12. All lies are true

Soon, King Pu went to Pegasus to chase the ball, and also pulled his relative Cao Wanggao together.

In the Hanyin Station in Xiangyang City, in addition to the daily ceremonial night banquet, the light and dark discussions between the ministers are also constantly extended.

Of course, the most devastated for the time being is the Eastern Capital to stay in Taichung Cheng Dou Shen, his carefully planned clan marriage fell through, so for several days, he whispered and muttered to the "five brothers" in the black curtain.

"Zhihui, you persuaded your uncle and father-in-law, and colluded with King Pu to fabricate a Xingyuan Mansion general Hu Benlai, and now Dou Shen and his uncle and nephew are suppressed for the time being, but paper can't contain the fire after all, how can it be good if the matter is revealed? What's more, after returning to Xingyuan Mansion immediately, Ruoyunhe knew that the two of us and her father had arbitrarily advocated marrying her to a man who didn't existβ€”I was afraid that I would ......" In the side hall of the post station where Gao Yue stayed, Gao Yue was especially scared when he said the last sentence, after all, his wife and sister were even more terrible than the princess.

Of course, there is also an aunt Lu Shi!

In the past, he only cared about protecting Yunhe, although it was successful, but there were also sequelae, and it was very tricky.

But Zhi Hui, who was sorting out the letter for him, didn't care, but her face was flushed, and she looked at herself with adoring eyes, "Zhi Hui knows that the third brother is actually still the third brother, and the one who can take all the students to rush into the Daming Palace to beat the drums is a capable son." ”

"Okay, okay, after I beat the drum, I was ready to be stripped off and covered with drums, and this time is no exception." After Gao Yue finished speaking, he sat on the basket bed all of a sudden, thinking about how to end it.

Zhi Hui smiled, and then came over to comfort the third brother, saying don't worry, I guess the little aunt should be happy, and leave the matter of unclogging the joints to me.

"One lie has to be made up for with ten lies." Gao Yue said sadly.

"So we have to let more and more people participate in this lie, ten hundred lies naturally can't be made up, but thousands of lies, then naturally it won't become a lie, and then everyone will have their own tacit understanding and methods to keep the lie from being exposed."

Gao Yue gasped and looked at Zhi Hui, who was half-kneeling in front of him, feeling that what she said suddenly was terrible, but it made sense.

Didn't she come out of Master Xue Lian? Why do I think she is much more powerful than the refiner?

Soon, Liu Yan's servant Wanda stood at the door, saying that the master was in the West Pavilion and had something to say to Shao Yin.

As soon as Gao Yue heard that Liu Yan was looking for him, he immediately ran out.

Then Wanda squatted in the courtyard, and together with Wei Daotian, teased the insects in the grass with small sticks, and from time to time the two looked at each other and let out a smirk.

When Gao Yue entered the Xiting courtyard, he found that Li Mi and Jia Tan were also present.

"Xiaoyou Yisong, the minister said that your original question was very exciting, it just so happens that Jia Dunshi and I also have a problem now, which needs to be solved urgently, so we might as well talk about it in this West Pavilion, no paper and pen, just talk to each other." As soon as he saw Gao Yue, Li Mi raised the topic.

Over there, Liu Yan stood still, looking at himself with a smile, feeling that he would definitely be able to answer this question.

Gao Yue sat down respectfully.

Then Li Mi asked: "Before Yisong left Beijing, he must know that the Holy Lord set up Si Jinwu, expelled Hu Shang, and confiscated his ancestral hall, family property, and livestock. ”

"It is true."

"However, the Holy Lord sent an envoy from the Northern Division yesterday, saying that although the Hu merchants left, the Hu guests (most of whom were low-end populations) who were originally protecting the temple of this group of Hu merchants in the capital were difficult to drive away, and the burden on the guest province and Honglu Temple of the imperial court was still very heavy. And since Hu Shang left, this group of people has been unemployed, and in the long run, it is also an unstable factor. The Holy Lord is now worried that this group of Huke people who have lived in Chang'an City for a long time will go to the river to join Li Huaiguang's rebels, or go out of Tonghua Erzhou as a mountain shed to threaten Cao Yun. ”

As a result, Gao Yue didn't answer, and sighed first.

