Guo Song and Yan Zhenqing sat down separately, Yan Zhenqing took out a thick letter, handed it to Guo Song and said with a smile: "This is the marriage of the Dugu family, you can see for yourself!" ”

The envelope was not sealed, Guo Song took out a booklet stacked together from it, and slowly unfolded it, which was densely filled with dowry things, and wrote a hundred lines, the first line was 30,000 sets of Mingguang armor.

Guo Song was stunned for a moment, and then there were 30,000 horizontal knives, 50,000 standard spears, 30,000 round shields, and 30,000 crossbows, which was actually all the equipment of an army of 30,000 people.

The marriage turned out to be a soldier armor, or 30,000 sets, Guo Song looked at Yan Zhenqing in confusion, Yan Zhenqing smiled and said: "Aren't you very strange, how can the Dugu family come up with so many armor?" ”

Guo Song nodded, he was indeed a little confused.

Yan Zhenqing smiled faintly, "Actually, this is an open secret of the Tang Dynasty, the nobles of Guanlong all started with the army, almost every household has a large number of armor, and there is a Zhuang Ding, the Yuan family occupied Taiyuan, and 20,000 troops suddenly appeared, isn't it the armor that the Yuan family has privately hidden, and the Zhuang Ding who is raised?" I don't know that 30,000 sets of armor are not all the armor hidden by the Dugu family, but it can be seen that they take you very seriously and bet on you. ”

Guo Song continued to look down, Hedong has 10,000 hectares of fertile land, 800,000 taels of silver, which makes Guo Song gasp, where is this dowry, it is clearly an excuse to support himself in an all-round way, and give the fertile land to himself, which is actually food.

Looking down again, it is a normal dowry, dress jewelry, jewelry and jade, precious porcelain, all kinds of court daily necessities, etc., Guo Song was a little strange, and asked: "Can these things be sent to Hexi?" ”

Yan Zhenqing smiled: "I don't think it's easy for the previous part, I don't know where they are hiding?" But the normal dowry in the back should not be a big problem, and officials from all over the country will give face to the Dugu family along the way. ”

"Thank you Yan Gong for bothering!"

Yan Zhenqing waved his hand, "This is your private matter, as an elder, you should do something, I suggest that you still hold a small wedding, just invite some relatives and friends to attend, it can be regarded as respect for the Dugu family." ”

Guo Song nodded, "The juniors also have this intention!" ”

Yan Zhenqing smiled and said, "After talking about private matters, let's talk about official affairs!" Otherwise, if you live in an official house, you will be embarrassed. ”

Guo Song perked up and said, "Yan Gong, please speak!" ”

"It's about the official system in Hexi, I personally feel that although it is currently more suitable for the integration of military and government, there is still a little bit of confusion, for example, the functions of recording the army and other drivers actually overlap, Zhang Qiu'an and Cao Wannian's division of labor is not clear, and there are conflicts in functions, I understand that they are actually Shangshu left and right, eight Cao Si, should be assigned to each of them to manage half, so that the responsibilities and powers of the two are clear.

Second, the long history is a bit overwhelmed, Pan Liao has to manage both military affairs and civil affairs, because the functions of recording and joining the army and driving are not clear, resulting in Pan Liao having to ask about specific government affairs, and at the same time he also has to manage local counties, and he can't be busy with three heads and six arms, and his conscientiousness is commendable, but people's energy is limited, and he can't be busy, and there will be mistakes.

Third, I found that there is no state government in the Hexi Corridor, and it is said that there is a governor's office, but in fact it has existed in name only, and there are no officials and official offices, that is to say, Hexi Jiedu Mansion is directly in charge of the county, perhaps because there are relatively few counties in Hexi Prefecture, such as Suzhou has only one county in Jiuquan, and Ganzhou only has two counties, Zhangye and Chaidan, so there is no need to set up a state government, but there will be a big jurisdictional loophole. ”

Guo Song pondered and said, "Can Yan Gong give an example, what kind of jurisdictional loopholes are there?" ”

Yan Zhenqing said: "For example, Juyanhai, who governs it, Zhangye County said that it has nothing to do with it, it belongs to Suzhou, but Jiuquan said that Juyanhai is not under his control, it is very funny, such a fertile lake land, it has become a borderless land, everyone doesn't want it, then I will take my family to Juyanhai to be the king."

Of course, not only Juyanhai, but also Xiu Tuze and Baitinghai, as well as Daze, and the foothills of Qilian Mountain, these places are not under the jurisdiction of the government, you can't put the responsibility on the county, many states in Datang have direct jurisdiction, this is the disease of not having a state capital, you can completely let Jiuquan County Order and Suzhou Assassin at the same time! The county magistrate is also the chief of history, and the county lieutenant is also Sima, so that their authority is great. ”

Guo Song nodded, "Xue Gong is right in his criticism!" ”

Yan Zhenqing waved his hand, "I haven't finished talking yet, don't interrupt me!" ”

Guo Song smiled bitterly in his heart, in the eyes of this old Xiangguo, the official system in Hexi was really full of holes, and he had to continue to show a modest attitude.

