In the middle of winter, there was a thin layer of ice on the water surface. Occasionally, a wave came up, and a large piece of ice was smashed to pieces. The ice crystals collided with each other, making a pleasant "Dingdang" sound. All the fishermen with great water skills drove out of the river in such weather, striving to open their eyes, rewarded several precious sturgeons, and sold them to restaurants in Yingtianfu. They could buy them at a huge price of two taels of silver.

A faint smoke enveloped both sides of the Yangtze River, and everything seemed like an illusion.

Li Feng, wearing a marten buckle, was holding a small blue and white porcelain wine pot in his hand, and was sitting alone on a rock on the shore to drink. The river water hit the rock where he sat down, splashing countless water splashes, and layers of water mist hit Li Feng's face, giving him a cool and heart-wrenching feeling.

"A group of secret spies from Tenglong, Yingtianfu reported that Emperor Taizu was in a critical condition on December 26, 30th year of Hongwu. Most of the officials of the court agreed to succeed the throne with the crown prince Yunmin. The important officials of the court whom we bribed were to oppose the opposition and strive to make the prince the emperor. However, the power was weak and he might not help. I hope the prince would make a decision quickly."

"Tenglong secret spies Yingtian Mansion two groups reported secretly that the Emperor's grandson Yunmin's army, Fang Xiaoru, and his ancestor Fang's family Tingjun are great scholars. They have a huge influence on the ministers of the court. They should be eliminated. However, Fang's "Qingming Swordsman" beside him has profound skills. The ministers and others assassinated seven times in a row, but failed. They asked the prince to convict them. However, if the Fang family Tingjun is not killed, it will not be enough to disrupt the opponent's team. The Yingtian Mansion group is difficult to act. Please ask the prince to send a master to Yingtian and assassinate Fang Tingjun as soon as possible."

"Tenglong secret spies Yingtianfu reported that the three groups of secret reports from Taizu, Taizu's body deteriorated rapidly, and I am afraid that it will not take long. I am trying my best to treat Taizu, but Taizu is old and has a recurrence of secret injuries on his body. I am doing my best to delay for several months. The prince should make a quick decision."

Three secret reports were sent to Zhu Di's mansion in two hours. After Zhu Di discussed with several confidants, the fiefs of the King of Yan suddenly became chaotic. In the northeast, Zhu Di sent elite soldiers to guard the army to strictly prevent any riots in the northeast. In the north, Zhu Li led the ten guards to the edge of the grassland with murderous intent, guarding them to the death, fearing that the Yuanmeng remnants would cause chaos. After two troops were dispatched, Zhu Di, with the suggestion of monk Daoyan and the support of Zhu Xi, ordered Li Feng to lead the twelve eunuchs and masters of the "Tenglong Secret Spy" headquarters to go south quickly to Yingtian Mansion to assassinate Fang Tingjun, striving to delay time and not allow the crown prince Yunwen to be made emperor.

At the same time, the vault gate of the Yan Prince's Mansion was open and the money was spent like flowing. The Tenglong secret spies began to bribe the court officials in Yingtian Mansion in an attempt to turn the situation around. At the same time, Zhu Di had secretly sent people out to purchase war horses, arrows, bows and crossbows and other weapons. He was already in a bad mood. The only thing he lacked now was an excuse. Of course, Zhu Di himself did not want to start a war for no reason. If Zhu Yuanzhang could make him the emperor, why should he fight hard? At the same time, his foundation behind him was unstable, and Yuan Meng was always ready to invade, but most of the troops in his hands were filled in this bottomless hole. There was not enough military strength to fight with the imperial army in a hurry, so it would be better not to fight without a fight.

According to the inside report, Fang Tingjun is going to leave the city today to watch the snowy Yangtze River. Sitting on the bank of the Yangtze River to drink and write poems is the biggest hobby of this old Confucian scholar.

