Yinshi, the sky is bright, the north of the Xuandu, inside the Miyagi Shenwu Gate.

Today finally opened the court, but early in the morning in front of the Yugou Bridge, there was a dense crowd of civil and military ministers in neat uniforms.

It's been five days since the war report, but this Ninety-Five Venerable has not been in the court for a long time, and he doesn't even give a decent reason. Plus a few hours ago.......

Everyone was outside the Taihe Palace, although they didn't dare to make a loud noise, but they were also whispering.

Seeing this scene, the eunuch in charge of the palace secretly sighed, cleared his voice, and sang loudly:

"Xuan, Wen Cheng Wude, all the ministers are here!"

After singing, he turned around and beckoned, several guards pulled the door of the Taihe Palace, and after a slow and steady "whining" sound, the heavy door of the Taihe Hall slowly opened, and the ministers poured in according to their ranks, from the three dukes, kings, prime ministers, scholars, bachelors, etc.

The ministers stood quietly, and had a good time of three incense sticks, and at this time there was a glimmer of light in the hall. Suddenly, I heard three bells ringing in the apse, and a eunuch shouted: "Tianfu is virtuous, Haiyu Xianning, His Majesty the Emperor Shenwu and Wise is in court!" ”

A group of ministers shouted long live and knelt on the ground densely.

A slender young man with a gloomy face slowly sat down on the Seven Thrones. His brows furrowed slightly, as if he was extremely tired. I saw him raise his right hand slightly, and signaled, and Wei Huan, the eunuch in his fifties, moved his eyebrows and said: "There is a book to play, nothing to retreat from the court, and the eight things are limited to discussion, and the rest are not careless." Flat. This last sentence dragged on for a long time.

So the hundreds of officials in the hall stood up one after another and stood with their heads bowed.

At this time, a voice sounded in the ranks of civil officials: "The minister has this music!" As he spoke, an official with a dark face and a long beard with a long beard walked out of the crowd, but it was the doctor who advised him to talk nonsense, only to see him put the book in his hand into the brocade plate of the eunuch in the palace, and when the book was presented to the royal case, he said loudly: "Since the envoy returned to the headquarters in March this year, he said that I am unfair, and I am now guilty of Liaodong in the name of this." The Ministry of War received a report that 20,000 troops led by Murong Xian, the lord of Youyan State, broke through Xuancheng and Ganzhou 23 days ago, and the troops reached Chicheng and Datong. The minister thinks that he is unreasonable and ignores the divine power of my kingdom, which is really arrogant. For today, we should wave the army to the north to relieve the siege of Datong and thwart the situation. ”

As soon as the words fell, a slightly chubby middle-aged minister stepped out of his side, but it was Shi Shenhuai, the head of the household, who saw him bow to the palace and said: "Although Dr. Hu's words are heroic, he is also extremely ignorant!" ”

When Hu Shucheng heard this, his face turned dark, and he was about to reply, but Shen Huai had already received it leisurely: "The emperor was happy to get the dragon son last month, and the whole world celebrated, but now you are talking lightly about military affairs, do you want to touch the mold of the king?" Secluded invasion, there is another hidden reason, the minister thinks that there is no need for a large army to go on a northern expedition, only Wei Gonggong can retreat from the enemy! ”

Hu Shucheng knew that this was Shen Huai's hat for himself, but he didn't dare to answer, but he just said that he didn't dare, knelt down and kowtowed. But Wei Huan sneered and was silent.

At this time, a rather unruly eight-foot general came out of the military attache group, but it was the chief soldier Long Ju. He opened his voice and said: "Lord Shen's hat is too heavy, the prince was born since the happy thing of my courtiers, but now it is the secluded Murong Lao'er, if you don't cut him down and break Datong for him, there will be no danger all the way back, then you can only come back to guard the capital!" ”

At this time, Wei Huan, the eunuch of Bingbi in the hall, shouted: "Bold! How could Jingshi be able to be beaten by the Hu people? Long Ju snorted and was speechless.

At this time, a thin and tall old man slowly walked out of the first row, but it was Liu Shiqi, the first assistant intermediate palace scholar and Taifu, I saw that his face was calm, and he said: "Your Majesty, foreign enemies invade the territory, this one destroys our country's reputation, two offends my people, and three occupy my territory, all three are unbearable." However, last month, the Huangshui flooded, Yuzhou, Qingzhou and other areas were flooded, and the displaced people have been displaced for more than a month. The minister thought that now the river is silted up, and the transportation of materials is difficult, if the northern expedition is rushed, it will inevitably be exhausted and the material is insufficient. The soldiers said that "the army is scheming, the second is to cut the relationship, the second is to attack the army, and the next is to attack the city", this time the secluded offense is all by the reward of injustice, the minister thinks that our dynasty only needs to send messengers, one shows kindness, one opens the border trade, you can restore diplomatic relations with the secluded Yan, so that the wolf soldiers retreat without a fight, which is also the luck of the border people! ”

At this time, the young emperor who only listened suddenly let out a breath lightly from his nostrils and muttered, "Hmph, it's only 20,000 ......."

