Shao Song

Vol 2 Chapter 18: Mulberry

     Zhao Jiu did what he said. After the three of them had a meal, they went directly to the mulberry forest on the shore of the fish pond to talk about the two armed forces.

"The minister is willing to write a personally drawn document to the official. After returning this time, there will be no incidents of unserved envoys in the imperial right army, and there will never be any infringements on the land. The soldiers must practice every ten days and send them in full. Paying for the army...As for military resources, weapons, and posts, I would like to ask the official to forgive me. The minister can only guarantee that he will not cause trouble to the official, but the generals below are not really good one by one. Keep it under control." After a brief conversation, Zhang Jun, the commander of the right army of the imperial camp, pointed to the sky and painted the earth, almost swearing an oath on the edge of the fish pond. "I really don't know how to control it."

   "No matter the paperwork, I can still trust Zhang Qing's words."

   Zhao Jiu waved his hand from a distance, and prevented a dozen or so servants who were busy in the mulberry forest from coming to see him in the distance. These people were plucking out some of the mulberry trees that did not survive, and then continued to transplant new mulberry trees. "People all over the world say that you are a person who sits in the eyes of money, but in the past, I knew that you are a person who knows the real gains and losses, and you are also a person who dares to give it up when the key is critical... I am willing to believe what you say! As for the following things, they are the accumulated abuses in the army that have lasted for more than a hundred years. I also understand your difficulties. For such things, as long as you can achieve Han Liangchen's status, I will be thankful."

   Zhang Jun was completely relieved, and directly handed over in the mulberry forest: "Officials, Han Shizhong is nothing surprising about ruling the army, and the ministers will surely succeed."

Zhao Jiu shook his head and laughed: "I also know that Han Liangchen is nothing surprising about ruling the army, but he himself is really surprising... Boying, ask yourself, did you fight his fairy battles? One time and one time, one is three. The town Jiedu ambassador plus the county king, a two-town Jiedu ambassador has been completely opened."

   Zhang Boying wanted to speak but stopped.

   "But don't worry." Zhao Jiu stopped under a mulberry tree and turned around to face each other. "When Han Shizhong's subordinate was in trouble, I went to see him in his camp, and I made it clear, and I will make it clear to you today... You people follow me, first of all to prosper the Song and destroy the gold. If you succeed, you will succeed. If you fail, you will not succeed. , One day you will achieve great success. The world is so big that ten princesses can always be able to raise it. And like you, a person who understands the stakes, whether you want to be born and gather, or your children will have a long life after death, I will always What can be handled...The key is that we monarchs and ministers have gone through so much, who wants what, why not say it face to face like today? What you and I want, I can naturally do what you want."

   Zhang Jun got the words, completely calm, bowed his head under the mulberry tree, and again and again showed loyalty.

   And Zhao Jiu has always been intolerant of this. He only became impatient after hearing a few sentences. He only called the other party up, and then directly looked at Wu Jie, who had gained a lot of knowledge today:

   "Jin Qing...you are not the same with Boying."

"Provincial." You have the courage to count Wu Da. Although Wu Jinqing was involved in the game when he first came to the capital, he was confused for a long time, but after half a day, he had already understood everything, so he quickly stepped forward and bowed his hand. . "The army behind the imperial camp was caused by the ills of the Western army... The official family was in Kansai before, and under Shengwei, disarmament, reorganization, and land granting were all obedient. The estimated expenditure is much higher than the rest of the army can see that they directly have the intention of returning to the old state, and the minister is incompetent and can't stop it."

   Zhao Jiu put his hand under the mulberry tree, nodded first, but immediately fell into a strange silence. In the spring, when the wind was strong, there was a gust of wind blowing in the silence, but the worms stopped for a while, and then the mulberry trees swayed endlessly, and the grass under their feet was also rippling with the waves of the fish pond.

   Seeing this shape, Wu Jie couldn't help feeling a little frightened, so that Zhang Junpo, who had just passed the pass, was a little gloating.

