Disastrous year!Before the whole family is wiped out, a little blessing falls from the sky!

Zhao Qiong was unhappy after hearing this, and raised her hand to drink a glass of wine, feeling even more dissatisfied!

"It would be nice if he kept a concubine, how much money would he spend! But he is raising tens of thousands of border guards! Today the court will not provide military rations, and he wants money to buy food and send it! Tomorrow the border guards will not have any weapons, he I need to organize an ordnance department at home! In the future, the border guards will have no cotton clothes to survive the winter, and they will need money to buy cotton...

"Our family is not a bank, so we can only sell our land! With such a stupid father, I have been unlucky for eight lifetimes!"

The other few friends were quite amused and began to scold him.

"So, your father is a bit stupid. How can he use his own money to raise troops for the imperial court!"

"The imperial court is so wicked. It expects the border guards to protect the border. Why doesn't it provide food and weapons?"

"Yes, I heard that it would cost 3 taels of silver to renovate the palace. How come there is no money when we get to the border guard army!"

They talked happily, and because they were drunk, they criticized the court more and more unscrupulously, but they didn't know that walls have ears.

There was a group of merchants sitting in the room to the left of this box, a mixed group of more than 20 people. At this moment, they all listened carefully with their ears pricked up.

The box on the right was occupied by a dozen petty officials, all of whom were colleagues in the Hubu Yamen, and they also gathered for a drink because of someone's birthday...

It didn't matter that Chen Qiong complained a few times, but dozens of people knew that the imperial court treated the border guards harshly. The general used his own money to raise money by selling land and barely ensured that the border guards had enough food and clothing...

There is no shortage of talkative people in this world. After the banquet was over, rumors started to spread in Kyoto within two days.

"Hey, have you heard? The imperial court is so wicked. It expects the border guards to guard the border, but it doesn't give them food and jackets and trousers. The general is forced to sell his property!"

A woman carrying a basket to buy groceries met a fellow villager, and when they chatted together, they began to talk mysteriously.

The fellow countryman nodded quickly and responded in a low voice, "Of course I know, fear of trouble has spread all over Kyoto! Our master is a public official, old-fashioned and upright, and he even went so far as to impeach the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War, but we were When the lady stopped her, the master had a quarrel with her!"

"Your masters are so courageous!" The grocery store woman was full of admiration, and then quietly said around her, "Let me tell you, those masters in the court, including the emperor, are all smart. How could they not know that the general is selling off his household supplies to support the border guards? Army? That’s right, pretending to be deaf and dumb to take advantage, whoever gets the advantage will be happy! After all, the general pays for the money, and the court does not have to pay for it. The emperor has money to go south to patrol, and money to build a palace! "

"Yes, yes, that's the truth. If it were me, I would pretend to be blind!"

"Haha, don't take advantage of me, you bastard!"

The two women were chatting in a lively manner, and the rest of the people were also busy. The vegetable sellers, the bun sellers, the pig butchers, the people serving food in the restaurants, the people eating, and the people drinking tea in the teahouses, almost everyone was talking.

Naturally, most people feel sorry for the border guards and generals.

If you want a horse to run, you must feed it. This is a truth that even fools understand.

But the imperial court has been riding the horse of the border guards for many years and is still unwilling to let the horse eat grass. This is really unreasonable. It is shameful for such a huge country!

But some people gritted their teeth in anger, complaining that this matter appeared on the tip of the people's tongue and undermined the prestige of the court and the emperor!

So, at a court meeting one day, officials from the Ministry of Revenue came forward to sue the general for slandering the Ministry of Revenue, causing some people who didn't know the truth to secretly throw rotten vegetable leaves at the gate of the government office!
The complaining official was also a showman. He knelt on the ground and cried with tears and runny nose. He was extremely aggrieved.

"Your Majesty, there have been constant natural and man-made disasters in the past few years. Our yamen is really out of money. It's not about guarding the border troops harshly. We just want peace outside the border and no foreign enemies are invading. It won't delay anything if the army rations are delayed for a few days. How can I think of the general? His grievances are so great that he even hesitates to spread rumors and disrupt Kyoto to take revenge!" After that, he didn't wait for the emperor to speak, and shouted angrily, "Also, the people kept saying that the emperor took the soldiers of the border guards. He used his military rations and money to build a palace, just for his own enjoyment!
Your Majesty, please listen, is this what the people should say? Someone has taught them!This is why the general is dissatisfied with you! "

The emperor on the dragon throne is not too old, but his body has been emptied of wine and sex, and the black and blue bags under his eyes tell it all.

He slammed the table and cursed, "How brave is Zhao Anbang? I thought he was loyal and trusted him, but I didn't expect him to be such a treacherous person!"

After all, there are still loyal old ministers who can't bear to see a good general being framed, so they come out to help mediate.

"Your Majesty, it's just a rumor in the market. We can't seriously say that General Zhao has disloyal intentions. We still need to investigate carefully before making a conclusion."

Immediately, some people came out to refute, and some people spoke up for the old minister. For a while, the noise in the court was like a busy city.

In the end, the emperor was tired of it and lacked energy. He directly issued an order to go to the border to reprimand the border guards. At the same time, the general's office closed the door to reflect on his mistakes and discussed the rest!

The general's wife was sitting in the room discussing with her eldest son and daughter-in-law, and she didn't even look good.

"Zhi'er, please ask, are the rumors spreading from the West Mansion?" The general's wife clenched the handkerchief in her hand, thinking about going to the West Mansion to seek an explanation.

But Zhao Zhi shook his head slightly, with a bit of weirdness and disappointment in his expression, and whispered, "Mom, it's not Xifu who is causing trouble this time, it's..."

"What is it?" the general's wife asked.

Jiang didn't want her husband to be in trouble and responded first, "Mom, I heard that the cause of the incident was... my second brother was drinking with a group of friends. He said a few words and was overheard by outsiders, so the news spread more and more!"

"Pah!" Sure enough, the general's wife was so angry that she threw the tea bowl, "That beast!"

It's not that she doesn't feel aggrieved for her husband. The border guards guard the border for the Wei Dynasty, but it is their Zhao family who raises the border guards. How unfair!

But it has been a few years since the incident, and my husband plans to lead the border guards to farm to get rid of the problem of food shortage. Naturally, there will be no need for money from the government in the future.

It happened that at such a critical time, things broke out. No matter how the court reacted, the border gates must always be paid attention to.

If the husband's arrangement goes wrong, the family will suffer a loss of money, and may even be wiped out!

The court and the emperor had never felt at ease with their family, otherwise they would not have been allowed to live near the palace, guarding and monitoring them!

Only the second idiot in the whole family thought it was an honor!

She always thought that the second child was still young and would naturally know about the difficult situation in the family when he grew up.

Unexpectedly, a fool will still be a fool when he grows up!
At this time, the idiot Zhao Qiong hurried in from outside, his face was extremely happy, and he shouted, "Mom, someone from the palace has come to convey the decree! Did my father make meritorious service at the border?"

The general's wife and Zhao Zhi and his wife suddenly stood up, with uncontrollable fear and panic in their eyes.

It's over, the court's counterattack has arrived! (End of chapter)