The empress was startled, suddenly turned to look at Wu Zheng, and said, "My son doesn't have to be polite, just sit down and talk." ”

Wu Shui was also not polite, he estimated that he would have discussed the Khitan matter for a long time today, so he thanked him, and then sat in the circle chair that had been prepared long ago, waiting for the empress to ask.

After a moment, the empress gritted her teeth and said, "Sun Wan slashed my 200,000 army this time, causing the Khitan to be arrogant. If the policy government has been built today, my son should go to Hebei as soon as possible to quell the rebellion, eliminate the Khitan in one fell swoop, make Hebei peaceful, and return peace to the people of Dazhou. Forge me royal majesty. ”

Soon after Li Quanzhong and Sun Wanrong rebelled, they were changed by the empress's edict, one was called Li Wanxi, and the other was Sun Wan. But this is just the helpless temperament of the woman's family, and it can't hurt the two of them in the slightest.

Wu Chu sighed lightly in his heart, and did not answer immediately, he paused, his face was stern, and then said slowly: "Mother Emperor, where did the soldiers come from?" ”

"This ......" The empress was stunned for a moment, and then she thought, the 200,000 army had just been destroyed, where did this soldier come from?

For a while, the empress was thinking about it in her heart, and suddenly, she had a feeling that she couldn't vent her anger in her heart, and she had this feeling for the first time, this is the so-called nest fire?

Even if he was still a talented person back then, and later Concubine Chen and the queen did not have this feeling at this moment. She has always been a bamboo in her chest, holding the authority of life and death, and she does not take the world in her eyes at all.

But today, when she was old and lacking in energy, the Khitan rebellion could not be pacified for a long time, and the reason for this was that she sent her own generals to be inhuman. As a result, the 200,000 troops that were finally gathered were completely buried in Hebei. At this moment, she regretted it in her heart, but her face was still very calm.

Inside the main hall. There was a brief silence.

The Empress wondered where this soldier came from? And Wu Chu thought that he had sacrificed a cadre in the matter of Tong Guò, if he could not get the compensation he deserved, then Fang Ziran's death would be meaningless, as for the secret army of Wu Chu in the 200,000 army, it had already withdrawn from the city when it was broken. Although he didn't know where to rest at this time, he was certain that he was safe.

Of course, for Fang Ziran's death, Wu Zheng's heart was painful. Although the order was not given directly by him, Yan Ruyu represented Wu Zheng from a certain Cheng dù. Wu Chu could not punish Yan Ruyu because if the intelligence officers did not carry out their tasks within the specified time. or any hesitation in the performance of the task. is considered a betrayal. The execution of Fang Ziran is a normal procedure, and no one is exempt. For this reason, Wu Chuan used Fang Ziran's matter to warn the intelligence personnel of various states that Fang Ziran should be taken as a warning. At the same time, the wind of rectification of the intelligence system slowly unfolded.

After a while, the empress sighed lightly, looked at Wu Zheng, and asked, "Is there a way for my son?" ”

Wu Zheng bowed and said, "Mother Emperor." It has only been six years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and there have been many turbulences in the past six years. In a poor and remote place, I thought that it was still the previous dynasty today. Since the Tang Dynasty, the people have benefited from the light conscription of Bo Tianfu, so the people have a lot of gratitude for the previous dynasty. Since the Yonghui of the previous dynasty, there have been many locust plagues and floods, and the border is not peaceful, dozens of wars, each time hundreds of thousands of people are levied. And in these dozens of wars, many of them were defeated, and once defeated, the people were either slaughtered, or enslaved, or fled into the mountains to become savages. So much so that by the time of the establishment of my Great Zhou, the government soldiers were almost corrupted, and there were no two out of ten. Now that I have lost these 200,000 troops, if I use the government soldiers again, I am afraid that it will be difficult to deploy even one soldier and one soldier. ”

The Empress nodded in agreement. Wu Zheng paused and continued: "The only way to do this is to recruit soldiers, give them full rations, and send down the pensions of the 13,829 fallen soldiers that were originally owed, and maybe we can recruit soldiers. Please also ask the mother to think twice. ”

The empress was suddenly shocked in her heart, and asked suspiciously, "Thirteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine fallen soldiers?" Are there so many? Is the emperor mistaken? ”

Wu Zheng got up, bowed down and said: "The child remembers very clearly, except for the Great Zhou Dynasty, these are only the soldiers who died in the victories since the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and now they still owe the pension of these fallen soldiers. ”

A look of surprise suddenly appeared on the empress's face, if it weren't for the fact that she had built several palaces one after another, as well as casting Tianshu, and spending hundreds of millions of dollars on cultivating Heaven and Mingtang, otherwise the pensions of these soldiers would have been issued. Just 13,829 bereavement pensions for fallen soldiers is not a small number. If the grain is converted into one, then each soldier is nearly one hundred taels of silver, so that more than one hundred and eighty thousand taels are needed. But now the silver in the treasury has been divided, and the inner treasury has almost been used up for the construction of the palace. Of course, if you subtract all the expenses in the palace, you can make it up, but this is impossible.

The empress suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness in her heart, even if she didn't want to believe that the empire she built would be a foreign powerhouse and a middle power, but the reality made her have to consider whether to let the crown prince supervise the country?

With such a thought, the empress suddenly seemed to see hope. The crown prince can temporarily relieve her pressure, and it can also attract the attention of the people of the world, and Wu Zheng's reputation is still very good among the scholars in the world, not to mention that now the science officials occupy a large part of the court, I believe that the prince can stimulate the enthusiasm of these people more. Then it may be smoother to recruit soldiers, and if the people of the world are angry with the prince, there will be her, the emperor, to appease.

