Pei Jun quickly walked into Cui Xiaofu's court room under the guidance of the little eunuch. The room was very warm and exuded a faint fragrance of flowers. This court room was changed by the original Li family's imperial study room. It removed all the items that the Li family loved and replaced them with Cui Xiaofu's common personal decorations, especially a high-neck vase on the table with a bouquet of fragrant osmanthus flowers, showing the gentle side of the owner of the room.

Cui Xiaofu was reading a memorandum of the governor of Chenliu who rushed to deliver 800 miles, appealing to the court that Cui Qinggong, Huaibei, cut off the transportation of Jianghuai. Chenliu had not seen ships transporting money and grain for half a month.

This is an extremely serious incident. The Guanzhong area has a large population and more than 200,000 troops stationed. At the same time, the imperial court also had to allocate grain to provide disaster relief to various parts of the Tang Dynasty. The shortage of money and grain was huge, so it has been extremely dependent on the canal transportation for decades.

Cui Qinggong did not interfere with the canal transportation at the beginning of his occupation of Huaibei, but the incident of interrupting the canal transportation occurred after he wrote to the court for the third time last month to request the replacement of Wei Yan as Minister of War and was rejected.

Pei Jun has ordered Pei Mingyao to issue a notice to convene a cabinet meeting in this matter, and will hold a cabinet meeting tomorrow to discuss countermeasures. However, Pei Jun’s plan has been decided. The main purpose of his visit to Cui Xiaofu today is to discuss the plan in advance.

Pei Jun entered the house and gave a deep tribute, "My minister Pei Jun met with the Queen Mother!"

"Pei Xiangguo, please sit down!" Cui Xiaofu closed the memorial and sighed, "The Ai family didn't expect that Cui Qinggong would be so crazy. There was a tiger in Shu, but now there was a wolf in Jianghuai. It's time for me to be troubled again."

Pei Jun sat down and owed her body and said, "I have an idea about this matter and I am willing to discuss it with the Queen Mother."

Cui Xiaofu was a little surprised. She originally thought Pei Jun was coming for the gathering of the people outside the Zhuque Gate, but she didn't expect to discuss with her the interruption of the canal transportation. This was really rare. She suppressed her surprise and said without saying a word: "Prime Minister, please tell me!"

"I have already talked with Secretary Wei in the morning. He expressed his willingness to give up the position of Minister of War. The Empress Dowager can change him to the Minister of War. The Minister of War will be granted the Minister of War to Cui Qinggong. As for entering the cabinet, it is impossible. As compensation, I ask the Empress Dowager to grant him the Prince of Ruyang and appoint his son Cui Xiong as the Shaoqing of the Taipu Temple. I will order Secretary Lu to comfort him. The danger of the grain transportation should be solved."

After saying that, Pei Jun took out a copy and handed it to the eunuch, and the eunuch placed it on Cui Xiaofu's desk.

Cui Xiaofu stared at the Zhezi without saying a word. After a long time, she sighed slightly, "If you want the wind to give it to the wind, you want the rain to give it to the rain. If you want it to be so accommodating to him, I am afraid that his appetite will grow bigger and bigger. One day, you, my king and minister will act according to his eyes."

Pei Jun shook his head helplessly, "I know very well about this matter. Cui Qinggong cuts off the grain and is just a test move. We should show it as a weak person, be arrogant and eliminate it when the time is right."

Cui Xiaofu was obviously a little dissatisfied with Pei Jun's answer. He showed that he was weak and when the time was ripe, he was clearly perfunctory. If he showed that he was weak, he would become more rampant. When the time was ripe, he would have to wait until he would be honest when dealing with such a arrogant local warlord.

Although he was dissatisfied, Cui Xiaofu did not say it, but only smiled faintly: "I'm afraid Cui Qinggong was dissatisfied when he saw Zhu Tao joining the pavilion!"

Pei Jun saw the dissatisfaction in Cui Xiaofu's heart, and he pondered for a moment and said, "Actually, there is another reason that I have to temporarily stabilize Cui Qinggong."

Speaking of this, Pei Jun's face became extremely serious. He pointed to the direction of Zhuque Gate and said, "Everyone is cheering for Zhang Huan's troops to send troops to Hexi, but they don't know that Zhu Li has already stationed 200,000 troops in Jiangyou, and is afraid that he will launch a large-scale attack on Longyou soon."

"What!" Cui Xiaofu stood up suddenly, staring at Pei Jun and said, "Is this matter serious?"

"There should be no mistake." Pei Jun said in a deep voice: "It's not just Zhu Li, but I heard that Li Na from Hanzhong is also gathering troops."

Cui Xiaofu sat down dejectedly. She stared out the window blankly, and then asked for a while: "Zhu Li is a tiger and wolf man. If he was asked to occupy Longyou, he would probably not be far from the day he became emperor. Can't Pei Xiangguo be careless?"

"I have made two preparations. One is to send Zhu Li the news to Longyou. Zhang Huan still has 100,000 troops in Longyou. As long as it is well prepared, it may not be a loss. The other preparation is that I have ordered 150,000 Guanzhong troops to be on standby at any time. Once Longyou is unable to protect us, we will immediately send troops to support Longyou."

Although Pei Jun spoke with confidence, Cui Xiaofu always felt that something was wrong with these two plans. She pondered for a moment and found the reason. Since Pei Jun planned to support Longyou, he would just send troops directly to Longyou now, and there was no need to be too many. Ten or 20,000 people were enough to show the court's tough attitude and shock Zhu Li. But why did he wait until Longyou was unable to protect before taking action?
Chapter completed!