Daming: I can’t kill such a greedy prince-in-law?

Feng Sheng's words made the Huaixi Party members feel a little guilty.

To be honest, with Ouyang Lun's past impressive record, even if Feng Sheng really attacked Ouyang Lun, they were not sure how much actual damage they could cause to Ouyang Lun. They just accused Feng Sheng just to vent their resentment.

After being exposed by Feng Sheng, he immediately shut up.

Seeing this, Feng Sheng continued, "Everyone, ask yourself honestly, in that situation, how confident were we that we could take down Ouyang Lun? If we didn't succeed, could we really bear the consequences of failure?"

"If you haven't even thought about these, why do this?"

this.
A group of Huaixi party members were left speechless by Feng Sheng.

"Duke Song, you can't say that. Over the years, Ouyang Lun has been very aggressive towards us. The power of our Huaixi Party has been shrinking. If we don't even have the courage to resist, then it won't be long before our Huaixi Party can survive."

"That's right! When have we, the Huaixi Party, ever been cowardly?"

"We are not afraid of anyone on the battlefield, let alone Ouyang Lun!"

"Duke Song, you only care about your own safety and don't care about the survival of the Huaixi Party."

After a moment's silence, instead of reflecting and apologizing to Feng Sheng, this group of Huaixi Party members continued to attack Feng Sheng one by one. Although the reasons were far-fetched, they still said them as if they were right because they had more people!
Seeing this, Feng Sheng was not angry at all. Instead, he felt relieved. No wonder the Huaixi Party always lost to Ouyang Lun. How could they not lose with these people around!

Feng Sheng didn't even want to respond. He looked at Li Shanchang and Lan Yu who had been silent.

Perhaps sensing Feng Sheng's gaze, Li Shanchang spoke up, "Enough! We have already lost to Ouyang Lun in the court. What? Do you really want to cause civil unrest and make us lose again?"

"Or are you all letting outsiders laugh at our Huaixi Party?"

"I really don't know what you are so angry about! What qualifications do you have to blame Duke Song? This time, Duke Song led the army to quell the rebellion in Yunnan. This kind of merit has made our Huaixi Party regain the attention of the Emperor, His Majesty. This also allows everyone to see clearly the strength of our Huaixi Party!"

"What else are you not satisfied with?!"

"Don't argue with me here. If you have the ability, go and compete with Ouyang Lun and the officials of the Prince Consort Party. I have to say this in advance. If there are still people who rank at the bottom of the list this year, then you can forget about being in the Huaixi Party!"

After Li Shanchang's scolding, the Huaixi Party officials at the scene immediately became obedient.

At this time, Li Shanchang turned his gaze to Feng Sheng, "I can understand the choice of Duke Song. Under the circumstances at that time, it was not a reliable method to force Ouyang Lun to make trouble. If we fail, we will still suffer the loss! We can accept the current situation!"

"When you are not completely sure, the best way is to ensure your own strength and develop rapidly at the same time!"

"Most of you have led troops in battles. Have you forgotten this principle?"

As Li Shanchang said this, the Huaixi Party officials began to think about it, and after thinking carefully, they immediately realized that what Li Shanchang said was right.

Now that the Huaixi Party has successfully taken credit for suppressing the rebellion in Yunnan, it has consolidated its military position. At the same time, its standing in the court has also improved a lot. Moreover, compared with Lan Yu's expedition against the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the situation is undoubtedly better this time.

With Li Shanchang's explanation and comparison, the people of the Huaixi Party finally calmed down.

Seeing this, Li Shanchang continued, "Everyone, the suppression of the rebellion in Yunnan is a thing of the past. We must continue to look forward. Now that the war is over, all that remains for the Ming Dynasty is development!"

"The key point of development is the Beijing-Pinggu Railway, which is still under construction. I have told you countless times about the function of the railway. Let's not talk about the function of the Beijing-Pinggu Railway itself. This is the first railway in our Ming Dynasty. Once it is actually used and plays a huge role, it will be like the roads built before, one, two, countless roads will be built!"

"You can calculate the huge interests involved in this!"

When these words were spoken, everyone in the hall was shocked.

“There are still countless more to repair?!”

"This is a little bit impossible. Just building this Beijing-Pingcheng railway has put our Ming Dynasty in a huge debt. If we build a few more, we will go bankrupt!"

