Chapter 113: Li Jinglong goes north

Of course, there are still some things that can't be said, that is, Li Jinglong saw that the nobles who followed He Xi had eaten meat.

Li Jinglong also wanted to take a bite. It's just that in the Ming Dynasty, money is only a secondary factor, and things that can't be said on the table, saying it make you seem to love money too much. Although the door is closed, every household has to settle its own accounts, but it is impossible to say it.

On the pretext of inspecting the northern frontier, Li Jinglong left Nanjing and traveled north by sea.

When I drove to Tianjin, I met Shen Guogong.

At this moment, the flood water in Tianjin has receded.

Tianjin, which was soaked in the flood, also floated up from under the water.

And more soldiers came from all directions, Li Jinglong looked over from the boat, densely packed like ants, until he reached Tianjin City, it was not broken. Li Jinglong's military ability is still there.

He silently estimated that there were about 100,000 people he saw.

And looking at their organization of actions, it should not be ordinary people, but the Ming army.

Li Jinglong secretly said in his heart: "With 100,000 troops at once, Deng Zhen is really a big deal. ”

Li Jinglong was talking about Shen Guogong Deng Zhen, but he never expected that as soon as he arrived in Tianjin City, he would meet Deng Zhen.

Deng Zhen has been in Tianjin for several months. As summer passes, winter is coming, and the Tianjin River section has also entered a dry period. Deng Zhen has already jointly reported with He Xi. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of the Tianjin River channel, dig it deeper and widen, and even build branch canals, so that the flood water can enter the sea in many ways.

After all, Tianjin is the eye of the entire Hebei water conservancy project. If Tianjin's problems cannot be solved, no matter how good the water conservancy projects in other places are, the water will still be poured back up when the time comes.

Therefore, He Xi is determined to make great efforts to improve the Tianjin water conservancy project.

And such a major event can only be handled by Shen Guogong. With so many troops, it is impossible to hold down the field without a single person.

And Shen Guogong's status and status, let him lead the troops to fight, which may be worrying, but let the command build water conservancy projects, and the top and bottom will not feel that Deng Zhen can't do it.

After all, although Deng Zhen did not preside over major battles, he also fought in the army, and with the team left by Deng Yu, he would not be unable to do anything.

Li Jinglong and Deng Zhen naturally knew each other.

After all, the top noble circle is not big, and the second generation of the top noble circle is even smaller. When I was a child, Li Jinglong and Deng Zhen still had some small problems, of course, those were when my parents were there, in the carefree days, but now that I think about it, I even miss it a little.

It's just after a fight in the court.

They all understand one thing, the other party is not their opponent, or even a friend.

The power of today's Ming Dynasty founding heroes is actually one point, who lives long, who has great power. Fu Youde is powerful now, but when the two old men were there, Fu Youde was also respectful when he saw them. But now, it's reversed.

Moreover, the power in their army has also been encroached upon from all sides.

This is also a helpless thing.

After all, seniority always exists at any time. Unless they boil these bigwigs to death. Otherwise, when they come out, they don't know when. Not to mention, these bigwigs have their own offspring.

Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, is kind, he is in Nanjing, strictly educating his children, his sons, none of them are high-ranking officials, at most they stand guard for the emperor in front of the palace, only a false name.

Xu Da knows that his tree is very popular, he will not die, he will not let his children go out to become officials. And he also figured out Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts, and when he died. Zhu Yuanzhang will definitely be kind to his own children and grandchildren.

When the time comes, Jane will be in the emperor's heart, and the children's future will not be too bad. But what is needed is ability, ability, delaying for a few years is nothing, without ability, a few years in advance, it is impossible to go too far in the future.

This is Xu Da's main experience in Nanjing.

Xu Da's health has not been very good, and his main experience now is on educating his son.

Feng Sheng has no sons, but he also takes care of his children and nephews. And Fu Youde, not to mention, Fu Zhong is still guarding in Japan. Japan is not too peaceful, and it is where Fu Zhong brushes the credit.

