Chapter 249: Controversy

The cold wind was like a knife, Mu Qi's cloak covered the sleeping Qi Changguan, and he moved over to huddle with Gu Wan. //..

The shopkeeper brought two braziers early, all of which were made of fine silver frost charcoal, which had no peculiar smell and were warm to the touch.

"If my guess is correct, since the people of the Han tribe have been fighting in the court, I'm afraid someone is going to take Luo Hongying." Mu Yanzhao sandwiched two chopsticks and stuffed them into his mouth, showing a little satisfaction on his face.

The dishes in the Mu family restaurant are expensive, but they are really good, and the best imperial chef from the palace cooks them personally, which is probably a few points better than Gu Wan's frangipani food. It's only about a little worse than the heat of the god chef.

Gu Wan didn't have much appetite, it wasn't that the dishes were bad, but she was worried about Luo Hongying.

At the beginning, Luo Hongying caught a bunch of captives and raised them in Dingzhou, so much to eat, she couldn't help but write back and complain a few words, Gu Wan jokingly replied to her, and said that she would simply let the Dawa tribe use gold, silver, cattle and horses to ransom people, if you don't give money, you will use the captives to work, anyway, now the Daqing Dynasty still has a little bit of waste to be rebuilt, there is a shortage of manpower everywhere, north, east, a lot of land is barren, let them go to open up the wasteland.

As for food, if the Dawa tribe didn't pay for it, they would only be given two mouthfuls of porridge a day, which would also save the group of captives the energy to make trouble.

Gu Wan came from the troubled times, she had a good impression of the barbarians, and she said a lot of mean things, and she exchanged letters with Luo Hongying, just as idle talk, but she never expected that General Luo would take it seriously and order his subordinates to do it!

The people left behind in Dingzhou are all Luo Hongying's descendants, and they are rough people, and there are not so many twists and turns in their stomachs. I can't wait for all the barbarians to die cleanly, and when I receive Luo Hongying's order, I will strictly implement it.

At first, because of the distance. In addition, Luo Hongying didn't take it too seriously, so this matter didn't reach Dayong, and the Dawa tribe received the news. There was an uproar, and the envoys protested one after another, and this matter was transmitted to the court.

Most of the political affairs hall are corrupt Confucians, and they have always emphasized governing the country with benevolence, and they also want to be face-saving, where have they seen this kind of 'banditry'-like means, even prisoners can be bought and sold. As a result, the storm broke out.

Luo Hongying also just got off the battlefield, and when her close siblings died, and she went home from the cemetery, she felt uncomfortable. ignited the fire, she was a woman, she didn't value the so-called power, and she didn't care about the people who offended the political hall, so there was the letter that made the Manchu Dynasty Wenchen angry!

In fact, it's not just Luo Hongying, even Ou He and Bai Xuanqing are also affected by this turmoil, it's just that Ou He is the old man of the Mu family, a high and powerful position, and a child of the Bai Xuanqing family. //.. is the son-in-law of the Tang family again, and others can't move easily.

Only Luo Hongying, as a woman, was despised by the government and the opposition, just like the current government hall, she has always felt that women can only stay at home and teach their husbands and children. Women should not do things that show their heads.

The ministers impeached Luo Hongying's arbitrary and reckless excerpts, and Mu Yanxu stopped them, and directly said that the generals would not be subject to the orders of the foreign monarchs, and if the generals had no autonomy, how could they fight?

After all, General Luo only issued a series of orders that could be called 'mistreatment of prisoners' on the way back to Beijing.

It's just that Mu Yanxu can suppress the fold, but he can't block the ministers' tongues.

Full of wine and food, Mu Yanzhao couldn't stay outside the city for a long time, so he directly threw Qi Changguan in the guest room of the restaurant, and told the shopkeeper that this person woke up and asked him to go to the palace by himself, so he took Gu Wan and got in the car and went home.

As for the Liulang of the Qidong Hou Mansion, he didn't even look at it, Zhao You watched Mu Yanzhao help his daughter-in-law onto the donkey, and he got on the horse himself, and walked away slowly and leisurely, before he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and went home in a hurry to report the news.

