Chapter 242: Yongkang Army

Su You couldn't help but roll his eyes secretly, and said lightly, how many officials in the Great Song Dynasty can do it like you to take office without taking office with only one bird? In the face of the strong family, you can still say tough things, anyway, Su You has been in the dragon for three and a half years now, and you are the only one who sees it!

Eating fresh food all the way, the boat rocked and swayed, and it shook to Dujiangyan.

Dujiangyan is now under the jurisdiction of the Yongkang Army, which is a force of about 1,500 people.

Speaking of the army of the Great Song Dynasty, it is another painful problem.

In later generations, there was a lot of uproar on the Internet, and the Great Song Dynasty raised so many troops, but it was beaten and screamed by the Liao State of Western Xia, and all they raised were a herd of pigs?

After Su You studied this problem himself, he understood that it was not a pig, it was a cow, and most of them were cows.

In the fifth year of Qingli, Ding Du recorded five articles for the soldiers, and Song Qi said in the preface: There are four in the army: one is the forbidden soldiers, and the three divisions in front of the palace are subordinate, and the soldiers are full of plagiarism and sharpness. or strong, or sloppy, or Ge boat rush, or sting, so the place is to defend the town, out of the more ere;

The second is called the box soldiers, the states are subordinate, and the strength of the soldiers is recruited. The world has been decided, not very afraid of soldiers, only the border barbarians, always with the forbidden soldiers to participate in the hoarding, dedicated to service, and occasionally change;

The three are called conscripts, and the group has divisions and subordinates; People swim and the lazy enter. If the pasture, if the Cao Sa, if the library, if the technology, the industry is specialized, so there is no more. Every army has a quota, a dwelling quarter, a permanent quarter, and a cross-gift;

Fourth, the militia, the health of the peasants and the village, depending on the size of the township and county, there are parts, there is no camp wall, the que is supplemented, the year is a reading, non-military prosperity is not allowed to do this.

To put it bluntly, the Great Song Dynasty army claims to be more than one million, but in fact, there are three kinds of army, almost all of which are in name only.

The latter kind of work is not about physical fitness, and in many cases it is a kind of disaster relief measure, which gathers young and energetic victims to prevent them from rebelling, and can also solve the problem of labor reform of some of the prisoners, to put it bluntly, they are idlers raised by the state.

The enthusiasm of these people in their work can be imagined, so they will not produce any social benefits, let alone combat effectiveness, and it can be said that it is a heavy burden on the state.

This is the essence of the concept of "redundant soldiers" in the Great Song Dynasty - more than half of the soldiers here are not the troops understood by later generations.

According to this algorithm, the courier guys of later generations should be considered soldiers!

The army that can really fight, in fact, the Great Song Dynasty only has the upper fourth army of the forbidden army, and some of the Xiang armies in Hebei and Shaanxi that have been confronting the Western Xia Liao State for a long time.

For the rest, it would be more appropriate to call them construction corps, or even refugee camps.

Removing these, the real fighting force of the Renzong Dynasty was about 800,000 at its peak, and then after hard work, it is now about 700,000.

This is the number on the soldier's register, let's not talk about how many vains there are, even if it is all counted, the combat power of the forbidden army will be discounted again.

Because of the congenital deficiencies of Zhao and Song, the geographical channels are all under the control of others, and they are still condescending, resulting in no danger to defend.

Therefore, 300,000 of the forbidden army were concentrated around the Beijing division to defend the center, and the rest were scattered on the front lines of various key areas.

In doing so, firstly, he learned the lessons of the alliance of the Yuanyuan and used a large number of troops to defend the Beijing Division; The second is to maintain a balance with the border troops in order to deter the border generals.

In fact, there are very few combat opportunities for the forbidden army in Beijing, and they have been slacking off for a long time.

Well, the forbidden army that is really used to defend against foreign enemies is the same as the loan provision of the Sitong firm, which is opened in half, and this is left with more than 300,000 yuan.

Looking at the foreign enemy - there were more than 300,000 troops in Western Xia, more than 300,000 regular troops in Liao, and a large number of servant troops. Moreover, most of the more than 300,000 in these two countries are cavalry.

The conscience of heaven and earth, Su You really feels that it is not the Great Song army. But...... What the hell is this, and what is it?

Except for the Beijing Division and the Northern Frontier, the rest of the Great Song Dynasty was almost a place without soldiers, no wonder that as soon as the front line was penetrated, it could be driven straight into the Beijing Division.

Every time I think of these questions, Su You feels that his liver is hurting.

Lao Yang, old species, old folding, you can still carry it for more than a hundred years like this, it's really hard for you!

Gossip back, this situation has reached Sichuan, that is, the current Sichuan Gorge No. 4 Road, there are five van armies, with 20,000 people.

