On the 25th day of the first lunar month, Zhao Dezhao took more than 3,000 soldiers of the New Army to set off from Nanyuan early in the morning, each carrying only a waist knife, half a catty of jerky, and half a catty of fried wheat, and the target was Zhongmu, which was 30 kilometers southwest of the country.

This is the first time that the new army has aimed at 30 kilometers, and the round trip is 60 kilometers.

In later generations, this is a half-marathon, but marathons are all carried out on flat terrain, and in this era, there are no flat roads at all.

Because the distance was too far, this time I didn't wear armor, but traveled lightly.

Previously, the new army often ran 30 or 40 kilometers in armor, but this time 60 kilometers, Zhao Dezhao didn't think he could bear it.

After breakfast at the hour, I set off, and the 30 kilometers I went to was extremely easy, and I arrived before noon.

After resting outside Zhongmu City for half an hour and eating dry food, the Zhongmu County Ya also prepared hot water for the new army.

But the thirty kilometers of the return journey made the new army suffer a lot because of the lack of stamina.

There are still ten kilometers away from Kaifeng Mansion, and the team has been three or four miles long, if it weren't for Zhao Dezhao's request that every team member not give up any of the team members, I'm afraid that someone would be left behind.

The army of the Song Dynasty consisted of ten people, and the captain was ten generals. In the past few months, the new military order has been prohibited, and after experiencing the new training method, it has been able to "not abandon and not give up."

Of course, in the army, classes still exist, but Zhao Dezhao has no intention of correcting them.

In the Ming Dynasty, he had to go above a "class theory" to stabilize the regime, and when he was not yet in power, he had to maintain the existence of classes.

In the feudal era, if the slogan of equality was created, no one would do it except the rebels.

Even if they were rebellious, they were only verbal shouts, such as during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, where the privileges were even more serious.

In the feudal era, privilege was the goal of ordinary people's courageous struggle, and if you didn't have privilege, society would be chaotic.

Zhao Dezhao has been running with the team, and he also takes care of a few little guys in the middle.

A little guy like Shi Baoji, who was only twelve years old, had been running one hundred and twenty miles on uneven roads that day, and he was already tired.

When he returned to Kaifeng Mansion, Zhao Dezhao had four knives hanging on his body.

It took one hundred and twenty miles to go back and forth in one day, and when I returned to Kaifeng Mansion, even the forbidden army guarding the city and the officials of Kaifeng Mansion couldn't help but cheer for the new army.

This speed of marching, in this era, is simply unimaginable.

Under normal circumstances, the marching distance is only twenty to twenty-five kilometers, and even thirty kilometers is rare.

But the new army, doubled this distance.

The west gate of the city outside Kaifeng Mansion is called Zhengmen, and when Zhao Dezhao arrived with the last batch of new troops, he saw a large group of soldiers blocking the city gate.

Zhao Dezhao hadn't arrived yet, and Shi Baoxing, who had arrived in advance, greeted him back. "All the commanders, the emperor issued a decree to set Xiangyang as Hanjing, can you know about this in advance?"

"Hanjing?" Zhao Dezhao was also a little confused, and quickened his pace and walked towards the city gate. "I don't know about this, what exactly is written?"

"Set Xiangyang as Hanjing, and the commander will stay in Hanjing and be responsible for the expansion of Hanjing."

"What about the Shannan East Provincial Office?"

"I didn't mention it."

Zhao Dezhao came to the city gate and looked at the imperial list, the holy decree was very simple, it only mentioned the setting up of Hanjing and the expansion of the city outline, and nothing else was mentioned.

Zhao Dezhao now attaches the most importance to the position of the envoy of Shannan Dongdao, which belongs to the feudal officials in this era, and also has the right to lead troops.

If Xiangyang is set as Hanjing, will this Shannan Dongdao Jiedu envoy be revoked?

Zhao Dezhao untied the remaining three knives on his body and handed them to Shi Baoxing beside him. "This is your second brother and Chongxun's knife, you wait for them to come back and give it to them, I'll go back to the house to see it first."

As he was talking, he saw the inner servant Wu Jian coming out of the city gate tower with two small yellow gates. "Second brother, you can be regarded as coming back, the official instructed, let you go to the palace when you come back, if it's almost dark today."

Zhao Dezhao said: "Can you come here on horseback?" ”

"The old slave came in a carriage."

"Let's go, I'm too tired to walk anymore."

There are three miles from Zhengmen to Daliang Gate, and two miles into the palace, Zhao Dezhao ran sixty kilometers today, and he didn't want to leave a single step.

A quarter of an hour later, the carriage arrived at the Gongchen Gate, and from here it passed through the Imperial Garden to the nearest of the Jiying Hall.

As soon as Zhao Dezhao arrived at the Jiying Palace, he saw a group of low-grade civil and military ministers coming out of the main hall, everyone with a smile on their faces, and gestured to Zhao Dezhao.

In the past, when the ministers saw Zhao Dezhao, they all treated each other as equals, and even a little estranged.

But since Zhao Guangyi became seriously ill, their attitude towards Zhao Dezhao has been much kinder, but it is the first time that they are so polite and stammering like today.

Zhao Dezhao's heart is like a mirror, they should be the ministers who want to follow him to Xiangyang.

At the end of the crowd was Wang Pu, who saw Zhao Dezhao coming back, with a smile on his face, but said in a somewhat dissatisfied tone: "Second brother, you are the prince, you can dispatch in the center, why bother to work in the army every day." ”

Zhao Dezhao's complexion at this time was indeed not good, and after running sixty kilometers, no one could get better.

