Chapter 63: Anticipate the Enemy's Opportunity
Da Zhou Hong has been able to do it for 23 July, and according to Xie An, he has been serving as the Shaoqing of the Great Prison Temple for more than two months.
In these two months, Xie An used his Yue Dai, the fifth rank official of the Central Committee, plus some money extorted from Li Shou, to buy a mansion on Chaoyang Street.
Shaoqing Xie Mansion of the Great Prison Temple!
And today, it is the day when the renovation of the Xie Mansion is completed, and he Xie An holds a banquet to entertain his few friends.
Although it is only a mansion that occupies less than one-tenth of the Donggong Mansion, and the buildings and furnishings in it are not as magnificent as the Donggong Mansion, Xie An feels quite proud.
Who would have thought that he, who was desperate and destitute in Jijing, would one day be able to afford such a mansion.
"Not bad, right?" Standing inside the gate of the mansion and looking around at the surrounding buildings, Xie An said with a happy face to Li Shou and Wang Dan beside him.
Li Shou nodded, and said with a strange face, "Not bad, not bad, yes, plus this time, you owe me 22,360 taels of silver, even if the interest is counted, the fraction of the king doesn't want it, these 22,000 taels of silver, when do you plan to pay it back?" ”
Hearing this, Tan Anyuan's good mood was suddenly disturbed, he glanced at Li Shou, and said angrily, "I said, eldest brother, Your Highness the Nine, can't you delay mentioning this matter again?" You have to pour cold water on me, right? Didn't you say it, within two years, I will definitely pay it off! ”
"Two years?" Li Shou was stunned and asked in surprise, "How many Dai Lu do you have in a month?" ”
"Eight hundred taels!" Xie An said with a shrug.
"Eight hundred taels?" Li Shou gasped when he heard this, and said in disbelief, "Eight hundred taels a month, do you want to pay it off within two years?" ”
"Don't believe me? You see, I'll calculate it for you" Holding Li Shou's shoulders, Xie An counted with his fingers, "Eight hundred a month, right?" That year was 9,600, plus some subsidies, I can make up 10,000 taels, right? In this way, it is 20,000 taels for two years, and as for those 2,000 taels, "no matter how hard you work, it is not a problem......
"Don't eat or drink?" Li Shou shook his head angrily, and taunted the sixty-third chapter of the enemy's first opportunity.
"Eating and drinking is a must, can people live without eating or drinking?"
"Then you ......"
"Hey, hey!" smiled weirdly" Xie An patted Li Shou on the shoulder, and a pseudo-expression of understanding appeared on his face, which made Li Shou feel speechless.
"Come on, you can pay it back slowly" It's okay for ten years, it's okay for twenty years, and then wait for me to die of old age "You give it back to my son!"
If you don't come to my house for a day in the past two years, I can't stand it! Li Shou smiled playfully, he didn't care about the silver, he was just joking with Xie An, "Don't say 20,000 taels, with Xie An's friendship with him, even if it is 100,000 taels, he Li Shou is willing to borrow it."
Of course, Li Shou is willing to borrow, Xie An is embarrassed, after all, this amount is too big.
And Xie An obviously understood that Li Shou was making fun of him, and said with a smile, "That's okay, I'll pay back your son directly...... Hurry up and work hard! ”
Perhaps hearing the ridicule in Xie An's words, Li Shou smiled slightly, and Wang Dan, who was looking at the building on Xie An's mansion, came over when he heard the words, and said with a smile, "Lord Shaoqing doesn't know, His Royal Highness has been happy with the world a few days ago, counting the days, and now it is almost a full moon."
"What?" Xie An's eyes widened in disbelief, and he looked at Li Shou in astonishment and said, "Are you a father?" ”
"yes!" At the mention of this, Li Shou couldn't help but have a little smile on his face.
"I ...... How did I not know? ”
Li Shou was angry and funny when he heard this, and said with a smile, "It's not your son, what are you doing?" ”
"I'm a godfather, right? Who the hell is this child? ”
Li Shou rolled his eyes and said angrily, "Haven't you seen it?"
The youngest daughter of the mansion of King Xuanwang of Taiyuan Mansion, when I had wine with you a few months ago, she poured wine for you..............."
"Is there one?" Xie An tilted his head and looked at Li Shou, thought for a long time, and vaguely remembered that there seemed to be such a person, who was not very vocal on weekdays, and there was no movement, so he kept to himself and let Xie An ignore her existence.
"That'...... Is that sister-in-law? "Or what do you think?"
"When did I think you kid quietly hid a big beauty in the house,........."
"You think I'm you?" Li Shou sneered and pursed his lips.
"Hey, hey, what you said hurts a lot, yes, although it's late, I still wish you a happy son, and besides, don't tell me when you give birth to a son, there are you!"
