Yang Yi, who was under the candlelight, stroked the dozing coffee, and laughed at himself: "It's still you, you are idle, you eat, drink and sleep all day long, and you don't have to worry about when someone will come to take your life." ”

Yang Yi didn't know when he fell asleep, and when he woke up, he was covered with a single quilt, which was left by his mother.

Concubine Ning went back to the palace early in the morning, just saying that she was not used to living outside, but in fact, Yang Yi knew that she didn't want to cause unnecessary trouble to her son. In such a sensitive period, it is extremely inappropriate for a concubine to live outside the palace, whether she is snubbed by the emperor or not, she should stay in the palace and wait for the emperor to summon her.

Yang Yi wanted to go into the palace to visit, but as soon as he got out of the door, he saw the monkey leaning against the railing at the door and whistling.

Yang Yi glanced at the smiling monkey Jian'er, and asked while sorting out his clothes, "How is it?" There weren't a few monkey hairs missing yesterday, right? ”

Monkey Jian'er smiled: "If I don't agree, no one can touch me." ”

This is the truth, with a monkey spirit brain and a flexible body, few people can catch the monkey tip.

"Then tell me what happened to the royal family lying on the ground yesterday in front of Zongzheng Temple?"

"That's... That's all done by Iron Bull! ”

Yang Yi raised his head and stared at the monkey tip with a smile in his eyes, but did not speak.

Monkey Jian'er shuddered, rolled his eyes and said, "Your Highness, the people from the military department have been waiting for you at the door for a long time!" Steward Liu said that you will notify you when you wake up. ”

Yang Yi smiled and pointed to the tip of the monkey, turned around and went downstairs.

The people from the military department did come very early, and they waited at the door before dawn, and they told Yang Yi that Master Shang Shudu asked them to come, saying that they would invite Yang Yi to the military department no matter what.

Yang Yi moved his nose, it seems that this Du Li knows his bastard subordinate very well, and knows that he will not send someone to forcibly "escort" Yang Yi to the military department, and it is estimated that this new military department squire will have to drag on for half a month to go to the military department for various reasons.

In the past, Yang Yi was an idle man, and he was a chicken job, so Du Li had to let him go. But Yang Yi is now a real three-grade squire, not to mention his high authority, and his monthly salary is also the level of a member of the imperial court. The military department doesn't plan to raise such a person who doesn't do anything with a high salary.

Yang Yi was helpless, so he had to call Shang Hongzhi to report to the military department together.

And Du Li, who was waiting in the military department, was blinded by his first request before he could be happy that His Royal Highness the prince had come to take up his post early.

Yang Yi asked Du Li to transfer both Hong Zhi and Jia Zhushu to his command to continue to serve as acting officials, and the reason was enough to make people spurt blood.

"The entire Yamen of the Ministry of War is okay with Lao Hong and Lao Jia's "fighting master book" skills, and everyone else is too vegetable, and they are bored to play. Yang Yi said with a smile.

Du Liqi's face was extremely embarrassed, he was a notoriously unforgiving official, but with Yang Yi, a prince who always talked about "I am a nine nerds", he was always powerful and had nowhere to go.

"Your Highness! The Ministry of War does not have this rule, you are a person who has attained the Tao and ascended to heaven! ”

Yang Yi thought for a while and said with a smile: "Why don't I find you every day to "fight the master book"?" You're playing okay. ”

"Ridiculous!"

"Otherwise, Lord Du, you can go to the Central Pavilion or the emperor to join me, and you can remove my official position and let me go home." Yang Yi said with a smile, his eyes were full of expectation.

There's no way to talk, who is most afraid of an upright official like Du Li? Either they value fame, or they want to keep their black hats. But Yang Yi is a stinky and shameless person who doesn't want to be an official, and he is simply Du Li's nemesis.

In the end, Du Li still compromised with the shameless Yang Yi, but the requirement was that Hong Zhi and Master Jia could follow Yang Yi to the waiter's room to work, but there was no change in the level of the position, and the obvious side was that the position was transferred and not changed. But in essence, the two of them have been promoted a lot, and they are both secretaries, and there is a comparison between the mayor's secretary and the governor's secretary?

However, things are obviously not as simple as Yang Yi imagined.

Due to the attack of the fierce army, the government and the opposition of Daguang were shaken, and the troops and materials of all parties were urgently mobilized to prepare for the upcoming war.

And Yang Yi's military department is the center of the operation of the entire system, and all affairs related to the war must be approved and undertaken here, and the workload can be imagined. That's not all, what makes Yang Yi the most headache is that the emperor named and asked him to participate in all matters against the murderer, which is to cover himself with a big hat, and he can't take it off if he wants to.

Therefore, Yang Yi can't be lazy, he is embarrassed to be lazy, everyone is busy, and it is really unreasonable to doze there alone.

With the deepening of the work, even Yang Yi gradually felt the seriousness of the situation.

First of all, in terms of troop allocation, the total strength of the 34 prefectures of Daguang has reached more than 1 million, and the number of troops deployed in the seven prefectures of the northern region is 600,000, accounting for more than 60 percent of the total troops.

However, the 600,000 troops stationed on the northland border, thousands of miles away, are extremely thin. Moreover, the opponents are mainly cavalry, and the northern nomads are known for their mobility. If it was easy to defend, the ancient dynasties would not have spent huge manpower and material resources to build the Great Wall.

The more serious problem is that the Great Light Dynasty, which is bright and huge on the surface, has already deposited countless silt in the dark, and it is rotten.

In many places, the army lacks training, and it is full of ruffians, not to mention, and what is even more terrible is the problem of empty salaries. Yang Yi found a military newspaper on it, originally a garrison of the state capital with an establishment of 9,000 people, when the dispatcher went to deploy with the approval of the Ministry of War, he found that the number was actually only 4,000 people, and the remaining 5,000 people were fabricated out of thin air, including the names of the officers' families, the names of the soldiers who had long since died, and even the pigs and donkeys raised in the barracks were named and reported to the imperial court to receive a military salary.

The dispatch envoy took down the main generals of the government army on the spot, but the five thousand people who were empty were not able to make up the empty amount anyway.

The second and more serious is the deployment of materials, the art of war says that "the three armies have not moved, and the grain and grass go first", but the transfer of materials and grain by the military department is extremely slow. The states were prevaricating and withholding the imperial court's conscription for various reasons, the most common being that it was difficult to collect taxes due to various disasters. The second is that the grain in the granary has been replaced with shoddy goods, and when the official warehouse is opened, it is full of moldy and rotten grain and rat droppings, which cannot be used at all.

In order to keep the black yarn hat and fill the food gap, some officials forcibly requisitioned grain from the people, and for a time mourned all over the wilderness, and the people were dissatisfied. There are even people who say that the emperor is silent, regardless of the life and death of the people.

The excerpts of the military department and the officials asking for the killing of corrupt officials are almost piled up, but now even if they kill the scum of these bureaucrats, it is useless, the soldiers cannot be transferred, the grain cannot be requisitioned, and Du Li is so angry that there are more than ten teacups that are broken every day.

All of this seems to cast a thick shadow on the upcoming war, and the future of the majestic Great Light Country is unpredictable...