Lu Bing touched his beard with satisfaction: "It's just that your injury has not healed yet, and the evil energy in your body has not been eliminated. Moreover, if you want to achieve a small success in Shisan Taibao's horizontal training, it will take at least half a year. You can't leave now, otherwise even your life will be in danger."

Tianlang concentrated on his mind and thought: "How long will it take to completely drive away the extremely evil spirit in my body?"

Lu Bing said: "If you completely expel it, it will take at least half a month. It will take time to transfer Qiu Luan back to Beijing. So, Tianlang, we will act according to the method you said. I will report to the emperor secretly to let him promote Qiu Luan's subordinates to the Jinyiwei, and hint that Xu Jie and other Qingliu ministers jointly recommended Qiu Luan to the court as an official. These old foxes must be happy to see someone come forward to fight Yan Song."

Tianlang smiled: "How could those Qingliu ministers know that Qiu Luan is going to rebel against Yan Song? You must know that when the last time he harmed Master Xia, Qiu Luan recognized Yan Song as his adoptive father, which is well-known."

Lu Bing sneered: "One time and another time, Tianlang, you don't see how arrogant Qiu Luan is now. Even Yan Song took the initiative to hold a banquet to invite him, but he couldn't let him go. He said that military affairs are busy. Anyone with discerning eyes knows that he wants to keep a distance from Yan Song, because everyone knows that Yan Song is a treacherous minister and has a close relationship with him. It is not easy to go further. Besides, if he likes Yan Song's position, he can only continue to sit down if he turns down."

Tianlang asked, "Just Qiu Luan, what can he do to defeat Yan Song? It's impossible to reveal the incident of Yan Song and himself conspiring to frame Xia Yan, and even himself will be ruined."

Lu Bing smiled "hehe" and said, "Of course he is not that stupid, but he will choose other things to attack. Yan Song and his son are indeed corrupt. Moreover, Yan Song's party members are all over the government and the public, and if you want to catch a handle, you will catch them. At that time, even if you don't investigate Yan Song and only investigate the problems of his party members, you can still attack Yan Song."

Tianlang shook his head: "It won't be that simple. If it's so easy to crack down on the Yan Party, why do those Qingliu ministers still suppress this for so many years?"

Lu Bing put away his smile and said seriously: "Tianlang, you have to know that all officials in the Ming Dynasty are greedy. Even the Qingliu ministers will still use various means and methods to fill their pockets. This is an indisputable fact. It is just that the Yan Party is even more greedy. In order to maintain the rule of the entire country, the emperor could not replace all officials overnight, so he could only tolerate and acquiesce to this situation. As long as the issue of rebellion is not involved, the Yan Party will take 30% of the tax silver to the court, and even 40% of it is acceptable."

Tianlang gasped: "Can you still bear it after greeding for so much money?"

Lu Bing nodded in pain: "Yes, when I first heard about this, I was also very angry, but according to the Ming Dynasty, the land of the literati and royal family members was not taxed. After retiring, these literati could still purchase a large amount of land based on the benefits they received when they were officials.

These fields did not pay taxes when they were in office. After leaving office, they entrust colleagues and royal relatives. In the past two hundred years, the Ming Dynasty has less and less arable land. The taxes are getting less and less, and the income of the treasury is getting harder. When wars in the north and south, military expenditures are soaring, it is difficult to sustain. Now there are officials from the strict party. They can still plunder, plunder the people, and collect taxes. If these corrupt officials are gone, I am afraid that the treasury of the Ming Dynasty will be in the bottom of less than a month."

Tianlang said hatefully: "So, I will have no hope in the Ming Dynasty? What is the difference between this and drinking poison to quench thirst?"

Lu Bing shook his head: "We are ministers. We can only do our part. It is precisely for this reason that the Qingliu ministers cannot use corruption and bribery to attack the Yan party because they are not clean themselves, but Qiu Luan has always been a border general. In this regard, he can attack Yan Song with confidence."

Tianlang said strangely: "But Qiu Luan himself is also a greedy person. Just from the fact that he took out so much silver when he bribed Altan Khan, he knew that this guy had made a lot of money. Can he also say that Yan Song was corrupt?"

