Qingwen, the first of the twelve beauties in Jinling, has a strong personality and a soft tongue.
It's a pity that he paid his sincerity to a loser by mistake, and ended up with a very miserable end.
Li Yunze looked at the girl with eyes full of regret and pity.
But this look in the girl's eyes made her step back.
"I won't eat you, so what are you afraid of?" Li Yunze looked unhappy. "If you don't serve me there, what are you doing here?"
"Second Master Lian." Qingwen bit her lips and saluted again, "This slave was originally bought by the Lai family. I heard that the Lai family was in trouble, so I came here to take a look."
"It's a thoughtful one." Li Yunze nodded slowly, "The Lai family has brought it upon themselves, not to mention that they are in trouble. And you, a maid, how can you help?"
The sharp-tongued Qingwen was really grateful to the Lai family. She twisted her handkerchief and said, "Second Master Lian, can you..."
"No." Li Yunze refused immediately, but then smiled and said, "If you really want to repay your kindness, then give me money."
Qingwen stomped her feet angrily, "My monthly salary is only a sling of money, what kind of money can I have?"
"I can lend it to you. How about I lend you a thousand taels?" Looking at Qingwen who looked wary, Li Yunze joked slowly, "What, are you just talking about repaying a favor?"
Qingwen, who was most upset, immediately reached out and said, "Then borrow it!"
He took out a large pile of banknotes from his sleeves, counted a thousand taels and stuffed them into Qingwen's hand, "Go and repay the favor."
Looking at the thick banknotes in her hand, Qingwen was stunned, "But how can I pay it back?"
After giving her a meaningful look, Li Yunze turned and left.
After his figure disappeared, Qingwen came back to her senses and hurriedly shouted, "Second Master Lian, I haven't written the IOU yet..."
The Lai family's home was immediately sealed, and their shop in Dongshi and their village in Lantian County were all confiscated.
Even so, it's still not enough.
Because it was found out that Lai Er had been stealing the owner's property for many years, and the amount was increasing. With ten times the fine, it was really not enough.
The Lai family had no choice but to seek help from their biggest backer, Jia Mu.
The once majestic Jia Mu now gets a severe headache when she hears Lian Er's name and must drink ginseng soup to save her life.
There was nothing she could do. She couldn't be asked to pay the fine.
The only option is to bring all the Lai family members into the Dongfu and provide them with shelter.
Li Yunze didn't care about this. Sooner or later, the East Mansion would be his, and he would settle the accounts then.
Back at the mansion, a young eunuch claiming to be Xia Shouzhong's godson came to visit.
This is a message, saying that the emperor intends to increase Li Yunze's command to be the 13th Regiment Battalion of the Beijing Camp.
Li Yunze knew in his heart that the character he had set was responded to.
He rewarded the little eunuch who came to deliver the letter, and asked Jia Ping to accompany the little eunuch back with two pieces of silver.
One sum was a thank-you fee, which was given to Xia Shouzhong.
Another sum was given to Jia Yuanchun.
The palace is a special battlefield. If a girl here wants to get ahead, on the one hand, she needs a strong natal family outside to respond, and on the other hand, she needs to be loose enough to be able to win over the people in the palace.
Since coming to the world of Dream of Red Mansions, Li Yunze, who only wanted to spend money, has actually made a lot of money. .... Only here in the palace, you can only go in and out.
But it doesn’t matter, any investment will pay off.
After finishing a lot of things, it was finally time to go to the court meeting.
Li Yunze, who was wearing a third-grade official robe, took the initiative to stand among the ranks of generals, rather than on the side of the nobles.
This is one of the benefits of being informed in advance.
The elegant Wang Shuirong of Beijing came over to say hello with a smile on his face, "The servant at home is not sensible and needs to be educated by Brother Lian. I would like to thank you very much."
"You're welcome." Li Yunze waved his hand with a sullen expression, "Business like pawnshop is detrimental to the prince's reputation."
