In the early morning, a few rays of sunlight shone directly on the iron gate at the city gate, reflecting a dazzling golden light.

Although the status of Dongping City in Shandong is not too high, the material and thickness of the city gate and city wall are unexpected, and they are about to catch up with the state city of Qingzhou!

Dong Ping stood on the platform with his hands behind his back, looked at the city gate, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

With a move of his mind, Dong Ping called up the information of Dongping City through the system.

In an instant, data was displayed in my mind.

Dongping City

Level: Prefecture (equivalent to a modern prefecture-level city)

Soldiers and horses: 4,700 infantry troops, 300 horse troops

Population: 500,000

Gold reserves: 160,000 taels

Road: Jingxi Road (located in the west of Shandong)

Where did you get so much gold on this journey? Dong Ping was shocked, 160,000 taels, converted into RMB, is more than 20 billion, this is comparable to some roads in the Northern Song Dynasty!

However, sooner or later, this entire city will have to change hands, Dong Ping sneered in his heart, the more you are greedy, I will never take less!

In general, Dongping's strength is not said to be in the whole world, but it can definitely be regarded as middle and upper class in the Central Plains.

It seems that this Cheng Taishou is not a pure brainless, in the original trajectory, Song Jiang has been reluctant to attack Dongping, and it is estimated that he is also afraid of the casualties caused by the strong attack.

At the east gate, several rows of teams slowly gathered nearby, and soon, there were already thousands of people.

Dong Ping looked at the people below, and his brows couldn't help frowning.

The whole army stood staggering, looking sluggish and listless, and the weapons in their hands were also weak, as if they had smoked too much opium!

Although he had bought the minds of these people with gold and silver, they would not be disobedient to their assignment now, as they had done a few days ago.

However, these people can hardly be called an army!

Discipline is loose, training is lacking, not to mention, the main thing is that this army does not have the slightest faith!

An army without faith will not have the slightest fighting power.

Let me ask, what are you joining the army for? Do you want to get rich, or do you do something else?

The more Dong Ping looked at it, the more annoyed he became, his fists clenched tightly, and he resisted the urge to draw his sword.

Indeed, this is also determined by the current general trend, and it is not a special phenomenon in Dongping.

The military system implemented in the Song Dynasty was a policy of the elite forbidden army of the whole country being collected by the central government and some important towns, and the local government was guarded by van soldiers.

The so-called box soldiers are nothing more than some garrisons temporarily recruited by the local government from the people, and there are almost no training tasks on weekdays, just helping officials repair cities, transport grain, reclaim wasteland, and so on!

The combat effectiveness of these soldiers is really not flattering!

In the original work, everywhere the Liangshan army went, it was invincible and invincible, so that it gave modern people a feeling of invincibility.

In fact, it's just that they are fighting a bunch of miscellaneous armies, and at most they are militia members.

But even if it is the forbidden army, under the exploitation and corrosion of Gao Yu Cai Jing and others, few troops still have the combat effectiveness in the early days of the founding of the country.

"Now it seems that the strongest army in the Great Song Dynasty is the army commanded by the two brothers." Dong Ping also felt funny when he thought of this.

The border army under the command of the two people who defended the Western Xia was commonly known as the "Western Army." ”

Due to the long-term confrontation with Western Xia, the annual life-and-death struggle tempered the strong combat effectiveness of this army.

Moreover, the two are also one of the few loyal ministers in the court, in the Water Margin, Wang Jin, Hu Cheng and others have gone to take refuge in order to avoid the enemy.

In this time and space, Hu Cheng lost his entanglement because he was attacked by bandits on the way, so he had to return to Shandong and become a city defender sergeant in Dongping, and slowly mixed into the battalion commander and city guard general.

"Weakening the local military power and gathering all the elite troops to the central government can ensure the stability of the political power?"

Dong Ping laughed contemptuously twice.

It is precisely because of this stupid model that there were hundreds of peasant uprisings in the more than 300 years of the Song Dynasty!

Not to mention, in this mode, because the emperor of the Song Dynasty learned the lessons of the Tang Dynasty, he was afraid that the local area would form a feudal town, and often let the troops in various places change defenses back and forth.

The result of this policy was that the generals did not know the soldiers, and the soldiers did not recognize the generals, which eventually led to the Jingkang Change, when hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops were at a loss, and they were easily attacked into the capital by the Jin soldiers.

"Hu Cheng!" Dong Ping's gaze swept from the audience, stopped at a general on the right, and said in a serious tone, "What was the general's military order yesterday, you repeat it again!" ”

"General Hui, you mean, gather all the soldiers and horses in the city."

Hu Cheng raised his head, looked at Dong Ping, and replied nonchalantly.

