Chapter 802: Parable

"Okay, since Fang Xuan has said it to such an extent, I have also said it thoroughly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Fang Xuan, not to mention whether you are inappropriate to investigate me in private, even if you let you investigate me behind your back, at least you should find out before you take action, right? It's stupid to accuse me of the fact that the information you've spied isn't accurate at all. Yes, I did hoard a lot of food and supplies, and not only the grain in the public warehouse in the back street, there is also a warehouse at the Hengjie Street of Beicheng Racecourse, and a total of nearly 400,000 stone of grain has been hoarded in two miles. You only found one place, which shows how hard your men are. Wang Yuan sneered.

Xuanzong was stunned and said, "You...... Have you hoarded so much food? ”

Fang Xuan thought he had a plan, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, what the minister said is right. What kind of behavior is hoarding so much food and not taking it out for use? ”

Wang Yuan shouted: "Fang Xuan, you are still Xiangguo, what good will it be if the government affairs of the court are handed over to you?" You don't know how to store food for emergencies. Your Majesty, these more than 400,000 stone grains are the grain that the ministers have accumulated one after another in the past few years, and they are used for emergencies. Your Majesty thinks about it, now that the rebels are in turmoil, the people are displaced and lost, and large tracts of cultivated land are uncultivated, and the fields are deserted. If no one grows food, the price of food will skyrocket. Now that I am overcrowded in Jiannan and Longyou, millions of refugees have gathered here, plus millions of local people, so many mouths to eat, how to solve this matter? ”

Xuanzong smacked his lips and said, "This ...... I don't have a good idea. It's all the fault of An Lushan, the thief. ”

Wang Yuan sneered: "Now it's useless to blame An Lushan, so many mouths have to be fed, so as to show the grace of the imperial court, and make people's hearts settle." If people's hearts are uncertain, there will be trouble, and the rear is unstable, how to quell the rebellion? However, it is obviously impossible to feed so many people with a small amount of arable land in Jiannan and Longyou. At present, the price of food has skyrocketed, and the people who have fled are soon running out of money and cannot afford to eat food. If there is a famine in the hungry stomach, then the situation will be chaotic. If there is a great danger of rebels outside, and then there are hungry people riots inside, it is a situation of collapse. Therefore, it is necessary to have a countermeasure to deal with it. I didn't let people use the 400,000 stone of grain, so I took it out for emergency in times of crisis. Once the people have nothing to eat, the 400,000 stone grain can be used to help the people and stabilize the people's hearts. Although it is only 400,000 stones, a spoonful of gruel can live a person, and in times of famine, it can keep people from starving to death. That's why I didn't move my grain. ”

Xuanzong nodded slowly, this move was actually a strategy for the imperial court. The purpose of the state's reserve of grain and grass materials is to prepare for war, and the second is to make up for the arrears and stabilize the price of grain in the year of famine to help the people, which is something that no dynasty can do. Stockpiling grain for emergencies is a basic tool. Although the Tang Dynasty has been prosperous for decades, the grain has been harvested every year, and the price of grain is as cheap as grass mustard. However, in the years experienced by Xuanzong, there were also local droughts or floods, and the price of grain in some Daozhou soared, and the hungry people flowed into chaos. At that time, the quickest solution for the imperial court was to send grain to the place to stabilize the price of grain and help the people, and the matter could be quickly resolved without any drastic means. At present, although the amount of 400,000 stone grain stored by Wang Yuan is very small, it cannot play a role in stabilizing the soaring grain prices in Datang, but it can still play a very good role as relief. One stone of grain is more than 100 catties, boiled into gruel, which can be eaten by hundreds of people for a day. You may not be able to eat enough, but you will not starve to death. 400,000 stone of grain can keep millions of people from starving to death for a long time, which can indeed play a role in stabilizing the people's hearts.

