Grand Master Pei naturally knew all about Gu Ran's situation after he arrived at the border, so he could rest assured and let them do whatever they wanted.

In fact, before leaving, Gu Ran presented him with a complete set of border strategic plan, which is to support war with war, open up wasteland and farmland, and open up trade routes. It's just that the foundation in all aspects of the border is poor, and it needs to be done step by step.

On Capital City's side, Grand Master Pei has already slashed a wave of other high-ranking families in just a few months.

If Gu Ran were here, he would have discovered that the powerful family behind the assassination on the road was basically over, and even the remnants who were still alive were ordered by Grand Master Pei to exile the whole family to the southwest, and they would take root there and eat the soil in the future.

Grand Master Pei's ruthless and ruthless methods not only successfully deterred all the officials, but also beat the emperor Li Jingling.

The reason why Li Jingling made such foolish moves earlier was not only because of his own poor mentality, but also because of other people's instigation, deliberately causing the emperor to be jealous and defensive towards Grand Master Pei and the Pei family.

From Li Jingling's point of view, it may be natural to think this way. Taishi Pei has all the power and can't find any weakness in him. Seeing that the Pei family still has successors, Li Jingling doesn't have any means to restrict and win over Taishi Pei. How can he not be angry.

But under the Taishi's thunderous counterattack this time, Li Jingling remained silent, and even regarded it as never saying that the little lady of the Pei family was allowed to go to the palace to recuperate.

In addition, Grand Master Pei also decides to hold a general election next year to select daughters from good families in the world, so as to enrich the harem and reproduce.

No one could understand the emperor's thoughts. He had to pamper the high-ranking concubines for the sake of the previous dynasty, but he didn't dare to let them become pregnant. He was afraid that once the prince was born, he would replace him. Those concubines couldn't do anything to him, but they used all methods on Empress Su and the little prince.

Grand Master Pei didn't care about the disputes in the harem, but came directly to the draft.

As long as he doesn't touch Grand Master Pei's bottom line, the emperor wants a woman, and he can pick any beauties in the world.

Grand Master Pei took into account that the emperor has been on the throne for more than three years. If there is no pregnancy letter in the palace for a long time, and the only prince is tossed away by secrets, people in the world may really think that he intends to usurp the throne and prevent the emperor from having children. .

Alas, too high a position is sometimes a kind of trouble, and if something happens, it will be the target of public criticism.

Moreover, he was able to acquiesce that the Serbs from the noble family entered the palace to occupy the high position because he was willing to give them benefits, but now he just took it back. Promising.

Sure enough, it was still a bloodbath before, and the wind was turbulent. When Grand Master Pei decided to hold the general election next year in the court, and made it clear to the world, and sent orders to all states and counties, no one thought about the family that fell into the hands of Grand Master Pei. They all paid attention to the general election things.

This time, it's not those noble and noble families who eat alone, but more middle- and lower-level officials who are ready to move. This is an opportunity to fly to the branches and become a phoenix. Participating in the draft and entering the palace, becoming a concubine of the emperor is a noble person, and there are few heirs in the palace, taking a risk to give birth to a prince, even a princess, is enough to bring the whole family to prosperity.

Don't you see that the Queen Su of the Great Zhou Dynasty was also from a commoner family?

Even the harem fell into a panic because of the draft. Although these concubines were all of noble birth and rich family background, but hearing that there will be a large number of newcomers entering the palace, their mentality is not very calm.

The only one who could breathe a sigh of relief was Empress Su, at least it could make these concubines look away from her and the crown prince. Compared with the one who was born with serious and minor illnesses, even the imperial physician dared not say whether he would live to adulthood Little prince, those high-ranking concubines may be more afraid of more and more healthy heirs appearing in the palace in the future.

Some loyal and close palace servants told her, "Your Majesty has been drinking and having fun recently. He looks a little depressed and doesn't ask about anything. Won't the Empress take this opportunity to comfort His Majesty?"

Empress Su shook her head, "Let your majesty go down, he can do whatever he likes."

