Chapter 1161 Chapter 1161: Build the Wall High (Part 1) [Asking for monthly votes]
Cui Mi looked at Shen Tang, whose anger was undisguised in front of him, and his smile remained the same: "My mother has been living in the wilderness for a long time, so it is reasonable for her not to know the national conditions of Qi State. Not every country in troubled times is like Northwest Kang State, do you understand? ?”
When he mentioned the word Kang Guo, Cui Mi clearly saw that his future began to shake violently again, and **** scenes switched back and forth. This means that there is a change in my life and death at this moment, and the person who caused the change is right in front of me.
Cui Mi said: "Surviving is the most important thing."
Whether it is the common people at the bottom or the high-ranking nobles.
In troubled times, it is not unusual for the status of both parties to be overturned overnight.
Wang Ting’s approach may seem cold and ruthless, but it is already the best solution at the moment. This is the lesson and experience gained from the subversion of each country. Cui Mi made a serious statement that was inappropriate for his age.
"Faced with a continent that is about to be overthrown, everyone wants to board the ship and escape. As for whether the fight will scar the ship or even sink it, who cares? No one cares about the fate of the ship or where it sails. , I only care about whether I can get on the ship, and whether the captain at the helm can grasp this straw!" Cui Mi's metaphor made Shen Tang secretly jump in his heart, wondering if he knew something, or was it just a metaphor, " Sister Shen, it’s a pity that you have to board the ship first to have a chance to repair it.”
"It's a pity that to repair the ship, you need to dismantle the east to make up the west." Shen Tang intercepted his words and added, "The people who were dismantled were not happy."
Naturally he is not happy.
If their position is removed, the sea water will pour in, and the waves will sweep them away, and they will eventually be buried in the sea, leaving their bodies intact.
Those who repair ships can only settle for the lesser of two evils. This tax collection method is a good thing for prosperous areas with large populations and fields, and the burden will be lighter. The royal court can collect tax every year. Pay sufficient taxes to ensure the operation of the royal court.
But it will be a disaster for areas with more mountains, more water and less fields.
Under the rule, the common people can only choose to tolerate it, or leave their homes and go to rich places to make a living. In this move, Wang Ting sacrificed a group of the most vulnerable people in the country. These people belong to the bottom of the bottom. They are old and weak and have no strength. They can only huddle in the most barren places to survive. Their deaths did not shake the stability of the royal court in the slightest, and their voices were not heard.
Shen Tang went straight to the point without politeness.
"Your father and the Cui family master are not happy either, right?"
Cui Mi shook his head and said: "Sister Shen doesn't have to be so prejudiced against my father. As a husband and a man to my mother, my father may not be so satisfactory, but as the patriarch that the clan relies on, he has tried his best. On this basis, he has maintained several It's a human conscience. If he didn't have a conscience, how could he have paid the taxes for three years?"
Mei Jinghe and others saw the shortcomings and wanted to save it.
But he didn’t dare or had the ability to take a heavy dose of medicine.
Mei Jinghe and others are not sure whether this heavy dose of medicine can bring the dead back to life. After the medicine cures the disease, the blood will still seal the throat!
No one can afford to bet.
The lesions can only be removed little by little.
Cui Mi hinted that Shen Tang could take office in another place: "It doesn't matter that this account has been left unsettled, but Sister Shen wants to take over... In the future, my father must be able to explain the accounts to the elders of the clan..."
Shen Tang pointed at himself.
“You see the word ‘taken advantage of’ on my face?”
Just repay the loan to Xun Zhen. After all, Xun Zhen also spent money on Kang Guo. Shen Tang can see the money back, but what about the bad debts he owed Cui for three years when he first took office? Does Cui Zhi think she is easy to bully and is a fat sheep?
Cui Mi said: "Of course there is no such thing."
He could only say clearly: "Sister Shen, why don't you change places?"
Shen Tang raised his eyebrows and asked, "Where to change?"
Cui Mi said: "Anywhere is better than here."
Shen Tang crossed his arms over his chest and laughed angrily.
In the next moment, Shen Tang's face quickly enlarged in front of Cui Mi, and the distance was less than two punches away. This was a very ambiguous distance, but Cui Mi had no other thoughts. Because there was a cold hand gently strangling his neck.
The key fell into the hands of others. Goosebumps all over Cui Mi's body exploded. His scalp was sore and numb. Shen Tang's smiling joke came to his ears: "I have a question. Has Cui Erlang been kidnapped and blackmailed? The kidnapper asked. How much do you have to pay for your father’s redemption?”
Cui Mi's wildly beating heart gradually calmed down.
He said honestly: "Sister Shen, you also said that I am the Erlang of the Cui family. I am guarded by servants every time I go in and out. I am protected without leakage. A gangster who has the ability to kidnap me and extort ransom from my father. With all due respect, I'm afraid." Not yet born.”
Shen Tang said: "It's far away in the sky and right in front of you!"
No one dared to do it before, but now some people do?
Cui Mi: “…”
Not long after, a letter appeared in Cui Zhi's study.
