Chapter 80: Breakfast Questioning

I had a fight with Zhao Kuangyi......

No, to be exact, after grabbing Zhao Er and abusing him, Xu Yongzhi returned to his residence.

He slept for three whole days.

Except for the occasional bite to eat in between, he didn't want to move.

The quality of sleep is very bad, knowing that it is dawn, my hands and feet want to move, but my brain does not let them move.

I want to get up, but I don't think much about it.

A sense of fatigue permeated him.

Although the conquest of the Northern Han Dynasty will not be carried out in a short period of time, the emperor is so young, and the conquest of the Southern Tang Dynasty does not know that it will be until the Year of the Monkey. Maybe Zhao Er is right, there will be a new change of dynasty in the next two years, but I came to Bianliang, obviously not to kill the people of the Great Zhou.

On the morning of the fourth day, this wandering was interrupted by a banging knock on the door.

Xu Yongzhi struggled to get up and get dressed, but the man had already pushed open the door and came in.

"Xu Jin, are you putting me under house arrest?"

What a rude way of speaking.

It's none other than Sister Qiao.

Sister Qiao followed Ah Crisp in the form of a red panda behind her, it seemed that Duan Meimei might be too tired, so she went to rest, and arranged for Ah Crisp to stare at Sister Qiao.

"Why do you want a tanuki to follow me!"

Two sentences offended the two people in front of him.

"Eldest sister, first of all, I have no interest in putting you under house arrest, but I promised Zhaoyi to protect your safety; Secondly, Ah Crisp is a red panda, and she hates others to call her a tanuki the most. The raccoon cat is a raccoon dog, a raccoon dog of a hill, gray, with a thief's eyebrows and cat's eyes, which is not good-looking. Xu Yongyi said while putting on his coat.

"I don't need your protection, I can go back to Jinling by myself."

"You're back in Jinling, what are you going to do?"

"Go to my grandfather and continue to be a doctor."

"If you do give birth to a child, what are you going to do?"

"Take his father's last name."

"How do you explain it to the people around you?"

"Let's just say that it is Chai Rong's child, and Jinling is not the territory of Da Zhou." Sister Qiao's momentum was rampant.

"Okay, you have a Chai Rong child now, even if Li Yu doesn't care, what will happen to Li Forsythia? She killed the child's father, will she wait for him to come to revenge? Xu Yongzhi said.

Sister Qiao stopped talking, and after a while, she seemed to suddenly have a clever plan.

"Then even if your child is your surname, it's okay to have your surname Xu."

"Absolutely not!"

"Little Sister Gui won't mind."

"Meimei will!"

"Your house is in such a mess!" Sister Qiao shouted.

"Brother Xu's family didn't hold back to give birth to a dragon!" Ah Crisp said next to him.

Sister Qiao suddenly cried.

"They're all bullying me......"

Xu Yongzhi was a little embarrassed now.

After all, Sister Qiao is not big, and it is not easy to experience such a scene of escaping death.

"I'll ask Uncle Taishi to arrange for you to work in Shanzitang first." Xu Yongzhi said.

"Are you still going to squeeze my labor?" Sister Qiao's face was full of tears.

"If you have a job, you won't feel so uncomfortable, and it's better to forget to sleep and eat than to be desperate." Xu Yongzhi said.

"But obviously there is an emperor's child......"

"If you really have Chai Rong's child, then keep your mouth shut tightly and don't tell anyone about it, otherwise the people around the little emperor will kill you, and those who oppose the little emperor may snatch your child and kill you, you have to be careful." Xu Yongzhi said.

Sister Qiao nodded, she also knew that Xu Yongzhi was right.

But she just couldn't help but vent this emotion.

Sister Qiao followed Ah Crisp out.

If they are all sick, they should all be sent to Master Chen to sleep well, Xu Yongzhi thought.

Thinking of the return to the cage advocated by the grandfather, he couldn't help but want to lie back on the bed and squint for a while, he hung his coat on the shelf, turned around and just climbed into bed, the door was knocked again.

It's Duan Meimei.

She carried a food box and opened it, and inside was a large bowl of mutton stewed noodles, as well as soup dumplings and side dishes.

It's so fragrant.

"I thought you went to sleep, you were so tired yesterday." Xu Yongzhi said.

Duan Meimei hugged Xu Yongzhi.

"I'm not tired, I'm just scared, I've never seen anything so scary."

Xu Yongzhi rubbed Duan Meimei's back, this girl is getting stronger and stronger.