Since then, the relationship between them has become weaker and weaker day by day, and Su Yuqiu also deeply feels her own powerlessness in this palace. All her thoughts are now only on protecting her child and holding on to the position of queen. .

No one cared that Taishi Pei sent his family's descendants and his favorite disciples to the border, approved the policy of farming at the border, and gave Pei Zhao the official position of supervising the army.

Perhaps it was because the families who assassinated Pei Zhao and his party ended so badly that the others were afraid and dared not stroke the grand master's beard again. Or maybe they felt that Pei Zhao and Xie Yuanchen were young, and they were in a desolate and cold place like the border, what merits they could make.

After the cold winter, when spring comes, the frontier has already started to open up wasteland in full swing.

Because of the cotton-padded clothes and good horses, the soldiers and civilians at the border are very grateful to Gu Ran, and have spent a lot of time with the generals in the barracks, and have a certain impression of them, so when she proposed to implement the strategy of farming, she didn't get too much. opposition voices.

Although Gu Ran could use Taishi Pei's power to order to suppress people, but it is definitely not as good as the frontier army and people's active cooperation and high enthusiasm.

Tuntian is not only about recruiting border people, providing land for them to reclaim wasteland, but also organizing soldiers to reclaim wasteland around the barracks. If there are refugees who are willing to accept the policy of farming, they can be exempted from the food for the first two years. And how many fields can be reclaimed depends entirely on their own hard work. If they have been farming and reclaiming wasteland for five years and settled here, then those fields can be attributed to them.

As soon as this order came out, it immediately attracted many refugees, even those with their families. After hearing the confirmation from the officials, they became even more enthusiastic. They reclaimed the wasteland and built houses next to it.

As long as the people of Dazhou have a piece of land and hope, no one is willing to become a bandit or bandit.

Just the discussion before the spring, the writing of the notes to the court, and the arrangement of the plan, there are a lot of tedious things, which require a lot of energy.

Of course, Gu Ran would not let himself suffer alone, he not only recruited Xie Yuanchen to help, but even Nan Ge beside him, as a labor force, he undertook part of the work of small clerical officials.

At the beginning, Nan Ge was still a little apprehensive, thinking that he was just a slave. But Gu Ran didn't give him a chance to refuse at all, and only said to share for her. Gradually, Nan Ge got used to it, and he was already literate and quick to learn, so he soon became Gu Ran's caring assistant.

When it was almost on the right track, Gu Ran assigned tasks to coordinate the overall situation, and was able to spare time to discuss with the frontier generals about the plan to train the cavalry.

Before coming here, Father Pei had given her a list of important generals at the border. It contained information on everyone, who was loyal to Grand Master Pei, who was neutral, and who was behind other family forces. It is convenient for Gu Ran to act in the army.

In the first year of the Border Pass, there was a bumper harvest and 30,000 to 40,000 refugees were recruited. Among them, there were even Dazhou people who were exiled or plundered to other ethnic groups in the north for various reasons. They ran back because they heard that there were fields to grow. , settled down at the border.

No matter when it is placed, it is a great achievement.

In addition, not only did the border troops not complain about the lack of food and supplies this year, they heard that there was surplus food in the warehouses in the border towns.

When these credits were reported to Capital City, all the court officials couldn't help but look sideways. The younger generation of the Pei family must be too powerful.

While the imperial court was discussing how to reward meritorious deeds, the border was suddenly harassed by several Beidi tribes.

Even the exiled people of the Great Zhou Dynasty have defected back, and the foreign races in the north have also heard some news, so they follow their nature to fight the autumn wind, and want to take advantage of the good harvest to plunder a wave of food and grass.

Even if the army of the Great Zhou was not weak, they were no match for them who raided a city at random, ransacked another city after looting women and food, and then quickly rushed to another city. Hold back the pace of the surrounding army. There are more than 20 cities, large and small, in the border area, and it is impossible for every place to be heavily guarded.

In this way, they have tasted a lot of sweetness in the past.

It's just that this time the Beidi people wanted to repeat the same trick, but they kicked the iron board.

