Chongzhen's eyes were bright and dying, staring at Shi Kefa, sometimes with fierce light flashing, and sometimes with regret.

According to his original intention, Shi Kefa was to tear Shi Kefa apart, but he dealt with Eunuch Zhang and Li Xianfeng one after another, and vented his anger. From the comments, he was sure that Shi Kefa had no deception and there were not many such loyal ministers. Even if he hated Shi Kefa's continuous defeat and deceived the grain and was robbed, he actually understood it in his heart. This matter cannot be blamed entirely on Shi Kefa.

As the country's power declined, Chongzhen no longer trusted ministers in the court, but this did not mean that he did not want loyal ministers to serve him. It is obvious that Shi Kefa was a loyal minister because Shi Kefa told him the truth. Chongzhen's lower limit was very low. Anyone who told the truth was a loyal minister.

But he was asked to forgive Shi Kefa's sins and could not get over the face. He was a very proud person. After such a big defeat, he deceived him. How could he let Shi Kefa go?

Should I be removed from my post and then re-employed?

Or open the butt?

Chongzhen's eyebrows frowned.

"Emperor, Luzhou Tang News!"

At this time, the eunuch Wang Dehua called out.

"Oh? Come on!"

Chongzhen felt so excited that he was instinctively, and he felt that it was not good news.

Wang Dehua held the Tang newspaper and placed it on Chongzhen's desk.

When Chongzhen opened it, he screamed in surprise, beat the dragon case a few times, and cursed: "Damn it, damn it!"

"emperor……"

Shi Kefa raised his head carefully.

"Show it to him!"

Chongzhen looked angry and signaled to Wang Dehua.

Wang Dehua put the Tang newspaper in front of Shi Kefa.

Shi Kefa looked at it and his expression changed drastically. Huang Degong presented it to Tangbao. He and Zhu Dadian led the army to rescue Luzhou. Unfortunately, Luzhou was destroyed. The fifth camp of the Gellshu robbed the entire city. Nearly 100,000 women were captured, and all the elderly and weak were killed. When Huang Degong arrived, Luzhou had become an empty city with tens of thousands of corpses.

"Shi Kefa, do you have something to say?"

Chongzhen asked in a cold voice with a gloomy face.

Shi Kefa said hatred: "The five thieves who have defeated their conscience in the revolution of the left will not die well. However, now the country is in decline, and the bandits in Shaanxi and Henan are everywhere, and the Jianghuai River are gradually losing their protection. Therefore, I beg the emperor to make an exception to promote Li Xin and suppress the bandits for the emperor."

"Li Xin is willing to fall and be willing to be a bandit. How can I use him!"

Chongzhen snorted.

Shi Kefa continued: "I dare not argue before my king and father, but according to my knowledge, Li Xin was anxious about righteousness and was kind-hearted. He only started to rise up in anger because the Qi County Magistrate framed him in prison.

I think this person is still kind and righteous, and he also distinguishes right from wrong. He is not the kind of stubborn bandits who are not stubborn. If he persuades him, he can turn back. He voluntarily wipe out Zhang Xianzhong for the court and Li Zicheng for the thief. I think that the emperor can use it temporarily, listen to his words and observe his actions. If he is not good, he can also be like a stubborn bandit, so that he and the bandits will suffer both defeats."

Chongzhen was the emperor for more than ten years. Countless setbacks gave him a lot of painful experience, which made him dare not have much hope for anything. He was also worried about recruiting Li Xin, but the Jianghuai River was already ruined, and the court could not distribute more troops. Who else could he use if Li Xin was not used?

In fact, Chongzhen was unwilling to use Li Xin, which made him feel humiliated. However, the destruction of Luzhou made him realize the seriousness of the situation, so he nodded and said, "Since you have the strength to recommend it, I will use him out of order and send an order to Li Xin as the general of Gaoyou. I will immediately eliminate the five thieves in the rebellion of the left. If I make a contribution, I will have another reward!"

