Chapter 396 Disagreement
Entering May, the weather became warmer, but the atmosphere in the imperial city was still as cold as winter.
The common people also feel that the prices of things in the market have generally increased, and the government servants on the road are much more diligent than before. Wherever they go, they can be seen patrolling the streets in groups of two with stern faces.
The complexions of those officials were even worse, as if their home had been stolen, and they looked at everyone with tense faces as if they were looking at a thief.
Some well-informed people have already heard rumors that there is another military incident in the south, and that the southern barbarians are about to rise up and fight again.
Going to war?
Some people swear by it, some people sneer. Anyway, although I dare not shout in public, I am talking about it in private. Those elderly people became fragrant steamed buns. They brewed a pot of tea in the backyard, and four or five young people sat around. They could talk about "recalling the past" all afternoon, so that young people who had never experienced the last battle with the Nanman could listen with gusto. passionate.
People in the old Jing Dynasty were never afraid of fighting, because they almost never lost. On the contrary, the dazzling military achievements after the war can always cover up the bones outside the customs so that no one will see them.
The focus of the debate is that some people don't believe that the Nanman can rise to power. The reason is that the dynasty has been harvesting the population of the Nanman for forty years. How can we fight without a population?
This reason seems reasonable, but many recent signs indicate that there is indeed an undercurrent that seems to be surging to the surface. For example, the teleportation circle going to Yucheng was under control, and it was said that the direction to Haixia was under martial law, and there were a large number of caravans along the road pulling supplies.
The news cannot be suppressed. Whether it's official or the Chamber of Commerce, it will be missed out as the situation becomes more tense, and then spread quickly until the matter is officially announced to the whole territory.
This is the case in the market, but it can be imagined in the temple.
Totally noisy.
This time the only spectator was Pang Ban, who was wearing a dazzling black robe but standing in the corner. Xuan Qingwei has his own business, and everything is still unclear now. It was not when Xuan Qingwei intervened, and he could only watch the military and civil servants fight with each other.
Let’s not talk about the army, people themselves eat knives. When the enemy comes, the first choice must be to cut down all the enemies, and then come back with the enemy’s head and land to claim credit, so as to increase the rank and title of the wife. son.
According to Jun Wu, it is time to put the Jingnan land under wartime control immediately, let the Jingnan army's governor's office regain control of the Great Seal, and at the same time coordinate the frontier army to open the Kunduo Pass, and directly send troops to Nanman to quell everything.
As for how much money and supplies will be spent during the war, and how much impact it will have on all aspects of the country's internal affairs, this is naturally not something that the military needs to consider. It can even be predicted that once the Jingnan Army Commander's Mansion regains control of the Great Seal and obtains the dispatch power, the status of the entire army will be crazily raised, changing its current humble status.
Some people even suggested that the Great Seals of Jingxi and Jingnan be restarted at the same time, with the two front armies as the main offensive and the southern frontier army as the defense. The strategy of building the city, step by step, continuously oppresses the living space of the barbarians, and finally completely slaughters the barbarians.
Even Pang Ban shook his head when he heard the latter suggestion. The barbarians have a vast territory and many plains. Building a city is of little significance, but it will double the pressure on the country's luggage. The main reason why the barbarians were not slaughtered in the war against the barbarians 40 years ago was that Jing Jiuchao could not fight on his own. The supplies were too long, and there was no support from the teleportation circle. If one hundred catties of grain were transported out, the grain transport team on the road could do it by themselves. After eating sixty or seventy catties, I can't afford it.
If Jiancheng is really going to oppress the past slowly, this account will probably drive the Ministry of Households crazy.
The army has many speech strategies, some good and some bad, all of them are brave, resolute and decisive in front of the emperor. As long as the emperor gives an order, they will never frown even if they throw their heads.
It's a pity that the emperor sat on the stage with a blank face, watching with cold eyes and never saying a word. Even some Linglong figures who usually claim to be good at trying to figure out the emperor's heart can't help but feel drummed in their hearts, wondering what the emperor's plan is.
The emperor remained silent, but the civil servants confronted each other.
joke! It's been so hard to trample on you vulgar people in the army, how can you let you take advantage of the momentum again? Doesn't that make us appear incompetent?
So the civil official group proposed a plan of "allowing the barbarians to set up a royal court, but establishing a military buffer zone".
To put it simply: anyway, fighting with the barbarians has never been able to really eliminate this hidden danger, and it always happens again every few decades. This is like a seasonal disease for the country. In this case, it is better to change the method. The barbarians were allowed to rebuild the royal court, but a military buffer zone was drawn up with Wuhu Lake as the boundary line. As long as the barbarians did not cross the line, the barbarians would have to do it themselves.
Some people even suggested that the barbarians could be appeased, and some land and population could be taken back if appropriate. As long as they expressed their surrender, there was no need to go to war and waste money.
He also took the news from the supervising army to explain the matter, saying that everyone in the frontier army was shouting for war, and the army was impetuous, and the frontier army stationed and garrisoned for many years lacked control, internal corruption, and combat effectiveness were worrying.
Pang Ban listened to the excitement, but realized for the first time in his heart that it is not useless for the civil servants to set up the post of supervisor in the army, especially now that one more angle can see many problems in the army . Pang Ban also read the information sent back from the Black Flag Camp, otherwise, who would have thought that the army and frontier army would have been rotten and ugly long ago?
This fierce quarrel lasted for most of the day, and it was not stopped until the emperor waved his hand.
"Order Zuo Yuliang to judge the military strategy by himself, and if there is any change, report it quickly."
With just such a sentence, the emperor forcibly ended today's debate. Left a hall full of confusion.
What is the emperor's plan? Is it a fight or a tie?
Not only the military and civilian groups speculated, but Pang Ban, a spectator, also murmured in his heart. If the emperor doesn't take a stand and stand in line, the wind direction on the temple will continue to be chaotic, which is not good news for the increasingly tense situation in the south.
Following behind the crowd, Pang Ban was not interested in paying attention to the words between the military and civil servants on the way down the road. He wanted to go back and call the Jingxi and Jingnan governors to ask about the situation. Some things should be done sooner. Well planned.
But as soon as Pang Ban walked to the gate of Wanmin Palace, he was stopped by an eunuch, saying that the emperor asked him for questioning.
The eunuch did not deliberately suppress his voice, Pang Ban heard it, and many people around him and around him also heard it. Including Pang Ban himself, they couldn't help being surprised when they heard the emperor's summoning.
How long has it been? The emperor actually took the initiative to summon Pang Ban. Could it be that the emperor chose to use Xuan Qingwei to do something under the current situation?