Zhao Gonglian is so relaxed and chic.

The Su Taiwei of Hejian Mansion was frightened day and night.

Su Yuanjing originally thought that Zhao Gonglian would be busy with the power to meddle in the military affairs of the entire Gaoyang Guanlu, and Cangbei would quickly turn here to show his authority and talents, but he didn't.

He originally hoped that Zhao Gonglian would come to help with the training and deter the border army of Hejian Mansion, but he was also afraid that he would rob him of his power and prestige and take credit for reorganizing the army, so he didn't need to worry about anything.

Zhao Gonglian is actually messing around in front of officials, not to mention him, he doesn't even care about the local military affairs in Cheongju.

The Hebei West Road Army, which is also under the supervision and training of Zhao Gonglian, this improvised bandit-like army, is also afraid that this fierce and powerful Hou Ye will come to them to show iron-fisted military management methods, but I didn't expect that Hou Ye didn't care about official business at all, and did nothing comfortably, how could he come all the way to manage the West Route Army and worry too much to make people suspicious.

Su Yuanjing couldn't understand what Zhao Gonglian was doing with his rich experience in officialdom, and he knew that his current political situation and role in Gaoyangguan Road were extremely delicate, and he could be called half of the highest puppet military governor, and the imperial court wanted to use Zhao Gonglian to lead the entire army of Gaoyangguan Road, hold the northeast, and take into account the safety of the dangerous Hebei West Road, but he was extremely jealous and hated Zhao Gonglian, vigilant, did not dare, and was unwilling to let Zhao Gonglian become more and more proud and underestimate the arrogance of the imperial court. can only press more responsibility and not give actual control, and wants him to press Zhao Gonglian's military power to use Zhao Gonglian's ability and influence in disguise to achieve his goals, but he didn't expect that Zhao Gonglian, who is young and enthusiastic and good at showing his ability and authority, is contrary to the style of the past, silent and low-key to not doing anything, and not using the power in real hands, as if it does not exist. But Qingzhou and Cangbei have indeed returned to normal, everything is stable and orderly, people have indeed completed their own work tasks, and the court knows that Zhao Gonglian's inaction is suspected of deliberately neglecting the expectations of the court, but he can't say anything, so he can only endure his anger and wait to see the back. So what can he say as Zhao Gonglian's top direct military commander?

Said that you can't be an official like this, you have to do things, take care of your own affairs, and you have to come over to actively inspect and train the border army on the side of Hejian Mansion, and you can't live up to the high expectations of the imperial court?

In addition to attracting suspicion, it will also attract ridicule, making it seem that he is stupid and incompetent, he can't see through things, and he can't cure the army, and he is not worthy of being the leader.

At this time, it's not right to say good or bad, I can't open my mouth to Zhao Gonglian.

Whether it is the imperial court or his Su Taiwei to condemn or urge and advise others to be diligent and do more things, people only say that they are observing the situation within their own authority, and they are busy thinking about how to deal with the things that are directly managed.

After all, people are only the nominal deputies and assistants of the military, and they are responsible for the main post of Su Taiwei or the chief official of Hebei West Road, and the deputy assistants only take care of the mess of things that they are directly in charge of.

People are not stupid, they are not used to the court, and they no longer want to worry about the affairs of the court, so as not to stabilize the frontier, and the thieves in the court are as they wish, less frightened and anxious, and they can still smile proudly in the easy enjoyment of happiness, and the people who are loyal to the service and endure hardships and tears are really a big fool B, too easy to fool, a little bait, a little trick will attract the second B young man to be enthusiastic and jump high to do it, and it is more likely to relax and think about how to harm others, then, why do people want to do so many things stupidly?

The consciously and ingeniously ingenious political tricks played by the imperial court to put pressure on the burden and responsibility but not to add power naturally flowed into jokes.

The emperor and his ministers ignored the most basic premise: officials who were self-motivated and eager to show and prove themselves would have a little name and worked hard.

And what else does Zhao Gonglian need to prove?

