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4. Fighting between monarchs and ministers

I guess Huo Zhongtang was already halfway to Jingkou when Li Jie posted this residence?

After Gao Yue received this news, he found Wei Ping and Liu De's room. "What did I say when talking about the relationship between the capital and Xuanrun?"

"Yi Song, you said that everything should be followed by the head of the horse in Chang'an City." Liu Deshi bowed and replied.

Gao Yue seemed to have lost his memory. He told Liu Deshi that I had said that?

"It should have been said..."

"Why don't Ben Yin remember?"

"It seems to have been said..."

Next, Gao Yue pondered for a while, and then ordered Wei Ping and Liu Deshi: "I said that I had never said this, but it was actually a trivial matter. Now, more than half of the military needs are dependent on the Jianghuai River. Your Majesty and Han Huai are having such a stalemate. There are Western Fans staring at them outside and party and Xiang in the inner world. The monarch and ministers should be harmonious."

Then Gao Yue invited the new secretary Su Yan, "After Dr. Lao, he wrote a letter to Yue and went to the capital of Shu in Xichuan."

The west pavilion of Shu capital is a beautiful place to see the scenery. When the shogunate judge Liu Pi sent Gao Yue's letter, the new governor Wei Gaozheng and a dozen guests were enjoying it.

"Where did it come from?" Wei Gao took the letter and asked slowly before unpacking it.

"Xingyuan." Liu Pi replied.

Wei Gao nodded and immediately asked all the guests to continue the garden, but he would have to spend less time with him.

After saying that, Wei Gao and Liu Pi came to the corner of Linyuan and opened Gao Yue's letter and read it, "Yi Song, I don't know what the medicine is selling in the gourd. First, we asked us to obey the Holy Lord, and then we wrote another letter, asking Xichuan and Xingyuan not to express their opinions, and to stay in the back to mediate the dispute between the Holy Lord and Han Huan?"

Liu Pi thought about it and explained to Wei Gao in a low voice. Wei Gao expressed his understanding, and then said to Liu Pi: "Taichu's reminder was correct, and he almost misunderstood Yi Song's meaning. Everything should be done as Yi Song said."

So, another month passed.

Huo Zhongtang, who was covered in dust, returned from Jingkou and paid homage to Emperor Li Shi in the Zichen Hall of the Daming Palace.

"Forty-million guan, nothing is gained?" The emperor was so angry that he beat his chest and stamped his feet.

Huo Zhong, Tang, said that he had a disgrace to his mission and asked His Majesty to give him death.

"What's the use of giving you death?" The emperor almost collapsed next.

Then Huo Zhongtang told the emperor about the whole story of going to Jingkou, Runzhou:

He quickly rushed to Bianzhou first, then took a boat across the Bian River and Huai River, and then entered the Jingkou of the Yangtze River. When he told Han Huan that the cost of transporting money to the capital was only an additional 300 yuan, Han Huan was shocked and said that the shipping cost of money he used to transport money was ten yuan, so how could it be that the boatman of the patrol and the Changgang ship was trapped by me!

Huo Zhongtang sighed at the time and said to Han Huan that since that was the case, he asked the Nanyang Duke to stamp the ship to send the summer tax money and the 400,000 guan to the capital.

Unexpectedly, Han Huan said that the freight rate difference is so big that there must be a traitor who interferes with it. How can we keep pursuing it to the end?

So Han Huan sent an order to stop all the Changgang ships that were ready to go, and all the officials in the patrol came to Jingkou Army Mansion. This section commander would be asked to interrogate carefully.

Huo Zhongtang was about to cry without tears. He knew that Han Huan had used this excuse to keep all the Changgang ships and not send them out. In that case, the official salary and military funds in the capital would not be solved!

"Old cunning fox, old cunning fox." The emperor was so angry that he slapped the table. Then his face turned red, his palms trembled until it was numb, and he felt a little painful with his liver, and he felt a little dizzy. This old fox made me angry...

After a few days, the emperor rarely met in the official yamen. After that, he summoned the important minister Yu Zichen Hall to discuss. The topic of discussion was how to make Han Huan submit.

After round after round, Han Huan just didn't send a long-range boat. Not only that, Han Huan also asked the memorial to the memorial court, and named it, angrily scolded Prime Minister Zhang Yanshang, judged Cui Zao, and sentenced Yan Iron Bao Ji. He scolded him all over the place, saying that Zhang Yanshang was Lu Qi's return (Lu Qi lays an arrow in Jizhou, Jiangxi Province), and asked the emperor to abolish the ** slander.

