Chapter 422

And the Meng girl secretly glanced at Gao Tao's direction, looked back, and fell on Zhao Xu's face, the current Zhao Xu, as if he had changed as a person, no longer rejecting people thousands of miles away like Fang Cai, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in her heart, and subconsciously replied. "I'm afraid that the mother will blame the slave family for not being virtuous when the time comes......"

Zhao Xu couldn't help but be gentle, it turned out that she thought it was a woman who abided by the rules like a little imperial grandmother, but she really didn't think about it, it turned out that those were just her disguises.

And here, after hearing Wang Yang's words, Gao Taotao couldn't help but sit up straight and scolded lightly. "Hugh is talking nonsense, the box soldiers are the army of my Great Song Dynasty, how can they be used for labor?"

"Niangniang, the minister has also inquired before, the establishment of this Xiang Army, its original intention is to bring together the victims who have left their hometowns and been displaced due to disasters, and among the Xiang Army, there are many old and weak women and children......"

"This is natural, but since they have joined the Xiang Army, they have military salaries, they can support their families, and my Great Song Forbidden Army will also draw elite soldiers from the Xiang Army to fill the forbidden army......"

"What Niangniang said, Weichen knows, but before Weichen entered the palace today, he once encountered a team of van troops, all of whom were old and weak, and none of them were young and strong. Such a team, first, can't practice, and second, can't go to the battlefield, so it's better to hand them over to Weichen. ”

"Wait, you said that the van army, in the team, there are only the old and weak, not the young?" Gao Taotao suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Yes, Wechen stopped and waited because the van army team happened to pass by, Wechen has been looking carefully, there are more than a thousand people, but they are either twelve or thirteen to fifteen or sixteen years old, or they are old people in their forties to sixty years old, and none of them are young and strong." Wang Yang replied very firmly.

"How is this possible? I remember that when I went to the school review last year, I still remember that although the team of the Xiang Army was not as strong as the forbidden army, they were all young and strong, how could it be ......" Zhao Xu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows curiously.

Gao Taotao's face became more and more gloomy, and after taking a deep breath, Gao Taotao said indifferently. "Soldiers are the major affairs of the country, and the army is the weapon of the country......"

"But Niangniang, if the army is a long-trained elite, it can be a sharp weapon for the country, but those soldiers, in the eyes of Wei Chen, really can't see the slightest bit of soldiers, and they can't go to the battlefield at all."

"Besides, the reason why Emperor Taizu wanted to form a box army in the past was to let those people who had lost their homes due to disasters and had no food and clothing to make a living, and the renovation of public toilets in Bianliang could allow some box soldiers to break away from the military and support their families by working hard, which not only reduced the burden on the country, but also allowed them to support themselves, isn't it beautiful?"

Gao Taotao was a little distracted before, but the words that Wang Yang said endlessly there also made her feel reasonable.

After a long time, Gao Tao waited until Wang Yangtao finished talking endlessly, and then said indifferently. "The mourning family needs to think about it first, you should step back first."

Wang Yang looked at the expression of the empress dowager, and he couldn't see the slightest emotion at all, and he didn't know if she listened to it, let alone whether she agreed or not, so he could only nod. "Then Weichen will retire, by the way, Niangniang, there will be five days at most, and the toilet ditch in the palace can be renovated and completed."

After Wang Yang threw down this sentence, he said goodbye to Gao Tao and Zhao Xu, of course, he didn't forget to salute the young woman sitting next to Zhao Xu, he was not blind, and he could clearly see Zhao Xu's hooligan looking at the beautiful young woman with a big bad wolf-like eyes.

And after Wang Yang left, Gao Taotao also noticed that there seemed to be something wrong between Zhao Xu and the Meng girl, but this kind of mischief was exactly what she was willing to see.

couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly, and found an excuse for his sleepiness, and asked the Meng daughter to send Zhao Xu by herself. After seeing the two leave, the smile on Gao Taotao's face gradually dissipated.

"Meritorious service, you go to the mourning family to check, which commander does the team of soldiers in the city belong to today? The important thing is to find out to the mourning family, why is there no young man in this team of soldiers? ”

Although Gao Tao's tone seemed very calm, Xu Degong still saw that Gao Tao's fingers were habitually tapping lightly there.

And Xu Degong, who is familiar with the Empress Dowager, knows very well that this means that the Empress Dowager is extremely angry and angry, but she is just enduring it now.

Xu Degong couldn't help but roll his eyes secretly, although he didn't know much about those Xiang Jun, he also knew some Xiao Jiujiu in Xiang Jun.

Although the van army hardly needed to go to the battlefield to fight, they also served as auxiliaries, such as when the army traveled to fight, and they were responsible for transporting grain and grass in the back.

Or if a certain place needs to build a city wall, or even an official office, it will also be transferred from the army to do it. Therefore, the Xiang Army is also nicknamed the Service Army.

It's just that precisely because the Xiang army is mostly composed of displaced people, disaster victims or people who are waiting for crimes, and the fighting is almost non-existent, the military does not regard it as a robe.

And those magistrates often used the army as a free laborer, after all, their salary came from military salaries. As long as you have a good deal with the commander of the Xiang army, you don't just rely on how many people you want.

Of course, they will also pay a sum of money to bribe the commander of the Xiang army, so that they do not need to hire a large number of civilians for many projects, and it will not cost much to bribe a commander of the Xiang army. In this way, those local officials will naturally be able to enrich themselves.

However, Wang Yang was a little dissatisfied with Gao Taotao's old woman who didn't do such a simple thing for herself, and it was good to give an explanation on the spot.

How can it be like now, let yourself always worry that the rhetoric will not be completed.

However, early the next morning, when Wang Yang entered the palace to go to the construction site, he happened to see a team of forbidden soldiers, escorting several colorless officials, who happened to be dragged away from the side door.

Wang Yang was just stunned and continued to do his work, but when he returned to the official office in the afternoon, he got the news that it turned out to be a commander of the military capital, and there were more than a dozen officers of the Xiang Army, who actually transferred the young men in the Xiang Army and used them as slaves in his own house, and even handed over some of the young and strong Xiang soldiers to the mine bosses in other places to mine.

provoked Gao Thunder and Anger, and immediately ordered that all the officers in this box be locked up and put in prison for strict interrogation.

According to the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty military, the army is divided into four levels: box, army, battalion, and capital, with ten armies under the jurisdiction of the box, five battalions under the jurisdiction of the army, and five battalions under the jurisdiction of the battalion. A hundred people each.

The battalion level is the basic organizational unit of the forbidden army, and whether it is for defensive adjustment, garrison and operation, the battalion is often used as a quantitative unit to calculate the strength of troops.

The establishment of the box soldiers is one level lower than that of the forbidden army, and there are only three levels, that is, the army, battalion, and capital three levels.

And this army was first handed over to the officials stationed in the Guards and Infantry Division in charge of the box army to pacify, and by the way, those box soldiers who were sent out to be slaves or went to the mines to dig were recovered one by one.