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The three sides are far from Bianjing, but hundreds of miles away, fast horses, one day can arrive, the three sides of the messenger out in the early morning, ten ten at midnight, come to Bianjing.

"The envoy of the trilateral prefectures, and the urgent military situation is reported!" Fuzhou was the closest to Bianjing, plus had the best war horses and cavalry, and the first to come to Bianjing said loudly in front of the closed city gate.

When the guards heard the words of emergency military information, they were shocked, and after verifying their identities, they hurriedly opened the city gate and let the Fuzhou envoy enter Bianjing City.

Just when the guards were shocked and wondered whether it was Western Xia and Liaoguo Koubian, envoys from Linzhou and Fengzhou came one after another.

The envoys of the three sides galloped on the wide road of Bianjing, and rushed straight into the yamen of the military headquarters in the night.

The three powers of the Great Song Dynasty were separated, the three divisions controlled the finances, and at the same time divided the household department of the six ministries, while the Privy Council controlled the military power, and the military department of the six ministries was divided, and the remaining four departments belonged to the three provinces of Menxia, Zhongshu and Shangshu, which existed in name only, and the rights of the three provinces belonged to the prime minister and the governor.

The arrival of the trilateral envoys made the originally calm Yamen of the Ministry of War suddenly jump and panic, and there was a flustery, the trilateral mutiny, such a big matter, the officials of the Ministry of War could get an idea, and they could only report the matter to the Privy Council at night.

The privy envoy Wang Shu and the privy deputy envoy Wang Deyong were pulled up from their homes one after another, and there were serious trilateral changes. made these two people also frightened and panicked, and directly ordered people to ask to see other important ministers of the court, and then detained the Xuanyou Gate at night.

Tonight happened to be Gan Ling on duty at Xuanyoumen, and Gan Ling was sleeping in a daze, when he suddenly heard a report from Jin Wei in the forbidden area. Outside the Xuanyou Gate, the privy envoy Wang Shu and the privy deputy envoy Wang Deyong urgently asked to see him.

Gan Ling is a smart person, of course he knows what can make the chief and deputy envoys of the Privy Council ask to see him overnight, only a major military situation, and he immediately came to his senses, and immediately notified Zhao Zhen, the official of the palace of Empress Guo, who was sleeping at night.

In the inner room of the queen's bedroom, the official Zhao Zhen had already slept early, and beside him, there was a noble and elegant classical beauty, who was about twenty-five or sixteen years old. It is the age of maturity and seductiveness, full of young woman's style, this beauty has a good face, but her eyebrows are upside down, and she looks full of an indescribable evil spirit. Between the eyebrows, full. The meaning of arrogance, that is, sleeping, is also fierce, although beautiful. But she lost the feminine charm of a woman, which greatly destroyed her overall beauty, this beautiful young woman. It is the official Zhao Zhen's main palace Empress Guo.

In fact, there is no emotion between the official Zhao Zhen and Queen Guo.

Empress Guo is the concubine of the official Zhao Zhen who entered the palace soon after succeeding to the throne, and the position of the queen was not her turn, but what the official Zhao Zhen liked at that time was Zhang Meiren who entered the palace, and wanted to make her the queen, but Zhao Zhen was the second-in-command of the Great Song Dynasty at that time. The first Empress Dowager Liu, but she doesn't like Zhang Meiren, thinking that Zhang Meiren is from a humble background, Empress Dowager Liu probably has no brains, and she doesn't want to think about it, she was born in a humble courtesan, and her background is lower than Zhang Meiren, maybe that's right, Empress Dowager Liu is afraid that Zhang Meiren will become the queen, which reminds people of her background, so she resolutely disagrees with Zhang Meiren as the queen, but sets up the granddaughter of Guo Chong, the envoy of the Pinglu Army, that is, the later Empress Guo.

However, Queen Guo is a vinegar jar, and I can't see that the official Zhao Zhen likes other people, which is a big crime in ancient times, and he has not given birth to a boy and a half girl for a long time in the palace, but Zhao Zhen doesn't like Queen Guo even more, and Queen Guo is fortunate once a month, but it is just to deal with the rules, every time it is a hasty matter, and then sleep until dawn, but Queen Guo still has a meritorious land, after all, when the official Zhao Zhen is in the queen's bedroom, the rest is much better than that of other bedrooms.

But tonight Zhao Zhen is destined not to be able to dream true, sweet dreaming of him, just dreamed of being the real son of heaven, seeing the real fairy, ready to ** naked to have an emotional exchange, the timid voice of the palace maid came from outside the house: "The privy envoy two kings, detain the palace overnight, ask to see the official!" ”

Anyone who is woken up in a sweet dream will be furious, and Zhao Zhen is the same, he was called up in a daze, and his first thought was to match the palace maid who called him directly to Lingnan as a prostitute, but when he reflected that the people who detained the palace late at night were the two giants of the Privy Council, he immediately understood that something was wrong.

Zhao Zhen, who had no time for his temper, ignored Queen Guo, who was not awake next to him, and called the palace maid to get dressed and hurriedly walked out of the queen's bedroom.

Xuanyou Gate is facing Xuanyou Palace, hence the name, and Xuanyou Palace is the place where Zhao Zhen summoned important ministers of the court late at night to deal with business.

