Pingxi Hou, Pingxi Hou.

Ji Lao Liu was not surprised by Zheng Fan's marquis, and he was not even surprised by the word "Pingxi".

The boss is Anton Hou, compared with the four Hou Ye numbers in the southeast, northwest and northwest, it is the same rank, and the problem is that the boss cannot point to the "west".

Because the west of Dayan is a desert and the territory of the barbarians.

Ji Lao Liu knew that although his father had always been extremely tough on the barbarians, it was a political gesture.

Under this tough stance, it does not affect the eldest brother to marry a barbarian princess and give birth to a prince with barbarian blood.

There is actually a tacit understanding between his father and the old barbarian king.

Dayan wants to expand eastward, override the old four eastern kingdoms, inherit the society of Great Xia, and recreate the unity of Zhuxia;

The Barbarian Court needs time to integrate the various tribes of the desert and restore the glory and majesty of the royal court;

Everyone has their own things to do, so it is natural to reach a tacit understanding from the outside, and between the two ethnic groups, they both deliberately create an atmosphere of "saber rattling" on the one hand to appease the country and "honey blending oil" to appease each other.

But if the name "West" is given to the boss, it is actually a destruction of this tacit understanding.

The eldest has married a barbarian princess, and has been completely isolated from the succession sequence, inheriting the marquis in charge of the army, which seems to be in real power, but in the depths, it has been eliminated from the princely treatment.

It stands to reason that no matter how big the boss makes a mistake, as long as he does not rebel, when the new emperor ascends the throne, it is inevitable that the prince will be restored, and no matter who the emperor is, he will be his younger brother.

Brothers, friends, brothers, brothers, brothers, brothers, brothers

Then, the eldest heir can go from a higher title, even if he eats and waits for death, he can mix for many generations.

Isn't this what many people struggle for all their lives?

Throughout the ages, how many royal families have participated in rebellions, and only a small part of them are really aimed at Dabao, and the vast majority of them are still the "hereditary replacement".

But since the boss has been named a marquis, he is actually treated with a different surname and an errand, and he is crowned king...... Unless the boss can make a meritorious service that is not inferior to the north and south of the town in the future, there is no possibility at all.

It can be said that the father and emperor thought about the overall situation, and completely sacrificed the boss, and even sacrificed the boss's vein.

On this basis, add the word "west" to the boss's title, and anyone with or without a heart can immediately think of the desert in the west.

First, it is easy to stimulate the nerves of the desert barbarians,

The old barbarian king is said to be dying, and the little prince of the barbarian tribe can't say that he still has some young vigor, and the old barbarian king may not care about these things, but the little prince may feel greatly humiliated because of this.

My most distressed sister married into your Ji family,

What's the matter,

Your Ji family still wants to use my brother-in-law to beat me barbarians?

Second, it is easy to persecute the boss too much and make a rebellious heart, because this is too much to use people as tools.

It is precisely because the boss can't touch the title of "West",

Therefore, it makes it the most suitable for "Anton Hou" to sit in the east of Jin, reject the savages in the north and curb the Chu people in the south, at least, Uncle Zheng is indeed in the east, and as a last resort, only the title of "West" remains.

Anyway, if you mess up the direction, you will mess up the direction, southeast, northwest, and northwest, indicating the four directions, not referring to a specific direction.

PING Xihou,

PING Xihou,

Grace again in the future,

Either from the dragon, or pacified,

It's not impossible to be crowned king,

That's ......

King Pingxi.

Ji Lao Liu was chewing these three words in his heart.

Actually, there was something he had discovered a long time ago, but he hadn't thought about it that way.

Or it's rare to meet someone you can talk to,

Or it's rare to meet such a wonderful person,

Or he thinks that he is the most intelligent in the world, afraid of loneliness, loneliness and cold,

Or rather,

He enjoyed the process and deliberately ignored the possible future outcomes.

That is,

The relationship between himself and Zheng Fan.

Zheng Fan was in Hutou City, and when he was in Cuiliu Fort, he helped to operate in the military department, so that Zheng Fan was able to get out of Beifeng County to Yinlang County, and catch up with the next stage of Dayan's war.

Uncle Zheng was able to raise troops to the south several times and fly kites at the cadres, also because his military allocation was too high, one person, two horses or even three horses, in terms of mobility, how can the cadres compare?

But since then,

Even before the attack,

Zheng Fan had already boarded King Jingnan's ship.

