"Hey!"

"Your Majesty, you are worthy of being the prince of Emperor Taizu Gao!"

"Just these three words will solve the dilemma of North Korea!!"

"Exactly! If it weren't for the old man and the old man, he would hate to hold the spear in person and conquer Yandong!! ”

After the dispersal of the dynasty, the courtiers and officials, and the meritorious marquis walked in the palace in twos and threes, ignoring Yan Kai, the envoy of Wei Manchu not far away, and talked directly and loudly.

When he heard the inner history of Wang Ling, who was over seventy years old, say this sentence 'If I wasn't old, I would like to go to North Korea for a turn', Yan Kai's already gloomy face only tightened, and he hurriedly quickened his pace and trotted out of Weiyang Palace.

And after the 'audience' left the venue, the courtiers and officials, who had been a little concerned, suddenly crowded around the royal tomb, and their faces were full of worry.

After only a short moment of silence, everyone still couldn't suppress the worry in their hearts, you pushed me and pushed Wei Wei Li out of the way.

"An, Anguohou ······"

I saw Li Ji look left and right with a strange expression, and then stepped forward with a worried face and bowed his hand to Wang Ling.

"Your Majesty is in charge of Qi Wu today, and warned Wei Man with the matter of 'Yan Xiang please transfer ordnance and food', and since the time of King Yan Zhao, the people of North Korea are afraid of Yan and pawn like tigers;"

"With Your Majesty's commandment, the guards are still intent on making trouble, and I am afraid they will not be able to get the help of their subordinates?"

Hearing this, Wang Ling only nodded with a smile, and even didn't forget to brush his chin and beard proudly.

"Yes."

"Since Yan drove Qin Kaibei to Donghu, and then crossed the river east to attack North Korea, more than 2,000 miles of land for Yan, the courage of the Yan people has been known to the world."

As he spoke, Wang Ling did not forget to turn sideways slightly, and lightly touched the front of Liji's abdomen with the back of his hand with a playful face.

"In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, King Yan Zang Di rebelled, and the prince also accompanied Emperor Taizu Gao in Quzhou Marquis to conquer and pacify Zang Tu."

"Yu Yanren's bravery, the son of the world should know the understanding?"

Hearing Wang Ling's words, Li Ji couldn't help but smile shyly, and then nodded slightly.

"It's exactly as An Guohou said."

"At that time, Yu followed his father to conquer Emperor Taizu Gao, and he had witnessed the bravery of Yan Zu."

"Yu Shang remembers that after Zang Tu was in turmoil, Emperor Taizu Gao once said left and right: If it weren't for Zang Tu's incompetence, it would not be easy to get these tens of thousands of Yan pawns to be able to indulge in peace······

Listening to the conversation between Wang Ling and Li Ji, the courtiers and meritorious marquis gathered around Wang Ling all had a look of approval on their faces.

If you say which of the seven heroes of the Warring States is the weakest, it is undoubtedly the thousand-year-old Xiaoshou who claims to be 'Ji Zhou orthodoxy': Yan Guo.

Compared with the three thousand miles of Qinzhong, which is more popular with horses in the Hetao, the Qin State of Bashu Granary, the Zhao State in the north and always strong, and the Chu State with a vast territory and a huge population, the Qi State that is rich in the world, and the Qi State that earns thousands of gold with the benefits of commerce and trade, the remaining three kingdoms of Yan, Wei and Han undoubtedly belong to the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, the 'Lower Three Heroes' in the absolute sense.

Among the 'Lower Three Heroes', the Yan State, which has the most vast territory, the largest population, and the strongest military strength, is undoubtedly the tail of the crane.

But if you understand the situation of Yan among the countries during the Warring States Period, it is not difficult to judge: Yan Guo ranked last among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, which is obviously not entirely a factor of strength.

In terms of national land, the land area of Yan is comparable to that of Qi and Zhao, and it is far wider than that of Wei and Han;

If we talk about the source of troops, located in the northeast corner of the Chinese territory, almost bearing more than half of the northern defense line of the Central Plains, Yan State also has the opportunity to train troops and the social atmosphere of martial arts.

