Liu Che had been waiting for Su Ren to enter the palace, and he thought that Su Ren would come sooner or later, so he didn't send someone to urge him. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info turned out to be very disappointed Liu Che, after Su Ren came back, he actually lived in Louguan permanently, and he didn't even fart a fart for his holy decree, as if there had never been such a thing. Liu Che originally planned to go to Louguan to find Su Ren in person, but was stopped by the queen Wei Zifu, saying that Su Ren was a courtier, and the king of a country did not do such a thing as a minister against the decree no matter how much he was thirsty, so Su Ren was tied into a dumpling and taken to Chang'an.

Su Ren glared at Liu Jiqing, Liu Jiqing looked indifferent, it seemed that it was not he who went to Su Ren's house to arrest people. Liu Che happened to see Su Ren's murderous eyes, and said with a smile: "Why are you so stingy?" I haven't cured you of the crime of resisting the decree, but you want to clean up the people around me? ”

Su Ren shook his head: "How dare I!" Zhongshu Ling is a person sent by His Majesty, and he doesn't dare to have such an idea when he kills the minister, but the minister thinks that Zhongshu is good, and when Zhongshu Ling can't serve His Majesty in the future, he will take Zhongshu Ling to my house, and there will be nothing wrong with him in the minister's house, and the minister can rest assured that he will be outside for His Majesty's worries. ”

"And said that I didn't pay attention to my side? Say, I ask you if you have a strategy for conquering the Huns? ”

Su Ren shook his head: "No!" ”

"None? Then what are you doing when you see so many businessmen? He also told them to purchase grain, grass and ordnance and sell them all to the imperial court, could it be that the imperial court needed the support of businessmen to win the Xiongnu? ”

Su Ren hurriedly put down the pastry in his hand and knelt on the ground: "Your Majesty, the Huns can no longer pose any threat to my Han, as long as Your Majesty's army arrives, the Huns will definitely flee from the wind, and I wish Your Majesty a victory and create a great cause for my Han Dynasty!" ”

"Hmph, why does it sound like you're sarcastic?"

"Don't dare!"

"Stop talking, get up!" Liu Che got up and sat back in his place, and handed a book on the table to Su Ren: "Look, this is sent by your friend Yu Dan, it can be said, if you don't go to negotiate with him in person, you will never step into my big man, I can't figure it out, everyone can see that the current situation of the Huns is controlled by you, why does this Yu Shan still believe in you so much?" ”

Su Ren also got up and sat down: "Your Majesty may have misunderstood, Yu Shan didn't believe in Weichen, but wanted to put the minister to death!" ”

"Oh? Why didn't I see that even the Prime Minister, Sima, and Imperial Doctor felt that you should go there, showing that my Han attaches great importance to Yu Dan, how did you know that Yu Shan wanted to kill you? ”

Su Ren said: "If I make the Han the same as the Huns now, what should Your Majesty do?" ”

"Uh......, hahaha...... you're a shrewd kid! Say, what to do? ”

"Simple, send a large army to Yumen Pass, as long as Yu Shan does not surrender immediately, he must not be allowed to merge with Yi Zhixie, and send two more armies, all the way to the north, straight to the mountain, all the way to Jincheng, cut the road of the Xiongnu to the west, and completely trap the Huns in the desert, unless they continue to flee north, there is no way to think."

Liu Che thought for a while: "This is your strategy against the Huns?" ”

Su Ren nodded slightly: "Not only that, this time we should focus on cavalry, not seeking a battle for one city and one place, the spearhead of the three-way army is all directed at Wolf Juxu, occupy the ancestral court of the Huns, break the backbone of the Huns, and then slowly clean up the remnants of the Huns entrenched in the grassland and desert, the Huns can be leveled within three years, and the thousands of miles of grassland outside the Great Wall will be the best horse grazing land for our Han!" ”

Liu Che was a little excited by what Su Ren said, and his breathing became heavy. Since the founding of the country, the Han Dynasty has adopted a policy of affinity and gentleness towards the Xiongnu, and no emperor has ever dared to send troops into the territory of the Xiongnu. If it is really as Su Ren said, the Huns will be defeated in three or two years, no matter how he Liu Che is, there will be a strong stroke in the history books.

"Ahem......" Liu Jiqing coughed twice, interrupting Liu Che's blind thoughts.

Su Ren glanced at Liu Jiqing: "You cough a fart, what does such a big thing have to do with you, serving Your Majesty well is a great achievement, as for how to kill the Huns, you have to rely on us generals!" ”

Liu Che smiled and said, "With Su Qing's meaning, how many soldiers and horses should I recruit this time?" Also, how much grain, grass and people should be requisitioned? ”

Su Ren shook his head: "This minister doesn't know, it depends on the length and intensity of this battle, if the Huns dare to fight head-on, two big battles can be decided, then the need for soldiers and horses will not be too much, natural grain and grass will not be too much, if the Huns are reduced to zero and lurk in the grassland, looking for an opportunity to harass our army, this battle will be protracted, maybe three years, maybe five years, so the soldiers and grain and grass needed are not easy to calculate." ”

Liu Che frowned and nodded slightly: "What you said makes sense, the prime minister also said so, the Great Han Fang is determined, and he can't afford to spend too much money on the Han treasury in order to fight the Huns, so I have been hesitating." ”

Seeing Liu Che's unwillingness, Su Ren's mood finally improved, and he was uncomfortable kneeling on the ground, so he simply sat down cross-legged, holding a pastry in one hand and a teapot in the other. I was not allowed to tell a joke to the maid next to her, and the maid didn't dare to laugh and held back, and her whole face became red.

