Imperial Palace, Chongzheng Hall.

As a group of old party counselors who could not speak moved out one after another, listening to political questions became a very interesting thing... At least today's official Zhao Ji looked quite happy. Sitting on the imperial throne, the smile on his face could not be concealed.

What made Zhao Ji happy was that Cai Jing had just submitted a memorial to "Send a memorial to beg for the deposed Empress Yuanyou". The memorial made a lot of sense!

Cai Jing meant that this Empress Yuanyou was deposed by the late emperor, and whether it should be deposed or not, it was always true that it was abolished! Moreover, the procedure for the deposed Empress was not a problem, and it was also supported by the prime minister Zhang Dun at that time.

Of course, Empress Dowager Xiang disagreed, but Empress Dowager Xiang did not rule the country from behind the curtain at that time, so he had no right to prevent the deposed Empress. After deposed Empress Meng, the procedure for establishing Empress Liu was not flawed, and he also received support from Zhang Dun. Although Empress Dowager Xiang did not like Empress Liu, she did not deposed Empress Liu when Empress Dowager Xiang took office in the court. This shows that in Empress Dowager Xiang's view, Empress Liu's status was also legal.

Since Empress Liu is a completely legal queen, then it is illegal to reinstate Empress Meng. How can an emperor have two surviving queens? This is not a posthumous title, but a lively queen. Isn’t this a husband having two wives? And it’s a couple after the husband dies... This is obviously contrary to human ethics! It’s incest! How can such a thing be possible? If it is not corrected, can the world follow suit? Will there be two wives in the future?

Cai Jing's statement is reasonable and well-founded. Neither the Three Bonds and Five Constant Permanence nor the laws of the Song Dynasty would allow a couple to marry a living person with a dead person.

As for whether Empress Meng was framed and abolished Empress Meng was the "Fushui Incident" that was not enough to reconcile Empress Meng. After all, there are many reasons for the separation of couples in the world caused by misunderstandings. Can a divorced couple reunited without condition and then have polygamy? What if the divorced woman remarries? Do you want polygamy?

"...I think that Your Majesty might as well treat Meng well, provide superiority, make him happy and rich, and enjoy the glory of the rest of his life. At the same time, he took back the title of queen and invited him back to Yaohua Palace."

Cai Jing shook his head and tail, speaking proudly, and shot at him regardless of the almost burning eyes in the hall.

It is hard to use your eyes to cook Cai Jing. Of course, the old party boss Han Zhongyan and Fan Chunli. Although they knew that Empress Meng could not be saved, they still had some fantasies. I hope that no important minister with enough weight will come to propose this matter, so that it can be delayed for a while. Maybe it will be a turnaround!

After all, the old party is not without any means to the Jiehe Knight, Fangnu Warrior and the military system that is being tried in Jingzhao Prefecture are all under the leadership of the old party!

If all three projects are successful, Li Gefei and Shi Guozhong, two old party officials, will definitely be of great use to the court. Li Gefei has a deep enough qualifications, and his daughter Li Qingzhao is also a confidante of the official family, so she will definitely be recommended to join the two governments. Shi Guozhong has little qualifications, but he can still be arranged to serve important positions among the censors or the six ministries, and he can also arrange a power to send to Kaifeng Prefecture...

Even if the crisis of the old party is over, even if Empress Meng is deposed, it will not hurt too much.

But this fantasy was broken by Cai Jing, the traitor!

"What Cai Qing said is very consistent with my wish!"

Zhao Ji knew that deposing Empress Meng was trampling on the pain of the old party, so he didn't wait for the priest to express his opinion one by one, so he first expressed his position, and then turned his attention to the second prime minister Zeng Bu.

"Your Majesty is wise!" Zeng Bu immediately stood up and spoke, "I also think that Empress Yuanyou should be invited to stay in Yaohua Palace."

His words were more polite than Cai Jing. He did not directly mention the abolition, but the meaning was the same.

As the leader of the new party, Zeng Bu's statement seemed to wave the flag. Xu Jiang, Li Qingchen, Wen Yi, An Tao, Jiang Zhiqi, Zhao Tingzhi and others expressed their support for the deposed Empress Meng.

In the entire hall, only the two old party officials, Han Zhongyan and Fan Chunli, were left without any statement or statement, and they just agreed! Although they hated them so much, as reasonable gentlemen, they really had no way to refute Cai Jing's views.

After all, in "Wenquxing Xunbao", the truth has been explained very clearly!

It seems that the gentlemen in the court really need to publish a newspaper like the Wenquxing Xunbao to sway the flag and shout for themselves...

Zhao Ji did not go to see the leaders of the two old party members, but said, "Then let the Hanlin scholars write an imperial edict and ask the Meng family to leave the palace to live. After the Meng family left the palace, the treatment will be better."

After saying his decision, Zhao Ji, who was a little guilty, picked up the memorial handed over by An Tao, the Minister of the Privy Council, and gently opened it on the table without waiting for the Hanlin Bachelor to receive the order.

"An Qing, you reported that the treasury of the six northwest routes is empty today, the army has a shortage of food, the supply is very tight, and the situation is severe... Can it be maintained at this time?"

