There were only the emperor and the marquis left in the house for a while, and the emperor immediately asked, "Cousin, you say, is there any good way to let these wealthy families bleed!" ”

Hou Ye smiled and responded, "I didn't have a clue originally, but I heard something on the way here, but it gave me a little inspiration." ”

"What's the matter? Cousin, say it! The emperor asked, and the melons couldn't be eaten.

Hou Ye said, "Has the emperor heard that the prince of the Zhenguo Mansion was jealous in the Qinglou the day before yesterday, and killed a rich businessman for a Qing man?" ”

The emperor nodded, "I heard about it, but the Zhenguo Mansion has launched a long-term follower." ”

Hou Ye smiled, "Your Majesty, the country has national laws, and the family has family rules." Who killed someone, how can the government have the final say? Even if Zheng Guogong has only one son, he must be sent to Jing Zhaoyin and investigate clearly.

"If Zhenguo Gong is really distressed, he will enter the palace to ask you for mercy. You understand Zhen Guogong's love for his son, and Zhen Guogong naturally has to understand your Tianwu family's difficulty, isn't it? ”

The emperor blinked his eyes twice, and immediately understood.

This is to catch the tail of the only son of Zhenguo Gong and rob the Zhenguo Mansion openly.

Zhenguo Gong has been hereditary for four generations, although the people are not prosperous, but relying on the ancestors of the year, coupled with the ancestral family business accumulated for many years, it is also rich.

Not to mention tens of thousands of taels of silver, hundreds of thousands of taels are not a problem.

The emperor already agrees with thousands of people in his heart, but as an emperor, he still has to have the face he wants.

He coughed dryly twice and said, "The prince broke the law and was guilty of the same crime as the common people." The only son of the Zhenguo Mansion committed a crime, and naturally it must be punished. But in this way, will the wealthy family die and cause turmoil in Jiangnan. ”

"No," Hou Ye shook his head, "The Guogong Mansion shares the emperor's worries, and it is reasonable for the emperor to grant amnesty." In addition, I heard that the prince of the Guogong Mansion likes the concubine of the second room of the Jiangning Marquis Mansion, even to the point of obsession. If the emperor can give a decree to give marriage, I am afraid that the Guogong Mansion will only be more grateful to the emperor. ”

The concubine of the second room of the Marquis of Jiangning?

The emperor didn't react for a while, and when he wanted to figure it out, he couldn't laugh or cry.

"So my cousin is waiting for me here! The queen wants to marry this cousin to you, but you have pulled up the red thread for others! ”

Hou Ye raised his hand to pour tea, covered the coldness in his eyes, and responded, "I said that if the barbarians are not extinct in a day, and half of the country is not recovered in a day, I will never become a family." Therefore, it is not good to drag other girls until they are old. What's more, I have a daughter! Fu Niu'er is filial, I don't have a biological child, and I also have Fu Niu'er to support my old age. ”

The emperor had no good impression of the Wu family, and he refused to go against his cousin's wishes, just to make the queen and the Wu family happy.

What's more, the daughter of the Wu family gave marriage to the prince of the Guogong Mansion, and in exchange for a large amount of silver for the treasury, it can also solve the problem of pensions.

Thinking like this, he smiled and said, "This is not bad, it not only solves the emptiness of the treasury, but also solves the hatred of the Wu family's daughter, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone." ”

It's a pity that what Hou Ye wants to achieve is far more than that, and he asked again, "Is the emperor satisfied?" You don't need to raise money to repair the river? ”

The emperor was shocked at the time and asked, "Cousin, you don't still want to squeeze money from the Guogong Mansion, do you?" ”

Hou Ye shook his head and said with a smile, "Of course not, even if you cut the meat, you can't keep cutting it from a pig's body!" ”

The emperor looked strange when he heard it, his cousin used to be a person who was not smiling, but now he is really ...... It's so down-to-earth!

Did you live in Broken Gold Beach for a long time?

Hou Ye didn't know what he was thinking, so he took out a soldier book from his arms and said, "This expedition has a lot of casualties, so we must replenish the soldiers."

