Mr. Qian said that because he didn't check the granaries yesterday, he checked carefully today and found that several granaries were rotten by moths.

I almost vomited blood to death.

I don't know who they are kidding.In the past, when the country was prosperous and the people were safe, and the grain depots were abundant, I never heard of the accumulated grains rotting. Now there are only a few hoards of grain that I have never been able to carry in my pocket for a whole year. Why are there worms?

I directly kicked Mr. Qian into the interrogation room of Hongdu Mansion.Before the sweat on his brow dried up suddenly, the old man Yang, the minister of the Ministry of War, also ran over!Old man Yang's face, which is concerned about the country and the people, is full of wrinkles, and he is sweating more than I do, almost dripping down the creases.He also seemed to be drowned, unable to raise his breath: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty! The more... the more..."

I patted the table and kicked him too: "The moon is so round, Yang Quanwu!"

"The king of Yue has raised his army!" Yang Quanwu squatted down and sat on the ground, "2 people gathered in Qiuhongling, and they are going north!"

...Well, not only the sky is falling, but the earth is also sinking.The status of Qiu Hongling in the south is equivalent to that of Wangjingguan in the north. If the king of Yue really has no order to send troops to the north at this time, it will be over.

Misfortunes never come singly, I tried my best not to faint, and urgently summoned all the adults who are on vacation at home to the palace for a court meeting.

It was evening, and the palace lanterns came on one after another.The rumbling of cars and horses in the long corridor woke up Miyagi who was about to fall asleep.

News Ling quickly rushed to Daming Hall one step ahead, I didn't have time to change my clothes, and I was about to go into the hall with my white hair covered in snow.King Liang gave me a hand before the steps: "Fourteen."

"Huh?" I turned around and patted him on the shoulder, "Don't be afraid, talk less and listen more later, I will stand up to the sky falling."

He still looked at me quietly, his expression still not relaxed, but he didn't get any more nervous because of double disasters. He looked at me, as if he didn't care about my big talk, he just raised his hand and dusted me The snow on the shoulders and fur collar: "No one in the world is a few inches taller than anyone else, so why do you have to carry it alone?"

Although these words are useless, the meaning of caring is still pleasing, I smiled at him: "Yes, yes, everyone is responsible."

He withdrew his hand and stared intently into my eyes: "They are all looking at you, you can't panic."

... To be honest, it is good to let me carry the sky, but it is really difficult for me not to panic.According to the words of the fourth brother Jin Wang, I have never received a day of formal education since I was a child. To be an emperor is to drive ducks to the shelves, and to be a "talent" through self-taught. If I don't cry out in the palace this time, it is all psychological quality Excellent.

Today, I have brought my psychological quality to the extreme.Xue Dai, the fierce chancellor who was once denounced as a "warrior" by Yin moths, swung a stick at court to beat up the "wine bags and rice bags" in the household department. The peacemaker Zhao Guangla was overthrown and fell to the ground. Pay attention, the voices of several foreign generals are so loud that they are "sounding and suppressing the clouds"——

"...Show the master to go south! Where did the king of Yue come from? The minister beat him and crawled back somewhere!" This is a Tiqi general who has just returned from a foreign mission. He has short hands and short feet, is black and short, and looks very unconvincing.

"You black bean, just returned to Beijing, I don't know how many meters there are now in the imperial court. The hole in the thirteen passes in the north can't be filled. There is a famine every year in Minzhou. Now there is something wrong with the food for the northern Qiang. How can there be anything to supply? You go south to fight!" This is the stupid servant of the household department who seriously asked last night whether to add arsenic to the grain.

A servant of the Ministry of War flicked his sleeves and said, "Why is there nothing to supply the border gates? It's because the King of Yue swallowed Liuzhou's taxes! Only by defeating the King of Yue can we 'open source'! Otherwise, the national treasury will always be in danger! The North Thirteen Passes will be finished sooner or later!"

Zhao Guang was helped up by a group of people from Yushitai. He tremblingly supported his waist and blew his beard: "You have never seen how high the sky is and how thick the ground is. The King of Yue has 20 elite soldiers in Liuzhou, waiting for work at ease, Now the imperial court can only cobble together 3 tired soldiers at most, who would dare to lead these [-] people to take off the head of the King of Yue?"

