Outside the imperial study room, there was the sound of footsteps.

Uncle Zheng came out on his own initiative and saw Emperor Yan walking in front of the crowd at the door.

Emperor Yan's complexion was much better than the day before.

"The minister sees your majesty, long live my emperor."

"Be flat."

"Thank your majesty."

Empress Yan was followed by Zhao Jiulang. After Zhao Jiulang, there were eight ministers. Uncle Zheng didn't know any of them anyway, but he wanted to come from various ministries or court officials.

To be precise, it should be the real mainstay of this court.

And behind the ministers, the prince was followed, and behind the prince was Ji Chengjue.

It was not the first time that the big guy was discussing matters in the Imperial Study. Without his majesty's order, Wei Zhonghe led a group of small eunuchs to deliver chairs and tables.

The table top is very narrow, so it is taller to match the height of the chair. From Uncle Zheng's perspective, it feels like these ministers are sitting in baby seats.

quickly,

A bowl of plain noodles was brought up, and there was also a bowl in front of Emperor Yan.

The young father-in-law with freckles walked up to Uncle Zheng again and asked, "Uncle, do you want a bowl?"

"want."

"Okay, uncle."

immediately,

Uncle Zheng also took a seat in the "baby chair".

Plain noodles are really just plain noodles with a little green onion sprinkled on it. This noodle is not made with any special method, it is homemade noodles.

The only extravagant thing is that the noodle soup is chicken soup.

Maybe it's because it's too strong, so I didn't make any toppings.

In Zheng Fan's memory, probably only the original Zhenbeihou dare to roast leg of lamb unscrupulously in the imperial garden.

Emperor Yan made the first bite, and the other ministers all raised their chopsticks together. For a while, the sound of eating noodles was all in the royal study room.

Everyone is not slow to eat, and it is clear that there are still things to talk about next, and secondly, it is impossible to talk about family affairs when you come to Yuqianshi.

Everyone only ate one bowl,

When the **** who was waiting next saw who had finished eating, he immediately brought a cup of tea and a copper basin.

The tea is rinsed and spit in directly.

The copper basin is used to wash your face and hands.

This is not for luxury and exquisiteness, because when discussing matters, it is possible to use pen and ink. Some even have to be ordered to draft imperial edicts. Hands must be clean. In addition, washing your face can also make you more energetic.

Finally, the small table case was removed, and a new cup of tea was served in front of everyone.

After everything is ready,

Emperor Yan drew out a discount,

Road:

"Zhezi, written by Wujiang, told me that the pressure on the front line of Nanwangcheng is increasing with the day."

In fact, I didn't finish it, but everyone knows it.

In the book, if a problem is raised, it will inevitably be accompanied by a request for help to solve the problem.

How to solve?

Very simple,

Increase troops.

The increase in troops here can be understood as Dayan's transfer of troops into Nanwang City from other places, or an increase in the army's rations and military expenditures and establishments on the front line of Nanwang City.

The former is very difficult to implement, because after the annexation of the Three Jin Lands, Dayan's stalls were really too big, and many places were actually stretched.

Then there is only the latter method.

But this also means an increase in money and food.

For individuals, money and food really cannot solve all problems, but if you have enough money and food, more than ninety-nine percent of the problems will no longer be a problem.

The same is true for a country.

Uncle Zheng has to rely on the small six of the household department to approve the notes to get the full amount of money and food, and the rest of the places are only 50%.

Dayan has always had the concept of raising elite soldiers. The Zhenbei Army and Jingnan Army are the best examples, but there is really no way. Passable.

At this time, Shang Shu Zuo Pu She Wang Lian got up and said:

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that a large battalion outside the capital can be sent to Kaesong in Yinlang County to deter the soldiers."

The location of Kaicheng is almost between Yanjing and Nanwang. A town of soldiers and horses stationed in, not only can continue to defend the capital, but at the same time, if something goes wrong with Yinlang County, it will also be able to go south faster.

The Yanjun soldiers are mainly cavalry, and they are indeed much more mobile than dry men.

