[Comprehensive] Cannon fodder, do you want to counterattack?

The next day was the day Lin Ruo decided to eat hot pot at Tianranju. Although Yun Jiaojiao said "there is no table", everyone knew that this was just an angry remark. Someone came and asked him when to use it, what flavors and ingredients he likes, so they can prepare it earlier.

I heard that hot pot tastes better the longer you eat it, so of course it should be served at noon. Lin Ruo didn't want to light a dim candle in the middle of the night and squint to eat from the pot.

The pot is hot enough and the wine is strong enough, and Lin Ruo ate a meal heartily. Recently, Lin Ruo's drinking capacity has grown so much that the meal is full, but the wine is not enough, so Lin Ruo leans on the soft bed in the middle, drinking and reading at the same time, living naturally The guy was very polite, he removed the table and put on the fruit plate, so he didn't bother me anymore.

Lin Chuan sat on the side and poured wine for him, and wentssip by the way: "Your Majesty really mentioned the matter of King Qi this morning, and scolded him in front of the officials for disobedience, disobedience, and disaster. How well-behaved and sensible Wang was when he was young. At the end, he began to scold Pei Ji, calling him the number one treacherous minister of the Tang Dynasty, counting his many crimes, one of which was "teaching good princes to failure"... Later, he asked all the ministers, How should we deal with King Qi's matter?"

Lin Chuan suddenly laughed when he said this, and said: "In the end, no one spoke...no one spoke for a long time."

Li Yuan's meaning is very clear: King Qi is still a good boy, but he was spoiled by Pei Ji...

The so-called questioning the ministers is just to find a way to go down.He only has three legitimate sons. Although King Qi made him very angry and disappointed, but when he calmed down and was persuaded by others, he still felt reluctant to throw them away.

Even Lin Chuan could hear what he meant. How could these ministers who have been thinking about the Sacred Heart all day long not understand?Ordinarily at this time, someone should stand up and say a few good words for Li Yuanji, saying that King Qi is young and ignorant, please calm down, and give His Highness Qi a chance to reform himself, etc. After the words were finished, there was a dead silence above the hall.

No one spoke, including Prince Li Jiancheng and King Qin Li Shimin, who still kneeled down to intercede for Li Yuanji yesterday.

"At this time, the emperor must miss Pei Ji very much."

If Pei Ji was around, he would never let Li Yuan face such an embarrassing situation. He could always accurately grasp Li Yuan's thoughts, and before he could open his mouth, he would kindly guide the matter in the direction he was happy to see— This is also one of the reasons why Li Yuan cannot leave him.

"When His Majesty was about to lose his temper, Master Dou stood up, knelt on the ground and said 'I'm guilty of death', and offered those things."

The so-called things are some confessions and pleadings.

Lin Ruo left the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and Lai Er's wife made a confession later.When Dou Chengji caught those people, he sentenced them to death without asking anything, and then said after the beating: "Now even His Royal Highness Qi Wang has entered the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. What do you think you will end up with? What did you do? If you can have a good time, you will be stabbed in the autumn, if you are stubborn, you can try all the torture instruments of the Ministry of punishment before you speak, I am not in a hurry."

Of course it is false to be in no hurry, but these people don’t know which case they were arrested for, let alone why His Royal Highness Qi was put in prison—it’s painful without a backer, thinking about it Anyway, it is a death, it is better to suffer less, so the recruit is very fast.Since there is something to recruit, it will naturally involve many other cases, other accomplices, and other sufferers... So arrest people, retrial, file files again, arrest people again... and so on.

In fact, these are nothing, no matter how many cases there are, it is only a matter of Li Yuan's words to clean them up, but the problem is that these sufferers who were questioned didn't know what they had "misunderstood", and after they went back, they even publicized it, saying that His Majesty knew After discovering the bad deeds that King Qi did, King Qi has already been put in prison for strict examination...

So the people all over the city knew about it, so the Ministry of Punishment came to many people to file complaints, and piles of complaints were collected—the target of the complaint is self-evident.

Under such circumstances, who would dare to intercede with the King of Qi—not afraid of being recognized as a partisan of the King of Qi, but also afraid of being regarded as a corrupt official and treacherous minister!

