Zhenguan Chang'an Xiaofangzheng

Chapter 207 Who Has the Courage to Slay Himself?

The censor, Shi Wei, walked over and looked at Ma Zhou indifferently.

They are both governing books and serving the censor, Wei Li is on the left, and Ma Zhou is on the right. Although the ranks are the same, the power is slightly different.

Wei Chou is actually in charge of Ma Zhou, but Ma Zhou has divine favor.

"Ma Yushi's words, Fan Yushi don't pay attention to it, the matter of Yushitai, the doctor Yushi is on the top, and I, Wei Li, is the gatekeeper. If you are not sure, you can't touch this proposition."

Wei Lu lightly dismissed Ma Zhou's words.

Ma Zhou's shoulders shrugged even more, and there seemed to be dark flames flickering in his eyes: "Wei Yushi, I'm just discussing with Fan Yushi whether this matter is feasible. Discuss."

Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, the people from the Taiwan Institute quickly dealt with the two of them and dispersed, even Tang Lin shook his head and left.

Wei Li sat down slowly: "Before you entered Chang'an, you were alone, and you could be wild. Now that you have a family and a business, don't you think about your wife and children when you do things?"

Ma Zhou put the stopper on the gourd and said in a low voice, "Are you threatening me?"

"No, Chang'an Webster, there is no need to threaten anyone, because we are a threat." Wei Wei seemed to be joking. "You need to take care of your wife and children, and all colleagues need to take care of themselves."

"Excluding your idea of ​​letting Fan Zheng stand out, this censor will tell you another fact. Last year, the official office of Yushitai spent 850, [-], and [-] cash. Your idea is tantamount to getting help from your colleagues. As well as the meat on your own body, replace the Shiao cake in your mouth with coarse cake."

"Just ask you, how many people in this world have the courage to cut themselves with a knife when they can get by?"

Wei Chou's words were impeccable, and the three words "passable" made the emissaries of the Ministry of Internal Affairs choke speechless.

Ma Zhou nodded: "Understood, this censor should not have said it. Fan Yushi, I'm sorry."

Wei Ting lowered his voice: "Do you think you are the only one who understands the court? The previous repetitions were also because the ministers wanted to get rid of the accumulated evils, but in the end they had to continue. It was nothing more than a change in the method."

"Because of you, if the official chef can't handle it, believe it or not, even the humblest palm guard wants to show his fangs at you?"

Ma Zhou crossed his hands in silence.

Fan Zheng said suddenly: "The core of this problem is to keep the extravagant expenses of each government from loss, and at the same time, we can't let the history of seizing money continue."

The two censors who were in charge of the scriptures rolled their eyes at the same time.

Nonsense, isn't it that you can't have your cake and eat it too?
To put it bluntly, there is no money.

The internal money had made huge sacrifices back then, and the ministers were ashamed to ask the eldest grandson empress for help.

The money from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the food from the Sinong Temple, in addition to maintaining the operation of the court and providing relief, are more important to prepare for war!

The shame of Weishui has been revealed, but don't relax your vigilance!
The soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty should rule the world and be invincible in the universe!
"To put it bluntly, it's because of lack of money."

High welfare is a guarantee for officials to work hard, but it is also a burden that the Ministry of Civil Affairs cannot bear.

Therefore, it is inevitable to exchange some rights and official positions for these benefits.

"The matter of money is nothing more than four words: increase income and reduce expenditure. Most officials are unwilling to reduce expenditure, including lower officials, and they are not willing to eat Ding Ding soup cakes for every meal because there is no meat."

"Open source is very important. After four years of Zhenguan, Datang is proud and proud, and he has made a lot of profits by attacking other countries, but it is not enough to make up for the shortfall of public money."

"There is nothing wrong with the direction. The fault is that those countries are too poor and the people are too lazy."

Fan Zheng found that he had mastered the skill of "pointing a deer into a horse".