But listening to Wang Yuan continued: "Now the imperial court can still rely on the money and grain transported by the southeast state capital to cope with the past, but I don't know if Your Majesty has thought about it, once the war drags on for too long and the rebels are not effective in attacking Shu, it is likely to turn to the south to attack the southeast state capital and cut off my Tang money and grain." The capital of the southeast state is now the only source of money and food for the imperial court, and once it falls, the imperial court will be in a desperate situation. At this time, Fang Xuan didn't think about these imminent worries, didn't think about how to solve these problems, but behind him, he tried to make some means, which simply failed the position of the Tang Dynasty Xiangguo, and betrayed the trust of His Majesty and your colleagues in you. As His Majesty said, this is a disguised trip to the enemy, lest my Datang will not perish, this is a resolutely intolerable move. ”

Fang Xuan's face flushed and said: "You don't spew blood, when did I fly and kill the dogs, even if I misappropriated your military rations, I will also use it for King Shou's recruitment." I am loyal to the Tang Dynasty and His Majesty, how can I go to the enemy? Besides, I didn't say that I wouldn't give food to the army. When the next batch of food and supplies arrives, I will ship it, but the time will not be able to operate for the time being, and it will be delayed for a few days. ”

Wang Yuan was dumbfounded and shouted angrily: "Stop, before you arrive to transport grain and grass, my army will all tighten their belts and drink the northwest wind?" More than 100,000 soldiers of our army are fighting to the death in front, but you don't even supply them with food. Are you intent on pulling back your legs to let the rebels win, have you already made a peace with An Lushan, and An Lushan promised you any benefits? ”

"Bloody spew, Wang Yuan, don't spew blood." Fang Xuan shouted.

Wang Yuan shouted: "Is there blood spurting people? Your behavior is suspicious. If I'm not mistaken, King Shou's recruitment was also instigated by you. In such a situation of lack of food, you still want King Shou to recruit troops on a large scale, instead of organizing the young and strong people to take advantage of the spring to cultivate fields and increase the harvest of grain. If you want to recruit soldiers, won't I recruit them? Millions of refugees in the diaspora are here, don't I know that we have recruited soldiers and horses to strengthen our army? It is because I consider that there are too many soldiers and horses, and there is not much money and food supply, which will overwhelm the imperial court, so I can only use more than 100,000 soldiers and horses to resist the rebel army of hundreds of thousands of troops. You won't be unaware of the consequences, you did it on purpose. ”

Fang Xuan stammered: "I didn't, you are talking nonsense." ”

The green tendons on Fang Xuan's head burst out, and his face was red and almost oozing blood. Wang Yuan put the big hat on his head, it seems that he is really going to do it to himself today. The only solution at the moment was to convince Xuanzong not to believe Wang Yuan's words.

So Fang Xuantong knelt down in front of Xuanzong and cried like rain and shouted: "Your Majesty, the minister is loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and this heart can show the sun and the moon." Your Majesty didn't believe Wang Yuan's words, the minister did make a mistake, but it was only an unintentional mistake, not a deliberate one. The appropriation of grain and grass to recruit troops is also to quell the rebellion earlier, so that Your Majesty can return to Chang'an as soon as possible, Your Majesty. ”

Xuanzong's face was gloomy, and he didn't know what to do. Fang Xuan knelt in front of him and kowtowed repeatedly, and Xuanzong didn't believe that Fang Xuan would really deliberately make trouble. However, Wang Yuan's eyes on the side were spewing fire and momentum, but Xuanzong couldn't ignore it. Or rather, he didn't dare to ignore it. If you want to choose between Wang Yuan and Fang Xuan, under the current situation, of course, Xuanzong can only choose Wang Yuan.

"Don't be noisy, I need to ask clearly." Xuanzong frowned and shouted. Fang Xuan hurriedly shut up, knelt on the ground and looked up at Xuanzong blankly. Xuanzong turned his head and said in a deep voice to Li Mao, who was standing with his head bowed on the side: "Li Mao, is the strategy of recruiting troops really taught you by Fang Xuan?" ”

Li Mao's face was sweating, and her heart was beating wildly. This Wang Yuan has already defined Fang Xuan's behavior as a move to conspire with the enemy, and he can't be confused at this time.

