Jin Bing's change in the delivery of Taiyuan was like a basin of cold water, pouring Zhao Huan from head to toe, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, the huge disappointment finally made Zhao Huan calm down from the extremely superstitious peace talks, and he finally realized that the peace talks were not very reliable.

"I only took the silver to the gold man after listening to your words, and now the three million taels of silver are gone, but Taiyuan can't come back, who will bear this responsibility?"

Zhao Huan's roar echoed in the imperial study, the five Xiangguo all lowered their heads and remained silent, the more Zhao Huan spoke, the more angry he became, and he threw a stack of letters for help on the imperial case in front of them, "The army on the Xihe Road side is fighting fiercely with the Western Xia, and there has been no money to send troops for two months, and the same is true on the Qin Feng Road side, there is no money to build new weapons, and the situation is precarious, but you threw three million taels of silver into the water, and kept saying that the Jin people can talk about credit, when did the Jurchens talk about credit?" ”

All the prime ministers were silent, in fact, the most active person in the implementation of peace talks is Zhao Huan himself, and he is the one who urged to send the silver to the Daimyo's mansion, and now the Jin State has changed his mind and refused to hand over Taiyuan City, so he is in a hurry, and puts the responsibility on the Zhizheng Hall, so that everyone's faces are very ugly, but who dares to say that you made your own order to hand over the silver.

Zhao Huan was so dizzy with anger that he sat on the dragon chair all of a sudden, slapped the table and shouted angrily: "What do you say now? ”

At this time, the privy envoy Sun Fu tremblingly suggested: "There are still 800,000 taels of silver in the Zuozang Treasury, why don't you first solve 500,000 taels to go to Xihe and Qinfeng as military expenses to solve the urgent needs there." ”

The six million taels of silver in the Zuozang Treasury is the capital for the issuance of Huizi, due to the war, the Huizi suspended the issuance, and the six million taels of silver were diverted for other purposes, three million taels were used to ransom Taiyuan, two million taels were spent on recruiting new soldiers, and 200,000 taels were paid to the minister's Yulu, and now there are only 800,000 taels left in the Zuozang Treasury.

In fact, Zhao Huan just shirked his responsibility to talk about the border army, and really asked him to pay for the border army to pay for the military expenses, and he was reluctant, the 800,000 taels he used when he was preparing to sacrifice to the sky and the temple in May, he ascended the throne for nearly half a year, and he has not yet sacrificed the temple and heaven and earth, which is not conducive to his consolidation of imperial power.

Bai Shizhong's suggestion, Zhao Huan was silent for a while, Wu Min and Bai Shizhong exchanged a look, Bai Shizhong stepped forward and said: "The silver in the south can't be sent for a while, and there are still many places where the imperial court urgently needs money, and it is better to keep the 800,000 taels of silver in a hurry, and the military expenses of the border army can be solved on the spot. ”

He Li shook his head next to him and said: "The three-way army has been supported for more than half a year, and it is the tax money and grain of the road, and now the trade is cut off, the business is withered, and the population itself is sparse, and the taxes are limited. ”

At this time, Wu Min proposed: "Otherwise, the treasury silver of Bashu will be removed to Guanzhong, and the problem of insufficient military spending of the Three Western Army may be solved." ”

There are still 1.5 million taels of silver in the official treasury of Chengdu Prefecture, which is also the capital that is ready to be used to issue huizi, but now the situation is critical, and it is no longer possible to take care of the issuance of huizi, which can be regarded as a solution.

Zhao Huan glanced at everyone, and seeing that everyone agreed, Zhao Huan immediately decided: "Then first solve the 500,000 taels to go north and solve the urgent need for military spending of the Western Army." ”

To solve this problem, Zhao Huan's anger subsided slightly, and he waved his hand to let everyone retreat.

Coming out of the imperial study, everyone breathed a long sigh of relief and walked down the steps, He Li saw that there was no one left and right, so he said to Sun Fu: "This time the lesson is profound!" We all depend on the temperament of the official family, and in the end, something happened, but the official family hit us with a board, making us have suffering. ”

Sun Fu nodded, "We do have a responsibility, we dissuade the officials from being hot-headed in time, that is, we are derelict in our duties, Li Yanqing once told me when he resigned, the Jin people will play all kinds of tricks, and they will never hand over Taiyuan City to us, and now it is really what he said, what I am worried about now is his second prophecy." ”

"What prophecy?"

Sun Fu said word by word: "The Jin soldiers tore up the agreement and started a large-scale attack on Tokyo again. ”

He Li was stunned for a moment, and said for a while: "Will this be the case?" ”

"If Wan Yan Xian wasn't too stupid, he would definitely do it."

Sun Fu sighed, "As a defensive envoy, I know that it is not easy to be in charge, our war preparations are almost lost, once the Jin soldiers attack in a big way, what will we use to resist?" ”

He Li was a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "If this is the case, we must immediately advise the official family to transfer troops from all over the country to support the capital." ”

"The official family has already realized that something is wrong, and he urgently summoned Li Yanqing yesterday, probably for this matter."

"But I didn't see Li Yanqing enter the palace?"

