As Lu Bing expected, within two hours, Zhu Houxi sent someone to announce him. Lu Bing didn't dare to put on a score anymore, and hurriedly put on another set of official clothes at home and entered the palace, when he saw Zhu Houxi, Zhu Houxi's face was not very good-looking, Lu Bing secretly said that it was not good, and his heart trembled and he couldn't care about the teasing sarcasm of the prepared Lu, and hurriedly asked: "What happened?" ”

"The Shen family's actions are really fast, I got a secret report just now, and the market has begun to strike in many places, even if the people have money, it is difficult for them to buy rice, so they can only drive the cart out of the city to the countryside to pull grain, and even the street vendors selling vegetables are fewer, and the restaurants and tea houses and hotels are closing down one after another. I received an express report from a place shortly after you left, I thought it was a knock on the mountain and a tiger, but I didn't expect that there have been more than 30 secret reports until now, the earliest was sent from four days ago, it seems that the Shen family has already planned it, this is for me to strike the market and boycott the business demonstration, in case the people can't eat, we have to open a warehouse to release grain, if this can't be solved, we can only wait for the officials to force the people to rebel. The Shen family has the ability, and they are talking to me, hum! Zhu Houxi said resentfully.

Lu Bing nodded and said, "Then how is Your Majesty going to deal with it?" ”

Zhu Houxi suddenly looked up at Lu Bing and said with a smile: "Are you going to come back to help me?" ”

"I'm still angry, I'm telling you, you can not believe anyone, if you don't believe me, then this little heart of mine is cold. Hey, there's no way, I'll have to come back if there's something wrong with you, or what else can I do. Lu Bing also smiled.

"That's the brothers." Zhu Houxi walked down the dragon steps around the dragon book case and gently slapped Lu Bing.

Lu Bing said: "Okay, let's quickly study countermeasures." ”

"I mean to let you talk to the Shen family first, try to calm down this matter first, and I will give the Japanese important people as soon as possible, if the matter is big, it will not be good for both of us." Zhu Houxi said, and then said: "Now that the Shen family controls most of the economy of the Ming Dynasty, once there is a disturbance that the state has no taxes to collect, then the household department will become an empty decoration." I mean we are too dependent on the Shen family, and it is too late to do business now, so we can only start with the farmland. ”

"Tell me about it." Lu Bing said with interest.

Zhu Houxi said: "The Shen family can only close their own business, but they can't stop the independent exchange of the people, people have to eat, and grain trading is a survival need, so farmers outside the city will definitely pull grain into the city in exchange for money or what they want." In other words, the peasants have become a key chain in the finances, and if you want to raise taxes from them, you must let them earn more, and only when they earn more can they have money to pay taxes, and they don't care about the taxes they pay, so that the officials will not force the people to cause chaos in the world. ”

"Go on, I'll listen." Lu Bing saw Zhu Houxi stop, so he said.

"I have a royal village, and the vassal king also has a large farmland, and the same is true after those exploits. Many of our large lands are deserted, and some of the more industrious ones are looking for people to take care of them, and they are harvesting huge amounts of grain, which can also be exchanged for gold and silver, and of course can be turned into swords. I want to collect these farms, first, to temporarily stabilize the country's finances, reduce dependence on the Shen family, and sabotage their containment actions. At the same time, these vassal kings lost their main source of wealth, and all that was left was the annual income of the imperial court. Even if one day the vassal king has a wrong brain and wants to rebel, he does not have the financial resources to rebel, so it is equivalent to removing the unstable factors. Moreover, this time our actions are famous, and all complaints can be pushed onto the Shen family, telling the kings and princes of the world that it is not that I want to do this, but that the Shen family forced me to do this, so that the Shen family has become the target of public criticism. Zhu Houxi talked eloquently.