"Enlightenment...... Father. This thing is indeed ...... Fang Xuan mentioned it when he went to find his son. Erchen was not thoughtful, and he was eager to quell the rebellion, so his brain began to dry up as soon as he was hot. The son deserves to die, please forgive his father. ”

Xuanzong was speechless, he thought that there were also knowledgeable people among his sons, but now it seems that it is still the idea given by others. In addition to being disappointed, Xuanzong sighed in his heart: "Your brain is hot, why don't I have a hot brain?" Although Wang Yuan was talking about Fang Xuan just now, but my permission to recruit troops was approved by me, isn't his words talking about me? ”

But now, Xuanzong is absolutely unwilling to take the fault on himself.

"Fang Xuan, you have disappointed me too much, I ...... I almost blinded you. Xuanzong sighed.

Fang Xuan was completely dumbfounded, looked at Xuanzong blankly and said, "Your Majesty...... If the minister doesn't, how dare the minister deceive His Majesty...... Your Majesty Mingjian ......"

"Don't say it, if you instigate King Shou to recruit troops and embezzle the army's rations to him, you are trapping him in injustice. King Shou was deceived by you, and he came to me to tell me that I was also confused and didn't send someone to find out, so I was also deceived by you. You, you, you've disappointed me so much. Xuanzong sighed.

Fang Xuan looked at this father and son blankly, he understood that His Majesty and King Shou were going to completely draw a line with this matter and give up on themselves. His Majesty's words only defended King Shou, and the responsibility was all put on his head, which was not only a waiver, but also a fall.

In a hurry, Fang Xuan was already desperate, raised his head and gritted his teeth at Wang Yuan and shouted: "Wang Yuan, you just don't want Your Majesty to have another soldiers and horses around to protect you." You just want to use the Divine Army to firmly control Your Majesty. I know your thoughts, you are learning from Cao Cao, and you want to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes. ”

As soon as these words came out, the audience was silent, and everyone looked at Fang Xuan blankly. In the courtyard of the scattered flower building, even the wind seemed to have stopped, the flower branches seemed to have stopped swaying, and the birds were all stunned on the branches, all as if they had been immobilized.

Xuanzong looked at Fang Xuan's eyes very helplessly, this Fang Xuan was really a fool, he originally planned to try his best to save his life, after all, the so-called collusion between the capital and the enemy was just talk, and there was no basis. is nothing more than the crime of misappropriating the army's food and grass, if he insists on keeping him from death, at most he will only be dismissed, and he will not fall to the ground, and Wang Yuan should not insist too much. However, when Fang Xuan said this, he had no way to live. Even if Wang Yuan didn't do it, Xuanzong would issue an order to kill Fang Xuan. If he didn't do this, it would be to express his approval of his extremely offensive words against Wang Yuan, so that Wang Yuan was afraid that he would really have to do all the unpredictable things. Although in Xuanzong's opinion, what Fang Xuan said may not be unreasonable, but in the current situation, if you offend Wang Yuan, you will lose everything, and Xuanzong knows this very well.

"Hehehe, very good, why am I making a small move in the back, it turns out that you already hate me to the core, and you don't hesitate to slander me with such words. Okay, I'm Cao Cao, I coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes, I'm a big traitor. You're a good analogy. Knowing this, I shouldn't have gone to Maweipo to meet me, and I shouldn't have asked His Majesty to take refuge in Shu. I didn't expect to end up with such a comment now, which is really chilling. Wang Yuan sneered and stood up.

Xuanzong hurriedly said: "Wang Yuan, don't listen to his nonsense, I know that you are loyal to me, this person will not choose his words, I will punish him heavily." ”

Wang Yuan arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, although you are generous, the minister is stingy, and the minister is so stigmatized that the minister can no longer stand on the court." Then the minister returned to the house, waiting for His Majesty's decree to give him sin. It is a crime of rebellion to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes. The minister and the family will wait in the house for His Majesty to raid the house and kill him, and the minister is willing to prove his innocence with the lives of the whole family. The minister retired. ”

Wang Yuan turned around and strode down the steps, and Xuanzong shouted loudly behind him: "Wang Yuan, Wang Yuan, I don't think so, you stay." ”

Wang Yuan turned around and arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, please forgive the minister for being rude, the minister can't stay here, the minister is already disheartened, and the minister doesn't want to see this person again." ”

In Xuanzong's stunned gaze, Wang Yuan walked away and disappeared behind the vertical door in a stride.