The east wind blooms thousands of trees at night, and blows down, and the stars are like rain.

sub-hours.

Bright fireworks and firecrackers are lit up in the capital.

Roof.

Li Ping'an and Zhigang sat cross-legged across from each other, with seven or eight empty wine jars poured beside them, chatting and talking.

"Do you remember the town of Heluo?"

Zhigang said resentfully: "When the Sprinkle family came to Beijing, they passed through the Heluo area and heard new news about Li Daxia. Now I'm not a hero, I should be honored as a garrison! ”

Li Ping'an said: "Washed ashore? ”

"Ashore...... This word contains the Buddha's teachings! ”

Zhigang bowed his head and said: "Li Shoubei exterminated the bandits he raised, donated a few thousand taels of silver, and turned into a five-grade military attaché. ”

Donating officials seems to be the policy of the end of the dynasty, but it has always existed in Daqian.

The main target is martial arts strongmen, as long as they have made meritorious deeds and donated silver, the imperial court is willing to include them in the military attache system.

There is less disobedience to discipline, and there is more good and obedient officials, the best of both worlds.

Li Ping'an sighed: "It's not a bad thing, at least the bandits are paid, and the people suffer less." ”

"Isn't that ironic?"

Zhigang picked up the wine jar and slurped, and looked up in the direction of the palace: "The Sprinkle family really wants to go and see, who is sitting on this dragon chair?" ”

Li Ping'an has seen it with his own eyes, His Majesty looks very bloody, but he can't and dare not say it, so he can only change the topic bluntly.

"Master, I have encountered a huge problem in my recent practice."

"Tell me about it."

"Lack of money!"

Li Ping'an said helplessly: "A few days ago, the iron leg was a great achievement, and I went to the military attache to ask for the ointment for quenching the bones, and it turned out that a dose would cost ten taels of silver, and it would only be sold if I had to apprentice." ”

The actual consumption is more than what Li Ping'an said.

The iron cloth shirt is nourished by the big toad qi, and has the foundation of iron leg skills, which is much faster than expected, and it will be followed up in another year.

As for the Yang Locking Gong, I haven't practiced it for more than a year.

"It was only when the layman realized that he was short of money until he was hardened, and he was already better than most Jianghu people."

Zhigang said: "Let's not talk about those low-level martial artists, taking the Sprinkle family as an example, since I was a child, I have practiced in the King Kong Temple, and the daily consumption of rice and flour medicinal materials in the forging realm is five taels of silver. ”

"Breaking through the quenching bone realm, the effect of ordinary medicinal materials is very poor, and it must be a long time before you can speed up the entry and convert it into silver for tens of taels ...... a day."

Li Ping'an was puzzled: "Didn't the master say that the King Kong Temple retreats in seclusion?" ”

"It's really hidden."

Zhigang said: "However, there are a few mountains and tens of thousands of acres of land under the name, and there is no need to pay taxes, and even then it is gradually unable to supply." ”

Later, the King Kong Temple opened its doors to welcome guests, gathered millions of believers, and became the top sect in Yongzhou.

Involved in many worldly industries and earning countless gold and silver, only then did he have the resources to cultivate more Dharma Protector monks.

Li Ping'an asked: "The master has left the King Kong Temple, what do you rely on to practice?" ”

"Catch the knife."

Zhigang said: "But the knife silver is only a small amount of money, mainly by borrowing the news of the yamen, in order to find the hidden devil, and the wealth after killing is the big head." ”

Li Ping'an suddenly realized that it was similar to killing Liangzhou Shuangsha, and the silver of the knife was far inferior to the relics.

This is just the silver that they carry with them, and if they touch their nest, the harvest will be at least multiplied several times.

"Could it be that the heroes of the rivers and lakes are all sword catching and cultivating?"

"Layman, do you know what a hero is?"

Zhigang asked rhetorically, pointed to his nose and said: "Only those who have property and industry are called heroes, and this kind of sprinkle family is at most a ...... of mixed rivers and lakes."

The industry is not only land shops, gangs, bandits are all industries, and even the beggar gangs and thieves who make a living by stealing and abducting are all industries that can earn money.

Li Ping'an's ancestral funeral officer can also be regarded as an industry, but his income is too low to support martial arts practice.

Zhigang continued: "Most of the heroes' starting money is obtained by killing the devil. ”

"However, killing the devil comes quickly, and after all, his life is in danger, and when he saves money and reputation, the hero begins to establish gangs and do business."

