Li Guozhen smiled and said to the sage: "Regarding the border troubles, this county does not understand very well, but this county feels that the border troubles are mainly Xirong, about Xirong, this county thinks that the labor expedition outweighs the losses, and now the Holy Dynasty relies on the Tianshan Pass, which is enough to resist the million-strong army of Xirong, and in addition to the Tianshan Pass, there is no dangerous place to defend, even if the Holy Dynasty is captured, it is difficult to defend."

"Yes, I don't think that the foreign expedition will not cost the people and money, but today the DPRK is unwilling to fight with Xirong, but Xirong has repeatedly withheld the pass."

"This county is a little foolish, now the plan, should implement the policy of inbreeding, Xirong outside the Tianshan Pass, are small lands and small countries, if you want to attack, as soon as the heavenly army arrives, it will naturally look at the wind and surrender. If it can be used by us, then the imperial court naturally has a natural barrier. ”

"If you want them to help, I'm afraid it's even harder."

"You can learn from the Song Dynasty in the past and set up the capital to protect the Mansion, which is how the Song Dynasty swallowed the thirty-two states in the northwest (now the northern part of Wuliang Mansion and Qingliang Prefecture of the Yu Dynasty)."

"I want to hear about it."

"Xirong loves tea and silk, as long as the DPRK supplies Xirong with 100,000 catties of tea and 30,000 horses of silk every year, Xirong is a small country for thousands of miles, and he will obey his orders. If the Xirong powers come to attack, the imperial court will send troops from Tianshan Pass to help. ”

"This? Lei Feng, please continue. ”

"The imperial court can send people to train soldiers or reclaim wasteland as an excuse to cross the Central Plains refugees one by one. These small countries in Xirong are no more than 200,000 large, and only 50,000 or 60,000 small. ”

When the sage heard this countermeasure, he thought for a while, and said to Li Guozhen: "However, these places are still not dangerous to defend, and in the Song Dynasty, this method was all because of the Tianshan Pass."

"Mei Xianggong, this matter cannot be delayed, swallowing a foot of land today, and extending it by a foot tomorrow, the imperial court must always keep the small countries of Baili Xirong as a barrier, these small countries are sometimes more useful than Tianshan Pass."

"This method of cannibalization is interesting."

The saint was noncommittal, he had a heart for using the small country of Xijon as a barrier, but he had no heart for this method of encroachment.

Li Guozhen only said about the Song Dynasty, when it came to the Chen Dynasty, the thirty-two states in the northwest were in the process of listening to the tune and not listening to the Xuan, Emperor Wei Wu merged the Tianxia Prefecture, Qingzhou Mansion and Liangzhou Prefecture still did not obey the order, or the state and county acted as the government, Emperor Wei Wu wanted to conquer at the beginning, but considering that this group of people was anxious, this group of people sold the Tianshan Pass to Xirong, and when the time came, the gains outweighed the losses, so they acquiesced. After three hundred years of open and secret fighting in the Wei Dynasty, finally in the Yu Dynasty, these two places completely obeyed the orders of the imperial court.

The sage thought that if the capital protection mansion was set up outside the Tianshan Pass, and the country would decline at that time, wouldn't it be a problem to raise tigers, and now Yu Chao has a lot of land and resources, and he doesn't care about those places in Xirong.

The sage saw that Li Guozhen was really capable, so he hugged his fist at Li Guozhen, and then said: "Today, I heard the words of Zhixian County, and I was empowered."

"Mei Xianggong, you have already been promoted, you will be nominated for the gold list in the future, and you will enter Hanlin, and when the county sees you, I will call you an adult."

"Haha, thank you for the auspicious words of the county magistrate, there is a lot of trouble today, so I won't retire."

After the saint left, he returned to the inn, and Concubine Ya said to the saint, "How?"

"This person is indeed a capable official, but if he is transferred to the court like this, the ministers will say that I have entered the people too suddenly."

"Then let the concubine give him a prefect, and the prefect of Jinyang Mansion can also go to Nandu to rest."

"This is not very good, I heard that the current prefect of Jinyang Mansion is your uncle, and he only became this errand last year. Now that his prefect's seal has not yet covered the heat, Concubine Ai transferred him to Nandu, I am afraid that he will inevitably say some angry words. ”

"It is precisely because he is the concubine's uncle that the concubine knows that he is not a prefect, and it is a good errand to go to Nandu on an errand."

The sage didn't persuade much, looked at Concubine Ya, after Concubine Yafei wrote the edict, she stamped her seal, then looked at the sage, and said to the sage: "Sage, is the concubine on her face?"

"No, I'm just thinking, Concubine Ya, what do you want?"

Concubine Ya looked at the sage and said to the sage: "The concubine has nothing to want, if there is, it is the peace of the country and the people. The second is to be able to continue the incense for the saint and add a few princes to the court. ”

The sage looked at Concubine Ya in embarrassment, and said to Concubine Ya: "If this is the case, I will be embarrassed, and it will be difficult for me to give you what you want."

"Then the saint, the concubine should be brave and ask for a jade seal."

"What seal?"

"Huiyin."

"Okay, I'll go to the capital and carve one for you personally."

The next day, they left here and continued northward to Yunge Mansion.

In Huanglong City, the saint already knew the whereabouts of Zhou Huanzhu after the four holy divisions listened.

