Among the many ministers under Liu Xiu's command, it is meaningless to not look at who is big and who is small.

No matter how big the official is, even if he does the third public, he will be dismissed, it is also a matter of Liu Xiu's words.

On the contrary, those ministers who fought the world with Liu Xiu, but the officials were not big, were the most powerful people in the court.

Liu Xiu's two expeditions to the west failed to eliminate the Kui Huan forces, because of the lack of food and grass, and finally the Han army had no choice but to withdraw its troops.

After the Han army withdrew, the Kui Huan forces were no longer good, mainly because the Kui Huan had run out of oil.

In the second battle of Hanyang, almost all of Kui's family resources were wiped out, hundreds of thousands of troops were wiped out, and the grain and grass in Liangzhou were wiped out.

The Han army left, but the Long army had no food to eat.

Even Kui Huan, who can't eat enough now, has to be hungry, and has no last meal, he is still like this, and the situation of the officers and soldiers of the Long Army under his command can be imagined.

Kui Huan couldn't eat enough in the city, so he could only go out of the city to dig wild vegetables to eat.

The wild vegetables outside Jicheng City have almost been dug up, and Kui Huan, accompanied by more than a dozen attendants, walked out of several miles before he could find a little wild vegetables.

But just a little wild vegetable is enough to make the attendants overjoyed.

People built bonfires on the spot, set up pots, poured the few remaining millets and beans into the pot, and added water and wild vegetables to cook a pot of wild vegetable porridge.

An attendant took a bowl of porridge, carefully brought it to Kui Huan, and said, "King, drink a bowl of porridge first to warm your body!" ”

Kui Huan raised his hand, took the bowl of porridge tremblingly, and looked down, most of the bowl was thin water, and there were only a little bit of millet, beans and wild vegetables.

Looking at this bowl of hard-won gruel, Kui Huan suddenly felt sad from his heart.

Back then, he raised an army against recklessness, and later against Liu Xuan, and established his own foundation in Liangzhou.

When the Red Eyebrow Army was rampant in the world, trying to invade Liangzhou, the soldiers under his command defeated the invincible Red Eyebrow Army, what kind of majesty and what kind of scenery?

And now, he has been reduced to the point of eating weeds to satisfy his hunger?

He's the dignified King of Shuoning! It's the general of Xizhou! Thinking of hundreds of thousands of soldiers being defeated, thinking of Yang Guang and Wang Jie who died on the battlefield, and thinking of Wang Zun, Niu Han, Zheng Xing, Du Lin, Shen Tugang and others who betrayed him and took refuge in Liu Xiu, Kui's heart was like rubbing his intestines.

His body had already reached the point of running out of oil and drying up, and now he was anxious, angry and sad, his body could not support such intense emotional ups and downs, he suddenly felt a tightness in his chest, and a hot current rushed up.

He snorted and spurted out old blood.

Seeing this, everyone present was startled, and they all gathered around and said urgently: "King! ”

Bang Dang! The porridge bowl in Kui Huan's hand fell to the ground, and he looked up to the sky and shouted: "Heaven is absolutely unavoidable to me!" Heaven is overwhelming! I just want to keep the foundation of Liangzhou, why should I be wrong?

Why does God only favor him Liu Xiu and not my hustle and bustle?

Heaven is unfair! Heaven is unfair—"Poof! Kui spoke and spat out a mouthful of old blood again.

"Take care of your health, Great King!"

The attendants had red eyes and wept, and they persuaded one after another.

"Heaven is unfair! It's God's injustice! ”

Kui Huo pushed away the crowd around him, staggered to his feet, looked up at the sky, staggered forward a few steps, and shouted, "Why is Heaven so unjust? ”

He shouted three times in a row, and spat out a large mouthful of blood.

The blood mist sprayed in the air, striking and dazzling.

Kui Huan's body stiffened, and then he threw himself straight forward.

"The king—" The crowd hurriedly ran forward and knelt around the hustle and bustle.

At this time, Kui Huan was lying motionless on the ground, his face was dark and his eyes were open.

