Previously, Wei Gao and Gao Yue attacked the southwest, first consolidated the Qionglai Pass, and then attacked the south slightly adjacent to Lizhou, where the three Dongban tribes, namely Bedeng, Lianglin and Fengpi, each of the big ghost lords all threw themselves into the Tang army, and then the Tang Dynasty canonized the big ghost lord Tho Song as the prince of Changchuan County, and the two Lin big ghost lord Tho was the king of Shunzheng County at that time, and appointed the big ghost lord of Fengpa as the king of Heyi County, and then all three of them came to the capital Chang'an to participate in the banquet of the emperor Yu Lin De Palace.

Soon after returning to China, the great ghost lord of Bedeng died of illness, and his son Tho Bi was still young, so the Eastern Barbarian tribe sent an envoy to Wei Gao, requesting that Tho Song's younger brother Tho Mengchong be regent for the time being - Wei Gao also agreed, and then asked the court to canonize Tho Mengchong as the king of Huaihua County, and concurrently served as the training envoy of the Qiongbu regiment, and commanded the strongest Bedeng tribe in the three tribes.

But who would have thought that the "Yunling Theory" of Xifan stationed in Shanzhou, that is, Shang Jiezan's eldest son begging to hide and cover up, but he took the initiative to attack and secretly rebelled against Tho Mengchong!

It turned out that Tho Mengchong was very ambitious, he not only wanted to master the Bedeng Department, but also wanted to use the hand of Xifan to annex Lianglin and Fengpa, so as to "unify all the Eastern Barbarian tribes, divide Lizhou, and be the fourth place after Tang, Xifan, and Yunnan."

Wei Gao's military officials in Lizhou and Yazhou quickly reported Tho Mengchong's movements to the Jiedu envoys. Wei Gao was angry and shocked, he understood that whether it was the Eastern Barbarians, or the eight small Qiang countries on the west side of the Shu Capital City, in fact, while obeying the Tang Dynasty, he also maintained an inextricable collusion with the West Fan behind his back, Wei Gao had previously scolded the eight countries of the West Mountain as "two-faced Qiang", and now he scolded Tho Mengchong as a "two-headed barbarian", scolding and scolding, but externally Wei Gao remained silent, mastered the army, and closely monitored the movements of the various departments of the Eastern Barbarians.

Sure enough, in the spring of this year, when the Tang army was going all out to level Qiang in Youzhou, Xiazhou, and the main forces of their own east and north provinces began to besiege and uproot Shazhou (Dunhuang), the last stronghold of the Tang army in Hexi, the belligerent and martial beggar couldn't help it, and reused Ma Dingde, a cage official who was familiar with geography, to take Taideng City in Shanzhou as the stronghold center, frequently crossed the mountain roads around Qingxi Pass, and colluded with Tho Mengchong of Bedeng to attack and plunder Lianglin and Fengpa, who were still loyal to the Tang Dynasty, in order to contain other battlefields in Dafan, the first to bear the brunt of the Fengpa ghost lord Pong, This Hupong is very young, strong-blooded, leading the clansmen to resolutely resist the Xibo soldiers and horses, but the enemy can not beg to hide and cover, the crops of Kaitun were all trampled by the Xibo cavalry, and then the Hupong continued to resist according to his own pavilion city, and the Xifan soldiers under the leadership of Ma Dingde took the small road to capture the Fengpa Pavilion City, burned down the Fengpa barbarians' living rooms and halls - the Punga fled, and the seal given to him by the Tang Dynasty was also lost.

Without the seal, he cried loudly, ran barefoot to Qionglai Pass, and told the Tang family that he had committed a capital crime, and actually lost the seal given by the emperor and Duke Wei.

Soon Wei Gao of Shu Capital City engraved a new seal for Lu Pang, and also gave many weapons, silk silks and food to the Fengpa people, and promised: "Don't cry, I will not only give you a new seal, but also send troops to avenge you immediately!" Before that, you led the clan and the two forest barbarian companies to defend the castles of Lizhou, waiting for my orders. ”

At this time, around Lizhou, the war between Xifan and Tang was already on the line.

