Emperor Yuanzong heard that the Zhenbei Army was unwilling to rescue him, which led to the fall of Pingliang Fort to this day.
Sure enough, he was furious and wanted to issue an edict to blame Zhao Yanjiao for his dereliction of duty.
This time, his decree was not carried out and was rejected by Xu Zheyuan, the Minister of War in the court.
He was a veteran who assisted the emperor in enthroning the throne. He was about to become an official and rarely went to court.
But today, these veterans have to come to the court meeting.
Things are different now than they were five years ago.
The last massacre in Ruijin Town involved thousands of people, public opinion was divided, and no one dared to speak for the Zhenbei Army.
But this time, Tang Ying blamed the Zhenbei Army for their slow rescue.
After all, Pingliang Fort was lost from the Xuanwei Army and needs to bear the main responsibility.
The Zhenbei Army was unable to rescue him. If the emperor wanted to punish him, he would have to put Tang Ying in jail first.
Changing generals on the spot has always been a taboo for military strategists. This is obviously not a good thing, and the emperor is not willing to do so.
While Xu Zheyuan raised objections, he also handed over the Zhenbei Army's request for military pay.
In five years, the Ministry of Revenue owed 800,000 taels of military pay, which was exactly the money the eldest princess needed to pay for her purification temple.
In the past few years, the northwest has been stable, but the central government felt that the Zhenbei Army was spending too much money.
In the report submitted to the Ministry of War, after a while, the Zhenbei Army was asked to reduce military expenditures.
For this reason, the Ministry of War not only transferred the crossbows and arrows that should be sent to the northwest to the southeast navy, but also only rationed 20,000 sets of thick winter coats and cotton-padded clothes.
Xu Zheyuan made an impassioned speech in the court: How can we fight without money? Do we want those soldiers to run naked in the ice and snow with bare hands?
The payment of the Zhenbei Army was delayed again and again at the Ministry of Household Affairs, and no one cared about it.
Moreover, the Broken Gold Guards of the Zhenbei Army have just made a meritorious service.
In the same small guardhouse, if one is robbed, it will be difficult to capture it without punishment.
A man killed a tribal leader and received dozens of heads without any reward.
Now we should not be punished, and we should not be rewarded. How will other generals accept this?
If it were an ordinary court meeting, the emperor could go down to the court with just a few words, but today there were so many people that it was impossible to leave the court.
The ministers below were boiling with excitement. Emperor Yuan Zong, who was already over fifty, looked ugly, with cold sweat on his forehead, and sat motionless.
He has been in power for many years and is no longer the weak emperor who first ascended the throne.
At that time, Emperor Yuan Zong was just an unpopular prince and had no chance of seizing the throne.
Fortunately, with the imperial sister inside to give advice and General Zhao Yanjiao charging into the battle outside, he was able to reach the top step by step.
In order to express his gratitude, he made Zhao Yanjiao's sister Yan Fei the queen and the prince he gave birth to the prince.
The imperial sister has the skill of following the dragon. No matter how extravagant she is, he always responds to her requests.
However, the queen was dull and taciturn, and although her appearance was dignified, she was far less beautiful than the other concubines in the palace.
The prince's character is good, but he is dull. He is not as stable and considerate as the eldest prince, and he is not as lively and agile as the younger princes.
Even though the Taifu persuaded him many times, the Prince has a gentle and mellow nature and is quite virtuous. Even if he has no merits or demerits in the future, he will still be a good monarch who protects the country.
He still wasn't happy.
People in the court said that he was too strict with the prince and would scold and scold him if he made any mistakes.
No one knows his own heart.
Every time I see those two faces, I will think of Zhao Yanjiao who behaved indifferently in front of me.
More than twenty years have passed, but the scene when Zhao Yanjiao forced himself to appoint Zhao Yanzhu as his queen due to the danger at the border is still vivid in his mind.
This is a great shame for an emperor.
Even though the Zhenbei Army is having a hard time now, they are trying to hide themselves in every possible way.
Zhao Yanjiao would not release his military power for one day, and the queen would not be abolished for one day. Emperor Yuan Zong had a hard time getting over this problem.
