"Although the shortage of charcoal in Chang'an has been alleviated, it is bound to make a comeback this winter. There is a lack of experienced people in the imperial court to deal with this matter, and before Aiqing was a charcoal envoy, now I hope that Aiqing will continue to serve as a charcoal envoy. ”

Li Longji helped Zheng Shuqing up and said with a smile.

Zheng Shuqing saluted in fear, grateful, but he didn't think so in his heart, and he couldn't wait to spray Brother Ji with a mouthful of spit.

What's the bragging, if there is no high-grade official body on the body, the charcoal will make whoever takes office will be beaten into a dog's head!

Seeing that Zheng Shuqing had a good attitude, Brother Ji sat back in his seat and motioned for the other party to sit down and chat slowly.

After the latter sat down, Li Longji withdrew Gao Lishi, and then said in a deep voice: "Aiqing used to be the middle of the imperial history, and he was an upright official, so I want to set up a new yamen, which will be placed alongside the imperial history platform, and you will be the chief official." ”

Why are you still talking nonsense? Zheng Shuqing secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good.

Because the Son of Heaven in Chang'an is constantly going around the bend, but he doesn't say what he wants to do at all, it must be no good thing. The sea has been up and down for decades, Zheng Shuqing has seen the world, and when he heard this, his whole body tensed up, waiting for the following.

I was so anxious that I got angry, but I held it back and refused to show it.

Seeing that Uncle Zheng was not in the trap and refused to express his position at all, Li Longji sighed and said:

"This yamen, called the Inspection Yuan, specializes in picketing hundreds of officials and nobles for lawlessness, and can also suppress the Yushitai and investigate the officials of the Yushitai. Its commander is not allowed to do it unless he is highly respected. ”

Zheng Shuqing still didn't speak, because he knew that his current reputation had nothing to do with "high morality".

If he is considered to be highly respected, then grabbing a wild dog on the side of Chang'an Street can also be called respectable.

Zheng Shuqing believes that if this so-called "inspection institute" is based on Ji Ge's rhetoric, it has no meaning at all, and is just a power nesting doll. And this kind of matryoshka doll game has been boring in the past, and has a mature operating mechanism.

This situation is similar to the troubles of the tooth soldiers in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the festival used the tooth soldiers to restrain the town soldiers, and the tooth soldiers could not control it and set up the courtyard soldiers to suppress the tooth soldiers, and the courtyard soldiers could not control it, so they relied on the so-called Yizi town field, a typical continuous nesting doll.

Before Brother Ji didn't tell his true purpose, Zheng Shuqing didn't plan to open his mouth to agree, just because he was old and dizzy and didn't understand what the Son of Heaven was saying.

"Aiqing, now the country is short of military spending, and there is a shortage of money. I don't want to reach out to the people and make the people resentful.

Therefore, I want to ask you to collect money for the country. ”

Li Longji sighed with emotion, and couldn't help wiping the crocodile tears from the corners of his eyes.

"Please ask the saint to command, and Weichen will never give up."

Zheng Shuqing breathed a sigh of relief and saluted Brother Ji respectfully.

Making money, what a big deal, he is very familiar with this.

Seeing that Zheng Shuqing had agreed, Li Longji nodded with satisfaction.

Lao Zheng is good at this, his bones are soft, he is easy to control, he doesn't talk about conditions, and he doesn't need to make big moves.

"As for the Inspection Yuan, it is responsible for picketing the discipline of the hundred officials, and I will assign the imperial history of the palace to you, so that the functions of the imperial history will not be duplicated with the imperial history platform.

As for what to investigate, this Aiqing thinks about it herself.

I have only one request, that is, to make a small mistake and make a big mistake, and to collect money to atone for my sins. Of course, no matter how you check it, you can't make too much trouble.

Those big things that Aiqing is inconvenient to deal with, don't worry about it, just check the small things.

As long as you can squeeze money out of the hands of hundreds of officials and nobles, and don't cause trouble, I will give you full support, and whoever makes you stumble, I will do it!

I appointed you as the dean of the inspection institute, and by the way, I promoted Shi Yan Zhenqing, the palace attendant, to be the vice president and give you a hand.

In order to prevent people from violently resisting the law, I will allocate a battalion of 500 elite people of the Shence Army, and a palace eunuch as the prison army, always on call, and you are on call. Even if it's my brother, my prince, it's up to you to find out.

