Chapter 203 Train the new army with the right to go

The carriage drove slowly along the country road, and the driver of the carriage was full of happy smiles, as if there was some happy event.

In the water towns south of the Yangtze River, the roads and the water are often parallel and staggered, and the middle is connected by many small bridges. When today's son ascended the throne, he was very concerned about agricultural affairs, and persuaded farmers to persuade mulberry and not to say, even by the waterside of this road, he also asked to plant mulberry elm. The Son of Heaven said very sincerely, Sangyu is the treasure of the farmer, and it can add a source of wealth to the farmer in ordinary years, and it can satisfy hunger in the year of famine.

Zhao Jingyun looked at the fields on both sides of the road, and his heart was also full of joy: looking at the appearance of the crops in this field, it didn't look like there would be a famine.

"Brother Zhao, how good it is to stay in Lin'an, why do you have to go to the countryside, or stay for a month, how can Lin'an be interesting in the countryside?"

Shi Liang leaned on the carriage and said a little unhappily.

He has not been in Lin'an for a long time, less than a year, and always feels that there are still many places in Lin'an that he has not seen, so he is reluctant to leave.

"This is the grace of the Son of Heaven, and we have allocated money and food to let us go to the countryside to collect wind for the Son of Heaven. Shizifang, you have to be careful, if you can't write the article on the style of the Son of Heaven when you go back, don't think about it when you go back and ask for it. Zhao Jingyun hadn't answered yet, Chen Anping hurriedly said.

After the victory of the Son of Heaven in Taizhuang, he took advantage of the victory in the war to further promote reforms in the court, and the Tai students went deep into the countryside to collect style. The edict of the Son of Heaven said: "The ancestors opened the branch to take the world's talents, which is actually a policy for thousands of years to seek the country, but the scholars of later generations occasionally have unscrupulous people, or do not distinguish between grains, do not know leeks and rice, or the four bodies are not diligent, mistakenly referring to the horse as a tiger, accumulate years and months, how can they be the herdsmen of the country and the soldiers of the Son of Heaven?" As the saying goes: break a thousand books and travel thousands of miles. Confucius also said: A gentleman wants to be sensitive to his words and to act. He also said: The ancients couldn't speak, and they couldn't be caught. Isn't it vain to not practice and be courteous? I was inspired by the words of the sage, so I told the scholars of the world to take the wind and encourage them. ”

After this edict was issued, it was first implemented among the students of the Guozi Eunuch and Taixue, and in order to do a good job in this matter, the household department also allocated a sum of money for the students of the Guozi Eunuch who went down to collect the wind - naturally, it would not be too much through Wei Liaoweng's hand, and it was also necessary to do a "subject application" to confirm that this collection was purposeful, so that it could be done. For Zhao Jingyun, the first thing to do in the "subject application" is that the State Supervision Commission issued an official document jointly signed by the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households.

Zhao Jingyun's "topic" is "the relationship between foreign goods and the countryside of the Great Song Dynasty", his last article that caused a lot of uproar focused on finding the destruction of foreign goods to urban workshops, this time he deliberately did a more complete job, in addition to investigating the impact of foreign goods on the countryside of the Great Song Dynasty, but also try to explore solutions. Chen Anping, Li Shi and Shi Liang were all good deeds, and their relationship with him became increasingly close, so they were brought in by him as helpers.

"Look, look!"

Zhao Jingyun originally wanted to say two words about Shi Liang, but Li Shi suddenly pointed out of the car and shouted, and everyone immediately looked in the direction he pointed, only to see a large mulberry forest, more than ten silkworm butterflies walking through it. They were brightly dressed, they looked like they were not in a bad family, and they were not afraid of life, and when they saw the taxi in the car, they just chuckled, but they did not hide in the mulberry forest.

There was a lesson, and Shi Liang and the others didn't dare to speak out again. They looked at the silkworm girls curiously, but their coachman slowed down, laughed and sang a slang song, and the silkworm girls snorted softly before they avoided the mulberry forest.

