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The so-called ghost mastery system means that the leaders of various barbarian tribes use the primitive religious belief of "ghosts and witches" to rule over the tribes.

If the tribe has more than 10,000 people, its leader is called "the lord of the ghosts". If the tribe has more than 1,000 people, less than 10,000, it is called the "big ghost master". If the tribe has less than 1,000 people, it is called "little ghost master".

Of course, this is only a rough division, and it is not that strict.

In addition, although the titles of the ghost masters are different, there is no distinction between superiors and subordinates, and they belong to each other, which can be called a plate of loose sand.

Of course, at the same time, the two major governors of Yaozhou and Zhou, who are responsible for managing them, are not very good.

Because of the difficulty of transportation and the fact that there were many plagues, the Yaozhou Governor's Office, which governed the thirteen prefectures under the establishment of the system, only maintained a total of 2,000 troops.

This is the result of the imperial court's "five hundred years of Yaozhou".

In other words, the Tang Dynasty added 500 troops to Yaozhou every year, but because a large number of soldiers died of illness and death, Yaozhou's troops never exceeded 2,000.

A barbarian's "Metropolitan Ghost Master" may be stronger than the strength of the Yaozhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. The Yaozhou Governor's Mansion suppressed the Thirteen Prefectures with 2,000 officers and soldiers, and the difficulty can be imagined.

As soon as some of the governors of Yaozhou understood the situation, their hearts were half cold, and after arriving in Yaozhou, they groveled to the barbarians, just hoping that there would be no chaos in their own office.

Some are bent on getting rich, oppressing small tribes, flattering large tribes, and causing people's hearts to be lost.

So much so that when the famous minister Zhang Cambodia was serving as the assassin of Shu and Heerzhou, he directly suggested that the Yaozhou Governor's Mansion be abolished.

Li Zhigu, the governor of Yaozhou, who had just been lit by the barbarians, was quite capable, and after he arrived, he led his troops to defeat a small tribe that did not obey orders, and built a city to collect taxes from the barbarians, intending to change the land and return to the river.

How can the ghosts tolerate this situation? Immediately spread rumors that Li Zhigu was going to kill all the leaders of the barbarians and sell all the people into slavery.

The barbarians were excited, united unprecedentedly, and colluded with the Tibetans, not only breaking Yaozhou, but also the states north of Yaozhou.

Now, what Cui Geng wants to discuss with everyone is how to deploy troops and generals to recover this Yao and Erzhou.

However, as soon as the meeting began, it was very unsmooth.

Quan Huaien spread his hands and said: "There is a way that the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved, and the old man, the assassin of Yizhou, first expresses his attitude, and Yizhou has no money." King Ji is known as the Holy Hand of Gold, and please find a way to raise military expenses yourself. ”

"How can Yizhou have no money?" Cui Genghao was overwhelmed and said: "Who in the world doesn't know, when it comes to the economy, promote one and benefit two." Sitting in the second richest city in the world, you cry poor with this king? ”

Quan Huaien shook his head and said: "That's not what you say, it's true that Yizhou was rich before. However, the greed and cunning of Xiahou Biao, the assassin of Yizhou, made the treasury extremely empty. ”

"No matter how greedy he is, the court has a system, how much can he embezzle? Why is the treasury empty? Besides, wasn't Xiahou Biaozhi arrested? Wouldn't it be okay to let him return the stolen goods? ”

Although Xiahou Biaozhi was arrested, he committed suicide due to the lax supervision of the cell boss, and the embezzled money was naturally missing. As for the fact that he couldn't have emptied the vault? It makes sense. However, not long ago, Yizhou just had a large amount of expenses. ”

The so-called Xiahou Biaozhi's suicide, Cui Geng is eighty percent sure, it was Quan Huaien's ghost, and he blackened the money.

Anyway, it can't be debunked, Cui Geng was too lazy to grind his teeth with Quan Huaien, and said, "What is the so-called big expense?" ”

Speaking of which, it was Xiahou Biao's mishandling. At the beginning, the state was jointly attacked by the Tubo people and the barbarians, and the entire Jiannan Province was shaken. There are three barbarian ghost masters, who came to Chengdu and offered to persuade the barbarians to strike the army, and even to be the internal response of the imperial court, but they only need the imperial court to agree to their two small conditions. ”

"On what terms?"

"First, ask the court to crown them kings. Second, each of these three men was to be rewarded with 500,000 yuan. ”

Cui Geng gritted his teeth and said, "So, Xiahou Biaozhi agreed to them?" ”

"How can that?" Quan Huaien shook his head and said: "For such a big matter as the king of the king, Xiahou Biaozhi can't be the master, and he has already reported to the imperial court." In order to appease the three ghost masters, he handed over a million yuan worth of money and cloth to the three ghost masters. ”

"That's it?"

After Cui Geng heard the news, he fainted out of breath.

Is it a trivial matter to be crowned king? In order to appease Siyi, the Tang Dynasty court had not a hundred but eighty princes. These princes are not valuable, they just have nice names. Even if they met an official of the level of the governor of Yaozhou, they all had to bow and salute.

However, 1.5 million yuan!

It's not worth selling all those poor ghosts and barbarians! What did Xiahou Biaozhi say in order to appease the three ghost masters, the ghost only believed the money. It was obvious that he was frightened, and he was afraid that the barbarians would send troops to break Chengdu City, so he didn't dare not pay this money!

Now that those barbarians have eaten such a big sweetness, I am afraid that they are even more reluctant to return to the Tang Dynasty.

And the most important thing, the dignified Tang Yizhou Thorn History, was fooled and lame by the three barbarian ghost masters, how embarrassing it is to say it. Needless to say, those barbarians will despise Datang more and more.

Cui Geng slammed a few cases and said, "Xiahou Biaozhi, the villain who misled the country, damn it!" ”

Quan Huaien said with a smile: "Now that Xiahou Biaozhi is dead, it is useless to say that he has anything." All in all, I have no money in the Yizhou treasury, so this military salary depends on King Ji out of nothing. ”

There's a ghost out of nowhere!

It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice.

Cui Geng took a deep breath, looked around, and said, "The Yizhou Mansion Treasury is empty, what about the other state capitals?" ”

"We have just suffered a disaster in Luzhou, and we are asking the imperial court for relief."

"Our Yazhou has always been barren, it would be good not to have relief from the imperial court, how can we have the money to supply the army?"

"Although our Yuzhou looks rich, in fact, the surface of donkey dung and eggs is shiny, and we can't make much money."

……

As soon as Cui Geng's words fell, the officials of the states of Jiannan Province began to cry poor.

Without it, everyone knows that Cui Geng and the current Tang Dynasty Tianzi are inseparable. Whether this world will be Li Chongfu's or Li Xian's in the future, that's really not certain.

If you are too active in dealing with Cui Geng's errand now, you will inevitably be classified as Cui Geng's party and liquidated in the future.

Of course, if you refuse to cooperate with Cui Geng, you can't completely fall to Li Dan's side.

Anyway, it's hard to give up good money, so everyone cries poor. In any case, the money in your hands cannot be handed over easily.

Cui Geng listened to their words, and his face became more and more ugly.

But at this moment, a clear voice sounded, saying: "Although our Rongzhou is only a central state, the land is narrow and the people are poor, but we are willing to contribute 200,000 yuan to help the military!" ”

"Who?"

People followed the prestige, but saw a middle-aged man with a short stature and a warm face, standing up.