Lin Chuan's tone was very pleasant: "As a result, His Majesty didn't even finish reading those things, so he abolished King Qi's throne and made him move to Bashu."

"It's probably impossible to move to Bashu, right?"

Lin Chuan sighed: "Master, can't you be stupid once in a while?"

With such an audience, people really can't experience the pleasure of gossip!

Lin Ruo asked, "What disease does he have?"

Lin Chuan sneered, and said: "Crazy or insane, who knows? It is said that it is foaming at the mouth, hitting the pillar with the head, and scratching the whole body - listening to the young master, His Royal Highness Qi is pretending sick?"

Lin Ruo nodded: "Of course he is pretending to be sick. Dou Chengji takes him seriously, and he can't pass on any news. What else can he do other than pretending to be sick? Could it be that he was really sent to a wild place to die?"

Lin Chuan thought for a while, then frowned and said, "Master, King Qi's pretending to be sick, wouldn't it have something to do with you?"

"Otherwise, why do you think I have to talk so much nonsense with him?"

If it weren't for what he said, Li Yuanji might still be dreaming of letting him out when the emperor calms down until the imperial decree reaches the prison.

"Master." Lin Chuan looked at Lin Ruo seriously, and said, "King Qi is really not a good person."

"Ok?"

"When he stayed in Taiyuan, he liked to stand on the city gate and shoot arrows at the people below the city for fun; he divided the servant girls or soldiers into two teams and made them kill each other; the wet nurse who saved his life and raised him because After dissuading him a few words, he dragged the strong man to death... When His Majesty asked him to guard Bingzhou, he led people to hunt and trampled on the farmland; He took people into other people's houses and opened the door to do obscene things...

"These are just things he did under the watchful eyes of the public. It was reported by Lord Yuwen to His Majesty back then. And what about those things that are unknown? Dou Chengji collected such a thick pile of criminal evidence in just one night... Young Master, he is really not a good person. It is not that His Majesty is ignorant of this, but has always indulged him. Now he is finally willing to deal with him." Lin Chuan looked at Lin Ruo: "Why did you help him?"

"That's why I don't like this world." Lin Ruo listened to him quietly all the time, finally looked up and drank the wine in the glass, and said in a low voice: "I don't like it very much."

"The whole country is in the hands of one person, but this person does not represent justice and justice, nor does it represent the interests and needs of everyone. He is the ruler. Shepherd the world, shepherd the world, and the people of the world, to them As far as they are concerned, they are just like domestic animals... If they are kind, the world will be prosperous and peaceful; if they are cruel, the world will be filled with sorrow..."

After all, Li Yuan punished Li Yuanji not because he killed many people, not because he was cruel and tyrannical, but because he colluded with Pei Ji, deceived him, and tried to steal his power.That's why Li Yuan stopped pampering him, and punished him for these "trivial" "mistakes" he committed.

Lin Ruo lowered her head and looked at her hands holding the wine glass: slender and clean, as lustrous as jade, beautiful...but powerless.

He said in a low voice: "Lin Chuan, your young master is not as great as you think... I can't do anything, I can't do anything."

Lin Chuan looked at him, and somehow his nose felt a little sore: "Master, I'm sorry, I..."

Lin Ruo, however, came back to his senses, poured himself a glass of wine and drank it, glanced at him, and said, "Where the disaster is, it is a disaster. It is better to let King Qi go to other places to cause disaster. It is better to be locked up in Chang'an. Of course, he himself I would also prefer to stay in Chang'an." His expression and voice remained the same.

Lin Chuan frowned and said, "Hasn't he already been demoted? How can he cause trouble?"

Lin Ruo shook his head and said, "Even if there is no king, he is still a child of the royal family. As long as he goes to Bashu and does not provoke the rich and powerful, he is just a fish and meat commoner. Do you think anyone will take care of him? Besides, you really think that he has no money in his hand." strength?"

Lin Chuan was slightly taken aback.

If Lin Ruo didn't explain further, Lin Chuan didn't ask any more questions, and continued to talk about the early court: "Before His Majesty's decree came out of the palace, news came from the Ministry of Criminal Justice that King Qi was seriously ill, so His Majesty ordered him to be detained temporarily. Confined in another hospital, ordered the imperial physician to diagnose and treat him, saying that he would move to the house after he recovered from his illness... But if King Qi's illness was faked, it probably cannot be cured."

