In the Mingyi Hall of the Weiwang Mansion, Tang Jiusheng and Qi Siyuan talked about it and were very happy.

Tang Jiusheng asked how to quell the bandits in Jiannan Dao, Qi Siyuan smiled and said: "Lord Wang, it is not difficult to quell the bandits themselves, the so-called mountain bandits are nothing more than people who have been forced to rebel, most of the mountain bandits actually want to be good in their hearts, but they have no way out, and they are afraid that the government will settle accounts after the autumn." So just mix a day and count a day, as long as the prince recruits them on behalf of the imperial court, they will not be afraid if they have a reassurance!"

Qi Siyuan stretched out three fingers, "Now that the prince has more than 1,000 soldiers under his command, he only needs to allocate 300, we don't have soldiers on hand, and the local county magistrates have soldiers on hand! Let's borrow some from the county guard and county order first, and go down one cottage after another, recruit thieves and thieves, and change soldiers from Kou, and collect some money and food, why not? With the previous cottage as an example, you don't have to worry about the cottage behind not following!"

Tang Jiusheng was overjoyed, and immediately asked someone to set up wine, and asked someone to invite the fat man, Shui Rulong and others, and everyone sat around, drinking and chatting. That night, we had a good time.

The next morning, as soon as Tang Jiusheng came out of the bed, he heard hurried footsteps, only to hear the housekeeper Wei Quan standing outside the door and saying loudly: "Lord Wang, the old national teacher has brought thirty servants from Tianchang City to visit the door!

When Tang Jiusheng heard that his father was coming, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly said loudly: "Hurry up and invite the old man to sit in the living room!" Inform a few princesses, I will come to see the old man after I get dressed and washed!" Wei Quan agreed, went out to take Tang Fulong to Chang Lexuan's living room, and the little maid came up to pour tea for Tang Fulong and put the fruit plate. Tang Jiusheng hurriedly finished freshening up and came to see his father, and the entire back house already knew that the old man was coming.

Shui Ruyue took Ximen Yushuang, Du Ruo and Xu Dongmei to greet her father-in-law, Tang Fulong saw his son and many daughters-in-law, and greeted him with a smile.

After eating breakfast, Tang Fulong said that he wanted to talk to his son alone, so Tang Jiusheng accompanied his father to the Yuezhu Lake in the back garden of the palace to sit and chat. Half of Yuezhu Lake is natural and one side is artificial, and the scenery is pleasant. On the edge of the lake, there are two painting boats, one green and one red, which rise and fall with the waves in the water, and in the distance, there are water birds on the lake that swoop down to catch fish in the lake.

Tang Fulong sat on the lawn by Yuezhu Lake with a smile, looked around at the scenery by the lake, looked at the artificial island in the lake, listened to the sound of the lake lapping on the shore, and nodded: "Well, yes, it is worthy of the palace, no worse than our family's national teacher's mansion!"

Tang Jiusheng shook his head, and said with some distress: "Dad, I am now well recovered, and my martial arts have returned to the second-grade realm, but my memory is gone, I can't even remember you, if others don't say that you are my father, I don't even know that you are my father!"

Tang Fulong couldn't stop laughing, "It's okay, it's okay, Dad has calculated before, you have a hundred days of difficulty, and now more than 60 days have passed, and it's almost difficult, don't worry, just wait for the difficulty to be full! Son, how are you doing as a prince?

Tang Jiusheng said with a smile: "Dad, to be honest, it's very cool to be a prince, brocade clothes and jade food, hugging each other, all I see every day are smiling faces, can I not be happy? I finally understand why those people are competing to be the emperor, being a prince is so cool, let alone the emperor!"

Tang Fulong picked up a flat pebble, floated on the surface of the lake, and sighed, "So my father is not at ease, I want to come over to see you, and by the way, I will also have a few words in my heart, who made me your father, and you are my son?"

Tang Jiusheng was respectful

said: "Dad, your old man says it, I'll listen!"

Tang Fulong looked at the lake with more than 30 acres of land, and asked softly: "Son, your martial arts are still so-so, but why can you become a prince, do you know the reason?"

Tang Jiusheng thought for a while and replied seriously: "Dad, with our Tang family's loyalty to the big merchants, with his son's reputation in the rivers and lakes, and with his ......"

Tang Fulong shook his head and turned to look at Tang Jiusheng, "Son, what you said is right and not right. Think about it, if you are only loyal to the big merchants, is Guo Chong not loyal to the big merchants? Is Jiang Yongchun disloyal to the big merchants? Is Gao Zhongliang disloyal? You are loyal, there are people who are more loyal to the emperor than you, and they are willing to die for the emperor! But why did the emperor let Tang Jiusheng make you the king of Wei?"

Tang Jiusheng was really at a loss when he heard his father say this, and shook his head, indicating that he didn't understand.

Tang Fulong sighed, "Son, in fact, the fate of our Tang family and the Yin family is coming to an end, and the hereditary national teacher of our Tang family is also coming to an end! On the surface, our Tang family is not a loss!"

Tang Fulong looked at the rockery in the lake, seemed to be preoccupied, and said after a while: "My position as a national teacher is estimated not to be returned to me, even if it is returned to me, at most it will only represent a symbol of honor, and there will be no real power." And Prince Wei will not be hereditary, so that the next generation will be the king of the county, and the next generation will be the prince of the country, and soon the power will be diluted. ”

Tang Jiusheng was taken aback, "Dad, the emperor is starting to suspect our Tang family?"