He didn't argue, but saluted, "I've seen you all in service." ”

Everyone returned the salute one after another: "Second brother is polite." ”

"The commander is polite."

"You're kind to stay."

"Temperance makes you polite."

The names of officials in the Song Dynasty were confusing, and they could not be collectively called adults, because adults were used to address the elders in the family in the Song Dynasty, and after the late Ming Dynasty, they were used to call officials.

These people have civil servants and military generals, and only the title of Fenggong is justified.

And because of their different identities, their names for Zhao Dezhao are also relatively confusing, and there are four titles for more than a dozen people.

Wang Pu smiled and patted Zhao Dezhao's shoulder and said, "The official family is waiting for you, you have met the official family first, and we will talk about it later." ”

Hearing this, looking at his expression again, Zhao Dezhao had a guess in his heart. "Your Excellency, but you want to go to Xiangyang with me?"

Wang Pu smiled, lowered his voice and said, "Seeing that I can still move, the official family appointed me as the Yin of Hanjing Mansion to assist the second brother in expanding Hanjing Mansion." ”

Wang Pu was originally the prime minister, and after the resignation of the prime minister, he still had the official position of Taifu.

But at this time, he no longer has real power.

Hanjing Mansion Yin now Zhao Dezhao does not know how many grades of officials, if it is the same as Kaifeng Mansion Yin, it is from the third grade, if it is the same as the history of other state capitals, it is from the fifth grade.

The fact that a first-grade official can have a substantive position from the fifth grade makes him happy, which is enough to prove the chaos of the current official position.

Zhao Dezhao nodded, said goodbye to the ministers, and when he entered the courtyard of the Ying Palace, he stopped, turned back to Wu Jianzheng and said: "You send a small yellow gate to the East Palace, go to the head of Tong Palace, and say what I said, send the things that Mrs. has copied in the past few days into the palace." ”

Wu Jian Zheng ordered a small yellow door to report the news, and took Zhao Dezhao into the Jiying Palace.

In the main hall, Zhao Kuangyin sat cross-legged on the Luohan bed, with a large piece of music in front of him, and was watching them one by one.

Seeing Zhao Dezhao come in, he dropped the piece in his hand and stood up. "Traveling one hundred and twenty miles in one day, unprecedented, but the second brother wants to build an iron army?"

Zhao Dezhao shook his head and smiled: "The soldiers of the new army are all from the Wang clan, and even those scholars are all dressed and fed since childhood, and they have never been short of food and drink. Therefore, it is necessary to train them step by step. If you change ordinary people, you can travel 60 miles in a day, and you are already strong. ”

Zhao Kuangyin nodded and waved his hand to the attendants, preventing them from coming over. "I was noisy all day, go out and breathe."

Zhao Dezhao's legs were like lead, and he didn't want to move, but he had no choice but to keep up.

Out of the gate, he took Zhao Dezhao to the Imperial Garden. "See the Emperor's List?"

Zhao Dezhao snorted and asked, "Why didn't Daddy talk to the child first, it was a big surprise today." ”

Zhao Kuangyin smiled, but did not answer, but said again: "You once said that three hundred years later, the Mongolian army attacked my Great Song Dynasty, and Xiangyang defended it for eighty years. As soon as Xiangyang is lost, the country will also be lost? ”

Zhao Dezhao nodded. He also said: "Set Xiangyang as Hanjing, and you will be justified when you go to Hanjing." I'll give you three years, ask for money, ask people to give people, and ask for everything you need, and see what you can bring me back when the time comes...... Surprise! ”

Zhao Dezhao knew that he wanted to say something in return, but the theory of interests did not conform to the father-son status of the two, so he temporarily changed his words.

smiled and said: "The child will surprise his father today, during this time, the child will remember the various systems of the later generations, the supervision of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs, the advantages and disadvantages of national development, and the foundation of industrial development, all of which have been written."

Some children are still reminiscing, some are still tidying up, and they can't find anyone to help with this kind of thing, so it's possible to write it for a few years.

But the ones I wrote out first can already be shown to my father, I hope it will help my father. ”

Zhao Kuangyin has been staring at the East Palace, and he has also protected the East Palace from the outside world, since Zhao Dezhao and Pei Ge'an asked the royal family and the Chen family to copy it, he already knew about it.

It's just that he didn't expect it, he thought that Zhao Dezhao was looking for more things to do for a group of women, but he didn't expect to do such a big thing.

I didn't expect that I suspected that my son had other intentions before, and it turned out to be such a result.

He didn't want to hide it, but he hadn't written it all yet!

He couldn't help but feel a little guilty for blaming his son, and his jealousy of Pei Ge'an's woman was much lighter.

But at this time, he deliberately pretended not to know and asked, "How many people know about this?" ”

Zhao Dezhao smiled innocently: "Only a few women in the child's backyard transcribed it, and they didn't dare to let outsiders know." Oh, by the way, the fourth sister often goes to the East Palace, knows about it, and also copies two, but she only knows the content of the book she copied. ”

Zhao Kuangyin snorted. "It doesn't matter if the fourth sister knows something, you have done a good job in this matter, and you must not let outsiders know about it."

Father and son looked at each other and smiled, feeling much closer to each other.

Of course, Zhao Kuangyin may be a little more sincere, but Zhao Dezhao is a little more hypocritical.