The apricot orchard originally belonged to the one who owned, but now it belongs to Li Zhi.

After Li Zhi leaves, the apricot orchard here will become the government's, and the government will send a large number of ripe apricots to Luoyang every year, although the apricots are soft, not easy to transport, and easy to rot, but it doesn't matter, even if it is rotten into a basket of paste, it must be sent to Luoyang, because this is the royal rule.

It is a way to swear sovereignty.

Of course, the people in the government are not stupid enough to really send fresh apricots to Luoyang, which is easy to be beheaded by Li Zhi, and there is a high probability that they will be made into dried apricots, dried apricots, candied fruits and other things to be sent over.

When Li Zhi entered the apricot forest, there was not even a single fallen leaf in it, and the ground was splashed with clear water and dust, and the giant bear happily turned a few heels on the ground, and then stood up and grabbed the apricots with his paws to eat.

Li Zhi was next to him, looking at the stupid bear with disdain, and stuffed the turquoise apricot into his mouth.

The giant bear chewed very fragrantly, but Li Zhi's saliva came down first, and then the giant bear spit out the sour apricot saliva in his mouth and couldn't stop flowing anymore.

After kicking the saliva-dripping giant bear, Li Zhi looked at the yellow and clear apricots on the treetops and pointed, and immediately four or five swift eunuchs jumped up the tree.

When these people went up to the treetops, they saw that there was already a man in the treetops not far away.

The eunuch at the head was taken aback, and without saying a word, he flew towards the man from the tree.

Li Chengxiu's body is very flexible, although the wound in the crotch is still a little in the way, but the one-handed tree climbing skills he learned in southern Yunnan still give him a good opportunity to move around in this garden.

Li Zhi stood under the tree with his hands behind his back and watched the few people chasing on the top of the tree, Li Si walked over, looked up with Li Zhi, looked at it for a while, and said to Li Zhi: "Father, how is my little brother?" ”

Li Zhi looked at Li Chengxiu, who was oppressed by the eunuchs and had nowhere to run, and said, "This is Li Ji's youngest son?" ”

Li Si looked at Li Zhi's face and said, "Yes, yes, stupid." ”

Li Zhi shook his head and said: "It can't be stupid to be hidden like a treasure by Yinggong, what's the matter, did he worship your master?" ”

Li Si hurriedly said: "No, pull it over and let my father take a look at it." ”

Li Zhi didn't say anything, but his displeasure was already overflowing.

Therefore, when Yun Jin came over to greet him, Li Zhi pressed Yun Jin's head and said, "This is a stupid one." ”

Li Sidao: "Yun Jin is not stupid. ”

Li Zhi sneered and said, "If you are not stupid, I will marry you?" The most important thing is that I like you very much. ”

Li Si cried when he heard the "wow".

Seeing Li Si crying, Yun Jin broke free from Li Zhi's control, hugged Li Si, who was half a head taller than him, comforted him for a while, and wiped Li Si's tears and snot with his handkerchief.

Li Zhi looked at it with disgust on the side, and then immediately set his eyes on Wen Huan and Di Guangsi, who were pretending to be wooden people.

"You're a gentle son, aren't you?"

Wen Huan immediately opened his mouth to show a standard eight-tooth smile, nodded again and again, and deliberately leaned his head over so that Li Zhi could play with it.

Li Zhi, who was sent to the door, was not uncommon, raised his hand and pinched Di Guangsi's fat face and said, "This is long and stocky." ”

Di Guangsi smiled honestly: "I'm Aya said that having a good body can better serve Datang." ”

Li Zhi pursed his lips and said, "This is not what you Aya taught that honest man, but it seems like Yun Chu said something unhearted." ”

Di Guangsi said aggrievedly when he heard this: "One of the things that I Aya often says is that the eldest husband should put state affairs first. ”

Li Zhi smiled when he heard this, patted Di Guangsi's fat face and said, "Okay, good, just when you tell the truth." ”

Even as they spoke, Li Chengxiu, who had no escape, was still caught by a group of military eunuchs and sent tightly to Li Zhi.

