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The lights were blazing, and it was an all-nighter, and the smell of burning grease made everyone here always feel groggy, Liu Jian's eyes were already red, but he was still trying to persevere.

This rebellion is not too scrambling, but the rebellion breeds, hundreds of thousands of troops are gathered in front, and they have to worry about the war, urging nearby states and counties, and now the cabinet can only be on standby at all times, taking turns for twelve hours.

Liu Jian has stayed up all night, this night, he is really a little unbearable for people of his age, although he took a nap in the middle of the night, but he also inevitably had back pain, one by one news came in and handed out from the cracks in the palace gate, and several scribes were also busy turning, this morning, Jiujiang came to ask for money again.

It is said that it is not a salary, but a grain, saying that on the Jiujiang side, the price of grain has remained high, and the money and grain paid by the original court are really insufficient, so please ask the court to transfer some grain no matter how to reward the soldiers.

Liu Jian read this report, he was really a little angry, in fact, the army was not started once or twice, originally according to the previous rules, it was the imperial court to transfer grain, and the needs of the camp were borne by the imperial court, but now it is different, now the imperial court has so much cash, and the surname Suo uses cash to pay for the army, which is also a good thing, convenient and fast, and there is no need to recruit a large number of people to transport grain, it is nothing more than cheapening those merchants who trade in carts and horses, and let them get a piece of the pie.

Although there are many disadvantages here, the benefits are obvious, and it is actually a lot easier for the cabinet.

But according to the previous rules, it is common for the front line to ask for money and food, if they do, the court will not satisfy all their appetites, they want a hundred, the court will give a discount, just give fifty. They took the benefits, and they didn't dare to ask for anything more.

It's just that it's different now, especially on the Jiujiang side, they can get as much as they want, and they come to ask every three or five times if they have a few less, as if the treasury is his surname Liu, but this guy still has a lot of words, saying that the court has enough money and food, and the morale of the army in front is like a rainbow, so that the rebellion can be quelled as soon as possible, and the sooner the rebellion is quelled, the better it will be for the country, but it will save expenses for the court.

This seems to be reasonable at first glance, but what kind of person is Liu Jian, he has also gone through three dynasties, and he is also the head of the cabinet, and after thinking about it carefully, he became angry, oh, it turns out that the army in front of you to counter-insurgency is not raised by the imperial court, but seems to be hired by the imperial court, and the imperial court gives a lot of money and grain, so you are willing to use your life, if the imperial court refuses to give, do you still have to grind foreign workers?

But this Liu Chengfeng is urging two urgent reports every day, anyway, he doesn't let go if he doesn't see the eagle, and the cabinet has no choice but to satisfy the appetite of the guy, but Liu Jian is not idle, he gave the money but prepared an impeachment note, ready to participate in this guy at any time.

However, the impeachment is obviously useless, and people occasionally come to the palace, but they don't ask about money and food, but just about the progress of the counterinsurgency.

The top has to deal with the palace, and the bottom has to deal with Liu Chengfeng, this comes and goes, and the toss is incalculable.

Liu Jian was already tired, groggy and sat on the chair, waiting until Li Dongyang came to replace him, Li Dongyang came very early, originally he was going to come back after the hour, but early in the morning, as soon as the palace door opened, he arrived, obviously sympathetic to Liu Jian's hard work, so he came early, and when he saw Li Dongyang, Liu Jian's face showed a look of relief, but he cheered up a little, and said to Li Dongyang: "Why don't you rest more?" The old man remembers that you only went back to sleep last night when you were close to the son, right? ”

Li Dongyang didn't seem to be in good spirits, but he barely cheered up, and said with a smile: "Anyway, I didn't stay up late, and my body is quite tough, so I can naturally come earlier, but Liu Gong worked hard." ”

Liu Jian shook his head: "It's hard to talk about, but it's really sleepy, come, come here and sit down, and the old man will go back later." ”

Li Dongyang didn't persuade anything, sat down with a smile, and said, "Did you have any news last night?" ”

Liu Jian's face looked very ugly, and he said lightly: "What else can I do, it's just another money and food." ”

Li Dongyang smiled bitterly and said, "Hey...... Obviously he is the governor who controls the military horses, but he is like a ghost, making people unhappy, he comes to urge money and food, and the cabinet can give it down, but he still has to negotiate with Ye Qi of the household department, this Liu Chengfeng makes people have a headache, but Ye Qi Ye is also ......"

Li Dongyang seemed to feel that he shouldn't say such things, and halfway through speaking, he had to shake his head, looking like a gentleman who didn't say anything about his strengths and weaknesses.

