Chapter 285: I can't afford to mess with you (2)(1/2)
The inexplicable dialect surprised Guo Ying.
He Rong continued to murmur, "You are picking up plums... In the funeral of people in the past, you are scattering around and drinking to make a big and big splash. Today, you are desperate, you are picking up some of them! Alas, you die at the wrong time. I don't know if you are still rhinoceros in the wild. I will burn a few beautiful girls to compare you, throw them away!"
A blue vein suddenly appeared on Guo Ying's forehead, "You fucking speak well? Don't chant the spell!"
"I'll speak vernacular!" He Rong said in a muffled voice, "It's been decades. He has been forced to speak official language with his fists every day. He can't say it well and even hit me. Now that he's dead, I can finally say a few more words!"
"Your mother!" Guo Ying wandered on the verge of furiousness, "You southern barbarian!"
Suddenly, He Rong's eyes turned red, "Someone bullied me in the army back then, Cao Zhen hugged my shoulder and said to the person who bullied me, "This little Nan barbarian is my brother, only I can call him Nan barbarian, who will die if anyone calls him!"
He Rong followed his father to surrender to the old man in Guangdong, and then followed a military leader like Huaixi to fight south and north.
Guo Ying patted He Rong on the shoulder silently.
Brother! Those who crawl out of the dead are brothers in life and death!
A real brother who can exchange lives.
Once upon a time they put their heads on their waists, and now... they are counting day by day and waiting for that day.
At this moment, a group of people suddenly came in the front yard, and the eunuch Pu Wuyou, who was the leader of the Silijian.
“There is a will!”
The Cao family knelt in front of the spirit and listened to the order, and Guo Ying also knelt beside him, feeling hopeful.
"Jingchuan Marquis Cao Zhen, a young man, followed Emperor Taizu Gao to raise an army, and made great contributions. He attacked Beiping and settling Yunnan. He conquered Jingxiang, aided Yunnan and Guizhou, and charged forward and entered the battle with great courage. The good generals of the country have their contributions to the country!"
"I often hear that a saint of the country will reward his merits. In the past, Emperor Taizu Gao was promoted to the throne of marquis, and I am the only one who is worthy of your life. Now I think of you for many years of hard work, why is it so stingy to be honored to work hard for half a lifetime!"
"Specially posthumously sealed..."
Park's useless words made the Cao family look up, while Guo Ying was so excited that her shoulders were trembling.
"Cao Zhen, the Marquis of Jingchuan, is Duke Shu..."
"Damn, you are higher than my vixen! You have got what you want now?" Guo Ying said in his heart.
The three characters Shu Guogong have very high specifications. Shu refers to Cao Zhen’s hometown, Shuzhou, Huaixi.
"Xu Yizi inherited the marquis and ate 2,500 stones. The iron scroll for exemption from death was given by Emperor Taizu Gao, and he was promoted to three generations."
"I am worthy of the Temple of Meritorious Officials, and I am honored by this!"
"Long live my emperor!"
"Idiot, let's go!" Guo Ying looked at the sky with tears in her eyes, "Your Majesty, I'll give you my wish!"
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Night fell again, and the lights in Qianqing Palace were a little dim.
Zhu Yunxiu sat at the table, facing the dinner, he felt a little unpleasant.
Somehow, for the time after the old man left, he always felt that something was missing suddenly.
If you think about it carefully, there should be fewer people coming and going and fewer more ties.
In addition, when I heard the bad news about Cao Zhen from Jingchuan Marquis today, my mood was even more sour.
At this moment, the turtlema came in quietly and whispered, "Your Majesty, walk in the Nan Study Room, Xin Yande, the commander of the Tongzheng Department, returned to Beijing and waited in the duty room!"
Xin Tietou is back!
Zhu Yunxiu smiled a little on his face, "Come on!" and said, "Light up the lights!"
Soon, Xin Yande entered the palace, "My minister Xin..."
Before he could finish speaking, Zhu Yunxiu smiled and said, "No need to be polite, hurry up, come by my side and let me see you!"
After saying that, he looked carefully.
Xin Yande was originally a thin person, and he looked even thinner after several months of disaster relief in Huaibei.
"Your dear!" Zhu Yunxi sighed, and then said, "You haven't had enough food yet! Come on, let's go with me!" As he said, he said to the turtle, "Get the tableware!"
"The king and father have given me a gift, but I dare not refuse!" Xin Yande bowed without any expression.
~
A gentleman does not speak or speak.
For a moment, the hall was filled with the sound of Xin Yande shutting up and chewing. He didn't pretend to be fake at all, and he quickly lowered his chopsticks, almost like the wind swaying the clouds.
Seeing that he was eating deliciously, Zhu Yunxiu also had a bit of appetite.
After ate two big bites of rice, he smiled and said, "You are so hungry!" As he said that, he pushed the cherry meat in front of him, "Try this!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Yunxi was surprised to find that Xin Yande had eaten half a plate like a wind and a broken cloud.
"You..." Zhu Yunxi smiled, "How long has it been since I ate meat?"
