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 bother with 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 faced with Hou Junji's cold look that cut straight to the point! He sneered, and Shi Shiran raised his hand to Hou Junji and asked: "I just want to ask Hou Shangshu, the Ministry of War is here in Chang'an City, and the emperor's feet are so unscrupulous, but what about outside? In various states and prefectures, In remote counties, isn’t it possible to cover the sky with one hand?!”
"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 carbide fire, he had already concealed the horrified expression on his face and changed it to a deep disdain. He shook his robe sleeves fiercely and said angrily: "Humph, you are talking nonsense." What evidence is there?”
"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 in his state capital, recruiting herdsmen, and raising war horses! 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. !”
"Liangzhou..." Hou Junji frowned slightly 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 Ministry of War. ! 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. If we don’t occupy farmland and only recruit some herdsmen, why not? Sima Liangzhou is now crying and complaining that he cannot afford taxes. Then I would like to ask Mr. Wei, did he pay all the taxes and taxes in Liangzhou that year? "
Hou Junji's words, including beatings and beatings, also severely humiliated Wei Zheng, describing him as a barking villain, which really made him angry!
But who is Wei Zheng? Six masters have defeated the existence of five. 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 struck Hou Junji as if 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 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! With 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 ridicule for 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?”
"Food? What food!"
This time, before the stern Wei Zheng finished speaking, Hou Junji was stunned on the spot!
He wasn't pretending, he was really shocked!
He knows about reclaiming pastures to raise horses, and he also knows about privately raising and selling good horses! But how about getting food from Jiangnan? Why didn't he know anything about this?
"Hahaha……"
Seeing Hou Junji's shocked look, Wei Zheng suddenly burst out laughing: "Master Hou's memory can't be so bad, right? This grain adjustment order is also stamped with your seal! 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 whole court was already as if ice cubes had been thrown into a hot oil pan! Countless ministers gasped and stared at Hou Junji with disbelief!
Even Li Shimin, who was sitting high on the dragon throne, was no longer calm at this time, with 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 did not dare to neglect, and immediately replied: "Your Majesty, this memorial has been sent urgently from 800 miles south of the Yangtze River. I think the order to adjust the grains 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 anything going on with the Ministry of Revenue today? Is the food document issued?"
Being stared at by the furious Li Shimin, sweat immediately began to drip from Dai Zhou's forehead! He did not dare to delay, and hurriedly came out of the queue, bowed and answered: "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Revenue has not issued any documents for mobilizing large quantities of grain and grass recently! The Ministry of Revenue does not know how Jiangnan Road got the grain transfer order!"
"Even the household department doesn't know!" Li Shimin said with a sullen face, repeating these words!
When Wei Zheng saw this, his heart moved and he quickly handed the two books in his hand to the chamberlain and asked him to present them to the emperor.
Looking at the two booklets presented by the chamberlain, Li Shimin's face turned gloomy. He reached out to take them for a while, then flipped through them, and his face suddenly became even more ugly.
"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..." After 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. He tried several times before opening the memorial.
(PS Before the Tang Dynasty, the Hubu was called the Minbu. Later, because Li Shimin’s word Min was taboo, it was renamed the Hubu.)
