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Fifty thousand imperial guards, thirty thousand Yanzhou veterans, an entire army of eighty thousand, in a single night there was less than half of them left. Moreover, the remaining soldiers were all disintegrated because of last night's raid, so there was a possibility that there was still less than twenty thousand left to fight.

In one night, the defeat of the eighty thousand strong army caused the Azure Province's Langya bandits to transform into the Black Armored Army of five thousand men who could defeat ten thousand enemies.

Without Ji Shui's army on the west side, Prince Stable led his nearly two-hundred thousand army to the west. He didn't intend to give the Great Wei Dynasty any chance to take a breather and directly take down Si Li.

"Greetings, Minister Li." Inside the imperial court, all the ministers were already quarreling. Li Heng, who should have stopped the argument, sat on the dragon throne, murmuring to himself, "The imperial guards are gone. My eighty thousand soldiers are gone."

The already wrinkled face of the old prime minister who was sitting on the chair wrinkled even more, as if his entire face was scrunched up. He did not stand up to stop his comrades' argument.

"Enough, stop arguing!" An old eunuch with a head full of white hair shouted as he pointed at the people quarreling on the ground.

Seeing who the speaker was, the surrounding arguments gradually calmed down. The people in the court all looked at each other, not daring to provoke the speaking eunuch.

"Your majesty, do you feel better now?" The eunuch asked Li Heng, who was sitting on the dragon throne and rubbing his head, with deep concern.

Without raising his head, Li Heng replied, "Song Huangmen, let them argue. Only after they have argued can I feel that there are still people in the imperial government."

Li Heng looked down at the silent officials below, not satisfied at all. Instead, he firmly grabbed the dragon head on the dragon throne, took a deep breath, and let out a long sigh. He was angry, he was angry, he was angry, he was not angry!

Wang Shi Xiu pressed his hand on the chair's handle and shakily sat up from the chair. After shaking it a few times, he made a decision that made him regret his decision to death. He opened his dry lips and lightly said, "This subject has a starter!" The words seemed to drain his strength and drain his spine, causing him to drop to his knees on the ground.

His kneeling gave Song Huang Clan, who was beside Li Heng, a fright. They wanted to step forward and support the three dynasties old elders, but Li Heng, with a gloomy face, stopped them. Li Heng calmly said, "Speak!"

Wang Shi Xiu shuddered and said, "Forcefully recruiting soldiers and collecting food."

"Oh? "What do you mean?" Li Heng asked.

Wang Shi Xiu lowered his head and said in a trembling voice, "Forcefully collecting soldiers in Ying Yang County, using these strong and robust Wei citizens to exchange for a breather in the Da Wei Country, and collecting all the food in Ying Yang County. Even if Ying Yang County were to be conquered, the army of Qingzhou City would not have enough food to support them in immediately attacking Hanoi County."

Li Heng's eyes lit up as he abruptly sat up on the dragon throne and shouted, "Someone, come! You should have heard Elder Wang's words, why haven't you started it yet! "

Wang Shi Xiu placed his head on the floor of the Grand Court and added, "From the age of fifty to the age of twelve, you can forcibly recruit anyone."

Just when everyone was astonished at how this normally kind old man could say such shocking words, the old prime minister said another shocking sentence, "Every family's food in Ying Yang County is 80-90% good, but only 10 to 20% good!"

This policy was even more astonishing than the previous one. The Great Wei's tax was usually the autumn harvest, and it was 15 taxes 1, while the rest of the food was a year's worth of food for the commoners. And this little bit of food could only allow the commoners to have a little bit left over, so the King's Prime Minister wanted the lives of the citizens of Ying Yang Country!

Wang Shi Xiu's words shocked everyone into silence, making everyone shocked. Li Heng squinted his eyes and looked at Wang Shi Xiu, and said calmly: "Elder Wang, is this your idea? You're not that ruthless! "

Wang Shouxiu buried his head in the ground so that no one could see the pain on his face, and replied with a trembling voice, "It was all your servant's idea! It has nothing to do with others! "

"Do you really intend to take the blame for this?" Li Heng already knew who the person who came up with this idea was, but he did not point it out, and lightly asked.

"He carried it too much, he can't carry it anymore! Furthermore, the Great Wei is in danger and has an inseparable relationship with me. For the Great Wei, I will carry this infamy! " Wang Shi Xiu replied.

"Alright, let's call it Prime Minister's intentions. Send the order over then. Immediately go down and force the conscription and gather all the food!" Li Heng squinted his eyes as he looked at the people on the ground and shouted.

Wang Shi Xiu raised his head and looked at Li Heng. His eyes were no longer clear, but a bit cloudy. In his cloudy eyes, he saw Li Heng had the heroic air of a newly ascended warrior, but he only used it on the Great Wei.

After this assembly was over, the comrades in the surroundings gradually dispersed, while Wang Shi Xiu was still kneeling in the main hall. Song Huang Men looked at the white-haired old man and sighed before walking over to help Wang Shi Xiu up.

He kowtowed three times in front of the dragon throne above his head, his legs trembling as he slowly stood up from the ground. Because his legs had gone limp after kneeling for so long, he almost fainted.

"I have failed my Royal Ancestor, failed my late emperor, so I should kneel!" Wang Shi Xiu replied.

"Then you shouldn't bear such a cruel reputation!" Song Huangmen said angrily.

Wang Shi Xiu chuckled and said gently, "Qian Yuan has sacrificed too much for the Great Wei. Now it's my turn to sacrifice a little for the Great Wei." With that, he took the walking stick from Song Huang Men's hands and walked out of the palace with the trembling stick.

Song Huang Men looked at the hunchbacked old man in front of him, his eyes red, and said softly: "You sacrificed a lot for the Great Wei too, seventy years of time! "Life only has seventy years!"

After the assembly was over, Chang'an spread another piece of news. The old Prime Minister of the three dynasties, Old Prime Minister Wang, no longer governed the court politics due to illness.

After Wang Shi Xiu's message, an even more shocking piece of news came from Chang An. It made Chang An's scribe curse Wang Shi Xiu angrily, and it also caused people to constantly throw feces and insult him in front of the Prime Minister's residence.