Bianliang, Chongzhengyuan.

"Do!" The thick palm slapped the table hard, and the teacup on the table suddenly lifted up, and the water overflowed, splashed on the black and old sandalwood table, slowly merged together, turning into a stream of water slowly flowing down the trough, landing, and drilling into the gaps in the bluestone slabs.

"Who gave Pang Ziyi so much power? He is so brave when he goes straight to Xuzhou!" The angry old man's cheekbones were high, his long eyebrows were lowered, and the beating flames in his eyes showed that his anger reached its peak at this time.

"My lord, maybe Ziyi is right before the opportunity to change his strength." Li He couldn't help but rub his cheeks.

It is not peaceful. Li He also had a complicated attitude towards Pang Yuan sending troops to Xuzhou without authorization.

Last year, he was promoted from a direct bachelor's degree in Chong Zhengyuan to a judge, and he has become the third person behind the envoy of the Chong Zhengyuan and the deputy envoy. To a large extent, it was a kind of praise for his support for Jiang Feng.

However, after being promoted to judge, Li He's attitude changed a little.

With Jiang Feng's conquest of cities and territory in Huainan, especially after capturing Shouzhou and taking the position of Huai Right Defensive Envoy from Chang'an, Li He's attitude towards Jiang Feng quickly reversed.

He proposed several times in the Chongzhengyuan that he wanted to find ways to curb the expansion of the Huaiyou power, and even proposed that he could consider reducing the pressure on Caizhou, releasing Caizhou's troops, and allowing the Yuan family of Caizhou to compete with Huaiyou.

The old man with a gloomy face glanced at Li He, suppressed his anger, calmed down his mood: "Shoushan, I know your thoughts, yes, Huaiyou's power has expanded too quickly, and I also feel uneasy. As you originally proposed, we can let Yuan fight against Huaiyou's prime minister, and we shouldn't come forward directly. You should know our current difficulties. The Zhengshi Hall will inevitably make trouble in front of the Liang King's Hall again, and it will be uneasy again."

Li He smiled bitterly in his heart. Could it be that Pang Yuan would be able to be peaceful if he didn't send troops to Xuzhou?

Without Pang Yuan's support, Shang Yunxi would definitely not be able to hold on and could only withdraw from Xuzhou completely. How valuable is his 20,000 soldiers withdrawing from Xuzhou?

Daliang does not lack troops, but what is lacking is an army that can play a role but does not require Daliang to pay. Shangyunxi has such a force.

But he also understood the huge pressure faced by Li Bin, the hospital envoy who had the same surname as him. The drought that began the previous year also brought great pressure to the entire Daliang, especially the severe drought from last year to this year, which made the entire Central Plains fall into a food shortage.

As the overlord of the Central Plains, Daliang certainly had considerable food savings, but even so he couldn't hold on. He had to sell grain to the south, towards Nanyang, towards Huaiyou, and towards Wu, which required consuming the already quite tight kuyin.

It can be said that at present, Daliang's financial resources have dropped to a very dangerous situation.

The Zhengshitang has written twice to request the reduction of troops and at least two-way troops, namely twenty troops and 50,000. Only in this way can we balance the huge deficit caused by the fiscal shortage next year, otherwise greater problems may arise next year.

But this request was naturally firmly opposed by Chong Zhengyuan. Even if the lawsuit is taken to the King of Liang, it is absolutely impossible to accept it. It can even be said that even if His Highness Liang supports and agrees with Chong Zhengyuan, the request cannot be implemented.

Today is different from the past. If it is necessary to force it, it may lead to a mutiny.

This is also why Li Bin was furious today.

Originally, the Zhengshi Hall had a lot of opinions on the huge consumption of Chongzhengyuan. Now the Tianxing Right Army has sent troops to Xuzhou without authorization. As we all know, Daliang has no power to capture Xuzhou at present. Even the huge pressure on the victims brought by the severe drought in Heshuo in the north can no longer bear it. How can there be any spare time to ask about other things?

However, Pang Yuan sent troops to Xuzhou without Chongzheng Yuan's permission, and undoubtedly wanted to ignite a fire core.

"The power of the situation changes? Shoushan, the power of this leading general is too great, right?" The thin man sitting on Li Bin's left said in a silence: "If everyone is like this, what do we need to do with Chongzhengyuan?"

This is Zhang Jizuo, the deputy envoy of Chongzheng Yuan, and the son of Zhang Quanyi. Zhang Quanyi was once the head of the Daliang Zhengshi Hall and also the deputy envoy of Chongzheng Yuan. Zhang Jizuo was also considered to be a son who inherited his father's business.

Zhang Jizuo's words left Li He speechless, but the other direct scholars present disagreed.

Nowadays, who doesn’t know that the generals of each army are already vaguely stubborn. Even His Highness King Liang dares to easily replace these leading generals, let alone the Chongzhengyuan people?

Of course, it was the first time that Pang Yuan, who sent troops to the foreign territory without reporting approval, was in Daliang. No wonder everyone in Chongzhengyuan was very angry.