The supply of Shaanxi 6th Road has been a difficult problem since the rebellion of Li Yuanhao in Renzong's rebellion. Although Southeast 6th Road can ship more than 6 million stones of rice to the Central Plains a year, a considerable portion of the Central Plains cities such as Kaifeng Prefecture have to eat, and the rest go ashore from Luoyang Baibo and then transfer thousands of miles to the transport, which consumes a lot of the road.

In the years after Emperor Zhezong took power, the sixth routes in Shaanxi fought year after year. Although they won, they also consumed all the reserves accumulated over the years. When they were using troops to Qingtang in the second year of Yuanfu, even Zhang Dun's brother Zhang Shi submitted a lawsuit against the grounds that the treasury was empty and the military rations were scarce.

It can be seen how tight the supply on Shaanxi 6th Road has reached!

"Your Majesty, because the situation in the northwest is stable, there is no major problem at the moment." An Tao replied, "But from the perspective of preventing problems from the unburning, we should speed up the reserve of materials and military supplies in the northwest."

"How many military supplies need to be reserved?" Zhao Ji asked.

"The more food and grass, the better," An Tao replied, "Western thieves are often attacking the whole country. Therefore, the six routes in Shaanxi must dispatch hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians to fight. To consume 100 kilograms of grain per month, it takes at least 400,000 shi of rice and grain per month to fight the troops... This is still for people to eat. If the horse materials are included, the consumption of 500,000 shi is a bit tight. If the attack lasts for two months, at least one million shi of rice and grain is needed to support it."

"That's so much for one million stones?"

When Zhao Ji heard the amount of millions of stones, his good mood to destroy Empress Meng was immediately gone.

"Your Majesty," said Jiang Zhiqi, the head of the Privy Council, to the same magistrate, and said, "Although there are millions of stones, it is not enough to be prepared. With one million stones to be captured for two months, it is still under the defense of the various troops. If you want to use Lingxia, a reserve of ten million stones is needed!"

Now the initiative in the northwest battlefield is actually completely controlled by the Song army, and it is impossible for the Western Xia to cross hundreds of miles of Gobi to send troops. Before, when Empress Dowager Xiaoliang used troops to Hengshan, she needed to reserve materials at the Xixia army stronghold on the Hengshan line in advance, so that she could support hundreds of thousands of people to fight for a period of time.

If the Xixia army was asked to drag the logistics line for hundreds of miles, then the troops they could invest in the front line would probably be tens of thousands, which was not enough to shake the Song army's defense line.

Of course, if the Song Dynasty wanted to destroy Xixia, it was necessary to dispatch hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Xingqing Prefecture and Lingzhou City. If it did not conquer the capital of others, how could the Xixia perish itself?

There is no shortcut to attacking strong cities like Xingqing Prefecture and Lingzhou. After months of hard fighting and even more than one year of siege, it is a real struggle for logistics.

So 10 million stones of grain storage are probably really a prerequisite for the war to destroy the country in the northwest!

At this time, the Song Dynasty had more than one billion mu of land, and it was not that it could not be collected for ten million stones, but that it was impossible to transport the grain to Shaanxi. The barren appearance of Shaanxi certainly could not be collected for so much grain. It would be amazing to be able to accumulate one or two million.

In other words, if the Song Dynasty wanted to destroy the Western Xia, it would at least store eight million stones of grain in the grain warehouse on the northwest edge!

"Can you solve the problem of grain in the north and south transport the grain in the north and the northwest?" Zhao Ji frowned.

"Your Majesty," An Tao, the official of the Privy Council, replied, "Food grain from north to south can only be transported to Baibo, Luoyang. From Luoyang west to the edge, there are at least one thousand miles to more than two thousand miles. There is no canal water transportation, so it is very difficult to transport it. If one stone of grain and grass starts from Baibo, it will be very difficult to deliver 15-20 kilograms to the front line on the edge.

If Your Majesty really intends to inherit the remnants of the former emperor and pacify the giant thieves in the northwest, then you should start transporting food and grass to the west from now on and stockpile the reserves, and do not slack off."

The efficiency of water transportation is incomparable to land transportation. Even for an inland river ship, a 500-foot ship can be loaded with 400 stones of grain, and it can be replaced with at least 100 carriages. The consumption of more than 100 carriages is not comparable to that of a 500-foot ship.

If the food eaten by sailors is negligible if it is transported thousands of miles on the water. If it is carried by carriages by land, a transit station will be set up for every 200 miles by relay transportation. In the best case, the delivery rate of 2,000 miles is only 20% if it is delivered, which means that 80% of the grain and grass are consumed by carriages and grooms that transport grain.

According to this delivery rate, 8 million s of military rations must be stored on the Northwest Front, and at least 50 million s of military rations transported to Baibo... This number is equivalent to the total shipping volume of the Sixth Shipping Department in eight years!

In other words, as long as the combat effectiveness of the Song army does not have an overwhelming advantage over the Xixia army, it is almost impossible to achieve the destruction of the Xixia based on its quantity and national strength!
Chapter completed!