"Zhao Ye, the guest is here!"

The manager took a guest with a hood covered with a hood and walked into the study. Gu Fan waved his hand and signaled the manager to cover the door and leave.

After sitting down, the guest lifted his hood behind him, but Gu Fan seemed to be afraid that someone would see his head and face from the window, moved the candlestick on the table to the other side, frowned, and said unhappily: "Didn't I say it before."

No need to visit the door. Will I send someone to see you if there is any news? I will talk to you in front of His Majesty. If this is spread, what does Your Majesty think of me? I will say something else. Wouldn't it be your own business?"

"I'm careful. I've only met Manager Zhou when I entered the Prime Minister's Mansion. Gu Xiang wouldn't even trust Manager Zhou, right?" Deng Gui asked with a smile.

"..." Gu Fan said, "Your Majesty has agreed to transfer you to Huaidong as the deputy envoy to assist Wen Hengyue in guarding Chuzhou and other places."

"Why is Duke Wen going to Huaidong? Is Gu Xiang not interested in the Huaidong commander?" Deng Gui asked with some surprise, "Deng Gui thought he could assist Gu Xiang in governing Huaidong this time."

"As long as you have the heart, you will naturally have a chance." Gu Fan said.

"That's true. With Duke Wen's physical condition, he will last at most a year and a half after taking office in Huaidong," Deng Gui suddenly realized, "At this time, Huaidong was in chaos, and the generals of the Shenwu Army were unstable. Gu Xiang really didn't need to

Go join in the fun at this time…”

Gu Fan did not fully trust Deng Gui, so he had no intention of telling him his plans and said, "It's not too early and the imperial edict is not too small. Deng Hou still pays attention to his words and deeds. I won't keep Deng Gui to use it.

It's a feast."

"I've been idle in Jianye these two days. I've got a few small tricks, so I personally gave them to Gu Xiang for fun." Deng Gui took out a brocade box from his sleeve, and opened it, but it was six pearls the size of a pigeon egg.

Pushed towards Gu Fan.

"Mr. Deng is intent." Gu Fan picked up a big bead and watched it in front of the candle.

"Marquis Jingsheng is ambitious and wants to swallow Jingxiang. However, Mr. Ge's progress in recruiting the lake bandits was not good and it was difficult to control him. What strategy did Your Majesty want to use?" Deng Gui asked slowly.

"At this time, the court was worried and difficult for both internal and external forces, and Chushan's power had already been established. How could it be so easy to deal with it?" Gu Fan said, "If you want to deal with Chushan, you can only slowly..."

"Oh, so, Your Majesty wants to abide by Jingxiang, and Nanyang will be placed under the leadership of the Chu Mountain camp?" Deng Gui said in confusion, "The Marquis of Jingsheng occupied the two prefectures of Ru and Cai, and the court would find it difficult to control it. Then he asked him to cut off Nanyang, Jing

There are more than 300,000 households in Xiang’s twenty-two counties, aren’t you afraid that it will be more difficult to check and balance in the future?”

Gu Fan smiled and said, "Chu Mountain is based on Ru Cai Prefectures. Every year, the imperial court has to support three million stagnant of money and grain to barely resist the enemy of Jingxi. This time, Jingxiang and Nanyang are placed into Chu Mountain. How could the imperial court be able to do so.

Will he continue to compensate Chu Shan for extra money and food? Is it a gain or loss? Is it still a little bit? After all, Marquis Jingsheng was too anxious and was too anxious to reveal his tail!"

In Gu Fan's view, sometimes it is just simple arithmetic.

The states and counties in the north of Jinghu have repeatedly charged more than 5 million guan of taxes that can be collected. After deducting local consumption, the central difference is only 2 million guan.

Others don’t know the situation in Nanyang, Jingxiang, but can Gu Fan still not know?

The total amount of money and grain collected in the third year of Jianji is about 4 million guan, including a large amount of money and grain collected in the past few years, including a large amount of money and grain in the past few years.

The gentry moved to Xiangyang, which led to a significant increase in the over-tax and sales revenue of Xiangyang Prefecture.

After deducting this item, the total tax amount in Jingxiang Nanyang was only three million guan.

The key is the daily expenses of the prefecture and county government offices, the prefecture and county towns, inspections of military camps, post roads, dike repairs, and prefecture and county archers, township soldiers patrols, robbers, public security, etc., which will consume a lot of money, which can really be taken away by the camp.

The money and food for raising troops may only be one million to one million.5 million.

In Gu Fan's view, Xu Huai gave up the three million military pay he had entered every year by the imperial court and forcibly included Jingxiang under his rule, which was not cost-effective, and seemed too hasty.

"This is true. Since the founding of the Great Yue Dynasty, many gentry of Jingshenghou, who were the two states of Ru and Cai have been offended. They are ambitious to occupy Nanyang and Jingxiang, and have also made the gentry of Jingxiang in Nanyang move to Jianye one after another.

The mountain does not require gentry, but military officials are used to govern the area, which is even more amazing," Deng Gui sighed, "Besides, the soldiers are holding their heads and taking blood on the battlefield, just to secure their wives and children, and to have some land and houses to enjoy the world

Is it Nian? Chushan is so lucky. He has limited the fields and the generals in the army. How many people can be left to work for him in the end? I also think Chushan will not last long."

