The tall Xuande Building is the central axis, and there are rows of houses on both sides of the Royal Street. Tea houses, wine shops, foot shops, butcher shops, temples, public houses, etc.
Zhang Yue was sitting in a tea shop, enjoying his leisurely drinking tea. It was half a mile from Xuandemen, except for urgent official documents being forwarded here for review from the capital hall.
On the second floor of Zhang Yue Tea House, I just finished writing several official letters. I picked up the tea cup and drank tea while looking at the bustling scene of Bianjing.
On the street in front of you, there are shops selling silks and satins, jewelry and spices, incense, paper and horses, as well as asking for medical advice, car and horse repairs, fortune telling, face shaping and plastic surgery, and thousands of other businesses.
The door of the restaurant is also decorated with a "Colorful Door" and a market sign. Pedestrians in the market are crowded with each other in an endless stream.
Businessmen, gentry, officials passing by on horseback, official family members riding carriages and horses, traveling monks, and tourists from other places.
Wuling teenagers were drinking wildly in restaurants, old men begging were sitting miserably on the ground, and children were running nimbly in the streets. There were sedans, camels, bullock carts, rickshaws, peace carts, flat-head carts, etc.
On the imperial street.
The Bianjing in front of Zhang Yue is still as prosperous as the Bianjing he saw twenty years ago, and is even a bit better.
However, at this moment, Mingsha City was in danger. The two generals of Song and Xia were laying corpses everywhere under the city. They had just buried Paoze's body, or they were holding the divine arm bow tightly in their hands, or they were killing those with broken legs.
War horse, maybe this war horse has been following them for many years.
How many people live and die in a moment.
It's too far from Bianjing to Mingsha. The news that Zhang Yue got from Mingsha was sent ten days ago. The letter told him that there were only ten days of food and grass in the city. When Zhang Yue got the news, the food and grass in the city should have just been finished.
At this time, I gave the next order to the front line, even if I used the gold medal to deliver it, it would be ten days later.
At this moment, the people in Bianjing may have just woken up and had a bowl of peaceful tea and rice, but the soldiers in Mingsha City are probably eating horse meat, and in a few days they may not even be able to eat horses.
Zhang Yuezhen admired how the emperor came up with the clever trick of "defending from the center".
At this moment, the defeat of Yanyan Road and the news of Mingsha's siege had spread in the capital. In addition, the scandal of Fuyan Road had been exposed at this time. Not only did the number of officials who opposed the use of troops against Xia increase greatly, but also
There was also a voice of war weariness among the scholars.
Needless to say, among Luoyang's senior officials such as Wen Yanbo, Fu Bi, and Sima Guang, Zhang Shunmin, the official in office in Bian Jingzhong, had the biggest objections.
This person was a Jinshi in the second year of Zhiping, and was appointed as a staff member by Gao Zunyu. Later, he resigned due to disagreements with Gao Zunyu. Now, due to the defeat at Fuyan Road, it is claimed that "two hundred thousand soldiers were lost along the Fuyan Road alone."
The scholars and the people were all horrified when they heard this.
At this time there was a sound from the stairs below.
It turns out that Cai Bian is here.
After Xu Xi entered the Han Zhen shogunate, Zhang Yue promoted Cai Bian to the emperor, promoted Cai Bian to the Zhongshu military room and put him under his side for training.
Zhang Yue likes Cai Bian's temperament, and they have similarities.
Both of them are not good at boasting, but they have strong personalities, and they are both determined to stick to the green mountains and never relax. Zhang Yue's perseverance was hesitant in advance, and he seemed a little indecisive, like his mother-in-law and mother, but once he made up his mind, he was determined.
No return.
This was the case from the time he married the Seventeenth Mother and decided to attack Xia.
Cai Bian's perseverance lies in his insistence on the route. In another history of time and space, his evaluation is that after Shaosheng, Cai Bian was the only one who took the way of laying stone as the seal of heaven.
At the same time, the two of them are not so obsessed with wealth and fame.
