Chapter 290 National Policy (Part 1)

"Ah." The water in the teacup was very hot. As soon as it touched her body, it hurt that Liu Ji woke up completely. He quickly shook his sleeves, brushed the water stains on his clothes, and then bowed to everyone with a smirk, "Liu was distracted just now, which made you laugh, rude, rude."

"Is Uncle Master so hot? Do you want to change a piece of clothing?" Robben asked with concern at Liu Bowen's red back of his hands.

"No, no, the weather is getting hot, and this little water stain can be removed in a moment." Liu Ji was extremely embarrassed, but his face still pretended to be calm and gentle, and he smiled and shook his head to refuse.

The mind was lost, and it was definitely the mind was lost just now. I thought that Mr. Liu had read the books of sages for half his life and had been in the officialdom for so many years. He was almost broken by a few words from his senior brother. How could he bear this? Liu was borne by the hundred years of fate of the gentry in the world, and Shi Nai'an, Luo Ben and others were all alone.

Thinking of this, Liu Bowen quickly showed a bit of determination on his face. He thought about it and shook his head and said, "Mr. Liu is lonely and doesn't know that the price of rice in Champa is so cheap. I am ashamed, ashamed."

"Bowen doesn't have to be humble. We just learned that there are still places in the world where we can grow rice in three seasons." I couldn't bear to see my junior brother being too embarrassed, Shi Nai'an responded with a smile, "Okay, let's not talk about this. Let's have dinner today. When there is time another day, my senior brother will take you around. Then you will know what is the difference between our Huaiyang and other places."

As he spoke, he kept asking Zhu Chongjiu with his eyes, hoping that the chief executive would take advantage of his own face and not care about Liu Ji's rudeness just now, and leave some time for himself to recruit Liu Ji under the Huai'an Army.

Although Zhu Chongjiu was also very disappointed with Liu Bowen's performance, he thought that this person was not a fictional person in the history of another time and space. Even though he lacked economic capabilities, he might not be too bad in other aspects, so he smiled and nodded slightly.

"Eat, eat, I'm a little hungry after talking for so long." Lu Kun knew the current situation of lack of talents in Huaiyang and changed the topic with a smile.

"I heard you always say that, I really feel that my stomach is tight and empty. I guess I have drunk too much tea and washed away the oil in my stomach." Song Ke and Zhang Yi and the others breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

Xu Hongsan winked at the guards on the stairs, and someone immediately ran to the kitchen to inform the serving. After a moment, the chef's best dishes were served up like flowing water. It was really full of color, fragrance and taste, and lived up to its reputation.

However, at this moment, Liu Ji was not in the mood to taste the quality of Huaiyang cuisine. He kept thinking about how to find a new entry point so as to continue the previous topic and then convince Zhu Chongjiu to give up the many "hard policies" such as "stacking acres" and "integrated gentry grain payment" that he has implemented in various parts of Huaiyang, and completely lead the Huai'an army to the right path, instead of going faster and further and further on the evil road of "becoming a demon".

It’s not that Liu Ji was so stubborn, but that his eyes on the problem were far deeper than Shi Nai'an, Luo Ben and others. The latter only saw the vitality shown by the Huaiyang General Administration, but he saw that the arrangement currently being implemented in the three places of Huaiyang completely violated the ethics of "kings and gentry ruled the world together" for thousands of years.

That was something that even the Mongols dared not break. Even if Boyan fought south and killed millions of Jiang Zuo's corpses, in the end, he still had to recognize the privileges of the dock masters and the fort masters, so that he could finally calm the south. Zhu Chongji relied on his own strength to act against the enemy. How could a true knowledgeable man tolerate it? As the essence of the gentry, Liu Ji instinctively stood up to stop this change, and thought he was standing on the commanding heights of morality. Even if there were thousands of people, I would go.

"Junior brother, eat more fish. This Huaibai fish is hard to see after crossing the river." Seeing that Liu Ji was worried, Shi Nai'an picked up a piece of fish for him and persuaded him earnestly.

He originally had some land in his family, but because he had violated a taboo in writing books, he needed to deal with it. Over the years, he had been "scrapped" almost all, so he didn't feel the pain of Liu Ji at all. Instead, he thought that his junior brother's behavior today was too reckless and weird, a little sorry for his reputation in the past, and even more so for his lord's grace of treating each other with priests.

"Fish, of course I want." Liu Ji was worried that he could not find the reason to speak. A flash of inspiration in front of him immediately slapped the table, "But I thought that the world would bleed and blew the pestle in the future, Liu was unwilling to eat."

