Min Tingyu skillfully wrote the explanation on his head when answering high-level math questions.

Hong Jinglai was pacing with his hands behind his back, and Min Tingyu was sitting cross-legged on the couch. It seemed that the teacher was dictating to the student, while the student was kneeling and writing at the desk.

"Your Majesty, Yingyunsheng, looked down at the cave to find out what was going on, and asked the ministers to take responsibility, and to know people and use them wisely. The policy was so powerful that I did not dare to be lazy. In four days, I arrived at Deming Station in Qingxing County."

I have to say that Min Tinghye wrote very well in small regular script and had a good memory. Hong Jing was not slow in speaking, and he also took dictation very quickly.

"Tatar rebellion is raging, and Prime Minister Han who is guarding the station reported that more than 400 big-nosed Tatars belonging to the Luochan Kingdom came through Yaksanibuchu and took Nurgan from Longjiang River and savage beasts from Tunguska at Huha River.

"Like this, we gathered about three thousand riders."

"Nerchinsk belongs to the Celestial Dynasty, so it's better to hide it." After Min Tingxu finished copying, he raised his head and asked.

"You can go or not. The chief eunuch belongs to the lineage of Fenggao Yuanjun, who respects the Qing Dynasty and the West (foreign). However, Wang Dafei and Pu Hupan still maintain a respectful attitude, and their expressions are not dedicated to the Yuanjun alone, but to the public discussion in the court.

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"Too."

"On July 19, the vanguard of the Tatar army suddenly arrived at the ancient city crossing. The Japanese and Chinese prime ministers of the ancient city left without fighting, which made people's hearts very bad. Later, the Tatar soldiers captured a large number of boats and attacked the whole county. As a result, they built mountains and Lushan fell."

"I came to the post on the 28th day of the seventh month. Heaven's grace is so great that all the people look up to the king for his compassion and affection. His loyalty is high and he is very effective."

"First there was the military officer Hong, who had the command of Xiong Wu Chang Cui, who commanded a hundred and forty men. Then there was Li, a good man, who had a hundred and sixty good men in the regiment. Han Deming, who had been guarding the post for many years, first bought four grains and rice.

One hundred, and two more brave men were summoned. As a result, the army became more powerful, and they were named Two Thousand, and they went back and forth to celebrate."

"I will receive the country's favor again and dare not forget it, but will repay it with death. When the Tartars heard that the heavenly soldiers were coming, they took advantage of their powerful cavalry and led two or three hundred riders out of the city to fight. Li and Hong raised their guns and got angry, and they died immediately.

The two Tartars, all the brave men, fought hard and drove away all the Tartar soldiers."

"The restoration of the county's governance is all due to the king's wisdom."

After Min Tinghuo finished copying, Hong Jinglai read it through. Generally speaking, the first contribution was attributed to the king's wise and powerful work. I, Min Tinghuo, only wanted to take advantage of you. My intention was very clear.

"The supervisor should polish it a little. Although flattery is not necessary, a few subtle sentences are always needed."

"It's natural!"

The two of them worked for more than an hour to finish writing the letter about the recovery of Qingxing.

All that's left is to dispatch the horse, infantry, and army troops to advance together to drive out the Tartars and recover the fallen counties.

They put on a complete show. First, they sent out a document ordering all the registered soldiers and good men to report to the county government. Then they went to Qingyuan and Liuzhen to camp, and within a few days, they delivered shotguns, medicine, swords, guns, chariots and horses.

Although Hong Jinglai gathered more than 400 people for Min Ting, he felt that the number was not enough. There were no two or three thousand people. He was called ten thousand, and he was too embarrassed to go out. He finally became the commander-in-chief of the army, even if he could not do it as Li Zhongwu Gong

(Yi Sun-shin)'s great achievements must be considered as at least a second-class hero.

The local chief Zhongren was introduced to the county government. People like them would never see a serious third-grade official in their lives. Now Min Tingyue summoned him and they were flattered.