"It's early in the morning, don't be so affectionate." Duan Meimei was a little embarrassed.

"Yes, yes, hurry up and eat!" Xu Yongzhi reached out and was about to grab the bun.

"Wait, wash up first." Duan Meimei pointed to the basin shelf, and took out a warm water porcelain bottle covered with cotton cloth as if she were juggling.

Xu Yongzhi washed his face and listened to Duan Meimei's words.

"How about Uncle Yizun?"

"I woke up yesterday and ate a stack of cakes, and now I go to bed again after breakfast."

"It looks like it's okay."

"Mr. Li just came, and his father-in-law (that is, Xu Taishi) settled his family yesterday, I'm afraid that you didn't get up, so I arranged for him to eat downstairs first." Duan Meimei said.

"Which Mr. Lee?"

"Li Sigui, you arranged for him to come over."

"Oh oh oh!" Xu Yongzhi was ecstatic all of a sudden.

He wiped the water from his face, and quickly put the food that Duan Meimei took out back into the suitcase.

"Take it down and eat with him!"

Xu Yongzhi walked downstairs with the food box and went straight to the living room, a table of eight immortals, and Li Sigui was chewing slowly in front of the table.

"Mr. Li!" Xu Yongzhi shouted.

"Xu Gongzi!" Li Sigui greeted with a smile.

The two men shook hands and invited each other to take a seat.

Xu Yongzhi looked at Li Sigui and instructed Duan Meimei.

"The winter in the north is bitter and cold, Meimei, you are responsible for buying winter clothes for Mr. Li's family today, this one is thin."

The two men sat down again.

"I saw a notice on the road, and Li Lianqiao arrested the proprietress of the shop where we drank and her daughter, saying that it was a rebellion, and the mother and daughter may have been killed by her."

"If only I had known I should have taken them away." Xu Yongzhi regretted it.

"At that time, Childe was planning big things, and he really lacked skills; Moreover, the family has not done anything illegal, I think it was Li Lianqiao who used indiscriminate coercion and harmed people casually. Li Sigui said.

"Sir, I've been very distressed lately, and I hope sir can teach me." Xu Yongzhi said.

"Childe, I am your subordinate, the Taishi shopkeeper makes me worry about the first-class accounting supervisor of Shanzitang, don't be so polite to me." Li Sigui said.

"I joined the Great Zhou Forbidden Army, my original intention is very simple, it is revenge, I am not afraid of your jokes, I can't deal with Li Forsythia by myself, I am finally willing to face this matter now, I can only rely on the army of the Great Zhou to conquer the Southern Tang Dynasty, and only then can I have the possibility of revenge."

"But in this process, I understood a truth, a court, a country, has its own rhythm, and I am only one of them, I must follow their rhythm, I may have to conquer the Northern Han first, and then follow the army south, but the Northern Han and I have no grudges, and I don't want to fight with them." Xu Yongzhi said.

"Childe, you have grown up, these words are thoughtful words." Li Sigui praised.

"But I have a little worry, that is, the death of the first emperor, now on the third day, there are mourning everywhere, and the expedition is definitely impossible, but can the little emperor continue to dominate the world, if they don't fight the Southern Tang, what should I do?" Xu Yongzhi said.

"Childe thinks very well, and there is a saying: Heaven is constant, not for Yao, not for death. I think whether or not to continue to conquer the Northern Han or Southern Tang Dynasty is definitely not a question for the saints to think about today, and it is Fu Yanqing, Zhang Yongde, Shi Shouxin, and your eldest brother Zhao Kuangyin who really decide this matter. Li Sigui said.

"Interesting, you didn't mention any civil officials." Xu Yongzhi said.

"Yes, I have my reasons, first of all, let me ask Gongzi, what do you think, why did Da Zhou put the capital in Kaifeng?" Li Sigui said.

"Because during the Liang Dynasty, the capital was ......in Kaifeng," Xu Yongzhi said.

"That's right, but at that time, Kaifeng was the location of a festival envoy, why did it become the capital?" Li Sigui said.

"Water Internet café, Kaifeng's water transportation is too convenient."

Xu Yongzhi's experience as a businessman led him to an answer.

"That's right!" Li Sigui praised.

He dipped his chopsticks in the soup and drew it on the table.

"A huge country must support the palace, the clan, the hundred officials, and the forbidden army."

"In the Western Han Dynasty in the past, the capital was placed in Chang'an, because the official system of the Han Dynasty was still simple, and the grain in Guanzhong could still be supplied."

