Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

The debate in the political hall was just a small episode in this huge shock. Compared with the mere thousand cavalry that Hei Te Changzhi and Cui Hongdu took away, Pei Judao had countless troubles in front of him, and the biggest one was How to deal with the strange organization created by Wang Wenzuo?

"Liu Shilang! This transfer envoy is supposed to be a subordinate of your household department. I asked you to recommend someone to replace the Japanese man, but you can't come up with it? What's the point of this?"

"It really can't be taken out!" Liu Peiji spread his hands and looked helpless: "Your Excellency, you may not be too clear about what the transshipment envoy has been doing for more than a year. Let's put it this way, it was transported from Henan every year two years ago. The maximum amount of grain brought into Guanzhong was only about 200,000 shi, but since the transfer envoy was established, it increased to 420,000 shi that year. The next year, this year, it has only been more than ten months since then. Almost 900,000 shi of grain were brought in. The wars in Longyou against Tubo and in the north against the Turkic rebels all depended on the grain brought in, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of mouths in Chang'an City. If it were another person , let alone the decrease in the number of grain transported into the canal, even if the rate of increase is slower, it will be out of control. The lower officials have humble official positions and really cannot bear this responsibility!"

"What do you mean, Minister Liu? Do you mean that the Tang Dynasty can't live without that Yiji Lianbode?" Pei Judao sneered.

"It is indeed inseparable, at least for the time being!" Liu Peiji replied: "Shizhong Pei, I wonder if you understand. Since the establishment of this transshipment envoy, Caoliang's grain transportation has doubled every year. This is not for nothing. Repairing canals, building new waterwheels, four-wheel carriages; workshops for repairing and building ships and carriages, workshops for making parts, and many other things are all done by Igilianbod. If you change it at will As a new person, unless he is a genius, how can he understand so many things at once? So many things affect the whole body. For example, if the waterway is silted up, the ships will be blocked and the transportation volume will be greatly reduced; With a boatman’s salary——”

"Okay, okay! I understand what you mean! I just won't change people! Stop talking!" Pei Judao was given a splitting headache by Liu Peiji's words. He quickly waved his hand to interrupt the other person's complaint: "Do as you wish. I mean, I don’t want to change people, but I can’t just let the Japanese control the country and rush forward. Let’s do this! You select a few capable officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs to serve as his deputies, follow the example, and strive for two I can take over his duties within a few months. Also, since this transporter is so important, how can it be managed by just one person? Isn’t it like letting him threaten the country?"

"Shizhong Pei, there's no way around it. When we first built the transfer envoy, no one knew whether it could be done. Things like water steamers, four-wheeled carriages, and river cleaning were all done tentatively. If we divided them into four or five people, they would be in charge. , then it’s too late to push each other, how can we get things done? As for what you said about selecting capable officials to serve as Igilian Bod’s deputy, you should select people after the official returns, but within two months the time is a bit short. I’m afraid it won’t work!”

"How long do you want?"

"Half a year!" Liu Peiji held out six fingers: "At least half a year, otherwise the water transportation matter is of great importance. If there is a slight mistake, it will affect the war in Longyou, and I can't afford it!"

"Okay, half a year is half a year. I'll give you half a year to find someone to replace Yiji Lianbode!" Pei Judao almost broke his teeth before suppressing the desire to spit on Liu Peiji's face.

"I obey!" Liu Peiji seemed to feel that Pei Judao's anger had reached the limit, so he answered quite readily. He bowed and turned around to leave. When he went out, he heard the sound of objects falling to the ground behind him. It was obvious that Pei Judao couldn't hold it in any longer and swept the things on the desk to the ground to vent his anger.

"Pei Judao, Pei Judao, you obviously only have one pot of wine, but you still want to drink two pots of wine. Aren't you asking for trouble for yourself?" Liu Peiji shook his head: "This is just the beginning. You will suffer a lot from now on." Of!"

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Shaanzhou, the transfer ambassador's office.

"Your Majesty is seriously ill and is recuperating, and King Pei is supervising the country? How could this happen?" Yiji Lianbode looked at Murong Parrot dumbfounded: "Is this true?"

"It's absolutely true!" Murong Miao said: "Cui Hongdu was promoted and secretly demoted early yesterday morning, and his military power was relieved. Now that the military power of the North Gate Forbidden Army has changed hands, there must be changes in the palace!"

"Then, what can we do? Damn it, the general is not in Chang'an!" Igilian Bod said with a bitter smile.

"If the general was in Chang'an, how could these things happen?" Murong Mu thought to himself, but said: "Let's not talk about this now. Let's discuss how to deal with it first."

