Chapter 43 Su Yan's Springboard
"Others are officials from thousands of miles away and only for money. Did you go back to get an official after thousands of miles away and just to disperse money?"
Everyone entered the chess room, and Liu Yu quipped with a smile.
Sui Yi smiled happily: "I used to think that if I became an official, I would be more pragmatic than those officials who only know how to make money. Those who are not clear are just false reputations. If we become an official, we must become an official."
"Yes." Liu Yu nodded and looked at Sui Yi. Sui Yi in front of him was indeed much more powerful than when he was an official.
It was rare for a few people to get together again. After chatting for a while, Liu Yu couldn't help asking about Li Mi's situation.
Li Mi said worriedly: "I have basically returned from the army to fight, but the losses are limited. Most of them have returned home before they even saw the Turkic soldiers. When I saw it, my heart was cold. I didn't look like soldiers who could go to battle to kill the enemy. I was listless and lazy. I couldn't even raise my eyelids except for receiving a salary."
Liu Yuxin said that this is no wonder those "master soldiers". Originally, those who were stationed in Chang'an City were good and poor. Many wealthy and powerful families sent their children to various defense departments. Regardless of their quality, they could get in as long as they gave them money. Holding the "golden rice bowl" is inevitable that they would be lazy and unwilling to make progress.
"How about the training on weekdays?" Liu Yu asked.
"Training?" Li Mi sighed helplessly, "Everyone was tired after running a few steps. Yesterday, half of them even needed help from horse riding... I wanted to quit the office."
Liu Yu knew that Li Mi was a serious person, not as much as Sui Yi liked to live alone and be rigid in his work. Such a person must want to lead the best soldiers and the requirements would be very strict.
"Then, I'll design a training method for you to see if it can improve their physical fitness."
Liu Yu couldn't help but remember the training methods of modern field soldiers I had seen in the past. Those who climbed poles through iron locks and went back to draw a few sketches for Li Mi to take them back, which may be helpful for training. Liu Yu knew very little about military strategy and formation, and this was the only thing that could help Li Mi.
While chatting, several people suddenly turned their faces stiff again and looked at the door together. Liu Yu turned his face curiously, and a fat man with big cheeks stood at the door. It would be fine if he didn't smile and was stupid. This smile really made people want to use shoes to cover their faces with soles. It was so disgusting.
It was Chai Jin's big sulky man.
Liu Yu frowned and looked at him and asked, "Chai Hulu, what are you here to do?"
When Chai Jin saw that there were many people in the room, he didn't recognize the three men's guards, and he was a little timid and bowed to him: "Liu... Brother Liu, can you speak with me?"
Liu Yu thought that it might be Wu You who invited him to be the message, so he got up and Lu Chu'er wanted to follow him. Liu Yu waved his hand to stop him, and he and Chai Jin left the door between the chess. Chai Jin wanted to talk, but his throat was stuck again. He opened his mouth for a while but couldn't open the conversation.
Listening to a stupid person is suffering, it is better to say it yourself.
"Master Wu invited you here?"
Chai Jin shook his head.
"Was the princess sent you?"
Chai Hulu still shook his head.
"Who asked you to come?"
Chai Hulu stammered and said, "I...I want to come here myself...I want to talk to you and my inner son, and the Wu Master Miss Wu."
Liu Yu laughed silently and said, "Chai Hulu, you actually learned how to be human and worldly, come and put your head on wine?"
Chai Jin said blankly: "What is... Hetou wine?"
Liu Yu was in trouble. Could it be that he told him that the gangsters meant sitting down to discuss peace? The society of gangsters in the past is low, and I am afraid that Chai Jin's pampering life doesn't even know what gangsters are.
"Just just make a good wine." Liu Yu said casually, and immediately remembered something, "You told the Fourth Princess that you are coming?"
Chai Jin shook his head again.
Liu Yu said earnestly: "Chai Hulu, it is inappropriate for you to do this. If you make good wine, you must ask the princess first. I can apologize, but you must understand that I am the weaker party. If the princess doesn't accept it, it will be useless to apologize."