However, the ancestral law is stipulated: the queen cannot be deposed without fault, let alone the prince.
In addition to Zhao Yanjiao, there were other heroes in the court who supported the seizure of the heir apparent.
If Zhao Yanjiao does not end well, I am afraid that the rabbit will die and the fox will be sad, and there will definitely be a big disturbance in the court.
For example, Xu Zheyuan, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, who was leading the trouble at this time.
It was not easy to use the Xuanwei Army to share part of Zhao Yanjiao's military power, but he still made such a big mistake.
Now that two guard posts were attacked, the border was unstable, and there were people in the court speaking for Zhao Yanjiao, Emperor Yuanzong had to hold back the pain in his heart and the sweetness in his throat.
This kind of matter cannot be answered in the court meeting, and there will be no more arguments and arguments.
After half a month, Emperor Yuanzong was also dizzy from the noise, and the Ministry of War finally received the imperial edict: to conquer Pingliang Fort as soon as possible in order for Tang Ying to perform meritorious service.
The Ministry of Household Affairs allocated 200,000 taels of pay and silver and 10,000 sets of winter cotton clothes to the Zhenbei Army to assist the Xuanwei Army and the government in annihilating the Dilu people and eradicating the banditry.
This is still a piece of paper. The Ministry of Accounts still needs to allocate money and materials before distributing them to Yunzhou.
Calculating at the fastest speed, the Zhenbei Army will probably receive the 10,000 sets of winter clothes in the sunny March, maybe even less.
Fortunately, asking Zhenbei Army to cooperate with Xuanwei Army and Tang Ying to conquer Pingliang Fort only required one sentence, and there was no need to delay. The coordination order from the Ministry of War was quickly transmitted to Hecheng.
Naturally, a message was sent to the Golden Guards in the shortest possible time. The reward from the imperial court was not available for the time being, and the material rewards from the Zhenbei Army had been sent to the guard station.
At this time, Ruijin Town was already a different scene.
Just after the fifth day of the first lunar month, Chuntao, the young daughter-in-law in the town, came to Song Liyun and asked about work. The family was idle, so she could earn a few pennies.
Song Liyun asked her to go to Boss Mu's shop to wait for news.
Years later, Boss Mu returned to Ruijin Town and cursed for a long time when he learned that Jin Sanzhong and others were the culprits.
He still wanted to open a store in Ruijin Town. After Song Liyun discussed with him, he planned to hand over the matter of selling acorn tofu to Jinglao Tang.
Now Song Liyun wants to distribute the work to each household in the town.
The thing is food processing, which means peeling acorns, grinding acorn flour, and then washing out the starch to make dry vermicelli.
This is something she has been thinking about for a long time. Broken Gold Town cannot continue to be lifeless.
The people's hearts here are already suffering enough, and they cannot live in physical pain as well. They need to live happily and wait for their loved ones to return.
Moreover, now that I am in it, it is impossible to be alone in troubled times. Only common interests can unite people.
He mastered the method of removing astringency from acorns, and others took the processed acorns and processed them into vermicelli noodles, and then sold them to the outside world.
Now that food prices are rising, you can make a profit and benefit many people.
It's just that it involves the coming and going of accounts, which is cumbersome and requires someone who can calculate accounts to manage it.
Song Liyun's remuneration to Boss Mu depends on his income, and he will take a commission from it.
Boss Mu originally thought he was going to lose a fortune, but he didn't expect it would be a bigger loss, so he immediately agreed.
When Chuntao and the others went to collect the acorns, Boss Mu explained the processing requirements for each step and their respective wages.
Each household can choose each step of the process based on their own family situation.
Many people choose to peel the oak shells. There are many men working in Chuntao's family, so she directly chose to grind it into powder.
As soon as the words came out, three families in the town chose to help grind flour, one knew how to make vermicelli, and the other four were willing to peel acorns.
Song Liyun did the math and found that the economic value of the originally worthless acorns had doubled.
Each kilogram of processed acorns can be sold for a penny. This is a wild fruit that can be found all over the mountains and plains. There is no cost, only the trouble of picking it up.
In addition, making acorn noodles requires groceries and flour, which can also drive some planting industries.