Sure enough, as Mu Yanzhao expected, within half a day, the Dayong court was already making trouble because Luo Hongying did not know the imperial court and blackmailed the Dawa clan without authorization.

Mu Yanxu sat on the high dragon chair, listening to the current prime minister Zou Qing and a group of ministers making generous speeches below, casually sipping tea, with no joy or anger on his face. There was only a faint hint of sickly paleness, and it was obvious that his physical condition had not fully recovered.

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that although the Dawa clan and our dynasty are feuding and have fought many times, I am a big country, how can I have the same knowledge as him, and I only spend a little gold and silver, which will definitely make those barbarians grateful and ...... born," Zou Qing said.

He is fifty and eight, but he does not look old at all, with long eyebrows and a high nose, a Chinese face, square and square, but he is the most suitable face for the public aesthetic in this era.

After all, it is from a family, and people from a family, whether male or female, have good looks, generally unless there is a genetic mutation, there will be absolutely no crooked melons and cracked dates, Zou Qing can worship at the age of fifty-five, and it is only a little worse than Liu Yin back then, and there are more or less reasons for this good look.

A group of ministers led by Zou Qing immediately echoed the voice.

In fact, everyone knows that Zou Qing seems to disdain the Dawa people, and only advocates appeasement of the Dawa people under the pretext that they should express benevolence and virtue.

But this is just a good thing to say, the Qing Dynasty does serve a vast staff, extremely rich, by no means a Dawa can compare, but the grassland barbarians are brave and good at fighting, and they live by water and grass, and there is no fixed industry, so they are unrestrained, even if they lose the battle, the recovery is also very fast, this time although Luo Hongying won a big victory, the Qing Dynasty won a big victory, but the courtiers only thought it was a fluke, and only hoped that by this big victory, Dawa would be stable for a few years, and did not expect the other party to collapse, and honestly surrendered.

The previous dynasty was not without such a big victory, Mizusawa was good at martial arts for a while when he was young, and even to the point of being reckless, leading troops deep into the grassland, and even capturing the king of the Dawa tribe, but it was only a few years before the barbarians recovered their vitality and re-invaded the border again.

These ministers are worried that they will offend the Dawa tribe too hard this time, and when the other party relaxes, once they retaliate, they will not cause a big disaster. That recklessness is really too famous.

For Zou Qing and these people, it is very suitable to exchange a little gold and silver for peace, the Dawa people are barren, even if the Qing Dynasty wins and beats them down, what can they do? The environment of that place is harsh, the people of the Qing Dynasty can't survive at all, the food is absolutely tasteless, it's a pity to abandon it, many calculations, no matter how you look at it, fighting with it, it's worth the loss!

"What Zou Xiangye said is not very appropriate, since this battle is the victory of my Qing Dynasty, how can there be a reason to give the other party gold and silver? The other party should compensate me for the military expenses of the Qing Dynasty. But Luo Hongying's behavior is also very inappropriate, after all, she is a woman, short-sighted, only for a momentary pleasure, without notifying the court, and making such a request without authorization...... The minister was worried that it would make the Dawa people angry and angry, and if the other party's dog jumped over the wall in a hurry and started another war, wouldn't it cause the people to be involved in the war again...... After the war, we should rest and recuperate, and the so-called forgetting the war will be dangerous, and the warlike will die. ”

It was not Zou Qing who said this, but the Shangshu of the Criminal Department**, obviously, he was even more here than Zou Qing, and what he said was from his heart.

As soon as this remark came out, the ministers also talked about it.

Mu Yanxu raised his eyebrows, "Do you have any other opinions?" ”

"Zou Xiangye is the heart of the country, the younger brother can understand, however, the younger brother does not think that General Luo's actions, there is anything unreasonable, our army has fought repeatedly, and consumed a lot of materials, so that the Dawa tribe can exchange property cattle and horses for prisoners, which can not only make up for the cost of the war, but also weaken the strength of Moeller, if the other party does not redeem people, it is just possible to use the prisoners to reclaim the famine, long live the year before I want to dig the canal, only worry about the loss of labor and money, so I will give up, if you use the Dawa prisoners to work, it must not cost much, and it is also a good thing."

King Xin showed a gentle smile on his face, and his voice was also clear, not slow, not slow, he was the emperor... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］