The outer gate of Bianjing City, or Kaifeng City, has long been closed, and when it begins to become quiet, the gate of the inner city gate in the center of the city is still full of people, and the carriages, horses, shoulders, and the entourage of various high-ranking officials are crowded at the door, and these people gather together in twos and threes to discuss something in a low voice.

It was cold, and the palace guards guarding the city gate did not dare to talk to each other, so they had to stomp their feet a little anxiously to relieve their toes, which had become numb from the cold and standing for a long time.

The inner city or the interior of the palace city, in addition to the main hall of the Great Dynasty Meeting, there are some small yellow doors or palace ladies carrying lanterns to walk around, in addition to the north of the dormitory, in the south of several palaces, only the north of the Daqing Hall of the Zichen Hall is lit with candles.

Outside the Zichen Palace, the palace guards stood like tree stumps in their helmets, and Xiao Huangmen and Gong'e were busy everywhere like silent ghosts.

On the contrary, the Zichen Hall was almost boiling in the sky.

The name of the Zichen Hall follows the old practice of the former Tang Dynasty, and even the function is also modeled after the previous dynasty - a place used to house the emperor and several first-class ministers to discuss matters.

There are two ways to mention this Zichen Palace.

The first is contrasting, the court meeting convened by the Daqing Hall in the south is the emperor to listen to the performance of hundreds of officials, called the Great Dynasty Meeting, and although the number of people convened in this Zichen Hall is scarce, it is any major national policy from this palace, so it is also called a small court meeting here. The second type of formulation is derived from the first one, and it is also a formulation that began since the Song Dynasty, and the name is very straightforward and similar to that of later generations, called the cabinet.

This night, in the cabinet of Zichen Palace, Emperor Zhao Heng of the Song Dynasty sat on the main seat in the middle of the inner hall, watching and listening to the disputes of his ministers with a dull expression. The relationship between the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty was not that of later generations

There are many people sitting together, the most famous ones, such as Wang Dan, Wang Qinruo, Feng Zheng, Zhang Qi, Shi Baoji, Chen Yaosuo...... and Ding Wei and other cadres, all present.

Ding Wei is only here to accompany the last seat, and he can be present, just because he is the deputy envoy of the third division, the deputy envoy in charge of salt and iron, if there is a war, he, the deputy envoy, will not be able to escape his duties.

Of course, there is also an old man who has been mentioned many times before - Xingyang Bo Dingkui, this old monster leaned on the back of the chair, half-squinted his eyes, and looked at the situation calmly.

Among the people present, Governor Feng Zhengzheng stared at Wang Qinruo on the side with his eyes and blew his beard on the side of his mouth, "If you are not a son of man, just a newcomer from the west can also make you, an auxiliary minister, fearful, but an embassy of hundreds of people, what is there to fear?" I always had to talk again face to face, and before I saw them, I promised that if they did not abide by the covenant in the future, they would cross the border and harm my people at every turn, like the Northern Liao. Can you really set the country? ”

On the other side, the Privy Council scholar Chen Yaosuo grabbed Feng Zheng's sleeve and shouted repeatedly: "Brother Daoji (1), and slow annoyance, slow annoyance...... Today's subordinates turned out the frontier report from the book and paper, and a certain person had read it, and the newcomers in Lingzhou were really extraordinary, and the arrogant and arrogant Uta Department was wiped out without blood, and the Xingzhou Ma clan also collapsed, and now it has reached a watchful agreement with the majority of the party...... Come and see...... What Ding Lao said before is not an exaggeration! ”

Feng Zheng took a stack of newspapers from Chen Yaosu's hand and stared at the densely written small characters on it.

Shi Baoji on the other side stood up, first bowed to Emperor Zhao Heng of the Song Dynasty, and then sat in a circle, and then said angrily, "Your Majesty, your lords, there are only 100,000 people in Lingzhou, and there are only 40,000 soldiers, so you dare to make an offer as an equal country...... The minister asked to transfer troops to attack Lingzhou, and the minister dared to use the head of the item as a guarantee, and he would definitely be able to break the city and seize it! ”

Zhao Heng blinked and asked in a deep voice: "There are 40,000 soldiers in Lingzhou, and they are attacking from a long distance. ”

"Just ...... Only 80,000 soldiers are enough! Obviously, Shi Baoji was not fully prepared, and after thinking for a moment, he replied: "Moreover, the minister has heard that the party and the newcomers in Lingzhou have fought in Bozhou thousands of miles away, and after the war, the party has suffered a great loss of troops......

Wang Dan, who was sitting in a precarious position, raised his hand and asked: "Your Majesty, it is the middle of winter, and it is by no means easy to transfer troops...... Moreover, the grain stock in the border states is limited, and the grain for the march must be transported to the east, and it is difficult to travel in winter, so it is by no means hasty...... In addition, I just ended the confrontation with Northern Liao a few years ago, and now it is the time to recuperate. ”

Both of them have some truth, and Zhao Heng, as the emperor, also understands, but he thinks more in his heart, Shi Baoji must be asking for war for some reason that he doesn't know yet, but Wang Dan, the prime minister, is a fair person, and the words he said are also definite, but they are not the reason why he can make a decision in his mind.

Therefore, he didn't reply directly, but sprinkled his eyes on the other people, "The two Qing family are reasonable, which other Qing family can solve my doubts?" ”

The emperor is often the referee, and the emperor cannot be wrong, so he will not easily agree to something.

The ministers present are also accustomed to this, including Shi Baoji and Wang Dan, who are just right to speak.

"Your Majesty, the minister has something to say!" Chen Yaosuo, who had previously acted as a peacemaker, stood up in a proper manner, bowed and saluted, and said in a condensed voice: "After the previous dynasty, his subordinates sent a report to the minister, and the minister had a cursory read, and Li Jichong, the assassin of Suizhou, issued a customs clearance document to the Lingzhou mission, and he also submitted a submission in the report, saying that in order to ensure the safety of the trade route between the Suizhou and Shizhou fields, the Suizhou border army had dispatched to suppress the bandits, and in one fell swoop to exterminate more than 1,000 bandits on the chaotic stone mountains on the trade road, and the number of self-losses was only ......."

“…… Lingzhou Luo's foothold is not stable now, and it is time to take this opportunity to destroy such fools,"

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Note: (1) Brother Daoji, Feng Zhengzi Daoji, was born in 958 A.D., and Chen Yaosuo was born in 961 A.D., which should be called so.

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