Mingshi

Chapter 679 Counterattack
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King Yu hurried to Gao Gong's place, and came back in a hurry. It took less than half an hour to go back and forth. Princess Yu asked in surprise:

Seeing the unconcealable joy on King Yu's face, Princess Yu couldn't help asking anxiously, "Master Gao agrees?"

King Yu shook his head and said, "It's not that Master Gao agreed, it's that the master is fine."

"Are you all right?" Princess Yu looked at King Yu in confusion.

King Yu happily told Princess Yu the news he got from Gao Gong, and Princess Yu sighed after hearing it:

"Sir, you are also a man of gods, playing tricks on all the people in the cabinet."

"Yes!" King Yu said mockingly, "I'm still worrying about my husband, how can I worry about him as a human being? Hehe..."

Seeing the warmth on King Yu's face, Princess Yu hesitated, and finally said worriedly:

"My lord, to you, sir..."

"What's wrong?" King Yu looked at her with a smile.

"My lord, you have too much affection for your husband, you don't even have such deep affection for your father..."

King Yu was silent for a while, then laughed hoarsely and said: "My concubine, although I have a father, brothers, and several teachers in my life, I am still lonely. It is my luck to meet you."

Speaking of this, Mu Zhu Chen said: "I'm not afraid of my concubine's jokes. Although my husband is younger than me, when facing him, I have a kind of feeling of facing the kind of father and elder brother that I always imagine in my dreams." appearance, I want to get close to him from the bottom of my heart, but it is the real father and brother that scare me."

"But... have you ever thought that you trust him too much... you will ascend to the throne of God in the future..."

"I trust him!" King Yu said with a fixed gaze, "If I am proven wrong in the future, then I am wrong. If there is not even one person who believes in life, it is too lonely. I have already experienced that kind of lonely life. After more than [-] years, now I finally come across one, and I don't want to lose it.

Moreover……"

A wry smile appeared on King Yu's face and said, "With my current situation, do you think I have the right to choose?"

Princess Yu was silent.

Hangzhou.

Lu House.

The six great families gathered here.Because they had just received the news from the capital, they all ran to the Lu Mansion one by one, but after arriving in the Lu Mansion, they all fell silent again.

what did they say?
They thought they had caught Luo Xin's tricks, but they didn't expect that Luo Xin put them together.After a while, the Patriarch of the Lu family said in a shy voice:

"what should we do?"

Lu Ding coughed lightly twice and said: "Even if this matter is over, we won't come back no matter it's money or goods. It's impossible for Luo Xin to return it to us. I sent him out, and the Japanese pirates also want to return it." If we don’t come back, we have to prepare for those Japanese pirates to blackmail us.”

"Blackmail us?" Patriarch Cui said coldly: "We can ignore them. Would they still dare to go ashore and attack us?"

Lu Ding shook his head lightly and said, "We really can't offend them now. Of course, if we are ready to completely surrender to Luo Xin, we don't need to worry about those pirates anymore."

"Surrender to Luo Xin? That's absolutely impossible." All the patriarchs said angrily.

"Then we can't offend the Japanese pirates." Lu Ding said in a condensed voice: "Since we refuse to submit to Luo Xin, we must fight with Luo Xin to let him know who is the real master of the southeast. If we win, the The southeast is still our southeast. If we lose, in the southeast we will only be able to behave with our tails between our legs.”

"How to fight?" The Patriarchs looked at Lu Ding with burning eyes.

"Even if Luo Xin can't be killed, he must be driven away." Lu Ding said concentratingly.

Everyone nodded, and Lu Ding continued: "We take this as the ultimate goal, think about it carefully, one person counts the disadvantages, and the two count the strengths. The six of us can always come up with a solution."

Everyone withdrew their gazes, frowned and began to think.After a while, the head of the Lu family raised his head and said:
"After the wharf is successfully built, Luo Xin will start preparing for the transaction of goods and vassal states. We must firmly control the market and not give any goods to Luo Xin. In this way, his market department will not be able to operate, and he will not be able to make money. His Majesty will definitely punish him for a share of money. At that time, we will let our people in the capital play, saying that Luo Xin and our southeast are already in the same situation. If another person comes to Hangzhou to run the city shipping department, all problems will be solved. Your Majesty will definitely recall Luo Xin to the capital and order another person."

