As a salted fish, I was forced to become the teacher of all ages

After the servant went out, King Yiduan held a book and read it until midnight before resting, as if what happened outside the tent had nothing to do with him.

As the servant of King Yiduan, his existence is comparable to that of Xu Dacheng beside Emperor Guangxing, and in comparison, he is smarter than Xu Dacheng, and he can better understand the mentality of his masters. After starting the book, he even dealt with the trivial matters outside on his own initiative—for example, instructing the rest of Wangfuwei to contact Huamanlou directly and prepare to surrender.

Afterwards, whether it was the result of Xiningwei's attack on Tumed's camp, or the fact that Xishanwei sent people to verify the authenticity of the surrender, this loyal servant dealt with it by himself without disturbing King Yiduan's rest.

This day is the darkest day for the entire Tumed.

Different from the misery of the Liaodong Army, which lost a large number of middle-level officers in a night attack, Tumet’s tragedy is that they don’t even have a suitable person to give orders—the Liaodong Army at least has a commander who claims to love soldiers like a son Yao Zijie's town is full of strength, but Tumote really has nothing, so when they encountered the backstab of Xiningwei, their performance was worse than that of a mob.

Almost at the moment when the Xining Guard started to charge, Tumet's soldiers spontaneously changed into several camps: a small group of people who were not very good-tempered and not very good-minded launched a counter-charge against the Xining Guard, and were chopped off in a short while. Fell to the ground; another small group of guys who were afraid of death immediately retreated to the depths of the camp when they saw the opportunity, and led a large group of blind followers to instantly destroy the order that was so easy to maintain in the camp, making the entire camp Falling into chaos again; the rest of the people either chose to take the road and escape, or they squatted on the ground as soon as they dropped their weapons...

Tumed, who had an army of more than [-], except for some people who seemed to be lucky to escape from the camp and retreated westward, the rest were completely captured by more than [-] Xining Guards in a short period of time, and then they were captured by the Xining Guards. Under the leadership of the leader, he surrendered to Hua Manlou who had a dull face and didn't understand what was going on.

To be honest, whoever comes to this matter will have to be confused. Just imagine this scene: Hua Manlou led most of the main force of Lanzhou Prefecture to the vicinity of the Tumote camp through the snow, one foot deep and one foot shallow. While ordering a short rest, they dispatched a large number of spies and hot air balloons to collect intelligence, intending to inflict a heavy blow on the enemy, and also hoped for a quick battle to prevent the support of King Yiduan, who was camped five miles behind Tumet, from coming to stabilize his position and let his own side In the midst of a chaotic battle, three or five messengers from the Xining Guard came to the door and said they wanted to surrender before they had time to catch their breath. This...

Before Huamanlou verified whether their intention was to surrender or to delay the time to let King Yiduan's army come up to support them, the spies first came to report that a large number of Xining guards had been found in the Tumed camp, and then someone in the Tumed camp held a white flag When Hua Manlou went out to check in person, there were already tens of thousands of dejected and unarmed 'herdsmen' with their hands tied behind their backs neatly squatting outside the Tumote camp. After Wei brought out this group of people in batches, except for a small number of people who maintained order, the rest walked to the front and threw their weapons away, then walked to the edge and squatted down .

During the whole process, the atmosphere at the scene was very strange, and not many people spoke from the beginning to the end.Except for people sniffing their noses from time to time because it was too cold, there were a few centurions who were equivalent to a hundred households crying very sadly. They seemed to think that the tragedy of Tumed was planned by the cunning Han people The bitter trick of digging pits for the subjugation of the country...

In fact, not only they think so, even the people of Xiningwei and even Xishanwei are a little suspicious after seeing this scene, whether it is the plan of their uncle who can set the world without leaving home. At the end, Huang Zichao, who had experienced the whole process from Lanzhou Prefecture to Xiningwei, looked at Huamanlou with something wrong.

But Hua Manlou and Zhao Ren would turn their heads to look at Song Jie from time to time, and the two of them had the same thoughts: Could it be that this guy is fully fired under the blessing of love this time?

After a while, Hua Manlou pulled Zhao Ren aside and discussed in a low voice: "Do you have any objection to your cousin marrying him?"

