Bai Shizhong, Zhang Bangchang and other prime ministers and ministers secretly blushed that the Great Song Dynasty has now become the status quo of an evil and unscrupulous society and a criminal dynasty regime, and these bureaucratic rulers are naturally all shameless and incompetent big villains, which makes them always boast of themselves, in fact, they are always self-anesthetized The mentality of the most orthodox Confucian gentlemen and loyal ministers and ministers is deeply hit and ridiculed, how can they be embarrassed, but this kind of thing is just the same thing for the shameless people in their bones, and they just blush, what really gives them a headache is the problem of disarmament in the annexation of the state.

The lack of troops in the coastal areas of the sea that has been devastated by pirates and the like has already been made up for by the bad guys who have captured and forcibly incorporated into the army from the capital, and there is no need to add troops.

So if the 100,000 troops that have been laid off cannot be placed in society and resettled for the people, where can they be arranged?

I took great pains to think of a lot of tricks.

Deploy some troops to the surrounding state capitals of Tianhu Wang Qing'er anti-thieves to strengthen the blockade, deterrence, encirclement and suppression of the two anti-kings.

Anyway, there are state-owned fields and ownerless properties in the countryside that can be distributed, so that these people who are useless for the army but complain all day long that they are too bad to be soldiers, and that the court and the officers are too bad for them, and only the guys who are harmful in the army take their families to the countryside to work hard and eat themselves.

As long as you can plant it, pay the money and taxes, and give you as much land as you want.

As long as you listen honestly to the arrangement and are willing to work hard, you can do as much as you want.

In fact, they didn't like to be a soldier at all, and they were extremely eager to have their own enough land to cultivate their wives and children, and they couldn't do what they wanted, so they had no choice but to be soldiers, that is, they were mixed, and they were too bored to do evil and harm people at will. The divided fields and real estate were taken over by the family, but I refused to take off my military uniform, that is, I didn't leave the barracks, but I still carried it hard, and I didn't dare to really make trouble if I was involved.

Among them, the old light pole with no relatives and no reason, when he was a soldier, almost all the military salary was used for eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and it was easy to be a single for a lifetime, and he was also planted.

No big problem.

These single-minded veterans are essentially gutless waste, planted, lazy, not accustomed to enduring hardships to feed themselves, unwilling to farm, but they are old and powerless to toss things around, and they don't dare to toss to be robbers and bandits or something, afraid of death, afraid of war, and can't stand the fatigue of frequent training and combat that is inevitable when the anti-thief army, let alone run to join the anti-thief army and continue to mix free military food and take risks.

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After many measures, some troops to be dismantled have finally been solved, but this can only accommodate a small number of people, and cannot solve the big problem.

Now it's better.

The disaster of large-scale defection of soldiers in Hebei was terrible news, but it was a timely and good thing for Bai Shizhong, who was worried about how to disarm.

The nearly 100,000 border troops missing from the Hebei West Road alone solved the big problem at once.

In addition, the generals of the Zhejia family were not allowed to recruit the children of the good family from the people on the spot, and the imperial court forcibly transferred troops to make up for the loss of the Zhejia army.

In this way, there was not much left of the army that had been dismantled, and it not only blocked the gap in the border pass of the western Hebei road, but also inserted nails into the Zhejia army and mixed the elements of soldiers and soldiers, which indirectly strengthened the control over the Zhejia army.

The border soldiers ran away, but few of the main generals defected, and there was no shortage of generals. The opposite is true of places that have been destroyed by pirates and rogues.

It is necessary to set aside a large part of the principal generals and middle-level officers of the army to be dismantled and placed in the coastal and coastal armies, so as to solve the problem of having a new army but no generals, and to replace the officers of the forbidden army who have been temporarily transferred to lead the troops to strengthen the management and training of the newly formed forbidden army in Gyeonggi, so as to maintain the strength of the Beijing army to deter the local area and enhance the security of the capital.

However, the actual strength of the whole country has not decreased much, but the number of garrisons and personnel has changed, and it is still a terrible number and consumption of more than one million.

Today's Great Song Dynasty is not the grand occasion of tens of millions of people in the past, and the farming nation has only about 20 million people, how can it bear the consumption of so many troops for a long time.

However, the situation in the Great Song Dynasty has changed, and it has deteriorated in an all-round way, but the surrounding enemies have not changed much, they are still so powerful, ferocious, and aggressive, and they still can't give less money and grain to the enemy to buy peace, and if they continue like this, they are afraid that they will have to double and give more, and if they don't give it, they will be forced to fight, and the losses will be greater and more unbearable, so the army, especially the border troops defending against the enemy, cannot be reduced, and they must strive to support a huge army.

The more it was at this time, the more the imperial court, including the emperor, deeply felt the great sacrifice of the Cangzhao family's unwittingly contribution to the Great Song Dynasty over the years.

If it weren't for the efficient agricultural machinery, improved fields, and clever farming methods that greatly increased yields promoted by the Cangzhao family, especially the high-yield crops from overseas that were suitable for planting and living, and easy to manage, such as corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc., how to solve the problem of feeding the huge army would have forced the imperial court to death.

