Spring and Autumn I Am King

After Zhao Wuxi announced that he would conquer North Korea next year or the year after and capture Chen Heng, there was an uproar in the courtroom, and important officials came out one after another to try to dissuade him, but Zhao Wuxi had made up his mind and announced that the matter was finalized, letting everyone After Sanchao discussed the specific situation again tomorrow, they walked away, leaving everyone looking at each other, guessing what happened to Junhou?

However, in the afternoon, Zhao Wuxi learned that some ministers were still waiting outside the hall without eating or drinking, hoping that he could summon him.

"What a pile of stubborn rocks."

Out of desperation, Zhao Wuxi asked people to give them food, and at the same time asked them to enter the house one by one after eating.

The first person who came in was Xiangbang Zhang Mengtan. Although he entered alone, he took out a note from his sleeve like a conjuration when he came in. It was Dong Anyu, who was at home, who was reporting the old age and wrote it in a hurry. I asked him to bring him into the palace.

Zhao Wuxi frowned and opened the memorial, only to see Dong Anyu wrote:

"The old minister heard that the emperor wants to cross the sea to attack Korea, like five thunders, people say, eat the emperor's salary, and be loyal to the emperor. Now the old minister has eaten the Zhao family's salary for three generations, although he has already retired, but he dares to cherish himself without admonishing. There is a saying in the "Sima Law": Although a country is big, warlikeness will surely perish. Soldiers are weapons, and soldiers are dangerous. Therefore, the Holy Master does not dare to rashly mobilize troops. "

"In the past, Emperor Xin of Yin and Shang was so belligerent that he attacked Dongyi and lost his country. This was because he did not cultivate internal affairs, but only attacked and fought. King Mu of Zhou went far to attack Xirong, opened up a thousand miles of land, and returned with four white deer and four white wolves. However, after King Mu, the Zhou family's national power was exhausted, and Wang Ji's divisions were completely exhausted, so that the six divisions were exhausted, the state was empty, and the princes rebelled..."

"Chen Heng is nothing more than robbers and robbers. North Korea is just a small country. Getting his people is not enough to show the virtues of the emperor, and abandoning his land is not enough to damage the reputation of the Central Plains. Why bother the Chinese people, so that men can't cultivate their fields? You can't weave mulberry and hemp, but you need to help the old and young to transfer grain and crops for the emperor? Why should you spend the wealth of the treasury and spend the entire country's efforts to build ships for the emperor? The old minister thought that it is better not to conquer Korea, so Chen Heng made Chen Heng. It can be self-destructed…”

After reading it, Zhao Wuxi closed the memorial and remained silent, while Zhang Mengtan silently waited for his response.

After a while, Zhao Wuxi sneered and said, "Old Xiangbang is really old, and there are somber words in the narration. What do you think about the new Xiangbang? Do you also think that the widow should not conquer Korea?"

Although Zhang Mengtan is a newly appointed prime minister, he is also in his forties, with a beautiful beard reaching his chest. At this moment, facing Zhao Wuxi's words, he still said calmly:

"The idea of ​​the minister is the same as that of the old Xiangbang. Now that the soldiers of the Zhao state are innocent, the emperor wants to drive them to the cold land in the north, cross the state of Yan and Liaodong to attack Korea, and make hundreds of thousands of people transfer goods and grains. The liver and the brain are on the ground, the old father orphan, the widowed wife and the loving mother bid farewell to cover their tears, this may be enough to change the yin and yang, hurt and anger, victory is fine, if there is no result, or even a big defeat, it will definitely cause unnecessary turmoil in the country. The princes will also take this opportunity to get rid of Zhao State. For the mere Chen Heng and the small state of North Korea, it is really not worth taking such a big battle and taking huge risks!"

"Ha, the old and the new states are in the same line." Zhao Wuxi got angry, he walked up to Zhang Mengtan, stared at him and said, "It's okay if others don't understand, Meng Tan, you and the few rulers and ministers have been together for more than 20 years. Don't you, don't understand what the widow is thinking? Is it really a foolish man?"

Zhang Mengtan was stunned for a moment. He was a smart man. He recalled all the things in the palace today, especially Sun Wu's sudden appearance and his ignorance of his move to conquer Korea. He suddenly had an epiphany.

However, Zhang Mengtan didn't leave until the front foot, and the person Zhao Wuxi was more afraid of came in on the back foot, but he saw Ji Ran, who was already grey-faced, with a face full of anger, and stepped inside, he gave Zhao Wuxi a heavy slap in the face. Bowing, he blurted out and said: "Your Majesty, conquering Korea is an act of subjugating the country and destroying the family!"

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"Tai Fu Ling, what do you mean?"

Seeing that it was Ji Ran, Zhao Wuxi had a headache, but he still had to deal with it.

Ji Ran held up a book that had been written over the years and said:

"Although Zhao State did not fight for four years after the meeting of Huangchi, but the previous year's expedition to Zhongshan used more than 200,000 men of Ding Zhuang and 50,000 soldiers, and it took three months to destroy the State of Zhongshan. In the battle of Xinjiang, Ding Zhuang used 200,000 people to transport food, and 50,000 to 60,000 people in vehicles, walks, and rides.

"In these two battles, although they were captured after the war, they cost more, especially the battle to destroy Donghu, which almost wiped out the savings in the northern border. However, your Majesty continued this year, sending 30,000 troops to Henan, which will be a success. Monday is divided into two. Although the military expenditure is not much, the food cost of the garrison is not small. In this way, the savings of four years of peacetime will be spent almost. Your Majesty should have rest and recuperate, but now it is for Chen Henghe. North Korea, fight again!"

