Chapter 144: Empress Dowager Dou: I can't trust the emperor
"Switch to this new prescription, take one dose in the morning, noon and one dose in the evening, and within 10 days, it will be effective."
"-It's just the prime minister, but you must remember: don't do it again;"
"Otherwise, if it really comes to the point where the medicine stone is useless, then even me, I'm afraid, there is no other way······"
Huang Sheng's worried words of explanation naturally caused Shen Tujia to nod with a wry smile, and he should have agreed.
But in fact, with Shen Tujia's violent temper, no matter what happens, I'm afraid it will still have to ······
"Did you hear that?!"
In the quiet hall, a very abrupt light sound suddenly came to mind, which provoked everyone to hurriedly turn around;
Seeing that on the imperial couch, the Empress Dowager Dou pretended to be annoyed and turned sideways, and said to the Son of Heaven: "How many times has the imperial doctor said that the prime minister can't be angry!" ”
"-The emperor is good, seeing the change of the world's way of being angry prime minister!"
"If you really want to make a good deal for the prime minister, who else can you count on this temple and society?!"
A light and heavy reprimand provoked everyone in the hall to hurriedly turn their heads sideways, as if they were afraid that they would see the scene of the Son of Heaven being reprimanded by the Queen Mother.
It was Tianziqi who raised his head with a stiff smile, and only after seeing the urging in Empress Dowager Dou's eyes did he finally react: Empress Dowager Dou is pretending to reprimand Tianziqi, but in fact, she is creating opportunities for Tianziqi to perform······
"The Queen Mother Teaches ······"
Realizing this, Tianzi Qi only hurriedly put on a smile of shame, turned sideways, and bowed his hand to Shen Tujia slightly.
Then, he turned around with humility and promised the Empress Dowager Dou: "In the future, the sons will never make the prime minister angry again······"
Seeing that Tianziqi realized her hard work, the Empress Dowager Dou slowly nodded, but she still made an expression of residual anger on her face, and lightly glanced at Tianziqi.
Seeing this, Shen Tujia also couldn't sit still, so he hurriedly stood up and bowed to the Empress Dowager Dou and Tianzi Qi.
"Queen Mother, don't say that."
"-The minister's temperament, the minister himself knows it."
"It's really in the early years, I often killed on the battlefield, and I developed a bad habit of being anxious and angry at every turn;"
"At this age, I have been prime minister for so many years, but I still haven't corrected it."
"Because of such a temper, he has done many disrespectful things to His Majesty, which has made the minister feel very ashamed;"
"If the Queen Mother still wants to reproach Your Majesty like this, then the minister will really have no face and continue to live in this world······"
said this with a wry smile, and Shen Tujia's face was only full of bitter smiles.
But it also provoked the queen mother and son of Empress Dowager Dou and Tianzi Qi on the royal couch, and they felt more and more guilty because of Shen Tujia's 'sensible' reaction.
is the so-called: the family is poor and filial piety, and the country is difficult to know loyal ministers.
If there was no rebellion, Empress Dowager Dou and Tianzi Qi would never even have felt: how lucky it is to have an old minister like Shen Tujia in the court;
What kind of peace of mind is it for the court and the opposition, and even for the east and west palaces······
"In the future, don't think about the prime minister anymore that you shouldn't have······"
lowered her voice and explained to Tianziqi beside her, and the Empress Dowager Dou glared at Tianziqi with warning eyes;
After Tianzi Qi also nodded with a wry smile, Empress Dowager Dou sighed slightly, motioned to Liu Pengzu and Liu Sheng, the two brothers on the side, and sat down again.
After Shen Tujia sat back in his seat, Huang Sheng also changed the prescription, and then explained the taboos and taboos to Liu Sheng, and retreated from the side door when he came, Empress Dowager Dou took a deep breath and talked about what she really cared about.
"To this day, it has been two months since Liu Bi and Liu Wu raised their troops;"
"The troops that should be sent to quell the rebellion have basically arrived in Kanto."
"What does the prime minister think will be the outcome of this war?"
Seeing that Empress Dowager Dou was asking about business, Shen Tujia couldn't help but sit up straight, and between his eyebrows, he also subconsciously brought a touch of solemnity that would only appear when talking about state affairs.
