Li Le didn't sit down, he had a fire in his belly since he received the invitation, but what could he do?

Faced with the threat of the Jin Party, Li Le had no way to fight back, so he could only obediently come to the Quanjin Hall and meet these two people he didn't want to see at all.

Li Le should actually go to the Quanchu Hall to discuss with his master, but he didn't.

Wang Chonggu sat still, waved his hand, and as soon as the subordinates began to retreat, there were only three people left on the scene.

"Sit." Wang Chonggu motioned for Li Le to sit down and speak, standing like this, looking angry, this is a good voice, good spirit, easy to discuss, he is the prince of the second grade, Li Le is just a new officialdom for a few years, if he doesn't give this face, Wang Chonggu will really turn his face and deny people.

Li Le had no choice but to sit down.

Zhang Siwei leaned sideways, poured a cup of tea for Li Le, and then said with a smile: "Li Le, most of these new officialdoms will be arrogant and think that they can change this rotten world for the better, but it is your lord, Mr. Yuanfu, can he do it?" He can't make it. ”

"How about listening to me?"

"We have fought with Beiyu for so many years, from the 29th year of Jiajing to the 45th year of Jiajing, have we won? No. ”

"The one who beats is called a bloody pestle, and the one who beats is called a people's suffering, Datong Xuanfu originally had 420,000 households, more than 2 million people, but in the 45th year of Jiajing, there are only more than 200,000 households, more than 1 million people."

"How miserable is the death of the dead, the escape of the fleeing? Do you say that the people are miserable? ”

Zhang Siwei took a sip of tea and waited for Li Le's answer, he was not in a hurry, what he said was the truth, when the war broke out, only the people were affected.

This enemy is coming, and he is running out, but to put it nicely, what about the expenses on the road? How much does it cost to settle in the place? How can the people have that surplus wealth? In the beginning of a war, only the gentry can run, and the people are the price of the war.

"I know the harm of the war, Longqing negotiated peace, and I agreed to pay tribute, which did stabilize the border." Li Le thought about it for a while, and also recognized the merits of the Jin Party, which facilitated the Longqing Peace Conference and the Gong Gong Tribute.

Zhang Siwei continued: "How many years have we been fighting with Beiyu? Counting from the first year of Wu, it has been two hundred and eight years! Did you get the results? No. ”

"The Ming Dynasty is strong, they will run, the Ming Dynasty is weak, they will go south to knock on the border, you come and go, I have been fighting for two hundred years, the north is like the weed, the wildfire is inexhaustible, the spring breeze blows and grows, one stubble after another."

"We suffer, they suffer, and all living beings suffer."

"Let's say this, if we continue to fight like this, can we have a result? Shenwu such as Emperor Taizu Gao, brave and martial such as Emperor Chengzuwen, a total of 18 Northern Expeditions, in the end made the country uneasy and the people restless. ”

"Is this Longqing peace negotiation and I agree to pay tribute? From Genghis Khan to the present, the northern captives are finally willing to bow their heads and be vassals, and the khan of the golden family they claim to be finally willing to accept the canonization of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"The people are the foundation of the state, and the state is solid."

Li Le thought seriously for a moment, nodded and said: "Humiliation is humiliation, today to the north of the captive year, the more complicated it is, the more urgent the invasion, so there is no war, and the victory or defeat of the strong or weak has been decided, as for subversion, it is natural to be sure!" ”

"Therefore, the land is Qin, and now the year is given to the captive, and the salary is still holding on to the fire, the salary is not exhausted, and the fire is not extinguished!"

Li Le quoted the book Su Xun's "Theory of the Six Kingdoms", the more frequent the gift, the more eager the invasion of the Beiyu became, so even if there was no conquest, the victory or defeat of the strength and weakness was already doomed when the year appeared, so that subversion became a matter of course.

Zhang Siwei just smiled, if he can win, if he can beat through, if he can beat the other party crying dad and calling his mother, and if he can beat the enemy who looks at the wind and runs away thousands of miles, then he can naturally say this kind of thing, isn't this impossible to win?

In Li Le's kind of giving, Ping Suli always takes the cultivation of righteousness as the first priority, where do you know the difficulties of affairs?

Wang Chonggu said solemnly: "The price of the horse is just silver, it is the money to buy the horse, not the gift of the year." ”

Stealing is not stealing.

Zhang Siwei continued: "Speaking back to the court from the side, Gao Ge Lao, was sent home by a piece of Yi Decree, Gao Gong Ruo is really the kind of disloyal and unfilial person, he really disobeys this Yi Decree, let's count the Jin people in this court, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Soldiers, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the First Auxiliary of the Cabinet, the Governor of the Beijing Division, and the Governor of the General Army of Xuanfu Datong, don't you always want to help the field?" ”

"However, when Gao Ge heard the will, he just beat his chest and paused, and he went back to his hometown to live idle."

Li Le looked at Zhang Siwei and said with a strange expression: "This is a big mistake, the old Gao Ge returned to his hometown to live idle, isn't it because Mr. Yuanfu is in the court, and the prince of the household department is a maverick and ambitious person, Qi Shuai led 100,000 troops to guard Jizhou?" ”

Zhang Siwei immediately asked, "Then how can you be sure that Mr. Yuanfu is not the next Gao Ge Elder?" ”

This is a pit dug by Zhang Siwei, waiting for Li Le to jump into it.

