"Really?" Duan Xiushi raised his hand and motioned for Gao Yue to continue.

"There are about 30,000 soldiers in my Jingyuan camp, and the imperial court has transported military rations from Zheng, Ying, and Huazhou over the years, which is difficult to transport and costly. However, the local household in Jingzhou is only 5,000, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and it is even more difficult to buy military rations. It is better to select 10,000 people from 30,000 soldiers to carry out the military cantonment, as long as you can collect 100,000 stone grain a year, you can save 200,000 yuan of money just by the foot price, and then you can use the money saved to rectify the equipment, and the equipment is fine, and the offense and defense can be invincible. ”

Hearing Gao Yue's words, Duan Xiushi nodded secretly, thinking that what Kong Muguan said was right, isn't this the greatest significance of Juntun? But there are some things that are easier said than done!

So he continued to ask Gao Yue: "Yisong, in your opinion, is it convenient for the military tun, or is it better for the people?" ”

Gao Yue replied: "According to the example of Zhao Chongguo and Zhuge Liang of the Han Dynasty, it is possible to march to the tun. ”

"But what about the cost of the military cantonment, Yi Song can you think about it?"

"Not yet."

Duan Xiushi was stunned and said to Gao Yue: "That's good, you can deal with the affairs of the Confucius Academy as soon as possible within three or five days, and then this section commander will assign you thirty athletes to patrol the Jingzhou boundary as soon as possible and survey the affairs of the military camp." After speaking, Duan Xiushi handed himself the scroll, "This is what I have drawn after sitting in Jingyuan for many years, Yisong, you can carry it with you." ”

Gao Yue reached out and took it.

A few days later, Gao Yue said goodbye to Yun Shao, and after disposing of the affairs of the Confucian Academy, he gave it to a few other people to stay, and he rode a horse, surrounded by thirty soldiers, along the outer Guo Street of Anding City, and walked to the outside of the city, of course, he also passed by the music camp again, and saw a few brightly dressed camp prostitutes, weaving in the small courtyard behind the wooden fence, two of them raised their eyes and looked at Gao Yue who was riding by, and laughed with their lips, whispering to each other, about discussing why there was a young bachelor in the embassy, Why didn't you let us go with us? But let this group of three big and five thick officials go out with this Lang Jun.

"Alas, it seems that these camp prostitutes are also bored." Gao Yue's attention was only on their weaving behavior.

About three miles out of the city, there is a roaring sound of water in front of you - from the deep valley in the west of the city, fly down the white water flow, cut a river between the valley in front of the horse, is the Gechuan, compared to its form as if falling from the high pavilion, to the south into the Jing River, and the Alanta Temple is located in the mountains and forests opposite the river.

And Gao Yue saw that the presiding monk named Ming Xuan was standing on the side of Sichuan with his palms together and his head bowed, as if he had been waiting for him for a long time.

In the midst of the loud sound of water, Gao Yue asked in a loud voice, what is the matter with the master?

"Whatever Confucius does, I will do."

This monk is a bit interesting, could it be that he is here to repay his kindness? Gao Yue continued to ask, what about Ming Miao and other monks in the temple?

Ming Xuan replied: Ming Miao and other monks owed a huge amount of gambling debts, and I refused to sell the temple property, so they framed and excluded me, but now it has been broken by Confucius, and they can't pay off the debt, so they fled at night and went to Xifan.

Oh, it seems that he defected to the enemy country to become a teacher, and I heard that Xibo also believes in Buddhism, and this group of monks should not be unemployed.

"This Confucius is going to inspect the state border, one is the border and the other is the military tun. What can Master Mingxuan teach me? ”

"Astronomy and geography, the five elements of herbs, farming and arithmetic, Ming Xuan still knows a little." This old thin monk is not modest.

