The revenge of the literati is to make people stink for thousands of years, but the revenge of the warriors can slaughter all over the house, Zhang Kuan carefully left and right, trying to maintain the balance of the imperial court, and not allowing anyone to rashly destroy this balance.

"Does the military department have a proposal?" Emperor Dade suddenly spoke.

Shi Yong, the secretary of the military department, stepped forward and said: "The military department has considered it, and the only person who can be qualified as the commander of the Vermilion Bird Legion is the king of Nanyang County. ”

Everyone was in an uproar again, as we all know, the king of Nanyang County has disabled legs and is unable to move, how can he be qualified as the commander of any army. But everyone looked up at the prime minister on the left and right, but saw that Zhang Kuan and Wang Cheng both nodded in approval, and everyone was not stupid, and they reacted in their hearts. Now among the four forbidden armies, the remnants of the Blue Dragon Army, the White Tiger Legion, and the Xuanwu Legion are all under the command of Dushanbo, if this Vermilion Bird Legion also belongs to him - he is really above 10,000 people under one person, and no one can balance him anymore.

Maybe many ministers are not doers, but they are qualified politicians and conspirators, thinking that the king of Nanyang County and a disabled person leading the army are far better than the four forbidden armies all belong to Du Shanbo, so no one dares to oppose it.

In fact, if because the Nanyang County King has a disabled leg, so his popularity has always been good, the Nanyang County King does not fight or grab, as the founding of the thirteen meritorious services, the Nanyang County King has always been loyal to the empire, this is also one of the few different surnames of the king of the county after the founding of the country.

"Minister, support the king of Nanyang County to take command."

"The minister seconded the proposal."

"The minister also seconded it!"

Dushanbo snorted coldly in his heart, but he smiled slightly on the surface and didn't care, he didn't have the ambition to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, but the situation forced him to this position. How could he not understand the thoughts of these ministers, so he just turned a blind eye.

Emperor Dade immediately approved and ordered the king of Nanyang County to take the post of commander of the Suzaku Legion, and immediately rushed to Yuezhou to lead the army.

On how to reward and punish the case of Zhang Xiaowu, the general of Saibei, who did not save Paoze, according to the agreement of the monarch and ministers, Zhang Xiaowu was removed from the post of general of Saibei, and only the commander of the ghost guard, and his Sanpin Hejian Marquis was dismissed.

This punishment is very serious for many people, exempting the opportunity to be promoted to the scholar clan, maybe it will take more than ten years to wait for this opportunity, seeing that the emperor agreed, everyone can only sigh that this Zhang Xiaowu has no background, and no one is willing to speak to him.

But someone made a sideways kick, this person is Wang Yi, the servant of the ministry, who originally impeached Zhang Xiaowu and appointed the Mucheng County Decree without permission, so that he heard the law of the country and deserved a heavy punishment. Wang Yi insisted on severely punishing Zhang Xiaowu, but fortunately, the officials could not control the military department, but Wang Yi then impeached the military department for shielding Zhang Xiaowu, and the military department was so angry that the military department gritted its teeth.

"Your Majesty has decided, don't say much." The right prime minister Wang Cheng suddenly said that Wang Yi saw the reprimand of his immediate boss, and he was not convinced, but he still retreated.

Wang Chengdao: "Your Majesty, now the external troubles have been cleared, but the internal troubles are everywhere. The biggest problem at the moment is the sudden snowfall this year, which has led to a poor harvest in the Central Plains, and the southern part of the country, which has also been reduced by the rebellion this year, and the Ministry of Agriculture officials speculate that there may be a large-scale displacement between the end of this year and next year. ”

The secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and the attendants immediately stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, this year's natural and man-made disasters have caused the people to be afraid that they will not be hungry. ”

Although Emperor Daide exempted the war tax burden and also exempted some areas from agricultural taxes, the more than three years of war still greatly damaged the country's vitality, especially the common people. Emperor Dade immediately asked the Ministry of Agriculture if he could release grain to help the people, and the Ministry of Agriculture Shangshu smiled bitterly and said that due to the war in Saibei, almost all the granaries in the Central Plains supported Saibei, so that the government could not raise grain for disaster relief. What's more, the Jiangnan region, which has always been the granary of Shenghan, is now rioting, and Yuezhou can't deliver a grain of grain a year.

"Zhong Aiqing, is there any other way?" Emperor Dade asked the ministers in the Zhengde Palace.

The ministers lowered their heads one after another, the country has no food, what can everyone do, you can't conjure food out of thin air. Emperor Dade looked at Zhang Kuan, and Zhang Kuan also smiled bitterly.

Emperor Dade was angry in his heart, if he picked up the political fight, all the people present were masters, but when it came to the major affairs of governing the country, you had no choice. Emperor Dade walked back to the dragon chair in a dejected manner, and suddenly heard someone say: "Your Majesty, the minister may have a suggestion, you can give it a try." ”

Emperor Dade immediately turned around, and when he saw that it was Shi Chong, the servant of the household department, he immediately asked excitedly: "What can Shi Aiqing do?" ”

After Shi Chong was pardoned, he returned to Beijing to recuperate for half a year, Zhang Kuan originally recommended him to be a servant of the Ministry of Officials, but Shi Chong refused, saying that during the year of merging the state, he found that many local officials were not incompetent or incompetent, but helpless. For example, the land in the northwest region is barren and the people pay very few taxes, which makes it difficult for local officials to live, and the officials can no longer make a living, so how can they not be corrupt and bend the law. Shi Chong suggested to Zhang Kuan that the empire must balance the income and expenditure of officialdom, so that officials can live first and live well, so that officials can govern the country with peace of mind.

Zhang Kuan felt that Shi Chong was more mature, so he transferred him to the household department to preside over the work, and when the household department Shangshu saw Shi Chong's arrival, he handed over most of the household work to him, and he was happy to be an idle official. Shi Chong immediately stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the Central Plains and the north were hit by floods at the beginning of the year, and severe winters at the end of the year, so that the land was not productive, the people could not bear to relieve hunger, and rebellion would breed in the south. However, the empire was vast and had a lot of fertile land to be developed, such as the Lingnan region. Although the Lingnan region has been the land of our Shenghan for 300 years, it is still sparsely populated. ”

The so-called Lingnan region is the southernmost Cangling area of the empire, east of Cangling to the sea is Yongzhou, west of Cangling to Broken Mountain is Shouzhou, and south of Cangling to 100,000 mountains is Yuezhou. Since ancient times, the Cangling area is the land of the barbarians, in the Central Plains war, the Central Plains people have fled to the south, they established the Central Plains people around the Cangling, and with the local barbarians conflict or blood fusion, and gradually formed a fusion of the Central Plains and the barbarians of the Lingnan culture.

After the founding of the Shenghan Empire, Shengtaizu sent a large army to conquer Lingnan, conquered the Lingnan region in ten years, and drove the barbarians who did not obey the Shenghan to the 100,000 mountains. In the past three hundred years, the number of Han people in Lingnan has grown to more than 3 million, and Lingnan is also the most reassuring place for the imperial court, but it is also the most neglected "barbaric" place. What is puzzling is that the more the Lingnan region is not cared about by the imperial court, the more loyal its people are to the empire, just like the children in the family who are not valued by their parents are often the most filial children.

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