Zhou Kang's words made Yuan Kangdi a little powerless.

This is one of the reasons why he did not dare to use troops easily from the beginning of his position.

He knew that Great Xia's finances had been hollowed out by these clans.

And there are so many things going on in the country that apart from disaster relief and the distribution of official money, the treasury is almost empty.

Of course, what Yuan Kangdi was most worried about was this expedition, did the prince encounter any difficulties?

Why is it that for such a long time, they are stationed outside the city and do not attack the city?

Now he only hopes that the shadow guard will pass on the news of the last few days as soon as possible, otherwise as the emperor, he will not dare to make an order easily, after all, it is his own son.

At this time, seeing that the emperor hesitated, Li Zhong, the Duke of Xingguo, who had not spoken, suddenly came out of the ranks.

He saluted to the emperor first, and then said: "Your Majesty, soldiers, major affairs of the country, front-line generals, the enemy has their own judgment, and the imperial court will only backfire if it is forced to intervene, and there are many such lessons in history, we must learn from them, so Weichen believes that we can first let the courtiers and large households donate food to support the bandits." ”

"Weichen, I am willing to donate 10,000 stones."

After Xing Guogong finished speaking, he was the first to express his stance without waiting for anyone to attack him.

Emperor Yuan Kang was slightly relieved when he saw Xing Guogong proposing this method.

The heart said that at the critical moment, it still depends on his little brother.

Nodding his head, he said: "What Xing Guogong said is reasonable, the country is in such a crisis, and all the ministers still need to tide over the difficulties with me." ”

Liu Ji looked at Xing Guogong with a frown, and a trace of anger flashed in his eyes.

It seems that it is time to get rid of this thorn in the side and repeatedly bad things for him.

The other ministers also stared at Xing Guogong fiercely.

I didn't expect Xing Guogong's support for the emperor to reach such a point.

There are even guesses that Xing Guogong did this not for the emperor, but for his concubine Li Xing.

But no matter what you want.

Xing Guogong's move was also a public outrage.

Because everyone didn't want to use their own food to supplement the imperial court, they only wanted to dig more corners of the imperial court before Great Xia completely collapsed.

So these officials fell to their knees with a hula la.

They all began to cry poor with His Majesty the Emperor.

Tell how honest you and others are.

If you donate so much food like Xing Guogong, your family will starve to death.

In the end, except for the officials from the big clan, the others knelt on the ground and said in unison: "Please Your Majesty don't follow Xing Guogong's advice, so that hundreds of officials will starve to death and shake the country's foundation." ”

looked at these weekdays full of morality and said things for the country.

Yuan Kangdi, who was unstoppable at the critical moment, sneered in his heart.

looked at these three- and four-grade officials kneeling on the ground.

Yuan Kangdi faced an actor-level official with the rank of an actor, and the political envoy was all virtuous.

"Quan Youxian, I heard that the Quanxian business name was opened by you, through this business name and your position, you have been worth two million taels in less than ten years from a humble family."

"Now you are crying to me for poverty, saying that you are honest and honest, and it is really hateful to bully the king like this, come to someone, take it down for me, interrogate it well, how many things he has done over the years, how many hurtful things he has done."

"Minister, wronged, please let Your Majesty know."

Quan Youxian was shocked in his heart and regretted it a little.

Knowing that the emperor was iron-hearted, he would be ruined.

But it's useless to say soft words again, you can only shout wronged.

"I'll definitely check it out."

Yuan Kangdi waved at the guards, who dragged him away like dead dogs.

Seeing that the emperor was coming, the others were also dumbfounded.

At this time, kneeling and crying poor is not either, nor is it changing faces.

However, Yuan Kangdi obviously understood what they meant, so he gave them steps.

He said to the others kneeling on the ground: "Ladies and gentlemen, I also know the difficulties of your family, but the country is the country of all of us, so please understand my difficulties and take out some food to support the prince to suppress the bandits." ”

"Your Majesty, what you said is very true, we are ignorant, ignorant, I only thought of the small family and didn't think of everyone, even if we smash the pot and sell iron, we will share the worries for Your Majesty."

With the steps, these people have expressed their willingness to donate food.

Just when everyone was expressing their positions, a little eunuch, holding a secret piece in his hand, ran to Qin Jin's side, respectfully handed it to him, and whispered a few words in his ear.

After listening to the little eunuch's report, Qin Jin couldn't help but be excited.

Hurriedly possessed Dao Yuan Kangdi's ear and whispered a few words.

Yuan Kangdi's face was overjoyed after hearing this, and he couldn't wait to take the secret piece from Qin Jin's hand, open it and quickly look at it.

After reading the content, he whispered to Qin Jin: "Why is there only your secret performance from Dongchang, but there is no military report from the prince?" ”