Zhang Shangying is a real scholar, and now he is very angry after hearing the report and learning that Zhao Cheng is cheating.

What really angered Zhang Shangying was the first two defeats of the official army, coupled with the fact that many people were displaced in this cold winter season, and he felt that he was almost wiped out, and felt that it was impossible for the official army to win this war.

This wanted to promote Zhao'an before there were more casualties.

Since Zhang Shangying has decided that Zhao'an is the way out, of course, the sooner the better. Wait for Wang Xiu to win a few more times, and wait for the official army to lose a few times, and the conditions given will naturally rise.

The main thing here is the disunity of values.

Zhang Shangying felt that he would lose if he continued to fight, and at that time, Wang Xiu's conditions were so high that he couldn't Zhao'an. The only way to do this is to assemble a large army and send heavy generals to fight a real large-scale civil war within the country.

At that time, no matter whether this army came from the border army or the upper fourth army, no matter who commanded it, it was always impossible to avoid the negative injuries brought about in the process of conquest, such as disturbing the people, looting, and accidental killing.

The most difficult thing is the inefficient transfer and collection of food and equipment, since it is a large army expedition, it is impossible to rely on the imperial court or a certain place for logistics supply such as grain and grass equipment, it must be coordinated by multiple regions, which involves the positions and interests of countless bureaucrats.

Even if all of the above aspects are done, there is a more fatal problem: even if the conquest of the army has been decided now, it will be three months after the beginning of spring at the earliest.

In the past three months, I am afraid that in addition to the blood flowing in Chizhou, it will also spread far away. Moreover, there is no harbinger of the formation of a large army now.

Unless it has really done great damage and is about to change the sky, no one will have the idea of gathering a large army. This is easy to lead to the shuffle of the unspoken rules of Cai Jing's basic market, and it is easier to make things worse when Uncle Zhang's Yefu Treasury is already in a hurry.

The conclusion is that as long as the sky does not change, neither Cai Jing nor Zhang Shuye will accept the price of the army's conquest, and they are surprisingly unanimous on this issue.

The disagreement was that Zhang Shuye pinned his hopes on relying on a small number of Wuwei troops and Chizhou troops to solve the problem, and suggested refusing to negotiate with the bandits.

But Cai Jing can accept negotiating with the bandits, but he can't accept the chaos. Lao Cai cautiously observed that so far, the official army had lost twice, and seeing that he could not win without sending a large army, he temporarily sought Zhao'an in order to avoid greater chaos, and this view leaned towards Zhang Shangying.

"Little mallet, militant!"

After thinking about the above ideas again, and hearing that Zhao Cheng was cheating, Zhang Shangying was furious in the state government and scolded in front of Cai You and Huang Wenbing:

"No surprises, he's a chaotic existence!"

"Just know how to express his opinion! Just know to seek his invisible credit! ”

"Did he think it out after he won the fight? Does he know the difficulties of the imperial court now?

"Does he, Zhao Cheng, know that once he fights, he can't win against Wang Xiu, and how much harm will he bring to the people of the southeast? How much chaos will be added to the court? ”

"Does he really not know, if the official army loses again, the imperial court will face the problem of collecting money and grain brought about by the conquest of the army?"

Zhang Shangying said this in one breath and continued to reprimand angrily, "He doesn't know any of this, he knows that he is not ashamed to speak out here, and he knows that he can give people some blind confidence and instigate people to die." This is the former commander of the Chizhou Formation that you have appointed to protect and which is related to the fortunes of the country! ”

He also patted the case and said: "I, Zhang Shangying, have been an official for 40 years since Emperor Yingzong came out in the year of his reign, and I have eaten more salt than he has ever seen, and I have walked more bridges than he has walked. I just don't understand, in the general environment that our dynasty has never made military achievements, where does he have the confidence to rely on less than 1,000 people to solve the Chizhou problem by military means? ”

In the face of Zhang Shangying, who was almost angry, and his rhetoric was not unreasonable, even Cai You and Huang Wenbing were a little worried, and couldn't help but look at each other.

"It's still Zhang Gong who is thorough and points to the core of the problem."

The surrounding officials led by Wang Hao suddenly looked in awe.

Even Pei Yancheng, who has always supported Zhao Cheng, was a little shaken after carefully thinking about the remarks mentioned by Zhang Shangying, twisting his beard and hesitating: Zhao Cheng He is indeed ideal and talented, but after all, he is young and vigorous, and he Xiao Zhao Xing may have fallen into the extreme of blindness, and he himself did not know it?