Looking at Xie An's indignant gaze, Li Shou couldn't cry or laugh, and was about to speak, Wang Dan helped explain, "Your Excellency misunderstood, Your Highness originally wanted to tell you, but as soon as I heard that the adults were busy dealing with the piled up public cases, so I gave up, planning to wait for the full moon of the prince, and then invite the adults to the mansion for a banquet!" ”
It's not that Wang Dan spoke for Li Shou, after all, in the Great Zhou, giving birth to a child is indeed not a big deal, and it will not feast relatives and friends with great fanfare, after all, I don't know whether the baby in labor is a man or a woman, giving birth to a son is a happy event, giving birth to a daughter, it will be much inferior, don't think that everyone in this Great Zhou is as enlightened as Xie An, just look at what happened to the eldest grandson Xiangyu back then.
And unlike Yi'er's Annunciation, the full moon ceremony, the 100-day ceremony, and the *weekly ceremony] when the child is on his first birthday, that is a happy event worthy of a big feast for guests and friends, especially the Xi Zhou ceremony, the ceremony is very grand.
"How many days are there? Full moon? Xie An asked.
Li Shou thought for a while and said, "About four or five days, what?" Do you want to give a gift? As he spoke, he looked at Xie An with a playful expression.
I saw Xie An scratching his head and said, "If Lou says, you lend me another two hundred taels, and I will use this silver to buy some gifts, which is not suitable as a full moon gift, right?" ”
Li Shou almost choked when he heard this, rolled his eyes, stopped talking to Xie An about these unnutritious words, and asked off the subject, "Speaking of which, you want to move out and set up a house, you actually agreed?" ”
He was referring to/apparently Xie An's wife, Liangqiu Dance.
"When I mentioned this, I felt sad,... Xie An shook his head exaggeratedly and sighed.
In fact, Liangqiu Dance has no objection to Xie An's purchase of a mansion and what Xie Mansion to make, and more precisely, she has gradually stopped mentioning the matter of letting Xie An enter the Liangqiu family recently.
It's just that her attitude towards the issue of the heirs of his couple in the future is still so tough.
If she gives birth to a son in the future, she must say the opposite from the surname of the Liangqiu family, and if she gives birth to a daughter, then it will be as Xie An wants.
However, listening to the tone of Liangqiu Dance when he spoke at that time, he felt that he would not give up if he did not give birth to a son.
To be honest, her difficulties, Xie An can also understand, after all, in the current Liangqiu family, only she and her grandfather Liangqiu Gong are left, and Liangqiu Gong is said to be over sixty years old, and it is obviously impossible to have children, and if she and Xie An's children follow their father's surname in the future, then her Liangqiu family is really the last.
In Xie An's opinion, if there is such a good thing in the world to marry him with the child born in the womb after the Liangqiu Dance after the Liangqiu Dance, then what else is he Xie An fighting for, just marry a dozen women like Liangqiu Dance, and it is not appropriate to cross the prince?
Although it sounds a little shameless, the fact is that you can marry a woman like Liangqiu Dance at such a small price, which man will say that I don't want to look at the entire Great Zhou?
Besides, even if it is the surname of the Liangqiu family, in the future, won't their children call Xie An their father?
Xie An's only concern is that when the Liangqiu dance is gentle, it is naturally gentle, but once she gets angry, it is terrible, the sky collapses, the mountains cry and the tsunami, just like her huā name Shaanxi Tiger Ji], she is a tigress full of wildness and difficult to tame.
As for the rest, it is that this woman seems to gradually regard him Xie An as a naughty little one
The child was taken care of and disciplined......
When the sun set, Liangqiu Wu and Yi Yi also came to Xie An's new mansion, as well as Yan Kai, Chen Gang, Xiang Qing, and Luo Chao, the four deputy generals of the Shenwu Battalion of the Eastern Army.
At first, Chen Gang was very hostile to Xie An, but after Xie An helped Donggong Mansion solve the problem of military salary, he was much more polite to Xie An, although he was not as familiar as Xiang Qing, but when he met on the road, he would greet Xie An anyway, and for Xie An, this second brother Chen wanted to pull out a knife to kill him at every turn, and he was already thankful.
As for the eldest grandson Xiangyu, this woman moved in before Xie An's mansion was completed, and followed Xie An to the Great Prison Temple from time to time to pester him, asking Xie An to continue to teach her those interesting common sense, and then asking Xie An to take him around to play, Xie An couldn't help but regret that he had promised her.
Since all the people here are acquaintances, so there is nothing to scruple about, after three rounds of drinking, everyone talked about recent events, the first of which is the now powerful and powerful Li Wei, the prince of the East Palace who temporarily leads the government on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and the Luoyang battlefield where the war situation is becoming more and more erosive.
