Lu Bing touched his beard with satisfaction: "It's just that your injuries haven't healed yet, the evil qi in your body has not been removed, and if you want the Thirteenth Taibao to achieve a small success, it will take at least half a year, you can't leave now, otherwise even your life will be in danger." ”

The Heavenly Wolf pondered for a moment: "How long will it take to completely expel the Extreme Yin Evil Qi in my body?" ”

Lu Bing said: "If it is completely expelled, it will take at least half a month, and it will take time for Qiu Luan to return to Beijing, so let's do what you say, Tian Wolf, we will act according to the method you said, I will give the emperor a secret recital, let him promote several of Qiu Luan's subordinates to serve in the Jinyi Guard, and hint that Xu Jie and other Qingliu ministers jointly guaranteed Qiu Luan to enter the court as officials, they, old foxes, must be happy to see someone come forward to fight Yan Song." ”

Heavenly Wolf smiled: "It's just that those Qingliu ministers, how could they know that Qiu Luan was going to turn against Yan Song?" You must know that the last time he killed Xia Ge, Qiu Luan recognized Yan Song as his father-in-law, which is a well-known thing. ”

Lu Bing sneered: "At this time and that time, Heavenly Wolf, you don't see how arrogant Qiu Luan is now, even Yan Song took the initiative to set up a banquet to invite him, he couldn't put it off, what about busy military affairs, anyone with a discerning eye knows that he wants to keep a distance from Yan Song, because everyone knows that Yan Song is a traitor, and he is close to him, and it is not easy to go further, besides, if he takes a fancy to Yan Song's position, he can only continue to sit on it if he overthrows him." ”

Heavenly Wolf asked, "With Qiu Luan, what can he do to bring down Yan Song?" It's impossible to find out that Yan Song and himself conspired to frame Xia Yan, then even he will be finished. ”

Lu Bing smiled "hehe": "Of course he is not so stupid." But they will choose other things to attack, Yan Song's father and son are indeed hugely greedy, and Yan Song's henchmen are all over the government and the opposition. If you want to grasp the handle, you can also grab a handful, and even if you don't investigate Yan Song at that time, you can only investigate the problems of his henchmen, and you can hit Yan Song. ”

Heavenly Wolf shook his head: "It won't be so simple, if it is so easy to attack the Yan Party, why do those Qingliu ministers have to suppress it like this for so many years?" ”

Lu Bing put away his smile and said, "Sky wolf." You must know that the Ming Dynasty has no officials and is not greedy, even if it is a Qingliu minister. It is an indisputable fact that they will still enrich themselves by various means and methods, but the Yan Party is more greedy and excessive, and the emperor wants to maintain the rule of the entire country. It is impossible to remove all officials overnight. Therefore, this situation can only be tolerated and acquiesced. As long as it does not involve the issue of rebellion, it is acceptable for the strict party to take 30 percent or even 40 percent of the tax money given to the imperial court. ”

Sky Wolf gasped: "Can you bear it after being greedy for so much money?" ”

Lu Bing nodded sadly: "Yes, when I first heard about this, I was also angry, but according to my Ming ancestral system." The fields of the scholars and the royal family are not taxed, and these scholars are after they return home. You can also rely on the benefits you get when you are an official to buy a large amount of land.

These fields do not pay taxes when they are in office, and they are attached to colleagues and royal relatives after leaving office, nearly two hundred years later, the arable land of the Ming Dynasty is getting less and less, and the taxes are becoming less and less, and the treasury revenue is becoming more and more difficult. ”

The wolf said hatefully: "So there is no hope for my Da Ming? What's the difference between this and drinking to quench your thirst? ”

Lu Bing shook his head: "As courtiers, we can only do our part, it is precisely for this reason that Minister Qingliu cannot attack Yan Party with corruption and bribery, because they themselves are not clean, but Qiu Luan has always been a border general, and he can attack Yan Song confidently in this regard." ”

Tianlu Qi said: "But Qiu Luan himself is also a big greed, just from the fact that he took out so many silver taels when he bribed Altan Khan, he knows that this guy is not less profitable, he can also say that Yan Song is corrupt?" ”

