Du Huangshang asked You, Xia, Sui, and Yin, the four states, all to belong to Han Tan's Heavenly Soldier Army, and the counties and counties should select excellent officials to come to govern, and then the Heavenly Soldiers Army will be stationed here, and the Shence Decisive Army will be stationed in Yan and Qing, and the Shuofang Army will be stationed in Lingzhou, which happens to connect Bai Yushan into a line; Then let the Tiande army in Fengzhou Tuntian, Zhenwu army in Shengzhou, Yunzhong Tuntian, cut some of the off-duty generals, and buy more archers who are arranging fields, so that the three surrendered cities of Hetao can be reconnected into a line. Since then, in the northern part of the Tang Dynasty, there is a double defense line of Hetao and Nanshan (Baiyu Mountain), which can be described as impregnable.

"Good, yes." The emperor completely agreed.

Jia Tan requested that the salt lakes produced by Shuofang in the past were returned to the Shuofang army to recruit troops and horses, but now that the time has passed, it can no longer be rigid, please re-attribute the salt profits from Huluochi, Baichi, Wuchi, etc. in the entire Shuofang territory to the Duzhi Division, so as to enhance the economic strength of the imperial court.

"Good, yes." The emperor did not have any objections.

At this moment, Gao Yue suggested, and now the northern frontier of my Tang Dynasty, starting from Feng'an City, around the big river to the east of the river, a total of 1,000 miles, has its own defense, more on the white in the mountain passes and passages have also been returned to my Tang, the Wuyi Khan of Hui is His Majesty's quasi-son-in-law, the two families are friendly, and now it is time to call Wuyi Khan to send troops to Beiting, and my Tang Dynasty at the same time crossed Longshan and recovered the time of the Helong states.

Before the emperor's praise of "good ......" was finished, Jia Tan had a cautious disagreement.

Jia Fu's shooting means that the imperial court and the official army have just passed through the war of Pingtong Wancheng, and the cost of Qian Gu is almost three million, if you are eager to continue the battle with Helong, I am afraid that the finances will be difficult to maintain.

"Is there an exact amount of money?" The Emperor asked.

Jia Tan said that this is a rough estimate.

At this time, Gao Yue asked several officials of the Sanya to take out a detailed book and present it to the emperor.

The emperor flipped through it, only to find that Gao Yue's book, the time when the troops were sent to the pacification of the ten thousand cities, as well as the army's rations, clothing, rewards, and military horses, armor, transfer leg strength, forage, gunpowder, etc., all the expenses, no matter how big or small, were all recorded and calculated, and what surprised the emperor even more was that this book also had before and after, that is, a comparison between the budget and the actual expenditure.

"This ......"

Another copy of this book was copied and handed over to the two prime ministers, Dong and Lu, who were left behind in the government hall before the expedition. If His Majesty intends to unite Huifu to recover the Helong Prefectures, the ministers can make another 'Helong Military Accounting Book', so that the approximate war expenses can be paid in advance in the eyes of His Majesty and the ministers, and then the court can discuss how to apportionment and raise the regular taxes and surpluses, so that they can take the lead in military affairs to live within their means, and there will be no serious temporary tax increases. ”

What Gao Yue means is that when we go to war, we have to fight a war with a budget that is in line with the scale of the country's revenue and expenditure.

So the emperor handed over the books to Jia Tan and Du Huangsheng.

After the two circulated it, they also admired the model of "budget war" of the Sanya, the imperial court did want to use force against Xifan or the secession of feudal towns, and indeed needed a large amount of money to support the war, but everyone wanted to carry out a war with clear goals and flexible skills, rather than a bottomless pit of "control within the limits of the amount".

"If the country's financial resources in a single year are not enough to recover the entire Helong......" Jia Tan said.

Gao Yue replied immediately, then we will know in our hearts according to the pre-made accounting books for the army, how many soldiers to use, how much food to consume, and to fight a controlled war, we can first recover the boundaries of Cheng, Qin and other two or three states, gain a firm foothold, and obtain the channel to support the Anbei Court, and when the time is ripe, it is not too late to slowly recover other states.

