Chapter 214 Zheng kicked the iron plate

As soon as the cannon sounded, there were ten thousand taels of gold. A battle that invests tens of thousands of people requires at least a dozen states to supply grain and grass, and of course, a battle like the Battle of Tang Zheng that invests more than 200,000 troops is a huge bottom pit.

Originally, Li Yuan spent a lot of effort to get more than 30,000 war horses and more than 40,000 troops, but the result was good, the eldest grandson Shunde had just sent a letter to Guguan, and was put into the pocket array by Wang Shichong in one go, which made Li Yuan very depressed.

Fighting a war is actually a fight of national strength and a country's comprehensive strength, and what is fought is the army, equipment, economy, and population. But with Li Shimin trapped in the magnetic stream, Li Yuan hasn't slept well for many days. Li Yuanji was trapped in the camp of Beibi Mountain, even if it was less than a hundred miles away from Li Shimin, but he could not support, and Dou Jiande attacked Hedong again.

In particular, Huaizhou (now northeast of Xingyang) soldiers and horses were brought to the north by Huang Junhan, and most of them were rushed by Wang Shiyun's fire bull array, and only four thousand old and weak remnants of Huaizhou were supported, after three days of support, they were conquered by Wang Xiaohu of Dou Jiande's department, and with the fall of Huaizhou, seven days later, Luzhou was also conquered by Dou Jiande's Fan Yuan, except for Wei Chigong's less than 4,000 remnants of Mengjin, the whole Henan, south of Jinzhou, no longer owned by the Tang Dynasty.

Although Li Jiancheng did not officially fight with Dou Jiande, Li Yuan was very optimistic about Li Jiancheng, after all, the disparity in strength between the two sides was too great, if Li Jiancheng had 100,000 soldiers and horses, it would be possible to block Dou Jiande or repel him, but Li Jiancheng only had more than 10,000 men and horses. Less than one-twentieth of Dou Jiande's army.

Li Shimin needs support, Li Jiancheng needs support, Li Yuanji also needs support, the key is that Li Yuan wants no soldiers, no money, and there is not much grain and grass left, and even the Chinese military officials of the DPRK have entered Wude for three years, and a single penny has not been distributed, and the key is that the imperial court has no money. This broke Li Yuan's heart.

At this time, An Xing sent the Xingyang war report to Li Yuan's desk. Under the leadership of the champion general, the soldiers of the whole army, diligent in the king's order, fearless of death, and bloody battles, completely annihilated more than 20,000 troops of Liu Jintang, the general under the command of Dou Jiande. Li Yuan originally thought that he would fight for several months, but it was over in just three days. You must know that Xingyang is also a strong city in the Central Plains, but thinking of Chen Ying's dazzling achievements in breaking the Yanmen Pass in one day and breaking the Hangu Pass in one hour, Li Yuan was relieved.

The battle is over, how much money has been saved for him! The most amazing thing is that Chen Ying can not only save him money, but also help him make money! According to the Anxing secret report, after capturing Xingyang City, the Right Commander Army of Eastern Shaanxi Province seized the property looted by the Xia army from the wealthy families in Xingyang, as much as 1 million guan, all of which were left intact and handed over to the inner treasury! After learning this news, Li Yuan couldn't believe his eyes, this is not a hundred or ten thousand, it is a whole million! How much is Datang's tax revenue in a year? However, it is only three million guan (even in the fourth year of Zhenguan, it has just broken more than 5.4 million guan).

Of course, Li Yuan is not stupid, Chen Ying handed him a million pieces of silver as it was, he didn't believe this kind of nonsense if he didn't take a penny, Chen Ying must have made a lot of money, but he didn't care. Which official in Datang is not greedy now? It's normal to catch a little, besides, didn't you leave him a million guan? It's much better than those guys who are greedy and greedy, but they don't pull out a dime! The most desperate thing is that Chen Ying rectified the captured soldiers and horses, and went to rescue Li Shimin without stopping, intimate, too intimate

In fact, Li Yuan's guess was right, Chen Ying made a lot of money in Xingyang, including as many as 160,000 taels of gold, which is about 1.6 million guan, plus silver and copper coins, pearls, jade and valuable materials, a proper amount of more than 2 million guan. If it weren't for Luo Shixin's incident, Chen Ying would definitely only report three or five hundred thousand yuan to the East Palace, but because of Luo Shixin's incident, he and Xingyang Zheng completely tore their faces, and obviously Xingyang Zheng would not give up easily.