Li Zhi first looked the young man in front of him up and down, and then said indifferently, "What does Yinggong want you to say to me?" ”

Li Chengxiu knelt on the ground on one knee, the back of his neck was pressed and couldn't be lifted, he struggled twice, then knelt on both knees, and said loudly: "Please Your Majesty give the servants of southern Yunnan a way to live!" ”

This sentence was obviously beyond Li Zhi's expectations, and he coughed lightly: "What did you say?" ”

Li Chengxiu said loudly again: "Your Majesty, the Zhechong Mansion in Southern Yunnan does not treat the servants as human beings, and they are consumed and sent to death at will, please Your Majesty for the sake of them being also Tang Dynasty people, give them a way to live." ”

Li Zhi said indifferently: "Your father's reputation in the army should be enough for you to do this, why do you want to go far?" ”

Li Chengxiu said: "The power of my father can only act for a while, not for a lifetime. ”

The frost on Li Zhi's face receded slightly, and he waved his hand and said, "Even so, you should appeal to your superiors, instead of directly suing the imperial court, Li Chengxiu, do you know what you are doing?"

You are impeaching your superiors for disregarding human life, and if you sue for it, whether it is true or not, you will be punished first. ”

Li Chengxiu tried hard to raise his sweaty face and said with difficulty: "Weichen is willing." ”

Li Zhi looked at Li Si, who was comforted by Yun Jin and was eating apricots, and said, "What is the opinion between your master and Ying Gong, since he has found me here, it means that those two people don't agree, right?" ”

Li Si took a bite of the apricot and said: "Ying Gong said that the prisoner of crime and the son-in-law are servants, this is the law of the country, the reason why the prisoner is used is to reduce the consumption of national funds by the prisoner, and the use of the son-in-law is because the son-in-law has corrupted the etiquette of humanity and is severely punished, and it can be a warning for the latecomers."

Master said that the law of the country should not be abolished, and that there was a reason why such a law was enacted at the time of the founding of the country, and it must have been a choice made after thinking about the pros and cons of it. ”

After listening to what Li Si said, Li Zhi said to Li Chengxiu: "Did you hear clearly, whether it is what Yinggong said or what Yun Chu said, it is exactly what I want to say to you."

You served in southern Yunnan, although you have also made a lot of meritorious deeds, but you should be a servant, often contradict the superiors, and even after the superiors have made a decision, they still try to refute it.

People like you are not suitable to be a soldier of the Tang Dynasty, so take off your armor and study hard. ”

Li Chengxiu said in a trembling voice; "Your Majesty has mercy on the servants......"

Li Zhi said angrily: "What I just said is in vain, right? ”

Li Chengxiu kowtowed again and again: "The servants saved me twice, and I hate only one life to repay him." ”

Li Zhi laughed angrily and said to Li Chengxiu: "Since you are so affectionate, then let you go to the servant barracks to be a captain, and let me see how you lead the servants." ”

Li Chengxiu kowtowed again and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty for your grace!" ”

Li Zhi snorted coldly and walked away, and the giant bear that had been drooling closely followed, and looked back at Li Si, Yun Jin, Wen Huan, and Di Guangsi from time to time, and it vaguely smelled the terrible smell of Yun Chu from these four people.

General Wen Wen pulled out one of Yun Chu's horses, proudly kneaded the two chess pieces in his hand and said, "Where is the root of Li Chengxiu's speech for the servants, do you know?" ”

Yun Chu arched one step to the side soldiers, let this soldier cross the river, and said lightly: "I have seen Li Chengxiu's merit book in the military department, he has twenty-seven enemy heads on the register, and there is also a merit of the first rank, but it is a pity that the head is the head of the barbarians, and the soldiers and the people are not clear about what they are, so the military merit is at most one turn, and that time the first climb is just pulling out a satisfactory earthen village, barely counting the last turn of military merit."