Lin Ruo hummed, and Lin Chuan continued: "Later, His Majesty brought up Pei Ji's case again, saying that although his crimes were so egregious, since he had slipped and fell into the water and died, he and the Pei family would not be held accountable anymore. But let Lord Dou track down his henchmen."

Falling into the water...Lin Ruo hummed again.

After killing Pei Ji, he did a lot of things. In terms of his purpose, dealing with the King of Qi counts as one, cutting off the crown prince's wings counts as one, and Liwei barely counts as one... and the words "fall into the water" count as another.

Just like what he said to Lin Chuan, it is of course necessary to establish prestige and take revenge, but for the sake of establishing prestige and taking revenge on others, it would be ridiculous and stupid to hang a sharp sword on his head that could be stabbed at any time.

He himself was not afraid, but he didn't want to implicate Lin Boyuan.

Fortunately, the future troubles are gone now - Li Yuan personally said that Pei Ji fell into the water, so it doesn't matter whether he killed Pei Ji or not.

After resting for a while, after reading a few pages, there was a knock on the door. Before Lin Ruo could speak, a slim figure flashed in by himself. Lin Chuan frowned and said, "Miss Yun, it seems that my son is not waiting for you."

Yun Jiaojiao ignored him, and said to Lin Ruo, "Sister Ke'er asked me to tell her that she can't come."

Lin Ruo looked at her and didn't speak.

Yun Jiaojiao coughed dryly, and said: "It's like this, Sister Ke'er practiced the Xiaoaojianghu song, but she always didn't know the three flavors, and she lost a little carefree, so I gave her an idea, wait until she is drunk until she is not drunk. It's the best time to play...the result is not bad. Sister Ke'er has practiced several times this morning, and she is going to show you the best state to play, but who knows that when she was drinking just now, she mistakenly drank three drinks in the store. Rare brew...the result..."

She spread her hands: "Drunk."

Seeing that Lin Ruo still looked at her without speaking, she said angrily, "What are you looking at me for? I didn't lie to you, she was really drunk."

"Well," Lin Ruo nodded, and said, "You deliberately got her drunk, and you want to come and say something to me?"

Yun Jiaojiao said angrily: "What's the matter, I told you that she accidentally drank the wrong wine..."

"Okay then," Lin Ruo said, "Since Ke'er is drunk, I'm the one who doesn't have ear blessings today, Lin Chuan, let's go back and come back another day."

Before Lin Chuan could answer, Yun Jiaojiao hurriedly said, "Wait!"

Lin Ruo looked up at her, Yun Jiaojiao looked at Lin Chuan, and said, "Go out, I want to talk to him alone."

Lin Chuan looked at Lin Ruo, Lin Ruo nodded slightly, Lin Chuan turned and went out.

Lin Chuan left, but Yun Jiaojiao didn't speak, looked at Lin Ruo for a while, and suddenly said: "goodgoodstudy, daydayup!

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Lin Ruo blinked: What the hell is this?execration?

Just for no reason, Yun Jiaojiao suddenly raised a finger, opened her feet and began to twist her waist and shoulders in a fast rhythm, singing in a strange voice: "You are my little one, little apple, how can I love you?" You don't have too much..."

Lin Ruo choked his throat with a sip of wine, and coughed violently. When he managed to catch his breath and raised his head with tears in his eyes, he saw Yun Jiaojiao looking at him with a complicated expression, both disappointed and relieved, muttering To himself: "It turns out that I'm not a fellow villager..."

Lin Ruo raised her forehead: "Miss Yun, what exactly do you want to do?"

Yun Jiaojiao coughed, raised her chin slightly, and showed a natural disdain again, and said, "How about we make a deal?"

Lin Ruo nodded: "Say."

Yun Jiaojiao said: "You should have already discovered that the hot pot made by your cook is not as spicy and delicious as here, right? As long as you help me say a word for His Highness King Qin, I will make the hot pot made by Tianranju secret." The recipe tells you, how is it?"

