Jiangmen Tianjiao: Reborn with funny ancestors

News of a people's uprising in Yuzhou was sent back to the court.

At the court meeting, Emperor Chengzong, Lu Yunkui, was furious.

"These unscrupulous people, I have sent people to send food for disaster relief, but they still dare to rebel.

Kill, send troops to wipe them all out! "

Everyone looked at Li Yanghou.

Marquis Liyang coughed for a while, and he couldn't stop coughing, as if he was about to cough up blood.

The emperor asked with a dark face: "Chu Aiqing, are you sick?"

Marquis Liyang finally stopped coughing and went out to report back: "Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. I was greedy for cold weather the day before yesterday and suffered some colds. Because I was poisoned before, my heart and lungs were injured. When I coughed, I couldn't stop it. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

The last time the Dongyi people invaded, Marquis Liyang was poisoned by Jiang Yueying who was lurking in the Marquis Mansion and was unable to go out.

Since then, Marquis Liyang has been staying in Shangjing and has not returned to the northwest.

In fact, his remaining poison has been cleared.

But Chu Tianjiao felt that her father's stay in Shangjing would be more useful.

After listening to his daughter's words, Marquis Liyang pretended that the lingering poison was not cleared up and continued to stay in Beijing.

The emperor originally wanted to ask Marquis Liyang to go on an expedition to Yuzhou to quell the chaos, but seeing that his lungs and tubes were all gone from coughing, he couldn't ask Marquis Liyang to go out by name.

"Is Minyu still staying in Shangjing City?" The emperor thought of Chu Tianjiao's second brother.

Marquis Liyang did not want the Chu army to be stained with the blood of the people, so he said:

"Minyu is still in Beijing, but the drought in Ganzhou is serious. My daughter and brother-in-law have written many times urging him to go to Ganzhou quickly to help appease the northwest army in Ganzhou.

The northwest army's food supply was already one month in arrears. My daughter and my brother-in-law were afraid that the soldiers would starve and the army would mutiny. "

When the emperor heard this, he hurriedly asked Zhou Changan, the Minister of Household Affairs: "Why are the grain and grass arrears for the northwest garrison so long?"

Zhou Changan said: "The food and salary of the northwest army have been transferred to Yuzhou and Guanzhong for disaster relief."

The emperor was very worried: "Tear down the east wall to repair the west wall, how did you become the Minister of Household Affairs?

Can't we divert grain from the south of the Yangtze River to provide relief to the victims? "

Zhou Changan reported back: "Half of the tax grain collected after last autumn harvest in the south of the Yangtze River was supplied to the capital, and the other half was used as military ration for the Eastern Expeditionary Army and has been used up.

This year's new grain hasn't been harvested yet, and Jiangnan can't deliver the grain! "

The emperor was speechless...

He remembered that after the autumn of last year, the Dongyi invaded, and the military rations for the Eastern Expedition were indeed obtained from the taxes and rations in the south of the Yangtze River.

Compared with the civil uprising in Yuzhou, the emperor was more afraid of the military uprising in the northwest.

He ordered: "I don't care, Zhou Changan, you must find a way for me to solve the problem of northwest army rations as soon as possible."

Zhou Changan was embarrassed.

Prime Minister Wang couldn't stand it anymore, so he stood up and asked: "Shang Shu, although last year's taxed grains in Jiangnan have been used up, Jiangnan produces grain and the people are rich, so grain merchants must have a large amount of grain in their hands.

It is better to order the state capitals in Jiangnan to purchase grain from grain merchants to meet their urgent needs. "

Zhou Changan lowered his head and did not look at Prime Minister Wang. He only stared at the jade tablet in his hand and said in a strange tone: "We just allocated 30 taels of silver for disaster relief. The court has no money."

Prime Minister Wang also knew that the treasury was tight, but he did not know that less than half of the year was over and the treasury was running out of money.

Prime Minister Wang asked Zhou Changan why he was like this.

Zhou Changan said: "Originally, the national treasury's revenue and expenditure were just enough to keep the balance.

Last year, there were two more wars between Xirong and Dongyi. The amount of military pay and pensions was huge, and the national treasury was already starved of food.

Taxes in various places this year have been reduced by [-]% compared to last year.

In addition, the two funerals of the prince and the queen in two consecutive years cost more than one million taels of silver, and the treasury really couldn't come up with the money. "

Marquis Liyang heard Zhou Changan mention military pay and pensions, and was afraid that if the emperor heard this, he would definitely think that it was a waste of money to support the army.

Li Yanghou hurriedly stood up and asked: "In the battle with Dongyi last year, although the imperial court paid military wages, food, grass and pensions, the compensation for Dongyi's defeat was as high as one million. It was enough to offset the cost of two wars.

