The world is not black and white, in fact, almost no one is pure black or pure white, the vast majority of people live in gray, but some people are whiter, and some people are blacker.

If you want to survive in this world, you have to adapt to this gray area.

What is the current ordnance supervisor, Li Xin probably knows something, this Zhao Jianzheng, who is polite in front of him, is a different appearance in front of those craftsmen, deducting wages, eating iron ore kickbacks and other things that can make money, of course, it is inevitable to send money to the officials and men of the Ministry of War, after all, the money of the Ordnance Supervisor has to flow from the Ministry of War.

With Li Xin's current status, it is just a matter of one sentence to replace this Zhao De, but he is too lazy to do it, after all, this is not what he should manage.

This is something that the emperor should be in charge of.

There are too many injustices in the world, Li Xin can't manage it, and he won't care if he doesn't touch his bottom line.

However, there is still a verbal reminder, at least let Zhao De be slightly restrained in this matter, otherwise things will be messed up, and he, the secretary of the military department, will also lose face.

Zhao De respectfully sent Li Xin to the door of the Ordnance Prison.

Li Xin sat in the carriage driven by Chen Sixteen and closed his eyes again.

If the emperor had started preparing for the Northern Expedition three years ago, then it would be impossible for the Ordnance Supervisor to have been completely silent until now, at least there should be a lot of reserves.

But the weapons supervisor here in the capital just has no reserves, if this Zhao De didn't deceive himself, then ......

Li Xin took a deep breath and glanced north.

Then in the prison of the old Northern Zhou capital in the north, most of the weapons have been piled up.

Thinking about this, Li Xin slowly exhaled a breath and no longer worried about this matter, after all, the matter of the Northern Expedition was not his business alone, what he had to do now was to do a good job in the errand of the military department.

The armament supervisor has already done it, and the other thing is the purchase of toasting wine, the imperial wine division responsible for brewing toasting wine is a royal business, and it should be one of the eunuchs of the eight eunuchs of the inner court to take care of it, since it is the business of the Son of Heaven himself, then things are much easier to do, symbolically give a little money, let them send the wine to the military department.

Anyway, it is impossible for the military department to buy alcohol from the Imperial Sake Division at the market price, and at this price, I don't like to sell it.

If you don't sell my military department, you don't want it.

As long as Li Xin maintains this attitude, it is impossible for the Imperial Wine Division to be unconvinced, after all, this is their boss who is going to fight the north, and it is not Li Xin's military department that wants to fight the north.

After finishing the matter of the ordnance supervisor, Li Xin returned to the Jing'an Hou Mansion, and when he walked to the gate of the mansion, he saw that Yu Linwei's people had begun to move money to his house, and it was obvious that the note that Li Xin wrote to Xie Dai had worked.

In other words, the household department gave face.

Marquis Jing'an narrowed his eyes and walked towards Xie Dai, who was commanding.

"General Xie Lang, has the household department sent money?"

Xie Dai hurriedly turned his head and said respectfully: "Back to Master Hou, the household department has already allocated money, and by tomorrow afternoon at the latest, the number will be clear." ”

Li Xin patted Xie Dai on the shoulder and smiled slightly: "Well done." ”

"Tomorrow afternoon, the people of the armory supervisor will come back to the Hou Mansion to collect the money, and when the time comes, Xie Lang will hand over the trouble with them, as for the armor, swords, crossbows and other materials of the armor supervisor, this official has also prepared the armory supervisor, and when the money here is clear, I will ask Xie Lang to take these four hundred brothers and escort them to Yunzhou City."

Speaking of this, Li Xin said with a smile: "But there are so many things, most of you are not enough for one of the lieutenant battalions, go back and tell Your Majesty, your right battalion of Yu Linwei will escort these things to the north together." ”

Xie Dai was dumbfounded.

He looked at Li Xin in a daze, and asked blankly: "Master Li, shouldn't these things be done by the people of the military department...... Why do you want me Yu Linwei to escort the military ......?"

Li Xin's face was not red and his heart was not beating, and he said lazily: "This matter has offended the Ministry of War, so I won't bother those old men of the Ministry of War, just Yu Linwei will do it himself, and I have to rest assured." ”

"What, Xie Lang will not be willing?"

Xie Dai shook his head again and again, and said, "No...... Just a little sudden. ”

The Marquis of Jing'an said with a smile: "It's a good thing to go to the north, the official was also ordered to escort things to Yunzhou City, and after coming back, he was promoted to a level, Xie Lang will wait to come back from the north, maybe it will be Yulin Wei Zhonglang General." ”

Xie Dai smiled bitterly, bowed his head to Li Xin and said, "Thank you Hou Ye for your words." ”

Li Xin smiled and went into his house with his hands in his hands.

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Early the next morning, when Li Xin had just finished standing on the fist pile and was about to sit down to rest for a while, a subordinate in the Hou Mansion sent an invitation to Li Xin.

It's not an invitation to a marriage, but a simple old man, asking Li Xin to come over to talk about it.

Li Xin took the invitation, looked left and right, and finally decided to go out, the reason is very simple, the owner of this invitation is a person he is not easy to refuse.

Zhang Qu.

Today's Shangshu Zuo Servant, the prime minister of the three provinces, and the most powerful civil official in the entire Taikang court, there is no one.

Such a big man, although his influence is not as high as Li Xin's business teacher Ye Sheng, but in terms of authority, he has surpassed Ye Sheng a lot, such a court boss handed a post to invite Li Xin to his house, how could Li Xin have to give face to go.

After tucking the invitation into his sleeve, Li Xin did not choose to take the carriage, but took out his ink horse from the backyard and turned over on the horse.

This ink horse is Li Xin's brother of the dark cloud horse, the dark cloud was seriously injured because of the night of the Renchen Palace Change, and he has died a few years ago, this ink horse is the most divine horse in the Jing'an Hou Mansion.

After Li Xin turned over and got on his horse, he turned back to Chen Sixteen and said, "Wait, if a person surnamed Zhao comes to the door, let him wait for me in the side hall, and I will come back in the afternoon at most." ”

Chen Sixteen nodded respectfully: "Got it, Master Hou." ”

Li Xin rode out of the Jing'an Hou Mansion at this time, and after turning the horse's head, he left Yongle Fang and walked towards the Mingde Fang next door.

Yes, this civil official leader of the Great Jin Dynasty, who is also the leader of the Shilin literary circle, does not live in Yongle Fang, but in the inferior Mingde Fang, not because Zhang Qu is not qualified, but because this old man is low-key.

In the entire Yongle Fang, including the Jing'an Hou Mansion and the Chen Guogong Mansion, the two families are counted in it, and Zhang Qu and Zhang Haoran's status can still become the first in the court.

This kind of character no longer needs to rely on where to show his identity, on the contrary, because he lives in Mingde Fang, the status of Mingde Fang will be raised a lot.

Li Xin soon arrived at the door of Zhang's Mansion in Mingdefang, and after handing over the invitation of Zhang's Mansion, the subordinates of Zhang's Mansion all saluted respectfully to Li Xin, and then took him to the living room to serve tea.

Li Xin got up and arched his hand at the old man: "Junior Li Xin, I have seen Haoran Gong." ”

In terms of grade, Li Xin is no worse than Zhang Qu, and even higher, so he talks about seniority here, which can be regarded as giving Old Man Zhang a respect.

Zhang Qu glanced at Li Xin and said with a smile: "Hou Ye Li came so quickly. ”

Li Xin smiled and said, "The elders are calling, and they don't dare not come." ”