Liu Che was only depressed for a while, then suddenly sat up straight and stared at Su Ren for a while: "Are you kid scaring me again?" Say, what are you looking for so many businessmen? Also, someone came to report yesterday that some people from the Shuzhong Chamber of Commerce were going to dedicate half of their family property to the imperial court, and I was still wondering, I finally understood today, this is all your arrangement, right? ”

Su Ren smiled all over his face: "Such meritorious ministers don't dare to take it, those are all voluntary by them, although the money is not much, it should still have some effect, as for other businessmen, the minister is honest, it is of great use!" ”

"Not a lot of money? The Prime Minister's Mansion has already verified, and the money donated by those merchants is no less than one million gold, up to half of the national treasury, and it is precisely because of this money that I feel that it is not impossible to send troops from three sides, I just haven't figured out why you want to hand over the supply of the army to the merchants, can't my court do these things? ”

Su Ren waved his hand: "The minister doesn't mean this, if Your Majesty's words let the prime minister know, the minister will definitely be beaten, but the minister thinks that some things should be handed over to special people to do, such as the matter of transporting materials, the merchant has his own set of methods, and the efficiency and cost are higher than the imperial court, why is Your Majesty willing to spend a lot of money to let the imperial court take care of it?" Isn't the gain outweighing? As long as the fairness of the sale of goods is controlled, the merchant is willing to cooperate with the imperial court. ”

"What do the merchants want?"

"It's nothing more than money!" Su Ren glanced at Liu Che: "There is also the war profit after the army goes out, as long as the imperial court can save the cost of grain and grass, this war profit can not be considered!" ”

"Really?"

"Really! This can be guaranteed! Su Ren swore that he was true, and Liu Che was indeed suspicious. Su Ren continued to explain: "From ancient times to the present, everyone has regarded fighting a war as a matter of spending national strength and harming others and themselves, but who knows how much has been wasted? The minister has heard such a saying, calling a cannon to go off with ten thousand taels of gold, which means that fighting a war is to make money! ”

"Cannons? What is a cannon? ”

Su Ren's eyes rolled: "The cannon is a kind of weapon, it is a thing that uses gunpowder made by ministers to launch stone eggs, Your Majesty has not seen it yet!" War is a kind of plunder, wealth, land, population, resources, everything the enemy has is ours, these are all money, as long as Your Majesty is willing, those businessmen will give more materials in exchange, and your Majesty does not need to pay a single money. ”

"In other words, with these merchants, no matter where my army hits, I don't have to worry about the problem of food and grass?"

Su Ren smiled slightly: "Theoretically, this is the meaning, but in practice, it depends on the situation, some things are too far, and the cost of shipping them back is too high, so no one will want it, and doing business is the same reason." ”

Liu Che fell into deep thought, and did not speak or move for a long time. Su Ren's words he needs to think about carefully, there are some things that he can't understand. Although what Su Ren said is out of the blue, it should be difficult to really implement. He Liu Che is the emperor of the empire, and any sentence goes out that millions of people will fight with their lives, so the emperor should be more cautious.

Su Ren ate a stomach of pastries and drank some hot tea, but he didn't eat a decent meal, seeing that it was already past noon, and his stomach had already begun to make trouble. gave Liu Jiqing several looks, but Liu Jiqing always stood behind Liu Che and didn't move. Today, Liu Jian didn't know where he went, and the other chamberlains and palace maids lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at them.

Seeing that Liu Che was still pondering, Su Ren slowly got up, moved his numb legs and feet twice, and began to spin around in the Xuan room. In the real Han court, only he Su Ren dared to do this, and he didn't need Liu Che's orders to be others, and those warriors waiting outside the hall could come in and chop people into mashed meat, including Prime Minister Dou Ying.

Seeing that Liu Jiqing didn't look at this side, Su Ren raised his leg and wanted to go out, but was blocked by the guards outside the door. Su Ren returned in a huff and sat down listlessly. Liu Che had already recovered from his contemplation just now: "Are you saying that there may be some money to be made in this battle?" ”

Su Ren nodded: "Not only is there a profit, it should be a big profit, it depends on how to operate." ”

Liu Che nodded, and said to Liu Jiqing: "Go and call the prime minister, the imperial lieutenant, the imperial doctor and all the generals, I want to discuss the conquest of the Xiongnu today!" ”

"Slow!" Su Ren hurriedly stopped Liu Jiqing, turned to Liu Che and said, "I have to find another person." ”

"Who?"

"The current Dahan Qian Zhuang treasurer Sang Hongyang, as well as Meng Fangtian, the head of the Chang'an Chamber of Commerce that the minister has just established."

Liu Che laughed, pointed at Su Ren and said: "It turns out that you planted this seed for me early on, or not, with Sang Hongyang in charge, it is much better than you, a lazy person!" And that businessman, I really have to let him know that as long as he does things for me, I will never treat them badly! ”