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On the eighth day of the first month of March, Shendu, Taiji Palace, early dynasty......

"What's going on? In half a month, why did the army march in front of the palace was less than 200 miles? How many Heyuan emergency reports have been issued? What the hell are they doing? ”

But seeing that Wei Zhi was furious above the main hall, he kept throwing an urgent message from Feng Heyuan from the dragon chair, and the full hall of civil and military officials only lowered their heads, not daring to make a sound so as not to offend Long Yan......

"Speak! Why don't you say it? Wei Zhen was obviously extremely angry, and the dragon's body was constantly trembling, "What happened to my palace front division?" How did Shi Zongjie lead the soldiers? ”

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the hundred officials glanced at Xie Yang, who recommended Shi Zongjie to lead the troops, and saw that the corners of his eyes couldn't help twitching, knowing that if he didn't give a statement today, he would not be able to bow to Wei Zhi with a hard head.

"Your Majesty, after the army of the palace commander marched to the territory of Yuanyang Province, it happened to be a few days of heavy rain that did not stop, the roads were muddy and difficult to walk, and the bridge embankment was washed away by the torrential rain, so I had to stop the march......"

"Shut up!" After listening to Xie Yang's explanation, Wei Zhi shouted, "A heavy rain will stop them in their tracks, do I still expect them to relieve the siege of Gaoyang!" Don't you know that Duan Hong's thief capital has openly proclaimed himself emperor and me, and the face of the imperial court is about to be lost! ”

Xie Yang hurriedly knelt down in fright, kowtowed and said, "The emperor is angry, angry......"

"The emperor is angry......"

At this time, the hundred officials also had to kneel down with the anger of Ping Weizhen, and the posture was extremely humble.

Xi Man smiled bitterly in his heart, the front division of the palace is no longer the central trump card army that shocked the Great Four Fang Shishu when Wei Zhi first ascended the throne, that army has existed in name only after the Battle of Yongliang, and the current front division of the palace is just a group of lazy young master soldiers.

As a lieutenant, Xi Man naturally knew all kinds of shortcomings on the way to the palace, and this expedition was already underprepared, all the money, food, and ordnance were not in place, and the selection of generals was also full of mistakes and omissions, and he still counted on the states and provinces along the way to raise food? Where does the money come from? Do you want the provincial governments to ask for their own pockets?

And the main thing is that the soldiers of the new army have stayed near Gyeonggi all the year round, and they have not suffered much at all, and they may be able to march with blood in the first few days, but once this fresh energy passes, the boring marching career is not something that these young masters who lack training and discipline can endure, let alone what will happen when facing thieves......

In short, this time the front division of the palace went on an expedition, in fact, many officials in the palace were not optimistic, but they all pretended to be confused, anyway, whether they won or lost, it had nothing to do with themselves, and it didn't matter if they didn't affect their own interests, even if the whole army was wiped out.

"Rice buckets, they're all a bunch of rice buckets!"

Looking at the picture of hundreds of officials kneeling down in the hall, Wei Zhi could only drop a sentence resentfully, and sat on the dragon chair weakly, looking as if he was more than ten years old at this moment......

"Your Majesty, take care of the dragon's body, ......" Seeing this, Jinsheng on the side hurriedly stepped forward and said a few words of relief.

After clearing his emotions, Wei Zhi shouted into the hall again: "Yao Zhong......"

"Wechen is ......" Yao Zhong heard this, and immediately got up and stepped forward to wait.

Wei Zhi looked at him and said, "I want to ask you, what should I do now?" ”

Yao Zhong pondered for a moment and replied: "Returning to the emperor, the top priority is to send people to urge the rebellious general to continue to move forward, and on the other hand, to order all the government offices in Yuanyang to step up repairing the roads, so that the army can continue to move forward smoothly, but ......"

"But what?" Wei Shu asked.

Yao Zhong replied: "It is necessary for the imperial court to allocate money to various government offices in order to speed up the progress of road construction......

Wei Zhi nodded, and then said to the new Prime Minister Yan Liang: "Prime Minister Yan, immediately take 2.3 million taels of silver from the treasury and allocate it to the army of the palace front division must pass through various government offices, don't delay the army's journey again......"

"The old minister obeys the order......" Yan Liang immediately went out and knelt in front of Wei Zhi to receive the order.

This Yan Liang's background is average, since Jiang Yan's death, Wei Zhi didn't want a strong family to control the prime minister, and deliberately chose the fifty-two-year-old Yan Liang as the prime minister, but unfortunately this Yan Liang's ability is mediocre, compared with Jiang Yan, it is simply a world of difference, but this is also easy to control with Wei Zhen.

