"How much more grain and grass do Shizhong need?" Xiao Maha paced up the lobby, although it was Chinese New Year's Eve, he was not without things to do.

Gu Yewang was standing in the hall at this time, looking at Xiao Maha with a solemn face, as if Xiao Maha didn't give him grain and grass today, he just stayed here and didn't let Xiao Maha go home for the New Year.

Xiao Maha was also very helpless about this, after all, King Gu Ye had this stubborn character, and he didn't know how much promise Li Xinchen had given him, so that this old man was now dead set on Li Xinchen. Xiao Maha didn't have much friendship with King Gu Ye before, but it wasn't that he didn't know what kind of character King Gu Ye was.

can make Gu Yewang, who has always been indifferent to fame and fortune, work so hard, Li Xinchen really has some ability. But after thinking about it, Xiao Maha can also be relieved. can single-handedly open this Bashu situation, how can Li Xinchen be an idle person?

can only say that I didn't know enough about him before.

"At least five months, it will be good to support it until next summer's harvest." Gu Yewang stretched out a hand. In fact, Li Xinchen didn't let King Gu Ye ask for so much food, but King Gu Ye also had his own considerations.

Li Xinchen promised him such a bright future and the opportunity to educate the party and leave a name in history, the old man couldn't be grateful, and in the face of Li Xinchen's instructions, he must have done his best to help, so Li Xinchen's original "three months" to the old man naturally became "five months".

Anyway, Gu Yewang didn't have an accurate concept of food, so he simply made up a "five-finger number".

And after all, Gu Yewang is a person who has been floating in the sea for a long time, and the truth of "asking for a price all over the sky and paying back the money on the ground" is still clear. First of all, it will take five months of food, and if Xiao Maha doesn't give it, it will be changed to three months, and this time Xiao Maha may be difficult to refuse.

Xiao Maha frowned, looking Gu Yewang up and down, but he was not a thick black person in the first place, and he couldn't tell whether the expression on Gu Yewang's face was true or false at this time: "Five months of grain and grass?" A certain has been given to Shizhong for three months before, it should be enough to support until the winter, from the beginning of spring to the summer harvest next year, so much food is needed? ”

King Gu Ye said unhurriedly: "The general doesn't know, on the day the old man left, the Ba people were descending the mountain one after another. Now the 'March' and 'May' calculated by the general are calculated by the number of garrisons in Ba County, and the Ba people also need food relief after coming down the mountain, and even need new seeds to open up the wasteland, shouldn't these grains be counted in the total? ”

After a pause, King Gu Ye didn't give Xiao Maha a chance to open his mouth at all: "In addition, now that the Northern Zhou Dynasty is eyeing Bajun, it is conceivable that there will be a big war after the spring of the next year." Once the war begins, will the general be able to ensure when it will end? Fighting on the march is no better than defending a city, and it requires more food, and this ideal must be understood by the general······"

Gu Yewang didn't say anything more, and slowly raised his head to look at Xiao Maha.

Everything he could say had already been said, and these two reasons were undoubtedly irrefutable by Xiao Maha.

Xiao Maha couldn't help but smile bitterly, he was not a clever and eloquent person, and he couldn't say anything to an old minister like Shanggu Yewang who had been fighting all his life, even if he wanted to argue forcibly, he knew what he would be sprayed by the spitting stars, so he simply didn't say much, just nodded:

"Shizhong's difficulties in Bashu can also be understood. Shizhong is the queen of a certain benefactor, and a certain dog is also in Bashu, so it is impossible for a certain person to sit idly by and ignore the predicament of Bajun······ But old man, the food that can be taken out of his hands now is only three months······"

Gu Yewang suddenly raised his eyebrows: "Three months?" Enough, enough! However, the generals are all in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, how can they not even mobilize this little bit of food? What should I do after three months, is it because this court doesn't plan to ask for Bashu that countless robes have worked so hard to fight? ”

The old man asked questions like a cannonball, so that Xiao Maha didn't know how to answer for a while.

The imperial court's suspicion of Li Xinchen, needless to say, everyone knows it, and there is no way to mobilize enough food even with Xiao Maha here.

After so many years of war, Jinghu has already been destroyed, although Xiao Maha has already started to tuntian, but if he wants to have an effect, he must at least wait until next year's summer and autumn harvests. Although the Huainan area was not recovered for a short time, due to frequent military activities and too few people, it was only reclaimed in the southern area near the river, and it was still possible to be self-sufficient.

Therefore, Xiao Maha's grain and grass are mainly supplied by Jiangnan and Xiangzhou, which have been operating in Nanchen for many years. Now, although Chen Ji has not directly turned against the East Palace-in the end, there is no rebellion in the East Palace, and there is no need to rebel - but he has also begun to indirectly control the amount of grain imported into Bashu by controlling the amount of grain imported into Jingzhou.

So it's really not that Xiao Maha doesn't want to give Li Xinchen and them food, but because he doesn't have much in his hands.

Seeing that Xiao Maha was speechless, King Gu Ye flicked his sleeves angrily, turned around and left, and didn't forget to drop a sentence:

"General, please hurry up and mobilize food, and the old man will also ask Your Majesty if this battle is still fought, and whether this Bashu should be defended!"

It is true that Xiao Maha is a hussar general, but King Gu Ye is also a dignified assassin of Jingzhou, one manages the military and the other manages the government, of course, they do not govern each other, so there is no need for King Gu Ye to give Xiao Maha a good look.

Without saying a word, he watched King Gu Ye leave, and it was not until he couldn't see his back that Xiao Maha closed his eyes and let out a long sigh.

It seems that King Gu Ye is determined to stand on Li Xinchen's side, this old man has been up and down in the troubled times for many years, and he has been an official in the Nanchen court for half his life, and in the end he has a position that can barely be regarded as noble, and it is reasonable to be angry in his heart.

Gu Yewang was able to sit in the position of Jingzhou Thorn History, in the final analysis, it was not Chen Ji's appreciation of him, but the result of Chen Ji's compromise after Li Xinchen and Donggong made a force, so it can be clearly seen that Gu Yewang did not have a good impression of Chen Ji.

Although this kind of celebrity and veteran minister does not have much real power in their hands, they have survived most of their lives, some of them are prestige, and some of them are famous. Such courtiers generally do not take the initiative to participate in disputes, but once they do, it is enough for the other party to have a headache.

As the emperor, Chen Ji needs to maintain his reputation as a virtuous saint, which means that in the face of the minister's advice, he has to give a reasonable explanation even if he does not accept it. And obviously, now Gu Yewang is going to advise.

With this old man's literary brilliance, Xiao Maha can imagine how much headache Chen Ji will have.

At this moment, the sound of firecrackers sounded outside the door, which suddenly woke Xiao Maha from his contemplation.

It's almost the first day of the next year.

"Let's go, let's go home," Xiao Maha waved his hand and said to the guards standing outside the door, "Go back for the New Year!" ”

As for the twists and turns between Li Xinchen and Chen Ji, he Xiao Maha can't understand it and can't help it, so it's better to be a spectator with peace of mind!