"Hahaha, Mr. Zuo, you know me well. How could you spit out the fat meat that you ate in my mouth? Of course, I can't give him back even a piece of meat. How can I give it to him to beat me in the future?" Xiao Chen said with a smile,
"But this kid is really good at pestering me. I couldn't be pestered by him, so I gave him something casually and sent him away."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, Mr. Xiao is really wealthy now! I see that your annual income in Yanyun County is almost as much as that of Jiangnan County." Zuo Weipan said.
"Master Zuo, you are just joking with me. Don't you know that the Emperor has given permission for Yanyun County not to collect any taxes within three years? We have to pay for the food we have captured! That's it!
I can't make ends meet, so I have to import from outside at high prices to feed the big guys, haha, the court doesn't even give me a single grain."
"And Mr. Zuo, do you know how much a war horse is worth? How much money of fodder does it cost to raise it for a day? How many war horses have I provided to the court in the past two years? These war horses were purchased from Northern Xinjiang by Yanyun County with my own money.
Again, I sent it to Haining Bay by boat myself, and the court didn’t give me a penny.”
"It can't be said that we didn't give any money, but that little money wasn't even enough to compensate the fallen soldiers last time! Do you know how many brothers we lost in the last battle with the Russians? How much pension was spent? And those brothers who were injured
If the court doesn't care, why don't the brothers care? How much money does it cost to support them for a year?"
"Master Zuo said that I am rich and wealthy, haha, but he doesn't know that I am so poor now that I am almost starving for food! I will go to see the emperor in a while and complain to him properly. I don't expect others to know about my hardship. Your Majesty
The old man still knows it well..."
Xiao Chen sighed and talked nonsense.
"Haha, Mr. Xiao, look at you, I just made a joke casually, and it caused so many complaints from you!" Zuo Weipan said with a smile, "Since these war horses are very expensive to raise, I think Mr. Xiao is still
It’s better to send them away as soon as possible. Prince Fengyang is in urgent need of war horses now, so why not send them all to Minzhou?”
"Oh? Mr. Zuo is not the Minister of Rites now? Why is he still in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of War?" Xiao Chen expressed surprise.
"No matter what, this is not the intention of Xiaguan, but the intention of Prince Fengyang. Before Xiaguan came here, the prince mentioned in his letter the shortage of war horses and asked me to ask Mr. Xiao to help solve the problem."
Zuo Weipan carried Li Feng out again.
"Oh, that's the king's order?" Xiao Chen suddenly realized, "The prince has his orders, how dare you disobey me... It's just that the matter is serious, and you must have the prince's handwriting. Mr. Zuo, you can also take it with you.
Already?"
In fact, even with Li Feng's handwriting, war horses are a first-class important strategic material. No matter who wants it, it must be approved by the Ministry of War!
Without the seal of the Ministry of War, let alone Li Feng, a prince leading troops outside, theoretically even Li Wanjiang's imperial edict would not work!
It was impossible for Li Feng not to know this, so Xiao Chen expected that he would not dare to write a handwritten edict asking him for a war horse.
Sure enough, Zuo Weipan smiled awkwardly, "This is just the prince's oral instructions, but there is no handwritten one. Why are you acting so cautiously now, Mr. Xiao? Are you afraid that I will falsely pass on the king's orders, or are you afraid of the prince..."
"I'm afraid!" Xiao Chen said, "If it's not for anything else, it's just because I've suffered too much, so I have to be more careful. Brother, now that I'm in Yanyun, I'm walking on thin ice and trembling... Of course I believe Mr. Zuo.
, I believe in the prince more, but I don’t know if Mr. Lu Jinglu, the Minister of War, believes in me?”
"Haha, just kidding!" Zuo Weipan laughed a few times, but said seriously, "Actually, the prince will not ask you for nothing, and he will pay you as much money as he needs, so this is not a matter of mobilizing war horses, but Min.
The state has normal business dealings with your Yanyun County. If the official dares to vouch for the prince, he will pay as soon as your war horses are delivered!"
"I see Master Zuo is just joking with my brother. This is a war horse, but it is not an ox, a sheep, or a mule. You, Master Zuo, don't know what the crime of reselling strategic materials privately is, right?" Xiao Chen gestured at his neck with the palm of his hand.
He gestured, "That's going to kill your head!"
Zuo Weipan said to himself, "Why weren't you afraid of losing your head when you robbed so many horses from our military horse farm?"
And how many war horses did you secretly send to Jiangdong County? But it didn’t go through the Ministry of War. It was all under the orders of King Li Shi of Jiangdong, right?
And you also gave away at least 30,000 war horses from Jiangnan County. Is that what King Zhongcheng Li Wanyun asked you for?
Why did King Zhongcheng of Jiangdong obediently give it to you when he asked for it, but we, King Fengyang, made so many excuses when we asked you for it?
It can be seen that you don’t care about King Fengyang at all, and you don’t even pay attention to him!
This is indeed the case, the only thing Xiao Chen would give to Li Feng with both hands is ugly!
What the hell, last time you robbed twenty of my warships, and even scolded me for it, you didn’t settle the debt with you. Why do you have the nerve to ask me for something?
Even if you wanted to, why don't you send a messenger here, or even write a polite letter? How come you just let someone send you a message and I have to obey your orders?
You are nothing, you! In my eyes, you are not even a fart.
"Since Mr. Xiao is afraid of losing his head, let's forget it." Zuo Weipan sighed, "Actually, the prince is in a hurry. If it goes through the Ministry of War, it will take countless time, and the prince will not be very impatient, otherwise it will not be the same as with the Ministry of War.
Mr. Xiao, you said this, but unexpectedly, Mr. Xiao, you really didn’t give the prince this face, hehehe..."
Xiao Chenxin said if I give him a butt, does he want it?
But he said, "Oh, Master Zuo, what you said is not good. Brother, I am really like hearing a thunderbolt from the blue sky. I am scared of gall. I am also like a snow lion pouring water on my head, and I am covered in cold sweat... Master Zuo, please give me a hand.
Why are these legs so weak? These legs!”
"Master Xiao, what's wrong?" Gong Shouli opened the door and came in. He was surprised when he saw Xiao Chen trembling in Zuo Weipan's arms with a pale face.
"Convulsion!" Xiao Chen finally pulled Zuo Weipan to sit down, but he was still frightened.
"Ah?" Gong Shouli said in his heart, no, you are so brave, what could happen to scare you into convulsions? You are the only one who can scare others... But looking at his character, he was really scared.
Lord Zuo?
"It's okay, it's okay." Zuo Weipan's face didn't look very good. For the first time, he had a profound understanding of Xiao Chen's laziness, and he was holding his breath in his heart.
"Ouch, Mr. Zuo, you are fine, but I can't survive. Eunuch Gong, please sit down and listen to me!" Xiao Chen complained to Gong Shouli with a bitter face, "The matter is Jiang Zi's fault..."
"You Xiao Chen are so ignorant!" Gong Shouli jumped up when he heard this, "Why are you so confused after becoming the governor of Yanyun County? The prince sends you errands because he thinks highly of you, and you have to carry the burden! Don't say that
I want you to have two broken horses, even if it means your life, why don’t you just cut off your head and send it there yourself?”
Gong Shouli's words made Zuo Weipan feel as sick as eating a fly, but he couldn't say anything and could only laugh twice to cover up his embarrassment.