Apocalypse sighed a little lonely, Huanghuang Dachu, across thousands of miles, millions of soldiers and horses, countless officials, should be supreme, the emperor of his word, seeing the decline of the country, the power is falling, but he has more than enough strength to do it, what to say that under the whole world, it is not the king's land, the shore of the land, the king's ministers, those ministers and nobles, all of them are talking about the lotus flower, the sky is falling, in fact, all of them are yin and yang, and they do private things with public weapons. Harming the country and enriching oneself has reached the point of unscrupulousness, looking at the world, I really don't know how many people are worthy of their own trust.

The Li Qing in front of him, is it worth spending a lot of effort on him? Silently looked at Li Qing, who was standing respectfully below, clear and dust-free, just looking at himself through the big case, he couldn't see the slightest fear and uneasiness in his eyes, where he looked like a young man who had just become an adult, but he was no different from those old foxes in the court, and he couldn't help but be upset for a while.

"You sit in Dingzhou, how many years can you defeat the barbarians?"

"Three years!" Li Qing blurted out without hesitation.

"Three years?" Tianqi was slightly stunned, and suddenly burst into laughter, and said sarcastically: "Xiao Yuanshan only dared to say that for five years, and at the end of the year, he gave me a big defeat, you, are you still arrogant?" ”

Li Qing stared at the apocalypse calmly, and waited for him to finish before he said, "The minister is not Xiao Yuanshan. ”

The laughter of the apocalypse came suddenly, and then he remembered that Xiao Yuanshan was silently defeated by this person.

"What the minister wants is not just to defeat the barbarians, but to pacify the grassland, and the minister wants to incorporate the grassland into the territory of Great Chu for the emperor." Li Qing's face did not change, as if the words were not spoken by him, but relayed the words of another person.

Tianqi was dumbfounded, looked at Li Qing, and made sure that the other party was not crazy, but was talking to himself seriously, Da Chu and the barbarians have fought for hundreds of years, and they have never completely conquered this nation on horseback, even the founding emperor Yingwu the Great did not do it, Da Chu and the barbarians have won and lost each other for hundreds of years, Da Chu has gone deep into the grassland, and the barbarians have also occupied Dingzhou, and no one on either side has the ability to completely defeat it. Apocalypse never thought about it, nor did he dare to think about completely conquering the barbarians, although Apocalypse was conceited, he did not dare to think that he was comparable to the Founding Emperor.

"Do you know you're in front of me?" Tianqi said gloomily, "There is no joke in front of the king, otherwise it will be a big crime to bully the king." ”

Li Qing smiled: "The minister dares to make a military order, within three years, the grassland cannot be pacified, and the minister will send this head to the emperor." ”

As soon as these words came out, not only the apocalypse, but even a few eunuchs in the room who had a little knowledge were also shocked. This can't be said nonsense, as soon as the military order is established, there is no way out, only to advance and not retreat, otherwise it will be the end of his death and reputation, even if the emperor does not want his life in the end, but his political future will be over, and he can only be a Tian Jiaweng after that.

The apocalypse couldn't help but be moved, if he could really defeat the barbarians and turn the grassland into the back flower courtyard of the empire, then he would achieve the greatest feat since the founding of the Great Chu, and his great cause would be close to the founding emperor.

"If you can really pacify the grassland within three years, why should I be honored as a prince?" Apocalypse slapped the dragon case, stood up, and stared at him with blazing eyes.

"Minister's promise." Li Qinglang said.

Apocalypse sat down slowly, calming down after a brief moment of excitement, "How sure are you?" ”

"When the minister left Dingzhou, he was already starting to arrange, and now my Dingzhou troops have gone deep into the grassland, Dingzhou and the barbarians are attacking and defending, and the inside is encroaching step by step, and the outside is vertical and horizontal."

"The barbarians are all soldiers, and their power is strong, with the power of Dingzhou and one state, how can they pacify the grassland?"

"The barbarian is a tribal alliance system, although there are many soldiers, but not together, Bayar in a short period of time can not twist the grassland into a rope, I am taking this opportunity to take the grassland, otherwise when Bayar dominates the grassland, will peep into the Central Plains, then it will become a big trouble for my big Chu, and I Dingzhou since the implementation of the new policy, in a short period of time has been quite effective, the initial Weichen in Chongxian, with the power of a county to raise more than 10,000 elite soldiers. Now there is the power of a state, a million people, even 100,000 elite soldiers can afford to raise. Li Qing was full of sincerity.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse only hesitated slightly, and his ambition to expand the territory immediately prevailed, but the support he could give to Li Qing was really limited, and it was impossible to expect the great clan of the Jie family to be able to work with him in this matter, "What do you lack the most?" I can give it to you. ”

"Craftsmen, technicians!" Li Qing blurted out.

Tianqi was slightly surprised, he thought that Li Qing would ask for money, but he didn't expect that Li Qing wanted someone. As everyone knows, what Li Qing lacks most now is experienced craftsmen and technicians, Dingzhou has been fighting and has been seriously plundered by the barbarians, and craftsmen and technicians are the focus of the barbarian robbery, and the money can be easily earned, but a mature craftsman is not something that can be cultivated in a short period of time.