"The prince is proud of the spring breeze at the moment, he is ordered to supervise the government, a few days ago, he called a group of people to Luoyang to die, the party is the same as the other, and take the opportunity to eradicate dissidents, can't those ministers in the court see it?" Yan Kai, the eldest brother in the Shenwu camp of the Eastern Army, sighed with a wine cup.
Chen Gang frowned when he heard this, and said in a deep voice, "According to me, either ask the young lady to take command of the expedition, or invite the fourth highness to return to the court, and if this continues, the rebel army is getting stronger and stronger, when will the rebellion be quelled?" ”
"Giggles, quelling the rebellion?" The eldest grandson, Xiangyu, chuckled and said with a smile, "Vice General Chen's words are really... Didn't Vice General Yan say that the crown prince was just taking this opportunity to eradicate dissidents in the court, where was it to quell the rebellion? If it was really to quell the rebellion, he would ignore the general of his sister Wu and call a group of shrimp soldiers and crabs to go to Luoyang?
Look at it, he will never call Sister Wu to go on the expedition, as for the fourth prince Li Mao, he doesn't have to think about it, if Li Mao returns to Jijing, how can he have a situation where Li Wei is now covering the sky with one hand? The prince wanted to take this opportunity to weaken the strength of the rest of the princes and stabilize himself, and for the rest of the princes, they just wanted to emulate Li Mao and Sister Wu, and wanted to make great military achievements and improve their prestige in the government and the opposition. ”
As soon as these words came out, everyone in the room sighed secretly.
"Indeed" Liangqiu Wu nodded, frowned slightly and said, "Today, when I went to the court, I mentioned this matter, and I wanted to ask for my Eastern Army Shenwu Battalion to go to Luoyang, but the prince shirked it in every possible way."
"Although Sister Jing is one of the four towns, in the eyes of outsiders, she also belongs to the faction of the four princes Li Mao.
In this way, how could the prince ask Sister Wu to go out and win another great military feat? The eldest grandson Xiangyu pursed his lips and smiled contemptuously, and then said in surprise, "Speaking of which, the unknown thief general of the Luoyang rebels is so powerful, the little woman heard that a few days ago, this person actually killed the general Wu Bang alone on the battlefield...............
"Well, this force is indeed extraordinary" Liangqiu Wu also frowned when he heard this, and said in a deep voice, "This kind of fierce general is not only committed to thieves, but he has no name before, this is really ............... and unconvincing!" ”
"The Luoyang rebels originally came from Nanyang, and a few days ago, the officials have checked all Luoyang,
The military attache in the Nanyang area did not find anything abnormal, in other words, the thief general was not a military general..............."
"You mean, among the rebels in Nanyang, Luoyang, and Chang'an, there are still such fierce generals?" Liangqiu Wu looked at the eldest grandson Xiangyu in disbelief.
"That's the only way to explain," the eldest grandson Xiangyu nodded, and then said in a deep voice: "The little sister has analyzed the battle report in Luoyang, in all fairness, the rebels use ordinary troops, and there are no wonderful schemes, the reason why the Western Expeditionary Army was blocked outside the pass twice at Hangu Pass was to constantly snipe the generals of the Western Expeditionary Army..............."
"Pai Tingmo" Xie An was stunned. I couldn't help but think of the Jinling Assassination Pavilion that had come to assassinate me.
"Hmm" Eldest Sun Xiangyu nodded, frowned and said, "As long as you snipe the generals of the Western Expeditionary Army, even if there are 100,000 soldiers and horses, so what?" It's just a plate of loose sand" Speaking of this, she turned her head to look at Liangqiu Dance, and asked suspiciously, "Sister Wu, can you do it?" In the midst of the 120,000 troops, in the midst of the guards, I will behead the great general of our court."
"This" Liangqiu Wu hesitated, shook his head and said, "If you lead my Eastern Army Shenwu Battalion together, it's hard to say, but if you are alone, you can't do it!" ”
The eldest grandson Xiangyu was slightly startled when he heard this, and said in a low voice, "So, the thief's force is still above Sister Wu?" ”
"Probably ......"
"This is really surprising" Eldest Sun Xiangyu frowned slightly, and suddenly, as if she had thought of something, she turned her head to look at Li Shou, looked at her and chuckled.
