After a lazy night's sleep, Li Xiao came to Cui Chengxiu's mansion again as agreed. Li Xiao admitted that there was an element of gambling last night, but he was right. Now all he wants to know is, why? Why would Wei Zhongxian protect him with a small boss.

gave a half-length mirror to Cui Chengxiu, and the famous traitor immediately asked Li Xiao with a smile if he had eaten. After receiving an affirmative answer, he directly introduced Li Xiao into his study.

"You don't know what I'm looking for you for!" Cui Chengxiu sat down on the main seat and asked with a smile.

"Xia Guan doesn't know." Li Xiao sat down and gave his hand.

After the servants of the Cui Mansion served tea, they withdrew. There are only two people left in the room, Li Xiao and Cui Chengxiu!

"Now we are grasshoppers on a rope, you can't jump and you can't fly me." Cui Chengxiu's finger pulled back and forth between himself and Li Xiao. Li Xiao had to admit depressedly that he had now put on the cloak of a eunuch.

Why the fuck is so awkward! Lao Tzu is now a member of the Eunuch Party!

"After what happened last night, whether you like it or not. You're all branded as a governor, and you can't wash it even if you want to. Today, Zhao Nanxing and the Duke had a big quarrel, and everyone knows that the Duke defended you. Do you know why we defend you? ”

"Don't know?" Li Xiao's answer was honest, he really didn't know.

"The Governor is a fair and selfless man who likes to serve the country. Seeing that you are a talent for serving the country, I will do my best to help you. ”

"Uh......!" Li Xiao was very skeptical that what this thing said was not human. Wei Zhongxian is impartial and selfless? Do you still like to be virtuous for the country? Li Xiao really wants to ask back, do you believe it yourself?

"Do you believe that?" Seeing Li Xiao's embarrassed expression, Cui Chengxiu asked again with a smile.

Li Xiao never dreamed that Cui Chengxiu would really ask him that.

"Uh......! Unbelief! Li Xiao told the truth, and he still didn't believe the words of the news broadcast.

"Yes! I don't believe it either, since I don't believe it either. Then let's talk about something real, and you can talk about it well. Choi paused, as if organizing his own language.

"Actually, to protect you, just so that you can fight. Only you can defeat the Tartars of Liaodong, at least you will not let the Tartars launch a large-scale attack on my Ming again.

You also see the current situation in the imperial court, Donglin and we are on the same footing. Knowing that you don't really want to see us in your heart, don't deny it, your eyes betray you.

Sometimes I actually look down on myself, and I need to listen to a eunuch all day long. When the ancestors found out, they would definitely scold me Cui Chengxiu for going to hell. But I can't help it, I'm old and young. Even if you become this official, even if you enter Vanity Fair, who dares to say that you only make friends and cannot offend people? If you are not an official, the whole family will be trampled into the mud by villains. Everyone has to live, live well, no way!

I want to be a dog for Zhao Nanxing, but do you ask him if he is willing? Even if I became his dog, I would stew dried vegetables in the pot, chew Lao Tzu and not even have bones left, and I have to scold a fool when I spit it out. Hasn't your hot face also been attached to other people's cold butts? To put it bluntly, people don't treat us as human beings at all.

How did Your Majesty come to be on this throne, I think you have also heard of it. That's the Donglin Party, which went forward and fought it out. At the beginning of His Majesty's accession to the throne, he lavishly rewarded the Donglin Party. Zhao Nanxing called it Zhongzheng Yingchao!

But why did Your Majesty still support the Duke and let him stir up a force in the court? Don't you think that without the support of the emperor, the Duke can easily pull up the current power?

The governor has the advantage of being a governor, and he is a person who is still from his sentence. His identity limits him to be a slave, and it is absolutely impossible for him to become a master one day. No matter how great his rights are and how high his status is. As long as His Majesty has a note, he can be cleaned up.

On the other hand, those people in Donglin are all arrogant. Looking down on this and looking down on that, it seems that as long as the people in the world are not their Donglin Party, no one can come out to be an official.

Prevent the dominance of one party and prevent powerful ministers like Zhang Juzheng. This is something that the royal family has always been very wary of!

Donglin's power is too great, so big that the emperor must be on guard. That's why the Duke was born, and that's why we people gathered around the Duke.

Say something that shouldn't be said, it's said in this study, and I won't admit it when I go out of this door.

What do you think the officials are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, your Majesty, and the people? There is such a moral master, but it is definitely a character who is difficult to find in a hundred years. That's an absolute outlier in officialdom!