"Not much," Lin Ruo said, "How about we change the condition, if you tell me the secret recipe of the hot pot, I won't tell you that you buried a copper pipe in the box of Tianranju to eavesdrop on the conversation of the guests, how about it?"

"Why do you..." Yun Jiaojiao first widened her eyes in shock, then bit her lips and said, "He told you?"

Lin Ruo frowned and said, "Although I don't know who the 'he' you are talking about, why should someone else tell me about this kind of thing? When I came here just now, the guy in the store showed me a few private rooms, and I discovered this Between the two adjacent rooms, there seems to be only a layer of solid wood separating them, but the walls are actually half a foot thick. At first I wondered why the house was built like this, but then I saw you rushing up to test whether I belonged to you What kind of fellow, you can naturally guess what this is for."

When Yun Jiaojiao heard the word "banchi", she quietly cursed "monster", but she was at a loss after that: "What...is there any relationship between this?"

Lin Ruo sighed: "Based on your character, if you suspect that I am your fellow countryman, you should have come to the door long ago. How could you wait until now? You just came here now, obviously you just overheard my conversation with Lin Chuan. I don't know which sentence touched you, so I changed Ke'er's wine to get her drunk, and hurried over to test it out, but?"

Yun Jiaojiao gritted her teeth and said, "It's a pity that you don't go to the fortune teller!"

"It's a pity," Lin Ruo said, "The hexagram master is my profession! Oh, by the way, what do you think of the conditions I just mentioned?"

"It's not that good!" Yun Jiaojiao snorted coldly: "If people know about it, they will know that this dilapidated store will be closed, what's so great about it!"

Well, miss, you are self-willed, Lin Ruo nodded, and said: "Well, let me think about it... You originally thought that brass eavesdropping was a very clever and novel method, and you wanted to use it to help someone collect information, who knew that person You don't pay much attention to it, so you feel discouraged..."

"Stop!" Yun Jiaojiao pressed the fingers of her right hand against the palm of her left hand, gritted her teeth and said, "Do you know that I don't like talking to you?"

Lin Ruo picked up the wine glass and drank: It's better not to say anything, why doesn't he also like to talk to this young lady, but he can't bear to be short-mouthed.

Yun Jiaojiao stood there sullen for a while, she didn't turn around and leave, but sat down in front of Lin Ruo, and said, "Do you still remember the divination you made for me?"

Lin Ruo was surprised and said, "Have I made a fortune teller for you?"

"It's not just for me, it's just..." Yun Jiaojiao said: "It was the last time at the inn, when you bet with your book boy, when I entered the door, you asked 'Are you a human or a ghost', or What about 300 years...you don't remember?"

Lin Ruo's expression was faint: "I don't remember."

Yun Jiaojiao stomped her feet: "Liar!"

How long can you not remember?And if you really don't remember, why did your face change?

After chatting for so long and mentioning Xiaoshu again, even though she had just had her meal and was drinking her wine, Lin Ruo became a little impatient, and said, "What exactly do you want to say?"

"I want to say... your hexagram is actually very accurate." Seeing Lin Ruo's impatience, Yun Jiaojiao hesitated, and said, "Actually... I... well, I... I started from 300 years ago. Come later!"

She stared at Lin Ruo nervously, for fear of seeing a mocking expression on his face, but when she saw that Lin Ruo's face didn't change, she was even more disappointed: "You don't believe it?"

"Believe it." He really believed it, he had a demon book in his arms, and his own situation was messed up, what else could he not believe?Although he himself felt that he seemed too calm, but he did believe it so naturally.

"Even if you don't believe me, you should believe your own hexagrams! You... uh, you say you believe it?"

"Ah."

Yun Jiaojiao stared at him for a while, and said, "It's a lie, you don't believe it at all."

Lin Ruo rubbed her forehead, wanting to sigh.

Yun Jiaojiao didn't know what to think of, tears fell as soon as she said it: "I knew you wouldn't believe it, you must think I'm a lunatic..."

Lin Ruo interrupted: "If you talk to everyone like this, you won't be afraid of being burned to death as a lonely ghost?" Does he seem to be familiar with her?

Yun Jiaojiao rolled his eyes at him, she couldn't care less about tears, and said: "Who would tell everyone? You think I'm stupid, if you didn't figure it out first, how could I tell you?"

