"Is that true?" Duan Xiushi raised his hand and signaled Gao Yue to continue.

"There are about 30,000 soldiers in Jingyuan camp. Over the years, the imperial court sent military rations from Zheng, Ying and Huazhou. It was difficult to transfer and consumed an astonishing amount. The local households in Jingzhou were only 5,000, with a large area and sparse population, and it was also extremely difficult to buy military rations. However, Jingzhou is surrounded by mountains and rivers, with water and land transportation, and fertile grasslands. It is better to choose 10,000 people from 30,000 soldiers and promote military garrisons. As long as you can collect 10,000 stones of grain per year, you can save 200,000 jin of money. Then you can use the saved money to rectify the equipment. With the fine equipment, you can attack and defend without any disadvantages."

Hearing Gao Yue’s words, Duan Xiushi nodded secretly, thinking that Kongmu Guan was right, isn’t this the greatest significance of military camp? But some things are easier said than done!

So he continued to ask Gao Yue: "Yi Song, based on your idea, is it convenient for military camps or better for civil camps?"

Gao Yue replied: "According to the examples of Zhao Chongguo of Han and Zhuge Liang, military camps can be carried out."

"But how effective the military camp cost is, can Yi Song consider it?"

“Not yet.”

Duan Xiushi was speechless and said to Gao Yue: "It's better. You can handle the matters of the Kongmu Academy as soon as possible within three to five days. Then, this section commander assigned you thirty athletes to patrol the boundaries of Jingzhou as soon as possible and investigate the military camps." After that, Duan Xiushi handed himself a scroll, "This is drawn by me for many years in Jingyuan. You can carry Yisong with you."

Gao Yue reached out to take it.

A few days later, Gao Yue said goodbye to Yun Shao, and after handling the affairs of the Kongmu Courtyard, he gave it to several people. He rode a horse, surrounded by thirty soldiers, and walked out of the city along the outer streets of Anding City. Of course, he passed by the camp again. He saw several beautifully dressed prostitutes weaving in the courtyard behind the wooden fence. Two of them looked up at Gao Yue who was riding a horse, and smiled with their lips, and whispered to each other, about why a young scholar came to the mansion, but why didn't we let us accompany the banquet? But let these three big and five thick officials go out with the mansion.

"Oh, it seems that these camp prostitutes are bored." Gao Yue's attention was only on their weaving behavior.

About three miles away from the city, a roaring sound of water came from the deep valley west of the city. A white-like water flowed down from the valley in front of the horse. A river was cut out from the valley in front of the horse. It was a river, which was like a tree river, which was like a tree river, which was like a tree river, and it flowed south into the Jing River, and Alanta Temple was located between the forests opposite the river.

When Gao Yue saw that the monk named Mingxuan, he clasped his hands and lowered his head, stood on the side of Sichuan, as if he had been waiting for him for a long time.

Amid the huge sound of water, Gao Yue asked loudly, "What's the matter in charge?"

"What's wrong with Kongmu, what's wrong with me?"

This monk is interesting. Could it be that he is coming to repay his kindness? Gao Yue continued to ask, what about the monks such as Mingmiao in the temple?

Mingxuan replied: Mingmiao and other monks had owed huge gambling debts and I refused to sell the temple property, so they falsely accused me of excluding me. Now that they have been discovered by Kongmu, they cannot pay back their debts, so they fled at night and went to Xifan.

Oh, it seems that he has defected to the enemy country to become a teacher. I heard that Xifan also believes in Buddhism, so these monks should not be unemployed.

"I am going to inspect the prefecture, one is the border army and the other is the military camp. What can Master Mingxuan teach me?"

"Ming Xuan still understands astronomy, geography, five elements herbs, farming numbers, and Ming Xuan." The old thin monk was not humble.

Gao Yue laughed and then said to Guan Jian beside him that he would give the wizard a horse. The two Guan Jian led a ten-pack horse (the custom of the Tang army's Anxi soldiers, each ten-pack horse was used to carry the injured, called ten-pack horses). Ming Xuan then turned over the horse and followed Gao Yue swayingly.

"Please continue walking westward," Mingxuan suggested.

Gao Yue asked Guan Jian to lead the way, and several Anxi soldiers were not very happy and shouted to Kongmu Guan: "Who will walk on the road when it is hot?"

"After the inspection, each person has three kilograms of salt to take. If he disobeys, he will serve him in a shackle!" Gao Yue said intimidating the soldiers. This was what Duan Xiushi told him before. As expected, as soon as he said this, the soldiers and soldiers were all honest, holding objects, shouting and urging forward to the wooden bridge on the Pavilion River.

The horse whip was shaking Xiaoxiao, Gao Yue and Mingxuan crossed the wooden bridge, and then continued to walk along the source of the Gechuan River.

After walking and stopping, half a day passed, Gao Yue's clothes were soaked in sweat under the sun. After arriving under the shade of a tree, Mingxuan raised the tip of the whip and pointed to Gao Yue and said, "Please look at the Kongmu, here are Baiquan and Yansan."

Anxi soldiers squatted in groups of three or three under the shade of trees and drank water to rest. Gao Yue put on his hand in a pergola and looked at the land of the hundred springs that Mingxuan mentioned:

I saw that inside and outside the gentle hills were covered with delicious grass, and every other section there were fields of households. "Gao Kongmu, there are dozens of miles around this place, and there are many springs, all of which originate from the Gechuan and valleys. They will not dry up all year round, so they are called Baiquan." Gao Yue nodded and said, "According to the master, there are a few fields here!"

"That's right, it's less than one-tenth of the use." After saying that, Mingxuan pointed to the granary on a hill to the west, saying that it was a salt warehouse, and all the salt in the camp was transported here to store. Previously, Ma Zhenxi had lost the battle with the Xifan army here."

"Salt is the foundation of the army. It actually placed the granaries thirty or forty miles outside the prefecture city. If there is an enemy attack and the response is not enough, it would be too sirable." Gao Yue felt that such an arrangement was really unreasonable.

Then, Monk Mingxuan pointed north along Baiquan and said that the dark water of Baiquan could reach Gongchi Lake in the north of Zhoucheng. This is the most exquisite area of ​​agricultural land in Jingzhou. If Gaokongmu wants military camp, you should pay attention to this place.

"But if this military camp is here, if Xifan attacks, where should we pay attention to?" Gao Yue thought, and then pulled out the "Anxi Xingying Military Ancients" given to him by Duan Xiushi, and then looked at it carefully. As expected, according to the map, in the southwest of Baiquan and Yancang, among the mountains and rivers, a high mountain fort stands with cliffs on three sides, and on the side of the water is a plateau, "Lianyun Fort..."

"Master Mingxuan, is Lianyun Castle ahead?"

"That is, Lianyun Castle guards the key area in the west of the state, and you can see the four areas on the fort, and it has always been a scout in Jingyuan."

"How many people are guarding here?" Gao Yue asked the Anxi soldiers who were resting by the tree.

The answer I got was that there was a beacon shop on Lianyun Castle, with about fifty soldiers guarding inside, and ten bows, "Some are few..." Gao Yue thought to himself.

Then he looked at the long bluestone ridge that lies northwest of Lianyun Fort and Baiquan, pondered the "Anti-Ons Picture" carefully, and said to the Anxi Army soldiers, "I'm here today. Now I'm going to the salt warehouse. I have a document to go there to collect salt. I'll stay in Alanta Temple tonight."
Chapter completed!