The Jin soldiers' changes in the delivery of Taiyuan were like a basin of cold water, pouring Zhao Huan from head to toe and the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. The huge disappointment finally calmed down Zhao Huan from extreme superstitious peace talks. He finally realized that peace talks were not very reliable.

"I always listened to you and gave the silver to the golden man. Now there is no three million taels of silver, but Taiyuan cannot come back. Who will bear this responsibility?"

Zhao Huan's roar echoed in the imperial study room, and the five prime ministers lowered their heads and said nothing. Zhao Huan became more and more angry as he spoke, and threw a stack of letters of help on the imperial case in front of them. "The army on Xihe Road is fighting fiercely with Xixia. It has not had the money to pay military salary for two months, and the same is true on Qinfeng Road. It has no money to build new weapons, and the situation is in danger, but you throw three million taels of silver into the water, and you still say that the Jin people can tell credit. When did the Jurchens talk about credit?"

All the prime ministers were speechless. In fact, the person who was the most active in promoting peace talks was Zhao Huan himself. He was also the one who urged to send the silver to Daming Mansion. Now that the Jin Kingdom changed its mind and refused to hand over Taiyuan City, he became anxious and pushed the responsibility to Zhizhengtang, which made everyone's faces look very ugly, but who dares to say that you ordered the bank to pay it yourself?

Zhao Huan was so angry that he was dizzy. He sat on the dragon chaise suddenly, slapped the table and shouted angrily: "What do you think you should do now?"

At this time, the Privy Councilor Sun Fu Zhan suggested tremblingly: "There is still 800,000 taels of silver in Zuozangku. Otherwise, if you can save 500,000 taels to Xihe, Qin Feng will serve as military expenses to solve the need there."

The six million taels of silver in Zuozangku were the capital of issuing Huizi. Due to the war, Huizi suspended the issuance, so the six million taels were used for his own use. Three million taels were used to redeem Taiyuan. It took two million taels to recruit new recruits, and two hundred thousand taels to pay the minister's salary. Now there are only eight hundred thousand taels left in Zuozangku.

In fact, Zhao Huan only shirked the responsibility and made a statement with the border army. He really asked him to pay the military expenses to the border army, and he couldn't bear to leave. He used this 800,000 taels to sacrifice to heaven and ancestral temples in May. He has been ascending the throne for nearly half a year and has not sacrificed to the ancestral temples and heaven and earth, which is not conducive to his consolidation of imperial power.

Bai Shizhong's suggestion, Zhao Huan was silent for a moment, Wu Min and Bai Shizhong exchanged a glance, Bai Shizhong stepped forward and said, "The silver from the south cannot be sent for a while, and the imperial court has many places to urgently use money. It is better to keep the 800,000 taels of silver in an urgent manner. The military expenses of the border army can be solved on the spot. Weichen suggested that the three of them be sealed off. Liu Wei and Fan Zhixu serve as transshipment officers at the same time, using local tax grains to supplement military expenses."

He Li shook her head and said, "The three armies have supported each other for more than half a year, using taxes, money and grain from the country. Now trade is cut off and commerce is withering. In addition, the population is sparse and the taxes are limited. The current crisis is because of insufficient taxes, which has a huge military expenditure gap. Bai Xianggong said that using taxes to solve it is actually meaningless."

At this time, Wu Min suggested: "Otherwise, the Kuyin from Bashu was removed from Guanzhong, which might solve the problem of insufficient military expenditure of the three Western Armys."

There are still 1.5 million taels of silver in the official treasury of Chengdu, which is also the capital to be used for issuing the Association, but the situation is critical now and there is no need to worry about the issuing the Association. This is also a solution.

Zhao Huan glanced at everyone and saw that everyone agreed. Zhao Huan made a quick decision and said, "Then let's solve the 500,000 taels of land first to solve the urgent need for the military expenditure of the Western Army."

To solve this problem, Zhao Huan's anger subsided a little, and he waved his hand to let everyone retreat.

After coming out of the imperial study room, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and walked down the steps. Seeing that there was no one around, He Li said to Sun Fu: "This time the lesson is profound! We all rely on the nature of the official family. In the end, something happened, but the official family hit us with a stern slap, making us suffer."

Sun Fu nodded, "We do have a responsibility. We will promptly dissuade the officials from being angry. It is because we are dereliction of duty. When Li Yanqing resigned, he once told me that the Jin people would play all kinds of tricks and would never hand over Taiyuan City to us. Now he is indeed hit by his words. What I am worried about now is his second prophecy."

"What prophecy?"

Sun Fu said word by word: "The Jin soldiers tore up the agreement and start a large-scale attack on Tokyo again."

He Li was stunned and said for a while: "Will this happen?"

"If Wanyan Xie wasn't too stupid, he would definitely do this."

Sun Fu sighed, "After becoming a defensive envoy, I realized that it was not easy to be the head of the country. We were almost completely defeated in combat preparations. Once the Jin soldiers attacked in large numbers, what should we use to resist?"