Chai Hulu's tone became more firm this time and said, "My inner child will accept it."
"How do you know?"
Chai Jin said: "In the past, if someone offended her, she would keep saying and scolding her, and she felt unhappy. This time you offended her, she sent her back to Miss Wu, and she could eat and sleep when she returned to the mansion. Today I said I would come to find you. After hearing this, Neiko just said, 'Yes.' and did not object."
Liu Yuxin said that the person who is most familiar with a person's temper is the person next to him. Even a fool like Chai Hulu can clearly understand the Fourth Princess's thoughts. In this way, the Fourth Princess just poses to show her deep sisterly love with Wu Shuo. Looking back, there is no need to commit crimes for a group of people who may become ally for that little trick.
Liu Yu couldn't help but want to say that the Fourth Princess is too boring to be a human being. She has to weigh the pros and cons when she is angry, saying that she is a woman who is independent, but also a powerful scheming person who is very good at using tricks. If she really wants to cooperate with such a person, be careful at any time.
"Then you go back and discuss the time with the princess. After discussing it, come and let me know. I will bring a few friends to apologize in person." Liu Yu said earnestly.
"Oh! OK!"
Chai Jin did not expect that he had succeeded when he came to be a lobbyist for the sake of human nature. He looked happy and turned down the stairs in three steps and rushed away excitedly.
Liu Yu watched him leave the chess building and return to the chess room, and everyone's eyes fell on him.
Sui Yi asked, "Why are you here for that big mess?"
"What else can I do? I want to make a good wine. Go back and you have to go with me and don't leave me alone like last time."
Li Mi and Sui Yi both smiled evilly, obviously thinking about how to break up by borrowing words.
At this moment, Su Yan, who had not come to welcome Liu Yu, the "master", returned safely, rushed to the chess building like a fire, stopped in front of Liu Yu, and wiped his sweat.
"Master...thing is wrong." Su Yan shouted at the beginning of his throat when he saw Liu Yu.
"You can speak softly." Liu Yu looked at him complainingly, "Is it too long or lost?"
"Ah?" Su Yan was stunned at first, and immediately turned around and said, "It's not a shame, it's...I heard that my father... wanted to grant me a county magistrate and send me out of Chang'an."
On the way back, Liu Yu heard Han Sheng mention this. The emperor intends to take advantage of this to eliminate the disaster of the Turkic invasion of the border and reward several adult sons and daughters with titles and salaries. Four of them are to be crowned kings, namely the third prince, the fourth prince, the fifth prince and the seventh prince. In other words, the candidate for the future emperor should be one of them. For the rest of the adult princes, the princess will generally be named county princes and county princesses. The princess is named "jun". He leads a place and will leave Chang'an City from then on.
This is the first and last time the emperor is in power. Those young princes and princesses will wait until the new emperor ascends the throne before they can be enthroned. First, those who are young and do not pose a threat to the throne and become emperors will not make things difficult for them. Furthermore, the new emperor can win people's hearts through the enthronement.
The biggest variable among them is Su Yan, and even the emperor did not decide what to enthrone him. This time his merits were indeed very great. It seems unfair to enthrone a young man. If he enthrone a young man, he would not be well managed by such a prodigal son, which would inevitably cause gossip from others.
According to Han Sheng's meaning, the emperor most likely to confer Su Yan a county or county magistrate, just like most princes.
Liu Yu looked at Su Yan and said with a smile: "It's not good to enthrone you as a county magnitude? You have to do whatever you want. Who can control the emperor who is far away?"
Is it really no one cares? In fact, these vassal kings and lords with territorial lords have their jurisdiction, but the court will still send county and county officials to separate power from the side to supervise. Whenever these lords do things that are not in compliance with the rules, such as raising soldiers, residences, sacrifices and other standards exceeding the standard, they will be reported to the court, and the court will impose corresponding punishments.
Of course, the court also had some vassal kings who could not be governed, such as the Huai King. The territory of the Huai King had long become a country in China after more than 20 years of development, so this was also one of the disasters for the court.