"Later, the Eastern Han Dynasty, and many dynasties, were placed in Luoyang, because Luoyang is convenient for water transportation, and the court of a big country must need grain from the east and south."

"Kaifeng is more convenient than Luoyang, and you can directly transport grain to the city. Kaifeng was originally a huge trading market, and Emperor Zhu Wen of Liang considered this convenience to put the capital here. But Kaifeng has a huge weakness, what does Childe think? ”

Duan Meimei sat on the side and said softly, "Is the dish too expensive?" ”

Li Sigui smiled, he knew that Duan Meimei was Xu Yongzhi's confidant, so he didn't feel offended.

"Meimei, Kaifeng's weakness is that the terrain is too flat." Xu Yongzhi said.

"Isn't that good?" Duan Meimei asked.

"If the capital of a country does not have passes such as Tongguan and Hangu Pass, and there are no dangers such as Shu Road and the Yangtze River, then the capital of the country must be stationed with a large number of soldiers."

"But there is only so much arable land in the world, even if there are cattle on every piece of land, it can only raise so many soldiers."

"If you have 500,000 soldiers stationed in the capital, there will be very few soldiers on the border, which is a good thing for the emperor, because he can suppress the envoys of the towns, but it is a bad thing for the border, and a powerful neighbor may enter at any time."

Li Sigui praised: "Childe has a very far-reaching view. ”

"Then does this have anything to do with the attack on the Northern Han and Southern Tang Dynasty?" Duan Meimei asked.

"It matters," Mr. Li said.

"Emperor Chai Rong has always wanted to solve the Northern Han Dynasty and the Khitan, and in the Later Jin Dynasty, the sixteen states of Yanyun were given to the Khitan, and the Central Plains lost a piece of horse land."

"But if you can really conquer the sixteen states of Yanyun, there is only one way, which is to use the Son of Heaven to guard the country, move the capital to the foot of Yanshan, and then use the canal to transport grain to the north, which is a big project and difficult to do."

"If the Khitan is driven back to the grassland, they will repeatedly invade the sixteen states of Yanyun and plunder the people and people, and the Son of Heaven, who is far away in Kaifeng, will not be able to run back and forth at all." Li Sigui said.

"So, Mr. Lee means ......"

"Leaving the sixteen states of Yanyun to the Khitan, letting them keep a piece of land in the Central Plains, and blocking the more barbarian tribes for the Great Zhou may be the best choice for the Great Zhou." Li Sigui said.

"I see!" Xu Yongzhi exclaimed.

"It may not be the Great Zhou, if the capital of any dynasty is in Kaifeng, it may choose this way." Li Sigui has something to say.

"Mr. means ......"

"The Great Zhou is dead, there is not much difference, whether you can get greater benefits in the change of dynasty is what you should consider." Li Sigui said it very bluntly.

Xu Yongzhi lowered his head and ate a chopstick noodle.

"What about Nantang?" Duan Meimei asked Li Sigui.

"The beautiful girl is from the north." Li Sigui said.

"Yes, from Hebei."

"What do you think of the quality of the land in the north?"

"I have been to Ezhou and think that the products there are much more abundant than those in the north."

"Yes, the Jianghan Plain, the Tang Dynasty was the granary of the central government, and a dynasty in the Central Plains must have grain from Jianghan, Jianghuai, Dongting and Taihu Lake, otherwise, it will not be able to raise soldiers. In addition, the passage to the west was in Xiazhou, and it was difficult for the Great Zhou to trade with the Western Regions, so the seaports in the Minyue area in the future were also needed by the dynasty - such as Quanzhou. ”

"Got it!" Duan Meimei said.

"Therefore, no matter who is the emperor and has so many soldiers in his hands, in order to raise soldiers, the next step will definitely be to invade Jingnan and defeat the Southern Tang Dynasty!" Xu Yongzhi said.

"That's right, it may be Shu first, and then Jingnan, and next, Li Yu will definitely die." Li Sigui said.

"The noodles are cold, I'll go and make a new bowl for you." Duan Meimei was very happy when she saw the two of them chatting happily.

"No, no!" Li Sigui snorted and buried his head in eating.

"Mr. Li is still used to eating in the north, wait for us to return to Tanzhou, and then we will eat noodles together in the morning!" Xu Yongzhi said.

"Hey, hey, it's a must." Li Sigui said with a smile.

Look at this young boy.

This man may be the light of civilization against barbarism.