Everyone nodded, and Lu Ding said: "This is not enough, and Luo Xin has a batch of goods snatched from us, which is enough for him to trade with the feudal kingdom once, so although this strategy is useful, it takes a long time. Even if our six big The aristocratic family cannot control the entire southeast for too long, otherwise the silk and porcelain will be held in the hands of those owners for too long, and those people will not agree."

"Then let's spread the rumors again!" Cui's Patriarch said, "Let's say that Luo Xin competed with the people for profits, was greedy, and gave the prices to the southeast owners too low. They were robbing each other, so that the owners had to stop working and disband. The workshop. Tens of thousands of machinists in the Hangzhou layer are bound to be in an uproar, and if we continue to push the flames behind our backs, Hangzhou will be in chaos. At that time, Luo Xin will peel off his skin if he is not dead."

The Patriarch of the Wang family was also inspired and said: "The six of us joined hands and almost controlled [-]% of the land in the southeast. They were all burned up, and the crops this autumn have been completely useless. This will definitely cause panic, and when prices soar and there is no food to buy in the grain store, there will be chaos in Hangzhou, and Luo Xin will die at that time."

"We only control [-]% of the land...the remaining [-]%..."

Lu Ding opened his eyes, full of hostility and said: "The six of us don't sell it, let's see who dares to sell it."

Inside the Luoxin Manor outside Hangzhou.

Luo Xin came here again. A few days ago, Fang Zigen got an article about establishing a system, Zhou Xian got an article about morality, and Cui Hao got an article about taxation.It took another few days to thoroughly understand the articles written by these three people, and then spent another few days to revise these three articles based on his previous life experience.

For example, in Fang Zigen's article, he deleted some outdated things and added some advanced systems of later generations.In Zhou Xian's article, he also deleted and added some things based on the experience of later generations. For Cui Hao's article, he did not add things from the world he came from, because the things in that world were too advanced and may not be suitable for this era. He directly took out one of Zhang Juzheng's whipping methods, and supplemented and deleted Cui Hao's article.In the future, literati will no longer enjoy tax-free benefits. In Luo Xin's transition, everyone must pay taxes, not poll taxes, but land taxes. How much land you have, you have to pay as much tax.

After finishing this, Luo Xin spent several days writing and drawing some scientific ideas of later generations, such as shipbuilding, guns, guns, grenades, and even steam engines, etc., whatever he knew, no matter how much he knew. come out.Luo Xin is not proficient in these things, and many of them just explain a direction, or draw an appearance, or explain a general principle.He knew that although he didn't understand these things, those craftsmen would definitely find out if they had this direction.

At this time, he was sitting behind the desk, where Cui Hao, Zhou Xian and Fang Zigen were reading the articles that Luo Xin returned to them. A piece of paper with Luo Xin's revisions written on it.These articles were all written by them, so they didn't need to read the original articles at all, they just read Luo Xin's revisions, and the more they read, the more shocked they became.

That's all for Zhou Xian, Luo Xin is a great Confucian, he once wrote "Confucius and Mencius Combined Bi", he must have studied the Tao of Confucius and Mencius deeply, so Zhou Xian would not be too surprised that Luo Xin has his own unique views on Lide.But even so, Zhou Xian was surprised that Luo Xin's article could also have unique insights into Taoism.

Even he was surprised, let alone Fang Zigen and Cui Hao.Some systems and executive supervision plans from later generations, especially the idea of ​​establishing an anti-corruption bureau proposed by Luo Xin, made Fang Zigen applaud.As for Cui Hao, he was even more surprised. It would be strange if Zhang Juzheng's whip technique could not surprise Cui Hao.