Zhou Shangshu, don’t let the lack of money in the treasury be used as a source of military pay. "

Zhou Changan raised his head and glanced at the emperor, but said nothing.

The emperor was a little annoyed.

The 100 million taels paid by Dongyi did not go into the national treasury at all, but went into the emperor's private treasury.

Zhou Changan did not say it in court, which was to save face for the emperor.

But this glance made Prime Minister Wang understand the whereabouts of the 100 million taels of compensation.

The emperor just built a summer palace not long ago, so the money has probably been spent.

Ye Linxuan has been restored to his official position and is still the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel.

He stood up and came up with an idea: "How about asking officials at all levels to voluntarily contribute one month's salary and collect money to buy food for the Northwest Army?"

When Marquis Liyang heard this, he understood that this boy was holding back his bad intentions.

If the official's salary was really deducted for a month, the court officials would have to hate the Chu family to death in order to support the Northwest Army.

Liyang Hou coughed and rushed to Ye Linxuan, as if he was very excited. The spittle from the cough sprayed Ye Linxuan's face.

"Ye Shangshu is righteous, this method is good, but the Northwest Army does not dare to take it.

On the other hand, civil unrest broke out in Yuzhou. It is estimated that the people started the unrest because they did not have enough to eat and could no longer survive.

If Ye Shangshu wants to donate money, it would be better to donate money to those victims.

When the Northwest Army tightens its belt, it will also first tighten its belt on the people. "

Ye Linxuan didn't know what kind of illness Li Yanghou had when he coughed like this.

Being sprayed in the face by him was very disgusting.

He wanted to avoid it, but Marquis Liyang tightly held his shoulders.

He could only scold: "Master Marquis, please respect yourself. This is above the court, how can we put our arms around each other?"

Only then did Li Yanghou let him go.

It should be said that Ye Linxuan has been very depressed recently.

The fourth prince Lu Zhaoling, who had been betting on him for many years, was completely ruined.

I originally hoped that my granddaughter Ye Tinglan would give birth to a grandson who would be useful in the future.

As a result, Ye Tinglan took oxytocin in order to give birth before the Crown Princess.

I don’t know if the oxytocin medicine was bad, or because Ye Tinglan has been depressed all day long since Lu Zhaoling’s death and showed signs of miscarriage many times. The child was born stillborn.

The Fourth Prince's Mansion has completely turned into a waste.

The Crown Princess gave birth to a healthy baby boy not long ago.

Ye Linxuan now sets his sights on the young Eighth Prince. Concubine Ye has already begged the emperor to take the Eighth Prince to her side and raise him.

The crown prince has been established, and Ye Linxuan has been dormant recently. However, he will not let go of the opportunity to deal with the Chu family.

However, the Chu family did not want to get involved in the matter of going to Yuzhou to quell the chaos, but Ye Linxuan thought it was a good opportunity for his cronies to make meritorious deeds.

Ye Linxuan recommended a military general whom he secretly supported: "Your Majesty, since Marquis Liyang is ill and General Chu Minyu of Xuanwei is going to the northwest to pacify the army, it is better to let General Feng Zhixia, who is stationed in Quzhou, go to quell the rebellion. .

Quzhou belongs to the eastern front, and Dongyi has just been defeated, so they will not dare to cause rebellion at this time.

There are [-] troops stationed in Quzhou, and it is enough to rush to Yuzhou to quell the chaos. "

When the emperor heard this, he thought this arrangement was good.

This Feng Zhixia was originally an upstart in the military that he had promoted in recent years. Let him make more military exploits and compete with the Chu family in the future, which was quite in line with the emperor's plan.

Therefore, the emperor issued an order and immediately ordered the Quzhou Army, led by General Guide Feng Zhixia, to go to Yuzhou to quell the rebellion.

When Chu Tianjiao received the news in Ganzhou, he frowned and thought to himself:

"In my previous life, I heard about a civil uprising in Yuzhou. Zhang Xing and Chen Lian gathered more than 5 victims, and the rebel army was huge.

After Feng Zhixia went to Yuzhou, he wiped out the rebellious people with lightning speed.

Feng Zhixia claimed to have fought with [-] rebels against Zhang Xing and Chen Lian's [-] rebels. He defeated many with less, and was commended by the court.

However, in such a short period of time, could Zhang Xing and Chen Lian really raise an army of [-] rebels?

Could there be fraud in it?Are these [-] rebels who were killed all rebels, or are most of them actually ordinary people? "

Chu Tianjiao also came into contact with Feng Zhixia later on. He was very fond of meritorious service and did not have particularly high military talents.

Chu Tianjiao deeply doubted that if the number of rebels was really [-], could Feng Zhixia's ability and [-] Quzhou troops be wiped out quickly?

Is there something wrong with killing a good person and taking credit for it?

Chu Tianjiao decided to send people to explore the southern part of Henan.