Although Caozhou is now well defended. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info But due to the lack of soldiers and generals, there are less than 100 people defending the city, let alone any generals. Now Caozhou City can be said to have a city without defense, and there is defense without soldiers.

Listening to Hu Di's complaints, Zhao Shu was also embarrassed. In the imperial court, the province did not know what the situation of the local state capital was, so it gave orders indiscriminately. Moreover, Caozhou is close to Gyeonggi, and there are 100,000 forbidden troops in Bianjing, but the imperial court does not send forbidden troops to assist in defense.

Hu Di's helplessness, Zhao Shu is also embarrassed. At present, the Great Song Dynasty does not have the conditions for conscription in later generations, and even if Zhao Shu says it, it is useless on paper.

On the contrary, it was Ling Feng, who was born as a disciple of the Western Army, Zhao Shu looked at him to see if he had any way, Ling Feng understood, and he should not give in at this moment, so he asked: "Lord Hu, if you Caozhou forcibly recruit and transfer the box soldiers, how many people can be recruited?" ”

Hu Di shook his head helplessly and sighed: "If you forcibly recruit and transfer the soldiers, it will be two or three hundred people at most." ”

"What!? Two or three hundred people, then the original officers and soldiers in the city are less than four hundred!? Zhao Shu exclaimed, he thought that even if it was poor, at least two or three thousand people would be able to be recruited.

After all, in his later worldview, in the event of a war in Nanjing alone, two and a half reserve infantry divisions could be requisitioned, with a strength of nearly 30,000 troops.

Forehead... Of course, the Song Dynasty cannot be compared with later generations, and the population alone is too different.

Ling Feng didn't show too much surprise, and explained to Zhao Shu's surprise: "Your Highness is in the palace, you may not know much, the box soldiers are different from the forbidden army, the source of the box soldiers is mainly from three directions, one is that when recruiting the forbidden army, those who do not meet the standards of the forbidden army will be used as box soldiers. Second, the old and weak of the forbidden army, if they are eliminated, they are van soldiers. Third, local governments exiled prisoners to the place of exile as soldiers. However, Caozhou is located in Gyeonggi, and the main force of the forbidden army is in Beijing, and it is not a place where prisoners are exiled, so there are not so many soldiers in Caozhou. ”

Zhao Shu nodded with an epiphany, this kind of recruitment system of the Great Song Dynasty soldiers is naturally destined to have little combat effectiveness, so they will not be valued by the imperial court, and if they do not pay attention to it, they will not allocate special funds to support these troops. However, this made Zhao Shu even more puzzled, and said to the two: "Even so, there is no shortage of people in Caozhou who are physically fit, so they can be recruited and then trained, so don't you have to worry about running out of soldiers?" ”

When Zhao Shu said this doubt, it made the two of them cry and laugh, Hu Di was not familiar with Zhao Shu, so he didn't dare to laugh at him, but Ling Feng explained: "The imperial court has set up transfer envoys on all roads, and the transfer envoys are responsible for ruling the states and counties, and the excess money and grain collected by the states and counties every year will be collected to the capital division. In other words, there is no extra money and grain in the official treasury of the Caozhou government to recruit people. In addition, the governors of the prefectures and counties were not allowed to recruit people without official documents from the imperial court. ”

Zhao Shu realized now that this was Hu Di's biggest headache. The imperial court transferred all the troops in Caozhou, and did not allow conscription, but also strengthened the city defense. This is pure heart to find fault with people.

At this point, Ling Feng couldn't think of any way. However, Zhao Shu remembered the historical materials of later generations, maybe he could learn from them, so he said his thoughts and said: "During the reign of the first emperor Shenzong, wasn't there a precedent of the rebellion of Nanyi Nong Zhigao, and the insufficient troops of Su Mian, the governor of Yongzhou, to lead the people of the whole city to resist the enemy? ”

"This is also a way, if Fang La comes to attack, if we have reinforcements, we may be able to tide over the difficulties in this way, but now the imperial court wants Benzhou to make a preparation, if there is no standing army, wouldn't it provoke Long Yan's anger?" Woody shook his head and said.

