Chapter 193

Needless to guess, Xu Shian knew that Xu Cheng should be angry in the court again. He had no place to vent his anger when he came home. He just couldn't see himself recently, so he casually found a way to find his unhappiness.

Xu Shian untied his robe and turned to look at Xu Cheng. In recent years, Xu Cheng is aging at a speed visible to the naked eye, but he knows that Xu Cheng is so old not because he is worried about family and state affairs, but because he is addicted to wine and sex all day and has been hollowed out.

Now he's gasping for breath after taking a few steps, and his body is half buried in the earth. He's been drinking and drinking all day. Since the second wife's death, he has gone to the romantic place more frequently and without restraint.

As usual, I can't see anyone at this time, but I saw him today, and he is so angry. It must have been a lot of grievances in the court.

"Your Majesty is angry with you again?" Xu Shian's tone was neither salty nor light.

Sure enough, Xu Cheng heard a cold hum, "Yan Tianji, that old man, didn't stop for a moment. He wrote a letter to suggest your majesty to modify the articles of association of the army and Horse Department, and your majesty agreed!"

No wonder he was so angry.

The military and horse department is a special department under the command of the military department. Although it is planned under the military department, it does not belong to the management of the military department. The large and small affairs in it are directly controlled by the general with tiger Fu.

Now, Yan Tianji is the great general of the state of Yan. Although he has retired from the front line in recent years, he can't stand his good life. His four sons are mighty gods of war, and even vaguely surpass Yan Tianji. His strength can't be underestimated.

According to the regulations of the great Yan state, the tiger talisman was handed over to the imperial court after the general was demobilized and returned to the field, but Emperor Yan remembered Yan Tianji's credit and did not take back the tiger talisman, but let him take charge of the fat job of the army and horse department.

However, the post of the head of the military and Horse Department was a job that Xu Cheng had worked hard to get after fawning on the Empress Dowager for a long time. At the beginning of Emperor Yan's accession to the throne, he was surrounded by enemies and fought repeatedly. The military and Horse Department was the direct Department collecting food and grass from all over the country, and the most powerful one was conscription.

Because the war lasted a long time and countless front-line soldiers were killed and injured, the military and horse department took over the conscription and took charge of it. When Xu Cheng was young, he ate, drank, whored and gambled, and was good at all evil ways. He finally begged the Empress Dowager to grind such a job, and had long forgotten all her instructions.

He was also very clever. He thought that the conscription was a fat job. He was calm on the surface, but behind his back, it made people tell the wind. To the effect that the Imperial Court felt that the war was tight and that it was not a good thing to prolong the battlefield time. News has been spread. No matter dignitaries or ordinary people, all men over the age of 16 in their families should join the army and rush to the front without mistake.

This news is a good thing for those poor families. At least there can be a place to eat, but it is like a bolt from the blue for those officials' children who have had good clothes and food since childhood.

On the battlefield, they always put their heads on their pants and belts. Maybe one day they will lose their arms and legs and die in a foreign land. In this way, those dignitaries love their children so much that they can't bear to send their hard-raised children to the front line to die. They are crazy and look for ways one after another.

Xu Cheng just appeared at this time. Relying on his status as the nephew of the empress dowager, he clearly marked the price without saying it, but also sat down and started the price. According to the title of gentry children, he can take money to eliminate the disaster without going to the front line. The money collected and scraped alone is enough for him to enjoy the glory of his life.

Later, Xu Cheng would come here once a year. Of course, the money he collected and scraped didn't completely fall into his own pocket. Four or six points were good, and 60% of them paid tribute to the Empress Dowager. In this way, the Empress Dowager was dragged down by the way. With this powerful backstage guarantee, even if someone found out and wanted to sue, they were all pressed down and sued.

In a short period of ten years, Xu Cheng was promoted to Duke Xu by making a fortune. He enjoyed hereditary honor and favor. Although he was only a false name, he completely became famous and gained a firm foothold in the court hall. No one dared to despise him.

Originally, he thought this broad road would enable him to enjoy his old age. Over the years, he spent money like water, and won the reputation of Xu Caishen in brothel brothels. The stars support the moon and the scenery is extremely beautiful.

But today, when he went to the court as usual, Yan Tianji suddenly handed a memorial to Emperor Yan to the effect that the front-line war has almost ended. In order to save military expenses, the time of conscription can be changed from one year to three years, and the food and grass of soldiers and horses can be appropriately reduced. After all, with fewer personnel, the corresponding allocation will naturally be reduced.

This sounds like a great thing to save money for the imperial court, but it's no different to Xu Cheng, so he cut off his wealth!

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents!

Naturally, Xu Cheng could not sit idly by and immediately refuted in the court. It can be said that in the end, he was just a foreign relative doing leisure work with salary. In addition, Emperor Yan was more or less dissatisfied with these foreign relatives over the years. At the moment, he just seized the opportunity to suppress them. How could he let them go in vain!

When Xu Cheng jumped up, Cheng Guogong argued back one by one, and he was speechless. Xu Cheng was not unable to say, but if he wanted to say, he was bound to give up the Empress Dowager. In this way, he was tantamount to looking for his own death. Even if he was so angry, he could only bear it.

Emperor Yan's personality has always been determined quickly. Naturally, he will not give him any chance to breathe. He immediately cut the mess with a sharp knife and directly issued a decree to hand over the reduction of the army and Horse Department to Cheng Guogong Yan Tianji.

Xu Cheng's face was going to be angry, but there was no way.

In terms of military merit, he is a big general supported by the emperor and in terms of contacts. He has a book and iron certificate. Even if he disobeys the imperial edict, he doesn't have to lose his head, but he is different. Now he is a mouse in the bellows, and both ends are angry.

What angered him most was that in order to express his importance to Xu Shian's marriage to the daughter of Shenjun palace, and to flatter the empress dowager, he made great efforts in the bride price. The whole 18 boxes of gold and silver treasures made the white family earn enough face and emptied all the Xu family.

Now he suddenly cut off his wealth, which made him almost faint with anger.