Yes, the reason for being poor is laziness, haha!

Ma Zhou nodded silently, Wei Lai looked at Fan Zheng with great interest.

"In the early years of Zhenguan, the country of Wa sent Tang envoys to Chang'an?"

Fan Zheng was a little annoyed, he didn't know why, his sense of historical events was rather vague, he could roughly know what happened, but the time and specific process gradually became unclear.

Wei Wei said, "In November of the fifth year of Zhenguan, the Japanese sent envoys from the Tang Dynasty to Chang'an. The main envoys are: Inugami Santian, and the deputy envoys are: Pharmacist and Hui Ri."

Ma Zhou added: "Hui Ri was a monk studying abroad in the former dynasty of Wa Kingdom."

this phrase……

Indeed, there were many monks in Wa Kingdom who stayed and studied in the Central Plains for a long time, and the imperial court did not take much precaution against them.

Probably this is also one of the reasons why Suga Mazi insisted on accepting Buddhism in Japan, and even killed his brother-in-law Mobu Moriya.

Wei Teng added: "Gao Biaoren, governor of Xinzhou, oh, the son of the former prime minister Gao Jiong (Dugu Jiong), has always had a strong temper. He was ordered to send the Japanese to appease him. Because he was fighting with the Japanese king, he returned without an edict."

Normally, the emperor sent him on an envoy, probably because he liked his temper.

If you send a soft-tempered envoy, I'm afraid you won't lose the court's face.

"They started from the west coast of the Wa country, passed through Tsushima Island, entered Baekje for supplies, arrived at Laizhou along the Bohai Sea shared by Baekje and Datang, and then entered Chang'an by land."

Fan Zheng opened his mouth and made a few random gestures on the table, roughly letting the two superiors understand the route.

Wei Chou snorted in his nostrils: "Their return is almost the original journey, but after arriving in Japan, they traveled eastward along the coast to Nanbajin."

Fan Zheng responded: "The Japanese are very self-confident and speak big words to others, so that Tang can't figure out their details."

"However, the land of several states is divided into more than fifty Fang Kingdoms. Their imperial court does not have enough authority, and they are just trying to lure the Fang Kingdoms to follow them."

"Northeast of Tsushima Island, Ishimifang Kingdom of the Wa Kingdom has silver mountains, which can solve the Tang Dynasty's lack of money."

The words stopped abruptly, but Fan Zheng saw that Wei Lai and Ma Zhou's eyes were red and their noses were breathing heavily.

Ma Zhou asked eagerly, "Can it be excavated for a hundred years?"

Fan Zheng chuckled: "With the current mining capacity, it doesn't matter if it lasts for a thousand years."

Wei Li trembled.

This is good news.

Great news today!

Knowing that Wei Qu will be held, make preparations early. When the imperial court eats the big head, if you show a little between your fingers, it will be enough for Wei Qu to eat for several generations!
That is to say, Gao Biaoren and the sailor who escorted him knew the route to the country of Wa, and there was almost no difficulty. Who could not be enthusiastic!

Fan Zheng had a bucket of cold water on his face: "It's not that easy. Wa country can enter Baekje for supplies because they are allies. Even the monks that Wa country first introduced were donated by Baekje."

Without the foreign aid of the Wa Kingdom, Baekje would have been annexed by the once aggressive Silla.

Wei Chou and Ma Zhou woke up.

Without Baekje as a transit point, the navy's large ships would not be able to cope with the ocean, and it would be difficult to support a voyage of three or four thousand miles.

Oh, not to mention three or four thousand miles, even Liuqiu, which can be obtained after five days of water travel, was conquered by Chen Leng in the Sui Dynasty, didn't he also have the eyes of the Tang Dynasty?
It is easy to beat time and difficult to keep time. Datang's ships and sailing ability are not enough to support the needs of ruling flow.

How to subdue Baekje is a difficult problem.

(End of this chapter)