Chapter 70: Speak Some Human Words
Nie Yao didn't know yet that his wife and father were playing role-playing games.
Not long after he arrived in prison, the fish he was waiting for arrived.
"Lord Nie."
The person who came this time was Lin Guizheng. He was a famous scholar with many students all over the world. The Second Prince was once his student, but he has since passed away.
The person he is assisting now should be the son of the former second prince.
"Who was it I thought? It turned out to be Master Lin."
Nie Yao lay on the bed with his legs crossed, showing no intention of getting up even when someone came to visit him. He casually glanced at them and continued to play with the dagger in his hand.
The fact that he could still hold a dagger while in prison shows how powerful he was and how arrogant he was.
Lin Guizheng frowned slightly, his old face serious and rigid, "Sir Nie. As the son of General Nie, you shouldn't have fallen to this point."
"If you say it's not right, then it's not right? What? Just because you're the emperor, does that mean everything?"
Nie Yao expressed disdain for his words.
Compared to Sun Ji, he hated people like Lin Guizheng who thought they were righteous even more.
"Nie Yao. The current emperor, Yan Suilan, is of ill-gotten origin. As Nie Lingfeng's son, you should join forces with us and restore order!"
Their force has already obtained sufficient evidence to prove that the new emperor is not the son of the previous emperor.
Even Yan Sui Lan is still a brother.
How can a brother become an emperor?
It's ridiculous!
Lin Guizheng believed that every minister of Dayu had the obligation to follow him to kill the villain who stole the throne and support Zhengtong as emperor.
"You're sick." The soldiers in Nie Yao's hands were all developed by himself, and had nothing to do with the old toad and the entire royal family.
Still have obligations?
Nie Yao: "Don't fart in front of me, or I'll kill you!"
He is the type who won't listen to anything.
As long as you say something he doesn't like to hear, you can embarrass him on the spot.
Lin Guizheng is naturally no exception.
"Master Nie, do you know that Yan Suilan is a boy?"
"I know how, but what if I don't?" Nie Yao thought. No one understood this better than him. Using such a trivial matter as a bargaining chip in negotiations?
Nie Yao: "As long as my interests are not affected, I don't care whether the person sitting above is a man or a woman!"
He doesn't care.
But Lin Gui cares.
Lin Guizheng respected the ancestral system and believed that the throne could only be inherited by a prince of legitimate bloodline. Anyone else was not authentic, and failure to abide by the ancestral law was more unacceptable to him than to lose his life.
"You've fallen to this point, are you still going to stand by and watch? Nie Yao, the current situation is beyond your control!"
Finally getting to the point.
Nie Yao stopped what he was doing and gave the other person a look.
"You want to work with me?"
"It's natural."
"Why? If you really want to cooperate, then cut the crap and show me what you can do. Let me see if you're qualified to work with me."
Lin Guizheng produced evidence to prove the new emperor's background.
Nie Yao flipped through it casually.
He raised his eyebrows and put on a surprised expression: "So the new emperor is actually Dou Jinyuan's biological brother?"
"yes!"
Lin Guizheng was furious that such a traitor could ascend to the throne.
He believed that such evidence was enough to make Nie Yao cooperate with them.
But Nie Yao still looked indifferent.
Throw the stuff back out.
He asked, "And then? Lin Guizheng, you're already so old, you wouldn't be so naive as to think that those two, father and son, are figures that can be easily brought down, right?"
Lin Guizheng: "As long as the Nie family's army takes action, the emperor's grandson will win! Then everything will return to normal, and the Nie family will become loyal subjects trusted by His Majesty."
Damn loyal minister.
There is no benefit at all, but we want them to take the lead?
Nie Yao told him to get away.
He won't do it.
"Don't bring up my father either." Nie Yao not only didn't care about the royal family's grandsons, he didn't even care about his father. "If he dared to sell out the family's wealth to work for a bunch of idiots like you, my father would kick him out of the house."
"A married woman must obey her husband! Qi Hewen, how dare he!"
"You shallow, ignorant idiot, if you can't respect your husband yourself, I don't believe my father can either. Go back, my father won't let me play with idiots."
“You, you guys…”
Lin Guizheng has been upholding the doctrine that men are superior to women and men are inferior to men all his life. Nie Yao's words have a great impact on his worldview.
He was deeply shocked.
Unexpectedly, Nie Lingfeng, who was invincible on the battlefield, was actually overshadowed by a younger brother at home.
This is simply a disgrace for men!
"Then what do you want to do?" Lin Gui had just managed to convince himself to ignore this matter with great difficulty, but he had already changed his mind before coming here.
He originally thought that no matter how absurd Nie Yao's actions were, his father Nie Lingfeng was still loyal to the emperor.
After the matter is accomplished, he can come forward to plead for Nie Lingfeng. As long as he obediently hands over the military power, his family will not be troubled.
But now it seems that he was too soft-hearted.
The Nie family must not be allowed to stay!
"I also want to be the Minister of Revenue." Nie Yao stated his conditions, "In the future, the annual military budget allocation will be at least 300 million taels of silver."
He just wants money.
As for how to spend the money, don’t worry about it, he can spend it all anyway.
"good."
Lin Guizheng had already decided to destroy the Nie family after the success, so no matter what Nie Yao asked, he would agree. However, in order to prevent Nie Yao from noticing his intentions, he pretended to argue with him.
At Nie Yao's request, he also revealed most of the power he held.
"Just these few people?"
Nie Yao was disdainful. "You dare to rebel by just gathering a few small fry? I take back what I said, get lost. A rookie is not worthy of working with me on such a big thing."
Lin Guizheng was almost mad at him for going back on his word.
What was even more difficult for him to accept was that the number of people he had was really nothing compared to the Nie family.
Lin Guizheng endured the embarrassment and mentioned some of his allies.
Almost all of them were powerful and wealthy families in Dayu. Moreover, they were not short of money, because Lin Guizheng had once accepted a student who failed the imperial examination and turned to business. Over the decades, his family had accumulated a lot of wealth.
"Why didn't you say so earlier!"
Upon hearing that he was rich, Nie Yao's arrogant attitude quickly subsided.
He twisted his fingers and held out his hand for Lin Guizheng to take the money. "Since Sun Ji is also your man, you should have heard that the orders from the aristocratic families are tripled."
He asked for three hundred million, which is three hundred million taels.
He also asked Lin Guizheng to deliver it to his home as quickly as possible.
The army will not take action without money.
He changed his mind again and again, which made Lin Guizheng very angry.
"No." Lin Guizheng refused, saying that he was asking for too much.
Nie Yao shrugged. "It can't be helped. It's Sun Ji who made your life three times better. Anyway, my demands are here. If you don't agree, go fight Dou Jinyuan and the others yourself!"
Dou Jinyuan originally worked under the former second prince, and Lin Guizheng knew him very well.
Although they were extremely reluctant to admit it, the fact was: without Nie Yao's support, it would be difficult for them to defeat that person.
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