As for the money for atonement, it is uniformly called the money for the crime, which is used as military expenses for border towns and is earmarked. Paying for crimes with money is one of Tang laws, and it is not too much for me to do so. ”

Brother Ji said a lot of things, Zheng Shuqing automatically filtered a series of restrictions, but remembered the dozen words "small mistakes and big mistakes, collecting money to atone for crimes, no one can check them", and his head was buzzing.

He understood Brother Ji's intentions, didn't he just ask for money from the hundreds of officials and nobles. The emperor himself was embarrassed to speak, so he found a bitter haha to do something.

But the question is, what kind of things are considered small things, and what kind of things are considered big things?

Zheng Shuqing was quite confused, because this scale was extremely vague, and even distorted and exploded.

For the magnates of Chang'an, it must be a big deal to plot against the Son of Heaven in Chang'an, but killing a few house slaves is not a big deal in their eyes. Even the law of the Tang Dynasty says that domestic slaves are not considered human beings, they are in the same column as livestock, and if they are killed, they will be killed.

Killing people is a big deal in the eyes of others, but not in the eyes of the powerful.

Therefore, this scale is not easy to control, and if it is not done well, it will cause the dead to capsize.

However, Brother Ji didn't explain it, obviously, he didn't know or didn't find out where the tolerance scale of the hundred officials and nobles was.

Law enforcement is light, there is no deterrence, and it will not cost much.

If the law enforcement is heavy, it will inevitably cause a strong backlash from hundreds of officials and nobles, and the political situation will be chaotic.

The hard part of this is the intensity of implementation.

"Sage, this matter ......"

Before Zheng Shuqing finished speaking, Brother Ji raised his hand and signaled him to shut up.

"I know it's difficult, but it's not a problem that the border towns are in arrears again and again.

The matter of the inspection institute is bound to be criticized by some people in the history books of later generations. But I'm not worried about infamy, Aiqing let it go, the country is the most important. ”

Brother Ji's words made Zheng Shuqing want to cry.

You are watching the play on the sidelines, and the person who has been criticized by later generations is Lao Tzu!

If Brother Ji wasn't the emperor, Uncle Zheng would be so angry that he would leave early in the morning, but who would let others be reincarnated?

The lesser of two evils, Zheng Shuqing felt that it was much better for him to be the dean of the so-called inspection institute than for the Zheng family in Xingyang to gradually decline without a card. If you are scolded, you will be scolded, anyway, there are enough people who have scolded him now.

"Wechen understands, and he can take office tomorrow."

Zheng Shuqing saluted Li Longji with his hands crossed.

"Well, that's not going to be rushed. The yamen of the inspection institute is to be established, and the procedures for the province of Zhongshumen are still required, so let's go in a few days.

I heard that after you are now at home, Fang Guozhong strongly recommended you to take up this official position in his letter, and you have to thank him well. ”

Brother Ji said with a smile, and sold Fang Chongyong in a blink of an eye.

"Fang Guozhong?"

Zheng Shuqing didn't understand who this guy was for a while, and where he had heard it.

"It's Fang Chongyong, who is familiar with you, and he is now serving as a festival envoy in Longyou."

Brother Ji said indifferently, deliberately omitting the word "agent".

"Longyoujie Degree Envoy?"

Zheng Shuqing was taken aback, has Fang Chongyong, this hairy child, already been used as a festival?

Brother Ji waved his hand, not wanting to talk about Fang Chongyong.

"The matter of the inspection institute is quite critical, Weichen will retire first, and then go home and think about it."

Seeing that the Son of Heaven had nothing to say to him, Zheng Shuqing had no choice but to bow and leave with questions.

Looking at his departing back, Brother Ji was thoughtful.

Fang Chongyong gave him two sets of combination punches, one bright and one dark, which could solve the urgent need for military spending. The inspection institute is one set on the surface, and there is another set in the secret. It's just that who is going to do the secret set?

Brother Ji has been figuring out the right candidate, but he still has no clue.

……

The passage guarded by the Anren Army has a nice name, called "Xingsu River".

This road is the only way for Longyou to reach the Great Dou Ba Valley. Of course, the middle section of this road is an area controlled by the Tubo army, which is inaccessible and the conditions are harsh, and the Tubo people have no stronghold in the local area.