He Li was a little anxious and hurriedly said, "If this is the case, we must immediately persuade the officials and dispatch troops from all over the country to support the capital."

"The official has already realized that something is wrong. He summoned Li Yanqing urgently yesterday, probably for this."

"But I didn't see Li Yanqing entering the palace?"

"I heard that he went to the south bank of the Yellow River, and I guess he would be able to come back later."

At this time, a eunuch caught up from behind and shouted to the two of them from afar: "Please stay with your husband!"

Sun Fu and He Li stopped, and the eunuch ran forward and bowed: "Li Shaobao has returned to the capital. The official family asked the two ministers to discuss military and national affairs together."

Zhao Huan finally woke up a little. He eliminated the compromise faction from the military and national deliberations for the first time. Of course, this is not a military and national deliberation. It can only be considered a discussion on a very small scale. Zhao Huan knew in his heart that if he wanted Li Yanqing to say something useful, he could not let Bai Shizhong, Wu Min, and Li Bangyan appear, three Li Yanqing rivals.

"Why did the Jin soldiers want to attack the capital again? Weichen only had a little guess, but there was no evidence. Intuition told Weichen that now is the best opportunity to attack the capital, and Wanyan Xie would not seize this opportunity. Weichen didn't know." In the imperial study room, Li Yanqing calmly expressed his thoughts.

Zhao Huan walked a few steps behind his hands, then turned around and asked, "Even if Li Aiqing's assumption is true, how should I deal with it?"

Li Yanqing glanced at Sun Fu. Sun Fu is now the Tokyo Defense Commander, so he should answer this question, and he can't interfere with it.

When Zhao Huan saw Li Yanqing looking at Sun Fu, he was slightly stunned. Then he remembered Sun Fu's identity and nodded, "Sun Gong said first, please ask Li Shaobao to add to the shortcomings."

Sun Fu took out a memorial from his arms and presented it to Zhao Huan, "This is a report written by Weichen. It has not been officially copied yet, but it has been written. Your Majesty can take a look first."

Zhao Huan took the note and put it on the table, "Grandmaster Sun should just talk about it briefly first! Let Li Shaobao and He listen together."

"Then I will say a few simple words."

Sun Fu sorted out his thoughts a little and said without rushing, "Weichen suggested that there are two points, one is to internally, including redeploying defensive weapons to the city, and recruiting a large number of militia groups in the city. At present, there are only 20,000 troops in the city. At least the troops guarding the city must be increased to about 100,000 so that the capital can be safe."

He Li next to him couldn't help but interrupt Sun Fu, "But even if he recruited 80,000 militias, it would probably be unrealistic to rely on them to defend the city!"

"Mr. He Xianggong didn't understand what I mean. The militia was an extra one and had nothing to do with the 100,000 defenders. The second point I said was that General Dong and General Yao's army must be recalled immediately. These are 60,000 people, and then the 30,000 Jingzhao army stationed in Luoyang was called back. They were the main force in the anti-Jin period."

When Sun Fu talked about the 30,000 Jingzhao Army, Zhao Huan couldn't help but quickly glance at Li Yanqing, and saw that Li Yanqing's face was calm, as if it had nothing to do with him.

Sun Fu simply said his thoughts and turned his eyes to Li Yanqing again.

"Li Shaobao will make some more money!"

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "Mr. Sun has already said it all. I just added two things briefly, one for the preparation of money and grain. I don't know how much grain there is in Taicang and how much silver and money there is in Zuozangku. But I know that the last time the Jin soldiers siege the city, they were preparing for a long-term battle. However, General Wang Gui burned Liyang Cang and the horse materials were cut off, so they were forced to withdraw their troops. This time, the same should be true. At least one year of grain should be prepared in the capital."

Sun Fu was a little nervous and asked quickly: "How much food is the year?"

"You can simply calculate that a hundred thousand troops consume 50,000 stones of grain per month, which is six million stones a year. In addition to the people and the people, the annual grain storage should be about 10 million stones. For the need to boost morale, the deposit of the silver should be more than two million taels."

Sun Fu's face turned pale. Zhao Huanxin tugged for a moment and asked anxiously: "Grandpa Sun, how much grain is left in Taicang now?"

"About 3.5 million stones."

Li Yanqing's face suddenly became very ugly. Two months ago, he still had 10 million stones of food when he was guarding the city, so why did he lose so much at once?

After a while, Sun Fu hesitated: "The main reason is to recruit new recruits, I used two million stones of grain, and there was a severe drought in Huaibei and Xuzhou. In addition, in order to raise money, I bought two million stones of grain by the people, and I also consumed it normally, so the grain storage has been greatly reduced.

Zhao Huan said nothing. These grain expenditures were the suggestions of Bai Shizhong and Li Bangyan. Too much grain stored is prone to mold and rot. It is better to deal with it in time to reduce mold and rot losses. He also agreed with this plan of grain cutting, but now it has become a bitter fruit. They did not consider that the Jin soldiers would attack the capital for the second time.
Chapter completed!