Jiang Wenbin served as the new secretary of the household department. He is not yet forty-four years old this year, making him the youngest of the six Shangshu. was promoted, had greater power in his hands, and was able to realize his wishes more conveniently, but Jiang Wenbin was not happy at all.

The situation in the north is changing day by day, and yesterday alone, three emergency military reports entered Beijing.

The Rongdi people officially tore up the peace agreement, the army pressed the border, the northern border was in an emergency, and all the sergeants of the 18 battalions in the 10 states had been urgently transferred to Shuo, Yan, and Youzhou, and the battle was extremely fierce.

The Rongdi people and the Great Zhou have been in skirmishes for many years, but it has not been a matter of decades since the general army pressed the border like now. The last relatively fierce conflict was to recover Shuozhou, but the number of Rong Di troops who occupied Shuozhou City at that time was not large, and they were not good at defending the city, coupled with Mu Chengde's proper command, so it only took half a month to quickly recover Shuozhou.

After Shuozhou was recaptured, Mu Chengde led people to raid the Yunwang Valley, the Rongdi people quickly gave up the defense and retreated to the grassland, after nearly ten years, although there was often turmoil on the border of the Great Zhou, but the overall was relatively stable, the various tribes of Rongdi were mainly small-scale raids and looting, at most three or two tribes jointly attacked, and it was not like today, all the tribes united to gather a large army to attack the border of the Great Zhou.

The generals of the Mu clan who led the troops to fight were under great pressure, and Jiang Wenbin, the head of the household department who was in charge of the accounts in the capital, was also under great pressure, and the speed of burning silver in a large-scale war was something that Jiang Wenbin could not have predicted before, but for a few days, Jiang Wenbin was so anxious that his temples grew a trace of gray hair, and he frowned every day, wishing that the sky would give him a silver rain to alleviate the current predicament.

Jiang Wenbin even began to miss the days when he served in the military department, when he could stretch out his hand to the household department with confidence, without thinking about any other consequences, he only knew that it was his duty as an official of the military department to support the soldiers in the north with all his might.

But can he do that now? Apparently not!

From a personal point of view, Jiang Wenbin understands the current predicament of the northern border, and he also knows how important this war is for the country and the northern border, so he hopes that he can still do his best to do something for the northern border as before. But the reality is that as a Tobe Shangshu, he has to think about more than just the war in the north.

It is only the middle of June, the money and food for the war in the north cannot be cut off, and the second half of the year has to be lived, and there are so many family funds, and they can't all be spent, so as not to encounter any natural and man-made disasters that cannot be dealt with, and they have no ability to deal with emergencies.

How to be this family, Jiang Wenbin is really worried that there are a few more wrinkles. In fact, he had already done something that others did not dare to do, he embezzled half a year's silver from the court officials, and first went to fill the big pit in the north.

Jiang Wenbin had already informed the emperor of this matter in advance, so the civil and military officials did not dare to say anything. The war in the north is indeed important, and besides, it is only half a year's salary, and you can live by cutting back on food and clothing, so the wind direction of the court is quite calm for the time being, and the court officials only occasionally complain behind their backs, and they don't dare to talk too much on the surface.

However, Jiang Wenbin did not feel relaxed because of this, and his many years of experience in the military department told him that this war could not be ended so easily, and there was not enough money, food, and people.

On the tenth day of Jiang Wenbin's tenure as the head of the household department, the third batch of military rations to the north was urgently shipped, this time 3,000 carts of grain and grass. His efficiency is high, when the summer grain arrives in Beijing, there is no inventory at all, he directly loads the car and hurriedly transports it to the north, but three thousand carts of grain and grass sounds like a lot, but it actually can't last too many days.

It was already late, and the household yamen was still very busy, Jiang Wenbin sat alone in the household lobby, looking at the dim lights, his brows were locked, and he didn't know what he was thinking. After a long time, he reached out and opened the drawer on the desk where the papers were kept, and pulled out an envelope from under a stack of official documents.

Inside the envelope was a note written by Jiang Wenbin a few days ago. He took out the song and looked at it, stuffed it back in, and buried the envelope under a pile of official documents again......

Before the morning of the second day, the urgent report of the military situation in the north arrived, the defenders of the northern border suffered serious battle losses, and in just half a month, fifteen generals had been killed on the front line, and countless soldiers were killed or wounded.

The generals are fine for the time being, but only temporarily, and the war continues......

"The defenders of Qin Fenglu can't move." The emperor frowned, and threw a note on the bookcase: "Take a look, this is an urgent note from Qin Fenglu's pacification envoy, which has just been delivered." ”

Zheng Ying picked up the notes on the bookcase, hurriedly skimmed through them, and then handed them to Zheng Jin who was standing beside him. After Zheng Jin finished reading it, he handed it to several important ministers standing behind them, and it didn't take long for Qin Fenglu to pacify the envoy's recital, which had already been circulated.

"It's true that the defenders of Qin Fenglu can't move." Sun Shangshu of the military department sighed after seeing the song: "We have to prevent several small tribes on the northwest front from uniting to take advantage of the fire to rob." ”

"Transferring troops from the southwest line is a long way, and I am afraid that the water will not be able to quench the thirst of the near," Zheng Jin took the lead in saying: "It is better to transfer the government troops from several prefectures and counties around Gyeonggi for emergency response." ”

"I'm afraid that I won't be able to adjust a lot," Sun Shangshu shook his head after a little calculation in his heart: "Besides, the combat effectiveness of the government soldiers is also limited." ”

"I'm afraid that the new recruits will have the same problem," Lord Wang added: "Although the conscription order of the military department has been issued to the whole country, the military situation is urgent, and the recruits are afraid that they will have to be sent directly to the north to participate in the war before they have time to undergo strict training, and they are afraid that they will ......."

"At the moment, the fastest and safest way is to transfer Jin Lingwei to the north," Zheng Ying said: "The eighteen battalions of the Gyeonggi garrison add up to ......."

But before he finished his words, General Zhenguo said in a deep voice: "I am against it. ”

"Your Majesty." General Zhenguo's face was serious and gloomy: "It's not that the old minister is cowardly, and it's not that the minister is reluctant to let Jin Lingwei's family background." The minister invited himself to go to the north to resist the enemy, but Jin Lingwei's army could not move. Your Majesty, Jueyu Mountain to the capital, a horse Pingchuan. It's not that the old minister doesn't have confidence in An Guogong, it's just that the army of Rong Di is pressing, and he has to be just in case. If the Rong Di people break through the defense line of the ten states in the north and go all the way south, it can be said that they can travel unhindered. The government troops of the prefectures and counties near Gyeonggi were to be transferred to the north, and the army of Jin Lingwei was already the last line of defense in the capital. Your Majesty, Jin Lingwei can't move. ”

General Zhenguo and Zheng Ying considered different angles, but he did say these words sincerely. He was not cowardly, but really worried, which the emperor knew well, and the two princes and several important ministers present also knew it.

In the current situation, no one is sure that he can pat his chest and guarantee that the northern border will definitely be defended, so General Zhenguo's worries are actually very reasonable.