Huang Jie's proposal to attack Xia Sanli, although the reason can be established on the surface, is obviously not convincing to the Zhao official family and the people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, Zhao Guanjia obviously listened to it, thought for a while, and then asked: "If you want to attack Xia, how many troops can be lowered?" ”

Huang Jie was stunned when he heard this, and he also frowned and thought about it, but although he mentioned the advantage of attacking Xia Zhili, his military ability was obviously a little lacking, and he was also asked for a while.

At this time, the planter saw it clearly, and actually took the initiative to jump out to relieve Huang Jie, and said: "What the horse said about attacking the summer is also reasonable!" It's just that the soldiers are attacking the city and carving the country, and there is no prediction of victory, so it is better to ask the horses, if they go to attack the Xia country, how to fight. ”

With the siege relieved in the division, Huang Jie also figured out the clue, so he came to hug his fists and asked: "Dare to ask the general of the small species, I don't know how many troops are in the Xia Kingdom now, and where the army is stationed." ”

When the seed master heard this, he thought about it, and then said: "Xia Guo claims to have an army of 300,000, more than half of which are scattered all over the country, and only stationed heavy troops in Xingqing Mansion in Tokyo and Xiping Mansion in Xijing. Earlier this year, it was also discovered that Li Qianshun, the lord of the Xia State, had a large army of 120,000 in Xingqing Mansion, of which the two elites of the Western Xia Iron Harrier and Bubazi should be less than 20,000 in total, and there was a heavy armor soldier known as 10,000 people, and the rest were party light cavalry. In the first battle at the beginning of the year, although the Xia army lost more than 40,000 people, but as far as our army's gains are concerned, it is only ten stops and one stop at most. ”

After all, the Western Xia regime has lasted for a hundred years, the state form has been perfect, and it is a bandit regime that takes robbing in the south as his lifelong wish, even if he really only has 300,000 troops, except for the 30,000 horses killed by the Great Song Dynasty this time, there are still more than 200,000 left, and if you want to destroy the country, you have to prepare at least 500,000 horses.

Huang Jie nodded when he heard this, and then asked, "I don't know how much combat power the Great Song Dynasty has available in the northwest?" ”

The seed master naturally replied quickly, so he also snapped his fingers and said: "Counting, the total number of the Western Army is 230,000, and the number of troops and volunteers in various places is about 300,000. ”

Huang Jie was amused when he heard it, and it was already claimed that there were "800,000" forbidden troops stationed inside and outside Tokyo, and he couldn't imagine that the combat strength of the entire northwest was only 800,000. Of course, everyone knows that this "800,000 forbidden army" is actually a fictitious formation, and the actual formation is afraid that it will be 200,000 or so.

Although there is no solution to the situation of redundant soldiers, redundant expenses and redundant officials in the Great Song Dynasty, compared with the huge number of redundant troops in the Renzong Dynasty and the Zhenzong Dynasty, the degree of redundant troops in this dynasty is indeed much better. It is not because the Zhao official family of this dynasty will spend money, but after Fan Zhongyan, Sima Guang, Wang Anshi, Su Shi and Cai Jing constantly touched and tested the bottom line of reform, it became a proper stimulus to the original small peasant economy of the Great Song Dynasty, and then gave birth to the so-called "capitalist sprout", which made the industry and commerce of the Great Song Dynasty have been greatly developed, and then the problem of redundant soldiers was solved.

The so-called redundant soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty were not caused by the Song people's reckless military force and reckless forceful bombardment, but often because they wanted to maintain social stability and directly recruit the affected people or bankrupt small farmers into soldiers.

In addition, a large factor of redundancy is also greatly related to the military system of the Great Song Dynasty, because of its strong economic strength, the Song Dynasty is the only dynasty in Chinese history that has long adhered to the conscription system. The officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty generally had good treatment, so much so that in other dynasties they often became the fuse of class contradictions, and in the Song Dynasty they became the release valve of class contradictions.

Whenever there was an accident in a place and it was difficult for the people to survive, the government would recruit a large number of soldiers there, "for every person recruited, the court would have one more soldier, and the mountains and fields would have one less thief", which was also one of the important reasons why there were fewer peasant uprisings in the Song Dynasty. You must know that only in the Qingli period of the Renzong Dynasty (1041-1048), the total number of the Song army has increased from more than 300,000 when Taizu Zhao Kuangyin founded the country, and one guy has increased to 1.3 million, considering that the population at that time was at best about 100 million people, according to normal circumstances, the ratio of soldiers to the common people in a small peasant society is generally not more than 50 to 1, this ratio is really an astronomical number.

What's more, the 1.3 million soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty are not self-cultivated farmers who should go to war with their own weapons and armor like the previous dynasty, but are all professional mercenaries who eat financial food, so military spending has repeatedly created miracles.

It is said that in the first year of Renzong Bao, only in Shaanxi (that is, the Western Army that specialized in dealing with Western Xia), the military expenditure reached 20 million guan in peacetime, and it was even more difficult to defeat 30 or 40 million guan in wartime. Therefore, the huge military and other expenditures made the financial expenditure of the Song Dynasty unique in Chinese history, and even such a huge fiscal revenue sometimes had the problem of making ends meet, so that it was ironically called "poverty" by later generations.

However, it must also be admitted that such measures as the Great Song Dynasty still played a great role in the so-called "maintenance of social stability", and although the situation of normal government investment in the welfare of the people was changed into "military spending", it also greatly encroached on and eroded the development of the productive forces of the entire society.

After Fan, Wang and Cai's continuous "changes" and continuous exploration, the Great Song Dynasty, which had come to an end in land annexation, finally found a way to develop the secondary and tertiary industries by itself. With the tremendous development of industry, commerce and service industries, the people's living standards have reached an unprecedented height, and at the same time, the shortage of labor force has also forced some people who were originally "stabilized" in the Great Song Dynasty army to leave the army and find their own way out in order to seek a better living standard.

Therefore, as far as this dynasty is concerned, the degree of redundancy is much easier than that of previous dynasties.

However, don't forget, according to the information that Liang Shicheng casually complained about early in the morning, the number of fictitious people in the 15th Road of Gyeonggi in the Great Song Dynasty can almost reach a terrifying 5 million. And think about it, although the city of Tokyo claims to have 800,000 forbidden troops is false, but the 800,000 of the Western Army cannot be more realistic, so it is not an unacceptable fact that the actual army in the Great Song Dynasty really has to be around 2 or 3 million.

But Huang Jie thought about it for a while, and then asked about the actual formation and composition of the Northwest Army, according to the division, among the 230,000 Western Army, there were less than 30,000 cavalry, and the rest were all foot soldiers. (To be continued.) )