Shi Kefa's lips moved. Li Xin asked for the ruler, not just the general. He wanted to remind Chongzhen, but at the same time he knew that making Li Xin the general was the biggest concession that Chongzhen could make.

Moreover, appointing civil servants is more complicated than appointing military officers. The Ministry of Personnel cannot appoint Li Xin as the governor of Gaoyou. If Chongzhen insists on his own, he will inevitably lead to siege in the court.

‘Hey, I hope that kid can understand the emperor’s difficulties!’

Shi Kefa sighed secretly and said, "Li Xinli should understand the emperor's wishes. He will cry for gratitude and bow down to serve him."

"Let's go down, you will go back to Huai'an tomorrow and take my order away, don't make a statement!"

Chongzhen seemed tired and waved his hand powerlessly, his face even more yellow.

Shi Kefaben wanted to plead for Li Xianfeng, but seeing how Chongzhen did not dare to speak up and bow to him.

...

When Huang Degong besieged Gaoyou, hundreds of revolutionary troops died in battle. In order to supplement the source of troops, in addition to formally joining the forced gangsters into the army, they also recruited soldiers from Gaoyou youth and Henan refugees. It took two days to recruit soldiers, with a total force of 13,000. After the initial reorganization, there were four musket regiments, two artillery regiments, and two bow and archery regiments. The cavalry battalion was expanded into a cavalry regiment, with Gao Guiying as the regiment commander, and the vanguard battalion and the personal guard company remained unchanged, but the number was full.

On this day, Li Xin brought people to the bank of Chengtong River, not far from the city.

The river is about twenty feet wide, and the water flows are neither fast nor slow. The clear river water can be seen at the bottom. Wild ducks and water birds wander in groups. The withered reeds on the shore are faintly filled with green vitality.

"ah!"

Sun Di took a deep breath, opened her arms, looking intoxicated.

Zhou Han hugged Sun Huo lovingly.

Sun Huo pulled Zhou Han and asked, ""Jiangnan is much better than Beijing. There is no wind and sand, nor is it as cold as Beijing. No, this is not Jiangnan. Mom, Jiading must be better than Gaoyou, right?"

Zhou Han showed a look of nostalgia, sighed, then turned around and asked, "Mr. Li, what are you doing when you take us to the river?"

Li Xin smiled faintly: "I plan to clear out the river bank, install the cofferdam onto the water truck, and build a hydroweaver factory."

"oh?"

People around him looked over incomprehensible.

Li Xin explained: "The efficiency of human weaving is very low, and hydroweaving can increase the efficiency forty times. That is to say, if others weave two pieces of cloth a day, our factory can weave eighty pieces of cloth. Besides, in addition to hydroweaving, spinning shuttles and new spinning machines with nearly ten times increased efficiency are being built by craftsmen. In the future, the factory will be built, and the overall efficiency will be almost a hundred times higher than manpower."

"So awesome?"

Sun Di opened his mouth wide with an exaggerated voice: "Mr. Li, according to what you wrote in the book, the larger the scale, the lower the cost. Your cloth is cheaper than others. If there are all your cloth on the market, how can others sell their cloth? You must not close the door and go bankrupt?"

Li Xin smiled slightly. That's what he meant. Depriving others of their property by force is a bad idea. Therefore, it is not forced to go to a dead end. He will not easily gain a large number of people. However, it is very open and upright to defeat others by economic means and then acquire industries at a low price. He plans to use capitalist industrialization to defeat the landlord economy in Jiangnan, make it bankrupt, sell land and industry at a low price, and take it back to the country.

Zhou Di gritted his teeth and asked, "Mr. Li, you are not old, but you always have insights. I am very surprised. Where did you learn it from? I wonder if you can tell me?"

Suddenly, Sun Huo widened his eyes and looked straight at Li Xin.
Chapter completed!