"Well, the first thing is to naturally send an envoy to Fan Yang to report what happened in Chang'an to the general!" Yiji Lianbod said.

"Yes, it's best to send a few more envoys and let them set off from different roads at a distance. Maybe someone will intercept them on the way. In this way, at least one or two will deliver the letter to the general!"

"Yes, that's what we should do!" Ijilianbod quickly summoned the documents, dictated the documents and asked him to copy more than ten copies, and then selected his confidants and set off on horseback. After finishing their work, Yiji Lianbo Decai and Murong Mu returned to the study and began to renegotiate how to deal with it.

"Pei Judao will probably send someone to replace me!" Yiji Lianbod said: "Or I will order a fire to burn all the grain stored in the warehouse and the waterwheels parked on the dock. By the way, there will also be repairs. The shipyards, workshops, and gates will also be burned down, and the rest will be left to Pei Judao!"

"Wait a minute, wait a minute!" Murong Miao hurriedly shouted to stop Yiji Lianbode: "This is no small matter. You burned down the grain water steamer, the ship repair yard, the lock gate, and the workshop. What will happen to Chang'an? What will happen to Longyou? "

"How do I know what to do? Isn't it King Pei who supervises the country? Then let King Pei worry about it!" Ijilianbode sneered: "The general asked me to serve the emperor, but he didn't ask me to serve King Pei. . Anyway, if this fire continues, it will be good if the grain that can be transported to Chang'an every month in the next three to five months can exceed six to seven thousand dan, and these bastards will starve to death!"

"Less than six or seven thousand dan in a month? Isn't it only 80,000 dan in a year?" Murong Miao made a rough calculation and couldn't help being shocked: "This amount of food is not even enough to eat in Chang'an City. It is absolutely unacceptable. ! If you do this to Longyou, it will all be over. The Tubo people will probably have to kill them at the gate of Chang'an!" "Hey, now you know how powerful our transshipment envoys are!" Yiji Lianbod smiled and said, "I'd better go for more. It’s mentioned here! You have to know that the grain shipped to Chang’an must be transported to Shaanzhou for storage first, and then hit the water ship to be transported to Chang’an. If the grain in the Shaanzhou warehouse is burned and the ship and dock are destroyed, it will be a big blow. I'm afraid not even a grain of rice can be transported out in a month or two, and I don't know how long it will take to recover later. By the way, it would be best to destroy Mrs. Gao's workshop, so that the hinges in the warehouse It’s gone. If you want to rebuild it, you have to find new craftsmen to imitate it. Every half a year, the court can’t build a new water steamer. It can only use old-fashioned sailing boats or rowing boats and let them slowly pull it up the Yellow River!”

Seeing the gloating expression on Igilian Bode's face, Murong Miao looked helpless. Although they were both Wang Wenzuo's partisans, there were still subtle differences between his and Igilian Bode's positions. Although Murong Miao, who had been a military attaché of the Tang Dynasty for generations and was a native of Chang'an, also took refuge with Wang Wenzuo, he still did not want the entire northwest of the Tang Dynasty and the people of Chang'an to be buried with Pei Judao and King Pei; but Yiji Lianbode didn't care at all, he A Japanese official in the Tang Dynasty relied entirely on Wang Wenzuo's recommendation and Li Hong's kindness; for him, as long as he could win, he didn't care what happened to the northwest of the Tang Dynasty. Anyway, Li Xian and Pei Judao would definitely win after they came to power. Without his own good fruit to eat, if Chang'an is occupied by Tubo, it won't hurt him a hair. The most he can do is follow Wang Wenzuo and fight back.

"Brother Yiji, it's better to reconsider the matter of setting fire to the warehouse!" Murong Miao tried his best to advise: "I think if General Wang was here, he wouldn't do such a thing, injuring himself eight hundred times and killing the enemy. It’s a matter of a thousand, right?”

"Injuring yourself by eight hundred and killing a thousand enemies is better than just injuring eight hundred by us. They won't lose a single soldier, okay?" Ijilianbod sneered: "You have to know that these transporters are all If the great general's hard work falls into the hands of Pei Judao, he will definitely use it against the great general. For example, if you transport troops and food, you are merciful now, but they will not. By then, they will regret it! "

"This -" Murong Miao was stopped by the question. Just when he was thinking about how to persuade Yiji Lianbode, the guard's voice suddenly came from outside.

"General Cui and General Black Teeth have arrived, bringing with them a group of cavalry!"

