Peace?

As soon as Zhao Rong's words came out, the generals in the main hall were emotional, and the ministers were relatively calm, as if they had already discussed it.

"Commander Zhao, the soldiers have finally fought this situation at the border pass, but you have to run to negotiate peace with the Long State, and you have to hand over the person who killed the prince of the Long State and made great contributions to the Long State to deal with, aren't you destroying the city wall by yourself?" Deng Yong, the deputy commander of the right guard of the Central Army, said indignantly: "Our Rui Guo is really going to do this, what will the soldiers at the border pass think, who will fight for the imperial court in the future?"

Deng Yong originally wanted to come to the war on behalf of the right guard of the Central Army, but Zhao Rong opened his mouth to hand over the "murderer" to Long Guo. Fuck, Lao Tzu went to the front to fight for their lives, selling thousands of dollars a day, but you grandsons are messing around all day long about how to betray the country and how to hand over heroes as murderers. Hearing such words, Deng Yong's lungs were really about to explode, and he directly stood up and angrily reprimanded Zhao Rong.

"Commander Deng, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are!" Zhao Rong said with a bitter face: "What is the current war, what is it fighting for, and what is being fought is money! In less than a month after the war began, the silver of our internal affairs department was spent 7,830,000 taels. This is only the visible expenses such as military salaries, rewards, opening up the camps, grain and grass, etc., and if you add the invisible expenses such as material consumption and requisitioning people, it is even more innumerable. At present, more than 80,000 soldiers in front of him have been killed or wounded, and the bereavement and burial expenses of these more than 80,000 people alone are more than 10 million taels of silver. I can't make up the money alone, if I do it like this for a few more months, hey......" Zhao Rong said and felt like crying without tears.

"Commander Zhao, I don't understand when you say that. Chen Ruoping looked at Zhao Rong coldly and said, "It costs money to fight a war, doesn't it cost money to negotiate peace?"

When everyone heard this, they immediately talked about it, and they all felt that Chen Ruoping was reasonable.

Negotiate peace, that is to bring money, materials and beauties to discuss, you want to go with just a mouth, who cares about you?

"What General Chen said is very true. If we go to negotiate peace, we may spend more money than fighting a war in the end, and we will deign to bow our heads to compensate for our national prestige and momentum, which is really worth the loss. ”

"Yes, Murong Xianbei is a wolf's ambition, and taking the silver to negotiate peace with them is tantamount to cutting meat and feeding the wolf. When the time comes, the wolves will be fed, and our treasury will be empty. They used our money to raise enough soldiers and horses to make a comeback, and if we want to fight again, we are powerless, and the soldiers below are also cold, so it will really be a country. ”

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Some generals agreed with Chen Ruoping's view.

Hearing that they were reasonable, some civil officials also began to change their stance and strongly support Chen Ruoping.

Everyone frothed at the mouth together, refuting Zhao Rong so red-faced and speechless.

Looking at Zhao Rong, who was about to be sprayed to death by a group of people, Chen Ruoping laughed secretly in his heart. Emperor Hang Xiao has just been on the throne for a year, and the three-plate axe is wielding in a hurry, but Zhao Rong is proposing peace at this juncture, which is really funny. This battle of Juling Pass is the first big battle after Hang Xiao ascended the throne, and it is a key battle for Hang Xiao to quickly establish his prestige in the government and the opposition.

Moreover, this kind of thing is indeed a matter of raising tigers, and there have long been such lessons in history.

In the 203rd year of the Rui calendar, the then Emperor of Rui listened to the advice of his subordinates, and signed an alliance with Murong Xianbei at that time, and lost more than 40 million taels of silver and various materials, as a result, Murong Hao, the leader of Murong Xianbei at that time, immediately used this batch of silver and materials to create a larger cavalry, and then through five or six years of crusade to the east and west, he annexed more than a dozen Xianbei tribes and established a powerful Long country in the northern grassland. It can be said that the first pot of gold in the founding of the Long Kingdom was the indemnity of the Rui Kingdom that year. After the establishment of the Long Kingdom, Murong Xianbei intensified his incursion into the Juling Pass for many years, and the Emperor of the Rui Kingdom was shocked, angry and regretful, and died in anger, leaving a mess of strong enemies on all sides for future generations.

