"And the fields of Ganzhou."

Seeing that Gu Xinyue was interested, the corners of Gu Mohan's lips curled slightly, and he said softly: "Ganzhou, as you said, in fact, the climate is good, since the Qin family was stationed in Liangzhou, people began to open up fertile land in the land of Liangsu, and after the establishment of Ganzhou City, a large amount of fertile land was reclaimed next to it. ”

"Well, I saw this." Gu Xinyue nodded.

"But only a small half of those fields are in the hands of the locals, and most of them either belong to the Luo family and those families, or they are attached to them and become hidden fields, this time, I have cleared them all, and 2.5 million mu has been reported to the imperial court, and taxes will be paid in the future, and there are more than 2 million mu, I did not report it, and in the future, it will be my own land."

Hearing Gu Mohan's words, Gu Xinyue's eyes widened unconsciously and said, "This ......"

That's a bit bold, isn't it?

No, no, listening to him, that's what the Luo family did before, so many fields, the court didn't know about it at all?

"You're right, in the past, most of the officials in Ganzhou colluded with the Luo family, those fields, either at all, or not in the registration case, or hung in the name of a person with a meritorious name who can be exempted from taxes, as long as it is not reported, the household department does not know, not to mention the emperor, and the Luo family is not swallowed by himself, most of the income from those hidden fields was given to the officials of the DPRK and China, nearly 15 years, the Northwest Army has 480,000 registered soldiers in the military department, in fact, the actual soldiers are less than 400,000, such a big difference in the middle, But the imperial court didn't know anything, and if I hadn't taken over all the official offices this time, I wouldn't have been able to find out, and these were all settled by the Luo family's money. ”

As if knowing Gu Xinyue's thoughts, Gu Mohan smiled faintly and said, "You want to ask, it's all these moths guarding the border, why hasn't the Chu State been broken yet, right?" ”

Gu Xinyue was stunned for a moment, and said, "I heard that eighteen years ago, there was a Qin family, the Qin family that guarded the border three states for eight hundred years. ”

Gu Mohan's expression moved slightly, and he said: "Yes, Qin family, it is precisely because the Qin family's iron cavalry is guarding Liangcheng in Qinzhou, that they can help Mobei on the top and attack Ganzhou on the bottom, so the military affairs of those two places are scattered, and the Rouran people dare not invade." But eighteen years ago, the Qin family was wiped out on trumped-up charges, and no one restrained them, and Mobei and Ganzhou began to intensify, even those empty salaries, which were only formed in the past ten years. ”

"That ......"

Gu Xinyue wanted to speak and stopped.

"I know what you're worried about, I won't be like the Luo family Hui Beihou who only cares about making money for himself and goes to the country, and I won't become the former Qin family, even if I am loyal and ruined by the conspiracy of the superiors."

Gu Mohan's eyebrows and eyes softened, and he said softly: "This time more than 80,000 people actually died in Ganzhou, I reported 150,000 people, I want an iron cavalry with excellent combat ability, I don't need those soldiers who eat and drink together, except for those who were directly killed because of collaborating with the enemy this time, the rest are also treated as battle deaths, I told Chu Yu that there will only be 300,000 troops left in Ganzhou in the future, so he can also rest assured." However, my real descendants, in addition to what you see in Jiayuguan, will also retrain 100,000 iron horses, and those money should be enough for me to train a total of 200,000 well-equipped iron horses. ”

Gu Xinyue's heart moved, and when she raised her eyes, she saw that his face was so soft that she could see through water, and she twisted her head to the side a little awkwardly and said, "What are you telling me about these things?" ”

When he said this, he told her all his old bottom.

told the emperor that there were 300,000 people, but in fact his own subordinates were 200,000 people, even if some of them were not his descendants, they would also form tens of thousands of empty salaries.

However, compared with the output of the two million acres of fertile land and silver and gold mines, empty wages are indeed dangerous and unpleasant.

And, he meant, to use that money to additionally equip his army.

Only his army.

This......

Don't sue her for these things!

She doesn't want to have anything to do with him anymore!

Gu Mohan smiled lightly and said: "Didn't you say that we are still a community of interests, so what do I do, I always have to tell you, Xinyue, there will be nothing in the past two years, but in the future, it will be difficult to say, but no matter what happens, I will tell you in advance." ”

Gu Xinyue frowned, turned her head and glared back.

What do you mean? What does that mean!

Gu Mohan's eyes were glued to her vivid face, and he said softly: "Xinyue, Chu Yu's foundation for ascending the throne is not stable, so he is not only taboo about the military generals in power, but also taboo those families who control the imperial court, when the capital was in turmoil, he took the opportunity to kill a group, Huibei Hou and this time, he took the opportunity to kill a few, including many century-old families, those people are different from Huibei Hou and the Luo family, Huibei Hou and the Luo family just started with the founding emperor of Chu State, and the military power under his control has been washed clean by me and Qin Qi, The influence left behind is limited, but those families, especially the Fan family who moved this time, have deep roots, and we can't imagine it at all, and what they killed at the beginning was just the clansmen of the capital. ”

Gu Xinyue's face sank and she looked at him fixedly.

"Chu Yu, to be honest, he is ruthless enough, insidious enough, and means enough," Gu Mohan had a trace of sarcasm on his face, and said: "But he doesn't have the ability to govern the country, he only thinks that if he kills those people, he will have less power to resist him, but he didn't expect that the relationship between those families, and the impact on them, the most important thing is that when he killed those people and vacated a large number of positions, he didn't have the ability to let people who can really do things take the position, and he himself is also a person who only cares about taking power and seizing power for his own enjoyment, and do not care about the affairs of the people of the real country. The military salary saved by Qin Qi and I here, Wei Ge Lao originally wanted to use it to consolidate the embankment of the big river, but Chu Yu embezzled all of them, not to mention, he also transferred tens of millions of dollars from the household department to build the palace, these are all hidden dangers, not to mention, the princes have also grown up, and it will not take long for the distribution of power in this capital to be re-distributed. ”

Gu Xinyue's heart skipped a beat when she heard it.

She had long been not optimistic about that scumbag emperor's uncle, but she didn't know that Gu Mohan actually saw it so deeply.

In other words, she didn't expect that Gu Mohan's judgment of the situation was very clear.

He is not fighting indiscriminately, every step he takes, in fact, there is deep thought.

With complete control of Chu Yu's mind and the situation in the capital, it took less than two years to get to this point.

Outsiders are afraid that they still think that he is just lucky.

"However, no matter how those people do it, you don't have to worry, now Chu Yu wants to rely on me, and those officials of the family are also dizzy, and they will not collude again in a short time," Gu Mohan smiled contemptuously and said: "Of course, even if those people collude, they are not terrible, because they are too selfish, and if they are selfish, there will be problems with the composition of interests, and they will look ahead and backward, so they will also be taboo against me and dare not offend us, you are in the capital, you can walk sideways." ”

"Huh?" Gu Xinyue was startled.

"Didn't you pick up a lot of posts? If you want to go, just go. Gu Mohan said with a faint smile.

"Huh?" Gu Xinyue was surprised again.

"It's okay to go out and have fun, Xinyue, and make some friends too." Gu Mohan's eyebrows and eyes softened.

I only said in my heart, what kind of Su girl Fu girl's brothers, I will have a good relationship, and they will definitely remember it.

"General!"

Hearing Qin Fu calling outside, Gu Mohan pushed the deed and silver tickets on the table to her, took a deep look at her, and got up to leave.