"It seems that this kid is still not convinced, it's okay, anyway, I still have to get it in the next few days." Dong Ping laughed secretly, and said again: "Where did the remaining half of the people go?" Ben General said yesterday that those who do not arrive will be sent to prison! ”

"General Dong." Hu Cheng listened to Dong Ping's words, and he was also a little serious, "I'm afraid these people won't be able to do what you want today." ”

"Why?" Dong Ping's eyes showed a cold light, as if he was about to pierce it.

This kid actually dares to disobey his military orders?

"If you can't give a reasonable answer, Ben will deal with you martialed today!"

"General Dong is angry for the time being!" The military envoy Xu An saw that Dong Ping was completely different from the past, as if he had changed as a different person, and hurriedly stepped forward to tell him.

"Deputy Governor Lu has been ordered by the Taishou to take the sergeants of the headquarters to build a new Taishou Mansion in the city, and it has been several months."

Lu Dujian?

Dong Ping was stunned for a moment, and then thought about it carefully, there was a deputy capital eunuch named Lu Wen in Dongping Mansion, who was directly in charge of 2,500 people, or Cheng Taishou's people.

According to the official system of the Northern Song Dynasty, civil officials absolutely suppressed the power of military attachés, and now there is a deputy eunuch who is a dog for Taishou, and it is estimated that Dong Ping's life was really not very comfortable.

So much so that it came to the request to "come to the door as a son-in-law." ", to the point that Taishou can't even look down on.

"Leave those people alone!" Dong Ping waved his hand, and when the two thousand people were completely rectified, the others would naturally not be a problem.

"Everyone, listen, no matter what happened in the past, from now on, since you are my Dong Ping's soldiers, you must obey the military order, and those who disobey the order will be dealt with by military law!"

"Yes......"

The two thousand people below shouted intermittently twice, as if they were about to die.

"I don't have many rules, only three foundations!"

"First, starting from today, we will start to run around the city with heavy loads in the early morning, as well as training outside the city for three hours a day, and at least ten simulated actual battles every month!"

"Second, the whole army from generals to ordinary sergeants, private gambling, casinos, and Fengyue places will all start with fifty military sticks!"

"Third, those who harass the people, forty military sticks start, and there is no upper limit!"

After everyone heard Dong Ping's words, they couldn't help but gasp in shock.

"This guy was kicked in the head by a donkey?"

This is the first feeling that comes to most people's minds after they react.

These people are used to being lazy on weekdays, and now they suddenly say that they can't gamble on prostitution, this is not their own life!

And now the world is like this, what are you fooling around alone?

Make something different, want to stand out, highlight your achievements, and get promoted as soon as possible?

With these thoughts, although they didn't dare to say anything, almost everyone was dissatisfied.

But some people don't think so.

"General Dong, this ...... What do you mean, please make it clear to your brothers. ”

Xu An reluctantly laughed twice and asked Dong Pingfa.

What tricks is this kid playing? Xu An said as he kept scolding in his heart.

Since this Dong Ping fell off his horse and passed out yesterday while training the troops, it seems that he has completely changed as a person!

In the past, they had hardly been out of the city twice a year, let alone any training tasks, and the ghost knew that this Dong Ping had the wrong string today.

"What, you have questions about Ben's decision?"

Dong Ping stared down coldly, his eyes were as sharp as the tip of a gun, Xu An trembled in his heart when he saw it, and he didn't dare to look at him directly.

"Each capital (note: it is the most basic army weaving in the Song Dynasty, 100 people are a capital, and five capitals are a battalion) first count the number of people."

Dong Ping saw that no one had any more objections, so he didn't say more.

This is the intensity of his previous training as a special forces recruit, and for these people, whether they can bear it or not, it is now imminent.

First of all, we have to use the resources at hand to train a group of soldiers who can be used.

At least within a year, you must be able to confront all forces.

Otherwise, Hu Yanzhuo will come to conquer Liangshan in a year, and if he follows the historical trajectory, he is afraid that he will miss out on this general.

Dong Ping secretly calculated in his heart that the advantage of his status as a prisoner was that there would be no lack of military equipment, the quality of generals, and logistics reserves.

Moreover, Shandong merchants have frequent exchanges, and when they control Dongping City, it should not be difficult to support tens of thousands of troops in the future with the tax revenue of a state in the Central Plains.

As for the development of power, he is not worried at all.

Zengtou City gathered more than 10,000 soldiers and horses as a Jin man under the nose of the Great Song Dynasty, and the imperial court didn't care about it.

At that time, as long as you stabilize the high-ranking people, there should be no problems!

However, the most important thing at the moment is to train the soldiers first.

"Report, General Dong, the commander of the fourth battalion made Wu Yi not come!"

"Huh?"

Dong Ping was about to step down to supervise the training, but when he heard that someone had not arrived, his heart suddenly became angry.

On the first day of Lao Tzu's rule, someone dared to dismantle the stage?

"Someone!" Dong Pinggao shouted, "No matter what method you use, bring this person to me immediately!" ”