"How dare I have any objections?" Zhao Ren's expression was very exciting: "You don't need to say that I will advise my father to hide Zhao Ling's life experience after I return to Beijing... the army, just let my father directly pardon and give him a gift. As a princess, by the way, give Song Jie an earl?"

Hua Manlou patted him on the shoulder and said, "Shan, just do it like this, anyway, you have to give him credit for what happens this time, and it's almost time to tell him your identity."

Zhao Ren looked back, and said again: "It doesn't matter who you are or not. I'm thinking now, should I really send this guy to the Southwest? I heard that there is trouble in the Southwest... In other words, send him He won't be angry if he goes to his barren land?"

Hua Manlou also glanced back: "If today's incident hadn't happened, I would have thought of fooling him into saying that if he wanted to marry the princess, he would have to make more contributions to let him go, but today's incident is too weird , in case it backfires..."

Zhao Ren hurriedly said in horror: "Don't risk your life, even if I go by myself, I can't take this risk, it's too evil!"

After talking nonsense and making jokes for a while, Hua Manlou asked: "Your Uncle Wang is about to surrender, he invited me to drink tea, do you want to go and have a look?"

Zhao Ren rolled his eyes: "What am I going to do? Do you want me to scold him or fight him?"

Hua Manlou chuckled: "It's fine, you can spit shit all over his face."

"I..." Zhao Ren gave Hua Manlou a hard look: "You are the supervising army, your father is the chief general, and I am a walking imperial edict, so you can handle this matter yourself, don't let him go." .”

Zhao Ren was very clear about Huamanlou's implication. What he asked was about the handling of King Yiduan: The two had a tacit understanding that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take back Qinghai, so King Yiduan played a role in it. It's very subtle-obviously, a living King Yiduan is more useful than a dead King Yiduan.

This is not only because Xiningwei is loyal to King Yiduan, but also because his management in the northwest over the years has made him very familiar with the situation in this area, that is to say, there is a difference in difficulty with his help and without his help.

The only problem is that when the royal family defines King Yiduan as a traitor, neither Huai'anbo nor Huamanlou would dare to use Xiningwei if there is no legal means. Wang sent to the capital as soon as possible.

But if there is such an imperial decree that has been prepared long ago, then all this will not be a problem, only Zhao Ren needs to make a statement-if the bear child thinks that his uncle Wang should be stuffed in a prison to calm down, then Huamanlou is determined I won't persuade you, it's taboo.

"Just talking..." Hua Manlou replied slowly, "I'll meet him later."

594. Praise

When Hua Manlou walked into King Yiduan's tent, he hadn't seen clearly what the fat man sitting at the top looked like, when he heard the other party say in a tone like an old friend coming: "Here you come? Sit down."

Hua Manlou was not pretentious, walked over and sat down, and only then began to look at the fat man opposite who had almost brought disaster to Da Zhao.

It has to be said that since the second half of the year, Hua Manlou and Yiduan Wang have been speculating about what kind of tricks the other party is playing almost every day, but this is really the first time for the two to meet.So when King Yiduan put a cup of tea in front of Huamanlou, the two didn't speak for the first time, but looked at each other through the curling steam.

After a long time, King Yiduan sighed leisurely: "Since ancient times, heroes have been born in youth, and this king is... really not as good as him in this regard."

Hua Manlou could tell that he was referring to Emperor Guangxing in the endless conversation.

At the same time, Huamanlou also understands what King Yiduan wants to express. After all, Huamanlou was about 16 years old when he formed the Xishan Guard, and he is not old enough to be a weak crown now, but he is already the number one group in Dazhao People, this is a bit fantasy in any era-in other words, King Yiduan felt that if he was in the position of Emperor Guangxing, he would either not trust Huamanlou too much, or he would not let him hold his hand. With so many rights, he would never recognize such a monstrous godson, that's why he sighed.

But after hearing this, Hua Manlou was in a bad mood: I'm such a salty fish, do you really think I want to get so many troubles for myself?

"Without you, this king will win." Yiduan Wang said in a very firm tone: "Without you, this king has at least three to five years to prepare, but there is not so much time. This king succeeded once."

