What's missing? Zhao Zhen heard Li Zhang's words and asked again.

"People! To be exact, the people who are loyal to my Great Song Dynasty are the basis for ruling a land! Li Zhang said categorically.

"This ...... I also know this, but Xingzhou is not the territory of our Great Song Dynasty, and it has been ruled by the party for many years, if we want to make people's hearts attached, I am afraid it will take more than ten years of education to do it, cousin, you might as well not say this. Zhao Zhen heard Li Zhang's answer but said a little crying and laughing, he thought that Li Zhang had some high opinions, but he didn't expect that what he was going to say was something that this person knew well.

"Who said that it takes more than ten years for people's hearts to be attached, I will teach you a way to make people's hearts quickly attached!" Li Zhang smiled again at this time.

"Is there really such a way?" Zhao Zhen asked with some disbelief at this time, emotionally he believed that Li Zhang should not lie to him, but reason told him that unless there were really immortals in this world, it would never be possible to conjure so many people loyal to the Great Song Dynasty out of nothing.

"Of course there is a way, for example, there are millions of people in the capital, if you move half of them to Xingzhou, wouldn't you be able to make Xingzhou immediately have 500,000 more people loyal to the Great Song Dynasty?" Li Zhang blinked at this time.

"Cousin, don't be joking, although the population of the capital is large, but it can't be moved casually, not to mention whether the imperial court has the ability to move so many people, even if it really has this ability, I'm afraid the people won't be willing, maybe it will cause civil unrest, the capital is the center of our Great Song Dynasty, if there is chaos in the capital, it will outweigh the losses." Zhao Zhen couldn't laugh when he heard Li Zhang's words, and even he suspected that Li Zhang was really joking.

"I just took the capital as an example, but I didn't let you really move the people of the capital, I saw a document from the household department before, saying that there are more than 16 million households in our Great Song Dynasty, and there are generally five people in a family, and there are more than 80 million people, when the former Tang Dynasty was at its peak, the population was only so much, but the territory of the former Tang Dynasty was several times that of our Great Song Dynasty, so many people live in such a small country, doesn't Your Majesty feel a little crowded?"

Only Li Zhang dared to say the above words, after all, not everyone dared to belittle this dynasty, but what Li Zhang said was also true, in all dynasties, the territory of the Song Dynasty was almost the smallest, and even the Great Wall defense line was lost, and it was a bit embarrassing to say it, but the population of the Song Dynasty was not much at all, and in terms of population density, only the sweet potato Qing Dynasty in later generations could be compared with it.

"This ......" Zhao Zhen also showed an embarrassed look on his face when he heard Li Zhang compare the territory of the Great Song Dynasty with the former Tang Dynasty, but then he smiled bitterly again, "But even if we have many people and small places, compared to other places, our Great Song Dynasty is still very rich, even if the imperial court wants to move the people to Xingzhou, I am afraid that no one will respond, if it is forcibly moved, it will still cause civil unrest in the end." ”

"It's definitely not okay to move the people, but who says it must be moved?" Li Zhang looked at Zhao Zhen with a smile and said again.

"If you don't move the people, then what are you going to move, do you want to move the officials? But there are only more than 10,000 officials in the imperial court, so you can't move all of these people over, right? Zhao Zhen said with tears and laughter again.

When it comes to the number of officials, I am afraid that only Zhao Zhen will use "only" these two people, you must know that in the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin once dismissed the central officials from more than 2,000 to only more than 600, while the Song Dynasty's central internal and external subordinate officials reached an astonishing more than 17,000 people, which is one of the famous redundant officials in history.

"In addition to the people and officials, we also have a huge number of people in the Great Song Dynasty, how can Your Majesty forget?" Li Zhang still didn't say it explicitly this time, but spoke again to lead.

Zhao Zhen was stunned again when he heard this, and then frowned and pondered: "In addition to the people and officials, then only the army is left, do you want to ...... cousin?"

Zhao Zhen was also taken aback in the end, and then looked at Li Zhang with an incredible expression, but Li Zhang smiled calmly at this time: "Yes, I'm talking about the army, doesn't Your Majesty think that our Great Song Dynasty army is too much?" ”

The army of the Great Song Dynasty is mainly divided into two types, that is, the forbidden army, the box army, and the township army and the fan army, but they are not among the main military forces of the Great Song Dynasty, so they will not be discussed for the time being.

The forbidden army is the regular army of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin collected 120,000 elite soldiers from all over the country as the forbidden army, mainly responsible for guarding the capital and going out to fight or defend the task, but later the scale of the forbidden army continued to expand, and when Zhao Heng was in power, the forbidden army had reached an astonishing 480,000.

However, after the alliance of the Yuanyuan, Zhao Heng once abolished part of the forbidden army, but later when Liu E came to power, perhaps because Liu E had a bit of insecurity in her nature, and with the promotion of potatoes at that time, the Great Song Dynasty was not short of food, so Liu E also desperately expanded the scale of the forbidden army, resulting in the current number of forbidden troops reaching more than 700,000.

Among the more than 700,000 forbidden troops, most of them were stationed near the capital, which is the so-called Beijing forbidden army, and the other was divided into two parts, which were stationed in the northwest and Hebei, that is, the border armies of these two places.

Of course, the border army is not immutable, sometimes the forbidden army will be transferred from the capital to rotate, so as not to lose the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army in the capital, but with the passage of time, no matter how good the system will slowly deteriorate, now the forbidden army in the capital is not accustomed to war all year round, and the combat effectiveness is very low, but the border army in the northwest and Hebei has become the main force of the Great Song Dynasty, although the rotation system is still there, but the effect is not great.

In addition to the forbidden army, the Great Song Dynasty also retains a large scale of the box army, the box army can be regarded as an auxiliary force of the regular army, usually to maintain law and order, transport grain and grass and other chores are done by the box army, of course, the pay of the box army is also very low, generally less than half of the forbidden army, some of the box army is directly converted from refugees, there is no training in peacetime, basically no combat effectiveness, so the box army is also called "conscription".

Originally, the policy of the forbidden army and the box army complemented each other, and there was no big problem, but the Great Song Dynasty also had a very cheating policy, that is, as long as you entered the army, you had to be a soldier for life, and you had to tattoo on your face, if you did a desertion, the punishment would be extremely serious, and it would even affect the township, even if you are old or die in battle, you must select adult men from the children and grandchildren of the soldiers to join the army, which also leads to the number of the army of the Great Song Dynasty will only increase and not decrease.