When Zhao Zhen got dressed and came to Xuanyou Palace, and when it was reported that the privy envoy Wang Shu and the deputy envoy Wang Deyong, outside the Forbidden Palace, Zhao Yuanyan, the king of Meng, and the other four ruling ministers also rushed to hear the news.

"What's the matter?" Zhao Zhen saw that all the seven important ministers of the imperial court had arrived, and finally something important had happened, and asked them worriedly.

"Enlighten the official family! The soldiers of the three sides mutinied. Wang Shu didn't dare to hide these things, and replied honestly.

"Mutiny, how is it possible?" Zhao Zhen's first thought was doubt, after all, in the past hundred years, there has never been a mutiny among the three sides.

"The three sides did not pay the silver in March, and the military spirit was floating, this matter was used by the Western Xia spies, and then they provoked the mutiny of the soldiers, although it was suppressed, but the three sides of the 70,000 border troops, the loss of nearly 10,000 people." Wang Deyong was born in the military and has the most say in this kind of thing, so instead of Wang Shu, he carefully explained to the official Zhao Zhen.

"What's the matter with the unpaid silver in March?" Zhao Zhen asked in astonishment to Song Shou, who was not only the governor of the political affairs, but also held the official position of the three envoys, although the three deputy envoys of the three divisions of Yantie, Duzhi and Hubu were the real powerful figures.

"This, the official family, the household department does not have much money now, and the tax of June has not been handed over to the three divisions, so the military salaries of the three sides are owed." Song Shou said with some apprehension, after all, he is also the third envoy, and the matter of owing the trilateral salary is a decision made by him, and now the trilateral priest. The pawn mutinied, I'm afraid his responsibility is not small.

"There is no money in the household, how can it be! Didn't the household department still have 13 million yuan of silver at the end of last year! Add in the taxes at the beginning of the year, how can there be no money? Zhao Zhen's puzzled tone was full of anger, and he had already begun to suspect that some corrupt officials had begun to erode the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Qi Qi Guanjia, last year the Yellow River broke at Wang Chuxi, 30 steps long, the people were seriously affected, in order to relocate these people, didn't the official family allocate 4.5 million yuan at the beginning of this year! This year, the Yellow River broke at the Henglongsi Pass in the Daimyo Mansion, and after the officials sent Wang Yan, Sun Zhao, and others, deputy envoys of the household department, to find out the situation, they allocated another 3 million guan to appease the people affected by the disaster and to block the breach to avoid flooding. Song Shou continued to whisper in a cautious tone.

Zhao Zhen also remembered at this time, some time ago, Song Shou said that there was not much money in the household, but Zhao Zhen didn't take it to heart and owed it. The matter of the pawn silver, Zhenzong has also done it, and the arrears have been in arrears for a longer time than this time, why was there nothing wrong last time, and such a big thing happened this time?

Lu Yijian can be said to be the courtier who knows Zhao Zhen best, and when he saw the suspicious gaze of the official family, he immediately bowed down and said, "The official family! The main reason for this mutiny was that the Western Xia spies were sowing discord among them, and the main reason was not the arrears. ”

Lu Yijian saw Zhao Zhen's somewhat gloomy expression, and knew that the official family in front of him began to drill the tip of the bull's horns, comparing the current situation with the things of the Zhenzong period, and hurriedly pulled Zhao Zhen back, he was afraid that if the official family really drilled the horns and drilled deep, I am afraid that there would be a big thunderstorm, and then it would affect all the officials of the imperial court, including Lu Yijian himself.

"A few spies, with their mouths, can make the three sides lose 10,000 elites, Yuan Hao's business is really cost-effective!" Zhao Zhen heard Lu Yijian's explanation, although he didn't drill the horns anymore, he was still in a very unhappy mood and said angrily.

Several important ministers of the court did not dare to accept Zhao Zhen's words at this time, everyone knew that Zhao Zhen was angry, who was willing to touch this mold!

"Song Aiqing, the household department was not good last year, why can't you get the military salary this year? Where did all the money go? Zhao Zhen saw that the ministers below didn't speak, so he asked Song Shou the most critical question straight to the point.

Song Shou was shocked after thinking about it, gritted his teeth, and finally said all the things that have been a headache these days.

"Enlighten the official family! In the past year from June last year to the present, the number of officials in the Great Song Dynasty has increased by nearly 600, the increase in expenditure has been nearly 1.1 million guan, the name of the era has been changed, the official family has rewarded the ministers, and the expenditure has increased by 1.7 million guan, and the clan has added four princes and seven county lords, plus the grace of the official family, and the expenditure has increased by 900,000 guan, and the Western Xia Yuanhao is ambitious, and the official family has expanded the forbidden army by 200,000 and increased the expenditure by 4 million guan.

The important thing is that now some officials and businessmen in the imperial court collude to buy tea and salt money at low prices, and seek huge profits from them, resulting in huge losses for the imperial court and a lot of tax reduction, so that the household department lacks money and cannot solve the problem of the army's salary. Song Shou looked like he was open-minded, and said to Zhao Zhen loudly.

As soon as Song Shou's words came out, all the faces of all the people in the Xuanyou Hall changed, whether it was Zhao Zhen, Zhao Yuanyan or other important ministers of the court, their faces sank, and they were speechless for a long time.

The entire hall of the Xuanyou Hall fell into an atmosphere of worry.

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