But this method, how can I say it, is like being shy in a pocket, and can only be used by breaking a copper plate into two halves.

The rest of the people have nothing to say, because everyone knows how difficult the imperial government’s finances are now. Wang Lian’s proposal is already in line with the current situation.

Emperor Yan looked at the prince.

The prince got up,

Road:

"The son of the minister is attached to Zuo Pushe, and it's a discussion."

Emperor Yan looked at Ji Chengjue,

Present,

Only Ji Laoliu is a member of the household department,

Ever since Ji Laoliu removed the two Hubu Shangshu in a row, the Hubu Shangshu's position has been vacant.

Therefore,

Whenever he quarreled with the various ministries and quarreled with each other, Ji Lao personally went into battle six times, as the prince, arguing with those adults blushing.

No way, there are too many monks and less porridge, those who can’t eat enough are not satisfied, and those who divide the porridge are also very annoyed.

But after all, this is an imperial study room, not a Dachaohui, so there is no need to roll up your cuffs and dry it.

Ji Chengjue didn't cry poor, either.

Instead, he stood up and said:

"Father, we can add some establishments as appropriate this year, and we can add them again next year."

Last year, it was stitched and repaired. This year, it will be over. Next year, Ji Chengjue and Emperor Yan will agree on a three-year agreement. Dayan's finances will improve significantly, but it still has to be paid back. Two years of accumulated debts, but at least, the finances of this great empire have been directed to benign.

Yan Huang heard this,

Smiled,

Road:

"If there is a change in the south, can you make the fighter come back a year or two later so that we can make up the number of troops?"

Ji Chengjue said;

"Father, the calculations for the first half of this year have been issued long ago. The calculations for the second half of the year have been agreed at the beginning of the year. The Treasury has indeed reserved a hand for emergency situations, but shouldn't it still be necessary to repair Wangjianghe Engineering? He Gong has been a gold swallowing beast since ancient times, swallowing countless amounts of money and food. Erchen has racked his brains on this matter, and is seeking alms everywhere."

Emperor Yan waved his hand, he is the emperor, how could he not know what the state treasury is now.

but,

Emperor Yan finally looked at Zheng Fan who was sitting at the back.

Road:

"Uncle Hirano, talk about it."

Dayan has a very strange tradition. For example, in the Imperial Study Room, the discussion is still about the military. However, in the past, in the Imperial Study Room, in fact, there were no other military leaders except for the Shangshu of the Ministry of War.

Because Dayan's military power was delegated too much, Zhenbeihou Mansion decided on the matter of Zhenbeihou, Beifeng County, and the Barbarians themselves.

To the east, Jingnanhou is the same.

According to the tradition of the cadres, military leaders like Zhenbeihou and Jingnanhou should have lifted their military power to the capital for a long time ago. The various imaginary titles given to masters and masters completely emptied you and need to deal with the military. At that time, I will call you over to be a councilor and listen to your opinions.

Therefore, this time, it was really hard to see a beautiful "Qiu Ba" in the Imperial Study Room.

And everyone, for a short time, their eyes fell on Uncle Hirano, who has been unparalleled in the limelight in recent years.

And when you saw Uncle Hirano when you entered the Imperial Study Room, everyone knew that today, Uncle Hirano’s suggestion would be very important. Otherwise, it wouldn't be the case that Uncle Hirano came over to listen in particular, right?

Uncle Zheng stood up and saluted:

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the imperial army does not need to be mobilized, and that there is no need to allocate more money and food to the south of the city. The prince and Xu Wenzu can be ordered to shrink the front line of defense in the south of the city, and not to compete with the Ganren for a while."

Hearing this,

The right servant shot Cao Que immediately and said: "My Dayan has not taken the initiative to retreat from the barbarians for hundreds of years, but now, I want to retreat facing the dry people?"

Shang Shu Ling Xu Qiutai also wondered: "Uncle Hirano, what does this mean?"

Zheng Fan bowed his hands to the two adults and replied:

"Because the court is not rich, so..."

At this time, Zuo Pushe Wang Lian interrupted Zheng Fan and said, "I heard that the amount of money and food in the Snow Customs House of Uncle Hirano is 20% or 30% higher than that of other departments."