In the officialdom, in fact, there are people like me. Promotion and making a fortune are what everyone pursues. Not for these privileges, who is addicted to being an official. Do you think those people in Donglin are really clean? You go to find out, who doesn't have hundreds or thousands of acres of land in their hometown. There are really hundreds of acres, then the fuck is a good official and a clean official.

Not for promotion? Do you think Donglin will die to protect His Majesty from the throne? Not for promotion? Who do you think would risk losing their heads to come up with a big deal?

It's a lot to say, it's a bit messy! I just want to tell you, no matter Donglin. We are all mixed food. What is the country in the world, what is the peace for all generations. These years are pure fart, real money is in your pocket, and it is true to live a rich life.

Since everyone eats in a pot, at least the pot must be ensured. Daming is our pot, and Tartar is here to smash the pot. We are not afraid of how we fight, no matter how we fight. But the pot can't be smashed, and everyone will have nothing to eat if this pot is smashed.

You're the one who used to stop the Tartar from smashing the pot, for so many years. Only you can defeat Tartar, and the rest of Xiong Tingbi, Yuan Yingtai, and Wang Huazhen are all embroidered pillows. So I suggest that the Governor protect you! ”

Oh, my God! This is really a teaching template for thick black learning, Cui Chengxiu ate something that he didn't digest today, and he was so heart-wrenching with himself. Counting on this sincerity, Li Xiao feels that it is more reliable to look forward to world peace.

"Uh......! Long insight. Li Xiao held back for a long time, and could only hold back such a sentence.

"Do you know why His Majesty chose the Governor and not Wang An, the Wei Dynasty?"

Li Xiao shook his head and said he didn't know.

"Because the governor can make money.

There are a lot of acres of land in the Ming Dynasty, but there are fewer and fewer acres of land that really pay taxes. The imperial court wanted to raise soldiers, so the Tartars tossed in Liaodong. Do you say you can do it without raising soldiers? Wanli began to toss in the year, Bibai in the northwest, Yang Yinglong in the southwest, and the Japanese in North Korea. One is more difficult than the other, and one is more difficult than the other. Silver is a flower like flowing water, and the battle is won. The treasury is also emptied!

By now, the treasury is already beyond its means.

If the imperial court does not produce money and does not grow money, what should I do if the treasury loses? It can only be a tax collection, why do you think Wanli Ye wants to risk the world's disapproval to send internal supervisors to collect mining taxes? To put it bluntly, the court has no money.

This is where the contradiction between Donglin and the imperial court lies, and Li Sancai resists the mining tax. What do you really think he is for? You ask how many coal mines there are in Shaanxi, which belong to his Li Sancai? How many coal mines are there that belong to the sages of Donglin?

Now the Duke and the Donglin Party are in a situation of fire and water, in fact, the root is also in the word money.

The northeast should raise troops, and the northwest should also raise troops. There are still pirates in the south who make trouble, and it will not be possible without raising soldiers. Raising soldiers, raising soldiers, this has to be raised with money. Or is it the same sentence, the court does not make money and does not grow money, where does this money come from? You have to count on taxes.

But the rule of the country for many years is that the gentry do not pay taxes, in fact, to put it bluntly, those people in Donglin do not pay taxes. In order to get the money, the governor hit them with the idea.

What political disagreement, what control of the government. In fact, the root lies in what the governor wants to implement, the official gentry and the gentry pay for food as one.

I am also an official gentry, and my family also has thousands of acres of land. I don't want the officials and gentry to pay the grain in one piece, but the governor and the emperor want to do it. As I just said, the governor protects you to prevent the Tartars from smashing the pot. I protect you so that you can recover Liaodong. At least we must consolidate the Shanhaiguan Pass, and we can't let the Tartars step into the Shanhaiguan for half a step! ”

"Master Cui, you're kidding. I'm a general, and I'm a seven-grade official. You asked me to recover Liaodong, why don't you let the Tartars step into Shanhaiguan. This is the duty of the Jiliao Governor! I want to do this, who listens to me. You won't let the Governor promote me to be the Jiliao Governor, right? ”

Cui Chengxiu looked Li Xiao up and down: "You think too much." ”

"If you can recover Liaodong, you can recover Liaodong, this thing can be done or not. But the bottom line is to make sure that Shanhaiguan is not breached, if you can. Mao Wenlong is the new Jiliao Governor, as for you. The chief soldier of Shanhaiguan is your Li Xiao's.

