Chapter 9: The Rabble
Because of the emperor's approval, Li Zhi took out the summary of military reform pressed under the table, and took out a pen and wrote a few big words next to the summary of military reform - "Shenwu Army"
After a period of adaptation, Zhou Man has become Li Zhi's assistant.
Zhou Man was sent to prepare a few carriages and summoned Zhu Kai to sit in his own carriage, and the accompanying guards were all seated in the carriage behind them, and they were not allowed to ride horses, for fear that someone in the barracks would recognize them, after all, the generals and soldiers in the government had worked with the people in the barracks, and Li Zhi wanted to suddenly attack the barracks, wanting to see how many catties and taels his three battalions of personal soldiers were.
In fact, Li Zhi still has great expectations for his own soldiers, in his heart, the three battalions of his own soldiers should each ride a tall horse, carry a long knife at their waists, and wear a red tassel on their heads, neatly aligned, looking radiant.
But the reality is brutal......
Today's weather is not bad, a rare sunny day in winter, but as the carriage swayed, Li Zhi was a little dizzy, and he was not interested in watching the scenery along the way.
Finally, after a while, the convoy came to the military camp outside the city, which was originally the garrison of Anxi City, where Li Zhi's own soldiers were stationed, Li Zhi planned to use it as a training camp for the Shenwu army, but slightly lifted the curtain of the carriage window, but he was disappointed by the vision.
The simple fence was dotted with fences, and a few men on the school yard spread the slightly damp grain in the barn on the ground, so that they could take advantage of the sunny weather to dry the rice. The old hen on the side stared at the grain and crowed.
Is this a barracks? It's clearly a large farm!
When the convoy entered the camp, even the guards did not dare to come to ask a question, and it was not until they actually entered the camp that no one came to stop them.
"Stop! Who's coming? Don't you know that this is a barracks! A shirtless man with a rake on his shoulders stood in front of the convoy and shouted.
"Bold! Do you know who's in the car......"
Before Zhou Man could finish speaking, he was interrupted.
"I don't care who the hell is in your car, do you know that this is the camp of King Xin's soldiers! Don't make a mistake about yourself, please retreat quickly, otherwise the military law is ruthless, hurt you, etc., don't cry and go home to find your mother~" The man laughed, causing a burst of onlookers and whispers to the surrounding sergeants.
"Shen Jun is so unreasonable, when he sees this carriage, he knows that it is not an ordinary family, so he is not afraid of angering others and causing trouble himself?"
"That's it, people actually dare to rush into the camp, they must have something to rely on, maybe they are not afraid of His Royal Highness the King of Our Faith at all~"
"Yes, since we followed His Royal Highness King Xin to this Suxi Province where birds don't shit, it's really a fuck thing, and King Thaxin has taken care of himself and enjoyed himself, and he has never seen us soldiers in the future."
"Shh~ Chen Qi, you don't want to live, talk about His Royal Highness the King of Letters like this!" A person next to him kindly reminded.
"Hmph, when I say this, the king of Thaksin can't hear it, so what can you do with me!" The man named Chen Qi snorted disapprenously.
Seeing these people so criticized, Zhou Man was immediately at a loss, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at Li Zhi.
Li Zhi's face was pale, Zhu Kai was even more frightened, he didn't expect Li Zhi to suddenly attack the big battalion, as the commander of the three battalions, he was responsible for this situation.
"Your Highness, forgive me..."Zhu Kai hated Chen Qi to death in his heart, this guy has a big mouth on weekdays, but he doesn't want to see that there is such a backbone, he really can't wait to skin it and drink blood.
The expectations of the personal soldiers under his command have been shattered so far, Li Zhi was furious, forcibly held back his dissatisfaction, and secretly comforted himself, what they said about the criticism of this king was the previous Li Zhi, and now this king is not him!
"Ah!! ~”
Just as Li Zhi was thinking like this, a scream suddenly came from outside the carriage, Li Zhi hurriedly got up and went out, Zhu Kai hurriedly followed, only to see a man kneeling aside, blood dripping all over the ground in his mouth, and the man who stopped the convoy just now slowly withdrew the rake in his hand.
"Chen Qi! This time it's a rake, and I can't spare you next time! ”
"Shen Jun, do you know what you're doing? Maliciously slandering colleagues, you are so ruthless"
"That's it, Chen Qi didn't say anything~ Aren't you allowed me to wait for small talk?"
