When the mission entered the Kansai East Road, the population increased at a speed visible to the naked eye, and this was the original Kansai Sixth Road, which was the territory of the Han people from beginning to end, and was controlled by the Zhao and Song dynasties. It can be said that compared with the original land of Western Xia, this is the real basic plate of the Song people.

Even if the land of the Six Roads in Kansai was only the most barren land in the Great Song Dynasty before.

Xiao Lira carefully observed, he had not yet entered the Song Land in the traditional sense.

Then he found that this place was really a little different from Luntai City, which was still under military control.

There are more people, and there is more prosperity, needless to say, the most important thing is that he saw the real life of the Song people.

Although many times he can only look at it from a distance, but just a few simple glances are enough. These Song people are not as happy as the rumors say.

Whether it is the peasants outside the city or the citizens in the city, most of them are dressed very ordinary, and it is not said that they are all silk and satin, but it is undeniable that the spirit of these ordinary Song people is very good, and they are ruddy and strong.

Obviously, they are all well fed and clothed.

Compared with today's Western Liao, this is the treatment that only the warriors in the directly subordinate tribes of the Khitan and Dangxiang clans can enjoy.

On the one hand, they are the most ordinary people, but on the other hand, they are already the backbone of society, not to mention the difference in number between the two, but only the difference in class level, so that people can clearly feel the irreparable gap between the two.

Seriously, a country where the most ordinary people at the bottom of society can be fed and clothed, it is still a country with a population of hundreds of millions, and its strength is really beyond the imagination of Xiliao.

After the rumored beauty was punctured, although the truth exposed could not be as brilliant as the imaginary gem, the Great Song Dynasty, which was as dazzling as gold, was still so great!

originally thought that the only vitality of the Khitan was in the West, but now I think even more so.

A rich and martial country is really not something that the current Western Liao can provoke.

From the Western Regions all the way to Guanzhong, although they were sloppy along the way, there was a scene that they had seen more than once. That is the native soldiers of the local state capitals.

The native soldiers were the militia, or rather, the former Bow and Arrow Society.

Zhao and Song emphasized the culture and suppressed the military, and the Song army was not very strong, which seems to be a fact recognized by hundreds of millions of living beings in later generations.

But in fact? The martial style of the Zhao and Song Dynasty folk is absolutely different from the 'assumptions' of many people in later generations.

The Bow and Arrow Society is one of them.

At first hearing this name, many people will think of the shooting hall, and with the crossbowmen as the main force of the Song army, many people take it for granted, thinking that it is a sense of immediacy of an organized archery team.

But in fact, in the archery clubs in Hebei Guanxi and other prefectures and counties, all of them are large-scale comprehensive martial arts arenas. There are not only bows and arrows, but also knives, guns, clubs, axes, hooks and forks. It can be said that in addition to armor, shields, fire barrels, artillery and other pipe products, everything in the Song Army is found in the bow and arrow club.

"Fist", "Sword", "Sword", "Bow", "Sumo", "Crossbow", "Stick", in short, it is a training ground for actual combat.

The combat effectiveness of the township soldiers and militias in various places that came out of the interior was even more effective than that of Zhao Song's economic division.

Because the biggest purpose of this bow and arrow club at the beginning of its establishment was to protect the territory and the people.

From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the maturity of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the only purpose of the Bow and Arrow Society is to protect the territory and the people - the government has not thought about it, **, hooligans, bandits are prosperous, and the people of the world are devastated, so the people can only save themselves: every family has a man to participate in the Bow and Arrow Society, they "hoe with a bow, a sword and a woodcutter, a saddle horse, and often Ruo Ruozhi", and they can draw a knife at any time to play with their lives!

After the time entered the Zhao and Song dynasties, the archery societies in the inland of the Central Plains gradually fell into disuse, and until now, only the archery societies in Hebei and Guanxi Zhulu still maintain their basic role.

Because that place was close to the border, the people of the Bow and Arrow Society seemed to be the best supplement to the Song army.

The communication between the two Song Dynasty in history, whether it is the incredible riot soldiers of the Six Roads in Guanxi - from the Xuanhe Northern Expedition to the reinforcements of various species, then the army of Fan Zhixu and Qian Gai, and then the Battle of Fuping, hundreds of thousands of troops broke out one after another, and the remaining remnants of the defeated generals were also introduced by the Wu brothers into Sichuan and Shu to kill the possibility of the Jin army entering Shu - or the wave of resistance to Jin set off in the Central Plains of Hebei, the Bow and Arrow Society played a very important role in it.

But in today's time and space, Zhao Gou, who has swept away foreign troubles, said that he would not allow such a "terrifying" non-governmental organization to exist in Hebei, Guanxi and other prefectures and counties.

And there is no external threat, and the people of Hebei and Guanxi Zhulu may not be willing to dance knives and guns anymore.

At that time, Zhao Gou could take advantage of the situation to completely ban the Bow and Arrow Society, but what should the many ordinary people in the north and south of the river who were attracted by the treatment of the Song army do?

With the Bow and Arrow Club, these people can be the first to get in touch with simple military exercises and military drills, and learn about military regulations and military discipline!

It can not only reduce the burden on the army to a certain extent, but also strengthen the martial style of the people.

Completely erasing the Bow and Arrow Society is contrary to Zhao Gou's original intention.

Not to mention that with the development of the great migration of immigrants, the contradictions between immigrants and natives in various places were quickly detonated, although the living environment of the immigrants was not so miserable that it was comparable to the troubled times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, but it was also necessary to "hoe with a bow, a sword and a woodcutter, and a saddle horse with armor and a horse".

In this case, Zhao Gou's only choice is to spread the Bow and Arrow Society across the country, that is, to turn the Bow and Arrow Society into a public!

By the time the Western Liao mission went to Bianjing for an audience, the future native soldiers who had been restructured from the Bow and Arrow Society had flourished again.

Because there are too many civilians in the world who are eager to join the army to avoid their families being 'relocated'!

The upsurge of joining the army, which had been low in the Central Plains, once again climbed to its peak.

Yes, the common people do not want to fight.

Even if the rewards of joining the army are very rich, even if the military merit field is very fragrant to pick up, there are still many people who would rather be 'plain' and have a safe family.

Anyway, I have food and drink, and I can live anyway, so why should my family go to the knife to beg for a living?

If you really want to make money, then let the man go out to work while the farm is slack, and the woman can also weave at home.

In a word, when people's survival needs are satisfied to a certain extent, human beings' desire to struggle will be greatly reduced.

Until the arrival of the Great Migration of the Whole People!

Joining the army has become hot again in a short period of time.

Along the way, the Western Liao delegation has seen more than once the local soldiers in training and training in local states and counties, and it seems that there are not many local soldiers in one county and one place, but how many counties and states are there in the entire Zhao and Song dynasties?

When that number is thoroughly summed up, it will definitely be an 'astronomical number' that everyone in Xiliao will despair!

Therefore, Xiao Lira has completely given up the ambition of 'killing back to his hometown and reviving the Khitan again'. Now I feel that I can rely on such a huge and powerful empire, it may not be the 'happiness' of Xiliao!