On the Chongwen Palace, there was peace and war with the Liang State, and the ministers of the political department argued for a long time.

"Zhuqing argued for a long time, and the mourning family was confused,"

Qingyang was very impatient to see Bin'er sitting beside her, grabbed his little hand, and told him not to be impatient, she sat behind the imperial case, peeking at the ministers and Huang E's expression on the other side of the imperial case, at this time she had already confused the attitudes of Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang, Yang En, Zheng Yu and others, and it was indeed the same as what Lei Cheng said, the Zheng family turned against at a critical moment, but her mind also settled down, and pretended to be impatient and said,

Since King Shou insisted on opposing the peace with the Liang army, in the view of mourning the family's wife, he could not sit back and watch the Liang army recklessly act and watch its soldiers and horses sweep through Jingxiang. The army was gradually short of grain and straw in Jingxiang, and it was even difficult to support it until August, so it was also necessary to order Yuetan Jianghong Yuan Heng Zhuzhou to transport grain and grass to Ezhou by land to assemble, and then rush to Ezhou by the Youlongwu Army Naval Division to concentrate on transporting grain and grass across the river. As long as the supply of grain and straw is sufficient, not only will he not be afraid of the Liang army daring to fight Jingxiang, but he will also be able to make the recruiting army recover Deng Junguanghuo and other places from Suiyang and Fancheng, and he will have no excuse to withdraw the Youwu army to the ...... if he wants to write to the king."

The Empress Dowager Changxin is more familiar with military and political affairs than Ming Chenggong, everyone has long been surprised, and she is also impatient to listen to her tone Yang Zhitang's main battle but is reluctant to escort the Right Dragon Martial Army, Zheng Yu took the opportunity to take Yang Zhitang's army, took over the conversation, and said: "The Right Dragon Martial Army can decisively send troops from Yangzhou at this moment, and transfer water camps to Ezhou to assist in transporting grain and grass, the children of the Zheng family will live and die together with Jingxiang, and not let the Liang army get another inch of Jingxiang's land - Shou Wangye, what do you say?" ”

The Empress Dowager Mingcheng is not familiar with military and political affairs, and she can't intervene in anything, and after sitting in the imperial case, people are even more tired, and Chongwen Hall has been controversial for a long time, the focus of the problem is very clear, and it can basically be confirmed that the peace talks are not close, and Han Qian is very likely to send troops to Jingxiang in mid to late August.

Even if it is unlikely that the Shu army will directly send troops to participate in the war, in addition to Li Zhihe and Chai Jian, who surrendered to the Liang State, there are 20,000 soldiers and horses in Liangzhou who can go down the Han River and attack the western flank of Xiangfan, at this time it can be confirmed that Han Qian has transferred about 20,000 soldiers and horses from Shangluo and Heluo into Dengzhou, Junzhou and Gwangju, so that the garrison of the Liang army in these three places has increased to 40,000.

In particular, before the end of February, the people who gathered at the Chishan meeting in Xichuan could leave the Danjiang River at any time and cut off the connection between the two sides of the upper and lower reaches of the Han River.

At this time, they were not too worried that Han Qian would have the strength to attack Huaidong or Gyeonggi.

In addition to the fact that the Liang army did not have a large-scale assembly of horse infantry troops on the southeast front, the most important thing is that there are currently more than 100,000 elite defenders in the vicinity of Gyeonggi and Huaidong.

Backed by the vast Jiangdong region with abundant grain, once a fierce war breaks out, they can recruit more soldiers and horses.

However, even if the attitude of the Zheng family is not considered, no one in the hall wants to see Jing Xiang lose.

At the beginning of the year, the grain and other materials that were originally transferred from Zhuzhou to Jingxiang to supply the recruiting army were intercepted by the Chishan Society at once, and the situation suddenly became tense.

The first is that the prefectures and counties that have been intercepted (robbed) the grain straw are unwilling to repeat the responsibility of requisitioning grain, and the second is that before such a critical situation, no fleet dared to take the Yangtze River waterway to transport grain, which made the recruitment army of more than 90,000 people stationed in Xiangcheng, Fan, Canglang, Suiyang, Yingzhou and other places, and the subsequent grain and straw could only be collected from the vicinity of the station.

Jingzhou, Huangzhou, and Fuzhou, which have relatively sufficient grain stocks, have raised grain from the localities on a large scale last year to support the military, and after this year, they have doubled their expropriation, and by the end of May, more than 600,000 stone grains and various materials had been forcibly requisitioned from the localities, causing local complaints.

