Li Guoying received no assurances from Kupilon, and after the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi left disappointed, Kupilon was finally able to reveal his displeasure without concealing it. Just now, after Li Guoying echoed the testimony of Yuan Jia, Wenbi and others, Kubilong enthusiastically put forward an idea, that is, to concentrate the army to sweep western Sichuan, and then use the captured property to make up for the cost of this expedition.

Since he had spoken out of his mouth, he had already made up his mind and was determined to do so, so he did not intend to listen to any opinion from Li Guoying, but only supported it unreservedly, and in his capacity as the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, he supported the proposal made by Kupilon to the imperial court. However, this idea was vigorously opposed by Li Guoying.

The housekeeper presented Li Guoying's gift list, and Ji Bilong glanced at it, and the dissatisfaction in his heart was even heavier: "I heard that Li Guoying has always been stingy, but I really didn't expect him to be so ignorant." ”

There was nothing unusual about the gift sent by Li Guoying, and he didn't see any Western Sichuan specialties on the gift list. Although he knew that Yuan Jiawenbi's gang must have exaggerated, and estimated that their treasures were not entirely seized, and some of them may have been smuggled with thieves in western Sichuan. But there is no doubt about one thing, that is, the amount of agate, jadeite, ivory, and precious stones in western Sichuan is very large, and it is an amazing wealth if it is not the price of green vegetables.

Agate, jadeite, and gemstones can all be explained by the fact that the Han people did not know the goods before, and he asked several Han jewelry merchants, and they all said that jadeite and gemstones were not very valuable before. It's just that the origin of the ivory is a little strange, but no one knows what is going on in Tibet, it may be that the Tibetans have improved their ability to hunt elephants, such as the increase in the inflow of iron tools, and the famine in recent years has forced them to catch and sell a large number of elephants, etc.; Moreover, there are rumors in the southeast that Deng Ming went to Burma and Tianzhu and got a lot of ivory -- it would not be strange if the defenders of Chongqing confused Tibet with Tianzhu, and he himself could not tell the difference until now. Judging from the map, Tianzhu and Tibet seem to be quite close, if Tianzhu can have elephants, then it is normal for Tibet to have elephants.

"I told him last year that although these things in western Sichuan are not valuable, my family likes them very much, so let him bring them to me." Ji Bilong angrily threw Li Guoying's gift list aside: "He pushed three obstacles and said no." But Gao Mingzhan is much more honest than him, and he also exposed his old bottom, look at the piece sent by Chongqing to honor the Empress Dowager, it is not a letter to send, and he said that he took it out. ”

"Master, the slave said something ugly, the master must not be angry," today the housekeeper received a piece of silver from Li Guoying's hand, although he gave a lot, but the difference between the housekeeper's expectations was too far, and as soon as he heard that the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi was coming, he ran to the door in three steps and two steps to wait. Recently, everyone is talking about the treasures of western Sichuan, and the congratulatory gift received by the Empress Dowager is an important topic of conversation in people's mouths after the Chinese New Year. The housekeeper who was full of enthusiasm was poured cold by Li Guoying's basin of ice water: "That is Prince Kang, Prince An and several princes went to Gao Mingzhan to discuss, Li Guoying heard that it was the prince's order, so why don't you saddle up and do it." ”

"Hmph, an old dog who tends to be inflammatory." Curb Bilong was really angry, grabbed the gift list that had just been thrown aside, crumpled it into a ball and threw it to the ground: "Although I am not a prince, I am not something you can afford to provoke!" ”

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Although the person opposite was only a young man under the age of twenty, Li Guoying was trembling, and he was even more frightened than when he faced Deng Ming, because the person he was facing was the iron hat king of the Qing Dynasty, Prince Kang Jieshu; After the Kangxi case last time, the seventeen-year-old Jie Shu was able to scold the auxiliary minister so much that he didn't dare to fight back, no matter what, he was the master, a descendant of the Northeast thief Nurhachi.

"You've done a good job this time." Prince Kang sat on his throne and first praised Li Guoying, who had met him. Jieshu was able to inherit this throne because his uncle and cousin were found by the courtiers of the previous emperor and demoted to Baylor. However, Jieshu will not be grateful to Sony and the gang for this, because he knows very well that this kind of behavior is a demonstration by the minions to the princes, and it is a demonstration of the power and ability of the minions. If Prince Kang was not the Iron Hat King, maybe these minions would dare to provoke the emperor to abolish the prince's title.

After the Kangxi case, Jieshu ran to the Golden Palace several times and scolded the auxiliary ministers, and these minions relied on the support of the first emperor to humiliate the prince several times, and finally killed the emperor, and stabbed such a big man. After seeing the frightened expressions of those auxiliary ministers and the look of begging for mercy in their eyes, Jie Shu felt that his evil anger really came out a lot. After his uncle was robbed, Jieshu, who took the throne, also had a deep fear of these ministers, and the attendants and Baoyi of the royal palace were so frightened that they didn't even dare to come out when they mentioned Sony's gang - now Jieshu finally let Sony, and they understood that in the end, they were just dogs of the Aixin Jueluo family.

After the evil spirit dissipated, Jieshu began to repair the relationship with the Empress Dowager. He is a descendant of Dai Shan rather than Huang Taiji, and since Dai Shan, their family has a good tradition of not competing for the throne. The Manchus praised this, believing that the knowledge of the Daishan clan set a good example for the Manchurians, and also made all the Manchurians have a consciousness, that is, there must be something to say about the matter of competing for the position, and the people above must be willing to gamble and lose no matter how they fight; And the people below can't pull the master to shed blood and fight for this position - the fight for the position is the master's family affair, and has nothing to do with the minions.