Over the past year, no less than 2,000 high-quality horses have been transported to the border, which is enough to build an excellent cavalry army. The border cavalry training plan has achieved initial results, and the person who leads this army is Gu Ran.

Although Xie Yuanchen was nervous and apprehensive, he handled the logistics in an orderly manner, as well as the people's transfer of rescue, and also prevented the foreign spies from taking advantage of the loopholes. don't know how long it took, and finally the excited news from the subordinate officer came,

"Pei joined the army in Pingning, Bao'an, and Washui. They all defeated Beidi and have now pursued them to the grassland..."

Gu Ran led the cavalry army built by himself, and won a complete victory in the first battle. Not only did he defeat the Beidi people who went south to disturb the border, but he also took advantage of the victory to pursue and loot those tribes. Xie Yuanchen waited at the gate of the city, and saw Gu Ran and the army behind him returning from a distance.

The sunlight shone on her blood-stained armor, which made people dare not look directly at it.

Xie Yuanchen suddenly had a feeling in his heart that "a man should be like this".

After approaching the gate of the city, Gu Ran straddled off her horse in a neat posture, and saw her bright eyes were bright and cold, and her whole body was wrapped in a chill and sternness that belonged only to the battlefield.

Hearing that he led the army to chase to the grassland, Beidi's territory, Xie Yuanchen was also worried, afraid of falling into the danger of being surrounded by the enemy. Fortunately, Gu Ran didn't go deep into the hinterland of the grassland. He only ransacked the Beidi tribe who participated in the plundering of the grassland in the south this time. It was an eye for an eye, and brought back a lot of gold, silver, treasures and captives.

Gu Ran regretted, "It's a pity that there are still enough cavalry and not enough food and grass."

At this time, it is still impossible to officially start a war with Beidi, so they can only fight back a little. Even so, it couldn't stop Gu Ran's reputation at the border from rising after the battle.

After that, other Beidi tribes were dissatisfied and wanted revenge, but Gu Ran led her cavalry ar on some battlefields in the grassland, engaged in various field and guerrilla warfare, raided the ene's rear and lured the ene into an ambush, causing heavy losses to the ene, and finally became the favorite of the Beidi tribe. dare not easily commit another crime.

The report of the battle spread to Capital City, which added a lot of credit, and the awards to Gu Ran and other border guards were sent out quickly, and at the same time, Grand Master Pei ordered her to return to Beijing to perform her duties.

The results of the farming and cavalry training programs are enough to make all those involved get promoted and rewarded.

And this is only the first year's harvest, there will be more in the future, but even Xie Yuanchen didn't stay.

The nearly one year of experience at the border has also made Xie Yuanchen a lot more mature and less frail, and his martial arts riding and shooting have also improved.

But he has his own pride, and he doesn't want to take the credit for Pei Zhao. He proposed both the farming plan and the cavalry plan, and he only assisted from the side. After returning to Beijing, he still has what he wants to do, such as opening the sea and banning trade after the tax reform.

Even though he may be inferior to Pei Zhao, he will try his best to do his best.

Without Xie Yuanchen staying, Gu Ran still handed over the farming and cavalry training to the people sent by Grand Master Pei.

Both of these things take time to persevere. The important task of stabilizing the border and improving military strength for a long time cannot be abandoned halfway. If someone else manages it, Gu Ran may still be worried. After all, she has devoted a lot of effort this year.

………

Not long after arriving in Beijing, Gu Ran's reward came down.

This time, no emperor stopped her from becoming an official. After Gu Ran came back, she also heard that the emperor had been kicked back to the harem by her father and arranged to contribute to the royal family's reproduction of offspring.

After the court meeting, he was finally appointed as the governor of Jingzhou. It can control the military and political power of a state, and it can also set up government offices and set up bureaucrats.

This caused quite a stir, the governor of Jingzhou, who was less than twenty years old, had never appeared in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty.

From Pei Zhao's entry into the capital to the present award of the title of Inspector, the speed of his promotion is simply eye-catching. Those who didn't know thought it was Grand Master Pei's illegitimate son, even Grand Master Pei's own son was not treated so well, others all sighed.

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