The news that Yan was attacked by the Xianbei people was sent to Luoyang as soon as possible.

Luoyang Imperial Palace, in the Qianyuan Palace. His Majesty the Emperor Daqian is discussing with his ministers.

"Your Majesty, now that the Central Plains has just experienced a great drought, and the south has just experienced floods, a large number of people have been displaced, and food is needed everywhere. Xianbei 300,000 iron cavalry attacked Yan State, the Liaodong Corridor was blocked, and if our imperial army wanted to pass, it had to suffer heavy casualties, coupled with the lack of food and grass, even if the imperial court spent a huge price, it was difficult to repel Xianbei and protect Yan State. After a minister finished speaking, many ministers in the hall felt that this was indeed the case.

"No!" As soon as the man's voice fell, another minister directly stood up and retorted: "Your Majesty, the Yan Kingdom is my great feudal country, how can you ignore it?" ”

"If my Great Commander ignores the siege of the Yan Kingdom, will the other vassal states still sincerely regard my Great Cadre as the suzerain?"

"What's more, once the Xianbei people break through the Yan State and obtain the resources and manpower of the Yan State, their strength will be improved again, and then the Great Cadres will have to face a powerful empire with 300,000 people who control the strings and hundreds of thousands of skilled craftsmen."

"At what point will I stabilize the north?"

"Not to mention whether the Xianbei people can break through the Yan Kingdom, that is, if they break through the Yan Kingdom, my cadres are strong and strong, how can I be afraid of those nomadic people?"

"Since the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, why don't you destroy Xianbei first? Instead, wait for Xianbei to destroy the Yan Kingdom? You are harboring evil intentions, and you want me to lose my trust in the world, and your heart can be punished! ”

"Nonsense!" The man's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly said to Wang Yi: "Your Majesty, the minister's heart for the great cadres can be seen every day, and the reason why the minister does not approve of sending troops to Yan State is that the road is difficult to travel, Liaoze is difficult to cross, and the second is that there is a shortage of food and grass. ”

"Over the years, there have been all kinds of disasters in various parts of the Great Qian, the disaster people are everywhere, the imperial court has been constantly moving the people, although the population pressure of the Central Plains has been reduced, and the Jiangnan has been developed, but the consumption of money and grain is too huge, and now the treasury is empty, and there is not enough money and food to support the expedition of the army!"

"Yu Qing doesn't need to panic, I know it in my heart." Wang Yi appeased for a moment, and then said, "Sun Shuqing, how much grain can be called in Taifu now?" ”

Although Wang Yi was dissatisfied with Yu Qing's performance in his heart, what he said also made some sense, and Daqian would not be punished for his words. What he just said is indeed an objective reason for existence, but if the Great Cadre lets Yan Guo not save it, the consequences caused by it are far from being solved by saving those grain and grass materials.

Using the credibility established by the Daqian Dynasty over the past hundred years to save some grain and grass, as long as he is a normal emperor, he will not agree.

"Your Majesty, there are still 500,000 pieces of silver in the treasury, and there are only 300,000 stones left in the available stock, but if it can be delayed until July, the world's grain tax will enter Beijing, and the imperial court will have no less than one million stones of grain and grass to use."

"Your Majesty, although there are 300,000 stone of grain and grass, but many places are still short of food because of the drought just ended, if these grains and grass are used, those people may be short of food!"

At the turn of spring and summer, it was the time when the people were short of food, not to mention the drought for two consecutive years, the people had no surplus food for a long time, and even because of the wrong collection of grain, many Haoqiang families did not have much food.

In order to relocate the victims, the imperial court was a little impatient.

Wang Yi frowned slightly and then asked: "According to the old practice of Zhenhaihou, salt is used to lead the people of the world in exchange for food." ”

The imperial court intends to exchange salt for food, so that those people can transport the grain to the designated location, so that the imperial court can obtain food, but also do not have to bear the manpower and material resources for transportation, and the loss is also from those people, only need to give salt introduction.

After the merchant gets the salt, he can exchange it for salt, and he can also get a lot of money by selling the salt, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

In real history, this system, known as the Kaizhong system, has appeared since the Tang Dynasty and continued until the Ming and Qing dynasties. In fact, in this era, the open system is a very good system, but the open system has repeatedly collapsed in history. One of the most important reasons is the arbitrary distribution of salt by the imperial court.

As a result, those merchants who transported grain could not take salt after getting the salt leads, but the nobles and heroes took the salt leads and resold them wantonly. Daqian is now very strict with the salt works, and no one dares to come nonsense now.

"Your Majesty, Liaoze is difficult to pass, but the Zhenhai King's naval army is vertical and horizontal, and the great cadres can transport the army across the sea to Liaoyang by sea, and then they will be able to defeat the Xianbei people when they join forces with the Yan army!" In the main hall, Zuo Xiangchao, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.

"With the help of the navy, there is no need to attack Liaoze, which is difficult to pass, and the transportation of grain and grass is also convenient, so it must not cost much!" Wang Yan, the prime minister next to him, said.

"The biggest difficulty in aiding Yan has been solved, how can those Xianbei people be the enemies of my great Qianruishi?"

"Uncle Huang is reasonable, since this is the case, then the edict will order the Linzi garrison and the Jinyang garrison to go to Dengzhou, and order the Zhenhai King to send a fleet to escort and aid Yan State!" Wang Yi ordered directly.

The ministers also agreed.

At the same time, just when the Xianbei people attacked the Yan Kingdom, the conquest between the countries of the Western Regions finally broke out. The Great Wan Kingdom, the Wusun Kingdom, and even the Kushan Kingdom, as well as other small countries in the Western Regions, began to attack other countries because they could not resolve their internal contradictions.

For a time, the countries in the Western Regions were in chaos, and the countries in the Western Regions that were divided by the Great Qian Imperial Court after decades of development now have a combined population of more than one million, but in the face of the vast Western Regions, they could not be pacified for a while.

Especially the Dawan Kingdom and the Wusun Kingdom, both of which are large countries with a population of one million, and there are 100,000 people who control the strings, even the five countries of the Western Regions feel a lot of pressure. What's more, a large number of Huns who couldn't survive on the grassland also came to join in the fun.

The entire Western Regions is also in the midst of war, and the Five Western Regions and the Western Regions Protectorate can only protect themselves now.

The situation in the Western Regions was in crisis, and the Protectorate of the Western Regions and the five countries of the Western Regions sent envoys to Luoyang to ask for help.

The Western Regions and Liaodong were equally important, and the Great Qian Imperial Court had been in operation for a hundred years. Every year, he was able to obtain a large amount of money from the Western Regions. Twenty percent of the annual fiscal revenue of the Great Cadres comes from the Western Regions. If the Western Regions are gone, there will be a financial gap of millions of yuan every year.

From this point of view, the Western Regions are even more important than Liaodong.

After learning that something was wrong in the Western Regions, Wang Yi immediately consulted with the important ministers of the imperial court, and everyone understood the importance of the Western Regions, and even the vast majority of nobles and eunuchs did not want to lose the Western Regions.

Every year, these families have caravans to the Western Regions, and then bring back a large amount of money, and if the Western Regions are gone, they will also lose a lot of money.

Therefore, after learning of the war in the Western Regions, they wrote to the imperial court and sent a large army to quell the chaos.

(End of chapter)