"So you asked me to come here just to complain?" Hua Manlou raised his eyebrows with contempt on his face.

Hua Manlou acknowledged the danger of King Yiduan, and knew very well that if he didn't respond quickly on the day of his wedding, King Yiduan would have a [-]% chance of changing the world.But on the other hand, if he really succeeds that day, then the whole of Dazhao will fall into chaos. Strictly speaking, this is not a regime change, but a real involution.

After all, from the perspective of the court, even though Da Zhao's civil servants have many problems, such as rigid, conservative, rigid-minded, and a lot of energy is spent on gaining and pinching each other, but in terms of what they think of as "integrity", among them There is no shortage of fools who dare to bump their heads to death in front of King Yiduan.

And even if King Yiduan can find another group of fans to take the position of these civil servants, he will definitely not be able to shake off the blame of killing the king and killing brothers. Then from the beginning of his ruling, Da Zhao will have many wishes. The lucky ones rose up and started rebelling under the guise of avenging the late emperor—at least some of his other brothers will never be too calm, and a large number of guys with brain problems who want to sit on the chair in Fengtian Temple will also jump Come out—for example, the first wave of Japanese pirates in Huamanlouping was the one who compared himself to Han Gaozu.

And these are just some of the most intuitive influences. Apart from these, once Dazhao speeds up internal conflicts and wars, who will benefit?

Obviously, even if there is no Jianzhou Jurchen, there will still be those small countries in the West that may be about to rise and use all means to plunder their wealth. If the big Zhao can't stand it at that time, then in the future...

Is it possible to continue to repeat the history of the previous life?

Therefore, compared to King Yiduan's act of colluding with other races to betray the country, Huamanlou is more popular because of this point-after all, no matter whether it is the Jurchen Ministry or Tumed, Da Zhao can now pay a very small price. Destroy it completely, but the West...

Up to now, Huamanlou has still not received any news from Southeast, even though Da Zhao's tentacles have extended to Malacca.

There is no doubt that the era of great voyages has begun, even if the world is different, but according to the situation in Japan, Ryukyu and even Luzon, although the world line seems to be half dead, there is still a subtle sense of confinement, so sooner or later There will always be a few ships floating from the west under one name or another.

Therefore, Hua Manlou still had a string in his heart until he had a clear understanding of the situation in the West.

So as far as his heart is concerned, even if Uncle Huai'an is not caught up in these messy things about King Yiduan, Hua Manlou will definitely find a way to come to the northwest to control the situation, in case Da Zhao really rolls over.

Then again, under his global situation, King Yiduan calmly pretended to be an expert to analyze the pros and cons after he had messed up all these messes, shouldn't he be despised by him?

"The king lost, but the king admits it!" After hearing what Hua Manlou said, King Yiduan couldn't help being a little angry: "Otherwise, would you be able to eat Tumed so quickly?"

"So I want to thank you?" Hua Manlou sneered and said, "Or, do you think these crap things you did are very reasonable?"

King Yiduan picked up his teacup and drank it, tried his best to suppress his anger, and said: "This king just wants to tell you that this king's actions are not just for the sake of being emperor. Da Zhao is already riddled with holes. Extraordinary means... No, without you and what you have done before, I am afraid that the country will perish in a few years!"

Hua Manlou raised his eyebrows, and when he was about to continue to sneer, King Yiduan said again: "Not to mention, if Datong was born without you in the past, I'm afraid Tuotuohua would have entered the hinterland of Dazhao long ago! At that time, how many Oala, Southwest, and Japanese pirates do you think can be dealt with based on the situation of the court? And if there is no restraint from this king, Tumed and Jurchen tribes must be added to this!"

"This king wants to be an emperor, but this king is definitely not an emperor for the sake of being an emperor, and this king wants to save Da Zhao!" The more King Yiduan said, the more excited he became: "People say that my brother is kind and is a member of ZTE. Lord, where is Da Zhao Zhongxing these years? It is precisely because of his so-called benevolence that Da Zhao is more corrupt than the previous emperor, the army is more incompetent, and the court is even more corrupt! This king will buy people at will. Almost let him die on the street! The only correct thing he has done these years is to reuse you and believe in you!"