Wei Huan next to him heard this whisper, and as soon as his arrogance was long, he shouted to Liu Shiqi: "What is not enough?" It's because your household ministry is not working! What goes up and down? The little 20,000 horse thieves will scare you one or two! What is open to border trade, I Daqi is a **** country, how can I trade with the border Saifan State, what kind of system can this become? ”

Hearing this, Liu Shiqi was not in a hurry, and was about to reply, but he heard Shen Huai next to him choke and say: "The Ministry of Household Affairs has never interfered in the matter of tribute!" If it weren't for Gonggong Wei's guidance to reduce the gloomy reward at the beginning of the year, which angered their envoys, then the little horse thief would not have come to make trouble for no reason. The minister thought that the bell still needed to be tied to the bell, and this little 20,000 horse thieves, if the Duke of Wei brought enough rewards and personally went to train Murong Xian as a courtesy to the ministers in the way of the countryman, he would definitely be able to build a miracle. After saying this, I could only hear the faint sound of laughter in the hall.

At this time, the young emperor rolled his eyes and looked at Wei Huan and said, "Sir, is there such a thing?" This "sir" is addressed to Wei Huan. When Wei Huan heard this, he suddenly turned around and knelt down, kowtowing and whimpering: "You are arrogant and unruly, the reasons that those Hu people said should not be taken seriously, Your Majesty." At the beginning of the year, there were lame and sick horses in the secluded tribute, and the old slave negotiated with them impartially, not wanting them to hate the old slave, and now even the old slave is used as an excuse to commit the invasion, and the old slave is really wronged! "His ability to cry in the blink of an eye can be regarded as perfect.

At this time, Zuo Yong, the imperial secretary of the Imperial Procuratorate, strode out of the ranks and said: "Your Majesty, what Wei Huan said is not true, in previous years, Wei Huan paid tribute, Wei Huan had private deductions, and this year, the envoy of Youyan was unwilling to kick back, so Wei Huan deducted two silver taels from the reward, and filled the treasury privately, so that there was today's battle." This is absolutely true, and Hu Xiaofu, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, can be a witness......"

Originally from after the rise of Youyan, the Qi Dynasty and the war were frequent, although the two sides did not communicate with each other, but each other still needed each other's materials. For example, the Qi Dynasty needed the horses, furs, ginseng, etc., while the Youyan needed the silk cloth, salt tea, and ingenuity of the Qi Dynasty. Since they could not trade freely, the two sides established a system of tribute and rewards, that is, the Youyan envoy brought horses and other things that needed to be traded to the capital every year, and the capital prepared cloth and other materials as a reward for the Youyan envoy. Wei Huan because of his long-term service to the emperor, he won the beauty of this reward, in the past, the envoy only needed to give Wei Huan an extra thank you, Wei Huan would order his subordinates to do the rewarded cloth and other things decently, but I don't want this year's secret envoy to be surprisingly unenlightened, how not to send a congratulatory gift to Wei Huan, so the old eunuch was angry and ordered someone to cut the cloth of the reward, and at the same time let Hu Xiaofu deduct the reward silver, and he ate another sum. These secluded envoys were already angry, but after returning to China, they unfolded the cloth and found that it was all broken and useless, so the lord of the country, Murong Xian, was furious, which led to this large-scale southern expedition.

Wei Huan and Hu Xiaofu secretly plotted to divide the spoils, originally thought that God knew about it, but unexpectedly, this time Yu Yan suddenly invaded the south, but he took the matter of his deduction as the reason for sending troops, and the whole world knew about it. In the past few days, Wei Huan has hated Murong Xian into the bone marrow, but the top priority is to kill Hu Xiaofu, he has sent several groups of "Ti Dao Guards" to assassinate Hu Xiaofu in the past few days, and at the same time dragged the emperor not to go to court to buy time, I don't want to come down for a few days, but the people sent out have returned in vain.

