Zhou An naturally did not allow Lu Lian to directly change the topic.

Lu Lian looked at Zhou An, his eyes became sinister, and the wrinkled skin on his face was shaking.

There are not many ministers who can stand safely in the court at the age of 70 in the whole of Donggan. Lu Lian's qualifications are older than Wu Xukuan. He has seen all kinds of storms and waves. The current situation will not really make him panic.

"Master!" Lu Lian suddenly bypassed Zhou An, stepped forward and raised his robe and knelt down, "The words of the embarrassing Kang Longji just now are a little inaccurate. Although it is not the original intention of the empress, the empress did not dare to submit the empress to the empress, but he did not expect that there was a mistake. However, the empress was the censor, but he made such a big mistake. The empress was willing to be punished!"

"However... I would like to ask the emperor to ask Zhou An before he sued the minister. The emperor asked Zhou An. The life and death of the minister was small, the country and the country were in great trouble. The rebellion of the Baijiang army all arose because of Zhou An... Please ask the emperor to ask the emperor to ask!"

Lu Lian also made a sacrifice!

Admit your mistakes on your own initiative!

However, this is also his cleverness, because if he does not admit it on his own initiative, the charge will be to spread the word and bewitch the emperor and slander the ministers. This crime can kill the nine clans at most!

Now he took the initiative to admit his mistakes, had a very good attitude, and he also looked like he was for the country and the people.

His affairs can be made small. At most, he can be determined to be a fault that is unclear, and it is not even considered a crime. Moreover, he is old and he is a censor himself. This... dismissal of him is the most reasonable way to deal with it.

However, Lu Lian's words were not for self-protection.

If he just took the initiative to admit his mistake and was protecting himself, but he still wanted to argue with Zhou An, this means that he did not give up and he was still doing things for Wu Xukuan.

"Sir, Lord Lu is old and sometimes confused, so I ask the Lord to forgive me." Zhang Yuwu, Minister of War, came out and said.

"The Lord, Lord Lu has been an official for decades, devoted himself to the court and the country, and was honest and dedicated to the public. The situation has not been verified this time, and it is not his intention..."

"Sir, I think it's better to make clear the memorial in advance. This matter is a major matter. Lord Lu's fault can be put aside later."

After Zhang Yuwu was listed as Lu Lian, he spoke, and several ministers were listed as him.

Of course they are all Wu Xukuan's people.

They are not only protecting Lu Lian, but also helping Lu Lian put pressure on the empress and force the empress to agree.

The empress could disagree and could directly do Lu Lian, but she did this to protect Zhou An unreasonably.

The empress is in a dilemma.

Because she must protect Zhou An, the importance of Zhou An in her heart is far beyond the imagination of civil and military officials in the court, but unreasonable protection is a blow to her reputation. It may be like something if it is spread. But if she does not protect Zhou An, she is worried that Zhou An will be heartbroken.

So she was in a dilemma.

"The Lord, I think it's better to explain the matter of the memorial first, and it's necessary to explain it clearly after all."

Someone spoke for Lu Lian again.

It turned out to be Zhou An!

Lu Lianming turned around and looked at Zhou An, a little surprised.

Zhou An glanced at him, raised his eyebrows, and looked at the empress again. He didn't want to make the empress embarrassed. Moreover, he didn't think the empress should protect him in this matter, because this matter had been brought up. Even without Lu Lian, others could jump out to question Zhou An and impeach Zhou An.

For the others, Zhou An was not prepared.

He is prepared for Lu Lian, so he is not afraid of being criticized by Lu Lian.

Since Zhou An said so, the empress naturally would not object.

"Go ahead." The empress said this. She learned this oral language from Kanglongi, and Kanglongi likes to say it.

"Zhou An!" Lu Lian stood up instantly, took two steps quickly to Zhou An, and shouted loudly: "You dismissed the memorial, regardless of the soldiers' suffering from cold and hunger, and directly rejected the memorial, prompting Bai Jiangjun to rebel helplessly. This matter is all your sins, what else do you have to say?"

"Is that a memorandum reasonable? It costs one million taels to repair the Baijiang Army camp?" Zhou An retorted repeatedly, "It does not cost one million taels to rebuild a large camp!"