Lu Bing smiled: "Civil officials are greedy for money and military generals are greedy for life. However, if military generals love money, it is nothing, because if the soldiers in their hands are greedy for some money, it means that he has no ambitions. The generals are limited by their status and are not tax-free like civil officials. Their land is often hereditary military household fields. If they want to be greedy, they cannot be greedy for it. This time Yan Song bribed Altan Khan, and he took more than 10 million yuan at one time. Qiu Luan used military pay to buy Altan, which was only hundreds of thousands a year, which shows a huge gap."

Tianlang nodded: "But this is just because Qiu Luan has no chance and no ability to be greedy. It does not mean that he does not have the heart to be corrupt. Will he make a better profit by putting him in Yan Song's position?"

Lu Bing smiled slightly: "This is the emperor's technique of controlling his subordinates. When dealing with Xia Yan, Yan Song used Yan to replace him. This time, Yan Song defeated Xia Yan, killed Zeng Xian, and showed negative behavior during the Mongolian invasion. Although he threw out Ding Rukui as a scapegoat, the emperor knew that this was Yan Song's own inaction. Killing Ding was also a warning to Yan Song, so that he would not ruin state affairs while making money!

I have been following the emperor over the years and are very clear about his thoughts. He is determined to practice Taoism and does not want state affairs to bother him. Whether it is the sanction of the Japanese in Jiangnan or the Mongols outside the border, he is worse than to have more things than to have less things. But this time the Mongols fought to the capital. The first time in the Ming Dynasty in more than a hundred years was in danger of destruction of the country, so his anger was more than ever. If it weren't for the great power of the Yan Party, he would have eliminated Yan Song and his son like killing Xia Yan."

Tianlang sighed: "There are so many ministers in Qingliu who are in the court. Even if the Yan Party is eliminated at once, they can replace them."

Lu Bing shook his head: "It's not that simple. First of all, the ministers in Qingliu may not be much better than Yan Dang. They scolded Yan's father and son one by one, but their ability to do practical things may not be as good as some of the core members of the Yan Dang, such as Hu Zongxian, who pacified the Japanese in the southeast. Although he was Yan Dang, thanks to him, the situation in the southeast was stabilized. After several other Qingliu officials, the Japanese pirates became even more fierce.

Secondly, the emperor just killed Xia Yan and Zeng Xian. If he defeated Yan Song’s party now, he would undoubtedly admit that he had done something wrong back then. Although our emperor is extremely smart, he just wants to be face-saving. He would never admit his mistake in such a thing and would rather stand up. Just like this, he rejected Mongolia’s peace talks this time and insisted on not opening and closing the market, the same is true.”

Tianlang punched the stone beside the pool with a hateful punch. A stone flew up and fell into the water with a "thump" sound: "He wants to cultivate immortals and ask, then you might as well be abdicated by someone who wants to manage state affairs. If you don't do anything in his position, why not occupy the pit and don't poop?"

Lu Bing's face changed and he said angrily: "Tianlang, how can he say such a traitor!"

Tianlang said coldly: "Commander-in-chief, you have also gone to Shanxi this time. Have you not seen anyone starving to death on the roadside? Have you been to Jiangnan before, but have you not seen the people who burned, killed, looted and plundered the Japanese pirates? The country is so rotten, the court is rampant, and the people are living in poverty. These can be solved by pushing the strict party? If the emperor had not only sought to practice Taoism and provoked internal struggles between ministers in order to safeguard the monarchy, how could it have become such a situation?"

Lu Bing was speechless when he was choked, and could only sigh and said quietly: "But he is our emperor after all. As ministers, we can only be loyal and advise, and we cannot quarrel with the emperor."

Tianlang sneered: "Tang Taizong said that people are like water, and they can carry boats or overturn boats. The current problem of the Ming Dynasty is not entirely in the court. The country is rotten from top to bottom, from inside to outside. What is needed is that a great king can show courage to reform the ancestral system, select virtuous people, and stay away from villains. This requires the king to show courage to deal with the government affairs every day, rather than hiding in pretending to be a god and appointing traitors, so that the country can be ruined day by day."
Chapter completed!