"I'm not interested in money!"

Li Kui often said this, after all, now he doesn't even know how much money he has, if he is really interested, looking at the account book can make him tired to death. Even with the wealth in his hands, he can do it completely without even knowing how many wives he has. It's a pity that Li Kui is a man with discipline, and if there are more women, he will be unable to do anything, so he is determined to restrain himself.

But no one believes this!

No, people with pink eye have their eyes on Li Kui, saying behind his back that he is full of private pockets and greedy for the minerals of the Great Song Dynasty.

Li Kuizhen did not plan to enter the oil industry, mainly mining and mining, which was really troublesome for the Great Song Dynasty of the period. If it's a coal mine, it's better, but where is the easy task of oil extraction? If the shallow oil is exhausted, it will inevitably be excavated in the future. He didn't have the skills to do a business like drilling that required a large industrial base.

But in Yan'an Mansion, there are really few people who can do this business. This requires not only an official background, but also sufficient influence in the Central Plains. Li Kui is naturally the first to bear the brunt, he has his own business house, and he also has a family and marriage that can be trusted.

He had to reluctantly become the first black-hearted boss in Yan'an Province to control three oil wells and own the first local oil refinery.

Adhering to the idea of not eating alone, he pulled in his second brother-in-law Cheng Zhijie, who is now the commander of the capital, and was dizzy by the sudden feat. He became the first commander of the Great Song Dynasty since Emperor Shenzong to open up territory for the Great Song Dynasty, and he conquered two states without paying attention, and he became a big winner in life, lying down to win all the Great Song Dynasty generals. He was promoted to the deputy commander of the palace in front of the palace, and it was rumored that the emperor intended to move him to the general of the guard.

It's just that the generals of the Great Song Dynasty are a bit low-end, but they are not the generals of the pre-Qin period, under one person, above ten thousand.

The generals of the Great Song Dynasty are the third ranks, one level worse than the commanders in front of the palace. But it is also one of the few high-ranking officials with real power that military generals can do.

A year and a half later, Cheng Zhijie's return to the capital to report on his work will be a sure thing.

Of course, let Cheng Zhijie manage the oil business, and most of this business will be yellow. Cheng Zhijie is a thug in this business. When encountering something difficult, you have to use shamelessness to solve it, just let him go out. Anyway, he is a martial artist, and the more stupid he is, the more he can gain the emperor's trust in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty.

The other partner is Hao Sui.

Unlike civil officials, eunuchs like Hao Sui, although they serve in the locality, he is the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven, and he often needs to return to the capital to report to the emperor what happened in the locality.

This also gave him the opportunity to return to the capital to preside over the sale of kerosene.

At the time of parting, Hao Sui was still entangled.

"Renjie, you and I spent a lot of money on so much oil and gave it away for nothing, isn't it a pity? Otherwise, let's reduce the price and collect some money, which is better than giving it away for nothing. "Unlike oil lamps and oil bottles, they had to fill oil lamps and oil bottles with fire oil to make people aware of their benefits.

Li Kui rode on his sweaty horse that he got from the little prince of Liao, and his momentum rose suddenly, anyway, he gave people the appearance of a wide family, and said indifferently: "This is small money, the biggest business, you can't be stingy with small money." Hao Sui, if you are reluctant, count it as mine. We're not the kind of people who can't afford to lose. ”

"What nonsense? Brother, am I the one who doesn't even recognize my brother for money? Forget it, if you lose it, you will lose it, as long as this fire oil business can be done, our family will follow your brother and you will be clean, and it can be regarded as saving a share for your nephew to start a family. "Eunuchs are a very special group, they may be selfish and flattering, mainly because of the attributes of the eunuch class. If he didn't even speak well and be obedient and frame people, he wouldn't be able to get along in the palace at all, and he would have been killed by his peer Huo Huo a long time ago.

And once the official eunuch has an identity and status, he will be very righteous and angry, and he is afraid that he will be looked down upon because of his own defects. Of course, they will definitely not be angry with the same righteousness, their peers are enemies, and the death of one is counted as one. They were righteous to the powerful outside the palace. Of course, to be able to catch up with civil officials, they are still the kind of civil officials who have high hopes, and they are even willing to give away their wives. In this regard, eunuchs are the most righteous people.

A rising star in the political arena like Li Kui, Hao Sui can't wait to become a family with him.

Hao Sui looked appointed, stood on the car with his hands and hugged his fist at Li Kui and said, "Take care, brother." ”

"Have a safe journey!"

When Li Kui said goodbye, he instructed Peng Hu: "Protect Father-in-law Hao along the way, forget it, there don't seem to be any thieves around." ”

Although Li Kui has not been an official in Yan'an Mansion for a short time, in order to train peasant soldiers, he can sweep all the surrounding cottages, and even the Yongxing Military Road has not been spared.