"That's great!" Murong Miao said happily: "I didn't expect the two of them to be able to bring out all those cavalry. Brother Yiji, let's go out to greet them!"

Murong Mu and Yiji Lianbode welcomed Cui Hongdu and Heijian Bode into the city. As soon as they sat down, Murong Mou told the two of Yiji Lianbode's plans. He hoped to get the support of these two people to stop Yiji Lianbode. crazy behavior. But what disappointed him was that Cui Hongdu, who was also from the Tang Dynasty, actually agreed.

"This is indeed a brilliant plan. Of course, Saburo didn't use the wrong person when he asked you to take charge of the transfer envoy! Hahaha, Pei Judao and King Pei thought they had a plan, but they didn't expect that Saburo had a back-up here! This matter has been done long ago It’s not too late, give the order to take action!”

The dumbfounded Murong Mu hurriedly stopped him: "General Cui, this is no joke. Once water transportation is cut off, no matter whether Chang'an will have no food to eat, even Longyou will be affected. If the Tubo people take the opportunity to come in, you I am a sinner of the Tang Dynasty!"

"You damn sinner!" Cui Hongdu sneered: "Why didn't King Pei and Pei Judao think about the consequences when they did these things? They were only allowed to be in the first grade of junior high school, and we were not allowed to be in the fifteenth grade? What a joke, Brother Murong, This is the kindness of a woman. You must know that if you win, you will not be a sinner, but if you lose, you will be a sinner. So what if the Tubo people invade Chang'an? Sanlang will just take us and drive the Tubo people out. Anyway, as long as we win, won’t it be up to us to write whatever is written in the history books?”

"Then, what do you think, Brother Hei Te?" Murong Miao looked at Hei Te Changzhi in despair. Although he felt that Hei Te Changzhi, a Baekje general, would not care about the life and death of the Chang'an people, he still had to Asked him a question, the four people present were already outnumbered two to one. I just hope that Hei Te Chang's conscience would find out!

"I don't think there's any need to rush to set fire to the warehouse!" Hei Te Changzhi said: "After all, we have a thousand cavalry here. It would only be a matter of a blink of an eye to set fire to the ship to burn food, and there is still time to run away. Why not try to fight with Chang'an? Let’s talk about it and see if we can both make concessions!”

"Talk? What to talk about?" Cui Hongdu asked in confusion.

"Let them hand over your majesty's son! They are also not allowed to send troops to Shaanxi Province!" Hei Te Chang said: "They agree to the conditions. We will not burn the granary and transport 20,000 shi of grain to Chang'an every month!"

"His Majesty's son?" Cui Hongdu was stunned. After thinking for a while, he asked: "You mean the son born by His Majesty and the palace maid?"

"Yes, that's it!" Black Teeth Changzhi said with a smile: "What the General lacks most now is his reputation. Although the child is still young and his mother is just a palace maid with a humble status, he is His Majesty's only heir anyway. With this, General, is he stronger than anything else?"

"I'm afraid Pei Judao won't agree to this, right?" Yiji Lianbod said with a bitter smile: "He is not a fool. He still doesn't know what it means for this child to be in the hands of the general? This may even harm the child!"

"Don't worry about this, if the child dies at this time, both of them would be covered in shit if it hadn't been for King Pei and Pei Judao!" Black Teeth Changzhi sneered: "Besides, we can make the noise louder and let Chang'an Everyone knows it. If they refuse, the fault lies with them. In the final analysis, the Cao grain is burned, there is no food in Longyou, and the Tibetan soldiers invade. What is unlucky is that the whole of Chang'an is Guanzhong. People in Chang'an may not care who The emperor will supervise the country, but everyone cares about whether there is food to eat and whether there will be military disasters!"

"Well, that's true!" Cui Hongdu nodded: "Brother Black Tooth, by doing this, you are pushing the problem to the side of Pei Judao and King Pei, making them the target of public criticism in Chang'an City. Okay, okay, okay! It will only take a month. Isn’t 20,000 stones of grain a little too little? It’s just enough to feed the city of Chang’an. I don’t think they will agree!”

"I deliberately told Shaoli the number of grains. Anyway, I will have to bargain later!" Hei Te Changzhi said with a smile: "Anyway, I can only eat half full, so as not to be too full and have too many ideas!"

"You have too many ideas after eating too much? Hahahahaha!" Cui Hongdu laughed when he heard this: "You are right, King Pei and Pei Judao did so many things because they were too full. Sanlang will do it for them After all the troubles have been dealt with, they stabbed them in the back, so they should be starved to know who is the white jade pillar of the Tang Dynasty, the purple golden beam that holds the sea!"