In the Tai Chi Hall, Chen Kefu looked at the generals who were competing for battle and pondered without saying a word.

"Your Majesty, don't send troops."

Shangshu Zuo Pushe Fang Xuanling came out and bowed with a jade tablet. Yu Shinan, who served as the ceremonial officer in the hall, glanced at Fang Xuanling with dissatisfaction. Although Chen Kefu ascended the throne to the emperor, when discussing matters, these old subordinates of King Chen were still as casual as before. Everyone was arguing about it, but completely forgot the etiquette before the king. Yu Shinan was originally an old man from Nan Chen, and later served in the Sui Dynasty with his brother Yu Shiji. Yu Shiji flattered Yang Guang and was called one of the seven nobles in Luoyang. However, Yu Shinan was different from his brother, and he only served as a small position as a servant in the Sui Dynasty. Although he lived with his brother, he was willing to live a poor life when Yu Shiji was extravagant.

After Chen Ke returned to Luoyang, he kept remembering his reputation. Because of Yu Shinan's good calligraphy, he used him as the ritual officer in the palace.

Fang Xuanling didn't care that Yu Shinan was rude on the side and said, "Your Majesty, I think you can't send troops. Now that your Majesty has just ascended the throne, the Central Plains are in a new state, and there are all kinds of things to be done to restore production. At this time, it is the most urgent thing to do to restore production. Moreover, the war in Hedong is not over yet, and the soldiers have not been able to rest for years of war. It is not appropriate to get involved in the battle in Hanzhong at this time."

The Right Master Du Ruhui of Shangshu also immediately stepped out and said, "Before the troops move, food and grass will come first. If the imperial court wants to raise troops in Hanzhong, it must prepare food first. But now the imperial court cannot produce food. It is already June. Huainan, Shandong and Henan have just harvested summer, but due to the snow in April, the summer grain production in various places has been reduced by more than 40%. Now even the people in various places cannot fill their stomachs. The governor of the Henan Province, Shandong Province and Hebei Province have written a letter. It is said that due to the war in the three places, a large number of people have no rice to cook at home this summer. Now I ask the court to allow the prefectures and counties with severe famines to order the people to go out and take food to survive the famine. Now the Ministry of Revenue has not even been able to send out the rice from the prefectures and counties in various provinces. Now I have to send troops again. The court really cannot produce food. Please think twice."

Chen Kefu was also shocked when he heard that nearly half of the prefectures and counties in Hebei, Henan and Shandong had no food and had to go out for food. The so-called "going for food" is actually a relatively good statement. The real situation is that due to natural disasters and wars in various places, the people had no food to eat. The court could not provide food to help the people, so the court could only use the last move at this time.

That is to lift the ban and allow the people to go out to beg for free. This is not to go out to beg for one or two people, but to go out to beg for the whole county and government. People who go out to beg for the whole country are not ten or a hundred miles, or even hundreds or thousands of miles away. For example, Henan has just recovered, and the fields in various places are deserted, and the people in a province have basically had to go out to beg for the meal. Because Guanzhong, Jingxiang and other places have not yet been recovered, the people in Henan have to flow to the Huainan area.

Eating when going out sounds like a solution. But Chen Kefu understood that this is creating a large number of refugees. And such a large group of refugees is likely to cause people to gather as bandits or even directly rebel. What's more serious is that now people are asked to go out to beg for food, so no one will plant autumn grain. By the time of autumn and winter, the shortage of food will only be more serious.

This matter sounds like a dereliction of duty in the court, and the Secretariat and the Ministry of Revenue did not do it well. But in fact, Chen Kefu understood that these things could not be blamed for them at all. For several consecutive years, the court had been fighting. A large number of middle-aged men in Hebei and Liaodong and other places were drawn as soldiers, and many more were drawn to mine, manufacturing weapons and armor. Because of this, the court experienced a serious food shortage last year, and finally survived it.

The situation this year is obviously even more serious. In the first half of this year, the imperial court fought many sides, Hedong, Henan, Hebei, and Huainan, which can be said to be the most frequent year for military use. After half a year of battle, we finally won, but the remaining food and grass of the imperial court were almost used up. What's even more fatal is that in some areas that just recovered Henan, Huainan, even Hedong, Hebei, the imperial court suddenly added several provinces, one or two hundred counties, and millions of people. On the surface, this was a huge result.

But next, if the court wants to maintain stability in these places, it will have to let millions of people who are similar to those of refugees eat their fill. The court can conquer one or two hundred counties at once, but the court cannot plant a season of grain in a month or two. If there is no money or house, the people can still spend it, but if there is no food, they cannot survive.

Now the Secretariat and the Ministry of Revenue are already in a state of great trouble, and they are worried about how to convert food to produce food every day. If they don’t convert food to produce food, even if the people can go out and beg for food, the millions of troops in the court cannot be disbanded and beg for food.

In the war years, gold, silver and gems were useless things, and only food and cloth were what the court really needed. For officials from the Shangshu Province, what they needed at this time was not to increase their territory, but how to make food.