When he said this, Wang Lian's gaze was still swept over Ji Chengjue's body.

Zheng Fan doesn’t know why Wang Lian is hostile to him, and he has no time to bother to analyze the opponent’s political stance. What he has to do now is to help Emperor Yan to go through the process of “throwing bricks to attract jade” and move on to the next important topic. .

Therefore, Uncle Zheng directly said:

"Have you ever been to Snow Customs?"

"Never before."

"Snow Customs, the northern imperial snowfield savages, the south curbs the Chu people northward, and our snowy customs is a land with a radius of hundreds of miles, which can be described as ten rooms and nine empty spaces, almost uninhabited.

Even if Ben Bo wanted to squeeze a place to replenish his troops, there was no place to go.

If you don't ask the court, it's impossible for Ben to stop fighting, and take the soldiers to graze in the snowy field for a living or to open up wasteland and farm to the south for a living? "

Soldiers and horses in other places, the stationing area, can scrape some oily water down, and the living will not be suffocated to death by urine, but Uncle Zheng does not have this condition.

At least,

Judging from the written information about Xuehai Customs that the court officials saw, they could not see Uncle Zheng’s ability to be “self-sufficient”.

Wang Lian shook his head and smiled, but he didn't see how angry he was.

Uncle Zheng continued:

"Your Majesty, the minister thought that since the imperial court has no extra money to disburse, it might as well simply retreat as an advance and put on a posture of inviting the king to come to the door, and see if he does the job, dare you dare to make another northern expedition."

Cao Que said; "Uncle Ping Ye, shrinking defense, doesn't it mean that the land on the border between Dayan and Yan will be handed over to the people?"

"Have you ever been to Yinlang County?"

Cao Que swallowed, come again?

"The official has been there by himself, and he has also been to Nanwangcheng."

Nanwang City, Xiaojiangnan, once known as the Great Yan, was also a place where the great Yan's culture and culture gathered.

"Have you ever been to the border? Can Zeng, have been to the three sides of Qianguo, and have crossed the three sides to Chu County?"

"This officer... never."

"That Benbo can tell the adults, Ganren, that there are countless forts built on his border. The border of Nanwang City is a very wide area of ​​communication between the two sides in the border area.

In other words, there is a zone of intertwined canine teeth, which belongs to a place where neither side can control it, and anyone can race.

One is because my Sergeant Dayan is not good at attacking the city, so facing the Qianrenbaozhai, it is inevitable that I can't say anything;

The second reason was that he couldn't do field battles. Even the Zhong Tianlang in the past two years had just led a small group of cavalry to perform fiercely for a while, and he didn't dare to leave the fortress too far and move forward.

Therefore, Nanwang City's shrinking line of defense is nothing more than to let the Ganren think about the next time the small group of soldiers and horses go north, and they can take advantage of the goal. "

"What if it's the Northern Expedition?" Wang Lian asked suddenly, "Border defense is for the purpose of consolidating the soil and having the responsibility, and the second is for early warning.

Once my view of the city shrinks from the south, if the army of fighters suddenly goes north, I Dayan, wouldn't I have no chance to prepare? "

Hearing this,

Uncle Zheng immediately faced the Emperor Yan,

Bow down,

Road:

"Your Majesty, if you dare to assemble a large army for the Northern Expedition, then please give your majesty 30,000 cavalry."

Give me thirty thousand cavalry.

One hundred years ago, the 500,000 soldiers of the Northern Expedition were destroyed by the 30,000 soldiers in the early Zhenbeihou.

And this is also the common yearning of the members of the Dayan army.

Wang Lian heard the words and said, "Arrogant."

Uncle Zheng was tit-for-tat: "Ben Bo hasn't lost a war yet."

"..." Wang Lian.

The prince stood up at this moment and said: "The great emperor's brother said that it is under great pressure."

Uncle Zheng immediately said, "So, if you step back, the pressure will not be so great."

