In the study room of the diligent government affairs building, Brother Ji listened to Gao Lishi's report with a blank face.

Fang Youde's request is actually very strange.

Because according to the thinking of normal people, even if they want to retire in the Bianzhou area, they can't just Bianzhou, they must also get Zhengzhou in the west of Bianzhou, and Huazhou in the north, and build a feudal town with these three states as the core, just to guard the nodes and canals on the south bank of the Yellow River.

There is only one Bianzhou, which does not rely on the Yellow River in the front, and does not occupy all the areas of the canal in the back, what can this do?

What's more, what can a thousand soldiers and horses do? Even if it is humiliating, it is impossible for Brother Ji to issue such an order!

"Quan Zhong, this really wants to retire!"

After being silent for a long time, Brother Ji held back a sentence.

"Returning to the saints, it is true. If it weren't for the unintentional position of power, who would be willing to give up the position of the general of the Shence Army like this? ”

Gao Lishi quietly persuaded him.

"In this way, the four prefectures of Huazhou, Zhengzhou, Bianzhou, and Songzhou will be combined into one town, and the Xuanwu Festival will be set up, and the other three prefectures will each have 2,000 people, and each will set up an army.

Bianzhou is the garrison of the Xuanwu Festival, with 4,000 people in one army, a total of 10,000 people in four armies. The cost of raising soldiers was collected from the toll of the canal.

You go and ask Quan Zhong again to see if this arrangement is appropriate. ”

Brother Ji said casually while arranging the cuffs with his hands.

As a matter of fact, the establishment of a field army in the key areas south of the Yellow River has long been proposed by courtiers, with the purpose of suppressing the possible outbreak of civil unrest in the area north of the Yangtze River to the south of the Yellow River.

It is just a policy implementation, and it is not original.

The reason why Brother Ji is getting bigger now is actually not all to send Fang Youde, but to have his own overall considerations.

The area south of the Yellow River and north of the Yangtze River is the most important money bag of the Tang Dynasty, how can such an important money bag not be watched by the army?

Transferring troops from Guanzhong to Lianghuai and Henan is too troublesome! And the intensity of the civil unrest is not high, there is a canal in Henan, and several states next to the Yellow River have established a Jiedu Prefecture, which can be stuck in Hebei to the north, and can threaten Lianghuai in the south!

With only 10,000 people, a large area east of Guanzhong was controlled! It has to be said that this layout is very horizontal.

In all fairness, Brother Kei's ability to talk on paper is still good, at least in the eyes of the courtiers, he is not a stupid donkey emperor who doesn't understand anything.

Brother Ji now just wants to persuade Fang Youde and let the other party happily go to Bianzhou to take up his post, instead of agreeing on the surface, and after arriving at the place, he will fish and make a lot of moths.

Gao Lishi was instructed and hurried to the Fang family house in Yongjiafang, which was separated by a wall. Not long after, he and Fang Youde came to the imperial study room of the diligent government affairs building of Xingqing Palace to face the saint!

As soon as he saw Fang Youde coming, Brother Ji knew that the matter had not been negotiated.

His face was pale, he frowned slightly, sat on the dragon chair in the imperial study and did not say a word, nor did he greet Fang Youde.

"The edict of the saint is too authoritative. Weichen couldn't accept such power, and asked the sage to think twice. ”

Fang Youdefu knelt on the ground and didn't get up, and he didn't raise his head.

"Quan Zhong, other generals are afraid of fewer soldiers, only you are afraid of more soldiers, how can you let me be good!"

Brother Ji helped Fang Youde up, sighed with emotion, and kept shaking his head there.

"Sage, Bianzhou alone, 1,500 people, this is the bottom line of Weichen. Now that the four seas are leveling, Bianzhou doesn't need so many soldiers and horses! ”

Fang Youde is very tough, that is, he does not accept Ji Ge's appointment.

"Let's expand to 2,000 people, and the station is Bianzhou. I will give you another position as an envoy, and you will use these two thousand men to maintain the canal and handle related affairs. ”

With a mysterious smile on his face, Brother Ji almost didn't say directly, "When the time comes, you just have to open up and make money."

How fat the errand of maintaining the canal is, it can be said that everyone knows it in Datang. There is no war along the canal prefecture and county, and if people with knives and official status want to make money, there is a way.