After pondering for a moment, he saw Shen Tujia raise his head, but he did not directly reply to the Empress Dowager Dou;
Instead, he looked at the internal history of the countermeasures, and bowed his hand with a slight apology.
"When it comes to war, it is inevitable to talk about something related to "Cutting Domains";
"I still hope that the internal history will not be ······ in my heart"
Hearing this, Chao Cuo stood up with a wry smile and bowed to Shen Tujia.
"The prime minister doesn't have to have any worries, just speak freely."
"If the prime minister wants to, I can avoid it;"
"But it's rare to have such an opportunity, to hear the Prime Minister's teachings, and I hope to stay here and learn something from the Prime Minister······"
Chao Cuo made it clear that 'don't save face for me', and Shen Tu Jiazi also smiled and bowed his hand again, before turning sideways and looking up with a serious face.
"In order to keep this war within a controllable range, Your Majesty made a lot of efforts long before the rebellion broke out."
handed Tianzi Qi a rainbow fart without a trace, and when Tianzi Qi smiled a little shyly, he clenched his hand into a fist and coughed lightly in front of his mouth, Shen Tu Jia continued without changing his face: "Your Majesty's efforts have basically achieved results. ”
"In order to limit the scope of the attack of the "Cutting Domain" to Liu Wei, the king of Wu, and Liu Wu, the king of Chu, Your Majesty promised a lot of rewards to the other clan relatives and princes before the rebellion broke out."
"Although in the end, the four clan princes of the Qi family still raised troops, but the ungrateful actions of the four kings of the Qi family and their revenge have also lost the recognition of the people of the world."
"And the three kings of the Huainan lineage, because of His Majesty's reward, one of them firmly rejected Liu Bi;"
"Although there is one person who is not so determined, he did not raise troops to respond to Liu Bi."
"Even the King of Huainan, who wanted to make trouble, was stopped by Zhang Shizhi, the former court lieutenant and the current minister of Huainan."
"——The Qi system lost the hearts of the people, and the Huainan department did not raise troops, these are the results of His Majesty's efforts before the outbreak of the rebellion, and the results finally won······"
Hearing this, the Empress Dowager Dou on the royal couch only nodded thoughtfully.
And Tianzi Qi, who was beside Empress Dowager Dou, had a slightly stiff face.
- Shen Tujia's words really put gold on Tianziqi's face······
It was Xixi, who was sitting in a precarious position, listening to Shen Tujia's reply, and his face gradually revealed a look of approval, as well as a look of shame that appeared together.
Once upon a time, Chao Cuo also suggested that the Son of Heaven would revolt instead of forcing one family at a time, it would be better to force all the princes of the East to rebel together, and eradicate them all at once, once and for all!
But later, when he saw Shen Tujia, the 'prime minister' who was born as a martial artist, and the sophisticated political skills he showed in the process of 'improving' "Cutting the Domain", Chao Cuo had already realized that compared with Shen Tujia, the 'puppet', he still had a big gap.
And now, when a person like Shen Tujia is as fierce as fire, he does not hesitate to attribute all the credit to Tianzi Qi's 'seeing thousands of miles' and 'taking precautions', and Chao Cuo is even more helpless to discover: even in the past, his proud 'loyalty to Tianzi Qi' seems so ridiculous in front of Shen Tujia at this moment······
Regarding the change in the expressions of everyone in the hall, Shen Tujia didn't pay much attention to it.
After a moment's pause, he snorted smoothly and continued: "Let's talk about this war again; ”
"Because the Huainan Department did not raise troops, and His Majesty also took precautions in Wuguan in advance, so the direction of Liu Bi and Liu Wu's march was only Hangu Pass."
"And except for Liu Bi and Liu Wu's Wu and Chu coalition armies, the other clan princes can't make trouble."
"—The four kings of Qi were restrained by the other three princes who were grateful for His Majesty's kindness and did not raise troops;"
"Now, Your Majesty has also sent General Luan Bu to Qidi to quell the rebellion."
"So it's all right, don't worry."
"——Yan, Dai, and Zhao in the north, shouldering the stability of the border wall, should have been the top priority."
"But Liu Deng, the acting king, is His Majesty's own nephew, Liu Jia, the king of Yan, and because of His Majesty's kindness, he did not raise troops."
