Chapter 72: Seventy Thousand and Seven Thousand

Dare to love you, there are 70,000 wine bags and rice bags in this barracks!

Zhao Huan's unceremonious words stunned Liang Fangping's words.

Is there anything worse than this?

As the saying goes, raise your hand and don't hit the smiling person, you see I am smiling at you, you still humiliate me so much, I ......

I'll just smile at you again, I'm an adult, and I don't know like you kid.

Liang Fangping squeezed out a smile on his face again: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that he was joking!" The thief army in the north is powerful, and there is the Liao State eyeing the tiger, but no one dares to cross the Yellow River to invade Tokyo, which is the credit of the slave maid and the maid leading people to guard here! ”

"What bastards!"

Zhao Huan still said unceremoniously, "If someone invades Tokyo, will I still have Song Jiangshan?" Do you want the face of the court? Besides, the official family is the Emperor Ziwei, and the small people dare not approach it, it is the credit of the official family, and it is your business! ”

"This ......"

Zhao Huan's words choked Liang Fangping half to death, with this sentence, Liang Fangping must not take credit anymore.

He is a slave of the official family, everything he does should be for the official family, and he dares to take credit from the official family?

Liang Fangping's heart is more resentful than Dou E at the moment...... Eh, no, Dou E is not a household name now, it should be said that she is more resentful than Meng Jiangnu!

"Liang Fangping! You burned the ferry so that I couldn't cross the river, saying that it was for the sake of the Great Song Dynasty, and the prince believed it! But I strongly doubt the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under your command! There is a way to be a soldier, a coward, a nest of instigation, look at your cowardice, I don't believe that you have a strong soldier under your command! In this case, I have two female generals, and if you can find someone from among the 70,000 people and defeat either of them, the prince can dispel his suspicions! Otherwise, this prince will use the sword of Shang Fang to cure you for the crime of misleading the country! ”

Liang Fangping looked behind Zhao Huan, and sure enough, he saw two sixteen or seventeen-year-old delicate little ladies glancing at him proudly.

Cut! It turned out to be two yellow-haired girls, His Royal Highness the Prince, are you serious?

Anyway, it's just a martial arts, it shouldn't be a human life, and if you don't take a human life, you won't offend people, so I, Liang Fangping, will be disrespectful!

"Hey, hey! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince laughed! There are a lot of good generals and warriors in our army, don't hurt these two girls, it won't look good under the palace at that time! ”

Liang Fangping's smile was quite confident.

Zhao Huan glanced at him: "We've talked about this, what kind of face do you care?" Liang Fangping, let's go to school with Prince Ben now! ”

"Okay!"

Liang Fangping happily followed Zhao Huan to the school field, and after the three-way drum, Liang Fangping's sergeants gathered and stood on the east side of the school field; The military brought by Zhao Huan stood on the west side of the school field.

Zhao Huan frowned and glanced at the black head below, and exchanged a look with Liu Huiniang, Song Qing and others.

"Liang Fangping!"

"Your Highness!"

"That's not right!" Zhao Huan coldly pointed to the bottom of the school field, "This prince has brought less than 6,000 people, but you have 70,000 horses, why do the numbers on both sides look similar after the three links gather to gather the drums?" Is this all of you? ”

Hearing Zhao Huan say this, Liang Fangping's face suddenly darkened.

Oops! Forget about one big thing!

It turned out that the Song Dynasty was founded more than 100 years ago, and both the forbidden army and the box soldiers had long lost the elite at the beginning of its establishment.

Let's not talk about those people in the army who eat and wait for death, let's talk about how serious it is to eat empty salaries-

According to the predictions of Yang Jian, Tong Guan, Gao Yu, Liang Shicheng and others, four to eighty percent of the box soldiers were paid empty salaries, while about five to seventy percent of the forbidden army were paid empty salaries, and each army differed according to the character ratio of the generals.

For example, at the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, an army with a full strength of 10,000 people, and these 10,000 people were registered, so whether it was armor, weapons or food, the imperial court had to distribute it according to 10,000 shares.

However, there will always be soldiers who have retired from the army, there will always be casualties, and there are even some deserters, these people are no longer in the barracks, because the registration or cancellation is not timely, the armor, weapons, and food are still issued, and no one receives them, and finally they naturally fall into the pockets of the generals.

Soon, the generals in the army discovered this way to make a fortune, and the number of people in the military ranks only increased but did not decrease, and the empty salary became more and more.

Later, some of the bold and hard backstage in the army began to deliberately drive away those sergeants who did not like them, but the military status remained.

Over the past 100 years, the appetite of these rats has grown, and the proportion of empty pay has also increased. Some people with strong principles, such as Di Qing and Fan Zhongyan, may not be so obvious, and they may be concealed by their subordinates that there is a one-percent or half-percent empty salary, which is within a controllable range.

But some officials or generals who came to the army with "three years of Qing Prefecture and 100,000 snowflakes of silver" will be darker.

Especially after Zhao Ji took the throne, Tong Guan, Yang Jian, Gao Yu and others were wantonly used, and the actual number of 800,000 forbidden troops was only about 200,000, and almost seventy percent were empty salaries!

For people like Liang Fangping, the attack is even more ruthless, reaching ninety percent!

In other words, the seven or eight thousand people on the school field are already all under Liang Fangping's command.

Of course, Zhao Huan didn't know about these situations now, otherwise, Shang Fang's sword might really see blood today.

But if Zhao Huan really killed Liang Fangping because of this, Liang Fangping was afraid that he would be wronged to death, because everyone did this, and he didn't do it alone, but he had big and small guts!

Since everyone is doing this, naturally everyone is not wrong, so Liang Fangping forgot about this stubble at all in his heart, and did not take this thing that everyone was doing to heart.

Liang Fangping wiped his sweat and pretended to be calm and said to Zhao Huan: "His Royal Highness the Prince! Although the full strength of our army is 70,000 people, in fact, it has not been transferred all, only some of them have been transferred, after all, it is the main responsibility of the forbidden army to defend the imperial city! In addition, some soldiers are going to patrol the surroundings, so there are only so many people in the barracks now! ”

Tut! That's the perfect reason!

"Yang Jian, Tong Guan, how dare they do this?" Zhao Huan still didn't realize the seriousness of the problem inside, but said dissatisfiedly, "For example, everyone knows that you have an army of 70,000 here, if someone knows that there is no army of 70,000 at all, at most 10,000 or 20,000, how can you prevent thieves?" No wonder you're hiding here and don't dare to move! ”

Zhao Huan expected that with the addition of the "sergeants patrolling the surroundings" that Liang Fangping said in his mouth, there would be only 10,000 or 20,000 people in Liang Fangping's camp, so he said so.

Liang Fangping didn't expect it to be so easy to pass, and hurriedly nodded and replied: "Yes!" Yes, extremely! If the imperial court can send me some more military horses, that would be the best! ”