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Trust is mutual, and if he has reservations about Chen Ying, he can't be expected to fully assist him. Speaking of which, Li Jiancheng did not hide it. Li Jiancheng hesitated for a moment, and slowly spoke: "With Chen Qing's age, it is indeed more harmful than good to be crowned as a prince. ”

What's more, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, if Chen should be crowned as the prince and the young protector, I am afraid that the old ministers of the Manchu Dynasty will be embarrassed? Could it be that Pei Lian, Chen Shuda, Xiao Shiwen and other old ministers saw Chen Ying and salute obediently? Not to mention that Li Yuan couldn't pass that level, even if Li Yuan really agreed, Chen Ying would become a public enemy of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military ministers.

Chen Ying saw that Li Jiancheng was relieved and relieved.

Chen Ying, who has been a man for two lives, has long passed the age when he can rely on the official to make a wish and die generously. The first to rot first, the gun shot the first bird, in the officialdom, sometimes have to temporarily avoid the edge. Chen Ying bowed down and said: "Those who are ministers, eat the king's luck, share worries for the king, and it is their duty to do their best, and the ministers will go all out to win Hangu Pass!" ”

"This palace can ask my father for a decree to add Chen Qing as the champion general." Li Jiancheng pondered for a moment, looked at Chen Ying and asked, "What else does Chen Qing want?" ”

The champion general is the Tang Dynasty's Zheng Sanpin Wusan official, equivalent to the civil official Jin Ziguanglu doctor. In the Sui Dynasty, in order to avoid the fall of military power during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the division of princes, and the turmoil in the world, Yang Jian split his official positions. Two systems of honorable officers and senior officers have been formed. The Tang Dynasty made a detailed division on the basis of the Sui Dynasty's commanders, forming three types: honorable officers, loose officials, and professional officials.

Honors refer specifically to meritorious officers, similar to the system of the Han Dynasty: "non-military merits cannot be crowned marquis", and honors cannot be hereditary, and only military merits can be obtained, just like several merits in later generations. The honorable officer is in Datang, in fact, his reputation is better.

Originally, Chen Ying had the rank of hussar general, which was quite a second-class meritorious service in later generations, and he was a meritorious hero. If he hadn't obtained the dismissal of the official, Chen Ying's hussar general would not even have a salary. The only advantage is that their grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, wives, and descendants who commit misdeeds can be reduced to the period of the Tang Dynasty, and commoners are not allowed to bigamy, and there is no need to think about taking concubines. The Tang Dynasty stipulated that a man could only take a concubine with the consent of his wife after forty years of non-birth.

However, there are concubines who can be justified by the honor, and there is also exemption from conscription and tax exemption.

Loose officials are also a status symbol, representing the benefits and treatment received by officials. This is a name, not an actual position. For example, hussar generals, cloud cavalry captains...... These are loose officials. Officials with a definite scope of authority, such as Taishi, Tiance General, and Fu Yin, are positions that really do things and have to bear corresponding responsibilities, and they are also positions that actually hold power.

Chen Ying became a champion general, this is the Zhengsanpin Wusan official, which is equivalent to Chen Ying really enjoying the treatment of the Zhengsanpin official, even if his official East Palace guests are deprived in the future, Chen Ying still enjoys the Zhengsanpin official's Yulu and honor guard.

But with this champion general of the third grade, Chen Ying can receive an extra 70 yuan of money every year, plus 370 stone of grain, as well as an extra 900 acres of vocational land, and the imperial court will also subsidize Chen Ying's carriage and horse travel, honor guard and other expenses of 120 yuan.

If the money of the Tang Dynasty is converted into more than one million yuan in later generations.

Although this money is small money for Chen Ying at this time, Chen Ying is not too much. I naturally agreed.

Chen Ying replied: "The minister wants to hear His Royal Highness the Crown Prince promise the minister five conditions, and the minister will definitely be able to take Hangu Pass for His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

Li Jiancheng frowned slightly: "Chen Qing, but it's okay to say!" ”

"First, the courtier does not plan to wait for His Royal Highness the King of Qin to launch an attack after the beginning of spring next year, the courtier intends to make a little preparation and launch an attack on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, striving to capture Hangu Pass within half a month, before Wang Shichong opens the Yuan Festival!" Chen Ying said: "So, the minister wants to listen to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and give him the right to act cheaply!" ”

Li Jiancheng nodded, he knew that Chen Ying's way of thinking was extremely free, and he was too strong to know how to unite his colleagues, according to the things assigned to Chen Ying, it was best to let him do it alone, if he was allowed to cooperate with others, he would have to do it. Thinking of this, Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "Quasi!" ”

Chen Ying smiled knowingly and said: "Second, there are too many enemy spies in Chang'an City, and it is difficult to ensure that Wang Shichong heard the news that the minister sent troops to seize Hangu Pass in advance, so the minister wanted to ask His Royal Highness the Prince, pretending to declare to the outside world, the minister angered His Royal Highness the Prince, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not meet with the minister!" ”

Chen Ying was preparing for a surprise attack on Hangu Pass, so the suddenness of the attack had to be ensured, as long as the enemy discovered his strategic layout later, the greater the chance of Chen Ying's success. So hiding from the sky is just a small means.