This made Zhao Shu speechless, since the imperial court had withdrawn all the soldiers and horses from Caozhou, Hu Di played on the table and stated the truth, why did it have to be like this.

And in his memory of the Song Dynasty in later generations, although Fang La's thief Kou was huge, he hit the north bank of the Yangtze River at most. When did you visit the Gyeonggi region of the Northern Song Dynasty?

But if you think about it carefully, you can figure it out, this is bound to be a bad idea given to Song Huizong by some people in the court.

And the man must have known the truth about the local state capital, but why did he do it? Zhao Shu didn't know. But at the very least, Woody's pleas are certainly useless.

Ling Feng was a rigid soldier, and he had a headache about this kind of system, so don't expect him to come up with any way.

Stayed in Woody's yamen for two hours, and the three of them never came up with any solutions.

It is a pity that the Song Dynasty did not have banks and could not take out loans to recruit troops as later generations did. Even if there are financial institutions such as Qianzhuang, they are also in big cities such as Hangzhou and Bianjing. Caozhou is not prosperous in a lower state, so don't even think about this kind of thing.

However, at this time, Zhao Shu remembered the state of the Southern Dynasties when the imperial power was low during the Northern and Southern Dynasties of China, and the reason for the investigation was that the powerful families at that time had private armies and formed towns to defend themselves, and the imperial court and local officials were unable to control it, resulting in a great reduction in the authority of the imperial power.

"Master Hu, how many big families do you have? The kind of family with a lot of money. Just when everyone was at a loss, Zhao Shu suddenly thought of something and asked.

I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in Zhao Shu's gourd, Hu Di said bluntly: "Lord Hui, there are five big families in the city!" ”

Hearing Hu Di's answer, Zhao Shu was not too satisfied, and said at the moment: "Five... Well, barely enough. ”

Not knowing what Zhao Shu's intentions were now, Ling Feng and Hu Di pricked up their ears and looked at Zhao Shu. Zhao Shu sold a pass here, smiled gloomily, and said to Hu Di: "Then Lord Lao Hu summons these five masters to come to Zhizhou Yamen." ”

I don't know what kind of medicine Zhao Shu sells in the gourd, but Woody still does it. Leaving Ling Feng and Zhao Shu to wander around boredly in the yamen of the state capital.

As the two walked Zhao Shu inexplicably remembered Mingyue's life experience, the more Mingyue concealed it, the stronger Zhao Shu's curiosity became.

Zhao Shu came through time, and he may not be very clear about the selection of palace maids and their backgrounds, but Ling Feng is a candidate under the command of the imperial army who is responsible for the security of the palace, and he must be able to know, so Zhao Shu asked: "General Ling, do you know Mingyue's background background?" ”

Asked inexplicably by Zhao Shu's question, Ling Feng pursed his lips and said: "There are so many eunuchs and maids in the palace, the last general is just a general who is responsible for the safety of the royal family, how can he know so much, even if he knows, there are so many people in the palace, the last general can't remember it." Although Mingyue is a palace maid, her talent is extraordinary, and she is also very good, if Her Royal Highness really wants to find out, you just ask her directly? ”

What can I ask from her, and what am I asking you for? It seems that Ling Feng really doesn't know whether he is alive or dead.

Zhao Shu didn't want to say anything more, the two of them walked around the Zhizhou Mansion wordlessly, the Zhizhou Mansion is not big, it is similar to the municipal center of later generations, and after a few laps, Zhao Shu figured out the terrain of the Zhizhou Mansion. The two walked back to the hall of the Zhizhou Mansion and quietly waited for Woody to return. In the end, Zhao Shu couldn't stay up and fell asleep on Woody's table.