Among them, the Yongkang Army is such a local team with a glorious tradition, and their task is - "to govern the capital of Jiangyan in the year, and the cage stone snake breaks the river to curb the water, so as to irrigate several county fields." ”

The entire Sichuan Gorge Four Roads have to rely on five "armies" that carry stones, dig salt, and engage in logistics to dictatorship!

This is the reason why Su You suggested to Zhang Fangping to concentrate on the training of township archers in Tuntian - with such a large family property, there must be a slightly eye-catching team to watch, right?

……

The surname of the Yongkang Army is Cao, and it is from the central government, and the inner temple is under the system, and the martial rank is seven.

This baby is smart, and strives to get closer to the civil officials, and before coming, he asked Mei Yaochen for a poem: "Iron skull, golden bondage, young Shu city guard." Shucheng is near the ancient river and is at the shore. Offshore Li Liang chisel, its profit is not long. It not only avoids foam and water damage, but also irrigates acres of fields. This is suitable for all the people, and the ancestral hall is dedicated to wine. Be cautious in your actions, and you are not the head of government. ”

Mei Yaochen and Zhao Luan have a good friend in common - Zhang Xian, who is Zhang Sanying who "makes flowers and shadows when the clouds break through the moon", "delicate and lazy, the curtain rolls up and flowers and shadows", "there is no one in the willow path, and there is no shadow in the fallen flocculent".

Zhang came to live to eighty-nine, and Su Shi became good friends with him until he was on standby, and was ridiculed by Su Shi for "a pear flower pressing a begonia".

With this relationship, Cao Zhijun took the judge to receive the old man Zhao and handed the poem over, which was easier to speak.

Cao Zhijun is quite familiar with the business, and he is very clear about the allusions to the mouth, the old man Zhao led Su You, and Cao Zhijun explained it on the side, which can be regarded as handy.

The Dujiangyan project is magical in not only manpower, but also providence.

The Minjiang River is high, in fact, similar to the Yellow River in Kaifeng, and is a hanging river on the edge of the entire Chengdu Plain.

Once this river encounters a big flood, the southern part of the Chengdu Plain will be flooded, and once it is exhausted, the northern part of the Chengdu Plain will be dry.

Li Bing controlled the water, went up all the way along the river, and found that the Yulei Mountain on the east bank of the Minjiang River was majestic, and it was extremely difficult to excavate, and it was almost impossible to work in the Qin Dynasty.

But when he arrived at Dujiangyan, he found that the mountain suddenly narrowed here, and the narrowest stone wall was only forty meters!

This is the will of God, as long as you dig through here, you can divide the water potential of the Minjiang River into two, balance up and down, Chengdu Plain, no longer dry and waterlogged!

Finding this point, the rest is manpower.

"Historical Records • River Canal Book" records that "Shu Shou Ice Chisel Away from the Heap, Removing the Harm of Foaming Water", because "the cliff is steep and dangerous, and it cannot be pierced, and Li Bing is burning it with a salary".

This is the famous treasure bottle mouth.

After the completion of the Baohuakou water diversion project, although it played the role of diversion and irrigation, but because of the high terrain of Jiangdong, it was difficult for the river water to flow into Baohuakou, and Li Bing and his son led the people to build a water diversion weir in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River and the center of the river not far from Yulei Mountain.

A large bamboo cage filled with pebbles is placed in the middle of the river to form a narrow island, shaped like a fish's mouth, and the Min River flows through the fish's mouth, which is divided into two rivers, inner and outer rivers.

Outer six inner four, the outer river still follows the original flow, the inner river through artificial canals, the water surface is raised, and flows into the Chengdu Plain through the mouth of the treasure bottle.

In order to further play the role of flood diversion and disaster reduction, a spillway was built between the diversion weir and the pile to flow into the outer river to ensure that the inner river was free of disasters.

The front part of the spillway is a big bend, where the river water forms a circulation, the debris is deposited, and the floating objects are brought into the outer river by the water flow, so that the inner river and the treasure bottle mouth channel will not be silted, so it is named "flying sand weir", which is the scientific application of the principle of whirlwind flow by the ancients.

In the Dujiangyan canal head project, the location, height and length of the treasure bottle mouth, the flying sand weir and the herringbone embankment are perfectly combined and cleverly coordinated, which not only has the role of flood flow and sediment discharge, but also the role of storing a high level in the dry season.

The weir body of the ancient bamboo cage structure was not stable under the impact of the Minjiang River rapids, and the Neijiang channel could not avoid siltation despite the sediment discharge mechanism. Therefore, Dujiangyan needs to be renovated regularly to make it operate effectively.

By the time of the Great Song Dynasty, the system of annual repair had been established, called "wearing Tao".

The wisdom and experience of the ancients, under Cao Zhijun's in-depth introduction, made Su You extremely surprised.