"It's so beautiful, what I saw in the past is all yellow and thin, how many times have I ever been so beautiful!" Li Shi muttered.

"Pole to pole!" Shi Liang swallowed his saliva and nodded desperately: "This trip is not worth it, it is worth it, it is worth it!" ”

"Bah, what are you two thinking about!" Chen Anping said angrily: "Did we come out just to see these beautiful silkworm girls?" ”

"Of course not." Li Shi said with a smile.

"But what if you can stop by and watch?" Shi Liang also laughed.

"You two ...... I have not seen a virtuous person like a lustful person! Chen Anping said.

"Men and women eat and drink, and people want to survive!" Shi Liang responded.

"Food, sex, too." Li Shi also said.

The three of them quarreled, but Zhao Jingyun didn't realize it, he frowned slightly, looked around the mulberry forest, thoughtful.

"Zhao Manqing, Brother Zhao!" The three of them made a mess, but they didn't see Zhao Jingyun involved, so they burned the flames of war towards him, and Shi Liang pushed Zhao Jingyun.

Zhao Jingyun came back to his senses at this time, and he looked at the three of them a little blankly: "What's the matter?" ”

The three of them looked at each other a few times, and then they all laughed, and they laughed so much that Zhao Jingyun was quite dazed. When it comes to age, Zhao Jingyun is only twenty-eight years old now, and Chen Anping is about twenty, which is not much different. Two years ago, Zhao Jingyun was also as lively as the three of them, but in the rest of the year, there have been many major changes, whether it is the pro-government of the Son of Heaven or the trip to Liuqiu or the fire of the arsenal, it is directly related to Zhao Jingyun. Therefore, he is much calmer now, especially when thinking about some things, he is heavier and deeper than the three of them.

"It is said that two monks in the Japanese country crossed the river without crossing, and when they saw a woman who also wanted to cross the river, they begged the two monks to wade on their backs, and the older one agreed angrily, but the younger one changed color and refused." Li Shi read the most miscellaneous books among the three, and ridiculed Zhao Jingyun and said: "After the involvement, the woman thanked and left, the older man was unconscious, but the young man was uneasy, thinking that the monk should go to the woman, so he used it to criticize, the elder smiled and said, I have let go of the woman, but you are hiding in your heart." ”

Chen Anping and Shi Liang both laughed again, Zhao Jingyun was stunned, and then said: "Dongpo and the Buddha seal are talking about Zen, Dongpo asked the Buddha to seal that he can be like the Buddha, and the Buddha said that he is like the Buddha, and then the Buddha asked Dongpo that he can be like the Buddha, and Dongpo said that it is not like it, like cow." Buddha Yin smiled and did not distinguish, Dongpo thought he had it, and then his sister sarcastically said, if there is a Buddha in the heart, no one is not a Buddha, and if there is in the heart, no one is not. ”

Li Shi ridiculed Zhao Jingyun with the monk's Zen machine, and Zhao Jingyun also used the monk's Zen machine to deal with him, and everyone laughed again. After smiling, Zhao Jingyun said with a straight face: "I'm looking at the edge of the mulberry forest, if you pay attention, we came all the way, at first we planted grain, but when we got here, most of them planted only mulberry seedlings." Have you ever thought about the article behind this? ”

Hearing his words, there was no meaning of laughter, and the three of them frowned, all puzzled. After Zheng Jingyun saw it, he felt more and more that it was really a wise move for the Son of Heaven to make the students of the world collect style, even the three people who claimed to believe in the "utilitarian theory" were still like this, not to mention the rest?