He angrily tapped the documents above with his hands. Every money, silk and food in it was handled by Ji Ran. No one knew better than him what the upper limit of Zhao State was.

"North Korea and the Central Plains are separated by the sea. If the navy attacked, it would have to build countless large ships. The sea is limpid, the wind and waves are indefinite, and the outcome is unknown. Did your lord forget the lesson of Langya's defeat? Promise that the minister will not thrive within 20 years. The navy, did your Majesty forget it? And if you go by land, it will be thousands of miles away, and there is no place for supplies in the barren land along the way. If an army of 50,000 people passes by, there are only 10,000 people who can reach the place."

"Even if it is a fluke to destroy North Korea, will the Kei continue to be the monarch? Or will it be transformed into a county?"

"If it is the former, since they are not related to the Central Plains, what is the difference between Chen's North Korea and Jizi North Korea? If it is the latter, Zhao State will have to send troops to guard, and if there are fewer troops, the cities and towns will be filthy barbarians. If you are trapped, many troops will be garrisoned and grieved, and people will be uneasy."

Ji Ran finally said: "Your Majesty claims to be the parents of the common people of Zhao State, but he doesn't show any sympathy. The Zhao clan is disappointed. Once the people lose the hearts of the people, the collapse of the state is just around the corner. How can the emperor feel safe at that time? How can you be so confused today?”

These words not only questioned that there was something wrong with his order, but also pointed out that he himself was confused. Ji Ran could already be called strong advice, but Zhao Wuxi said stubbornly: "Does the commander of the Taifu think that without your consent, the widow will not be able to promote this expedition?"

Confronting the tit-for-tat, Zhao Wuxi didn't want to give in, Ji Ran simply took off the crown on his head, tore off the seal on his waist, raised his neck and said, "Your Majesty wants to conquer Korea, you must ask the Taifu to make a military budget. , forgive the incompetence of the minister, I really can't do this within my means! Anyway, the old minister is too old and useless, if there is another wise man, please let the minister retire and retire!"

"it is good!"

Zhao Wuxi slapped the table a few times: "Leave the seal, and people can leave. From now on, they will go to Xinwenzi's post of the imperial palace commander, this position of plan, let Taoqiu's Duanmu Ci do it! I am a country! I am lonely! The will of Zhao is the will of the state of Zhao, the will of millions of subjects! There must be no objection to the proposal to attack Korea!"

The voice was so loud that Zhang Mengtan and other ministers who were waiting outside the door could hear it clearly.

Inside the house, Ji Ran was stunned for a while, a little unable to believe it, but after a miserable laugh, he put down the seal in his hand, and then bowed heavily to Zhao Wuxi, then turned and left!

During the whole process, the waiters in the hall looked at their noses, noses and hearts, but their calves were shaking. I had never seen a prince so angry and angry.

Immediately, another order from the Marquis of Zhao came down: "If anyone dares to persuade the widow to attack Korea again, go to his place!"

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There is no impermeable wall in the world. With the dissemination of the people who have the heart, news spreads like wildfire that the Marquis of Zhao wanted to conquer Chen Heng and cross the sea to attack North Korea.

There were rumors that four important officials, Dong Anyu, Zhang Mengtan, You Wuzheng, and Ji Ran, all opposed the chaos, but they were all reprimanded by Zhao Hou, and Ji Ran even had a big quarrel with Zhao Wuxi on the spot. Resigned from the Taifu Order...

This incident caused an uproar in Yecheng. While not understanding why Zhao Wuxi was so arrogant, everyone also began to realize that Zhao Hou's cross-sea northern expedition was so resolute. It is possible to be completely burned by the anger of the emperor.

"Maybe it's because of being too angry with Chen Heng?" People speculated that anger would make people lose their minds, and Junhou was no exception.

In Changle Palace, Prince Zhao Heng was also very anxious about this matter. He originally planned to risk his own death to remonstrate, but after learning that Ji Ran was also dismissed, he hesitated. At this time, Mrs. Le's wife also sent someone to dissuade him, so that he should not anger the prince at this sensitive moment. After 20 years of husband and wife, Le Lingzi has never seen such an abnormal Zhao Wuxi... …

And no one dared to say that this decision was not made by Junhou with foresight. After all, after so many years, Zhao Wuxi's decision was rarely wrong.

For a time~www.wuxiaspot.com~ the government and the opposition remained silent about this matter. Even Dong Anyu and Zhang Mengtan, who were opposed to the old and new prime ministers, remained silent. In the past ten years, Zhao Wuxi has never had anything to do with it. What is wrong, the prosperity of the monarchy, as long as the things are decided, no one dares to touch its edge, and Xiangquan is like a weak child in front of a powerful monarch*.

Only Ji Ran returned home and was sullen by himself.

However, no one knew that the reason why the three important ministers Dong, Zhang, and You stopped giving advice was because each of Zhao Hou each wrote a personal letter explaining the cause and effect and sent it to them. On the night after the incident, a carriage also quietly drove into Ji Ran's home during the curfew.

"How dare you let your grandson come to the door in person?" Ji Ran and Sun Wu were about the same age. Although the two didn't have a deep friendship, he didn't dare to be rude and hurried to the front court to greet them.

"The old man didn't come alone." After Sun Wu got out of the car, he gave up his seat, and his entourage lifted the curtain, and Zhao Wuxi, who was dressed in casual clothes, walked down.

Zhao Wuxi was ashamed and bowed to Ji Ran.

"To let my husband accompany the widow in this play, I really feel wronged, but I don't know if the widow plays a foolish king and a single husband, does it look like it?"