He was joking, but Xin Yande said seriously, "Since he arrived in Huaian, Sizhou, I have never eaten meat!"
"Then what did you eat?" Zhu Yunxiu asked.
Xin Yande looked at the food on the table, "I ate the same food as the victims!"
Then, he looked up at Zhu Yunxiu.
"This meal is really uneasy!" Zhu Yunxiu smiled bitterly and put down his chopsticks, thinking in his heart.
"When I was in the capital, I heard from the older generation of military marquis that when they were fighting, they all ate the same food as ordinary soldiers, so that they could know when they were hungry when they were in the army! The same is true for me in Huai'an. I did nothing for a day. If I were hungry, the victims would definitely be hungry!"
Then, Xin Yande continued to look straight at Zhu Yunxiu, "I have been in Huaibei for several months. Every meal is full of wild vegetables and old rice porridge. The occasional tooth-bean sauce is added to add some bean paste."
Zhu Yunxiu picked up the handkerchief and wiped his mouth, "What do you want to say?"
"I heard that the emperor wants to use troops again!" Xin Yande continued to look at Zhu Yunxiu and said seriously, "The country has people, and is conservative and poor. The emperor does not know how to nurture his subjects, but instead wants to use troops to foreign countries. I am stupid and can't figure out why!"
"Isn't it good to spend countless food and money on the people of the Ming Dynasty? The people of the Ming Dynasty are living a hard life! The money for war comes from the people, and now it is not possible to use it for the people?"
As he said that, Xin Yande stood up, knelt on the ground, and slowly took off his damaged official hat.
"I, I will give you a warning today!"
After saying that, he kowtowed heavily.
Then he continued, "If the country is prosperous and the people are safe, I will not say this. But now the disaster has just passed, and it is really inappropriate to use troops."
Zhu Yunxiu sighed silently, "Now it is labor-for-relief. The Ministry of Revenue in Huaibei has prepared abundant food and grass. I use military force and the treasury has money..."
Xin Yande interrupted rudely, "Emperor, how many treasury still has?"
As he said that, without waiting for Zhu Yunxi to speak, he smiled bitterly on his own, "If the emperor doesn't say it, I will probably know about how much I have. There should be more than six million!"
"Yeah!" Zhu Yunhuang nodded.
"I will settle the bill for the emperor!" Xin Yande knelt straight and looked up, "When the emperor ascended the throne in the 30th year of Hongwu, the silver in the treasury was probably this amount. Since the emperor's imperial power, Xinghai Trade opened customs, collected commercial taxes and minted new coins, and opened up wealth. The annual income of the treasury is more than three times that of the Hongwu Dynasty, but now it is still the money! What about the money?"
He said, looking at Zhu Yunxi's expression.
The emperor was very calm and did not express too much emotion.
"The national treasury collects a lot, and you also spend more. The military expenditure in the northern border has increased year by year. There are bridges and roads in various places, seaports and sea ships, and two bottomless caves of treasure shipyards and firearms foundry bureaus have been built."
"Your Majesty, life is not like this! The treasury is full and correct. The Qing government should order the people to settle lawsuits and promote education, so that the people can live and work in peace and comfort, and reduce the burden on the people, rather than using troops to the outside world for years. It should be noted that the matter of war is actually the food of the people!"
"Besides, if the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty are unstable, even if the emperor conquers a territory like Genghis Khan, it will be nothing! It will be a waste of money!"
Zhu Yunxiu looked at him quietly and sighed slightly, "Actually, you don't understand my difficulties!"
"No matter how difficult the emperor is!" Xin Yande looked at the exquisite imperial meal on the table, "Is it rare to be more powerful than the people in the world?"
"If it were before, I thought so!"
Xin Yande's words were very exaggerated and very rebellious, but something surprising was that Zhu Yun's fault was not angry.
On the contrary, the attitude was still very peaceful.
"When I was a teenager, I thought, if I sat in this position one day, what would happen? But only when I truly reached this position, I realized that there really was a choice in doing things, that is, sometimes I really need to be ruthless!"
Xin Yande smiled, "I know that the emperor wants to imitate Qin Emperor and Han Wu. Who are you talking about choosing and giving up?" He shook his head and said, "The people are like leeks, and they are resurrected, right?"
This is no longer rude, but a death sentence.
But Zhu Yunxiu was still not angry, but looked outside, "Deng Ping!"
"I'm here!"
"Where is the Duke of Wei?"
"Return to the emperor, Duke of Wei is sorting out the military book of the Ministry of War in the South Study!"
"Biography!" Zhu Yunxiu looked at Xin Yande again, "Let him say it!"
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Xu Huizu, Duke of Wei, walked in with a thick roster in hand with a little fatigue.
"He said!" Zhu Yunxiu pointed at Xin Yande, "I should no longer think about fighting, I should spend money on the people. Let me tell him why I want to raise troops again!"
Xu Huizu also looked at Xin Yande, put down the military order in his hand first, and said to Zhu Yunxi, "Your Majesty, the old and weak in Jiubian Town will lay off 280,000 people, plus their military families, no less than 600,000!"
To be continued...