Chapter 154: Li Zhi's Board Game

There are two ways of aging, one is related to age, and the other is related to mentality.

According to Yun Chu's observation, the open-mindedness, tolerance, calmness, and wisdom expressed by the elderly are actually pretended. When he is alone, his heart is actually panicking.

If he controls well, he is a good old man, or even a perfect old man in the eyes of children, with countless advantages such as kindness and generosity.

If he can't control it, then it's over. His stingy, mean, irritable, lustful, and unreasonable nature will be completely exposed, making his children's life miserable.

Li Zhi's condition is more serious. He is not only old in age, but also old in psychology, and the symptoms of his condition are more serious.

However, he invited Yun Chu to have a meal with him. Of course, there is inevitably a bear on the table.

After almost 20 years with Li Zhi, this bear is very strict in table etiquette. At least he knows to push his beloved roast chicken in front of Yun Chu, the guest.

Compared with the giant bear, Li Zhi's table manners were terrible. He said that the thing he regretted most in his life was marrying Wu Mei as the queen. If he had known that this would be the end, he should have castrated himself.

He scolded Li Hong as a wolf cub. When he was little, he was lovable, but who knew that it was all a disguise. After he grew up, he learned to eat people, and he especially ate his father, and he ate him with all his heart.

He scolded Li Yifu, Xu Jingzong, Zhangsun Wuji, Li Ji, Chu Suiliang, and when he had nothing to scold, he scolded Yun Chu as well.

Anyway, these people were all beasts. He treated them with all his heart, but no one appreciated it. They all deserved to die, and it would be better if their bones were crushed and their ashes were scattered.

Yun Chu ran 300 miles a day. He was hungry and only cared about filling his stomach. As for what the emperor said, he turned a deaf ear to it and only cared about filling his stomach.

"Are you listening to me?"

Li Zhi didn't get a response from Yun Chu, so he took the hoof from Yun Chu's hand and stuffed it into the giant bear.

Yun Chu opened his greasy mouth and said, "The emperor doesn't need hungry soldiers."

After saying that, he looked at the trembling giant bear, and the giant bear returned the hoof that Li Zhi stuffed into it to Yun Chu.

Li Zhi was furious and kicked the giant bear on the butt. The giant bear whimpered twice and then lay on the ground consciously.

This giant bear was served by Li Zhi more cleanly than a human, especially its two claws, which were no different from human hands. Yun Chu took the hoof and bit it again.

"You are playing dirty, right?"

"No, I am already a high-ranking official, I am not young anymore, I have a lot of sons and daughters, I can't play dirty."

"It seems that you don't have many complaints about what I did this time?"

"When more people above die, the people below can quickly make up for it. When more people above die, the power of the nobles will be weakened. This is a top-down linkage.

Your Majesty, speaking of this, Changan has benefited the most from the cleanup."

Li Zhi threw down the bones in his hand and said, "What do you mean?"

Yun Chu said, "More than 8,000 people died, and more than 70% of these 8,000 people were scholars, scholars, officials, and clerks, and I have cultivated them in Changan over the years. Among the scholars, only a very small number can become scholars, officials, and clerks.

It's not that they are not knowledgeable or they don't have the means, but because there are only so many positions, and there are several radishes waiting to be put into the pit next to each other before pulling out a radish.

Now, Your Majesty has pulled out more than 8,000 radishes and killed many radishes waiting to be put into the pit, causing the radish field to be barren. The radish field naturally cannot be barren, and radishes must be planted. However, Your Majesty pulled out too many radishes from your own field, and there are not so many radishes available at once..."

"So, the new radishes you cultivate in Chang'an can be put into the pit, right?"

Yun Chu smiled and said, "Since I returned to Chang'an, I have been very interested in Chang'an. Without even asking about Chang'an's economy, the officials below have already started to complain to me that Chang'an's economic development has come to a standstill, and they hope that I can come up with a good way to make Chang'an's economy prosperous as soon as possible, so that Chang'an can cope with the increasing population.

I am not a god. Chang'an is so large, and a one-cent increase is almost the tax revenue of a prefecture in the Tang Dynasty. I have some cleverness, but these economic cleverness are trivial to me in a small place like Jinchangfang.

Chang'an, Chang'an, if such a large scale wants to have visible development, it needs to make big moves in a fundamental sense. I can't do such big moves, only Your Majesty can do it. "Li Zhi was suspicious "You mean I killed 8,000 people in Chang'an, which not only did not weaken your control over Chang'an, but helped you?"

