Hearing this, the emperor still subconsciously glanced in Su Fengji's direction, Feng Dao followed his gaze and tilted his head slightly, and saw Su Fengji's chin sinking slightly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This action is fleeting, and each of these people in the hall is not a good stubble, but the only one who can capture this moment is Feng Dao - this old fox.

"Wang Qing, but it's okay to talk about it!" The emperor seemed relieved when he received Su's response, and his voice became more confident when he spoke.

"Returning to the saint, what the minister wants to say is that this year, the horses paid by the towns and state capitals are becoming more and more scarce!"

Feng Dao's eyebrows raised slightly, he had long known about the interception of the forbidden army's horses by the envoys of the outer towns, and he had been in charge of the household department in the previous dynasty. Since the Later Tang Dynasty, the central government of the Central Plains Dynasty has adopted a tolerant attitude towards all towns, and the border army has become more and more self-respecting, a vicious circle. This situation had changed when the first emperor Liu Zhiyuan came, but at the beginning of the year, the first emperor had passed away, and the local army that had been divided was like beans in a wok, crackling again under the action of the small fire in the stove.

"Yan, Hebei, Jin, Qin, all the places rich in good horses, the shortage is the heaviest."

After saying this, Wang Zhang couldn't help but touch his face with his sleeve and wiped his sweat slightly.

Everyone in the hall was moved, and some people began to talk to each other. Wang Zhang's words lifted a lid that no one wanted to lift - that is, Liu Chong, who was left behind in Beijing in Taiyuan. Liu Chong is the younger brother of the first emperor Liu Zhiyuan, and has an old grudge with Guo Wei for many years. In the original history, Liu Chong would become the emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty a few years later, and he would be at odds with Guo Wei, the Great Zhou Emperor who founded Guangshun......

For the Later Han court after Liu Zhiyuan's death, Liu Chong, who was located in the east of the river at this time and bordered the Khitan in the north, also belonged to a decisive force.

Feng Dao squinted at Guo Wei at this time: "Okay, you let your pawns come here to open this lid, and you know that everyone will inevitably cover this newly opened lid quickly, I don't know what you want?" ”

Su Fengji was no longer silent at this time, he got up and saluted: "Your Majesty, the imperial uncle is in Beijing (Note 1), and he bears the heavy responsibility of the Khitan in the north, so there is no suspicion!" ”

Feng Dao looked at Guo Wei again and saw that he closed his eyes slightly, and he didn't seem to care about the situation in front of him.

"Okay, okay, the matter of the imperial uncle will not be mentioned again. But the forbidden army must be in absolute power, which is what the emperor has told many times. At this time, I still want you to think about whether there is another way. ”

Wang Zhang replied: "To return to the saint, the only way to expand the tea and horse trade with the Tuyuhun tribes of the same party is to expand it. ”

After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, the areas with the richest tea production were often not controlled by the central dynasty, so the change of tea and horses was gradually replaced by silver money and grain cloth.

Wang Zhang continued: "In recent years, the Khitan has been a hindrance in the middle, and the feudal towns in the middle of the river and northwest have accumulated livestock, and the price of good horses has risen to 60 yuan. If we want to expand trading, it will be difficult for the treasury to continue in the long run. ”

Feng Dao thought to himself: "Wang Zhang is the envoy of the three divisions, but the real power of the household department is still controlled by Su Fengji and his party, and he has always tried his best to promote the concentration of wealth, support and transportation, but the so-called three envoys have not been able to completely form the integration of the three divisions after all, and Wang Zhang is still only a transfer envoy." Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh slightly.

"It's also difficult for Mrs. Wang to do things," Su Fengji cried with a cat on his face, "In recent years, there have been many homeless people and thieves, and the official loss is not smooth." The cost of local transshipment is countless, and if you think about it carefully, you can only save money. ”

The so-called provincial consumption is a surcharge on the consumption of imperial transportation, which has been levied by successive governments in order to collect wealth, and even to apportionment downward. It was not resolved until the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. Saving money is a common way to solve fiscal problems, and it is certainly not new. When the ministers present heard Su Fengji's words, they all listened attentively, wondering how he was going to spend it.

