I saw that her eyes were full of mischief, and her face was full of heartless and bad smiles, where was there a shadow of half a frightened? The playful smile with joy seemed to be plated with a layer of golden light under this bright morning light, dazzling his eyes, in the face of such a smile, such a crystal cut water eyes, he couldn't even raise the strength to be angry. [No pop-ups. 】

Michen turned around and saw that it was Guihai Mo Yan who had caught up, but he was worried, the smile on his face was slightly reduced, and he couldn't understand his attitude in his heart, so he hurriedly reined in his horse, but when he turned around, he saw Guihai Mo Ling following from a distance, with a frowning face.

The corners of Guihai Mo Yan's mouth twitched, and the tips of his eyebrows rose: "You also call it obedient?" ”

Mi Chen saw that his face was calm, there seemed to be a streamer in his eyes, and his deep pupils reflected the verdant trees of the four eyes, which seemed to change the depth, but he was not angry.

Mi Chen's heart is comfortable, plus the person in front of him should not send her back again, he looked at his face everywhere this morning, that is, he knew in his heart that it was always bad for them to go out of Beijing on an errand, and he felt a loss. Now the world is vast and the four fields are verdant, and I feel as if I am wandering in a vivid and vivid picture, where can I still take care of the mood of Guihai Mo Ember, and raise a smile: "I can't blame me this time, it was your big black horse that scared my little white horse, and you are the first to sue the wicked." ”

"Yes, I was cautious just now, but now I can ride a horse, and this horse is in love with you." Guihai Mo Ling caught up and looked at the dust and one person.

"That's right, I told you not to underestimate Young Master Ben. This horse is so good, I like it, thank you, Your Highness. Michen raised his head triumphantly, leaned over and stroked the mane of the white horse, and the horse shook its neck happily. In fact, it is thanks to the long-term light practice to adapt to horseback riding so quickly, and Michen often dances, and the coordination and balance of the body are good, and the horseback riding is naturally more flexible.

"It's time to thank me, don't look at this horse's small size and gentle temperament, but it is also a good horse for the grassland tribute the year before last, and my fourth brother and I raided the king of the right valley of Beifu for thousands of miles, but we can earn so many horses." Guihai Mo Ling looked at the dust and said with a smile.

"Then you have to give it a good name, what's your horse's name?" Stroking the horse's head, looking at the high-spirited Guihai Mo Ling.

"Yun'e."

"Is the horse of the fourth prince called Chi Yan?" Michen seems to have heard Guihai Mo Ling just mention this big black horse, and said that it is a divine horse, but now when you look closely, you can see that the horse is extremely tall, and it seems to have a hidden vigorous strength, the whole body is black, but the four hooves are red, but it really seems that flames rise from the hooves.

"Indeed, it is a galloping flame." Guihai Mo Ember saw Michen looking over, and also looked at his own Chi Yan, Chi Yan seemed to be aware, raised his head proudly, and snorted.

"It's all good names, what's the name of my horse, Xiaobai?" Michen muttered, and the white horse under him seemed to be dissatisfied with the name, and took Michen around in place.

"Ah, I see, you took me around like this, do you want to go around? Or is it a circle? Circles are good, and you will be called circles in the future. ”

As soon as Mi Chen's words fell, he heard Guihai Mo Ling laughing, and turned his head to glare at him: "What are you laughing at, isn't it good to be in circles?" I'll just call it a circle. ”

"Fourth brother, what did you hear her name, turn around? Circle? Guihai Mo Ling saw that Michen was so forgetful that he was chatting with a horse, and at the end he gave the horse such a childish name, and laughed.

"It's good, let's go, we have to rush to Lingzhou before noon." There was a smile in Guihai Mo Ash's eyes, and he shook the reins of his horse, galloped and neighed, and rushed out.

"Did you hear that? Your fourth brother said it sounded good. Michen smiled triumphantly and flicked his horsewhip and followed.

For a while, I only heard the horse's hooves flying on the Tao, showing infinite joy.

They rushed to Lingzhou, a small county south of Luoyang, at noon. * The city gate under the bright sun is mottled, a few guards of the soldiers leaning crookedly against the wall, farmers and hawkers enter and exit the city gate, although it is not as prosperous and noisy as Luoyang, but the small city is simple and peaceful but also reveals the prosperity of the times.

Entering the city, Guihai Mo Ember chose a small hotel and walked in first, followed by Guihai Mo Ling and Mi Chen. The hotel is not very big, there are only more than a dozen small tables in the hall, but it is clean and tidy, and the guests are full. Michen sat down at the only free small table in the middle, and the shopkeeper had already greeted them.

"What do you three use?" The shopkeeper wiped the cloth towel on his shoulder on the table, and asked with a smile on his face, but he was looking at the dust.

Mi Chen was a little stunned, looking at his own clothes is suddenly, the moon-white robe on his body is made of fine brocade specially purchased from Jinyue Lou yesterday, but Guihai Mo Ember and Guihai Mo Ling are wearing ordinary cloth clothes today, one person also takes a burden, although the two of them are still Xuanyu Xuan, not breaking their demeanor, but this small shop is open to do business, which is not a snobbish looker, eighty percent of the two of them are their own attendants.