This kind of smile is too familiar to Xie An, and when he saw this, he was shocked, and hurriedly said, "Hey, what are you going to do?" ”
I saw the eldest grandson Xiangyu licking his lips and giggling, "There is a heaven-sent opportunity in front of His Highness the Ninth Right now, just look at His Highness the Nine, dare or not!" ”
Li Shou is not a stupid person, and he frowned when he heard the words and said, "What Miss Changsun means is to make Xiao
Wang took the initiative to invite Ying to go to Luoyang? ”
"Giggles" The eldest grandson Xiangyu smiled, shrugged his shoulders and said, "The princes were previously under the banner of righteousness, but in fact, they just wanted to emulate the fourth prince Li Mao and take the throne with great military exploits, but it is a pity that the skills are not as good as others, and they have lost a lot of confidants, at present, the princes led by the third prince Li Shen have been somewhat frightened by the rebels in Luoyang, but the prince will not let go of the little woman of the third prince like this, he will most likely use this to eradicate the princes who are not good for him!" ”
"Can you do that?" Wang Dan was shocked when he heard this, and said, "Even the crown prince Li Wei has no right to force the rest of the princes to go to the battlefield to die, right?" Zai Qing, if he really does this, it will definitely make the ministers of the DPRK and China talk a lot, and the gains outweigh the losses! ”
"Superficial!
So you, Wang Dan, are just a mortal! The eldest grandson Xiangyu smiled contemptuously and said lightly, "The prince doesn't have to force the rest of the princes to die, he just needs to show the current saint that he wants to go out in person, he is the prince of the East Palace, the prince of a country, how can he easily lead the army to conquer in person?" Whether it is the Holy Lord, or the ministers of the court, they will definitely block it."
"Isn't that the same as not saying? Has anything changed? Liangqiu Wu asked a little puzzled.
The eldest grandson Xiangyu opened his mouth to look at Liangqiu Wu, but after all, he didn't say the word superficial, turned his head to look at Xie An, and said angrily, "What do you think? ”
"I see" Under Liangqiu Wu's surprised gaze, Xie An frowned slightly, and then said with the words of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, "What the crown prince Li Wei needs to do is just to convey to the Son of Heaven that he has a heart for the country, but in fact, it is impossible for him to lead the army to fight in person at this time, but it seems to be useless, but it can force the rest of the princes to a dead end, forcing them to only make a statement on the current matter, if they rush to lead the army to the west in person, it is the plan of the prince Li Wei to kill people with a knife, if he does not dare, he is not as good as the prince." , and naturally will not have anything to do with the throne in the future......"
"Indeed!" Wang Dan nodded in agreement, and then looked up at the eldest grandson Xiangyu, his eyes were full of admiration.
Obviously, the eldest grandson Xiangyu didn't care about the admiration in Wang Dan's eyes, and turned his head to Li Shou and said, "Except for the fourth prince Li Mao and the eighth prince Li Xian, now among the princes in Jijing, the prestige is high with the third prince Li Shen. If you go, most of them will die in battle, and if you don't go, you will fall out of favor with the saints!
The little woman asked His Royal Highness Nine to curry favor with the rest of the princes, how did His Highness Nine do? ”
"This" Li Shou hesitated, shook his head and said, "It's just an occasional visit to the mansion, and there is not much intersection yet......
The eldest grandson Xiangyu frowned slightly, as if he was a little dissatisfied with this progress, and after thinking about it, he said, "That's it, tomorrow, you will personally go to Li Shen's mansion and convey the words of the little woman to him, reminding him that the prince will most likely target him, but don't say that I said it!" ”
"Hmm" Li Shou nodded, and then asked in surprise, "Remind the third brother, so that you can destroy the prince's design?" ”
"Of course not!
This is a yang scheme, and there is no flaw in the yang scheme! The eldest grandson Xiangyu said lightly: "Even if he, Li Shen, knows about the prince's murder, so what? He can't escape after all, the little girl just wants you to use this to get in touch with the third prince, as long as you gain his trust, and then when the prince persecutes Li Shen, take the initiative to ask Ying to take over the expedition for him, so not only can it not arouse Li Shen's suspicion, but it will also be regarded by him as a confidant and beloved brother, and moreover, in front of the saint, you can also show your face As for those words that are in order to win people's hearts and sensationalize, ask Xie An to prepare for you, he is very good at this aspect! ”
"Hey, hey, are you complimenting me?" Xie An looked at the eldest grandson Xiangyu angrily, but he nodded secretly at her suggestion.
"Not only can he win the favor of His Majesty, but also will not arouse the suspicion of the third prince, and on the contrary, he will be asked to regard His Royal Highness as a confidant...... Kill three birds with one stone! One is smart! Wang Dan admired from the bottom of his heart, and suddenly, he hesitated and said, "But the prince...... Can you think of this trick? ”
The eldest grandson Xiangyu chuckled lightly and said lightly, "Don't underestimate the prince's staff, those people are also first-class strategists!" ”
But it's still not as good as you...............
Looking at the eldest grandson Xiangyu, who seemed to have done something inconsequential, everyone in the room glanced at each other and did not speak with tacit understanding.
What is the opportunity to anticipate the enemy?
That's it!
ps:It's been a long time since I've made a vi chapter.,I forgot to release it again.,Sorry.!!