Agoura sat at the royal desk and did not speak for a long time. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 As the military department Shangshu said, Dingzhou is indeed very important. As soon as this city is lost, the entire southern region will be cut off, and the army of the southern expedition will be even more vulnerable to the enemy. But now, who can lead the army to recapture Dingzhou City? Do you really want to let Adakhan's army return to the division? Isn't his hard work for more than half a year in vain?

Agora frowned, talent, talent, what he lacks most now is talent. Suddenly, a delicate figure broke into his mind, Jiang Moyan. It's a pity that until now, he hasn't really been able to take her, and naturally he doesn't dare to let her lead the troops to the battle.

Agoura leaned back in her chair, rubbing her fingers to her forehead, meditating. If it really doesn't work, you can only let the sixth lead the troops. It's a pity that the sixth child is a cannon barrel, and he is the most uncontrollable temperament, let him go, I really don't worry about that!

At this time, Agoura really felt that it was indeed too rash to send troops at the beginning, and if he had recovered all the commanders of the ministries and sent troops again, he would definitely not have the trouble he had today.

Seeing that Agoura was silent, they didn't dare to say more, but waited in silence. After a while, I heard Agula say: "The widow will consider it again, and you will go back first to prepare grain and grass." They nodded and withdrew.

Agoura, who returned to the dormitory, had been hesitating between the dilemma of sending troops and withdrawing troops, and he thought about it all night, but he didn't come up with a good solution.

Early in the morning of the second day, as soon as Agoura went to court, a household Shangshu stood up, "Your Majesty, the price of grain in the capital has been getting higher and higher recently, and it has reached the point where it is difficult to control. The old minister implored His Majesty to open a warehouse and release grain to stabilize the price of grain. ”

Agoura frowned, "Why are food prices rising so fast, can you find out why?" ”

"Since the beginning of the war, the price of food has been rising. Especially after Donghuang began to attack our country, the grain routes between the north and south were completely cut off. China can only make a detour through the Qin State and buy grain at a high price, and the grain supply is becoming more and more tight. The ministers have been controlled several times, but it is useless. In recent days, grain on the market has suddenly been snapped up at high prices, and the price of grain has been raised to three dollars with one stone. Even so, for a while, there was no food to buy. The people are miserable, and there are already displaced people. ”

Agoura was shocked. Although there have been excerpts of rising food prices before, it has risen by a few hundred wen per stone. I didn't expect it to rise so much in a few days, it seems that someone must have maliciously coaxed this matter. If it was just a businessman hoarding Juqi, but if it was a trick of Donghuang or the Chinese, it would really be a trick from the bottom of the kettle and caught him off guard. Without food, let alone war, it is difficult for the country to stabilize.

In the flash of lightning, Agoura's mind had already thought of all kinds of possibilities, and he also frightened himself.

"Can you catch those who are driving up the price of food?"

"The ministers did catch a few people who raised the price of grain, but after several tortures, they didn't ask anything. The ministers had no choice but to ask the emperor to open the treasury and stabilize grain prices in order to get through this hurdle. ”

Agoura frowned and asked, "How much margin is there in the treasury?" ”

"If you just don't count the war attrition, maybe it will last until next spring. But if you add the consumption of military rations...... I'm afraid this winter won't be enough. ”

Agoura was shocked, "Haven't you been hoarding food all these years?" Where did all that food go? ”

Seeing that the emperor was angry, Hubu Shangshu hurriedly knelt down and explained: "It is true that the imperial court has been hoarding grain all these years, but only half of that grain has been tightened in the treasury, and half of the grain is in the hands of various tribal leaders. Now...... Well, if you need it urgently, I'm afraid it will be difficult to collect it for a while. ”

Agoura's eyes narrowed slightly. So much grain has been divided into different places. Agoura was angry in his heart, these old things, although they all expressed surrender on the surface, they were not convinced in their bones, and they all held back to see his jokes. Agoura's stomach couldn't let out the evil fire, and he was uncomfortable for a whole day.

For the whole day, Agoura was thinking about food and sending troops. If Ada Khan was allowed to withdraw his troops, the food he had looted along the way would be enough to support the entire war until the final victory. But in this way, the war he launched can be regarded as a complete failure. He was unwilling, really, very unwillingly.

In the evening, Agoura still came to the Splendid Palace. Seeing the tranquil Jiang Moyan, Agoura's heart calmed down a little after a day of irritability.

The atmosphere of the dinner was very quiet, no one spoke, and even the palace people who were waiting on the side felt a little uncomfortable. Jiang Moyan's soup bowl was empty, and a palace maid stepped forward to serve her a bowl, but the emperor's voice suddenly came. The originally quiet environment was suddenly broken, and the palace maid was startled, her hand slipped, and the soup bowl fell to the ground, making a "bang" sound.

Agoura was interrupted when he just started his words, and a wave of irritability instantly rushed up, staring at the palace maid who had made a mistake. The palace maid was frightened, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and kept saying: "The slave and maid deserve to die, the slave and maid deserve to die, please forgive your majesty......"

Agoura watched the palace maid's head sway up and down in front of him, and the noise kept ringing, and the irritability burned more and more, to the point that he couldn't bear it anymore. Agoura slammed the table and ordered loudly, "Pull this useless thing out and cut it down!" ”

When the father-in-law next to him heard this, he hurriedly called the guards and wanted to pull people.

Jiang Moyan had noticed his abnormality since he saw Agora enter the door. It's just that he doesn't say it, and she won't take the initiative to ask. Now that he turned his face, how could he really watch him kill, so he had to get up and stop the guard, and said, "What's the matter?" Punishment is enough, why kill? ”

But Agoura has been repeatedly frustrated in the past two days, and there is nowhere to vent the irritability in his heart, and now he is about to vent his anger by the fault of this palace maid, he snorted coldly and scolded the guards: "Are they all deaf? Still hands-on? ”

Those guards were hesitating, and when they saw that the emperor was angry, who dared to slack off, hurriedly rushed up, dragged the palace maid and left. When the palace maid saw that she really wanted to kill her, she was also anxious, crying and begging for mercy, and her heart-rending voice hooked Jiang Moyan's anger.

She said angrily to Agoura: "What do you say to rule the country for the sake of the people of Li." With your tyrannical temper and indiscriminate killing of innocents, if you really want to unify the world, that is the disaster of the people and the suffering of the people! Jiang Moyan was extremely angry, and the words he said were extremely serious.

Agoura was stunned by the scolding, obviously he didn't expect Jiang Moyan to be so bold and dare to say such taboo words. He raised his hand at Jiang Moyan, he really wanted to hit hard. But the hand shook a few times, and it didn't fall after all, but it was obviously impossible to eat this dinner.

Agoura flicked his sleeves angrily and walked away.

When the people left, Jiang Moyan felt a little afraid. What he said just now was indeed too heavy, he was angry, if he really said that he was in a hurry and killed himself in a fit of anger, then he was really wronged.