People saw through the insidious ruthlessness of the imperial court again, and they were disheartened before, but now even if they are encouraged by the emperor to start with enthusiasm, they don't have much enterprising spirit, and they don't expect to take the opportunity to seize more power, build great achievements, and earn higher official positions, glory and bright future. Zhao Gonglian does not do things, does not fight for power, and reduces suspicion, undoubtedly only seeking stability.

Without utilitarianism and a negative mentality, the coercion of the court is not good for others, and dare to expect this trick to make people turn around?

The people in Tokyo who are high above are too wishful thinking, and when they see that they are bowing their heads and playing again, they feel good about themselves again, and they relapse into their old ways.

As a result, people acted silently according to the unspoken rules of officialdom, but they slapped back fiercely, and the people in Tokyo were invisibly squeezed in the hot pain.

Captain Su, who was on the front line, was even more uncomfortable.

Liao Kou after the autumn will inevitably be worried.

Originally, it has always been the Cangbei side that bears the main force of the Liaokou, containing the vast majority of the Liaokou's troops, and also plays the role of the main force counterattack, the pressure is mainly in Cangbei, but now it is good, Cangbei is extremely lacking in troops, and it can't bear the main force of counterattack, so the pressure naturally turns back to the side of Hejian Mansion, which is the most convenient for Liaokou to loot.

Of course, the Hebei West Road, where the border army has changed greatly, is also facing unprecedented danger.

Su Taiwei had no confidence in the combat effectiveness of his subordinates at all, and was even more worried that the hastily formed worse army on the West Road of Hebei would not be good for guarding the border, and when the time came, the Liao Kou would be easily defeated or even directly frightened and rampant into the interior and endanger his side.

If you are transferred out to let the horses go into the field, and want to intercept and block the Liao Kou who rushed into the interior to commit murder, it is impossible to do it, I am afraid that you don't have to face the Liao Kou in formation, just look at it from a distance and be frightened in advance by the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves and the sky-high atmosphere, and then let the Liao Kou urge the horse to wield a scimitar to slaughter to the fullest, and it is not impossible to easily annihilate the whole army.

The army is finished, and the state and county still want to keep it? The bureaucrats who are officials and lords in the city still want to live?

The stress and anxiety of this dangerous prospect is enough to bear.

Su Yuanjing had a bigger worry in his heart.

What he didn't tell Zhao Gonglian was that the embarrassment and danger faced by the Great Song Dynasty was not only the tragic loss of money and food wealth of the population, soldiers, and soldiers, as well as the instability of people's hearts.

The unbearable losses of the Song State in the summer disaster also included weapons and equipment.

These include copper, iron, and a variety of coolies and technicians, such as miners, smelters, and artisans who have defected like the Halal mountain gangsters.

The loss of metal, including weapons, scattered among the people of the Great Song Dynasty was so tragic that it could be said to have been swept away.

Ordinary people, what is the mentality of life?

has no ability, no backing, and no chance to make a fortune from open source, and if you want to live your life, you can only throttle. Thrift and thrift are the instinctive consciousness and habits of the common people.

Army defection frenzy together. The people listened to the rumors of the pirate country, with longing dreams and the idea of following the trend to take the opportunity to gamble and fight, and followed the defection with their heads and brains, naturally they took away all the belongings they could take away, and even the broken bowls that were missing were not necessarily willing to be discarded, not to mention the iron pots, kitchen knives and other guys that were used on the road and must be used wherever they lived, as well as the more important hoes, axes, and tools with iron farming tools necessary for farming and working for a living. If you have it, you have to save money and don't have to spend money on it.

Moreover, farm tools are also self-defense weapons that ordinary people can have.

On the way to defection, it is even more inseparable from the accustomed hand-picked guys. Holding a hoe or something is also more secure, and how can you hit twice when you encounter an enemy who dares to block it.

As for defecting and beating the local tyrants and gentry in their own villages, and getting knives and guns from these armed families, the people have to snatch them all over and take them away.

The rebels and village soldiers who rose up led an astonishingly large and ferocious crowd of people, and you can imagine how terrifying it was.

