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The next day, before dawn, Liu Jing stood up and went to Weiyang Palace. On the third day of returning to Chang'an, there were too many government affairs that needed to be dealt with. Although the wartime decentralization system was implemented to the maximum power and handed over to Pingzhangtai, even so, a large number of important matters were still accumulated.

Liu Jing's carriage drove into Weiyang Palace under the escort of hundreds of cavalry. Liu Jing got off the carriage and came to him. He had been away from the official room for a year and had a huge change in Chang'an. On the contrary, any changes in the official room seemed to have just left last night.

It was already three months before the weather was getting warmer. The fire brazier in the official room was spotless and there was no turbid air. Liu Jing opened the window and burst into a fresh morning breeze.

At this time, Ruo's feelings turned around and saw Xu Shu appearing at the door Liu Jing couldn't help but laugh, "Does Yuan Zhi come here so early every day?"

"Down every day."

Xu Shu slowly walked into the room and smiled: "I guess he will come this morning, so I went out a little early, so I did it!"

"sit down!"

Liu Jing asked Xu Shu to sit down and smiled: "I guess when you come back, everyone will complain to you about a battle between Hefei and has exhausted all your family."

"In the later stage, the food was very tight, and the autumn harvest was relieved. The key was relieved. The Huns sent millions of cattle and sheep to save them. The urgent need was for the delivery of cattle and mutton to the front line in the later stage. Your Highness should feel it deeply!"

"Of course I deeply feel that eating mutton cooked mutton every day after September, roasted mutton, and roasted mutton are eaten in a variety of ways. Now I am afraid when I see mutton."

At this time, the two of them laughed and the boy came in and served tea to them. Liu Jing took a sip of tea and said, "I've read the report on the Huns on Pingzhangtai and felt worried. The two Xianbei people and the East and West Xianbei have united. Once they are united, they will become the overlord of the grassland. The Huns will be destroyed. It will become inevitable that the Xianbei people will sooner or later become the biggest threat to the Central Plains."

"Your Highness wants to support the Huns against the Xianbei?"

"I thought about it this way, but I always feel that I cannot put myself in safely on another nomadic nation, of course, letting the two tigers fight and kill each other is not bad, but in the final analysis, I have to rely on myself to possess strong force to control the grassland nomadic nations, and not allow any family to grow up."

Xu Shu was silent for a moment: "But if there is enough population and financial resources, it may be difficult to maintain a strong military force."

"Well, this battle in Hefei only has more than 100,000 troops and a year of war, almost exhausted all our financial resources and hundreds of thousands of people. The war was simply unable to afford it. The nomadic people were all soldiers and supported the war. It was easy to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people to move south. If they had enough troops, they had to rely on powerful weapons to vigorously develop weapons such as bee crossbows, tinder oil and heavy armored infantry to deal with nomadic peoples. Only 20,000 to 30,000 troops could defeat hundreds of thousands of nomadic people."

When the two of them arrived, Liu Jing turned the question and asked: "Have you heard about Pingzhang Platform in Hexi?"

"We know that Ma Chao is beyond his authority to interfere with the appointment and removal of local officials, and that Ma Chao is unauthorized to collect heavy taxes from merchants in Suzhou. In addition, the Qiang and Di people in Hexi should send their territory to Chang'an in January, but this year is still being sent. (The fastest update is most stable)"

At this point, Xu Shu sighed, "We originally planned to send people to question Ma Chao, but considering the tense war in Hefei, we endured it and could not send it. We could only reduce taxes on merchants from the Western Regions in Chang'an to make up for our losses. Your Highness is afraid that the situation in Hexi is not very good!"

Liu Jing knew that Xu Shu had to point out that Ma Chao wanted to rebel directly, but everyone understood that the matter in Hexi had to be resolved.

Liu Jing pondered for a moment and said to the guards standing at the door: "Go and ask about the other ministers."

The guard hurried away for a moment and came back to report, "Your Highnesses are all here."

