Early the next morning, the court officials could smell something different.
The Duke of Zheng was promoted to the Marquis of Huaiyuan, Chang Sen. He claimed that he was ill and handed over the errands of the capital camp and city defense. The old marquis Yu Tongyuan and the Marquis of Wuding Guo Ying temporarily took charge of the errands of the city defense. The errands of the city defense were handed over to Zhao Sili, the head of the state, Marquis Cheng'en.
Li Jinglong, Duke of Cao State, also handed over his official defense seal and other items early in the morning, and also handed over all his honorary duties, becoming an empty-bucket Duke.
If you say that there is nothing going on, others will not believe it. Such a sudden and simple transfer of personnel is unusual, and the people involved also have positions, which is even more important.
It’s so surprising and so scary!
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"Fourth brother!"
Outside the gate of the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, Guo Ying, who had just received the tiger charm and was going to the military camp, was stopped by Cao Zhen, the Marquis of Jingchuan.
Guo Ying was dressed in military uniform. Looking at Cao Zhen wearing a brand new red cotton robe, he frowned and said, "How old are you, and you still wear such colorful clothes?"
"You know what? The older you get, the more colorful you have to wear. This is called being old and pretty!" Cao Zhen said with a smile.
"You must be old!" Guo Ying snorted, "You should go play with your little widow this early in the morning, don't delay my business!"
"I just played with her all night last night. She knows how to nurture her!"
"Oh, you, Cao Huodong, are sometimes defeated?"
"Little widow raising, don't work too hard on a good thing, otherwise it will be ruined!" Cao Zhen said carelessly, approached Guo Ying, and whispered, "Go to the military camp?"
Guo Ying winked at the people around him, and the guards immediately dispersed.
"You idiot, do you have a sharp ear?"
"Fourth brother, please explain to me!" Cao Zhen said sternly, "What's going on? You're such a good guy, why are we old guys working as errands again?"
"It's me and Lao Yu, two old guys!" Guo Ying corrected the other party.
"Don't be careless, hurry up!" Cao Zhen glared, and then whispered, "But what happened?" As he said, he wanted to pull Guo Ying off his horse, "Brother, what happened in the past few years really made me sad.
I'm afraid, you are close to the two masters, please give me a clear explanation!"
Seeing him like that, Guo Ying felt soft, jumped off the horse and said, "It's okay, just keep your heart in your stomach!"
In fact, it has not been easy for them, the founders of the country, who have been fighting so hard these years. The case of Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong, as well as the incident of Lan Yu, made them skinny every time.
Don't look at the way they usually show off their power and show off their power, and even do some minor misdeeds occasionally. They are degrading themselves in front of the old man and showing that they are not greedy for power.
"Is everything okay?" Cao Zhen whispered.
"Can I still fool you?" Guo Ying asked sideways.
"Don't you fucking fool me anymore?" Cao Zhen sighed, "What's going on? The Chang family's two kids are pretty good! Li Jinglong is also considered a talent..."
Guo Ying looked around, "You're just ignorant!"
"Why are you so ignorant?" Cao Zhen walked over and asked.
"It's gone!" Guo Ying muttered, "I forgot about it! My butt is crooked and my elbows are crooked!"
"Hiss!" Cao Zhen gasped, "His grandma forgot whose meal she was eating!"
"I won't talk to you anymore, I'll go to the military camp!" Guo Ying got on his horse again.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Cao Zhen called him again.
"Are you fucking done?" Guo Ying cursed.
"First of all, let's talk about it. You are in charge of military affairs, right? You won't be in charge forever, so don't take things too seriously!" Cao Zhen said something.
"Fool Cao, please make it clear!" Guo Ying lowered her face, "Don't tell me half-hidden and half-hidden! Tell me, otherwise, if something happens, I won't care about you!"
Cao Zhen was in a dilemma, looked around again and whispered, "Give your brother some face, don't be too..." Then, before Guo Ying got angry, he said, "Xingwu and Dingwu camps, I'm eating a hundred
There’s so many people’s free wages!”
"You..." Guo Ying was dumbfounded for a moment, "You are so fucking crazy. How long have you been eating? How much is it? Are you obsessed with money? Have you lost your mind because of the milk balls? Can this happen?
What are you doing? Did the boy from the Chang family give it to you..."
"It's not like you're just getting paid for free!" Cao Zhen argued, "It's because you're paying for being a soldier and not showing up!"
"False claim?" Guo Ying was really anxious.
"Listen to me!" Cao Zhen said quickly, "The people receiving the money are the descendants of my old brothers who died fighting with me. My father died fighting with me. I can't ignore them? Everyone is an orphan.
As a widowed mother, oh, after my father died, you asked your son to join the army? We all ate from the same pot at the beginning, so we can’t forget our roots!”
"Everyone is on the military household register, but they don't go to the military camp to serve as soldiers. They show up during the parade. Who doesn't have three relatives? Is it still a human being to be too serious?"
"You, what can I say about you?" Guo Ying hated that iron cannot become steel, "What the hell am I doing?"
I owe you in my previous life, and I will wipe your butt for the rest of my life!"
With that said, he ignored Cao Zhen, hit his horse and left.
Cao Zhen stood there, scratching his head first, then putting his hands in his sleeves, and cursed, "I'm not the only one who did this." As he cursed, he felt that he was in the wrong, and he couldn't help but sigh as he stood there.
After a while, Cao Zhen looked around and didn't know where to go.
