Li Chi looked at Xiahou Zhuo, as if hesitating for a moment, and then asked in a thief tone: "I can give you a book, but what does it mean to disarm and not kill after a few strokes?"

Xiahou Zhuo shook his head: "Child, you will understand in the future."

He patted Li Chi's shoulder: "It always needs to grow."

Li Chi wanted to ask, Xiahou Zhuo was willing to give him a chance, so he turned around and ran away.

Finally, there was an opportunity to make Li Chi feel uncomfortable. Can Xiahou Zhuo give up?

What Li Chi could understand at this time was probably... without practice, it would not be possible to have theory alone.

After this year, the Ning army still had no offensive posture, which made the Shuzhou army in the Meishan camp even more uncomfortable.

If the soldiers were ready for all the battle at the beginning, they still hoped not to fight.

So now the mentality of the soldiers of Shuzhou Army is to fight as soon as possible. This kind of torment is really too uncomfortable.

Every day, I have a string tightly, but no matter how tight you are, the hand that tweaks the strings will not come.

The Shuzhou Army seemed to be lying down, and Ning Jun said, "You go to bed first, I'll play a game."

So far, many soldiers have a mentality of simply fighting and dying in battle, and dying early and entrusting themselves to live early.

However, Ning Jun became more and more dispersive.

Standing at the height of Meishan Camp, you can clearly see that the Ning army soldiers were like herding sheep. They practiced daily at the beginning, but now they have not even practiced, and it seems that they are coming here for vacation.

However, Pei Jinglun understood that everything was an illusion.

Although Ning Wang Li Chi was not in a hurry to attack Meishan, Li Chi must have hoped that the people on Meishan could not bear the pressure and came to attack.

All the laziness seen by eyes is just what Ning Jun did on purpose.

Outside the Ningjun camp, Li Chi and Xiahou Zhuo set up the chessboard, and the two of them were drinking tea and playing chess.

Xiahou Zhuo glanced at Meishan from time to time, but Li Chi didn't even look at it.

It has passed the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Judging from the calculation, Ning Jun has been staying here for more than three months.

It was these three months that the Shuzhou Army saw the strength of the Ning Army's logistics.

If it was someone else's team, hundreds of thousands of troops would be consuming here, and the money, food and materials could no longer be afforded.

However, Li Chi used a decisive approach to the enemy of almost all the aristocratic families in the world, and accumulated a lot of wealth.

Li Chi did not use the method of fighting to support the war, but used it in advance.

In Li Chi's words, when I can be completely rampant, if I don't attack them, it will be difficult for me to have another chance to attack after I founded the country.

Now as long as Li Chi doesn't proclaim himself emperor or establish a country, he can still have the freedom to do whatever he wants.

Think about it, after becoming an emperor, there were laws, rationality, order, and various rules and regulations, so how could Li Chi do whatever he wanted?

He insisted on not being the emperor because of this.

The generals did not have much influence. In their opinion, when King Ning would become emperor, of course, he should follow the wishes of King Ning.

The civil officials wanted to restore the legal system of the Central Plains as soon as possible, and it also involved more aspects, so they hoped that King Ning would become emperor this morning.

Xiahou Zhuoluozi, then smiled: "You have made progress in chess skills."

Li Chi smiled and said, "It's more time than you are free."

Xiahou Zhuo: "This is one of the reasons why you don't want to be emperor as soon as possible."

Li Chi said: "Do you think a lazy person has not thought about how to keep being lazy as much as possible after becoming emperor?"

Li Chi told Xiahou Zhuo and the others before when he was in Daxing City that there would be no official position like a prime minister in the future court.

What he wanted was another imperial model. He was deeply influenced by Mr. Li and had thought about the cabinet system countless times in his mind.

Leave the complicated and trivial matters to the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet to avoid the situation where the imperial court is in power alone.

Of course, the cabinet's grand sanctions system may not necessarily fundamentally solve this problem, but Li Chi can't think of it better yet.

The way.

"I received news yesterday that Mr. Yan sent someone from Jingzhou."

Li Chi glanced at Xiahou Zhuo: "Xu Ji seemed a little domineering in Yuezhou."

Xiahou Zhuo said: "It's fine to be promising when you are young, but you are successful when you are young. You are in a place where powerful means are urgently needed to restore order. In fact, being more domineering is not a bad thing, it depends on where you are..."

He looked at Li Chi: "As long as you are not domineering in hiring people..."

Li Chi slowly let out a breath and said nothing.