With such a lesson from the past, the monarchs of the past Rui Kingdom were cautious about discussing and this kind of thing, plus the Giant Spirit Pass is indeed relatively strong, and the Rui [***] team is indeed more powerful, and with some inexplicable supernatural events such as fairy apparitions, the Rui Kingdom has really not negotiated peace with the Long Kingdom for more than three hundred years.

"Okay, everyone has seen it more thoroughly, and the matter of negotiating peace is really impossible!" Hang Xiao waved his hand, and the hall immediately fell silent. "This battle was provoked by Murong Kuo, we have killed and injured so many soldiers in the front, and if we want to pay for the silver, Longguo should compensate us, there is no reason for us to compensate him. State affairs are difficult, and the treasury is not full, Zhao Rong, you are in charge of the Internal Affairs Department, and you do have your difficulties. However, the tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, this time the thing is not that I want to exhaust Dou Wu, it is really too much bullying of Longguo. ”

As soon as Zhao Rong heard this, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed, "The minister is not in charge of the internal affairs department effectively, and His Majesty is worried, and the minister... Sin deserves death!"

"Get up!" Hang Xiao said in a long voice. Zhao Rong came up with such a bad idea, which really made Hang Xiao very unhappy. Hang Xiao thought to himself: I called you here just to make you make a statement, saying that although the treasury is nervous, what will happen after all difficulties, but you have such a bad idea to roast me on the fire, it is really mud that can't support the wall.

After thinking about it for a while, Hang Xiao stopped caring about Zhao Rong, he glanced around at the others and said, "We must fight this battle, but how to fight, we must study it carefully." You are all ministers of the humerus of the imperial court, so give your ideas!"

This tone must come down, and a group of civil ministers and military generals have offered suggestions. Which place to transfer soldiers and horses, which martial arts masters to invite out of the mountain, anyway, it is an idea in the east and an idea in the west. Chen Ruoping listened to these ideas, but there was a faint worry in his heart. She has seen and personally fought the master of the Demon Sect, and last time it was just two that were so difficult to deal with, but this time there were seven at once. Hey, it's really unknown whether those martial arts people in Rui can withstand it.

After some discussion, Hang Xiao issued more than a dozen orders in one go, promulgated two personnel appointments, and drafted a holy decree.

The Qingxuan Battalion, Baiyu Battalion, and Chiwu Battalion of the Northwest Army, the Yingzhao Battalion and Feilian Battalion of the Central Army's Guards, and the 10th Battalion of the Right Guard Cavalry of the Central Army were ordered to rush to Juling Pass and gallop to the aid of the Northern Route Army.

Ordered Jialong Province, Zhikang Province, Black Mountain Province, Shenze Province, and Jumu Province to each send 20,000 cavalry from the state capital to assemble on the front line of Jumu Province.

The above-mentioned battalions, local armies, the left guard of the Central Army and the cavalry of the Northern Route Army who were already in Juling Pass, totaling 400,000 horses, were under the unified command and dispatch of Chen Ruoping, the commander of the Central Army.

The Internal Affairs Department was ordered to urgently allocate silver, supplies, grain and grass, and requisition and transfer people.

Ordered the intelligence department and the local intelligence sub-offices to assist the local state capitals, counties and counties to invite martial arts personnel from various sects to go out of the mountain.

Mu Jia, the former Left Guard Feilong Battalion Pipe Band of the Central Army, was transferred to the Left Guard Sharpgun Battalion.

Mo Cong, the flag officer of the 7th Squadron of the 5th Squadron of the 9th Brigade of the Left Guard Leopard Battalion of the former Central Army, was appointed as the pipe band of the Left Guard Feilong Battalion.

Mo Cong killed the enemy meritoriously, rewarded 50,000 taels of silver, ten brocades, two boxes of pearl agate, and the imperial court funded the construction of a Mo Mansion in the capital, with the same specifications as the Deputy Commander's Mansion.

He Ming and Lei Leopard attacked the camp meritoriously, led the troops in a good way, rewarded He Ming with a divine bow, 1,000 jade arrows, rewarded Lei Leopard with 10 altars of imperial wine, and 3,000 taels of gold.

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