Ji Lao Liu sometimes thinks about why King Jingnan values Zheng Fan so much, who was just a small garrison at the beginning?

Not for unthinkable reasons,

It's that there are too many reasons.

ability

In character,

Zheng Fan is impeccable,

Otherwise, it would be impossible to impress himself in Zhenbei Hou Mansion at the beginning.

It can only be said that

It's also fate.

Since then,

Nominally, he and Zheng Fan are still close comrades-in-arms.

But Zheng Fan's station is getting farther and farther away, and the level of participation in the war is getting higher and higher.

To put it nicely,

Zheng Fan still needs his funding,

But to put it mildly,

In fact, he was in a hurry to send money, food and talents.

Zheng Fan's demand for himself is getting lower and lower.

And his demand for Zheng Fan is getting higher and higher.

This is an inevitable change, and political funding and support have always been this process.

As the wings of the sponsor become harder, you will inevitably need to change your attitude towards it.

The so-called lackeys under the door,

It's not suitable;

What's even more helpless is that you have already paid too much price and effort on him, and if you want your previous efforts not to be completely wasted and disappointed, you still have to coax him, follow him, and follow him.

and he that owes a hundred taels of silver, is the grandson;

If you owe 10,000 taels of silver, that's the uncle, Qian Zhuang has to worry about whether you eat well and sleep well?

Out of the back garden,

Get in the carriage.

Ji Lao Liu's heart was still a little confused.

Fortunately, he is a smart person, a smart person that even Uncle Zheng has to admit.

He was able to say back then: If it weren't for my father's bias, how many brothers, which one would be enough for me?

It's not boasting, it's true.

His opponents had never been his brothers, but his father, an emperor who grew older and worse in health, the stronger his desire to control power.

It's just that this emperor is really very wise and powerful.

Ji Lao Liu took out his snuffbox and took a puff, calming down his somewhat restless mind.

In fact, no matter how complex things are, after grasping the essence of them, they often become very simple.

One

Does he need Zheng Fan?

Needless to say, it is needed.

A rising star,

No

I can't use the word "new star" to describe him,

Now, he's qualified to play at the table.

Because of the war, because of the support from the King of Jingnan, because of his own well-known ability to convince himself,

he

You already have your chips and are eligible to place bets.

This kind of feudal lord,

The prince needs to be wooed;

The new monarch in the future must also win him over.

In Ji Laoliu's view, the court is actually very similar to the commercial bank, and the commercial bank also has various financial owners, and the proprietors are actually elected by the wealthy owners to manage things.

Now, Zheng Fan has become a new Caidong in the circle, and you can't ignore him anymore.

so

How to woo in?

The means of winning over people are nothing more than the same.

One interests, two friendships;

Xiaozhi uses emotion to benefit, which seems to be extremely clever, but often people who grasp it with both hands will think they are smart, and in the end, they will not get the results they want at all.

ZHENG Fan,

He's a very pure person.

This,

Ji Lao Liu is very clear.

So

He had to treat Zheng Fan in a purer way,

Let's not talk about it;

feeling

Gotta go on.

When in love,

You can't put the profit on the countertop,

Be friends,

Be brothers,

Everybody's open.

This was taught to him by his father;

In the past, Zhenbei and now Jingnan actually have the military strength to subvert the government and the opposition, but their father still gives them the greatest trust.

If you don't collect the right, in fact, it is a large right;

The essence of the emperor's art is to take risks, not to discuss things with each other in the business house, and to do things in a friendly manner.

In the above cases, there will be problems.

Using the secret spy department to monitor hundreds of officials, the government and the opposition to win over the two factions to check and balance each other, win over people's hearts, and suppress the new trend, this is the emperor's technique that people are keen on but is by no means real.

Because of the change of skin, you will find that this is very similar to the methods controlled by the leaders of the Dock Lifu gang.

Ji Lao Liu stretched out his hand,

He rubbed his eyebrows.

He took out the paper,

Pick up the pen again,

wrote a letter,

letter

Very short,

Just two words:

"Help me."

And then

Ji Lao Liu crossed out the above two words,

Changed to:

"Help me, brother."

After thinking about it,

Ji Lao Liu crossed out this line again,

"Help my brother."

After a moment's hesitation,

crossed out again,

Wrote and wrote,

Scratched up,

In the end,

Ji Lao Liu finally wrote down two words:

"Brute, help me!"

And then

The payment ———— slut.

………

Back to the palace,

first went to see her pregnant princess He Sisi,

I went to see the side concubine Lingxiang again,

At last

I went to play with my son Chuanye for a while.

