"Mali is thousands of miles away from my Han Dynasty, and most of them are waterways, rashly send troops, if they are all folded there, how can the imperial court suppress all places, I don't think we can send troops."

This is the voice of Qian Qianyi of the Ministry of Rites, among the ministers, he is the oldest and the oldest, and his speech is quite old-fashioned.

Cao Hua's voice sounded immediately:

"Although Mali is a place outside the country, it is not completely useless in my Han Kingdom, and the few skilled craftsmen who have been recruited by the Ordnance Mansion are no less than the true Yuan Dao Chang on the attainments of flying bird production."

"If this kind of talent is used by Mali, it will definitely bring a lot of trouble to my Han Kingdom."

Cao Hua said unhurriedly, his tone was gentle, but the reasons were all hidden needles.

Dong Cheng also said slowly:

"Not to mention anything else, just the Mali Civil War, how many birds and ballistas to order from my Han ** Machinery Mansion, and how much silver money to earn for my Han Kingdom, Zhou Shangshu should also have this account in his heart."

When Su Lu entered the imperial study, Zhou Yuanzheng said with a smile on his crossed hands:

"This matter, I don't have any opinion, Your Majesty wants to send troops, then there are benefits of sending troops, Your Majesty does not agree, naturally there is a reason not to send troops, money or something, it's all a small matter."

Behind the imperial case, Li Qing nodded imperceptibly, this Zhou Yuan is a capable official, since the beating, it has become more and more comfortable to use, and I can't complain that the prince was willing to use him at the beginning.

When all the ministers saw Su Lu coming in, several ministers sitting immediately stood up and saluted Su Lu respectfully.

Su Lu waved his hand, motioned for all the ministers to sit down, pulled a stool and sat down, and asked:

"We've lost contact with the garrison for a month, have we sent the navy?"

Cao Hua agreed:

"When the urgent documents arrived at the naval army Dazhai, General Su Ping sent two warships to Mali, and His Majesty also issued an edict an hour ago, ordering Su Ping to send two large ships to lead the fleet and rush to Mali."

Su Lu nodded:

"The matter of Mali is my mistake, does the General Staff have a strategy to deal with it?"

Su Yun immediately said:

"Two sets of temporary strategies have been drawn up, and with the edict gone, my staff office is formulating the next step, and once the imperial court has set the strategy, it can be implemented immediately."

Only then did Su Lu look at Qian Qianyi, who was sitting at the top:

"Lord Qian, what do you think about this?"

Qian Qianyi immediately stood up and bowed to Su Lu with a respectful attitude:

"Lord, the minister thinks that there is an advantage of not sending troops not to send troops, the country is guarding all over the country, and there has been a lot of loss of grain and forage, and there has been a shortage of grain and grass in several border towns, if you send troops to Mali again."

The meaning of Qian Qianyi's hidden words is obvious, the national dynasty has been on fire everywhere in the past two years, if it continues like this, whether it can be defeated is not to mention, I am afraid that even the border towns will be unstable.

Su Lu nodded:

"Lord Qian's consideration is also reasonable, before I talk about business today, I will talk about something first, today during the day, I went to Changping for a trip, and someone secretly reported that Changping was seriously corrupt, and the grain and grass were all corrupted by officials and soldiers."

Zhou Yuan, the head of the household department, was shocked, and secretly said in his heart that although the major grain depots nominally belonged to the military department, in fact, in the dispatch of officials and the management of the grain depots, they were basically led by the household department.

Now that something has happened to Chang Close, I can't get out of it.

Careless, when His Majesty made a clear decree, he should have taken it to heart, but he didn't expect that the big warehouses everywhere had been eroded to this point.

Su Lu continued:

"I saw two boxwood bows outside Chang Ping, and the troubled soldiers almost shot me with these two bows."

Li Qing's face was ugly, and he walked out from behind the imperial case in a few steps, looking at Su Lu nervously:

"Where's the injury?"

"These soldiers and corrupt officials dare to hurt you, it's really damned."

Su Lu patted Li Qing's hand and signaled that she was fine.

"I'm not hurt, but one of the Praetorian guards has fallen under the longbow, and his fate is still uncertain. The boxwood bow was originally a standard weapon, why would someone be able to hide it privately, the military department went back to me to carefully check how many people took these standard weapons to do favors. ”

Dong Cheng stood up and took over the task, the standard weapons were left outside, this is not a trivial matter, Dong Cheng will definitely pull out the past file questionnaire when he goes back, and carefully review it, when the time comes, the Ministry of War and the Ordnance Office will be bloody again.

Zhou Yuan's face was full of sadness and said:

"Lord Wang, the minister is guilty."

"The big grain depots are under the cross-management of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households, although the ministers are quite concerned about the deployment of officials, but in the management of officials, they have not done their best, the big treasury has such a big fork, Huo Guang and Geng Jingming, who often close the position, are the officials sent by the Ministry of Households, and the ministers are to blame."

Su Lu waved his hand and motioned for Zhou Yuan to sit down, and said scoldingly:

"You Zhou Yuan has been a scholar for a few days, but you don't know how many catties and taels you have."

"Naturally, you have to be fined for this matter, and the good treasury has made me a place for corruption and bribery, and in order to hide the evidence, I even have a rebellion."

"There is also this Geng shrewd, instigating the soldiers to rebel with the officials, and arranging a lot of details of other countries among the soldiers.

Zhou Yuan's face turned whiter, this is over, and even the rebellion is involved.

Fortunately, I am the person of the prince.

Geng Jingming is an official elected by the household department, if he really gets angry, he will definitely not be able to escape the charge of negligence, although the prince scolded himself, but also erased the fault for himself.

"The minister understands that after he goes back, he will cooperate with the governor of Dingxiang Weiping and the governor of the righteous army Yedu, carefully screen the scum in the major warehouses, and never be soft on those who dare to be corrupt."

Li Qing has been looking at the blood spots on Su Lu's body, although Su Lu was not injured this time, but the guards were shot down, and Su Lu still splashed a lot of blood spots.

Su Lu's health is not good, and if he worries about the government, his body will not be easy to get better.

"That's it for now, we'll talk about it tomorrow."

Li Qing instructed the courtiers and said.

When the ministers heard this, they retreated one after another, Su Lu was there, and all the ministers felt quite uncomfortable, as if they were thorned in their backs, and they didn't dare to say their original impassioned rebuttals, nor did they dare to mention the words of tearing up the party struggle in front of His Majesty.

Just now, a perfect opportunity to attack Zhou Yuan, a little lighter, can make Zhou Yuan punish him to think about it behind closed doors, heavier, and even make Zhou Yuan's head unsafe, just a few light words from the prince, he completely summarized this matter.

It's too overbearing.

Several ministers thought indignantly in their hearts, but they didn't dare to show it in their faces.

The ministers retreated, Li Qing supported Su Luhui's dormitory, casually talking about his worries about his daughter who was still in Mali, and the two accompanied each other and walked slowly in the palace full of moonlight.