Chen Fasheng suddenly said with a bitter face: "Your Majesty, the household department can't make ends meet, your Majesty, you know......"

Emperor Chongde glared at Chen Fasheng, but still said to Fan Fuchun: "If it is transferred, what about Huguang's army, Zhang Bingzhong?" Now Huguang's battle with Zhang Bingzhong is at a critical time. Zhang Bingzhong has already been defeated by the official army, but if he can't take advantage of the victory and give him time to breathe, he may resurrect. Then Huguang's bandits have lost their efforts! How can it be in time to mobilize Liu Zeqing in Shandong, Liu Liangzuo in Anhui, and Liu Liangzuo in Anhui, and the distance to Ruzhou is nearly twice that of Huguang, and the distance to Liu Zeqing is almost three times that of Huguang? ”

Fan Fuchun listened, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "Weichen is not thoughtful, capital crime!" Why didn't Your Majesty ask your own soldiers about the march? ”

Fu Yuanxian, the secretary of the Ministry of War, hurriedly knelt down and said: "What the emperor said is that the transfer of troops from Shandong or Anhui is not only far away, but also takes a long time, and it is not urgent. Moreover, the long-distance deployment of troops will also cost more. Moreover, in order to support the Huguang operation, all kinds of military funds were concentrated in Huguang, and if the troops in Anhui and Shandong were to be mobilized, they had to prepare and mobilize materials first. Again, it will take time. Now there is a catastrophe in Henan, and the displaced people are everywhere. It is like a large field of dry wood, and when a spark falls on it, it is a burning flame.

The emperor, the transfer of troops from Huguang may allow Zhang Bingzhong to escape, and he may resurrect in the future. But Zhang Bingzhong has just been hit hard, that is, Huguang has reduced some troops, and it should be able to maintain it for the time being. But if he didn't transfer troops from Huguang, Huang Zide would not be as simple as a resurgence, but I was afraid that it would be difficult to control it immediately. As the saying goes, the lesser of two evils. The minister thought that now he could only transfer troops from Huguang first. ”

When Emperor Chongde heard this, he sighed and said, "The work of several years is ruined in one fell swoop!" Once the troops are transferred from Huguang, I don't know how many years it will take to exterminate these rogues. ”

"Your Majesty." Fu Yuanxian kowtowed again and said, "If there is chaos today, the people's livelihood is withering, and the people can't live anymore, this is the root of the thieves." If we can't fundamentally solve this problem and just blindly rely on the army to suppress it, then we will stop the boiling soup and put out the fire with salary. Over the years, Your Majesty has been too anxious to seek treatment, and he always likes to do something that is quick for quick success. I just want to make a decision today, and I can succeed tomorrow. Some ministers figured out His Majesty's intentions, and they often lured His Majesty to do some lucky things, instead of doing the basics, in order to get lucky. However, the things of the world cannot be achieved quickly. In the past, His Majesty wanted to be peaceful for five years. And the Liao affair collapsed; Then, His Majesty increased the salary, and thieves abounded; His Majesty increased the salary, and pinned his hopes on Donggi to make no trouble, and as a result, Gyeonggi was eroded. Your Majesty, if you are already weak like a seriously ill person today, Your Majesty does not want to consolidate the foundation and cultivate the yuan, but only hopes to rely on some medicine to destroy the root of the tiger and wolf to get lucky for a while, isn't this the opposite of Your Majesty's intention to seek treatment?

Your Majesty, the former 'Mourning Gong asked Yu Youruo: "The year is hungry, and the use is insufficient, what is it?" If you say, "Thoroughly? ”

He said: "Second, I am still insufficient, how thorough is it?" He said: "The people are enough, who is the king and the insufficiency?" The people are insufficient, who is the king? "'The teachings of the sages are based on the fundamentals. Sage Yun: 'Things have a beginning and an end, things have an end, and if you know the order, you will be short-sighted.' 'Isn't the danger in Henan now because Henan is full of displaced people? If Your Majesty can think long-term and not rush to achieve results, why is Henan here? If Henan is not full of displaced people, even if there are ten hundred Huang Zide out of Shangluo Mountain, what can be done? Your Majesty has been seeking treatment all these years, and he has been dreaming of sleeping at night, and the courtiers have seen it. However, if the direction is wrong and the opposite direction is the same, the harder Your Majesty works, the faster the world will collapse. I beg your Majesty to change your ......"

"Enough!" Emperor Chongde stood up with a pale face and scolded, "What I asked you to do is the secretary of the military department, and what I want you to do is to rectify military affairs, not these!" ”

Fu Yuanxian listened, but said again: "Your Majesty, since ancient times, virtue and politics have been the foundation, and military punishment has been the end. His Majesty used his ministers as the secretary of the military department, and the ministers knew that His Majesty was a minister who had the experience of quelling the rebellion in Guizhou back then. Danchen was in Guizhou to quell the rebellion, and he didn't just rely on ......"

"Enough!" Emperor Chongde couldn't hold back any longer, and pointed at Fu Yuanxian and said, "Pull this madman out for me!" Hit it hard! ”

A few brocade guards came up and dragged Fu Yuanxian up from the ground and pushed him out.

Fu Yuanxian has already been taken out to beat the court staff, and Emperor Chongde is still angry. However, Fu Yuanxian's proposal to transfer Huguang's army to quell the Henan Rebellion was still accepted. Because, this is the only way that can be done at the moment.

Back in the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Chongde was still very unhappy. Fu Yuanxian's statement is actually a fundamental denial of all his efforts in the past ten years since he ascended the throne, and even, perhaps, in Fu Yuanxian's eyes, his efforts are harming the country, and it is better to be a carpenter all day long like his brother. This is really intolerable to him, and what is even more hateful is that what he said seems to be right!