The three looked at Luo Xin almost at the same time. They were grateful to Luo Xin for saving them from the exile. They thanked Luo Xin for giving them a chance to show their talents, but they did not respect Luo Xin in their hearts. , They do things for Luo Xin just to repay their kindness.

but……

After reading Luo Xin's revised article today, they knew that they were wrong, and they were wrong too much.They haven't seen Luo Xin as a military commander yet, but they have seen Luo Xin as a literati today.Just look at Luo Xin's deletions and additions. Luo Xin is definitely a master of a generation. Non-grandmasters cannot reach this level. They feel that their knowledge is a student in front of Luo Xin. It is no longer a simple repayment, but a respect, which can be seen from their expressions.

Seeing their expressions change, Luo Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief.Luo Xin attached great importance to these three people. It can be said that the construction and management of Taiwan Island in the future will be placed on the three of them. It is no exaggeration to say that the three of them are the cabinet members of Taiwan Island.

However, Luo Xin knew that these three people were just repaying their favor. With this mentality, they would follow the direction they thought was good in many aspects. Even if Luo Xin was dissatisfied, even if Luo Xin intervened, they would Dissatisfied, even obediently obedient and contradictory.And Luo Xin can't stay on Taiwan Island for a long time, Luo Sheng is a martial artist, he can't play tricks on these literati, maybe he will be used as a weapon by these literati, this is the most troublesome part for Luo Xin. .

But now he is relieved.

Literati have arrogance, but once they respect someone, they follow blindly, thinking that everything the person they admire is correct, they don't understand, it's just that their level is not enough.

Luo Xin talked with them for a while, then came to the place where the craftsmen lived, handed over the materials to them, and then left the crazy craftsman to leave.

this day.

Luo Xin was sitting in the second hall dealing with some official documents, the wharf was about to be built, and talks with various owners in the southeast were also on the agenda.But the effect was very bad. Almost all the owners refused to provide goods to the Shibo Division. The reasons were various, but Luo Xin knew in his heart that this was the beginning of a counterattack by the six southeast aristocratic families.

Putting down the brush and rubbing the center of his eyebrows, Luo Xin also had a headache.It's not that he has no choice. He left the concubines and housekeepers of the six great families at the beginning, but did not kill them, but kept them behind.It's just that once he did that, it would be too bloody, and he didn't want to do it until the very moment.

"Alas..." Luo Xin sighed softly, and murmured in a low voice: "Why are the six aristocratic families so short-sighted? They traded with Japanese pirates, and the price was kept extremely low by them, and the scope of the transaction was limited. To trade with Shibosi, The price will naturally increase significantly, and as time goes by, Shibosi will definitely grow bigger and bigger, and more and more vassal states will come to Daming. At that time, the six great families will definitely not earn as much as they do now.

Why do you have to do the right thing when you can make a fortune together? "

Luo Xin shook his head and sighed again.And at this moment, when he heard footsteps, he saw He Nian and Wang Ziren walking in quickly, both of them looked unhappy.After seeing Luo Xin, he saluted and said:
"My lord pays my respects."

Luo Xin raised his head and said with a smile on his face, "Why are you two in such a hurry?"

"My lord, it's not good." He Nian said with worry locked between his brows.

"What's wrong?" Luo Xin still had a smile on his face, calmly.

"My lord, do you still remember the machinist proposed by the lower official and you?"

The smile on Luo Xin's face slowly subsided and he said, "What happened to the mechanic?"

"Rumors are flying in Hangzhou now, saying that the adults have given the local owners extremely low prices, so that those owners not only can't make money, but also lose money. So those owners are going to go bankrupt, so those mechanics will lose their jobs. , those mechanics are very unstable these days, and chaos is likely to break out."

Luo Xin's face changed. If this happened, he would not be able to stay in the southeast any longer.Seeing that the New Year was hesitant to speak, he said:
"Is there any worse news than this?"

"Yes!" He Nian swallowed.

"Tell me, I want to see how bad it is?"

"My lord, this time is really a disaster. Now it is rumored that the Japanese pirates came ashore everywhere, burned, killed and looted, and burned all the crops. This year's crops are doomed to be useless. So now the food in the city is rising crazily. Once This wind caused a major event, and the city of Hangzhou was completely chaotic."

Luo Xin's face turned pale. If there was a riot in Hangzhou because of this, it would not be a matter of him leaving Southeast and being dismissed from office. He might have been killed by Emperor Jiajing.

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