The heavy rain was followed by three days of light rain, and the pond in the atrium of the Prime Minister's Mansion resounded with the sound of frogs.

Water curtains hung on all sides of the pavilion, and two scribes who looked to be about forty in the pavilion were playing against each other

"Wen He first let Wu Yue dispute kill and injure countless people, and let His Majesty support Wu Yue in the vicious war, I am afraid that many people will die in the past two years, the land of Qiliang in the northwest is barren, trade has been cut off, I don't know how many families have died, this time I want to do a plan in the Central Plains, I am afraid that there will be no fewer deaths, it hurts the peace of the heavens."

"In the past, I was afraid of hurting the sky and going too far, and causing disaster to my children and grandchildren, but now you and I are both people who have come back from the dead, and we have no heirs, so why should we be afraid anymore...... Hehe, in this life, you have to make up for the regrets of your previous life. ”

"Huh." The scribe over there shook the crane fan and laughed: "It's the first time to be able to talk to Wen He like this, if you and I could be like this in Shu back then, the Central Plains would have been decided a long time ago." ”

“…… If the prime minister doesn't say that he came to the Central Plains, there will be nothing to do with the Sima family. ”

Jia Xu and Zhuge Liang glanced at each other, then laughed, and after a while, someone outside the pavilion came quickly with an umbrella, and he was also a scribe, with a half-foot white short beard, a mustache on his lips, a bun wrapped around a scarf, and a soap-colored, dark blue robe and coat, it was Li Ru, who was thrown by Dong Zhuo to the Prime Minister's Mansion to be Cao Peng first.

When he came over, Zhuge Liang and Jia Xu also arched their hands at him.

Wen You also came over and sat down together. At this time, on a rainy day, it is quite pleasant to talk about a game and talk about the general trend of the world. ”

"Hehe, Confucianism is disrespectful."

Li Ru returned the salute to Zhuge Liang and Jia Xu, then sat down on the stone bench next to him, watched the chessboard in the hands of the two of them, and listened to the next words of the two.

"This is not Your Majesty's northern land, the reputation and foundation are unstable, and it is difficult to see results in six or seven years, but if Your Majesty wants to complete the great cause within two years, the only way to do it is to rush to the chest."

The wind blew the raindrops into Jia Xu's beard, he raised his face, and the sunspots in his fingertips fell off the chessboard, as if watching the chess game intently, "...... Sitting firmly in the Central Plains, either win over the big families, or completely eliminate the non-dependent, just play chess, and do not remove all the other sons, and the chessboard can be clean. ”

Zhuge Liang smiled faintly on his face, shook the feather fan, and also dropped the white seed casually.

"Liang has already talked about this matter for His Majesty earlier, and it should be eliminated, but this word 'except' should be as little blood as possible, so that the people will not be panicked, and the people's rules will be the same."

On the other side, the hand holding the sunspot stopped, and Jia Xu said: "If you don't get blood, you must also eradicate the roots, so as to prevent future troubles!" ”

Then, with a snap, he pressed on the chessboard, pinching off the climate that was gradually becoming in Baizi, and his faint tone seemed to have choked the lifeblood of thousands of lives.

Zhuge Liang looked at the sunspot he fell, stopped the feather fan and pressed it on the chessboard.

"Where are you going to start?"

Li Ru listened quietly beside him, this Jia Xu in front of him, he was actually not familiar with it, but he had heard the name, the other party was just a lieutenant under Yuezhang's command back then, and he didn't even get into his eyes.

He was thinking about it, Jia Xu on one side took the warm wine on the small stove, poured a glass with Li Ru and Zhuge Liang, and poured himself a glass.

"Let's start with the Wang and Li families, who are the first to attach themselves to Your Majesty, and let them be a bait." Jia Xu took a sip of green plum wine, sighed comfortably, did not forget Li Ru beside him, and asked him:

"Wenyou, what do you want to say?"

"When Confucianism first arrived, he didn't know what happened in the Central Plains of this world."

A person like him, who will not find out the affairs of the Central Plains in more than ten days, but he has just arrived and has done those things in the past, so that he is always in a state of frightened birds, and he does not dare to highlight himself too much.

probably saw Li Ru's mentality, Jia Xu rarely laughed: "Wen Wei looks like this, just like when I first came, I was cautious, but I made a joke at Your Majesty, you don't have to be so cautious, what you do, what I do, is not allowed in the original world, but in this world, Your Majesty is ambitious, mindful of the world, should be able to speak freely, should show his talents." ”

"Confucianism is not comparable to the Taiwei and the Prime Minister, when he planned to depose the young emperor and set Liu Xie as the new emperor, he burned Luoyang again, and now he has no face to go to the temple."

"Haha, according to Wenyou, wouldn't it be even more impossible for Master Dong to go." Jia Xu laughed, Zhuge Liang just smiled and didn't participate in the discussion, after all, he was different from Jia Xu and Li Ru in his heart, and getting along with him and being good were two different things.

Li Ru was forced into a corner by Jia Xu's words, and couldn't help but say: "Confucianism is not too thick-skinned. ”

Suddenly raised his glass and took a sip with some embarrassment.

Seeing that Jia Xu and Zhuge Liang were still staring at him, he had to put down his wine glass and think about it, "The prime minister and the Taiwei took their salaries from the bottom of the kettle, bought grain from the hands of the big clans, and the old money went into their hands, and then issued new money, and the old money was invalidated, or exchanged at a low rate. ”

Speaking of this, he paused in his tone: "Confucian, I can make up for it." ”

Li Ru looked at Jia Xu and Zhuge Liang, with a hint of poison in his eyes.

"When they bought grain, they used military rations as a name, and after exchanging new money, they were arrested and imprisoned for adulteration of the grain they sold. Without seeing blood, and cutting off their roots, Your Majesty stood firm in the Central Plains, and got grain, gold and silver to fill the treasury! ”

If Jia Xu is vicious and spicy, then Li Ru is ruthless.

The drizzle rustled into the pool, causing a circle of ripples, and in the sound of frogs chirping in the rain, the three of them glanced at each other, and lightly finalized the matter that affected thousands of people.

The three of them talked and laughed in the pavilion for a while, played a few games, and when it was getting dark, Li Ru and Jia Xu got up to say goodbye and leave, Zhuge Liang sent the two to the front yard of the mansion.

Zhuge Liang is responsible for sitting in the center, deploying the purchase of grain and straw this time, and planning the Wang and Li families, while Jia Xu is responsible for planning the direction, checking and filling in the gaps, and bewitching those families on the list to take the bait.

Li Ru is specifically responsible for the implementation, after all, only ruthless people dare to go into battle to implement it in person.

The two got into the carriage separately, said goodbye to Zhuge Liang who was sent to the gate of the mansion in the window, and drove to different streets.

Zhuge Liang was like a kind old man standing on the stone steps, shaking a crane fan, looking at the carriage driving away in the lead rain, thinking about the strategy of the two poisoners, sighed, shook his head and turned around and walked towards the mansion.

Half a month after the military exercises, there was gradually news that the emperor was quietly buying grain, and the price was much higher than that on the market.

The first to get the news were the Wang and Li families, who dumped the huge amount of grain hoarded at home and bought it from other clans, if it weren't for this, this surprising news would not have spread quickly in Gyeonggi and the states and counties around Gyeonggi.

And the people are ignorant of this news.

After all, such news only circulated among the big clans, and almost everyone was shocked at first, and then unanimously speculated that the emperor was hoarding grain this time to prepare for recuperation.

As everyone knows, an invisible net has been rolled out.

(End of chapter)