Hou Junji's face changed slightly as he listened to the whispers around him. He had already realized that Wei Zheng was deliberately targeting him today, or in other words, he was deliberately targeting the Ministry of War!
"What on earth do Master Wei want to say?!" Hou Junji glanced around with cold eyes and asked Wei Zheng directly.
He also knew that in terms of skill, even ten Wei Zhengs together were not enough to beat him alone!
But if it comes to talking skills, then even if twenty of them are tied together, they cannot be the opponent of Wei Zheng, the admonishing doctor!
Using one's own shortcomings to attack the enemy's strong points is something only a fool would do! So Hou Junji didn't talk too much about Wei Zheng, and pointed out the topic directly as soon as he opened his mouth!
"What do I want to say?"
On the other side, Wei Zheng was not afraid at all when Hou Junji cut to the chase with his cold expression! He sneered, and Shi Shiran raised his hand to Hou Junji and asked: "I just want to ask Hou Shangshu, now the Ministry of War is here
In Chang'an City, the Emperor's feet are so unscrupulous, but what about outside? In various states, prefectures, and remote counties, isn't it true that one hand covers the sky?!"
"You're talking nonsense!"
When Hou Junji heard Wei Zheng's heart-wrenching remarks, his heart immediately stirred up a storm! But at any rate, he came here in a strong wind and waves. In the light of the calcium carbide fire, he had already concealed the horrified expression on his face and changed it into a look of deep disdain.
, shook his sleeves fiercely and said angrily: "Hmph, that's nonsense, what evidence do you have?"
"evidence?"
Wei Zheng opposite seemed to be waiting for Hou Junji's words. Hearing this, he smiled and put his hand into his sleeve, then took out a booklet from it and waved it in front of Hou Junji: "You want evidence? This is it."
It was a memorial written by Sima Liangzhou, accusing the Ministry of War of wantonly opening up horse farms, recruiting herdsmen, and raising war horses in the state capital! This caused a sharp reduction in taxes! In order to evade taxes, the people under his rule even merged their own pastures into the Ministry of War's horse farms.
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"Liangzhou..." Hou Junji frowned and suddenly sneered: "Master Wei, as a remonstrating official, his advice is good, but you must also know the reasons! Liangzhou Ranch has always been an important armament site for our military department.
!In order to select high-quality war horses and expand the racecourse, we also want to make our Datang military more prosperous!
Besides, the land in Liangzhou is barren. We don’t occupy farmland, but just recruit some herdsmen. What’s wrong? Then Liangzhou Sima is crying and complaining that he can’t afford taxes. Then I would like to ask Mr. Wei what he did in Liangzhou during that time.
All the taxes and taxes have been paid?”
Hou Junji's words, including beatings and beatings, also severely humiliated Wei Zheng, describing him as a barking villain, which really made him angry!
However, who is Wei Zheng? With six lords and five beings defeated to death, how could he not know the loopholes in Liangzhou Sima's words?
Looking at the somewhat smug Hou Junji, Wei Zheng just said a few words and made Hou Junji fall from heaven to hell!
"Choose war horses? Well, you did pick a lot! In Liangzhou Sima's letter, you regarded all the good horses carefully selected by the racecourse as bad horses and sold them to a Sun Ji caravan. Is this true?"
"This..." Wei Zheng's words instantly made Hou Junji feel like he was struck by lightning. It took him a long time to hold back a few words: "This matter must have been misunderstood by Liangzhou Sima! The good horses at Liangzhou Racecourse have always been good.
To prepare for war, only bad horses, bad horses, and old horses will be sold! He must have made a mistake and mistook these bad horses for good horses!"
"Oh? You misunderstood? That's possible. After all, bad horses and good horses all look the same, with four legs! One head. Liangzhou Sima, who has been dealing with horses in Liangzhou for half his life, was dazzled for a while.
It's understandable!" Wei Zheng sneered again and again, his tone not concealing his mockery of Hou Junji!
When Hou Junji blushed and wanted to refute, Wei Zheng calmly took out a memorial from his arms again: "Let's not care about the horses for the time being. Let's transfer a large amount of grain from Jiangnan Road."
You wouldn’t say that the Jiangnan Road patrolman missed the point, right?”
"Grain? What grain!"
This time, before the stern Wei Zheng could finish speaking, Hou Junji was stunned on the spot!
He wasn't pretending, he was really shocked!
He knew about reclaiming pastures to raise horses, and he also knew about privately stocking and selling fine horses! But getting food from the south of the Yangtze River? Why didn't he know anything about it?
"Hahaha……"
Seeing Hou Junji's shocked look, Wei Zheng burst out laughing: "Master Hou's memory can't be so bad, right? Your seal is stamped on this grain adjustment order! If the officials of Jiangnan Province hadn't been careful, the adjustment would have been
Before collecting the grain, I first sent a letter to the imperial court for routine inquiries, and now the 100,000 shi of grain has probably been mobilized and shipped!"
"What?"
"One hundred thousand shi of food!"
"This is enough to support a hundred thousand troops for a month!"
"What does Hou Junji want to do? Rebellion?"
Before Wei Zheng finished speaking, the court hall was already like ice cubes thrown into a hot oil pan! Countless ministers breathed in the cold air and stared at Hou Junji in disbelief!
Even Li Shimin, who was sitting high on the dragon throne, was no longer calm at this time and had a look of fear on his face!
"When did this happen!" Suppressing the horror in his heart, Li Shimin stood up suddenly, stared at Wei Zheng below and asked word by word!
Wei Zheng didn't dare to be negligent, so he immediately raised his hand and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, this memorial has been sent urgently from 800 miles south of the Yangtze River. The order to adjust the grain supply is what happened a few days ago!"
"It just happened a few days ago?!" Li Shimin took a deep breath, glanced at Hou Junji, who had turned pale, and then fixed his gaze on Dai Zhou, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue: "Is there any announcement from the Ministry of Revenue today?
Has the food document been issued?”
Being stared at by the furious Li Shimin, sweat immediately began to ooze on Dai Zhou's forehead! He did not dare to delay, and hurriedly got out of the queue, bowed and answered: "Your Majesty, there has been no document from the Ministry of Revenue recently to mobilize a large amount of food and grass.
Issue! The Ministry of Revenue has no idea how Jiangnan Road got the grain adjustment order!"
"Even the household department doesn't know!" Li Shimin said with a sullen face as he repeated these words!
When Wei Zheng saw this, his heart moved, and he quickly handed the two books in his hand to the chamberlain, asking him to present them to the emperor.
Li Shimin's face turned gloomy when he looked at the two booklets presented by the chamberlain. He reached out to take them for a while, then flipped through them, and his face suddenly became even more difficult to look at.
"Snapped!"
After slamming the two memorials in front of Hou Junji, Li Shimin suddenly shouted angrily: "Hou Junji! See for yourself the good deeds you have done!"
"Your Majesty..." Upon hearing this, Hou Junji felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave. He opened his mouth dryly, but could not utter a word of explanation. He could only mechanically step forward and pick up the two memorials.
Perhaps because he was too excited, Hou Junji's hands were trembling slightly, and he tried several times before opening the memorial.
(PS Before the Tang Dynasty, the Ministry of Household Affairs was called the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Later, because Li Shimin's word "Min" was taboo, it was renamed the Ministry of Household Affairs.)
