Cui Yi said the news he heard in the barracks again, and then looked at the two of them: "What do you think?" ”

Bailizan touched his chin, pondered for a while, and asked rhetorically: "How to decide the quota of the soldiers who were released?" Should it be spread among the battalions, or should the establishment of a particular battalion be abolished outright? ”

Cui Yi said in a deep voice: "It has not yet been decided, and how to implement it will not be known until the emperor of the province under the door plays." ”

Bailizan nodded, and arched his hand: "If it is distributed to each battalion, the prince is a general of the cavalry, and the soldiers in his hand can be transferred to the seven battalions of the western camp, including the Kuizi battalion, accounting for nearly one-third of the capital's troops. ”

Cui Yi thought for a while, and then asked, "What if my father doesn't agree?" ”

Bailizan said with a smile: "It is also the military power, in the hands of outsiders and in the hands of his own son, which one does the prince think the emperor will choose?" ”

The answer was of course obvious, Cui Yi's frowning brows relaxed, and his expression relaxed a lot.

"And the reason?"

"How much or as much as you want, since the prince has gotten the news in advance, he can now send spies to investigate the drills of the other battalions, especially focusing on the heads of some generals."

A question mark popped up on Cui Yi's head: "Some generals? ”

Zhiying reminded helplessly: "The general who is close to the prince, the prince will change his tricks to suppress the prince, and the prince can also govern him in his own way, and if he wants to cut the army, let him withdraw the battalions under the jurisdiction of the generals who are loyal to him." ”

Cui Yi's eyes lit up and he patted his knees: "Okay!" ”

Bailizan also said: "As for the reduction of military spending, it is not a good thing. ”

Cui Yi's face immediately fell again: "What do you mean, it's a good thing to let tens of thousands of soldiers practice hungry?" ”

"No, why doesn't the prince think so, the prince deducts everyone's military salary, and the soldiers can't feed their families with enough food, who will complain? If someone is willing to pay for it at this time and subsidize everyone, won't the soldiers be grateful? In the future, if they have to choose between the prince and the prince, I think anyone with a little conscience will choose the prince. ”

Bailizan's words made Cui Yi's face instantly brighten, and he was almost overjoyed, who thought that Xie Yong, who had been silent on the side, suddenly said: "His Royal Highness the Prince's reduction of military spending and reduction of soldiers is also for the people to live and work in peace and contentment, since the founding of the country, Great Chu has used troops for many years, resulting in an empty treasury, and I privately think that the prince can take the lead in reducing expenses and streamlining the number of soldiers to win the favor of the emperor, if you use the topic to play against the prince, I am afraid——"

Before the words fell, Cui Yi stood up abruptly and roared angrily: "What do you know! Eat things inside and out, come on! ”

Zhiying and Bailizan were busy together: "The prince is angry! ”

Cui Yi turned a deaf ear: "Drag him out for me!" Twenty sticks! ”

Xie Yong never thought that he would be treated like this, and he also made a suggestion, Bailizan could win a "good" word, but he ended up with a "dragged out to fight"? Suddenly, he was hit by five thunderbolts, and he was dragged out stiffly.

"Lord Wang! Loyal words are contrary to the ear, everything I say is from the bottom of my heart! Regardless of the little girl's hard pull, Xie Yong loudly complained for himself.

Cui Yi's face was very ugly, and his gaze was like a blade of a sword, and he wanted to pierce Xie Yong out of a hole.

Zhiying said anxiously: "The prince can't be like this, if he beats Gongzi Xie, who will dare to speak to the prince in the future?" The words of the admonitor are listened to if the prince is willing to listen, and if he doesn't want to listen, he can't listen to them, but he must not break their hearts! ”

Cui Yi was angry: "This king eats and drinks well to raise him, but he speaks for the prince, what are you doing with this kind of dog thing that eats inside and out!" Kill it before it's too late! ”

What was about to be said again, Cui Yi waved his hand: "Don't do it yet!" ”

The little servants only dragged the person to the courtyard, and hesitated without moving, Bailizan rolled his eyes, bowed down and said: "Madame is now pregnant with Liujia, if the prince rashly kills and damages the yin virtue, I am afraid that it will not be good for the little prince, and please think twice!" ”

The three words "Xiao Shizi" successfully calmed Cui Yi, and he glanced at Zhiying, who was holding his arm anxiously, with a complicated expression, and finally reluctantly relented: "Escort people back to the side courtyard, and don't go out of the room for a month!" The little guys hurriedly complied and dragged Xie Yong away hand and foot.

Cui Yi was so angry that his brain hurt, Zhiying breathed a sigh of relief, and took his hand and sat back: "The prince's temper still has to be changed, too much anger is not good for the body, come, drink saliva to moisten your throat." ”

Cui Yi drank tea with a calm face, Bailizan smelled the smell of the house, knew that he should retreat, so he consciously said goodbye, Cui Yi didn't stay, drank tea for a while, calmed down a little, and then asked Zhiying: "Are you okay?" ”

Zhiying smiled: "I don't have anything to do, it's true that the prince is less angry, they all say that the child can't see the ugly monster when he is in the mother's womb, otherwise he will grow into an ugly monster, the prince must always blow his beard and stare at him, beware that the child is born with inverted eyebrows, and he can't even ask for his daughter-in-law when he grows up." ”

When she said this, Rao is Cui Yi had always had a wooden face, and he couldn't help laughing, and nodded: "Well, I remember, I won't lose my temper in the future." ”

After a while, the kitchen prepared a meal and sent it over, Cui Yi saw the fish in the bowl, and then remembered what Zhiying said at the beginning, "The fish belly hides the sword", and couldn't help asking: "What do you mean by the dagger in the fish belly you said before?" ”