Tang Fulong smiled and walked to the cyan painting boat on the shore, "Doubt is second, why can the Tang family be a hereditary national teacher in Dashang for three hundred years? Our dragon qi to protect the Yin family is only one of them, and more importantly, the Tang family has no soldiers in their hands and cannot rebel." Otherwise, a Tang family that guards the dragon's qi has heavy troops at hand, isn't that a catastrophe for the royal family? Although the current emperor looks cowardly on the surface, he has great ambitions!"

Tang Jiusheng was very puzzled, and followed his father to the painting boat, and a servant drove towards the island in the lake with the painting boat. Tang Jiusheng looked at his father and was silent for a while. Tang Fulong snorted, "Son, you must be thinking, since this is the case, why do you still make you the king of the guard, and let you hold heavy troops, right?" Tang Jiusheng nodded, he was really puzzled by this in his heart.

Tang Fulong chuckled and said: "That's because these big and small princes surnamed Yin are making too much trouble now, the emperor has to make a gesture to show them, since Tang Jiusheng, who has a different surname, can be crowned king, others will also have the same chance, not to mention the surname Yin? Who will be more suitable than the Tang family in comparison?

Tang Jiusheng suddenly laughed, "Dad, isn't he afraid that I will fall to Yin Quan's team?"

Tang Fulong looked at the lake and said with a smile: "First, the Tang family is loyal to the big businessmen, and it is unlikely that they will defect. Second, what if the Tang family defects? The world is still surnamed Yin in the hands of Yin Quan, so you are sure that if you take refuge in Yin Quan, Yin Quan will not move you after he ascends the throne? Moreover, judging by your previous actions, you are not a rebel. Even if you want to rebel, your subordinates will follow you? What do they want? Do you think Jiang Fatzi, Gao Chongyang, and others will follow you to rebel? Or will Guo Chong and Gao Zhongliang follow your father to rebel?"

Tang Jiusheng looked shocked and was silent.

Tang Fu

Long smiled again: "Our Emperor His Majesty is both respectable and terrifying, he is not worried that his country alone will not be protected, as long as he can protect his Yin family's country, he would rather sacrifice himself." He was willing to worship a eunuch as his father, and when he could obviously regain power, he continued to choose to endure humiliation and bear the burden, showing weakness to Yang Jingzhong, showing weakness to the world, and showing weakness to his opponent, just to seek a comeback!"

Tang Fulong walked to the middle of the painting boat, sat on the chair, turned around and smiled: "Son, the reason why you can become a prince is not because you Tang Jiusheng has great ability, there are more people than you who have ability! It's just because you were born in the National Teacher's Mansion, and it just so happens that Yin Quan and others want to rebel, you are taking this opportunity, this is like a tuyere, you are standing on the tuyere, the fact is that pigs can go to the sky on the tuyere!"

Tang Jiusheng stopped talking and walked to his father and sat down.

Tang Fulong patted Tang Jiusheng on the shoulder, "Son, think about it carefully, if you were born in the Xu family, Xu Dongmei is your sister, and you are Xu Dalong now, what can you do if you have great ability? It's nothing more than fishing on the river, catching more fish, making more money, and becoming a fishing tyrant!" After Tang Fulong said this, he looked at his son and smiled silently.

Tang Jiusheng suddenly brightened, "Dad, what else do you want to say?"

Tang Fulong laughed, "Son, what Dad wants to say is, don't get carried away, don't think you're great, it's just that you caught up with this time! Others are not convinced, and they may not show it on their faces, of course, these princes surnamed Yin dare, because their surname is Yin, so they dare to openly send assassins to assassinate you, but the ministers of the ministers are generally not dissatisfied, but they will think in their hearts, why can you be a prince with the surname Tang?"

Tang Jiusheng nodded and bowed to his father, "Dad, thank you for reminding me, I will be low-key in my future affairs, I will walk on thin ice, and I will try not to let people catch the handle!

Tang Fulong laughed and stood up, "When the moon is full, it will be lost, and when the water is full, it will be discharged, how can there be a thousand years of rivers and mountains, people sitting on the dragon chair want to live long live, but which one is long live? It is not easy to live to be 100 years old! Not to mention our small national teacher's mansion? Before the hexagram deduction, the national teacher of the Tang family ended in my generation, and I calculated that I could give birth to a noble son, I thought that I could change my life against the sky and continue the glory of the Tang family, but later found that it was still in vain, so I didn't struggle, everything went naturally!"

Tang Jiusheng looked at his father, who suddenly had a few gray hairs, and had mixed feelings, his father was afraid that he would float, so he poured a scoop of cold water on himself at the critical moment to sober himself up.

Tang Fulong said with a smile: "When I took five hundred cavalry horses to the Lingnan Palace, I was actually making a statement, I Tang Fulong was loyal to the big business, but don't force me to be anxious, my son is also my baby, bullying him, that is, bullying me Tang Fulong's head, this bit of family affection I want to read, even if I lose the position of the national teacher, even if the Lingnan King surnamed Yin is also not good!" The emperor understood, so he dismissed my three-rank protector and let me have the right to govern the affairs of the country, and at the same time continue to consolidate the power of your king, as a reward to appease me. ”

Tang Jiusheng said to himself: "It's really complicated! It's better to be in the rivers and lakes, whoever has the biggest fist is the boss!"

Tang Fulong laughed, "Boy, the court is another river and lake, and the river and lake are another court." The rivers and lakes have grievances and hatreds like the court, and everything revolves around interests, and whoever can bring benefits to everyone and who can safeguard everyone's interests will follow whom! Gold and silver are interests, face is also interests, everything that can be satisfied is interests, and the waters of the rivers and lakes are also deep!"

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