At this time, he glanced at Hu Xiaofu and saw that Hu Xiaofu was not in the hall, so in his heart, he laughed and said, "What about Hu Xiaofu?" Let him come! Yo, he's not here, is he sick? It can't be a loss of yang deficiency and kidneys, right? Hahaha"

At this time, there was a dead silence in the hall, and only Hua Min, the secretary of the Criminal Department, stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers received a report that Hu Shilang was stabbed in the Xishi Mansion last night, and the deceased was suspected of being swept by a dagger, which is not like an ordinary technique." The incident happened suddenly, and the ministers have arranged for all the suspicious people to be detained pending trial, and the Hu Mansion has also been controlled, and the ministers have instructed the case to be handled quickly, but Hu Shilang's fatal injuries are too strange, and it is not yet known who did it. ”

As soon as these words came out, the whole hall was in an uproar!

Wei Huan sneered in his heart, he heard that the assassination attempt was attempted in the past few days, and the Dao Guard reported that the Donglin Party had contacted the ghost master of Fengyu Tower, and Liu Fuzi had dispatched the "Right Bi" and "Left Fu" in the "Flying Star" to intervene in the guards to monitor the Hu Mansion. This time, in order to protect Hu Xiaofu, the ministers didn't know what price they paid, and they actually invited the "Flying Star" to come to protect them.

Originally, in this capital master's land, if you want to break through the defense of the Wind and Rain Building, the people in the Crash Thunder Hall may have a try a few years ago, but this Crash Thunder Hall has been in a slump since the hall master Renault was killed, and the business has almost all been replaced by the later Longhu Firm, and the Crash Thunder Hall has withered from then on. So he could only continue to let the Knife Guard continue to look for opportunities, while thinking about how to respond. Unexpectedly, at this time, he heard that Ti Daowei came to report that Hu Xiaofu had been assassinated, and as for who the assassin was and who instructed him, Ti Daowei also did not know the essentials.

At this time, it coincided with the opening of the dynasty, Wei Huan didn't have to worry about Hu Xiaofu's collusion at this time, knowing that the emperor was young and vigorous, and he would be able to obtain holy permission for words and battles, and he hated Murong Xian in his heart and made him lose face, so he was determined to teach those Hu people a hard lesson!

As for the side of the Donglin Party, which is dominated by the civil official Qingliu, the party leader Liu Shiqi has come forward to persuade Hu Xiaofu to testify against Wei Huan, and has spent a lot of money to invite Hu Xiaofu, the superintendent of the Ming Pavilion. Second, the ministers felt that it was a great disaster for the country that this eunuch had the right to approve red, and Wei Huan was too arrogant and domineering on weekdays, and Shen Huai and Liu Shiqi wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible. And the reward is a rare good opportunity to get rid of this evil in the court!

But I didn't want it to happen, but this crucial witness was killed in an unbelievable way under impossibility!

After the voice calmed down a little, Liu Shiqi was only heard to say in a deep voice: "Hu Shilang's death is quite strange, and I ask the people of Huada to focus on a thorough investigation, and we must not let the young people easily destroy the evidence and disturb the dynasty!" ”

Wei Huan had already gotten up at this time, and when he heard this, he patted his sleeve and said with a smile: "Liu Ge Lao, do you mean the old slave when you say Xiaoxiao?" Why are you literati so unhappy to speak? He has served the monarch for a long time, and now he is powerful, so he is naturally good at observing the emperor's thoughts and thoughts, he saw that although the emperor was silent at this time, he must have already ruled in his heart, so he was even more confident, and then said: "Liu Ge Lao, you just want the old slave to stuff his line, so that the old slave can suffer a little." Since Liu Ge has a life, it is impossible to think about the old slaves here, but the old slaves are weak and timid, and they need some people to strengthen Yang Wei. As he spoke, he turned around and bowed to the emperor again, and said: "Please ask the emperor for permission, give the old slave 100,000 Changwu army, the old slave is willing to wear armor and bring a knife, take my son of Daqi, and let the surnamed Murong go back to his hometown!" These words were high-spirited, and after saying that, he stared at Liu Shiqi and did it, and sneered.

Shen Huai and the others originally planned to bring down Wei Huan with a deductible reward, and then send him to the north to ease their relations, but who knew that they finally waited until the opening of the dynasty, but there were no witnesses a few hours ago, and at this moment, this person who should have been afraid to face the seclusion is now so arrogant, he actually wants to ask for the Northern Expedition! And under his words, it seems that he has become a righteous man who died generously, and his own heavy-handed ministers seem to be cowardly! But after thinking about it, I can't help but feel that this person is really treacherous, because he asked for the Northern Expedition at the moment, firstly, to appear that he is worried about the monarch of the country, secondly, after a battle, he can also get rid of the collusion relationship with Youyan private transactions, and thirdly, once he retreats from the enemy, it will also be a great achievement!