You can figure it out, you can do it. I, Cui Chengxiu, will protect you with four words, and I will be promoted and make a fortune. You can't do it, let the Tartars get in. I, Cui Chengxiu, still send you four words, raid your family and wipe out the clan. ”

"You're up to the point? Jiliao Inspector is a first-class master, you Cui said that it is not a good idea. As far as I know, the person Donglin likes is Sun Chengzong. ”

"You don't have to worry about it, you just know what you're going to do."

"Can I refuse?"

"No, you can't!"

"What happens if I have to refuse?"

"The Donglin Party and the Dugong will become your enemies, and it is useless for you to send a Liuli Mountain to Your Majesty. Also, you and your younger brother Mao Wenlong and Ao Canghai will all die in the capital. Died a terrible death! ”

"You threaten me!"

"Even if it is, in fact, it only needs to be in this Beijing city. No one can fight against these two forces at the same time, and neither can the one in the Qianqing Palace. ”

"I understand that the taxes collected by the gentry are for the purpose of raising soldiers. As long as you don't raise soldiers, or don't raise so many soldiers, you don't need to spend so much money, and you don't need to pay food as an official and a gentry.

This is in the interests of you, Donglin, and all the gentry. So you are united, thinking that you are going to take advantage of me. Because I can defeat the Tartars with very few soldiers.

Go ahead! After Mao Wenlong takes office, how many troops are you going to dismantle. ”

"Clever! Since he is a smart person, he is easy to speak, 150,000! Cui Chengxiu said coldly.

Li Xiao shook the revolver pinned to his waist!

"As far as I know, there are 210,000 troops in various passes along the Shanhaiguan Pass. You laid off 150,000 people at once, and let Lao Tzu guard the Shanhaiguan? Do you know that from the old dragon's head to Balipu, the Shanhaiguan defense line is full of 300 miles. You give me 70,000 men, and you give me the math, a mile and how many people. I've got to have reserves!

At that time, the Shanhaiguan defense line was like a sieve, and the Tartar cavalry could gallop at will. Are you really like me Li Xiao can fly when he has wings? It's also a fucking raid on the family and extermination, so you can kill me with a knife right now. ”

"One hundred and thirty thousand! The reduction of 130,000 horses is the minimum bottom line. ”

"120,000, at most 120,000 will be abolished. And I have the final say on who will not be laid off, but you will have to implement it. ”

"What about your kid talking to me about business? No matter how good things are yours, you decide the list of dismissals. We'll do things that offend people, not as monkey as you. ”

"Don't tell me, it's a business. Just now this is only part of my conditions, I estimate that you can save at least three million taels of silver a year by cutting it this time. I want 200,000 taels! ”

"You're poor and crazy, be careful, you have a life to take money and not a life to spend."

"Don't you want to save this money? I tell you, give me 200,000 taels of silver a year. Two years later, I will give you a safe Liaodong. Which end is lighter and which end is heavy? ”

"400,000 taels of silver, two years to wipe out Liaodong?" Cui Chengxiu looked Li Xiao up and down, he was making sure if this posterior was bragging.

"Actually, there aren't many people in Eight Banners, you can calculate how many I've killed in the past two years. There are a few thousand people, too! As long as I am given enough silver and support, it is not difficult to recover Liaodong in two years. ”

"There is no joke in the army!"

"You can also be when I didn't say it."

"I can't make the decision on this matter, and I need to discuss it again." Cui Chengxiu hesitated, but still didn't tell Li Xiao the truth.

"Okay, I can wait for a reply. I guess now I just want to go, and I can't leave, right? ”

"Smart people don't live long, you kid better learn to be stupid." Cui Chengxiu raised his head and stared directly at Li Xiao.

"There's no way, the brain given by my parents is like that. Anyway, when can you and Zhao Nanxing discuss it, I still have things to do here. ”

"Zhao Shangshu ......! You kid take my words, okay! I, Cui Chengxiu, have been fighting geese all my life, and today I was pecked by you, a little house finch. There is no need to hide this from you, the number of 130,000 people was set by Zhao Nanxing.

You know, in the matter of the official gentry receiving food together, whether it is Donglin or me, Cui Chengxiu, have the same interests. It's not about partisanship, it's not about politics. We're just defending our own interests! ”

"Yes! Everyone came together for a common purpose, promoted and made a fortune! Today, Master Cui taught the kid a lot of things, and he couldn't use it endlessly! ”

"Huh! Don't dare to be, the little brother will fly in the future, don't forget to bring the old man. ”