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Chapter 88 You fooled me and I fooled you

Chapter 88 You fool me, I fool you

Qingwen, the first of the twelve beauties in Jinling, has a strong personality and a soft tongue.

It's a pity that I paid my sincerity to a loser by mistake, and ended up with a very miserable end.

Li Yunze looked at the girl with eyes full of regret and pity.

But this look in the girl's eyes made her step back.

"I won't eat you, so what are you afraid of?" Li Yunze looked unhappy, "If you don't serve me there, what are you doing here?"

"Second Master Lian." Qingwen bit her lips and saluted again, "This slave was originally bought by the Lai family. I heard that the Lai family was in trouble, so I came here to take a look."

"It's a thoughtful one." Li Yunze nodded slowly, "The Lai family has brought it upon themselves, and there is no need to say that they are in trouble. Besides, as a maid, what can you do to help?"

The sharp-tongued Qingwen was really grateful to the Lai family. She twisted her handkerchief and asked, "Second Master Lian, can you?"

"No." Li Yunze refused immediately, but then smiled and said, "If you really want to repay your kindness, then give me money."

Qingwen stomped her feet angrily, "My monthly salary is only a sling of money, what kind of money can I have?"

"I can lend it to you. How about I lend you a thousand taels?" Looking at Qingwen who looked wary, Li Yunze joked slowly, "What, you just talk about repaying a favor?"

Qingwen, who was most upset, immediately reached out and said, "Then borrow it!"

He took out a large pile of banknotes from his sleeves, counted a thousand taels and stuffed them into Qingwen's hand, "Go and repay the favor."

Looking at the thick banknotes in her hand, Qingwen was stunned, "But how can I pay it back?"

Li Yunze gave her a meaningful look, turned around and left.

After his figure disappeared, Qingwen came back to her senses and hurriedly shouted, "Second Master Lian, you haven't written the IOU yet!"

The Lai family's home was immediately sealed, and their shop in Dongshi and their village in Lantian County were all confiscated.

Even so, it's still not enough.

Because it was found out that Lai Er had been stealing the owner's property for many years, and the amount was increasing. With ten times the fine, it was really not enough.

The Lai family had no choice but to seek help from their biggest supporter, Jia Mu.

The once majestic Jia Mu now gets a severe headache when she hears Lian Er's name and must drink ginseng soup to save her life.

She had no choice but to let her pay the fine.

The only option is to bring all the Lai family members into Dongfu and give them shelter.

Li Yunze doesn't care about this. Sooner or later, the East Mansion will be his, and he will settle the accounts then.

Back at the mansion, a young eunuch claiming to be Xia Shouzhong's godson came to visit.

This is a message, saying that the emperor intends to increase Li Yunze's command to be the 13th Regiment Battalion of the Beijing Camp.

Li Yunze knew in his heart that the character he had set up had been responded to.

He rewarded the little eunuch who came to deliver the message, and asked Jia Ping to accompany the little eunuch back with two pieces of money.

One sum was a thank you fee, which was given to Xia Shouzhong.

Another sum was given to Jia Yuanchun.

The palace is a special battlefield. If a girl here wants to get ahead, on the one hand, she needs a strong natal family outside to respond, and on the other hand, she needs to have enough money to be able to win over the people in the palace.

Since coming to the world of Dream of Red Mansions, Li Yunze, who only wanted to spend money, has actually made a lot of money.

Only here in the palace, one can only go in and out.

But it doesn't matter, any investment will pay off.

After finishing a lot of things, it was finally time for the Dajiao meeting.

Li Yunze, who was wearing a third-grade official robe, took the initiative to stand among the ranks of generals, rather than on the side of the nobles.

This is one of the benefits of getting the news in advance.

The elegant Wang Shuirong of Beijing came over with a smile on his face and said hello, "The servants at home are not sensible, so they have to be taught by Brother Lian. I would like to thank you very much."

"You're welcome." Li Yunze, with a neutral expression, waved his hand, "Business like pawnshop is detrimental to the prince's reputation."