Adhering to the good traditions of the family, Jieshu did not covet the throne too much, and knew very well that when he scolded the auxiliary minister, many people would shout on the sidelines. But if the throne was to be seized by force, there would not be a few Manchus who would support it -- the blood of the Manchus would be shed in order to seize the throne was not in line with the Manchurian tradition since the time of Huang Taiji.

For example, Deng Ming in Sichuan, Jieshu is not sure if he is the illegitimate son of Dolgon and the Empress Dowager, or the cousin who was robbed of his wife by the emperor, but no matter who he is, it is taboo to use swords to resist, and it is a betrayal of the unwritten rules enforced by Huang Taiji, Daishan, and Dolgon. Regardless of whether Deng Ming was the child of Huang Taiji or Dolgon, this behavior made him lose all inheritance rights and no longer belonged to the Manchu group. Jieshu heard that Deng Ming has been good to the Manchus so far, and in Nanjing, Chongqing, and this time in Hangzhou, he has not been stained with the blood of ordinary Manchus. If Deng Ming or the Han army he led killed the Manchus, then even if he used to have the surname Aixin Jueluo, he would be an enemy of the Manchus.

Since he had no intention of competing for the throne, Jie Shu gradually put away his aggressive attitude, so as not to let the Empress Dowager misunderstand his intentions - later the people in Prince Kang's Mansion thought that the Empress Dowager had already misunderstood. This time, Jieshu and Prince An's Mansion joined other Manchurian princes to congratulate the Empress Dowager on the New Year, and also prepared a variety of gifts to express filial piety, just so that the Empress Dowager could understand that the princes were only dissatisfied with the royal family's heavy use of servants but alienated from the royal family, at most they wanted to restore the tradition of the Eight Princes' deliberations, but they did not have the slightest intention of competing for the throne with her grandson. At least Jieshu doesn't, at least Jieshu doesn't have it at the moment.

The jade sent by Chongqing in time made Jieshu feel very satisfied, and today he specially called Li Guoying to commend him. In addition, Jieshu also has some things for Li Guoying to do: "The jade in your hand will be handed over to this king." ”

Jieshu has a lot of cousins, many of them have the title of princess, after the Chinese New Year, they compare with each other, Jieshu plans to give them some gifts, but he is not willing to leave a reputation of favoritism, so he asked Li Guoying to quickly hand over all the local products in western Sichuan.

Li Guoying wriggled his body in embarrassment, he really didn't have these "native products of western Sichuan" in his hands, he had never seen those fake jades, and since the whole ivory was given by Deng Ming, Li Guoying definitely didn't want it. After arriving in Beijing this time, Li Guoying also knew that Chongqing kept sending this kind of "fake jade", but Li Guoying was just worried, for fear that the matter would be revealed, where did he think of asking Chongqing to send him a cheap gift of this kind for gifts?

"What, are you worried that this king won't pay?" Jieshu's anger rose suddenly, and the auxiliary ministers didn't dare to pretend to be deaf and dumb to him, did this Li Guoying think that he was a character when he became a governor?

"Don't dare, don't dare," Li Guoying was calm and calm when facing Deng Ming and Kuidong's generals, but after seeing the Manchurian Taijun getting angry, he was sweating like pulp, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing like pounding garlic: "The slave doesn't have it in his hand, it's really not." ”

"This king has pulled down his face and begged you, you dare to push back." Jieshu was really angry. He really hasn't begged anyone in his life, and if he wants anything, all he needs to do is make a look. This time he took the initiative to open his mouth to Li Guoying, but the other party slapped him up, is it really Prince Kang called Hanako with a dead face?

"Get out!" Prince Kang asked himself, no matter how thick-skinned he was, he couldn't beg from his minions.

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After blasting Li Guoying out of the palace, Jieshu was still angry. He originally wanted to cultivate Li Guoying. Not long ago, the princes had a plan, that is, after quelling the turmoil in Shandong, they would send a large army to attack Sichuan. In the past, no one in Sichuan was willing to go because it was too poor and there was nothing to grab, so naturally no one wanted to suffer.

The imperial court's attitude towards Sichuan was also changing dramatically. In the past, although he knew that Deng Ming was the great enemy of the imperial court, Chongqing always reached out to ask for money, and no one would like this kind of financial black hole area. Even if you know that you need to pay, you are unwilling and unwilling.

But now that the imperial court is suddenly paying attention to Chongqing, is it not because Chongqing can bring benefits to the imperial court instead of simply asking for military salaries? Therefore, the words "crusade against Chengdu" also appeared more and more frequently in the mouths of officials, and many people believed that although such a crusade required a huge amount of upfront investment, the conquest of Sichuan not only had political and military benefits, in addition to avoiding financial losses in the southeast, it could also increase the income of the imperial court. Now people in the imperial court generally feel that the crusade against Sichuan is a profitable thing.

The princes were going to be the first to make a proposal that the prince lead the army to Sichuan to avenge the first emperor against Deng. They planned to recommend Jieshu to the Empress Dowager and the imperial court to sit in this position of commander. And Prince Kang's palace believes that the prince needs a minister who is familiar with the situation in Sichuan as a staff officer. Jieshu originally intended to hand over this important task to Li Guoying, and suggested that he take the lead in proposing to the imperial court that a prince such as Jieshu should take charge of Chongqing and dethrone Deng Ming in one fell swoop.

"This minion, I heard that he went to Curb Pilon early this morning." Naturally, Jieshu also had his own eyes and ears, and the envoy he sent to summon Li Guoying reported this--the envoy waited for a long time at Li Guoying's post house, and saw the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi returning from the auxiliary ministers: "Does he think that if he hugs the thick legs of those auxiliary ministers, he can not take this king in his eyes?" ”