Shui Rong, who looked stiff, was still waiting to say anything more, but Xia Shouzhong over there had already come out and shouted to go to court.
The emperor came out and sat down on the dragon chair. He glanced at Li Yunze and saw that Li Yunze was not standing in the queue of nobles. He nodded slightly to express his satisfaction.
The situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty was not very good.
After the court meeting began, the officials reported to discuss things such as border troubles in various places, the rise of bandits, or the need to reduce or reduce taxes due to disasters.
Li Yunze, who was deeply aware of this, yawned without any scruples.
The tax revenue of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been decreasing year after year, but there are more and more places where money is needed.
The officials would always say, "The household department is out of money. Please help me with my internal funds."
Visible to the naked eye, the emperor's face became darker and darker.
The largest expenditure of the imperial court was actually military expenditure. It was said that the Zhou Dynasty had an army of one million, and the food and salary consumed every year was simply an astronomical figure.
Since the time of the Supreme Emperor, the imperial court has been in arrears with military pay, and even with the current emperor, there is no way to improve it.
This allows the already powerful nobles to control their troops and horses more calmly.
"It's a pity that you don't have a time and space gate." Looking at the emperor with a sinking face, Li Yunze understood deeply, "Even an emperor can't move without money and food."
After more than half an hour, the topic of Li Yunze finally came.
"Jia Qing put down the rebellion of the chieftains in the southwest, and he has done a great job with his hard work. The tiger and wolf divisions under his command should enter the capital camp." The emperor's eyes were always looking at the nobles, "He will be included in the capital camp, and he will be ranked as the thirteenth regiment camp. Dear nobles, Do you have any objections?"
Naturally, the nobles had no objections. In their view, Li Yunze was also a member of the nobles, which enhanced their strength.
Although Shui Rong had doubts, he naturally would not stop him at this time.
"Jia Qing, your majesty, sees you in your study room and withdraws from the court."
Arriving at the Imperial Study Room, Li Yunze bowed his hands and saluted, "Your Majesty."
"Um."
The emperor, who had recently obtained a lot of personal money from Jia Yuanchun, politely "granted him a seat."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Yunze sat down without any hesitation.
It's not the traditional kind of sitting on half of your buttocks, it's really as comfortable as at home.
Xia Shouzhong looked at the emperor worriedly, but to his surprise, the emperor was not angry, but instead smiled more.
"Jia Qing, tell me how the rebellion in the southwest was quelled?"
"It's a simple matter." Li Yunze has been in the army for a long time, and he is definitely very similar to those rough things. "When he arrives in Guiyang, he recruits people first and then opens the warehouse to reward them. He asks the local gentry to contribute money and help. If he doesn't give money or goods, he will fight directly. As long as it is given. Spend money to bribe the mountain people to act as guides, find the camp of thieves and kill them directly..."... The emperor listened very seriously and asked many details.
For example, how the She family was captured, how the An family was beheaded, etc.
After telling the story about the Southwest War, which mixed truth and lies, Li Yunze added, "The bandits and bandits on the border are all local chickens and dogs."
The emperor laughed, as if very satisfied.
Afterwards, I was given two jars of royal wine and a box of snacks, and that was the end of the matter.
Li Yunze knew very well that the emperor knew much more than he let on.
But so what, as long as he can win the battle. What the Zhou Dynasty lacked most at this time was someone who could win battles.
The two of them are just you fooling me and I fooling you. It's all about getting what you need.
"It's stingy enough." After leaving the imperial study, Li Yunze began to complain, "I don't even want to give Wan'er eight thousand taels of silver."
Xia Shouzhong, who came out to see him off, smiled bitterly, "General, be careful what you say."
Li Yunze simply grabbed his hand and stuffed a few banknotes in his hand calmly, "Father-in-law, take this for tea."
Putting the banknote into his sleeve, Xia Shouzhong immediately smiled like a chrysanthemum on his face.
"The general is interested."
Within a few days, a formal imperial edict signed by the cabinet was issued, and the reinforcement battalion commanded by Li Yunze was officially included in the Beijing battalion sequence, ranking as the 13th regimental battalion.