Li Jiancheng hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded and said, "The soldiers are not tired of cheating, and this move is understandable." Permit! ”

Chen Ying said very easily: "The minister wants to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to collect all the down near Chang'an to Weichen, and the minister plans to rush to at least 6,000 or 10,000 sets of down clothes to protect the soldiers of the army from the cold!" ”

Hearing this, Li Jiancheng was immediately embarrassed.

In the era when there was no cotton, down comforters, because of their light weight, cold and warm, and do not affect body movement, many of them were popular in Chang'an, but any good things are for the family door valve and Haoqiang, scholars give priority to enjoy, so Chang'an's down jacket since Chen Ying invented, in addition to the original Donggong Wei rate of the soldiers and soldiers, other down are distributed in the hands of the major families and door valves.

Li Jiancheng has the respect of the crown prince, and there is no way to forcibly let the door lords of the world take the down, and now it is equivalent to Chen Ying giving him a problem. Chen Ying needs 8,000 to 10,000 sets of down jackets, which is really not a small amount, because in Chang'an, down jackets have been hyped up to 300 pieces and 8,000 down jackets, even if the treasury is emptied and Li Jiancheng can't get it.

Looking at the prince Li Jiancheng embarrassed,

Wei Zheng said: "The minister's family has His Royal Highness the Prince's previous reward of down bedding and a set of down jackets, the minister can use fur, and the minister can contribute the down at home." ”

As soon as he heard Wei Zheng say this, Wang Qi sighed in his heart, he was different from Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng's family was poor, and there was no other source of wealth except for a person's money, so his down was rewarded by Li Jiancheng before. But Wang Jue's family is well-off, who doesn't have four down jackets for his wife and children? As for the down and duvets, there are as many as 100 beds.

Wang Jue gritted his teeth and said, "The minister is willing to donate twenty sets of down!" ”

When he said this, Wang Jue's heart was dripping blood. Twenty sets of down jackets are equivalent to 6,000 yuan out, which means that he will work for Li Jiancheng for nothing within ten years.

Li Jiancheng had a bitter face, Wei Zheng donated three sets, Wang Qi donated twenty sets, and there was still some inventory in the East Palace, how could there be about two hundred sets of down, but this was still a big gap from the amount Chen Ying needed.

Chen Ying looked at Wei Zheng with an indifferent look, and then stared at Wang Qi as if he was mourning, Chen Ying stared at Wang Zheng and stared at Li Jiancheng for a long time, and couldn't help laughing.

Li Jiancheng was in a very bad mood, and looked at Chen Ying suspiciously: "Why is Chen Qing laughing?" ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really going to buy 8,000 to 10,000 sets of down jackets?" Chen Ying asked seriously?

Li Jiancheng said with a bitter face: "How can this palace compete with the people for profit, naturally it is to buy!" ”

Chen Ying said: "In fact, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince doesn't need to pay a penny, so naturally someone will send the down to His Royal Highness." ”

When Chen Ying said this, not to mention Li Jiancheng, even Wei Zheng thought that Chen Ying's idea was too naïve, the people present were all from the world, they knew that the world's family gates were actually the same urine, they were all Pixiu, they only went in and couldn't get out, and it was no less difficult to find a penny in their pockets than to create a penny.

Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly and said, "Is there really such a way?" ”

Chen Ying nodded and said, "There really is!" ”

Li Jiancheng looked incredulous, and after a moment of silence, Li Jiancheng said with a smile: "This palace will find a way to meet Chen Qing's needs as much as possible......

Chen Ying shook his head and said, "The minister is not joking, has His Royal Highness the Crown Prince forgotten that the minister plans to attack the peach forest this time?" As long as His Royal Highness releases the wind, in the future, Datang will get the peach forest, divide the gold mine of the peach forest into ten parts, and contract them out separately, with only one condition, that is, the down that contributes the most to Dongzhong. ”

Li Jiancheng suddenly realized. He said continuously: "This plan is very good, it is wonderful. ”

Wang Jue's heart set off a stormy wave, the meaning in the golden light, no one is clear, once the Taiyuan Wang clan supports the gold mine in Taolin City, for the Taiyuan Wang clan, it is simply sleepy, and someone immediately sent a pillow.

Wei Zheng looked at Chen Ying dumbfounded, he wanted to know what Chen Ying thought, this move was probably no less than killing three soldiers with two peaches.

Chen Ying said: "His Royal Highness the Prince, you can try, as long as you make a sound, the down in Chang'an City will definitely run to the East Palace." ”

Li Jiancheng was secretly surprised, he really didn't know how Chen Ying's head was long, how could he come up with such a brilliant idea, in comparison, down is actually not a difficult and high-tech, the value of down today, so that many people take grain to breed ducks, at most three or five years, or even not three or five years, down will soon be popular in Chang'an, popular all over the world.

The value of down will drop in a year or two at most, and when it becomes scarce and expensive, when down is everywhere in the world, it will become something that can be found everywhere like fur.

But the gold mine is different, once this thing is owned, it can be passed on to future generations, and the value of gold will not depreciate at any time.