Chapter 273: Mutual Temptation

Zhao Yu was not surprised to receive a reply refusing to meet him, and was ordered to anchor on the periphery of the imperial fleet, and he was tired for a day and soon fell asleep. In the early morning of the next day, www.biquge.info received an edict saying that there were many inconveniences at sea, and that the imperial fleet lacked food and fresh water, and would be summoned after it was replenished. Zhao Yu and Ying Jieyan looked at each other and smiled bitterly, the imperial court really showed extreme distrust of them, and the matter of moving to Qiongzhou would definitely not be simple, but now they can only act according to orders.

The two armies were separated by several miles and slowly marched northwest along the coast, and by the afternoon they had entered the strait and reached Puqian Bay, but they refused to go any further, so they had to choose a fishing port that could be sheltered from the wind and pause. Zhao Yu knew that they were wary of him, so he ordered the Baisha and Chengmai sailors to return to their respective camps, leaving only the rear army to accompany them, and ordered the infantry to land on the shore to set up defenses, and the navy to patrol outside. However, there were still more than 1,000 boats in the imperial fleet, and the fishing port was so small that it was impossible to berth so many ships, and most of them could only be parked in the bay to draw water from small boats.

After waiting for a long time, the imperial court sent people to order Zhao Hao, Ying Jieyan and Jiang Xuan to go to the imperial ship to meet them. After the three of them changed their clothes, Ying Jieyan told Zhuang Siqi, the commander of the rear army, a few words, and then arranged for Zheng Yong to lead a team of guards to accompany him on another boat, and then he and the two of them took a few personal entourages to the ferry boat sent by the imperial court.

"Prince Chenwei (Guangnan West Road Pacification Envoy, Guangnan West Road Transfer Envoy) See Your Majesty, Queen Mother!" In the conference hall on the royal ship where the three of them entered, Zhao Yu peeked at the hall not only the emperor and the queen mother, but also Chen Yizhong, Jiang Wanzai, Zhang Shijie, Lu Xiufu and several other governors, and a few familiar faces could not be named.

"Excuse me, hurry up and excuse me!" The little emperor Zhao Yu was excited, and when they finished saluting, he raised his hand to support him, and couldn't wait to order again, "Quickly give Prince Wei a seat!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zhao Yu didn't dare to salute again, and smiled at the imperial brother on the throne.

"Give Lord Ying a seat, the slave family has thanked the adult for teaching the sixth brother." Empress Dowager Yang instructed behind the curtain, and Ying Jieyan was also busy thanking.

"Your Highness, I have been adrift on the sea for a long time, and now I am short of food, and I still ask the Qiongzhou local government to provide for emergency relief, I don't know if it is possible?" As soon as he sat down, Chen Yizhong came out of the line to salute Zhao Yu.

"Chen Xiang is polite, this king is here to greet him this time, and he will try to supply it to make up for the shortage after he arrives in Qiongzhou." Zhao Yu got up and saluted.

"At present, the great enemy is not stable, and it is still inconclusive where the holy driver will take refuge, so please ask His Highness to try to add a little." Chen Yizhong said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, Queen Mother, although Qiongzhou is not richer than others, the military and civilians below the ministers will also do their best to pay tribute, please discuss it again." Although things were as expected, Zhao Yu still pretended to be frightened.

"Eh, why did you go to Leizhou, didn't the queen mother also say that she was going to Qiongzhou?" The little emperor asked with a twisted face in surprise.

"Your Majesty, this is a new agreement of the deacons, don't say more." Empress Dowager Yang said softly, and her words were quite helpless.

"Erchen implores the Queen Mother to move to Qiongzhou to avoid the pain of drifting at sea, and also allows Erchen to **** to see and show a little filial piety." When Zhao Yu heard this, he knew that the Queen Mother intended to come to Qiongzhou, but last night it must have been these people who didn't know what to scare the Queen Mother, so he invited him again.

"The filial piety of King Wei has been received by the mourning family, but the major affairs of the military state still need to be decided by the secretaries." Empress Dowager Yang nodded and said.

