriving, Li Deyi also specially issued brand-new warm cotton clothes to the elite soldiers and horses of the Pingtang Kingdom, so as to boost the morale of the soldiers of the Pingtang Kingdom due to the long-distance march.

The snow on the grassland is getting heavier and heavier, the snow on the ground is getting thicker and thicker, and the construction of the garrison regiment fortress is also progressing more slowly. In the whole of September, only half of the fortress was completed.

The cold winter of the grassland really lives up to its name. Rao is garrison regiment has been prepared for a long time, but many soldiers are still frostbitten. Non-combat attrition, which is increasing every day.

Fortunately, at the beginning of October, the 20,000 iron stoves that Li Deyi ordered to burn charcoal for heating were finally completed and sent to the garrison battalion.

With these iron stoves, the soldiers could be warmed up at night by lying in the tents that leaked on all sides. Although Regiment Commander Liu had been prepared for a long time, the military tents of the garrison regiment were definitely made at no cost, and each military tent was covered with a thick layer of skin. But even so, it is still difficult to resist the pervasive and raging cold wind of the grassland winter.

Even Pharmacist Li couldn't help but have the cheekiness to come to Li Deyi to ask for an iron stove of this kind and, of course, a large amount of coal.

In fact, there is also this kind of charcoal burning iron stove in Pingtang Kingdom, but it is used by small poor families to heat in winter. After the charcoal was burned, the black smoke was extremely heavy, and the workmanship of the iron stove in the Pingtang Kingdom was also very rough, far less fine than that of the garrison.

The big families in the Pingtang Kingdom all use smokeless charcoal that is specially burned, and the stove is more advanced. A high-ranking general of the imperial court at the level of Pharmacist Li had a special supply of smokeless charcoal to heat himself in winter, and the stove he used was also a bronze beast-shaped furnace with exquisite workmanship.

But now that Pharmacist Li's orthodox soldiers are fighting outside, of course they can't bring these luxurious things. So he had no choice but to be cheeky and come to Li Deyi to ask for a heating iron stove that only a "small family" can use.

The garrison regiment's coal mines were all transported from Dingbei County, and now the heavy snow is closing the road, and the transportation volume is limited, and each camp can only be supplied in limited quantities. Commander Liu is now in an extraordinary realm, King Kong can protect the body, the original qi fills the whole body, the body is strong and there is no need for extra warmth, and he also gives his share to the soldiers below. Li Deyi's share was begged for by Pharmacist Li.

It stands to reason that Pharmacist Li is also a master of the five realms, and his body is strong, so he should not be afraid of this severe cold. But in fact, Pharmacist Li has not cultivated all the vajra powers, and he has been fighting for many years, and he has many wounds on his body, and he is forty-eight years old this year, and he is almost fifty, so he is also quite unbearable to the bitter cold of this grassland.

Li Deyi didn't need a stove at all because he slept on a Hummer every night, so he simply did a favor and gave himself to Pharmacist Li.

On this day, Li De got up early in the morning and rode a Humvee to inspect as usual. Suddenly, I found that the two little apprentices who had not shown up for many days actually got up early today and came to inspect with them.

"Go back and wear more padded jackets and come out again, it's windy today. Riding on a horse is no better than walking, the wind is faster, and you will put more oil on your face later, so as not to frostbite your cheeks. Li Deyi directly shouted the two little apprentices back.