Liu Jian said with a straight face: "Lord Ye is in charge of the treasury, this is his duty, open source and reduce expenditure, and it is also his duty to hold the money bag tightly, but this Liu Chengfeng is inevitably too domineering, he has no work outside, and there is no good news until now. ”

When the two of them said this, they didn't say any more, some things just stopped, and one sentence can show their attitude, and it is useless to say more.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside, the footsteps of the two adults in the room on duty can be said to be very familiar, presumably there must be an urgent report passed in, Liu Jian, who was originally planning to leave, suddenly dispelled the idea of leaving, and sat down dangerously and glanced at the doorway of the room.

Immediately afterwards, a scribe walked in quickly, and the scribe glanced up at Liu Jian, presumably he didn't expect Liu Jian to be there, but he was also used to this kind ......of thing, and the scribe hurriedly saluted and said, "Jiujiang is in a hurry."

In the middle of his words, he was interrupted by Liu Jian: "Present it." ”

The scribe hurriedly passed the urgent report, and on the notebook of the urgent report, the red and gorgeous ink was covered with the big seal of the commander of Lian Guogong and Jinyi Wei.

Liu Jian took a deep breath, it stands to reason that if it is an ordinary emergency report, it should be covered with the big seal of 'Qin's order to control the Jiujiang matter', and now this urgent report is clearly delivered by Liu Chengfeng in his private capacity, there is only one possibility in this situation, there is a big incident in Jiujiang, and the matter is definitely not small.

Liu Jian was silent for a moment, tore open the sealing mud, and then opened the notebook, and after a while, he couldn't help but show a look of great joy.

Great victory...... It's definitely a big victory, at least in the Hongzhi Dynasty, it's already a first-class victory. 30,000 rebels were killed and wounded, and captured Zhu Chenhao, the king of Shanggao, to the effect that now a great victory has been obtained, King Ning's elite is lost, and it is difficult to protect itself, at this time the imperial court should change the strategy of encirclement, prepare for the encirclement and suppression of the army from all walks of life, and analyze the current enemy situation, that King Ning will definitely abandon Raozhou and gather all the living forces to resist in Nanchang Mansion, the next battle of the imperial court is the siege of Nanchang City, and the siege equipment of the various armies is slightly insufficient, especially the artillery as a siege weapon is obviously far from enough, so he asked the imperial court to immediately replenish 1,000 artillery pieces in case of emergency.

The front is good news, and the words at the back are equivalent to robbery, a thousand artillery, what is this not robbery, even if it is robbed, it is not robbed like this, for example, this new army, the number of artillery is only about 1,000 people, 200 artillery pieces of all kinds, if he is given another 1,000 artillery, wouldn't it be to change this artillery team into an artillery battalion, and at least 500 artillery is needed, Liu Chengfeng is obviously holding the power of victory hostage, and he wants to expand the strength of the new army. After all, artillery is a thing that anyone knows that it is impossible to hand it over to others, and only by handing it over to the new army can it exert its greatest strength, and now that it is asking for artillery, it will be said that there is a shortage of manpower, and if a large number of artillery is not recruited, these artillery pieces will be unused, and it will cause a lot of waste. When the cabinet allowed him to recruit artillerymen, he certainly said that there was too much artillery and insufficient protection for artillery, and that the new army must have enough firecrackers to defend the artillery battalions, and the final result was that the so-called new army snowballed bigger and bigger, now 10,000, and now 30,000 or 50,000.

Raising 10,000 new troops, the cabinet side was reluctant, on the issue of military spending, the imperial court has always been stingy, the original 10,000 new troops to eat and drink, as well as the supply of a large number of ordnance has already caused a lot of discussion, and now it wants to expand, the imperial court will definitely be boiling.

Of course, Liu Jian does not want to see the expansion of the new army, in his opinion, the so-called new army is a sharp blade, it can hurt people today, and it may be able to hurt itself if it is said that it can hurt itself, the reason why the new army was built is because of the need for King Ning's rebellion, once King Ning's rebellion is suppressed by bullets, these people will be useless, and when the world will be peaceful, what do you want so many new troops to do?

But the problem now is that Liu Chengfeng did not mention the expansion of the new army, but only said that he wanted artillery, but there is a voiceover here, and now he Liu Chengfeng asked the court for artillery, if the court did not give it, the siege would fail in the future, and he Liu Chengfeng would definitely blame the cabinet for this responsibility.

Liu Chengfeng can't afford the responsibility of counterinsurgency, and neither can he Liu Jian.

Liu Jian looked at the report, happy and worried, this battle is certainly an unprecedented victory, but the problem is that this time the victory is the new army and Liu Chengfeng, with this big victory, Liu Chengfeng and the new army are only afraid that the tail will not fall.

When Liu Jian read the report, Li Dongyang was also standing on the side, Liu Jian had a complicated look in his eyes, Li Dongyang couldn't help but say: "Liu Gong, what happened, isn't it ......"

Liu Jian shook his hand to interrupt him, and then handed the emergency report to Li Dongyang and said, "You can see for yourself, and you will understand." ”

(To be continued)