Zhou Huanzhu was originally a county magistrate, but in the first year of Zhaoning, with the arrival of the new magistrate, he was also dismissed.

Now Zhou Huanzhu is selling tofu in Huanglong City for a living.

The sage and Concubine Ya arrived at Zhou Huanzhu's tofu shop early in the morning and ordered two bowls of bean curd.

After the sage finished eating, he said to Zhou Huanzhu: "Shopkeeper, your tofu is good, but why don't you have many customers?"

"This is a personal chance, this minister thinks it is delicious, but others may not think it is delicious."

"Haha, shopkeeper, you can see it."

"This business is good, naturally happy, business is not good, it is useless to be sad, the old man has also tried to find a way, but he just didn't come."

At this time, Concubine Ya looked at the signboard and said, "The words on this signboard are not bad, is it written by the shopkeeper?"

"Let the little lady smile, the old man has been a knife and pen clerk for a few years, dealing with the pen all day long, and writing a few strokes."

The sage pretended to be surprised, and said to Zhou Huanzhu: "I didn't expect that the shopkeeper is still a person in the official family, just the shopkeeper, this yamen is fat, and if you leave now, you won't be downcast to sell tofu here."

"The fat difference is really good, but the old man is a dead brain, he doesn't know how to be flexible, this comes and goes, those squires know that it is useless to send money to the old man, so they don't care about the old man."

"Shopkeeper, do you regret it?"

"I can't say sorry, old decay is a poor life anyway, this poor scholar, poor scholar, can a scholar be called a scholar if he is not poor?"

The sage smiled, and then said, "Shopkeeper, now that you are bored, you can have two more bowls of bean curd, and we will talk."

The shopkeeper saw that he was fine, and he didn't want to offend the guest in front of him, so he came over and said to them, "You two, you must have come from an extraordinary background."

"How so?"

"It's not a secret, although the two of them are dressed very ordinarily, they are talented and beautiful, they are all one in ten thousand, they can be called the dragon and phoenix among people, and they have never seen someone as handsome as the two of them for so many years. To put it mildly, the aura of heaven and earth is gathered on you. ”

When Concubine Ya heard this, she covered her mouth and smiled, and said to the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper, with your eloquence, if you want to drill camp in the Yamen, you will already be developed."

"I won't mention the things of the past. Now that the saint is in power, the wind and rain are smooth, even if he sells tofu, he is also at ease, which is enough to imitate the people of Getian. ”

When the shopkeeper said this, the sage said to the shopkeeper, "Then I don't know what the shopkeeper thinks of the saint today?"

"How can such a small person as old and decay talk about a saint in vain?"

"The shopkeeper doesn't have to worry, my husband is a lifter, and my favorite thing is to talk about these."

Concubine Ya explained, the shopkeeper thought for a while, and said to the sage: "In this case, guest officer, you and I are in love, so let's say a little bit, the sage is good at everything, but it is a little bad?"

"Which point?"

"It's just that I'm reluctant to let you princes become vassals."

When the saint heard this, his face sank, and at this time, Concubine Ya secretly pulled the sleeve of the saint's coat, and the saint quickly turned as usual. However, this week, Huanzhu has also been mixed in the yamen for a few years, and he is already a veteran in observing words and feelings, so he hurriedly gave up his hand and said: "I'm sorry, the old man is too talkative, the old man is too talkative."

"Shopkeeper, you don't have to be so outside. It's just that these 80,000 are in the domain, but I don't think the harm is small, and the saint is unwilling to let the eight kings become the domain, but also for the sake of the eight princes. ”

"Well, the old man dared to guess that what the saint and this minister are worried about today is that if the eight kings become vassals, it will be like a tiger out of a cage, and the dragon will break free from the chains. Therefore, Xianggong thought that the eight kings should be locked in the capital, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, so that the eight kings would have no small movements. ”

"Shopkeeper, you think the same as Bucai, in that case, why do you want to let the eight kings become vassals?"

The shopkeeper looked around, and then said, "In this matter, the saint has forgotten the ancient precepts, and divided the princes and weakened them. Now that the eight kings are staying in the capital, they are communicating with each other, and they are all one. Even if the saints knew their disobedience, they had no handle. If the eight kings are separated, thousands of miles apart, and they want to communicate with each other, the envoy wants to walk the road of ten thousand miles, and how can the saint not know such a long journey? At that time, even if one party makes a mess, the seven parties will correspond, and they will be far away from each other, and they will not be able to practice as one. ”

When the sage heard the shopkeeper say this, he thought for a long time, and then Concubine Ya said to the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, you can continue."

"Okay, please don't laugh. Old and courageous, I don't know if the saint has ever thought about it, if the eight kings are in the capital, when the time comes, the capital will be transformed into a battlefield, the forbidden palace will be on fire everywhere, and the saint will win, what should it do? ”

When the saint heard this, his body trembled. He really didn't think that the Eight Kings would cause chaos under his nose. Even if you win, it's not worth boasting about. And what if you are defeated?

If it really starts fighting in the capital, his so-called millions of soldiers and horses are all decorations, and the distant water can't save the near fire, but after the eight kings become vassals, if they have a heart of disobedience, they will be convenient to dispose of.

"Shopkeeper, what you said is very right, don't you think that the saint didn't let the Eight Kings become vassals, presumably because he didn't want the Eight Kings to have a chance to make trouble."

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Chapter 340: The Recluse