Gao Yue was convinced of Lu Zhen's words, this guy not only wrote the article beautifully, but also was very pragmatic, if he was a Confucian official in Jingyuan before, Duan Xiushi told him about the four major shortcomings of the border army, which exposed the problems of the army itself, then Lu Zhen's analysis of the "six losses" was actually based on the entire strategic situation, and the significance was even greater than Duan Xiushi's insights.

Then naturally, the emperor will ask how to make up for the "six losses" next.

As a result, Lu Zhen analyzed one by one, saying that first of all, there is a unified solution to the two problems of "managing the troops and being obedient" and "making and using the money," that is, to abolish the annual autumn prevention campaign, that is, to no longer draw a large number of autumn defense troops from the Kanto region.

"In that case, is Jingxi's military strength enough?" The Emperor asked.

At this time, it was Gao Yue who came out to answer instead of Lu Zhen, "Chen Yue previously transferred to many square towns, and now Fengxiang Longyou has 20,000 soldiers, Jingyuan 25,000, and Xing Junya Shence right army stationed in Tunlingtai, Linyou, and Purun has 25,000 troops. And Fengtian City has 25,000 left troops of Shence, 10,000 soldiers can be drawn, under the command of Luo Yuanguang, to Yanzhou Wuyuan to build a city and hold on, and unite Lingwu Kang Rizhi, Gyeongju Lunweiming, Xia Suiyin's Hantan Division, enough to control Shuofang, resist Xifan in the west, and control the party in the east. ”

And Li Mi also added: "As Lu Jingyu said, due to the long distance during the Great Calendar year, eastern Zhejiang, western Zhejiang and Lingnan do not need to send troops to prevent autumn, but they need to pay money according to the number of 'anti-autumn soldiers' allocated by each province according to the number of 20 yuan per soldier to help him send troops to prevent autumn." Then Li Mi raised two slender fingers and said to the emperor with a smile, "That is to say, the first autumn soldier from the eastern part of the country to the western part of the capital, and the Duzhi Division will spend twenty yuan on him." After saying this amount, Li Mi shook the feather fan in his hand again, and then calculated in his heart, "But these twenty yuan is only the rations, clothing and pickles of the anti-autumn soldiers. The number of soldiers in the Kwantung Autumn Defense is more than 100,000 in name, but there are only about 40,000 people who go to the western part of the country to defend the autumn in the western part of the country, which means that the annual cost of the Autumn Defense Soldiers is 1.2 million guan, and His Majesty is now raising 50,000 soldiers in the western camp of the Jingxi Army, 20,000 soldiers in the Shence army behind the palace, and 10,000 soldiers in the Sixth Army of the Northern Ya, which is three times that of the border army, and it is only 8.9 million stone of grain and 2.3 million yuan of money and silk every year. More importantly, what is the use of spending 1.2 million guan on autumn prevention? All the soldiers who came were weak, they couldn't fight, they couldn't defend, and when the two emperors of the Su Dynasty were in the past, the Gyeonggi army was weak and weak, so they had no choice but to respond to the move, and now they can be completely abolished. ”

"The 1.2 million guan saved?" The Emperor's eyes lit up.

Li Mi laughed again and requested: "800,000 guan can be distributed by Your Majesty to the border troops of each town in western Beijing to improve their armament and livelihood, and 400,000 guan can be put into the Yanzi treasury." ”

"Extended Treasury?"

"Yes, since the imperial court has implemented the two tax laws, although the income has increased greatly compared with the Su Dynasty, but the expenditure has also increased greatly, the imperial city and Taiwan Province are increasing, the local shogunate is also increasing the number of people, the border army is increasing the number of people, and the power of the gods is also increasing, so the money obtained by the branch division every year is often not enough to support the officials and military supplies, and His Majesty's inner treasury has to support the palace and the royal family, and the amount of one million yuan per year is also one million yuan. It's not good for the country or the people! Li Mi sighed.