Lin Ruo asked, "What will the world look like 300 years from now?"

"Anyway, you won't believe me when I tell you..."

"Then you say it or not?"

"Say." Yun Jiaojiao wiped away her tears, raised her head, her eyes had a sense of superiority beyond this era: "300 years later..."

An iron bird that can carry people in the sky, a small box that can talk and video with people in any corner of the world, and an artificial satellite that hangs in the sky like the moon...

In addition, children who can study for free and must study, can farm land subsidized by the state for free, change leaders elected by the people every few years, and the law that the real emperor breaks the law and commits the same crime as the common people...

No, no, there is no longer a distinction between the emperor and the common people.

Lin Ruo listened very seriously, very seriously.

I don't know how long it took, crying and laughing for a while, and finally Yun Jiaojiao, who was crying and homesick and missing her mother, finally wiped away her tears and said embarrassingly: "I know you still don't believe it, but, still... thank you You." No matter if Lin Ruo is pretending or really curious, she is very grateful to listen to her talk about these strange things to him so seriously.

Lin Ruo withdrew her thoughts and said seriously: "I want to thank you, the world you speak of is... very beautiful."

Yun Jiaojiao shook her head and said, "Mr. Lin, you are a good person... Before, I was the one who let you down."

Get up and leave.

"Wait a moment."

Yun Jiaojiao turned her head, Lin Ruo said, "This is what you asked me to tell King Qin? Tell him you are from the future?"

Yun Jiaojiao bit her lip.

Lin Ruodao: "You come from the future, then what? What are you going to do?"

Yun Jiaojiao said: "I know many things that will happen in the future, I can help him..."

"what?"

"Help him fight for the throne!"

"Is the history you know the same as it is now? You still insist that the King of Qin will kill his brothers and brothers, and he will be infamous for the rest of his life?"

"He even told you this?" Yun Jiaojiao turned pale, and said again: "It's different now, but..."

She couldn't continue, now that King Qi has been abolished, the most important supporter of the crown prince, Pei Ji, is dead, and Wei Zheng, the most powerful adviser, followed King Qin ahead of time... Will King Qin still be poisoned?Will the Xuanwu Gate Change still happen?

"I can also help him do business and make a lot of money. I used to study economics and management, and I specialized in this."

This little girl, why can't she find the point?Lin Ruo sighed, and said: "Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty expropriated and plundered the people's wealth. The people's fat and people's ointment he collected...Chang'an was brought down by the King of Qin, Luoyang was brought down by the King of Qin, and Yangzhou was brought down by the King of Qin...Do you think he Will you be short of money?"

Yun Jiaojiao is speechless, even if only a small part of Yang Guang's plunder goes into King Qin's pocket, at least he won't be short of money before he ascends the throne, and after he ascends the throne, the world belongs to him, it should be There will be no shortage of money for a long time, right?

I think Emperor Yongzheng used the method of slaughtering corrupt officials to enrich the treasury... Is there any corrupt official in the world who can be bigger and richer than Yang Guang?

So, she is useless in this world?She has been frustrated repeatedly in this world, and now that she has even shown her last hole card, is it still useless?

"Now is not the era where the people are rich and the materials are abundant. Now the world has just ended the war, and the Tang Dynasty is just waiting to be revived. Manpower is scarce, the land is barren, and the people are hungry and clothed. It is important, but as a superior, at this time, what you care more about is production.” Lin Ruo said: “What you should tell him is how people in the future will farm, irrigate, weave, build houses, cure diseases, and use This piece of land is enough to support more than one billion people..." Of course, you can also tell him how the Tang Dynasty fell, or this is what he cares most about.

Yun Jiaojiao said blankly, "But I'm not a graduate of science and engineering, let alone an agricultural college. How can I understand this..."

Although Lin Ruo didn't know what the so-called science and engineering were, he understood the meaning and said, "It doesn't matter? As long as you tell them that this kind of thing exists, if you can't make it, someone will can be made."

"But His Royal Highness King Qin doesn't believe me," Yun Jiaojiao said, "He is not very willing to listen to me, or you..."

"Aren't you good at reciting poems?" Lin Ruo interrupted, "Recite it to him until he writes his letter."

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