Zhao Xun was not shocked, although the disparity between the investment and the results was too great, but he believed that with Wei Xian's ability, he should be able to do it. Only in four months, he was able to quickly gain a firm foothold and open up a situation, which really made Zhao Xun unexpected.

At the same time, in the Prince's Mansion that night, Xihuan actually got the news from Guangxin, to say that he didn't believe in Wei Xianjiangdong's four defeats to Han He, but now that the iron-clad facts are in front of him, Xihuan felt the crisis of the knife frame neck for the first time.

"Your Highness, if you continue like this, I'm afraid it's not a long-term solution." The attendant steward Gu Chen said.

"I really didn't expect that it had only been four or five months, and Wei Xian had done such a thing. To say that he is Bailiyan, this princess has to doubt that Bailiyan can do this. ”

"What His Royal Highness said is extremely true, it is rumored that this son is extremely capable of witchcraft, and he can also conjure cold ice out of thin air, maybe there is something strange in this banditry."

"You mean, he's a sorcerer." Xihuan's face was gloomy, and his glamorous face suddenly became a little sharper.

"There are people outside the world, there are people outside the sky, and the things of the demon Gu can only be trusted, but they can't be trusted, so they have to be guarded against."

"Having said that, but this time the royal guests all said that Wei Xian designed, and this should not be false. This time, the weak defeated the strong, if there was really demonic magic, wouldn't it have wiped out Han He's entire army back then. ”

"What His Highness said is not unreasonable, but his subordinates are abrupt. However, seeing that Wei Xian is gaining power in Guangxin, in case raising a tiger becomes a problem, the gains outweigh the losses. ”

"Are you worried about Guangxin Gong Jiang Min?" Xihuan said disdainfully: "Although Jiang Min has a thief's heart, he still lacks the courage of a thief. This guts, I have to send him to this princess. Although we have nothing to lose in the matter of horse thieves, we will have to act carefully in the realm of Guangxin in the future, Jiang Min is not worried, Wei Xian is extremely deceitful, plus that Chen Yunfeng, these two people are like a right-hand man. ”

"What does the princess mean, and what should she do next?"

"At present, the locust plague is coming to the north, my father wrote that the locust plague has spread to the west of Zhiguo, the north of Sun Guo, according to this development, less than half a month, more than one month will enter the Xianguo, but the autumn grain has not yet been harvested, locusts arrive, people's livelihood is bound to be impacted, this winter will be a key node, the top priority is to prevent civil change.

As for the matter of the horse thief, it has already set off a lot of turmoil, and it should be discussed in the Inner Dynasty tomorrow, Wei Xian has just been reused by Jiang Min now, and there will be no big moves for a while. We will wait for this winter and next spring to keep a close eye on the Xianguo market, and we must not let Gongsun Yue and his ilk succeed in their treacherous schemes and increase the burden on the Jin Kingdom. ”

At this time, Xihuan considered more of a locust plague that spread from south to north, and the locust plague spread all the way north along the southwest and western lines of Zhiguo, passing through Xu and Sun, and the locust plague front had reached the southeast of Sun.

If it continues, it will fly all the way north into the southeast of Changsun Kingdom and the southwest border of Xian Kingdom. If the situation is worse, it may envelop the one-third of Xian countries west of Chenling in a plague of locusts.

The locust plague cannot last only one season, and it is possible for it to recur again and again, for as little as a year or as long as three years. Xihuan was worried that Gongsun Yue would destroy the economy of the Xian State with the "Push Business Tax", and drag down the national strength of the Jin State with the method of poverty and exhaustion.

If there is another locust plague at this time, even if it is only a year span, the entire Xian country will be full of wolf smoke, repeating the chaos of the people four years ago, which is an intolerable loss for Xihuan and the Jin Kingdom.

Xihuan intends to curb the trend of soaring prices when prices are at their highest next year, so the Jin State began to work two months ago to strictly control the flow of people's biological resources to the countries other than the Jin State and the Xian State, and the price suppression of the Xian State has been in full swing preparations.