Take a step back and open the sky. The empress suddenly had an idea, and this method can also test the prince's ability to handle state affairs. With a plan in mind, he said to Wu Zheng: "The emperor, let's deal with the music first, let me think about it." ”

Wu Chu didn't know that the empress had an idea, so he bowed down and retired.

In the mountains of the Xi territory, Pei Yu's tribe finally moved to the mountain, which is the southern foot of Taibai Mountain, with lush jungles and dangerous roads, so that for this Han tribe, they can defend the danger and no longer be harassed by the Xi people.

Seeing that the clansmen had built a simple cottage in half a month, Pei Yu had a smile on his dark face, but there was a trace of sorrow between his eyebrows from time to time. This sorrow was noticed by Lan'er and informed her mother Pei.

Mother Pei naturally knew what her children were worried about, and she saw the big city and the world outside. This small cottage in the middle of nowhere is naturally unbearable. And his child has a strong physique like his father, and he also has a martial arts, so in this cottage. It's a waste of time.

Good man, be ambitious in all directions.

During this time, Pei Yu was happy to see his mother and Lan'er, as well as his younger brothers and sisters, but he was also sad because he returned here, and he remembered from time to time that he had traveled for more than half a year, and those happy and vengeful green forest characters. There are also those chivalrous and tender chivalrous women, as well as gentle and lovely ladies, and even the righteous and bold rangers. And the prosperity of the big city. The crowd was bustling with people coming and going.

All this made him uneasy, and his mother once said that he was uneasy. You have to find the root knot. Otherwise, it is easy to go crazy when practicing martial arts.

Pei Yu felt that he had a feeling of going crazy, on one side was Niang and Lan'er, which was a family affection that could not be parted, and on the other side, it seemed that a voice was calling him, come on, warrior. You should not spend your time in this cottage, but you should get the glory you deserve on the battlefield.

"Brother Pei. My dad came back and went to your house, as if he had something important to report. ”

Pei Yu turned around and saw that it was Li Er who was stunned. Li Er was stunned as the second in line, and the eldest was taken away by a wolf when he was three years old, so the old Uncle Li was a lone seedling in the family, so the old Uncle Li was very spoiled, but Li Er was naughty and mischievous, and he was good at running, so he and Pei Yu were very eye-to-eye.

When Pei Yu heard this, he said, "Isn't Old Uncle Li afraid of the Xi people's embarrassment?" ”

"Brother Pei, have you forgotten it? My father once saved a Xi people, and now the Xi people are a small patriarch, so no Xi people are embarrassed. Li Erzi was stunned with a slender body and two extremely slender legs, and he kicked off a piece of gravel.

Pei Yu's heart moved, so he got up and said, "Since you have arrived at my house, there must be something, you wait first, I'll take a look." ”

Li Er was stunned and was not afraid of his father, his mother, and the people in the tribe, but he was afraid of the patriarch Pei's family, so he didn't dare to go to Pei Yu's house since he was a child.

So Pei Yu returned home and tiptoed outside the guest hall.

In the classroom, Pei Shi exclaimed in surprise and said, "What if the 200,000 army was wiped out by 30,000 Khitans?" ”

A middle-aged man dressed in coarse cloth clothes, he sat down on the bottom, and said, "That's what the Duolun patriarch said, and I believe it's not far from ten." ”

A look of worry appeared on Pei's face, if Hebei is occupied by the Khitans, the Khitans will most likely invade Hedong next, so she is not worried about Pei's family, she is worried about her parents. When I was young, I never went back since I left home, and now it has been nearly 20 years.

Pei Yu's heart was filled with righteous indignation, he was educated by his mother since he was a child, and read a lot of books on righteousness in the Spring and Autumn Period, so when he heard that the 200,000 army in Pingzhou was destroyed, he couldn't wait to enlist in the army immediately and make contributions on the battlefield.

"Brother! What are you doing? ”

Lan'er's voice came from behind him, and Pei Yu suddenly screamed in his heart, my Lan'er, how can you make a sound? But apparently he couldn't stop it.

Lan'er shouted: "Mother, the eldest brother is eavesdropping on the conversation between the mother and Uncle Li." ”

After a while, Pei's voice came from the guest hall, "Yu'er, come in." ”

Pei Yu slapped Lan'er's buttocks, and then ignored Lan'er's blushing pretty face, and entered the living room with a hard head, and after giving Pei and Uncle Li a salute, he defended: "Mother, the child didn't mean to eavesdrop." ”

Pei Shi sighed and said slowly: "My son has seen the world, and this small cottage naturally can't accommodate it." Now that you know the situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty, let's do it, my mother will give you three days, and the warriors of the tribe will take them away with you as long as they are willing, and go to the battlefield to make contributions. ”

When Pei Yu heard this, he was overjoyed, but then he thought that this was his mother driving him away, so he quickly knelt on the ground and said, "Mother, it's the child who is not filial, you shouldn't make the mother angry, beg the mother not to drive the child away." ”

Pei said: "You, don't guard your mother anymore, good men should be ambitious in all directions, now the court is in trouble, it is when you men make contributions, how can you hide in this cottage, go and prepare, otherwise, Niang Ke will change the hexagram." ”

saw the urging on her mother's lips, but the reluctance in her eyes was still revealed. It's just that Pei Yu had already thought about killing the enemy on the battlefield and making contributions, so he also hardened his heart, so he kowtowed three times and left the guest hall.

Three days later, Pei Yu took the three young people to bid farewell to the cottage fathers, rode a war horse, walked out of the mountains, and embarked on a journey. (To be continued......)