At this time, Shi Xin, the general of the Pillar State, who had been silent, reminded: "Your Majesty, whether the Northern Expedition or not, are you waiting for the Queen Mother's blue approval?" ”

When the emperor heard this, he suddenly rolled his eyes, his eyes shot out coldly, and he just stroked the hand of the jade cup and suddenly patted the imperial case, and shouted in a deep voice: "Enough!" After that, he paused, as if he had calmed down, and said, "Shi Xin! Yu Fangche! ”

Shi Xin and Yu Fang Che, the secretary of the military department, came out of the list and said: "The minister is here!" ”

"I order you to cooperate with the military department Yu Fang Che to mobilize 200,000 Changwu troops on the outskirts of Beijing within 15 days, including the three major battalions of the Shenyu Battalion, the Xuanji Battalion, and the Blazing Wu Battalion. Shen Huai! Liu Shiqi! ”

Shen Huai and Liu Shiqi came out and said, "The minister is here!" ”

"Order the two of you to mobilize 200,000 military supplies of food, grass and clothing, and recruit laborers, etc., and complete it within 30 days! Liu Shiqi! ”

Liu Shiqi bowed again and said, "Please give instructions to Your Majesty!" ”

"Intended! I am scheduled to lead the Chinese army on the sixth day of the first month of September, and personally conquer the Northern Expedition!

Wei Huan, the eunuch of this Feng Si Rite Supervisor Bingbi, was the general of the expedition to the north, and Shi Xin was the deputy marshal of the Chinese army, leading three major battalions, following the Chinese army in Zhenzhen, and going to Xuanfu. Long Ju and Mu Yun each led 50,000 Changwu troops, and the left and right roads were divided into Longmen and Guangchang as the flanks. During the Northern Hunt, King Qin supervised the country, and all matters of size were agreed between King Qin and the cabinet, with Zhu Approval and Blue Approval! ”

Pro-conscription? The ministers were stunned, but they didn't dare to say more. Liu Shiqi's complexion changed several times, and finally he sank down, and promised: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

At the end of the court meeting, the ministers dispersed, but the king of Qin stood in the Taihe Palace. Although he is only twenty-eight years old now, he is already the auxiliary prince of the cabinet, of course, hehe, this is also the so-called gift...... He slightly straightened his young and strong chest, feeling the endless energy buried in his chest. He looked at the luxurious but mottled Qibao Dragon chair in the Taihe Palace, and couldn't help but raise his head and take a deep breath.

It's really a mess today, pro-Zheng? I'm sure you're tired too......

King Qin sorted out his chaotic thoughts, he was entrusted with the important task of supervising the country today, and according to the system, he had to wait for the summons at this moment, and went to "thank" and "ask for advice" before entering the palace.

His younger brother of the Ninety-Five Emperor has gradually lost his clarity and naturalness recently, and the number of times he has been in the court has also decreased sharply recently, and he only said eight things at a time! Now the power of "vote drafting" is controlled by Liu Shiqi, and the power of "approving red" and "approving blue" is in the hands of Wei Huan and the empress dowager respectively......

Have you allowed power to slip away? Pro-conscription? Do you think that the pro-conquest will be able to break through this huge net?

King Qin shook his head slightly, didn't think about it anymore, and withdrew his gaze from the dragon chair.

At this time, a eunuch turned out of the back of the palace, but it was Feng Bao, the eunuch in charge of the palace, only to see Feng Bao make a gesture, waved his left hand, and said: "Your Majesty invites Prince Qin to enter the palace to meet you." Second master, please ...... here"

King Qin returned the salute, and then shook his clothes, and followed Feng Bao towards the palace.

Feng Bao turned around to lead the way, and then suddenly whispered to King Qin: "Second master, Kunhe Palace has newly brewed peach blossom brew, the taste is good, the queen mother means that the second master is a Bole in the wine, and I want to ask the second master to take the time to go to the tasting." ”

When King Qin heard this, the corners of his lips turned up slightly imperceptibly, and he replied lightly: "Got it!" He walked forward.

"Book of Qi": "In August of the eighth year of the great cause, the secluded realm was violated and the Datong was trapped. The imperial court discussed the northern affairs, and the people discussed the northern expedition, and the Wujun of Dianchang had 200,000 soldiers and countless grains, which was for Ding Si's personal expedition. ”

"I Ching Teacher": "On the sixth day of the first month, the teacher is out of the law, no, Zang is fierce." ”