If it weren't for the fact that the Cangzhao family had been silently dedicating the war horses captured in the battle of Weizhuang and the horses raised and bred by themselves to the Great Song Dynasty as stallions for more than ten years, if it were not for Zhao Gonglian to withstand the huge pressure of the government and the opposition and various internal and external risks, and insisted on the new horse politics to get many mules and horses from the Liao State, this time the wave of pirates and homeless people almost swept away the cattle and donkeys of the Great Song Dynasty.

Without the convenience of livestock to cultivate the land, you still want to cultivate more fields efficiently with meagre manpower? Does the state want more food to feed the huge group of rulers and armies?

But it is precisely because these foundations are already there, and it is the Cangzhao family that has been dedicated, that the emperor and the imperial court have the confidence to dare to willfully want to kill Cangzhao Manmen.

Without these prerequisites, the rulers of the Manchu Dynasty were only worried about solving the immediate and fatal problem of survival, and they had to be able to show their skills in times of crisis and find ways to break through the problems and save the dynasty that was only hungry and hungry. How can you dare to be in the mood.

Politics, especially the feudal dictatorship of the emperor's family, is so cold, domineering, murderous, shameless, and dark.

Having said that, the defection of the army in large numbers invisibly solved the problem that the Great Song Dynasty had too many troops and could not be reduced in large quantities.

In the face of this situation, Bai Shizhong didn't know whether to laugh or sigh and cry.

While hating and hating Zhao Gonglian who caused this defection disaster, these traitors may also have to secretly thank them in their hearts: Zhao Gonglian, if you don't resign and toss, the problem of disarmament will really not be solved.

As for the Cangbei Army, the Cangbei Army is also short of troops, and the Bai Shizhong and Privy Envoys of the Central East and West Stations, as well as the Ministry of War, also want to forcibly resettle the soldiers, and just place all the remaining people in the dismantled army, and when the matter is done, it will also complicate the composition of the Cangbei Army, disperse the military unity and cohesion of the Cangbei Army, and virtually reduce the prestige of Zhao Gonglian, so that even if this marquis returns to take charge of the army again, he will not be able to control the army as freely as in the past, and reduce the invisible threat of Zhao Gonglian. At the same time, the civil and military officials who were responsible for containing Zhao Gonglian in Cangbei still had troops from other places to restrain the old Cangbei army that supported Zhao Gonglian, which was more conducive to playing a role in diversion.

But this is just wishful thinking.

manages national affairs, with high positions and powers like them, and Zhao Gonglian can't do what he wants to do at the moment.

Everything follows Zhao Gonglian's wishes, and it may not be able to attract people who are willing to come out to serve the court again, how dare they play power and scheming at this time, and make it insidious, and make trouble again?

Even the supreme emperor didn't think anything at this time, he had to endure it first if he had anger and thoughts.

Everything must first follow Zhao Gonglian's wishes.

Zhao Gonglian wanted to replenish the military strength of Cangbei, as soon as he brought it up, the imperial court had to follow it in general at the moment.

After Taiwei Su said that Zhao Gonglian was moved out of the mountain, he first talked about the shortage of troops in Cangbei.

Asked if it was also like the Western Route Army, which quickly transferred manpower from the interior to replenish it?

But Zhao Gonglian refused.

"What are those people?"

"Ruffians, gangsters, slaves...... They are all gangsters who should be punished according to the law, and the pests of society. The bones are rotten, only the courage to harm the people of their own country, the disaster of their own people is all brave and brave, there are many ideas, the ability is very big, one top two is not more, and the outside is all the tail of the dog and the mud, no matter how much training can not become a real strong army. ”

"I'm not an immortal, I can't change the essence of people, I want so many rotten people to be a soldier, I worry a lot about hard work but I can't get good results from training, why do I feel uncomfortable?"

Su Taiwei didn't care about the problems that Zhao Gonglian said and the troubles he might face.

He only cares about the mission given to him by the imperial court, and only cares about the court's opinion of himself, because this is related to his future and dominates his vital interests.

As soon as Zhao Gonglian agreed to serve the imperial court again, Su Taiwei lost the pressure of political tasks, and he was not the same as when he asked people to go out of the mountain before, strictly abiding by the priority of conscience and righteousness, and reverting to the shamelessness of politicians who had long been accustomed to the same instinct as politicians who mixed with officialdom.

It is said that he was tossed by Zhao Gonglian's resignation, he didn't dare to have an opinion on the court, and he didn't dare to complain about revenge against the powerful ministers who did bad things, so he was secretly angry with Zhao Gonglian, who embarrassed him, lost his dignity, and damaged the majesty of the official master, and more or less secretly harbored some revenge and schadenfreude, and also wanted to rectify Zhao Gonglian a little cleverly.

He was also ordered to persuade Zhao Gonglian to help the central government integrate the dismantled bandit army into Cangbei and get rid of the Cangbei Army's only recognition of Zhao Gonglian's loyalty.

