"It's all a mess. I thought I was sensitive enough, but I didn't expect you to be even more sensitive than me..." Li Tuo's face turned pale with fright. The cold muzzle of the gun was pressed against his eyebrows and he didn't dare to move. .
"I'm doing a good job at the Military Aircraft Department, Zhang Jing, and the bureaucrats in the Forty-Nine City all regard me as their leader. I can easily earn two to three hundred thousand taels of silver in one year, and I'm going to work as a spy? After talking for a long time, you still can't Don’t understand what I mean…”
Li Tuo quickly explained to Yang Zhi, "Brother, you have three pieces of important information. Even if you give it to the court, you can't throw it all away at once? Is this how you do business? Do you really think you are a Manchu?" A loyal minister?"
"You have left Ryukyu. The little secret in your belly is the treasure that you need to settle down and live in. If you don't use it sparingly, why do you want to throw it all out? When you are worthless, do you think the court will still use you?"
"My good brother! Think about it again, what is your value to the court? It lies in Xiao Letian. It is precisely because of Xiao Letian, a powerful enemy, that the court needs your existence! Although You have betrayed Xiao Letian, but you still have to admit that it is precisely because of his presence that you are living a good life now..."
Yang Zhi was moved by Li Tuo's words. He suddenly felt that it was not a coincidence that Li Tuo could become the brains of those small bureaucratic forces. From the perspective of looking at problems from his perspective, ordinary people could not compare with him.
"Right? Why didn't I think of this..." Yang Zhi subconsciously put down the pistol.
"So, my lord, you want to attack Xiao Letian, but you really can't let Xiao Letian be completely finished. If he is finished, you will also be finished with him. By then, you will be of no use! Do you think so? Isn’t that true?”
"So, you can make Xiao Letian unlucky, but don't let him die! How can you dump so much information at once? The golden island in the Pacific, top-secret information from the Fuso CIA and the Hong Kong CIA... These big news will definitely arouse the covetousness of foreigners, and we don’t know how many changes will happen by then!”
"Hey, hey, hey...you are so worried about me. With your skills, you still want to hang out in the court? In the end, you were careful to let others sell it and count the money for others!"
Li Tuo looked sad, while Yang Zhi looked red. He had finally rounded this corner, but the cooked duck's mouth was still quite hard.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk... You are not a loyal minister. You are doing errands in the military aircraft department, but you are distracted and half-hearted. You are also a bad coward at heart. Just like you. Once the Qing Dynasty is over, you will be the first to change ships... …”
When Li Tuo heard Yang Zhi say such words, the expression on his face suddenly became incredulous: "You, you, you... ah! What evil have I done! Why did I bet my money on you..."
Li Tuo pointed at Yang Zhi with a look of hatred on his face, and he was trembling with anger, "Why am I so unlucky? Why did I choose you? How can you say such childish words?"
"Loyal minister? You are a young boy of yours, and you call me a loyal minister? You jumped from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to Xiao Letian's ship, and then jumped to the Qing Dynasty's ship. You come back and call me a loyal minister?"
Yang Zhi's face suddenly turned red, "I...I know that I am not a loyal minister, and I also know my own virtue! But you, Li Tuo, are deeply favored by the country! You are from a small landowner family, and you have studied the Four Books and Five Classics since you were a child. Loyalty to the emperor and patriotism..."
"Now the Qing Dynasty will give you a good position, allowing you to get rich every year. The most important thing is that you don't have to bear any responsibilities. Even if the sky falls, no one will blame you... Just like this, you still can't be a loyal minister. ?”
Li Tuo smiled, but his smile was cold to the core. "If there is a regret medicine in this world, I will definitely spend a lot of money to buy one. Why did I find a noble like you as an ally?"
"Please remember my identity, be sure to remember my identity...My friends and I are called Xiaoli, and the ideology we believe in is called bureaucracy...By the way, the word "ism" is still learned from others. Xiao Letian’s!”
"We are at the bottom of the official class. We are believers in the bureaucratic culture that has existed in China for thousands of years. In our eyes, there is no country, let alone a bullshit emperor!"
Li Tuo's face turned ferocious, "What the hell do I care about the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Song Dynasty... I don't care about the emperor's surname Zhao Qian Sun Li, King Zhou Wu Zheng, or even Aixinjueluo... None of this has anything to do with me!”
"Any dynasty, no matter who the emperor is, no matter what the nation is, no matter what values he believes in... When he succeeds, they will need us to govern the country, remember that our name is the bureaucracy..."
"We need to deliver the emperor's decrees to the ears of the people, and the implementation of any policy needs to be completed by ourselves. Let me tell you the truth, if you don't make us happy, we can turn good governance into bad governance for you... Do you believe that I can kill someone for you while saving them?"
"Don't even think about offending us. If you kill one of us, two will appear. If you kill two, four will appear... The wildfire will not burn out, and the spring breeze will blow again. Does the emperor think it's bullshit in front of us? It's bullshit! "
"So what if the Qing Dynasty dies? If it dies, it dies. We are still bureaucrats, and the new dynasty still needs us to govern the people... So what if Xiao Letian comes to power? If he comes to power, he will come to power. He will also need us to pass it on to the people. Government order..."
"Let me give you the simplest example! Join him and Xiao Letian is planning to distribute money to 100 million elderly people in the Qing Dynasty... Each elderly person will be given a silver dollar. How will this money be distributed?"
"Does Xiao Letian want to distribute the money himself? Can he distribute the money to 100 million elderly people? Hahaha... In the end, it is not up to us to deal with this problem. Xiao Letian has to hand the money into our hands in the end. , and then we will send it!"
"Hahaha... How much of a silver dollar will be left in the hands of those old men and women? Damn it! If I give them a quarter, I will be considered conscientious. I will embezzle the rest. What can you do?"
"Let me ask you, what can Xiao Letian do to us? Are you willing to kill all the hundreds of thousands or even millions of petty officials in the Qing Dynasty? Well, I believe you can kill us all, but kill After it’s all gone, who are you going to find to share the money with?”
"Hahaha, if government orders are to be passed on to the people, can it be done without small officials like us? Can this country still function without bureaucracy?"
Li Tuo glared at Yang Zhi and growled, "Brother, let me tell you clearly today, since you have boarded our ship, from now on you must be loyal to our bureaucracy... no matter who becomes the emperor, even if he Xiao Letian has really settled in the Forbidden City, you have to remember, he still needs us!"
"As long as you grasp the lifeblood of this core, you will be in a position of invincibility forever, and no one can do anything to you! He Xiao Letian doesn't dare to kill you at all, even if he sits on the chair in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, even if you just In front of him, as long as you have us behind you to support you, you will live forever!"
