Chapter 433: Reforming Military Affairs

All the mustards and misunderstandings about Tong Guan have been completely eliminated, and now Tong Guan's image in Wu Zhi's heart has completely changed.

In the past, Wu Zhi's impression of Tong Guan was just a dead eunuch who hacked his money, was psychopathic, and brought disaster to the country and the people.

And now, Tong Guan's appearance Wu Zhi already knows, Tong Guan's promotion of Wu Song, and Tong Guan's various rumors Wu Zhi has also learned.

Now Tong Guan is a powerful general image of the city government in Wu Zhi's heart, he fought several victories in the Great Song Dynasty before, he led the troops to pacify Tubo and recover the Hehuang region, he blessed a large number of fierce generals of the Northwest Army, and the biggest mistake in his life has not been committed.

At least among the current Six Thieves of the Great Song Dynasty, this one is the most promising for transformation!

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Later, Wu Zhi and Wu Songhuarong and others chatted about the topic was more exciting, Wu Song's new head of the two roads of soldiers and horses, and a large number of generals under his command was the time to do a big job and completely rectify the two lines of soldiers and horses.

The Qingzhou Army is Wu Song's small test, and the results are remarkable and extremely successful.

In the next step, Wu Song told Wu Zhi that they plan to promote the experience of Qingzhou's rectification of the army to all the state capital battalions, and each battalion will carry out rectification and training in accordance with the methods and experience of the Qingzhou army.

Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi, and they will all be appointed by Wu Song as the supervisor of the army and sent to the major battalions to supervise the rectification of the army, and there are Lu Junyi and Suo Chao in the Daimyo Mansion, so naturally there is no need to worry.

The generals were discussing the plan with a lot of babbling, and Wu Zhi, who had been drinking tea on the sidelines, patiently waited for them to finish discussing before saying a key word.

"There is nothing wrong with the plan to rectify the army, I don't understand military affairs, so I only make one suggestion."

After a pause and looking around at everyone, Wu Zhi said: "The rectification of the soldiers and horses in the state capitals must not be rectified at the same time, we must come one by one, let the first few people of the Lin Sect serve as the state army observers, and first carry out rectification in the state capital camp where there is the Great Song Bank, and then the reform will follow the Great Song Bank, and the Great Song Bank will open there, and it will rectify military affairs there!" ”

Wu Song and the others were stunned.

After thinking for a while, Wu Zhi said: "Oh, I will ask Brother Song to cooperate with you, the bank branch has recently been opened in the two state capitals of Jingdong East Road and Hebei East Road. ”

In fact, almost all the state capitals on Jingdong East Road now have branches of Da Song Bank, but due to the war in Hebei, they have not yet opened.

"Daguan, what does this rectification of military affairs have to do with the Great Song Bank?" Lu Zhishen stared at the bull's eye and asked with a puzzled expression.

Wu Song Huarong was pondering, Lin Chong and Yang Zhi were frowning, only Zhu Wu shook the feather fan lightly, nodding slightly, and I don't know if he really understood.

Wu Zhi replied: "Think about it, why did the Qingzhou battalion succeed in rectifying it so smoothly in the first place? ”

"This ......"

Lu Zhishen was still holding his bald head, and Wu Song had already figured it out over there.

"Big brother, I understand! You are right, the key to the success of rectifying military affairs depends on the progress of the Great Song Bank! Standing up and saluting, Wu Song said, "I will discuss with Brother Song and Mr. Wu before I act." ”

"Well, it's good that you understand, let's go back if there's nothing else, go back and talk to Master Lu ......" Wu Zhi waved his hand and motioned for the meeting to end.

The reason why it is said that the rectification of military affairs depends on banks is actually related to the unprecedented characteristics of the Great Song Dynasty army, which is the professionalization of military personnel and the concentration camps for refugees.

The soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty are all professional soldiers, this kind of soldiers are different from all dynasties, the ancient people have "forced labor and taxes", of which "forced labor" refers to the rulers of the past dynasties forced the people to engage in unpaid labor, including military service, forced labor, miscellaneous labor, etc., even after the founding of New China in later generations, until the early nineties, some collective projects in the countryside will still be free to recruit the people to serve in forced labor.

But military service, until the 21st century, still existed in China – that is, compulsory soldiers.

But the Song Dynasty was different, except for the refugee soldiers and the criminal soldiers who were allocated, almost all of them were professional soldiers, and the military salary of professional soldiers was naturally much higher than that of compulsory soldiers, and this also led to many young and middle-aged soldiers serving as soldiers just to make money.

It is these two points that Wu Song wants to reform; first of all, it is necessary to rectify military discipline, strengthen ideological and physical training, improve their combat effectiveness, and at the same time give professional soldiers the spirit of duty; this is actually not difficult; people are all group animals, and they are very easily infected by emotions, and as long as the military discipline of the army is consistent from top to bottom, it can become an iron plate.

The real difficulty is how to deal with the refugee soldiers in the Great Song Army, the refugee soldiers are weak, the quality is uneven, and there are even the elderly and children, who are included in the army just to take refuge.

You can't train this kind of soldier at all, and you can't organize it, all the methods for the army won't work on them, but these people can't drive them out of the army, so in addition to the Great Song Dynasty policy, if they are not well placed if they are driven out, there will be a possibility of riots at any time.

The Song Dynasty put the refugees into the army to provide for it, and this was the prevention.

Therefore, this is the biggest problem in the reform of the army in the past dynasties, and the border guards like the Northwest Army do not have this problem, but in the army in the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty, there are refugee soldiers everywhere.

Before the reform of the Qingzhou camp, it was not because Wu Zhi had spent a lot of money to properly settle the refugees that Wu Song was able to reform smoothly.

But now that the scope of reform has been expanded to the Lianglu state capital, and relying on Wu Zhi's money, Wu Zhi will go bankrupt in two days...... But Wu Zhi had already prepared a solution for Wu Song, which was Da Song Bank.

Of course, it is not for the Great Song Bank to fund to solve the problem of refugee resettlement, but because the current Great Song Bank is fragrant and sweet, and wherever the bank is opened, there will be sufficient capital, and where there will be commercial prosperity, commercial prosperity will bring a variety of workshops and workshops, and a large number of labor needs will be brought by various workshops.

At that time, there are higher-paying jobs waiting for those refugee soldiers outside, and I am afraid that without Wu Song's arrangement, they will take the initiative to leave the barracks.

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After holding the meeting for so long, Wu Zhi drank a few large cups of tea before and after pretending to be forced, and he wanted to go to the toilet for a long time...... But now that Wu Song Huarong and the others have left, Wu Zhi still pretended to be calm and did not go to the toilet.

Because Zhu Wu hasn't left yet.

"Great official, every move you take is too clever! Tall! It's really high! Zhu's admiration for you is really like a surging river, and like the flooding of the Yellow River, it is out of control......" Zhu Wu's obviously very stylish old face was flattering at this time, and Wu Zhi was disgusted for a while.

Wu Zhi chuckled and said, "Yes! In fact, I also admire Zhu Daochang! Recently, I have researched a new type of gunpowder, which according to Ling Zhen is even more powerful! It's just that I haven't found anyone who dares to fry it, Zhu Daochang is experienced, so it's not as good as you......"

"Whoa... Big official, Zhu suddenly felt a lot of pain in his stomach, oops, no, I'll quit first......"

Zhu Wu looked hypocritical, bowed his waist, and ran away with a smoke.