Gao Yue laughed, and then said to the official Jian beside him, send the head horse to this mage, and the two Guan Jian will lead ten pack horses (the custom of the Anxi soldiers of the Tang Army, every ten soldiers bring their own horses to carry the wounded, called ten pack horses), Ming Xuan turned over and got on the horse, and followed Gao Yue leisurely.

"Please continue west." Myeonggen suggested.

Gao Yue asked Guan Jian to lead the way, and several Anxi soldiers were not very happy, and shouted to Kong Mu Guan: "Who walks on the road in the hot weather?" ”

"After the inspection, each person will have three catties of salt to receive, if it is disobedient, then the cage will be served!" Gao Yue intimidated the group of soldiers and said that this was what Duan Xiushi told him before. Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, those soldiers and officers all got honest, held their things, and walked towards the wooden bridge on the Gechuan River.

Riding their horses and whipping Xiao Xiao, Gao Yue and Ming Xuan crossed the wooden bridge, and then continued to walk along the source of the Gechuan River.

Stop-and-go, half a day passed, Gao Yue's clothes began to be soaked with sweat under the scorching sun, and after staying in the shade of a forest, Ming Xuan raised the tip of his whip, pointed to the front and said to Gao Yue: "Kong Mu, please look, this is the hundred springs and the salt warehouse." ”

The Anxi soldiers sat in the shade of the trees to drink water and rest, while Gao Yue put up a pergola with his hands and looked at the land of hundred springs that Ming Xuan said:

I saw that the inside and outside of the gentle hills were covered with delicious meadows, and there were fields at intervals, "Takakome, there are many springs in the area of this place for dozens of miles, all of which originate from the Kakugawa River and valleys, and do not dry up in all seasons, so it is called Hyakkusen." Gao Yue looked at it and nodded, and then said, "According to what the mage said, there are a few residential fields here!" ”

"Exactly, less than a tenth of the utilization." After speaking, Ming Xuan pointed to a warehouse on a hill in the west, and said that it was a salt warehouse, and all the salt in the camp was transported here for storage. Previously, Ma Zhenxi had fought a vicious battle with the Xifan army here and was defeated. “

"Salt is the foundation of the army, and it is too big to set up a warehouse thirty or forty miles outside the state city, if there is an enemy attack, it will not be able to respond to the situation." Gao Yue felt that such an arrangement was really unreasonable.

Subsequently, the monk Mingxuan pointed to the north along the hundred springs, saying that the dark water of the hundred springs can be reached to the Gongchi Lake in the north of the state city, which can be regarded as the most elite area of the entire Jingzhou farmland.

"But if this military camp is here, and the West is attacking, where should we pay attention?" Gao Yue thought about it, so he took out the "Anxi Xingying Military Boundary Map" given to him by Duan Xiushi from his backpack, unfolded it and looked at it carefully, and then stared at it, and sure enough, according to the map, in the southwest of Baiquan and Yancang, between the mountains and the pavilion river, there stood a mountain fort that was extremely high into the clouds, with cliffs on three sides, and a plateau on the waterfront side, "Lianyunbao ......"

"Master Mingxuan, is Lianyun Castle ahead?"

"Exactly, Lianyunbao is the key place to guard the west of the state, and it has a panoramic view of the four realms on the fort, and it has always been a scout place in Jingyuan."

"How many people are guarding it?" Gao Yue asked the Anxi soldiers who were resting by the trees.

The answer was that there was a beacon shop on Lianyun Castle, and there were about fifty soldiers and ten bows guarding it, "It's a little less...... Gao Yue thought in his heart.

Then he looked at the stretching bluestone ridge that stretched across Lianyunbao and the northwest of Baiquan, carefully pondered the "Palm Story", and said to the Anxi soldiers, "Today is the end of the day, now go to the salt warehouse, I have a document, I can go there to receive salt for each person, and I will stay in the Alanta Temple tonight." ”

"Oh!" When the thirty soldiers heard that there was salt as a stipend, they all raised their fists happily.