Chapter 387: 387 free rates (six updates)

Chapter 387: 387 free rates (six updates)

Chapter 387 387 Empty Rates (sixth update)

Yun Zhan pinched the horse's belly and drove the horse north without looking back.

Today he got what he wanted. He got not the pleasure of revenge on his father and aunt, but the pleasure of breaking free from the shackles.

The Yun family can no longer restrain him.

Yunzhan rode his horse back to the palace, looking refreshed.

He was in a good mood, but he talked a lot. When he saw Gu Jue, he told him everything he said and did in the uncle's house.

"Hahaha..." Tang Yuchu laughed uncontrollably, tears rolling out of his eyes, "Hey, Lao Yun, are you a kid? You won a fight with someone outside, and you want to show off to your elders? "

"Pfft!" Xue Fengyan accidentally spat out the wine in his mouth, earning disgusted looks from several people.

Tang Yuchu laughed endlessly and moved his position to hide a little further away.

Yunzhan: "!"

Yun Zhan was so irritated by Tang Yuchu's laughter that he was stunned for a moment before retorting: "Who is showing off! This is my 'return to life'!" He emphasized the word "return to life" loudly.

The way he relaxed now was completely different from when he was at Yun's house just now.

His personal servant also heard the laughter and laughter of Yun Zhan and others outside the palace. Thinking back to the scene just now at Yun's house, he was filled with emotion.

"Resurrection?" Tang Yuchu smiled even more arrogantly. He leaned on his chair and waved his hands and said, "That's right."

His playful smile looked like he was trying to deal with Yunzhan.

When it comes to being talkative and shameless, a young man like Yun Zhan, who was raised by a noble family, is really no match for Tang Yuchu and Xue Feng.

Before he said a few words, Yun Zhan felt that instead of talking to Tang Yuchu, it would be better to speak with his fists.

Yun Zhan rolled up his sleeves and rushed towards Tang Yuchu, as if he wanted to fight alone, but with a smile in his eyes.

In the past, when he first joined the Northern Army, he couldn't get along with Tang Yuchu and Xue Fengyan. They thought he was a young man, and he thought they were vulgar soldiers... By now, they have become okay Trust your back to each other's best friend of life and death.

Of course, Tang Yuchu would not wait to be beaten. He immediately reached out to the window sill and jumped out of the window. His body was as flexible as a monkey, without any stagnation or pause.

Xue Fengyan was watching the show from the side, and he just wanted to fan the flames and urge them to fight quickly and not to wait too long.

Let them laugh and make trouble, Gu Jue has been sitting calmly and calmly behind the desk reading the book. He is accustomed to this, as if no matter how much trouble they make, it will not affect him in the slightest.

Amidst the chatter and chatter, Su Mubai, dressed in tea-white robes, walked in from outside the hall with a smile, as gentle and elegant as usual.

When Su Mubai crossed the threshold, his eyes glanced at Yunzhan, Tang Yuchu and Xue Fengyan, who were not standing or sitting.

He was still laughing, and his tone was unhurried: "What are you doing?"

"You guys really have a lot of leisure time." He clapped his hands softly twice, "The prince is about to ascend the throne. You are old people from Qiandi. You have a lot of things to do, so you still have time to flirt here."

Su Mubai always scolded people without using a single curse word, and he could scold people to death.

Yun Zhan, Tang Yuchu and others thought they were accustomed to strange things, but this time they were shocked by the words "flirting".

Xue Fengyan took a sip of wine again.

At this time, Su Mubai strolled up to the desk and saluted Gu Jue gracefully: "Why doesn't the prince care about them?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Qianchen, who was carrying a small flower basket, opened the curtain on the other side and walked in slowly.

She obviously heard what she just said, and her smiling eyes fell on Su Mubai's face.

"What did you just say?" Shen Qianchen asked with a crooked face.

Su Mubai: "..."

Su Mubai didn't say anything, but Jingfeng repeated it for him word for word: "Princess, Mr. Su just said, why does the prince not care about them?"

