With the warmth of spring, flowers bloom and everything revives. When the seedlings in the fields begin to grow taller, everyone becomes happy. This is a force of hope.
This year's situation in Tokyo has changed slightly from last year. At least the number of disaster victims pouring into Tokyo has decreased a lot.
Spring is the season of hope, but it is also a time of drought. The grain reserves in winter are about to be exhausted, but there is still some time before summer harvest. Therefore, winter storage is of unparalleled importance to the ancients.
Thanks to the promotion of potatoes and sweet potatoes, there is no shortage of food in Tokyo this year. Farmers wisely chose to use potatoes and sweet potatoes as their rations, eating these grains first, and then gradually replaced them with rice, noodles and other refined grains after the New Year.
Therefore, this spring in Tokyo there were not many sallow little faces, but there were more people chatting and laughing. Almost everyone was praising the benevolence of the Zhao Songtian family for getting this auspicious thing to fight hunger.
Ye An is naturally proud of you, because everyone knows that he is the one who offers auspiciousness and is the one who vigorously promotes potatoes and sweet potatoes. This kind of sweet food makes people who are new to it feel happy.
Although you will fart if you eat too much, and you will feel nauseous if you eat every time, it is still much better than living on bark and grass roots without eating anything.
Cao Lili, who was drinking with Ye An in the bullock cart, lowered the curtain, looked at Ye An and sighed slightly: "Just this act of offering auspiciousness can make your boy's name go down in history! You have done something that others can't even imagine.
thing."
Ye An smiled and said: "Privilege Cao is overrated. It is the benevolence of the Tian family that has created everything. History books never hesitate to praise the emperor's benevolent government. It is just a casual thing to mention the boy!"
Cao Li stared at Ye An for a long time, and saw that his face was full of calmness and laughed silently: "They say that you, Ye An, and Ye Changsheng are the cunning rabbits in the court. I have learned the lesson now. I am not looking for you today."
The rest is just for this letter."
Ye An said without even reading the letter: "I have never written with Privy Cao, but I have admired Privy Cao's reputation for a long time. I just want to ask for advice today."
"Oh? Is there a certain family you want to ask for advice?"
"Life has its limits, but knowledge also has no limits."
Hahaha...Cao Li couldn't help but laugh out loud, and then looked at Ye An and said: "You are really interesting, kid! Let's say you are a civil servant...neither fish nor fowl, say you are a military general...neither a donkey nor a horse!
It suits my temper! Then you ask, you also asked Wang Qinruo for advice before he died. Today you ask me for advice, just when I am about to leave Beijing! No wonder there are rumors in the court that those who are infected with you will not die well!
"
"That's nonsense. There are doctors who say that medicine can cure diseases. Immortality is not a powerful thing, so how can you change the things that have been done? But General Cao is now open to it?"
After Ye An finished speaking, he looked at Cao Liang, slandering those meddlesome people in his heart, insisting on connecting himself with the fall of those big guys, so that sooner or later he would be exposed.
But his words "General Cao" caused Cao Li, who was opposite him, to instantly break his defense: "You boy, you just said in one sentence the shackles in my heart. Privy Council is not something that a military general can do. Although I have to be given advice by the late emperor, I have repeatedly
He has made meritorious deeds, but after all, he is just a military commander. He said that he has become an official, but his military career has never been separated from his military career! As for looking away... Hehe... How can any military general in the country be able to look away?! En Yinru
I can't look away at the generals who are in the official position, and I can't even look at the generals who come here. As for those generals, they have never looked away! How can I be an exception?"
"Then are you willing to leave a strong army to the country while you are in office?"
The carriage was extremely quiet. Cao Li looked at Ye An blankly for a long time before he recovered from the bumps and said with infinite curiosity: "I just praised you as a cunning rabbit in the court, but I never thought that you would be like this...
…”
Cao Li paused for a moment, and after thinking for a long time, he said: "I'm sorry to be speechless!"