Li Feng grinded his teeth: "This old guy, Tenglong Mischief's insider can know your travel arrangements, why can't you kill you with a pot of poisonous wine and tea? I have to work hard to come to Yingtianfu for several days. Is that Fang alone really so powerful? The second group of the Tenglong Mischief's Yingtianfu is all carefully trained killers. He assassinated the old man seven times in a row and was beaten to pieces? Well, this time, the twelve old eunuchs came with me, and the martial arts skills are so clever. Maybe I can kill Fang Tingjun without me taking action, right?"

Li Feng picked up the wine glass, used his internal strength to perm the wine to heat up, and drank it in one sip: "This Fang Xiaoru, hum, is Zhu Yunwen's teacher. He said that he is very knowledgeable and famous, isn't he just a scholar? What's so proud? I won't kill you together, see if I don't kill you together... But the King of Yan said that he could just kill Lao Fang. This little Fang still has to stay, why not solve it together?"

Li Feng didn't know that Fang Xiaoru's reputation was everywhere. Killing Fang Xiaoru would be a big trouble. People in the world attacked him, especially those literati were so powerful that they were so fierce. Although Fang Tingjun, although he was a great scholar in the world, has just lived in seclusion in the past twenty years. In addition to having a deep influence in the court, his reputation was more than a hundred times smaller than his grandson. So the old one can be killed, while the younger one cannot be killed.

The sound of carriage wheels crushing the snow in the cold wind. Two small carriages covered with oil and paper quickly came towards the riverside. More than a dozen big men in brocade clothes rode their horses and followed closely behind the carriage. Li Feng saw the outfits of the big men and knew that they were all from the Jinyiwei, and this was the orthodox Jinyiwei. Zhu Yuanzhang used the secret spies to supervise the world, but they were not called by Zhu Di's "Jinyiwei" who closed the door.

At the front, a man in his forties was dancing in white clothes. He was just wearing a thin white Confucian shirt. Li Feng's eyes were poisonous. He saw a green shark skin on the man's waist as a sheath. The hilt of the sword was mottled. He thought to himself: "Wonderful, this guy is the 'Qingming Swordsman', right? What a sword, it looks like an antique, wonderful, the market price is at least over 10,000 taels. Where can ordinary people afford it? Well, four feet long and three fingers wide, it is much better than the ragged dragon spring in my hand. Take it, grab it."

Li Feng narrowed his eyes, and his eyes flashed: "Anyway, your life will be taken away by me. You will send it to me for me, your sword and the silver you have."

The carriage stopped at the shore more than ten feet away from Li Feng. A middle-aged Confucian scholar got off the carriage first, then quickly reached the carriage behind, helped an old man get out of the carriage, and slowly walked to the rocks on the shore to stand. The old man's hair and beard were pale, his face was covered with wrinkles, but his big eyes were still very energetic, especially his body was straight and had a sense of spirit.

What made Li Feng feel strange was that the old man had no internal strength, but when he stood there, he was strangely integrated with the Yangtze River and even the sky and the earth, and a mighty and open aura flowed out. Li Feng was secretly shocked: "This old man is either so profound that he can't see through his master, or his Confucianism cultivation has reached the level of a saint."

Li Feng suddenly chuckled: "It's funny, funny, I can't see through the person I have reached the Golden Elixir stage? That's a god. This old man doesn't seem to be a Taoist practitioner. Then his Confucianism cultivation is too profound, or he is the so-called age of knowing the destiny of heaven, and knowing the principle of following the way of heaven, so he has this kind of momentum? That's not bad... Fang Tingjun, the old man of the Fang family, looking at your momentum, he is a good person, it's a pity."

Fang Tingjun stood on the stone, looking at the vast Yangtze River in front of him and the vast land, and breathed a long sigh: "Like rivers and mountains, like rivers and mountains. Heroes and heroes, picturesque beauty, haha, Xiaoru, isn't this kind of country worth our desperate reimbursement? You have been studying hard for ten years and finally achieved success. Now you are the teacher of the crown prince, and in the future you will be the emperor. This world will eventually need you to assist you. The wealth and life of the people in the world are all on you."