   Actually, Wu Jie is no wonder this happened. Of course he was terrified.

Because no matter how approachable the official is, how frank and honest, the other party is always an official, an emperor, an emperor, or an emperor with such authority... life and death are just a word. .

   At least Wu Jinqing couldn't think of any room for resistance.

After this gust of wind blew, the Zhao official’s family finally spoke, but Wu Jie’s heart sank to the bottom of the fish pond when he came up: "I think that the army of the imperial army is not so much deserted and ill, it is more difficult to change the habits of the town. , I want to return to the pattern of the old town."

The word "fanzhen" is not a groundbreaking vocabulary. During Li Gang's administration, he used this as a national policy. At that time, the system of envoys and townsmen were flying everywhere, and the main commanders generally had to serve as local envoys, and then they raised their own military pay. Self-recruitment.

And I have to admit that that kind of measure was absolutely correct at the time. It gave the Song court, who was in exile at that time and only 20,000 to 30,000 poor soldiers and horses, a respite and developed a number of field battle clusters. It provided the most basic military force for the defense and foothold of the Zhao Song court.

Han Shizhong’s imperial left army, Zhang Jun’s imperial right army, Yue Fei’s imperial front army, and Zhang Rong’s imperial navy army were all troops that depended on their own turf’s own battalions in the early stage. Because it maintains the only protrusion on the north bank of the Yellow River, it has been grabbed by the military and government until now... Even the imperial army directly controlled by Zhao Jiu must have more than half of it diverted from the early'fan towns'.

At that stage, these handsome officials collected taxes, recruited troops, built workshops to build ordnance by themselves... This is how the iconic copper noodles of the elite troops of Han Shizhong came from, and Zhang Jun was reluctant to spend money on the soldiers to get the iron noodles. This ridiculous nickname was also at that time.

   At that time, these handsome officials even appointed officials and generals by themselves, just reporting to the court as a routine.

   But the problem is that it was before.

After the victory of Yanling, the official Zhao’s family was still in the old capital. The first thing that came up was to gather the military officials, and then absorb the soldiers and horses left behind by Zongze in Tokyo. Then, the finances became a little bit better, and he began to rectify the imperial government. The battalion did not hesitate to increase taxes, but also to seize the members of the imperial battalion ministries, thus regaining the financial power of the ministries.

   Since then, the military expenses of the various ministries have to be transferred from the center.

Moreover, this process of taking power back to Tokyo as a turning point has been continuous and gradual. After the military payment, the power to station local officials was withdrawn, the imperial army continued to strengthen, and Han Shizhong’s enlistment caused public grievances and reprimands. Yue Fei’s request for ordnance materials was most impeached by Li Guang and Li Jing. It was Qu Duan, the most domineering general, who was escorted to the imperial court by an empire. It was Wang Xie who was executed at the banquet, and it was even the group of water thieves like Zhang Rong’s department. People from their backgrounds were reorganized as a whole after the Battle of Dongping Mansion.

   Finally, after the Yaoshan War, the last Western Army was reorganized into the imperial battalion system, and the court also awarded fields to retired and meritorious soldiers in Guanxi and Henan.

   Even now, after Han Shizhong moved to Kansai, the Huaixi regions are also doing similar sorting under the direct responsibility of Liu Ji.

   This central court, not a day is idle.

   Then, when all the troops are going to the feudal town, the emperor said that your troops actually want to return to the feudal town. What is it?

   "The minister has been greatly favored by your majesty, and has no such intention!" Wu Yan was in a daze, and could only reluctantly hand over, but the slightly trembling voice still clearly showed that he was already a little flustered and gloomy at this time.

   And Zhang Jun didn't mean to gloat before, but he didn't say a word, and looked at the opponent, the old western army deceased, with cold eyes.

