The happy life of the devil and the devil

"how is this possible!"

One stone stirred up thousands of waves. Not only Yuan Shao showed surprise to Ning Nancang's statement that "it was not captured at all", but even Zuozhu Guozong, who had always been prudent, stroked his silver beard and blurted out:

"My lord, be careful. Does Huben Wei dare to deceive the king?"

"In the tenth year of Yanxi, the Jingbian warehouse in Dayu was burned." Ling Yucheng looked up at Yuan Shao with a solemn expression, and slowly but clearly resounded in the hall: "At that time, it was reported that the invaders in Beiliang—— After a thorough investigation, it was discovered that the guards had colluded with each other to steal and sell new grain as old grain for profit. Seeing that the imperial court sent personnel to inspect the granary, the loopholes could not be filled, so they had to take risks. Hundreds of officials were involved in that case. More than that, almost empty."

His voice was getting lower and lower, and his eyes were far away, as if he had penetrated many palaces and landed on the northern border where he had been fighting for: "As for the enemy situation, after years of fighting with each other, there are always some captured military uniforms, flags, weapons and armor. Human heads, It is not too difficult to kill the good and pretend to be meritorious.

These words were spoken slowly, and almost all the high-ranking officials of Beiliang present listened, and the imperial study room was silent.It wasn't until he finished speaking that someone yelled back:

"That's you from the south! We Tie Le guys don't have so many tricks!"

The impact of these words was too broad, Ling Yucheng hadn't decided whether to refute tit for tat, when he saw Zuo Pingzhang and Shen Shiliang, who was also from Xia, frowned, General Xingwu Shen Shide slapped the table: "You! "Raising his hand, he went to grab the speaker You Pingzhang's neckline, stretched his hand halfway, and was slapped down by the powerful general Yi Lishu.

"Stop it, little brother! - Ouch! ... Why did you hit me too!"

Shen Shiliang rushed forward and wanted to separate the two of them so that his cousin would not be disrespectful before being imprisoned, but Yi Lishu mistakenly thought that he was helping his cousin to sideline the fight, and punched him in the face with his backhand.The situation immediately turned into two against one, You Pingzhang saw that the situation was not good, he rushed up to help Yilishu.

Quan Wuxing has already been performed in the imperial study room.Turning his head to the left, Ge Shuye was busy rolling up the map on the table; turning his head to the right, Lei Yong protected Zong Rang and You Zhu Guo Yuanjin to retreat, lest these two 60-year-old veterans be affected by the flames of war.In desperation, he looked at Yuan Shao, and saw that he was sitting on the sidelines with ease, and had no intention of stopping him at all, so he had to take a few steps back and stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

"Let them fight, and stop after the fight. This kind of insignificant matter has always been decided by whoever wins."

"..."

Is this really all right, Your Majesty?In the history books of Dayu, there are courtiers chasing and beating the emperor with wat boards, and the ministers who are in love with Beiliang are fighting in front of the emperor?

Ling Yucheng looked at the chaos in front of him, then looked at Yuan Shao who was leisurely watching from the sidelines, and deeply understood the reason why the emperors of Beiliang practiced martial arts hard.

Martial arts are not high enough... Or they are not as strong as Yuan Shao, and the ministers fight in front of the emperor. Do they want to become ministers fighting the emperor?

The day's court meeting reached this point, so naturally it could no longer proceed.Yuan Shao left a group of courtiers in front, and told them to continue to circulate the four documents after they calmed down. When the discussion got to the point, they were up to them to slap the tables and benches, and they took Ling Yucheng back to the dormitory by themselves.As expected, all the spies of Dayu in the past year had already been piled up in the study room in the east wing of the bedroom. There were two neat boxes, and Ling Yucheng hadn't moved a foot away from the desk since the moment he lifted the lid of the box.

Before he knew it, Qiaolou had called the third watch. Yuan Shao woke up and saw no one around him. He got up and went out to check. The east wing was still brightly lit.Unable to resist stepping into the study, Ling Yucheng sat at the desk in his cloak and concentrated on reading, occasionally writing a few words, oblivious to the movement of him coming in.Tables, chairs, and floors are divided into categories, and there are piles of files here and there.

