"Ministers, you have already been waiting in this place for a night, just waiting for Your Majesty to come back and report to Your Majesty."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Cao Jingchun on the side also said.

"Your Majesty has just come back from the dust, why don't you go and change your clothes first, it's okay for me to wait, but Your Majesty must come to the Qilin Hall later."

Zhao Hai waved his hand, very helpless.

"In that case, then come directly to the Qilin Hall with me."

"I knew that there must be nothing good for you kneeling in this place."

"Ugh." Zhao Hai sighed.

The civil and military officials all smiled at each other, looking at Zhao Hai's helpless appearance, and they also felt quite interesting.

Half an hour later, in the Qilin Palace.

Whether it's a person who has asked for leave, someone who has not asked for leave, or an official who has something to do, basically all of them came.

Because in the past few months of Zhao Hai's absence, they have really backlogged too many things and need to wait for Zhao Hai to deal with them.

Zhao Hai also patiently dealt with them one by one.

These things are basically not a big problem, so it is more convenient for Zhao Hai to deal with them.

After quickly dealing with these relatively simple things, something that made Zhao Hai frown suddenly appeared in front of him.

A huge and difficult choice, a choice related to the fate of countless people, was placed in front of him.

Now, the troops of King Zhennan, which are close to 200,000, are short of food.

200,000 people with empty bowls, not producing, and the amount of food consumed is horrifying.

Even as the entire treasury system cut back to feed them, there was still a huge shortfall.

"Bang!" A bang.

Zhao Hai dissatisfiedly threw the notes on the table to the ground.

"I'm only a month or two away!"

"You know what? Those people in Taiyuan County are already short of food to the point of survival. ”

"I only need to wait for them to completely dry up before I can subdue Taiyuan."

"At this juncture, how can there be not enough food and grass?"

When the ministers heard this, their bodies immediately trembled, and they immediately knew that this was what Zhao Hai was most concerned about.

With such a fury, whoever goes up will get into trouble.

"Shi Zongzheng, you are the history of Su Nei, what is going on?"

"As soon as Wang Zhan and them retreat, Taiyuan County, there will be no balance."

"At that time, Taiyuan County will have a huge room for expansion, and if you want to advance or retreat, it will be a matter of one sentence, and I will lose the opportunity to attack at the first time."

"Can't you just hold on now?"

Shi Zongzheng stood up, frowned, and said: "Your Majesty, our budget, which was originally an army of 200,000, immediately started a war and fought hard for three months to ensure that the food can be managed. ”

"But I didn't expect that I had been waiting for a whole winter."

"Even now that spring has begun, the battle has not officially started, but it has gone back and forth to the grassland several times and carried out long-distance battles."

"This kind of logistics has long emptied the reserves of military rations, and now we are already using appropriations from other quarters."

"These hundreds of thousands of mouths, not to mention the entry, but to eat the court across! Your Majesty! ”

Hearing this, Zhao Hai was immediately silent.

This is indeed the case.

Shi Zongzheng, an old man, will not say any lies.

He is a settling account, and in the words of later generations, he understands economics.

In this way, I'm afraid that Daqin's treasury will really not be able to hold it.

I've been thinking about how to fight, but I've forgotten that my army and supplies are limited.

After all, Daqin's money could not be used entirely to fight a war.

It is no longer the era of the six countries competing for hegemony, and they are facing a huge crisis of annihilation at any time, and all members are soldiers.

Now is the time when great reunification needs to develop the economy.

Daqin's money cannot be used entirely for the military.

The construction of various counties and counties, as well as the construction of the country, requires a large amount of money.

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Chapter 772: Deception

At this time, Jiang Xiaoyue, who was in charge of military affairs, stood up.

"Your Majesty, the last general has already communicated with the elders, and in this current situation, I'm afraid, there are only two choices."

"The first is to fight quickly, immediately destroy Liu Yuer's troops, and attack at a great cost."

"Second, it is to withdraw the troops, temporarily disband these tribes, let them go home to farm and cultivate the land, and come back when the country needs it."

"After waiting for the autumn harvest, when the granaries are abundant and the country is restored, call up troops again to attack them."

Zhao Hai slapped the table excitedly, "You mean, I waited from last winter, until this spring, and then until this autumn?" ”

"Spring goes to autumn! Spring goes to autumn! How many springs and autumns can I have in my life? ”

"At that time, I'm afraid that the troops of Taiyuan County will also be able to recover."

"What are you going to fight then? The jade is burned, millions of corpses are ambushed, and the heads of the soldiers below are exchanged for the military exploits of you big men? ”

Hearing this, Jiang Xiaoyue immediately fell silent.

The ministers of civil and military affairs did not speak again.

But it is clear that everyone is inclined to withdraw their troops now.

Otherwise, they won't choose not to take a stand.

Seeing this, Zhao Hai was very unhappy.

"Since there is not enough food, I will transfer it from various counties and counties to support it for a while."

"Whether it's Sanjiang County or along the Yellow River and Yangtze River, there are large tracts of fertile land."

"In these places, there should be grain in stock, let them support me for a while longer, and I can take Taiyuan County."

Hearing this, Shi Zongzheng was also embarrassed.

"Your Majesty, the way Your Majesty can think of, the old minister has already practiced for Your Majesty."

"But the calculations of the various counties have shown that the maximum food supply that all of them can spend, together, is probably only enough for the imperial army, at most, for half a month."

"No matter how much it is, it will hurt their roots, and when the time comes, once there is a problem with the weather, they will not even be able to give the surplus food that can be used for disaster relief."

"Moreover, along the way, just the movement of the army will require the consumption of a large amount of food, not to mention the hoarding attack."

When Zhao Hai heard this, his face immediately turned ugly.

It's not that he doesn't understand that in this era, productivity is already low.

And fighting a war is an extremely economical and food-consuming thing.

With such severe restrictions and conflicts, I am afraid that the war will not be sustainable.

In the past, many ancient wars were fought later, and the phenomenon of cannibalism appeared in the back, because the military rations could no longer be supplied.

No, at this moment, Zhao Hai suddenly reacted.

He's not a small country!

"What are the county officials doing? Why is it that so many people can only supply the food they turn in for such a short period of time? ”

"How many granaries have such a large reserve, and now tell me that there is no food? What about the crooks? ”

Chapter 772: Deception