Especially as the only 'Zongzhou orthodoxy' among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, that is, the only country controlled by the Ji Zhou clan, Yan State is even more completely destroyed the 'raising of horse slaves' Qin State, the 'Jingman' Chu State, and the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei, and Han from the 'Three Families of Jin', and the Tian Qi State obtained from the 'Tian Clan Dai Qi (also known as Tian Chen Usurpation Qi)'.

Judging from this situation, even if the Yan State is not as good as the Qin State after the Shang Dynasty reform, the Qi State with a rich world, and the vast Chu State, it should be on a par with the Zhao State which is also located in the north.

But the poor geographical location made the Yan Kingdom, which was supposed to be strong, at least not too bad, the weakest of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States;

——Located in the northeast corner of China, bordering the Korean Peninsula in the east, the grassland Human in the north, and the Zhao State in the west and south, it is difficult for the Yan State to break through the natural blockade caused by the geographical location, even if it has the intention to chase the Central Plains;

Coupled with the sparse population and harsh climate that are seriously mismatched with the land area, the Yan State could not talk about 'developing national strength' during the Warring States Period, but could only be in a corner of peace.

However, the cold climate of the Great Northeast has also created the tenacious quality of the Yan people, and the external pressure of the northern grasslands and eastern Korea has also made the Yan people in the Warring States Period have almost no less martial style than Qin and Zhao.

Therefore, even in today's Han Dynasty, when talking about the demise of the Yan Kingdom, people always do not forget to explain the 'non-war crime' for the Yan Kingdom, or for the Yan people: It's not that the soldiers are not brave and the generals are unscrupulous, but the meat eaters are too despised·······

As for the 'Yan people', the senses of the people of the world are similar to the 'Northeast people' in the impression of later generations.

——A burly man per capita, straightforward and righteous!

It is precisely for this reason that when Wang Ling and Li Ji talked about the topic of 'Yan people's bravery', the surrounding officials and courtiers all showed their approval.

But as the only second generation of the founding fathers who 'does not rely on his father', Li Ji was pushed out by everyone in front of Wang Ling, obviously not to talk to Wang Ling about the question of 'whether the Yan people are brave or not'.

Seeing that the topic was deviated by Wang Ling's intentionally or unintentionally, Li Ji only muttered politely for a moment before he tried to open his mouth again: "The meaning of the Marquis of Anguo is that the people of North Korea are afraid of the Yan people's bravery, which is enough to solve everything in North Korea?" ”

Hearing this, Wang Ling's face froze, and his hand, which was slowly brushing his beard, stopped for a moment, and quickly understood what Li Ji and the people gathered around him wanted to ask.

"Hehehehehe·······"

"The one who wants to ask the prince is in the palace, and His Majesty said to the envoy: Yan Xiang, please transfer ordnance, food, and all kinds of things have been prepared and distributed, should be accompanied by the envoys of Zhuhan?"

Wang Ling's voice did not fall, and he didn't even wait for Li Ji to react, the hundred officials and princes gathered around Wang Ling hurriedly nodded, and at the same time did not forget to stand on tiptoe a little, for fear of missing a certain sentence or even a certain word from Wang Ling's mouth.

——In the name of 'military material mobilization', letting the envoys of Zhuhan, especially Yan Kai, the envoy of Wei Manchu, go on the road with this batch of military supplies, theoretically speaking, it can indeed be regarded as a very wonderful 'executive Qi dance'.

First, let Yan Kai walk with this batch of military supplies all the way, and naturally remind Wei Man vaguely: Don't forget, the Han family, but the unified regime of China!

Destroying your Wei North Korea, one finger may be a little reluctant, but if you stretch out a slap, it will definitely smash the entire Korean Peninsula!

Second, it is the core part of the 'Execution Qi Dance'.

Like the military exercises that 'do not target anyone' in later generations, the essence of the Qi Dance lies precisely in deterrence.

And when winter was approaching, sending a batch of military supplies that were obviously used for winter operations to Yan State, which was adjacent to Korea, in front of the envoys of Wei Manchu, was obviously the best deterrent.

This is like in later generations, a rabbit said 'I am like a brother to the eagle', while deploying a courier base at the door of the eagle's house.

However, the primary premise for a military exercise to serve as a deterrent is that the military exercise must at least be real!

In other words, if Liu Ying wants to deter Wei Man by 'transporting military supplies', then this batch of military supplies must really be transferred to Yan State!