"Mr. Deng is a sensible person," said Gu Fan.

"I came to see Gu Xiang with my head and face. In addition to being uneasy and wanting to confirm the news sooner, there is another thing I want to tell Gu Xiang." Deng Gui                                                                                                         �

"You said." Gu Fan said.

"At the beginning of the founding of the dynasty, the imperial guards and their families were stationed in the capital camps, under the jurisdiction of the three yamen. The generals were in the Privy Council to conquer the border and commanded the troops and horses to guard the border or fight against the enemy territory. The families did not follow the army," said Deng Gui,

Later, because the border state was really far away from the capital, the garrison was once every three to five years, but the generals had half a time to travel on the road. They worked hard for this, and then they gradually became the imperial guards and their families stationed in the garrison. Just now, the current situation was that the emperor was stationed in the garrison.

In other words, the troops and horses no longer defend one place in a fixed place. They often need to be mobilized in different regions and cities according to changes in the battle situation. It is really inconvenient for families to mobilize them at this time. I don’t know what others think.

Yes, if the court issued an edict to send Xuanwu army to defend Chuzhou this time, I would like to ask the court to set up an area in the south of the Yangtze River to move the soldiers' families into Anju, so that the soldiers can serve the court without any distractions.

…”

"Oh, do you really think so?" Gu Fan looked at Deng Gui with some surprise and asked uncertainly.

At the beginning of the Great Yue Dynasty, the garrison of the imperial guards were strictly separated from the garrison.

In the early years, the generals and soldiers of the imperial army and their family were stationed near the capital. They were controlled by the three yamen. The soldiers were transferred to the border state every three years, and were led by the border generals to guard the border and resist foreign enemies. At the same time, the border generals at all levels would be different.

The defense zone is rotated.

This effectively prevents the situation of the border generals fighting against the court after taking control of the military power.

The reason is very simple. The family of middle and lower-level military officials and ordinary soldiers is in the capital, and the border prefectures are also rotated every three to five years. No matter how ambitious the border generals are, how many middle and lower-level military officials and ordinary soldiers will be willing to do so.

Follow the border general to rebel or surrender to foreign enemies?

If the Bian General really has any ambitions, the court usually only needs one imperial edict to easily win it.

This is also the key to the fact that scholars who represent the imperial decree can usually effectively control military generals.

However, this system is difficult to implement for a long time.

Because the capital of the capital is too far away from the border state, it takes three years to carry out round-trip guards, and the generals and soldiers will have to spend more than a year on the journey back and forth.

In the later period, the scale of the imperial guards became increasingly large. Millions of small families were stationed near the capital for many years. In addition, the population of Beijing increased rapidly. The imperial court needed to recruit millions or even thousands of stones of grain from various routes every year to ensure the supply.

In the end, the border generals and soldiers and family members had to be moved to the garrison.

Chihu invaded the south, the Central Plains fell, and Emperor Jianji ascended the throne in Xiangyang. At that time, the situation was urgent to the point of destruction of the country and the genocide. Money, grain, and military equipment were extremely scarce, so the court could not consider the separation of the garrison and the garrison, and then rushed to catch up.

Moving the capital, the battle in Huainan was fought.

Even the imperial guards Zhang Xin's troops did not have time to set up another camp outside the camp, and managed the soldiers separately from the family, and they all mixed into several large villages near Jianye City.

The daily exercises and actual command of the Imperial Guards were all led by Zhang Xin, Yu Gong and others at the same time, and they were not really divided into two systems, and they were clearly controlled by the Privy Council and the Imperial Camp Department.

All of this also caused the actual power of the military minister to expand unprecedentedly.

Deng Gui probably did not move the young master alone to Jianye or a certain place in Jiangnan to live in a concentrated manner. He accepted the jurisdiction of the Imperial Camp Department more directly and clearly stated.

So much so that Gu Fan wondered if he had heard it wrong.

You should know that Ge Boyi was unable to recruit Dongjing thieves' army, the most critical difference was that the Jingnan Control Department strongly asked Sun Yanzhou and other thieves to separate their soldiers from Jiaxiao for resettlement.

"What, Gu Xiang thought I was joking?" Deng Gui asked back.

"You do have this intention. I will come to the palace with you tomorrow to meet the saint." Gu Fan said.

Previously, Emperor Shaolong was full of suspicion of Deng Gui, and Gu Fan was worried that it would affect Emperor Shaolong's trust in him. Although he advocated that Deng Gui serve as the deputy envoy of Huaidong, he did not dare to let anyone know that he had close contact with Deng Gui.

If Deng Gui was truly willing to be in Jianye for the Xuanwu Army to be controlled by the Imperial Camp Division, he would just lead the generals of the garrison to garrison to guard Huaidong, how could Gu Fan have any other concerns?

He even wanted to bring Deng Gui into the palace to meet the saint overnight.

"Deng Gui's sincere intention to Your Majesty and the court is also due to Gu Xiang's advice," Deng Gui bowed, "Maybe Gu Xiang will go to the palace to give advice tomorrow, and it's better for Deng to listen to the imperial edict at any time in the Privy Council!"

"Haha, it's easy to say, it's easy to say!" Gu Fan laughed.
Chapter completed!