Now, not only Xue Fengyan, but also Tang Yuchu and Yun Zhan each moved their stools and came to watch the show.

It's rare to see Su Mubai, an old fox, suffer a loss. You can't miss it if you pass by!

Shen Qianchen also sat down, pointed confidently at the official documents on the desk, and said, "Your Majesty is busy!"

If Su Mubai is willing to dispose of all these official documents, Shen Qianchen will be very happy, so that she can take the prince to play with the cat and horse.

Su Mubai went to see Gu Jue silently.

From the moment the princess appeared, their princes obviously had no intention of reading any official documents, and all their eyes were on the princess.

Anyway, the prince couldn't help him, he couldn't defeat the princess.

Su Mubai admitted his fear calmly and without any hesitation, cupped his hands and said, "I was wrong."

Yun Zhan, Tang Yuchu, and Xue Fengyan laughed sullenly, and at the same time they admired Su Mubai again. This Su Hu was able to put on airs and keep his figure down.

high!

However, apart from the prince, probably the princess was the only one who could make him do this.

Tang Yuchu patted Yun Zhan on the shoulder and winked at him, meaning, learn from it. Shen Qianchen smiled obediently at Gu Jue, his smile unabashedly showing off, as if to say, am I awesome?

sharp. Gu Jue raised his lips and smiled, taking the small flower basket from her hand out of habit and putting it aside. Then he took Shen Qianchen's hand, sat down next to him, and handed her a cup of tea that she had not yet drank from. .

His series of actions were very natural, familiar and smooth, and one could tell at a glance that he treated Shen Qianchen this way on weekdays.

Yun Zhan inexplicably thought of his father Yun Ce and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Yun. They were a very different couple from the prince and princess. No, it should be said that the prince and princess were inherently different, different from many couples in the capital.

Holding the hand of a son and growing old together should be like this. There is no need for a third party to intervene between husband and wife, and there will be no **** like him who has struggled to survive in the cracks since childhood...

Yun Zhan was accidentally distracted. When he came back to his senses, he heard Su Mubai talking about the third camp of the Forbidden Army and the Twelve Guards.

On the day when the late emperor Gu Lang died, they launched the Xuanjia Army to force the emperor to invade the palace. At that time, they had no intention of rebelling, nor did they intend to let Gu Jue ascend the throne. At that time, their original plan was to force Gu Lang to abdicate and make the crown prince Gu Nanjin ascend the throne.

After that, all of them will follow Gu Jue back to the Northland and manage their one-third of an acre of land in the Northland.

Therefore, they only temporarily controlled the three battalions of the Forbidden Army and the Twelve Guards in order to maintain stability and not cause any more trouble.

But now, Gu Jue is about to ascend the throne. Since he wants to take power, he must first take control of the military. He must firmly control the three battalions of the Forbidden Army and the Twelve Guards.

Because Kang Hongda was sentenced to death, the hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops were now leaderless. Therefore, Gu Jue directly transferred Su Mubai to serve as the governor of the capital camp, taking Kang Hongda's place.

At this time, Su Mubai was reporting the numbers of the three camps of the Forbidden Army: "...30,000 people in the Shenshu Camp, 20,000 people in the Shenji Camp, and 40,000 people in the Fifth Army Camp including the prisoners taken that day."

Gu Jue moved his eyebrows, curled the knuckles of his right index finger, and tapped twice casually on the desk.

His little move made Shen Qianchen, Yun Zhan, Tang Yuchu and others realize that something was wrong.

In recent days, in order to understand the government affairs, Gu Jue read a lot of excerpts in recent years. He remembered that several of them mentioned the number of people in the imperial army, and the military status was far more than this number.

If the three camps are like this, what about the number of the twelve guards?

Gu Jue narrowed his eyes and asked in a very calm but determined tone: "Free money?"

Throughout the dynasties, the military has always had the problem of empty pay. This is true for the guards in various places and for the imperial guards in Beijing.