Shui Rong, who looked stiff, wanted to say more, but over there Xia Shouzhong had already come out and shouted to go to court.

The emperor came out and sat down on the dragon chair. He glanced at Li Yunze and saw that Li Yunze was not standing in the queue of nobles. He nodded slightly to express his satisfaction.

The situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty was not very good.

After the court meeting began, the officials reported to discuss things such as border troubles in various places, the rise of bandits, or disasters that required tax exemptions and so on.

Li Yunze, who understood this deeply, yawned without any scruples.

The tax revenue of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been decreasing year after year, but there are more and more places where money is needed.

The officials would always say, "The Ministry of Household Affairs has no silver left. Please help me with my internal funds."

Visible to the naked eye, the emperor's face became darker and darker.

The biggest expenditure of the imperial court was actually military expenditure. It is said that the Zhou Dynasty had an army of one million, and the food and salary consumed every year was simply an astronomical figure.

Since the time of the Supreme Emperor, the imperial court has been in arrears with military pay, and even with the current emperor, there is no way to improve it.

This allows the already powerful nobles to control their troops and horses more calmly.

"It's a pity that you don't have a time and space gate." Looking at the emperor with a sinking face, Li Yunze understood deeply, "Even an emperor can't move without money and food."

After more than half an hour, the topic of Li Yunze finally came.

"Jia Qing has put down the rebellion of the chieftains in the southwest, and has done a great job with his hard work. The tiger and wolf troops under his command should enter the Beijing camp." The emperor's eyes have been sizing up the nobles, "He will be included in the Beijing camp, and he will be assigned to the Thirteenth Regiment Camp. Dear nobles,

Do you have any objections?"

Naturally, the nobles had no objection. In their view, Li Yunze was also a member of the nobles, and this was enhancing their strength.

Although Shui Xiong had doubts, he naturally would not stop him at this time.

"Jia Qing, your majesty, sees you in your study room and withdraws from the court."

Arriving at the Imperial Study Room, Li Yunze bowed his hands and saluted, "Your Majesty."

"Um."

The emperor, who had recently obtained a lot of personal money from Jia Yuanchun, was very polite and "granted a seat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Li Yunze sat down without any hesitation.

It's not the traditional kind of sitting on half of your buttocks, it's really as comfortable as at home.

Xia Shouzhong looked at the emperor with some worry, but to his surprise, the emperor was not angry, but instead smiled more.

"Jia Qing, tell me how the rebellion in the southwest was quelled?"

"This is a simple matter." Li Yunze has been in the army for a long time, and he is definitely very similar to those rough things. "When he arrives in Guiyang, he recruits people first and then opens the warehouse to reward them. He then asks the local gentry to contribute money and help. If he doesn't give money, he will directly fight.

Until you give it, just spend money to bribe the mountain people to act as guides, find the bandits' camp, kill them and just cut them down."

The emperor listened very carefully and asked many details.

For example, how the She family was captured, how the An family was beheaded, etc.

After talking about the war in the southwest, which mixed true and false, Li Yunze added: "The bandits and bandits on the border are all local chickens and dogs."

The emperor laughed, as if he was very satisfied.

After that, I was given two jars of imperial wine and a box of snacks, and that was the end of the matter.

Li Yunze knew very well that the emperor knew much more than he showed.

But so what, as long as he can win the battle, that's fine. But what the Zhou Dynasty lacks most at this time is someone who can win the battle.

The two of them are just you fooling me and I fooling you. They are all trying to get what they want.

"You're quite stingy." After leaving the imperial study, Li Yunze began to complain, "You don't even have the sense to give Wan'er eight thousand taels of silver."

Xia Shouzhong, who came out to see him off, smiled bitterly, "General, be careful what you say."

Li Yunze simply grabbed his hand and stuffed a few banknotes in his hand calmly, "Father-in-law, take this for tea."

Putting the banknote into his sleeve, Xia Shouzhong immediately smiled like a chrysanthemum on his face.

"The general is interested."

A few days later, a formal imperial edict signed by the cabinet was issued, and the reinforcement battalion commanded by Li Yunze was officially included in the Beijing battalion sequence, ranking as the 13th regimental battalion.