Fang Xiaoru, Li Feng sighed: "Is this Fang Xiaoru? It's just a white-faced scholar."

Fang Xiaoru bowed and said humbly: "The grandson's talent is not enough, and his talent is easy to understand. He also needs your grandfather to tell you a lot of lessons."

Fang Tingjun laughed with his hands behind his back: "Hahaha, you are too modest. What's wrong with our Fang Tingjun's grandson, helping the emperor manage a world? Your talent is rare today. Grandfather, I have great hope for you... When the crown prince ascends the throne, my grandfather's great affairs will be resolved. I will play between mountains and rivers, and I will no longer care about the cumbersome affairs of the world. When I am old, I have no desire to pursue fame and fortune. But you are in your prime, serving the country, serving the family, and glorifying the ancestors. "

The big men of Jinyiwei and several servants in blue-clothed and hats put the warm box on the stone and took out a small wine pot from it. It can be seen that the warm box has good warming performance, or there is a heat source inside to heat up, and several exquisite side dishes are still emitting hot air, and white oil flowers are not seen on it when the wind blows.

Fang Xiaoru was not polite, and raised his head and said loudly: "Even if there are thousands of people, I will go. My grandson should do his best to assist the crown prince and be a wise king. The world is prosperous and every man is responsible."

Li Feng was numb all over his bones when he heard it, and he was shocked: "What a shameless old man, grandson, do you really know how to close the door and brag? It seems that without you in the world, people will definitely be living in poverty. Bah, are you two bastards still dead?"

Li Feng held a wine glass from the crack of the rock where he lived, and jumped out with the wine pot, cursing: "Damn, I'm drinking a little wine here, watching the Yangtze River sleep here, where is the sour scholar coming from here, ruining my elegant atmosphere? Ah? What do you mean, even though thousands of people, I'm going to be an official? You're going to be an official by yourself. You've spent thousands of taels of silver and haven't gotten a small official as you. You've gained fame and fortune out of thin air, and you seem to be unhappy. I've really seen you such a shameless bastard who puts your butt on your face since the creation of the world."

The scolding was so vicious that Fang Tingjun and Fang Xiaoru were stunned on the spot. Several big men of the Jinyiwei were furious. They had not discovered Li Feng who was hiding well. This was already a dereliction of duty. Now Li Feng was actually scolding the person responsible for protecting him, which made them even more unbearable. Who are they? They are Jinyiwei, Jinyiwei who can kill and kill officials and the people. At that moment, the two big men rushed forward with a grin, clamping Li Feng from left and right, and whispered: "Little Bazai, you are ready to sit in the prison of Jinyiwei."

Fang Duxing had just jumped out, his eyes jumped suddenly and looked at Li Feng with a bright look, but when he saw that Li Feng had no internal force recruitment, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Jiang indifferently.

Li Feng roared loudly, jumping up and down like a monkey: "I'm gonna spoil you Fang Xiaoru, what are you? You can govern the country? You can manage the family? I'm gonna spoil..."

The big man from the Jinyiwei pinched Li Feng's neck with his hands, and Fang Xiaoru frowned and shouted loudly: "Let him go, let him go... I want to ask why we, Fang Xiaoru, deserve such insults. Someone of us is upright and will do her best to assist the crown prince and serve the court. I see how he scolds me."

The two Jinyiwei men had already felt that Li Feng had no internal strength at all and his body was not strong at all. Except for a sword on his waist, he was a very ordinary young man. They relaxed their hands with confidence, pushed them hard from behind, and took off the Longquan Sword on Li Feng's waist, pushed Li Feng forward a few steps, shouting: "Master Fang asked you, you have a good answer."

Li Feng sneered, looked at Fang Xiaoru with disdain, and suddenly asked: "When I was in Hangzhou, I heard that Fang Xiaoru, the current imperial grandson teacher, is a master of the world, with a reputation for literature and talent. Who knew that seeing you grandparents today is worse than being famous when they meet. Bah, two shameless guys brag about your Fang family on the edge of the Yangtze River, so shameless. They polluted the Yangtze River and ruined this land."