"With the cooperation of King Yan and King Dai, there will be no problems with the side wall, and the Huns will not be able to participate in this rebellion."
"As for King Zhao, although he wanted to rebel, he was besieged in Handan by the Marquis of Quzhou and Gongzi Fei sent by His Majesty;"
"Before the rebellion ended, King Zhao couldn't get out of Handan City at all; After the rebellion is over, King Zhao will also die in the palace······"
Speaking of this, Shen Tujia finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the grim look on his face also eased slightly.
And Shen Tujia's next words directly pointed to the extent to which this Wu Chu Rebellion was finally limited by the advance preparations of Tianzi Qi and Shen Tujia.
"Yan, Dai, and Zhao in the north will not have problems, and the Huns will not be able to go south;"
"The Qi system in the east and the Huainan system in the south, regardless of whether they raised troops or not, were trapped in their respective fiefdoms."
"So in fact, this rebellion is just the Wu Chu army of Liu Bi and Liu Wu, the Liang army of King Liang, and the Guanzhong army of the court, fighting in Suiyang City."
"For Liu Bi and Liu Wu's rebels, only by successively breaking through Suiyang, Xingyang, and Luoyang, and appearing outside Hangu Pass, this rebellion will make the world chaotic."
"But the actual situation at the moment is that even Suiyang, the capital of Liang, has already become a fortified city that can never be broken through manpower and from the outside······"
In the end, Shen Tu Jiacai finally swept away the grim look on his face, raised his head, and smiled slightly at the Empress Dowager Dou on the imperial couch.
"Therefore, to the Queen Mother's question, the minister's answer was: The worst result is that Liu Bi and Liu Wu were able to escape, not die under Suiyang City;"
"The outcome of the war is already doomed······
Hearing Shen Tujia's words, especially the inexplicably relaxed tone that did not make people feel 'arrogant' at all, several people in the hall all secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Especially the Empress Dowager Dou, who took a deep breath visibly with the naked eye, obviously calming down from a long period of worry.
"yes~"
"Wuguan, Xingyang, Zhao, Qi, Liang, the emperor all sent troops;"
"Just the soldiers who fought, the court sent nearly 600,000 people!"
"In addition, the emperor took precautions and the prime minister assisted him, forgive him Liu Bi, and he couldn't make any splash."
"It's Suiyang ······"
With a sigh of palpitation, and subconsciously mentioned Suiyang, Empress Dowager Dou's eyebrows couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"Since Liu Bi and Liu Wu have no other way, they will definitely mobilize all the troops and storm Suiyang."
"And King Liang, at the head of Suiyang City, resisting the attack of the rebels······"
Hearing the voice of the Empress Dowager Dou full of worry, Tianzi Qi, who was sitting next to the Empress Dowager Dou, thought for a while, and then tentatively said: "If the Empress Dowager is really worried······
"Hmmm······"
"The general's army of more than 100,000 is already in Xingyang;"
"The main force of the Taiwei, although it has a detour from Wuguan, has already set off, and it will soon be able to reach Suiyang."
"If the mother is really worried, can the son send another army from Hangu Kanto to support King Liang?"
As soon as these words came out, I saw that Empress Dowager Dou's eyes lit up slightly!
After thinking about it secretly, he subconsciously cast his tentative gaze to Shen Tujia in the east seat.
Feeling Empress Dowager Dou's slightly 'request' and 'request' gaze, Shen Tujia couldn't help but look a little condensed;
When the Son of Heaven apocalypse, he also intentionally or unintentionally handed a 'don't agree' look, Shentu Jiacai sighed and slowly shook his head at the Empress Dowager Dou.
"Queen Mother;"
"I'm afraid the court can't send troops to Kanto anymore······"
said a word in a low tone, and saw that Shen Tujia didn't care about the Empress Dowager Dou at all, and her gaze that had dimmed again, and sighed: "Just now, the Empress Dowager also said; ”
"——In order to quell this rebellion, His Majesty has sent a total of more than 600,000 troops to Wuguan, Xingyang, Zhao, Qi, and Liang!"
"In order to transport grain and grass to the more than 600,000 troops, the Prime Minister's Mansion has recruited more than twice the number of people from Guanzhong."