Annoyed and ashamed, Emperor Chongde couldn't stand it at all, walked around the room a few times, and somehow remembered Xiang Qi Wan with the help of this matter, felt remorseful, sighed heavily, and said hatefully:

"Xue Bingting is innocent!" After a pause, he said: "If it weren't for the thieves like Zhang Bingzhong and Huang Zide, why would I be in a difficult situation today!" ”

I don't know when, Emperor Chongde slept in distress. The palace maid on duty at night carefully cleaned up some of the paperwork in his hand and on the quilt, put them on the sandalwood table, and covered the yellow satin dragon embroidery quilt on his body for him. Because the doors and windows are tightly closed, the air in the house is very unfresh and suffocating. She walked to the window silently, saw that the ambergris incense in the Xuande furnace on the imperial case had been extinguished, and then ordered a plate of black dragon incense made by the inner government. A thin stream of green smoke rose from the room, filling the room with a refreshing fragrance. She was about to walk out, when she heard Emperor Chongde say angrily and loudly: "Suppress the two defeats, delay the closure of the territory, and punish him severely!" She was startled, looked back in a panic, and saw that the emperor was sleeping soundly, so she walked out on tiptoe with the cold Xuande furnace.

It was raining outside, and it was not raining much, but it was windy and thundering.

A thunderbolt woke up the sleeping Emperor Chongde, he opened his eyes, and from afar, a strange and miserable business came to him, but it was like a ghost crying. The hairs on Emperor Chongde's body stood up, and he listened carefully for a while, only to hear clearly that it was the sound of a palace maid playing a watch.

In the palace for the use of needs, for the palace maid set up an inner study hall, by the master of ceremonies to choose the old and learned eunuch to teach the palace maid to read, the palace maid with good reading results can be promoted to a female talent, and then promoted to female history; Those who make mistakes must be punished, slapping them with the precepts, and kneeling before Confucius at the worst. There is also a punishment method is to order the punished palace maid to carry a copper bell at night to beat the watch, from the Qianqing outside the palace of the day essence. The door passes through the Qianqing Gate to the Yuehua Gate, patrolling back and forth, ringing the bell while walking, and singing "The world is peaceful". Tonight, the wind and rain are dark, and the miserable cry is accompanied by the copper bells of Ding Dang Ding Dang intermittently into Yangde Zhai. Emperor Chongde listened quietly for a while, sighed and said:

"Where is there peace in the world!"

Now that he had woken up, Emperor Chongde simply got up early, and a few little eunuchs served him to get dressed, and lit candles, and then he sat down beside the imperial case, looking at the stacks of urgent documents piled up on several piles, and his mind turned to state affairs again, so the sound of the wind, the rain, the thunder, the bells, mixed with the miserable screams, were all blurred in his ears. At first, he thought about the chaos everywhere, and he didn't know how to clean it up; After a while, the mind focused on military countermeasures against Zhang Bingzhong and Huang Zide. After thinking about it, I didn't come up with any perfect solution. His heart grew heavier and heavier. was thinking about how to suppress the thief, but suddenly heard the little palace maid singing in the wind, rain, and thunder outside the courtyard of the Qianqing Palace:

"The world - peace! …… The world - peace! ……”

For more than ten years, he has been looking forward to the peace of the world every day, but tonight he was suddenly afraid to hear this eulogy, and he only felt that it was like someone slapping himself in the face. He couldn't help but slap his fist the imperial case, and then ordered the eunuch who was guarding the side:

"Tell her to go to bed, stop ringing the bell and shouting 'The world is peaceful'!"

……

Since we want to "hang the people and cut down the crime", we naturally can't rob indiscriminately anymore, and even really have to do some things to "rob the rich and help the poor", such as opening warehouses and releasing grain. However, Huang Zide now faces a big problem, that is, the seized grain is not as much as he imagined.

Of course, there is still a lot of grain in the account books of the granary in Ruzhou, but the grain in the warehouse is not even one-tenth of the grain in the account books. Although some brave people had already taken some of them away when the revolutionary army rushed over, they certainly didn't take much of it for a while. However, there really wasn't much grain in the granary.

In this regard, neither Huang Zide nor Xuan Yi felt strange. This situation is all too common in my Dazhao. If the person in charge of the granary will not secretly take out the grain in the granary and sell it, wouldn't he be an official for nothing? What the? What should I do if I check it above? If you really want to check it above, isn't there a way to "burn the warehouse with a fire dragon"? In the past, Huang Zide didn't care, anyway, if there was no food in the granary of the government, he would go to the rich man's house to grab it. Now that the crime of "hanging the people and cutting down the crime", it doesn't seem appropriate to continue to rob, right?

"Of course you can't rob it. We are hanging, defending justice, not robbing everywhere. Xuan Yi Daoist said solemnly, "Of course we can't rob it." We are borrowing. ”

"How do I borrow it?" Liu Jiexuan asked.

"Of course, I brought people to the homes of those rich families and 'lent' the food they couldn't use for the time being." Xuan Yi said, "Of course, since it is a 'loan', we have to leave an 'IOU' for others." Tell people that in the future we will win the world, and they will be able to take these IOUs and ask us for accounts. Xuan Yi replied with a grin.

Liu Erhu smiled when he heard this: "Dao Chief, isn't this still a robbery?" ”

When Xuan Yi heard this, his eyes widened and said: "Borrowing grain can't be considered robbery, borrowing grain, hanging the people and killing the crime, how can it be considered robbery?" Note that we are borrowing, so don't kill people, try not to hit people, even if you break the door or something, you have to fold it on the IOU. The effect may not be obvious now, but in the future, when we really want to win the world, the more debt we owe to someone, the more he will support us. ”

Everyone around them burst into laughter, and the lobby was filled with a happy atmosphere.