Bastard's Counterattack [Rebirth]

Courtesy is reciprocal, coming but not reciprocating is indecent.

However, the backgrounds of the two sides are too different. King Qing can present gifts to others, which are undoubtedly treasures. How can ordinary people return gifts?

Rong Youtang pondered, a little dazed.

"Rebate?" Zhao Zeyong shook his head, and said slowly: "If what you mean by equality is gold and silver, who in this world can compete with the royal family? You can't choose your birth, this king just happens to be cast in the royal family. This dagger Do you not like it?"

Rong Youtang nodded subconsciously: "I like it."

Zhao Zeyong smiled: "Then accept it. The dagger is because of the promise, because it is suitable, and because you are happy. There is no other intention."

What does he mean?His Highness actually said "he meant"!What can I do, what other plans do you have?Simply...

Rong Youtang felt that his ears were a little hot, so he couldn't help laughing, and quickly stopped laughing halfway, put down the dagger, and bowed his hands solemnly: "Thank you, Your Highness, for the gift."

Zhao Zeyong, tall and handsome, with sword-browed eyebrows, reminded him solemnly: "You still owe a few jars of plum wine, don't forget to make up for it."

Rong Youtang was suddenly very embarrassed, and after a long while, he explained in embarrassment: "But there are no more. Last time I dropped the last two jars, and this year's fruit hasn't come down yet, so I will have to wait until the end of summer at the earliest, or—— "

"Don't worry." Zhao Zeyong interrupted gently, without blinking his eyes: "You brew slowly. But you have to explain in advance: if it doesn't taste good, it doesn't count."

"what?"

"Practice makes perfect, just try it for a few more years, won't it work?" Zhao Zeyong kindly suggested.

"...Oh." Something seems wrong?

Rong Youtang was a little uneasy. In fact, there was something that he hadn't thought about, and he deliberately avoided it for the time being. For example, why did King Qing——

"Your Highness—" Rong Youtang's hands were suddenly pulled up.

"Is it cold?" Zhao Zeyong asked in a low voice.The two sat opposite each other, staring at each other, he took the other's cold hand, wrapped it all around, and stroked it slowly.

"It's okay." Rong Youtang replied softly, his ears getting hotter and hotter.He was short of food and clothing when he was a child, and he spent a night lying on the ice of the frozen lake, which eventually damaged his foundation, his blood was not smooth, and his hands and feet were cold in winter.At this time, he was held by King Qing's warm and dry hands... The heat seemed to go straight to his heart.

——None of them said anything explicitly, but they had a tacit secret understanding.

Zhao Zeyong instructed: "Although the Guozijian is full of talents, the scholars are too impulsive, and there have always been some disagreements between Gongsheng and Yinsheng. There are constant fights. Be careful yourself, if there are troubles that cannot be solved-"

"Just bring His Highness Prince Qing out to overwhelm them?" Rong Youtang answered in a very low voice, his eyes bright and agile.

Zhao Zeyong smiled: "As you wish."

"No." Rong Youtang shook his head, and said guiltily: "It is already an exception for you to ask Mr. Guo's family to issue a recommendation letter for me, an outsider. , so who am I? My embarrassment is only my own business, and I must not implicate your reputation."

Zhao Zeyong explained patiently: "At the beginning, I was worried about being too ostentatious, so I asked Ziyu for help. Ziyu is the most dignified and strict. If you are just a fool, then even if the king asks, he will refuse."

Rong Youtang felt much better in his heart, but he still said cautiously: "Although that is the case, after all, he got in because of his relationship, and he has nothing to say when he is looked down upon by Gongsheng."

Zhao Zeyong laughed lowly, his voice was deep and thick, and his chest vibrated slightly, which made it easy for people to recall the hardness and heat of his body.

"I saw the brothers of the Zhou family in the Imperial College." Rong Youtang never forgot.

"It's not surprising, Zhou Renlin's grade is enough."

"What do you think... Zhou Renlin?" Rong Youtang asked on a whim, his heart tensed.

Zhao Zeyong said bluntly: "It's not very good. The talent is average, the official voice is second-rate, and the family management is three--the appearance is first-rate. When I was young, I ordered Tanhua and married the daughter of Pingnanhou's mansion."

uh~

Rong Youtang was both happy and unhappy when he heard it: he was happy that King Qing really knew people, but he was not happy about why his biological father was like that.

"What?" Zhao Zeyong frowned and asked, "Did the Zhou family bully you?"

Not only did they bully, they also killed my mother, and I was only lucky enough to escape.

Rong Youtang shook his head, sighed, depressed.

