"Your Majesty, Zhou Mu, the household servant, is asking to see you outside the palace", Gonggong An saw that Li Yu was a little tired, and said softly. "Announce it" Li Yu heard this, opened his eyes and thought, what does this guy want to do? Why didn't you start talking?

After a while, Zhou Mu came, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live" "Okay, let's talk quickly" Li Yu sat down on the dragon chair, and his right hand on the dragon chair supported his right cheek and looked at Zhou Mu. This Zhou Mu can also be regarded as a talent, of course, it is not that he is handsome, but that he makes people feel that he is talented at a glance. If you want to say handsome, it can't be done, about thirty years old, an egg-shaped head, thick lips, and two bright eyes on a wide face.

Hearing that Li Yu was not polite, Zhou Mu was also direct, "Back to the emperor, the ministers want to participate in the household department." ”

The words didn't last long, but Li Yu's heart was flooded. Father-in-law An, who was waiting on the side, couldn't help but think: A copy of the household department, what a big breath. Li Yu said quietly: "Oh, let's say, I want to know what Lord Zhou thinks" Although Li Yu was polite in language, he was thinking in his heart that this guy would not be a wall grass, just now he was unhappy and scolded them, so he came to sue, deliberately. But I can't coax him out immediately, so I have to listen to what he has to say.

"Your Majesty, don't worry, the minister is not a grass on the wall", Li Yu, who was seen through his thoughts, was not embarrassed, just stared at Zhou Mu and waited for his next sentence. "As early as half a year ago, there were a large number of officials in the household department who were corrupt, and they also counted a share of the micro-ministers." When Li Yu heard this, he suddenly became serious: "Submit it." Looking at the antique calligraphy and paintings worth tens of thousands of taels in front of him, Li Yu couldn't help but think that no wonder the army had no money, no wonder he didn't dare to face me, and his feelings were corrupted by the living. Resisting the urge to kill, Li Yu gritted his teeth, and his voice jumped out of his throat" continued. ”

"Weichen originally thought that he would give it to the emperor at that time, but the emperor couldn't listen to it at all, so Weichen had no choice but to continue to investigate, and finally let the minister find out the whole ins and outs" Zhou Mu took out a booklet and gave it to Father-in-law An, and Father-in-law An replaced it with Li Yu, Li Yu looked at it and smiled: "There are more than 150 people in the entire household department, and there are 123 people who are corrupt, should I be glad that the household department is not all corrupt, or should I be angry, I should be angry for so long except Lord Zhou told me that no one else told me, or should I be angry, I'm annoyed that Datang has such a big corruption! ”

Li Yu's chest was beating sharply, and Gonggong An hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, keep the dragon body, these corrupt officials have time to govern them, and the dragon body is the most important thing." Li Yu suppressed his anger and looked at Zhou Mu.

Zhou Mu knew that the emperor was letting him continue, so he continued: "The minister knows that this booklet is very important, and in order for His Majesty to keep this secret, the minister ......" said and was about to hit the pillar. Stop him quickly", Li Yu, who saw that the situation was wrong, shouted urgently. A figure flashed, and the figure was the original guard, but now he is the company commander of Li Yu's guard company. Blocked by the figure, Zhou Mu was crooked.

"Lord Zhou is the pillar of the country, I can't afford your death" Seeing that Zhou Mu couldn't succeed once, and he was still hitting the shelf, Li Yu had to stop him.

"Bang" Zhou Mu knelt on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, thank you for your love."

Li Yu only had a major matter, but he didn't have time for the time being, so he had no choice but to say: "I promised Lord Zhou that I would return your innocence and my Tang Dynasty." You go down first. "Then Weichen will retire first" Zhou Mu bowed towards Li Yu with the tears clearly visible on his face.

Li Yu felt more and more that Nantang was not simple. After thinking about it, Zhao An's father-in-law said, "Call all the people from the military department to me." "Obey," Grandpa An said and walked out again.

"Your Majesty, the ministers have arrived", "When you arrive, then announce it", "The Upper Hall of the Ministry of Transmission" "The ministers and others will see the emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live" "Say, now, the Song army has committed my Tang Dynasty, what is the best way for you." Li Yu was hit by the household department, and he was no longer tactful, and asked directly.