In today's northwest place, I dare not say that the road is not left behind, and the door is not closed at night, but safety is also guaranteed. At least the chances of walking at night and encountering a road robbery are slim to none.

Unlike before, there were many deserters in Yan'an Mansion, and returning to the barracks was a dead end. These people lost their military salaries and livelihoods, and had to hide in the mountains and forests, doing unprofitable business.

All the way was peaceful.

After crossing the Yellow River and arriving at Hedong Road, it is a flat official road.

Hao Sui rushed all the way to the long-lost capital.

After crossing the Yellow River, it is already under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture. Seeing the north gate of Fengqiu in the capital from a distance, Hao casually chattered for a while. Behind him stood Peng Hu, drooping his head and pricking up his ears, and he heard intermittent words, as well as words such as gambling spells.

What "I'm back with Hao!" ”

"I'm not leaving this time!"

Wife and children and the like...... Nonsense.

Peng Hu is a fighting man, and he is still a righteous military man. He couldn't understand why eunuchs had such a deep obsession with their family, could they do that? Will the wife take Hao's father-in-law behind his back to raise a man, and go to Hao's father-in-law's mansion, if he bumps into his family's good deeds, what should he do when the time comes, he has no experience in dealing with this at all, so panicked!

In particular, he is not Hao Sui's cronies.

It was a gift from Li Kui to Hao Sui.

In the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty, especially for the low-level military attachés, they were gifts that the high-ranking lords and civil officials could send at will. Peng Hu, who fought a war, couldn't fight, and couldn't train his troops, was very resentful at the moment when he was abandoned by Li Kui. But if he didn't accept it, looking at the people around Li Kui, they all suddenly made him unable to think of winning. Twenty-eight rode into Western Xia, killing the Queen Mother, the emperor, and the national teacher of Western Xia, and he couldn't do it a hundred times!

Such an ordinary character as him can only become an object of abandonment.

Peng Hu comforted himself: "Follow your father-in-law, at least it's safer!" ”

This is true, Hao Sui is a very life-saving guy. It's not like Li Kui, he is obviously a civilian official, maybe his subordinates will die on the battlefield that day. What's the use of getting promoted and getting rich, isn't it a cheap wild man outside?

Hao Sui brewed emotions for a while, reminisced about the sad nostalgia, and ordered the team: "Go to Fengqiumen." ”

Peng Hu hesitated: "Father-in-law, that ...... Isn't the Chenqiao Gate closer, why ......"

It doesn't matter if he talks so much, but he provoked Hao Sui, rushed to Peng Hu and scolded: "You kill embryos, Chen Qiaomen is also a place where people like you and me can go?" You don't look at your own virtue, if you want to find death, don't pull our family. Forget it, what kind of temper do I have with you, Chenqiao is the land of Taizu Longxing, and the peddlers and pawns can go, but the servants in the palace like us don't dare to go. ”

Peng Hu was so frightened that he took two steps back, and his tears were about to fall.

What do you call a minion like us?

When he was disgusted by Li Kui and given away, he never said that he would follow Hao Sui's attack to be a eunuch!

No, he wants to go back, he wants to make meritorious contributions, so that Li Kui can see that he also has the courage to fight for dignity. He also thinks too much, with a brain like him, when he enters the palace, he can give himself to Huo Huo to death with a mouth that doesn't know the severity. As a eunuch, Peng Hu is far behind.

There are 12 gates outside the city of Kaifeng Mansion in the Great Song Dynasty, and there are 18 city gates in Bianliang City in Kaifeng of the Great Song Dynasty, including 12 dry gates and 6 water gates. But among these eighteen gates, there is only one city gate that is a forbidden place for the eunuchs in the palace, and this is the Chen Bridge Gate. In fact, functionally speaking, Chenqiao Gate is just a partial gate in the north of the city, not a gate in the north at all, but this gate is a legendary gate belonging to the Zhao family, and the eunuchs have the habit of avoiding it in private. In superstitious terms, the eunuchs belong to the yin, and walking through the Chenqiao Gate will collide with the dragon energy of the Great Song Dynasty.

After entering the city, Hao Sui felt a familiar atmosphere, he was from Kaifeng Mansion. Most of the eunuchs in the palace were from Kaifeng Mansion, and there were few young people in other places who aspired to be eunuchs. Moreover, the people of Kaifeng Prefecture, especially the poor at the bottom, had the experience of begging for a living in the city when they were young, and they developed a pleasing little mouth. Only such a person, after entering the palace, can survive in the palace in crisis.

The same is true of Hao Sui, when he was young, he walked through every corner of Bianliang. He is familiar with every alley, every market, and every yamen in Kaifeng Mansion.