And these gray incomes are all acquiesced by the imperial court.

The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers! Is it anyone's business for the soldiers to patrol the canal and earn some hard-earned money?

"Sage, the matter of patrolling the river is simple, but the matter of managing the canal cannot be done by the ministers.

Please ask the sage to match Weichen with a partner, that is, the Henan transfer envoy, and he is responsible for the government affairs of the canal, and the two of us work in the same yamen, and cooperate with each other. ”

Fang Youde proposed a new position, which is not yet available in the imperial court, but many people have mentioned it!

That is, the position of "transfer envoy" currently existing in the center of the imperial court was taken out separately, and the authority was divided and prefixed into it.

For example, the logistics of Hedong is under the management of the "Hedong transshipment envoy", and the logistics of Henan is under the management of the "Henan transshipment envoy". Now the transfer of power from the center is too great, and decentralization is imperative.

Of course, the transfer envoy is still concurrently served by the prime minister, and the management of the transfer envoy in each region can be regarded as a subdivision of government affairs.

Henan transshipment envoys want to manage regional logistics, and it is definitely not possible to have no soldiers in their hands. There is no problem with the errand staff, and Li Linfu is only a matter of one sentence; As for the soldiers and horses, Fang Youde is ready-made here.

After thinking about this, the haze on Brother Ji's face was really swept away.

"Sage, Bianzhou connects four or five prosperous states and counties, it is better for the imperial court to expand and spread Jiaozi with Bianzhou as the center, and with the convenience of the canal, it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.

The fifth Qi can be sent to Bianzhou to take care of this matter, and by the way, he will serve as a transfer envoy to Henan. ”

Colliers echoed on the side.

Brother Ji nodded slightly, in fact, he almost planned to do so. Brother Ji patted the dust on Fang Youde's body and said:

"In this way, 2,000 elite soldiers, you will recruit and train them yourself, the ordnance will be transferred from the Luoyang Mansion treasury, and the military expenses will be taken from the canal revenue.

Although the station of Xuanwu Town is Bianzhou, you are allowed to freely dispatch your 2,000 soldiers and horses along the canal, so it will be okay, right?

As for the matter of the Henan transfer envoy, I will let the brother slave do it, in short, I will not let you suffer. ”

"Thank you, saints!"

Fang Youde saluted respectfully, then turned around and left Xingqing Palace cleanly.

When he got home, he couldn't help but sigh. The tooth soldiers are fierce, and a thousand people are enough.

When it is really in battle, hundreds of tooth soldiers are ten at a time, which is enough to turn the tide of the battle.

If there were 10,000 tooth soldiers, he would be able to run rampant in ten states, what would he do with so many useless soldiers! He can't train 10,000 tooth soldiers, and he can't manage it!

It will not have any effect other than being a waste of money and food and being conspicuous, and it will also be isolated.

After all, Bianzhou is the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, and 10,000 soldiers and horses are too dazzling, and the Son of Heaven will also have eyeliner to stare at you at any time. Nothing can be done then.

Two thousand soldiers and horses are an order of magnitude smaller, which can be said to be hidden in the forest, which is convenient for quiet preparation.

From top to bottom in the Tang Center, no one would care about how a general with a jurisdiction of 2,000 people does on weekdays. Fang Youde will gradually "fade out" of the political arena, which can be regarded as "hidden in the court".

In fact, 2,000 people feel that it is too much!

Of course, all his current plans are just in case, and Fang Youde will not go that step easily.

"I hope the future won't be as you say."

Fang Youde sighed to himself.

……

Summer in Hexi comes very early, and in early summer, the daytime sunshine is quite exaggerated, and the sun makes people dizzy.

Fang Chongyong was reading official documents in the study of the Jiedu envoy in Hexi Jiedu Mansion, and Anaye was doing a "physical examination" for him.

"Hmph, except for a little kidney deficiency, everything else is fine. The concubine prescribes a prescription for Ah Lang to tonify the kidney, and it will be good to eat it for a month. ”

Anaye glanced at Fang Chongyong and said.

"Boar breeding is like this, don't make a fuss about it in the future."

Fang Chongyong waved his hand and said indifferently.

Of course, he knew why he had kidney loss, and it wasn't that he played with women during the time in Chang'an, and he didn't have a good rest when he was in a hurry. But there is no need to clarify the details with Anaye.