That Black Douzi evaluated himself, and seemed to feel that he was not good enough, but he was not reconciled, and said stubbornly, "I think His Royal Highness King Liang can do it!"

Don't be a fool when you ride a horse, right?

His Royal Highness King Liang, who was also shot while lying down, looked back at Heidouzi.

Heidouzi continued excitedly as if no one was around: "His Royal Highness King Liang built [-] troops in Liangzhou in a few years, sneaked into Cangzhou, and together with the Zhongzhou Army and King Yan Army defeated the Allied Forces of the Five Kings and repelled the Qiang enemy. Can pacify Liuzhou!"

Seeing that things were about to get out of hand, I quickly said: "You also know that the retreat of the Qiang and Ping Wu Wangs is the joint contribution of the three armies of the Liang Wang Army, the Zhongzhou Army, and the Yan Wang Army. The state army, and even the Xizhou, Qingzhou, and Cangzhou armies are about to be dismantled, and those left behind after the disarmament will also be assigned to Beisanguan or guard various places. Don't go astray, as Prime Minister Zhao just said, only [-] Weary soldiers and horses, can we fight?"

What I said was a clear statement of my position. It stands to reason that all the ministers and workers should stop for a while, but unexpectedly, the words touched the sensitive nerves of some people——

"Since there are not enough soldiers and horses, why do we have to lay off troops!" This is the governor of Minzhou who has returned to Beijing to report on his duties.

This question made me start to doubt myself—yes, there are not enough soldiers, why are we still laying off troops?

Fortunately, Xue Shang came to the rescue in time: "Because there is not enough food. Every king raises hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Where does the money and food for raising soldiers come from? They all come up from the land under their feet! All the young and strong went to serve as soldiers, marching east and west , fighting all day long, the fields are barren, and no one is farming. You should know this well when you come back from an inspection in Minzhou. The more famine there is, the more people will join the army, because the army is in charge of food, but the more people join the army , the more famine!"

Lord Xue "tactfully" criticized those who join the army as "bad food", embarrassing the generals present.As a typical Min state of "mixed rice", the governor was blocked and had nothing to say.

Wei Pei took the initiative to sing a bad face: "It has been said that disarmament is not a one-off decision. The best soldiers are retained, and the rest is distributed to agriculture and water conservancy. The country needs a sharp edge, but a sharp edge cannot be danced out of thin air. This is the method of strengthening the foundation and nourishing the vitality. Earlier There have been many court discussions in the sky, and all the adults have discussed it."

From the decay of the granary, to the King of Yue’s march to the north, to disarmament, the topic unknowingly circled back to the days before, when the lamps and candles in the hall were crackling and falling wax flowers on the floor tiles, and no one in the lights and shadows secretly sighed One breath.

His Royal Highness King Liang suddenly spoke amidst this sigh of unknown origin: "I think that the King of Yue doesn't necessarily want to declare war."

Everyone turned to look at him in unison.

His Royal Highness King Liang has only been back to Beijing for a few days, and he has not been to the Daming Hall a few times, and he has hardly spoken in public except for a few innocuous scenes.Your lords are very curious about this upstart who used to hide in the Eastern Palace and has a bizarre life experience.

The "upstart" was dressed in an inconspicuous gray casual robe, and he looked a bit out of place among the glorious Beijing officials. Wei Pei and his ilk were not "refined" enough by him.His Highness King Liang, who is extremely refined, lowered his eyelids slightly in the eyes of the crowd, rather flattered: "Just now, Lord Zuoxiang also said that the King of Yue has 20 troops. With such a force, if he really wants to use force against the capital, he will not Only one adult horse will be released to scare the snake away."

Everyone fell silent.From the time when the kings forced the capital five years ago to the current rebellion by the five kings, in the court hall, everyone's spirits were a little tense, so they overreacted.

But the king of Yue didn't rebel, so why did he send troops?

Wei Pei, who quickly calmed down, raised his eyes: "Your Majesty, King Jin's body."

I suddenly understood.King Jin's mother and concubine De Fei is from Liuzhou, the younger sister of King Yue.It is said that since the emperor Gaozu, in all dynasties, a girl from Liuzhou Yuewang's family will be appointed as a concubine, and the princes and princesses born by these concubines will not enter the imperial tomb after death, and the Yuewang's mansion will send people to pick them up.I heard this matter from my grandmother telling ghost stories when I was a child.At that time, my grandmother only said that it was unseemly, but she never said that it was such an unseemly law-send [-] soldiers and horses to pick it up?