Yun Chu threw away the remains of meat and bones in his hand and said: "How to make the economy alive? There must be liquidity. As long as the economy flows, it can benefit many people.

To put it in the simplest terms, your majesty put the money in your left pocket into your right pocket, and many people in Chang'an will benefit.

Not to mention that more than 8,000 people died, their wealth will naturally not die, but will only start to circulate. As long as these money starts to flow, they will pass through the gate of Chang'an government, and the government will receive a sum of money after passing through the gate.

This is just a corresponding relationship of eating the money of the dead.

At the same time, there is also a corresponding relationship of eating living people's money. If more than 8,000 people died, there would be more than 8,000 new people to fill in. Your Majesty must not underestimate the help that the movement of more than 8,000 people brings to the fiscal revenue.

There are only more than 6,000 people in Jinchangfang now, but the tax contribution of Jinchangfang to the Tang Dynasty in a year exceeds that of many prefectures, not to mention that more than 8,000 people, officials, and clerks are moving this time, which contributes much more to Chang'an than Jinchangfang.

So, what your majesty did in Chang'an this time is equivalent to raising a huge wave in the stagnant water of Chang'an. Next, your ministers can use the waves raised by your majesty to do a lot of things, at least, it can reverse the stagnant situation of Chang'an's economy. "

Li Zhi said puzzledly: "Killing people can also benefit Chang'an's economy? "

Yun Chu smiled and said, "Because Chang'an's politics is closely related to the economy, this is the essence of "Political Economy". It does not exist for Yao, nor does it die for Jie. As long as Chang'an, the foundation, is not destroyed, it can absorb the morning dew and grow strong, and it can also absorb the rotten corpses and mud to take root and sprout. In short, once the pace of progress is started, it will only roll forward. "

Li Zhi took a bite of the pig's trotter and thought for a while before saying, "It seems that Chang'an is much stronger than I imagined. Is this your confidence in demolishing the city wall?"

Yun Chu said, "The existence of the city wall is not conducive to the economic development of Chang'an, and the city wall itself represents a constraint..."

Li Zhi threw down the pig's trotter and said, "You are all so powerful, where do you put me, the emperor?"

Yun Chu smiled and said, "Chang'an's greatest confidence comes from Your Majesty, and the most solid foundation also comes from Your Majesty. If Your Majesty lives in the Daming Palace, it will be integrated with Chang'an. Your Majesty is Chang'an, and Chang'an is Your Majesty. ”

Li Zhi said: "Damn, that's too good... I have to think about it carefully, so as not to fall into your trap. ”

Yun Chu said again: "Your Majesty, Daming Palace has the most perfect and solid defense system in the world. At the same time, there is enough space around it for Your Majesty to place the Sixteen Guards. ”

Li Zhi frowned and said: "The more you say, the more I think this Daming Palace is very similar to Dong Zhuo's Meiwu City. It is said that the guy built many official residences in Meiwu and settled thousands of beauties looted from all over the country. At the same time, he hoarded a large amount of gold and silver and enough food for thirty years. Every time he returned to Meiwu, Dong Zhuo would have a lot of fun.

However, this guy's ending was not good. He died in Meiwu City.

Yo yo yo, I remember that Dong Zhuo finally died at the hands of Lu Bu, a fierce general who looked very similar to you. Oh, Yun Chu, what is your intention in asking me to move the capital to Daming Palace? "

Looking at Li Zhi's startled look, Yun Chu sighed and said, "The current atmosphere of our Great Tang is not comparable to that of the late Han Dynasty."

Li Zhi seemed to have caught the loophole in Yun Chu's words, and said excitedly, "Han died because of its strength!"

Yun Chu said angrily, "At most, I can go to Daming Palace to protect Your Majesty, right?"

Li Zhi grinned with a mouthful of white teeth, "Lü Bu did the same."

Yun Chu was stunned for a moment and said, "Anyway, no matter what I say, Your Majesty will think that I have bad intentions towards you."

Li Zhi laughed and said, "I didn't think so before, but it's hard to say now. After I killed people in Luoyang, Chang'an, and Jinyang, maybe you will think that I am crazy and want to build a strong city to lock me up.

I won't go, no matter what I say, I will stay in Jiucheng Palace, waiting for you, a group of traitors, to assassinate the king. "

Ruichun, who hurried back, had just come to Feipu Pavilion to report the situation in Chang'an to the emperor, when he heard the emperor's nonsense and was shocked.