"That's two million people······
"And in the entire Guanzhong, there are only more than 10 million people and more than 5 million men over the age of 20."
"Sending nearly half of the men to Kanto will already have a great impact on this year's spring plowing in Guanzhong."
"If you send the army again, I'm afraid that in the autumn, the acres of land in Guanzhong will not be able to grow enough corn······"
Hearing Shen Tujia's words, the Son of Heaven Qizi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but he also frowned worriedly because of Shen Tujia's sentence 'Spring ploughing has been greatly affected';
It was Xixi's mistake that he finally found an opportunity to express himself, and following Shen Tujia's words, he took the conversation over.
"What the prime minister said is ah······"
"More than 600,000 troops, millions of people carrying grain;"
"The food for the army alone is the consumption of millions of stones a month."
"Every month that this battle is fought for an extra month, and the government is less, it will cost tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands."
"Alas~"
"——Shaofu's savings were saved by the first emperor for more than 20 years before they were saved for a decisive battle with the Huns."
"And this rebellion has to delay the first emperor's wish to 'fight the Huns' for more than ten years, or even decades······"
When Chao Cuo also opened his mouth to echo, saying, 'What Shen Tujia said is right', the expression on Empress Dowager Dou's face finally changed slightly.
When she heard Shen Tujia say: There are only more than 5 million men in Guanzhong, and more than 2 million people have been dispatched, and if they are sent more, it will affect spring ploughing, Empress Dowager Dou is actually quite unimpressed.
- Two million were sent, and then hundreds of thousands, so what?
Anyway, spring ploughing has already been affected, and no matter how much it is affected, it is not a big deal.
Besides: sending these hundreds of thousands of people may be able to end the war earlier and reduce the cost of the court in the war!
But when Chao Cuo accurately pointed out that this rebellion had already allowed the first emperor to save up, and part of the military expenditure for the decisive battle with the Huns had been spent, so that the first emperor's last wish to 'drive the north to the Hu Man' had to be delayed, Empress Dowager Dou could not pretend that she could not hear it.
The reason is very simple: the main reason why the Empress Dowager Dou is the 'Empress Dowager Dou', not the 'Old Concubine Dou', 'Liu Dou's', or 'Mother Liu', is that the Empress Dowager Dou is the wife of the first emperor.
The Dou family can have the honor of 'Queen Mother' because of the first emperor;
Therefore, everything about the first emperor, Empress Dowager Dou absolutely can't care less.
Especially in this kind of matter related to the 'last wishes of the first emperor' and 'will', all the Empress Dowager Dou can do is to unconditionally defend and support the first emperor.
"The prime minister, internal history, what they say makes sense······"
"It's really inappropriate to send troops again······"
"When it spreads, I'm afraid that someone will say: I, a blind old woman, for the safety of King Liang, don't even care about the life and death of the people in Guanzhong;"
"Say that for the sake of my son, I did not hesitate to destroy the spring ploughing in Guanzhong······"
Seeing that the Empress Dowager Dou was finally relieved, the Son of Heaven finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
In his heart, although he was 'fortunately not sending another army', but on his lips, Tianzi Qi did not forget to ask softly: "If the queen mother is really worried, why don't you send another edict to the general and the captain?" ”
"Let's just say, we must do our best to support King Liang and support Suiyang?"
But when she saw that the Empress Dowager Dou heard this, she only shook her head with a sad face, groped for her cane, and got up from the imperial couch.
As he walked in the direction of the apse, he said, "No need······"
Hearing this, the Son of Heaven was happy again;
But after hearing it, there was a meaningful murmur from the Empress Dowager Dou.
"I'll do it myself······"
"When the emperor speaks, he always beats around the bush, I'm afraid that the generals and lieutenants won't understand······"
"The edict I sent, the captain and the general, I won't think about it too much·········"
It seemed to be a murmur, it seemed to be a warning, and there was a faint hint of distrustful words, which only caused Tianzi Qi's face to stiffen!
looked at Shen Tujia and Chao Cuo in the hall, and the three of them only shook their heads and smiled;
Under the guidance of the Son of Heaven, they bowed to the direction of Empress Dowager Dou's departure.
"Congratulations to the Queen Mother······"
"Congratulations to the queen mother······"
(End of chapter)