Hearing Li Feng cursed viciously, the men of the Jinyiwei immediately had another vicious smile on their faces. Fang Tingjun shook his hand gently and whispered: "Forget it, just a fool, don't pay attention. You stand farther, I'll listen, he has any absurd truths to say."

Li Feng sneered, pointed at Fang Xiaoru two meters away and cursed: "Fang Xiaoru, I ask you, you said you should assist the emperor, how do you assist the emperor?"

Fang Xiaoru bowed slightly, with a warm smile on his face: "Assisting the emperor will naturally make the country rich and the people strong, and the people in the world live and work in peace and contentment."

Li Feng slapped his mouth and spitted thick phlegm on the ground, cursing with extreme disdain: "Absurd, how do you make the country rich and the people strong?"

Fang Xiaoru was stunned for a moment and said, "If Fang assisted the emperor, he would have persuaded the emperor to experience political affairs personally, be cautious and cautious, so that politics can be clear and clear, and then..."

Before Li Feng could finish his words, he spitted on the ground again. He sneered disdainfully, saying: "You fucking fart, I tell you, to enrich the country and strengthen the people, the easiest thing is silver. If there is silver in the treasury, that is, the country is strong. If there is silver in the pocket of the people, that is, the people are rich, and the rest are nonsense. What kind of officials are honest and politically clear are all stupid words. If the officials cannot spend all their own money, only the stupid pig will continue to embezzle?"

"Only when the people have money, can fools do evil and wander around the world? Look at the current road guides, which are used to manage the people, and are afraid of the emergence of bandits? But if the people have money at home, there is endless rice and white flour in the rice cabinet, and a hot wife lies on the bed, who is running around and smashing and looting everywhere?"

Fang Xiaoru was speechless, and Li Feng jumped and scolded: "Is I right? As long as you have money, the people in the world are naturally willing to live at home honestly. As long as you have money and the national treasury is sufficient, the soldiers' armor and weapons will be excellent, that is, the country is strong... You said you want to assist the emperor, and I will ask you again, how much does a pound of private salt cost?"

An Jinyiwei shouted: "Bold, you are so brave, dare you say these things?"

Fang Tingjun frowned and shook his head repeatedly and said, "Stop talking, listen to him."

Fang Xiaoru was silent for a while, shook his head and said, "Private salt people have corrupted the court's salt tax, which is the charge of beheading."

Li Feng laughed wildly: "Well, Fang Xiaoru knows that you will be beheaded if you sell private salt. Then, if you assist the emperor, wouldn't you only know how much private salt, how much is it? What else can you do? Do you know how much private salt will be taken in the Ming Dynasty in a year? What is the profit?" Li Feng paused for a moment, shook his head and said, "You don't know, you don't know how much salt tax the Salt Affairs Bureau of the Ming Dynasty can charge in a year. You don't even know how much a pound of official salt costs and how much a pound of private salt is required. You don't know that many people can't afford official salt, so they have to buy private salt."

Li Feng took two steps forward, pointed at Fang Xiaoru's nose and cursed: "You know that if you catch the private salt dealers, you will cut off their heads. But you think about it, if there are no private salt dealers, in the northwest, in many places in the northeast and even in the north, how do people who cannot afford official salt live? If they don't eat salt for three days, they don't have the strength to play with their wives, how do you ask them to cultivate the land? Why is official salt so expensive, and private salt so cheap? They are the same goods found in the sea, why are they different? Do you know why?"

After swallowing, Li Feng grabbed Fang Tingjun and his wine pot without hesitation, poured it into his mouth, and picked up another terrible duck claw and put it in his mouth: "Damn, I'm asking you... Well, your family has a good chef, this terrible duck claw is bad... I'll ask you again, if you want to assist the emperor, how should military affairs be rectified? The cavalry of the Ming Dynasty needed war horses. Do you know that war horses asked Tibetan herders how much silver they needed to buy one? Change tea bricks and salt bricks, and only how many tea bricks were needed to replace one?"
Chapter completed!