This is the reason why the courtiers and officials are secretly worried, and even gather around the royal tomb despite the fact that this place is still in the Changle Palace.

- Today's Han family, not to mention whether it has the ability to mobilize such a huge batch of materials, even if there is, it should not be transferred to Yan Kingdom!

Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, every time the Huns went south to plunder the Han border, their forces were basically concentrated in Daibei, that is, Yanmen County outside the Great Wall of Qin and Zhao, and Yunzhong County isolated outside the Saiwai.

To put it bluntly: in the 'bitter cold land' of Yan Country, where birds don't, even the Huns, who are so poor that they have to rob pots and pans, are not willing to go!

In the past decade, the Han family, which was already in ruins, has focused almost all its attention on internal unification, that is, the eradication of the separatist forces of princes with different surnames.

As for the northern defense line, since the first battle of the Han-Hun Pingcheng, it has become the first 'victim' of the Han family's perennial conquest of the Kanto region.

——After the Battle of Pingcheng, the garrison deployed by the Han family on the front line of the Great Wall increased sharply from 150,000 to more than 300,000!

But in stark contrast, the Han family's investment in the northern defense line, or the 'national defense budget', has not increased, but is two to three percent lower than in the past when '150,000 people defended the Great Wall'!

The reason for this is because before the battle of the Han and Hungarian Pingcheng, the strategy of the Han family was to 'drive outsiders away first, and then close the door to solve family affairs';

But a Han-Hun Pingcheng battle, just like the Hewan Battle in later generations, made the Han family realize that it was not time to compete with the Huns.

Therefore, when the strategic core of the Han dynasty gradually changed from 'outside first and then inside' to 'first inside and then outside', most of the defense budget naturally shifted to Kanto.

At this moment, all the people who were gathering around Wang Ling had heard more than once in the past few years: Somewhere on the Great Wall, a double telegram was sent back to say that the border garrison had starved to death and frozen to death.

Everyone also knows that even if this topic rarely appears in court discussions, the facts are still clearly there: since the end of the first battle of the Han-Hun Pingcheng in the seventh year of the Han Dynasty, it has become the norm for all the garrisons on the front line of the Great Wall to 'only eat half full'.

This is also the reason why in the past few years, whenever the Kwantung princes rebelled, and the court decided to 'halve the officials' in order to raise military funds to quell the rebellion, the Chang'an court has never had any complaints.

——For the border guards on the border of the country, while fighting and being cold, they can only eat half full, what happens to the officials who take half of the money?

At least compared with those soldiers who are hungry and shivering, and they still have to guard the border gates, the officials who are qualified for 'Banlu' live in Chang'an, and there is no shortage of wives and children, and there are many kinds of fame, fortune, righteousness, and desires, and they can rest for one day every five days·······

Feeling the increasingly expectant gaze of everyone, Wang Ling's relaxed look on his face couldn't help but retreat slightly, and his gaze at Li Ji suddenly took on a little seriousness.

Wang Ling knew that the basic livelihood guarantee of the border troops was definitely one of the key points of concern of the Chang'an court.

As for the reason, there are Wang Ling and Liji, who are worried about the border defense from the perspective of the country and the nation; But for the most part, it's for personal gain.

- The border guards have two meals a day, half full, and the court orders 'officials are half-full', naturally no one dares to complain;

But to say that there is no opinion at all, or to accept it completely gladly, is obviously self-deception.

There is a clear saying in later generations: It is not easy to live in Chang'an.

For today's officials who have lived and lived in Chang'an for a long time, especially those middle- and low-level officials who have no lord to bring in feudal taxes and can only rely on officials to ensure their livelihood, it is also extremely difficult to live a decent official life by relying on Yulu alone.

It is true that compared with the toiling people who work hard for a year but can only harvest 300 stone of corn, and those border guards who work hard to eat their stomachs, the people standing beside Wang Ling at this moment can at least get 600 stones, 1,000 stones, or even 2,000 stones a year.

But higher incomes often mean higher living expenses.

- After all, no matter what you say, an official with an annual salary of 600 stone cannot eat corn porridge like a peasant, and only add clothes to his wife and children in a year;

As for the officials of 1,000 stone and 2,000 stone, it is even more social, and the family has to support the slaves, and they have to support their own family when they go out, as well as the face of '2,000 stone in the court'.