Min Tinghye just waved his hand, and they promised to send all the registered soldiers to the front of the camp. They didn't even let Min Tinghye say another nonsense, and his chest was beating loudly.

With the invincible golden body to recruit the ambassador, who dares to disobey once the royal banner comes?

Moreover, as a border area where troops have been deployed for many years, Hamjing Road has been at peace for a hundred years, but at least there are still some old treasury deposits in the local treasury. Until the Dongguang period, North Korea was still manipulating back and forth on the Domun River, constantly

Expand the land.

Be careful!

How many shotguns are missing?

Now that the young men can be captured and the shotguns can be adjusted, the only thing left is military rations. Previously, Hong Jinglai borrowed the name of Min Tingyue to collect 700 shi of military rations from "Ren Debt". However, with this small amount of food and giving some Anjia rice to the young men, this half

People have been eating horse chews for more than a month, but there is not much left.

The fastest way to get food that I can think of is naturally the imperial food from the Qingxing Palace farmland that Han Que mentioned before, which is the private property of King Sunjong.

When he mentioned it to Min Tinghye, Min Tinghye immediately asked people to move it without saying a word. Hong Jinglai was afraid, but he was not afraid. King Sunjong held his shoulders a few days ago and asked him to show off his skills. Go ahead and do it, as long as he can drive away the Tartars.

, money and food are all easy to talk about.

"The chief eunuch has raised grain and rice. Can he help the people in the city? The people don't have enough money for ten months, and the city has been closed recently..."

As a Gongzhuang farmland that no one dares to seize without paying taxes, it has good water conservancy facilities and free official slaves to work on the farmland. Even though the slaves are inefficient, when water, fertilizer and labor are taken into account, their income is higher than that of ordinary people.

many.

Seeing the peasants carrying the rice and beans back, Hong Jinglai felt a little compassion. He was eating the rice from his Li family anyway, so why save it for him? The country belonged to their old Li family, so eating two kilograms of his rice was nothing.

"Although the people are suffering, we can't save them!" Min Tingyue replied expressionlessly.

"A little grain can save thousands of people, so why can't we save them?"

"If this rice is used to pay the army, there will be no dissatisfaction in the world. If it is used to help the people, the day you and I will be imprisoned is right around the corner!"

"We are all citizens of this world, what's the difference?" Hong Jinglai argued.

"The pay for the army was agreed upon by the emperor, but not the support for the people!" Min Tinghuo turned around and walked towards the government office.

"Can't there be some flexibility?"

"cannot!"

Min Tingyue kept walking and continued to move forward, but still waited for Hong Jinglai for a moment, for fear that Hong Jinglai could not hear his answer clearly.

"The kindness comes from the superior, and the most taboo thing for a king is to buy the hearts of the people through invitations. Even if the superior is still young, how will he remember it in his later years?"

"As an imperial envoy, the chief eunuch can't do this?"

"I only have the responsibility to recruit people, so how can I have the power to recruit people? I have been an official for twenty years, and how have I ever gained power one day?"

It was not a bitter smile, but a smile that was even more indescribable. Even if Min Tinghye was a high-ranking official and wore hairpins from generation to generation, so what? Under the royal power, everyone is just an ant.

You, Min Ting, can eat this rice, and so can Hong Jinglai. You can feed it to the soldiers, to the civilians, or even to the rats in the warehouse.

If you have a bad heart, you can just drain your own pockets, but you can't use it to feed the common people. Min Tinghye, who has been an official for twenty years, sees it much more clearly and thoroughly than Hong Jinglai.

This is not an individual’s fault, it is the fault of this era!

[Note 1]: Here, Jin Zushun worshiped the Qing Dynasty and favored the West, which mainly refers to his support for learning the science and technology of the Qing Dynasty and the West, and tried to develop North Korea's productivity and alleviate the increasingly antagonistic social conflicts by introducing advanced science and technology.
Chapter completed!