Chapter 55: Black History

What kind of service the new army is, no one knows now.

However, almost all the sons of the nobles of the appropriate age were recruited at once, and this impact was great.

No army has ever been formed in this way, and although this would ensure that the army would be strong in combat, it would be difficult to discipline.

Basically, no generals dared to care.

And more importantly, who would dare to send them to death?

Moreover, the imperial court already has the Nanyuan Army, which is specially arranged for the children of the nobles, and it is also the honor guard of the imperial court.

Now, how should this army be placed?

There are also a small number of conscripted noble children, and now they are all in the army with their father and brother, and now they are all coming back.

This has no small impact on the military in the field......

didn't wait for too many people to react, and the next day, Zhao Kuangyin passed down another decree to abolish the Nanyuan Army and merge the Nanyuan Army into the New Army.

At the same time, all the illiterate noble children in the Nanyuan Army withdrew from the Nanyuan Army and joined the Forbidden Army.

The Nanyuan Army is a guard of honor, not large, with a total of less than 3,000 people, but it is divided into eight branches of the military, and there is a convoy of hundreds of people.

These people mainly serve as honor guards and receptionists when envoys from other countries visit, standing guard on duty.

Although the Nanyuan Army is a place where the children of the nobles are placed, the selection criteria are mainly based on height and image, and there are many illiterate people.

Now, all of these illiterate ones have been brushed off.

An army that could all be literate was unprecedented in its time.

Now this new army is receiving more attention.

If the illiterate people are brushed down, there are still about 2,000 people in total, even if you add more than 700 people who have been conscripted, there are still less than 3,000 people.

However, more than 2,700 people almost included the families of the entire high-ranking generals of the Song Dynasty.

Taking the Murong family of Xiangyang as an example, in their entire family, eleven young people of school-age were recruited.

Recruits have become the hottest topic in the Song Dynasty in recent days.

However, with the exception of a few, most people do not know what this new army is for.

The only thing that is certain is that it is impossible to be arranged to go to war.

Because there are three or four sons of some families who are in it, if they arrange to go to war and die, they will be out of business.

On the 10th day of October, on the day of Zhao Dezhao's decision, Zhao Kuangyin once again issued a nationwide conscription order, recruiting scholars who volunteered to join the new army nationwide, regardless of academic qualifications, physical fitness, and good reading of the Four Books and Five Classics, as long as they can read and write.

The scope of the conscription is not only for the common people, but also for the families of the civil servants.

This time, everyone was even more confused, and the topic of the new army became more lively.

However, at this time, some rumors began to spread that the new army would be a new type of army.

It's nonsense, but it's not nonsense.

Because some news of the new infantry drill has already been spread, a new training, a new weapon, but what kind of weapon, no one knows yet.

What is even more curious is why the new army must recruit scholars, but even the noble circle has not heard any news about this.

Nowadays, there is a lack of literate officials in the Great Song Dynasty, and every scholar is highly valued.

In addition to scientific examinations, the imperial court also has thirteen different professional official selection and assessment, coupled with the grace and recommendation system, as long as you are a talented scholar, you can become an official.

Therefore, the conscription of the new army is not very attractive to scholars.

But the troubled times have not passed, and being a soldier can avoid disasters, and there are still a few people who sign up for the new army.

Zhao Dezhao's recent energy has not been in this regard, because the most important thing for him now is to marry.

When the Ming Dynasty studied the Song Dynasty, Zhao Dezhao knew very well that the Song Dynasty's clan marriage was "not asking about the valve and asking the family".

In other words, it does not pay attention to the history of the past, but only to the status of the present and future development.

The marriage of the Tang Dynasty clan was basically the choice of the target in the gate.

After five dynasties and ten kingdoms, the gate valve has declined, and the object of marriage is the family of Wenchen and military generals, and there are still slightly fewer Wenchen, mainly military generals.

Generally, the daughter of the royal family marries the son of a military general, or the son of the royal family marries the daughter of a military general.

And this trend started with Zhao Dezhao.

He married two wives at the same time, one is the daughter of a family and the other is the daughter of a military general, which also represents Zhao Kuangyin's attitude towards civil and military affairs.

And now the royal system is not comprehensive, Zhao Kuangyin in order to win the hearts of the people, various privileges have not been established, so Zhao Dezhao, the prince, marries a family, and there is no difference between marrying a big family.

They all have to go through six ceremonies, and then the prince comes to marry like ordinary people.

On this day, when he got up early in the morning, Pei Ge'an was still asleep, and as soon as he touched her, he was kicked away. "I gave it to my mother for the first time, and now it's not rare for you, get out."

Zhao Dezhao couldn't help laughing, his voice was so mature, but his body was still immature, this contrast was really big.

Zhao Dezhao knew that she didn't care about marrying another woman, but she wouldn't be very comfortable in her heart.

However, she is a sidestage anyway, and this is not what she really cares about.

"Then you have a good rest, I won't accompany you tonight, and I'll be with you tomorrow."

Zhao Dezhao wanted to leave, but she suddenly opened her eyes and said, "If you let me go to the cave room at night and let me see your cave room, I won't be angry." ”

"Don't even think about it!" After speaking, Zhao Dezhao felt that his tone was too blunt, and explained: "Now a woman, being touched by outsiders is a loss of virginity, if I let my wife play with you, then she is afraid that she will have to commit suicide to clear her innocence." ”

"So serious?"