"What does junior brother mean?" Shi Nai'an's smile froze, and the chopsticks that were picking up food stopped in the air. "Does my junior brother think that if I can't wait to move, the Mongolians will retreat to the frontier on their own?"

"No, the Hu people have never had a hundred years of luck in ancient times." Liu Ji smiled and shook his head slightly, "It has been more than seventy years since the Mongols entered the Central Plains, and their energy should be exhausted. Within ten years, even if the Grand Chief Executive does not vow to fight for the Northern Expedition, others will send out edicts to the world, ordering all heroes to rise up and restore the Han family's mountains."

"Haha." Roben raised his glass and took a sip on himself, shook his head and said nothing. He really didn't want to waste his words with Uncle Liu. Within ten years, he sent a letter to the world. Without the participation of the Huaiyang Army, the heroes could not even make decent weapons and armor. Who would have the courage to order the heroes with a shameful face?

Zhang Yi and Song Ke had previously argued with Liu Bowen, and knew that he would try every means to lead the chorus to the policy program of the General Administration Office. He put down his chopsticks and pricked up his ears to listen to how Shi Nai'an responded.

Sure enough, Shi Nai'an immediately said Liu Ji, put down his chopsticks, and happily raised the wine cup, "Who else except my lord, takes on such a great responsibility? Bowen, since you know that the court has exhausted your energy, why not stay in Yangzhou? Together with our brothers, we will assist the lord to reorganize China and recreate the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties."

He truly appreciated the talent of his junior brother Liu Ji, so he tried his best to pull the other party into the shogunate of Huaiyang General Administration. He also believed that his lord would be able to produce clouds and turn a dragon into a dragon after receiving the assistance of Liu Ji. Unexpectedly, what Liu Ji thought was completely out of place with him. He smiled and shook his head and said, "If we talk about the sharpness of the military, no one in the world can compare to Huaiyang. However, if we want to reappear in the prosperous era of the Han and Tang Dynasties, we should not rely on the military era. Otherwise, even if we expelled the Mongol Yuan, it would be just a matter of violence and violence. At most, it was the cause of the Qin Emperor, which was far away from the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty."

"Ba." Robben slapped the wine cup on the table, his face full of anger, "Enough, Bowen, my lord treats him with courtesy. It's fine if you don't want to stay, why bother and say bad words again and again?"

After scolding Liu Ji, he quickly stood up and bowed deeply at Zhu Chongjiu, "Lord, I have no eyes, so I have introduced a crazy husband to come and ask the lord to punish him."

"He is him, you are you, why bother to confuse me?" Zhu Chongjiu smiled and waved his hand gently, "Qingyuan, don't be impatient, and listen to Mr. Qingtian finish his words. What happened to Zhu incorrectly did here? Why did he become the second Qin Shihuang?"

"Crash", before Robben could touch, the guards around them all pressed their hands on the hilt of the knife and glared at Liu Ji.

They read a little and didn't understand what Liu Ji was saying before. At this moment, they realized that this brave madman actually compared his lord to the first tyrant of Qin Shihuang in the ages. How could this make a group of straight-hearted men bear it? Immediately, I prepared to rush forward and push the bold madman out of the building to tear up the corpse.

"Get back." Zhu Chongjiu glared at the guards fiercely and shouted loudly, "When will we not be allowed to speak here? He said his, we should do our own things, so there is no reason why we don't plant crops after hearing the harsh Gu call."

"Hmph." Xu Hongsan and others glared at Liu Ji fiercely and slowly retreated to the wall.

"Zi'an doesn't have to worry. Zhu won't do anything to your junior brother after hearing a few unpleasant words." Zhu Chongjiu turned his gaze to Shi Nai'an who stood up in panic and promised with a smile.

"Thank you, lord, for being generous." Shi Nai'an sighed, and sat down again with a blushing face, but regretted it in his heart, "Shi Yanduan, Shi Yanduan, why are you provoking Liu Bowen? Now, not only did he not let this person stay, it affected Luo Qingyuan's future."

"Mr. Qingtian has something to say, please tell me directly. There is no need to learn from the Three Kingdoms Ni Heng. Zhu will not be the Huang Zu of Jiangxia, and he will not bother to be Cao Cao and Liu Biao." Zhu Chongjiu smiled again and nodded slightly at Liu Bowen.