His statement was agreed.

Among them, the emperor also added that it is necessary not only to calculate the money for sending troops, but also to include the cost of garrison geometry after recovering the prefectures and counties, so as not to create an embarrassing situation of "too many soldiers to waste food, and few soldiers to defend" - as long as I can budget a large amount of money, how much will each of the three divisions pay, and how much I will add from the inner treasury, I will have the bottom in my heart.

In this way, the emperor entrusted Jia Tan with the task of making the "Accounting Book of Helong's Army", and asked him to go to the court to connect with Lu Zhen.

And the entire Shuofang after the war, the officials, the people, Qiangtun and other matters, Du Huangshang took over the post of Gao Yue's consolation envoy, and stayed in Mizhi Chengsai to concentrate on handling.

Then, the emperor separately led Gao Yue and King Pu into the tent under the Wu Mountain.

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, money has been used, but there are two ways to open source and throttle, and the preparation of military accounting books can be said to be throttling, and the minister will try to talk about open source for Your Majesty." At this time, Gao Yue took the opportunity to speak.

"If you tell me in the third year of high school that you are selling your body, this can only be sold once, and it is purely a helpless way to quench your thirst."

"No, no matter how difficult the court is now, it is not as difficult as the Yan Thief Rebellion (Anshi Rebellion), when the imperial court tried its best to recruit the military. Take the salt law as an example, at first it was Yan Lugong who reformed the salt policy, and then the fifth Qi went to Jianghuai to collect salt profits, and he could get 400,000 yuan a year, and then Liu Yan used it, the salt law was very specialized, and he could get 6 million yuan a year, and the army was rich, and the people were not bitter. In this way, it can be seen that as long as the imperial court can get another sale similar to the salt law, the annual income will increase by 3 million yuan, which is not a big problem. ”

"Cotton?" The Emperor asked.

Gao Yue shook his head, saying that cotton cloth must not be practiced in the law, which was originally the most inexpensive choice for the people to keep out the cold, such as the practice of the law, the price will inevitably soar (just like the actual cost of salt is only ten Wen, but the price has reached one hundred and ten Wen or even higher), which is the most fundamental interest of the people.

"Tea, wine?" The Emperor asked again.

Gao Yue also shook his head, he said that the people planted tea trees, or privately brewed wine, the imperial court only needed to properly tax it, such as Zhang Peng set up a field in the tea mountain and the winery, and banned the illegal tea and private wine, all controlled by the government, on the one hand, wantonly lowered the salaries of tea farmers and wine workers, and on the other hand, raised the price of tea and wine in the field, and finally let the people be exploited, and let the merchants have no profit and stagnate, and the trade is not prosperous, and "if you set up a field, one must be guarded by the soldiers, and the other is to be collected, smuggled, and transferred by the officials of the field, in order to have an extra penny of tea and wine tax profits, It may be necessary to spend more than three or even four yuan for this (the soldiers need money, and the officials also need money, which is the so-called dilemma that the cost of taxation is higher than the tax income), and in the long run, the gains outweigh the losses, and it will also make the people take risks and smuggle tea and wine. ”

In this way, the emperor woke up like a dream, and he was ready to issue an edict to let Zhang Pan change tea and wine to tax tea and wine, but "what is it, which is similar to salt, and is monopolized by the government?" ”

"It's sucrose." Gao Yue replied.

The reason is very simple, the planting and manufacturing of cane sugar is by no means something that ordinary households can organize, and it is only appropriate for the government to undertake it, which will try to avoid the government and the small people competing for profits;

Moreover, the cost of sucrose greatly exceeds the cost of salt, but the pricing can also greatly exceed that of salt, and it is still a lucrative business;

Finally, sucrose is sweet and salt is salty, both of which are necessities for each person to satisfy the five flavors.

"That's true." The emperor also felt that he had found a good way to open up the national economy, and this was sucrose.

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