In the early morning of the next day, Guangxin City's victory in suppressing bandits arrived in Chenling a few hours late, Gongsun Yue and King Xian had hidden ears and eyes in Guangxin, as well as the official documents of Taishou Mansion, and the matter of suppressing bandits was already known to Xiangguo Mansion and Xianwang Palace.

For a group of horse thieves with only four or five hundred people, King Xian would not regard it as a great cause worthy of a special book, and after the good news was delivered to the palace, he was placed in the state political supervisor and waited for tomorrow's disposal.

As a rule, the chief ministers of the early cabinet, such as the prime minister, the great Sima, the great Si Nong, and the foreign envoy, previewed the final proposals submitted by various localities and countries, including the military, political, and foreign affairs, which were submitted yesterday.

The draft is the general content left by the local officials in various departments before submitting the manuscript to the monarch. It is equivalent to briefly sorting out the detailed contents of the recital and the recital table and submitting the core content to the ministries and departments and yamen for the highest officials to read, so that the ministers can come up with countermeasures with the cabinet and staff before the monarch asks about the government.

The Great Sima Mansion also received a briefing on the victory of the bandits, and the matter was mentioned in the early court:

"King Qi, in the early hours of this morning, I received a joint report from Guangxin Taishou Yuzhuang, and Guangxin Gong jointly reported that Guangxin Gong sent troops and Yuke to exterminate 564 people including horse thieves Huo Xing, Niu Gui, Wu Shan, etc., and rescued more than 800 people, and the county soldiers and royal guests suffered very little losses.

"This matter is already known to few people, and it is ridiculous that more than 500 remnants of bandits are worthy of being reported by Guangxin."

Jiang Hai disagreed, and at this time Gongsun Yue said:

"What the king said is extremely true, only five or six hundred thieves are not to be worried. However, it is reported that Huo Xing and others privately made strong bows and hard crossbows, as many as 2,000, and no strong crossbows were found in the seized baggage, and the king still needs to investigate this matter in detail, so as not to be taken advantage of by thieves. ”

King Xian was deeply impressed, and he said:

"What Xiang Guo said is reasonable, the crime of private crossbow can be sentenced to death, and two thousand strong crossbows is not a trivial matter, so let Beihai County and Guangxin Gong supervise it together."

The good news listed in detail the crimes of Huo Xing and others, among which the private strong crossbow was truthfully played, although the suppression of bandits was led by Guangxin Gong, but Gongsun Yue's words alluded to the insinuation that the private strong crossbow was inseparable from Guangxin Gong, and the suppression of bandits may have been forced to be discovered, and Guangxin Gong directed and acted a farce.

The investigation is to be investigated, but Guangxin Gong is forced too quickly, and the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry is not the result that King Xian and Gongsun Yue want to see.

King Xian naturally knew what was at stake, and ordered the Beihai County Shou to investigate the case with Guangxin Gong, which also gave Guangxin Gong a step down, and when it dragged on for three and a half months, the matter of the strong crossbow would naturally be over.

Guangxin Gong asked to reward the meritorious minister King Xian, but five or six hundred horse thieves are not a great achievement worthy of a special book, plus Jiang Min deliberately concealed the details, only said the general process of the war, exaggerated the role of the royal guest, Wei Xian weakened the role, so only rewarded some jade silk and the like, because Wei Xian was Zhao Xun recommended Guangxin Gong, King Xian then turned to ask Zhao Xun:

"Doctor Zhao, the widow remembers that Wei Xian is the person recommended by Doctor Zhao."

Zhao Xun stepped out to the right and took a salute:

"King Qi, Wei Xian is indeed the person recommended by the ministers. Wei Xian made outstanding achievements in the Battle of Jiangdong that year, but because he was a Qi person and not a child of the Xianguo family, he later withdrew from the army, so he could not record his merits. ”

King Xian pondered for a moment, and then he said:

"The few people know a little about this matter, this time Guangxin can be outnumbered and the enemy can also be described as a miracle, Dr. Zhao is virtuous, and the widow should be rewarded."

