Chapter 81

Lord Yuan Feng knew that bleeding this time was unavoidable, so he stepped out and replied: "Report to Your Majesty, serving the country is my duty. I am willing to represent the Lord Yuan family to donate 100,000 shi of grain and 5,000 young and strong braves to help General General Huangfu and General Su suppress the rebellion."

With Lord Yuan Feng setting the example, He Jin also immediately stated: "I am also willing to donate 100,000 shi of grain, but I can only provide 3,000 young and strong braves."

Any more, and he wouldn't have any.

Over the years, although he had scraped together a lot of money, grain, land... etc.

But he really didn't have many young and strong people in his hands.

These 3,000 were enough to make him bleed heavily.

"I am also willing to donate 3,000 shi of grain!"

"I..."

With Lord Yuan Feng and He Jin taking the lead, the officials below stepped out one after another to express their willingness to support.

"Good! Haha!"

Hearing this, Liu Hong shouted loudly: "I have already seen the patriotic hearts of all the ministers."

"I have heard your donations just now. Later, I will let Zhang Rang register and confirm them."

"I ask you all to send the money, grain, and troops to Zhang Rang as soon as possible, and he will send them to Weijun uniformly."

Liu Hong just calculated that there were no less than 800,000 shi of grain alone.

With so much money and grain, how could the Jizhou government army consume it all?

It cannot be wasted, and even more cannot let the people below embezzle it.

Therefore, Liu Hong absolutely would not give the people below a chance to embezzle, and happily accepted half.

Just send the remaining half to General Huangfu Song and Su Xuan.

Hmm! He didn't want any of the troops, all to General Huangfu Song and Su Xuan.

Is there a wiser Son of Heaven than him?

However, this old fox Lord Yuan Feng had been studying the Son of Heaven for so many years, how could he not know his temperament?

He was also speechless in his heart.

He didn't expect the Son of Heaven to be so shameless, even embezzling a portion of such donations.

Does such a Great Han still have any meaning to exist?

It would be better to let their Lord Yuan clan replace it.

Lord Yuan Feng immediately spoke out to stop it: "Your Majesty, this must never be done!"

"Our money and grain are all in our respective hometowns. If we transport them to Luoyang first and then send them to Jizhou uniformly;"

"Not to mention how huge the loss will be, just the time required in this process will likely be no less than one or two months."

"Jizhou is currently very short of money, grain, military equipment, and young and strong soldiers."

"If it is delayed for so long, how can they support it?"

"I fear they will repeat the same mistakes. I ask Your Majesty to think twice!"

He was not really doing it for the good of the Jizhou battlefield.

He just didn't want to see the Son of Heaven succeed and see the Son of Heaven profit.

Only by limiting the money and grain in the hands of the Son of Heaven can the Son of Heaven not recruit and raise more troops.

Only in this way can the expansion of the Son of Heaven's strength be limited.

"I ask Your Majesty to think twice!"

Other ministers heard this, vaguely understood something, and echoed one after another.

Liu Hong: "..."

Was this seen through?

He wanted to refute and veto.

But what Lord Yuan Feng said was very reasonable, even impeccable, leaving him helpless.

"Forget it! I won't fish this time!"

Thinking this, Liu Hong waved his hand and said: "Minister Lord Yuan's words are very reasonable. I was inconsiderate before, so just send them directly to General Huangfu Song and Su Xuan in Jizhou!"

"However, I will let Zhang Rang send people to supervise the implementation of this matter. I hope you won't let me down. Dismiss the court!"

After speaking, Liu Hong left angrily.

Jizhou, Yecheng,

"My Lord, the Zhang He you ordered to find has been found."

"This person is currently a Qu Military Marquis in the Jizhou government army. I have brought him here. He is outside the tent. Would you like to see him?"

Jia San walked into Su Xuan's commander's tent and bowed.

"Oh?"

Su Xuan was overjoyed and quickly stood up: "Call him in quickly."

This is Zhang He!

He came here and sent the Secret Guards to start searching.

Hmm! Not only Zhang He, but also Gao Lan... and others.

But there was no news of the others for the time being.

"Yes!"

Jia San took the order and went out, and soon brought in a burly young man.

"Subordinate Zhang He, Zhang Junyi, pays respects to General of the Household Su!"

As soon as Zhang He came in, he bowed respectfully to Su Xuan.

"Junyi, please rise quickly!"

Su Xuan quickly stepped forward to help Zhang He up, patted him on the shoulder, and looked at him: "Peak cultivation of the Transformation Realm, you are indeed not bad."

"I heard before that there was a person named Zhang He in the Jizhou government army who knew military affairs."

"Every time in battle, under the same circumstances, your subordinates' losses were the smallest, but the results were the greatest."

"Now it seems that the rumors are not false."

"Are you willing to follow me?"

He was not talking nonsense; he had really studied the battle reports and merit information left by the Jizhou government army before.

He saw Zhang He's bright performance, which was why he sent Jia San to find him.

"Eh?"

Hearing this, Zhang He was stunned, obviously not expecting Su Xuan to be so direct.

But the next moment, he bowed to Su Xuan in ecstasy: "Subordinate is willing! End general Zhang He, pays respects to the Lord!"

This is Su Xuan!

A legendary figure of the new generation, whose future is limitless.

Being able to join his command, he was going to be prosperous.

Over the years, he had had enough of the feeling of hitting walls everywhere.

— Author's Notes —

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