Heavy rain on July 3.

Wang Yan, who was thirteen years old, officially left Beijing with Hutouying, Mu Guiying, Zhanzhao, Di Yong, Quan Berlin, and Geng Tianqiu, a "retainer".

This was a cold expedition, Uncle Liao held an umbrella and carried Erya, supported Wang Anshi, and saw off Wang Yanbu outside the capital in the heavy rain. Other than that, no more people came.

This kind of deployment was an ingenious arrangement, and long before Wang Yan was removed from the Imperial City Division's intelligence business, the formalities for Di Yong, Quan Berlin, and Zhanzhao to be transferred to the Tianwu military department in front of the Forbidden Military Palace had been completed.

It is not difficult to complete these, the front division of the palace commanded Lao Li, and Yang Huaiyu, who presided over the work of the Tianwu Army, and his father is still very face-saving. At that time, Wang Yan bewitched Chief Chen, and took the transfer procedures of the Imperial City Division, and after the palace front division confirmed the acceptance, Zhanzhao Quanlin Di Yong and others were naturally classified under the Tianwu Military Department.

From here on, how to appoint these people is Yang Wenguang to make a suggestion, and the front secretary of the palace can confirm it.

So at yesterday's court, many court officials who were influenced by Ye Qinghua said one by one, forming a trend in the court that "the Hutou battalion should be deployed to the northwest".

The funny thing is that the parties Wang Yan and Wang Anshi didn't say a word in order to avoid suspicion, but others mentioned a lot, which became a logical thing. Then the situation is not the act of a single person, but the "collective decision" of the great court, so that the pressure and responsibility of both the privy envoy and the emperor himself will be much smaller. In addition, the deployment of several hundred people was originally a trivial matter, and it was the truth to say that it was reasonable, and it could be useless in the mouth of the opposition, but since it was the opinion of "everyone", it was naturally approved on the spot, and the privy envoy Liang Yitang confirmed the Hutou Battalion's deployment of Funing County.

To everyone's surprise, after the Hutou Battalion was deployed in the northwest, Zhao Zhen didn't know what to think, and he was more generous and gave Wang Yan greater autonomy.

This is a common practice in the Great Song Dynasty, in more complex areas to withdraw the county army, the level of administrative districts is basically the same as before, but the autonomy will be greater, which is a kind of wartime deployment. This deployment makes no difference for now, but it will be beneficial for the future.

In the future, if the northwest stabilizes and the imperial court re-dispatches the governor of Yinzhou, if it is still the establishment of "Funing County and Hutou Battalion", then the command of the Hutou Battalion will not be in the hands of Wang Yan, and it will become the control of Yinzhou Zhizhou. But the emperor's current arrangement, even if Wang Yan has a Shangguan in the future, although Zhizhou is still the leader of Wang Yan, the Funing Army will also be Wang Yan's direct army, and Lord Zhizhou can only give orders to Wang Yan and cannot interfere in internal affairs.

The second advantage is that the Tiger Head Battalion or Shenji Battalion in front of this descendant unit is just a common name, not a real formation. The battalion of the Great Song Dynasty did not have a number and was not an independent combat unit. But now that it is called the Funing Army, it is a real number, so Wang Yan, the prince of the army, can expand this army to 2,500 people according to his own financial resources and needs. and in the case that the Northwest Territories cannot be financially self-sufficient, they shall obtain from the Privy Council the full amount of military expenses for one army.

Once a war starts, as long as the financial resources can keep up, there is no real upper limit on the number of independent combat units, and everyone in Funing County can enlist in the army, and as many people as many people can be incorporated into it. For example, the "Liu Deng Division" in later generations had a division that could have hundreds of thousands of people. Of course, it is possible for a short period of time, but it is a matter of course for a long time, because the imperial court only recognizes the establishment of one army, and all military rations and military expenses are allocated according to the standard of 2,500 people.