Now, the whole world is in full swing.

Zhang Yanshang lay at the emperor's feet, crying so hard that he could not control himself, saying that Han Huan was so domineering that the court could no longer tolerate it.

Following Zhang Yanshang's pace, Du Ya, the governor of Huainan, submitted a memorial to impeach Han Huanmu Wujun.

As a result, Han Huan directly sent a navy to cut off the waterway between Runzhou and Yangzhou, set up checkpoints, and did not place any cargo, rice and grain to Huainan Town.

Du Ya immediately did not dare to speak out.

The Hedong Jiedushi Ma Sui and the Lingyan Jiedushi Kang Rizhi, the above report angrily scolded Han Huan.

Han Huan ordered the Jinzou Academy and hired several talented men from Wu to write beautiful articles of insulting people, and sent them to Jinzou Academy continuously, and then handed them over to the Qinshishi who were loyal to him in the Censorate. He cursed Ma Sui and Kang Rizhi in various ways, saying that Ma Sui fought for power and profit in the war against Western Fan in the past, and missed the opportunity for war. He also said that Kang Rizhi lost his troops and lost his territory - Ma Sui and Kang Rizhi were unable to defend themselves.

At the same time, the "thugs" of Han Huan's faction also took turns to fight. Liu Xuanzuo, the governor of Xuanwu Army, Zhang Jianfeng, the inspector of Haoshoulu, and Li Jian, the envoy of the Eyue Observation and Group, also continued to express their opinions, and the party was fighting against the differences.

Li Sheng, the assistant minister who was supported by Han Huan, also plucked up the courage to impeach Zhang Yanshang and Ma Sui, saying that he strongly advocated peace with Xifan and let the blood of the soldiers flow in vain.

The emperor's high blood pressure was deteriorated by the blow.

He could only hope to complain to Gao Yue and Wei Gao.

But the emperor was arrogant. What he wanted was Gao Yue and Wei Gao to submit their respects first and ask him about his well-being.

But in Xichuan, Xingyuan only sent taxes and gifts, and the two governors had no extra stamps to care about the emperor.

"As Fengtianyuan, don't you realize my situation and thoughts?" The emperor was full of resentment, so he asked the Hanlin scholar Zheng Zhi to send greetings to Shu Capital and Xingyuan Mansion respectively: he "screamed" the two of them.

But Xichuan, Xingyuan, Jingnan, Dongchuan, Shannan East Road and other places alone sent two taxes, and the imperial court still felt that it was insufficient. The original Duzhi Department relied on was also abandoned because it had previously pacified the Li Huaiguang rebellion and was not restored. The frustrated emperor realized that he could not live without the taxes in the southeast of the Jianghuai River. Now, Han Huan was choking and he was the only one who gave in.

Originally, the layout that he discussed with Zhang Yanshang and Cui Zao day and night was a big loss and loss in the first move.

Finally, the emperor compromised and told Han Huan that it would be better to send the household tax money on time. I would like to ask if the 400,000 jin of money in the patrol was okay?

When the imperial edict was issued, Han Huan immediately stated that he had already observed the freight rate issue, and then hundreds of long-range ships immediately set off, and sent the money and grain to the Dongwei Bridge Transportation Institute in the capital.

After that, the political situation was temporarily settled for a while. When the autumn rice was about to be transported, the unwilling emperor took another second move:

Qi Kang, Qi Ying and Zhang Pang rushed to the Jianghuai River and demanded that the grain transport from the Han Huai River were transported to the Yangtze River Inspection Institute for the distance between the east and west of Zhejiang and the Yangtze River Transportation Commissioner Han Huai River. From then on, the grain transport from the capital was returned to the deputy envoy Qi Kang, and Qi Ying and Zhang Pang were allowed to supervise the entire process (activation).

Han Huan was too lazy to even watch this time. He ordered the 20,000 elite troops of the Zhenhai Army and said to the emperor:

"Qi Kang, Qi Ying and Zhang Pang were not familiar with the matter of grain transportation. The old minister was afraid that Changgang ship would encounter the Jiang bandits, so he could only lead 20,000 troops and escort these three envoys, escorting 750,000 stones of grain to the capital, and handing them to His Majesty himself!"
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