That's right, as in all dynasties, without exception, it is divided into two factions, the main faction and the main battle faction after the faction. The Lord and the faction say that peace is precious, and what people are not happy, and the two countries are all misunderstandings. In fact, there is a misunderstanding, Zhao Kuangyin's attack on the Southern Tang Dynasty this time was completely prepared, and the excuse for the attack was even more unreasonable: not to court. As the name suggests, it is not to come to worship. Your sister, you are the emperor of the Song Kingdom, and I am the emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, why should I worship you. Therefore, when Li Yu heard this, he directly ignored the Lord and the faction.

It is still the main battle faction that is more in line with Li Yu's thoughts. "Your Majesty, the Song Kingdom is here prepared this time, we must not take it lightly", the thirty or forty-year-old general persuaded, Li Yu raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Oh, what is the general's good plan?" "Lao Chen thinks that we should take the initiative to attack, now there are only more than 50,000 people in Pan Mei of the Middle Route Army, and I still have 100,000 troops in Datang, including the Imperial Forest Army, our army can defeat him" The general said loudly with his head held high. When the Lord and the faction heard this, they all withered, and Li Kuo, the representative of the emperor's main battle faction, asked, doesn't this mean that Li Yu is sincerely interested in war.

"There are only 30,000 people in my Imperial Forest Army, how can I say that there are 100,000 people." Li Yu was a little puzzled, and he had just inspected the Imperial Forest Army, and there weren't so many at all.

"Your Majesty is right, there are only 30,000 people in my imperial city, and there are 150,000 troops outside. But these 150,000 troops are not all usable, General Huangfu's 50,000 troops guarding Chenzhou cannot be moved, and General Sima's 50,000 troops to resist King Wu Yue's East Route Army are also unusable, and then our Imperial City army cannot be sent out, at least 10,000 people must be left to guard the safety of Jinling. ”

"General Li, if I am right, there are only 70,000 people" Li Yu was a little confused, not only Li Yu was a little confused, but everyone here was a little confused.

"Your Majesty, I don't know, the Imperial Forest Army and the army available outside are only 70,000 people, but my Jinling is far away from Hezhou, there are more than ten big cities in the middle, and the defenders of each city are not 10,000 but also 8,000, we only need to recruit 3,000 people, which will not affect the security of these big cities, but will also make our army sufficient."

This is a battle for the whole country! Fortunately, Li Yu knew that Song Jun was powerful, so he had to do it as a last resort, but he was still surprised. However, Li Yu knew that it did not mean that others knew, especially when the Lord and the faction heard this, they were furious, and hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty, please Your Majesty, Li Kuo is guilty of alarmism."

"Alarmist? Then I can't help but ask Lord Yu, why did the Song army attack my Datang? Did they ever try to give us a way to live? They came this time with the intention of destroying my Datang. So, what if we wait to fight the war of nations? Li Kuo stared angrily at Wang Shan, the representative of the Lord and the faction who was about to punish him. Wang Shan couldn't resist Li Kuo's anger in the face of it, his old face turned red, and he lowered his head and didn't dare to face Li Kuo again.

Li Yu looked at these mediocre lords and ministers in front of him, and he hated iron in his heart. He said to Li Kuo: "With such a large army, who does General Li think will be the commander?"

"The ministers are willing to share the burden for Your Majesty", the ministers of the main war faction said happily when they heard this. The expressions of eagerness to try were clearly written: "I, I, it's me, the emperor."

Li Yu couldn't help but shake his head anxiously, he had just been in Nantang for four or five days, how could he know who was the most suitable. With a flick of his eyes, a calm figure broke into Li Yu's eyes, the man was standing in a dark corner, if he hadn't looked carefully, he wouldn't have been able to discover his existence.

After thinking about it, Li Yu thought that person was the most suitable, why? Because at least that person is not as anxious as everyone else, so happy, after asking Gonggong An for the name of that person, "Okay, I have decided to make Zhang Ji the marshal." ”

What is puzzling is that Zhang Ji not only did not show any joy, but asked Li Yu: "Your Majesty wants the old minister to lead the troops, and Your Majesty has to agree to the old minister's three requests."

When everyone heard this, whether it was the main peace faction or the main battle faction, they were all unhappy, the emperor asked you to lead the troops because he looked up to you, and you didn't thank you. And so many vexatious demands. So they demanded that he be punished for the crime of disrespect.

Zhang Ji didn't seem to hear their words, just looked at Li Yu. Li Yu didn't make any statement, but said lightly: "You can talk about it."