Guo Song continued: "Like this time to prepare for the battle of Gelulu, there is also a Hui in the middle, the situation is very complicated, except for me, I'm afraid no one can handle it well, so I have to go!" ”

"Yes! It's easy to fight, but it's hard to see far and deep like Envoy Jun. ”

Pan Liao also wanted to persuade Guo Song not to go to Beiting to fight in person, but after hearing this, he also agreed with Guo Song's decision, Guo Song had to go, and no one could cope with the complicated relationship between Ge Lulu and the Hui people.

"After the separation of the military and the government, how is it operating?" Guo Song asked with a smile.

According to Yan Zhenqing's suggestion, Guo Song reformed the official system in Hexi a few months ago and established the Hexi Dao Shangshu Xingtai, and he served as the Xuanfu envoy and concurrently served as the Hexi Jiedu envoy.

All the government affairs were transferred to the Shangshu Xingtai, Cao was changed to the ministry, and the division was added later, the department of officials, the department of households, the division of the military department, the department of criminal affairs, the division of the Ministry of Industry, the division of the Ministry of Soldiers, the Department of Warehouses, and the Department of Agriculture.

Langzhong set up the left and right orders, and then up is Changshi and Sima, and the top is the Hexi Dao Xuanfu Envoy, and also set up a Su Zheng Tai, the duty of supervision, and directly report to the Xuanfu Envoy.

Then the Hexi Jiedu Mansion was only in charge of the army, and the post of long history was canceled, and it was directly recorded to join the army, Liucao to join the army, marching Sima, judge, chief bookkeeper and other positions, these are all civilian officers,

Although there have been many more officials, the military and the government have been separated, the functions and powers have been clearly distinguished, and the administration has been smooth, so that everyone no longer has to grasp military affairs with their left hand and government affairs with their right hand, and the pressure has been greatly reduced.

Pan Liao sighed with emotion: "It is worthy of being an old minister, with rich experience, a vicious vision, and a very accurate pulse, after the reform, government affairs and military affairs are very smooth, and there is no such thing as a previous rup, and the states and counties can also be connected, and everyone is respectful."

Saying that, the two came to the barracks, although Pan Liao was no longer in charge of military affairs, he wanted to coordinate with Zhang Qiu'an, the secretary of Jiedu Mansion.

Although it snowed, the military camp was still outside the east city, mainly because there were too many soldiers, and the city could not be stationed, but fortunately, they captured a large number of Shatuo leather tents, which were warm in winter and cool in summer, and the leather tents were able to resist the severe cold, even if the snow was covered outside, the inside of the leather tents was still very warm.

However, the soldiers also have to strengthen their physical training in winter to prepare for the big battle after the beginning of spring.

In the large camp, 30,000 soldiers are training under the flying snowflakes, they are all naked, some are training marksmanship, some are running, some are practicing martial arts, the shouts on the martial arts arena are like thunder, the soldiers are vigorous and powerful, everyone is sweating profusely, and the heat is steaming.

Pan Liao went to find Zhang Qiu'an, and Guo Song came to the big tent of the Chinese army, but saw Zhang Yun, the general of the scout, and Wang Yue, the commander of the internal guard, standing in front of the big tent.

"Why are you two here?"

Wang Yue scratched his head and smiled: "We saw that the envoy had entered the camp, so hurry over." ”

"But you are conscious, go into the account and say!"

Guo Song walked into the big tent, and the two of them hurriedly followed.

Guo Song sat down and said to Zhang Yundao; "I came to the barracks to consider the deployment of the army, the first thing is to find the scout camp, it is snowing now, can you rush to Beiting? Or wait until the snow melts a little next year? ”

Zhang Yundao: "Generally, it will not be until mid-December, after a few heavy snowfalls, the road will be completely closed, and the lowly can take his subordinates to ride camels to the North Garden, mainly because some deployments should be arranged in advance, if you set off today, you should be able to arrive at the North Court in early December." ”

Guo Song nodded, "You decide this matter yourself, I won't interfere, but I want to tell you that if you go to Beiting, you must do a good job of intelligence on two lines, one is the Jinshan line, and the other is the Yili River line." ”

"Humble, remember!"

"Go ahead! Bring more hawks and keep your soldiers safe. ”

Zhang Yun saluted, got up and left, and Guo Song said to Wang Yue again: "What I explained last time, is there a result?" ”

Wang Yue nodded, "The subordinates of the lowly faction have been following those horse dealers, and the news from the subordinates says that the horse dealers are indeed pretending to be the Ziqing Army, and they came to Hexi to buy war horses, and bought more than 600 war horses and 10,000 sheepskins. ”

"Are they passing through Guanzhong?"