As An Xing said, the ministers folded the shaft, accumulated feathers and sunk the boat, the crowd was full of gold, and the bones were destroyed, and Chen Ying had to be troublesome. In fact, in the collision with the Zheng family's mansion, Chen Ying had already calculated and gave the seized property to Li Yuan, and let Li Yuan carry this pot. Li Yuan is very short of money at the moment, this million guan is given to Li Yuan, Li Yuan will definitely not spit it out, of course, he will not take Chen Ying to the thunder, once Li Yuan does this, he does not want other courtiers to learn from Chen Ying to solve the problem for him.

An Xing wrote in the recital: "Zheng's words and thieves belong to Zheng's family, and he intends to claim them back, but General Chen does not allow it, and in front of Zheng's coercion, General Chen has a tough attitude, and instead uses soldiers to force Zheng to compromise...... The Zheng family failed to make a plan, and made another plan, and bribed General Chen with a beautiful woman to no avail, and instead bribed General Luo Shixin, a general under General Chen......"

Seeing this, Li Yuan ignored it. As a family gate valve, Li Yuan didn't know the means of the door valve, first of all, he was wooed, and if he couldn't win over, he would immediately turn his face and suppress it.

Pei Lin was very proud, and sighed that Li Yuan's luck was so good!

Because of the millions of dollars sent by Chen Ying, Li Yuan can recruit troops, although there are no elite soldiers in Guanzhong, and Datang is not only Guanzhong, isn't there also Hedong, Hexi, and Bashu? Bashu did not go through a major melee at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the population decreased very little, there was a large number of manpower basically, as long as there was money, it would not be a problem to recruit 350,000 soldiers, Hedong, although after Liu Wuzhou's rebellion, the population tax was reduced, Li Jiancheng could recruit more than 20,000 Shuozhou troops who had been dismissed, and if the remaining troops in Taiyuan were gathered, it should not be a problem to gather 50,000 horses.

On the Taiji Palace, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs shouted long live. Because Li Yuan had money and confidence, his spirits were uplifted, and he got straight to the point: "Everyone Aiqing, Dou Jiande attacked my Tang Xiangzhou, the army and civilians were killed and injured countless times, thousands of miles of red land, fortunately, the soldiers used their lives, and finally recovered Xingyang a few days ago, beheaded Liu Jintang, Liu Xiyao and other thieves, and were captured by the rebels, Xingyang and Henan Zhucheng were all recovered, and Dou Jiande's danger has been calmed down so far!" However, after this catastrophe, Henan Province has been completely eroded, there is not one out of ten people in the territory, and countless military funds have been burned, which is really sad! The top priority is to clean up the mess and resume production as soon as possible. ”

As soon as Feng Deyi, the supervisor of the palace, heard this, he immediately came to his senses and shouted: "Your Majesty, the rebels are tyrannical and extremely vicious to the military disaster, the people of Henan Province are less than one in ten, and the survivors are also poorly clothed and hungry, the top priority is to quickly allocate food and relief, otherwise it will be difficult for them to survive the autumn harvest!" ”，

Yes, as soon as you open your mouth, you want money and food!

When Xiao Yu heard this, he immediately retorted: "Feng Zhongjian said lightly, allocate food for relief? At this time, the green and yellow are not answered, and the treasury has been emptied by this war, where can the grain money be helped! According to the minister's opinion, it is better to move Li Shu of Henan Province to Guanzhong and let them go to their relatives! ”

As soon as Feng Deyi heard this, he immediately ridiculed Xiao Yu's sick foot: "Xiao Xiangguo? Are you trying to leave the surviving people of Henan to fend for themselves? You are trying to trap Your Majesty in injustice, with a country like you, you are really a thief of the country. The Scourge of Social Welfare......"

This hat was covered a little big, Xiao Yu's face was full of helplessness, and she spread her hands: "What else?" Anyway, the household department can't come up with the money! ”

Feng Deyi looked at Xiao Yu like a cannibal.