"It doesn't cost a million taels to repair the military camps, but it was already cold winter more than a month ago... and in recent years, natural disasters and man-made disasters have continued, prices have soared. Even a small iron nail is several times more expensive than in previous years..."

"That won't cost a million taels, right?"

"Why can't you use it? You entered the palace when you were young. How can you know the prices in the world? Why do you say you can't use it?"

Zhou An and Lu Lian started a verbal battle.

The two of them had their own opinions and refuted each other, from the cost of building a house to the issue of food and grass in the Chuanhe Army, then they redirected the issue of Baijiang Army repairing the barracks... After all, it was Baijiang Army's rebellion, and the focus was on Baijiang Army.

All the civil and military officials in the court watched the two of them squirted.

In this way, half an hour passed and before the spray was finished, Lu Lian had enough firepower, because as long as Zhou An was willing to argue with him, Zhou An would suffer the loss. The more Zhou An explained, the more he could not explain it. Although the numbers in the memorial were reported several times higher, many of them were difficult to verify.

For example, how much does it cost to repair the Baijiang Army Camp?

The Baijiang Army camp was destroyed that night of mutiny and could no longer be investigated. The Baijiang Army soldiers who had the right to speak had also rebelled. It was Wu Xukuan's people and it was impossible for him to testify to Zhou An.

Of course, there is the most important point!

That is, the Baijiang Army camp does not need to be repaired at all, and the Baijiang Army soldiers are not short of food and clothing. Zhou An cannot prove this and can only admit that they are indeed suffering from cold and hunger.

Zhou An acknowledged that Bai Jiangjun was froze and hungry, and he personally admitted that he did not approve the money. Then no matter how much he argued, it was useless. It was not a problem at all, but that he didn't give a single tael of silver!

Therefore, Lu Lian has always been very confident.

Zhou An seemed very stupid. No matter how much he said, he was so powerless in the eyes of some discerning people.

For example, Wu Xukuan, he was already a little confused about Zhou An, and felt that he had looked up to Zhou An in the past... If Wu Xukuan was Zhou An, if he had been, he would have pointed directly at the core of the problem. Are the soldiers of Baijiang Army really getting cold and hungry? Or are they Wei Juxiong falsely reported?

But Zhou An never mentioned it.

Zhou An seemed to be less smart all of a sudden.

What they didn't know was that Zhou An was just delaying the time. The original plan was not like this. He shouldn't have appeared so early, but Lu Lian played this trick too hard and had a big pitfall, so he almost buried the empress, so he had to jump out in advance.

In this way, time is a little unsuitable.

So, he needs to delay time.

In fact, Zhou An was still a little anxious, but he didn't show it.

"Okay! I will think that what you said is right for the time being. Then I asked you, why don’t you approve one tael of silver? Do you think it’s too much? Is this a question? Is it not possible to approve three million taels? Why don’t you approve one tael of rice? Let the 400,000 Zhongzhou soldiers be frozen and hungry, what are your intentions?!" Lu Lian shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Because..." Zhou An had just spoken, and his eyes suddenly drifted and stopped.

Because he saw that outside the main hall gate, a figure was quietly poking his head out from the door and looking at him.

Only Zhou An, Empress, and Kanglongi could see the situation at the gate of the Gansheng Temple, but no one else could see it because he was facing his back.

The person sneaking at the door was a small pavilion.

Zhou An saw the pavilion.

Xiaotingzi nodded to Zhou An and gestured a very unique gesture. He pinched his thumb and index finger tips together, pinched it into a circle, and raised the other three fingers up. This was what Zhou An taught him.

Zhou An finally felt relieved.

When he made the final arrangement yesterday, he ordered Tang Hongfei to search Lu Lian with the Jinyiwei after Lu Lian went to court today. However, Lu Lian could not know that his home had been searched.

Now that Xiaoting came to report the news, it means that he had already brought the Dongchang and Jinyiwei people into the palace with the sign given by Zhou An, so they naturally brought Lu Lian’s evidence of his crime!

"Why don't you say anything? Explain it!" Lu Lian suddenly shouted loudly again, because Zhou An seemed to be stopped, and after saying "because", he stopped talking.
Chapter completed!