Zhao Zeyong didn't ask, but he had already remembered the Zhou family in his heart.With great force, he pressed the other person into his shoulder socket, took off his black square scarf, and messed up his hair.

Rong Youtang rushed directly from the Imperial College to Prince Qing's Mansion in the evening. Wearing a uniform scholar's blue and white cotton robe and a square scarf, he looked even taller, taller, more handsome, and handsome.

"Your Highness—" Rong Youtang was forced to cling to the opponent's warm body, and his nose was filled with a unique odor.He leaned forward, with his center of gravity forward, with no place to put his hands, and swung a few times indiscriminately, but was caught by King Qing and forced him to circle his back.

Well, we hugged each other like this.Zhao Zeyong nodded in satisfaction.

For some reason, he felt that the clothes of the person in his arms were very pleasing to the eye today: a white cotton robe with a palm-width black girdle at the waist, covered with a blue robe, neat and neat.Unlike in the past, wearing so much inside and out.

"Your Highness, we—" Rong Youtang mumbled in King Qing's shoulder pocket, extremely jerky, and carefully grabbed the opponent's clothes with both hands, "We—"

It's warm, and it's actually very comfortable to hug like this.

"Ok?"

Rong Youtang said "we, we" for a long time, but couldn't explain why, so he simply shut up.

Embrace each other quietly.

Zhao Zeyong originally wanted to hug her, but after a while, he finally couldn't help but bowed his head, kissed Rong Youtang's forehead, then moved down between his eyebrows, touched the tip of his nose lightly, and finally touched his lips, caressing Rong Youtang gently. ——

It was throbbing very much, and the strange emotions flowed wildly.

Rong Youtang shuddered violently and opened his eyes wide.Every time this happens, he always looks hard, trying to find something, but getting too close, he can only look into the deep sea of ​​eyes of the other party, which is complicated and indistinguishable, making people addicted.

After rubbing a few times, he couldn't help licking and biting, his breath was suffocated, his eyes suddenly changed, he rubbed the person into his arms, pried open his lips and teeth, attacked with absolute crushing force, stirred and sucked vigorously, forcing the other person can not breath.

"Uh...uh...wait, wait—" Rong Youtang always couldn't keep up with the other party's rhythm, he was short-tempered and annoyed, so he simply bit back!

Zhao Zeyong narrowed his eyes with a smile, and punitively held the back of the opponent's neck even more forcefully, aggressively and domineeringly.

The ambiguous sound of water sounded slightly, and the air temperature gradually became hotter.

Zhao Zeyong's palms became more and more forceful, he couldn't control the strength, and rubbed the person so painfully, the Arhat couch was just a few steps away, as long as the person——

However, at this time, the door of the study was knocked, and there was a notification from the guard outside:

"Your Highness, General Guo and Mr. Guo are asking to see you."

His chest was heaving violently. Zhao Zeyong's eyes were deep and dangerous, and he could not bear the pressure. He let go of his hands and hugged him. Silence helped tidy up the messy collar and put on the square scarf. He explained in a hoarse voice: "They came to discuss the North Suburban camp." Then he ordered: "Please come in."

"I, do I need to avoid it?" Rong Youtang trembled his fingers, adjusted his breathing, and tried his best to act as if nothing had happened.In addition to the secret stimulation, he suddenly fell into an inexplicable bewilderment, he felt that he should not be indulged, should not be addicted - what is this?He is a high and mighty prince... two men, what are they?

It's a pity that Zhao Zeyong is not good at soft words by nature, especially love.Satisfied and down-to-earth, he sat him down on the chair, bent down and asked, "You don't want to hear it? Listen to it. Let's rest here when it's late and go out together tomorrow morning."

"I want to listen, I want to learn more." Rong Youtang said frankly, after thinking about it, he found another reason and said: "But I have to go back, the bookcase is at home."

Zhao Zeyong was a little disappointed, but he could only agree: "Okay." After a pause, he said solemnly: "Prince Qing's Mansion is close to the Imperial College, so it's actually more convenient for you to rest here."

Rong Youtang declined: "But my father remembers it very closely. If he doesn't return for a day, he will have to worry about it all night." As soon as he went to open the door of the study, he saw the Guo brothers walking up the steps.

"Hahaha~" Guo Da's ear tipped, teasing: "Brother Rong, you are such an old man, and you still look for your father all day, don't you feel ashamed?"

"Be filial to your parents, don't be ashamed." Rong Youtang replied with a smile, regaining his composure.He cleverly turned sideways, hiding in the backlight.

