This warrior is so fierce

Chapter 419 Exchange
Right Prime Minister's Mansion, Yuwen Bi summoned late at night.

After Wang Xian's downfall, major events inside and outside the palace city were all in the hands of Yu Wenqi.

The new emperor came to the throne, and there were many things.

Yuwen Bi summoned the ministers to discuss matters, and what they were talking about was the intensified banditry in various states.

From the south to the north, there were bandits almost everywhere, among which the bandits in Xizhou, Youzhou, Liaozhou and other places were the most serious.

Yuwen Bi's Right Prime Minister's Mansion suddenly became the new political center of Shendu.

After receiving the notice, ministers from various ministries, ministers and other ministers who came in a hurry gathered.

Yuwen Bi sat in the first place, and most of the ministers below were silent, waiting for the right minister to speak.

"Left side!"

Not long after, Ouyang Zeng also came to the scene.

To everyone's surprise, Ouyang once wore a white mourning dress, and was still wearing hemp and mourning for the late emperor.

Compared with the brocade clothes and satins of everyone, this kind of dress seemed out of place.

Many people cursed Ouyang Zeng pretending in their hearts, and they were very disdainful.

After Yuwen Bi saw it, his expression was as usual, and he invited Ouyang Zeng to sit down.

Afterwards, civil servants began to discuss family and country affairs.

As for the latter, it is related to the important matter of suppressing bandits in various states.

"Suppressing bandits requires money and people. Now that the court is exhausted and the imperial army has to be reduced, the money is gone and there are not many people. How can we calm down the chaos in the world?"

It was Ding Hong, the current Minister of the Ministry of Households who spoke, who strongly opposed the reduction of the imperial army.

He was the one who shouted that the treasury had no money before, and now he is also the one who opposes the reduction of the number of forbidden troops.

Many ministers were confused by him, and they didn't know if there was any money in the treasury.

"I agree with Master Ding's words. If we don't have enough money, we can find a way to earn it. At worst, the families of the gods have a few days of hard work, and donate some to help the court to tide over the difficulties. But people are gone. If we want to train such an elite teacher in the future , cannot be achieved in the short term.”

Some people even agreed with Ding Hong's point of view and rushed forward with the Minister of the Ministry of Finance.

Seeing that he was from the Xiaohan family, the faces of many ministers present changed.

Is it appropriate to take money from the pockets of major families?

The reason why Shendu still has some stability now is because the major families follow the court, and many families are actually the families of court officials. Taking money from the family is equivalent to taking money from their pockets, which is not appropriate.

Someone immediately retorted: "No!"

"Now that the national treasury is tight, we rely on the big households in the coming year to pay taxes. If all the big households in Shendu City are disrupted, then Shendu City will be completely chaotic, and the gains will outweigh the losses, and it will be even worse."

This also sounds reasonable.

Both sides insisted on their own words, and suddenly the lobby was full of quarrels.

Ouyang once didn't speak, and Yuwen's brain ached when he heard it. He slapped the table and broke up the meaningless quarrel of the crowd: "Okay, don't worry about this matter for now."

Seeing that the right minister was angry, everyone quickly shut up and stopped talking.

Yu Wenyu continued: "To call you here today, we still need to discuss the banditry in each prefecture first. Now in Xizhou, Youzhou, Liaozhou and other places, there are big bandits attacking the city, disturbing the peace of the prefectures, what can we do?"

The number one thief in Xizhou is named Tao Mingwen. He has a very elegant name, but he does such a rebellious thing.

Since Tao Mingwen raised his troops, many rebels in Xizhou have responded. Tao Mingwen himself is known as the "General Soaring to the Sky", and he has set up government offices, which has swept Xizhou.

The big bandits in Liaozhou and Youzhou are actually the same group of people, but his active range spans the two states.

His name was Li Xingxi, and he also had tens of thousands of troops under his arm, across the land of the two prefectures, as if he wanted to overthrow the regime of the two prefectures. You and Liao prefectures were in constant distress and asked the court for help.

"Xizhou is because of repeated encounters with Qiang and demon disasters, causing the people to live in dire straits."

"Last year, floods and droughts occurred in Youzhou and Liaozhou. The wheat was only half harvested, and there were almost no crops in autumn. As a result, the people were killed and there was no place to complain."

Natural and man-made disasters caused turmoil in the frontier.

When Yuwen Bi told all these things, many ministers were very disturbed.

The empire is in decline, and the topic is too heavy.

However, I still feel somewhat lucky in my heart. These places are too far away from the gods. Even Xizhou is actually thousands of miles away from the gods.

And Youzhou is farther away, at least thousands of miles away.

Everyone was silent, waiting for Yuwen's arrangements and instructions.

After Yuwen Bi told the actual situation, he talked about the decree to cut down the imperial army.

