During this time, the emperor's life, as Gao Yue expected, was not easy.

It is true that Zhao Jing sent troops without authorization, but he did receive a secret edict from the emperor, so he also played the "Schrödinger mode", and it is a fact that Princess Deyang returned to Tang, and the emperor had no way to punish Zhao Jing for this.

Since Zhao Jing could not be punished, the northern land achieved such a great "victory" against the Uighurs, the emperor must also admit it by the way, before Lingwu, Tiande, Zhenwu, Tianbing four military towns, to the soldiers of the war to pay for the cost, has been emptying their respective military treasury, and now the four towns have sent officials into the court, to ask for money, the four towns soldiers each eight to ten times, plus two silk cloth, for this emperor found Du Huangsheng, to the treasury to pay.

Du Huangshang refused, saying that according to the previous agreement between Gao Gao Lang and His Majesty, the reward money should be from the Son of Heaven.

In desperation, the emperor took out 500,000 guan in the inner library and used it to distribute the soldiers of the four towns.

Originally, this money, after Gao Yue pacified Yuanyi in Zhaozhou, was stored in the Daying Qionglin Treasury and was ready to be used for the war against Huaixi immediately, but now it can only be taken out in advance. Coupled with the construction of a temple for Empress Zhaode, and various expenses in the palace (such as the return of Princess Deyang, who also needed money), the emperor did not have any money to save this year.

But this is not the end, when the four towns set out on the expedition, the grain accumulated in the camp was also spent, Wang Shao, as the water transport envoy of the six cities and Jingyuan, played to the emperor, asking the imperial court to quickly and buy grain, and the ships were transported to the military towns of Hetao, otherwise the soldiers would be hungry.

At the same time, the situation of the Uighurs was not stabilized, the age of the Fengcheng Khan in the royal court was too young, the whole country was in a state of explosion, and the various ethnic groups that were already dissatisfied with the Uighur conquest were either resisting or self-reliant, and the Gerluq and other Gerluq invaded in the north and west.

Therefore, Fengcheng Khan, who was worried about internal and external troubles, sent an envoy to Daming Palace and called the emperor "great-grandfather" (Wuyi Khan was the emperor's son-in-law and son, and the poisoned Panguan was the emperor's grandson, and now this is the great-grandson. He begged his great-grandfather for a grant of support to help him stabilize the country.

The great-grandson asked for a lot of money, and the opening was 700,000 yuan, plus 200,000 pieces of silk cloth.

The Emperor didn't want this money to come out anyway, but the Tang army had already entered the Uighur tent court as the suzerain, but now it was difficult to abandon it.

The emperor consulted with Gao Yue.

Although he had submitted his resignation twice before, it was a major matter of the country, and since Gao Yue was still a Chinese scholar, he would still discuss it seriously with the emperor.

Gao Yue's opinion on this was that "since Princess Deyang has returned, it is no longer necessary or beneficial to entangle the Uighurs, so it is better to find an excuse to continue to maintain the system of guarding the Hetao line, and no longer participate in the struggle between the Uighurs, the Gyas, and the Qarluq." ”

In short, Gao Yue's approach is to simply let the desert engage in dragon and tiger fighting, and whoever wins in this competition in the end, I Tang will take out the energy to deal with him.

Now the main force that needs to be dealt with is Huaixi.

After listening to Gao Yue's plan, the emperor also agreed in principle.

Daming Palace Shangshu Provincial Metropolitan Hall, because now the prime minister has taken the measure of dividing the six departments, most of the scribes in each ministry are holding the case, go to the political hall to dock, so surrounded by locust trees and pines and cypresses, the capital hall seems particularly quiet.

Zhao Jing, who came from the Zuocheng hall, stood behind the door curtain.

Soon, the Tobe squire judged to be the branch of Pei Yanling appeared from the corner of the corridor.

The two quickly bowed to each other and began to talk in a whisper.