Liu Jing immediately said to Xu Shu: "Let's go to the meeting hall to discuss this matter in detail."

Everyone in the meeting hall was full of years and Gao Yinmo also arrived for more than a year to discuss the meeting with everyone Liu Jing was quite touched and smiled at everyone: "First of all, I would like to thank you for your sincere teachings and change. This is thanks to everyone Liu Jing's gratitude!"

Liu Jing stood up and bowed to everyone, and everyone waved their hands quickly, but did not dare to accept Dong He even said bluntly: "Your Highness is willing to give it to you, so it is more important to trust you. We all hope that the young master can become a lord in the future, and we should fulfill our responsibilities as ministers."

Everyone agreed with Dong He and Jiang Wan laughed: "Young master is kind and simple by nature. You have long discovered that when you read the certificates from all over the country, you will be particularly concerned about the people's livelihood and the people's conditions. You will definitely become a kind king. This is a blessing for the whole world!"

"It's too early to see it!"

Liu Jing no longer mentioned his son's matter and led the question to the Hexi incident to everyone: "Everyone is afraid that he still has no deep understanding of the situation in Hexi. He has received a secret report from Ma Dai. Ma Chao has promoted thirteen Qiang and Di generals to control the military power. In addition, the Hexi army has increased to 30,000 of which 20,000 of which the Han army is only 10,000. It is mainly deployed in Wuwei and Dunhuang. At the end of the previous year, we knew that the chaos in Hexi was inevitable. As long as the Hefei battle was deployed, we had to compromise with Ma Chao. But now the end of the Hefei battle has ended and restored the order in Hexi has become a reality. Now I want to know how much financial and material resources do we have to allow troops to pacify the battle in Hexi?"

The meeting hall was silent for a long time, Jiang Wanxian: "If your highness wants to attack Hexi with all his might, of course they support it, but we must also tell His Highness the truth in the warehouse. At present, the 130,000 stone of grain in the Chang'an official warehouse was originally more than 300,000 stones, but because last year, they borrowed grain from the people and returned it to the warehouse, they were all returned. The food in the Chang'an inventory is definitely not enough, but we can transfer Hanzhong and Yizhou official grain. Wealthy ministers estimate that the final inventory of grain can reach about 400,000 stones, but it will take some time."

Liu Jing laughed: "You guys think too seriously. This is not too much. The battle of Hefei. The army will send up 50,000 troops at most. It will not take too long. It is estimated that 100,000 stones of food will be enough. There are also many cattle and sheep in stock. It is also worried that there is no problem of food and grass. If the Hexi officials and Han people have rebelled, they will suffer first, so they must be transferred out first."

"Does Your Highness want the Hexi Han people to move to Guanzhong?" Sima Yi asked.

"No! Guanzhong has a heavy burden. Before and after they were placed in Lingzhou, the Tao family reclaimed 100,000 hectares of land in Lingzhou. Now the Tao family has handed over the 100,000 hectares of land to the government to settle 50,000 families. Not only that, the Tao family is also willing to donate 100,000 stones of grain and 200,000 pieces of cloth for excessive immigration. In this way, not only the Han people in Hexi, but also the fugitives in the Central Plains and Hebei can also be resettled. All the troubles that everyone is already upset."

Everyone looked at each other and couldn't help but be overjoyed. Last year, Hebei and the Central Plains suffered famines one after another, and the serious impact of the Hefei battle caused a large number of hungry people to pour into Guanzhong and Jingxiang. Hundreds of thousands of hungry people needed a large amount of food and supplies to bring heavy burdens to the Han Dynasty, which made the Secretary of Pingzhangtai miserable.

Now Liu Jing is serving the Tao family to make the land unearthed, the Tao family is willing to donate grain and cloth. This undoubtedly solved the most troublesome thing for everyone, which made everyone feel relieved: "The Tao family is so generous and the blessing of Your Highness!"

