Chapter 29 This Wu Sangui couldn’t collude with Kangxi to rebel, right?

To the east of the Forbidden City, on Dongtangzi Hutong, which is very close to Dong'an Gate and Donghua Gate, there is a magnificent house. The front door alone is as big as the hall of Mingzhu's house. There is also a hanging on the door:

"First Class Duke" plaque. There are guards with plain gold tops at the door. There are rows of horse pegs, all polished. Several of them are also tied with bright-colored horse pegs.

There are tall horses and several carriages leaning on the roadside. There are also a circle of guards holding swords around the carriages. They are all in high spirits and seem to be fighting with the guards at the entrance of the mansion.

The owner of this mansion with a plain gold roof and a guard guard is the most powerful figure in the Qing Dynasty today, Guarjia Obei!

Ao Bai's house has always been a well-connected household. This minister who discusses government affairs and leads the bodyguard really regards the affairs of the Qing Dynasty as his own family affairs. Therefore, he often invites his close associates to hold small meetings at his home on military and state affairs.

, it was often finalized at Ao Bai's house. The meeting of kings and ministers to discuss government affairs was just a formality, and Kangxi's little pockmarked son only had to sit quietly in the palace.

However, the "first-class official" who visited Ao Bai today is indeed not a confidant of Ao Bai, nor is he a powerful figure, but Wu Yingxiong, one of the three major hostages in Beijing.

Wu Yingxiong, Wu Guogui and Liu Xuanchu were waiting for him to come to visit him. As usual, he also gave Ao Bai some local specialties from Yunnan - real local specialties, not gold, silver and jewelry. Ao Bai, a treacherous man, did not accept bribes and was not greedy.

She is beautiful, but she likes to hold power.

Therefore, it was useless for Wu Sangui to send money to him, so he could only be cruel to him.

But Wu Yingxiong, Wu Sangui's precious son, was a master who could not be fierce. When he saw Ao Bai looking like he wanted to eat a living person, he was already scared. He sat in the second hall of Ao's mansion, holding a tea bowl and his forehead.

There were beads of sweat all over him, and he could no longer speak fluently: "Grand Master, I am still loyal to the Qing Dynasty, but he is forced to do what he does now. He is a member of Ding Rizhong, Yun, Guilvying,

There are also more and more children who he recruited in order to appease the Chuangxian Party. You can't just ignore the people he recruited. Look, what can we do?"

Seeing Wu Yingxiong's cowardly look, Obai became anxious for him. With such a coward, how could he be Wu Sangui's eldest son? Is he his biological son? It doesn't look like it. He couldn't have been picked up, right?

In the future, old guy Wu Sangui will go to the eighteenth level of hell. Can this coward Wu Yingxiong be the home of Pingxi Prince's Mansion?

Thinking of this, Obai was not in the mood to listen to Wu Yingxiong's ramblings, and pointed directly at Wu Guogui, who was sitting next to Wu Yingxiong with his head held high, "Wu Dutong, you should speak for your brother. What does King Pingxi want?"

Wu Guogui looked very happy. Hearing Obai's question, he smiled and replied: "When I go back to the Grand Master, my father means that there are 100,000 elite soldiers to support in Yunnan alone. All of them have been on the battlefield.

Elites who have seen the world, many of them are old soldiers who have followed the Ming Dynasty, invaded and invaded the country. These people don't know how to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic. They join the army just to have good food and drink, so next year's military expenses are

It must go up!"

However, Wu Guogui still looked very dissatisfied and wanted to ask Oboi for more money. Wu Yingxiong on the side could no longer bear the pressure and spoke before Wu Guogui: "Okay, okay, three hundred and four hundred thousand is just three hundred."

Four hundred thousand!"

When Wu Yingxiong heard Obai say this number, he didn't know whether he should be frightened or stunned.

Oboi nodded and said: "I know the difficulties faced by King Pingxi, but it has also been difficult for the court in the past few years! The pirates on the southeast coast have made such a fuss that the court had no choice but to move the border along the coast.

Taxes in many coastal state capitals have been greatly reduced. Although I have tried every means to save money, the court is still tight on money!"

"That's right." Obai had already taken out the letter and looked at it. In this letter, Wu Sangui praised Wang Zhongxiao so much that it almost reached the sky.

When Obai heard this, his face darkened, and he glared at Wu Guogui fiercely, but Wu Guogui looked unconcerned, while Wu Yingxiong beside him was so frightened that his face turned pale.

Seeing that Wu Yingxiong had given in, Wu Guogui had no choice. Who made Wu Yingxiong the heir apparent? So he could only nod his head and said to Ao Bai: "Grand Master, since the heir apparent has spoken, I have no choice but to agree to my humble position. Although

3.4 million is really not enough to spend, but if we, the Yunnan-Guizhou army, tighten their belts, they can still survive.

