Gongsun Hong's opposition to Liu Che's large-scale construction is indeed concerned about the people of the world, and now that the treasury has no money, it is the people who will eventually collect it, increasing the burden on the people, and Han Anguo's previous business of collecting wine and salt as official business has not been implemented, resulting in a very poor political and business environment, and he feels that it is time to adjust his strategy.

Five days later.

The court continued to quarrel, this time, Prime Minister Gongsun Hong did not give Zhu Maichen any face, he was like an arrogant rooster who refuted Zhu Maichen to the fullest, and avenged the last time.

"Your Majesty, in the past few years of foreign expeditions and civil strife, and now such a huge project is still being built, which will undoubtedly increase the burden on the people and increase the factors of social instability." Gongsun Hong's chattering admonitions.

Liu Che was convinced, but since Gongsun Hong was not pressed by Zhu Maichen, he actually did not change his mind and continued to admonish, so he said helplessly: "Hey, Prime Minister, I did use some money, but these projects are all projects that benefit the country and the people, for example, if you don't build a surrendered city, the people who surrendered from the Xiongnu will not be able to be resettled." ”

A minister, perhaps following the prime minister, stopped and admonished: "Your Majesty, you can properly place some Hu people in Guannei, the cost of building a city is indeed too great......

As soon as Gongsun Hong heard that Hu Ren was allowed to enter the customs, he immediately glared at the official and scolded: "Nonsense, Hu Ren entered the customs, didn't you lure the wolf into the house?" ”

The official was criticized with a confused face, originally he was talking on the side of the prime minister, but he was criticized by the prime minister, and he was so depressed that he stood back aggrieved, with an unhappy face.

"The Hu people, who are barbarians, need to be educated, let them enter the customs, and sooner or later they will mess up our Central Plains." Gongsun Hong said viciously.

In fact, Liu Che originally wanted to reprimand this official, but unfortunately Gongsun Hong took the lead, and what moved Liu Che even more was that Gongsun Hong's attitude towards Hu Ren's entry into the customs was amazingly the same as his own thoughts.

In this way, Prime Minister Sun Hong and Liu Che's ideas diverged on this matter, and it was not a little bit of a disagreement.

But the Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven after all, how can Gongsun Hong go to control the Son of Heaven? Since ancient times, only the ministers compromised, so after thinking about it, he said: "Your Majesty, the old minister suggests that the construction of Southwest Yi, Canghai County and other large-scale projects be suspended. ”

Gongsun Hong is to retreat as advance, if all of them depend on Liu Che, the people's taxes will increase, the society will be unstable, and it is easy to have accidents, only he will take a step back and accept two and then suspend the others.

Liu Che still refused, he didn't speak.

Things have entered a white heat, not only to achieve their own goals, but also to save face for the Son of Heaven, Gongsun Hong can only turn to Wei Qing in the first row of military generals, so he squeezed his eyes at Wei Qing.

Since the last time Zhang Tang admonished Liu Che to prevent the incident of his relatives, Wei Qing began to avoid any controversy in the court, although the northern patrol border defense hid for a year, but after coming back, he was still a little powerless in the face of the court's fight with you, so no matter how big or small the court meeting, if Liu Che didn't ask, he wouldn't take the initiative to make a statement.

Wei Qing actually measured this matter, but he didn't say it, he saw that Gongsun Hong was giving him a look, of course, he knew the truth, if it was someone else, Wei Qing would definitely not help, but this is Gongsun Hong, so Wei Qing stood up and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks what the prime minister said is extremely true!" ”

"Oh!" Liu Che really became interested, and his face was not so unbearable: "Tell me." ”

Wei Qing looked at the civil and military officials present and said: "Your Majesty, it is impossible to completely solve the problem of the northern frontier by repairing the project, Qin built the Great Wall in order to prevent Hu from going south, but the final effect is still not obvious, it is better to keep the money to solve the affairs of the princes and kings, and then come to concentrate on the side." ”

Wei Qing's words were very reasonable, Liu Che nodded after hearing this, and then asked a very exciting topic: "You, when do you think it can be solved?" "The solution that Liu Che said is to cut the fan.

Wei Qing didn't think about it, but Gongsun Hong took over and said: "Your Majesty, wait for an opportunity, an opportunity that all the princes and kings can't refuse, otherwise there will be no name, after all, these princes and kings are all personally sealed by the emperors." ”

Liu Che was disappointed, he said it was equivalent to not saying it, didn't he know that he wanted an excuse and an opportunity? Then a pot end.

"Your Majesty, what do you think about the construction of the city?" Wei Qing glanced at Gongsun Hong, meaning to remind him that he wanted to tear away the topic of money.

Gongsun Hong reacted and stepped forward and said, "Yes, Your Majesty, the old minister feels that the top priority is to develop Henan. ”

Liu Che breathed a long sigh of relief after hearing this, and the two ministers of the humerus both suggested this, so he said: "Okay, it's decided, control Henan first, and keep the rest of the money." ”

Pay back the rest of the money! Gongsun Hong's heart trembled, to be honest, the Han Dynasty could no longer withstand any war, if it fought two or three more times, the country would really be directly poor, and there would be nothing.

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"The old man is old, don't fight if he can't do it, what if he fights for a good one?"

"Hmph, Zhu Maichen, this puppet, really didn't make the old man angry."

Walking in the high palace corridor, Wei Qing helped Gongsun Hong and slowly walked outside the palace.

Gongsun Hong's body is indeed looking down, after all, he is already seventy years old, and he is so tired.

"Let's go? Go to my house? Wei Qing invited.

Gongsun Hong stood still, tightened the cane in his right hand, and then looked at Wei Qing and said: "You go first, the old man still has to go to the Tingwei Mansion, you said that this is true, Zhang Ou will find someone to replace him as soon as possible when he is demoted, it has been empty for three months." ”

After listening to this, Wei Qing still sighed, he had something in his heart, but he would not publish it casually now: "Zhang Ou is actually a good person, just by his promotion of the operation of the thirteen thorn history departments, it can be seen that it is not simple." ”

Gongsun Hong pondered, he also helped Zhang Ou fight for it at that time, but what kind of person Liu Che was Gongsun Hong still knew, and he could only regret if he didn't fight for it: "Hey, if you are busy like this, the old man will die sooner or later." ”

"Actually, I'm also ready, hehe." Wei Qing wanted to say that he really wanted to express some opinion in the court, but the words came to his lips and swallowed back: "You don't know the embarrassing situation that Benjiang is in now, hey!" ”

Gongsun Hong enlightened: "Don't think too much, you have to be like an old man, do what you want to do, if this is also a concern, then it is also a concern, then you can't do anything, let alone talk about a strong man." ”

After Gongsun Hong finished speaking, he continued to take two steps forward and turned back and said: "But, with your character, it is best not to speak if you can speak in the court, you can say less, say as little as possible, you are actually not suitable for walking in the court." ”

Gongsun Hong is over seventy years old and has read countless people, Wei Qing is indeed a rare handsome talent in a hundred years, but Liu Che is also a once-in-a-century emperor, and this relationship is very delicate.