Chapter 456: Dilemma

Zhao Rongrui's urgent report was submitted by the Privy Council, so Shi Songzhi and the others naturally knew what was going on.

Xie Jubo, Zhao Fan and other six Shangshu were summoned by Zhao Yun from their respective mansions, and now they all know the reason for the matter.

Hearing Zhao Yun's words, everyone in the hall looked at me and I looked at you, but no one answered.

Even Shi Songzhi, who is in charge of the Privy Council, is quite a bit of a six-god master at the moment.

For no other reason, the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty is now out of money.

After last year's great famine in Lin'an, even the battle of Xiangyang was squeezed out by the entire imperial court tightening its belt, and even used part of Zhao Yun's own internal money.

And everyone here is still clear about one thing, that is, Zhao Yun promised to supplement Meng Heng's military grain, grass and ordnance, and now nearly thirty percent has not been settled, although at the end of the year, Cao Yun and the salt, iron, silver, and taxes of the three envoys are all being transported from all over the country one after another, but isn't that not yet in the treasury of the household department?

According to the rules of the Great Song Dynasty, all roads, including all the roads, must sort out all the taxes and revenue balance accounts of the year before the end of the year, and after the Lantern Festival, the silver handed over to the treasury must be transported to the Lin'an Household Department.

This is the consumption of the Great Song treasury for a whole year in the new year.

Only a few roads close to Lin'an still have Cao Yun, and the silver will be sent to Lin'an before the year, and the silver sent before this year is of course also useful.

The money for the clan festival is going to be sent before the year, right? At the time of the New Year, the ministers of the DPRK and China always have some rewards, right? The concubines in the palace always have some rewards, right? The palace maids and eunuchs in the palace also have to express something, right?

The part of the silver that entered the household department a year ago went through the prince's canonization ceremony, as well as the Lantern Festival that Zhao Yun was preparing, plus the regular silver allocated to the clan at the time of Zhao Yun's New Year and the annual rewards to the ministers and officials, and now the treasury of the household department is basically vacant.

Therefore, the situation of the Great Song Dynasty is very embarrassing now.

Huainan East Road is also in full swing, Xie Jubo has already tried his best to raise grain, grass and silver for Zhao Kui, but Zhao Rongrui's request for help from Sichuan cannot sit idly by.

But once Sichuan collapsed, the Great Song Dynasty finally maintained a little balance of power with the Mongols, and all collapsed.

"Why don't you return the head of the thief chief Zhang Rou to the Mongolian barbarians?"

After a long time, the people of the Shangshu District of the Ministry of Rites whispered weakly.

Although Ou Min'an's voice was not loud, there were only a few people in this Duan Ming Hall now, so suddenly more than a dozen pairs of eyes focused on him.

As the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Ou Min'an rarely speaks out on other things except for the things in the Ministry of Rites, and the six books of the Ministry of Rites, it can be said that in addition to some sacrificial ceremonies and triennial imperial examinations and the opening of the Enke examination, there are some things that can be done, and the rest of the time is playing soy sauce.

In addition, the original Prime Minister Qiao Xingjian told the old man, and Ou Min'an, who was Qiao Xingjian's protΓ©gΓ©, clamped his tail and behaved as a man, so no one thought that today, he would take the lead in speaking up on such a matter that is almost related to the national fortune of the Great Song Dynasty.

Even Zhao Yun was a little flustered, obviously he didn't expect that Ou Min'an, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, would be the first to speak.

"Eh, Ou Aiqing, what did you just say? I didn't hear it too clearly, Aiqing said it again. ”

"Back to the emperor, Weichen said that if he didn't return the head of the thief chief Zhang Rou to the Mongolian barbarians, and then discuss the truce with the Mongolian sect king."

Anyway, I have already said that Ou Min'an is also single at the moment, and he stepped forward and bowed.

"If you return the head of the thief chief Zhang Rou to the mouth and don't spend it, you can discuss the truce?"

Hearing Ou Min'an's words, Shi Song's heart moved, and he interjected beside him.

"Your Excellency must also know that these days, the Mongolian deputy envoy Bald Lei is asking my Great Song Dynasty for the head of the thief chief Zhang Rou, and the lower officials have been fighting with the bald thunder these days on the orders of the emperor. These days, the bald thunder said something that threatened me to the point that I could, and the lower officials only regarded it as a threat at that time, and did not report it to the emperor, and now I am afraid that it is not just a threat. ”

Ou Minan explained.

Although Ou Min'an didn't say any threatening words from the bald thunder, the Mongolian threat to the Great Song Dynasty seemed to be nothing more than continuing to harass the Great Song Dynasty.

Everyone in the hall asked themselves, even if they were themselves, when the Great Song Dynasty had just achieved an unprecedented victory, they would not take these words to heart.

After all, in the battle of Caizhou, the Mongols lost not only Zhang Rou, a general, but also nearly 200,000 elite troops on the north bank of the Yangtze River.

In addition, the Hebei chaos, the Houjin army is doing a lot of fun, and the mouth temperature is not spent by the Mongolian court, and the judgment of the Great Song Dynasty court is that the mouth temperature is not spent, and now the most priority option is to solve the backyard of the Houjin army first, so that there is spare strength to deal with the situation on the side of the Great Song Dynasty.

After solving the Houjin army, it is possible to stabilize the status of the Mongolian king in the Mongolian court, and who will choose it this way.

It's just that it's obvious that Kouwen doesn't spend money and he doesn't play cards according to common sense, and now it seems that the rebellion of the Houjin army doesn't seem to affect the status of Kouwen Buhua in the Mongolian court.

"What else did Bald Thunder say?"