The eldest son, Cui Xiong, was holding a letter in his hand. He was clearly anxious and his hurried steps made the hem of his clothes rub against each other, but he still suppressed himself and did not start running. A gust of wind seemed to blow outside the study door: "Father, father, something serious is going to happen -"
“Er Miu disappeared, and his son was kidnapped—”
Cui Zhi glanced at him, and Cui Xiong fell silent for a moment.
“My father already knows it.”
Shen Zhongli took his official title and took office immediately. Cui Mi followed him with gestures and was now under the nose of Shen. Fortunately, this **** Cui Mi still knew how to report that he was safe and write a letter home to himself. Cui Zhi took the "kidnapper's letter" from Cui Xiong, scanned it at a glance, and understood in his heart: "Don't worry about Ermi."
Cui Xiong is not so ambitious.
“But the two elk were tied up…”
with the surname Zhongli, who changed his name to Shen Zhongli when he fled, escorted his mother all the way to Qi State safely, but his origins are questionable after all, and it's really worrying to let the second brother hang out with this person. There are still many remaining problems in that place. Cui Xiong is really worried that Shen Zhongli will think that her father is playing tricks on her, and then become angry and implicate poor Ermi. Thinking of this, I sighed.
Cui Zhidao said: "Ermi is smarter than you."
To survive in troubled times, strength is important, but brains are also important.
The Big Bear’s temperament is much more upright than the Ermi’s.
“No matter how smart you are, you can’t stop someone from stealing a stick, right?”
Cui Zhi sighed: "Then what are your plans?"
Cui Xiong took the initiative to ask Ying: "Let my son take some people over and **** Ermi back! Only in this way can we sit back and relax."
Cui Zhi asked back: "Are you **** too?"
Can't both sons be captured by the man named Shen?
Cui Xiong said: "It shouldn't happen."
He could see clearly that if this was a kidnapping, it was more likely that Ermi was deliberately staying there and was unwilling to stay here and be forced to marry him. Cui Xiong didn't really rob people when he brought them there, he just looked for an opportunity to persuade his brother to come back. No matter what Cui Xiong said, Cui Zhi did not relent. He just ordered people to pack and mail all Cui Mi's daily necessities and servants.
Shen Zhongli detains his son, just detain him.
Just remember to pay back the bad debts Cui paid in advance for three years.
Cui Xiong: “…”
Cui Zhi couldn't make sense here, so he had no choice but to go find his mother.
In the past few days, my mother seemed to have returned to her usual routine as Mistress Cui, except that she no longer had to deal with the trivial chores, arrange food and clothing for the house, deal with various families, and care about those who came to complain about poverty. Side branch woman.
Pruning flowers and plants, dancing with guns and sticks.
Come however you like.
As soon as Cui Xiong arrived, he heard the whirring sound of a spear dancing. Before he could say hello, he saw the skill of the spear dancer in the courtyard spreading from the body of the spear to the tip of the spear. It took off from the ground and stabbed straight at him.
The speed of this spear is not too fast.
In his memory, Cui Xiong rarely heard his mother's voice sound so powerful. Just by listening to it, he could feel the vitality and enthusiasm contained in every word. He obeyed his mother's orders and accompanied Cui Hui in planning. Until there was a crack, the gun barrel broke, and the force was so strong that they were all knocked back several steps, and waves of numbness came from the tiger's mouth.
“Why did it break?”
Cui Hui picked up the broken gun on the ground with some regret.
Cui Xiong then bent down to pick it up. While picking it up, he told the news that Cui Mi went to find Shen Zhongli, but was kidnapped by the other party. I thought my mother would be anxious, but unexpectedly my mother just made the same arrangement as my father. Have someone pack up Ermi's things and send them to him.
Cui Xiong said: "Isn't mother worried about Ermi?"
Cui Hui is certainly not worried.
Cui Mi is safer staying with Jun Shen, as long as he doesn't seek death.
"But my son was worried that Ermi would suffer hardship. He never ran so far since he was a child. He was so far away from home and couldn't take care of him."
“If you’re worried, give him a few more people.”
Cui Xiong was puzzled: "Cai people?"
Since the people are packed, why not just bring them back?
Cui Huidao: "It's okay to stuff money."
She was careless and sent Shen Jun to a remote place in a remote area without understanding the situation. Now she is restricted everywhere. If I could use Er Mi's name to give Shen Jun more money and people... ah no, let's give him more money. With money, Shen Jun can use the money to recruit more people, but if someone... has Cui Zhishan's character, his confidants will definitely be placed there.
This will not be fatal but will also cause trouble.
Cui Xiong: “…”
Cui Hui asked: "How much money do you have?"
Cui Xiong: “…”
As the heir to the ancestral line, the eldest son of the Cui family with a stable status and an engaged wife, he began to have privileges only available to adult men. For example, I no longer receive pocket money, I have my own private treasury, and I can freely manage my business. Cui Hui obviously knew this.
She defrauded her eldest son of all his money.
Cui Zhi heard about this and did not stop him.
He said softly: "Leave her alone."