"With the envy of transportation known to the ministers, the tax of a single grain and rice will be broken by thieves and homeless people." Su Fengji paused and raised his eyes to look at the emperor, the emperor opened his mouth wide, it was clearly the expression of "Su Qing's family, why didn't you tell me about today's script in advance", Su Fengji didn't pay attention to him, he made an emotional expression again, and said with tears in his eyes: "Ranchen deeply feels the difficulties and embarrassment of the people's livelihood, in the twelfth year of Tianfu, the repair and maintenance of the National Warehouse Administration held by the transfer judge Cui Jing has now been largely completed, so the minister implores the saint, although the provincial consumption is to fill the treasury and has to do it, but the rat and the bird consumption should be "thorough, the bottom" is avoided, in order to show the holy virtue!" ”

The ministers present were silent for a moment, and the hall under discussion was quiet for a while, and the silence was terrible, only the scattered sound of rain drops came from outside the door, which could prove that the time at this moment did not end.

The emperor's mouth was slightly open, but he still did not calm down.

Feng Dao went to look at Guo Wei again, he still looked like he didn't care about himself, and there was no sign of any imminent reaction. Feng Dao thought to himself: "The idea of adding provincial consumption, Su Fengji mentioned it a few times during the previous court meeting, and at that time, whether Guo Wei, Wang Zhang or Shi Hongzhao would oppose it impassionedly, which saved the people from another disaster." This time, not only did he bring up the old things, but he also intended to set the provincial consumption to one and two buckets, which is a blatant cannibalism! Do you say that you don't have to spend a mouse? Hmph......" Feng Dao shook his head and thought: "This Su Fengji is worthy of being born as a ruffian in the market!" ”

Sure enough, there was silence for a moment, and the two of them glanced at each other and nodded to each other, as if they were about to speak. Feng Dao looked left, it was Shi Hongzhao, the master of the school and the servant, and the person on the right was the Zhongshu Shilang, the secretary of the ministry and the privy envoy Tongping Zhangshi Yang Wei.

These two people are also ministers of life.

Yang Wei straightened his waist first, and said: "Su Xianggong's discussion is really incomprehensible, since it is a Ming Shengde, then it is enough to avoid the consumption of rats and birds, or the two are equal to the addition, that rats and birds are only added to two liters, and the provincial consumption discussed by Su Xianggong should be added to two buckets!" The difference between the two is tenfold!"

Shi Hongzhao immediately answered: "What Yang Gong said is right! Su Xianggong, just said that the rat consumption, you shouted the word "thoroughly, thoroughly" is not important, I waited here to listen carefully, it seems to be a death to the king, generous for the people to ask for their lives, but think about it carefully, then there is a sense of insanity. ”

If it was a court meeting with a large number of people, Shi Hongzhao's words might have caused Guo Wei and his party to laugh, but now that there are few people, everyone can only laugh secretly in their hearts.

Feng Dao snickered and shook his head secretly: "Shi Yang and the others are Gu Ming, but they were both military leaders in the past, and these people have made Jun Qianqian like a chicken, and they are really undignified. "Since this fight is about to quarrel again, Feng Dao has no choice but to raise his spirits and be ready to fulfill his obligations as a peacemaker at any time, but under such a hedgehog-like issue, it is really difficult to calm down.

Su Fengji sneered: "Yang Xianggong, hey, there is still ...... Master Shitai! ”

Su Fengji raised his neck, and the short beard on his chin was almost facing Shi Hongzhao.

"The court, you need money! Your Majesty also wants to be a queen. The palace and palace should be expanded, and the country should use troops to defend the north. ”

Su Fengji gritted his teeth and said word by word: "You two say something joking and stirring up the situation, is it not that the money, grain and rice, and the military horses have been conjured up?" The lord of the northern kingdom has come to pay tribute? ”

Feng Dao couldn't sit still, he thought about a few words first, closed his eyes and coughed, and was about to open his mouth, when he suddenly heard a bright and thick voice sound: "Princess, if you continue to quarrel like this, it will be night!" ”

Everyone looked at the first place on the left at the same time, and a person had slowly stretched out his tall and burly tiger and wolf body, and then stood proudly in front of the case, but it was Guo Wei, who finally stood up......

Note 1: Taiyuan is one of the capitals of Beijing in the Later Han Dynasty.

Author's note:

When I saw the historical facts mentioning that "those who lose one Hu don't let them lose two buckets", the author couldn't help but smack his tongue, and the rat and bird consumption mentioned in the article is the old system of the Jin Dynasty, one Hu and two liters. It can be seen that although Shi Jingjiao was cursed by later generations, for the people, he was really much more merciful than Liu Zhiyuan and Liu Chengyou's father and son. Of course, there are indeed reasons why state affairs in the Later Han Dynasty have been eroded to this point.