Lu Bing praised: "This is a good plan, but how is Your Majesty going to implement it, once it is implemented, it will definitely be met with strong resistance." ”

"Start with me, start with me." Zhu Houxi said with full emotion, Lu Bing snorted and laughed and said: "Ya also crossed over, isn't this what I have heard countless people shout since I was a child, start from me, start from me, ha ”

"What nonsense, Lu Bing, that's what I think. I first withdrew my own imperial village, of course, I changed the soup but not the medicine, and replaced it with the official field for the official family to plant, I am the world, there is no essential difference between the official family's field and my imperial field, so no one dares to say anything, because I set an example first, is there anyone in this world who is more noble than me? At the same time, we will severely punish a group of typical imperial relatives who have done a lot of evil, let them know how powerful they are, and make an example of the rest of the people we have not yet dealt with to be cowardly and take the initiative to cooperate. Those who still resist stubbornly will be punished as the crime of rebellion, and anyone who does not obey the order will immediately send officers and soldiers to surround and suppress them, and the men will be imprisoned and the women will be enslaved. After the most reluctant, the imperial history was severely punished, and those who did not report it and did not fulfill their responsibilities were dealt with seriously, so that things could be done. Zhu Houxi said.

Lu Bing suddenly asked, "What else did Mr. Yuan say just now?" ”

Zhu Houxi said: "Mr. Yuan also said that you can't let Yang Ting and Lu Bing, you deceive me. ”

"As soon as I heard this high-minded talk was Mr. Yuan's strategy, I admired you for a little at first, but now hehe, it turns out that you are a pirate." Lu Bingdao: "However, I agree with Mr. Yuan's overall direction, but this is the root cause, and in terms of treating the symptoms, we have to send troops quickly, and resisting the Japanese is the right way." I hope that Your Majesty will believe in me, and that it is the most effective and wise thing to do to conquer the Japanese invaders. ”

"You, you, I really can't do anything about you, or let me think about it, let's discuss it later. By the way, Mr. Yuan also said that he would not let Yang Tinghe go, saying that Yang Tinghe had a great role, but I thought that this was a good opportunity to relieve Yang Tinghe of power, and now that he had lost and compromised with me, if he didn't take advantage of the victory to pursue at this time, then when would he stay? Could it be that when he recovers, he will fight against me again? Zhu Houxi said.

Lu Bing shook his head: "No, Yang Tinghe can't move, in case we really start a war with the Japanese Kou, or take 10,000 steps back and say it's nothing, but just looking at the current relationship with the Shen family, Yang Tinghe can't go." If Yang Tinghe leaves, no one will have the ability to share government affairs for His Majesty. ”

"Why not, Yang Yiqing is very good, I am ready to find an opportunity to reactivate him." Zhu Houxi said: "And the Wang Shouren you mentioned is also a great talent, but these two people are because of Yang Tinghe's obstruction, I have not been able to hire them for a long time, so disposing of Yang Tinghe as soon as possible is equivalent to taking the power into my hands as soon as possible and promoting my own people, so that there will be no harm in all benefits." ”

Lu Bing wanted to say more, but Zhu Houxi interrupted: "I understand what you and Mr. Yuan mean, and this matter must be considered by me, and then discussed." ”

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In the following days, Lu Bing was anxious, except for being able to calm down when he was practicing, he spent the rest of the time rectifying his soldiers and horses. The efficiency of the Shen family is fast, and they have sent craftsmen to make a batch of samples of the revolver painted by Lu Bing, Lu Bing looked at it, because the gunpowder used is not good, so it is impossible to fire the rear of the filled bullet. Lu Bing looked at the strange-shaped gun, except for a palm-sized wheel, he couldn't find anything like a revolver, the head of this gun was trumpet-shaped, and behind it were six fire ropes inserted into the six holes in the wheels, Lu Bing asked, "What is this?" ”

"It's the same as the firecracker, but in this way, the gunpowder is prepared first, and a lot of projectiles are stuffed, and after the gunpowder is fired, it is shot like a shotgun." The craftsman of the Shen family said, and Lu Bing smiled dumbly: "It means that the gunpowder is prepared, pressed, and the projectile is placed, and the fire is ignited." To put it bluntly, it's just six firebolts tied together, and they have to be lit in turns, right? ”

"You can understand it that way, too." The craftsman said proudly, and Lu Bing said with a black line on his face: "Then what do you want this wheel to do?" ”

"Isn't that your design, why are you still asking me?" The craftsman looked at Lu Bing as if Lu Bing was a fool.

"Okay, okay." Lu Bing didn't say anything more, at this time, the technique can be understood, and it is already very good to improve to this point, at least there is no need to fill gunpowder, and the integration of gunpowder also increases the attack speed, but these ammunition look too unsightly, like a cannon battle.