Of course, the people of Jingfu and Huang Sanzhou may still have a certain amount of grain reserves that can be squeezed, and the recruiting army can even send troops and horses to cooperate with the local government to forcibly collect grain, but the problem is that the people's grievances have accumulated to a certain extent, and when Han Qian officially sends troops, will the local people not hesitate to turn against each other, or will the local people stir up a civil uprising without waiting for Han Qian to send troops south?

To solve this problem, it is also very simple, that is, the Youlongwu army sent troops from Yangzhou, contained the soldiers and horses of the Liang army from the eastern front, and then transported the grain and grass gathered in Ezhou to Fuzhou on the other side of the Yangtze River at all costs.

In recent years, the wind and rain in the whole south have been good, and the localities can still requisition a large amount of grain, but the key is to be able to transport it to the north bank of the river.

Although the Liang army is strong in combat, it is not a god.

As long as they can maintain the battle situation until the end of October, Yuying and other rivers are frozen, and the strong offensive of the Mengwu cavalry and the Eastern Liang army, the Liang army will inevitably escape the defeat of complete collapse if they do not hand over Deng Jun and Huaixi and other places to sue for peace.

Yang En, Shen Yang, Du Chongtao and the others all looked at Yang Zhitang, not knowing if he was willing to take out the foot soldiers and sailors of the Right Dragon Martial Army at this time.

Aoshan Island Water Village was destroyed, Yang Zhitang was still a faint pain in his chest at this time, naturally 10,000 supported the dispatch of troops to recover Huaixi, but mentioned that the Right Longwu Army should attack Huaixi first, and the remnants of the Right Longwu Army would break through the blockade to Ezhou to transport grain, so he immediately hesitated and said: "The Right Longwu Army guards the eastern flank of Gyeonggi, and cannot be moved lightly, or 20,000 Chuzhou troops can be transferred to attack Chuzhou first." ”

"Chuzhou only has 30,000 garrisons of King Xin, and it has to defend the lower reaches of the Huai River. Zheng Yu asked.

"The Eastern Liang army forcibly captured Cai Bu, and must be willing to sit and watch King Xin use troops against Chuzhou, or send a secret envoy to Bianjing to discuss matters, as long as the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Liang army on the north bank of the Huai River are withdrawn to Xuzhou, there is no need to worry about Chuzhou being lost." Yang Zhitang said.

"Wow!"

Qingyang couldn't lift the sandalwood panlong imperial case, and pushed the gilded vase, paperweight and other objects that were used as decorations on the imperial case to the ground together, Huo Ran stood up, pointed at Yang Zhitang's nose and scolded,

"The bones of the first emperor are not cold, you old horseman actually want to make peace with Hu Lu, do you want to pull the body of the first emperor out of the imperial tomb and give it directly to Hu Lu, you old horseman is happy? Han Qian, the thief, is treacherous and untrustworthy, but the mourning family doesn't know how much faith Hu Lu has in the eyes of your old puppet, or is it that Hu Lu colluded with Lu Qingxia to make the assassin kill the first emperor, and you, the old puppet, also secretly intervened? ”

Unexpectedly, the Empress Dowager Changxin suddenly turned her face and didn't recognize anyone, pointing at Yang Zhitang's nose and scolding, Shen Yang, Du Chongtao, Yang En, Zheng Yu, Zhang Chao, Zheng Chang and others were all caught off guard, looking at each other, watching Yang Zhitang be scolded and his face turned blue, but he didn't know how to persuade him.

"Sister Huang, the bones of the first emperor are not cold, have you forgotten the kindness of the first emperor to our sisters? Yang Zhitang, the husband, wants to fight with Hulu, forcing our sisters to die, otherwise how to face the first emperor who died under Jiuquan? Qingyang didn't look at Yang Zhitang's thin old face and was scolded by her like pig's liver, turned his head to look at Huang E and said in a wailing voice, Yingying's eyes were wonderful, and tears seemed to be pouring down like the Yu River bursting its embankment every minute.

Huang E was also shocked, and she was also panicked in the face of this scene, and she didn't know how to deal with it, but no matter what, Lu Qingxia had already thrown herself into the account of the Mughurs at this time, and even more confirmed the fact that the first emperor was assassinated by the Muguls.