The Da Qi Dynasty has a history of a hundred years, and Gu Jue has known about this problem in the army for a long time. But in the past, he could only manage the Northern Army. It is only now that he has the legitimate authority to suppress the Da Qi army. atmosphere.

"Yes." Su Mubai nodded in agreement, with a hint of sarcasm on his elegant face, "Currently, according to statistics, the number of people in the three battalions of the Forbidden Army is less than half of the military registration." At this moment, he was full of emotions. The elegance of a military commander cannot be concealed by this elegant mask on his face.

The source of the problem of empty pay is that the generals in charge of the army have falsely signed up in order to cheat on military pay. However, the proportion of "registered and unpaid" has actually reached half. It must be said that the seriousness of the problem exceeds that of Gu Jue and Su Mu Bai's expectations.

Tang Yuchu threw a salt-and-pepper peanut into his mouth and added casually: "Kang Hongda is really 'bold and careful'!"

Xue Fengyan touched his nose, exchanged a joking look with Tang Yuchu, and joked: "Then shouldn't we still thank him?"

If you think about it with your toes, you will know that Kang Hongda, as the governor of the capital camp, could not be unaware of it, but he was so conniving and greedy that the army was empty. The result would only be that Daqi's national defense was weak.

At this time, everyone understood. No wonder after annihilating 65,000 soldiers of the military camp, although the Forbidden Army had several counterattacks, they were all small-scale and could not make any waves at all, let alone become a phenomenon.

At first, Su Mubai thought that the opponent had some big moves that he had not used yet. After waiting for a few days, there was no movement. He also thought that maybe it was because Kang Hongda was captured and the group was leaderless. The Forbidden Army soldiers were not united and the troops were not dispatched in time enough. , will be defeated.

Now, when they thought about it again, they all suddenly realized it.

The actual number of the Forbidden Army was less than half of the military status. Therefore, when the troops were really needed, they could not mobilize large troops, which was why the Xuanjia Army's forced invasion went so smoothly this time.

Later, the news of the death of the late Emperor Gu Lang was just the straw that broke the camel's back.

"Ha." Su Mubai seemed to think that the joke played by Tang Yuchu and Xue Feng was not funny at all. He glanced at them lightly, with a bit of contempt, but almost said blatantly, they are two simple-minded gangsters!

Even Shen Qianchen, who was drinking tea next to him, casually gave Xue and Tang a "you guys should use your brains" look.

So Xue Fengyan silently asked Tang Yuchu for a peanut. The two of them looked careless, but Yun Zhan was thoughtful.

Su Mubai continued: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid this matter will involve a lot."

The problem of being able to eat so much free money must not only be Kang Hongda's problem. After all, this is at the foot of the emperor, and it is not the northeast or northwest where the sky is high and the emperor is far away. Therefore, this matter should be done up and down, step by step. layer of exploitation, blocking the mouths of relevant people with huge benefits.

"If it gets involved, I'm afraid there will be turmoil in the court."

Su Mubai's expression and voice were rare and solemn, and he pursed his thin lips.

If most of the generals in the three battalions of the Forbidden Army and the Twelve Guards are free of charge, then once they take action, the army will be in turmoil. The prince has just come to power, so if he takes action against the civil servants and generals at the same time, it will inevitably cause the foundation of the army to be unstable. If it is not stable, it will also cause people to panic, and some people may even spread rumors and think that the prince is just making excuses.

The air condensed with Su Mubai's words.

Others were just thinking about the forced pregnancy half a month ago, but Shen Qianchen couldn't help but think of his previous life:

In the previous life, when she and Qin Yao marched eastward and forced the imperial city, the problem of empty pay in the army became more serious. From the Imperial Guards in Beijing to various guards, everyone was eating empty pay. Daqi was already on the verge of collapse...

In the previous life, the Daqi they captured was an even more desolate Daqi than it is now, and they needed more time to recuperate...

Shen Qianchen lowered her eyes and was immersed in her own thoughts. She didn't even notice that her eyebrows were frowning slightly, until she felt someone's warm fingertips touching her eyebrows and smoothing the wrinkles on them.

(End of chapter)