"I won't read it, you can say it directly, what does he, the governor of Jiliao, want our Li family to do for them?"

Li Chengliang said at this time.

Li Rubai also reported to Li Chengliang: "They want the general soldiers of Jizhen to investigate the northern soldiers who are greatly shou, and the southern battalion officials who are assisted in Jizhou in the martial arts field will be slaughtered, in the name of rebellion!" ”

"According to him, he has already mastered the empirical evidence, as long as he destroys the southern camp of the association, the rest of the old officials of the Qi family scattered everywhere are just officials and generals who are scattered everywhere, and they can be arrested by sending a brocade guard."

"When the time comes, he will submit the evidence of the crime to His Majesty together with Cha Dashou, and His Majesty will believe it, and he will dismiss the current first assistant."

"And in this way, my father can replace Ji Guogong as the first assistant, even if he can't become the first assistant, he can also get half of the future tax drift silver."

"What if I don't say yes?"

Li Chengliang asked.

Li Rubai said: "What he means is that even if you don't agree, he will report it, and at that time, His Majesty will no longer let a military minister like his father and the Duke of Ji Guo be the first assistant, but he can only continue to trust Wenchen because of this." ”

"And at that time, their Wenchen will still follow the court to suppress the Li family, and the Li family will not get anything."

After hearing this, Li Chengliang looked at Li Rubai and asked, "What do you think?" ”

"My son feels that what he said makes sense."

Li Rubai replied.

Li Chengliang smiled, and then sank his face again: "There is a bullshit truth!" ”

"The son wants to listen to his father!"

Li Rubai hurriedly asked for advice.

"Never want to keep the money you get by sacrificing power!"

"We have to be very different from the southern soldiers, but we don't really want to be mortal enemies of each other! To be harmonious and different, it is not good for each other to tear their faces, after all, they are all martial artists. ”

"If it were you who were later born as Northern Soldiers, maybe you were really fooled by him and wanted to hurt each other, but Lao Tzu is not so easy to fool."

"He connived, and may even deliberately instigate some southern military officers to walk private luxury things, or take advantage of the collection of luxury tax to make a lot of money, and then want to pull us into the water, and together take this opportunity to eliminate the southern military officers, so that the old relatives can't be the first assistant, and let the luxury tax become a tool for us to collect money, obviously trying to take advantage of the contradictions between us and the southern soldiers and the greed for money, so that we can become their lackeys in the future!"

"It's just that why should Lao Tzu be a dog for them?"

"Once Lao Tzu becomes their dog, is it to be a dog for them, and in the future, he will have to continue to raise Kou in order not to be killed by them?"

"Now, it's hard because His Majesty wants to use the old Qi, so he supports my Li family to check and balance the Qi family, if the old Qi is gone, it will be our old Li family that should be slandered and suppressed."

Li Chengliang said more because he intended to mention his son.

Because Li Chengliang broke it and crumpled it and was saying, Li Rubai did understand a little, so he said: "What my father said is that the son is not as much as his father thought, so in this case, don't we agree to him?" ”

"Promise!"

"How can you not say yes?"

Li Chengliang replied.

Li Rubai couldn't help but open his mouth, and his brain couldn't handle Li Chengliang's inconsistent words for a while.

"But I have to write a letter to Cha Dashou and let him do the trick."

Seeing his second son like this, Li Chengliang took a deep breath, and then spoke again:

"Your Majesty is right, my father, I and Ji Guogong are more sleek than their civil ministers among the military ministers!"

"They Wenchen pretend to be smart, and they want to use us to make the north and south soldiers incompatible in the future, and we also let them taste the taste of being tricked by the military ministers, so that they know from now on that not all martial artists are reckless, at least the new martial arts who can be tempered in the era of their literati rule and become the secretary of state in the past is not so easy to play!"

Jizhou.

Since the naturalization of the mine, due to the increase in the income of most Mongolians in the Tumut Department and the increase in consumer demand, the trade routes out of Jizhou have also increased.

The whole Jizhou is more prosperous than before, and even the street markets outside the city stretch for more than ten miles.

The population is constantly flowing, and from time to time there are horse and camel caravans coming and going.

Jizhou City, which is a military town, gradually has a strong atmosphere of a commercial town, and there are splendid pavilions and red-sleeved jade hands inside and outside the city, just like the north of the Yangtze River.

In such a world of flowers, it is easy to forget that this was originally a fortress for the Ming Dynasty to defend against the Mongols going south, and only think that this is a treasure place where you can make money.

Xu Fukui, the governor of Jiliao, had the idea of moving here at this time, and he did not wear armor today, only wore a square scarf, wore a straight jacket, shook a folding fan, and came to Jizhou Chengguan accompanied by a cadre of civil and military generals.

Xu Fukui looked at the silver dollars that were thrown into the tax box under the city pass, and said to the Wenchen generals behind him with joy:

"As soon as this luxury tax was introduced, it really increased a lot! It wasn't long before the tax box was almost full. ”

"What the ministry said is that Yuanfu can be said to govern the country well, and it is also the blessing of the ministry, if it weren't for the ministry's good way to protect the territory, it wouldn't be like this."

Jizhou General Soldier Zha Dashou echoed with a smile at this time.

Xu Fukui nodded after hearing this, and then called Zha Dashou aside and asked Zha Dashou in a low voice: "Have you received a letter from the Prime Minister?" ”

Cha Da was headed: "Received." ”

"The cardinal minister asked his subordinates to obey the moderation of the ministry, saying that His Majesty has known through the factory guard that the old ministry under the command of the current Shoufu has accumulated wealth, and has hinted that he will remove it for him, and now the minister's proposal can be said to be in line with the holy will!"

