One of the ministers in the front position came out and said: "Your Majesty, the Khitan, Goryeo, Uighur and Tuyuhun have sent envoys to congratulate our new emperor on his accession to the throne, this is a gift list, and the envoys of the four countries are also waiting outside the palace." ”

Li Guanqi recognized him as Yang Bozheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites who was in charge of the funeral of the former emperor with Zu Donglai, and while receiving the gift list from Yue'er's hand, he smiled and said: "Their news is quite fast, I will take a look." ”

Flipping through the gift list, I found that it was just a specialty of various countries, and I couldn't understand it for a while, thinking that I would definitely return the gift, so I put it aside casually and said: "You probably do this thing often, and you are better at it." I won't be a layman to command you insider, you can do it. I just say a word, don't slap your swollen face and become fat, just make a loss-making deal. As for the envoys, I don't have the heart to see them today, so I'm gone, let's do it another day. ”

Although Li Guanqi's words were a bit vulgar, the matter was also clear, and Yang Bozheng didn't say much, and said that he obeyed the order and retreated.

Later, several officials reported the auspicious events, one said that a yellow dragon appeared in such and such a place, and then flew again, and the other said that Lingzhi with a large umbrella appeared in such and such a place, which was nothing more than words of praise.

Li Guanqi really has a feeling that he wants to laugh, do these people think they are stupid? Okay, if you can blow it, I'll see how you lie. So he said quietly: "Okay, I have just come to power, and I am very happy that there are so many auspicious signs." Since Huang Long flew away, forget it, that Lingzhi immediately arranged for someone to send it over, and I also wanted to take a look. ”

Several ministers looked at each other, the cowhide was blown up, where to get that thing, so they had to reply embarrassedly: "The ministers are also heard, and they haven't seen it in person." ”

Li Guanqi's face turned cold, and he said, "Since it's all fucking shadowless, what do you mean by bringing it over and telling me?" When I'm so coaxed? ”

When a few ministers who were slapping their sycophants saw that the horse's ass had slapped on the horse's hooves, they quickly knelt down and begged for mercy.

Li Guanqi just wanted to reprimand again, but Zu Donglai had already come out of the class and said: "The Holy Spirit, the world is prosperous, the Hetuluo book is out, and the auspicious things have been done since ancient times." All the ministers are the children of saints, full of poetry and books, how can they talk about auspiciousness? ”

As soon as Zu Donglai's words came out, more than half of the courtiers in the Xuanzheng Palace immediately echoed it.

Seeing this, Li Guanqi couldn't help but gasp, it seems that he still underestimated the power of Zu Donglai a little, look at this posture, it is possible to force the palace on the spot.

At that moment, Li Guanqi had no choice but to say in a slightly slower tone: "I don't intend to cure a few of you for your crimes, but you all remember from today that I am not so easy to coax." Although these words are open, there is still a bit of helplessness in them.

"Your Majesty." Zu Donglai said expressionlessly.

"Your Majesty." Hundreds of officials sang in unison.

"Alright, alright. Is there anything else to play? Li Guanqi's tone was already difficult to hide the tone of boredom.

Tai Lieutenant He Zhuguo went out again and said: "The emperor, the border pass sent an urgent military report, the Western Turkic army took turns to attack the city day and night, although the defenders of Yumen Pass had high walls and deep fortresses, but they also suffered heavy casualties, dead and wounded, and asked for a quick increase in troops and food." ”

"Damn, not only do I have internal worries, but also external troubles? This bullshit crossing is too inhumane. Li Guanqi couldn't help but curse in his heart. But scolding is scolding, and the things that should be dealt with have to be dealt with. However, Li Guanqi did not give orders immediately, because he knew that many of the great defeats in history were caused by the blind command of the emperor who did not know how to fight, and the transportation at this time was very underdeveloped, and the fastest transmission of information took several days.

And for this war, to be honest, he really didn't dare to say that he understood, although he had also talked to others on the forum on paper, but it was on paper after all. So Li Guanqi still planned to humbly ask for advice, and asked, "What is your opinion?" ”

He Zhuguo said boldly: "The minister is a rough man, he doesn't have much knowledge, and the minister knows that the territory of the Celestial Empire is not lost, and whoever misbehaves will beat him." ”

It seems that this He Zhuguo still has a bloody nature in his bones, Li Guanqi nodded with satisfaction and said: "Then according to the Tai Lieutenant, how should this battle be fought below?" ”

He Zhuguo said without hesitation: "Transfer 100,000 troops from the Beijing battalion to form the middle route army, 30,000 from Guannei Dao and Jiannan Dao each for the east and west wings, plus the garrison of Longyou Dao itself, there are 250,000 people in total, pincer attacks on three sides, and the Western Turkic army is claimed to be only 100,000, and a battle can be determined." ”

Li Guanqi still doesn't know much about the geographical territory of the Qian Dynasty, and He Zhuguo doesn't understand what he said for a while, so he muttered a little. This deep groan, a minister at the bottom had already come out and played: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this move of Lord Taiwei is absolutely undesirable. ”

Li Guanqi was stunned for a moment and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The minister replied: "The minister is Qin Minzhong, the secretary of the household department. ”

"Tell me why you can't do it?" Li Guanqi is interested, isn't Hubu Shangshu the Minister of Finance? How do you still know how to fight?

"As the lieutenant said, there was a large-scale attack on all sides, and the military deployment could not be entertained. The folk proverb can't build a house without rice mountains and mountains, and the national proverb can't fight without gold and silver!

In the 25 th Army, the number of men who transported grain in the rear was 200,000 less, and the number of other personnel on the grain transportation route added up to 600,000 people, and each person was calculated according to 12 taels of rations per day, and 6,000 stone of rice and flour alone would be consumed every day, and the grain transferred from Guannei and Hedong to the front line would cost 3 taels of silver per stone, and if grain was transferred from Huainan and Jiangnan, it would have to be doubled.

In this way, at least 18,000 taels of silver are needed a day, and 540,000 taels a month, not including the wages of the grain carriers.

The existing silver in the treasury is less than two million taels, and it is necessary to provide disaster relief and repair the mausoleum, in a word, the emperor, the minister cannot afford this money. Qin Minzhong was talking about spittle, and when he said it, he might have really been angry, and his tone was very hard.

Li Guanqi was confused by Qin Minzhong's words, but his spirit came up all of a sudden, this Qin Minzhong didn't pay much attention to it when he was looking at the resumes of hundreds of officials before, but looking at his right performance, at least he is a capable official, this person has to pay attention to. After thinking for a while, he asked, "Then according to your meaning, how should this battle be fought?" ”

Qin Minzhong straightened his neck and said: "The ministers are in charge of the household department, they are only responsible for money and food, and they don't know anything about marching and fighting, so they don't dare to comment on it, but the method of the captain is absolutely unworkable." ”

Li Guanqi's nose was almost crooked, okay, you are only responsible for vetoing other people's plans. Having said a lot, you old man doesn't know how to fight this battle? You don't understand, I don't understand, and the captain doesn't seem to understand, so who understands?