Xiao Yu fought back again, and immediately a large group of officials pinched each other, some people accused Feng Deyi of clever words, and the officials who supported Feng Deyi accused Xiao Yu of being cold-blooded and ignoring the lives of the people.

Xiao Yu was not to be outdone, and pulled a group of friends to spray back, accusing those guys of not knowing the price of firewood and rice, saliva flew under the court, and a group of ministers were arguing with each other, quoting scriptures, and spraying was so lively!

However, Li Yuan's originally good mood was also impatient by the quarrel of these ministers. Fortunately, Pei Lin carried the thunder to support the imperial court's disaster relief with a year's loss. Xiao Yu immediately agreed, Feng Deyi rode a tiger difficult, the court had no money, to help the soldiers, they donated money and materials, although most of the ministers of the Tang Dynasty were born nobles, but the ministers who were poor in poverty were also in the minority, a large family of people were waiting for the court to get out of the pot, and was a pit by Feng Deyi, everyone drank the northwest wind a year.

Li Yuan looked at these ministers condescendingly and waved his hand in a lack of mood. Chen Qi understood, and sang with a sharp voice: "There is a book to play, and there is no book to retreat!" ”

Liu Zhenghui, the secretary of the Criminal Department, bowed down and said: "The minister has a book!" ”

Li Yuan nodded.

Liu Zhenghui was Li Yuan's old subordinate when he stayed in Taiyuan, and he raised troops with Li Yuan and was the first hero. After that, he was responsible for staying in Taiyuan, and Liu Wuzhou was captured during the attack. Loyal and unyielding, he also found an opportunity to inquire about Liu Wuzhou's military intelligence and reported Li Yuan. Liu Wuzhou was rescued after his demise and is now serving as the secretary of the Criminal Department.

Liu Zhenghui raised his head, looked directly at Li Yuan, and talked eloquently: "Minister Liu Zhenghui impeached Chen Ying, supported the army and respected himself, waited and watched to raise the Kou, and was killed." Falsely reporting the number of soldiers, embezzling military salaries, and beheading.

The heavy ministers had different expressions, and the Chinese military ministers of the court had different expressions, either gloating, or full of worry, or looking pleasant.

Li Yuan looked at Liu Zhenghui in surprise, but he really couldn't imagine that Liu Zhenghui would stand up and impeach Chen Ying at this time.

Don't look at Liu Zhenghui's impassivity on the surface, but he smiled bitterly in his heart.

He was helpless, and he couldn't help it. At the beginning, Liu Zhenghui himself was born in the Zheng family, including his attachment to Li Yuan, they were all chess pieces supported by the Zheng family in Xingyang, and now the Zheng family in Xingyang has made a move against Chen Ying, he is helpless, he knows the energy of the Zheng family in Xingyang, don't look at him as the secretary of the criminal department, it is too easy for Xingyang to deal with him, first they will make their reputation stink, and then let him be ruined and have nothing.

In this case, he had no choice but to compromise with the Zheng family in Xingyang. Of course, Liu Zhenghui also has some expectations, and there are some rumors in the Hidden Palace, and Chen Ying is not liked by Li Yuan.

Liu Zhenghui continued: "Collusion with Dou Jiande, internal communication with foreign enemies, three beheadings. The party is attached to the minister, and the party is engaged in private gain, and the four should be beheaded. Accept bribes, sell official positions, and behead them. The arson is a bandit, and the lives of people are disregarded, and they should be beheaded six times. The crime of the ministers, don't bully the king, and the seven should be beheaded. Bullying the gentry, seizing the people for personal use, and beheading. Stealing and selling armor weapons, aiding and abusive, and being beheaded. Kill Liang Na rebel, falsely report his war exploits, and be beheaded. Slowing down military aircraft and acting recklessly. Eleven should be beheaded.

Li Yuan really couldn't listen to it, if it weren't for the fact that he read An Xing's secret report and almost believed Liu Zhenghui's words, but it was clear that Chen Ying had offended the Zheng family in Xingyang, because of a million yuan of money, at this time, he didn't believe a word of Chen Ying's incriminating evidence that Liu Zhenghui said. Li Yuan bluffed and shouted, "Enough, enough......"

Liu Zhenghui continued: "Your Majesty has finished the performance, if you want to kill or scrape, the minister will never complain. ”

Li Yuan didn't speak, just made a "hum" sound from his nose, and the meaning of dissatisfaction was very obvious.

