Chapter 426 Borrowing money to test loyalty
Although the two despise each other, no one can do without the other now. Yang Ze wants to strike a bigger blow to the eldest princess so that after Li Zhenglong left Beijing, he can attract more fictional talents, but don’t underestimate fictional talents. If there are too many such people, it can be regarded as a kind of force. At least there will be no one who shakes the flag and shouts for him. This article is first published by...
Li Zhenglong wanted to lead his troops to the war and completely take the military power of the Right Shenwu Army. Maybe after returning to the army, his military power could be further improved, but this required Yang Ze to plan for him. After all, he had no strategist under him who could catch up with Yang Ze.
Li Zhenglong said: "Then, this matter... I will explain it to the emperor now? It's time to go to the emperor if it's time to go to it. If the eldest princess finds out, it might cause trouble again. How could she let her daughter and son-in-law get into trouble!"
Yang Ze shook his head and said, "The little prince can't tell you about this matter personally. Since the officials have left the normal process of the case, it should be up to the Jingzhao Yin Ma Weishan. He reported the matter. How could the prime ministers in the Secretariat be so good? They will definitely investigate it. Who can they investigate it? Naturally, they will be the officials. Then, the officials will exclaim again and achieve the results we want!"
Li Zhenglong nodded and said in confusion: "What does soy sauce mean? Does it mean to sit idly?"
Yang Ze raised his thumb and said, "The little prince is wise and it really means this. This word is the hometown dialect of Xiaguan's hometown. Anyway, as long as we choose a title, someone will do the next thing for us. The little prince just waits for everyone to recommend you to lead your troops to fight. Of course, if you have a trusted minister, you can let them beat the edge drum, so that things can be done faster and smoother."
Li Zhenglong believed it deeply that he could use the ministers who depended on him at this time. Unfortunately, there were not many ministers who were with him, and there was not even one with high power, and at most a few censors.
He said, "Just seeking faster. As for the smooth flow, it will definitely go smoothly. No one in Beijing will lead troops except me."
Yang Ze thought to himself: "Brave you, can you lead the troops? In the past, you just saw the soldiers walking in unison, and probably the current level is still the same!"
Shaking his head, Yang Ze said, "That's not necessarily the case. Maybe someone will recommend Li Chongjiu's son, the eldest prince of Zhenxi. Don't think that he is sick, but the more he is sick, the more others will lift him up!"
After saying that, Yang Ze bowed his goodbye. After the matter was made clear, it would be meaningless for him to keep it. Go back early, he has something else to do!
Li Zhenglong personally saw him out. Seeing Yang Ze walking around, he returned to the palace until he walked around the corner of the street and could not see his back.
While walking, Li Zhenglong thought, why did Yang Ze mention Li Chongjiu? Li Chongjiu is a sick person, who can replace him? Li Chongjiu is impossible. So why did Yang Ze say that the worse the disease Li Chongjiu gets, the more others will praise him? This does not conform to the statement of looking at the emperor’s grandson!
After walking back to the study, he didn't understand it. He felt that he could not keep up with Yang Ze's ideas. Maybe it was because the authorities were confused. It seemed that he had to find an outsider to talk about it, otherwise he would have been confused all the time.
But I can’t tell anyone about this kind of thing. Even if I trust my subordinates, I can’t tell you. Who knows if my subordinates will go home and talk to my wife?
Well, by the way, we have a wife, who is the closest person. Yes, let me talk to my wife when I go back to the house and ask her to help analyze. Although he has several wives, even if he claims that he doesn’t love women, as a prince and a confidante, there is always no shortage of things like this, but there is only one person who can be called a real wife.
Li Zhenglong strode to the back house, entered the yard where he lived, and shouted, "A Cai, what are you doing?"
His princess was not a high-ranking clan, but a middle-ranking family, which is the saying "rich peasant family". As the prince's grandson, he could marry any kind of high-ranking clan, but he insisted on marrying an ordinary family to ensure that his princess had nothing to do with the eldest princess, and had nothing to do with any party in the court, and was a person who only belonged to him.
His princess is indeed irrelevant to any force in the court, so it is worthy of his trust. Since getting married, the couple has been very harmonious and can be called "the couple" who plays the same wife, just like ordinary couples in ordinary people's homes.
The princess was watering vegetables in the yard at this time. She planted a lot of vegetables, fruits and melons in the yard, and planted them and ate them by herself. This was safe, and she could do something.
Hearing Li Zhenglong's words, the princess turned around and said, "The guest is gone? I heard from the maid that this is a very important guest, is it Yang Ze?"
Li Zhenglong nodded, walked to the vegetable field and looked at it, saying, "The dish looks good, but you don't have to work so hard. Some work is done by the people."
"I can't stay idle, I have something to do, it's better than being stuck in the house all day long. After sitting in the house for a long time, I feel like I'm going to be stupid!" the princess smiled.
The couple entered the house together. Li Zhenglong sent the servant away and closed the door. Then he said, "That Yang Ze is the eldest prince's person, but he is quite capable of helping me. He mainly wanted to be rich for life, but he refused to betray the eldest prince, so helping me is equivalent to helping him himself."