Wu Yingxiong breathed a sigh of relief and was about to agree, but Liu Xuanchu next to him coughed. Wu Guogui immediately spoke up and said: "Grand Master, three million is not enough, at least four million is needed. Otherwise, Pingxi Fanxia and Yungui Lvying will not be as good as each other."

With so many people, it’s really not enough money!”

Wu Guogui's words almost frightened Wu Yingxiong to death. If you dare to speak like this to Obai, you are rebelling!

And Obai didn't expect that Wu Guogui would say such a thing, and he was a little unsure for a while. Because based on his understanding of Wu Sangui, he knew that this old immortal was very cowardly and unlikely to rebel. But this old immortal was too timid.

I like to collect rebels! Especially the bandits. There are tens of thousands of officers and soldiers from the traitor camp. If these people rebel, it is really hard to say whether the soldiers under Wu Sangui will follow them to rebel, or they will suppress them for the imperial court.

!

Judging from Wu Guogui's attitude, I'm afraid.

Oboi gritted his teeth and said, "Three, three and four hundred thousand, it can't be more!"

Here Wu Yingxiong continued the topic and said: "My grandma wants to recommend Wang Zhongxiao, Wang Fuchen's son. Wang Zhongxiao is a man of Zhengbai Banner. He will be selected this year. With his ability, there is no problem in choosing a worship Tang'a, but choosing a

I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to be a bodyguard, after all, his background is not very good. But I love talents and want to support the younger generation, so I want to recommend him as a blue feather bodyguard."

But Ao Bai does not want to go to war with Wu Sangui now. If there is no war, the myth of the Eight Banners' powerful force and the invincibility of the heavenly soldiers will not be shattered, and the Qing Dynasty will be stable.

But Ao Bai can't break up with Wu Sangui now, because Wu Sangui really has one hundred thousand elite soldiers, and if he offends these one hundred thousand elite soldiers, they will really rebel, and then it won't be a matter of hundreds of thousands more taels of silver.

Thinking of this, Ao Bai snorted and said: "As for the military expenses, let the people below slowly sort out the details. Let's set a big number today. Next year, the expensive military expenses will be paid at three million!"

"

After saying that, he took out an envelope and handed it to Obai with both hands respectfully.

"No! No!" Ao Bai shook his head repeatedly, "It's too much, it's too much. The land tax and business tax of the two provinces of Guizhou are not paid to the imperial court, and they have to take another four hundred yuan from the imperial court a year.

Ten thousand, how can this be done at most 3.2 million."

What he said was not very pleasant, but Ao Bai remained calm. Because Master Ao knew who was under Wu Sangui? Well, anyway, there were no good people and no loyal ministers, they were just a group of capricious veteran rebels.

Thieves. The reason why they are not rebelling now is that the Qing Dynasty still supports them. If one day the court no longer wants to support them, this group of people will definitely steal them and start a war with the court.

"Grand Master," Wu Guogui said seriously, "King Pingxi has taken on the responsibility for the imperial court. The tens of thousands of people under the command of the two thieves are all people who will fight for the rest of their lives! If they weren't well fed and fed, they would really

On the contrary. Although I, the Prince of Pingxi, can bring them down for the imperial court, tens of thousands of casualties are inevitable. Are the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers not worth a mere one million taels of silver?"

If a war breaks out, it's not certain who will win!

"Hey, aren't they just a few pirates?" Wu Guogui said with a smile, "Grand Master, if you can trust our Pingxi Palace, we can send 50,000 troops to help Pingfan, and Jingfan can go and fight. We can pay the military expenses first.

Wait, once the pirates are leveled, then we can call the merchants of Guangdong and Fujian to pay."

"What? Recommend someone to be a bodyguard?" Ao Bai negotiated the military salary for the coming year and felt a little more comfortable. Hearing that Wu Sangui wanted to recommend a bodyguard, he felt a little strange, so he took the envelope and asked, "What do you want to recommend?"

people?"

By the way, there is one more little thing, my father wants to recommend someone to be a bodyguard. He is from a mixed background, so I asked the Grand Master to make it easier."

After reading the letter, Ao Bai was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "So, Wang Fuchen and his son are both members of King Pingxi?"

"Of course," Wu Yingxiong said with a smile, "otherwise I wouldn't have written a letter asking you to sell him this favor."

Wu Guogui also smiled and said: "Grand Master, Wang Fuchen is the brother of the humble son, and Wang Zhongxiao is the humble brother of the son. They are all members of our old Wu family!"

Listening to what they said, Obai was of course relieved. Because what he was mainly wary of now was the young Emperor Kangxi, not Wu Sangui. If Wu Sangui wanted to rebel, he would do so in Yunnan, not in Beijing!

So if Wang Zhongxiao was Wu Sangui's man, there was really no need for Obai to step on him. This Wu Sangui couldn't collude with Kangxi to rebel, right?

Thinking of this, Ao Bai said: "I will always give King Pingxi face. When the time comes, I will go and see for myself. If he is really capable, I will make an exception and promote him."
Chapter completed!