"The queen mother is painstaking, and the sons understand!" Zhao Hao sighed. In his heart, he secretly planned that above the court, the political affairs were still decided by Chen Yizhong, and the military affairs were decided by Zhang Shijie, and the pattern was still broken, and the queen mother and the emperor were still puppets. They must have been worried that they would enter the court by force after arriving in Qiongzhou and were worried about the loss of power, so they repeatedly refused. And the little emperor is adrift on the sea according to history, is it still going to repeat the fall into the sea and die of palpitations?

"His Royal Highness's loyalty and filial piety can be expressed in the world, Qiongzhou is lonely overseas, and the Tartars are moving south, and it is difficult to hold a corner of the land." Chen Yizhong said.

"Chen Xiang, I don't know how much food the imperial court needs?" Seeing this, Jiang Xuan was worried that His Highness would be acting rashly, so he took over the topic.

"Lord Jiang, the 200,000 soldiers and civilians in the imperial court consume a lot of money every day, I don't know how much I can raise at a moment?" Chen Yizhong said, this meaning is very clear, there are so many of us, you can watch it!

"Chen Xiang also knows that Qiongzhou is a barren land overseas, the production is not abundant, and the needs of the past years are even higher, and the state of Hua has helped, and at present, Qiongzhou only has more than 20,000 stones of grain to supply the imperial court, and it will take time to raise more." Jiang Xuan pondered for a long time before he said.

"Then let's go to 20,000 stone first!" Chen Yizhong said without thinking.

"Rely on your mother, this guy really dares to open his teeth, he has already told him that Qiongzhou is only more than 20,000 stones, but he has to take it all away when he opens his mouth!" Zhao Yu scolded secretly when he heard it. This grandson is really ruthless, where is this to raise grain, it is clearly to scrape the ground, fortunately, Jiang Xuan has rich experience and conceals a lot, otherwise he would not have to take his granary to the bottom.

"Your Highness, what do you see?" Jiang Xuan turned his face to ask His Highness's opinion.

"For His Majesty to share worries and solve problems for the imperial court, our Qiongzhou is duty-bound and approved. Later, Lord Jiang took the king's warrant and returned to collect grain and grass, and sent it quickly. Zhao Hao happily agreed, he knew that if it was a bargain, these people might not know how to arrange themselves, anyway, sooner or later, it would be better to be cool.

"Your Highness still has to do what you can, and you must not act recklessly!" Ying Jieyan said that he was obstructive.

"Fu Shuai......" Zhao Hao said in a deep voice

"Your Excellency doesn't know that Qiongzhou only has more than 30,000 stones of various grains in autumn this year, and the money is only 200,000 yuan, and self-sufficiency is not enough. His Royal Highness usually ignored these trivial matters before rashly agreeing, and these 20,000 stones are really a lot. Ying Jieyan got up as if he hadn't heard it, and saluted everyone.

"How much is appropriate for what the adults want?" Chen Yizhong frowned and said.

"Chen Xiang, Xia Guan thinks that 10,000 stones is the limit, and no matter how much Qiongzhou can't afford." Ying Jie Yan stroked his beard and said.

"If you become a ruler of the country, it must be true, so let's raise 10,000 stones first!" Chen Yizhong didn't argue, and agreed after a little thought. In fact, he is also tempting when he opens his mouth, one is to see how strong Qiongzhou is, you must know that raising 10,000 soldiers is a day and fighting money, no matter how strong the soldiers are, it is not possible to have money; The second is to see if His Royal Highness Qiongzhou has the final say. Now it seems that Qiongzhou is not full of soldiers, and life is also stretched, and presiding over Qiongzhou's military and political affairs must be strict, King Wei is still a little tender, and he can't do big things.

"The lower officials thanked Chen Xiang and understood the suffering of the place." He thanked him strictly.

"Then do as the gentleman instructs!" Zhao Yu turned his face to Jiang Xuan and said. I secretly sighed in my heart that this old man was still 'thief's heart' and did not die, so he had to scare the people of the court away, but he did not hesitate to be a villain for himself...... (To be continued.) )