"In other words, someone who doesn't know the limits of heaven and earth, relies on your power, brother, to act arrogantly, act recklessly, and is arrogant and arrogant?" Ling'er stared and pursed her lips in displeasure. She was obviously not Jiang Zi!
"Haha, actually it's not just you, your brother and I are probably the same persona." Xiao Chen said with a smile, "How else can we be brothers and sisters? In short, in the future, if it is inconvenient for me to come forward, it will be you. Come and do it for me, of course you have to do it well, if you do something wrong you still have to be spanked."
"Okay then." Ling'er happily agreed, "So I can not only sell things to Lin Qi, but if others want to buy them and find me, I can also secretly sell them some?"
"Of course not!" Xiao Chen said loudly, "How dare you, a little girl, do illegal business without telling me. If I don't know, forget it. If I find out, you will be severely punished!"
"Girl, don't dare, please leave." Ling'er bared her teeth and smiled, silver light shining.
Someone asked, if Li Shi or Li Feng found Ling'er and asked to buy armaments, would Ling'er agree?
Of course I will, as long as the price is right, and! You must not let my brother know!
So if someone comes to buy a car and Yanyun's new artillery, will Ling'er sell the repeating musket?
Of course it won't happen, because Ling'er already knows what can be bought and sold and what can't.
Secondly, do you think Ling'er can get whatever he wants?
Are Mr. Chen, Zhuge Xiaosheng, Ye Baiqing, and Liu Congshu all just for show? Any export of important materials must be approved by them. Smuggling and reselling? It doesn't exist!
Winter turned to spring, everything revived, the ice and snow had already smiled, and the frozen land gradually softened. The big project of building the imperial mausoleum was officially launched. After a grand ceremony, the work started immediately.
Gong Shouli was the mausoleum construction manager personally appointed by the emperor, Xiao Chen was the deputy manager, Yuan Ren was the supervisor, and the construction unit was the Ministry of Industry.
Because building the imperial mausoleum was no small matter, Li Hong, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, personally served as the chief engineer and led the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry to design the drawings after many days of research.
However, although this project is extremely important, the construction is actually not complicated, especially the initial work can be summed up in one word: dig!
Responsible for leading the construction were more than a hundred brothers from the civil engineering camp led by Sun Changshan, as well as more than 2,000 craftsmen and civilian workers recruited with heavy sums of money.
These civilian husbands all signed up voluntarily. In the words of ordinary people, they are all people who want money rather than their lives. Because according to old legend, all the craftsmen who built the emperor's tomb will eventually be buried alive, eh...
Not to mention the common people muttering, even Li Hong was vague.
At the construction site, he pulled Xiao Chen aside and whispered, "Boss Xiao, are our lives in danger if we do this errand?"
By the way, brother, my heart suddenly twitched when I saw this big pit. If in the future the emperor wants to bury all the craftsmen and civilians alive below to keep the secret of the mausoleum, wouldn't I, the chief design engineer responsible for planning the construction drawings, bear the brunt?
Xiao Chen said that the common people are ignorant, but you, a dignified minister, are also ignorant?
Is our emperor that kind of person?
Besides, your life, Li Hong's, is valuable. Why, my life and Lao Gong's life aren't valuable either?
And you think Lao Gong is a fool. Are you digging your own grave by asking for this job?
Li Hong said that was not necessarily the case. Gong Shouli was a die-hard loyalist to our emperor. Even if he was buried as a sacrifice, he would probably be extremely happy!
Xiao Chen said this was even more nonsense. How could the emperor let someone be buried in his grave?
But if Lao Gong takes the initiative to request to be buried with him, we must satisfy his request when the time comes...
"Boss Xiao, aren't those who are buried 'actively'?" Li Hongdao, "After I became a Jinshi, I served as a scholar in the Hanlin Academy for a period of time and participated in compiling history. It is not uncommon for an emperor to strangle all his concubines to death and bury them with him, but says that they all volunteered."
"Well, so we can't just rely on the benevolence of the king. We also have to eradicate this kind of thing from the system. It is cruel to bury living people, but it is also very shameful to replace them with human figurines. No wonder Confucius once said, 'The one who started the figurines , It has no consequences." Xiao Chen said.
"The key is that we ministers have nothing to say about this matter. Besides, our emperor is wise, but the next emperor may not be the same." This is what Li Hong and Xiao Chen would say.
"So it is actually of great significance for us to do this. The emperor has repeatedly told him to keep his tomb simple. In fact, it is not a pretense, but a sincere desire to reverse this bad trend. As a person of Taizu, he opened the By following the precedent of simplicity, in the future, no matter how dishonest our descendants are, they will not dare to go beyond the rules." Xiao Chen said.
"Well, our emperor is not only benevolent, but also very broad-minded." Li Hong said, "I didn't expect that the emperor would send you and Gong Shouli to run this errand together."
"You people always think that the relationship between me and the emperor is so complicated!" Xiao Chen said, "Actually, the emperor is very kind to me, and I am extremely loyal to the emperor. Those who spread rumors are also particularly There’s nothing wrong with that!”
"Haha, this is not a random rumor." Li Hong said with a smile, "You, Boss Xiao, are entrenched in Yanyun, holding Gao Juli in your hand, and occupying Yizhou... This is not something that a loyal minister can do."
"If I had not occupied Yanyun, Yanyun would have fallen into the hands of the northern Xinjiang tribes long ago. If I had not held Gaojuli, Gaojuli would have been invaded and assimilated by the Japanese. If I had not occupied Yizhou, Yizhou would have long ago fallen into the hands of the tribes. It's in the hands of those Western bandits, why don't you tell us the actual situation?" Xiao Chen said.
"Then since you have recovered everything, why don't you just hand it over to the emperor?" Li Hong said.
"If I hand it over to the emperor, do you think the emperor can accept it?" Xiao Chen said, "If I resign from all positions now, go home to farm and retire, and never ask about court affairs again, do you think the emperor will be right? Even if the emperor Take back the three counties and allow me to serve as an official, do you think I can still live?"
"Eh? Boss Xiao, what you said really makes sense." Li Hong was stunned.
"Everyone knows such a simple truth, but they still insist on calling me a rebel, and even encourage the emperor to send troops to attack Yanyun County. Fortunately, there were no casualties in the conflict, otherwise, neither the emperor nor I would have ended well! They all only stared at me, but couldn't keep an eye on Duan Fengnian, hahaha!" Xiao Chen smiled quite sadly.
"Sigh... Since ancient times, it's really hard to distinguish between loyal and traitorous people." Li Hong lamented.
"I give you a method to eliminate doubts. You don't need to drill turtles and Zhu Pei. It takes three days to test the jade and seven years to identify the materials. The Duke of Zhou is afraid of the day of rumors. Wang Mang was humble and did not usurp the time. Xiangshi died at the beginning. Who knows whether it is true or false?" Xiao Chen wrote a seven-character poem to explain Li Hong's doubts and defend himself.