"The day before yesterday, Yanying asked right, after the other ministers retreated, the Holy Lord left the servants alone and talked for half an hour." Pei Yanling was the first to speak.

Zhao Jing is still Shangshu Zuocheng for the time being, and there is not much practice to do in this position, and he basically can't enter the Yanying Palace.

But Pei Yanling is different, after all, he is in charge of the Du Branch, not only can he often go to Yanying Palace, but he can also get close to the emperor in terms of national planning.

"What does the Holy Lord have to explain to Master Pei?" Zhao Jing asked back.

"The Holy Lord is hesitating, and there is only so much money in the imperial court, whether it will be used for Huaixi or for the Uighurs."

Zhao Jing sneered, turned sideways slightly, and looked at the purple and red flower fence outside the capital hall, "Use soldiers to Huaixi, it must be Gao Gao Lang's insistence......"

"What Zhao Zuocheng said is not wrong."

"But does the Holy Lord know that although Shen Guangcai is small, he can move his whole body, whether it is the Pinglu Army of Ziqing, or the Tianxiong Army of Wei Bo, or even the Xuanwu Army of Biansong, it is impossible to sit idly by and ignore the actions of the imperial court. If it sticks to the same situation as the Heshuo War in the past, the country's social security will be in danger. ”

"Yes, yes." Pei Yanling expressed his admiration for Zhao Jing's foresight.

"This is called riding a tiger!" Zhao Jing touched his beard, and the index finger of his other hand poked down twice.

"However, this time, Zhao Zuocheng oversaw the Uighurs in the north, stabilized the Fengcheng Khan, not to mention, but also welcomed back Princess Deyang, and made such outstanding feats for the Holy Lord, but so far there is still no white hemp announcement, and it is not worth stealing for Zuocheng." Pei Yanling instigated with pity.

"White hemp is definitely going to be announced, but the servant is not willing to be Gao Yue's companion food." Zhao Jing said nonchalantly.

"Gao Yue is doing a good job, the Holy Lord is convinced of it, it can be described as hot, and the identity of this companion can't even be avoided by Jia Servus and Lu Zhen, how can Gong do it?"

Zhao Jing smiled, pointed at Pei Yanling and asked, "Didn't Little Master Pei think that the servants would speak ill of Gao Yue in front of the Holy Lord?" Haha, the servant is not so stupid, that's just the way to die. However, Servant Guan Xiao Pei should not be a self-willed character, and this meeting will teach me something. ”

At this time, Pei Yanling looked around, and when he saw that no one was around, he approached Zhao Jing and told him in a whisper: "It is said that Gao Yue has made a resignation to the Holy Lord and wants to leave the town of Huainan......

"I don't want to serve as a scholar in China, but I want to go to guard Huainan, Gao Yue acts, but it has a lot of meaning." Zhao Jing raised his eyebrows, "However, if Gao Yue really leaves Chang'an and goes to Yangzhou, it will be a good thing for us." ”

"Zhao Zuocheng, you and I really see the same thing!" Pei Yanling also understood.

Just two days before Princess Lingxu entered the palace to join the province, the emperor summoned Gao Yue alone in the Jinluan Palace, and also provoked and persuaded him: "I announced Zhao Jing before, and wanted to grant him the system of white hemp, but Zhao Jing refused. ”

Gao Yue was a little surprised by this.

Then the emperor then said to him: "Since Zhao Jing refused to enter the political affairs hall, I want him to be the envoy of the Huainan Festival, so that Gao Lang can continue to serve as the Zhongshu Lang, and the shifts of the governors will remain the same, and when the Uighurs are at peace, I and Gao Lang will concentrate on pacifying Huaixi, how so?" ”

Gao Yue thought about it for a while, and then said to the emperor very sincerely:

In fact, for today's plan, if His Majesty really wants to succeed in pacifying Huaixi, Chen Yue feels that it is best for Chen Yue to personally go to guard Jingluo Huainan.

Seeing that Gao Yue was determined to leave, the emperor was also anxious, "Why don't you think about it anymore?" ”