After living in the northwest for a year, he became even more obsessed with the breath of Kaifeng. The kind of endless flow of people, confident and rhythmic official dialect, and convenient life. The key is that Hao Sui knows that his roots are in Kaifeng Mansion, and his home is in Kaifeng Mansion.

Return to the mansion.

Hao Sui pursed his lips, nervously used the vigilance of patrolling the territory, and after walking around the backyard, he finally let go of the worries in his heart with satisfaction, there were no wild men.

Hao Sui then remembered that he still had the unfinished business of reconciling his good brother Li Kui.

It's a pity that Li Kui doesn't eat hard and soft, if Li Kui can help improve the descendants of the Hao family...... These are brothers for life, but they can't become a family.

In the afternoon of the same day.

Hao Sui entered the palace to meet the emperor, as the emperor's spy, he himself was able to collect all the news in the northwest, and it was delivered to the emperor in one go.

There are officials from Yongxing Military Road, as well as Qinfeng Road, Huanqing Road, and of course, Yanyan Road.

The emperor seemed to be in a good mood, even if he saw that Cai Jing and Liu Yannian were at odds, and deliberately seized Qin Fenglu's war horse to make profits for himself, he was not angry. Of course, the emperor may have a reason why he didn't get angry when he saw Cai Jing hoarding war horses and finally lost all his money. However, he still inquired about the situation of Qinfeng Road, as well as some of the situation in Qingtang Tubo. Qin Fenglu's military equipment and other issues.

Hao Sui was a person who had lived in the palace for most of his life, and he was sensitive to the fact that the emperor seemed to have an idea about Qin Fenglu. To be more precise, I had an idea about Qingtang Tubo. Today's Western Xia, I dare not say that it will be twenty years, and it will definitely not become a threat to the Great Song Dynasty in ten years. Leaving a Qingtang Tubo is indeed uncomfortable for the young emperor.

Only ah solved the problem of Qingtang Tubo. The strategic pasture of the Great Song Dynasty was there, and the problem of the scarcest war horse in the army was solved. More importantly, as long as the land of Hehuang was taken, coupled with the step-by-step attack on Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty was likely to completely solve the border problem in the northwest within ten years. Once Da Song solves the border problem, for Da Song, the big stone that has been pressed on his chest for fifty years will be put down.

Even the treasury can afford to spend 30 million yuan in a year, and there is no year. With this money, there seems to be hope for the planning of the sixteen states of Yanyun.

As long as Zhao Xu achieved two feats, he would be the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty second only to Taizu. Even more powerful than Taizong. With such a big temptation in front of him, how could Zhao Xu let it go?

But the strange thing is that the emperor didn't ask him to recommend military generals, which is not in line with the emperor's consistent style of doing things.

Out of the Xuande Gate, he was still pondering, and it seemed that there was something he hadn't thought about carefully. Out of the imperial city, just about to board the carriage, he unexpectedly met Tong Guan. This kind of coincidence is too familiar to Hao Sui, like a deliberate opportunity to come out, and the traces are too obvious.

"Brother Hao."

"Brother Tong, but when I returned to the palace, my majesty is handling government affairs in the Vertical Arch Palace."

Hao Sui didn't know Tong Guan's intentions, and he didn't have the intention of entanglement with the other party.

But after Tong Guan hesitated, he stretched out his hand and respectfully made an invitation action: "Brother Hao has worked hard, Tong envy his brother's demeanor in the northwest, I don't know if Brother Hao can give Tong a thin face, so that he has the opportunity to invite Brother Hao." ”

"I'm idle, and then I can."

"You might as well go now. Brother Hao, please! ”

Hao Sui was stunned, and then happily agreed: "Brother Tong, please!" ”

When Hao came out of the Vertical Arch Palace, he noticed the difference. The emperor did not arrange an errand for him, which was not common for the thoughtful Zhao Xu.

And Tong Guan is a person close to the emperor, and he may be able to answer his doubts.

Cai Lou private room.

Tong Guan enthusiastically picked up the wine cup again and said to Hao Suiba: "Brother Hao, please drink this cup to the full!" ”

Compared with the long beard on his face, regardless of whether it is true or not, looking at Tong Guan who stands out among the eunuchs, Hao Sui does not dare to be arrogant at all. His amount of alcohol is even more difficult to support the frequent toasting of children, and the eunuch is a very cautious person, he can't get drunk, at least he can't say things that shouldn't be said after getting drunk.

Putting down the wine cup, he didn't do it like a martial artist like Tong Guan, but said solemnly: "Brother Tong, if you have anything to say, right?" ”

"This ......" Tong Guan hesitated for a moment and said, "The junior brother has already asked His Majesty to go out of Beijing to the northwest to deal with military affairs......"

Before he could finish speaking, Hao Sui stared at Tong Guan like a fool and exclaimed, "You're crazy!" ”