Yuan Jia's words were automatically translated in the emperor's mind as 'If you don't pay military salaries, you will rebel!'

He felt cold and desolate and hail. Is there any emperor who was even worse than him in all dynasties? He paid to help his rebel ministers raise the army to rebel. It would be better if he didn't want to pay the money!

The emperor's face turned blue and his heart was filled with anger. However, looking at Meng Yuanjia, who was handsome and handsome, with a sarcastic smile on his face, his heart shivered, like a basin of ice water, he calmed down.

Meng Yuanjia must have been waiting for him to refuse, and he happened to take this opportunity to make the army mutiny. By then, his rebellion would not be a rebel traitor coveting the throne, but seeking justice for his soldiers.

Although they are all rebellions, their reputations are very different.

The emperor forced himself to calm down, ponder for a while, analyze the pros and cons, and couldn't help but regret his clever behavior of deducting military pay, which made him in a dilemma.

The emperor gave Yuan Jia a stiff and reluctant smile and said, "Meng Aiqing misunderstood. I did not withhold the military pay from the Zhenbei Army. It was just that the national treasury was empty and I could not raise enough money for the time being, so I delayed the payment for a few days."

Who believes this?

However, Yuan Jia pretended to believe it and said, "Since Your Majesty said that, I certainly believe Your Majesty. However, the more than 300,000 troops in Zhenbei are all relying on this little military salary to support their families. Your Majesty should not delay the issuance, which will easily cause dissatisfaction among the soldiers."

The emperor took a deep breath, tried hard to suppress the anger in his heart, and replied: "Don't worry, Meng Aiqing, I will urge the Ministry of Revenue to raise military pay as soon as possible and will not delay the distribution."

It was not enough for Yuan Jia to force the emperor to give the right words, so he even asked the emperor for an order.

The emperor gave it to him in a frustration. Yuan Jia took the emperor's decree to the Ministry of Revenue to find the Minister of Revenue Li, and said to Lord Li: "This is Your Majesty's decree. Please ask Lord Li to pay the military pay truthfully as soon as possible."

After reading the imperial edict, Li Shangshu was secretly shocked. The emperor's situation seemed to be getting worse and worse.

Although he also felt that the emperor's behavior of deducting military salaries from Zhenbei Army was a chess move, Meng Yuanjia was able to force the emperor to change his orders every day, which shows how bad the emperor's situation is now.

Li Shangshu was full of thoughts and did not show any of them. After receiving the imperial edict, he said, "I would like to ask Zhenbei Duke to wait a few days. It will take time to raise military pay."

Yuan Jia said lightly: "Please be more concerned about Lord Li and pay military salaries as soon as possible."

Naturally, Li Shangshu would not deliberately delay time. The military pay for Zhenbei Army was prepared early every year, but this year it was suppressed by the emperor.

Within a few days, Li Shangshu sent the full military pay to the Zhenbei Army.

The problems of the imperial army's empty salary and embezzlement of military pay are quite serious. Only the Zhenbei army, which is under the jurisdiction of the Zhenbei Duke Mansion, is strictly governed. There is no such situation. Occasionally, if the subordinates' salary is corruption, they will be severely punished.

After Yuan Jia took charge of Zhenbei Army, he became more rigorous in the military management. He paid all the 300,000 Zhenbei Army soldiers in full. No one of the people who were passing by dared to steal the corruption. The soldiers received the full amount of money, so they naturally became more loyal to the general Yuan Jia.

As for the emperor who actually paid the military pay? Sorry, he didn't have any sense of existence in the Zhenbei Army.

Otherwise, the Zhenbei Army would not have been called the "Meng Family Army" by some people with ulterior motives, and the emperor would not have been so afraid of Zhenbei Duke Mansion.

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Another year has been turning around.

Yuanjia is about to go to the filial piety period, saying that it is for three years of filial piety, but in fact it is for twenty-seven months, only more than two years.

The mourning practice is almost over, and the busiest people in Zhenbei Gong Mansion are the old lady and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of Yan.

Because they were busy choosing wives for Yuan Jia, they immediately settled down as soon as the filial piety period came out and married the person.

This world emphasizes the orders of parents and matchmakers. Even though Yuan Jia is now the male host of Zhenbei Gongfu, his marriage must be decided by Yan.

He didn't want to have a free relationship with any lady. It doesn't matter if Yan wants him to marry anyone, and he will never marry a problematic wife.

The Japanese Yen Jia returned from the military camp outside the capital, and was called by Yan as soon as he entered the mansion.

"Mother, what's wrong with you looking for your son?"

Yan held a list in his hand and handed it to Yuan Jia to show him, "Do you see which girl you like?"

Yuan Jia took the list and found that it was all about some basic information about the eldest daughter of the same family. Of course, there would be no private information, but some public information about the father's official position and mother's background and his own age.

The candidates on this list are obviously selected by the old lady and Yan family.

Yan showed him the list because he was worried that the affairs of the court would affect the relationship between the in-laws in the back house, so he asked Yuan Jia to choose from it himself, so as not to choose Yuan Jia a father-in-law who was not aware of court affairs.