Zhao Dezhao nodded. "You can't compare the morals of the future with the present."

She buried her head in the covers, but her ass was exposed. "Hmph, then I'll train one myself in the future."

Zhao Dezhao was a little helpless, is this sidestage considered green?

When I went out, I saw that the East Palace was newly decorated today, and it was dressed in red yarn everywhere, especially the West First Courtyard, and the whole courtyard looked like a new house.

When I came to the middle courtyard, I was greeted by my future sister-in-law Wei Xianxin, wandering back and forth at the door.

When he saw Zhao Dezhao, he said with a sad face: "Rixin, I will be a traitor in front of my brothers in the future!" ”

"!" Zhao Dezhao couldn't help laughing. "You can't help yourself."

The formation of the new army was imminent, and even the sons and daughters of the nobles in other places returned to Kaifeng Mansion one by one to catch up with the prince's wedding.

But on the day when Zhao Dezhao got married on October 18, all the noble and military generals sent gifts, but only a few close friends came to join in the fun.

The civil and military are opposed, and the Wang family, who is the daughter of the gate valve, gets married in front, so that the generals and families have to hold the shelf.

On this day, the former prime minister Wei Renpu served as the prime minister.

Wei Renpu was a famous minister in the early Song Dynasty, and he was already an official in the Later Jin Dynasty, and he had a good relationship with Wang Pu.

Among the sons and daughters of Xungui, even Han Chongxun, who is closest to them on weekdays, is also restrained from coming.

This made Wei Xianxin, who was Wei Renpu's son, particularly embarrassed......

As the son of a civil servant, he is now given the civil service of the doctor of Chaosan and the general secretary of the prince's right fang, but he has an open-minded personality and prefers to fight and drink with the children of the nobles.

So, today he feels that he has betrayed his brothers.

Zhao Dezhao didn't care that the sons of Xungui came today, because they would definitely appear at the second wedding in four days.

He was just a little surprised, the Song Dynasty had only been established for five years, and now the confrontation between civil and military forces was so serious?

Or is it Zhao Kuangyin who deliberately antagonized the civil and military?

Meng Kuan, Liu Xiao, and Tong Liang are all dressed in new clothes today, and when they saw Zhao Dezhao, they bowed down and said, "Congratulations to the second brother on his wedding today." ”

Before Zhao Dezhao could return the gift, he saw the eldest princess of Yan Kingdom, that is, Zhao Dezhao's aunt with a group of women, and shouted from afar: "Second brother, come here, getting married is grinding, you have a lot of things to do today......

As soon as he saw this group of middle-aged women, Zhao Dezhao felt that something was wrong, and bowed hard: "I've seen my aunt and all the aunts." ”

A little girl over three years old jumped and shouted, "Second brother, and me!" ”

This is a daughter born to his aunt after remarrying Gao Huaide, who is only three and a half years old this year.

Gao Huaide's ex-wife gave birth to two sons, namely Gao Chu Gong, Gao Chu Liang, no daughter, and she is very pampered by this daughter.

Zhao Dezhao glanced at the giggling women, then looked at the things in the tray in their arms, and squatted down to greet his little cousin. "The eldest sister is early, and the sixth sister is in the backyard, go to play with her."

said that it was too late, it was too fast, he squatted down, picked up the eldest sister, and ran when he got up.

The eldest princess of the Yan Kingdom shouted with a group of women in the back: "Run, see where you can run......

A group of women chased after him, and the eldest sister in his arms also giggled.

The Song and Tang dynasties were systematic, and many customs and habits were the same.

For example, on the day of marriage, women have to paint their faces like the geisha of later generations, and the powder on their faces weighs half a catty, and they have to draw bells and whistles.

And men also have to wear makeup, and it is more exaggerated. Because in addition to makeup, you also have to arrange flowers and bring flowers.

Marriage and champion parade are all flower arrangement, there are not too many restrictions on the type of flowers, and there are not too many restrictions on the color, only one point, the bigger the better.

In spring and summer, you can also pick flowers and insert them on your sideburns, but now it is autumn and winter, and the flowers are only chrysanthemums.

These two chrysanthemums, golden and yellow, each of which is half the size of a head, are stuck on the head...... Ouch, Zhao Dezhao didn't dare to imagine it at all.

Yesterday I planted someone else's chrysanthemum, will I be planted with chrysanthemum today?

Zhao Dezhao would rather die than give in!

But compared with a group of old ladies, Zhao Dezhao's combat effectiveness was too weak, and he was soon blocked in the backyard by a group of women.

Then in the midst of a group of children's laughter, he was coated with rouge, and then two large chrysanthemums were inserted, blocking his head.

This image is really embarrassing......

But for people in this era, this is normal.

Well, Zhao Dezhao can't tell the difference, so he can only admit it.

It's just that Pei Ge'an, who was hiding in his small courtyard, heard the news and got up with the pain, just to see his new image.

Then, she couldn't stand up with a smile and went back to the small courtyard to recuperate.

Black history!

(I want to speed up the progress, but I can't get married.) After all, these women will accompany him for most of his life. I'll try to end the marriage process in the next chapter...... )