"Your Majesty, the minister has just returned from Yanmen Pass, and the battle between the border guards and the Xianbei Huqi is extremely beneficial to the Han Dynasty!"

A bell-like voice resounded through the court.

The person who played the report was a tall, elegant man in his fifties, a native of Zhuo County, Zhuo County-Lu Zhi.

Speaking of this Lu Zhi, it is not simple, and he has studied under Taiwei Chen Qiu and Daru Ma Rong.

Chen Qiu, who is the Xiapi Chen family, helped Cao Cao cry Lu Bu's Chen Deng and Chen Yuanlong's uncle a few years later. As for this Ma Rong, his reputation is even louder, and he, Xiliang Ma Teng, Ma Chao, father and son, are all descendants of General Fubo Ma Yuan.

Therefore, Lu Zhi can be called a general jointly promoted by the two factions of Confucianism, Kanto and Kansai, and has a very special position in the circle of scholars and generals, even eunuchs dare not provoke easily.

Now he is serving as the general of the Huns, the governor and the Hu people's war affairs, this time, it is also the dust and dust servants specially rushed back from Yanmen Pass, there is something important to report to the Son of Heaven!

"Your Majesty, if you can support a team of 10,000 soldiers and horses in Yanmen at this time, and pursue it with victory, the Xianbei clan can be broken in one battle! My Han will never be inferior again! ”

The sonic boom rubble, Lu Zhi's voice was very loud... The tone is sonorous, and it is clear that he is confident.

He is right, since the last time Cao Jie retold Xiao Cao Shuo's understanding of "The Art of War". Then he offered advice in front of the palace, and used the "Art of War" in the Tao, heaven, earth, general, and law to interpret the general strategy of fighting with the Xianbei Hu cavalry.

All of a sudden, the situation of the Han border guards changed from passive to active, guarding Yanmen and fighting a protracted war! Yanmen is in danger, and the Hu people are horses, no matter how vigorous they are, they can't step through this male pass.

In addition, it is not once or twice that the Xianbei people have gone south, and the vicinity of Yanmen has long been fortified and cleared, and there is no one in the village, and there is no food, so the supply of grain and grass for Xianbei Huqi is almost unable to keep up.

If they hold each other for more than a month, Xianbei will retreat, and the Han army will usher in a good opportunity to defend as an offensive. But the border guards on the front line are too tired, and they have been fighting against the Hu people for a long time, where do they still have the strength to take the initiative.

For this reason, Lu Zhi did not hesitate to rush thousands of miles to Luoyang, Kyoto, and he must persuade the prince to draw a team of soldiers and horses to support Yanmen... This is a matter of the overall situation of the border and cannot be sloppy!

"Cao Da Changqiu? Can our big man draw out the soldiers and horses? Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, pretended to ask Cao Jie beside him.

"Your Majesty, there are soldiers and horses, and it is not difficult to draw 10,000 people from the five major legions of the Northern Army." Cao Jie is very good at observing words and feelings, and he immediately understood the meaning of the Son of Heaven's prevarication and. "It's just that the inventory of weapons and armor is... I'm afraid it's not enough! ”

Cao Jie didn't lie.

Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, most of the core soldiers and horses of the empire were concentrated in the border passes or near Luoyang, Kyoto, and the strongest soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty were the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty.

It's just that in recent years, natural and man-made disasters have continued. The cost of the maintenance of the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty, the treasury is obviously stretched thin ... It is not easy to barely maintain the number of the northern army of the Han Court, where can we give more support in weapons and armor?

In fact, Cao Jie also concealed a layer.

Not only the arsenal of weapons and armor, if you want to form soldiers and horses to go on an expedition to Xianbei, the arsenal and equipment arsenal are also in an emergency, where, in addition to some old objects accumulated for decades, there are simply no thousands of new bows, tens of thousands of good arrows, and there is no reserve of siege equipment at all, which is not even enough to fight a large-scale war.

Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, deliberately put out a sad face, "General Lu Zhonglang, you have also seen it, we have soldiers in the Han Dynasty, but unfortunately the armament is insufficient!" If you really want to send a team of soldiers and horses to the border pass, what will you fight? Do you fight with the scimitar of the Hu people with your fists? ”

Liu Hong, the Son of Heaven, shook his head, "I can't let the Northern Army of the Han Court go to death in vain!" ”

He knew in his heart that there was war... To put it bluntly, that's beaten gold, does it cost money to mobilize soldiers? It costs money to build weapons and armor, as well as siege equipment, chariots, water wheels, drum carts, tents, tarpaulins, shields... Wait, although this son of heaven doesn't know how to fight, he can settle accounts!

All of this? How much does it cost?

Cao Song, who is in charge of the state treasury, allocated funds for Taixue some time ago, and built a garden for the Son of Heaven, didn't the border guards also receive a year's arrears?

Liu Hong made a rough calculation in his heart, the current treasury must be poor, and he will definitely not be able to come up with any money.

Coupled with this group of nasty sour confucians, they will pay attention to the private money in his Wanjin Hall at every turn... Liu Hong, the son of heaven, didn't want to be fooled. What's more, he doesn't have the feeling of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that "those who offend my Han will be punished even if they are far away".

It's not fun to fight and kill, let's defend the country, can't we develop peacefully?

Although I think so in my heart, I still want a face, and Liu Hong, the son of heaven, directly showed his attitude when he said it, it's not that we don't fight, we don't have money!

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But at this time.

"Your Majesty, the old minister is late, and he deserves death." At the gate of Deyang Palace, Cao Song rushed over, panting again and again, as if he was running all the way.

"Da Si Nong came just in time." Liu Hongyi, the Son of Heaven, waved his hand. "You tell Lu Zhonglang about it, our Han treasury? How much money is left? How much armor can be made? How many weapons? ”

"Your Majesty..."On the way to Cao Song, Xiao Huangmen had already told about the discussion in the court.

Therefore, Cao Song prepared a few questions that the Son of Heaven would ask early in the morning. "In the past few days, the minister has been counting the treasury day and night, and the treasury accounts have been counted, and the money stored in them is less than 10 million dollars!"

Less than 10 million?

Lu Zhi was stunned for a moment, "10 million" is a big fortune in the hands of ordinary people, but in the imperial court, it is simply insignificant, you know, now a horse on the market has soared to five million yuan, a good spear, it will cost thousands of dollars, dare to love the entire Han treasury can only buy two horses? Hundreds of spears? Is this still going to form a hammer army?

Thinking of this, Lu Zhi's brows furrowed tightly, calling him an ordinary person, most of them should retreat, and stay where it is cool.

On the contrary, this Lu Zhi... He is very stubborn, what he wants to do, if he doesn't do it, he will not give up! Even if it is to offend the Son of Heaven, he will not hesitate to do so.

"Doesn't Your Majesty still have Wanjin Hall?" Lu Zhi spoke, and the sound shook the rubble. "Your Majesty has taken out tens of thousands of dollars from Wanjintang, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have donated tens of thousands, and the weapons, armor, grain and grass, and baggage of an army have all come out!"

Speaking of this, Lu Zhi paused for a moment, and then raised his hand. "Emperor Wu has a saying - those who offend my Han will be punished even if they are far away, and those who are the people of my Han Dynasty will be saved even if they are far away! Your Majesty, now is the best time, a war can be determined Xianbei, think about how hateful the Xianbei Kou border pass is these years, think about your majesty also hope to be like Emperor Wu, sweep the Huns, show the majesty of my Han! ”

The words were impassioned...

This is Confucianism, no matter what, he can give you the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, a sophistry, although Liu Hong, the son of heaven, doesn't like to listen to it, he can't refute it, dare to refute it, but he violated Emperor Wu's will!

At this time, Liu Hongda, the son of heaven, had a feeling of blowing his beard and staring, Confucianism, with a bad stomach... Take a look, after all, I'm still worried about my private money!

What else will be punished even if it is far away, whoever loves to be punished, who will be punished, no one will want to touch the money in the Golden Hall!

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