In fact, Gao Yue understood that Li Yu's words were what later generations called "Huang Zongxi's Law":

That is, every time the tax system was reformed in ancient times, the burden on the people would rise to a heavier level than before the reform after a period of decline, that is, what Huang Zongxi called "the harm of accumulation without returning".

The solution given by Li Mi is to set up a Yanzi Treasury, which is the country's "reserve funds" to put it bluntly, and after the autumn soldiers are recalled, the money saved every year will be forcibly sent to the treasury of 400,000 yuan, so that after several years of accumulation, once the treasury is exhausted, it can be activated to save the emergency, and there is no need to temporarily add a burden to the people.

And Li Mi also suggested to the emperor that not only should the military expenses for the autumn period be sent to the Yanzi treasury, but also the remaining savings of the household department, the salt and iron transfer envoy and the inner treasury of the Son of Heaven can be sent to this treasury and turn it into a "cornucopia" of my Tang Dynasty.

The emperor agreed to this (as long as I don't keep telling me to use my private money).

Later, Lu Zhen proposed other solutions, that is, to restore the government military system in the northwest border town, but to Gao Yue's ears, this government military system is still quite different from the government military system in the early Tang Dynasty, more like a mixture of the two military systems of camping in the border land and recruiting soldiers.

Lu Zhen said: "Now the recruitment expenses of the towns in the northwest can be divided into three parts, one is given to the envoys of the province to recruit young soldiers who are willing to migrate to the border cities, one is handed over by the province to the special officials to recruit troops in the Kanto and other places (the Han barbarians can be), and one is left in the military government of the province, which is specially used for the recruits to be used for food and lodging along the road and to the local food, lodging and settling down. In addition, the Duzhi Division also allocated special funds to imitate the actions of the inexpensive envoys in the past to purchase cattle, seeds, and farm tools, and recruit specialized craftsmen to live and forge and manufacture under the military city, and then to camp the fields and have enough food. ”

Gao Yue added: "According to Lu Jingyu's recruitment method, within three years, the towns of Fengxiang, Jingyuan, and Shuofang can expand their troops by one-third, and most of them are athletes who are willing to serve the frontier. In addition, the northwestern prefectures are sparsely populated and have very few households, so they may as well simply divide the border armies of each town into two, six become 'field soldiers' and four become 'generals'. ”

The emperor asked what was a field soldier and what was a general.

Gao Yue replied that Tian Shi was prepared according to the camp team on weekdays, or served in the horse workshop, and taught bows, crossbows, long bows, and arrays in his spare time, and could also be collected as auxiliaries in battle; The generals, simply do not give land property, specialize in training, with armor, weapons, banners, for the elite of the military town, can not only defend the city and military government, but also expedition to serve as a soldier. According to this military system, our Tang Dynasty can attack and defend from now on, and if the thieves come, Tian Shi guards the tunwu fort of each army, and the soldiers are ambushed and attacked; For example, if I go to fight the thieves, I will put the soldiers in the field conflict in the front, and the Tianshi camp will protect the back. In addition, Tian Shi's income from the camp can support his own family, and he can also use the surplus to support the military government and generals, and the invasion of thieves, Tian Shi and the generals guard their own assets, and they are even more hostile to the enemy, which can be described as a multiplicity.

At this time, Jia Tan also spoke, Gao Lian said that the Tian Shi mentioned by Gao Lian can be both a soldier and a people, and there are many households in the northwest that are withered and wasteland, and after ten years of camping in the field, Tian Shi may wish to grant his cultivated land as a Yongye field, so that his children can guard the territory for my Tang Dynasty for generations, so that they can "real edge" and save a lot of money every year for the past and the transfer of money.

"Good, the matter is big, you might as well try it first in Gaoyue's Xingyuan Mansion and Weigao's Dongchuan, if the effect is significant, I will personally issue an edict and issue it in the northwest border town." The Emperor's jaw.