On the contrary, Cai Jing is a bit impetuous, but full of ambition and enterprising spirit. He is also quick-thinking, good at interpersonal communication, and good at capturing people's hearts. His shortcomings are that he likes luxury, does not live a simple life, and cannot be honest as an official.
Zhang Yue originally chose Cai Jing because he felt that their personalities could complement each other, but he was not good at adapting and interacting. Cai Jing had indeed helped him a lot in political, economic and military affairs.
It can be said that without Cai Jing, there would be no Zhang Yue today, but Cai Jing's biggest problem is that he cannot be "conservative".
This is the difference between the two brothers.
Cai Bian stepped forward and said: "Prime Minister, Shen Kuo reported that Yu Chong respected his own troops, ignored the emperor's edict, and refused to send a single soldier to rescue the Jingyuan Road."
Zhang Yue had doubts about why Yu Chong did not send troops to rescue him.
"Do you directly issue an edict in the name of the Emperor or Zhongshu to urge Yu Chong to advance the army?"
Zhang Yue waved his hands when he heard this and said: "In view of the defeat of 'General Control', I set up a Privy Council in Shaanxi with full power to handle frontline military affairs, but now the power to make arbitrary decisions when emergencies arise is still with the various managers."
"If I force Yu Chong to send troops to rescue Mingsha City, I will make the mistake of 'defending from within' again."
In view of the fact that the officials had previously controlled the battle situation, and now that Zhang Yue had taken over the command, the first thing he did was to get rid of the emperor's control, decentralizing power and taking back power.
The Xing Privy Council controlled the six routes, and transferred the power of each route's military commanders to make their own decisions based on the situation on the front line. The Xihe system was also established to set up departments to clarify the priorities among the six peripheral routes, so that they were on an equal footing with the Xing Privy Council.
status.
But now Han Zhen, the Privy Council envoy, is still on the road and not on the line. It is up to the frontline military envoy to make his own decision.
It is very difficult for him to control the battle situation thousands of miles away. Even if the next order is for Yu Chong to send troops now, it will be ten days before he receives the order, and Zhang Zhi may be out of breath by then.
If Xixia takes advantage of the victory and seizes Huanzhou or Qingzhou, everything will be lost.
"Then you won't give the order?"
Zhang Yue said: "If we don't talk, he still needs to know how to do things. Yu Chong is a smart man."
"Now the business between you and me is not outside the court, but within the court!"
After saying this, Zhang Yue looked towards the bustling city of Bianjing. Opposition to the invasion of Xixia and voices advocating for peace were rising in the court. How would he suppress it?
As mentioned before, Zhang Yue hesitated before doing things, but once he made up his mind, he would never turn back and would break through the southern wall.
Now, whoever opposes the war against Xia is the advocate of peace, and goes against the mainstream ideology in the court.
When I was involved in political affairs, it was a battle between reform and unchangeable laws. Now that I have become prime minister, I will face a battle between peace and war. In fact, neither has changed.
You will find that most of those who oppose the reform are also opposed to the Xia Conquest!
Historically, in the Yuanyou year, Sima Guang immediately ceded territory and retreated his troops after taking power, and negotiated peace with Xixia.
Now that the Yanyan Road was defeated and corruption cases broke out, the strength of the peace faction increased greatly. Zhang Yue guessed that at least three of the ten officials had insisted on abandoning the Lanhui and negotiating peace with Xixia.
This dispute between the DPRK and China will also be transmitted to the generals and officials at the front, leaving them wavering between war and war, and they are at a loss as to what to do.
Zhang Yue said to Cai Bian: "Why do they object?"
Cai Bian said: "Most of them are worried that if the imperial court fails to conquer Xia, it will have to raise money to train troops, which will make the people suffer even more and it will be more difficult to do things in the local area."
Zhang Yue nodded and said: "You are right, but looking at it from the other side is also beneficial. It is extremely difficult to reform the law in normal times. Now, taking advantage of the name of conquering Xia, it is also an idea to reform the official system."
Having said this, Zhang Yue looked towards the Imperial Street of Bianjing.