"The bones of the first emperor are not cold, and it is absolutely impossible to make peace with Hu Lu, otherwise the mourning family is ashamed of the first emperor under Jiuquan, and it is difficult to explain to the subjects of the world, Lord Shou, you have lost your words." Huang E could only bite the bullet and coldly reprimand Yang Zhitang.

"The Great Chu is shaking, the old minister is too serious, please hold the Queen Mother responsible!" Yang Zhitang lowered his head and said.

"Where are you doing too much, if you still have a little status as the first emperor in your heart, you won't say such bastard words!" Where did Qingyang let Yang Zhitang go so easily, and reprimanded him with a cold face, "And Emperor Gaozu killed the Xu family, Han Qian sent the Xu family, Zhang Xinchun and other rebels to Jinling for trial a few years ago, what are you delaying in every possible way, and you really remember the kindness of Emperor Gaozu to you back then?" ”

"......" The hall is quite shady, but Yang Zhitang's forehead has beads of sweat, he is the privy envoy of Dachu and the king of Shou, and it can be said that his status is slightly higher than Shen Yang, Yang En, and Du Chongtao.

"Empress Dowager, there are major and minor illnesses, and King Shou is also ......," Zhang Xian stood up and said.

"When did it become insignificant to avenge Emperor Gaozu and avenge the first emperor? Since Xu Mingzhen, how many rebels and thieves in the Eastern Liang army are still stained with the blood of Emperor Gaozu on their hands, have you forgotten them one by one? There are major and minor diseases, a good Zhang Xian, you really put Emperor Gaozu and the first emperor in your eyes in your heart! Qingyang asked coldly.

Zhang Xian was sweating profusely, kneeling on the ground, not daring to argue anything.

"The mourning family can be regarded as seeing you courtiers full of benevolence and loyalty today, you plan to abolish the mourning family and Bin'er, whether you want to support King Fu, King Xin, or Yang Zhitang, you want to sit on this throne, and it is all up to you to ......" After that, Qingyang took the hand of Yang Bin, who was at a loss, and was about to walk towards the outside of the main hall.

"The old minister lost his words, please calm the queen mother's anger!" Yang Zhitang couldn't bear the pressure anymore, knelt on his knees on the main hall, put on a real gesture of pleading, and said.

"King Shou lost his words, and he was also anxious about state affairs, please let the Queen Mother calm her anger!" Shen Yang and other important ministers were given seats on the top of the main hall, and at this time, seeing that the Empress Dowager Changxin was sharp, she couldn't sit still anymore, so she stood up and bowed down to tell each other.

Zhou Qinian and other Shangshu Provincial officials are not among the ministers, and it is already an honor to observe the deliberations of the main hall, and they are not qualified to be given a seat, but they did not expect the Empress Dowager Changxin's attitude to be so tough this time, they are all at a loss, and they don't know how to deal with it.

"The first emperor died so miserably, a year has not passed, you all promise to be loyal and filial sons, but you are full of thoughts about making peace with the great enemy - think about Emperor Gaozu again, create this foundation, give Zhuqing wealth and power, you are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but you put aside the traitors who plotted to poison Emperor Gaozu, and ignore it, as if Emperor Gaozu's death was so insignificant. Now you are saying that Yang Zhitang is anxious about national affairs, mourning the family and asking you, the Great Chu Imperial Court, is there a more important state matter to avenge the first emperor and Emperor Gaozu? Qingyang asked in a mournful voice, and his voice resounded in the main hall.

Yang Zhitang knelt on the top of the main hall and said stubbornly: "The Xu family, Zhang Xinchun and others killed Emperor Gaozu, the three clans of Dangyuan (Che Split) and Yi, Chen De and others aided in abuse, and the gossip bewitched the Wang clan to plot against the first emperor and rebelled, and the three clans of Dangyuan and Yi ......"

"You have been delaying in every way before, and at this time you are murderous, and you are going to raze the three clans at every turn, is this to kill the mourning family and Your Majesty?" Qingyang stared at Yang Zhitang and reprimanded.

"The old minister doesn't dare, please ask the Queen Mother to adjudicate." Yang Zhitang said.

"In your eyes, the mourning family is just a good-for-nothing woman's family, what the mourning family says, which of you will listen to it? You don't have to say these things pretendically, abolish the mourning family and Your Majesty, and you will sit on this throne yourself. Qingyang took Bin'er's hand and insisted on leaving.

"Please ask the Queen Mother to decide." Shen Yang, Yang En, Du Chongtao and others said stubbornly.