"Go!" He ordered his followers, "Go to Duke Cao's mansion!"
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"Master Hou!"
The housekeeper of Duke Cao Guo's residence stopped Cao Zhen in the concierge, with a begging smile on his face, "Our master is not feeling well, the doctor said he needs to rest..."
"Go away, believe it or not, your house will be burned down?" Cao Zhen glared, "No one dares to stop me from entering the palace, who do you think you are? If you keep chirping, I will send you into the palace as a fucking eunuch.
Go, hurry up and lead the way."
Saying that, the old killer slapped the steward of Cao Guogong's house.
The housekeeper had no choice but to lead Cao Zhen to the greenhouse in the backyard, and ordered the boy, "Hurry and report to the master, Cao Hou is here!"
"Ha!" Cao Zhen looked at the Hou Mansion as he walked, "His mother's house is richer than mine, tsk tsk, the floor is paved with stone slabs, not even green bricks, how fucking rich!"
The entire Duke's Mansion is a large courtyard with five entrances. There are 560 houses alone, not counting the garden stables and the small courtyard where the servants live.
"I said......"
Cao Zhen casually entered the flower room where Li Jinglong was receiving guests, and was startled as soon as he opened his mouth.
Cao Guogong, who used to be so handsome and prosperous in the past, now looks like a sick man, sitting on the imperial chair with a sallow complexion and dull eyes, as if he has aged many years overnight.
Cao Zhen took a closer look and suddenly noticed that there were sporadic white hairs exposed between Li Jinglong's temples.
"I said, what are you doing?"
Li Jinglong turned back weakly and said with a wry smile, "The old Marquis is here, look at me...hey, my whole body is so weak that I really can't get up!"
"You sit down, you sit down!" Cao Zhen sat down next to him, pinched a few melon seeds and threw them into his mouth, looking up and down, "Are you down?"
Li Jinglong nodded and said in a low voice, "The matter you entrusted to this junior has not yet been done..."
Cao Zhen waved his hand, "Why? Corruption?"
Li Jinglong smiled sadly and said nothing.
"If you don't tell me, you'll be sick in your heart!" Cao Zhen continued, "Tell the old man about it, maybe I can give you some answers!" He said with a smile, "If you don't tell me, old man, I'll turn around.
You can also ask."
Li Jinglong still said nothing.
"Hey, I can guess it even if you don't tell me!" Cao Zhen spit out the melon seed peels directly on the tiled floor of the flower room, with a mouthful of sticky phlegm, "Xiao Lizi, you look so semen and fine."
It’s smart, but sometimes I can’t grasp it clearly!”
Hearing this, Li Jinglong was a little confused.
"Look at your house, your official position, and everything you have, who gave it to you?" Cao Zhen asked.
"Of course...Long live the Lord!"
"That's right! Since it was given by Long Live Lord, are you thinking about Long Live Lord all the time?" Cao Zhen said with a smile.
Suddenly, Li Jinglong seemed to catch something in his mind.
"Look at my life, although there will be many ups and downs in my life, it will not be all big things." Cao Zhen said in a low voice, "Everything we have as ministers is given by the emperor. There are some things that you have to understand. Who do you want to help?
.”
"You are relying on the emperor's power, so you can make some small mistakes in private. But you are relying on the emperor's favor to do things for your own benefit and hide it from him. You also speak for others and do things for others. Do you think you are right?
"
"What is a loyal minister? If the emperor wants to kill your biological father, if you just kill him with a knife, then you are a loyal minister!"
"You have a series of hookups with outsiders and are secretive. How can you be considered a loyal minister?"
"You can't do this between brothers, let alone the king and his ministers!"
"Besides, do you know what annoys people above the most? What annoys people the most is cleverness!"
"The most annoying thing is that you help him make the decision, and the most annoying thing is that you do some unintentional things in the name of loyalty!"
With that said, Cao Zhenzhang stood up and said, "Think about it yourself!"
"Where are you going?" Li Jinglong asked.
"Chang family, look at those two boys!" Cao Zhen sighed, "Hey, their father died early, and the rest of the family is in a daze. Ha! Without old guys like us, they would have killed themselves sooner or later!
"
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As soon as Cao Zhen left, his brother-in-law Deng Ping came to the door.
Still in the flower room of the Li family, Deng Ping looked at the much older Li Jinglong and felt very uncomfortable.
"Brother-in-law, I heard that you were punished yesterday?"
"There are no secrets in the palace!" Li Jinglong smiled, "Hey, it's revealed this time!"
"It's good for you to stay at home. My Lord Long Live has been unhappy these past few days!" Deng Ping sighed, "Just now, I heard that Mr. Zhang, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, had taken advantage of the emperor's evil fire again!"
"What's the matter?" Li Jinglong asked, "But the case?"
"It's not about that case!" Deng Ping grinned, and then whispered, "It's because of money!" He said, giving the other party a look, "Yunnan is going to war, and the Duke of Guizhou has a discount, asking for two million military supplies.
The emperor asked Zhang Yan to allocate the money, but the old scholar simply said that he had no money!"
"The Treasury of the Ministry of Revenue is already full of money, so why is there no money?" Li Jinglong muttered, "It must be those civil servants who are unwilling to spend money on war!" He said, cursing, "They know nothing!
Japan is a country of etiquette and cannot bully the weak, bah!"
Deng Ping whispered, "That old scholar Zhang Yan said that the emperor spent too much money this year and deliberately refused to pay!"