My country is dead again [Rebirth]

When Xie Ruzhuo's refusal to negotiate caused an uproar due to Cangzhou's withdrawal from the war, Du Ruo just stepped into the land of Hengchuan, and without a moment's delay, he joined the restructuring of the Hengchuan Guards.

The border between Cangling Mansion and Chizhou where they are located is only fifty miles away, and the border area is heavily guarded, and they are always on guard against Chizhou's soldiers and horses crossing the border and going south to Hengchuan to fight them.

However, Xu Zishen was not in the mood to go south at this time.

In the 23rd year of Xining, Chizhou changed the emperor overnight. Except for the feeling of depression in the palace, the city seems to have not changed much. A group of people moved north, and another group moved from Jiangbei to make up for it. The streets and alleys are still bustling. However, people still come and go in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion, and the change of dynasty is just a change of person sitting on the dragon chair, and the days are still going their own way.

The court in Pingdu must be noisy every time it goes to court. The emperor spends most of the year fighting outside.

Now that the emperor is finally in Beijing, he can't stop the two factions from wanting to quarrel, and they don't want to stop it at all.

It was already the time of the early dynasty, but the dragon chair was still empty, but the courtiers below were already used to this kind of thing, and when there was no sign of the emperor's presence in the Maoshi palace, they would be let in. After crossing the Jinshui Bridge, he first entered the Huangji Hall, and then waited leisurely for Xu Zishen to remember that he was still the emperor and still needed to go to court, and then he would appear in an hour or two.

Hundreds of officials in the hall are clearly separated into two sides, looking at each other fiercely face to face, if their eyes can breathe fire, probably the hall has been burned into a sea of ​​flames at this time, everyone is glaring angrily, the flames in their eyes can jump up to a foot high, no one will let it go Who, it seems that the look in the eyes is not fierce enough to lose momentum.

"Your Ministry of Industry has already spent more than 300 million taels of silver in just three months this year. Are you going to control the water or dig another river out of thin air?" The Minister of the Household Department is the head of the Lu family of the Jiangbei family. He firmly controlled the income and expenditure of money, and consciously held down the dead spots of those old officials in Pingdu. If you really have no money for flood control, you will still be swallowed up by some villain with evil intentions!"

Most of the officials who stayed in Pingdu back then were low-ranking low-ranking civil servants, and there were also aristocratic families with vacancies whose titles had already declined. Turning around, all of them look very proud of themselves, they look down on the aristocratic families from Jiangbei everywhere, and privately call them country bumpkins who have never seen the world, and they think the latrines in the capital are delicious. Dare to show off your might.

Hubu likes to trouble them everywhere on weekdays, stumbling them, holding money like holding some rare treasure, it is definitely the thorn in their eyes that they hate the most. Hearing what Shang Shu said, he was named A servant from the Ministry of Industry immediately came out and said loudly and unceremoniously: "Jiangbei is a land of many rivers and lakes. This year's spring has been raining heavily, and there will be floods. If you are not afraid that your ancestral home will be submerged, We don’t mind sitting idly by.”

"Last month, the students of Guozijian made a disturbance saying that the Wenxuan of the Ministry of Officials will accept bribes of tens of thousands of taels of silver last year. Don't think we don't know. It's just you guys who instigated it. It's a despicable and shameless act of a villain!"

"What? Do you dare to touch your conscience and say that you have not taken bribes? You know how much money you have taken!"

"Tch, do you think you are so clean, don't you know how to pretend to be noble? Who are those who send rare treasures to the prince? Are we blind?"

"..."

The two parties quarreled for a long time, and they almost rolled up their sleeves and started fighting in the hall. They are both gentlemen, but they have cultivated an indestructible tongue, so as to scold the mortal enemy to the point of speechlessness. Speak as your own responsibility, and there was a lot of noise in the hall for a while, the two sides caught someone on the opposite side and began to scold, some officials who had not spoken before also flocked to them, and all joined in the scolding battle.

It wasn't until the sound of purge soldiers lining up outside the Emperor's Palace, the sound of a whip, and the courtier shouting "The emperor is here", that everyone reluctantly fell silent and looked at Xu Zishen who had come late.

Dazhao did not keep Dayu's brocade guards, Xu Zishen's guard of honor was his personal soldiers, and every time he went to court, he seemed to have the posture of going to war. Some were so frightened that they fell down on the spot, and advised the emperor not to let the dragon's energy collide with the dragon's energy in front of the golden palace, but the emperor ignored it.

Xu Zishen stepped up to Danchi, glanced at a group of people who had obviously had a quarrel, but immediately looked away without interest, walked past them calmly, and sat down on the dragon chair.

Wearing the gorgeous black dragon robe on Xu Zishen's body is like a straight armor. The shoulders and back are straight, perfectly supporting the dragon robe without any wrinkles. Like meeting on a narrow road on the battlefield and being dazzled by his blade, you will subconsciously shudder, and then look away.

All the ministers knelt down and saluted, and presented the notebooks one by one to start the discussion. Unavoidably, there were several rounds of endless quarrels. Xu Zishen did not speak most of the time. , read two books slowly, put them down boredly, and listened to their chattering quarrel between eyebrows, with an almost unbearable irritability on his face.