Qingyang said: "The mourning family has no knowledge, and they also know that everything should follow the law of the ancestors. The assassination of Emperor Gaozu and the first emperor also requires the trial of the imperial history platform to be clear and unmistakable, so that it is convenient to publish an edict to the world and comfort the spirit of the emperor and the first emperor in the sky - if you still remember the emperor Gaozu and the kindness of the first emperor, you should immediately try the case against the imperial history platform, instead of delaying it with all kinds of speculation. ”

It stands to reason that these two reverse cases were tried by the ministers of the clan with Dali Temple and Yushitai, but the Empress Dowager Changxin meant at this time that she would be completely handed over to Yushitai for trial, and it could not be said that it was completely out of order.

Shen Yang, Yang En, Du Chongtao and others knew in their hearts that the large-scale trial of these two reverse cases at this time would inevitably set off the voices of the government and the opposition against the Eastern Liang army and the Mengwu army, and the voice of the Liang army and soldiers would be further suppressed.

After all, in addition to the Xu family, Zhang Xinchun, and the Empress Dowager Wang Chan'er, Chen De and others, if these two reverse cases are really liquidated, it will be found that there are still a considerable number of culprits, all of whom remained in the Eastern Liang Army and the Mengwu Army at this time, only Wen Duqiao, Wen Bo and his son were officially pardoned when they joined Tangyi, and it was ruled that they were coerced by the Xu family.

Zheng Yu stretched out his hand and pulled the sleeve of Zheng Chang's robe beside him.

As Zheng Chang, who is in the imperial history, Zheng Yu, the brother of the clan, signaled, stepped forward and said loudly: "Zheng Chang, the middle of the imperial history of Weichen, is under the edict of the queen mother, and someone will immediately try and handle the reverse case!" ”

"What do you say?" Qingyang stared at Shen Yang, Yang En, Du Chongtao and others coldly and asked.

Since the outbreak of this crisis, because Huaixi is too critical to the Great Chu, the voice of peace in the court is the weakest, even if Qingyang she hopes that Chuliang will make peace, there have been many courtiers to advise, but the main battle faction is divided into the quick war faction and the slow war faction.

Of course, even if Qingyang initially exposed Qin Wen's identity and drew a clear line between her relationship with Tangyi, there was no need to hide her attitude towards peace talks.

Advocating peace talks and colluding with enemy countries are completely two different concepts.

Shu was on the side of Liang at this time, and even did not hesitate to gather troops and horses in Yuzhou to create military pressure on the western flank of Hunan and Jingxiang.

Putting aside the vague trace of affection in his heart, Qingyang also knew very well in his heart that leaving Liang Guo, who was relatively threatening and made the princes and ministers of Great Chu feel deep pressure, could effectively suppress the ambitions of Huang Hua and Yang Yuanyan, and even made Shen Yang, Yang En and others can only grow up with more trembling assistants.

Take 10,000 steps back, as long as Bin'er can grow up to adulthood peacefully, Chu Liang will rule the river and rule without anything, at this time Liang Guo is really going to strangle to death, there may be a dispute between the Huang family and Yang Yuanyan, but she is destined to be even more uneasy.

Standing on her own position, she should also support peace talks, so why should she be afraid to show her attitude?

However, whether she can gain support in the DPRK and China still depends on the balance of forces between the DPRK and the Central Committee and the main battle faction.

Because Huaixi's location is too critical.

For the Zheng family, after Huaixi was included in the Liang State, the geographical location of Huangzhou, the foundation of the Zheng family, was too prominent, so the Zheng family quickly abandoned the close relationship with Tangyi in the past, stood on the position of the main battle, and even advocated a quick and tough recovery of Huaixi and Deng Jun.

However, Yang Zhitang has always been reluctant to take out the Right Dragon Wu Army, as the first main force to attack Huaixi, he hopes to see the Mengwu people and the Eastern Liang Army severely damage the Liang Army, and be able to win Huaixi without a fight, which is the delayed war faction in the main battle faction.

In fact, except for the fact that the Xinwangfu is a staunch quick battle faction, even the Zheng clan's determination to fight, or confidence, is not particularly strong.

If you really want to regard Han Qian as an enemy, it is destined to be a hateful and feared enemy.

Yang En and Shen Yang, more or less can still see that after the situation in Heluo completely collapses, the power of the Mughal people is growing and no one can control it, which must be the biggest threat that Da Chu will face in the future, and their minds are also quite contradictory and hesitant.

