As the sun rises, so does the temperature in the garden. It is no longer the scorching heat that can be dissipated by the water drawn from the deep underground canals of the snow-capped mountains. Li Wenyuan looked up at the sun, and secretly estimated the time, almost an hour and a half had passed, and estimated that this group of ministers should have almost woken up, so he turned around and went home, and returned to the previous meeting hall.

Entering the house, Li Wenyuan looked around, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, what kind of panacea did the cook in this imperial dining room use? The faces of the ministers were no longer the same as before, and they all returned to their usual ghostly appearance, their eyes were wide open, and there was a faint flash of light. Li Wenyuan saw that the mental state of the ministers had already adjusted. So he walked to his place. Then he sat down, supported the table in front of him with both hands, looked around the room with his eyes, and then said loudly: "Colleagues, our topic today is our next attitude towards Xue Ju. Now Xue Ju has not torn his face and said that he wants to turn his face with us for the time being, so now we and Xue Ju are still allies, so in this case, let's discuss whether we should strike first and grasp the initiative against Xue Ju, or wait for Xue Ju to pierce this layer of window paper first, and then we will carry out a reasonable self-defense counterattack? ”

In fact, Li Wenyuan had already discussed this issue before, and he had already reached an agreement with the ministers. The reason why Li Wenyuan raised this question at this time was simply to see if these ministers had sobered up. Is it really the dullness of the mind that comes with a hangover, or is it just a pretended sobering to cope with yourself?

The ministers in the court unanimously chose to let Xue Ju pierce this layer of window paper first, after all, only in this way can they stand on their feet morally. Of course, the morality here is only for the people under his rule. On the one hand, they hope that their motherland can expand their territory to the outside world, but at the same time, they especially resist their motherland's aggressive attacks on other forces. They stand on the moral high ground, but they don't feel any cold. They always believed that a wise monarch should be able to give up the land to others by not attacking others. If you can't do it, then it's your monarch's incompetence. If the monarch is holy enough, how can he not come to court from all nations?

Anyway, even if Xue Ju came to pierce this layer of window paper first, in the eyes of the people under Xue Ju's rule, Xue Ju is still a victim. Anyway, in order to gain the approval of the people, Xue Ju would never admit to the people under his rule that he took the initiative to tear up the alliance with Li Wenyuan, and would definitely use all kinds of reasonable or unreasonable excuses as a fig leaf to deceive the people under his rule and let them support him in this war.

Li Wenyuan faced the door of the palace, and after confirming that the ministers had sobered up, he stopped being verbose, and directly threw out the core topic of today. "Ladies and gentlemen, if we wait until Xue Ju takes the lead in launching an attack on us, and then we carry out a reasonable self-defense counterattack, how far will we go in this war?" Whether it is until the point is reached, it is only until Xue Ju takes the initiative to ask the two sides to sign a non-aggression agreement again and stops, or until Xue Ju cedes the land and pays compensation, or we directly pour the country's troops into a decisive battle with Xue Ju, either we destroy it, or we are eliminated by him. ”

After Li Wenyuan threw out this topic, the ministers in the court immediately divided into three factions and began to debate. One faction is the hawkish faction led by young officers and generals, who believe that since there has been a war with Xue Ju, the relationship between the two sides is like a broken mirror, and no matter how much it is repaired, it will never be able to cover up the cracks on the mirror. Therefore, it is not advisable to cede land and pay reparations in the middle of the war, or to only carry out a warning war to force Xue Ju to sign a non-aggression pact again. The relationship between the two sides cannot return to the mutual trust and intimacy before the war, so the hawkish generals are resolutely opposed to this kind of thing.

The other faction was the doves led by the court's ministers. Among them, the ministers of the Ministry of Commerce opposed it most fiercely. They think that war is a gold hole. No matter how much money you have, as long as it is in the name of war, you will throw it in. What's more, in Xue Ju's territory, these investments may not be able to see much return. After all, Xue Ju's Jincheng County was only stuck in the Hexi Corridor, where the land was the most fertile, but food was the last thing Li Wenyuan lacked now. Perhaps the only thing in Xue Ju's hands that could interest Li Wenyuan was the large population in these county capitals. But more people mean more overhead, and that cost takes a long time to pay for itself. So, while tasting the large tax revenues brought about by industrialization, these people in the Ministry of Commerce were very resistant to easily starting a war that could be very large.

As for the third group, there are neutrals who do not join any faction. In their opinion, no matter which of these two is the same, they are just waiting for Li Wenyuan's final decision, and they will do whatever Li Wenyuan says. Therefore, when the two forces of hawks and doves in the court were arguing with each other, these people closed their eyes and quietly watched from the sidelines.

At this time, the court was extremely lively, and the doves accused the hawks of being reckless, not knowing how to sympathize with the people's feelings, and only knowing that they would easily launch a large-scale foreign war for the sake of the little idea of fighting for fame and fortune in their hearts. You must know that the expenditures brought about by this war are likely to slow down the pace of Li Wenyuan's external expansion, and even cause financial fluctuations in the regions under Li Wenyuan's current rule. In the end, these ministers of the doves began to accuse the hawks of being reckless people with developed limbs and simple minds, who did not understand the people's livelihood and economy, and only knew how to fight and kill all day long.

Those hawks also breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts when they heard the doves belittle themselves so much. Some people thought to themselves that these doves were right, that we were really just a bunch of generals who could only fight. I don't know what the people's livelihood economy is. But we're going to fight, so we want to get up from our seats and teach the dovish ministers a lesson. But under Li Wenyuan's powerful sweep, he had to sit back in a silent voice.

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