"Yes, you have solved everything perfectly, but Da Zhao's court is still Da Zhao's court. Once my emperor brother starts to distrust you, or if something happens to you, everything will be destroyed. Repeat! Even without these..." King Yiduan's eyes were a little red: "Huamanlou, Uncle Xishan, you have used all your strength to make Da Zhao's Guozuo last for at least several decades, but what next? Decades later, will there be someone like you who will be Da Zhao's paper poster?"

Hua Manlou touched his nose speechlessly, not knowing what to say.

Damn, I thought he was here to scold someone, and he wanted to persuade him to surrender or cooperate, but suddenly there was a wave of compliments from the other side... Well, let's take it as a compliment, what should we do?

595. Huamanlou's mockery

"Don't get excited, let me stroke it first..."

After a long while, Hua Manlou said slowly: "Since you said that you rebelled for the sake of Da Zhao, let's analyze it, what is the matter of colluding with other races? Ceded three hundred miles east of Lanzhou Prefecture in exchange for Tumote's hand." , Is this what you did for Da Zhao?"

"Ceded? Ha, do they have a life to take it?" King Yiduan sneered, looking at Huamanlou proudly: "Do you know that the Tumed tribe, which was split from the Tatars, occupied Qinghai decades ago?" But decades later and even today, Da Zhao hasn’t taken it back, and if it weren’t for the management of the king in Xiningwei these years, I’m afraid they would have come here long ago, and the worst thing is to plunder every year. Is it a worry in Da Zhao's heart? But if he can be tricked into following the king's big plans, and then cut off his back, supplies, and annihilate most of his troops in one fell swoop, and then only need a partial division to take Qinghai back, Is this... colluding with other races? Is it ceding the land?"

Hua Manlou raised his eyebrows noncommittally: "The same is true for the Jurchen Ministry? Or, if Oala has not sealed the confession and Tatar has not fallen into civil strife, these people will be the ones you contacted?"

"Of course!"

"Have you ever heard of 'leading wolves into the house'?"

"This king is not stupid!" Yiduan Wang said coldly: "This king will do everything possible to keep him in Da Zhao!"

Hua Manlou yawned: "You collapsed without even making a single move. Where did you get so much confidence that you can handle so many alien races?"

"This king..."

"Also!" Hua Manlou interrupted him: "If you break through the Lanzhou Mansion this time as you wish, how sure are you that you can let Tumote listen to you and continue to advance? After breaking through the Lanzhou Mansion, the people will be like How? How long will it take to rebuild everything destroyed by the war?"

King Yiduan was silent for a while, then sighed: "Without you, this king...wouldn't have fallen to this place."

"Cut..." Hua Manlou said with contempt on his face: "Even if your intention is not bad, but you have never thought about what will happen after the land is ceded, let alone how the people should deal with it. You didn’t treat the common people as human beings, does the prince think so?”

King Yiduan was speechless.

Although what Hua Manlou said is very ugly, it can be regarded as mercilessly piercing his arrogance-for a person like him who is equivalent to a politician, the common people generally have a relatively low position in his heart, and they can be fooled and discarded Just like in Huamanlou's previous life, after certain countries experienced 'herd immunity' and 'more than 90', the authorities are still full of nonsense.

"Also..." Hua Manlou continued: "If you open your mouth and keep your mouth shut, what would you do without me? Then if I'm really not there, and you really came to power, how will you revitalize Da Zhao?"

Yiduan Wang said: "Of course it is to clarify the administration of officials, encourage the people's livelihood, and then destroy the Japanese pirates, pacify the Southwest, and conquer the Tatars..."

"Tsk, not to mention the order, or whether you have found the right direction, what is the solution?" Hua Manlou said contemptuously: "Just as you said just now, if there is no me, Datong will fall, and at this time You suddenly succeeded and came to power, what are you going to do...well, defeat the Tatars and destroy the Japanese pirates?"

King Yiduan took it for granted and said, "Naturally, it is to revive our great Zhao army. If there are several troops with the strength of the Xining Guards, why should the Tatars be afraid?"

