A Piece of Li Song Changting Twilight

The ten reforms proposed by Wu Yi are related to the military system, which are more targeted and sharper than the few proposed by Qin Xiaolou.But although he has a clear understanding of the shortcomings of Da Mu's military system, he doesn't understand other parts of the officialdom, and he doesn't quite understand the interests involved in it, so that the ideas he put forward are very taken for granted, but it is difficult to implement them. .

Qin Xiaolou and Zhao Pingzhen spent several months perfecting his ten strategies, and Zhao Pingzhen personally entered the palace and handed them to Zhao Nanke.

Zhao Pingzhen was led into the imperial study by the eunuch. Zhao Nanke was sitting on the imperial case reading the memorial. Seeing Zhao Pingzhen coming in, he put down the memorial and waved to him: "Come on, brother, come and see this."

Zhao Pingzhen stepped forward curiously, took the document in his hand, and changed his face after reading a few lines: "This..."

Zhao Nanke said: "This is the peace agreement sent by the Jinren."

Zhao Pingzhen took a deep breath, and threw the document forcefully onto the dragon case: "Absolutely not! What a joke!"

Zhao Nanke sighed, reached out and pulled him to his dragon chair and sat down, sharing a dragon chair with him—in fact, Zhao Nanke really liked his younger brother, and he didn't mind sharing some good things with him.He was guarding against Zhao Pingzhen because he was afraid that his younger brother would disagree with him because of power in the future, which would eventually hurt the pure family relationship between them, and this kind of thing is so rare in the royal family.

Zhao Pingzhen sat down peacefully, frowned and looked at his elder brother seriously: "Brother Emperor, you don't want to promise him, do you?"

Zhao Nanke shook his head: "The conditions above are too harsh, and I can't agree. But...you can still send someone to talk about it."

Zhao Pingzhen stood up abruptly, and looked at him in disbelief: "Really want to negotiate a peace? This, how can this be possible!"

Zhao Nanke looked at him calmly, and pointed to the thick documents piled up beside the table: "At least half of the ministers in the court support peace talks. What can we do if we don't talk about peace? Fight, we can't fight, and we can't." He He took out a booklet from the Ministry of Households and handed it to Zhao Pingzhen: "Look at this, the military expenditure for the past year, if this continues, the national treasury will be drained in less than two years."

Zhao Pingzhen was very emotional, his eyes widened and he said: "Then increase the tax! Farm the land!"

Zhao Nanke continued to sigh: "The tax has risen from [-] [-] in the Taizu dynasty to [-] [-] now, and if it goes on, I'm afraid that the current chaos has not subsided, and another disaster will arise in the country.

Zhao Pingzhen's chest heaved violently, and after a long time he suddenly knelt down, his knees hitting the ground with a heavy muffled sound.He said in a shy voice: "Brother Emperor, Your Majesty, there is no way to negotiate a peace."

Hearing that voice, Zhao Nanke felt his knees hurt, so he quickly helped him up, and pushed him to sit down: "Zhenqing... I also want to beat the gold thieves out of our territory, so that they will never dare to offend me again." Mu, but if the fight continues like this, no one can stand it anymore."

Zhao Pingzhen quickly took out a roll of memorial from his sleeve and presented it to the emperor: "Brother Emperor, look at this."

Zhao Nanke opened his eyes and frowned impatiently, and said, "I have carefully read the reform strategy proposed by Qin Xiaolou a few days ago, and it is too difficult to implement. What's more... let alone the gold thief now It's meant to be a truce."

Zhao Pingzhen said anxiously: "Brother Huang, take a look at this again. This is different from Qin Xiaolou's share. We will definitely be able to drive away the gold thieves and return my country. Brother Huang, please."

Zhao Nanke picked up a document to show him, but Zhao Pingzhen refused to take it even though he slapped the document to the ground, knelt down again, and kowtowed continuously: "Brother Emperor, you asked me to lead the army to fight, and if you lose If I win, I am willing to die on the battlefield, if I win, I don’t want rewards, I just want to avenge my father and the people of Damu!"

He couldn't help but choked up his voice after he said it, and every sound of his forehead hitting the ground made Zhao Nanke feel heartache and brain pain.Zhao Nanke originally wanted to show him the memorial submitted by the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Industry requesting the emperor to agree to the peace talks. More than half of the officials in the Zhongshu Province also favored peace talks.But Zhao Pingzhen has hardly asked him for anything in the past twenty years, seeing his younger brother's appearance, he couldn't bear to refuse, so he let go and said: "Okay, I will think about it carefully."

From that day on, Zhao Pingzhen began to go to court again.

The ministers in the court were divided into two factions. The four officials headed by Prime Minister Wang and half of the officials of the Zhongshu Province were the main peace faction, and the officials of the two departments headed by Zhongshu Ling Mu Chong and the other half of the Zhongshu Province officials were the main war faction.The peace faction and the main war faction basically do nothing but quarrel when they go to court every day, because right now there is really nothing else to do except war. Drought is not under our control.Zhao Nanke was quarreled every day by the people below, so he couldn't quit, so he could only call the imperial physician into the palace every day to prescribe medicine for headaches.

