Soon it was a double day, and the emperor's special summons in the Xiaoyan Ying Hall began on time.

There were only four courtiers present, Li Yu, Jia Tan, Lu Zhen and Gao Yue.

The emperor who presided over the meeting directly asked the first question, that is, since the national turmoil in the Tianbao period, nearly forty years, these forty years I Tang is too aggrieved, although the internal suppression of the rebellion of An and Shi rebels, but the rest of the three towns of Heshuo are still strong, peaceful and rebellious, unruly, and there are Ziqing and other towns do not obey the king, the imperial court wealth and population, almost half of the loss; Outside the West Fan over the years into the Kou, Longyou lost, Hexi lost, Anxi Xiting is lonely, every year to prevent autumn, the cost is huge, but the effect is very little, not only can not recover the hometown, the Beijing division has also been repeatedly threatened by the Tibetan cavalry, and even was captured once, and Nanzhao, Hui Hui is also eyeing the tiger, are not good, a year of finance and taxation are seven or eight out of ten are spent on military supplies, but there is no size of the work.

However, in the previous war, my Tang Dynasty won on three fronts, namely Sanchuan, Fengxiangjingyuan and Lingyan, Xifan was killed by more than 10,000 people, and retreated in embarrassment, and I Tang took back Pingliang, Huating, Chaona, Destroy Shabao, Baicao and many other territories, and now I am concerned about how to consolidate the fruits of this victory.

Then the emperor pointed to Gao Yue and said, I asked Gao San separately before, Gao San's view is to connect the three fronts and respond to each other, how to deal with them? That is, in Fengzhou Hechi, Longzhou Huangyuan and Yanzhou Wuyuan, build three large army cities, each with 5,000 to 10,000 soldiers, both offensive and defensive, Xifan came to the branch to choke its military momentum, and Xifan retreated to attack one of its places, and since then the initiative is in me.

Gao Yue's plan, of course, Li Mi and Jia Tan agreed very much.

Among them, Li Mi also strongly suggested that the Holy Lord and Xifan should immediately stop the war, and try to build the three cities this autumn to be prepared.

Jia Tan also said that now that most of Yuanzhou has been recovered, the ministers immediately prepared more detailed maps and assigned them to the border generals, so as to know themselves and their opponents.

After finalizing this strategy, the emperor began to discuss the disposition of the party's affairs.

The four courtiers also reached an agreement with the emperor: Prime Minister Li Mian should first go to suppress and use them, and not use troops in an all-round way for the time being, otherwise it would cause a serious burden on the finances. And when the military reserves in the border areas were abundant and the imperial court had surplus military funds, it immediately and ruthlessly suppressed and suppressed it.

"Eradicate all evil." The emperor personally issued a request for the degree of purge.

The following topic naturally shifts to the issue of "money".

Because it costs money to build a city, money to train troops, money to camp fields, and money to resist Xibo and clear out the party.

But how to solve the problem of money? The ancients were so right that there are no more than two ways, open source and reduce expenditure.

And today, in the Xiaoyanying Palace, Lu Zhen, a scholar of Hanlin who was tacitly supported by Gao Yue, Li Mi and Jia Tan, said directly to the emperor that it was "throttling".

In the case of the total amount of social wealth, especially the relatively constant fiscal revenue of the Tang and Tang tax laws, throttling expenditure is often the most effective way to make the finances healthy compared with open sources.

The first method of throttling that Lu Zhen mentioned was to "strike the autumn and restore the army of the government" in the armament of the border areas.

"Your Majesty, since the country was in turmoil in Lushan and the revival of Suzong, it has withdrawn the border to prepare for the Jingzhong State, and borrowed the external authority to calm the internal difficulties, so the Tubo took advantage of the provocation and devoured the insatiable, and returned to the Gong, Feng Ling is also very bad. For more than 40 years, China has exhausted its wounds, tried its best to weave silkworms, and lost bribes in the west and horses in the north. Fu and the horses were recruited from afar, and the frontier was garrisoned, but they could not stop the rush and stop their invasion. Lu Zhen's first opening remarks were to show the picture of the hardships of the side affairs, and stated that the so-called "peace" of Xifan must not be trusted, and then he paused, stood up, with one hand slightly behind his back, and the other hand slightly pointed to the pillars of the hall, using the official dialect of Chang'an with a round tone and a Wudi accent, as if reciting, strongly attracting the attention of everyone present.