"Tianwu is the Tianwu of the people, and it is also the Tianwu of wealthy families and civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty. There is no reason, only let the people send their children and grandchildren to kill the barbarians, but the powerful and wealthy stand behind and watch the excitement.

"Therefore, I propose that this time the soldiers be selected from among the young children of each family, and each family must have two children, and there must be a son-in-law. In this way, if each family is concerned, they will be more attentive to the recovery of mountains and rivers, and they will have a better understanding of the difficulties of the battle. ”

The tea bowl in the emperor's hand was crooked, and he almost spilled the tea.

This......

Yesterday in the court, civil and military officials and wealthy families watched the pension on the wall.

He, the emperor, was cold and angry when he looked at it, not to mention his cousin, he must be furious.

But he didn't expect that his cousin actually wanted to roast all the courtiers and magnates of Tianwu.

Draw from the bottom of the kettle!

The snake hits seven inches!

This is to choke the necks of all the wealthy families and tie them all to the chariot of the Northern Expedition!

They can not care about the lives of ordinary soldiers, but they can't ignore the life and death of their own bloodline!

"This ...... I'm afraid this is going to offend the public, will my cousin really want to be a lonely minister in the future? The emperor opened his mouth to object, "Cousin can't be like this!" Let's think of another way! ”

Hou Ye smiled indifferently, "The emperor can rest assured, it is not necessary for those children of the family to enlist in the army, if they learn to be like the prince of the town and understand the emperor's worries about the emptiness of the treasury, then it is better to send only one to enlist."

"As for them to be angry, then be angry! When I vowed to reclaim the mountains and rivers and exterminate the barbarians, I had already put everything out of the equation. It makes no difference whether the courtiers or the powerful hate me or respect me. As long as the emperor believes in me, I will have nothing to fear! ”

"Cousin, I don't believe anyone, I will believe you......" The emperor's heart was hot, and he wanted to say too much, but it was all blocked in his throat.

As an emperor, there can be no human warmth.

Because even his wife and children can't guarantee that one day they will poison him for the chair under his buttocks.

But how lucky he was to have such a cousin, with whom he grew up dependent on him.

When his strength was weak and not enough to fight everyone, his cousin brought a secret guard and walked on the edge of life and death at all times, collecting intelligence for him and dealing with some things that could not see the light for him.

Now that he has become pro-government and has the capital to fight against some people, his cousin has begun to lead troops to fight again, recovering half of the fallen country for him.

Now it is to solve the problem of the empty treasury for him, and to carry all the powerful people of the family with his own strength!

When Hou Ye saw that the emperor had red eyes, he sighed and laughed in a low voice, "Why are you still like when you were a child?" I don't have pine nuts to coax you. ”

The emperor also smiled, and there was a little more nostalgia in his smile.

When he was a child, his mother died early, and at that time, both the favored concubine and the queen had a prince, and the emperor naturally couldn't take care of him, a little pitiful, and he couldn't wait for the palace maids and eunuchs to bully him at will.

At that time, my cousin's parents and relatives all died of the epidemic, and only one cousin was left.

He deliberately knelt on the path that his father had to pass, and asked his father for permission to send his cousin to the palace as his companion.

My cousin can leave the palace once every half a month, and he will secretly bring him pine nut candy.

When he was bullied and didn't have the ability to fight back, when he was angry and sad, his cousin would secretly take him to a corner to talk.

He eats candy, and his cousin practices martial arts.

Even after all this time, it seems as if everything is still in front of you......

In the past few years, he has become pro-government, and some people have begun to stand in line and use it for him.

He wasn't the only one with his cousin, and he didn't even see his cousin once in a few months.

Occasionally, he would wonder if his cousin was also hiding his selfishness, and if he was like those courtiers, he had something to ask for and hide from him......

But at this moment, he was suddenly extremely ashamed!

My cousin is still the same cousin, but he is already a "qualified" emperor!

The emperor took a deep breath and said, "Cousin, you don't have to be like this. I am the emperor of Tianwu, and I should do such a thing! As you said, Tianwu is my Tianwu, the Tianwu of the people, and the Tianwu of the ministers and powerful families, it makes no sense for them to be on the wall! ”