"Xining Guard?" Hua Manlou nodded: "Well, then from the time you bought it to really taking control of Xining Guard, and finally allowing Xining Guard to really revive its military prestige... how long did it take? Three years? Five years? Here How much thought and how much money was spent during this period, do you know? Do the math yourself, how long will it take to build several Xining guards, how much will it cost, and where will the money come from?"

King Yiduan was silent for a while.

Hua Manlou didn't wait for him to speak, and taunted: "Da Zhao's annual income is so small, it's unrealistic to spend all of it on your so-called revitalization of the army, right? You see, river governance requires money, water transportation requires money, officials' salaries , and the expenses of your clan, where do you deduct them from?"

"Perhaps you would like to collect more taxes, right? But Dazhao's taxes... Well, before I didn't bother with commercial taxes this year, most of them came from agricultural taxes. Maybe you will find that ordinary people—I mean people with a little bit of two or three acres of Susukida may not be happy anymore. If you plan to eat from their mouths, there will probably be one result: donate, put the land on a land that does not need to be handed over. But in this way, the burden on other taxpayers will become heavier and heavier, which in turn will lead to more contributions... Oh, when you did not evacuate from Lanzhou Mansion, under the name of your Palace Basically, it includes more than [-]% of the land in Lanzhou Prefecture, you don’t know this, do you?”

"Maybe you still want to reform, let those who don't pay taxes try to pay a little..." Hua Manlou continued to analyze cheerfully: "But in this case, you have to initiate a reform, such as clearing the land after Change all the messy agricultural taxes to silver taxes, but in this way, you may spend half your life doing this, and the effect may not be very good, but..."

A Jiangling gentleman who did not want to be named had done this before, and he was liquidated as soon as he died, so Huamanlou was very aware of the difficulty of this and the reactions of some people.

Picking up the teacup and taking a sip, Hua Manlou continued: "What we were talking about at the beginning was about foreign wars, how to defeat Japanese pirates, right? You see, you haven't settled the matter in half your life." Solve it completely, but... to put it bluntly, I have already done all these things, even the business tax has started to be collected, and if you are sharp enough, you will find that even the sea ban is about to become a dead letter. So now the prince thinks, Your Majesty Which one is better than you...?"

From Hua Manlou's point of view, King Yiduan has some skills, some wit, and a heart, and even his vision surpasses many people these days, but...

He was still playing the same old stuff, and he didn't see through the main contradiction of Da Zhao at all.

In other words, any high school student in his previous life would know that the main reason for the feudal dynasty to play off was the annexation of land. As for the imperial court and the administration of officials, they were all subsidiary products.

In short, he knows a hammer.

"My lord said before that the only right thing to do in your majesty's life is to reuse me and trust me, that's why we are in today's situation..." Hua Manlou put down his teacup, looked at King Yiduan cheerfully and said, "It can be changed if you are a lord. , I guess you can’t even reuse it, let alone trust? So in the end, even if the prince has a passion for it and has all kinds of grand plans, you can’t do anything from the beginning.”

"Finally..." Hua Manlou poured tea for himself and King Yiduan, and continued: "In your words, the only correct thing you have done in your life is to send Xining Wei to fight against Tu Mo immediately when the opportunity is not right. Special, instead of fighting with me and continuing to commit crimes. If... the prince thinks what I said is right, then there is one more correct thing you can do, then in this way, the prince still seems to think that he can win One game, is the prince willing to do it?"

596. baby

After hearing Hua Manlou's analysis, Wang Yiduan hesitated like a child who had lost his lucky money, dazed and helpless—that is, he had already lost and let go, so he only showed it in his emotional performance. Don't be at a loss, otherwise, more than ten years of persistence and planning will prove to be wrong, and this matter is by no means acceptable to ordinary people.

But in the conscience of heaven and earth, Hua Manlou's remarks are actually very euphemistic, and it's just a matter of picking those insensitive places and talking casually.

If Huamanlou is really going to give King Yiduan a definition, and if he doesn't care whether he will cooperate with the Qinghai Raiders, then Uncle Hua's words will be ugly: someone who is a little clever and self-righteous, with high eyes and low hands without a big picture Politicians, that's all.