"I heard that he went to the south bank of the Yellow River, and I guess I can come back later."

At this time, a eunuch caught up from behind and shouted to the two from a distance: "Please stay with the two ministers!" ”

Sun Fu and He Li stopped, and the eunuch ran forward and saluted: "Li Shaobao has returned to the capital, and the official family invites the two ministers to discuss military affairs together." ”

.........

Zhao Huan finally woke up a little, he excluded the compromise faction from the militaristic deliberations for the first time, of course, this is not a militaristic deliberation, it can only be regarded as a discussion within a very small scope, Zhao Huan knows in his heart that if he wants Li Yanqing to say something useful, he can't let Bai Shizhong, Wu Min, and Li Bangyan, the three opponents of Li Yanqing, show up.

"Whether Jin Bing wants to re-attack the capital, Wechen only has a little guess, but there is no evidence, my intuition tells Wechen that now is the best opportunity to attack the capital, and Wanyan will not seize this opportunity, Wechen doesn't know." In the imperial study, Li Yanqing calmly said his thoughts.

Zhao Huan took a few steps with his hands in his hands, then turned back and asked, "Even if Li Aiqing's assumption is true, then how should I deal with it?" ”

Li Yanqing glanced at Sun Fu, Sun Fu is now the defense envoy of Tokyo, this question should be answered by him, and he can't overstep his responsibilities.

Zhao Huan saw Li Yanqing looking at Sun Fu, he was slightly stunned in his heart, and then he remembered Sun Fu's identity, so he nodded, "Sun Xianggong said first, please Li Shaobao add the insufficient part." ”

Sun Fu took out an excerpt from his arms and presented it to Zhao Huan, "This is a report written by Weichen, and it has not been officially copied yet, but it has been written, Your Majesty can take a look at it first." ”

Zhao Huan took the fold and put it on the table, "Sun Xianggong, let's talk about it briefly!" Let Li Shaobao and He Xianggong also listen to it. ”

"Then Weichen will say a few words briefly."

Sun Fu sorted out his thoughts a little, and said without hurry: "Weichen suggested two points, one is internal, including redeploying defensive weapons to the city, recruiting a large number of militias in the city, there are only 20,000 troops in the city at present, at least the garrison army must be increased to about 100,000, so that the capital can be safely ......."

He Li next to him couldn't help but interrupt Sun Fu's words, "But even if you recruit 80,000 militia groups now, relying on them to defend the city is probably unrealistic!" ”

"He Xianggong didn't understand what I meant, the militia is extra, and it has nothing to do with the 100,000 defenders, the second point I said is external, we must immediately recall the troops of General Dong and General Yao, this is 60,000 people, and then call back the 30,000 Jingzhao troops stationed in Luoyang, they are the main force to resist Jin."

When Sun Fu talked about the 30,000 Jingzhao Army, Zhao Huan couldn't help but glance at Li Yanqing quickly, only to see that Li Yanqing's face was calm, and he didn't seem to have anything to do with him at all.

Sun Fu just briefly said his train of thought, and his eyes turned to Li Yanqing again.

"Li Shaobao, let's add it!"

Li Yanqing smiled and said: "Sun Xianggong has already said almost, I just slightly added two, one money and grain preparation, I don't know how much grain there is in Taicang now, and how much silver money is still in Zuozangku, but I know that the last time the Jin soldiers besieged the city, they were ready to fight for a long time, but they were forced to withdraw their troops when General Wang Gui burned down Liyang Cang, and the horse material was cut off, and they were forced to withdraw their troops, this time it should be the same, at least one year's food must be prepared in the capital." ”

Sun Fu was a little nervous in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "How much is the grain for a year?" ”

"You can simply calculate, 100,000 troops consume 50,000 stone of grain a month, which is 6 million stone a year, plus the people and the people, the annual grain deposit should be about 10 million stone, and out of the need to boost morale, the silver deposit should also be more than 2 million taels."

Sun Fu's face turned white, Zhao Huan felt a twitch, and asked urgently: "Sun Xianggong, how much grain is still stored in Taicang now?" ”

"Probably..... About 3.5 million stones. ”

Li Yanqing's face suddenly became very ugly, when he was guarding the city two months ago, he still had 10 million stone grains, why was there so much less all of a sudden?

Sun Fu swallowed for a while and said: "The main thing is that two million stone of grain was used to recruit new soldiers, and one million stone was also used for the severe drought in Huaibei and Xuzhou, and in order to raise money and open up the food supply, two million stone was bought by the people, and there is usually consumption, so the grain storage has been sharply reduced."

Zhao Huan didn't say anything, these grain expenditures were Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan's suggestion, too much grain is easy to rot, it is better to dispose of it in time to reduce mildew losses, he also agreed to this grain cutting plan, but now it has become a bitter fruit, they didn't take into account that the Jin soldiers would attack the capital for the second time.

Li Yanqing said with a blushing face: "I'll say the second addition, to let the Jin soldiers feel the will of the Great Song Dynasty to resist the Jin, please give an edict to order the armies of all states in the world to enter the king of Jingqin quickly!" ”