Li Jing, who was also a political and minister of the Ministry of War, was not very satisfied with the idea of ​​the Secretariat. In the eyes of soldiers like Li Jing, if the court had no food, it should be even more important to fight. If the court had no food, they would lead troops to rob them. The grain could not be planted at once, but robbed could be robbed at once.

"Your Majesty, I think that there is insufficient food, and it is not enough to save it alone. At the moment, if we do not send troops to participate in the battle in Hanzhong, it will be extremely unfavorable for us, whether it is Yu Wenhua or Shen Faxing to grab the Bahan and Mian Shu. At that time, the court will have to spend several times the price now and regain, and the other will grow and grow, adding variables. I think that today, all the places are suffering from wars for years, and all the places are poor. Only the four places in Liaodong, Huainan, Lingnan, and Shuzhong, but

It is a rare place to be peaceful. Liaodong is the rear of our court. In recent years, the imperial court's grain is all produced and supplied by its food. In the past two years, the town of fish and rice in Huainan has been quite calm. Lingnan is located in the southernmost part and has not suffered much war. However, because it is surrounded by mountains on all sides, it has never suffered any wars from the beginning of Daye to the present. It is a truly rich place. The land in Shu is fertile, with fertile rivers, forests, bamboos and woods, vegetables and fruits. Now the Central Plains have experienced many wars and famines in the Central Plains, but Shu is rich."

"Your Majesty, as long as we capture Bahan and seize Shu, then we can clear the food shortage of the imperial court."

After Li Jing's words, the generals of the pro-war faction were even more imposing and asked to send troops immediately. Even a well-established general like Luo Yi was slapped and said at this time that the court was short of food, so there was no problem. We don't need the court to prepare additional food. The court only needs to let the army bring food for one month, and the army will directly attack the enemy. In this way, it will not only rob the court of food, but also save the court's food and grass to supply the army.

Hearing this theory, Fang Xuanling frowned. The scholar met a soldier, and it was hard to explain it. It was very dangerous to go to war without food and grass. If one is not good, the entire army may be destroyed. If the army is not good, and the army is trapped by the enemy, what will happen then? Although he is not the one who leads the army, he also knows that no one will win in the war. If there is an accident, the court will not even have the last time to recuperate.

Everyone knows that Sichuan is rich, but now Hanzhong has gathered 100,000 troops in Nanchen Chen Faxing, 50,000 troops in Shu, 80,000 troops in Yang Hao, and 50,000 troops in Yuwen Chengdu. A small Hanzhong has gathered 280,000 troops in a row, which is like a full eye. At this time, how can we ensure that the army sent by the court can attack Shuzhong in one fell swoop?

"Report to Your Majesty, Wuguan will report urgently!" While the ministers were arguing endlessly, another eunuch came outside the hall to report and sent another letter of emergency military information.

"Recite!" Chen Kefu directly asked the eunuch to recite. The content of the urgent report that followed the previous letter was to convey Yang Ming's letter of help. Yang Ming was attacked from three sides. In the critical situation, he finally asked Chen Ming for help. In the letter, Yang Ming made a very good gesture, calling Chen Kefu the Emperor of the Great Chen, and wanted to ask Chen Kefu for military support, and borrowing 100,000 stones of grain from the Chen Dynasty. In the letter, he claimed to be the Emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty, Yang Ming, and wrote a pen.

After hearing the news, everyone couldn't help but sigh that Yang Hing was so stubborn that he had reached this point and refused to surrender.

Cheng Yaojin held the tablet and slapped it in his hand, shouting: "Yang Yang Ming is really tough enough. He can't let go of his bad face when he reaches this point. He dares to call himself the Emperor of Sui. Emperor, please give a direct order. The dog Ming is now surrounded by three large armies and has cut off food and grass. This is the time of great chaos in the morale of the army. We just take this opportunity to immediately go out of Wu Pass and send troops to Hanzhong. Our horses are fast, and we can kill us in just one day and night. At that time, we will deal with Yang Ming first, and then we will take Hanzhong and then clean up Chen Faxing, Yuwen Chengdu, and Yang Hao's three families."

The atmosphere in the hall became intense again in an instant. The group of generals shouted to take the opportunity to send troops. Some shouted to destroy Yang Ming first, while others caught Shen Faxing off guard. Some even shouted to take the opportunity to attack Tongguan and take the lead in Guanzhong. Anyway, all the generals were shouting to send troops, and take the opportunity to expand their territory and regain the world.

Chen Kefu sat on the dragon throne, but said nothing. In fact, since he received the first emergency report, he had been staring at the sand table of the mountains and rivers piled up with jade under the Danban. After looking for a long time, Chen Kefu closed his eyes and pondered for a long time, then suddenly stood up and said aloud: "The Ministry of Revenue will prepare immediately, prepare 100,000 stones of grain from Hongnong Prefecture to deliver to Yang Ming, and prepare a batch of bows, arrows and gunpowder to deliver to them."

The ministers were shocked. Before Chen Kefu could speak out, Chen Kefu came out loud and said another word that surprised everyone.
Chapter completed!