"The world's industry is based on agriculture, and the affairs of farmers are based on grain." Zheng Jingyun slowly explained: "The new mulberry field is clearly changed from the grain field, and a large grain field is changed to a mulberry field. ”

"The benefits of industry and commerce are ten times better than farming, and the things that I annex have been repeatedly prohibited, if the squires are rich and noble, in order to pursue the benefits of industry and commerce, they will plant mulberry cotton in their own fields, and annex their neighbors, then the people will lose their land, and the things will increase. If the landless people have no livelihood, they will become displaced people, and I am afraid that it will be a disaster for the country. ”

Chen Anping stayed for a while, and then muttered: "No wonder Brother Manqing has to come to the countryside, who can know about this matter without seeing or hearing about it...... The Son of Heaven must have a way to deal with it! ”

"We are waiting for the princes, so that Jun Yao Shun and the world are our own responsibility, we should take the initiative to share the worries for the king, how can we treat the Son of Heaven in everything! The Son of Heaven is in charge of all opportunities, and he is already very tired, and I heard Wei Gong say, when today's Zi Diligent and Zheng is far better than the kings of the past dynasties, I always have the meaning of unbearable, the more the Son of Heaven is holy, the more it seems that we scholars are incompetent. ”

This was said very seriously, and Chen Anping also showed shame.

Zhao Youju is actually far from being as diligent as Wei Liaoweng and Zhao Jingyun imagined, at least he still has some experience in how to be lazy.

Especially after Choi took charge of the center, even more so. On June 2 of the first year of Yan Huang, Cui He was officially worshiped as the right minister and privy envoy. Zhao Heju is still quite satisfied with this prime minister, although he is also quite different from Zhao Heju in terms of political views, but for this difference, he will not be stubborn, but will find a way to compromise and compromise.

Cui He is not diligent, he is the most diligent is to run to the palace to drink tea and chat with Zhao and Ju, in this seemingly casual chat, some military affairs of the Great Song Dynasty have been finalized.

"Your Majesty's edict changed the military system, although the minister said that he did not oppose it, but he still felt that it was inappropriate in his heart." At this time, the two of them were in the green pavilion in the forbidden garden, just in the blue breeze to avoid the current heat. Cui He is old, and he can't always keep sitting like a bell when he sits, and Zhao Youju also gave him a casual attitude. Therefore, although he faced the Son of Heaven, he was not wearing court clothes, just like Zhao and Ju, they were all regular clothes that were convenient for heat dissipation.

"What do you think is wrong?"

If it is said that opening a newspaper, setting up a bachelor's house in a liberal arts building, and sending Confucian scholars to the countryside are all just petty fights, the first major measure of Zhao Heju's reform was to change the military system. Originally, the Great Song Dynasty forbidden army and the Xiang army relied on the conscription system, and the Son of Heaven issued an edict to abolish the conscription system in five years and replace it with a conscription system.

With the prestige of Taizhuang's victory, the ministers confirmed that the Son of Heaven knew about the military, and no one dared to say that the Son of Heaven's move was an absurd move of not knowing the military, so although there were voices of opposition, they were all appeased by Cui and him.

"Your Majesty's "Imperial Conscription Edict" is said to be extremely ......complete" Cui pondered for a while, Zhao Heju announced the reform of the military system in the edict, the current forbidden army, the box army has clear provisions, the scale of the forbidden army and the box army will not change within five years, that is to say, the soldiers of the forbidden army and the box army will lose their livelihood for the time being. Then the forbidden army will select the best to train the new army, and the generals of the forbidden army will also "enter the army academy to learn the art of artillery warfare" - Cui He naturally understands that this is an excuse to learn artillery tactics to temporarily separate the local generals from the army, and although they will be placed in the newly trained new army after studying, it is obviously impossible for them to treat the new army as their own private army. In the past, such measures would probably provoke the opposition of the generals of the forbidden army, but now that the Son of Heaven has won two great victories in a year, and the Guards have taken the opportunity of offering prisoners to enter Lin'an, those generals are deliberately making a mutiny to oppose it, and they must first weigh their own weight.

The former generals of the forbidden army who could not be incorporated into the new army of the forbidden army also promised in the detailed rules of the specific operation, that is, they were transferred to the box army and transformed with the box army, but the original food and salary were a lot. This time, those who were soldiers just to eat food also had a place to go, Zhao and Ju didn't want to make a Li Zicheng in the Song Dynasty, and they really spent a lot of thought on the placement of these soldiers.

