In the Temple of Manna.

In Chang'an, the rulers of the two prefectures rushed to hear the edict.

The emperor had just changed into a Ming Huanggon dragon robe, and the staff in his hand had been replaced by a jade sword of the Son of Heaven.

When the Zaizhi saw that the emperor's face was very ugly, they couldn't help but chuckle.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have written a new poem today, and I would like to ask you Aiqing to comment on it and see how it goes."

The Zaifu looked at each other, and they didn't know which play the emperor was singing again.

"Listen to me."

"In the history of the Han family, the plan is to be friendly. The community is based on the Lord, and the safety is entrusted to the woman.

How can you look jade, and you will be quiet. Underground thousand-year-old bones, who is the assistant minister? ”

After the emperor's poem was read, the hall was extremely quiet.

In the hall, except for Wei Wensheng, the secretary of the Pingzhang Military Department, who is sitting in Wuwei, Hexi, the other political affairs halls, Pingzhangshi and the palace scholars of the Hanlin Academy are all there.

Eighteen prime ministers and bachelors, seventeen came, in addition to the Taifu, the privy envoy Zhang Xutuo, the prince Shaobao, the imperial historian Du Yan, and the Jingzhao Mansion Yin Changsun Wuji also came to the meeting by order.

The twenty people in the temple basically understood this poem.

Especially among the scholars of the Hallym Academy, which one is not a famous scholar today? And the prime ministers of the political affairs hall, such as Fang Xuanling, Du Ruxuan, Wei Zheng, etc., are also outstanding articles, and Du Yan, the imperial historian, is still a personal disciple of the great Confucian Wang Tong.

Wen Yanbo, a scholar of Hanyuandian University, even felt that this poem had been done very well, although it did not have the gorgeous rhetoric of palace style poems since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, but the poems stood upright, and the poetry was even more penetrating.

This poem of the emperor directly criticized the Han Dynasty's policy of harmony and proximity as the most clumsy policy, and said that the Jiangshan Society should rely on the wise emperor, not on women. Trying to resolve the conflict with the Hu people through beauty and beauty is a futile act and a self-deception.

The ministers of the Han Dynasty who advocated peace had already become white bones, and none of them could be praised by future generations.

Everyone understands that the emperor urgently summoned everyone because of the fact that the Tibetan delegation entered Chang'an to marry the princess.

"The prestige of the country is made, not by women." The emperor put his sword on the ground and made a deafening sound. "At the beginning of the founding of the country, I set up a national motto, not to be in harmony with relatives, but why are you just a few years later, and you have left my precepts behind you as the wind in your ears?"

There was silence in the temple.

For a long time, it was still Chen Shuda who came out of the ranks.

"Your Majesty, this year's war originated from a wrong move by Tang Jian's envoy Tuyuhun, which made my Great Qin fight a wrong war at the wrong time and in the wrong place. Now this war has been fought for several months, and the imperial court has mobilized 300,000 or 400,000 government soldiers, hundreds of thousands of county soldiers, millions of people, and tens of millions of dollars of money, food, and state funds spent. ”

"The treasury is empty, the soldiers are tired, the people are tired, it has come to a critical time, if the war is not ended, then this war may be my Great Qin's expedition to Liaodong."

As soon as the three words of Liaodong came out, the faces of all the deacons changed slightly.

Chen Shuda continued, "This war must be ended, and if we continue to fight, our Great Qin will collapse, the country has no money and grain for the army, no money and food to compensate, and the people are suffering from service, delaying the agricultural time and abandoning the fields, which is in danger." ”

"There are already signs of instability in the three feudatories in the south of the Yangtze River, and if the three feudatories rebel, the southeast will also be eroded, and the country will be no country at that time."

Silent.

Luo Chang sighed.

"What Chen Xiangguo said is also reasonable, not completely alarmist, but I still think that even if there is a truce, it is not a woman, and I will never send a woman."

Uncle Chen is a top cow.

"Does Your Majesty have a clever plan to surrender without a fight?"

He didn't quite understand why the emperor was so obsessed with discord, and Tubo just wanted to go down a step, they all made it clear that they didn't force the royal princess, as long as there was a princess title. It doesn't matter if the emperor marries a clan girl or a minister's daughter, or even a palace maid.

As long as this woman has the title of Princess Daqin, and then send it over to make peace, they will still send 5,000 taels of gold and 10,000 yaks, and withdraw their troops to relieve the siege of Dafeichuan.

"The Tubo people only need the name of a princess and a relative, but how can I, Daqin, give this title lightly? How can this be so easy to open? ”

"Your Majesty, state affairs are important." Chen Shuda admonished bitterly.

"It's true that state affairs are important, but I won't open my mouth. I replied to the Tubo people with only one sentence, if you want to stop the war, then immediately take the initiative to withdraw the troops to relieve the siege, withdraw from Tuyuhun, and from now on, you must not cross the border again, Tuyuhun is my internal affairs of Daqin, Tubo has no right to interfere and interfere, dare to stretch out your hand, you will be cut. ”

"Your Majesty, the temporary peace truce with Tubo will not damage the prestige of the country, please think twice." At this time, even Yu Zhining, a scholar at the university, also pleaded.

Luo Cheng shook his head, "I promised to make peace, and then, we will evacuate Tuyuhun and then give Tuyuhun to Tubo?" Even in the future, the Qiang Yi of the Western Mountains will only have Tubo in their eyes and no longer have my Great Qin, if Tubo is allowed to enter Tuyuhun, in the future, I will no longer be safe in the west of the Great Qin River, and even the land of the Western Regions will be difficult to fight. ”

"I have ordered Qin Qiong's army to counterattack on all fronts, defeat Murong Ke, and go south to Dafeichuan."

"Your Majesty, think twice!"

Nearly half of the prime ministers and scholars were persuading the emperor not to act rashly.

If the war cannot be won quickly, the army of the heir may be completely wiped out, and Great Qin may also collapse as a result.

"No, no, the Western Turks have been attacked to their soft underbelly, and now the Khan has successively transferred his Western Turkic army into Tuyuhun, and now the Western Turkic army in Tuyuhun is less than 30,000, less than one of the three at the beginning, even these 30,000 have no fighting spirit, they are more worried about our army attacking its lair in the Western Regions, and they are all thinking about how to retreat and return."

"Murong Ke's 100,000 Tuyuhun army, nearly half of them are rabble, in a decisive battle near Qinghai Lake, they are not the opponent of Qin Qiongwei Chi Gong's army at all, the balance of war has tilted towards us, victory is just around the corner, at this time, say a truce and stop the war, then all the previous efforts will be wasted."

"I believe that the heir can still hold on, and I also believe that Wei Chigong and Lai Cheng will be able to defeat Murong Ke."

The decisive point of the war has arrived, and at such a time to give up and accept the conditions of Tibet, that is, to be undefeated and defeated.

"The edict decrees that the whole world shall be exempted from all the two taxes and grain for this year, and that if the land of the people of all provinces is delayed due to support the war, it may be recorded by the imperial court and compensated later. If there are people in Zhudao counties who are short of grain, the local government can open warehouses and release grain before reporting. ”

Even if he fights this battle and the vitality of the imperial court is exhausted, Luo Cheng must fight for the result.

And he believes that victory is already in sight.