But they can send troops from here, and they can attack Dadouba Valley in the north and Shanzhou in the south. In fact, the Tang army has always been in a strategic passive state in Longyou, and the people who launched the attack were on the side of Tubo, and decided whether to fight or peace, and it was also Tubo instead of the Tang Dynasty.

To put it bluntly, the Hehuang Valley is a "lowland" with leaky wind and abundant water and grass, and if you want to hold this place and confront the Tubo people, you must garrison a large number of troops, and there is no second way for the time being.

It was less than two days since the last time the Heyuan Army subdued Wang, Fang Chongyong took a group of people who were imprisoned in the Heyuan Army camp, and those who participated in the mutiny to the Anren Army's chaotic army to the Datong City of Xingsu River.

It is also called "Fort Chase Those".

Compared with the loose distribution of the camps of the Heyuan Army, the barracks and fortresses of the Anren Army showed a trend of integration, belonging to the structure of wooden forts outside the stone city, and they were very tightly managed.

Looking at the orderly camp built by the Anren Army, Fang Chongyong couldn't help but nodded, and finally saw a reliable person in Longyou. I have to say that Ge Shuhan is still a little talented, doing more than his own job, constantly strengthening the defense of the fortress, and expanding the layout of the camp outside the fortress, arrow towers and horses abound.

Of course, Ge Shuhan also dug his own pit and buried himself.

The lack of formation in the army on the right side of Longxi is actually a matter of a long span of years, which has been going on for decades, and it did not appear overnight.

And this kind of thing is very resilient.

Once the situation between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo eased, for example, during the period when Princess Jincheng married Tubo, the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo eased a lot, and the war stopped. Then the Longyou army will begin to be short of staff, eat empty salaries, and let the recruits go home to plough the fields.

On the surface, it looks incredible, but in fact, the pressure on the border army's military spending is too great and it has to be so.

Fang Chongyong remembered that in his previous life, there was an Internet celebrity example of "the Tang Army's great victory over Tubo" on the Internet.

It is recorded in the history books that the Longyou'an People's Army was in a place called Hunya Peak near the station, and a general whose name was not recorded resisted the 400,000 Tubo army with 5,000 people, and won the battle to resolve the offensive of the Tubo people.

Let's not talk about other slots, there is a key information here, that is, there are 5,000 people in the Anren Army! In other words, there were only 5,000 Anren troops at that time, or only 5,000 people could be handled!

Fang Chongyong believes that the 400,000 Tubo people suddenly pressed the border, and the Anren army actually left half of them in the camp and gave up one hand to fight with the Tubo people, which is inevitably too big, and how to look at it does not conform to normal logic.

Therefore, it is very likely that these 5,000 people are the entire strength of the Anren Army.

Originally, he was dismissive of this kind of "Internet celebrity historical record", but today he found out that maybe the historian was not mistaken, but he was not too embarrassed to talk about empty salaries.

At that time, there should have been only 5,000 soldiers in the Anren Army who could fight, and eating a lot of empty pay was one reason, and it was also possible that many wounded soldiers could not leave the camp or those who died in battle had no time to replenish. However, there is no problem that the number of the right army of Datang Long is less than expected at some times.

In the previous life, the military envoy of the Anren Army should not be Ge Shuhan, and Fang Chongyong didn't know what changes had happened after he became the Anren military envoy.

However, after investigation, Fang Chongyong found that Ge Shuhan's position as the envoy of the Anren Army was actually the least eaten by the Longyou army!

Therefore, when the imperial court owed salaries, the An People's Army couldn't make ends meet because of the least amount of money in the "small treasury", and finally couldn't bear to mutiny!

As for the other armies in Longyou, because the military envoys still have a little treasury in their hands, they can deal with it, and appropriately make up a little spring and winter clothes, so the trouble is not so bad.

To put it simply, Ge Shuhan, an honest man, has not adapted to the new changes in the workplace.

In Fang Chongyong's view, the execution of a thing is right or wrong also depends on the external environment, there is no absolute good and absolute bad, there is an invisible elastic unspoken rule.

"The last general will meet Fang Jieshuai!"

Ge Shuhan, whose beard was already half white, was exhausted at the moment, and knelt down on one knee to salute.

He was a Turkic Turk cavalry and joined the army quite late, only entering the Longyou Army at the age of forty. Although he climbed very fast, he was actually the oldest one among the military envoys of Longyou.

is much older than Wang Zhonghe, who is now serving as the envoy of the Hedong Festival!