Because, judging from the half-life trajectory of King Yiduan, after the first emperor established the crown prince and confirmed the succession of Emperor Guangxing, King Yiduan had to stay away from the political center in every way, otherwise he would be the one to settle the score It was not Emperor Guangxing, but the late emperor—even if the late emperor would not want his life, warnings and even suppression would definitely be unavoidable.

In this case, King Yiduan wisely chose to blackmail himself, pretending to be a fool and staying away from the court.This step is actually a very smart move for an idle prince, but it is a bit of a pitfall for an ambitious prince: he has never been in touch with government affairs from the beginning to the end, and this has also caused his limitations in viewing Da Zhao—— In short, the layout is small.

In addition, judging from the extremism in his words, this kind of person is like some angry youth in Huamanlou's previous life. He often feels that the whole world is turbid and he is alone, thinking that only he can see the problem.But the difference is that the severe beatings in society will teach angry youths to be human and gradually become pragmatic, but no one can point out the problem of King Yiduan, so he lives in a self-righteous world in the long run—using flowers According to Man Lou's previous life, he was in his own information cocoon.

Over time, his thinking became more and more one-sided, and more and more 'simple'. It would be better if he didn't come to power, but if he really got into the capital and became emperor, let alone whether he can secure this position. , that is, if he really sits firmly, he will only bring disaster to Da Zhao—even though he may really think that he is doing good things, and hopes to make Da Zhao brilliant, but soon he will find that things are far away. It was not as simple as he imagined, and then he took the two paths Hua Manlou said: increasing taxes, or reforming the law.

And according to the standard practice of a high-minded but short-sighted politician, the probability of raising taxes is roughly ninety-nine percent. It collapsed.

If it is a normal dynasty change, the normal change of dynasty is fine, it is nothing more than a redistribution of land resources, at least it will allow the Chinese civilization to continue to stumble, but if it is destroyed by Tatars, Tumet, or Jurchen The foreign race entered the Central Plains, then...

Maybe the half-dead world line will really come to life and end up repeating the history of Huamanlou's previous life.

"Have you made up your mind?"

Hua Manlou waited for a long while and saw that King Yiduan hadn't recovered, so he stood up impatiently and said, "If you think about it, then start doing the second correct thing in your life."

King Yiduan hesitated for a while and said: "You are so self-assertive to let me go to recover Qinghai with you, are you not afraid of my brother's accountability? Are you not afraid of Yushi's impeachment?"

Hua Manlou shrugged: "As long as I don't let you go, I'm really not afraid, and you have said it yourself, His Majesty trusts me very much..."

"Alas..." King Yiduan sighed endlessly, and finally said: "This king... promises you, it can be considered... really do something for Da Zhao."

……

With the cooperation of King Yiduan and the command of Xiningwei, the process of receiving Wangfuwei and Xiningwei went very smoothly.

In front of everyone, Huamanlou took out an imperial decree that seemed to have been received long ago, and gave Xiningwei a chance to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds with the reason of "Your Majesty's benevolence", and completely broke up and reorganized with Ningxia Wei and Jinglu Wei. After mixing up and adjusting the middle-level officers, Xiningwei, a traditional army rarely seen in Dazhao, fell into his hands.

In addition, Wangfuwei was completely disbanded, and then mixed with a group of Wangfu left and right soldiers who had previously surrendered or captured, and selected a group of qualified soldiers to reorganize as Lanzhouwei, which is equivalent to completing a military system reform.

In this way, Huamanlou had nearly [-] troops in his hands, and the conditions for counterattack and recovery of Qinghai were completely ripe.

only……

"Escort Tumed captives back to Beijing, I will do other things!" Uncle Huai'an was very stubborn and wanted to drive Huamanlou back, and he did not hesitate to use his identity to suppress Huamanlou: "I am the governor of Lanzhou as my father!"

Hua Manlou was very disapproving of this: "Father, governor, governor, you are still taking on the responsibility of governor, and the situation in Lanzhou government has not stopped, what's the matter with you going to the west to fight?"

Uncle Huai'an was so angry that he blew his beard and stared: "Then you are the supervising army, not the commander in chief, and you don't even have command authority, so what's the matter with running west?"