"Also, did Your Majesty promise Yue Guhan anything?"

In addition to this million, Han Gang still refuses to give up, and there is a great tendency to hollow out Li Xu's family.

"Well, I said that as long as I can get rid of Tubo Zampu, I will help him levy people's power......"

Without waiting for Li Xu to finish explaining, Han Gang directly interrupted the emperor.

"Your Majesty, the requisition of civil power will cut next year's revenue, and the cost of the project will also require a large amount of money. ”

The palace was not a secret place in the first place, and it was also unexpectedly for Li Xu to reveal the deal between the emperor and Yue Guhan to Han Gang.

In the Yu Dynasty's system, the common people were theoretically supposed to bear the burden of forced labor, that is, they were requisitioned by the government to do unpaid labor, and now this has evolved into a kind of fiscal tax, and the people can pay a sum of money to exempt these forced labor, and then the government will take the money and find someone else to do it.

If you really want to dig a ravine in the mountains of Sichuan, Han Gang estimates that there are not many people willing to do it, and at that time there will only be a forced conscription of the people, but this means that the imperial court will have to lose a piece of income.

"It's okay, I'll go tell Mr. Yue, he's been waiting for so long, and he's not in a hurry for this moment. Li Xu thought that Han Gang's pen made the emperor's head hurt.

Yue Guhan must have an explanation there, but Mr. Yue has been boiling for so many years, and waiting for half a year is not a matter, mainly because he is using money everywhere now, so how can he let the court get through this.

"In fact, it's just a few years of tightness, and after two years of relaxation, it's fine. Han Gang said: "Your Majesty, the old minister still has something, I don't know if I should talk about it." ”

It's rare that there is something for this old thief to sell here, so Li Xu has the patience to listen to him.

"What I said, Lao Linggong said that it didn't hurt. ”

"Now that Wen Meiren is pregnant, does Your Majesty want to recall Wen Yuanheng from Lingnan. ”

Li Xu frowned slightly, the emperor couldn't figure out the logic in Han Gang's words, why did Wen Meiren recall Wen Yuanheng back to the court if she was pregnant? Wen Yuanheng is not a child, his father wants to come back to serve the pregnant woman.

Seeing that the emperor frowned and didn't react for a long time, Han Gang added another sentence.

"The old minister took the liberty to say more, now the status of Wen Meiren is really embarrassing, and it is appropriate for His Majesty to make a conclusion on the Wen family's coffin as soon as possible. ”

Han Gang's words made Li Xu suddenly pause.

Now that he is becoming more and more authoritative, the ministers below rarely dare to express their opinions directly. I did make a mistake in this matter.

Wen Meiren is just an ordinary woman, and she can't make any waves when she is honest. But it's hard to say about the child she gave birth to, if she gave birth to a daughter, it's fine, if she gives birth to a boy, when her teeth grow up in the future, there will naturally be some courtiers who tend to be attached to her family.

At that time, would this child fight for the Wen Party, which had turned to dust? After all, he was also from the Wen family, and restoring his uncle's status would show his legitimacy even more. What's more, the Wen family still has a Wen Yuanheng in the end.

It is Li Xu's current core talents who have brought down the party, and how should these people deal with themselves when the time comes? The good court is about to fall into an endless death fight because of this matter, and Li Xu feels a chill on the back of his neck when he thinks about it.

Han Gang woke up this time, and Li Xu glanced at the Zhongshu Ling below, and secretly remembered his benefit.

However, these things are still far away after all, and Li Xu has other important matters to discuss with Han Gang.

"Guanzhong Domain, I'm ready to remove it all. Li Xu said: "A good pass, to a few knots to make the division of scattered, each other to draw the ground as a prison, good people as soldiers, the Tubo Uighurs in the past have no way, now the Tubo power has weakened, I am ready to Fengxiang, Jingyuan and other four towns are all abolished." ”

Han Rui bowed his head and was silent, he, the Fengxiang Festival Envoy, knew very well that the Jie Du Envoy in Guanzhong was completely different from the Jie Du Envoy in other places. The military pressure here in Guanzhong is too great, in order to protect Bai Yujing's safety, Guanzhong has set up four jiedu envoys and two defense envoys around Bai Yujing from east to west.

Although this setting has the flavor of mutual checks and balances, it is indeed exaggerated, not to mention that the biggest foreign enemy, Tibet, has been blown up by the emperor.

"I don't know what arrangements Your Majesty has for the dismissed Jiedu envoy?" Han Gang instinctively had some objections, the emperor's style of doing things was good to say, it was called vigorous and resolute, and if it was unpleasant, it would be fired, and he didn't think about the consequences at all.

"Enrich the Privy Council, give them a few privy deputy envoys or the title of counselor, and put them in Bai Yujing to raise them, or go to serve in the forbidden army. ”

Reducing the number of troops is Li Xu's main policy for the next year, and he must move up and down, in addition to the forbidden army, the Guanzhong Domain under the control of the imperial court is no exception.

"Your Majesty, have you ever thought about what the soldiers below should do?"

"Elimination for the people. ”

"They are all used to the days of eating food with knives, and they are wantonly eliminated, I am afraid that someone will conspire with them to make trouble, or go into the mountains to become bandits......"

Li Xu had already thought about what Han Gang said, but this was all a thing that was not done against him, and he couldn't raise these people under a different name.