The Beijing camp is a large establishment, with each battalion having more than 10,000 troops.
Compared with the previous reinforcement camp, its strength has increased by at least three times. And this is what Li Yunze wants.
The Ministry of War gave an establishment of 10,000 people, but the Ministry of Household Affairs only sent food and wages for 5,000 people for a year.
They also plausibly said, "Your regiment is newly established, and Your Majesty only has 50% of the salary out of internal funds." Starting next year, like other regiment camps, it will only be 40% every year. '
Don't ask why the salary is owed, the question is that the court has no money or food.
The nobles controlled the capital camp to fight against the emperor. If it weren't for the fact that it was around the sacred city of Jing, let alone 40% or 30% would be in danger.
News came from Xia Shouzhong that the emperor intended to order Li Yunze to lead troops to quell the Southeastern ghosts. The troops would be dispatched in a few months at most.
"Did you see through me?" Li Yunze thought thoughtfully, recalling the mutual acting skills in the imperial study room, "I think they didn't see through everything, at least half."
The emperor is a very realistic person. If Li Yunze can win the battle, then he will use him.
But in order to limit the Jia family's influence in the capital, they were quickly prepared to send them out to continue to squeeze.
After all, the Jia family has been running the business for two generations and has a great influence in the capital camp, and their disciples and old friends are all over the army.
Li Yunze started his career with military exploits and has attracted everyone's attention. He will definitely not be allowed to stay in the capital camp for a long time.
No matter how money, food, military supplies, armor, stomach, etc. come from, as long as they are useful to the emperor, then use them.
At best, just throw it away after use, typical imperial thinking.
Li Yunze didn't waste any time and directly recruited good family members from all over Guanzhong.
The famine in Guanzhong is no less severe than other places, or even more severe.
It is purely because Shenjing is here and a large amount of food is transported by water transport to barely survive.
However, the areas around Shenjing are slightly better. For example, areas in northern Shaanxi are already infested with bandits.
There are many men over there who want to join the army and feed themselves. ….Li Yunze returned to the modern world. In addition to ordering more Laiyang steel pipes and parts for the stomach, he also asked the hotel butler Tony to lead the way to a specialty store to buy a batch of perfumes and cosmetics.
On this day, he returned from the military camp and when he came to the backyard, he saw Ping'er already waiting there.
He opened his arms to let Ping'er take off his armor and casually asked, "Where is the person?"
"Second Master Bao and the ladies from Dongfu are here as guests, and they are all having wine in Huifang Garden."
Li Yunze laughed when he heard this, "Didn't you say that there is no contact between the two sides? Didn't the old lady stop you?"
Ping'er, who leaned over and took off his clothes and armor, chuckled, "It's all the men's business if they don't interact with each other. The ladies don't care. As for the old lady, there are guests over there and she is busy entertaining them."
Li Yunze stretched out his hands and asked, "Where did the guest come from?"
"Master~~~" Ping'er's pretty face turned red and her voice gradually trembled, "It's Aunt Xue from Jinling who is here, saying she is looking for their young master."
Li Yunze suddenly realized that he was here to find Xue Pan.
Of course, now is not the time to think about this.
"Ping'er." Li Yunze's voice was a little rough. "There seems to be a hole in the armor. Kneel down and take a closer look. Have you found it?"
Ping'er's voice was like a mosquito, "Yes..."
"As long as you find it, you can help me fix it."
Wang Xifeng and the others were laughing and eating wine in Huifang Garden. Ping'er was also drinking wine, but the wine tasted a bit too strong.
After tinkering for half an hour, Xiangling ran over and shouted, "Sister Ping'er, my wife asked you if your master is back."
"Wait, wait a minute." Ping'er was busy repairing his armor, his bangs were fluttering in front of his forehead, and his words were vibrating, "It'll be fine soon."
'Clang~~~' The wine bottle on the coffee table fell to the ground, and the wine in the spout gurgled out. .
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