Head, the first to calculate the total, this time he can at most be promoted from the brigade commander to the level of don't general, no matter how high it is, it is impossible. ”

Gentleness stopped holding the chess piece and looked at Yun Chu and said, "I'm asking about the root." ”

Yun Chu said lightly: "What I'm talking about is the root." ”

Gently thought for a while and said: "Don't be the commander of the general, responsible for destroying the city and uprooting the village, it can also be said to be a dead soldier, do you mean that Li Chengxiu is unwilling to do this position with the highest mortality rate in the army?"

Don't forget, this is also one of the easiest positions to make military achievements. ”

Yun Chu looked at his gentle eyes and said, "Don't have no soldiers under your command, the regiment commander is only three hundred!" ”

Gently looked at Yun Chu in disbelief and said, "Your ...... under the command of the servant captain"

Yun Chu nodded and said, "One thousand two, which is equivalent to the soldiers under the command of Commander Zhichong." ”

"Are elite government soldiers comparable to servant soldiers?"

"Is the youngest son of Ying Gong comparable to a lieutenant of Zhichong?"

"So, Li Chengxiu is now Han Xin's general, the more the merrier, right?"

Yun Chu spread his hands and said: "That's the case, the equipment of the servants is not as good as the government soldiers, but it is only the difference in armor, since the firearms appeared in the barracks, the armor is not so important, especially in the case of fire oil bombs, the servants without armor may still have the possibility of survival, if the government soldiers in armor are contaminated with fire oil bombs, they will only be burned alive." ”

Gently gasped and said, "You mean Li Chengxiu saw it?" ”

Yun Chu nodded and said: "There is no other explanation, you have to say that Li Chengxiu is for the sake of the servants and soldiers, to be honest, I don't believe it, I don't believe a word." ”

Gently pondered for a moment, put down the chess piece and said: "Speak up for the servants, first gain the favor of the servants, and then gain the love of the servants by arming the servants, and then by angering Your Majesty, obtain the name of the servant captain, and then use this name to run the soldiers?"

This is too, as long as one link goes wrong, his plan will fail. ”

Yun Chu stuffed the chess pieces into his gentle hands and let him continue to play chess, but he said: "If you succeed, you can soar to the sky, become a character in the field of servants, and fail...... If it fails, do you think he has additional losses?

At the very least, his reputation for speaking up for his servants went out, laying a solid foundation for him to slowly try to do it in the future...... Hurry up, go quickly, don't pretend to be busy every time you want to lose......"

The gossip between Yun Chu and Wen Rou, Li Si couldn't eavesdrop on the Tao in the apricot forest, so he was full of sympathy for the freshly baked servant lieutenant Li Chengxiu in front of him.

Yun Jin pulled up Li Chengxiu, who was still kneeling on the ground, and said, "It's okay, we are still young, and we have the opportunity to start all over again." ”

Li Chengxiu stood up, patted the wet soil on his knees and said, "No, I succeeded, I have been planning for more than two years, and now I have finally succeeded." ”

Li Si saw that Li Chengxiu was overjoyed and didn't look like he was talking back, so he asked, "The official position of the servant captain is like a fish belly?" If you really want this servant lieutenant that no one wants to be, you don't have to bother, right? ”

Li Chengxiu said: "This servant captain is different from other servant captains. ”

Yun Jin said: "Could it be that it's because you, the servant captain, were personally assigned by His Majesty?" ”

Li Chengxiu laughed and said: "A Zhichong Mansion, there are too many people who can govern the servant barracks, Du Wei, left and right Guoyi Du Lieutenants, don't generals, Changshi, and Bing Cao can easily order the servant barracks."

Since I am a servant lieutenant appointed by His Majesty and a young son of a British duke, I want to see the servant battalion that is not long-sighted and dares to use Lao Tzu at will. ”