"I told you a long time ago, the more the girl of the family, the more sassy she is, and she can't touch it. You just don't listen. ”

While Anaya was thinking about it, she looked at the new medical books that Fang Chongyong had brought her, which contained several large wooden boxes.

Fang Chongyong didn't want to deal with the other party's foul language, so he still read the official document on the side and didn't speak.

"Ah Lang, look at you, Chang'an really has all kinds of medical books, and there are also spells!

Can a spell also see a doctor? ”

She flipped to a book on "spells" and read it with relish. She knew every word on it separately, and she didn't know what it meant when it was connected.

In the Tang Dynasty, the practice of magic medicine was not only popular, but also the medical examination of the imperial examination!

Fang Chongyong secretly thought in his heart, as the folk saying goes, "no doctor is Chinese medicine", probably because the common people are really scared of those strange quacks. If you are sick, you would rather carry it yourself, even if you are enjoying a moderate level of medical care.

Folk suffering is indeed not an adjective.

Knock knock!

There was a knock on the door of the study, and Fang Chongyong was slightly stunned.

In fact, today he originally planned to let Anaye use beauty to do a "physical examination" for himself, but since some people said that he was kidney deficient, then Fang Chongyong didn't have any strange ideas. Well, if you can raise it, you have to raise it, don't get along with your body because of lust.

However, Fang Chongyong explained to the attendant before, don't knock on the door to affect your concubine, why is the door still knocking?

Just when he was stunned, He Changqi's anxious voice came from outside the door: "Jieshuai, something is wrong!" Go to the Yamen Lobby! ”

"Go and go, don't disturb me reading!"

Anaye waved her hand perfunctorily without looking back, squatting next to the box and flipping through the book.

When he came to the hall of the Yamen of the Hexi Jiedu Envoy, Fang Chongyong found that Guo Ziyi and the others were already dressed in military uniforms and waiting here. He coughed lightly to hide the embarrassment of being late, looked around at everyone and asked, "Is there something wrong with being in such a hurry?" Haven't you been preparing for the expedition to the Western Regions, and why are you gathered here? ”

"Fang Jieshuai, the scouts have come to report that the 400,000 troops of Tubo are rushing to attack Shibao City! The soldiers are divided into three ways to attack the Longyou Jiedu envoy defense area!

Should we send reinforcements to Shanzhou? ”

Guo Ziyi asked with Fang Chongyong crossing his hands, his face was not anxious, but his words were quite sincere.

The border town field army of the Tang Dynasty was very vigilant, and their reaction to the attack of the Tubo people was basically five to ten days faster than the reaction of the imperial court, and half a day to one day faster than that of the Yamen! This is also the meaning of the existence of the border military envoys, who can make their own decisions in case of emergency.

Fang Chongyong didn't know about the Tubo people's surprise attack on Shibao City, and the Chishui Army had already known about it half a day in advance.

"Does the imperial court have a military order?"

Fang Chongyong asked in a deep voice.

"There is already someone in the yamen who has written an official document and sent it to Chang'an, and the person has just left Liangzhou."

He Changqi whispered in Fang Chongyong's ear.

"Hmm."

Fang Chongyong waved his hand lightly, signaling that he knew.

"The labor division went on an expedition to Shanzhou, that is, to send people's heads."

Fang Chongyong couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

With such a rugged road, when the troops arrived in Lanzhou, the soldiers and horses had no physical strength, and they had to fight after arriving in Shanzhou.

It's completely based on your own shortcomings, and the enemy's strengths!

The time when the Tubo people sent troops was two to three months earlier than the estimated time of the Tang Center! Hexi was preparing for an expedition to the Western Regions, and it was originally planned to transfer a group of 10,000 elite soldiers to the north of Shanzhou to help Wang Zhonghei in a month!

After the people went, they had to wait for the autumn harvest in Liangzhou and Ganzhou to transport the grain and grass over, and then the army could be considered to be deployed in place. Otherwise, there is a shortage of food on the right side of Longyou, what to fight!

I didn't expect the time for the Tubo people to attack earlier! And so much ahead of time!

The time when the Tibetans invaded the Tang Dynasty was very seasonal, and after the autumn harvest, they sent troops to spend the winter in the warmer areas on the periphery of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In the spring, no matter whether you win or lose, you must return to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for spring ploughing, and the cycle will start again!

