Mingshi

Chapter 1243 Undercurrent
"Luo Xin, what's the clue about this matter?"

"Not yet." Luo Xin shook his head honestly, and then said: "Your Majesty, can I ignore this matter."

"Why?" Emperor Jiajing looked at Luo Xin deeply.

"Too tired!" Luo Xin complained appropriately.

Emperor Jiajing said warmly with his deep eyes: "No, only you can handle this matter. With your prestige in the army, the backlash in the army will be much less."

Luo Xin sighed in his heart, he already knew in his heart that even if Xu Jie and Gao Gong didn't recommend him, Emperor Jiajing would let him take charge of it.Moreover, Emperor Jiajing didn't care about disarmament, all he cared about was letting himself offend the military and become enemies with the military, so that Emperor Jiajing could truly feel at ease with himself.Without the support of the military, even if the military regards Luo Xin as an enemy, it is impossible for Luo Xin to do anything in the future.

While Luo Xin sighed in his heart, he also knew that Emperor Jiajing really had no intention of killing him now, otherwise he would not have put himself on the fire.

This matter has already been refused, if you refuse again, Emperor Jiajing will definitely think that I have made it so clear, if you still refuse, there must be something wrong.Moreover, Luo Xin has long felt that the Great Mingwei system played a vital role in the early days of the founding of the country, but now it has been corrupted and out of date.

The army is used to fight, even in peaceful times, you have to go to the border for a military exercise once or twice to show your muscles, this is the foundation of the country.

As it is now, soldiers have become farmers, what is this?
Moreover, the state has to allocate funds to these peasants every year. Farmers, who do not receive these state funds, are all corrupted by the top and bottom. It doesn’t matter if they are corrupted. All of them lived a life without enough food and clothing.

Is this still a soldier?

Can such soldiers still fight?
No wonder dozens of Japanese pirates were able to kill thousands of guard soldiers and flee everywhere.

This guard system should end.

With these two reasons, Luo Xin nodded and said: "I obey the order. It's just that this matter is not something that can be accomplished overnight."

"I know, take it easy. Three to five years, I can afford to wait, just don't bother me."

Luo Xin couldn't help shaking his head, this Emperor Jiajing was really old, and he didn't want any trouble, so he couldn't help jokingly saying:
"After you have dealt with this big trouble, Your Majesty will not bother you anymore, okay?"

Emperor Jiajing's face tensed, but finally he couldn't help laughing.

"I really know that your ambition is not to be an official, and you don't like trouble. I promise you that I will try not to look for you in the future, and you will live the life of your servant of the Ministry of Rites leisurely."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Go quickly."

"My minister retire."

Seven days passed in a flash.

In Luo Xin's room, Fan Yingqi stood in front of Luo Xin, and said with a sad face:

"My lord, this is not acceptable. There are too many lobbyists from all walks of life."

"You can't get angry with people, or disappear?" Luo Xin held his teacup and said, "This matter was originally a matter of offending people. If we offend all the people who made it clear, this court will be full of civil and military affairs. Will anyone still look at us? I'm afraid that whoever sees us will give us a big blank stare."

"My lord!" At this moment, a clerk came in and said politely, "There is someone outside who says he is your nephew, please see your lord."

"My nephew?" Luo Xin frowned slightly. Naturally, this nephew couldn't be Luo Sheng's son. Even if Luo Sheng's son could come over from Taiwan, could he come to see him by himself?
How old is he?

Four years old!

These days, Luo Xin did not rarely see these nephews of his own. Where did these nephews come from?
They are all sons or juniors of some military generals. Naturally, these generals would not dare to return to Beijing without an imperial edict to recruit them, but they can send their juniors here.

At the beginning when they heard that the disarmament was going to happen, everyone was dumbfounded, and some people even thought of rebelling, but later they heard that Luo Xin would preside over the matter, and these people had hope in their hearts again.In the minds of these generals, even though Luo Xin is now the left concubine of Zhan Shifu, the head of the Imperial Academy, and the minister of the Ministry of Rites, they are all serious civil servants.However, these generals firmly believe that Luo Xin is a general, and he is also the head of the general.

What is the head of a generation of military gods other than generals?
Moreover, Luo Xin's reputation in the army is very good, and he has never been greedy for credit in the army, but often gave up the credit, so when these people heard that Luo Xin was in charge of this matter, they all felt that Luo Xin would not harm them.But this heart is not at the bottom, so they sent their juniors to find Luo Xin, they also know that Luo Xin is not short of money, and they have never been greedy, so these people did not bring any gold and silver treasures to Luo Xin, Instead, he brought Luo Xin a lot of local products, as well as some Wenwan calligraphy and paintings.They all ran here, wanting to find out some news from Luo Xin.

When these nephews came, Luo Xin didn't want to show face, after all, their fathers had fought with Luo Xin on the battlefield and had a life-and-death friendship.Therefore, these days, Luo Xin often drinks with these nephews, and today he heard that another nephew came.
"Let him in."

After a while, a man who was much older than Luo Xin, almost 40 years old, came in and saluted Luo Xin:
"Meet the old man!"

Luo Xin couldn't help but slapped his forehead and said, "Why are you here?"

The visitor was none other than Ma Fang's second son Ma Lin.Ma Fang has two sons, the eldest son Ma Dong, who is following Ma Fang in the Xuan Mansion at this time, leaving Ma Lin on the family side.Luo Xin had been to Ma Fang's house before, so he naturally knew Ma Fang's two sons.And Luo Xin and Ma Fang brothers are commensurate, so Ma Lin naturally calls Luo Xin an old uncle.

"This... my father also wants to ask my uncle, will this disarmament involve the border?"

"Brother Ma, why are you joining in the fun?" Luo Xin said speechlessly, "Do you have to ask me to treat you to a meal?"

"Don't dare!" Marin's face turned red, and he also knew that Luo Xin often invited those nephews to dinner these days.

"Then get out!" Luo Xin and Ma Fang knew each other very well, and he didn't treat Ma Lin as an outsider, so he waved his hands.

Luo Xin did not regard Marin as an outsider, and Marin did not regard Luo Xin as an outsider, but he did not leave after hearing the words, but smiled and said:

"Uncle, you haven't talked to your nephew about disarmament yet."

"Get out, can you talk about this casually? The old uncle is annoying enough, go back and write to your father, don't make trouble for me. "

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