"Although what you said makes sense, I also think that more railways will be built!"

"If railways are really built all over the country, it will be a huge benefit. Whoever controls the railways in the future will be equivalent to controlling the whole country!"

The officials of the Huaixi Party began to discuss the matter, their eyes sparkling and they became more and more excited as they discussed.

Building a railway brings benefits to workers and materials, as well as political achievements!

"Old Prime Minister, you are the one who can see the future. From now on, we will listen to your arrangements. We will do whatever you tell us to do!"

"Yes, yes, our Huaixi Party can only defeat Ouyang Lun under your leadership, old prime minister!"

"With the old prime minister's plan, our Huaixi Party will definitely remove all obstacles!"

Facing the flattery of the Huaixi Party members, Li Shanchang was obviously very pleased. He smiled and said, "You are all wrong. The Huaixi Party is not mine alone. It was created by everyone working hard together. Although we have successfully pacified Yunnan, we have not taken back the power of the court from Ouyang Lun!"

"But we definitely have a plus point in the heart of His Majesty the Emperor. It won't be long before some of you will be promoted!"

When they heard the word "promotion", many people at the scene became excited.

In the past, it was very easy for officials of the Huaixi Party to be promoted, but in the past two years it has become extremely difficult, especially after the various management systems for officials came out, the promotion of officials of the Huaixi Party has become particularly bumpy.

It was difficult for them to compete with the officials of the Prince Consort's Party in terms of political achievements. Even if they were promoted, they still had to go through the internship and probation stages. In the end, very few officials were successfully promoted. Some officials revealed their incompetence during the probation and internship process, and were targeted by Zhu Biao, and finally ended up being dismissed from their posts.

Some Huaixi Party officials even preferred not to be promoted because they were afraid of being evaluated.

So when these Huaixi Party officials learned that they could be promoted smoothly as Li Shanchang said, they were very excited.

"The old prime minister is wise!"

The officials of the Huaixi Party expressed their respect for Li Shanchang. The originally anxious scene in the hall was slowly calmed down by Li Shanchang's comfort!

Just when almost all the officials of the Huaixi Party were happy, Lan Yu could not be happy, and even felt a little angry in his heart. After all, he led a large army to defeat the Northern Yuan army, but these people regarded him as a failure case and compared him with Feng Sheng!
This was simply a humiliation to him, Lan Yu, and it was like a slap in the face to him!

Lan Yu wanted to have a fit on the spot.

However, thinking that Li Shanchang was sitting next to him and there were so many officials from the Huaixi Party, Lan Yu calmed down and a new round of conflict did not break out!

In fact, when Li Shanchang was speaking, he was also secretly observing Lan Yu. When he saw Lan Yu's face become gloomy, he became nervous. If Lan Yu also stood up to cause trouble, then the officials of the Huaixi Party, who he had managed to strengthen with great difficulty, would jump up again, which would inevitably lead to a bigger rift within the Huaixi Party.

After seeing Lan Yu choose to remain silent, Li Shanchang breathed a sigh of relief, and thought to himself that Lan Yu had become much more mature after experiencing so many things in succession. He hoped that this was a good thing.

"Since everyone has no objections, then I will take this opportunity to make achievements and work hard for the Ming Dynasty, the Emperor, and His Majesty!"

"Yes!"

After Yunnan was pacified.

Millions of civilians gradually withdrew, and 150,000 troops remained stationed in Yunnan to assist Mu Ying in guarding Yunnan. In fact, the main purpose was to wipe out the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty and the Kingdom of Annan.

As for Annan, the Ming court actually went through several discussions. Some officials believed that they should pursue the victory and directly destroy Annan to eliminate future troubles! Some officials also believed that although the rebellion in Yunnan was quelled, Yunnan had not completely digested it. If they forcibly launched an expedition against Annan, once Yunnan rebelled again, the retreat of the 150,000-strong army would be cut off.

This was totally unacceptable to the Ming Dynasty. The most important point was that everyone knew very little about Annan, and it was not clear whether the 15th Army could resolve the problem!
After some disputes, Zhu Yuanzhang finally decided not to continue the conquest and to give priority to the development of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang also sent a large number of Jinyiwei to infiltrate Annan to collect intelligence.