   "It's not about you, but that the Western Army was originally a vassal posture." Of course, Zhao Jiu won't let the other party get the wrong idea. "Furthermore, I probably know it. Because of the policy of guarding the internal and the external, the Western Army has always seemed docile, not as stubborn as the Five Dynasties Remnant Tang Dynasty... But in fact, in terms of the internal system, it depends on me. In the coming days, the Western Army will still be a real vassal, otherwise, why are there all kinds of vassal methods?"

In other words, whether it is Wu Jie or Zhang Jun, they are all old Western soldiers. Although Zhao Guanjia’s words are a little bit sloppy and a bit too strong, the two of them still know instinctively, because they know from the bottom of their hearts that Zhao Guanjia’s vassal means is. what.

   For example.

Thanks to the long-standing military and political guiding ideology of the Song Dynasty, that is, the so-called military logic of keeping inside and outside the world, in theory and in practice, any Zhao Song official family and the court center, and even the military supervising officers sent by the court in the past, as long as I think they can easily obtain command of the Western Army, or directly appoint and dismiss relevant major generals.

Even the so-called generals of the Western Army never said that they dared to have any excessive domineering attitude towards the court. As long as the central thought, the rise and fall of these generals could easily be completed by legal means... Before the weakest time of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Jiu can still cut off the head of Liu Guangshi, who has been a champion, and freeze it into ice lump, and the only curvy end that shows the domineering face to the Zhao official family is not a serious senior general, and he is easily **** by his subordinates. Sent to Tokyo.

   But the paradox is that you can easily change these generals, execute and punish related generals, leave some of them idle, and even send cronies directly from the center to replace them, but there is always a concept of ‘Western Generals’.

   Typically I went one, another one, one time, and another soon.

Not only that, both Zhang and Wu climbed up from the bottom. They knew very well that it was not just the phenomenon of the uppermost generals, but also the middle and lower levels below, and the formation of unique and strange things inside the Western Army. And extremely stable internal mechanism:

The so-called you are Poppi from Yan'an Mansion. He is a fan next to Huanqing Road. This is a good family from Huanqing Road. That is a partial branch of a certain down-and-out general; His benefactor acted as a manager, and the old friend of this family was suddenly convicted by the court. How much money did that person make... each has its own traditions and sayings.

   The upper part is based on family heritage, and the lower part is based on geographical origin, forming corresponding factions and hierarchical systems, and finally combined together, it is a complex military and political interest group with a strong exclusivity and self-survival awareness.

And this type of military and political group, even if it is not a feudal town on the surface, it is actually the same as a feudal town in terms of internal and final performance... On the battlefield, it is the first to protect its own strength, second to gain merit, and to reward money. Third, of course, the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

   "If the officials say this, it actually makes sense." Although she is sure that it is not aimed at herself, Wu Jie is still cautious when talking about this topic, because everyone can see that Wu clearly has the potential to become a major general in Kansai. "But how should we deal with it?"

Under the mulberry tree, Zhao Jiu also raised his head and frowned: "Actually, I have thought for a long time that the army is a natural system. It is impossible to completely eradicate the ills with military discipline and punishment... But there are also some key points. Soldiers work as agricultural merchants, that is, they don’t touch the other money except for state rewards and payment. This is the most important thing... For example, before Jingkang, the Hebei Forbidden Army was known for its advanced handicraft industry and was able to earn money for the Lord. Is this a good thing?"

   Zhang Jun and Wu Jie looked at each other, but did not interrupt.

"I know what you mean...it's not going to work right now, because the state finances are still inadequate, and your workshops and military farms are not easy to take away; and in the future, there will be a northern expedition. Appropriate." Of course, Zhao Jiu knew what the two of them were thinking, so he said frankly. "So, after this matter is put under the peace of the world, it has nothing to do with you. I will just talk about it at this time."

   Both Zhang and Wu said yes.