When the two sides quarreled again and were about to make a move, Xu Zishen finally couldn't bear it any longer, and slapped down the table. His hand was so strong that it almost cracked the table. Everyone in the hall was frightened for a long time. Jumping, there was silence for a moment, his ears were quiet, his expression was a little relaxed, and he said in a cold voice: "Shut up! What else do you guys do besides quarreling over trivial matters?"

The Hubu Shangshu, who was blushing from the noise and had a thick nose and sweat on his forehead, said dissatisfied: "Your Majesty's words are wrong. Which of the matters discussed by the ministers is a trivial matter? The Ministry of Industry is suspected of embezzling millions of silver. Taking advantage of troubles is a major matter, His Majesty should investigate each one carefully."

The minister of the Ministry of Industry snorted coldly, and immediately followed up and said: "The income and expenditure of the Ministry of Households are unclear. It should be investigated more thoroughly.”

Xu Zishen said leisurely before the Minister of the Household Department scolded him back again: "Then who do you want to investigate?"

"Of course, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will check it first!"

"Of course it is handed over to the Ministry of Punishment!"

The two parties spoke at the same time, insisting on their own opinions, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Punishment were also divided up by the two parties. Xu Zishen pinched his eyebrows again, and said with a sneer, "I don't know who will do the investigation, and it's going to be a quarrel in the year of the monkey?" Not as patient as you."

Hubu Shangshu gritted his teeth and said: "Then please make a decision, Your Majesty!"

Xu Zishen pretended not to hear, even if he really made up his mind, he would not be able to investigate at all, it would only add to the chaos of the court, and said: "We will discuss this matter again, but there are other things to discuss?"

"Report to Your Majesty, I have made a report on behalf of the Ministry of War." The Minister of the Ministry of War came out and said, "Although Dayu took back half of Hengchuan, Hengchuan is just south of Chizhou, and they are far away in Lezhou. Can they hold it firmly? I don't know yet. The ministers thought that they could have a secret talk with the officials sent by Dayu to Hengchuan to lure them, and then they will be placed in Hengchuan later. Our people, one day we will know the situation of Dayu's capital well. "

The Ministry of War is a special place, divided in half by two factions. The minister of the Ministry of War is a member of the Jiangbei family, but the two servants are both old officials in Pingdu. It is rare to hear that there is no quarrel, but secondment.

This move is tantamount to counter-intuition, it is tantamount to inserting detailed work in Dayu, Xu Zishen frowned and said: "Don't mention this matter again in the future, all of you have read more books than me, why do you still like to do these villainous deeds? We Dazhao Are there no more generals? If you fight openly, are you unable to fight or dare not fight?"

The Minister of the Ministry of War knew that Xu Zishen would say this, and said "stupid" in his heart, and retorted: "Your Majesty is familiar with military books, and he knows how to fight. He is also deceitful. It is also one of the 36 tricks. It is not the behavior of a villain. How does Your Majesty know that Dayu didn't send secret work to our Dazhao?"

"I don't care if they do it or not. If I don't know how to do it, I don't know how to do it." Xu Zishen stared at him coldly, "You guys have time to discuss these things, why don't you give me all the maps and weapons for the next battle."

"Your Majesty is good at fighting, and it's not that the ministers disagree with fighting Dayu head-on. It's just that Your Majesty has calculated carefully. From the year before last to now, the war between Your Majesty and Dayu has not been smooth." The Minister of War was not afraid of him, and said, " Moreover, the war has never stopped, the treasury expenditure cannot keep up, and the consumption of food and grass is too large. I think that His Majesty should rest for a year, support the farmers and businessmen, and stop the war. It saves money and effort compared to the Daxing war, why not do it?"

These words are not very polite. What's the use of Xu Zishen being good at fighting? He still lost to Dayu, but after hearing this, Xu Zishen just frowned slightly again, not showing much anger. He is not someone who can't afford to lose. Losing to the opponent was also convincing, and he only said: "We want to stop fighting, but Dayu may not be able to. In the end, we will be forced to fight. What's the difference? What's more, if we don't start a war, we will let Dayu make a comeback. It's even more difficult, so it's better to continue to strike first."

The two factions rallied together to refute this round, Xu Zishen's head ached even more when he heard it, so he simply let them talk happily, and finally threw down the sentence "The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households have discussed the food and grass escort, and it will be ready before summer", and he took the first step He stood up and left the apse with a wind on his feet.

All the ministers in the Huangji Palace looked at each other, saw each other's hateful face, and snorted at each other again, thinking about things in their hearts, I don't know what they were thinking about.

The author has something to say: Old Xu is an emperor with classic warrior thinking. He is not suitable to be a politician, but only suitable for fighting. It was one thing when he chose to rebel and was forced to be helpless. His ideal is to calm the world through his own power. End war with war, but he can only fight the world, not defend the world, he will be a hero in troubled times, but he will not be a wise king in prosperous times.

This is the original intention of writing this character, I want to write a military general who has ideals but does not understand politics.

The next chapter is a villain, I don’t know if you still remember him (Trusted face)