Cha Dashou replied.

"That's it!"

Xu Fukui couldn't hide his excitement, and then passed Xu Tong, the assistant general of Jizhou, to his side, and whispered:

"Someone from the Privy Council has sent a message to Mr. Cha, and now he is suspicious of the current Yuan Fu and wants to get rid of it."

"So, we're really going to raise troops?"

Xu Tong's face changed after hearing this, and he hurriedly asked.

Xu Fukui nodded: "It can't be said that it is a rebellion, it is that Kou sneaked through Jizhou and disturbed Jinggi, so we had to enter King Qin. ”

"That's what the ministry said."

Xu Tong's expression also became solemn.

Xu Fukui then said: "You write a letter to Sun Guerrilla and Jiang Garrison, and ask them to lead the troops to Jizhou first." ”

"We can write letters, but we still need a constitutional vote from the ministry."

"After all, the officers and soldiers below do not have the constitutional vote of the ministry and the court, so they may not be willing to believe us, if there are factory guards in the army to agitate, they will only be more suspicious.

Xu Tong said at this time.

Xu Fukui glanced at Xu Tong: "Naturally, I will give you a constitutional ticket!" Are you still worried that Ben Governor will do murder at this time? ”

"The subordinates don't dare!"

Xu Tong hurriedly replied.

So, Xu Fukui really gave Xu Tong the constitutional vote for the southern soldiers under Jiliao's jurisdiction.

In less than three days, all the officers and generals involved in smuggling or drifting tax money in the southern battalions were ordered to bring their own soldiers.

Xu Fukui also boarded the Jizhou Pass again on the day when the southern soldiers were transferred into the city one after another, accompanied by the chief soldier of Jizhen Town, Cha Dashou.

This time, Xu Fukui put on armor, and arranged for two family members who were also wearing armor to block him in front of him.

Looking at the southern soldiers who entered the urn city one after another, Xu Fukui asked Zha Dashou: "Are you ready?" ”

Cha Dashou nodded: "Don't worry, after they all enter the city, the subordinates will let people close the urn city." ”

Xu Fukui bowed his head.

Here, Xu Tong also brought his southern soldiers into the urn city.

Because Xu Fukui's order to him was to also bring his own soldiers into the urn city, prepare to listen to Jun's orders, and let him take the lead in agitating other southern soldiers to suppress the southern soldiers who were unwilling to go to Beijing.

Because Xu Tong knew that Xu Fukui and Zha Dashou were also involved in the sharing of spoils, he did not suspect that there was fraud here.

But after all his southern soldiers entered the urn city, when Cha Dashou's soldiers and horses were about to enter the city, the urn city slowly closed.

Xu Tong was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly asked the northern soldiers who were closing the city in front of him:

"What are you going to do?"

Bang!

At the same time, the jack gates in two places inside and outside the urn city had fallen first.

Xu Tong, guerrilla Sun Tingpei, and garrison Jiang Fu were all shocked when they saw this.

Soon, a large number of armor appeared on the castle gates.

Seeing this, Xu Tong couldn't help but say to Sun Tingpei and Jiang Fu: "We were fooled. ”

Then, Xu Tong raised his head and scolded loudly: "You dare to play with us!" Why are you so despicable?! ”

At this time, Xu Fukui, the governor of Jiliao, had already shown a smug smile on his face, and said to Cha Dashou: "Zha Zongzhen, let your people do it, as long as these people are all gone, no one will know about our participation in the distribution of spoils, and when the time comes, we will burn the constitutional votes they got first, and only show the evidence of their smuggling and drifting tax silver, saying that they came to Jizhou without authorization and intended to mutiny, so that the imperial court can believe that they are going to rebel, and it has something to do with us, we just suppressed these thieves in time." ”

Then, Xu Fukui said: "In this case, the strength of the southern soldiers will be greatly damaged, and the entire Jiliao will be the territory of your northern soldiers, so the Son of Heaven can only rely on your northern soldiers, and you can let the wealth of the world and the people of the border pay all for yourself." ”

Xu Fukui laughed again as he spoke, and said, "This can be described as a seamless plan!" ”

"But aren't the ordinary southern soldiers down there too innocent?"

"They don't know that they have lost their taxes and smuggled goods, nor do they know that they are going to rebel, but they only know that the governor sent them to, and I am afraid that many of them are ready to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions."

"This hurts the hearts of their southern soldiers, in the future, once we encounter a big war in which both the northern and southern soldiers participate, how dare we northern soldiers hand over our backs to the brothers of the southern soldiers?"

Cha Dashou suddenly said this at this time.

Xu Fukui couldn't help but be stunned after hearing this, and asked Zha Dashou: "What do you mean?" ”

"It's not interesting."

"Subordinates just have to act impartially and according to orders."

As he spoke, Zha Dashou took out a warrant in his hand and said:

"The order of the Privy Council received by the subordinates is to let the subordinates only cooperate with the brocade guards sent by the imperial court to arrest the key criminals who are corrupt and pervert the law, and not let the subordinates quell the rebellion, and as for whether these southern soldiers are rebelling, it depends on whether they have a constitutional vote or not, and what is the content of the order to dispatch them in the constitutional vote, so as to decide, whether they want to rebel."

Thank you for reminding me that when I wrote yesterday's chapter, I did forget that there is a secret passage leading to the palace in the Chief's Residence, and the loopholes have been patched.

(End of chapter)