In the entire Great Song Dynasty, basically only the gangsters of the breeders could find a way out on their own and allocate 10,000 military funds to 20,000 mud-legged soldiers. In addition to the family army, it is basically the other way around, and the military expenditure of 10,000 yuan is given to 5 or 6,000 people, so that the officers can have oil and water, which is called empty salary. This aspect must be the most serious in the capital army.

In terms of the issue of empty salaries, the current Hedong military system will be better, because Han Qi is ruthless when he kills officers, so the Hedong military system will definitely be more restrained.

To sum up, although this time experienced some twists and turns and took some detours, it finally achieved the result that Wang Yan hoped for.

In addition to the more than 200 descendants of the Hanqi troops, under the brainwashing and mobilization of Dayan, the number of "construction militia regiments" in the coal yard that followed them to the northwest to support them reached more than 700, which covered all kinds of talents.

has this scale and confidence, thanks to the fact that Wang Yan has invested heavily in cultivating and selecting talents in the past six months.

The Song people like to create inventions the most, so there are many secret recipes hidden in the folk, but for a long time in the past, although the secret recipe was special, but due to the closed environment, everyone was in a state of "behind closed doors", and there was a lack of communication and progress.

But that was in the past, under the special corporate culture of the coal yard and Wang Yan's brainwashing and mobilization, the motivation was particularly sufficient and even fanatical. Therefore, after having a suitable reward and encouragement system, one of the strange phenomena of the coal yard is that everyone likes to hand in and share secret recipes and carry out internal forum exchanges. There is an atmosphere of technical competition between each other.

At that time, many craftsmen found that they used to sit in the well and watch the sky, and their ancestral craftsmanship may have a unique place, but it is not necessarily magical in front of other people's unique skills, only characteristics, and everyone finds that after sharing, they can learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, and other people's unique skills can sometimes just improve their own shortcomings.

In such an atmosphere, we received honors and awards, communicated with each other, and inadvertently perfected a lot of technical and complete processes.

The traverser's thinking may be a bit special, but Wang Yan himself is psychologically clear, and when it comes to specific details and technical processing, the poor bookish knowledge of the traverser is simply weak compared to the grassroots team.

The accumulation of ideas and experiences is at most a move in Wang Yan's opinion, if it is useful, it can be useful, but it is completely okay to say that it is an egg. The proof is: in terms of technological accumulation during World War I, who can compare to the Great Yin Empire on which the sun never sets? But it turns out that the grassroots copycat industry of US imperialism can be hoisted and beaten by the time of World War II.

Okay, that's an exaggeration, but it's infinitely close. The Thief Eagle used to be so brilliant, assuming that the group of noble theoretical scientists of the Great Yin Royal Academy were considered traversers, in fact, they were really traversers in that era, then the Thief Eagle was not able to have such a high-end team, but the Thief Eagle had a group of grassroots industrial workers who were willing to work hard with almost slave treatment, and they did it, so in the end, before the second eldest child came out, they turned the big yin scare with the team of the wearers to the ground and waited for friction.

In later generations, there will also be industrial workers like the Eagle Eagle, and it is now this group of construction corps that supports the Great Northwest, and the Great Crane also has more reserve echelons, which are their sons and daughters - the group of little mud legs who are now studying in the "Coal Yard Children's Technician School".

Those little mud legs are stupider than their parents and parents, and it is the time of brainwashing, they will stupidly sing the song "study hard and go up every day" made up to them by Da Yan, learn skills at a price close to slaves, and then soon shout the slogan "not afraid of hardship and not afraid of death" as child laborers to participate in the work of the industrial workers of the Great Song Dynasty.

Many of them will die of exhaustion while building bridges, roads, digging coal and steel, and a large number will die of pneumoconiosis before the age of forty. However, the goose is benevolent, the rise of the empire can never bypass this process of sacrifice and dedication, without the blood and tears of one or two generations to fill the pit, where will future generations gnaw at the glory of the old clan?

It is a great sorrow and a big fool in human nature, but in the years of the times, the essence they really reflect is the glory and will of their parents.

This is the breath of the universe, and there will always be ups and downs.