Xiahou Zhuo asked: "I haven't figured it out yet. You know that Xu Ji had this idea and he had already done this when he was in Jizhou, but you sent him to Yuezhou so that he could continue to be unscrupulous in another place."

"When you were in Jizhou, you were in Jiangnan and Xu Ji was in Jizhou without any restrictions. Then when you went to Yuezhou, you could be considered a place far away from the emperor, but he still had no restrictions..."

Xiahou Zhuo looked at Li Chi's eyes and asked, "Why?"

Li Chi just smiled and answered Xiahou Zhuo with this smile, meaning...unspeakable.

Xiahou Zhuo thought about it carefully, and suddenly his heart lit up.

But just because it was lit up, he felt a faint sense of fear rising from his heart.

He knew that he shouldn't ask any questions, but after holding on for a while, he couldn't help it.

"Whenever, will you need someone like that?"

When Xiahou Zhuo asked this, he was already careful enough.

Li Chi looked at Xiahou Zhuo but still didn't answer.

Xiahou Zhuo understood what Li Chi meant, so he nodded: "Don't ask."

So Li Chi laughed again.

At the same time, Yuezhou.

In the lobby of the Jiedushi Mansion, a group of officials were kneeling densely, each of which seemed to be very scared.

Xu Ji sat in the main seat and swept across everyone with a slightly cold look.

"Shuzhou is still fighting."

Xu Ji picked up the teacup and took a sip, then continued, "The lord has benevolence and has reduced the taxes in Yuezhou for three years... This is the lord's benevolence, but as a minister, I am the same as you, and I cannot take it for granted to enjoy the lord's benevolence, and then I use this as an excuse to be so lazy that I do nothing."

"The war in Shuzhou will not end for a while. I asked someone. Suzhou, which is similar to that in our Yuezhou, has a lot of food and supplies transported to Shuzhou, and our Yuezhou has not yet supported a grain of food."

He lowered the teacup and tapped his fingers on the table.

"The food of the people cannot be moved. That is the lord's strict order. However, in my Yuezhou, the enlightenment of the rich families is really much lower than that of other places?"

As soon as he said this, the kneeling officials immediately understood what Xu Ji meant.

"If hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Western Expedition were hungry and the lord was hungry, this was the serious crime of us ministers."

Xu Ji said: "Get up."

Only with his words did the officials dare to get up.

Xu Ji's eyes swept over the officials again, calmed down his tone and continued to speak.

"Whoever was selected by the lord to Yuezhou was not selected because of his ability?"

"Including local officials selected, which one was promoted by me, Xu Ji, for personal gain?"

Xu Ji stood up and walked in the lobby while saying, "Lord has given you the opportunity to show your ambitions. Where are your ambitions?"

He walked to the door and pointed outside: "Yuezhou is a land of fish and rice. Some wealthy families hold tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in their hands. Because the lord said that they would not collect taxes, their own granaries were so full that they could no longer put them down. Is this reasonable?"

The officials shook their heads quickly.

Xu Ji said: "There is a booklet next to each of you seats. The booklet contains the amount of food and food that each county can take out after I sent someone to conduct a detailed investigation. I don't want to delay your time, so I have set the amount for you in advance. Let's take a look now."

The officials quickly wrote down the booklets around them

When it was opened, almost everyone only took a look and a very complicated expression appeared on their faces.

This amount is accurate to the limit of each county.

I have to say that Xu Ji's strength is absolutely proportional to his ability.

"Sir, are there any difficulties?"

Xu Ji asked with a smile.

A Fuzhi, named Liu, looked around and saw that no one was talking, he mustered up his courage to stand up.

"My Lord Jiedushi, there is nothing too difficult in terms of quantity, but this date is really a bit nervous."

Xu Ji looked at him: "Mr. Liu is in Qinzhou. I have calculated it for you. According to the amount you set, ten days are enough. Then twenty days are used to transport the grain and grass to the prefecture city. Together, it will take a full month. At least I will give you three to five days to make you rich."

He slowly walked to Liu Fuzhi: "Mr. Liu feels time is tight, so he can list me the time it takes. I will judge from it. If my calculation is wrong, I will change the time for you on the spot."

Liu Fuzhi opened his mouth and looked embarrassed.

Finally, he gritted his teeth and said, "The time given by the Jiedushi is reasonable, which is indeed a lack of ability..."

As soon as he said this, Xu Ji asked, "Is Mr. Jing, the founder of Qinzhou, here?"
To be continued...