If you say that you have no anger in your stomach, it would be self-deception. But when you think of Liu Bowen's reputation in another time and space, Zhu Chongjiu was unwilling to blame him too much. After all, this was a famous minister who assisted Zhu Yuanzhang in expelling the Tartars. He didn't even touch Zhang Shicheng or Zhu Yuanzhang, so why bother letting him die in Yangzhou?

Liu Ji also knew that the example he had just committed public anger, so he stood up and bowed to him, "Liu is straightforward. If there is any offense, I will apologize first."

"Hmph." Except for Zhu Chongjiu and Shi Nai'an, everyone else turned their heads away and didn't want to listen to his longing again.

Since Liu Bowen dared to start this, he had already put his personal life, death, honor and disgrace aside in his heart. He thought for a moment and continued to talk, "All the masters are well-educated people, but they know why the Han Dynasty had four hundred years of power, and the Qin Dynasty fought for the sixth generation and finally unified the world, but why did they behead them in the second generation?"

"Swish." A stream of air conditioning spurted out from everyone's noses, and he was still unwilling to take over Liu Bowen's stubbornness. Who wouldn't know how to fire the Qin Dynasty? The reason for the death of the two generations of the Qin Dynasty alone had written hundreds of policy comments. Each one sounded very reasonable, and each one was different from the other.

Liu Bowen was not afraid of the neglect of the people, so he paused and continued, "At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu was humiliated by Bai Deng. During the Wenjing period, although the people lived a stable life, the court had no choice but to the Xiongnu. When Hanwu ascended the throne, he used the strategy of Dong Sheng to "depose all schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone", which led to the defeat of the Xiongnu fleeing in panic. He did not dare to go south for hundreds of years. Only the word "Han" was found on the head of the Han people, and he could regain the four barbarians."

"The Qin Dynasty won the world with its military power, ruled the world with its military law, burned books and buried scholars, valued military merits and neglected scholars. Therefore, although its prosperity was rapid, it would be devastated. The Grand Chief Manager could control a tool that could not be used by thousands of men and led an army with the same heart. Why not set a strategy early and plan the foundation for the 400-year Han Dynasty, but instead imitated Ying Qin, put military merit first everywhere, and promoted "equalities of the four peoples" to disrupt China's thousand-year principles. With the Grand Chief Manager's talent, Liu did not worry that the Grand Chief Manager could not reorganize the mountains and rivers. What Liu was worried about was that once the Grand Chief Manager's management was a hundred years later, the newly settled rivers and mountains would face another bloody storm."

"Hiss,." Lu Kun, Shi Nai'an, Luo Ben and others all gasped. They all believed that at the current development speed, it would be a matter of time before the Huai'an army unified the world, but no one had time to consider what to do after unifying the world. Liu Bowen's words were not alarmist. After all, the Han Dynasty lasted for more than 420 years, while the Qin Dynasty lasted for only fourteen years, and was burned by Xiang Yu.

Zhang Yi and Song Ke had heard Liu Bowen say something similar before, so they were not as shocked as others. However, they turned their attention to Zhu Chongjiu, hoping to get a definite answer from the mouth of their newly reunited lord. After all, if possible, everyone hopes to pass on wealth and glory to their descendants, rather than like the Qin Dynasty, which did not maintain two generations, and the descendants of the heroes and nobles all became the sword ghosts of the King of Chu.

"Come on, everyone will continue to drink." In the eager eyes of everyone, Zhu Chongjiu became a little excited. He raised the wine cup in front of him and invited everyone, "Mr. Qingtian is rare to come to my Yangzhou. Everyone might as well have a few drinks with him."

"Yesheng." Robben and Song Ke looked at each other and took the lead in echoing Zhu Chongjiu's proposal.

If you are different, you don’t plan to each other. Since you, Liu Ji, are not optimistic about the future of the Huaiyang General Administration, you don’t have to treat you as a treasure. Whoever laughs the last time, you can just use the facts to speak, there is no need to show off your verbal advantage in the cold wind outside the window now.

"Yinsheng, junior brother, you have a rare occasion. Everyone has a good drink today and don't go back until they get drunk." Shi Nai'an also sighed and raised the wine cup helplessly. It was obvious that his lord and his junior brother were not interested, so he made a good relationship. He would meet again in the future. There is no need to continue a dispute, and no one would end up in the end.

Liu Bowen waited for a while, but could not get Zhu Chongjiu's response, so he had to raise his glass to drink. "The chief manager did not want to listen to Liu's long-term words, and Liu did not force this wine. I wish the chief manager's martial arts fortune will last forever, come and drink."

"Drink." Everyone raised their cups and drank the wine in the cup in one go.
Chapter completed!