He smiled and said: "Brother Xian's ability to govern the army is the first in the world. The Manchu Song Dynasty, including the conceited and arrogant generals of the Western Army, who is not convinced by your ability to turn decay into magic? ”

Zhao Gonglian chuckled lightly at the time and said lightly: "If I really have the ability to turn decay into magic, I would not have forcibly dismissed all the unworthy civil and military officers and tens of thousands of soldiers in Cangbei under so much pressure and risk." “

"With that ability, I have already made the Great Song Dynasty officialdom honest and honest, how could I let Zhao Zhuang and my family end up so miserably?"

To put it mildly, there is actually a strong irony in it.

He saw more and more through the corrupt and hypocritical bureaucratic nature of Captain Su, and became more and more disdainful of this person who was a good man and a good official.

is also a euphemism: The court doesn't want to play that long Gregan stunned with me anymore. Don't think of being clever and playing ridiculously insidious tricks. If you insist on playing and make Lao Tzu dissatisfied, hehe, Lao Tzu will not serve the court. You play someone else, go you. Play whatever you want. If you're happy for a few days, you're going to be off.

Of course, the old fritter Su Taiwei of the officialdom could understand the decisive meaning, and hurriedly said: "Of course, the virtuous brother is an expert in governing the army and guarding the border, and he is the specific host of the Cangbei military, so everything naturally follows the will of the virtuous brother first." The imperial court will not forcibly reach out to interfere in the affairs of the Cangbei Army. ”

But the question is,

When you return to Cheongju, how can you quickly solve the problem of troops? How to deal with the autumn harvest that is coming in the blink of an eye and the almost 100% possibility of large-scale robbery by Liaokou?

There are few people in the four military states of Cangbei now.

The rest of the people still have to farm, and the conscripts may not be suitable for being soldiers, they are all farmers, they can't fight and can't fight, where are you in a hurry to get soldiers who can fight?

Zhao Gonglian sneered directly this time.

"There are many soldiers and there are many soldiers, and there are few soldiers and there are few soldiers to fight the way of fighting."

"Soldiers are not expensive. What's the use of having hundreds of thousands of rotten troops? When the Jurchens rebelled, the 20,000 Jurchen savages, who were not worthy of being called an army at that time, were able to defeat the 700,000 troops led by the Liao Emperor in Dagang, which is very revealing. “

"Besides, people can come and beat us wantonly, but we are not allowed to beat people. Our DPRK always emphasizes compromise defense, blindly passive defense, loopholes everywhere, everywhere is the target of the enemy's random attack, the truth that if you defend for a long time, you will lose, fools also understand, no matter how many soldiers there are, it is useless, what can be prevented? “

"If there are still nearly 20,000 soldiers in Cangbei, the troops are insufficient, but it is not that there is no restraint to restrain the opponent from picking up and daring to invade, and it may not be much of a problem to deal with the current autumn disaster."

Zhao Gonglian saw through the fear of Liao in Taiwei Su's bones, and was speechless to these scholars, doctors, and bureaucrats who boasted of their courage and self-confidence for the country's prosperity and strength, and who were even more incompetent in their efforts to serve the country.

"Lord Taiwei, the Liao country is no longer the Liao country of the past. The Liao army is no longer the Liao army of the past. What other terrible power do they have that we cannot beat? ”

"The Jurchens can attack instead of defend, with tens of thousands of horses to press the Liao State breathless, our weapons and equipment are more sophisticated, logistics are more sufficient, in the past ten years, people have enough food, there is grain to feed livestock and poultry, plus my family invented and promoted the wintering green storage fodder recipe, animal husbandry has developed in an all-round way, the lack of meat for the farming nation has been made up, the people's physical fitness is generally tall and strong, no longer comparable to the strength of the nomads, there are also a large number of war horses, why can't the Jurchen achievements be achieved?"

"In my opinion, it is enough for the entire Northern Army to train and train 100,000 elite soldiers to guard the border. What are you doing with raising so many soldiers and spending money and food on the border for a year in vain? The court has so much money and grain that it has no land, so it is used by hundreds of thousands of men who should have contributed to production and construction, and they are obliged to support them as lazy men? ”

Seeing that Taiwei Su's face was slightly red and he opened his mouth to defend something, Zhao Gonglian didn't want to listen to the clichéd nonsense that had always existed to cover up the cowardly, corrupt, conservative and incompetent nature.

Those nonsense, the Song Kingdom has been talking about it for hundreds of years since the founding of the country, not to mention Zhao Gonglian, even ordinary people are afraid that their ears will be calloused.

When the excuse of the shrinking turtle has become an irrefutable national policy of justice and justice?

Don't it anymore shameless and funny.

No matter how beautiful it is, the country is also being the third grandson, and the people are also being wantonly burned, killed and looted, what can be changed? Can the most industrious, intelligent, and suffering nation in the world, who deserve to be feared, be freed from the misery of the cycle of fate? Why can't the Chinese?

If you can't do it, shut up, Lao Tzu will do it.

He cut off Taiwei Su's words and said with a smile: "Of course, the specific situation needs to wait until I return to Cangbei to make a specific understanding." ”

This is the end of this boring conversation.