Under such circumstances, Han Qian showed weakness in every possible way, and the matter dragged on, which was in line with the thoughts of the Korean and Chinese war delayers.

Yang Zhitang and other delaying factions were even more eager to delay until the autumn and winter to see the Mengwu cavalry and the Eastern Liang army attacking the Liang State again, and then they completely cut off the Liang army's commerce from the south, and pinned down a considerable part of the Liang army's soldiers and horses on the southern front, just to see how long Han Qian could support under the wave of strong attacks without collapsing.

Who would have thought that after the end of the second phase of the war in Heluo, Han Qian would never give these slow-down factions any chance to choose?

Now in front of Chu Ting, there are only two options left: a quick solution or a peace negotiation.

Because of his own interests, Zheng immediately turned to support peace talks after realizing that peace talks could not be achieved and that Han Qian would attack Jingxiang in a big way after the autumn.

However, if Yang Zhitang is now willing to threaten the westward march of the Right Dragon Wu Army as soon as possible, contain the soldiers and horses of the Liang Army in Chuzhou and Donghu, and break through the blockade of the Tangyi Naval Army at all costs, and transport the grain and straw of Ezhou across the river, they can also turn around and support the quick battle, but it is absolutely impossible to delay.

Don't look at the Aoshan Island Shuiying Dazhai being burned down by the Tangyi Water Army, but at this time, Yang Zhitang was still reluctant to take out the main force of the Right Dragon Martial Army to fight, and he hoped in his heart that he would not fight.

Shen Yang, Yang En and others also recognized the strategy of declaring no war, hoping to send reinforcements to Huaixi from all directions to continuously strengthen the containment and suppression of the Liang army.

This is a good strategy.

However, the key problem is that after the Yangtze River waterway was cut off, the recruitment army of 90,000 horses was only the local supply, and it was difficult to support it until September, and at the same time, considering that Yang Yuanyan would have the mind of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, it was indeed possible to take advantage of the grain and grass problem to withdraw Zhao Zhen's troops from Suiyang, Fancheng and other places, and would not leave Zhao Zhen to fight with the elite of the Liang army.

In order to avoid the occurrence of this state, it is necessary to restore the water transportation between Ezhou and Fuzhou, or to fight with the Tangyi naval army in the Yangtze River waterway at any cost.

Of course, the Yangtze River waterway between Ezhou and Fuzhou is far away from the main station of the Tangyi Naval Army, as long as the Youlongwu Army can make up its mind to send troops from Yangzhou to contain the Liang army and restore the Efu water transportation thousands of miles away, there is still a certain advantage.

This is also what Wang Wenqian judged, and if peace talks could not be reached, Han Qian would inevitably make an all-out dispatch of the Tangyi naval army in the next stage to destroy the water camps, wharves, and other facilities along the Yangtze River and the Han River, and it would not be until mid-to-late August that troops would be formally deployed against Suiyang, Fancheng, Yingzhou, Jingling, Huangzhou, Shuzhou, and other places.

Either peace or war, there was a dispute in the Chongwen Hall for a long time, and everyone figured it out, but Yang Zhitang did not hesitate to advocate secretly making peace with the Eastern Liang Army in order to let Yang Yuanyan, who was fighting the main battle, get out of the lower defense line of the Huai River and take on the important task of containing the Liang army from the eastern front.

Of course, no one in the main hall has considered this possibility, after all, in addition to Zhao Zhen's department, the 30,000 soldiers and horses led by Yang Yuanyan in Chuzhou are definitely the most capable elite of Great Chu.

However, Yang Zhitang raised this matter, and was scolded by the Empress Dowager Changxin, except for Yang Zhitang's descendant Zhang Xian, no one else dared to defend him.

When the new emperor ascended the throne, he had passed an edict to the world saying that Lu Qingxia and the Mugwu people had joined forces to murder the first emperor and launch a palace mutiny, and at present, Lu Qingxia, Zhou Yuan and others openly threw themselves into the Mugwu, before overturning this conclusion, the first emperor's bones were not cold, who was not afraid of the spitting stars of the government and the opposition at this time, and sprayed him to death?

Yang Zhitang's biggest mistake was probably thinking that everyone was in Chongwen Hall at this time, and there was nothing that could not be said in a small-scale court discussion, but he didn't expect that the Empress Dowager Changxin would not hesitate to take this point and hit him mercilessly, right?