"And what do you mean?"

The emperor's question made Wang Huaxing stunned, and he couldn't help but hesitate, should he say it or not?

With such hesitation in his heart, Wang Huaxing fell silent.

With his cleverness, how can he not know the emperor's thoughts, but the emperor's thoughts are the emperor's thoughts, he can guess through, but he can't say it thoroughly, this is the least duty of being a courtier.

And it's hard to say.

"There are too many soldiers in Tongguan, if they are withdrawn, what will happen to Shaanxi?"

Xuan Ye did not let Wang Huaxing go, but continued to question him.

"If you can't keep it, then why keep it!"

Wang Huaxing, who was questioned by the emperor, replied directly.

"Bold!"

Hearing him say this, Xuan Ye didn't feel that his anger rose, and he raised his whip and was about to pull it towards Wang Huaxing's body. When the whip was just raised and was about to fall, Xuan Ye stopped, he stared at Wang Huaxing, but the whip in his hand did not fall.

Wang Huaxing said exactly what he thought in his heart, although he forced Wang Huaxing to say these words, but when he heard him say this, it still made him a little annoyed, at least, he had to make an angry appearance, after all, as the emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, in the face of such "abandoned land" words, if he didn't get angry, then how could he be a king?

"If you can't hold it, if you insist on holding it, the Great Qing Kingdom will lose more than just Shaanxi!"

Although he felt the emperor's dissatisfaction, Wang Huaxing continued to speak.

Xuan Ye just looked at him like this, but the leather whip in his hand did not fall, they met in Cao Mang, and Xuan Ye naturally understood Wang Huaxing's talent, which is also the reason why he valued him more than him, but, in this case, you can't say it...... But isn't that what I told him to say?

When the guards in the distance saw it, they ran over with their waist knives. As soon as they ran over, and when they were about to take down Wang Huaxing, Xuan Ye's face showed anger.

"Get out!"

Seeing the guards surrounding him, Xuan Ye sank his face, and then scolded loudly,

"Presumptuous! All stand down. Pluck the feathers from your heads, who let you come up! ”

The guards who had just come up were suddenly frightened by the emperor's anger and turned out to be cold, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to plead guilty, took off their crowns, and plucked the flower feathers on the top.

"Get out!"

Again, Xuan Ye snorted coldly, and when those guards saw this scene, who dared to speak, they retreated one after another. Looking at the emperor who didn't say a word, Wang Huaxing knew that he said what he said to the emperor's heart, so the emperor was so angry and angry.

"You don't know, if your words are spread today, I will be able to cut off your head in Xi'an."

Even if he doesn't cut it, there will be ministers who will cut it, and when the time comes, in order to calm the anger of the people, I am afraid that even if he is unwilling, he can only order someone to cut off his head.

"The emperor cut off the head of the minister, and the minister has nothing to say, but if the Qing Kingdom really defends Shaanxi, then the Qing Kingdom will be finished sooner or later, and the Qing Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty can't afford to fight ......"

Wang Huaxing's words made Xuan Ye fall silent, and after a long time, he said.

"Back then, the Qing Kingdom was blessed by God and entered the customs by chance, if not...... Do you know, why did Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong do everything possible to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty? It's because we can't afford to spend the Qing Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has killed tens of thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people, neither hurting the muscles nor the bones, but the Qing Dynasty is different, tens of thousands of people have been killed and injured, and it is going to hurt the vitality, so I want to be a minister, I want to have a chance to breathe, why doesn't the Ming Dynasty negotiate peace with us? It's because they know that we can't afford to spend it, and we can't afford to drag ......."

Xuan Ye stood there, looking at the sunset in the distance, his brows furrowed.

"Emperor Taizu back then, the reason why I was able to lay the foundation of the Qing Dynasty was to use the support of the Ming Dynasty to unify the Jurchens first, so that I have today's Qing Dynasty, but later, the Ming Dynasty tore me apart every year, even if the damage was great, it was never to negotiate peace, and the years were full of battles, so that I had eight banners up and down, and there were fewer people, if it wasn't for a coincidence, maybe I ...... the Qing Dynasty."

Xuan Ye didn't continue to speak, he just looked into the distance and said after a long time.

"Now the Ming Dynasty is still unwilling to negotiate peace with me, even if I cancel the emperor's title, they are also unwilling, in fact, their purpose is not to give me a chance to breathe."

After Xuan Ye said this, Wang Huaxing nodded and said.

"It's true, big countries always hold big over small, and there is no disadvantage, precisely because although small countries are strong, their strength is always limited, and over time, it is always a small country that suffers in the end, so the Ming Dynasty will never negotiate peace with me."

Xuan Ye nodded, his eyes drooping slightly.

How could he not know, if it weren't for knowing the benefits of peace to the Qing Dynasty, how could he be willing to take the title of emperor at any cost, and even, he had already thought about it, as long as the Ming Dynasty was willing to accept it, in exchange for a little respite in the way of proclaiming to the Ming Dynasty, it was not a big deal, and Emperor Taizu would not also pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty?

"Then there is only one way to fight!"