"Yo?" Guo Da flicked Rong Youtang's scholar scarf casually, and asked with concern: "Is the Imperial College fun? Did the master hit you?"

Rong Youtang didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Today is only for enrolling students to compile registers and identify places, and the master hasn't shown up yet."

Guo Da jokingly encouraged: "Dingbeihou's mansion has only one Wenqu star from my brother, and the rest of the cousins ​​are all martial arts, and they can't get into the school with sticks. The Guozijian is given away every year. Now that you go to study, you must give it to me." The Dingbeihou Mansion is trying to speak up, don't let outsiders always laugh at my Guo family's lack of bookishness."

Zhao Zeyong raised his eyebrows: "Those who can't get into the school with sticks, among them—"

"Hey, hey!" Guo Da interrupted in a hurry, and begged for mercy: "Cousin, everyone has their own ambitions. If a hero doesn't mention his courage in the past, let the past go, okay?"

Rong Youtang's mind flashed the picture of Guo's parents holding up sticks to drive their children to school, and he couldn't help laughing—Hong Lei is also unwilling today, but he is indeed impulsive. Hong's parents are right, to study for two more years , there is always nothing wrong.

The four of them sat down, the fragrance of tea wafted away, and they began to discuss matters.

The eldest grandson of the Guo family is always unsmiling, not even a word of small talk, and he is full of righteousness.Although he found Rong Youtang's red and swollen lips, his heart suddenly sank, but he just didn't know it.He was the first to mention the serious matter: "Your Highness, in the early morning today, people from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households launched an attack together, and listed many crimes for being too serious about building a camp in the northern suburbs. Although I am in the Ministry of Households, unfortunately I can't suppress the scene. What do you think?"

"Not long after you took office, there are ministers above the minister, and a group of slippery old people, so don't rush." ​​Zhao Zeyong relieved with understanding.

Guo Da gritted his teeth and said with a headache: "Your Majesty has an order to see the outline of the camp within three months, and to inspect the results of the recruits' drills at the end of the year-but now the northern suburbs are still a piece of mud! The houses and fields of the common people have not been handed over clearly, and the camp will be built. Before that, they had to confiscate the land first!"

Damn stuff, it's not human work!

Rong Youtang was very sympathetic: "Didn't His Majesty send anyone to help? Even the land acquisition has to be done by yourself? Logically, we shouldn't care about this, right?"

Every time Zhao Zeyong heard Rong Youtang say "we, us" naturally and intimately, his mood would improve.

"Don't mention it! You are a majestic commander, but you are always on the go!" Guo Da was angry, slapped his thigh, and lamented: "These two days, my cousin and I are like civilian husbands, running around the northern suburbs. Toil. Your majesty ordered me to assist my cousin and ask all the ministries to cooperate, but without specific instructions, the people below can push and push, and delay if they can! Those grandchildren are holding back bad water and want to see a joke!"

Rong Youtang pondered for a moment, then carefully said: "I want to build a barracks out of thin air: firstly, there must be land, secondly, money, and finally, manpower."

"No, none of them are in place." Guo Da shook his head sadly, slumped on the chair, his eyes were dull, and he said weakly: "The land has been marked out, but it hasn't been cleared yet; the Secretary of the Household Department is from Pingnanhou, then The old fox is so stuck, it looks like the treasury belongs to his family! Manpower? If you want to expropriate the peasants, you have to have money and food. In the Taiping era, who would do it for nothing."

Guo Yuan sat upright, with a solemn expression, and taught slowly: "Little Er, sit down, how can you behave like this?"

Guo Xiaoer deliberately moved his buttocks, still sat slumped, and muttered softly: "I would rather go to war and suppress bandits than be a civilian and build a barracks."

"One penny can't beat a hero." Zhao Zeyong said with emotion: "Now this king can really understand it."

"The Minister of the Ministry of Households can't be in trouble for no reason, right? There is always a reason for doing things." Rong Youtang said bluntly: "What purpose does he or Ping Nanhou behind him have? This barracks has not been built yet, and you want to block people? "

Zhao Zeyong did not evade: "I don't usually see them being active, but they rush to be the first to do good things, and they are full of tricks."

"Hmph," Guo Da sneered disdainfully: "These days my cousin and I can always run into nobles. The concierges of Prince Qing's Mansion and Dingbeihou's Mansion receive a bunch of greeting cards and invitations every day."

Zhao Zeyong instructed: "Don't pay attention, tell the housekeeper to dismiss them all, so as not to cause trouble."

"Don't worry, Your Highness," Guo Yuan said respectfully, "The ancestor fasted and worshiped the Buddha during these days, and thanked guests behind closed doors."

