The border guards are divided into David and Xiaowei, the so-called David refers to more than 10,000 guards, such as the Dragon Guard, the Jade Guard, the Wolf Guard and the Ghost Guard, while the Xiaowei is a guard with a number of 3,000 people, such as Hu Li's Snow Guard and small border guards such as Gua Guard, Moon Guard, and Tianwei.

The ghost guard is the Davidian army, but in fact, after the end of the war in Saibei, there is no need for two Davidian armies to jointly deter Saibei, which is why Murong Ke did everything possible to trouble Zhang Xiaowu, after all, the resources are so small, the cake is so big, and 20,000 mouths eat at the same time, either everyone can't eat enough, or there must be one who can't eat enough.

Zhang Xiaowu was stunned, and looked at Emperor Dade, who also looked at him in surprise, it seems that neither of these monarchs nor ministers knows about this arrangement.

However, the reduction of the ghost guard was not a whim, but a decision made after considering the country's defense, and even Du Shanbo was ready to continue to reduce the border guards. In the first year of the Shenghan Dynasty, the empire had a total of seventeen border guards, which had been reduced to eight by the time of Emperor Taiqian, and became nine after the addition of ghost guards during the time of Emperor Dade. Du Shanbo believed that it was sufficient to keep three guards in the north and south, and six guards in the whole country, so as to reduce the army's silver consumption and ensure the continued strength of the forbidden army.

Emperor Dade's eyes widened, and he was shocked in his heart, after all, he had not thought about rebuilding the Silver Guard, let alone appointing Zhang Xiaowu as the commander of the Silver Guard. According to his idea, Zhang Xiaowu will take over the Imperial Forest Army in the future, and Li Canglan will be sent to the frontier by him. Presumably Li Canglan said that Emperor Dade naturally trusted Zhang Xiaowu who did not stand in line with Dushanbo, but what if Zhang Xiaowu took over the Yinyi Guard, and changed from the Gongwei Imperial City to the Gongwei Dragon Capital?

Thinking of this, Emperor Dade suddenly laughed and said, "Quasi-play." ”

Zhang Kuan saw that this was wrong, how to let Zhang Xiaowu rebuild the silver guard, this Zhang Xiaowu was clearly a fool, and only obeyed the emperor's orders. If he is appointed as the commander of the Silver Guard, the future situation will be uncontrollable. So Zhang Kuan immediately came out and said, "Your Majesty, be cautious." ”

The other ministers also hurriedly came out and said, "Your Majesty, you need to be cautious about rebuilding the silver guard." ”

Zhang Kuan said again: "Yinyiwei has always been controlled by the prince's mansion, and now His Majesty's prince has not yet been established as a prince, even if he is established as a prince, he is only a six-year-old child, and he can't control Yinyiwei." Then who listens to this silver-clothed guard? "According to the regulations, the silver-clothed guard obeyed the prince's arrangement and assisted the prince in governing Longdu City, and now the only prince Xuanyuan Chenghua is only six years old, so he naturally can't control Zhang Xiaowu, so Zhang Xiaowu has a ghost guard in his hands, and he has a monopoly on power, if he wants to rebel in the capital, he is afraid that the harm is far greater than that of Yuan Qi, the former silver-clothed guard.

Of course, Zhang Kuan can't clearly say that Zhang Xiaowu is dangerous, let alone say that he can endanger the emperor's safety in the court, otherwise it will cause Long Yan to be furious, and Emperor Dade will do many uncontrollable things in a fit of anger. Zhang Kuan also understood more and more that his grandson had gradually become full-fledged and was not satisfied with being controlled by himself.

Wailang Stein, a member of the military department, immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, the ghost guards are divided into two, seventy percent are turned into silver guards, and three percent are left behind in Tucheng, so they really make the best use of their wealth and people." However, the Yinyi Guard is related to the safety of Longdu, and it is not yet known whether these border troops will be able to adapt to Longdu with a population of one million after entering the Beijing Division. Therefore, the minister had an immature proposal. "Shi Yong, the secretary of the military department, was loyal to the emperor and did not belong to the Dushanbo faction or the Zhang party, and his son Shi Taien was only loyal to the emperor, and when he knew what the emperor meant, he immediately agreed.

"Love Qing, loyalty, patriotism, as much as you can say." When Emperor Dade saw his eyes, he knew what he was going to say, so he sang and said.

Shi Taien smiled slightly, and said: "The minister proposes that the new silver-clothed guards are only responsible for maintaining law and order on the streets of Longdu for the time being, and are not responsible for criminal investigation and arrest duties. ”

Emperor Dade laughed: "According to what you said, where is Zhang Aiqing?" ”

"The minister is here." Zhang Xiaowu immediately walked out of the military department.

Emperor Dade asked, "Do you have confidence, the dragon capital?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Back to Your Majesty, I have no confidence. ”

Emperor Dade asked, "Why don't you have faith?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "The chaos in Longdu is not in the people, the chaos is in the eagles and dogs of the ministers' families, these people take chicken feathers as arrows, and cause trouble in Longdu City, not only disturbing the security of Longdu, but also smearing the faces of the adults, making everyone think that His Majesty has raised a group of evil officials. Zhang Xiaowu looked around and said: "So the ministers ask Your Majesty to give the ministers the sword of Shangfang, if there is an evil servant who moves out of which official or marquis that the minister can't afford to suppress us, I will take His Majesty's sword of Shangfang to scare and scare them, so as not to let them not know who is the emperor and who is the real master of the empire." ”

"It's fine." Emperor Dade laughed and said, "After the Silver Guard is rebuilt, I will give you the Shang Fang Sword." ”

At this time, the ministers finally couldn't help it, Zhang Kuan took the lead and said: "Qi play my emperor, dragons need to recuperate, Zhang Xiaowu led the ghost guard into Beijing, I am afraid that it will not benefit the people." ”

"The minister seconded the proposal."

"The minister seconded the proposal."

"The minister also seconded the proposal."

At this time, an imperial historian hurriedly came out and said: "Your Majesty, the minister has something to say." Zhang Xiaowu is arrogant and domineering, thirsty for killing, and kills people at every turn. I'm afraid that if he becomes a silver guard, Longdu City will be quiet, but he will be scared by people's heads. Your Majesty, Longdu is the face of our Holy Han Empire, and there is no room for loss of etiquette, let alone for everyone to endanger themselves. ”

Another imperial historian came out and said: "Your Majesty, please impeach Zhang Xiaowu for killing the palace maids around the Queen Mother without authorization, committing the crime of great disrespect and must be severely punished." ”

Seeing that the hundred officials were about to attack him in groups, Emperor Long Yan of Dade was furious and said, "Do you also want to meddle in my family affairs?" Inspector of the Yuan! What do you eat? Now that there are frequent wars in the south of the Yangtze River, the Tianhuo Sect is plotting rebellion everywhere, and the plague and drought are serious, you officials and imperial historians not only don't care about the livelihood of the people in various places, but instead keep an eye on the big and small things in the palace, and you are really full. I decided that Si Cheng Qi Yi would select seventeen people from the thirty-four imperial histories of the Inspectorate to follow the White Tiger army south, and let them check along the road who was causing trouble for me and who was corrupting. He pointed to the two officials standing below and said, "These two must be among them!" ”

Zhang Kuan's heart shook, Emperor Dade was becoming more and more uncontrollable, such a big thing was actually arbitrary, and he had to speak out to stop it. However, he was about to go out to ask about things, only to see Emperor Dade get up and say: "Zhang Xiaowu entered the Yangxin Palace to report alone, and the rest of the hundred officials retreated!" With that, he turned away in a huff.