The lantern exploded suddenly, and then flickered and dimmed.Yuan Shao stepped forward to light up the candle wick, and looked at how shallow the box was. It would be good luck if he could read it all night tonight. He couldn't help turning his head and laughing: "What did you do so early? One year's stuff can be sold in one night. You have to finish it, have you suffered a lot?"

"...Your Majesty said so, I have no choice but to apologize."

Yuan Shao took a careful look at him, seeing that Ling Yucheng's face was restrained and serious, but there was a gleam of brilliance in his eyes, he couldn't help but feel a little happy.Limited by his background and more limited by his tragic past with his homeland, when he first came to his side, Ling Yucheng was almost confined to the division of monarch and minister in a way that went against his nature, and he almost never touched everything related to his homeland. Today, now, it is already possible to respond in such a half-joking, half-serious way.

"Okay, okay, I don't blame you." Yuan Shao waved his hand like chasing flies, signaling to open this article, "I nodded too much if you didn't read these earlier, so I won't go back on my word. Speaking of which, now you Can you keep watching? Don’t talk about reading information about Dayu last year, you’d be sad if there was a fish on the table.”

"...Do you want me to complain about how unpalatable the fish in Beiliang is?"

The two exchanged a few words half-truth, half-false, looked at each other, and suddenly smiled at the same time.Yuan Shao smiled and shook his head: "Okay, okay, it's too late this year, I'll take you to the Heishui River to fish in the New Year's Eve. A ten-foot-long sturgeon, break through the ice and tie it with a fishhook. You have never tasted delicious!"

"Then I will thank Your Majesty first—"

The smile gradually faded, Yuan Shao took a few steps closer, supported the table beside Ling Yucheng with one hand, and looked down: "I originally wanted to tell you, but after thinking about it, it's better for you to read some things hard by yourself. How about it?" , After watching it in the middle of the night, what can you see?"

"I do have some experience." When it came to business, Ling Yucheng's eyes gradually became dignified, and he leaned forward to take out a stack of papers piled within reach on the front left: "Please look, Your Majesty, this is the grain of northern Xinjiang from last autumn to this spring. Prices. Last year was a bumper year, and it is said that the price of grain should drop sharply in autumn, but it only dropped by [-]% after the autumn harvest, and the price this spring has risen even more than last spring, even old grain is no exception."

"Also here, the corvée conscripted last winter left so many ditches unattended, busy repairing the road, and it is the main road from Jingzhou and Wuzhou to transport grain to Jianmenguan. The price of farm tools in northern Xinjiang has increased Not to mention, even the price of the furniture has increased by [-]%, it can be seen that the carpenters have been taken away by them..."

"Your Majesty, read this volume again. The guard of Ningwu Pass, Zhao Sheng, transferred to Jianmen Pass, and most of the people who followed him were from his line..."

"There is also Chaozhong..."

He opened the volumes one by one, pointed to the information on them and explained in detail. Just listening, a picture of the movement from the Dayu court to the northern Xinjiang camp and then to the folk popped up in front of him.Yuan Shao had already sat down beside him at some point, staring at Ling Yucheng's particularly vivid side face due to concentration, watching him talk with confidence, watching him analyze the details in detail, watching him talk about those old comrades. When promoted and demoted, those eyes looking into the distance are like ice and fire——

Yuan Shao suddenly interrupted softly: "According to what you say, Zhao Sheng doesn't necessarily want to fight like that, but he just wants to look good on the scene and add luster to the prince?... They really don't care about you."

"A prisoner on death row, what is there to take into consideration?" Ling Yucheng lowered his head and opened another volume of documents, his voice indifferent.If it is a real peace between the two countries, at least they can bear it for a while longer, and it will not take less than a year to start.As for him... Ha!

"That's not what I said." After being mentioned by him, Yuan Shao's tone also became cold. "They still want to win a battle even though they know you're here? Arrogant! What, do you want to teach them a lesson?"

"...It depends on what your majesty wants to achieve." After Yuan Shao was silent for a long time, almost thinking that he would not get a response, Ling Yucheng slowly raised his head, the corners of his lips were slightly hooked, and the expression in his eyes was fierce:

"Or, it depends on Your Majesty, which prince of Dayu is better..."