Li Mi, Jia Tan and Liu Yan all wondered why Gao Shaoyin began to sigh before he could ask.

"Don't blame the princes, I just think of Brother Chu, the high prince of the same sect, who is still trapped in Li Huaiguang's camp, and I can't help but feel sad."

When Jia Tan heard this, he asked Gao Yue to relax his mind, and said that the Holy Lord had sent Lu Lun, the original envoy of the Huaqing Palace of Lishan, to the river to rescue Gao Ying and Cui Zong.

Gao Yue nodded, expressing a lot of relief, and then asked Li Yu: "As far as Yue knows, the guest province of the imperial court and the Honglu Temple are not only supported by this group of Hu guests. ”

"However, there are even many chiefs of the Western Regions who came here to pay tribute during the Tianbao period, as well as generals and colonels from various towns in the northwest court of Anxi who came to worship in the past, and it has been nearly forty years."

This group of chiefs and generals, after coming, because of the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion and the later fall of Longyou and Hexi, could not return, they drowned in the Tang government, many people died, their children and grandchildren, or the government guest province, Honglu Temple to support, so the Tang Dynasty financial burden is very heavy, almost equal to the second "Hui City Horse".

Gao Yue thought about it, and then said to Li Yu: "How much does it cost every year? ”

Li Mi stretched out five fingers, which meant 500,000 yuan.

Gao Yue recalled the Hui man he kicked in front of the door of his house, if such a person was not properly solved and let them fend for themselves, it would indeed be a cancer lodged in the imperial capital.

In fact, the solution to this problem is simple, count the number of Huke, tributary chieftains, and Anbei court generals and colonels, and then add them all to the forbidden army of Miyagi. With Huke as the soldier, the chief and the general as the general. ”

"Forbidden Army?"

"That's right, now that the Shence camp is united, Your Majesty is going to set it up in the northwest borderland, calling it 'the children of the Shence Great Camp in front of the palace', and Your Majesty is also preparing to set up a new forbidden army to replace the former Jinai Shence unity, and this group of people can just be recruited into the army." Gao Yue counted with his fingers, and then said in a low voice: "After the change of the Divine Martial Division, most of the disciples of the Divine Strategy Unite have surrendered to the rebels, and now there are a lot of vacancies in the forbidden army in the capital, and we are just making up for the deficiency with reality." ”

"Yes, yes." Li Mi, Jia Tan, Liu Yan and others nodded one after another, thinking that Gao Yue's strategy was killing two birds with one stone:

Originally, when Bai Zhizhen was governing the Shence Army, because the Shence camp was in Heshuo and the Central Plains to quell the rebellion, there were many casualties, and there was no suitable and excellent military source to replenish, so he temporarily crammed and recruited the disciples of Chang'an City to make up the amount, but as a result, these people bribed the generals with the tax money, and did not go to the expedition at all, and stayed in Chang'an City to sell cakes in the market, and what was handed over to Bai Zhizhen and the emperor was just a list of military registrations in vain, and they had to pay a huge amount of military expenses - when the Changwu Army came in, Li Shi asked the Shence Army to escort him, and there was no one in the city. Only a small number of Beiya, Jinwu soldiers and eunuchs followed, and now they are just adding the children of the low-level Huke and Anbei court generals to supplement the deficiency with reality, and the military expenses of the imperial court can fall on specific people, which also enhances the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army;

In addition, after these people entered the forbidden army, they ate military expenses, and no longer needed to be supported by the guest province and Honglu Temple, so that the military expenses of the imperial court did not need to increase, but the protocol fee of Honglu Temple was saved, which was 500,000 per year, which was "killing two birds with one stone".

"Good, wonderful!" Li Mi was overjoyed, "The 500,000 yuan saved, I will definitely play the Holy Lord, and use it for the 'repair money' in the northwest, Shannan, east and west, and Shudi towns, and enrich and innovate the ordnance!" ”