Then Lu Zhen walked a few steps and analyzed the strengths of Xifan: "Chase water and grass for the dwelling, shoot and hunt for drinking, gallop with many horses, and die without shame", so our China cannot "wrestle with it, fight between the fields, and decide to die in the ordinary", and "build the frontier, guard the key points, cut the tunnels, base the barracks, be cautious and defensive, scout, clear scouts, farm with sufficient food, and train soldiers to accumulate prestige" These are my strengths in China, so we must use China's strengths to go to the shortcomings of the Western Tibet, and not to use the shortcomings of China to the strengths of the Western Tibet.

So the emperor asked, what Lu Jiu said, I thought it was true, but this truth, most of the rulers and marshals of the imperial court in the past forty years also knew, why did my Tang still lose more and win less, and the territory was difficult to protect? Especially this time, although the soldiers won the victory and made meritorious contributions, why did they still let Ma Chongying escape? (Then the emperor demanded that no matter what Lu Jiu answered, everyone present could not leak it out)

To this question, Lu Zhen replied loudly, "Because of my Tang Bianrong, I have accumulated disadvantages for a long time, and the ministers have measured it, and there are six losses. ”

"Which six misses?"

"One loses the reason for the soldiers, the second loses control and will lose money, the third loses the system and uses the money, the fourth loses the division of military strength, the fifth loses the maintenance of the soldiers and resentments, and the sixth loses the use of the division."

Then Lu Zhen elaborated on what the "six losses" were:

Every year, all the town commanders in the eastern part of the country need to send out the soldiers to prevent the autumn, but everyone has selfish intentions, all of them leave the strong and elite in the town, and the people who are sent to the northwest border are all weak soldiers, these soldiers come from afar, and the imperial court has to spend a huge amount of money to provide them with the road needs, but after arriving at the border, they are not accustomed to the land management, and there is no achievement in fighting with Xifan;

The generals of the towns of all parties, the court wants to reward one person, the others are jealous and jealous, and the others want to punish one person, and the others are concerned about the same evil and cover each other, so that although the soldiers are gathered in various places, but the Xifan comes to fight, but each is cowardly and self-defending, bluffing and thief, so that Xifan is like entering a no-man's land;

The system is scarce, the imperial court requisitions more than 100,000 people every year to defend the autumn in the eastern part of the country, plus more than 100,000 border troops, more than 100,000 forbidden troops, and nearly 400,000 soldiers gather in Beijing.

The military strength is divided, during the Kaiyuan Tianbao period, although the war in Tang Fan was fierce, but the imperial court only placed Shuofang, Hexi, and Longyou three sections, and now only in the northwest, there are Fengxiang Longyou, Jingyuan, Suining, Lingyan, Xia Suiyin, Weibei and many other square towns, each does not belong to the subordinate, a plate of scattered sand, should not help each other, Xifan into the Kou, only temporarily raised troops to resist, let Xifan calmly break through.

The soldiers have grievances, the northwest is a long town soldier, has been in the border for a long time, has always worked hard, but the court only gives a body of food and clothing, but also to the wife and children, the hardship, and the Kwantung autumn soldiers have to change every year, there is no feeling for the northwest military town at all, and there is no intention to stay here for a long time, when they meet the Xifan, they are greedy for life and afraid of death, lest they not return to their hometown, the court also gives them generous treatment, the northwest border army is full of resentment, and the battlefield can not unite to meet the enemy at all;

The so-called "the opportunity can not be decided from afar, and the order cannot be followed", but the border army in the past went to war, but "cut more than Chen's heart", the two armies are facing each other, and the military aircraft can be said to be indispensable, and the king lives thousands of miles away, in the middle of the ninefold, and the timing of the use of troops is mostly lost in the remote system (to sum up, Your Majesty, you can hold back the micro-exercise).

After saying the six losses, especially the last loss, Emperor Li Shi is face was red and sweating.

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