"Here you go, I can immediately order that the craftsmen and technicians can immigrate to Dingzhou, and each of them can be paid by the imperial court. How about moving 10,000 households in advance? ”

Li Qing is called an excited, in the end, the emperor is generous, as soon as he opens his mouth, there are more than 10,000 craftsmen, you know, although his current craftsman camp is vigorously supported, there are only more than 1,000 craftsmen so far, so that the craftsman battalion Ren Ruyun is bitter. If there are these 10,000 craftsmen, then their own craftsman camp will be transformed, and the efficiency will not be the same.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, I am willing to swear to the death for Your Majesty, do your best, and die." As soon as he was excited, Li Qing was a little speechless.

"Thank you for not needing, I hope you will live up to your promise and really pacify the barbarians, and at that time, I will thank you." Apocalypse. "That's it, don't talk about Dingzhou in advance, you sit down and talk about your new Dingzhou policy, I'm very interested."

Li Qing thanked the apocalypse, then sat under the dragon case, and carefully explained the series of new policies that had just been promulgated in Dingzhou to Tianqi.

"What do you think of this new policy if I go all out in the Empire?" Apocalypse asked.

Li Qing looked up at the apocalypse in surprise, didn't think about it, and blurted out: "Your Majesty, this is impossible." ”

"Why, aren't you doing a good job in Dingzhou, or do I not as good as you, and if you do it, I can't do it." Apocalypse was furious.

"Your Majesty, it's not like that." Li Qing patiently explained: "Dingzhou was invaded by the barbarians last year, ten rooms and nine empty, the wealthy family was almost swept away by the barbarians, which gave Weichen the opportunity to implement the new policy, and the implementation of the new policy in the Central Plains must first be opposed by the family. ”

Apocalypse was silent, Li Qing's words coincided with the first assistant Chen Xiyan, I didn't expect that Li Qing not only had a talent, but also a civil and military talent, thinking of this, I couldn't help but think of the rumors of Li Qing's two-word folded name.

"Isn't it an internal and external trouble now?" Tianqi muttered: "The wealthy family controls the government, divides the localities, violates the central government, and the rebellion in several southern states is not stopped, and it is not extinguished repeatedly, and now there is a tendency to sit on the throne, and there are barbarians outside, and I am the emperor, just like sitting on the crater!" When he said this, he completely forgot that Li Qing was also from a wealthy family.

"The external troubles are a little less worried, and the internal worries are enough to shake the dynasty." Li Qing said.

"What do you do?" Tianqi's eyes lit up and looked at Li Qing.

Li Qing shook his head, three feet freezing, it was not a cold, the Great Chu in front of him was terminally ill, and it was difficult for anyone to have the power to return to the sky. "Your Majesty, you can only do it slowly, and you must not be in a hurry." He reassured.

"Can you not be in a hurry?" Tianqi said angrily, "Li Qingguan, what you did in Dingzhou, and what you said today, I think you have some understanding of the general trend of the world, but you said bluntly, if you want to solve this crisis, what can you do, and boldly say that I will not blame you." ”

Li Qing looked at the slightly sickly face of Tianqi, and regretted in his heart, the emperor was really not fun in this role. But what can I say to him?

"Your Majesty, let me tell you a story!" Li Qing thought for a while and said: "In Dingzhou, I once met a family, father and son, all of them were brave, and the two sons were very brave, in that area, no one dared to provoke them, because no one could beat them, but when the two of them returned home, they were extremely afraid of their father, and regarded him as a tiger, but they said something, and they didn't dare to disobey." ”

Tianqi snorted, "This is the filial piety of the two of them, what do you mean by this?" ”

Li Qing smiled slightly, "No, it's just that his father is stronger than the two of him combined, but if he dares to disobey his orders, he will beat the two of them and can't get out of bed, and the two brothers together are not his father's opponents." ”

Tianqi's eyes lit up, and he understood what Li Qing meant.

"One day the two brothers were beaten in a hurry, and the boss scolded him, saying that he would always be old, but when he taught that day, he must let him know that he is powerful."

Tianqi was also angry when he heard it, "Such a rebellious son, he should be killed!" ”

Li Qing ignored the apocalypse, and said to himself: "The neighbors listened, and they were all worried about his father, but he knew that the father didn't care, and he was rude to the neighbors, but he didn't know that the wealth of the whole family was in my hands, and I was old and weak, and the two of them dared to be rude to me, so I made them destitute, that is, they sent all their property to the township to do good deeds, and it was not cheap for the two of them, to see if he dared to help me, not to mention that if he was rude, I would sue them to the county in a piece of paper, and not disrupt their buttocks, and the flail to show the public." , not something that ordinary people can afford. Later, the neighbors passed the word to the two sons, and the two sons were silent, and from then on they respected their father even more and did not dare to be rude. ”

Li Qing has been gone for a long time, but the apocalypse is still sitting on the desk, he is a very smart person, Li Qing's story is nothing more than to tell him three things, one, powerful force is enough to deter wrongdoing, two, centralized financial control, three, strict legal constraints.

"Hooray!" Wu Li saw that Tianqi had a strange expression, and cautiously stepped forward and shouted tentatively.

"Summoning Chen Shoufu into the palace!" Apocalypse.