"The Forbidden Army system in the Divine City is complicated, there are too many bureaucrats, too much vacancies, and the Divine City is stable. There is no need for so many Forbidden Army to guard it. It is imperative to reduce the number of Forbidden Army in the Divine Capital."

"All the reduced imperial troops will be sent to the states to suppress the rebellion."

"Among them, Xizhou, Youzhou and other places, where the banditry is serious, must be led by the court's heavy-duty general."

When Yuwen Bi said it word by word, it was as if he had done the job of a great general.

None of the ministers objected, and the scene was very silent.

In the end, Ouyang, who was still dressed in white, said, "Then according to the right minister, who is more suitable to lead the army?"

Yuwen Bi said: "General Cao Su of Pingxi, all under his command are elite cavalry. He came back from Xizhou to quell the chaos, so he can be the commander of Pingxi."

Yuwen Bi pointed out the name of a general.

Cao Su's name is relatively unfamiliar to everyone.

But a few people who had received calligraphy and paintings in the study of the late emperor immediately remembered the "preference" of the late emperor for this young general, and almost only by relying on a poem "showing loyalty", this general came into the sight of the late emperor Moreover, he is so young, if not for the death of the first emperor, he will definitely continue to climb up in the future.

All the courtiers think it is more appropriate for Yuwen to point out this person.

Because just before the Shendu chaos, Cao Su returned from Xizhou to suppress the rebellion, defeated the Yaozu, defeated the Qiang tribe, and wiped out a peasant uprising army, it should not be a big problem.

Moreover, this person is very loyal, and it would be best to go out to suppress the rebellion.

But after Yuwen Bi brought out this person, someone immediately opposed it.

A servant from the Ministry of Rites came out and said bluntly: "Cao Pingxi's ability is definitely not a problem, but this person comes from a humble background, how can he even take on a big job?"

"Furthermore, I heard that Cao Su has close ties with the noble gentry of Xizhou and the royal family of Beiliang. Is it inappropriate to go to Xizhou this time?"

The king of Beiliang had just fallen, and Wen Tianxiao, the heir of the king of Beiliang, was lowered to a first-class title according to the clan rules, and was made the Duke of Liang, and sent to Beiliang. Without the order of the emperor, he would never be allowed to step out of Beiliang.

Although it is still a royal family, after the title is lowered, the title of his heirs will be lower and lower in the future.

The question raised by the servant of the Ministry of Rites was very sharp, which immediately made many ministers feel very reasonable, and even Yuwen Bi frowned.

Originally, what he thought was that Cao Su was the best general candidate to pacify Xizhou.

He took a deep look at the servant: "Jiang Xin, in your opinion, who is the most suitable general to pacify Xizhou?"

Jiang Xin was not polite, and directly stated the candidate he recommended: "I recommend Zhu Ming, the general of Xiguan and the general of Zhendong. General Zhu was deeply trusted by the late emperor. Hehe, with outstanding ability, he is really a good general to pacify Xizhou."

Zhu Ming is even more low-key than Cao Su. When he was the captain of the middle base, he had some exchanges with many courtiers.

But this person has always been silent, only doing things in silence, the late emperor trusted him very much, and when he was dying, he was arranged to guard at Xiguan.

Yuwen Bi nodded: "Zhu Ming is also suitable, but if Zhu Ming wants to leave, he must take part of the forbidden army with him, otherwise it will not help my policy of reducing the army at all."

Yu Wenqi doesn't care who goes to quell the chaos.

He just happened to think of the innocent Cao Su. Now that there is a general who is not as qualified as Cao Su, it is also possible for another person to go to Xizhou to quell the chaos.

"What about Youzhou?"

It doesn't count that someone in Xizhou has calmed down, but someone in Youzhou should also go there.

The civil servants discussed the chaos in Youzhou thousands of miles away, and they felt that the journey was far away.

"Young people can endure hardships. Cao Su is from the south, and he happened to have never been to the north. Let him go to Youzhou to quell the chaos."

"In addition, he has a lot of cavalry under his command, and there are many plains in Youzhou, which are suitable for cavalry operations." The servant just now spoke again, and Jiang Xin from the Ministry of Rites had the face of transferring Cao Su to the wild frontier.

However, what he said was reasonable, and he even made an analysis from the perspective of the art of war, so that no one could speak against it.

Yuwen Bi also thinks it's okay. The big bandit in Youzhou and Liaozhou is said to be powerful and not weaker than the Wanping army back then.

The only thing he finds more troublesome now is how to persuade Cao Su?

Although Cao Su could be transferred directly by order, Yu Wenyu didn't want to be dictatorial, not to mention that Cao Su was a celebrity in front of the general.

Now there is a feeling that before the general wakes up, he hastily removed his wings secretly.

(End of this chapter)