Yesterday, it was Gao Gong who promoted a large number of Jin people, and the Jin people indirectly or directly controlled the inside and outside of the court through fellow villagers, in-laws, seat teachers, recommendations, etc., and even threatened His Majesty;

And what about tomorrow? Will Zhang Juzheng be the next high arch?

You must know that Zhang Juzheng is much more daring than Gao Gong!

Zhang Juzheng actually dared to monopolize the banquet, isolate the inside and outside, and dare to become the emperor in the Wenhua Palace, what is this? Now Zhang Juzheng dares to be admitted to the emperor, and he will pay it back in the future?

It's tolerable, it's unbearable.

Li Le was directly asked a little unsure of how to answer, the Jin Party has become a clan party, so is it possible for the Zhang Party to become a clan party?

Zhang Siwei picked up the tea and said with a smile: "Drink tea, Li Shizhong is a smart person, I can't say that Zhang Yuanfu is ambitious and loyal to the monarch and the country, I am willing to believe it, but his position, many times, he can't help himself, Li Shizhong, think about it carefully, you can understand." ”

Wang Chonggu looked at Zhang Siwei and nodded with satisfaction, his nephew is extremely good at arguing, and he immediately got Li Le in, Li Le is not a courtier, how can he know the difference between this clan party and his friends?

Seeing that Li Le became hesitant, Zhang Siwei clapped his hands, the music gradually started, and the two teams of orchids with jade-like faces walked out with the beat of the music, Yingying's waist was exposed, dotted with a little golden jewelry, and kept shaking, and the bells on the bare feet kept ringing with the dance steps, and bursts of fragrance came to the nose.

The music grew louder and faster, and the orchids danced more and more boldly.

Li Le was a little sluggish, he had been studying, and after he became famous, he had never been in contact with this kind of fireworks world, so he was a little stunned, and Zhang Siwei's slightly bewitching voice sounded in Li Le's ears: "You were a talent in the exam before, and you don't kneel when you see the county official; After the middle lift, those relatives you know and don't know come to you, and many people want to hang the field under the name of Ling, so as to save the tax. ”

"Even the Qingtian lord in the county handed you an invitation, because if you win the move, you are your own person."

"But what about you? You are a dignified scholar of Daming, do you still have to live so poorly? You are the Jinshi of our Ming Dynasty, you have the power, which is equivalent to having everything, do you understand? ”

"Huh?" Li Le looked at Zhang Siwei and asked with confusion.

Zhang Siwei smiled and said, "Don't you understand? You only need one sentence now, you can choose one or two of these orchids, all of them are, you can take them away, if it is inconvenient to take them away, there are guest rooms in the Quanjin Hall, and they will be your people in the future, do you understand your status? ”

Zhang Siwei slowly raised his hand until he couldn't lift it, and then said: "You stand so high and so high, and you live so poor and even shabby, your old mother is only a cent in the house of your hometown, there is no floor and water pavilion, you are out of breath, you are a jinshi, but who knows?" If you don't return home, are you so willing? ”

"You're standing so high! You deserve more! It's a matter of course. If someone else has a soft sedan car, you should have it too; If others have servants, you should have them too; If others have a luxurious ancestral home, you should have it too; If someone else has Meiji, you should have it too; ”

"Isn't it?"

"Otherwise, in order to be admitted to the Jinshi and to become an official, have you suffered so much, have you eaten in vain?"

"Think about it." Zhang Siwei stood up, patted Li Le on the shoulder, and left the theater with Wang Chonggu, leaving the stage to Li Le.

"Will he say yes?" Wang Chonggu walked out of the theater and was still a little worried, this Li Le is upright and upright, he is a well-known upright gentleman, can he convince Li Le, it involves the major event of inspecting the border and reading Dingjian, if the Xuanfu and Datong things are lifted, everyone will be unlucky.

Zhang Siwei said with a smile: "He's a gentleman, but he's a poor ghost." ”

"He hasn't seen luxury, so he can be upright, now, he sees this luxury, it's like a cat's paw scratching in his heart, it's easy to get it, it's close at hand, he doesn't even need to stretch out his hand, he can get it, uncle said, how will he choose?"

"If he can keep his heart, I really admire him as a man."

When Wang Chonggu heard this, he glanced back at the theater and shook his head and said, "You, how many famous and wealthy people in Chang'an, it is not as good as you when you run out of organs." ”

"Uncle Xie's compliment." Zhang Siwei is not ashamed, but proud, he was born in a merchant family, it is his nature to pursue profits, he will do it if it is profitable, and obviously with a few orchids and some money, he can get through this hurdle without destroying the foundation.

Zhang Siwei said quite accurately: "People have selfish desires when they live, as long as they have selfish desires, they have shortcomings, as long as they have shortcomings, they have flaws, and they can be dealt with, such as this Li Le, he is poor, he has not lived a good life, he is drunk and confused, he can't keep it." ”

"What about Zhang Juzheng's shortcomings?" Wang Chonggu frowned and said.

"Zhang Juzheng's shortcomings..."Zhang Siwei was rarely silent, and his eyebrows danced without talking eloquently, Zhang Juzheng was full of flaws and shortcomings at first glance.

Zhang Juzheng formed a party, but the vast majority of his henchmen were like-minded; Zhang Juzheng is corrupt, but his corruption is not worth mentioning at all compared with Yan Song and Xu Jie; Zhang Juzheng lives a luxurious life, but when he thinks that this is the daily life of the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, it is somewhat reasonable;

Only by finding Zhang Juzheng's real shortcomings can he deal with him.