"Exactly! But for some reason, they got the pass issued by Zhu Zhu's Qin Palace, and the road was unimpeded. ”

Guo Song nodded, it should be that Zhu Jun's subordinates have loopholes, he doesn't want to ask more about this kind of thing, the war horses and sheepskins in Hexi are the most needed materials for the armies in various places, and the government found that the merchants from the Central Plains basically bought these two items.

"Envoy, do you want to prohibit the outside feudal towns from buying war horses and sheepskins?" Wang Yue asked again.

Guo Song thought for a while and said: "If the other party is just here to trade, it doesn't matter, if they are suspected of probing intelligence, the first step can be a warning, if they don't listen, they will be resolutely arrested, which requires the team to closely monitor every foreign businessman." ”

"Ignorance, understood!"

Guo Song explained a few more words, and Wang Yue retreated.

Guo Song paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, thinking about the outflow of war horses.

In fact, Guo Song did not object to other feudal towns coming to Hexi to buy war horses or sheepskins, there were 250,000 war horses in Hexi, and there were as many as 1.5 million sheepskins, most of which were trophies from the destruction of Shatuo, far exceeding the needs of the Hexi army itself, and also brought a great burden to Hexi.

If the feudal towns in various places are willing to buy, Guo Song can also sell them, and the key is that the other party must come up with hard currency, which must be gold or silver, and Hexi also needs real money to buy tea, cloth, oil, medicinal materials, saltpeter, bow and arrow materials, paper, pen and ink and other materials.

Since Hexi began to mint money, Guo Song banned the circulation of small money and new money in Hexi, and did not encourage foreign countries to bring copper coins to Hexi to buy materials, it is best to carry goods into Hexi from outside, and then take goods from Hexi, which is the trade method encouraged by the government.

At this time, the generals walked into the big tent one after another, Guo Song retracted his thoughts, and smiled at everyone: "It is very likely that there will be another war in the spring of next year, so invite everyone to discuss how to arrange troops?" ”

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After returning from the barracks, it was already dusk, and the discussion of sending troops was very smooth, and everyone unanimously agreed that the commander Guo Song would lead the most elite 20,000 troops of the Hexi Army to the west.

Guo Song rode into the city gate, but unexpectedly found that the city gate was full of people, there were thousands of people, all of them supporting the old and the young, carrying burdens and luggage, they were guarded by soldiers, everyone was anxious, many children and women squatted on the ground and cried.

"What's going on?" Guo Song urged him to immediately step forward and asked sharply.

The captain on duty at the city gate saw that the commander was coming, and hurriedly stepped forward to report, "Envoy Qiqi, they came from Guanzhong, saying that they were going to Beiting to make a living, I told them that it was snowing, and they couldn't go to Beiting, and they didn't know what to do?" ”

"Have you notified the county government?"

"I've already been notified, and the line has also been notified."

At this time, everyone's eyes turned to Guo Song, and everyone found that he seemed to be a big official, and several old men stepped forward to kneel down for Guo Song, and thousands of people immediately knelt down.

An old man trembled and said: "Official, we are not bad people, we are all people who can't survive, I heard that there is food in Hexi, so we came all the way from Guanzhong, begging the official not to drive us away." ”

Guo Song saw that most of the people were thinly clothed, shivering from the cold, and the children and women had vegetables on their faces, he couldn't bear it, and said loudly: "Please rest assured, since you have come to Hexi, you must have food, and soon the government will come to settle everyone, everyone can live in Hexi, and I can guarantee that everyone will be fed and clothed." ”

Thousands of people couldn't believe it, and at this time, when a soldier quietly told them that this high-ranking official was the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, the people completely cheered, and many women were so excited that they burst into tears, holding their children and crying bitterly.

At this time, the county commander Yu Xude and the county Cheng Li Chan rushed over with a large group of officials, Yu Xude saw Guo Song and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "I heard that there were a lot of homeless people just now, so I hurried here!" ”

Guo Song nodded and said: "It's a little late now, first send them to live in the old warehouse, and then go to the warehouse to get a tent, you have to use a leather tent, settle them down first, let them eat enough, give each person a sheepskin, and register tomorrow." ”

Yu Xude bowed down and said: "Obey the order, and there are hundreds of leather tents in the county warehouse, which can be used first." ”