As a result, now that the Tubo people don't talk about martial arts, they actually go out to fight in early summer, do they really care about their own grain harvesting?

In fact, it was not only Fang Chongyong who was thinking about this problem, but everyone in the yamen was wondering if the Tubo people were crazy.

"Fang Jieshuai, it is imperative to support Longyou's soldiers and horses. It's not that we can hide if we want to, please think twice, the soldiers are fast! ”

Guo Ziyi stood up and bowed with his hands crossed.

"Fang Jieshuai, it's better for the last general to bring a thousand elite people of the silver spear filial piety army, and go south to Shanzhou to explore the road first."

Wang Dian said.

The 1,000 men of the Silver Spear Filial Piety Army are used in a key position, which is enough to turn things around. To be honest, Fang Chongyong was reluctant to throw these people to Shanzhou to go to the Tianxian baby.

"Aid, that's definitely going to be aided."

Fang Chongyong waved his hand, signaling the generals to calm down, and he set the tone with a word.

Not to mention that the imperial court will definitely let the Hexi soldiers and horses support Longyou, let's talk about personal relations, the current envoy of Longyou Jiedu is Wang Zhonghei, Fang Chongyong's father-in-law, can he not go?

If he doesn't go, what will others think of him as a person?

For public and private, you can't run away from this battle!

"But I really can't go to Shanzhou. When we arrived in Shanzhou, the soldiers were tired and the teachers were old and short of food, how could we fight with the Tubo people? ”

Fang Chongyong looked around at everyone and asked. It's not that this battle can't be fought, but that the Hexi soldiers and horses suffered a lot after they went to Shanzhou!

To put it mildly, this is a tactic to add oil, so that the Tang army and the Tubo people grind meat on the front line of Shibao City. This style of play is around Shibao City, the Tang army and the Tubo army both attack the city, defend, change defenses, send reinforcements, and cycle again.

Until one side can't hold on.

Fang Chongyong had a big plan in his heart, he didn't want to spend it in Stone Fort City with the Tubo people!

That's not how it was fought!

"A certain personally led a team of 3,000 silver spears and filial piety troops, and then cooperated with the original garrison of the big fighting army to gather 10,000 people. We went out of the big bucket and pulled out the valley, went south to climb the mountains and hit the hinterland of Tubo, and surrounded Wei to save Zhao!

The Chishui army remained vigilant to paralyze the Tibetans. ”

Fang Chongyong slammed the table with his fist and said! You can't go to Shanzhou, and if you go, you'll spend all the elite there!

Fang Chongyong's plan is simple to say, but it is actually very simple.

The platform south of the Dadou Ba Valley is a logistics base in Tubo (Menyuan County, Gansu), which is heavily guarded! And the mountain roads are rugged.

In the past, it was the Tubo people who followed this road to the north, rushed from the hillside into the Dadou Ba Valley, and then attacked the defense area of the town west of the river.

Now, Fang Chongyong is playing like this, which can be regarded as "Kou can go, I can also go".

But the Tubo people rushed down the hillside, and the Tang army fought back to climb up the hill, so can the difficulty be the same?

The Hexi Festival made the yamen hall silent, and the generals who licked the blood from the knife edge all shut up obediently, not wanting to be the first bird.

"When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins, are you afraid that you don't dare to attack against the trend?"

Fang Chongyong looked at everyone and asked mockingly.

"We all obey the orders of the marshal!"

All the generals saluted with their hands crossed, and the armor made a screeching sound because of the friction!

"It's difficult for us, and it's even more difficult for the Tibetan people. We can concentrate our troops and horses, and the Tibetan people can concentrate our soldiers and horses.

The eldest husband is stubborn and stubborn, and the horse leather shroud is not happy, why bother to be a little daughter!

I personally led the troops in this battle, only advancing and not retreating! ”

Fang Chongyong pulled out the Wind Phantom Knife and slashed at the wooden table in front of him, splitting it in two.

"If there is anyone who says that he cannot send troops, it is the same as this case.

The divisions do what they are told, and they will set off in an hour! ”

Fang Chongyong withdrew the knife from its scabbard and walked straight out of the yamen lobby.

(End of chapter)