Waves of surging defections can flatten the hardest rocks in the sea, coupled with the unpreventable internal Zhuang Ding people rebelled and defected, internal and external attacks, bearing wave after wave of impact that lasted for months and became more and more crazy and bold, those local tyrants and inferior gentry counties in the countryside, no matter how powerful he was, the castle had to be broken in the huge waves, and people were scared away if they died, and the homes that were abandoned in a hurry were naturally looted, not to mention the weapons that the defectors needed the most, and even the porcelain teacups were swept away.

In the past, the people could not afford to use such beautiful and easy-to-use porcelain, it was too expensive, and if there was a chance to grab it, how could they let it go?

The pirate country is said to be amazingly rich, the people are rich, and the prices are cheap, but after running to settle down, if you want to use this kind of fine porcelain from a big family, you don't have to spend money?

No matter how good the pirate kingdom is, it is not that the Bodhisattva will give you good things for nothing. Isn't it stupid to be able to grab it but let it go for nothing?

Again, the common people still have to know how to save when they live.

Don't dare to be a loser.

The frenzy that caused a sensation in the Great Song Dynasty naturally also spread to the mines and smelters in the wilderness and mountains, and the people in these places who were forcibly detained by the government to serve and lived a harder, more dangerous, more angry, beaten and more bitter life than ordinary people had the opportunity to escape from the cage of living and suffering, and how could they not rise up and join the defection?

These people even rebelled against the iron tools and tools, and they rose up and killed the corrupt officials and bandits who used to detain and abuse them, seized weapons and equipment, and swept away the smelted metal, they heard that copper coins are not money in pirate countries, but pirates need a lot of all kinds of metals, and metal is not money but money, so they can not rob it.

When you get to the pirate country, you can always earn something in exchange for money, and your life is easier than having nothing and going empty-handed.

Moreover, it is said that pirates paid more attention to the contribution of metals than to the gold, silver, and jewelry brought by defectors, and to take greater care of the distribution of fields to the factories for work.

With this factor, motivation is even more difficult to discard the new products that you have worked so hard to create.

The countryside is so miserable. The state capitals, which were not attacked and plundered by the mainstream of the wave, were not much better.

When the defection first arose, the first wave of defectors in the city officers and soldiers and the people were not aware of the situation, so they naturally looked for opportunities to sneak away with weapons or important belongings, and the city of the vast majority of officers and soldiers was rioted as soon as they moved. The state capital, which was the most ruthless in harsh abuse of officers and soldiers, forced the most officers and soldiers to defect as soon as they could, was naturally unlucky, and corrupt officials and corrupt officials, as well as rich and arrogant tycoons who colluded with officials and businessmen, fell in the chaos of the army...... In order to strengthen their ability to protect themselves on the way to defection, the rebels and the defectors naturally robbed the city's arsenal.

And at first, the state capital, which only sneaked away a small part of the troops, later defected a second time.

This time it's on a big scale.

But as soon as they heard about the recruitment conditions of pirates, they were very confident that they were good people after the officers and soldiers dared to flee first, those who thought that Lao Tzu was a bit fucked up when he became a soldier, but he didn't break his conscience, it was nothing more than that he was a bastard in this world-breaking way, and he was usually poor and bored, and he did some things that attracted the people to scold the soldiers, but at least he didn't really do any unforgivable sins, which belonged to the villains that the pirates didn't want, and Lao Tzu was also qualified to defect.

This defection is intentionally prepared.

Local officers and soldiers, where there is no threat of anti-thieves and bandits, the officers and soldiers usually do not wear armor for training and duty, but only wear military uniforms and wear large hats characteristic of the Song Army.

There were many soldiers and civilians who defected this time, so they naturally had the courage to gather the crowd to first loot the weapons and equipment necessary for the escape, and snatch up the good weapons that were not usually issued to the soldiers in the treasury of the state city and the armor that were not equipped in non-wartime.

The lowest-level armor and paper armor were also swept away.

It's better to have protection than no protective gear. The defensive function of paper armor can actually be as well.

If you can have more safety on the way to escape, you have to fight for a little more, but don't be full of hope and take a bold fight, but die on the road to happiness, and you don't have that life.