Zhao Yun glanced at Ou Min'an with some dissatisfaction, and asked in a deep voice.

Ou Min'an heard the dissatisfaction in Zhao Yun's words, and his heart was also aggrieved.

"Back to Your Majesty, the Mongolian envoy said that if my Great Song Dynasty can return Zhang Rou's head, return Caizhou and other places from the new one, return everything to before the war, and compensate the Mongols and severely punish the culprits who provoked disputes without authorization, the Mongols will consider stopping the matter, if not......"

"What if not?"

"If not, the Mongols will send a large army to punish our Great Song Dynasty, even at the ...... He did not hesitate to slaughter our Great Song Dynasty in order to show the majesty of the Mongolian army. ”

"Presumptuous!"

"Shameless!"

"Bold!"

……

The people of the district said goodbye, and the hall suddenly caused a sound of scolding.

It is not an unacceptable thing to return Zhang Rou's head to the mouth temperature without flowers, Zhang Rou is dead, and a head is at most just to show the military might of the Great Song Dynasty, the reason why Zhao Yun has not agreed to return the mouth temperature without flowers has been to let Ou Min'an have a relationship with the bald thunder, in addition to not wanting to be so simple and not paying for the mouth temperature, he also has some thoughts of disgusting taste and not spending it.

After all, since Mongolia and the Great Song Dynasty joined forces to destroy Jin, Kouwen Buhua has been sitting north of the Yangtze River, commanding the army to look down on the Great Song Dynasty, and from time to time he also sent dozens of soldiers and horses to kill the grass valley in the Great Song Dynasty to burn and loot.

In addition to returning Zhang Rou's head, he also had to return the four cities such as Caizhou, which was finally recovered, to the Mongols, and even compensate the Mongols for the silver, and severely punish the culprit who killed Zhang Rou, which completely exceeded the psychological bottom line of Zhao Yun and the other monarchs.

Caizhou, Tangzhou and other four cities, as long as the mouth temperature does not spend to solve the Houjin army, unless the Great Song Dynasty wants to use the national fortune to fight the Mongols, otherwise wait until the mouth temperature does not spend a free hand, and do not hold it at all, which is well known to all the monarchs and ministers in the Great Song Dynasty.

But then again, isn't it true that the mouth temperature is not spent and the Jin army has not been resolved?

At this time, the four cities that the Great Song Dynasty exchanged for the lives and blood of hundreds of thousands of soldiers were quietly returned to the Mongols, and what a huge blow should it be to the Great Song soldiers who are now on the front line of Caizhou? Losing the heart of the army, what will the Great Song Dynasty use in the future to resist the warmth of the mouth?

Not to mention, the four cities of Caizhou, but the springboard and gateway for the Great Song Dynasty to enter and exit the eastern and western capitals are finally controlled in hand, how can they let it out?

There is also compensation for silver, if the Great Song Dynasty has silver to compensate the Mongols, there is still a need to discuss how to stop war with the Mongols here? Anyway, there is a war every day, why do you want to give the silver to the Mongols, let them use the silver to cast weapons to prepare grain and grass, and then come to fight the Great Song Dynasty?

As for the culprit who will be severely punished in the end, there is nothing to talk about.

Who is the biggest culprit?

Meng Hui!

Today's Jinghu system makes Meng Heng, and Meng Heng commands hundreds of thousands of troops.

If Meng Heng is disposed of, who can still block the iron hooves of the Mongols in Xiangyang City for the Great Song Dynasty to lead the troops south?

Zhao Yun is a little lazy, but he is not a faint monarch, at least not a faint monarch at present.

How could Zhao Yun do such a thing of cutting off his arm, destroying the Great Wall, and digging his own grave? And how can it be accepted?

"Don't talk about it again! Put that soft head nitrate and place it at the head of Lin'an City to show my great Song Guowei! ”

Zhao Yun said sharply.

When Shi Songzhi heard this, he was about to step forward to speak, but was pulled by Xie Jubo behind him. Shi Songzhi turned around in surprise, and saw Xie Jubo quietly shaking his head at Shi Songzhi.

Obviously, Xie Jubo saw what Shi Songzhi was about to say.

At the moment of Shi Songzhi's hesitation, all the ministers in the palace were already bowing in unison and calling for the ministers to obey the order.

"Now that the emperor is angry, Master Shi should be restless."

Xie Jubo's whisper came from his ears.

"The Mongolian barbarians are too deceitful, I will take out all the internal money, this time the palace has spent the silver that has been spent on the Lantern Festival, and the rest of the silver that has not been spent, I will send the silver to the household department later, Xie Aiqing, can the household department still have a way to take out more silver?"

Without waiting for Shi Songzhi's reply, Zhao Yun, who was furious, had already taken the initiative to ask by name.

Obviously, Zhao Yun was really poked in the sore spot this time, not only did he take out all the silver in his pocket, but also took the initiative to cut down the various arrangements for the Lantern Festival that were originally going to be celebrated.

"Back to Your Majesty, if it is a month in the evening, the silver sent to the household department by various places and all roads will be put into the treasury one after another, and these silver should be enough for the war consumption in Sichuan and Huainan, but now the taxes transported to the capital by Cao Yun and various roads have just started. Either it is still in the warehouses of all roads and has not yet been shipped, even if Weichen is now going to all parts of the country and immediately transporting it to Beijing, it will take more than a month to go back and forth. ”

Xie Jubo was a little helpless, and could only say that the Mongols were too good at finding the right time.

If it were ten days and a half at night, and when taxes from all over the country came to Beijing one after another, the situation would be much better. ... Friends who read books, you can search for "blue book bar", and you can find this site as soon as possible.