Ye An smiled: "General Cao should know what the so-called army in Tokyo is like. The left and right are just decorations. When the party members covet the Song Dynasty, and when the Khitan people are ready to move, then the country and the dynasty
How can we strengthen our troops to defend against the enemy?"
"How dare you, Ye An and Ye Changsheng, ask me for private soldiers?! Although the Anhua Army became famous in one battle in the hands of you, Ye An, it is not your private weapon. How can the soldiers of the imperial dynasty be so good at it?
!”
Ye An looked at Cao Li strangely and said: "When did Ye An become good at transforming the army into a private army?! Just to prevent them from being destroyed, I begged General Cao to turn them into border troops and never stay in Tokyo!"
"
Cao Lili was slightly stunned, looking at the letter that was burned to ashes, and said in disbelief: "Is this why you wrote the letter?!"
Ye An pursed his lips. This matter was a trivial matter in his eyes, but in his own eyes, it was bigger than the sky. After the Anhua Army became famous in the first battle, he escorted the prisoners to return to the court in victory, and received countless honors in the city of Tokyo. He should have been there again.
He returned to Huanzhou for duty, but Liu E ordered him to stay in Tokyo.
Zhao Hu and other soldiers have been to the Anhua Army several times to see it. Many veterans who fought on the battlefield have begun to enjoy themselves under the treatment of the Forbidden Army. Some even think that the Battle of Huanzhou has made them lose all their life.
The battle is over.
The entire military camp was filled with an atmosphere of hedonism. The habits that had been cultivated with great difficulty had been almost completely abandoned. The military appearance was in disgrace, and military orders were disrespected, let alone the execution of orders and prohibitions.
If this continues, the Anhua Army, which he has worked so hard to bring out, will inevitably deteriorate after a slight improvement. This is something Ye An can't bear no matter what. "General Cao, the Anhua Army is showing signs of decline, and corruption has begun. If it is not rectified,
, I’m afraid he’s just a skinny guy! A general spends his whole life in the military, and it’s not easy for a country to have such a strong army..."
Seeing Ye An's sincere attitude, Cao Liang sighed: "You think these old men don't know? But do you know that I went to Shusheng last year to defeat Anhua's army and return to Huanzhou, but the saint thought that Anhua's army was incompetent.
According to the custom, defending the capital is the top priority, and I wanted to promote him to the top four armies but he refused!"
After saying this, Cao Lili said contemptuously: "Although you, Ye An, are one of the few capable officials in the court, you don't know anything about political affairs. Xia Song is a smart-eyed man. The Sage of Shangshu commended the Anhua army and appeased his relatives. You can do it for
Tokyo will increase its combat power and maintain stability..."
Ye An looked at Cao Lili blankly, so Liu E wanted to use the Anhua Army as a trump card. To be honest, such a powerful army that returned from Huanzhou's victory, no matter how its combat power declined, as long as it had a good reputation, it was a
A powerful deterrent.
Smiling slightly bitterly, Ye An said helplessly: "Changsheng is stupid. He doesn't know the plans in the saint's mind and only thinks about things."
The oxcart slowly arrived outside Xuandemen. Cao Li couldn't help but take a long breath when he saw Xuandemen, who was very close at hand, and said with infinite emotion: "At this time, only you, Ye An, and Ye Changsheng can think of what Anhua Army should do."
, others won’t care! I can’t help you, how about you help me?”
Ye An shook his head and smiled bitterly: "There is nothing you can do about immortality! It's hard for a lonely minister to complain, not to mention that the general planted the root of the disaster earlier, and he should pay off his debt now."
Cao Li froze, then laughed and said: "It seems that everyone knows about me! It's not a waste of my life to come here! It's just a trip. I have nothing to be ashamed of, so I will go out in style today!"
Seeing the old man with frost-white temples getting out of the car, his waist straight in the wind, Ye An couldn't help but said: "Be careful of Luo Chongxun and Yang Huaimin. These two are narrow-minded and are at odds with the general. They may attack the general."
Cao Li looked at Ye An curiously, but then said indifferently: "It's just a eunuch, why should I be afraid?!"