But many brothers have defected before, and the remaining brothers defected again this time, and the number is not large enough, I am afraid that I will not be able to deal with the thugs who have been prepared to be heavily guarded in the city and the civil and military officials.

But the result was also a catastrophic loss of weapons for the imperial court.

This is the case, and Tokyo is also miserable.

Tokyo is the supply place of weapons for the national army, with special generals and workshops, focusing on the country's most brilliant craftsmen, originally opened in the city, after disturbing the people, the price of land in the capital is tense and soaring, Cai Jing is worried about the pirates controlling the coast, the imperial court has no salt profits, this large tax revenue, the financial burden and the emperor's profligacy is not only not less but increasing, he is too stressed and no new way to solve the financial difficulties, so he hit the idea on the expensive land in the capital, in fact, he also collaborated with the magnates to profit from it and make friends, the benefits of the face of the inside are all there, the sale of land and the relocation of the workshop to the outside of the city, with the Bianhe River and other water conservancy is indeed convenient for power production.

In the Song army, only the Western Army was allowed to be equipped with factories for the production of conventional weapons such as swords and swords.

After all, the Western Army was far away in the northwest, the garrison was too far away from Tokyo, and the task of defending the enemy was serious, so it was inconvenient for the imperial court to deploy weapons in time, but the main body of standard weapons was still supplied by Tokyo. In particular, bed crossbows, god splitting crossbows, and gunpowder-related weapons are more strictly restricted to Tokyo.

Trebuchets and the like can be made casually at the border gates, and they can only be let go if they are too cumbersome and too far. Small workshops for weapon tinkering are naturally also allowed to equip.

In addition, Gyeonggi is equipped with a huge force of 800,000 forbidden troops, but it is not usually fully armed.

Only the entire army of the thousands of Imperial Guards who defended the Imperial Palace, those who were on duty and training in the capital were on duty and drills, and those who were responsible for defending the various cities of Gyeonggi as garrisons were equipped with weapons and armor.

Normally, one-sixth or even less of the 800,000 forbidden troops are armed, which is the norm.

The forbidden army that didn't have the turn of the military mission was just a huge group of Gyeonggi men in military uniforms, and those who had nothing to do left the barracks and dangled around in the capital and other places.

Otherwise, Gao Yu would not have been able to treat the Beijing army as a labor envoy so easily, and be dispatched at will to work everywhere for him to make a profit.

It is also a necessary precaution to control the military.

You can't have so many people armed and just hanging around all day under their noses and doing nothing.

If you have a ready-made weapon at hand, it is easy to make trouble, and if you are not careful, you can make a big thing out of control.

But in wartime or whatever is needed, the rapid assembly of the weapons and equipment of the entire forbidden army is theoretically necessary. Otherwise, how can it be a town, in fact, there are a lot.

In addition, it is necessary to supply border and inland armies, so there are not as many as one million main weapons such as knives in Tokyo's arsenal, but there are also five or six hundred thousand.

But before the 500,000 forbidden army was urgently dispatched to block the pirates and the halal mountain rogues, Gao Yu and others naturally had to assemble their subordinates as well as possible only for their own safety, needless to say, even the spearmen should be equipped with waist knives, the same as the border army, otherwise when fighting, the guns that are easy to break will break, and you can still fight empty-handed.

At this time, the main weapons and equipment in the inventory were almost emptied. As a result, even people became pirates.

In addition, among the 300,000 troops who remained in Gyeonggi, another 70,000 or 80,000 forbidden troops escaped while on duty or garrison, and the loss of weapons in the capital was even more severe.

Tens of thousands of craftsmen and family members were deliberately planned by the pirate state and under the specific guidance of Tokyo spies such as Jin Leopard Yang Lin and others, they got on the ships that were disguised as the brilliant results of the war for Gao Yu and sent to the capital with products and metal raw materials.

The concubines sent out of the palace by the original emperor and Zhao Ji, who were detained in the Taoist temple and were consuming their youth and waiting for death, were also taken away at this time.

Now the problem is big, the mines and metal smelters set up in various places are no longer working, the craftsmen in the capital are gone, and the shortage of weapons is in trouble.