Since ancient times, the founding emperors would not think about reducing the power of the vassal states, because they would think that the world was determined at the beginning and the ones they trusted most were relatives of the same blood. No matter how these vassal kings fought, the country would not change in the future. On the contrary, there would still be those who could win the power of the vassal states. But the successors would try every means to cut off the power of the vassal states, mainly because most of them also started in the power struggle and knew that these vassal kings threatened them.
"I...I don't want to go." Su Yan looked aggrieved, "I still want to stay in Chang'an City and follow the master."
"Follow me?" Liu Yu smiled, "What are the benefits of following me?"
Su Yan said anxiously: "But to be that county magistrate, no matter which emperor brother is the emperor in the future, he will easily capture me and kill him to vent his anger. If... the master can help me get a king back, become a king, and have his own soldiers, those emperor brothers will...if they will also consider it if they want to take action against me."
Su Yan's words are not rough. In fact, this is true. A county magistrate has limited land to support people, so it would be fine to get hundreds of domestic slaves to bully people. It is too difficult to really endanger the status of the ruler.
But Liu Yu is not a god and cannot influence the emperor's thoughts. Moreover, Su Yan is indeed weak now. Even if the emperor wants to be the king, he will wonder if he has the ability.
However, Liu Yu was also a pity for him. Su Yan had just taken off and was enthroned after he achieved great success. It was difficult to gain the emperor's trust and be reused in such a short period of time. Now, what is more important is to stay at Chang'an, the core of power, and wait for an opportunity to act.
"Are you willing to let go of everything you have now?" Liu Yu asked suddenly.
Su Yan was stunned and said, "Master, what did you say?"
Liu Yu said seriously: "If you have nothing now, will you be willing to give up?"
"Nothing?" Su Yan was immediately sad after hearing this. He finally tried his best to make the old emperor forgive him and even grant him a title. Now it is really too difficult to make a decision to lose if you lose.
"I'll just say that. No matter how much you make contributions now, the emperor cannot sign you as king. Even if you are really conferred a title, you still have to leave Chang'an City. If you want to stay and continue to gain the emperor's trust, the only way is to lose everything you have and be an ordinary person. But don't worry, no matter how you are in a down-and-out position, I, a master, will not let you starve to death."
Liu Yu's words were very direct, which made Su Yan hesitate. But what Liu Yu said was also true. After leaving Chang'an, all he could get was a county magistrate. Without the emperor's special order to never return to Chang'an City, Liu Yu would settle in Chang'an after marrying Xu Xuan in the future, and he would not be able to give him any help in the future.
"Then Master, tell me! What do I... do I do?" Since Su Yan's downfall, the only credible thing was Liu Yu. If he left Liu Yu, it would seem like he had lost his backbone and everything was over.
"Okay." Liu Yu nodded in praise and suddenly asked, "Whose brothers, have you held any big banquets recently?"
Su Yan looked at Sui Yi and Li Mi, and then changed his mind: "It seems that my third prince has just returned to Chang'an City and is going to entertain guests, saying that it is to celebrate the triumph of the court."
Liu Yuxin said that the third prince was also a person who knew how to flatter and would cater to the emperor's wishes to celebrate triumph. It was strange that the old emperor was so happy that he was really happy.
"Then you go to your third prince's banquet and make a big fuss. Remember to pretend to be drunk and crazy. Didn't he ever underestimate you? You just show off your anger and scold anyone regardless of whether they know you or not. In short, the more sensational the better."
Not only Su Yan, but even the audience around him, his eyes wider the more he listened.
Li Mi smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Liu, aren't you... harming him?"
"You only realize that I'm harming him?" Liu Yu said angrily, "If you don't harm him, why should he stay in Chang'an and continue to look for his chance?" Liu Yu turned to Su Yan, "It's the same old saying. If you mess it up, you won't be able to see me in the future!"
Looking at Su Yan's back, Liu Yu couldn't help but laugh. Why do he always go to the third prince's mansion every time he gave this guy such a bad idea? Is this guy having a grudge against the third prince? He always uses the third prince as his springboard. He is addicted to jumping while jumping.
Chapter completed!