   "One must have two." Zhao Jiu turned and went to the depths of the mulberry forest, continuing to speak with his hand. "The second rule, I think, it is also a big thing that the promotion of military officers cannot be fundamentally controlled by the court... If we can imitate the Taixue Sanshe system, we can reorganize a military academy and divide it into three levels. By then, not only people who will be generals will come to us. Be a martial artist by your side. Those who are promoted to general will also go to school for one year, and those who are promoted to school will also go to school for one year. It is best to be able to come to the military academy directly if you want to join the army at the beginning, and have grown up for three to five years. It’s okay to go out to join the army and start higher."

   "This official policy is really wonderful!" Wu Jie is a recognized lover of reading. This time he listened smoothly, but he couldn't wait to praise him directly. "If you do this, all officers are eager to study, and they are naturally better than ordinary officers... and the official's entry into the army with Jinshi before is actually a foreshadowing."

   "It's not just that." Seeing Wu Jie suddenly slap the horse, Zhang Jun quickly followed the angle behind him as he could tolerate it. "When the officers leave the school, they can also have a palace test and wait in a row. Then, won't all the officers in the world become the protégé of the emperor like a jinshi? Become a protégé of the emperor, who will privately gang up and confess?

When Zhao Jiu heard this, he was not happy and counter-worry, but he just said: "That's the case, but there is no money and no time...If it is not for the Northern Expedition, according to the current financial situation, it is estimated that there will be enough money to deal with these things one by one in three to five years If the implementation goes on, how can the Northern Expedition wait until three to five years before starting? And once the Northern Expedition, not to mention that the officers are not easy to collect, but the money will also be scattered like running water. What should be used to build a military academy?"

   The two shut up immediately.

   "Also, Jinshi entering the army and officers going to school are two different things..." Zhao Jiu chattered in front of him, shaking his head. "Jinshi entered the army not to train officers, but to introduce the country and our meaning into the army, and directly tell the soldiers what I want to say, such as the theory of the unification of China recently written in the Dibao. They understand this truth. Soldiers naturally know that it is necessary to fight against the golden man... Furthermore, make logistics and clerical professionalism, and don’t let ordinary troops worry about this kind of thing; as for the officers to go to school, they are all about training officers, so that the army can stay away. People can have the extraordinary loyalty of Han Shizhong, the extraordinary loyalty of Yue Fei, and the extraordinary courage of Li Yanxian, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the two of you, and when you know your strategy, you can still maintain your combat power without fail."

   The two were excited and humbled themselves.

   "But speaking of it, apart from letting you two go back and pay attention, you have to make some temporary measures to prepare for the Northern Expedition." Zhao Jiu stopped again, pondered a little, and finally said his plan. "What I mean is that it's too late to run a military academy, but you can set up a temporary training school. It just so happens that Wang Yuan and Lu Yu are now idle and can do the task of teaching... You two will go back, except for the military affairs. The key officers in the army should be sent for training in batches. I told the Privy Council to set up a special cabinet position to make arrangements to deal with... Wu Qing also had to give an explanation on the issue of discounting money. Set up a list and bring in a group of officers with bad morals, and then I won't let them go back."

   The two were again awe-inspiring, and immediately agreed.

But Zhao Jiu opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he finally chose not to say much, but just waved his hand: "This is the case today. You are tired too. Go back and rest early...especially Wu From Qing, I gave the mansion, but you were summoned just past, and you haven't seen the layout yet."

   Wu and Zhang understood, they immediately left, and the conversation between the monarch and the minister in the mulberry forest ended.

So far, the two of them knew what Zhao Guan’s thoughts were. From a personal point of view, they were naturally completely relaxed, but from a responsibilities point of view, they were not necessarily so easy. They had to go back and make actions... Among them, Wu Jie would go to save tomorrow. The Ministry of Defense gave an explanation about the discounted money. Zhang Jun still had to go back to pack his'nothing', so he walked in a hurry after leaving the mulberry forest.

   However, when they left Yiyou Gate and left the harem area, they watched Donghua Gate in front of them, and after they stopped in front of each other, for some reason, the two of them suddenly slowed down together as if they were very spiritual.

