Gao Yue took the lead in capturing Funing Dazhai, surrendered nearly 10,000 Qiang people, and completely opened up the Suiyin and Yanzhou passages. He soon crossed the Yellow River and spread to Taiyuan Prefecture.

In the pavilion of the military palace, Dou Shen was frightened when he held a secret letter in his hand.

The secretary Liu Feng and several scholars were still singing there.

"Stop talking!" Dou Shen suddenly became furious and scolded.

Several staff members were very shocked. According to common sense, if Mubin did not act illegally, the master of the Mu would respect him no matter what. However, Dou Zhonglang was so angry that he had no manners. They could only give in with regretful expressions and bow down.

"Xuanwu's Liu Xuanzuo is incompetent and timid. Gao Yue scolded him in front of the formation, as if he was scolding a child. He couldn't answer the words and actually retreated cowardly." Dou Shen blushed and complained to Liu Xun.

Liu Feng was numb after reading the letter. He knew that he was the chief secretary of the Taiyuan Shogunate and that he had a common relationship with the Fukuoka-master Dou Shen. If Gao Yue succeeded, no one in the entire Shogunate could escape.

The situation is already life and death.

And now Gao Yue has the initiative.

"Han Yougui and Li Jingluo must be allowed to advance to command Wancheng as soon as possible." Liu Xu suggested.

"Nonsense, Tiande Army has 7,000 soldiers and Zhenwu Army has 12,000 soldiers. There is not enough food reserves. How can we conquer the 10,000 troops alone?" Dou Shen disagreed. He understood that since the Xuanwu Army ran away, his military strength has been greatly damaged.

"Kang Rizhi of Lingwu and Gao Chongwen of Yanzhou still have nearly 20,000 soldiers."

"The great Wu Xianfu, Jingsai Dai Xiuzhi, and Fenghua Hunyu are all sympathizers from Gao Yue, and they are all very untrustworthy. The reason why Gao Yue did not lose food and had the strength to capture Funing is now I understand that this group of people disobeyed the military rations allocated to them by the Duzhi Department and secretly sold them to Gao Yue, and used Qingjian City as a trading base." Dou Shen also discovered this fact recently, "As for Kang Rizhi and Gao Chongwen, after they fought side by side with Gao Yue in Naiwangjing, I could not trust this group of people."

Dou Shen's psychology has already suffered from the typical "horrophobia". The leaders of the northwest, southwest and Shuofang, and those who were surrounded by Gao Yue, were all "higher" like they were infected with plague.

Dou Shen felt that even Li Ziliang, the governor of the Fengcheng Army, seemed to be secretly hiding Gao Yue.

Except for a group of staff and officials who listen to him, this shogunate has no direct armed forces under his command, and is as helpless as an isolated island in the ocean.

In the following days, bad news came one after another. Not only did Xuanwu’s army retreat, but Liu Xuanzuo fell ill, he also heard that Gao Yue had a "Schrödinger Secret Imperial" in his hand:

Gao Yue goes wherever he wants, fights as he wants. Whoever questions me and stops me, I say that I have followed the emperor's secret edict like this; but if you want to ask where the secret edict is, I'm sorry, this is the secret edict given to me by the emperor, and you have no right to ask about it - a very perfect closed loop;

So is there really a secret edict? In fact, even Dou Shen dared not ask, because he knew that the secret edict confronted the emperor and the emperor admitted it in an instant. Everything Gao Yue did had an imperial power that could not be disobeyed. Even if Gao Yue rushed to Taiyuan one day and tied up himself, it would be natural - the emperor would make up for it afterwards.

This secret edict system can be said to have run through the history of the Tang Dynasty. Its most basic feature is:

Bypass all clear procedures and systems, and go directly between the monarch and the minister;

The secret edict is more effective than the explicit edict. It not only represents the emperor's true wishes, but the ministers must not violate it. It must be implemented immediately. Of course, the ministers can also discuss secretly, that is, secretly submit a memorial to the emperor to discuss the matter, and persuade the emperor to change his mind;

Third, once the secret edict is leaked before completion, it will cause a devastating blow to the emperor's image. Even if it is leaked after completion, it will have side effects, which is a terrible double-edged sword.

In the same way, the Tang Dezong in the real historical plane heard that Zhang Jingze, the governor of Fengxiang, was planning to recover Longyou. However, after considering that the finance could not support such military operations, Dezong directly issued a secret edict, asking Zhang Jingze to stop mobilizing troops. In addition, in his later years, Dezong hated an official named Li Fan, so hesitated secretly (usually by eunuchs). His superior Du You killed him. After receiving the secret edict, Du You hesitated for more than ten days and wrote a "secret discussion" to Dezong.

Later, he dispelled the idea of ​​Dezong killing Li Fan. Li Fan, who survived the disaster, then had a prosperous official career and became a prime minister. During the Xianzong period, Xianzong also issued a secret edict to allow the trusted eunuch Tu Tu Chenglan to join forces with the Zhaoyi general Wu Chongyin to launch a mutiny and arrest Zhaoyi Jiedushi. However, afterwards, Hanlin scholar Li Jiang fiercely criticized this behavior of "catching local Jiedushi without normal judicial procedures", saying that although it was a good plan, it was not in line with the system and a destruction of national credibility.

However, this secret edict has now become a killing weapon in Gao Yue's hands.

At this time, Dou Shen sat down on the rope bed under the shade of the tree, with a calm expression and no excitement.

About ten days later, the New Year was over, and Xingyuan and Fengxiang had a total of 200,000 stones of grain, and they were transported to Funing. Gao Yue immediately ordered that all the cattle and horses transporting the grain be kept, and the subjugated Qiang people formed a trunk, and then digged the canal of Wuding River to open up rice and wheat fields on both sides of Funing, which was very impressive to build this place into a fortification of Tongwancheng forward base!

Just when Dou Shen was panicked, Gao Yue's methods were like a storm, leaving him unable to breathe: he actually sent Guo Zaizhen to the court again to report to the emperor, saying, "Your Majesty's previous order has been completed."

The emperor in the Daming Palace comforted him and said: "Good, thank you for your hard work." (Close Loop Completed)

Gao Yue asked Guo Zaizhen to say again: "The fields in Funing are fertile and suitable for settlement. Princess Deyang immediately surrendered and married the Uighurs. She walked through Tongwancheng and then entered the Tiande Army in Fengzhou. It was the cheapest."

The emperor asked: "Why don't you go from Feng'an River in Yuanzhou to Lingwu and then enter the Uighurs?"

Guo Zaizhen said: "Qi Hou is afraid of the princess and is not used to the water."

"Good, so Gao Qing has troubled." (Reopen the loop)

Guo Zaizhen took the opportunity to request: "Qi Hou please build a palace in Funing, prepare a road for Princess Deyang to rest when she was married, and can also be used for post tours. This road was the straight road of the First Emperor in the past and was extremely important for border defense."

"Okay, please allocate 200,000 stag of money and silk, and give it to the Queen of Qi to prepare."

Pei Yanling felt that this was wrong, so he urgently reported to the emperor that the Duzhi Department did not bear the cost.

The emperor changed his words: "That's OK, just come out of my inner warehouse."

I spent my own money on my daughter’s marriage, you have nothing to say, right?

Pei Yanling wanted to argue something, but the emperor suddenly looked fierce, "This is my family matter, why are you interfering!"

Pei Yanling was such a worldly and smart person. She was so scared that she immediately shut up.
Chapter completed!