Rong Youtang asked: "The Ministry of Households was ordered by Marquis Pingnan. What about the Ministry of Industry? What about the Ministry of War? In fact, after the establishment of the new battalion, there is a need to select officials. Those people who come and go back and forth in the court cannot be avoided. .Electing talents and appointing talents, "Is it the king's land on the shore of the land; Is it the king's ministers under the whole world?" They all do things for His Majesty and Chengguo. What are they doing so clearly? No one has the ability to make the North Suburb University Proceeds to pocket!"

"Hey, what do you want to do?" Guo Da hurriedly asked: "Rong Xiaolai's face?"

"Your Majesty has never granted His Majesty the right to form the generals of the Northern Camp, and some people are purely paranoid." Rong Youtang expressed dissatisfaction righteously, and then changed his voice: "However, maybe they just hope that His Majesty will give you some good words." Sentence."

Zhao Zeyong smiled without saying a word.

"You can't just say nice words casually." Guo Da reminded: "It is precisely because my cousin never speaks nonsense that he has won His Majesty's trust. How can he destroy his reputation?"

"Your Majesty is wise and mighty, and will definitely understand His Highness's difficulties." Rong Youtang said in a good voice: "Besides, as a commander, His Highness can't just have General Guo as his assistant. You should be able to choose a few deputies, right? Otherwise, wouldn't it be tiring? broken."

"Cousin has the right to choose a deputy, but there are too many candidates, and factional disputes are complicated, and they have not yet been finalized." Guo Da explained.

Rong Youtang suggested: "You can't tell just by looking at it, and you have to rely on your ability to do things. Your Highness, why not take all the deputy candidates to the northern suburbs, assess them, and arrange some tasks for each of them. It is up to you to set the screening criteria. Then you can always pick out some satisfactory ones, right?"

Guo Da comprehended, was amused, and laughed, "You're just playing around! You'll be scolded to death for doing that, and the candidates for deputy are all cronies of the major factions."

Rong Youtang said straightforwardly: "How can you call someone to play? If you fail the publicly announced assessment, you can only be out of the game. Who is to blame? Anyway, the commander is an errand that offends others, so let it go! According to my humble opinion , both money, food and manpower can be used as assessment tasks, broken up and distributed. Your Highness is only responsible for land acquisition, after all, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, if something is not done properly, it would be bad if there is a lot of complaints."

"Honestly speaking, we look like bullies and local riches. When we surveyed the planned camp these days, the local people's eyes are full of hatred." Guo Da felt lonely and uncomfortable: "We are respected and trusted by the people in the northwest. They even have their own children. You dare to leave it to me to play with."

Grandma's!Lao Tzu was originally a well-loved hero, but now he is regarded as a scourge by the common people!

Zhao Zeyong said helplessly: "The imperial court's decree to relocate is too hasty, and there is no buffer time. It is normal for the people not to understand."

"The resettlement land and money are not in place, and the red mouth and white teeth are ordered to move out within a time limit. I really can't say it." Guo Da sighed.

Guo Yuan pondered for a while, and suggested: "Your Highness, what Xiao Rong said makes sense. I understand your principle of preferring shortages to excesses, but right now time is tight and there is a serious shortage of manpower. Please bear with the compromise and call all the deputies recommended by various factions. , pass through the sieve, use it if it works, replace it if it doesn’t work, it doesn’t matter. By the way, you can also push a few people in our hands up, anyway, it’s up to each person’s ability, and they won’t be able to talk about nepotism.”

"As long as you are a talented person, I don't care if you are talked about cronyism." Zhao Zeyong said displeased: "The atmosphere in the officialdom in the capital is too bad, there are not many people who can do practical things."

After some discussions, a preliminary plan was made.

Guo Da said maliciously: "Tomorrow, I will call the deputy recommended by each department, and go to the northern suburbs together to eat ashes and become civilian husbands. If I want to occupy a place in the northern suburbs camp for nothing, there is no way!"

Rong Youtang concluded: "In this way, someone will take over the silver grain and the people's husband. In fact, the land acquisition is the most troublesome. If it is not handled well, there will be endless troubles. I wonder what relocation conditions the court will give?"

"Moving to the western suburbs, the land will be supplemented according to the original amount, houses will be distributed according to the population, Anjia Bank will be issued, and tax will be exempted for three years." Zhao Zeyong told.

Rong Youtang understood as soon as he heard it, and asked cautiously: "The western suburbs? There are cemeteries and mass graves there."

my God!No matter how good the relocation conditions are, who is willing to move to the mass grave? !