   "Courageously and strategically count Wu Da..." On the empty road, the two walked side by side, and Zhang Jun suddenly laughed. "My old Zhang remembers that when you were a general officer, I was only a small school, and I only met a few times in Jingzhao."

   "The old Xianggong's subordinates are close to the small school. It is much better than Jingyuan Road's preparation." When Wu Jie entered the palace for the first time, she couldn't help looking around at the shape of the palace wall porch. "And what do you say about this at this time? Didn't the officials say it? It's nothing more than a great success. It's done. After this extraordinary credit is shared, we always have a county king...what about the past?"

   "It's also... But Qu Da's servant, so domineering, can he be the king of the county in the future?" Zhang Jun became more emotional.

   "The power is better than the rescue..." Wu Jie blurted out.

   "This is also true."

   "Nothing but Taiwei Zhang." Wu Jie suddenly retracted his gaze from the surrounding palace eaves, speaking with a serious face. "The official family just seemed to have unfinished meaning?"

"Yes."

   "What do you think?"

   "You have your own courage and strategy, why don't you ask the official directly, but instead ask me?" Zhang Jun sneered, and directly flicked his sleeves to the right. He went out of Donghuamen in a quick step.

   And Wu Jie was behind, just smiled, but didn't care too much.

   Just when the two handsome officials from the Western Army reunited many years later, but they showed some routine unhappy posture in the palace gate, Zhao Guan's family finally paced out of the mulberry forest.

  Actually, the three monarchs and the ministers knew that Zhao Jiu himself knew well. He didn't over-discuss a topic that should have been discussed, that is, the so-called general.

   To set up a military academy and dislike the Western Army Fanzhen, the Zhao official’s attitude towards generals is self-evident.

   Of course, both Wu and Zhang can understand Zhao Guan's attitude.

If you think about it, you will know... The change of Jingkang, the big waves washed the sand, six years ago, Yao Mengshi lost his life, Liu Guangshi was put to death, Liu Xi was reprimanded, and his surrender was surrendered, Miao Fu Liu Zhengyan was marginalized, and Yang Weizhong died of old age. After losing his last chance, Wang Yuan was also obviously marginalized by civil service. The Xin brothers also largely broke away from the army and were replaced by Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, Li Yanxian, Zhang Rong, Qu Duan, Liu Qi, Li Shifu, and Li. Qiong, Wang De... and Wu and Zhang.

Among these people, with the exception of one Liu Qi and Li Shifu who are barely considered generals, the others all started in the end of the micro era...Han Shizhong is from northern Shaanxi Poppi, Li Yanxian is a powerful frontier, and the Wu brothers and Zhang Jun and Wang De are all good children. Qu Duan is the orphan of Enyin, and Zhang Rong is a bandit in the Central Plains. Although Li Qiong and Yue Fei were born with a huge gap at first, they are both refugees from Hebei who have lost their hometown in the current environment... From a perspective, from the top-down perspective, there is no reason for Zhao Guanjia to be kind to any general.

But the question is, once the discussion continues on this topic, plus the promises of the previous county kings, after people such as Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, and Wu Jie become handsome officials, will there be any sons who will inherit their father’s inheritance in the future, so that new It is inevitable to talk about the formation of the generals.

   And this topic is too remote for the moment, even to the point of untimely.

   So, the three of them stopped tacitly.

   "How many people were captured?" In the evening, in the pavilion that had already withdrawn from the seats, Zhao Jiu sat against the railing, and when he saw Yang Yizhong came back, he asked directly.

   "Six families with more than 500 people...According to the official orders, not to arrest women, children, and servants. Actually, they took about thirty or forty people."

   "How much did you copy?"

"Gold, silver, money and silk can be counted, about one hundred thousand guan...The rest of the utensils and cultural relics, it's hard to say...According to the official orders, the ordinary furniture and objects will not move, and the floating wealth and others are all sent to the Kaifeng Mansion. And the national debt is 60,000. Guan, as instructed by the official, the minister specially brought it after copying it out.” After speaking, Yang Yizhong directly carefully presented six ten thousand Guan national debt documents wrapped in a hardwood shell.