Michen looked at Guihai proudly, and Mo Ling said slowly: "What do you all have to eat here?" All of them will be reported to the master. ”

"Small shop business, ordinary dishes are available, staple pasta, our Yangchun noodles here are famous, how many people might as well ask for a few side dishes to try three bowls of noodles?"

Mi Chen smiled when he heard that Yangchun noodles were famous, this used to watch TV series, and there were not many people who went out into a small wine shed to eat this Yangchun noodles? ! Seeing that Guihai Mo Ember and Guihai Mo Ling were only sitting and looking at her without speaking, Mi Chen spoke: "A plate of beef, a plate of peanuts, and three bowls of noodles." Do you drink? ”

"You're a drunkard, where are you going to drink?! So be it, be quick, and put less salt in one serving of pasta. Guihai Mo Ling saw Michen and asked himself, took over the words and instructed the shopkeeper, took out a piece of broken silver from the money bag around his waist and threw it to him.

"Hey, silver is a good thing." Michen saw that the shopkeeper took the silver, and agreed with a smile, unconsciously sighing.

Guihai Mo Ling looked at Michen amusedly, but Guihai Mo Ling said meaningfully: "It is indeed a good thing." ”

There was a fierce aura hidden in his light words, which provoked Guihai Mo Ling and Mi Chen to look at him inexplicably.

"Fourth brother is saying that the army generals have eaten empty quotas as capital to do business in recent years, right? Last time, I saw a thorough investigation written by the fourth brother on the book case of the Piqing Palace, did my father approve it? "Guihai Mo Ling has been accused of training in the household department since he came back from the border pass, and he is not clear about everything about the military department.

"My father has been busy with the Wanshou Festival recently, and the doors of the Zhengqing Hall are about to be broken by those people in the Ministry of Rites." Guihai Mo Ember frowned slightly, Emperor Haiqing's body and spirit have been declining over the years, and he was afraid that his father didn't even see it.

"The fourth brother is also in a hurry, if it is really approved, it will not be a matter of a day or two to investigate. There have been few wars in these years, and the army has long been rotten, and I am afraid that there are few who do not eat vacancies, and the military salaries allocated by the household department to the military department every year are more than a year. ”

Guihai Mo Ling put away his usual laughing expression and was thoughtful. He worked in the household department, and the matter of military pay was clear. This year's salary allocated to the Ministry of War has increased compared with last year, and only the expenditure of the Ministry of War accounts for six out of ten of Haitian's annual expenditures on silver, which is really a hundred times more difficult to raise soldiers than to use them, and the preparations for the Wanshou Festival are really about to be hollowed out, and as soon as he enters the official office all day, he only hears the sigh of Gu Minxian, the secretary of the Ministry of Households.

"No matter how many people are pulled out, this matter will have to be investigated strictly sooner or later. If this continues, if there is a war, I am afraid that the household department will not be able to raise grain and grass at all. Guihai Mo Ember spoke in a low voice, and his tight and resolute lips matched the bright and cold eyes very well.

Michen didn't feel bored listening to them talking, he reached out and poured two glasses of water and pushed them in front of the two, Guihai Mo Ling took it and smiled at her, surprisingly Guihai Mo Yan also looked at it and nodded slightly, his eyes were secretive.

"Don't be angry about this, this situation is not only in Haitian, but also in all dynasties." Seeing them look at them, Michen chuckled and said, this shallow words, a gentle smile like a breeze blew away the serious atmosphere just now.

"Oh? You know? I'm afraid you won't even be able to figure out what it means to eat short, right? Guihai Mo Ling raised her eyebrows and smiled when she heard Mi Chen's words, quite disapproving, obviously taking her words as a child's gossip.

Guihai Mo Ember was thoughtful in his eyes, and his eyebrows were lightly raised to signal Michen to continue. Xindao She is indeed right, the phenomenon of eating empty quotas has always existed, but in recent years, there have been few wars in the Haitian Dynasty, and the military generals have been pampered, and most of them have lost their hearts, plus the father has been negligent in the government in recent years, and there have been many leniencies, and corruption has become a trend.

"Of course I know that the quota is empty, isn't it that the general falsely reported the number of troops to the imperial court, so as to take advantage of the salary of the false quota. Not only are these generals like this, but officials at all levels have also withheld military salaries at various levels, and I am afraid that less than half of the silver salaries that are actually distributed to the soldiers in the barracks are due, and most of them have gone into the pockets of corrupt officials. What am I saying and no? "I still know the term "empty quota", and I seem to have talked about one of the major drawbacks of the conscription system in the past, and it was especially serious in the Southern Song Dynasty.

"That's true." Guihai Mo Ember's eyes flashed slightly, looking at the woman in front of her who was talking eloquently, only to feel that the confidence between her eyebrows brightened the already beautiful face, this woman always seems to have something surprising, like the moon in the water, so hazy that people can't see clearly, every time you think you can see the water clearly, it has changed its brilliance.