In the future, when these three giants are gone, will he, Li Jinglong and Deng Zhen, really come out?

Not to mention, there is also the reclusive Tang He, who seems to be everywhere, seems to be peaceful, but is actually about to move.

Deng Zhen and Li Jinglong have the same illness, and the young people who are jealous and fight have become good memories between each other.

The two thought back to the teenager and cut to the chase.

Li Jinglong asked directly: "Lao Deng, you have made a lot of money in Beijing, right?" ”

Deng Zhen waved his hand and said, "It's a lot, it's not much." Having said that, seeing Deng Zhen couldn't help but smile, he knew that Deng Zhen must have earned a lot.

The so-called building near the water gets the first month, Deng Zhen served in Beijing, although he did not work in the same place as He Xi, but between each other, the power checks and balances, what He Xi wanted to do, if Deng Zhen wanted to make trouble, it must not be done.

He Xi understands, and Deng Zhen also understands.

Therefore, the Puzhou Society has become the top spot in Beijing's construction industry, paying taxes of 50,000 taels a year, and according to the 15th tax, it will cost nearly one million taels of profits, not to mention, Deng Zhen's subordinates are not just a Puzhou Society. It's just that Puzhou Society is the most obvious.

Li Jinglong said: "You know the situation in Nanjing. ”

Deng Zhen said: "What are you talking about? ”

Li Jinglong said: "There are civil officials who are reprimanded, impeachment of He and Ma for all kinds of affairs, abuse of power for personal gain, corruption, disregard for human life, and so on. It's still pressing, and it's not in the newspaper, but I'm afraid I can't hold it down after a long time. ”

"What do you think of these?"

Deng Zhen said: "My eyes are red. Don't worry about them, with Your Majesty here, these people can't make waves. ”

This shows that He Xi's vision is clever.

Many of the things that everyone is accustomed to are actually real dragon slaying. He Xi's analysis of many things strictly follows some principles of political economy in later generations, such as the economic base determines the superstructure, and many people in the south oppose it, which indeed touches their interests.

It must be known that if this is the case in the future of the Ming Dynasty, the gentry will be trampled under the feet of the merchants. In the township, with the help of the government's power to suppress mud legs, they no longer exist. There's a lot of room for interest here.

That's enough to cost a lot of lives.

Because of this, they can't bear it.

But Li Jinglong and Deng Zhen don't have such a clever vision, they don't think that the contradiction between the two sides is big, and they don't even know who the two sides are? I just think that He Xi's approach, in their opinion, is actually a bit deviant.

But it doesn't matter if they deviate, just let them make money.

That's enough.

Other things, they didn't think deeply about at all.

In fact, this is what many people think. There are only a few people who can really see the direction of the situation in the Ming Dynasty. At least, Li Jinglong and Deng Zhen are not among them, if their father is there, or they can understand it.

Li Jinglong said: "Yes, Lao Deng, I am also red-eyed." Can you give me some pointers? ”

Deng Zhen said: "It's useless for you to come to me?" Sorry for the wrong pier, go find He Xi, isn't he your teacher? ”

Li Jinglong smiled: "That was many years ago, besides, didn't I offend him before?" So, borrow your face for a surge. ”

Deng Zhen said: "It's easy to say. He Yuma is not a stingy person, but I think, you don't have to look for me, go directly to Princess Anqing, you should be called Princess Anqing, aunt, right? Isn't it natural for younger generations to meet their elders? ”

Li Jinglong listened and said, "Yes, it's still thoughtful as you think." In fact, Li Jinglong did not think of this method. He just took the topic down. Li Jinglong said: "It's just that in today's Beijing City, what is the most profitable, please give me some advice." ”

As he spoke, he got up and poured tea for Deng Zhen.

Deng Zhen was very satisfied when he saw Li Jinglong like this, after all, Li Wenzhong was Zhu Yuanzhang's close person back then, and he was better than Deng Yu in terms of status. And Li Jinglong wanted to overwhelm Deng Zhen in terms of momentum back then. Now seeing Li Jinglong bow his head, he is naturally happy.