The confidants and aides were puzzled.
He knows the parents' feelings for the mistress, but he also knows that the family comes first and the mistress comes second. The mistress's return this time was full of weirdness, but the parents turned a blind eye to it, which was really weird. Didn't the parents ever think that the mistress would endanger Ms. Cui?
Over the years, the mistress and her parents have interacted with Qi Yuanliang, the head of the northwest branch. Wouldn’t the latter have intervened here?
Also, that Shen Zhongli.
Especially her, it was clear that she was Qi Yuanliang’s eyes and ears.
Even if the mistress says that Qi Yuanliang has given this person to her and is now hers, it does not mean that Shen Zhongli will stop contacting Qi Yuanliang. Keeping this person around is like raising a tiger to create trouble... No matter it is at the family level or the personal feelings of the head of the family.
Cui Zhi raised his hand to suppress the words of his confidants.
“No need to say more.”
“Parents, what is most important to you?”
This staff member is not only Cui Zhi's confidant, he is also an old man of the Cui family, Cui Zhi's half-master, and a witness who deeply remembers that Cui family left his hometown and fled all the way here, and it was not easy for him to take root. Cui Zhi trusted and respected him, and he could only tell him some of his inner thoughts: "Of course it is the family. As long as I am still the head of the Cui clan, nothing can surpass it."
“Are you serious, you have no selfish motives?”
“If he had selfish motives, he should have had them back then.”
The confidant sighed deeply: "As long as parents remember it."
Cui Zhi looked at each other, but the conversation between father and son before the youngest son left came to mind. This child Cui Mi doesn't look like he was raised by a wealthy family. He has little sense of family honor and disgrace, and is indifferent to life and death. His temperament is very similar to that of his mother-in-law, who has been practicing Buddhism for many years.
This child is most disdainful of the continuation of the family.
The shackles that bound Cui Zhi looked like a joke to him.
Cui Zhi asked him why he was like this.
Cui Miqué said: [Because there is no point in knowing the predetermined ending in advance. In this ending, Mr. Cui will die, his father will die, his mother will die, his grandmother will die, my eldest brother and I will both die, and there will be no death. If you spend half your life working hard to get to such an ending, no one will be able to get excited about it. 】
He asked: "Can't father see it?" 】
His father does not have the same ability to see the future as he does, but as the head of the branch of the Society of Gods in the Southwest Continent, his father can see too many truths that other people cannot. Seeing these truths, he should know that the world is heading towards the abyss.
【This is a broken ship that is about to sink. 】
The person at the helm does not care where the ship is heading or when it will sink. He only cares about whether he is the captain. The crew does not know about the wind and waves outside or the holes in the ship. They only care about the immediate benefits and enjoyment. What would he do while standing on the deck?
Even if you haven’t looked so far, you should know that troubled times are like a meat grinder, and Ms. Cui is just a leaf of duckweed in front of it!
Cui Zhi looked at his son indifferently.
【At least it won't sink now. 】
Cui Mi said: [It’s almost here. 】
【Did you see it sinking? 】
【I also saw pictures of it sinking. 】It was only a moment, but it did not sink. 【The ants only strive for the gains and losses in front of them, but they don't know that the disaster of splitting the sky is about to come. If the ship does not sink, the Cui family may die, but if the ship sinks, the Cui family will definitely be destroyed. 】
Cui Zhi was noncommittal about this statement.
I didn’t say I believed it, nor did I say I didn’t believe it.
It was just that the guard at the mansion was a little lax that day. Cui Mi packed a small baggage and fled over the wall. No one looked for him for several days.
When there was news again, he had become a "hostage".
Cui Zhi looked at the news and whispered to himself, hesitating.
“A ship repairman?”
Shen Tang used Cui Mi as a "hostage" to extort a large sum of money.
Shen Tang was shocked when he saw that what was delivered was money instead of swords, guns and sticks: "Tsk, tsk, Cui Zhishan has such a good temper."
Cui Mi held the pen in his mouth and couldn't help but sneeze while looking at a pile of dusty letters. He raised his hand to flap at the tip of his nose: "Sister Shen, don't think too much about the existence of the head of the family. This kind of person has no intention." . Now he has a good temper, but he can also fall out quickly. "
"For example?"
“For example, if bad debts are not settled for three years, he will fall out.”
“If we can’t settle it, I’ll sell you on a pound.”
"I told you, he has no intention. His son cannot be sold at a high price to him. If you deceive the mother, it will still be a shock."
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Test part 3 tomorrow, wait for my good news.
Woooooooo, I’m a little nervous. The route to the Yueqing examination center is so complicated.
PS: Cui Zhi did not fall out with Tang Mei because he knew that she had close ties with Qi Shan, or the Northwest Branch. Three years of bad debts is just an inspection. If Tangmei can be settled, Cui may not be able to cooperate with the branch behind Qishan (the inner branch of the Gods Association has disappeared for too long, the branches have scattered, and Cui Zhi also noticed something was wrong). If it can't be tied, it can be seen that the strength is only like this, it is better to continue to bet on Qi country.