Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law

Chapter 303 The lion opens its mouth

Unlike other aristocratic families who hedge their bets, the Wu family knows how to protect themselves wisely and never participates in the disputes between the world's forces. In this way, no matter who takes over the world in the end, they must stabilize the world, re-establish order, and restore stability.

The Wu family has a profound and deep-rooted foundation in Jiangdong, and its influence involves all aspects. If you want to stabilize Jiangdong, you must win over the Wu family.

When Taizu Chu was so strong, he did not dare to exterminate the entire Wu family. He just cut off the main line of the Wu family and still wanted to win over the Wu family.

If it participates in the disputes and knots between the forces in the world, the result will be different. No lord of the world will allow a force to make a comeback, and will definitely find a way to destroy it.

This Chen Mo tried every possible means to bring the Wu family into trouble, without even considering that his background was worthy of him.

……

Wu Changlin left, and Chen Mo sighed. He really wanted to marry the Wu family.

After all, if you can marry the Wu family, you can avoid many detours, get some of their children and resources, and use the Wu family's influence to recruit talented people.

If it can be implemented properly, the dilemma of lack of internal affairs talents under his command will be improved to a certain extent.

In the Song Dynasty, the proportion of illiterate people reached more than 90%, and the remaining 10% who could read were almost all from gentry from various places.

This is why, for thousands of years, the imperial court could only suppress aristocratic families but could not eliminate them.

Because if the imperial court wants to govern the world, it must rely on aristocratic families. You can't ask an illiterate peasant to help you govern states and counties.

Okay, even if you rule out the public opinion and really appoint an illiterate civilian to help manage the state and county, how long can he last after taking office? Do the people below listen to him?

Therefore, the emperor knew that the aristocratic family could not be eliminated but could only be suppressed, so the imperial examination was born.

Although the imperial examination system made the path to political advancement more fair and equal, and expanded the source of officials, most of the people who passed the imperial examination still came from aristocratic families.

But if the Wu family doesn't want to, he can't force her into marrying her.

To start a war, you need an excuse.

This excuse must make you stand on the right side, and the Wu family did not offend him.

In addition, what he currently wants to do is recuperate. There are wars in Longyou and Fengzhou, and he doesn't want to start a war with the Wu family for no reason.

……

Today is August 3rd of the 9th year of Xuanhe. The weather is good, the wind is sunny and the breeze is warm.

Chen Mo received secret letters from Geng Songfu and the Nangong family.

Geng Songfu's suggestion was the same as what Chen Mo thought.

The secret letter from the Nangong family made Chen Mo feel very happy.

The Nangong family was anxious.

It finally knew it was urgent.

Chen Mo didn't expect that the Nangong family actually had a navy of nearly 5,000 people in the Tianshi Army, and was besieged in Fengzhou, and wanted him to rescue them.

Logically speaking, Chen Mo accepted Nangong Ru and was considered a "family" with the Nangong family, so it was natural for him to be rescued.

But no one is a fool. Chen Mo knows that the Nangong family is betting on both ends, and the Tianshi Army bets more, while he bets less.

And the Nangong family didn't want to get too involved with him, otherwise they would rather send a collateral daughter as a concubine than let their eldest daughter marry him as his wife.

If he does this, even if his ship sinks, the Nangong family will at worst abandon Nangong Ru and let Nangong Ru fend for himself, which will be regarded as the money they invested was wasted.

But the legitimate daughter is different.

I just didn’t expect that the Tianshi Army’s ship had sunk now.

At this moment, Sun Meng came to Chen Mo and whispered in his ear: "The seventh lady is here."

The seventh lady mentioned by Sun Meng is Nangong Ru.

It is different from Han Anniang and others in terms of seniority.

The people under Chen Mo looked at which women had taken Chen Mo as concubines.

Among them, the second lady is Yi Shiyan, the third lady is Han Aniang, the fourth lady and the fifth lady are Xia Zhiqing and Xia Zhining, the sixth lady is Liang Xue, and the seventh lady is Nangong Ru.

Because Chen Mo hasn't married yet, the position of first lady is vacant.

But even if it is vacant, people cannot occupy it temporarily.

After receiving the notification, Nangong Ru walked in calmly.

Nangong Tathagata arrived in a hurry, her makeup was not even put on, and her eyes were still a little red. She seemed to have cried before. As soon as she came in, she was about to cry and said: "Husband."

"What's wrong with Ru'er?" Chen Mo Qianqian held Nangong Ru's little hand.

"Please husband, please save daddy's life." Nangong Ru raised his hands to cover his tears and said immediately, "Sister-in-law came just now and said...said."

Nangong Ru slowly told the whole story.

It turned out that Nangong Ru's father, Nangong Xian, was also serving as captain of the third battalion in the Nangong family's navy. His original intention was to strive for a certain status for the Nangong family in the Tianshi Army, but he did not expect that he was besieged in Fengzhou. , Nangong Ru also found out after hearing what Ma said.

Before, Nangong Ru only knew that his father was released from the family, but he didn't know what he did specifically.

"..."

Chen Mo raised his eyebrows and said, "Wait for me."

A big family is a big family, and its vision is long-term.

Chen Mo guessed that it was because Nangong Ru's father was in the navy that the Nangong family specially selected Nangong Ru as his concubine.