Xue Shang also calmed down: "It's not necessarily a declaration of war, but it also means demonstration and dissatisfaction. No matter how the king of Yue is not interested in rebellion, it is impossible for him to be unmoved by the death of his nephew."

"Then what should we do? If we give him the body of King Jin, can we live in peace?" Someone asked.

"Has the Qiang envoy calmed down?" Zhao Guang asked suddenly.

The Ministry of Rites hurriedly said: "It can only be coaxed for three or five days, they are in a hurry to leave, and urged us to count the grain and iron."

The governor of Minzhou said: "If there is no food allocation in Minzhou, many people may not survive the spring."

The Ministry of War said: "The agreement has been signed, and the Qiang people can't get food. When the time comes, they will turn their faces and don't say anything. In addition to continuing to fight with our army, I am afraid they will go south to attack the cities of Cang, Yun, and Mi, and plunder the people. To die."

"Even if food is given to the Qiang people, it's only for a while. When they get enough energy, they still have to fight back! Do you want to trade the lives of [-] disaster victims in Minzhou for a temporary struggle?"

The side of Heidouzi was not happy when he heard it: "Who are you talking about? This is called a 'delayed strategy'! Do you think we don't want Qiang thieves to fight back to the North Sea wasteland? They are all dragged down by Minzhou! Every year they know that they are asking for food! The house cat He also knows how to stretch his paws out of the water to catch fish to eat, so why can't all humans make a net by themselves?"

Everyone didn't expect Brother Heidou to have such beauty in his belly, and they were all shocked by his "delaying tactics" and "retreating to form a net", and the hall was suddenly quiet.

After a long time, King Liang spoke again in the silence: "There is only one way, to ask King Yue for food."

"What?" Everyone was shocked again.

Zhao Guang coughed: "Your Highness is right, I borrowed it from the King of Yue. The ten-year Liuzhou tax payment promised to the King of Yue, at worst, it will last for another year."

Xue Dai said in a deep voice: "Can the King of Yue agree?"

"Yes, it's fine if he doesn't beat us, why should he give us food?" Everyone questioned the feasibility of this method.

Xue Shang took over his father's words in the midst of an explosive discussion: "If he doesn't agree, we won't give him the body of King Jin. Besides, Concubine De is in our hands now."

... This hooligan is playing in a bit of a unique way.How effective it is is still doubtful-what if King Yue is provoked?Originally, as long as he gave him the body of King Jin, he would be able to live in peace, but it might really cause chaos in the world.

"That's right." Unexpectedly, Wei Pei also learned how to play hooligans with Xue Shang, "this strategy may be tried. When the first emperor died, although the king of Yue forced the capital with the rest of the kings, he only brought out 2000 troops. After your majesty ascended the throne, Although he followed the crowd to rebel once in the first year, it was still a lot of thunder and rain. After receiving the tax from Liuzhou for ten years, his flag and drums died down. The minister thought that the king of Yue had no intention of coming north right now, and he hoped that we could block the smoke from the north for him. .”

That's right, Liuzhou is living a happy life, why do you need other dilapidated land where tigers and wolves are rampant?

Lord Wei pointed it out, and all the ministers began to think carefully.

I couldn't wait for them to finish thinking, so I made a decision first: "The existing grain will be split in half first, half will be given to the Qiang people, and the other half will be sent to Minzhou. If they are really unwilling, give them another [-]% iron ore. Who can negotiate with the King of Yue?"

"The minister is willing to go." Xue Shang came out with more people.

"I'm going." Wei Pei hurriedly said, "I've been to King Yan's army once, so I know how to deal with it. Lord Xue commanded the city well before, but this time he still needs to stay in the capital. If things go wrong, he can deal with it."

In the end, I sent Wei Pei to Liuzhou.The next day's vacation was cancelled, and Man Chao began to spin around again.

For several days in a row, he didn't even have the time to masturbate Zheng Wuwei.That little bastard scratched the bookshelves in the Dead Wave Terrace and didn't even recognize me. At first sight, he bared his teeth at me with all four paws in protest: "Ahhh!"

I stepped back and stepped on His Highness King Liang's shoe.

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