Ou Liwang felt that the beautiful and delicate princess in front of him was literally like a vase that would not be stained with dust. He deliberately confused the people-to-people exchanges between the two sides as official exchanges, which was both a gesture of favor and a threat, but the princess didn't understand it at all, and was stunned to peel off his words.

The feeling of Niu playing the piano dominated Ou Liwang's heart, and it was difficult for him to persevere, so he had to turn his efforts to be able to talk to the King of Heaven in person, An Jiuxiu told him in the most elegant tone that she would definitely work hard in this matter, but the King of Heaven was busy with the war, and in the near future, I am afraid that it is not very possible.

Ou Liwang was followed by Lang Shining, the young Italian priest who looked directly at the beaded curtain recklessly, wanting to penetrate this barrier and get a glimpse of the true face of the rumored princess who was as beautiful as an angel.

"Husband......

No one made a sound behind her, naturally only her husband.

"That foreigner bullied me."

An Jiuxiu seized every opportunity to be coquettish, Li Xian smiled slightly, scratched her palm dotingly, and then shook her head.

"He's not just a priest, he's also a painter, and it's his habit to look at people."

Lifting the bead curtain, facing Lang Shining, who was a little at a loss, Li Shi looked at it for a while.

"Since there is a papal envoy, there is no need for me to talk to you about the Jesuits alone."

Li Shi was intimate with An Jiuxiu, which was vaguely visible through the bead curtain, and Lang Shining understood Li Shi's identity immediately. He was very lucky, compared to others, he was the first to meet Li Xi directly, but he was also unfortunate that Li Xi didn't even talk to him, and his mission was frustrated, although this was something he had expected.

"But I'm a court painter here, so if you're interested, I'll talk to my court manager about the salary."

was frustrated, and then Li Shi's words made Lang Shining's already collapsed eyebrows rise.

"Of course, you can't ask for a sky-high price, and now my pocket is not too generous......"

Li Xi smiled honestly.

Lang Shining didn't care about the salary, he was more interested in being in constant contact with Li Shi, so as to influence Li Shi's attitude towards the Jesuits and the Holy See from the side.

However, when the chief of the inner court told him that food, clothing, housing and transportation were naturally the palace package, and in addition, the monthly salary was four or five dollars of silver, he blinked his eyes for a long time, wanting to twist his ears and be sure that he was telling the truth. Four taels and five coins of silver, exactly the same as the monthly salary of a soldier of the British Chinese Army, "No kidding, Your Excellency only has the rank of Ninth Rank now, this is the treatment of an official from the Ninth Grade." ”

There is no need to translate and paraphrase, Lang Shining's Chinese level can fully understand the words of the manager, he doesn't care about money, he is just thinking about whether he has been humiliated by the king. Four taels or five dollars of silver, he worked as a church priest in the Jesuits Society in Macau, and his monthly money was converted into seven or eight taels of silver...... The chief shrugged: "This is still our British Dynasty's system, according to the northern pseudo-Qing system, from the ninth grade can only be one or two or five dollars of silver." If you think it's less, just paint more, and the king of each painting will pay you for the painting. ”

Lang Shining suppressed his eyelids, for fear that his white eyes would be looked at by the manager, he traveled a long distance and came thousands of miles to let God's glory shine in every corner of the world, not to sell paintings. This new Anglo-Chinese state has just risen, even if it defeated the Qing state in Hunan before, it is still a small point compared to the Qing state, it does not happen to occupy Guangdong, and they will not risk angering the Qing state to deal with the new country.

Lang Shining was about to open his mouth to refuse, but the chief manager added: "If it is a portrait that the Heavenly King is satisfied with, it must be hung outside so that everyone can see it." ”

All of them...... For a moment, Lang Shining only felt that his soul was divided into two, two souls as a disciple and two souls as a painter.

The believers said: "There are hundreds of millions of souls waiting to be saved under the rule of the Qing Kingdom......

The painter said, "My name will spread to the whole world with the portrait of His Majesty the King hanging outside......