One of the attendants stretched out his hand tremblingly and probed Kui Huan's snort.

After a while, as if he had been electrocuted, he hurriedly withdrew his hand, and then slammed his head on the ground at Kui Huan, crying: "The king-" Seeing this, the attendants present all understood what was going on, and the people kowtowed together, crying: "The king-" The hustle and bustle of a generation of heroes died outside Jicheng with hatred.

The Kui Huan forces, and the Gongsun Shu forces, can be called equal.

In the early and middle stages of the Kui Huan forces, the overlord of Kui Huan was still very good, he saw the division of the Central Plains dispute, bet on Liu Xiu, and bowed to Liu Xiu.

At that time, Liu Xiu's power was not very large, and he was surrounded by warlord separatist forces, and there were also Peng Chong's rebellion in the north and Deng Feng's rebellion in the south, which can be said to be internal and external troubles.

At this time, Kui Huan took refuge in Liu Xiu, which was really a relief in the snow for Liu Xiu.

However, Kui Huan's defection to Liu Xiu also had great benefits for himself, at least he stuck to the orthodox side of the Han family, which made a large number of world-famous scholars and doctors come to defect, such as Zheng Xing, Du Lin, Shen Tugang, Zhao Bing, and so on.

The hustle and bustle of this period can be said to be prestige and prestige, to have soldiers and horses, to have talents, here in Liangzhou, he is undoubtedly a small court, among which there are many capable people, and the talent reserve is not much worse than Luoyang.

But in the later stage of Kui Huan's forces, Kui Huan began to make frequent faint moves, the biggest of which was to betray Liu Xiu and take refuge on Gongsun Shu's side.

Kui Huan misjudged a little, he thought that his power could be so big, it was all his own credit, but in fact he was wrong, the reason why his power could grow was largely because of the orthodoxy of the Han family.

As he took refuge in Gongsun Shu, he became arrogant, no longer a Hanchen, but a thief who was spurned by everyone.

This change was fatal to the forces of Kui Huan, and it also made a large number of ministers under Kui Huan's command deviate from him and have the heart of defection.

When Kui Huan fought with the Han army, there was only tactics, not strategy, and the capable ministers under Kui Huan no longer offered him strategy.

Therefore, the battles between the Long army and the Han army can only occasionally achieve victory on the local battlefield, but in terms of general strategy, the Long army has always been suppressed by the Han army.

In Kui Huan's life, the most criticized thing is that he betrayed Liu Xiu and betrayed the Han family.

Soon after Kui Huan's death, Wang Yuan, Zhou Zong, Xingxun and others supported Kui Huan's son Kui Chun and succeeded him to the throne of Shuoning Wang.

The news of Kui Huan's death soon spread to Luoyang.

For the Luoyang Imperial Court, this news can be described as a joy from heaven.

In the early morning of the next day, Liu Xiu announced the news of Kui Huan's death and Kui Chun's succession to the throne in the court.

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Han raised the wat board and said loudly: "Your Majesty! ”

Liu Xiu raised his hand to him.

Wu Han came out of the column and said: "Your Majesty, Kui Huan is dead, Kui Chun has succeeded to the throne, and now the situation in Longdi is unstable, it is a good opportunity for our army to send troops to attack!" ”

The new Great Situ Hou Ba frowned and said: "But our army is short of food and grass, and now we have no power to go west!" ”

Wu Han didn't answer, but turned his eyes to look at Li Tong.

Liu Xiu also looked at Li Tong and said, "Sikong, if our army marches west again, will the imperial court have any grain and grass available?" ”

Li Tong stepped out of the column and said: "At present, there are 300,000 stones of standing grain in the grain depot. ”

Again, standing grain is for emergency use, and it will not be out of the warehouse unless it is absolutely necessary.

Liu Xiu frowned and said, "In this way, our army's grain and grass are still insufficient!" ”

Wu Han said: "Your Majesty, Kui Chun, whether it is prestige or popular support, is far inferior to Kui Huan, now Kui Chun has just succeeded to the throne, his position is not stable, our army does not attack, it is really a missed opportunity, it makes people sigh!" ”

Liu Xiu supported his forehead, and he also knew that now was a good opportunity for his side to send troops to attack, but the food problem could not be solved, and no matter how good the timing was, it was useless.