Li Zhi glanced at Ruichun, who was kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, and said with some annoyance: "Get out."

Ruichun knelt and retreated.

Yun Chu drank a mouthful of osmanthus fermented glutinous rice and smiled: "Ruichun just returned from Chang'an, Your Majesty, why don't you listen to his explanation."

Li Zhi waved his hand and said: "You must have done something to let me down. While I don't know, I can still talk to you and relieve the depression in my heart. If Ruichun said something unfavorable to you, you tell me, should I kill you or not?

Let's continue to talk about Emperor Xian of Han, Dong Zhuo, and you, Lu Bu. ”

Seeing that the emperor was in a mood to abuse himself, Yun Chu had to continue to discuss with Li Zhi how to trap him in the Daming Palace, which was like the Meiwu City, and how to take his life in the end, hold the crown prince Li Hong hostage, and then split off Chang'an as the king, advance to control Hulao Pass, and accept the conquest of the world, and Yun Chu defeated the 76 troops to defend the king with his supreme courage.

"Yeah, you are right. To take Guanzhong, you must take Shuzhong as the foundation, and then take over Longxi, the former land of the Qin Dynasty, and send a general to open up the Western Regions to prosper Chang'an's business. This is the foundation of the emperor.

However, the queen is not easy to deal with. She has Pei Xingjian's help to stabilize the Central Plains. People in Lianghuai, Shandong, and Hebei hate our Li family so much that they may help the queen.

Xue Rengui's relatives and friends are all in Hedong. With his ability, he can probably carve out a piece of land. This piece of land is not small and can even span the land of Yan and Zhao... Hey, we two are not satisfied with what we said. Come on, call Xue Rengui here. "

Yun Chu took the opportunity to say: "At the end of the Han Dynasty, the eunuchs were powerful, and Ruichun, the chief of the Hundred Cavalry Division, must come."

So, under Yun Chu's strong suggestion, Ruichun and Xue Rengui had to participate in the Tang Dynasty version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" board game hosted by Li Zhi himself with two pairs of bloodshot eyes.

Until dawn, Li Zhi was still in high spirits. The board game last night kept his brain running at high speed. Even though he didn't sleep all night, he was still in high spirits, as if he had returned to his youth.

"After all, it's a bit thin for four people to discuss together. If Xu Jingzong is brought in to play Jia Xu, and Chu Suiliang is brought in to play Xun Yu..."

After a night, Ruichun and Xue Rengui, who were originally full of anger, gradually got into the role. In their eyes, although this is a game, it is also a preview of a large-scale military, political, and people's livelihood.

The characters in the game have gradually become fuller because of the discussion overnight. In addition, the grand scene of the late Han Dynasty, once substituted, plus the participants are all high-level heroes, suddenly made this game a large-scale government activity that can truly predict the future.

That night, the four people on the table cut the Tang Dynasty into pieces, killed people and blood flowed into rivers, and only one out of a hundred people in the world survived.

Even people like Li Zhi, Yun Chu, Rui Chun, and Xue Rengui, who killed countless people, were terrified by the consequences of the killing.

Facing the morning sun, Li Zhi laughed. This was a new toy he had discovered. The most important thing was that he was the one who started this new toy. Under coercion, Yun Chu, Rui Chun, and Xue Rengui had to pay full attention to it.

There was no way to cheat in the game. Li Zhi was a qualified emperor, Yun Chu and Xue Rengui were qualified generals, and Rui Chun was a very powerful eunuch.

Once someone let the water go, it would be easy to fall into the eyes of the other three, and finally be labeled as a flatterer in the eyes of the emperor. Yun Chu and Xue Rengui could only deal with it with all their strength under the rules planned by the emperor. Once they failed, they would be incompetent in the eyes of the emperor.

It was said that it was a game played all night, but in fact, the four people were scheming against each other all night.

At this moment, Yun Chu was looking forward to playing this game with the emperor, the empress, the prince, and the famous ministers and brave generals of the Tang Dynasty...

The Tang Dynasty really couldn't stand the large-scale killing. If the emperor continued to kill, it would only tear the newly united Tang Dynasty apart again.

Yun Chu didn't want to see such a scene. He felt that he had contributed to the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

If the emperor could replace the people he killed in reality with soybeans, mung beans, and red beans on the table, it might not be a blessing for the Tang Dynasty.