After a long pause, he cautiously spoke, "Can you take me to see what paint is in the palace?" ”

When he followed the manager to go through the formalities, Lang Shining also muttered: "Your Majesty the King...... Is there really a financial crisis now? ”

Li Xianzhen has a so-called "financial crisis", but it is not his own, but the industry and commerce and the entire country under his rule. Paying attention to Nanyang, in addition to the goal of doubling fiscal revenue every other year, is also to expand more space for industry and commerce, so that these capital that has just been freed from the shackles and is full of momentum can go outside to plunder, instead of churning inside the country. Before the Hunan businessmen wanted to form a group to seize the land, it had already shown that these businessmen were bold and arrogant.

In contrast, those who are really in financial crisis are far less idle than Li Shi, who is planning to let Lang Shining draw a family photo.

In Changsha, Hunan, the banner of the great general was being taken down, and the governor of Huguang, Man Pi, and the governor of Hunan, Ye Jiusi, watched the large cloud of smoke and dust go north, and spit out a long breath, and inhaled it again.

"Lord Taiwan, this Hunan's money and grain are ...... sold"

"It depends on whether Yanxin is willing to withdraw from Hengzhou."

The two whispered, the bitterness on their faces almost wringing out water.

If outsiders see the expressions of these two people, it will be very incomprehensible, Yinzhen, the general of Fuyuan, wants to go to the northwest to conquer Celing Dundobu, Huguang no longer has to bear the food and military needs of the army, how can he be happy, now this is like eating Coptis chinensis, and what is it for?

But insiders in Huguang and even Hunan know very well that the defeat of Yinzhen's army in Yizhang certainly left a lot of messes for the imperial court, and at the same time, it also left a lot of messes for Huguang, and Hunan suffered even more.

The bereavement of the dead officers and soldiers is a particularly headache, and if the defeated army wants to start again, it must also make up for the money such as food and silver, otherwise it will not be able to move its feet. The imperial court was transferred to Hunan from other provinces and returned to the officers and soldiers under Yinzhen's account, of course the imperial court had to recognize it, but Hunan itself was still sandwiched by the people.

This people's army fought from Chenzhou to Yizhang, almost all of them were killed and wounded, and the counties in Hengyongchen Guidao were also crying from counties and counties, and new graves were piled up in villages and villages. Guiyang in Yongzhou, Chenzhou was occupied by the British Chinese army, and a large number of people who had been bewitched by local officials and regarded the British Chinese army as a thief fled into Hengzhou, most of whom were relatives of Hunan Minyong.

In the face of the crowd of people asking for help and pensions, the prefect of Hengzhou was so anxious that he was about to burn his top, and he wanted to turn his face and deny it, but these hundreds of thousands of relatives were going to be separated from the court, and Hengzhou would be self-defeating. Hengzhou is not only the barrier of Changsha Yuezhou, but also the north of the south ridge, is the important place to enter the two Guangzhou, the loss of Hengzhou, the imperial court and the Yinghua puppet state in the north of the offensive and defensive momentum will be completely subverted, this crime can not afford to bear.

But what can the prefect of Hengzhou do? He had no right to admit the pension money of Hunan Minyong, so he had to go to the political envoy of Hunan. The political envoy said that this is not under my control, it is the tail left by Qianyao in Hunan in the previous year, and the imperial court turned a blind eye before, isn't it just to prepare for this situation to spread out and not admit it?

The prefect of Hengzhou had no choice but to find Ye Jiusi, the governor of Hunan, and of course Ye Jiusi could not wipe his ass for Nian Qianyao. Hunan Minyong died nearly 30,000 before and after, and the number of disabled people was equal to that, according to the system of bereavement, but he didn't have the ability to wipe the big thing of seven or eight hundred thousand taels of silver, so he continued to push it up to Manpina.