Fang Chongyong immediately understood that Ge Shuhan did not rely on selling his physical strength and daring to rush and dare to climb up, he must be a person who is rich in military strategy and strategy, and is good at commanding soldiers and horses. Otherwise, it wouldn't explain why he climbed so fast.

In fact, Goshuhan's age did not allow him to toss around on the battlefield.

"Envoy Geshu, the Anren Army mutinied a few days ago, and a certain person came to deal with this matter. Behind a certain body, these dozens of Anren army thorns, first bring them back for you to settle down, and wait for the holy decree of the imperial court. Before the decree arrives, they must not be killed, otherwise they will be suspected of destroying the testimony. ”

Fang Chongyong said with a calm face, because Wang rarely said a lot of inside information, coupled with the information that Guan Chongsi had told before, he was very clear about the situation inside the An Ren Army.

But now he had to pretend he didn't know anything.

"The last general understands, Fang Jieshuai please."

Ge Shuhan made a gesture of please, his eyebrows were lowered and his eyes were extremely respectful, and he did not have any arrogance that Bian Zhenqiu Ba should have. In fact, now that Ge Shuhan has not defected to Tibet, he already has a strong psychological quality, and he may have run away long ago.

The Anren army was captured by the Heyuan army with thousands of people, and hundreds of people were missing, and the losses were not small. Thanks to Ge Shuhan, who was holding a meeting in Longyou Jiedu Mansion at that time, there were a large number of witnesses who could prove his innocence, otherwise the charge of "inciting mutiny" would have been confirmed.

"Well, go to the Chinese army."

Fang Chongyong nodded slightly and said, not angry. At this moment, the whole army is full of tension. They knew that their fate depended largely on Fang Chongyong's advice on the disposition of the imperial court's letter.

The acting envoy was unhappy, and the consequences were serious.

Walking into Datong Fort, Fang Chongyong curiously observed this stone castle with a very important strategic position.

It is located on a hill along the Baoku River, guarding the narrowest throat of the Xingsu River, authentic by the mountains and rivers, feng shui treasure, there is no shortage of water at all, enough to ensure that the 10,000-level army has no worries about drinking water.

The narrow passage under the hill is less than ten meters, and whether it is a Tibetan foot soldier or a cavalryman, they will be ambushed by the Anren army on the hill when they pass through here. On both sides of the road is a mountain on one side and a treasure trove river on the other, and the gods can only shake their heads and sigh when they come.

I have to say that Guo Zhiyun, the right general of the Tang Army who chose to build the city here, is indeed extraordinary. The camp of the Heyuan Army is mediocre, and it will be broken when it is poked, because it is just to control the node, and if it belongs to a place that cannot be defended, don't be strong.

The fortress of the Anren Army was built with great effort, and it also followed the principle of "the province should be saved, and the flower should be spent".

Under the leadership of Ge Shuhan and others, Fang Chongyong walked into the signing room where the main general of the Anren Army worked, which was also the place where Ge Shuhan lived.

It is the highest dwelling on the hill, and apart from the sturdy, the furnishings are very shabby. The conditions for living in this kind of place for a long time are indeed very difficult, and this is already the best accommodation in the fortress of the Anren Army.

Under such bitter cold stationing conditions, the imperial court still owed winter clothes for two years, and there were not enough spring clothes.

Fang Chongyong probably also understood why the Anren sergeant was the first to mutiny.

Not to mention anything else, in this matter, the court is a real dog! It's true that it's not that the Qiu Ba people on the side of the Anren Army are deliberately making trouble and finding fault, but that the days are hard, the treatment is poor, and the salary is still in arrears, who can stand this stepping horse?

After retiring from everyone, Ge Shuhan directly knelt down and kowtowed to Fang Chongyong and said: "What are the conditions of the Anren Army, and the marshal has also seen it, and please raise your hand in this matter!" All the soldiers of a certain generation of Anren Army thank you for the festival commander! ”

"Alas, General Geshu will get up first."

Fang Chongyong helped Ge Shuhan up, sighed and said: "The Anren army has set a very bad precedent, the saint is furious, this army, I'm afraid it can't be left." ”

He made a slashing motion with his hands.

Is it that serious?

Ge Shuhan had already stood up, and when he heard this, he fell to the stone bench next to him, and was speechless with fright.

(End of chapter)