After that,

Ji Lao Liu sat in his study.

In the study,

Two people were waiting.

A man, short in stature and old-looking, with an abacus and a brush hanging from his waist;

The other was a tall man with a thin build, a man, but he looked very charming.

former

is the boss of the wharf outside Yanjing City, and behind the scenes, it is the relationship between the four princes.

When the Deng family did not fall, the power of the four princes was actually very large, and many of the businesses derived from the army were mostly related to smashing and looting, essentially to see whose fist was bigger.

The wharf is a territory that can only be kept by ruthlessness.

The Deng family collapsed because of the failure of the first battle of Wangjiang, and the wharf was liquidated, but because the four princes were running around, they were finally saved.

possible

In the eyes of the fourth child, this is the last shadow of him, the prince.

But in fact,

It's because of this place, it's not the Deng family, nor is it the property of his Ji Laosi.

silver

to him,

The fourth wants to enrich and train the Beijing camp,

person

also from here to him;

Some intelligence,

Give it to him too;

But in essence, this is the territory of his sixth child, but in the name of his fourth child, he fell there.

The battle of the rivers and lakes also pays attention to a ridiculous righteousness;

But in the court, this is not fashionable from time to time;

Peaceful coexistence is based on the fact that I can't eat you,

The reason why his fourth prince was able to retain some basic plates after the collapse of the Deng family was not because his fourth prince still had any affection, but purely because someone wanted to borrow his skin.

The thin and tall man is a person in the house, but not in Ji Laoliu's house, but a steward in the inner library.

The finances of the imperial court were divided into two departments,

One is the treasury, which is theoretically under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households;

One is the Inner Treasury, which is the Emperor's own small treasury.

However, the inner treasury and the national treasury are actually not so distinct.

The treasury has no money, and the inner treasury must come to the conclusion that as long as there is an emperor and there is no big problem with his brain, it is impossible to stubbornly guard his inner treasury and not let go and sit back and watch the treasury run rats.

As the actual manager of the household department, Ji Laoliu is also very clear about the situation of the inner library, his father is not good at enjoyment, and he has always been public in state affairs, so the scale and flow of the inner library have been compressed very low.

But Ji Lao Liu lives his own Lao Tzu by himself,

Even if there is no evidence, you can guess that your father must have a backhand,

This is not because of greed,

Rather, it was a necessary means for the emperor.

otherwise

How does the hidden yamen outside the secret spy department that Lu Bing is in charge of work?

No matter how eloquent the emperor is, it is impossible to completely keep himself in a state of "leaving the house".

Short Man reports:

"Your Highness, there are some ships on the dock this time, which are extremely well concealed, but they should be the armor transported from Sanshi County."

The Three Stone Deng family is defeated,

But emaciated camels are bigger than horses.

Now

The fourth finally had a real power errand,

The Deng family will definitely spare no effort to support it.

Sanshi County is the basic plate of the Deng family, and there, the Deng family still has some residual influence.

Transporting armor and equipment, this is a reasonable thing, after all, Dayan's current situation, where did the real soldiers, horses, food, grass and ordnance come from enough for him to train the new army?

There is nothing on his side, and the prince has ordered some money, but at most it will maintain a showmanship.

If the fourth child wants to make some "real money", and if he wants to train a team of soldiers and horses, he must smash his blood and smash the last of the essence talents and heritage of the Sanshi Deng family into this Beijing camp, which is also the proper meaning of the question.

But the question is,

Ji Lao Liu is a person who is good at playing conspiracy,

So the way he looks at things,

They also tend to go in the direction of conspiracy theories.

"Your Highness, a batch of goods has recently left the inner library."

"Where?"

"I don't know."

Ji Lao Liu nodded and said:

"Go down."

"Yes, Your Highness."

"Yes, Your Highness."

One tall and one short.

Ji Lao Liu sat on the chair and rubbed his eyebrows.

Gonggong Zhang walked in with tea and put it in front of Ji Lao Liu.

"Master, the letter and the previous manuscript have been ordered by the slave to be sent to the east."

Ji Chengjue nodded, picked up the teacup, and took a sip of tea.

"Master, it looks like something is going to happen?"

The twilight of the emperor is an eventful time.

Especially now that the foreign war is about to end,

There is no external threat to unify the inside,

interior

It is inevitable that the "dragon fight" will begin.

"It should ......... Right. ”

Ji Chengjue bowed slightly.

