"I won't read it if you believe it. Just tell me directly. What does he, the Governor of Ji Liao, want our Li family to do for them?"
Li Chengliang said at this time.
Li Rubai also reported to Li Chengliang: "They want the commander-in-chief of Ji Town to investigate the northern soldiers who were greatly affected, and massacre all the officers of the south camp who were co-defending Jizhou in the martial arts field, in the name of treason!"
"According to him, he has obtained evidence. As long as all the Xie Guards South Camp is wiped out, the remaining officers and generals of the Qi family's old troops who are scattered everywhere are just officers and generals scattered everywhere. They can be arrested by sending a Jinyi Guard."
"When the time comes, he and Zha Damou will present the evidence of the crime to His Majesty. Your Majesty will believe it and terminate his current position as Chief Assistant."
"And in this way, my father can replace Ji Guogong as the first assistant. Even if he cannot become the first assistant, he can still get half of the money lost from taxes in the future."
"What if I don't agree?"
Li Chengliang asked.
Li Rubai said: "What he means is that even if you don't agree, he will report it. When the time comes, your Majesty will no longer let military ministers like my father and Duke Ji be the chief assistants. He will only continue to trust civil servants."
"At that time, they civil servants will still follow the court to suppress the Li family, and the Li family will get nothing."
After hearing this, Li Chengliang looked at Li Rubai and asked, "What do you think?"
"My son thinks what he said makes sense."
Li Rubai replied.
Li Chengliang chuckled, and then his face sank: "There is a bullshit truth!"
"The son is willing to listen to his father's teachings!"
Li Rubai hurriedly handed over his hands to ask for advice.
"You can never keep the money you get by sacrificing power!"
"We and Nan Bing are very different, but we don't really want to be mortal enemies of each other! We want to be harmonious but different. It would not be good for each other to quarrel with each other. After all, we are both warriors."
"If it's the family of you young people who serve as Northern soldiers, you might really be fooled by him and want to hurt each other, but I'm not that easy to fool."
"He connives, and may even deliberately encourage some southern military officers to smuggle luxury goods, or take advantage of the imposition of luxury taxes to make money, and then wants to drag us into the water, and use this opportunity to eliminate the southern military officers and generals en masse, so that Lao Lao Qi cannot be the chief minister and makes the luxury tax a tool for us to make money. He clearly wants to take advantage of our conflicts with the Southern soldiers and people's greed for money to make us their lackeys in the future!"
"Why should I be their dog?"
"Once I become their dog, will I be a dog for them so that I will continue to raise bandits in the future to avoid being cooked and killed by them?"
"Now, finally, because His Majesty wants to use Lao Qi, he supports my Li family to check and balance the Qi family. If Lao Qi really disappears, it will be our Lao Li family who should be slandered and suppressed."
Li Chengliang said more because he wanted to mention his son.
Because Li Chengliang broke it apart and crushed it into pieces while talking, Li Rubai did understand a little bit and said, "What my father said is true, but his son doesn't think as much as his father thought. So, if that's the case, shouldn't we agree to him?"
"promise!"
"How could you not agree?"
Li Chengliang replied.
Li Rubai couldn't help but open his mouth, but his mind couldn't process Li Chengliang's inconsistent words.
"But I have to write a letter to Zha Damou and let him use his plan."
Seeing his second son like this, Li Chengliang took a deep breath, and then spoke again:
"Your Majesty is right. My father, I, and Duke Ji are the most tactful military officials than their civil servants!"
"They civil servants are clever and want to alienate us and make the northern and southern soldiers incompatible in the future. We also let them have a taste of being played by the military ministers, so that they will know from now on that not all military men are rough people. At least they can be compared with their civil servants in the past. The new martial arts skills that have been tempered during the years of being in power and become a minister are not so easy to play with!"
Jizhou.
Since they were naturalized and started mining, the income of most Mongolians in the Tumote tribe has increased and their consumer demand has increased, so the number of trade routes out of Jizhou has also increased.
The entire Jizhou is more prosperous than before, and even the streets outside the city stretch for more than ten miles.
There is a constant flow of people, and horse and camel teams come and go from time to time.
Jizhou City, which was originally an important military town, gradually became more and more rich in the atmosphere of a commercial town. There were splendid pavilions and red-sleeved jade hands inside and outside the city gate, just like in the north and south of the Yangtze River.
In such a colorful world, it is easy for people to forget that this was the Ming Dynasty's fortress to defend against the Mongols' southward march, and only think that this is a treasure place where money can be made.
Xu Fukui, the governor of Jiliao, had the idea of moving here at this time. Therefore, he did not wear armor today. He only wore a square turban and a straight robe. He shook his folding fan and came to Jiliao accompanied by a group of civil servants and generals. Zhouchengguan.
Xu Fukui looked at the silver coins being thrown into the tax box one by one under the city gate, and said happily to the civil servants and generals behind him:
"As soon as the luxury tax was levied, it really increased taxes a lot! In just a short while, the tax box is almost full."
"What Bu Tang said is that Yuan Fu can be said to be able to govern the country well, which is also a blessing to Bu Tang. If Bu Tang did not protect the country well, it would not be like this."
Jizhou Commander-in-Chief Cha Damou smiled and agreed.
Xu Fukui nodded after hearing this, then called Zha Damoushou aside, and asked Zha Damoushou in a low voice: "Have you received the letter from the Prime Minister?"
Zha Dashou nodded: "I got it."
