"What? 5,000 people and horses, just disappeared quietly? Didn't even send back a little news? What do your spies do? Su Gedi said angrily, his irritable hands couldn't help but clench his fists hard, and a table was scrapped.

"General, it is our dereliction of duty and we are willing to be punished. However, this matter is indeed too strange, and after careful investigation, we have not been able to find any trace of the march of the army, nor have we received any news from General Asafah. I am afraid that the army led by General Asafa will be more than lucky. "The general in charge of the investigation said.

"Nonsense. That's five thousand elites, and some of them are iron horsemen, how can they be completely wiped out, and not even one of them has escaped. Could it be that Cheng Shen sent more than 50,000 army cats behind us? Are you blind when we are? Sugdi grew angrier.

"But apart from this explanation, the general really can't think of anything else."

At this moment, a nobleman who accompanied the army stood up: "General, do you think there is something wrong with Asafa ? ”

"Impossible." Sugdi said without hesitation: "Asafa is a veteran who has followed me for many years, and if he has a problem, he will not wait until today. ”

"Then the matter is really unexplainable."

There was a sudden silence in the tent, and everyone was solemn and silent.

Finally, a nobleman spoke up: "General, this matter is indeed unbelievable and difficult to explain, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to gain anything if we continue to investigate." It is better to put it aside for the time being, so as not to demoralize the morale of the whole army. After all, it's only 5,000 soldiers, and it doesn't have much impact on the overall situation. Now that the matter is irreparable, the first thing we should do now is to stabilize the morale of the army and win this battle. Be more cautious about this matter, just send someone to investigate secretly, maybe we don't need to investigate, and we will pass the news over after the poison. ”

"General, Lord De'anfa is right, I'm afraid this matter will be difficult to find out for a while, and at the moment of the great enemy, it's better not to make a noise."

"yes."

Hearing what the generals under his command said, Su Gedi also bowed slightly, although this matter is weird, but it is not the time to investigate.

"Well, let's put this matter aside for the time being, and then investigate it after the body poison is eliminated. Next, we must send more spies to investigate the grain routes in our rear, and we must not let go of any enemy troops, and send more soldiers to protect the grain transportation team, so as to ensure the logistics supply of our army. ”

"Yes!" Everyone said in unison. There was a strange glint in the eyes of several of them.

......

Jinling, a rare day of going to court, almost became a pot of porridge above the court.

Yuan Shu, who was sitting on the dragon chair, looked helplessly at the situation below that seemed to be a vegetable market, and sighed slightly.

His own family knows his own affairs, and he knows that his ability is not great, so he is very lenient in delegating power to his courtiers, basically as long as he has the final check on major matters. In addition, he is a lazy and gentle person, and he doesn't like to play with deep and majestic pretends, so these courtiers are more lively one by one, and it is even more common for them to argue with each other in the court.

There's been so much going on in all this time. In the past, although there were many courtiers arguing with each other, they were quite restrained and the scale was not large. But during this time, due to too many things, all parties urgently needed a lot of money, so the quarrel became more and more intense, and the entire court became a downtown at all.

The military generals on the right side of Yuan Shu stood silently in place, either looking at the Wenchen team on the other side with interest or awe, and their hearts were full of amazement.

These literati usually look mild-mannered, but when they are serious, they are really scary. It's been arguing for an hour, spitting on each other, and the stars are flying around, and they don't even mean to stop talking. Everyone is arguing about the allocation and disbursement of the treasury and the bank, and various states, counties, and departments are vying with each other.

Originally, these generals saw that these people were robbing lively, and they also wanted to fight for more armaments, although there were a lot of them, but no one minded having more. As a result, as soon as Ji Ling, who was pushed out as a representative, opened his mouth, Tian Feng, Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong and others immediately sprayed over directly, and scolded Ji Ling endlessly. Ji Ling was not good at words, and in the face of these big guys, he couldn't even insert a word, and he was scolded for half an hour without saying a word, and finally could only retreat silently with grief and indignation. After that, no one dared to intervene with these Wenchen.

Just kidding, compared to words, the other party can spray you speechless. If you want to use force, the other party can't wait to splash your blood, but I didn't see the older ones among these people when they were arguing, one by one, relying on their old age and frailty, and they wanted to lean on each other at every turn, wanting to "touch porcelain". The Confucian scholars of this era are talking about the six arts of gentlemen, but they are not those sour literati of later generations, and it is not ambiguous to say that they are hands-on. If it weren't for Yuan Shu's strict order not to do anything in the court, these people would have fought a long time ago. In the end, they found that they couldn't get the other party with their soft and hard, so these generals simply stopped talking. Anyway, there is Yuan Shu to support them, and they can't lose it.

However, there are still some Wenchen who remain calm and rational, such as the paddling trio standing in the forefront. One closed his eyes and recuperated, one was playing one, two, three wooden people who could never play enough, and the other was drinking a little wine, happily watching Tian Feng and Zhang Zhao die.

Yuan Shu looked at the faces of all the beings in the audience, and his heart was full of helplessness.

Feelings: Lao Tzu is still a poor man!

Yuan Shu once thought that he was very rich, from the rich heritage of the Yuan family itself at the beginning, to the circulation of funds brought about by the later development of commerce, as well as the emergence of money and silver tickets, as well as a large number of gold and silver mines in Yingzhou and Yizhou. Da Chu has almost become a representative of wealth, and the first reaction of the princes of the world when they think of Jiangdong is not to be strong, but to be rich, and they are simply rich. However, when the original four southern states expanded to the current ten states in just a few years, Yuan Shu found that the money he could barely spend was even enough.

If the stalls are spread too quickly, the resources that were originally more than enough will become a little stretched, because most of the states and counties themselves are poor and white, which is simply a burden. You must know that although Yuan Shu controls the money bank, this lack of money is not just a matter of printing more silver tickets. The productivity and manpower within itself are placed there,

Yuan Shu was very glad that he didn't have a hot brain at the beginning and directly waved his army north to dominate the world, otherwise it would not be too difficult to fight the world, but how to deal with it is estimated that Yuan Shu will have a headache. It was not good to be taken advantage of by the insatiable family, and it ended up with Emperor Guangwu, which caused the family to be too big. In this case, it doesn't mean much to Yuan Shu to take down this world, and he can't hold back internally and talk about what to fight out.

Fighting from place to place, although it is slower, but it is better to take a steady step, and Yuan Shu can easily clean up the local cancer and concentrate on treating them one by one. But even so, Yuan Shu felt a little struggling now.

Although the newly laid states have basically been reshaped according to the original template of Yangzhou, the development speed is very slow because the supply of money and manpower is not enough. Of course, this is relative to the original Yangzhou Jingzhou, in the eyes of Cao Cao and others, this speed of development is unimaginable. However, Yuan Shu and others are not satisfied, you must know that Jingzhou was basically formed in less than two years, and the current northern states are afraid that they will not be able to take shape in seven or eight years.

If it weren't for the situation, Yuan Shu would have wanted to confront Yuan Shaoduo for another two years. Nowadays, his funds and talent reserves are far from enough, and it is difficult to manage even these places. Not to mention anything else, the two big heads of health and education alone are enough for Yuan Shu to have a headache. Defeating such a place will not only not be profitable, but will further slow down the development of the entire country.