   "That's good." Zhao Jiu took the national debt document wrapped in a hardwood shell and placed it on the stool behind the stone table. "Thanks to your hard work, I'm fine today, let's go to rest."

   "Yes." Yang Yizhong lowered his head to answer, and he wanted to do something.

   However, Yang Yizhong turned around and before leaving the Yingri Gate, he ran into Concubine Pan and hugged Princess Yiyou. He also hurriedly evaded and saluted. Concubine Pan just glanced at Yang Yizhong, but ignored it, and hurried to the pavilion.

   "A gift to brother." Pan Guifei hurriedly came to the pavilion and directly hugged the little princess and bowed her body slightly. Her voice was tactful, but she used an interesting address.

   "Is my wife here to find the emperor to intercede with others?" Zhao Jiu got up and took the sleeping Yiyou, and also used an interesting name.

   Hearing this answer, the second official Feng Yifeng and several servants who were standing far away went straight to hide in the mulberry forest.

   "That's it." Concubine Pan Gui, who was the first moth, was a little uncomfortable, so she paused and stood in the pavilion. "So that I can let my brother know that there are two of them, and they used to have a lot of care in Yangzhou. Just now, their wife begged to the concubine in a hurry, crying and robbing the concubine, and the concubine is really inseparable..."

   "So that my wife knows." Zhao Jiu sighed as he looked at the little princess in his arms. "Even though my elder brother is a good brother who is humane, the emperor is an inhumane, cautious and bad emperor... Divorced monarchs, especially if one of them is a commander general, this is not easy to handle!"

  Pan Guifei was embarrassed for a while, and she really didn't know how to continue to deal with it.

"But my elder brother can't make my wife embarrassed. He just tried his best to find the emperor and asked for something back. My wife will take it and explain it!" Zhao Jiu said, just screaming at the back of the stone table. A national debt document pointed out.

Concubine Pan stepped forward and opened it. She was relieved to see that there were a full 60,000 national debts, but she burst into tears while holding these national debts: "The concubine body thought that my brother was disgusted with the concubine body every day... Zhong is only a medical officer for generations. How can it be compared with Concubine Wu’s family? And the concubine does not know how to study martial arts, can accompany the official family to battle, and what "Journey to the West" can be recorded for the official family?"

   "What is "Journey to the West: Miscellaneous"...Codewords are the most difficult task in the world, there is no one!" Zhao Jiu was helpless to persuade ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ really painstakingly.

   "But my concubine is eager to have this drudgery." Pan Guifei temporarily put down the national debt and took out her handkerchief to wipe away the tears on her face. "Officials know that a few days ago, the actors came to perform in the military play. Cangtou (pang 哏) said that the author of "Journey to the West" is Lan Qiao Tianren, but joined the army (teasing) said that the author is Wu Chengen... Laugh, the concubine also laughs, but after the laugh, she wants to cry again."

   Speaking of this, Pan Feifu, who had just wiped her face, shed tears again.

Zhao Jiu was really helpless holding his little daughter, so he had to reluctantly comfort him: "It's just a joke...It should be noted that the clothes are not as good as the newcomer. The grace of the skin and the love of husband and wife are there, and I have added such a lovely princess. How is it possible to say that you hate it when you dislike it? But my wife, since you understand your brother’s mind, it’s better to move forward and do something new... You see, people like Zhang Jun know to keep up with the times, let alone Is it a handy person like you?"

  Pan Guifei burst into tears when she heard the words: "The concubine really doesn't know what the official wants...Since I came back from Yangzhou, I have done everything and made mistakes."

   Zhao Jiu finally laughed, but he held his daughter in one hand, and pointed at Mulberry with the other hand: "That's fine, it won't work. How about raising silkworms?"

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