"I really know, even the female stream in the boudoir can say a thing or two, it seems that it's time to rectify it, so do you say there is any way?" Guihai Mo Ling didn't want to find dust, and he really knew it, and stared at her in a little surprise, his eyes were bright, and he said in his heart, this girl might really have some ideas when she was eccentric on weekdays.

"You can't help it, what can I do. In my opinion, it is to order a strict investigation, catch one by one, kill chickens and monkeys, knock on the mountain and shock the tiger. As far as Michen knows, this conscription system replaced the conscription system in the Tang Dynasty until the Song and Qing dynasties, and the stubborn problem of eating empty salaries has always existed until the founding of New China. Although the history of the Haitian Empire is different, and the conscription system is a continuation of the previous dynasty, the problem is the same.

"Kill chickens and monkeys, knock on mountains and shake tigers? Hehe, it's the same as what is written in the fourth brother's notebook. Guihai Mo Ling said with a smile, not forgetting to take the peach blossom eyes on Guihai Mo Ember and Mi Chen's faces thoughtfully.

Mi Chen heard his words and looked at Guihai Mo Ash, but when he saw that he was also looking over, the two of them seemed to touch each other, and at the same time inexplicably turned their gazes.

At this time, the store had already brought the meal and put it on the table with a smile: "This bowl is less salt and has a light taste." ”

Michen thought that Guihai Mo Ling's special order was prepared for himself, but he saw that he pushed the lightly tasted noodles in front of Guihai Mo Ash. The corners of Guihai Mo Ash's mouth lifted lightly, smiled back at him, and naturally held it up and used it. Michen only felt that although his smile was shallow, it was real, and he secretly said in his heart that this person would laugh too.

"Business is good in this shop." At this time, a few more people came in from outside, but the store was full. Guihai Mo Ling chuckled.

"Well, it's almost spring, and most of them are students who have entered Beijing to take the exam. We were afraid that it would be difficult for us to stay overnight. Guihai Mo Ember raised his eyes and swept the shop.

After he said this, looking around, there were really many people dressed as students and scholars.

"At this rate, we should be able to reach Anding at night, Anding is not a small city, it shouldn't be difficult. If it doesn't work, go to the official post. Guihai Mo Ling looked at Guihai Mo Ling in a little surprise.

"We don't want to settle down, we go west to Daxin."

"Go to Daxin? What to do there? Ah, the fourth brother is going to check the Tiger Wing Army in Jiugao Mountain? Guihai Mo Ling was still a little puzzled when he heard it, but as soon as his mind turned around, he thought of the Tiger Wing Army stationed in Jiugao Mountain in the southern suburbs of Daxin.

This Tiger Wing Army is also the Beijing soldiers of the important land of Gyeonggi, which is regarded as the emperor's personal soldiers, and the Tiger Wing Army has always been directly commanded by the Haitian Emperor, and only he can be mobilized after the Haiqing Emperor ascends the throne, and most of the generals are the cronies of the Haiqing Emperor. The Tiger Wing Army was the largest of the four guards in Gyeonggi, with 50,000 during the reign of the first emperor, but due to its expansion in recent years, it is now 87,000.

Since Guihai Mo Yan took over the military department, he began to drastically rectify the military affairs of various localities, rectify the military department, and delete a large number of personnel. Some time ago, he wrote a letter to delete the Tiger Wing Army, and Emperor Haiqing approved it, but the official document of the Ministry of War was issued for more than a month, but the Tiger Wing Army did not take action for a long time, which is also the reason why he planned to go in person.

Michen listened to them talk about their whereabouts, but he didn't pay much attention and ate noodles by himself. Anyway, it's the same everywhere, and now I'm happy when I hear that I'm going to the barracks, and I look up at Guihai Mo Ash.

"Well, tomorrow I want to see how my father's personal soldiers are, and the official documents of the military department have fallen on deaf ears." Guihai Mo Ember raised his eyes, his deep eyes, the bottom of his eyes was dark, and there was not the slightest joy, anger and sorrow, but his voice was slightly low, and he was already unhappy.

"Okay, I'll also go and see this long-rumored Tiger Wing Army, this is the elite of the Gyeonggi garrison. Historically, military resources and salaries have been allocated to them first, and the equipment is also the best in the sea and sky, I want to see if it is stronger than our Heiyi army. Returning to the sea, Mo Ling was excited.

"Can I go tomorrow too?" Seeing that Mo Ling was happy to return to the sea, Mi Chen hurriedly asked.

"If you want to go, follow it, but there are no women in the army, don't be frightened when the time comes. Fourth brother, take her with you, if you let her be in the hostel, you won't feel at ease. Guihai Mo Ling smiled at Michen freely, and looked at Guihai Mo Yan but he didn't ask for it, but when he made a statement, he was sure that the fourth brother would definitely agree.

Michen listened to Guihai Mo Ling's words, first smiled, and then listened to him ask Guihai Mo Ling, so he looked over a little nervously.

"Come on, eat quickly, we have to hurry in the afternoon." Guihai Mo Ember looked at Michen, and saw that her eyes were earnest, and the corners of her mouth were slightly hooked, but she couldn't bear to resent.