Yuan Jia's eyes swept through the entire list, and quickly recalled the interpersonal relationship between the father and mother of these women, which were the people from the emperor, which were neutral, which were close to Zhenbei Gongfu, which had value to win over, and which ones had the loss of virtue in the future...

Then he narrowed the list to three families and said to Yan: "Mother, there is no problem with marriage with these three families. As for which one to choose, he still depends on his mother to inquire about the woman's character. After all, not everyone can sit at the position of the hostess of Zhenbei Gongfu."

After reading the family background, it is time to look at the woman's character and ability.

After all, the mistress of Zhenbei Gong Mansion may not be unable to live in the world in the future.

Although Yan did not know that her son had a rebellious intention, she felt that her son was the best in the world and was worthy of the immortals, so she naturally had to choose the best wife for her son within the optional range.

After looking at the list of the three families identified by Yuan Jia, Yan went to find the old lady with great enthusiasm. The two of them mobilized their connections to inquire about the performance and reputation of the three girls in the boudoir.

Yuanjia's grandmother and mother were busy choosing a wife for him, waiting for him to get married. At the same time, some people in the palace had the idea of ​​Yuanjia's marriage.

The emperor has lived a very frustrated life for more than a year, and he is always thinking about how to eradicate Meng Yuanjia, a treacherous and ruthless minister.

However, he was trapped in the capital and asked for help but could not send out the capital in private. The emperor did not dare to openly announce in the court that the army from all over the country would enter the capital to serve the king and protect the emperor, for fear of angering Meng Yuanjia. The next day he found that 200,000 troops stationed outside the capital were surrounded by the palace.

With one step back and forth, the emperor did not dare to force Yuan Jia to be impatient, so he could only tolerate himself. So in the court, the emperor's prestige became lower and lower, and Yuan Jia's prestige was at its peak.

Except for a few royalists who were loyal to the royal family and speculators who bet on the emperor, others either remained neutral or surrendered to the Zhenbei Duke Mansion.

The emperor was in a very depressed mood. When he was staying in the harem, he would occasionally express a few words to the queen he trusted.

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The queen was the original wife whom the emperor married during his time in the secret residence. After following him for nearly ten years, she gave birth to a legitimate prince with him. Her family had long been defeated, so the queen was the most trusted by the emperor.

When the emperor was chatting with the queen in Fengqi Palace, he complained to the queen: "Meng Yuanjia, a traitor, has no loyalty and righteousness of his ancestors. It's a pity that Emperor Gaozu actually trusted the Meng family so much and raised a tiger as a disaster. Now it forces me to bear humiliation..."

The emperor did not dare to tell the queen about his arrangements for Yuan Jia, but it was okay to treat the queen as a trash can and keep complaining.

The empress and the emperor were one, so naturally they scolded Meng Yuanjia with the same hatred. The emperor felt very comfortable when he heard this.

However, after feeling comfortable, the problem still cannot be solved, and I still have to worry about how to hold my throne firmly.

The queen felt the emperor's troubles and suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said, "Your Majesty, if you can't deal with Meng Yuanjia in the court, it's better to deal with him in the back house. Wouldn't he be solved if he dies?"

The emperor sighed and said, "I have also thought about sending someone to assassinate him. At that time, the Zhenbei Army has no leader, and the military power will naturally come back to me. However, after all, the Zhenbei Duke Mansion has made great contributions to the court, so I can't do it too ugly."

In fact, he had already done the assassination of someone and had to do it twice, otherwise how did Meng Yuanjia's father and brother die strangely?

It was just that he encountered a setback in the assassination of Yuan Jia, and this move simply didn't work.

The queen didn't know what the emperor had done before, and she really thought that the emperor was a person who cared about meritorious officials. She persuaded: "Your Majesty, no matter how great the Meng family has, it is not enough to offset Meng Yuanjia's crime of intent to rebel. At worst, your Majesty will pardon the female family in Zhenbeigong Mansion to show magnanimity."

The emperor pretended to be pondering and nodded: "What the queen said is reasonable. But how should I solve Meng Yuanjia?"

It wasn't that after he wanted to kill the heroes, it was the queen who instigated him.

The queen, who did her best to make suggestions for the emperor, didn't know the idea of ​​expelling herself in her heart. She said: "Meng Yuanjia is about to go to the filial piety period, and at the age of crowning, why don't Your Majesty give him a marriage?"

"Give marriage?" The emperor's eyes lit up. He wanted to assassinate Meng Yuanjia from the back house before, but he only thought of sneaking into Zhenbei Gongfu through Meng Zhi, a man who had a grudge against Meng Yuanjia, but he did not expect to start from Meng Yuanjia's marriage.

The emperor didn't think about this at first, but now when the queen reminded him, he immediately began to think about who to choose to do his own thing.

As the King of Zhenbei, Meng Yuanjia held 300,000 Zhenbei Army and had an extraordinary status. His wife's background was naturally not bad.

The emperor had no confidence in controlling the noble daughter of a wealthy family. He had no personal sister and his daughter was still breastfeeding and could not marry the princess. So the emperor thought about it and thought of his cousins.

The emperor asked the queen: "Queen, what do you think I have appointed a few cousins ​​as princesses?"
Chapter completed!