"Master, the more it drags on, the more it will be unfavorable to us."

at all costs

The crown prince is the lord of the East Palace, the prince of the country, and the capital of the country.

If all is calm down,

Wait until the bell rings,

The crown prince succeeded to the throne,

Destiny returns,

If you want to do anything, it's hard.

"No hurry, no hurry."

Ji Lao Liu stretched out his hand and waved it gently,

Road:

"Zhang Banban, do you think we are short on time, I guess that Li Yinglian and Li Banban may be saying the same thing to my second brother.

I step on one foot, my father pulls again, I step on one more step, my father pulls again;

There is no father to pull the shelf,

He was dragged down by me,

The roots are not solid,

The heart is empty.

We are here for fear that if our father dies, he will be justified;

opposite side

may also be worried about the death of his father,

How will we do it?

The more you get here,

The more you have to calm down.

My father is a wise emperor and a good emperor, and I believe that my father will not make the kind of mistakes that most emperors will make in their later years.

before

I don't really see it,

Right now

As the Chu side saw that the war was about to end,

Below,

You'll be back on track. ”

"Master, the slave is stupid, what is the right track?"

"On track?"

Ji Lao Liu took another sip of tea,

Road:

"First of all, I will order that none of our people should show up if they do not show up, and those who show up are not allowed to act rashly in the slightest.

Now, it's just a matter of waiting, waiting for the East Palace to be unable to hold its breath first.

I'm not afraid of the East Palace,

But up and down the East Palace,

Definitely scared of me.

again

I'll tell you what's on the right track.

If the war goes on outside,

The barbarians of the desert to the west are eyeing each other; The war of Chu is like a quagmire; The three sides of the Qianguo are lucky, trying in vain to win the chestnut from the fire;

In that case,

The scramble for that dragon chair,

But that's where it gets interesting.

The fourth child actually still has a chance, in that environment.

My second child and I must both have a fight,

Over the years, we have infiltrated a lot of the hidden back hands and cultivated subordinates of the second child, but here we are estimated to have a lot of nails buried by the second child;

The fifth child was still repairing the river in Yingdu and did not come back, but he was there, and it was an invisible trick, far away from the Yanjing whirlpool, waiting for the price to sell.

is this Xiao Qi, he is not without opportunities.

in a word

Under the imminent external threat,

Internal worries will inevitably be solved by cutting through the chaos quickly,

ineffable

In the end, I had to take a step back with holding my nose,

Let Xiao Qi come up as a conciliator.

Don't think it's incredible,

There's nothing impossible about it,

After all, they are all surnamed Ji.

Right now

Everything is on track,

Even if the father wants to leave, he has to take care of the family's account books.

In the end,

It is still up to the father to arbitrate.

The folk divide the family, and you have to invite the old ......... who is highly respected."

"Master, what do you mean?"

Ji Lao Liu nodded,

Road:

"So, don't do it yet, no matter how many clever schemes, no matter how many spies, no matter how many precautions, no matter how many messy things ........."

"Huh."

Ji Lao Liu smiled,

Road:

"Just as the owners of the gate valve family thought back then, Dayan, without them, it wouldn't work; They think that they have clever means, and they can talk and do things in the court and in the locality.

In fact

Among them,

There is really no shortage of talents.

but

Useless. ”

Ji Lao Liu sighed,

Place the lid on the table and turn it slightly,

Said slowly:

"If the two kings of the north and south enter Beijing again, sit with their father, and set a successor, Zhang Banban, you say, over the years, no matter how much we arrange, can we be considered a fart?"

Raise your head,

Ji Lao Liu said with some sadness:

"What is the emperor's mental technique, what is the emperor's means, it is not the shortcomings of the parents, nor is it the harmony of the family, let alone pulling one faction to fight the other, pressing this side and pulling out the other;

The art of the emperor lies in balance,

Bullshit,

Whoever says such things,

It's really naïve for the farmer to think that his father can eat dozens of oil cakes a day.

The essence of the art of the emperor lies in the fact that

As an emperor,

he

I can lift a table. ”

"What precautions do you want, what arrangements do you want, what arrangements do you want, that is, my second child and I are fighting with each other.........

The banner of the kings of the north and the south,

Plug in at the gate of the back garden,

My second child and I had to kneel at the gate of the back garden,

Listen to the oracle. ”

Ji Lao Liu suddenly rolled his eyes,

Learn from what his brother surnamed Zheng once said:

"Hey, it's nothing."