Liu Jing smiled slightly: "Tao Sheng told the cloth and grain to be transported to Guanzhong in Bashu, but it is not easy to transport it to Guanzhong, but it is not necessary to transport it to Chengdu for military expenditure. Then we opened the Chang'an treasury to resettle hungry people. In addition, we need to arrange a large number of personnel to go to Lingzhou to assist Tao Zheng in resettlement of immigrants. It is difficult to complete this important task with Lingzhou government alone. Many and trivial things are very important. I hope everyone will worry about how to arrange the preliminary matters together and then the Han army can send troops to Hexi."

Everyone nodded silently and Sima Yi stood up: "Please rest assured that Pingzhangtai has rich experience in resettlement. The meeting will be arranged one by one. However, I would like to remind Your Highness to send heavy troops to defend the Great Dou Bagu in time to prevent the Qiang people from joining Hexi and Hehuang."

Sima Yi's sentence reminded Liu Jing that if Ma Chao really rebelled in Hexi, he would inevitably send troops to capture the Great Doubagu. At that time, not only the Hexi crisis, but also Hehuang and Longxi would be seriously threatened to defend the dangerous pass first. Liu Jing nodded: "Thanks to Sima Shangshu reminding him that he really thought of this."

After discussing the matter in Hexi with the Secretary Liu Jing returned to his official room and just arrived at the gate of the courtyard, a Shu Zuo rushed up to report: "General Pang is here and asks to see Your Highness!"

Liu Jing was slightly stunned. Pang De actually came. He originally planned to send someone to invite Pang De. After all, if Ma Chao rebelled, would Pang De respond? Although Liu Jing knew Pang De's loyal and righteous person, the problem had to be considered. Now that Pang De came, he would make a clear statement!

Thinking of this, Liu Jing asked, "Where is now?"

As soon as Yin Luo, Pang De walked out of the yard and knelt down on one knee and held his fist high: "I am here to apologize to Your Highness!"

Liu Jing quickly helped up, "Why did General Pang say this?"

"Your Highness"

Before Liu Jing could finish, he waved his hand and interrupted, "There is no place here!"

Liu Jing took Pang De into the official room and let the guards sit down and then sat opposite him and asked softly: "!What happened?"

Pang De took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Liu Jing: "Ma Chao sent someone to send a secret letter to Beizhi yesterday to hope to lead the cavalry to Hexi to revive Xiliang Beizhi!"

"Could General Pang agree?"

"If I promised to be a man, I wouldn't have come to see Your Highness today."

"What's the crime?"

Pang De hesitated and shed tears: "As early as last spring, he sent someone to suggest that he had asked him to find a way to go to Hexi. Although he was clear, he guessed that he was only indifferent for a while. He was confused. This matter was hidden until yesterday. I realized that he had prepared a lot of money, grain and weapons in Hexi. He was in control of the military power. If you told Your Highness last year, you would not have become a major problem today."

Liu Jing smiled faintly: "General Pang doesn't have to blame himself, in fact, he has known about the danger today. Zilong came to Juyanhai and found out the clue. As long as he launched the Hefei battle, he could only pretend not to know anything. Ren's actions last night, Ma Dai sent Dunhuang master Li Lai to report secretly to Hexi for two or three months at most, he would be in chaos and prepare early."

Pang De received a little comfort in his heart, it turned out that His Highness had already known him and immediately stood up and folded his fists: "I am willing to wipe out the Hexi Rebellion for the Pioneer!"

Liu Jing stared for a while: "I know that General Lingming's loyal and righteous general will not betray him, and I am willing to believe that since Lingming took the initiative to ask Ling to lead the cavalry to defend the Great Fight Bagu."

Pang De suddenly understood the courage and great trust of the King of Han to make a decision and his great trust. He was extremely moved and his nose was sore. He knelt down and cried: "Thank you for your trust and humble duty to swore to the heavens that you would rather die than betray Your Highness!"
Chapter completed!