In the first few days, Zhao Pingzhen was also an active figure of the main combat faction. He quarreled with Ji Li Gua La for a few times, and found that there was no reason for the quarrel. The time of fighting in the hall is to go to the palace every day to find the emperor's brother to talk about the past, and secretly exert strength by the way.

In fact, Zhao Nanke Bensheng was a bit biased towards the main peace faction, but the main battle party worked hard on him, and he gradually moved towards the middle.Zhao Pingzhen recruited Empress Dowager Mu to persuade him, and Empress Dowager Mu bought some of Zhao Nanke's favorite concubines to blow the pillow.

But this is a major matter of the country after all, no matter what decision you make, it will hurt your muscles and bones. Zhao Nanke is hanging around the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin with an ambiguous attitude, and at the same time, he continues to be quarreled by the ministers of various factions every day.

Half a month later, the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin became anxious, and gave Zhao Nanke an ultimatum to explain, and threatened him that he would send 20 troops to continue the fight.

The eyes and ears of the two factions heard the news, so the quarrel became more fierce. A group of helpless Confucians almost fought in the court.

The court had just opened, and all the officials were standing still in the court hall, holding in their sleeves the memorials written by arguments that had been quarreled countless times, and were going to grab the opening prize when the emperor asked, "Who has the original memorial?" As a result, Zhao Nanke's "Zuo" hadn't finished speaking, and Zhao Pingzhen, who was standing in the front row, had already stepped out first: "Your Majesty, my brother has this play!"

At the same time, the ministers of the two factions were silently slandering: rushing to answer, foul!

The Minister of the Ministry of Rites snorted even more lightly: "I am my minister, I am my younger brother. Who doesn't know that you are a dandy prince with no power in your hands?"

Zhao Nanke said: "Play."

Zhao Pingzhen smiled slightly, and immediately said seriously: "Yesterday, I met a Taoist priest on the street. I told him that there is a fierce debate in the court over whether to negotiate peace with the Jinren. I asked him if he could make a fortune for me. He Tell me, if there is a war, the outcome is uncertain; if there is a peace, then... He didn't tell me the answer directly, but asked me to play a game of chess with him.

"Because of the sudden incident, I was worried about where to get a chessboard and chess pieces. I saw that with a wave of the long hand, there was an extra chessboard on the table. The strange thing is that there is no Chuhe Han boundary on the chessboard. I Playing chess with him, he ate many of his chess pieces at the beginning, and in the end he was left with a handsome knight. I thought I would win this game, but in the end..." He paused for a long time, waiting for everyone to Looking at him curiously, Fang Fang said in a leisurely manner: "I am deeply moved, and I have reserved this game of chess on purpose, and I want all the adults to see it."

Zhao Pingzhen clapped his hands, and several palace people carefully lifted up a chessboard covered with a cloth.The chessboard was twice the size of the normal one, so it was placed in the middle of the hall so that the emperor and surrounding officials could see it clearly.

Zhao Pingzhen walked to the side of the chessboard, and slowly lifted the cloth covering the chessboard——

"Hiss..." Seeing the chessboard clearly, there was a gasp all around.

This is a dead game, the black side has hardly lost a few pieces, while the red side has only one handsome and one knight left.However, the only horse on the red side crossed mountains and rivers to the black side's territory, and killed the handsome black man!The most shocking thing is that the four characters Chuhe Hanjie on the chessboard were changed to Muhe Jinjie!

Everyone's expressions changed, Zhao Nanke couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry, and some timid people had their legs weak. For a while, the whole hall could hear the sound of needles dropping quietly.

Zhao Pingzhen said slowly: "After playing chess, that Taoist changed his magic technique. Before I saw what was going on, there were these words on the chessboard. Chu Han became Mu Jin, and I immediately I was shocked and asked him if this was the result of the peace talks? He didn’t answer me right away, but with a wave of his sleeves, he suddenly turned into a fairy with white hair and long beard and feet on auspicious clouds. I quickly knelt down and asked him He Fangshen, he told me that he was the White Tiger God of War descended from the sky. I asked him to help me, Da Mu, and he gave me four words and disappeared."

Zhao Nanke said in a deep voice, "Which four words?"

Zhao Pingzhen paused every word, loudly: "It's all about human effort!"

If it wasn't Zhao Pingzhen who said this, someone would have stood up and scolded him and labeled him in various ways. This game of chess is enough to punish him to death.But this person is Zhao Pingzhen, the second son of the former emperor and Empress Dowager Mu, and the younger brother of the current emperor, so the officials have some scruples.

When Zhao Pingzhen moved out of Baihu Xingjun, an official from the household department couldn't help but scolded: "Nonsense! The peace negotiation is for..."

Before he could speak, Zhao Nanke suddenly stopped and said, "Enough!"

All the officials present were shocked.

Zhao Nanke suddenly stood up from the dragon chair, and Long Yan was not angry and arrogant: "The Generalissimo of Hebei Bingma obeys orders!"

There was no response from everyone present, and it took Zhao Pingzhen a while to realize that the so-called "Marshal of Hebei Bingma" was referring to him, so he quickly knelt down and took orders: "The minister is here!"

Zhao Nanke said: "From now on, all the troops in Beiqi City will be under your control!"

Zhao Pingzhen was stunned for less than a moment, and said loudly: "The minister takes orders!"