In May of the fourteenth year of the Great Calendar, Emperor Li Yu collapsed in the inner hall of Zichen, and issued an edict before the collapse, abiding by the secret promise between father and son - the crown prince Li Shi supervised military affairs.

The news was sent to Jingzhou, and the state mourned for the emperor, among which Gao Yue was no exception, and Zhihui was in mourning clothes at home.

The earliest funeral requirements sent by the envoys and post officials in the capital were in accordance with Li Yu's edict, and the emperor demanded that "the officials of the world should be released in three days", that is to say, the officials and people of the world can be removed as long as they wear three-day mourning clothes for me.

Three days later, Gao Yue had just removed his mourning clothes, sat in the Confucian Courtyard, and personally distributed rewards to the meritorious athletes in the camp: Duan Xiushi was indeed an honest and honest marshal, who did what he said, and he allocated thousands of high-quality silk cloths from the barn of the camp, and Gao Yue drew up a list of names and accurately distributed them to all the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions in the military camp.

Among them is Shi Fu, this kid was shackled for ten days and then changed his mind, and he actually won the second class of the reward, and he gave out 90 pieces of cloth (because he had advanced ten horses in advance), and he was very grateful in Kong.

"Shi Fu, Liangyuan, Du Yuan, and Baishiyuan will be opened soon, are you going to go or not?" Gao Yue put the pen on the list and asked Shi Fudao, who was standing in the hall.

"Go, go, of course, my wife is still short of an autumn shirt, but I'm afraid I won't draw some of them!" Shi Fu said busily, causing the other soldiers below to laugh.

Outside the city, the entire wheat field of Baiquan was harvested, and the soldiers waved their sickles, sweating like rain, and the heavy golden ears of wheat were spread all over the furrows, and then loaded in calf carts, and the convoy was transported to the warehouse end to end, and at this time the postman in the capital came with whips and flying horses.

Duan Xiushi soon summoned Gao Yue in the main hall of the mansion full of vegetarians:

"Yisong, you have to make a document as soon as possible, and the funeral system of the Daxing Emperor has changed again."

When Gao Yue heard this, his face was full of wonder, didn't he get rid of the funeral in three days?

Seeing Kong Muguan's expression, Duan Xiushi shook his head and told him in a low voice that for the sake of the funeral, Chang Xiang and Cui Sheren in the court had a very fierce dispute, accusing each other of not keeping the funeral.

It turned out that Li Yu had just died, Chang Gon took the civil and military officials to cry in front of the coffin of the Daxing Emperor, in fact, this is nothing, the country's supreme ruler died, it is normal to express mourning, but Chang Gon finally in order to show his pathos, it was a little excessive, he took the hundred officials to cry in the morning, and took the hundred officials to cry in the evening, and after crying, he had already gone down to the palace, and then came from the cold and sad, and returned to hold the coffin and cried the sky and the ground, so that the hundred officials could only cry with him, and the entire court officials were unbearable for a few days, Normal affairs are also disrupted.

Cui Youfu, a member of the Zhongshu House, suggested that according to the edict of Emperor Daxing, the funeral could be removed in three days, so now that the time has come, everyone will work normally.

Chang Gon was not happy, he was also proficient in the etiquette system, so he retorted that the ancient rites stipulate that the Qing doctor must serve the mourning for the monarch for three years, and according to the Han system, he must also serve 36 days of mourning, even if he follows the precedent of the funeral for Emperor Xuanzong and Suzong, it will take 27 days, and the edict of the Daxing Emperor said that "the officials of the world will be released in three days", that is, it is aimed at the officials and the people, and we, as the ministers, cannot be listed with it, of course, we must serve the Daxing Emperor for 27 days.

Cui Youfu retorted that the prime minister completely misinterpreted the original meaning of "the officials of the world, released in three days", the officials refer to all the officials in general, and the people refer to all the people in general (the Tang Dynasty avoided Li Shimin and changed the people to people), "Where there are hundreds of deacons, who is not a servant?" "We still get rid of the funeral as soon as possible and go to work with peace of mind.

Therefore, the two sides are fighting very loudly and do not give in to each other.

On the contrary, Yan Zhenqing, who was the real ceremonial envoy of the funeral, was put aside, and no one listened to what he said.

Now there is a new wave of post officials in the capital, and the Jingyuan Jinju Yuan has also sent an urgent letter: the latest trend in the capital, the military and political officials in the military government must put on mourning clothes again and continue to make up for the 24-day funeral of Emperor Daxing.

That's why Duan Xiushi asked Gao Yue to act as soon as possible and inform the various divisions in the military government to pay attention.

It seems that the new emperor Li Shi still obeyed Chang Gon's words.

Gao Yue immediately wrote the inscription in front of the bookcase, stamped it with the seal of the section commander, and handed it over to the other officials to tell the divisions.

Seeing Gao Yue's skillful style, Duan Xiushi nodded secretly, and then his hand pinched the post letter from the capital, and asked Gao Yue first: "Yi Songqu will spend a year in our military mansion, can you get anything?" ”

"The servant confessed that he had learned four things by following the feast."

"Those four."

"Knowing the disadvantages of the border army, one of them; Know the art of eliminating cheats, second; The study of maps, the third; Xi Rong's affairs documents, the fourth. ”

Hearing this, Duan Xiushi couldn't help laughing, and then he took out the northwest map and asked Gao Yue to point out the key joints, Gao Yue made it clear one by one, it seems that he has indeed learned this science well with Duan Xiushi.

Duan Xiushi asked Gao Yue again, this year's Juntun has made a lot of gains, Yi Song, what are your plans right away?

Gao Yue pointed directly to the map and talked eloquently, "You can divide the money and grain saved by the Baiquan military tun into three parts, one for the camp athletes, one for the supervision of military weapons, one for the preparation of farm tools, and then draw four or five thousand soldiers, and take three thousand people from Jingzhou to build a new city in Liangyuan, this time you can directly open 2,500 hectares, because the Liangyuan Jingshui flows through, irrigation is cheap, and the method of double cultivation of rice and wheat can be implemented, so that the harvest of grain is doubled." Once the good plain is completed, it is convenient to open the tun in Baili and Lingtai again in the following year, and it can be reported to the imperial court and increase the number of soldiers in the field by 7,000...... After the rice and wheat are abundant, they can graze horses in the grassland in the west of the state, so that within four or five years, there can be 40,000 soldiers, 7,000 horses, and then leave 10,000 to defend the state city, 30,000 soldiers and horses to conquer, and then 5,000 Fengxiang soldiers, 5,000 Fan Yang soldiers (Zhu Zhu brought from Youzhou), Shuofang soldiers 5,000, and allocate Pingliang and Panyuan...... Eventually, the state was restored...... Then it can be connected to the west of the river, rebuild the military town, and then open the land of the river......"

Duan Xiushi always smiled, looking at this young man who was talking about his ideals, until he finished speaking, he sighed and said, "In other words, it will take four or five years to overcome Wonju, right?" ”

"With the current financial resources of the imperial court, with the current state of Jingyuan's camp, it is still necessary to solidify the tuntian, which is true." Gao Yue replied.

Then Duan Xiushi didn't say anything directly, but told Gao Yue, "The Baiquan Juntun has been completed, and the eight hundred hectares of wilderness are all fertile land, which can be said to be Yisong's meritorious service - in fact, before the collapse of the mountain, this section commander had asked the Jinju Academy to apply for your hard work to the Ministry of Officials for merit, and you yourself wrote an examination certificate (self-identification), and the results have come down recently." ”

Gao Yue was slightly stunned, he really didn't consider the existence of such a thing as a merit test at this time.