"It's a story, about a man who devoted himself to learning to make fish in order to take revenge on the king, and then the fame finally reached the ears of the king, and he was summoned to the palace to offer fish, so this person hid a dagger in the belly of the fish, and killed the enemy at the moment of offering the fish," Zhiying explained while serving him soup, "If the excerpt of the disarmament fee is compared to a fish, then the prince's intention to weaken the prince is the dagger in the belly of the fish, and the sacrifice is a fish, but the intention is to dagger." ”

Cui Yi silently took the soup bowl, blew it, and said, "Father's acceptance of the fish is equivalent to accepting the dagger." ”

Zhiying smiled: "The emperor may not be willing to accept the dagger, maybe he is just forced to do so, after all, Da Chu is indeed not suitable to start a war with the Beidi people now." ”

Cui Yi's eyes were cold: "With my father's mind, how could I not think that the prince is targeting me, since it is not appropriate to start another war, then it is useless to keep me." ”

This is also the truth, his son is a few catties and a few taels, how could Emperor Jianyuan not know, since Cui Jie dared to send back the folds passed by the two provinces under the Zhongshu Gate, he must have obtained the tacit approval of Emperor Jianyuan, among these two sons, Emperor Jianyuan must have made some trade-offs, and the result is obvious.

After eating, Cui Yi took the Xingyuan sword off the wall and wiped it, since Cheng Hu gave him the sword, except for occasionally dancing in the courtyard, he has not really used it, Zhiying saw that he carefully wiped it with silk repeatedly, knowing that this time Emperor Jianyuan's decision must have hurt him very much, he was pulled down from the position of the eldest son, and retreated again and again, but the suspicious Cui Jie still did not plan to let him go, if there is no family affection between the siblings of the heavenly family, what about the father and son? Isn't there any blood affection at all?

After rubbing it sullenly for a while, Cui Yi put the sword up, looked at his own reflection on the sword with an indifferent expression, and said, "How much silver is there in the palace treasury?" ”

"The prince really plans to give his own pocket to subsidize the soldiers' families?" Zhiying was drinking the medicine when she raised her head when she heard the words.

Cui Yi squinted and looked over: "Otherwise, you have a better way?" ”

Zhiying wiped the corners of her mouth and said with a smile: "Whether it's good or not depends on what the prince thinks, there is a lot of silver in the treasury of the palace, but since the prince said that he does not plan to use troops against Beidi in the next five to ten years, the prince still plans to raise tens of thousands of people for nothing?" The prince is willing, and the palace can't afford it. ”

"So what do you say?"

"If you want me to say ......"

The corners of her lips rose, and she smiled so cunningly: "It's better to let them farm and feed themselves, won't the prince have a large fief after opening the mansion and sealing the king?" Since there will be no war in the next five to ten years, the soldiers are idle, it is better to find something to do, practice in the morning, plant the land in the afternoon, harvest the grain and fruits in each season, the palace will draw one percent, and the rest will be divided by themselves, and the favor will be done, and the benefits will be obtained, why not? ”

Cui Yi's brows furrowed suddenly, then unfolded again, and nodded slowly: "Yes, this idea is even better than Baili praised." ”

Seeing this, Zhiying further proposed: "In fact, although what Gongzi Xie said is not to be heard, it is not without merit, if only the prince's soldiers are withdrawn, not only the prince is not convinced, the emperor will also be suspicious, the prince will also appropriately cut some people who are indiscriminate, and then donate a thousand taels of silver, the prince took the lead, how dare the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty not follow the donation, donate more and donate less is a meaning, the treasury has an account, it is equivalent to solving the emperor's urgent need, the emperor will be moved by the prince's filial piety, and the prince compares, which is better and which is inferior, naturally see the difference." ”

As a child, he will always hope to be excellent in the eyes of his parents, and Cui Yi is naturally no exception, although he is not interested in the throne, it is always good to win the favor of Emperor Jianyuan. ”

A few days later, the Zhongshu Province forwarded an excerpt to the Ministry of Household on the treasury expenditure plan for the coming year, which mentioned a large number of decisions that were unfavorable to Cui Yi, such as cutting military spending and reducing soldiers.

However, Cui Yi's reaction was beyond everyone's expectations, he not only strongly agreed with this proposal, but also expressed dissatisfaction with the long-term situation of soldiers lazy and slippery and harassing the people in the East and West Second Battalions, especially focusing on the fact that the soldiers of the Fengzi Battalion went into the mountains to poach last month, and the soldiers of the Xuanzi Battalion were not active in training, and took the initiative to ask Ying to solve the problem of the uneven quality of the East and West Second Battalions, and also expressed his willingness to donate 1,000 taels of silver to the treasury, "hoping to relieve my father's worries a little."

The civil officials were shocked - King Wu's words were echoing the prince at first glance, and after a careful touch, he found that he was simply borrowing strength, and the prince wanted to weaken him, so he took the initiative to take over this job, isn't this equivalent to using the prince's knife to cut the prince's flesh, when did King Wu become so smart?

The military attachés were also shocked - the martial king has never read and talked little, but this time he actually talked so much? And every sentence sounds very reasonable! He and the prince have been opposed all year round, how can he help the prince speak today?

Even the crown prince Cui Jie couldn't help frowning, looking at his younger brother suspiciously, as if he suddenly didn't know him.

The final result was as expected by Zhiying, Emperor Jianyuan was very satisfied with Cui Yi's attitude to solve the problem of the empty treasury, praised him in front of the ministers, and handed over the decision to him to screen and stay.

Cui Yi smiled proudly.