"Your Majesty, Shaanxi can't hold it."

Wang Huaxing's reminder made Xuan Ye fall silent, he just stared into the distance, staring at the fiery sunset, but he didn't say a word......

As the sun set, Xuan Ye turned around and instructed Wang Huaxing.

"I won't go back to the palace for the time being, you and I, there is no distinction between monarchs and ministers today, just roast some game here, and don't get drunk and don't return!"

Although it was only at the foot of the mountain, when it got dark, the mountain was cooler than the city, and the guards brought firewood, and soon a fire was lit, and the meat was roasted there.

"You guys, go and draw a fire again, stay away from here!"

Xuan Ye ordered the guards.

"I'll do my own barbecue today!"

Sitting in front of the fiery bonfire, Xuan Ye said to Wang Huaxing while roasting the meat.

"I heard that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty sometimes likes to barbecue with his favorite ministers, and he will drink beer while eating barbecue, and I have also tasted that beer, which is not delicious."

"It really doesn't taste good."

Wang Jingxing said with some trepidation, he wanted to do it before, but he was stopped by the emperor, saying that he wanted to be like the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but everyone knew that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was playing.

But this side ...... It's not a game.

"The emperor of the Ming Dynasty liked to drink beer in the summer, and now it is the case all over the Ming Dynasty, I heard that brewing beer saves food than spirits."

Looking at the barbecue in front of him, Xuan Ye suddenly spoke.

"In fact, in the past few years, we have seen that the territory of the Ming Dynasty is Guotai Min'an, but behind Guotai Min'an, there are also natural disasters for the people, just like since four years ago, including the western part of Shandong, Henan, Hebei, and the northern part of Jiangnan, there have been large-scale droughts. In the second year, the drought continued to develop, spreading throughout Shandong Province and spreading to Henan, Hebei, and northern Jiangnan. That year, in addition to two-tenths of the wheat harvest on the Jiaodong Peninsula in Shandong, the rest of the country was extinct in summer and autumn, and it can be said that the grass and trees were withered in "thousands of miles of red land". If it weren't for the Ming Dynasty's proper relief, I am afraid that there would have been a tragic scene of "cannibalism". ”

Referring to the drought three years ago, Xuan Ye often sighed.

"Put it aside, there will definitely be cannibalism, but for the Ming Dynasty, it is an opportunity, they took advantage of the drought to the northeast, Sichuan immigration no less than 1.5 million, and on the other side, their cargo ships along the Bohai Sea, the Yellow River, the Huai River and the Grand Canal and other rivers, the steady stream of Nanyang rice transported to the disaster area, according to the Ming Dynasty newspapers, although it was a great drought at that time, but the price of grain was lower than the harvest year, and they also gave disaster relief according to human hair and rice in the local area, so that naturally there was no "cannibalism" ......

The emperor's words made Wang Huaxing say with deep convincing.

"Your Majesty, the statistics of the history of the great drought in Shandong Province and other places, the scope is large, the drought period is long, and the severity of the disaster is unprecedented, which can be described as "unprecedented". ”

Although I don't know why the emperor mentioned this, he must mean something.

"It seems that from that time on, the Ming Dynasty will begin to consider feudal Nanyang, and it is also from that time that the emperor loves beer, sometimes, we look at some of the actions of the Ming Dynasty, it seems incomprehensible, I can see that the Xingqian Emperor, when he started to do things, can be regarded as extremely secretive, so ......"

Xuan Ye's words paused, looked towards the east, looked at the east in the night, and said silently.

"Since, he decided to use troops in Shaanxi, in my opinion, Shaanxi must not be able to hold, in recent years, some people think that the Ming Dynasty did not fight, because they lost their enterprising heart, but I know, not that there is no enterprising heart, but because, what he seeks is stability, three years ago in the north drought, if at that time, he used troops in the northwest, the court will not have the financial resources to provide disaster relief, so, he endured it, has endured until now, what is he waiting for? Wait for the house to be cleaned up, and then drive this way, as long as his army presses over, this Shaanxi will definitely not be able to hold it. ”

Xuan Ye, who seemed to have found understanding for the Ming Dynasty, sighed again, and then he turned his head to look at Wang Huaxing and said.

"Xiru, you see, I am actually the same as you, and I also know that Shaanxi can't be defended, but, Xiru, you say, if I say in the court tomorrow that Shaanxi can't hold it, and you move west with me, what do you think the subjects of the government and the opposition will say?"

The emperor's rhetorical question made Wang Huaxing stunned, for the subjects, there really needs to be an explanation.

"So, I'm embarrassed too!"

"Your Majesty, there are some things that always need to be done, if you don't do it now, if you do it again in the future, it will be too late, just like the emperor ...... back then."

When the words came to his lips, Wang Huaxing paused and did not say any more.

"Yes, there are some things that always have to be done......"

Muttering, Xuan Ye headed to the east and didn't say a word for a long time. He just watched it quietly, and the smell of burnt meat in the air made him laugh.

"Look at this meat, I only care about talking, but I forget about meat...... Yes! ”

Just as he bent down, his feet shook, and the man fell down the hillside......