Gao Yue entrusted Li Xian and sent Wei Gao the plan was: "Qiang Rong (another name for Xifan) is treacherous, Shang Qixin'er and Ma Chongying attack our Hexi Shazhou, begging to hide and jump off the beam in Jiannan Lizhou, if you want to calm the party without worry, you must cut off Qiang Rong's arm...... After the money and food are available, I should be with the city and the city, together with the Dongchuan Du Huangshang, gather the elite soldiers of Sanchuan, attack the beggar and hide the city in Taideng, Shanzhou, and behead it to shock Qiangrong, so that it will not be happy in the Western Regions. ”

Wei Gao, who got Gao Yue's signal, was overjoyed, so he secretly dispatched troops to Yazhou to prepare for battle.

On the other hand, in the Zichen Hall of Daming Palace in Chang'an City, the emperor specially summoned Dou Shen, Ban Hong, Dong Jin, and Jia Tan to the four ruling levels.

Military struggles are inevitably accompanied by political frictions.

At that time, the topic was that after Dou Shen implemented the poor gang law, he asked the emperor to reduce "the cost of equipment and grain for all the soldiers".

It turned out that since the emperor moved to Fengtian, all the towns and towns had raised troops to Qin Wang, and then the envoys of each section also took advantage of this opportunity to do two things:

1. Take the opportunity to expand the number of troops and ask the imperial court for more money and food to raise troops, but in fact, for example, if you report to expand the number of soldiers by 10,000, in fact, the expansion of 5,000 may not be, and the extra 5,000 places are all eaten by the Jiedu envoys;

2. In the name of supplying the army, they should levy additional taxes such as "money for grain and materials for the army" and "reward money" in the territory under their respective jurisdictions, so as to increase the burden on the people.

In fact, Gao Yue also did these two things in Xingyuan and Fengxiang, but he expanded the army and expanded it effectively, and the "fictitious registration" was always strictly controlled at one-tenth of the proportion, in addition, he did not levy miscellaneous taxes, and he needed to expand the army through the revitalization of Xingyuan Fengxiang's agricultural and industrial industries, and the rectification of taxes by the boundary law can make up for it, without adding additional burdens to the people.

But Dou Shen said to the emperor: "Now that the national disaster has been pacified, most of the soldiers recruited by the expansion of the various provinces have actually been ordered by the Jiedu envoy to disband and return to the peasants, such as Han Rong, who served as the naval jiedu envoy of Xuanrun Town in the past, after the mutiny of the Changwu Army, not only expanded the town of the navy tooth soldiers and quarrying to 30,000, but also ordered the states to recruit additional soil regiments, 800 in small states and 1,000 in large states, all of which were raised with regular taxes. Now the town navy has reduced the number of soldiers and horses, less than three-fifths of the original, but the amount of money cut from the regular tax and miscellaneous taxes for the army every year has not been reduced, the soldiers are gone, but the endowment is still there, and the root cause of the lack of regular tax in the imperial court lies in this. ”

Then Dou Shen brought up the old matter, and said that Gaoyue's Xingyuan and Fengxiang, Weigao's Xichuan and other Fang towns had abolished the unity (Tutuan) of Zhou County, and three-fifths of the reformed army were archers, and the camp was self-sufficient; Only two-fifths of them are generals, which are supported by the "Liuzhi" and "Liuzhou" parts of Fangzhen's tax - however, the "tax quota" originally signed between these Fangzhen and the imperial court remains unchanged, and the money handed over to the Duzhi Division every year is still so much, and all the savings are put into the private treasury of Dingwu, Yining, Fengyi and other armies, Gao Yue and Wei Gao used this money to open up weaving, winemaking, cotton planting, etc., and the money is getting more and more, but half the money has not reached the treasury! In addition, Gao Yue must also cooperate with the imperial court to readjust the ratio of the two taxes and "three products" (Shangshang, Liuzhi and Liuzhou) of Xingyuan and Fengxiang, and strive to provide most of the excess money to Jingshi, instead of keeping it for personal use.

The emperor was very hesitant, so he said to Dou Shen that most of Gao Yue's income was the income of tax merchants, and it was not good for the court to ask for it.

After all, in this era, the tax collection benchmark of the imperial court was mainly limited to land and people, and at most indirect consumption taxes such as salt, wine, and tea were added, and the positive tax capacity for commercial activities was insufficient.

Dou Shen-for-tat, saying that Gao Yue's anvil base book also has detailed statistics on the "people and assets" of each household in Shang and Kuofang, and as long as the household department of the imperial court gets his anvil base book, everything will be fine.

"What Qing said is very good, but then it is ......" After a long time, the emperor opened his mouth to say this.

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