Lu Bing smiled: "Civil officials are greedy for money, and military generals are intolerable to the emperor, but if military generals love money, it is nothing, because the person in charge of the army in his hand, if he is greedy for money, it means that he has no ambition, and the military generals are limited by their status, and they are not tax-exempt like Wenchen, their land is often hereditary military Toda, and it is impossible to be greedy if you want to be greedy. ”

Sky Wolf nodded: "But this is just because Qiu Luan has no chance and no ability to be greedy, it doesn't mean that he doesn't have the heart to be corrupt, put him in Yan Song's position, won't he make more money?" ”

Lu Bing smiled slightly: "This is the emperor's imperial technique, when dealing with Xia Yan, he also used Yan Song to replace him once, this time Yan Song defeated Xia Yan, killed Zeng Miao, and expressed negativity in the process of the Mongolian invasion, although he threw out Ding Rukui as a substitute for the dead ghost, but the emperor knew that this was Yan Song's own inaction, and killing the surname Ding was also a warning to Yan Song, so that he could not spoil state affairs while making money!"

I have been following the emperor all these years, and I am very clear about his thoughts, he wants to cultivate the Tao, and does not want state affairs to bother him, whether it is Jiangnan Pingwei or the Mongolians outside the Saiwai, he is better than less than one thing, but the Mongolians have hit the capital this time, and the Ming Dynasty is in danger of losing the country for the first time in more than a hundred years, so his anger is more than any time before, if it is not for the power of the Yan Party is too great, I am afraid that he will already eradicate Yan Song's father and son like killing Xia Yan. ”

Heavenly Wolf sighed: "That Qingliu Minister still has so many people above the court, even if the Yan Party is eliminated at once, they can also be replaced." ”

Lu Bing shook his head: "It's not so simple, those ministers who came to Qingliu are not necessarily much better than the Yan Party, and they scolded the Yan family and their sons one by one to be righteous and strict, but their ability to do practical things may not be as good as some backbone members of the Yan Party, such as Hu Zongxian of the Southeast Pingwu, although he is a Yan Party, but thanks to him, he can stabilize the situation in the southeast.

This second, the emperor just killed Xia Yan and Zeng Miao, if he defeats Yan Song and his party now, he will undoubtedly admit that he did something wrong back then, although our emperor is extremely smart, but he is too face-saving, this kind of thing will never admit his mistake, he would rather be stiff. The same is true for rejecting Mongolia's peace talks and insisting on not closing the market. ”

The wolf punched the stone by the waterhole hatefully, and a stone flew up, "plopped", and fell into the water: "He wants to cultivate immortals and ask, then it is better to Zen in the person who wants to manage state affairs, and he does not seek politics in his position, what is this not to occupy the pit and not?" ”

Lu Bing's face changed, and he said angrily: "Heavenly Wolf, how can you say such a rebellious thing!"

Sky Wolf said coldly: "Commander-in-chief, you also went to Shanxi this time, didn't you see people starving to death on the side of the road?" Have you been to Jiangnan before, haven't you seen the people who burned and looted the Japanese invaders? The country is rotten like this, the court is greedy for ink, and the people are not happy, these can be solved by pushing it to the strict party? If it weren't for the fact that the emperor himself only sought cultivation and instigated infighting among ministers in order to maintain the monarch's power, how could he have made this situation? ”

Lu Bing was choked speechless, he could only sigh, and said faintly: "But after all, he is our emperor, and we, as courtiers, can only be loyal, can only advise, and cannot arbitrarily discuss the king." ”

Tian Wolf sneered: "Tang Taizong said, the people are like water, can carry a boat, can also overturn a boat, the current problem of the Ming Dynasty is not entirely in the court, the country from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside are rotten, what is needed is that the promising monarch can show courage, reform the ancestral system, choose virtuous people, far from the villain, this requires the monarch himself to show courage, deal with the government every day, instead of hiding and pretending to be a ghost, appointing a traitorous party, and letting the country rot day by day." ”

Lu Bing said in a deep voice: "Heavenly wolf, Hugh is talking nonsense, aren't you and now doing your best for the country?" (To be continued......)