The day gradually dawned, the fierce battle in the West Inner Garden had already ended, the battle came suddenly, the end was fast, the casualties on both sides were not large, the Zhu army killed more than 800 people, nearly 2,000 wounded, and the Jin cavalry casualties were less than 300 people.

The bodies of the dead have been disposed of, the wounded have been treated, and weapons and armor have piled up like a hill.

More than 27,000 prisoners of war sat on a large grass, thousands of cavalry guarded them, Guo Song stood on the tower of Xuanwu Gate, looking at the prisoners of war in the distance and said to Yao Jin and Zhang Yun: "The military discipline of this army is not bad, I always tell you, whether an army can be used or not, the key depends on its military discipline, a monstrous army, like Li Xilie's Huaixi Army, no matter how brave and good it is, it must be completely eliminated and eliminated from the body, and an army with good military discipline, although its combat ability is a little worse, but it can also train them well, So I'm going to take this army, I'm going to train it. ”

"Your Highness, leave this army to the lowly position! I'll train them. Yao Jin took the initiative to ask.

Guo Song nodded, "That's exactly what I mean, I hope that after a few months of intensive training, they can be reborn, frankly speaking, the battle of this army is too weak, it can be seen that they are almost not trained in peacetime, and they can't use the advantage of spears against cavalry at all, and their physical strength is not good, so they only fought fiercely for half an hour, and someone actually fell down tired." ”

Zhang Yun next to him couldn't help but laugh and said: "Your Highness, it's not that you're tired, they're down and pretending to be dead!" ”

Guo Song smiled dumbly, and said to Yao Jin: "Did you hear it, I don't want to hear about this army falling and pretending to be dead next time." ”

Yao Jin clasped his fists and said, "Please rest assured, Your Highness, I will use three months to reincarnate them." ”

At this time, several soldiers brought Zhang Xiaolong, a descending general, and Zhang Xiaolong knelt down on one knee and saluted, "Humble Zhang Xiaolong See His Royal Highness King Jin!" ”

This Zhang Xiaolong was a subordinate general promoted by Dugu Qiu, who was once the general of the Left Guard, and Dugu Qiu wrote to Guo Song to mention him, saying that he did not really surrender to Zhu Zhu, but lurked in Zhu Zhu's army on his own orders.

Guo Song saw that he was very burly, dignified, and not treacherous, so he asked, "Is the token given to you by General Dugu still there?" ”

Zhang Xiaolong took out a silver medal and hung it under his neck, he tore off the rope and presented the silver medal to Guo Song, Guo Song took the sign and looked at it, it was indeed the brand of the Dugu family, and it was exactly the same as what Guo Song had seen.

Guo Song returned the sign to him and said, "Last time, the Southern Tang Army planned to go on a northern expedition and the whole army was destroyed, why didn't you remind them?" ”

Zhang Xiaolong sighed and said: "The subordinates sent their henchmen and soldiers to the Southern Tang camp to tell them, but my personal soldiers did not see Wei Gao, but they were killed by the prison army Tian Wenxiu, and later I caught a Southern Tang Brigade Commander, only to know about it, my personal soldiers were picked up by Tian Wenxiu, and there was no news again." ”

It was Tian Wenxiu again, when he heard this name, Guo Song felt a burst of nausea, and he Zhang Xiaolong said: "General Zhang, please get up!" ”

"Your Highness!"

Zhang Xiaolong stood up and said, "Since Your Highness has captured Chang'an, why don't you go down to Shangzhou quickly?" ”

"Why?"

"His Royal Highness, ten days ago, Zhu Jinqing sent two thousand troops to escort a batch of bronzes to Luoyang, this batch of bronzes is very large, enough to tens of millions of catties, all kinds of bronzes in the palace and the copper furnaces, copper tripods, and copper bells of the major temples in Chang'an have been looted, which is the first step for Zhu Zhu to plunder the wealth of Chang'an, because Zhu Zhu is in a hurry to mint money, so Zhu Jinqing sent the bronzes to Luoyang first, and there is just a batch of palace jade that has been packed, and Zhu Jinqing also wants to send them away, so the bronzes are still in Shangluo County, and His Royal Highness should stop it as soon as possible."

This news was very important, and Guo Song immediately said to Yao Jin: "Send someone to inform Li Bing immediately, and after taking Wuguan, seize this batch of bronzes!" ”

"Obey!" Yao Jin hurriedly went.

Guo Song pondered for a moment and then asked Zhang Xiaolong, "How many people are in your direct army?" ”

"There are 5,000 people under the humble position, but the real henchman army is only 1,000 people, and they are still the family soldiers of the Dugu family, and they have always followed the humble position."

Guo Song nodded and said: "This thousand troops will be returned to the Dugu family, you will arrange it, I will give you a thousand troops, you take them back to Shuzhong, you also go back together, General Dugu's side is short of manpower, and a strong army is needed." ”

Zhang Xiaolong was stunned for a moment and said, "I didn't understand what His Highness meant. ”

Guo Song smiled faintly and said: "You have the token of the head of the Dugu family, take the family of the Dugu family back to Shu, it's not a big problem, you don't go to Hanzhong, but go back from the Three Gorges Road, of course, this thousand army is no longer your henchman's army, but the army I arranged separately, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Zhang Xiaolong suddenly realized that the king of Jin wanted to install an elite army in Shu, and he was far-sighted!