"Then let their blood warm their axes. ”

The emperor's attitude was so resolute, Han Gang didn't say much.

"After the abolition, the government affairs of the Guanzhong states will be handled by the center. Li Xu looked at Han Rui: "The Ministry of Industry is going to serve as the envoy of the governor of Longyou, and the station is in Yuanzhou." I not only want you to dismantle and train the soldiers and horses of the four towns, but also want you to select 8,000 men from them, including 3,000 elite cavalry, organized into three battalions, and take advantage of the momentum of building a high house to suppress Qinzhou in the south, tame the surrounding party tribes, and expel them all. ”

This place in Yuanzhou is a new defense base point determined by Li Xu after a long time of research, which is the later Ningxia Guyuan, Qinzhou controlled by Tubo in the south, an important passage into Longyou Road in the west, and Shuofang Jiedu in the north.

Since the Kwantung Rebellion, it has become an area controlled by the Tibetans and a nomadic place for the various party departments.

Now that Shang Dongzan has gained a firm foothold in Luo, although the two sides have a tacit understanding, this does not mean that Li Xu will tolerate and compromise in a casual manner, march into Yuanzhou, and recovering this place as the base point is Li Xu's next main move.

"The Ministry of Industry has three months to dismantle the training. Li Xu said to Han Rui: "After the spring of next year, I will personally lead the forbidden troops to Jingzhou to join you and send troops together to recover Yuanzhou." ”

After speaking, Li Xu glanced at Han Gang: "This military fund is from Ouchi, and Han Xiang doesn't have to worry about it." ”

"Three months, I'm afraid it's hard to be effective......"

"With this, it can not only intimidate Shang Dongzan of Tubo, but also make those Qiu Ba in Guanzhong honestly go back to the field to eat. Li Xu continued: "After the recovery of Yuanzhou, all the cultivated land here will be divided to the soldiers and civilians who have been laid off, as their private property, and there will be no tax for ten years. ”

The emperor was not prepared to use real money as severance pay for these laid off soldiers, but Li Xu was still willing to use the land occupied by the Tubo people to buy the dismissed soldiers.

Han Rui lowered his head and thought about it.

"Yes, you can, but it's better to put all the Black Cloud Iron Guards under my command for a few months before we can do anything. ”

Now the most popular in Bai Yujing is the freshly baked Black Cloud Iron Guard.

After the emperor dismissed the Shence army, he left some people from it to train into the so-called "Black Cloud Iron Guard", all of whom were dressed in iron armor and masked with black scarves. The weapons used by this group of men and horses are all armor-breaking heavy soldiers such as long knives and axes, and some time ago there was a group of snitches who wandered from Luoyang to Bai Yujing to commit crimes.

Each of the seven members of this group is equipped with superior martial arts, and the eldest brother led by him is said to be a lay disciple of Shaolin, and has practiced Shaolin's assassination boxing for a while. The other six can also be said to be well-known in the rivers and lakes.

He had also stolen the concubines raised by the envoys of the Henghai Festival in the outer mansions, stole the famous horses of the Uighur wealthy merchants, and stole the mansions of several underworld figures.

This group of stunned young people is not familiar with Bai Yujing's life, relying on his excellent professional skills, he only thinks about making a big case to make a name for himself, and he has the audacity to target His Majesty's warehouse outside the city.

It was the place where the silk transferred from Jiangnan by Yuan Zhen was stored, and it was also the place where the emperor stored the treasures and heavy weapons confiscated. The gang went straight inside, only to run into the Black Cloud Iron Guard of the Night Watch.

Seven snitches dealt with five black cloud guards, killed six people, and only one ran out of the wind and looks, and only then did the rivers and lakes know that the big soldiers in the palace are not idle now.

Most of the Black Cloud Iron Guards were the knights of the Shence Army who followed Li Xu to break Tubo at that time, and they got the emperor's guidance and skills, and they could also browse the martial arts secrets provided by the emperor.

After this incident, the name of the Black Cloud Iron Guard also sounded, and it was not an easy task to eliminate the Four Towns Jiedu, and it was understandable for Han Rui to ask him to transfer this Black Cloud Iron Guard to him.

"Your Majesty, do you remember He Basong?"

After learning about another matter, Han Gang suddenly opened his mouth and mentioned a name that Li Xu was very familiar with.

"Isn't this person Yue Guhan's disciple, and later became the head of the Queen Mother? I remember that he escaped from the prison of Dali Temple before, and now he should have wandered the rivers and lakes. ”

"Yes, it is this person, a few days ago, a Taoist with the Taoist name Puxiang arrested him and sent him to the old man's mansion, wanting to meet His Majesty as a gift. ”

To tell the truth, Li Xu was not too impressed by an unlucky guy like He Basong, who could not help himself in life and death. The turmoil caused at the beginning, this son was just a needle thread, and in the end, several bigwigs in the court were wrestling in secret.

But after all, it is also considered a party of the Empress Dowager Wen, not to mention that it is still a prisoner who escaped from prison, and it is okay for such a character to be taken to ask the court for a reward, Li Xu feels that he really has no need to dwell on such a trivial matter.

Na Puxiang said that he was familiar with the origin of the Dongshan Society and wanted to meet His Majesty. ”

Li Xu raised his eyebrows and said quietly: "Dongshan Meeting, let him enter the palace tonight." ”