"Why retreat?" the prince asked, "The palace is self-conscious of the lack of government finances, but obviously it is not necessary to retreat, or when it is not necessary to retreat, according to Wang Pushe's words, the forbidden army will go all the way to open the city. , Can warn the dry people, clearly not yet when they have to retire.

How can the ancestors retreat after they have worked so hard for 800 years? "

"Dare to ask His Royal Highness, Jindi, is it considered the ancestor's business? Right now, is it the territory of my Dayan?"

"Naturally count."

"That's it, there is something to do with it. It is precisely because of the annexation of Jin that my Great Yanjing Southern Army and the two Zhenbei Army have to be stationed in Jin, if the Jingnan Army is still stationed in Jin. Yinlang County, dare to ask the dry people, dare to toss?

Now, it is nothing more than to preserve the land of Jin, first withdraw a small step back in Yinlang County. "

"How can it be counted like this?"

"Why can't it be counted like this?"

"What will future generations think?"

"Later generations will only look at the territory left by the ancestors for them, whether it is bigger or smaller. Yinlang County retreats to the front line. Compared with the entire Sanjin land, which is more important? Which is bigger and smaller?"

The prince looked at Zheng Fan, and said, "How can the Jin land have lost? Hirano, this palace is not a pedantic person, but I think that every inch of my big swallow is soaked in blood and sweat by my big swallows. As a last resort, this palace is not willing to give up any inch of land, otherwise, how do you tell this palace to face the soldiers who have thrown their heads and blood in order to open up the territory?

This palace can agree, but can they agree? "

"His Royal Highness."

Uncle Zheng bowed down to the prince.

"Uncle Hirano, what are you?"

"The minister agreed."

"..." The prince.

Wang Lian and Cao Que looked at each other, and there was a touch of helplessness in their eyes.

This answer,

It's so shameless,

But by the way,

The young uncle in front of him who was not standing still had the qualifications to be shameless.

Because of his outstanding merits, he opened up the territory for Dayan, shed blood and sweat.

and so,

He can answer like this.

For a while, the prince didn't know how to deal with it. He had been familiar with the government for a long time, and he had also seen ministers who were blushing and arguing or even using old fists, but he really hadn't dealt with Uncle Hirano.

Ji Chengjue spoke at this moment: "Uncle Hirano, what the prince said is, can they agree to those heroic spirits who died in battle?"

Uncle Zheng immediately said:

"They also agreed."

"Why do you say that?" Ji Chengjue asked.

"If you don't believe me, your Highness can send someone to ask below."

Ji Chengyue patted the armrest of the chair angrily, saying:

"Presumptuous! This is the king, An dare to be like this!"

The prince took a cold look at Ji Chengjue and Zheng Fan, and sat back in silence.

Emperor Yan did not speak.

Wang Lian spoke;

"Uncle Hirano, I really want to hear your advice, why is there something wrong with Jindi?"

Ugh,

Zheng Fan is a little tired,

Finally pulled the topic over.

Immediately,

Uncle Zheng knelt down,

Open road

"The minister learned in Chudi that Great Chu has the ambition of the Northern Expedition!"

For a while,

In the Imperial Study Room,

Everyone was a little confused by this sentence.

It’s not just how strong the impact is.

But because of this, it's just a nonsense!

Which country does not want to open up and dominate the world?

What's more, as far as Chu State was concerned, would it not be possible to go to war with Qian State now without the Northern Expedition?

Chu State's ambition of the Northern Expedition,

This is actually the same as Chu people want to eat when they are hungry and drink water when they are thirsty. What's so strange that it is worth saying in the royal study room?

Uncle Zheng deliberately waited for a while,

Wait until the adults present see themselves as a second fool,

Then he continued:

"The minister learned that the people of Chu and the people of Gan had formed an alliance. Three years later, they met together to send troops to the Northern Expedition, with the intention of invading our Dayansheji!"

It's no secret that Chu people and Gan people form an alliance.

But after three years,

This extremely critical point in time has all been said, which is a bit unusual.

Shang Shuling Xu Qiutai asked immediately:

"Uncle Hirano, this matter is not trivial, maybe it is certain?"