Li Tong's brows were tightly locked, and his eyes kept rolling.

After pondering for a while, he suddenly spoke: "Your Majesty, Wei Chen can transfer 200,000 stone of grain. ”

As soon as he said this, the faces of everyone present changed.

Transferring out 200,000 stone of grain?

Then there is only 100,000 stone of standing food left, what is this 100,000 stone of grain enough for?

Unless in the next year, no one in the country will be affected by the disaster, as long as one place is affected, the imperial court will not be able to come up with relief food at all, which will cause a civil uprising and something big will happen! Hou Ba gasped and said urgently: "Da Sikong is cautious! Emergency food cannot be used unless absolutely necessary, and once it is used, it will ...... It's going to make a big mess! ”

Li Tong thought for a moment, nodded at Liu Xiu, and said, "Your Majesty, Weichen can transfer 200,000 stone of grain for the western expedition!" ”

Wang Yuan came out of the ranks, glanced at Li Tong, and said loudly: "Could it be that Da Sikong is still familiar with heavenly arts?" ”

Li Tong looked at Wang Yuan in confusion and asked, "What does Doctor Wang mean by this?" ”

Wang Yuan snorted coldly and said: "Dasi uses standing food for air conditioning, once a county suffers a natural disaster, how will Dasikong deal with it?"

Unless the Great Sikong is familiar with celestial arts, he can predict the prophet and know in advance that there will be no disasters and disasters in all parts of the country this year. ”

The ministers present first looked at Wang Yuan, and then at Li Tong.

Although Wang Yuan's words were ugly, they were also true.

Do you, Li Tongzhen, dare to guarantee that there will be no disasters and no disasters in all parts of the country?

Do you really dare to guarantee that the imperial court will not need emergency food this year?

It's impossible! Then why do you dare to use emergency food to support the Western Expedition?

Wang Yuan sneered and said: "Da Sikong has just taken office and is eager to make meritorious contributions, which is understandable, but Da Sikong must not take the emergency food of the imperial court to risk!" ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to Liu Xiushen and saluted, and said, "Your Majesty, please Mingjian!" ”

Liu Xiu sighed secretly, this emergency food really can't be taken out and used casually! It's okay if nothing happens, as long as something happens, then the responsibility is on the dimension alone, and when the time comes, I'm afraid that it will be difficult for me, the son of heaven, to protect him.

It's too risky! He turned his head to look at Wu Han and said, "Da Sima, now is indeed a good opportunity to send troops to Liangzhou, but there is no food in the imperial court, and there is indeed no way!" ”

Wu Han sighed heavily, and was about to return to his seat when Li Tong suddenly said, "Your Majesty, Weichen can call for 200,000 stone grain!" ”

Liu Xiu looked at Li Tong and said meaningfully: "Sikong, this emergency food can't be used easily!" ”

If you don't use emergency food, you don't have any responsibility, but once you use emergency food and something happens, then all the responsibility will fall on your boss.

Li Tong understood that now His Majesty was reminding himself not to make such a move, and he said with a straight face: "The fighter plane is rare, fleeting, and cannot be delayed!" Now that Kui Huan has just died, Liangzhou is in chaos, at this time to send troops to the west, our soldiers can not only win a big victory, but also pay a lot of casualties.

Weichen agreed with Da Sima's suggestion that he should immediately send troops to attack Hanyang! ”

Wu Handu thought that there was no room for maneuver in the matter, but he didn't expect Li Tong's attitude to be so tough.

After thinking about it, he still shook his head, he will not take any responsibility for mobilizing emergency food, but Li Tong will take responsibility, what if something really happens, what should Li Tong do?

Doesn't that mean that you hurt Li Tong?

He said, "Dasikong, or ...... Forget it! Standing Rations...... Don't use it! I was negligent and thought things too simple! ”