What Nian Qianyao did in Hunan, Man Pi nodded, he had to admit it, but he had been limited by the countless big holes left by Yinzhen's defeat, and naturally he didn't want to open another big hole, these seven or eight hundred thousand taels of silver, on the one hand, stretched out his hand to the imperial court, and on the other hand, he made a "special plan".

"Will Yanxin agree?"

Ye Jiusi was very unsure.

"He spent his time in Hengzhou for a long time, and it is said that he was shocked three times, and he couldn't hear a loud sound."

Manpi was very confident.

"Will the court agree?"

After all, this "special planning" was too suspenseful, and Ye Jiusi's hat was trembling slightly.

"This is the ...... The court doesn't dare to say what it wants to do, let's come forward, but also to relieve the worries of the Long Live Lord, as long as we don't leave obvious traces, in case the Long Live Lord finds someone to hold him accountable in the future, there is no more risk. ”

As he spoke, the sorrow between Man Pi's eyebrows gradually turned into a faint smile.

"Besides, this matter, that Yanxin can't ask for it."

On September 20, rumors arose in Hengzhou, saying that the Anglo-Chinese army was heading north from Guiyang and was about to arrive in Hengyang. Then the gunpowder magazine in the city exploded, the locals thought that it was the Anglo-Chinese artillery attack on the city, within a day, the whole city ran only the old, weak, sick and disabled, stationed outside the city Yanxin Department even claimed to have met the Anglo-Chinese army forward, extremely resolute to the north retreat, within two days the whole army ran back to Changsha, and then dug a trench in the south of Changsha City, putting on a posture of defending the city.

"The general marched north, Changsha Yuezhou was empty, and in order to prevent the thief army from Yongzhou flanking Changsha, he had to retreat to Changsha."

Yanxin, who ran to Changsha, played like this, and the court was shaken again, but it was known that Man Pi and Ye Jiusi, who were at the bottom of the roots, finally spit out all the worried qi that was pressed on their chests.

Hengzhou is trapped by thieves, and those dead refugees don't have to think about it anymore, they are all the people of the enemy territory, and the mess of Hengyong Chenguidao before was finally unloaded from Hunan, from Huguang, and from the imperial court.

"Man Pi, Ye Jiusi, and Yanxin are the three of them, and they share the thieves who lost their land, and all three of them are demoted to five levels to retain!"

Kangxi issued an edict, but the three of them were completely relieved, this was the approval of their approach, which meant that they would not settle accounts with them on this matter in the future.

As long as Changsha Yuezhou is in hand, it is nothing to lose Hengzhou, if you still guard Hengzhou, the hole of seven or eight hundred thousand taels of silver cannot be filled by the imperial court. At present, the soldiers are used on both sides, and the household department is roughly calculated, which is already the cost of tens of millions of taels of silver, and it will be fought later, the empty treasury, I don't know how many feet of soil I have to dig down, Kangxi is even more reluctant to pay his own silver to fill it.

"Governing the country is like this, you have to know how to make trade-offs."

When Kangxi issued an edict, he thought in his heart that he had to be willing to be in the present in order to win the future.

Kangxi Junchen's actions in Hengzhou, but Li Xi didn't know about it, he was very angry, thinking that Meng Kui disobeyed the military order and attacked without authorization. At present, the British and Chinese army is insufficient, and then advance to Hengzhou, it is a new war situation, to gain a firm foothold in Hengzhou, you must maintain at least two armies in Hunan, but also beware of the Qing army from the Jiangxi flank, he is now more important to sort out internal affairs, not to continue to seize land.

Meng Kui, who was reprimanded, was very aggrieved, arguing that he didn't move at all, and it was Yanxin who lost Hengzhou.

Then the news came from the Military Intelligence Department, combined with some of the internal information of the court that Heaven and Earth would know, Li Shi pieced together the truth, and it was not him who was really short of money, but the Qing court, Kangxi.

Relying on the method of losing Hengzhou to resolve the financial crisis, Li Xian was so impressed that he threw himself into the ground, and it was really a country that did not know that there were people, and it was difficult for him to learn and use it.

(To be continued)