"Ben Bo is sure!"

"Why are you sure?" Xu Qiutai asked.

"My lord, have you been to Chu Country?"

coming,

coming,

Again.

Wang Lian and Cao Que immediately looked at each other again.

Xu Qiutai laughed.

While stroking his beard, he said:

"My official, I've really been to Chu State. When I was young, he traveled around the world and went to Yingdu."

The rest of the adults present all smiled as they watched the show. Look, there is someone who has been there before. How else can you pick it up?

Uncle Zheng immediately asked:

"Dare to ask your lord, have you ever met Emperor Chu?"

"..." Xu Qiutai.

What am I going to do to see Emperor Chu!

And I have said that when I was young, I hadn't entered the court when I was young, how could I see Emperor Chu? After I became an official, how could I even see Emperor Chu?

Ji Chengjue immediately said:

"Uncle Hirano, don't worry about him. You should first say, three years later, where did the Qian Chu alliance send troops to accompany me, Dayan, where did you learn the news, and from whom did you learn the news?"

Uncle Zheng immediately replied loudly:

"It was the regent of Da Chu, who told the minister himself, at that time, the minister and the regent of Da Chu were in a carriage."

"..." Xu Qiutai.

"..." All the adults present.

In this position, officials are actually human beings. Everyone is aware of the difference today, and all feel that Uncle Hirano seems to be nonsense;

but,

No one dared to say that Uncle Zheng lied, no one dared to say that he was talking nonsense;

Because they brought back Princess Da Chu.

and,

There is also a song "Rushing to the Crown Leaning on the Railing" circulated.

Ji Laoliu broke the silence again,

Pointing at Zheng Fan and asked:

"I don't believe it, can anyone prove it?"

Everyone looked at Ji Chengjue together and cast numb gazes.

you,

It's too obvious.

I sang a harmony before, and played smoother than Mr. Talker and his apprentice in the teahouse.

Uncle Zheng immediately replied:

"The princess can prove it!"

The adults sighed.

Ji Chengjue continued to ask;

"Then you said that the Ganren and the Chu people alliance, how do you count? Could it be that the official of Qianguo told you personally?"

Uncle Zheng immediately replied:

"The minister once entered the country and went to Beijing~lightnovelpub.net~ and spoke to the official of the country in person. At that time, the official of the country was in front of the minister and said personally that he had suffered a lot from the loss this time. , After suffering the humiliation, three years later, he will join the State of Chu to ask Dayan to come back!"

All ministers present: "..."

Ji Chengjue suddenly trembled.

Pointing at Zheng Fan,

Road:

"You, you, have you seen it all?"

"Yes, the ministers have seen it all."

Uncle Zheng showed the confident eyes of those who have met all the emperors of the four major eastern countries in the Grand Slam Grand Slam!

Jin Huang, he had also seen it, but this time Mr. Jiao, who was going to give it to the Queen Mother, had a problem and couldn't find it.

Ji Chengjue turned around tremblingly,

Facing the Emperor Yan,

limp,

land,

Kneel down,

Depressed,

Cried:

"Father, my sons and ministers are in charge of the household affairs. It can be said that my Dayan is in financial difficulties now, and there is no one who knows better than my sons and ministers;

But according to Uncle Hirano,

Three years later,

Qian Chu will send out a million army to kill my big swallow, this is the autumn of my big swallow's critical survival.

The children are bold,

Ask my father to make plans for my eight hundred years,

Send troops early to conquer Qianchu! "

Finished,

"Boom!"

Ji Chengjue's forehead slammed heavily on the blue stone bricks of the imperial study room.

Ji Laoliu gave up the smell of fireworks on the street on the way to the upper dynasty, and accepted Zheng Fan's persuasion.

Zheng Fan slammed his left chest with his fist.

Loudly:

"The minister is willing to be the forerunner of your majesty, break through Zhennan Pass and drink horse Yingdu!"

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Thank ws blue fox for becoming the 132nd leader of Molin.

I went out during the day and came back at night. There will be one change today, and two changes will be resumed tomorrow.