The Beijing camp is a large establishment, with each battalion having more than 10,000 troops.

Compared with the previous reinforcement camp, its strength has increased by at least three times. And this is what Li Yunze wants.

The Ministry of War provided an establishment of 10,000 people, but the Ministry of Household Affairs only sent food and wages for 5,000 people for a year.

They also plausibly said, 'Your regiment is newly established, and His Majesty only has 50% of the salary out of internal funds. Starting next year, like other regiments and camps, it will only be 40% every year.'

Don't ask why you owe wages, ask because the court has no money or food.

The nobles controlled the capital camp to fight against the emperor. If it weren't for the fact that it was just around the sacred city of Jing, let alone 40 percent or 30 percent would be in danger.

News came from Xia Shouzhong that the emperor intended to order Li Yunze to lead the troops to quell the Southeast Asian ghosts. The troops would be dispatched in a few months at most.

"Did you see through me?" Li Yunze thought thoughtfully, recalling the mutual acting skills in the imperial study room, "I think I didn't see through everything, at least half of it."

The emperor is a very realistic person. If Li Yunze can win the battle, then he will use it.

However, in order to limit the Jia family's influence in Beijing, they were quickly prepared to send them out to continue to exploit.

After all, the Jia family has been running the business for two generations and has a great influence in the Beijing camp, and their disciples' old friends are all over the army.

Li Yunze started his career with military exploits and has attracted everyone's attention. He will definitely not be allowed to stay in the capital camp for a long time.

No matter where the money, food, military supplies, armor, etc. come from, as long as they are useful to the emperor, they will be used.

At best, throw it away after use, typical imperial thinking.

Li Yunze didn't waste any time and directly recruited good family members from all over Guanzhong.

The famines in Guanzhong are no less severe than other places, and are even more serious.

It is purely because of the presence of Shenjing here that a large amount of food can be transported by water transport to survive.

However, the areas around Shenjing are slightly better. For example, areas in northern Shaanxi are already infested with bandits.

There are many men over there who want to join the army and feed themselves.

Li Yunze returned to the modern world. In addition to ordering more Laiyang steel pipes and armor parts, he also asked the hotel butler Tony to lead the way to a specialty store to buy a batch of perfumes and cosmetics.

On this day, he returned home from the military camp, and when he came to the backyard, he saw Ping'er already waiting there.

He opened his arms to let Ping'er take off his armor and casually asked, "Where is the person?"

"Second Master Bao and the ladies from Dongfu are here as guests, and they are all having wine in Huifang Garden."

Li Yunze laughed when he heard this, "Didn't you say that there is no contact between the two parties? Didn't the old lady stop you?"

Ping'er, who was leaning over to take off his clothes and armor, chuckled, "It's the gentlemen's business if they don't interact with each other. The ladies don't care. As for the old lady, there are guests over there and she is busy entertaining them."

Li Yunze stretched out his hands and asked, "Where are the guests?"

"Master~~~" Ping'er's pretty face turned red and her voice gradually trembled, "It's Aunt Xue from Jinling who is here, saying she is looking for their young master."

Li Yunze suddenly realized that he was here to see Xue Pan.

Of course, now is not the time to think about this.

"Ping'er." Li Yunze's voice was a little rough. "There seems to be a hole in the armor. Kneel down and take a closer look. Have you found it?"

Ping'er's voice is like a mosquito's "Yes"

"As long as you find it, you can help me fix it."

Wang Xifeng and the others were laughing and eating wine in Huifang Garden. Ping'er was also drinking wine, but the wine smell was a bit overpowering.

After tinkering for half an hour, Xiangling ran over and called out, "Sister Ping'er, my wife asked you if your master is back."

"Wait, wait a minute." Ping'er was busy repairing his armor, his bangs were fluttering in front of his forehead, and his words were vibrating, "It'll be fine soon."

‘Clang~~~’ The wine bottle on the coffee table fell to the ground, and the wine from the spout gurgled out.

(End of chapter)


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