When Xia Shan heard Pei Min's words, she looked embarrassed and muttered: "Actually, it's not a handle!"

Seeing Xia Shan sweating all over her head, Pei Min smiled and said, "Let's go downstairs to talk in detail. Even if we want to save people, we don't have to hurry at this moment. When we speak against the fiery sun, passers-by thought we were fools!"

He pointed to the shadow on the back of the city tower.

As he said that, he walked under the city wall with Yuan Luqian.

Xia Shan heard that Pei Min was in Hezhou and rushed from Shanzhou to ask for help. The sun was exposed to the sun and the mouth was dry. She followed her and took the water bag from the horse's back and drank it loudly while walking, without caring about her image at all.

Pei Min looked at it and laughed in her heart: No wonder Guo Zhiyun was worried about her marriage. This carefree personality is really the same as a man.

The soldiers guarding the city were secretly happy when they saw that they had ignored it, but then they heard Pei Min turn to him and say, "Come here too."

The soldiers guarding the city immediately followed like pickled eggplant, covered in dust.

When I came to the foot of the city wall, I finally avoided the sunlight by the cover of the city wall.

Occasionally, the breeze blows by, which can bring some coolness, and the few people show a relaxed expression.

Xia Shan also slowly came: "As we all know, the Longyou Jiedushi has 75,000 troops, but with the corruption of the government system, the Longyou Army has never been full in the past twenty years, and this is the same even now..."

Pei Min nodded to show that he understood that the Tang Dynasty is currently vigorously promoting the recruitment system, recruiting brave and powerful men from all over the world, forming athletes from the Long March, and guarding the border to the border.

However, the recruitment system has a prerequisite, which cannot affect economic development, nor can it affect agricultural construction.

After all, the Tang Dynasty was a farming nation, and farming was the top priority. Farming was the foundation of everything and the source of life for all people in the world.

The recruitment system affects farming and the gain is not worth the loss.

The emergence of the recruitment system has indeed greatly changed the weakness of border soldiers and added fresh blood to the border soldiers. However, the number of soldiers in the hands of the Nine Jiedus of the Tang Dynasty was nearly 600,000. Even if the recruitment system was successfully implemented, it would not be able to satisfy all the troops for a while.

Xia Shan continued: "Every year, the court issued military pay and food, not according to the number of soldiers of 75,000 troops. Usually, the local government counts the actual amount of troops, and the court distributes relative materials. Generally speaking, local governors will falsely report some when reporting to obtain more military pay and supplies. This should be considered an unwritten rule. These materials distributed are not greedy by the governors, but are used to reward brave and brave soldiers and to improve the treatment of soldiers, and have various uses."

This is the first time Pei Min has heard of this kind of convention, but in history there is a name for this practice called "eating a job".

At this time, the Jiedushi had only military power and did not control internal affairs, money and food.

An army consumes a lot of miscellaneous things and does not have working capital, so many things are inconvenient to deal with.

However, the power of the Jiedu governor is too heavy. If he has the power to control the civil affairs and finances, it will be no different from the local princes.

The Jiedushi did not have the courage to ask the central government for financial power, and lied about the actual number of soldiers and gained more money to be used as a backup method.

Yuan Luqian said: "That's true, but who can guarantee that all the governors in the world are selfless and selfish? Besides, each governor has a fixed amount of troops and reports an imaginary number, which is equivalent to reducing the number of soldiers in the local area. If the war comes and causes a shortage of troops, what should we do?"

Xia Shan glared at Yuan Luqian again, ignored him angrily, and explained: "If you have this kind of concern, the amount of false reports is not much, and it is enough to maintain some daily needs. However, when facing the insatiable castrated dog, Guo often needs to pay out of his own pocket to satisfy it. Originally, Deputy Governor Wang also thought that it would be better to have less than more things and collect a thousand guan for Han Laogou. However, Han Laogou was more arrogant and was not satisfied with the money he received, and he still had to pay tens of thousands of dollars. It was really too bullying."

The court would not allow false reporting of troops to be paid for empty salary.

Li Longji was in the palace and naturally did not know this rule. Once someone made it clear in front of him, Wang Junxu would be severely punished.

Wang Junyi's current status is a bit awkward. He is not a formal Jiedushi, but a replacement for Guo Zhiyun's right. If you really want to pursue it, even Guo Zhiyun will be affected.

Pei Min didn't know much about Wang Junxu, but Guo Zhiyun's character was beyond doubt.

Even if you don’t let Wang Jun be disgrace, you can’t let Han Zhuang succeed for Guo Zhiyun.

Pei Min made a quick decision, closed his hands and said, "I will go to Shanzhou with you and I. I will see how arrogant Hanzhuang is tomorrow."

"That's great!" Xia Shan said with a happy look on her face, "Sure enough, what Mr. Guo said is just like that, Pei Shuai is a reliable boss."

"Reliable, this Pei admits it, but..." Pei Min said, "It's not true. It's really wrong to ride a horse in the street. Unless it's urgent for military information, nothing else is right. Even if the sun is in the sky and there are not many pedestrians on the street, it makes no sense. If this disaster can be predicted, there will be no such misfortune in the world. Who can predict that a child will not suddenly pop up in the streets? Avoiding such unnecessary disasters is what we should do, rather than having a lucky heart... You go to the inn to get the ten army sticks to show punishment."

Xia Shan said solemnly: "I will realize my mistake and be willing to be punished!"

Pei Min looked at the soldiers guarding the city again and said, "Don't ask the truth, ignore right and wrong, make your own decisions, and force yourself to come forward. It is no exaggeration to call it "foreigning personal malice". It is a slander. It is a warning to others for twenty o'clock."

The soldiers guarding the city said with a sad face: "I am willing to be punished."

Xia Shan then stepped forward and said, "It is because of my reason that the soldiers will suffer this unrestrained disaster. The last general is willing to take responsibility for him. The Zhenxi Army is also the army led by the last general, and there is a mistake of not being strict in discipline."

Pei Min and Yuan Luqian both looked at Xia Shan with some surprise.

Pei Min secretly praised the wife of Wuwei County in history, but she was as proud as a man, and said, "In this way, I promise you what you want, you two will be punished by fifteen each."

Xia Shan didn't seem to take the 15th Army Point into consideration, but instead urged him to leave.

Pei Min sat firmly on Diaoyutai and said, "We both rushed to Shanzhou for only half a day. It is better to rush to the scorching sun than to rush at night. You can still secretly enter Shanzhou quietly, killing two birds with one stone."

Asked Xia Shan and the soldiers guarding the city to go to the inn to find Jiang Yue to receive punishment. Pei Min and Yuan Luqian went to the fields outside the city as planned.

Looking at the bottom of the irrigation canal, Yuan Luqian said worriedly: "The Great Heat has not arrived yet, and the irrigation canal is about to be cut off. I am afraid that a drought will occur this year."

Pei Min has long felt this way when observing the astronomical phenomena these days and nights. But how can ordinary people avoid this natural disaster?

Fortunately, in the past few years, the weather was good and the treasury reserved sufficient rice and grain, but it was not difficult to overcome this difficulty.
Chapter completed!