After ordering everything, Wei Zhi only felt indescribably tired all over his body, and he and the Jinsheng beside him ordered: "Tired, retreat from the court......

Jin Sheng bowed, and then said loudly to the hundred officials who were kneeling on the ground: "Retreat~"

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live......"

When the hundred officials heard this, they hurriedly shouted long live, and when they looked up, they found that Wei Zhi had already disappeared from their eyes.

After Yan Liang got up, he suddenly felt a dilemma in his heart, the treasury had already been empty, and the spring tax had not yet been paid, so how could he get the 2.3 million taels of silver in a short time?

When he looked at the hundred officials for help, all the officials turned their heads away from him, and they all put on expressions of helplessness, and then left the palace with peace of mind......

Seeing this scene, Yan Liang sighed: "Alas~ old, it seems that the old man is not suitable for the position of prime minister, so it is better to return to his hometown as soon as possible......"

Now he has long since fallen from the excitement when he first became prime minister to the bottom, and in just one month, he has been disheartened......

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"Sons, see the ...... of their fathers"

In the imperial garden, Wei Zhi was accompanied by Jin Sheng to relieve his irritability for several days, but he saw a young girl in a royal light shirt who made a standard blessing ceremony to Wei Zhen, this girl is Wei Zhen's pearl, the fifteen-year-old Princess Yiyang, who is slim and jade, looks like jasper.

Seeing his daughter, Wei Zhen's tightly knit brows eased slightly, put on a loving face, stretched out his hand and stroked her head and smiled: "Yiyang, what are you doing here?" ”

Yiyang said with a smile: "The son is praying for his father, and the queen mother said that his father has been worried about state affairs recently, so he specially worshiped incense in the imperial garden and set up a case, praying for God to let his father go well......"

"Your Majesty, the little princess's filial piety is really something to learn from heaven and earth......" Jinsheng on the side hurriedly said approvingly to Wei Zhen.

Wei Zhi nodded and said to Princess Yiyang: "It's rare that you have this filial piety, let's walk around the imperial garden with me......"

"The retainers obey the ......"

Hearing this, Yiyang saluted respectfully, and then accompanied Wei Zhen's side and walked towards the Imperial Garden.

Princess Yiyang is different from her sister Princess Yuxiang's domineering appearance, but she looks more quiet and approachable, which is deeply loved by the concubines in the harem, and naturally makes Wei Zhi love it.

When the father and daughter came to a pavilion made of white jade, Wei Zhi saw that there seemed to be a lot of paper on the stone table in the pavilion, so he asked curiously: "Yiyang, are you writing poems here?" Let me see......"

Yiyang smiled sweetly, shook his head and said: "Father and Emperor misunderstood, today's homework has already been completed, those are the anecdotes that the sons have heard about me all over the Great Zhou, and they are written on paper so that they can be compiled into a book, so that they can be watched in their leisure time......"

Wei Zhi became even more curious when he heard this: "Oh? Tell me, what are you writing on this paper? ”

Princess Yiyang replied with a bright face: "Today's memory is just a person I heard from the guards and the queen mother recently......"

Wei Zhen asked, "Who is it?" ”

Princess Yiyang said: "Who else can there be, Liu Ce, the former military governor......"

"Him?" Wei Zhi was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said, "What do you remember him doing?" ”

Princess Yiyang said with a smile: "The former military governor recovered my Great Zhou homeland and expelled Hu Nu, saved the people of the Far East and the water and fire, and was really the first great hero of our dynasty in the past hundred years, of course, the son must write it down, and he will be included in the history books in the future, adding another finishing touch to my Great Zhou......

"How did this Liu Ce come from the first hero?" Wei Zhen's face was slightly displeased, "Is it difficult for my generals at all levels in the DPRK to be as good as him Liu Ce?" Not to mention the rest, Li Suwen can top ten Liu Ce is not worth it, right? ”

Yiyang shook his head and said: "Father, although my brother-in-law is famous all over the world and uses soldiers to be refined, Ran'er thinks that he still has shortcomings compared with the former military governor, and the former military governor recovered Jizhou, although the dangerous sons and daughters are not on the battlefield, but they can also figure out the tragedy of this vicious battle, and only from the number of enemy chieftains killed, it is far from being comparable to the brother-in-law......

Listening to Princess Yiyang's reasonable analysis, Wei Zhi had to admit that what she said was right, and at the same time, it was already three months, Liu Ce should have finished handling the affairs of the Far East and was ready to start the expedition, right?

"Liu Ce, I'm curious about how you did this, and I just want to see what you look like......

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