Lu Bing took this new guy and tried it, it was still very easy to use, the shotgun solved the problem of poor accuracy of the firearm, but such a large-area blow sacrificed distance, but it was still good as a tight defensive weapon.

Seeing that the designer Lu Bing was satisfied, the craftsmen of the Shen family went back with joy. Lu Bing saw that there was no leap improvement in weapons, and he didn't understand the mechanical principle, so he had no choice but to stop thinking about it. So Lu Bing's days became boring and continued to practice day after day, except that his body recovered more quickly after practicing qi, and his qi was like a flood of bells, but there was not much change.

In short, Lu Bing is still very difficult to use the knife every time, but it is better than nothing, Wan Erwan once said that if the strength of the three qi masters is combined, the imperial qi will swim in Lu Bing's body, so that the tendons and veins can be opened to Lu Bing's own hard practice for ten years.

It's just that there are three problems with doing this, the first is that it will have an impact on the cultivation of these Qi practitioners, after all, Qi training is a piling up behavior that accumulates over time, and this kind of senseless wear and tear is something that no one wants to do, or that people who practice to the point where they can perform exercises for others are not ordinary people, and naturally there is nothing missing, so there is no need to spend themselves to help others, human nature is not so great.

Second, you must find someone you can trust, otherwise once you change your mind and withdraw halfway, it will not only be useless to Lu Bing, but also kill Lu Bing.

The third is a particularly important point, that is, there are too few qi practitioners who can really heal Lu Bing's injuries nowadays, and most of the people in the world who practice martial arts are practicing the body, even if they practice qi, they are only to cooperate with the body, and they can't reach the level that Lu Bing needs. Wan Erwan roughly estimated that there are no more than ten people in the world who can have this ability, and who can also know the surname of Lu Dao who often shows up on the rivers and lakes. This can be embarrassing for Lu Bing, but Lu Bing has some spectrum in his heart, and now he only waits for Zhu Houxi to agree to go to the Japanese Kou, once this matter is done, all the remaining difficulties will be a matter of course, because the Shen family accidentally sent him two talents who are very suitable.

When an envoy beside Zhu Houyu found Lu Bing, Lu Bing was relieved, and Zhu Houxi finally thought about it, as for the result, he could only resign himself to fate. Zhu Houxi changed into a regular clothes, not in the **, after finishing the court, he played with a knife in the big open space in front of the Fengtian Palace, a set of life-killing thirteen knives to play the tiger and tiger. But in Lu Bing's opinion, there is only its shape, but he has not learned the essence of the Thirteen Deadly Swords, and what Zhu Houxi is playing is nothing more than a set of tricks. However, as an emperor, it is not bad to have such martial arts, Lu Bing never wanted Zhu Houxi to be comparable to the martial and strong Zhu Houzhao in this regard.

"Lu Bing, how is your recovery, do you want to come over and play tricks." Zhu Houxi stopped the knife when he saw Lu Bing coming, Lu Bing shook his head and replied: "It's still not optimistic, hehe, I can pick up chopsticks to eat in this life, and it is already a blessing in misfortune to be able to stand up and walk, I didn't think about using a knife again, I try my best to recover now, as for the result, I can only listen to the fate of God." ”

"Then what did you say about what I just compared, I have learned everything you taught me." Zhu Houyu smiled and diverted the topic and said, Lu Bing coughed lightly, Zhu Houyu waved his hand: "It's okay if you lie to me, I forgive you for the crime of deceiving the king." ”

"It's amazing, it's the best in the world." Lu Bing made a fuss and shouted exaggeratedly, Zhu Houxi slapped Lu Bing lightly and said, "you, it's so fake." However, it is not easy for me to play to this extent, since I was a child, I have been weak and sickly, I originally had a brother and a sister, but unfortunately they all died. I was blessed by God, and finally survived, but I was thin and weak, and you have ridiculed me since I was a child. Later, thanks to you, I exercised with me, and taught me such a set of life-killing thirteen knives, although I can't compete with others after practicing, but after all, I have also achieved the effect of strengthening my body, and my body is much better than before, which is also a blessing. ”

Lu Bing nodded, this was indeed the case, the two had nothing to say, and the atmosphere fell into silence for a while. Zhu Houxi said suddenly: "I agree to your request to go on an expedition against the Japanese Invaders. ”

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