Just a few days after the first snowfall, an urgent report was sent to Anyang.

The report came to the direction of Qingzhou, and reported that the king of Beidi Yizhi led 50,000 horsemen, raided the border towns, plundered materials, killed civilians, and burned thousands of houses.

For a while, the government and the opposition exploded. Hundreds of officials have written books one after another, and they have their own words for words and wars. A few days later, the direction of the peace between the DPRK and China gradually became clear along with the positions of the two parties.

The people in the Eastern Party, led by Su Yi, believed that fighting would consume national strength and would be detrimental to the people, so they would make peace, while the Western Party was headed by Xiao Ruchang, who believed that Beidi had repeatedly committed Dachu, plundered the people and plundered wealth, and that not fighting was not enough to promote the prestige of the country, so they fought the main war. The two parties are stalemate, and it is difficult to distinguish between the top and the bottom.

Cold night, Xuanwu Mansion.

Shang Ying was wiping the long sword in the martial arts room, and suddenly his eyes darkened, and he said, "Come out." ”

I saw a person in the corner hidden in the dark, and said lightly: "General Shang, Nuan Qing Pavilion, Mr. is invited." ”

"Got it, you go down." He lowered his eyes to look at the sword, wiped it a few times, and hung it back before slowly getting up and coming out.

In the blink of an eye, it is warm and sunny pavilion, although it is cold and snowy outside, but the charcoal fire burns the warmth in the pavilion. Min Shuo was leaning on the couch as if he was sleeping.

"What's the matter with me so late?" I didn't hear the sound of the door opening, but there was a sudden sound in the room, and I don't know why Shi Ying had already stood on the side of the couch with his hands crossed and asked leisurely.

Min Shuo on the couch didn't close his eyes, but said enchantingly: "The war in Qingzhou, the whole court is talking about it, and you, a general, are more calm than me, a civil minister." ”

"What if not?" Sang-young laughed at himself. Glancing inside the room, he saw a spread out question paper on the neatly packed bookcase, he strolled over and said, "How many days have the DPRK and China discussed the war and can there be any progress?" ”

"You say that there can be any progress, the Queen Mother is a member of the Eastern Party, so naturally she will not lightly issue an edict to raise a war, but most of the military generals in the DPRK and China are from the Western Party, if they blindly make peace, they are afraid of causing dissatisfaction among the military attachés." As he spoke, he got up and beckoned Qin Sheng to serve tea.

"When did the military attaché of the DPRK and China have such a backbone? I don't know. A sarcastic smile lifted at the corner of his mouth, and Shang Ying casually picked up the question paper and looked down carefully.

"This style is naturally only for the Eastern Party, if you really want to fight, I'm afraid that few people dare to go out, and it will only let the border army in Qingzhou defend itself against the enemy." Min Shuo raised his eyes and saw that he was looking through the exam papers of the Ministry of Rites that he had placed on the bookcase, and said indifferently.

"Then why do you still have to fight, shouldn't you raise peace?" He took the words as he looked at the question paper in his hand and raised his eyebrows and asked.

"You stay away from the court all the year round, so naturally you don't know the flowery intestines of these court worms. If all the generals unanimously make peace, what do you think the Wenchen of the Eastern Party will say? ”

Shang Ying smiled. Raising the question paper in his hand, he asked, "This year's candidate's work?" ”

"Yes."

"It's really well written, no wonder you have to go out of your way to read it." Seeing that Qin Sheng had already brought tea, Shang Ying put down the question paper and moved to the guest seat.

Hearing Shang Ying's comment, Min Shuo's narrow phoenix eyes were slightly bent, "This person has a very unique insight into things, and at the same time discusses the cause of Wei's death, and she is the only one who mentions the local military situation." And gave a resolution motion. A few days ago, I remembered that you had said about Feng Zhoujun, so I transferred it to take a look. ”

"The bill does have some meaning, but in the end it is not a military person, and if it is really implemented like this, there are still some problems that need to be sorted out." Shang Ying said pertinently. "Does this person have Dengke? If it's nameless, I'd like to take it under my command and train one or two. ”

"This person has entered the gate of my Imperial Observatory." Min Shuo smiled slyly, "But if you want to discuss matters with her, I can introduce them on your behalf." ”

"Yes, too." Although there were some regrets, Shang Ying still said calmly: "When I come back from Fengzhou, I should have leisure, and I can see him." ”

"Having said that, Beidi is only occasionally attacking the northern border now, and the current situation of the Western Party is just a bluff, but if there is really one day, Beidi has the heart to fight with our dynasty. With the current military strength of our DPRK, do you think it is worthy of a war? Handing the tea to Shang Ying, Min Shuo asked as he sat down.

"If you really fight, you will be in danger." Shang Ying pursed her lips, her eyes indifferent. "Now the whole Dachu, the treasury is empty, the military strength is scattered, except for the Qing and Shao armies that often fight against Beidi, there is still some combat strength, and most of the local armies in various states have been corrupted. Needless to say, there is only one general Wei Sheng left who is barely usable now. ”

Saying this, Min Shuo couldn't help but look worried, "I'm afraid that General Wei can only defend the city, and if he wants to control the enemy, it is still far from enough." It's a pity."

"It's a pity that they won't let me take over the military power." Shang Ying said calmly.

"These old things!" Hearing this, Min Shuo was already as face-to-face as the bottom of a pot, "If Beidi Zhen advances westward and attacks from Yuzhou, my Dachu's world is only afraid of being in danger." ”

"Now I can only hope that before Shun Lilì seizes power, the Beidi people will not find out that my western border defense is very weak." Putting down the tea, he stroked the rim of the cup and said thoughtfully: "In addition, King Qing is already cultivating military strength. ”

"It's really fast, it seems that they plan to start doing it as soon as His Majesty is in power." Min Shuo's eyes were already so dark that he couldn't do it, it was really a house leak and a lot of trouble.

"Well, although Su Xiang is unwilling, the Queen Mother still hopes that King Qing can succeed to the throne, and it is not a matter of one or two days that their mother and son want to seek the throne. If it weren't for the fact that the first emperor used the power of the Western Party to contend with it, I am afraid that this court will not know what the situation is. Speaking of this, Shang Ying couldn't help but rub the corners of his forehead.

"Then we're almost about to do it," he said, when there was a sound of a heavy object falling to the ground from under the attic of Nuan Qing, followed by a slight drink. The two of them looked at each other, walked to the window, and gently opened the window to look down.

"What's that?" I saw that in front of Nuan Qing, there were many slaves carrying desks, cups, charcoal and other things. Shang Ying said with a frown.

"Can't you see it? It's a feast. Min Shuo glanced at it and returned to the tea house.

"Banquet?" He pondered for a moment and said, "I did receive a post from Miss Yun of the Protector's Mansion, but it should only be a small banquet for a few people, so why do you need to be so careful?" ”

"Huh? There will be a banquet in Yunfu tomorrow? Min Shuo was slightly surprised.

"Isn't that be?" Sang-young closed the window again, turned around and sat back to look at Min Shuo.

"How can that little girl in Yunfu have such financial resources, this is King Qing's banquet. He came to the capital for many days, so he naturally wanted to take advantage of this to make more friends with scholars and scholars, so as to attract fame. Saying that, he suddenly looked at Shang Ying and smiled maliciously, "Since you are also here for the banquet tomorrow, then help me take care of it, so that I don't have to worry more, you must know that there are many people who need to be supervised recently, and there are not enough people in the Twelve Fangs." ”

"Who do you want me to spy on you?"

"The new priest - Hang Yue."