Pei Zhixian glanced at Cai You worriedly, although he didn't speak, it was a reminder.

Pei Zhixian did not regret supporting Zhao Cheng at the beginning, although he Xiao Zhao was very talented, he was indeed correct again and again. But as long as he is wrong once on this kind of issue, it will almost be equivalent to a catastrophe for the Chizhou government.

As a cool official, Pei Yancheng agrees with Zhao Cheng's theory: as long as there is a war, there will be sacrifices. So as long as this premise is established, Wang Xiu is not a Liao State or a Western Xia after all, even if he really has the upper hand, the damage to Chizhou as a whole can be controlled.

At least, Lao Pei believed that Zhao Cheng could control it.

But Pei Yancheng is very optimistic that Zhao Cheng will embarrass Zhang Shangying in front of him, and if this stalemate continues, it is very likely to bring a large army to gather in Chizhou.

I don't know what Cai You thinks of Lao Pei, but for Pei Yancheng, he is not afraid of Wang Xiu, but he is afraid that the border army or the Fourth Army will enter Chizhou in large numbers. It's as simple as that.

No matter who brings this army, Tong Guan, Gao Yongnian, Liu Zhongwu, Chongshi Dao, Wang Hou, Liu Yanqing, etc., in short, no matter who comes, the harm to the people's livelihood in Guichi County will probably be greater than Wang Xiu under the control of Zhao Cheng!

Robbery, indecent assault, forcible expropriation of money and food, and so on, are not to be mentioned, because this is completely inevitable. Pei Yancheng is most concerned about one of Zhao Cheng's previous arguments: if he sends troops without figuring out who is the people and who are the bandits, it is not to suppress bandits, but to dig up the ancestral grave of the Great Song Dynasty.

In fact, whether it is Wang Hou or the planter, since the war has escalated to a trend of almost a national war, they will no longer carefully distinguish, and these commanders who only aim to win the war will not listen to the advice of any Chizhou bureaucrats.

Chizhou is abolished, basically Huang Wenbing and Cai You are also pills, and they may not go home, but their political career has come to an end, and it is extremely certain that they will not be promoted in the future.

Thinking of these Lao Pei, he couldn't help but feel very thirsty, and it was inconvenient for him to speak, so he lowered his head vigorously and stumbled with tea.

Cai You and Huang Wenbin are now like a pair of brothers and sisters who are suffering from gains and losses, and they are showing affection with their eyebrows, and their eyes are coming over to make the past, which is very lively. Most people don't understand their eyes, as if only their two old chess friends know it.

Gradually, Cai You and Huang Wenbing also formed a preliminary tacit understanding, and under the role of Zhang Shangying, they also began to question Zhao Cheng a little.

It's not that they didn't take into account what Zhang Shangying said in the past, in fact, people like them are cunning and cunning, of course, they were weighing these from the beginning.

It's just that there was no direct pressure on these at that time, and the news in Chizhou was reported to the top by Cai You and Huang Wenbin, which means that stability and cover-up can be maintained in extreme cases. It is for this reason that Cai You insisted that as long as the final victory is won, everything will not be a problem, and the process and insider story can be ignored.

However, now it really doesn't work, the imperial court envoy Zuo Shilang Zhong Zhang Shangying came, which means that everything is placed under the eyes of the law, which is known as honest and honest.

Now Zhang Shangying is wrong to name Zhao Cheng, and it is possible that Lao Zhang's personal judgment will attract a large army to enter in advance. So when they got here, even Cai You and Huang Wenbin had to weigh the consequences of confronting Lao Zhang.

Change to an ordinary person, just dump him and let him take the blame. But it was the elders of the Three Dynasties who did not fall to the immortal Zhang Shangying, Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo, Cai Jing, and other prime ministers were all sprayed by him without exception.

Changing to others will really give Cai You face, Cai You can control it, but Zhang Shangying can't. Cai You will definitely not have the desire to reason with him, and even the traitor's father Cai Jingjing has no plans.

In fact, Cai You now fully understands that this is the reason why Daddy Cai Jing asked him to come, which proves that Daddy is no longer optimistic about Chizhou when he sits in the temple, and he is afraid that if someone else comes, he will be controlled by Prime Minister Cai's son and set it up.