"Go one step further, just like Li Yuntian, who made meritorious contributions, with the blessing of the imperial court, he completely jumped out of the rivers and lakes to fight!"

"It turns out that the rivers and lakes are like this, thank you for the master's explanation." Li Ping'an frowned, always feeling that there was something wrong with the logic.

The devil practiced burning, killing, and plundering, and the hero practiced to kill the demons and eliminate the demons, and finally the court collected taxes and sold officials.

The perfect closed loop!

If there are no demons in the world, how can heroes practice and be promoted?

So there must be a devil, and if there is no devil, take the initiative to create a devil, and Li Shoubei of the fist town Heluo is a master of this way.

"If you don't have an industry, and you don't want to work hard, can't you practice martial arts?"

"There is a finite amount of useful things in the world......"

Zhigang said quietly: "The imperial court accounts for seventy percent, the sect accounts for two percent, and the remaining one percent is shared by everyone, how can you not work hard?" ”

"No wonder, no wonder ......"

Li Ping'an suddenly understood why Daqian had a long life.

In the past, dynasties changed frequently, and no feudal dynasty lasted more than 300 years, and the Great Qiansheng Ancestor and Shizu were divided into two dynasties, both of which fell apart after more than 400 years.

It has nothing to do with Emperor Shengming, but force is in the hands of the imperial court!

The common people were oppressed and rebelled, and the probability of success was too low, so the imperial court sent a martial arts master to assassinate the leader of the rebel army single-handedly.

"How do you make money?"

The secret recipe to open a store?

Li Ping'an immediately pressed his thoughts, not to mention that the officials were forbidden to do business, and the bones of the shopkeeper of the King of Shili Xiang had not yet been cleaned.

Since His Majesty's birthday, the royal family has moved and is said to be going to live in the south.

As a result, they encountered water bandits halfway, scuttled through the cabin, and dozens of people were all buried in the belly of the fish!

The defendant Qi Gongzi has been released from prison, the meritorious officer has been reinstated, the plaintiff is dead, missing, missing, and only Wei Heng is still in prison.

"The way to make money that the Sprinkle family knows, either you can't do it, or you can't do it."

Zhigang said with a little regret: "So it is most suitable to catch the knife and silver, and killing the devil is also considered to accumulate merit, but it's a pity that Li Yuntian's guy went ashore......"

Li Ping'an said: "Master rest assured, officialdom is much more dangerous than the rivers and lakes, maybe one day I can see this hero in the mortuary!" ”

"Lay people have Buddha nature, and they have a relationship with my Buddha."

"Master, don't scare me!"

……

Meanwhile.

Palace.

The Temple of Nourishing the Heart.

Emperor Jianwu leaned on the soft collapse and flipped through the secret music one by one.

The secret music comes from the Zhenfu Division, the Inner Attendant Division, and the East Factory, the Zhenfu Division supervises the people, the East Factory supervises the hundred officials, and the Inner Attendant supervises the first two.

"How can there be forty years of princes? The person who said this is short-sighted, there are thousand-year-old emperors in the world! ”

Emperor Jianwu looked at the secret music sent by the Zhenfu Division, and did not have the slightest anger.

Since last year, there have been such rumors in the capital.

After investigation by the Zhenfu Division, it was found that the rumors originated from the East Palace at the beginning, and it was not easy to arrest people directly, so they could only report to Emperor Jianwu for a decision.

"I don't want to be the emperor's prince, not a good prince!"

Emperor Jianwu is not afraid that the prince wants to be the emperor, and if he really has the strength to rob it, he will be glad that there is a successor to the dynasty.

If you don't try your best to rebel and fail, then you are really stupid!

Then.

The attendant on duty came in and said, "Your Majesty, Father-in-law Chu asks to see you." ”

Emperor Jianwu threw the secret fold aside: "Come in." ”

Gonggong Chu entered the hall three times and bowed nine times, and reported: "Your Majesty, the spies from the East Palace have ...... news."

"Stand down."

Emperor Jianwu waved his hand, and the chamberlain bowed and left, leaving only the chief eunuch Kang Gonggong.

"A month ago, the prince recruited an overseas warlock, who claimed to be a whale angler, and he was good at magic......"

Gonggong Chu glanced at Emperor Jianwu, and seeing that his face was indifferent, he continued: "Recently, the altar was opened in the East Palace, and it was said that he prayed to heaven for His Majesty's blessing. ”

Emperor Jianwu snorted coldly.

"Don't talk so nicely, isn't it just that the child is in a hurry and wants me to give way sooner!"