Several people who were in a nest with Chen Qi's snakes and rats saw that Chen Qi was injured and hurriedly denounced the man. But as soon as Li Zhi and Zhu Kai came out of the carriage, the soldiers immediately recognized the two of them, and they were immediately silent, and the man standing in front of the carriage saw the two and hurriedly bowed down.
"You're the one who stopped the king's convoy?" Li Zhi stared at Shen Jundao, after a period of being in a high position, Li Zhi had gradually developed a temperament that was not angry and self-assured.
"I don't know that His Royal Highness is driving in the car, the last general is offended, please forgive me!" Shen Jun thought that Li Zhi was going to ask for the guilt, and suddenly panicked.
Suddenly, Li Zhiyi jumped out of the carriage and slowly walked towards Shen Jun.
"What's your name?" Li Zhi asked.
"Back to His Royal Highness, the lowly position is called Shen Jun."
"You've done a great job, what a crime! This king hopes that in the future, you will not only have the courage to stop this king's convoy, but also the courage to stop the Son of Heaven Guard! ”
"I don't dare, the Son of Heaven Guard..."Shen Jun muttered softly after hearing this.
"Huh?" Li Zhi snorted when he saw this, and Shen Jun was silent for a moment.
"Zhou Kai, pass the order and order all the soldiers to assemble at the school within a quarter of an hour!" Li Zhi stopped.
"Your Highness, what about these grains? ~~" Zhou Kai pointed to the millet drying on the school yard and was a little embarrassed.
"Do you need me to say it a second time?"
Zhou Kai hurriedly retreated, ordered the soldiers who were watching everywhere to shovel all the grain on the school field back to the barn, and then ran to give the order.
......
After waiting for two quarters of an hour, the soldiers were assembled, during which time Li Fatal set up a high platform in front of the school yard and stood on it.
Looking at the soldiers standing crookedly in the audience, dressed in different ways, and even people carrying pig food buckets on their shoulders, Li Zhi frowned slightly and asked, "How many soldiers are present?" ”
"Back to Your Highness, there are a total of 4,352 soldiers present!" Zhou Kaidao.
Although he knew that he had more than 10,000 soldiers in the three battalions under his command, there were only more than 4,000 people left, but he still didn't like it when he saw it with his own eyes.
Although the more than 4,000 people are much less than the full number, but in fact, there are a lot of people, and it is still a little intimidating to stand together, Li Zhi, who had some experience in speaking in his previous life, just frowned, took out the horn that the craftsman had ordered in advance to build according to the requirements, and began to speak.
"Today, this is the first time that this king has come to this military camp since he became a vassal domain! Come to the military camp of the king's own soldiers! I was shocked to see you, do you know what my first impression of you was? ”
Li Zhi said mercilessly. "Four words, rabble!"
Suddenly there was a commotion on the school grounds...
Regardless of the reactions of the soldiers on the field, Li Zhi looked at these clothes and said: "Do you look at what you look like, dressed like a soldier one by one?" Those who don't know think you're a ragtag army! It's really embarrassing to lose the face of this king, maybe some of you want to say again, you can't eat, and the imperial court salary is too small~ We had to sell our armor and weapons, but I want to ask, if the barbarian soldiers of the Northern Gang Kingdom outside the Guanxi attack today, what resistance do you rely on, and what do you rely on to protect your wives and children? Can you bear to see your young son slain by the barbarians, and your wives being raped by the barbarians? ”
"Nope! I believe that you are all bloody people, and this king is not here today to humiliate you, I am here to make you raise the steel knife in your hands again, defend our land, and defend our homeland! ”
"However, this king is not an irrational person, we all know that all the soldiers are forced to be soldiers because of hereditary military status, many soldiers are actually unwilling, so this king is here to give you a chance, do not want to be a soldier, want to go home to take care of their wives and children and parents can be listed, this king is the master to restore his household status, and this king will also issue a certain amount of entanglement, immediately you can retire from the army and return to your hometown, but if there are people who still want to defend the country and protect our land and homeland, this king also promised to cancel the military status and restore the identity of the people, not only that, In the future, the military salary will be doubled and paid monthly! ”
Li Zhi's move was intended to abolish the original guard system of the Great Xia Dynasty, so as to implement the conscription system and make being a soldier a profession.