"Deputy envoy also depends on the situation." Li He respected Li Bin, but Zhang Jizuo, who was similar to his status and was a little disliked, did not have such a good face. "Ziyi only sent two armies to go out. Even if Songzhou does not have these two armies, it is safe. The emergence of these two armies will definitely be of great help to the situation in Xuzhou. Shangyunxi urgently needs the support of our Daliang to gain a foothold and can also provide a great help for our Daliang to intervene in Xuzhou in the future."

"Dare to Xuzhou? Haha, Shoushan, you think too beautifully. Our Daliang really has the strength to intervene in Xuzhou. Look at the pressure in the north. I don't mean that there are people from Heshuo, a group of disaster victims are nothing. At most, there is more trouble in the local area. The gentry will pay some money and food. I mean that Huazhou and Huaizhou are on the front line!"

It is naturally an extraordinary person who can sit in the position of Deputy Envoy of Chongzheng Yuan, and he is as accurate and sharp as he looks at the problem.

"Although Hedong also suffered a drought, the Shatu people can replenish animal supplies on the grasslands in the northern desert. In addition, they are working everywhere to get grass and valleys, so it is not difficult to survive. Will they let such a good opportunity?"

Zhang Jizuo's words won the approval of several other direct bachelors.

The Hedong Iron Cavalry has begun to appear in the front-line border areas of Huaizhou and Huazhou. The news of the Zhifangfang also proved this. The Shatuo people became a little restless again. Perhaps they saw the huge opportunity faced by Heshuo in the Central Plains, which made them unable to hold back.

In addition to Huazhou and Huaizhou, in fact, Shatuo Iron Cavalry has also appeared frequently in Weizhou and Xiangzhou. The warnings from Weibo Jieduo have been sent to Chongzhengyuan, which has also put more pressure on Chongzhengyuan.

Moreover, the Shatuo people were very good at making a move to attack the east and the west, and used their cavalry's maneuverability to continuously drive changes in the defense line. Although it seemed on the surface that they were intending to attack from Huaizhou and Huazhou, it might be a feint, and it was unknown whether they were covering the Shaanxi and Henan Prefecture on the western front.

Although Daliang has a lot of troops now, once the consumption and supplies are mobilized, they can no longer hold on. All the adults of Chongzhengyuan know this.

Pang Yuan dispatched two armies to Xuzhou, of course, not out of morality, but must have made some plans.

Everyone in Chongzhengyuan also knows this.

The problem is that the situation in Xuzhou is too complicated, especially when it involves the current momentum of Huai Youjun, Chong Zhengyuan is even more worried about causing direct conflict between the two sides, especially when the situation in the north has also changed, which is even more worrying.

"My dear sirs, I actually think this matter can't be considered in another direction." Li He coughed gently and put forward his own point of view. He knew that if this continues, he would probably not be able to come up with a strategy until dark.

"Oh? Shoushan, you said." Although Li Bin was very angry about this, he was even more addicted to people like Zhang Jizuo who could only shout and vent their feelings but could not respond. So as soon as Li He spoke, he immediately gave encouragement.

"I was thinking that it was already a fact that our Daliang army entered Xuzhou. Jiang Feng is still fighting against Yao Chengtai in Qi County to the south, but there is no doubt that Lu Qiming should have secretly communicated with Jiang Feng. It is difficult for Shang Yunxi to dominate Xuzhou. Even with the support of Tianxing Right Army, we cannot get Tianxing Right Army involved. Tianxing Right Army cannot fight with Huai Right Army for Shang Yunxi, so I think we might as well consider taking the initiative to contact Huai Right Army, seeking a reasonable solution, and seeking certain benefits for our Daliang."

Everyone here is a very experienced character. When they hear it, they understand Li He's intention. Zhang Jizuo asked directly: "Is Shoushan's intention to give up Shangyunxi in exchange for profit? Well, this is a good idea."

After coughing again, Li He was a little embarrassed, but still said: "Give up Shangyunxi is not advisable. This will cause great damage to our image of Daliang in the surrounding vassals. However, it is not advisable to let us directly intervene or support Shangyunxi and Huaiyou's battle. So I think it is possible to let Shangyunxi retreat to Xiaoxian, so we can give it some support and allow it to exist in the form of relying on us? And Huaiyou's acquisition of Xuzhou, of course, needs to pay us a certain amount of remuneration, money, and grain."

It should be said that this opinion fully takes into account the needs of all parties, but it is a little aggrieved by Shang Yunxi. After working hard, it still went back to the past, and it was even worse than before. There was an army stationed in Xuzhou City, but now it has to withdraw. Isn’t this a loss of wife and soldiers?

But his strength is not as strong as others, and once Daliang is really sure, he can't help it.

"Xiao County is too close, I'm afraid Huaiyou won't agree." Li Bin pondered for a moment, "In addition, Shang Yunxi may not be able to accept this result. What if he surrendered to Huaiyou in anger?"
Chapter completed!