He hurriedly bowed down and said: "Your Highness is so trustworthy and humble, and you are willing to serve Your Highness to the death!" ”

Guo Song turned back to Zhang Yun and said: "This thousand people will be led by you, take a boat from Dengzhou to the Han River, and then take the Yangtze River, although Zhu Zhu occupies Xiangyang, he has no naval army, and he can't stop you." ”

Zhang Yun nodded solemnly, this is another difficult task.

.........

After dealing with military affairs, Guo Song directly entered Chang'an City from Daming Palace, Daming Palace was repaired on a large scale when Zhu Zhu ascended the throne, it looks very new, all kinds of buildings are tall and majestic, magnificent, but the palace is deserted, almost no palace people can be seen, 'the white-headed palace maid is here, gossip about Xuanzong' has become history.

During the Tianbao period, the palace maids of the Daming Palace reached more than 40,000 people at most, and the eunuchs exceeded 10,000 people.

After the news of Zhu Zhu's preparation to move the capital came out, nearly half of them fled, and Guo Song did not allow Zhu Zhu to take the palace maids to Luoyang, Zhu Zhu was annoyed and angry, and simply disbanded them all, at this time, there were only hundreds of palace maids and eunuchs left in Daming Palace, all of whom were older and had nowhere to go, so they could only stay in Daming Palace to retire.

The left-behind chief of Daming Palace is called Li Shan, who is about sixty years old, entered the palace during the Kaiyuan Dynasty, and has been a eunuch for almost a lifetime.

He heard that His Royal Highness the King of Jin was coming, and hurriedly came to pay a visit, Guo Song sat on a large square stone and asked, "How many eunuchs and palace maids are there in the palace now?" ”

"Your Royal Highness, there are more than 600 palace maids, and there are less than 200 eunuchs, all of whom are relatively old, and the younger ones are gone."

"Is there still the first emperor's concubine?"

"They were all sent to Chengdu, and there were a few talented people Zhu Zhu who liked them, and they were taken to Luoyang by him, and there was no concubine here in Daming Palace."

"What about the Taiji Palace?" Guo Song asked again.

Li Shan smiled bitterly: "Your Highness has time to take a look, it is very dilapidated over there, no one has lived in it for a long time, Zhu Jun demolished some palaces to repair Daming Palace, there is only a spectacular building on the surface, but in fact it is dilapidated." ”

"How much is the monthly supply here?"

"The supply has been gone since the beginning of the year, and no one wants to care whether we live or die, we can only grow vegetables and grain by ourselves, and we can barely starve to death in the inner garden."

"It's not going to work!"

Guo Song shook his head, "From this month onwards, the minimum allowance will be restored, according to fifteen hundred wen per person per month, regardless of rank, everyone is the same. ”

Li Shan knelt down, so excited that he kowtowed again and again, they looked forward to the stars and the moon, and finally looked forward to this day.

"Your Highness's life-saving grace, the old slave and the palace people are grateful."

Guo Song waved his hand, "I never raise idlers, and provide me with recovery, but you have to maintain the Daming Palace, clean the ground, don't grow weeds, and report it quickly if the building is damaged." ”

"The old slave obeys the order, and he will never dare to slack off."

"Go ahead! Now that it is cold, I will personally give you a good sheepskin for each of you, so that you can sleep warmer at night. ”

Li Shan was moved to tears, he kowtowed respectfully, got up and went back to tell everyone the good news.

Looking at Li Shan walking away, Yao Jin couldn't help but ask, "Your Highness wants to live in Daming Palace?" ”

"I can't live?" Guo Song glared at him.

Yao Jin hurriedly waved his hand, "This is not what the lowly position means, the lowly position just means that the princess is not used to living in Jinyang Palace, and it is ten times bigger than Jinyang Palace here......."

"Don't worry about this, there will be someone in Daming Palace to live, but it won't be me."

Guo Song then came to the big Ying Treasury, the big Ying Treasury and the Qionglin Treasury are Li Shi's small treasury, he inherited from his father and carried forward, from the enthronement to the Jingyuan Mutiny in the past few years, accumulated a huge amount of wealth, Jingyuan Mutiny 20,000 troops to rob money and silk, even the nearby Chang'an people also came to rob, but only a small part was robbed, and the rest were occupied by Zhu Jun.

In recent years, Zhu Zhu's military expenditure basically came from the money and grain of these two vaults and the Guangtong warehouse, and it was not until not long before the relocation of the capital that the copper coins and cloth were finally exhausted, which shows how much private wealth Li Shi and the previous emperors had accumulated.

Qionglin Treasury is a vault for storing cloth and silk satin, which is currently empty, the big surplus treasury is divided into two, copper coins and gold and silver treasures are placed in one warehouse, and large precious items are placed in another warehouse, copper coins and gold and silver treasures are gone, only large and precious items are left.