Yan Zhenqing continued: "You are now implementing the integration of military and government, if there is no government affairs in Hexi, it is understandable, but like Hexi now, there are many government affairs, the population is nearly one million, the army has reached 60,000 people, and the territory is thousands of miles. ”

"Isn't that a huge bureaucracy?"

Yan Zhenqing's eyes widened, "Boy, if you only focus on one acre and three points of land in Hexi, just say nothing to me, if you have the world in mind and want to do something for the common people in the world, then listen to me honestly, don't think I can't see it, you have recruited 60,000 troops, can a small Hexi afford it?" ”

After a moment of silence, Guo Song said: "Yan Gong also agrees that I am aiming for the world?" ”

Yan Zhenqing walked on the wall with his hands in his hands, staring at the banner of 'Compassion for the World' and said slowly: "If I didn't approve of it before, but now I can see through it, the monarch of the Tang Dynasty is too weak, so that the soldiers are constantly in trouble, and the people are miserable, this world needs a strong king too much, Zhu Jun is very strong, but he is a traitorous male, don't I support you, but I support Zhu Jun?"

I don't have a few years anymore, those monarchs and ministers have bound me all my life, and in the last few years of my life, I finally woke up to the fact that the rulers of the Tang Dynasty are not worthy of pity, and what really needs our mercy is the common people of the world and the people of the Tang Dynasty! ”

.........

Yan Zhenqing left a thick book of 10,000 words and left, at this time, he spent several months to check the pulse of Hexi, and the suggestions he sorted out were also a summary of his decades of experience as an official.

Of course, what Yan Zhenqing just said was only part of it, and he had many other suggestions, all of which he wrote in the book of ten thousand words.

Guo Song was like a treasure, and read it carefully.

.......

In the afternoon, Guo Song came to the east of Zhangye City, where there is a secret house covering an area of ten acres, which was originally a temporary refuge for Guo Song's family, and now it is used for other purposes.

Although Guo Song set up an internal guard before, the main responsibility of the internal guard is to find and capture the enemy's hidden spies, but it is a little beyond the enemy's assassins, which is also because the members of the internal guard are mainly soldiers, and the combat effectiveness on the battlefield is strong, but the close martial arts are insufficient.

The last Li Man incident was a profound lesson, almost causing serious losses to the senior officers of the Hexi Army, so it was necessary to form a professional samurai group, not only to guard against enemy assassins, but also to send people to various places to set up intelligence points, collect intelligence, and even carry out assassination missions if necessary.

At present, each feudal town has its own secret samurai, gathering intelligence and carrying out assassination missions, which is a secret battle on another front outside the battlefield.

The leader of Tiance Building is Xiao Yu Niang, she accepted the correct name given to her by Guo Song, called Guo Yu Niang, she was originally born in the Tibetan Sword Pavilion, she knows the operation of the Tibetan Sword Pavilion very well, has rich experience, plus her own martial arts, and more importantly, Guo Song's trust in her, this is the most important.

Now Tiance Building has just been running for a few months, there are more than 60 members, two months ago, Guo Yuniang went to Chang'an and Luoyang, and recruited a group of loyal to Gongsun Auntie's old department of the Tibetan Sword Pavilion, about 60 people, most of them are orphans and orphans adopted by Gongsun Auntie, all of them are strong in martial arts.

After Gu Fengming, the sword-casting disciple of Gongsun Auntie, was killed by Li Man, the people who were loyal to Gongsun Auntie were completely marginalized by Li Man, and after the Hidden Sword Pavilion was forcibly disbanded by Zhu Jun, this group of old troops loyal to Gongsun Auntie relied on the Tianlai Music Workshop and the Azure Martial Arts Hall in Chang'an and Luoyang to make a living.

Knowing that it was Guo Song who recruited them, they all enthusiastically followed Guo Yuniang to Zhangye.

Guo Yuniang established a perfect organization, according to the method of Gongsun Auntie divided into the inner hall and the outer hall, and began training, the most important of which is brainwashing, so that they are loyal to Tiance Lou, in which Guo Song's identity is very important, he is not only Gongsun Auntie's nephew, but also the nominal head of Tiance, the owner of Tiance Building, so that everyone has a sense of identity with Guo Song.

Guo Song did not go to Tiance Tower during this time, mainly to guide Guo Yuniang and dozens of backbones to the nine styles of swords.

As early as several years ago, Guo Yuniang wanted to learn the nine styles of swords, but once a woman learned the nine styles of swords, it would affect marriage, so Guo Song has not agreed, in the spring of the previous year, Guo Song couldn't stand Guo Yuniang's repeated pleading, and finally agreed to her and began to teach her nine styles of swords.