Counting the dozen mouths of a family and dozens of servants in the house, the basic expenses of an official at the level of two thousand stones a year are even far more than two thousand stone corn!

What's even worse is that the Han officials' salaries are not all corn, but half of corn and half of money.

In the past few years, the price of grain in Guanzhong has fallen vertically from the high point of thousands of dollars per stone, and it is approaching 200 yuan!

There was even a rumor in the palace that Liu Ying, the son of heaven, had discussed with Shaofu Yangchengyan that he wanted to control the price of grain within fifty yuan per stone within five years······

This means that three years ago, an official with a real rank of 2,000 stone and an actual annual salary of 1,800 stone could receive 900 stone of corn from the state treasury every year, as well as a salary of millions of yuan.

And this year, the same official is still 1,800 stone of annual salary, but what he actually got is 900 stone of corn, plus 200,000 yuan;

If one day in the future, the price of grain really falls by 50 yuan a stone, then this official's income will directly fall to 900 yuan of corn, plus only 45,000 yuan·······

According to the past practice in Chang'an, the grain directly distributed to the officials in the officials' salaries will basically be used by the officials themselves.

A petty official at the level of 600 stones, who gets 300 stones of corn a year, can eat the 300 stones of corn in a family of more than a dozen people;

A middle-level official at the thousand-stone level, who gets 500 stone of corn a year, and has seven or eight slaves at home, can also eat all this grain.

Even if he is a minister at the level of 2,000 stones, he earns 1,000 and 80 stone of corn a year, but there are 40 or 50 old and young servants in the house, and there is basically no food left.

In this case, the court came up with a 'halving of salaries' at every turn, which obviously made most officials extremely uncomfortable.

Therefore, the supply of materials for the border guards has obviously become the focus of attention of these people.

——The border guards can't eat enough, and I'm just 'half-lu';

But if the border guards can eat their stomachs, I will have 600 stones in the capital, and let the family drink vegetarian porridge every day, it will be a bit too much, right?

With such thoughts, everyone's gaze at Wang Ling couldn't help but become more and more urgent.

God is pitiful.

Except for the former emperor Liu Bang, and Liu Ying who has held banquets in the palace several times now, the middle-level officials below the level of a thousand stones in the Chang'an court have not eaten a meal of meat for several years·······

Wang Ling has some understanding of this situation, and he is also concerned enough about the concerns of the courtiers and officials.

But to everyone's great disappointment, Wang Ling's next change in expression was telling everyone present: Wang Ling didn't know whether this batch of military supplies sent to Yan Country would really be transported away, or even whether they existed.

Just as everyone shook their heads and sighed, and their hearts dispersed, a figure walked out of the Changxin Palace, but the hope was rekindled in everyone's hearts.

"Duke Li, Mrs. Wang."

"Your Majesty has a ······· please"

Seeing that the person who came was actually the eunuch Ling Chuntuo, Li Ji and Wang Ling only looked at each other for a while, and then walked towards the direction of Changxin Hall with Chuntuo again.

And behind the two of them, looking at the backs of the two of them walking towards the Changxin Palace, the hundred officials and courtiers who were still disappointed just now were dancing again.

"The eunuch ordered the relatives to invite, and it is the internal history and the ······· of the guard"

"What Your Majesty just said is only true!"

After a short moment of whispered conversation, everyone turned back with solemn expressions after a brief eye contact, each boarded their own carriage, and quickly scattered in the direction of their own house.

If there is no accident, tomorrow morning, there will be countless twists and turns, flying into Changle Palace like snowflakes, and finally placed in front of the Queen Mother Lu Pheasant and the Son of Heaven Liu Ying.

As for the content of the recital, even if the words are different, the core content will be the same.

- Your Majesty!

- Yan Guo, you really don't need these materials!

- Wei Man, it's really not worthy of such a big battle!

- I beg Your Majesty to be merciful, take pity on those border guards who defend the country, and let them eat well and wear thick clothes!

Of course, the next few words are courtiers and officials, and they will never tell Liu Ying clearly.

——After the frontier soldiers are fed and clothed, Your Majesty must not engage in 'official half-luck' again~

- The minister's family really can't open the pot, and the wife and children are going to be starved and thin·······

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