"The Prime Minister asked his subordinates to obey the control of the Ministry. He said that His Majesty has known through the factory guards that the old department under the current Chief Assistant is amassing money, and has hinted that he should get rid of it. The move proposed by the Ministry now can be said to be in line with the Holy Will!"
Zha Damou replied.
"That's good!"
Xu Fukui couldn't hide his excitement, and immediately called Xu Tong, the assistant guard of Jizhou, to his side and whispered:
"Someone from the Privy Council has sent a letter to Zha Zongzhen. The superior has doubts about the current Yuan Fu and wants to get rid of him."
"So, we really want to raise an army?"
After hearing this, Xu Tong's expression changed and he hurriedly asked.
Xu Fukui nodded: "It can't be said that we raised troops. There are bandits sneaking across Jizhou and disturbing the capital. We have to go to the capital to serve the king."
"That's what Budo said."
Xu Tong also looked serious.
Xu Fukui then said: "Write a letter to Sun Youyi and Jiang Shoubei and ask them to lead troops to Jizhou first."
"We can write a letter, but we still need a vote from the ministry."
"After all, the officers and soldiers below do not have the votes of the ministry, so they may not be willing to believe us. If there are factory guards in the army to instigate carefully, they will only become more suspicious. Now it is no different than before. Without Jun orders, the people below will not believe it easily. The superior’s.”
Xu Tong said at this time.
Xu Fukui glanced at Xu Tong: "Of course I will give you a constitutional vote! Are you still worried that the governor will kill people and silence them at this time?"
"My subordinates don't dare!"
Xu Tong hurriedly replied.
Therefore, Xu Fukui actually gave Xu Tong the constitutional vote to adjust the southern military camps under Jiliao's jurisdiction.
Within three days, all the officers and generals involved in smuggling or misappropriating tax money in the southern camps were ordered to bring their own troops.
On the day when Xu Fukui was transferred to the southern troops and entered the city one after another, accompanied by Cha Dashou, the commander-in-chief of Ji Town, he boarded the Jizhou Chengguan again.
This time, Xu Fukui put on armor and arranged for two servants also wearing armor to block him.
Seeing the Nan soldiers entering Wengcheng one after another, Xu Fukui asked Zha Damou: "Are you ready?"
Zha Dashou nodded: "Don't worry, my subordinates will have the Wengcheng closed after they all enter the city."
Xu Fukui nodded.
Here, Xu Tong also led his southern soldiers into Wengcheng.
Because Xu Fukui's order to him was to also bring his own soldiers into Wengcheng to prepare for Jun's orders, and asked him to take the lead in inciting other southern soldiers to suppress those who were unwilling to go to the capital.
Because Xu Tong knew that Xu Fukui and Zha Damou were also involved in dividing the spoils, he did not suspect that there was fraud.
But after all his southern soldiers entered Wengcheng, and when Zha Damou's troops were about to enter the city, Wengcheng slowly closed.
Xu Tong was shocked when he saw this and hurriedly asked the Northern soldiers who were in Guancheng:
"What are you going to do?"
boom!
At the same time, the Qianjin gates at two places inside and outside Wengcheng had already been lowered.
Xu Tong, guerrilla Sun Tingpei, and guard Jiang Fu all looked shocked when they saw this.
Soon, a large number of armors appeared on the city gate.
Seeing this, Xu Tong couldn't help but said to Sun Tingpei and Jiang Fu: "We have been fooled."
Then, Xu Tong raised his head and cursed loudly: "How dare you play tricks on us! Why are you so mean?!"
At this time, Xu Fukui, the governor of Jiliao, had a proud smile on his face and said to Zha Damou: "Zha Zongzhen, let your people take action. As long as these people are gone, no one will know about our participation in sharing the spoils. When the time comes, first burn the charters they got, and only show evidence of their crimes of smuggling and embezzlement of tax money, saying that they came to Jizhou without authorization and intended to rebel, so that the court can convince the court that they want to rebel, and it has something to do with us. We just suppressed these rebels in time."
Then, Xu Fukui said: "In this case, the strength of the southern army will be greatly reduced, and the entire Jiliao will be the territory of your northern army. In this way, the emperor can only rely on your northern army, and you can let all the wealth of the world return to the people who pay the border. Has."
Xu Fukui laughed again and said, "This is a perfect plan!"
"But aren't the ordinary Nan soldiers down there too innocent?"
"They don't know that their Shangguan has lost tax money and smuggled goods, nor do they know that they are going to rebel. They only know that the governor sent them to fight against the bandits. I'm afraid many of them are ready to kill the enemy and perform meritorious service."
"This hurts the hearts of their southern soldiers. If there is a big war in the future in which both northern and southern soldiers are involved, how dare we, the northern soldiers, hand our backs to our brothers from the southern soldiers?"
Zha Damou suddenly said this.
Xu Fukui couldn't help being startled after hearing this, and asked Zha Damou: "What do you mean?"
"Means nothing."
"The subordinates just have to act impartially and follow orders."
As he spoke, Zha Damou took out a warrant in his hand and said:
"The order from the Privy Council that I received was to let my subordinates only cooperate with the imperial guards sent by the imperial court to arrest key criminals who had committed corruption and perverted the law. They did not let my subordinates put down the rebellion. As for whether these southern soldiers are treasonous, we have to see what they end up with." Only by whether there is a constitutional vote, and what is the content of the constitutional vote to dispatch them, can we determine whether they want to rebel."
Thank you for reminding everyone. When I wrote yesterday's chapter, I did forget that there is a secret passage from the Prime Minister's residence to the palace, and the loophole has been fixed.
(End of chapter)