The princess nodded and said, "He is almost the same as the people who grow crops in the countryside. There are not many fields in her own home, so she has to plant them for others so that she can share the harvest!"
Li Zhenglong was slightly stunned and suddenly smiled. That's not the case. If it were said, Yang Ze would do this now!
He said, "Just just now, he brought me a message saying that I am a very important person in the Li family, but he also said that Li Chongjiu is the sick man. Because he is seriously ill, maybe others will value him more. But logically speaking, it should be that he should value me. Do you think this is the case!"
He did not tell the specific matter, and he didn't understand even though the princess said it. He just told Li Chongjiu's story.
The princess smiled without thinking, "Yes, he was right. In the past, if a farmer had two pieces of land in our countryside, one was relatively fertile, it would naturally produce more grain, but because the land was fertile, it would not take too much effort to take care of it. If the other piece of land was sloped, it would produce less grain. In order to ensure that there would be no harvest, it would naturally take care of it carefully and the effort would be more!"
Li Zhenglong said, thinking about this is the truth, he said, "This is really simple, but I didn't expect it for a moment!"
The princess smiled again and said, "In our countryside, this is called burning a cold stove. It means that anyone can't do it, but it is possible. Then just flatter such people. If it works in the future, wouldn't it be developed? You are a hot stove, and even if you want to burn it, it's not their turn to come."
Li Zhenglong thought for a while and nodded, saying, "It's like the eldest princess and I. Many important officials are optimistic about the eldest princess, so they flatter her, but there are still many ministers around me. They are just not important officials. I just thought of this, and I sighed that there are too few important officials around me, but I didn't expect this truth. You have thought through it long ago."
"Then aren't they afraid that Li Chongjiu will die? If they die, they will burn the cold stove in vain!" Li Zhenglong said again.
The princess sighed and said, "If they were loyal to Li Chongjiu, even if he died and they wanted to change the party, others thought that Li Chongjiu was so bad at the time, and they could still be loyal to him. If such a person was changed to me, wouldn't they be loyal to me? They would be trusted instead!"
Li Zhenglong slapped his thigh and shouted, "Yes, isn't that the case!" For a moment, he suddenly realized.
But once he figured it out, he thought of the ministers around him again. I guess those ministers would have such ideas!
Once he understood this, he was unhappy again, but he couldn't judge who was really loyal to him and who was fake loyal to him. After thinking for a long time, he sighed: "If everyone is like Yang Ze, he would just say everything openly and let me judge it easily. It would be better than those who are loyal on the surface but actually don't know what's going on!"
The princess thought for a while and said, "Actually, this is easy to judge! In our countryside..."
Li Zhenglong smiled and said, "It's your countryside again, but the affairs in your countryside are similar to those in the court, but on the contrary, it's simpler. Tell me, what's wrong with your countryside!"
The princess smiled and said, "I can't see anything in normal times, but as long as the critical moment, I can see everything. In our countryside, if there is a disaster year, the food in the fields is not harvested and everyone's family will not be able to live well. But if someone can borrow food to their own family at this time, then this person is worth dating. On the contrary, no matter how nice it is, he will not help at this time, then there is nothing to be paid."
Li Zhenglong thought for a long time and had no difficulty in making any difficulties, so he had to say, "Then, think of a way for me, how can it be considered a critical moment?"
The princess said without thinking, "It's best to borrow money from them. In our countryside, if someone's family is out of stock, go to the house of the same village to have a meal. Whoever asks you to get a living relationship will be a lifelong friendship."
Although the princess and Li Zhenglong were in the same mind, she was born into a commoner after all. Although the solution she came up with was very suitable for the countryside, it was not suitable for the court. Just like joking, it would be a joke that someone could find out who is loyal to her by borrowing money. That would be nonsense? If Li Zhenglong said something, giving gifts to others is not a decisive amount. For example, if you celebrate a birthday for the princess, you are afraid that no one will give gifts? What you are afraid of is not that no one will give gifts, but whether there is too big place in your own warehouse, which specializes in holding gifts.
Li Zhenglong felt that this method was not reliable. He sat on the chair and thought for a long time. He thought that he had taken over the Right Shenwu Army. Because of Jia Xiuyu's relationship, he also took over the bad debts. Jia Xiuyu's property was handed over again and he wanted to go to the Imperial College School. If he had collected all the equipment of the Right Shenwu Army, he would have to pay for it out of his own pocket.
This is a lot of money!
Li Zhenglong thought to himself: "Yang Ze said he wanted to lend his own money, but he might not be able to raise 12,000 equipment for 12,000 people. Well, it is definitely not possible. So, let someone raise money? To find someone to raise money in the name of military spending is equivalent to letting others support themselves to obtain military power, which is equivalent to tie others to their own chariots, and others can't get down if they want to!"
Li Zhenglong clapped his hands and said, "Yes, just do it, find someone to collect military expenses, so as to try other people's loyalty. Military expenses are not trivial. Many people are willing to pay for money, but with the name of military expenses, if they think about it again, they have to think about it. This is equivalent to standing firmly and it is impossible to even change teams."
Chapter completed!