In the following military systems, foreign soldiers can only be credited with meritorious service after five years of service, and even if you have made more military merits, at most you can become a centurion, so as to prevent unnaturalized people from being deceived and ruling the military power and inciting rebellion.

Even if they are civilian soldiers, if they want to accumulate military merits and climb above the capital, they must be recommended by someone, or they must be born into a powerful family of nobles and relatives in order to move up smoothly.

These two items alone blocked Bai Liyan's capital to accumulate military merits back then, not to mention that she was still a sixteen-year-old doll back then.

Coupled with the obstruction of Marquis Dingyang, even if Zhao Xun has the intention to seek an official position for Baili Yan, as long as Marquis Dingyang obstructs it, most of this matter will not succeed.

Seeing that King Xian intended to defend Zhao Xun, Zhang Jun, Marquis of Dingyang, took the opportunity to say:

"The king of Qi, as the Guangxin Jiebao said, this time with less wins and more royal guests, Wei Xian's merits are only a small merit, how can they be compared with the royal guests."

"What Marquis Ding Yang said is reasonable." Gongsun Yue agreed: "The minister also thinks that the suppression of thieves is a matter within the counties of each county, and although it is a violation of the system as a good news report to the capital, it is not commendable. The reward for the jade silk is already the king's grace, and there must be no violation of the etiquette and the ancestral system to usurp people, and please see the king. ”

"The minister seconded the proposal."

The Great Sima Jiang Yan seconded the proposal, and the attitude of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces then turned to Jiang Yan, Ding Yang Hou, Gongsun Yue and others. As a relative of important ministers, King Xian was closer to these rights and supported his "virtuous ministers and good generals".

"What the prime minister and Da Sima said is reasonable, and the widow thinks it is true, what does Doctor Zhao think."

The ball was kicked to Zhao Xun, and the implication was that Wei Xian was just a name in the merit book, which was insignificant at all, and it was not worth reusing and adding more rewards, not to mention the small battle of five or six hundred people, what could it say.

After a moment of silence, Zhao Xun said:

"King Shengming, what the Great Sima and the Prime Minister said is extremely true, and the minister also seconded it."

As soon as the words fell, Mo Anzheng, who was standing in a column of civil officials on the right, and was closer to King Xian, looked back at Zhao Xun, and couldn't help but think in his heart: How can this Zhao Xun tear down the steps of his own people, isn't this a loss to his own people.

Mo Anzheng received a secret letter from Jiang Min in advance, asking him to maintain an attitude with Zhao Xun in this matter, using the official document of good news as the yardstick, and the upper limit could not exceed the scale of the good news, but he didn't expect that Zhao Xun didn't even have the most basic bottom line.

The matter of suppressing bandits came to an end, and Mo Anzheng followed up and asked King Xian about the spread of the locust plague in Zhiguo and Xuguo.

"King Qi, the locust plague of Zhiguo and Xu has spread to the southeast of Sun and the border of Zhiguo, with the momentum of this spread, the locust plague will arrive in Xianguo within half a month at the earliest, and our country should make preparations as soon as possible to prevent the spread of locust plague and cause civil unrest.

The minister thought that the new policy "Promoting Business Tax" caused prices to skyrocket, and the people had already complained. If there is a change due to locusts, I am afraid that we will repeat the mistakes of the people in the past. ”

"Da Si Nong's words are wrong." Gongsun Yue objected, stepped forward and said: "At the beginning of the new policy, all the politics were not smooth, like good medicine and bitter mouth, it is common sense that you can only cure the root cause by persisting. Moreover, the locust plague has been sharply reduced by more than half from the south to the north, and it is no longer a problem to enter the end of our country's strong crossbow. Da Si Nong's remarks are alarmist. ”