The disposal of the Xiang army is more complicated than that of the forbidden army, and there are generally four types of places. The first category is to select the best ones to join the new army of the forbidden army, and this category is only afraid of the least number of people; The second type is to select the young and strong people as the "garrison army", one is to reserve the forbidden army, and the other is to serve as the local force to suppress bandits and arrest big thieves, and maintain local law and order. The third type is turned into the "guard", scattered in the form of small troops to the post roads, river bank extensions, especially post roads, they will integrate the functions of the original post shop and military station, and also add a new one, that is, the road protection, because now the concrete road has been extended from Lin'an, although the road is flat and convenient, but it must be maintained by special personnel; The fourth category is the most, most of them are the relatives of the original forbidden army and the Xiang army, and they are organized as "tun soldiers", living in the suburbs of nearby cities, and will be invested by the inner treasury of the Son of Heaven to build factories for resettlement.

Zhao and Ju were not worried that there would not be enough jobs to house these people, and today's Great Song Dynasty is quite similar to the time and space he traveled to at the beginning of the reform of China, with a large influx of "foreign capital" from the flow of demand, eager to find a place to invest, and the infrastructure alone was enough to turn the Great Song into a giant construction site in a few decades. Workers work, make money, buy foreign goods, and the money flows back to the market, and then becomes investment again, in short, it is such a cyclical process.

"What the minister is worried about is that if Your Majesty no longer recruits soldiers, what should be done in case of famine?" Cui He said sincerely: "This is a good law left by the ancestors, and there is no one in the dynasty who is in chaos due to disasters, which is why it is also." ”

Cui Qing ...... It's a trick. Zhao and Ju laughed, but Cui He's face remained unchanged, and Zhao and Ju said: "Not to mention Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun before Nandu, Song Jiang Fangla, that is, when Gaozong, there was still Zhong Xiang Yang Yu, and the rebellion of the dynasty was less than that of previous dynasties?" ”

Cui He smiled slightly: "After Zhong Xiang Yang Yu, it will be peaceful for a hundred years." ”

Although there was a peasant uprising in the Song Dynasty, the scale and influence could not be compared with the Yellow Turban in the Tang Dynasty and the Yellow Turban in the Han Dynasty.

"What does Cui Qing mean?" Zhao Youju knew that Cui Hehe would not be untargeted, and when he said this, he had a countermeasure in his chest, otherwise when he wanted to reform the military system, he would have thought of opposing it in a roundabout way, and would not stay until today.

"Cash-for-work, but this is ...... I'm afraid I'm going to have some money in the treasury of the official family. Choi said with a smile.

"Okay, you're Cui He, and you've calculated my private money again, I said...... It must be Wei Liaoweng looking for you again, what did you say, didn't you? Zhao Youju was stunned for a moment and then laughed.

Note 1: Taking the horse as a tiger came from the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Jiankang of the Liang Dynasty made Wang Fu frightened half to death when he heard the horse barking, saying that this was obviously a tiger, why was it called a horse.

Note 2: Confucius still attached great importance to the practice of bowing, and these words are from the Analects. By the way, I would like to mention my view on Confucianism, including science: this is an important component of traditional Chinese culture, in which wisdom is not under the sages of the West, but just as the West needs Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Voltaire, Confucianism also needs subsequent wise men to carry forward.

Note 3: Chen Anping and Shi Liang use the words of Confucius, and Li Shi's "color eating" is often mistaken for Confucius's words, which should actually be the words of Confucius's contemporary, but the meaning is similar to Confucius's words about men and women.

Note 4: This is the matter of Tanshan, a monk of the Caodong sect of the Wa Kingdom, but Tanshan was a person from around the 19th century, so it is specially noted here. The mountain in front of the house is really like a Zen temple, and it is one of the birthplaces of the Caodong sect.