Zhao Qiong was not happy to hear this, raised her hand and poured a glass of wine, and her heart became more and more dissatisfied!

"If only he had a concubine, it would cost him a few silver! It's just that he is raising tens of thousands of border troops! Today, the imperial court does not give military rations, he wants silver to buy food and send it! Tomorrow, the border army will not be able to complete the ordnance, and he will have to take care of the ordnance department at home! The day after tomorrow, the border army had no cotton clothes for the winter, and they had to buy cotton with silver......

"Our family is not a money bank, we can only sell our fields and land! With such a stupid father, I've really fallen into eight lifetimes of mold! ”

The rest of the fox friends were also interesting enough, and scolded him with him.

"So, your father is a little stupid, how can he use his own money to raise soldiers for the imperial court!"

"The imperial court is also too lacking in morality, counting on the border army to guard the border passes, why don't you give food and ordnance!"

"Yes, I heard that the palace will cost 30,000 taels of silver to renovate a palace. How come there is no silver here in the border army! ”

They were very happy, and because they were drunk, they criticized the court more and more unscrupulously, but they didn't know that the wall had ears.

In the room to the left of this box sat a group of businessmen, Lala and more than 20 people, all of whom listened attentively with their ears pricked up.

In the box on the right, there were more than a dozen petty officials, all of whom were colleagues in the household yamen, and they also got together to drink because of someone's birthday......

Chen Qiong complained a few words and it didn't matter, but dozens of people knew that the imperial court treated the border army harshly, and the general paid out of his own pocket to sell the land to make money, barely ensuring that the border army was well fed and clothed......

There is never a shortage of talkative people in this world, and the banquet dispersed, and within two days the rumors in Kyoto rose.

"Hey, have you heard? The imperial court is really lacking in morality, counting on the border army to guard the border pass, and not giving the border army food and jackets, and the generals are forced to start selling property! ”

A mother-in-law who went to buy vegetables with a basket met a fellow villager, and when they gossiped together, they talked mysteriously.

The fellow villager nodded hurriedly and whispered, "Of course I know, I'm afraid that everything in Kyoto has been spread!" Our lord is a speech official, old-fashioned and upright, and he is going to impeach the household department and the military department with a bullet, but he was stopped by our wife, and the lord quarreled with his wife! ”

"You lords are so bold!" The vegetable buyer was full of admiration, and then quietly looked around before saying, "If you want me to say, those lords in the court, including the emperor, are all smart, how can they not know that the general is changing to sell the border army?" That's it, pretend to be deaf and dumb to take advantage, whoever gets cheap is happy! After all, if the general takes out the silver, the court doesn't have to pay it, and the emperor has the silver to go south to inspect and build a palace! ”

"Yes, yes, that's right. If it were me, I'd be blind! ”

"Haha, it's cheap, don't take advantage of the bastard!"

The two mothers-in-law were chattering, and the rest of the people were not idle, selling vegetables, selling steamed buns, killing pigs, serving vegetables in restaurants, eating, drinking tea in teahouses, almost everyone was talking.

Naturally, most of the people felt sorry for the border army and the generals.

If you want a horse to run, you have to give it grass, which is a truth that even fools understand.

But how many years has the imperial court ridden the horse of the border army, and it is still unwilling to give the horse grazing, which is really unreasonable, it is a big country, which is shameful!

But there are also people who grit their teeth, blaming this matter on the tip of the people's tongue, which damages the prestige of the court and the emperor!

So, at the court meeting one day, there were officials from the household department who came out and complained to the general of slandering the household department, causing the people who did not know the truth to secretly throw rotten vegetable leaves at the yamen!

The complaining official is also a drama spirit, kneeling on the ground and crying with tears and snot, extremely aggrieved.

"Your Majesty, in the past few years, natural disasters and man-made disasters have continued, and our yamen really has no money, not a harsh border army. Just thinking that it is peaceful outside the border pass, there is no foreign enemy to attack, and the military rations will not be delayed for a few days, where did I think that the general's resentment is so great, and he even does not hesitate to spread rumors and disturb Kyoto to retaliate! ”

After that, he didn't wait for the emperor to speak, and shouted angrily, "Also, the people's mouths are all saying that the emperor used the military rations and silver of the soldiers on the border to build a palace, just for his own enjoyment!"

Your Majesty, listen, is this what the people should say, or is someone teaching them! This is the general's dissatisfaction with you! ”

The emperor on the dragon chair was not too old, but his body had been hollowed out by the wine, and the blue and black bags under his eyes said it all.

He slapped the table heavily and scolded, "Bold Zhao Anbang, I thought he was loyal and trusted him, but I didn't expect him to be such a treacherous person!" ”

In the end, there are still old ministers who are loyal, and if they can't see that they will be framed, they will come out to help mediate.

"Your Majesty, it's just a rumor in the market, and you can't take it seriously that General Zhao has a heart of disobedience. It is still necessary to investigate one or two carefully before making a conclusion. ”

Immediately, some people came out to refute, and some people helped the old ministers, and for a while the court made a noise like a busy city.

In the end, the emperor was bored and lacked energy, so he directly issued an order to the border pass to reprimand the border army, and the general's mansion thought about it behind closed doors, and the rest of the matters were discussed!

The general's wife was sitting in the room discussing with her eldest son and daughter-in-law, and her face was not good.

"Zhi'er, can you inquire, is the rumor outside from Xifu?" The general's wife clenched the handkerchief in her hand, and thought about going to Xifu to ask for an explanation.

But Zhao Zhi shook his head gently, with a little strangeness and disappointment in his expression, and replied in a low voice, "Mother, this time it's not Xifu who is making trouble, it's ......."

"What is it?" The general's wife asked.

Jiang Shi was reluctant to embarrass her husband, so she responded first, "Mother, I heard that the cause of the incident was...... The second brother drank with a group of friends, talked a few more words, and was heard by outsiders, and the word became more and more powerful! ”

"Smack!" Sure enough, the general's wife was so angry that she directly threw the tea bowl, "That brute!" ”

It's not that she doesn't grieve for her husband, the border army is for the Great Wei to guard the border pass, but it is their Zhao family who raises the border army, how unfair!

But it has been a few years since the incident, and the husband plans to take the border army to the tuntian to get rid of the difficulty of lack of food, and naturally there will be no need for money from the house in the future.

At such a critical time, things are in trouble, no matter how the court reacts, we must always pay attention to the border pass.

If the husband's arrangement is broken, the family will lose money, and maybe it will be a disaster!

The court and the emperor have never been at ease with their family, otherwise they would not have been put on the edge of the palace to live, watch, and monitor!

The whole family thought that this was the glory of the second fool!

She always thought that the second child was still young, and she knew the difficult situation at home when she grew up.

Unexpectedly, a fool will still be a fool when he grows up!

At this time, the fool Zhao Qiong hurriedly came in from outside, his face was extremely happy, and he shouted, "Mother, the people in the palace have come to pass the will!" Is it that my father has made meritorious service at the border pass? ”

The general's wife and Zhao Zhi stood up suddenly, with irrepressible panic and panic in their eyes.

It's over, the court's counterattack has arrived!