The Kingdom of Annan did not seem to really want to go to war with the Ming Dynasty. Except that it sent troops to the border when the Ming army was besieging the chieftain's castle. After learning that the chieftain's castle had been breached, it withdrew its troops directly and did nothing else after that.

The Ming Dynasty and the Kingdom of Annan thus tacitly fell silent.

Of course, this was only quiet on the surface, but in private, both sides sent a large number of secret agents and more than one secret agency to infiltrate the other side, all wanting to find out what the other side's strength is.

In addition to fulfilling his promise to the people of Yunnan, Ouyang Lun arranged for various state-owned enterprises to enter Yunnan, stepped up the implementation of compulsory education, road construction and other people-friendly policies in Yunnan, and also used Yunnan Province as a pilot for the construction of public clinics. After all, Yunnan Province had the most diseases and had been deceived and cruelly governed by the chieftains. This made Ouyang Lun determined to make their lives get better soon.

As for other matters in Yunnan Province, Ouyang Lun no longer cared about them.

He is not a god, and there are many things he cannot take into consideration, especially the investigation on the Kingdom of Annan. Ouyang Lun rolled his eyes in his heart about Annan. He originally wanted to send the army to directly push forward. After all, the Kingdom of Annan was extremely ambitious and was a typical ungrateful person.

Although it may be an ungrateful person, the Kingdom of Annan is still very powerful. It is stronger than several other small countries around it. It is also suppressed by the Central Plains dynasty. Otherwise, the Southeast Asian Peninsula would have been unified by it. In addition, the Kingdom of Annan has always believed that it is the orthodox Chinese country and has always been very ambitious.

It’s not that Ouyang Lun couldn’t deal with the Kingdom of Annan, but he just didn’t want to. There were a lot of things going on in the Ming Dynasty right now. If he started the process of pacifying the Southeast Asian Peninsula, it would inevitably consume a lot of energy. By then, wouldn’t Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao, father and son, be trying to use him to death?

Besides, expanding territory is the job of the emperor and military generals. He is just a civil servant, so there is no need for him to do so.

It is precisely because Ouyang Lun reduced the number of new "projects" and arranged the old "projects" properly that Ouyang Lun can happily be lazy again.

Ouyang Lun finally took some time out that day to spend time with his children and spend some time with his three wives. However, just after he had played with the children for a while, someone ran in.

"master!"

"master!"

Zhou Bao started shouting from a distance.

"Scream, scream, what the hell are you doing? Can't you see that your master is accompanying the child?!"

Ouyang Lun said angrily.

Seeing Ouyang Lun cursing, Zhou Bao said helplessly: "Master, there is nothing I can do! For other matters, such as merchants and officials coming to see me, I have rejected them. Even those who brought gifts were asked to leave. But this is His Majesty who sent someone to call you!"

"If I refuse, it would be treason!"

"I haven't even gotten married yet. No, I still want to stay by your side and serve you. I don't want to die!"

"Okay, shut the fuck up!"

Ouyang Lun waved his hands, rolled his eyes at Zhou Bao, and said unhappily, "Master, don't I know you? You don't even want to get married! I heard that you used all the money you made from running the peripheral store to support the girls in Tianshang Renjian?! Your master doesn't even spend money like this!"

“Hehe.” Zhou Bao rubbed his hands and smiled awkwardly after being exposed by Ouyang Lun. “Master, didn’t you say that marriage is a bondage for men? I see that Master has really seen the true face of marriage. Now I not only don’t want to get married, I don’t even want children!”

"Anyway, I will follow you for the rest of my life. If you die, I will die with you!"

Zhou Bao looked extremely loyal.

Ouyang Lun saw this clearly and said unhappily, "So, you guys are just enjoying yourself while you're still alive and washing your feet every day?! Is this your reason!?"

"Master is worthy of being a master, what he said is absolutely right!"

"That's what the little one thinks."

Zhou Bao gave a thumbs up.

"Get lost! You're living a life that I envy! The more I dislike you, the more I dislike you! Damn it! In a few days, get out of here and go dig coal in Coal Hill!" Ouyang Lun cursed.

"Master, I was wrong, please don't chase me away!"

Zhou Bao quickly begged for mercy.

"Why don't you hurry up and invite the eunuch sent by His Majesty in? Master, I think you really want to go dig coal!" (End of this chapter)