Li Wentong's eyes seemed to be able to breathe fire. Staring at the general lying on the ground, he asked:

"Cry a ball! What's going on? ”

The general said:

"In the middle of the night, the Tubo people suddenly touched it, and the sons were caught off guard and couldn't resist it, and the mountain, the mountain, was lost."

Li Wentong glanced at it and said:

"Didn't Ben Shuai tell you to be on guard?"

The general said:

"The last general originally sent many sentry posts, but he didn't expect the Tubo people to be too cunning, so they quietly touched it."

Li Wen Channel:

"How many people have touched it?"

The general muttered:

"No······ I don't know ······."

"What about the person Ben Shuai gave you?"

"Both······ It's all here. ”

"Where's the trebuchet?"

"It's still there, it's still in the mountains."

Li Wentong said sharply:

"You bastard! You didn't even know how many people in the enemy army lost the mountain, and you actually brought back so many of the hundreds of sons and daughters that the commander gave you, do you dare to say that you fought with the enemy? If it weren't for the fact that you were afraid to avoid the battle, mismanaged, and fled from the battle, how could this have happened? How many generals have dreamed of the trebuchet, you fucking lost it to the Tubo people, if you don't kill you, I'm really sorry for the soldiers who died in battle, and it is difficult to eliminate the anger in the heart of the commander. Come on, push it out, slash! ”

"Jie Shuai, spare your life, spare your life, spare your life, spare your life, Jie Shuai, the last will be ······ Yes! ”

The sky was already dark, and the shouting and killing sound at the bottom of the mountain sounded again, that is, the soldiers of the former battalion wanted to take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to recapture the mountain. However, the morale of the Tibetan army was strong, the backup was timely, and several successive attacks were repulsed. Li Wentong had no choice but to order the officers and men of the front battalion to rest on the spot and prepare for another battle at dawn.

"If Li Yu leads the troops, where will such a situation occur!"

A few days later, when the Shanzhou battle report reached Chang'an, Li Yu angrily threw the report aside. The battle report stated that Li Wentong mainly attacked Nanshan Fort, captured the first line of defense during the day, and was captured by the Tubo army at night, and lost two catapults. After attacking for several days, he relied on the courage of Noshirisuke to capture the first line of defense. By this time, the number of casualties was already in the thousands. The soldiers and horses led by Li Wentong, except for the Seventh Army of the headquarters, the rest are all Li Yu's old troops, so Li Yu will say this.

At this time, Li Yu was in Lanzhou, and he was holding the official position of deputy ambassador of Jiedu in Longyou and Hexi towns as his deputy marshal of Xingtai.

In fact, the court did not understand why Li Yu hung up Li Yu as the deputy envoy of the two towns, and the most recognized saying in the market was that the merit was high and the lord was shaken, and the Duke of Liangguo had made great contributions since the Pinghuai West, and the court had nothing to reward, so he hung up Li Lianggong. Most of the officials below the fifth rank of the imperial court thought that the reason why Li Yu was hung was because Li Guangyan had already unified the army in Hexi, and Hao Yu was familiar with the military affairs of Longyou, the so-called one mountain could not tolerate two tigers, if Li Yu was allowed to share the military affairs of Longyou, he was afraid that the command would fail, so he handed over the command of the front line to Hao Yu alone, and Li Yu was temporarily responsible for stabilizing the rear.

It is precisely because the realm is different and the vision is different, and the officials on the three products have another view. It's just that this kind of view is more of an intuition, a kind of premonition, which can only be understood, not declared.

At the end of spring, the imperial court allocated another 1 million military funds and 1 million grains to the west of Longyou Hexi. Yang Yuling, the head of the household department, said that where there is a lot of money in Longyou and no money, rice is expensive and there is no surplus rice, the price of rice has risen seriously, and it has even affected Guanzhong, and the burden on the imperial court is extremely heavy, and it is recommended that the imperial court put the grain market in Longyou to promote grain merchants in Shannan, Henan and other places to transport grain to Guanzhong to stabilize the market price. Li Yu approved the word "discussion" on the chapter and forwarded it to the political affairs hall.

The judgment branch is different, and the war has lasted for eight months, and the military expenditure and the cost of pacifying the localities have not been calculated, and if the long-term plan is not considered, I am afraid that the imperial court will have financial difficulties. On the one hand, the state treasury expenditure was extremely large, and on the other hand, the production in Guanzhong, Shannan, Liangchuan, Hezhong, Hedong, Henan and other places was greatly affected. This piece was criticized by Li Chan for a "reconsideration" and transferred to the political affairs hall.

How difficult it is to levy additional taxes. Don't say that all the provinces in Shandong are still in the period of recovery, that is, Huainan, Liangzhejiang, Xuanxi, these places, because the pacification of Huaixi, the pacification of Ziqing and other major wars all took place nearby, money and grain were first requisitioned from these places, after a series of wars, it was only more than a year, and there was not much relief. As for Shannan Dongdao, Hunan, Jiangxi, Lingnan and other places, the refined development has only been a few years, and now the tax increase is still at home to the ordinary people in the end, which is tantamount to destroying the economic foundation of society. But to fight and recover, and if you don't have money, you can't do it, so where can you get money?

The silver earned from maritime trade has been invested in infrastructure construction and several major wars in various places; The increase in rice production in various parts of the Yangtze River was also greatly consumed in several major wars. Open source has been opened, and the rest should be throttled.

"I have decided that from next month, the worship of the clan will be reduced. The distant branch of the clan is reduced by three-quarters, the near branch is gradually reduced by three-fifths, the prince is halved, and I am reduced by three-quarters. ”

At the cabinet meeting to discuss the budget, Li Yu said in a firm tone.

"The battle of Longyou Hexi is related to the lifeblood of the country, the world is the world of the Li family, and the treatment enjoyed by the clan surnamed Li is based on the remnants of the previous emperors and the support of hundreds of millions of people, and it has not contributed much to the country. If the children of the clan can't stand up at this time, then how can the people of the world be willing to stand up and defend the country when something happens in the future? If there are children of the clan who are unreasonable and unable to make trouble, the sect will be removed. ”

At today's cabinet meeting, Li recited a rare word. Li Yu's tone was stern, and several princes of the clan who were present at the meeting did not dare to speak. Seeing that no one objected, Li Yu threw out the prepared bombshell with satisfaction.