"It's the area near the official road in the southwestern suburbs." Guo Da's mouth twitched, and he said expressionlessly: "So, before the land acquisition in the northern suburbs, the tombs in the western suburbs must first be moved to the depths of the hinterland. These two things must be done together. It will be settled within a month, and then we have to level the land, find the Ministry of Works to measure and plan, and within three months, we will work out the outline of the barracks and welcome His Majesty to inspect it."

It's simply, simply not a human thing!Rong Youtang gasped:

It turns out that not only do you want to offend people, but you also offend ghosts?Let the bones also move?Fortunately, my mother and my father's family were buried in the hinterland of the western suburbs, not close to the official road.

Rong Youtang sighed and shook his head, looking at King Qing and Guo Da with pity.

"It depends on people's efforts." Zhao Zeyong is also a little bit burnt out. He is good at running the army and fighting, but he was forced to become an all-rounder when he became a commander. At the same time, he is also the commander of the Northwest. .Zhao Zeyong pinched his brows, and said slowly: "The western suburbs... are really not good, but there is no other open space in the suburbs of Beijing. If you move again, you have to go to another county and change your household registration. The people will never agree. The unnamed corpses are easy to deal with and moved together , please ask the master to burn incense and pay homage. Those who have masters are more troublesome, so we can only understand them with emotion and reason, and the court will make appropriate subsidies. The first [-] people who agree will receive double compensation, and the second [-] people will receive an extra half of the compensation. By analogy, those who can send power to lobby. In addition, in order to appease the hearts of the people, it is planned to build a medium-sized Buddhist temple and a pagoda in the western suburbs. This matter has been approved by the emperor, and the Ministry of Rites will be responsible for it. It will be completed within two years."

Rong Youtang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words: "It's okay, it's okay! There's one more explanation for the mobilization and relocation."

"It's thankless, scolded and angry. That's what I'm talking about." Guo Da curled his lips.

Zhao Zeyong picked up a pen, wrote and scribbled, listed additions and deletions, rigorously and seriously, and said casually: "The right is to practice."

"How much silver taels do you need?" Rong Youtang asked.

"Only the two items of land acquisition and grave relocation, the budget exceeds 150 million. This is the result of the relatively large and sparsely populated northern suburbs." Zhao Zeyong replied.

"These days I open and close my eyes, it's all white money." Guo Da laughed at himself.

"I have approved the 150 million yuan, and it will be transferred out of the warehouse in a few days." Guo Yuan sipped his tea and pointed out with a headache: "But the follow-up is the key point: civil servants, masonry, construction equipment, etc., not more than a thousand Ten thousand, it cannot be built. In fact, the state treasury can only allocate 500 million taels to Beiying at the moment.”

Rong Youtang asked in surprise: "So much difference? How do we make it up?"

"Move here and there, or wait for the national treasury to fill up." Guo Yuan said.

"It's limited, I can't afford it." Guo Da frowned.

Zhao Zeyong said in a deep voice: "You can't procrastinate, you have to find a way." He wrote the whole page of the plan in one go, looked at it for a moment, and handed it to Rong Youtang: "Look at it." Rong Youtang took it, and hurriedly sent it to Rong Youtang Guo Yuan looked over.

"The one-month spring training is coming, what's the plan for Yuanshui Camp this year?" Zhao Zeyong asked suddenly.

Guo Da answered absent-mindedly: "It's nothing more than an offensive and defensive battle in the mountains and forests and a big competition between soldiers, it happens every year."

Zhao Zeyong shook his head disapprovingly: "It has little effect, so it's time to change."

Rong Youtang's thoughts moved slightly, and he asked tentatively: "You can't ask them to fill the camp of the people's husbands, can you?"

"Why not?" Zhao Zeyong smiled, and calmly said: "Leave this matter to Han Rukun. If it can't be done, Han Taifu's party must not open his mouth to recommend him as the deputy envoy of the Beiying."

Han Rukun is Taifu Han's only son.

Wow, that's tyrannical enough to embarrass people so blatantly—as expected of King Qing!

Guo Da clapped his hands in agreement: "Good idea! There are too many lice and it doesn't itch. None of us are afraid of offending anyone!"

Rong Youtang was dumbfounded, admiring King Qing, thinking: Among the princes, there is no second one who dares to offend powerful ministers and nobles like this.Your Majesty is really a wise king. If someone else is the commander, the camp in the northern suburbs will not be visible for three to five years.

Zhao Zeyong looked at the young man's admiring eyes gently, and smiled in his heart, but said with a straight face: "I will also send you an errand, so that you don't have to go home from school and play around. Rong Youtang listened to the order——