People have already made preparations.

My father-in-law is in Fengzhou now. I wonder if you can save him? Seeing Nangong Ru crying so hard, I saw You Lian's expression. Chen Mo hugged her into his arms, caressed her shoulders, and said with emotion:

"Ru'er, we are a family. Your father is my father, and your mother is my mother. Now my father-in-law is besieged in Fengzhou, how can I not save him as my husband?"

"Husband." Nangong Ru was moved to tears and snuggled into Chen Mo's arms, because she knew that this matter was difficult to accomplish, but her husband actually agreed without thinking for her sake.

"If your husband needs to spend money, I can transfer a group of money, food and livestock from Sichuan and Hainan to help your husband smoothen the relationship."

"Where did you get the money and food?" Chen Mo said halfway, and when he saw Nangong Ru's begging eyes, he suddenly realized.

It's a pity that she wasn't honest with her before and didn't fully invest herself in it.

"These are the dowries that dad saved for my concubine. The last dowry was given by the family, so..." Nangong Ru explained, fearing that Chen Mo would misunderstand.

"No, I still have this little money, so I'll leave it to my two elders to support them in their old age." Chen Mo said.

Chen Mo felt that Nangong Ru's family was just a side branch of the Nangong family, so how much money could they have.

But what Nangong Ru said next shocked Chen Mo.

"Father and mother can't ask for so much money," Nangong Ru said.

"Does anyone still think that the money is not enough? It will be gone after buying a few big houses."

"My parents are not short of a house, and with more than a million dollars, we can't buy it all."

"How much? More than one million?" Chen Mo was dumbfounded.

"Dad used to help the family run ships overseas. After running for more than ten years, he still had some savings." Nangong Ru said.

"That's your money too, how can I ask for your dowry." Chen Mo said righteously.

In the Song Dynasty, noble girls were given a dowry when they got married, and the dowry belonged to themselves. If the wife did not use it to support the family, the husband had no right to touch it.

"Didn't you just say it, husband? We are a family, and what is my concubine's is my husband's." Nangong Ru put her cheek against Chen Mo's hot chest, her pretty face flushed.

After appeasing Nangong Ru, Chen Mo immediately wrote a letter to King Huai.

Didn’t he tell himself not to interfere in Fengzhou’s affairs?

Then you have to give me some benefits no matter what.

Let this navy come over, no problem.

……

When King Huai received Chen Mo's secret letter from Yuzhou, it was already August 20.

It has been almost three months since he sent Chen Mo a secret letter and received Chen Mo's reply.

I originally thought that Chen Mo would get involved, but I didn't expect that this little thief was actually waiting for a price.

Shan County is now the base camp of King Huai's army. A total of 100,000 troops have gathered, and there are still people coming from all over the country. It is obvious that they want to wipe out the Tianshi Army in Fengzhou in one fell swoop.

In the big tent.

King Huai is sitting at the top, and below are the staff and generals of King Huai's palace.

"This is Chen Mo's reply. Please read it." King Huai put Chen Mo's secret letter on the table.

Wu Fusheng was about to get it, but Liu Ji beat him to it. After Liu Ji got the secret letter, he glanced at Wu Fusheng provocatively.

Because Chen Mo did not reply for a long time, the Huai army believed that Chen Mo would collude with the Tianshi army. As a result, the Fifth Fusheng who had contributed to the signing of the non-aggression treaty was greatly reduced in the "team" of King Huai, and his prestige was greatly reduced. Liu Ji, who had previously criticized Wu Fusheng, gained the favor of King Huai.

Fifth Fusheng frowned.

However, Liu Ji saw that the content in the secret message was not what he wanted to see, and the joy on his face was a little less, but it was still useful.

He immediately started to criticize him: "Your Majesty, my subordinates have long said that this Chen Mo is a villain and should not be associated with him, but this certain person just wants to be stubborn.

Now, taking advantage of this matter, this thief dares to ask us for the fourteen cities in the north of Fengzhou. This is obviously taking advantage of people's danger and raising prices. It is not enough to ask for the land, but he wants us to release an army of Tianshi. It was so shameless for the navy to pass by. "

"Liu Ji, if you have anything to say, just say it in front of me. Don't make me angry here." Fifth Fusheng shouted softly.

"Hmph." Liu Ji snorted coldly, gave the secret letter to Wu Fusheng, and said, "See for yourself, this is the person you like. Don't say that the secret letter is forged, you should know his handwriting. .”

The fifth fusheng snatched it away as if full of energy, and after reading it, his face also darkened.

The request in this letter is indeed a lion's mouth.

The fourteen cities north of Fengzhou are equivalent to taking over half of Fengzhou's territory.

We also need to let go of a navy from the Tianshi Army.

If you don't put any effort into anything, you only need this much. Isn't this treating others as being taken advantage of?

Little did he know that Chen Mo wrote it like this on purpose.

Because no matter what he says, Prince Huai will always lower the price.

Instead of doing this, it is better to raise the price from the beginning, so that there will be a long period of negotiation space in the middle.

And if you directly state your bottom price, you may not know what kind of price you will get.

Talking about things, isn’t that the way to talk about things?

Seeing Fifth Fusheng's expression, Liu Ji became proud again: "I said something wrong."

(End of this chapter)