"Please!" Luo Xin stood up and bowed deeply to Ma Fang.

Ma Fang hurriedly supported Luo Xin and said: "This is the responsibility of our soldiers, and we don't deserve such a big gift." It's just that if I face Goryeo alone, my pressure is not very great, and I am afraid of the grassland......"

"I'll take care of this."

"That's fine."

"Leaving tomorrow?"

"Hmm!"

"I'll send you tomorrow."

"Good!"

"No, this level, can we really pass it?"

"Yes, surely."

Ma Fang was silent for a moment, sighed and said, "If Your Majesty can reuse the weapon, I believe that Da Ming will be able to get through this level." If in another ten years, if you can enter the cabinet, I firmly believe that Daming will once again go to glory. But ......"

Luo Xin also went down silently, Ma Fang looked at Luo Xin and said, "No, we are also a lifelong friendship, right?" ”

"Yes!" Luo Xin nodded.

Ma Fang said with a smile on his face: "No, in recent years, your career has been bleak, and you are walking on thin ice. If it weren't for the accident in Daming now, I'm afraid you would still be in Jinyiwei's prison. ”

Luo Xin nodded with a wry smile and said, "Brother, we don't have to lie to each other. Your Majesty is jealous of me, and it would be good if you didn't kill me. ”

"Not exactly!" Ma Fang shook his head and said: "Actually, it's not just you, Zhang Juzheng, Guo Pu and others also have a bleak career. It stands to reason that you are all excellent in the evaluation of the officials. With this evaluation, he must be a minister who governs the world, and he must be promoted. However, Zhang Juzheng, who is older than you and has older qualifications than you, is just the prefect of Hangzhou. Do you know what that means? ”

"What does that mean?"

"Your Majesty is not confused, if ministers like you who govern the world are abandoned like you, the Ming Dynasty will die a long time ago."

"My brother is serious."

"It's not heavy at all." Ma Fang shook his head and said.

Luo Xin already had a speculation, but he still arched his hand to Ma Fang and said, "Please also ask my brother for guidance." ”

Ma Fang glanced at Luo Xin and said, "With your wisdom, you should have already speculated. It's not that Your Majesty can't see your abilities, it's just that Your Majesty has hidden your snow and left it for his son. ”

"Your Majesty really thinks so?" Although Luo Xin speculated, he still couldn't believe it.

Ma Fang shook his head and said, "No, you are extremely intelligent, but you are still too young. In fact, it's not just you, Zhang Juzheng's age is too young. Let's take you as an example, you fought in the south and the north, and solved the Ming finances. If you are a person in your forties, I am afraid that at this time, you have already entered the cabinet. However, you are only twenty-two years old now, and at this age you have been put in the cabinet, in a high position, and in a position of power. Ten years from now?

Ten years later, you will definitely have a big push from your protégés, and even if you don't form a party, you will automatically form a party. At that time, the imperial power will inevitably fall. ”

Seeing Luo Xin's face change slightly, Ma Fang said again: "With Your Majesty's heroic strength, will you leave this hidden danger for your son?" His Majesty has fought with civil officials all his life. At the beginning, the great etiquette was actually a struggle for power between the imperial power and the civil officials. His Majesty wants to be in charge of the court alone, and the civil officials want to let the Holy Son of Heaven rule down. In the end, His Majesty broke the backbone of the civil officials, but it also made the Ming go downhill. ”

Luo Xin admired Ma Fang, but he didn't expect Ma Fang, a military attaché, to be able to see things so clearly. Thinking about Ma Fang's age again, I was relieved.

"Brother, there are still differences between me and Zhang Juzheng." Luo Xin said softly: "They are all simple civilian officials, but I have fought in the north and south, and I am inextricably linked with the military. ”

"yes!" Ma Fang sighed and said, "However, you did a good job. At the very least, on the surface, you have severed ties with the military. ”

"But now I'm afraid it's going to be connected again." Luo Xin smiled bitterly, this time he was responsible for encircling and suppressing the rogues, how could he not have contact with the military?

"There's no way around it, but it's not like there's no solution."

Luo Xin's eyes lit up: "Brother, what's the best plan?" ”

"Huddle for warmth."

"Huddle for warmth?"

"Yes, you're still too thin now. You can't huddle with the military to keep warm, that's the way to die. However, since you became an official, you don't have many like-minded friends in the civil service system. ”

"I ......"

"I know what you're trying to say, you want to say the people in the Renaissance Society. They should be able to help you in the future. But now, they're too weak.

Not counting them, do you have any friends who can help you now? Take the matter of your imprisonment this time, are there officials above the fourth grade who speak for you? ”

Luo Xin's face was ugly. Ma Fang continued: "Even if you are extremely intelligent, you are invincible with two fists and four hands, and a good tiger can't stand the wolves. Put you in prison, Xu Jie didn't come forward at all, but the wolves under him did it. ”

Luo Xin said with a bitter face: "I also know, it's just that I'm too young, and I was promoted quickly, and there is less process." ”

"The law does not blame the public, this public is very important. And one fence has three piles, and one hero has three gangs. If you want to make a difference in the future, you must make friends with a group of officials with more than five grades, and it is best to make friends with some officials with four grades and three grades. Once there is danger, everyone will go together, once it reaches this level, even Your Majesty will not dare to kill you, at most let you be idle. With your current strength, you will make friends with the third grade at most, and if you go up, it will not be a friendship, but a defection. For example, you go to the high arch. ”

"It's not easy! Not to mention the three grades, it is the fourth grade, which is almost divided by Gao Gong and Xu Jie. Even if there are so many people who have not been divided, how can they look down on my little youth? ”

"It's no problem if you can't recruit now, but you can't do without this idea."

"I understand, thank you, brother."

Luo Xin and Ma Fang separated, and the next day, they personally sent Ma Fang out of the city gate. Along with Luo Xin, there were also Xu Jie, Gao Gong. When an army like this goes out, it has to come forward as a cabinet.

"No, go sit with me?" Gao Gong walked up to Luo Xin and smiled.

"Good!" Luo Xin nodded happily.

The two of them returned to the high arch duty room, Wang Xijue served tea, and then withdrew, leaving only Luo Xin and Gao Gong in the duty room.

Gao Gong looked at Luo Xin and said softly: "No, I heard a message. ”

"What's the news?"

"I heard...... There is a news spread in the provinces that were attacked by the rogues, saying that the army had no money, and whichever province paid a million taels of silver first, it would go to the province to encircle and suppress the rogues. Moreover, this silver was not officially taxed from the common people, but was donated by merchants, families, and wealthy families. ”

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