Liu Zhenghui continued: "With Yang in mind, Yin is not a minister, and twelve should be beheaded."

Li Yuan was slightly stunned and turned around.

The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs was dumbfounded. Although many of them would be happy to see Chen Ying plant a big somersault, but now besides Chen Ying, who can save Li Shimin and turn the tide? Besides, Chen Ying's twelve cardinal sins are too appalling!

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

"The minister seconded the ......"

In less than a single pillar of incense, more than 100 ministers seconded the proposal.

However, Li Yuan also found that among these ministers, bigwigs like Chen Shuda, Pei Lian, Feng Deyi, Xiao Yu, Yu Wenhua, and Gao Shilian did not express their positions.

Li Yuan looked at Liu Zhenghui coldly, without a trace of emotion in his eyes. It's like looking at a dead person.

Li Yuan was dissatisfied with Chen Ying, and he was also afraid at the beginning. However, Chen Ying was born in the gate valve, and the bigger the gate valve, the less likely he would rebel, and even if he rebelled, there would be signs. Hou Mo Chen's family has long been under Li Yuan's surveillance, Hou Mo Chen Qian will not move, Lingnan Hou Mo Chen Xu has not moved, Xihe Hou Mo Chen Yong has not moved, to say that Chen Yingyin is not a minister and intends to rebel, Li Yuan does not believe it at all.

Li Yuan had already determined that Chen Ying was the concubine of Princess Pingyang, and at this time, as an old buddy, Liu Zhenghui actually stood up and stabbed Chen Ying, which made Li Yuan very dissatisfied.

Li Yuan looked at Pei Lin and asked, "Pei Qing, what do you think?" ”

Pei Lin said without hesitation: "What nonsense! ”

Pei Lin knows Li Yuan's personality very well, if Li Yuan really wants to deal with Chen Ying, he must communicate with him in advance, but Li Yuan does not, but Liu Zhenghui will stand up, then there is only one possibility, that is, Liu Zhenghui will make his own opinion.

Li Yuan looked at Liu Zhenghui and sighed: "Liu Zhenghui, you are guilty!" ”

Liu Zhenghui didn't say a word, he was not a fool, looking at Li Yuan's attitude, the attitude of covering up Chen Ying was too obvious, if he couldn't see the direction of the wind clearly, then he would have lived in vain all these years. Liu Zhenghui slowly knelt down, took off his soft foot, and gently put it in the palm of his hand: "The minister is guilty, the minister is guilty of negligence!" ”

Li Yuan was very angry at this time, he was angry that Liu Zhenghui was his old subordinate, just eating his food and working for others, this feeling of betrayal made Li Yuan very annoyed, Zheng supported Wang Shichong and supported Wang Shichong with a lot of resources, this is undoubted, but Liu Zhenghui also spoke for Zheng and was ready to borrow his own hand to execute the minister he relied on. This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that Xingyang Zheng is insulting his IQ, how could he Li Yuan fall for such a simple truth and do things that are painful to relatives and fast to enemies?

Li Yuan's long-suppressed anger suddenly erupted like magma, out of control, and shouted with red eyes: "Come on, the decree, Liu Zheng will have no eyes on the king, bite the minister, the crime is unforgivable, and the order is ...... Dali Temple interrogation! ”

Li Yuan's residual anger did not subside, he stretched out his hand to point at the officials who seconded the proposal, and shouted: "All of them are dismissed...... Investigate! ”

In fact, Xingyang Zheng's thing was too impatient this time, if he waited for a while and then impeached Chen Ying, it would have a little effect, after all, Chen Ying was not a worry-free master, he offended not only Xingyang Zheng's family this time, but also Qinghe Cui's family.

But Zheng couldn't wait.

Of course, this is also related to Xingyang Zheng's worry about having many dreams at night, after all, this time, Chen Ying slapped Zheng in the face, which was too loud.

They also received rumors that Chen Ying was about to become the concubine of Princess Pingyang, so after becoming a concubine, as long as he did not rebel, other crimes would not kill Chen Ying at all.

It's just that they don't know that Chen Ying's letter is like a thunderous blow from the Zheng clan in Xingyang, eliminating the invisible.