Chapter 298 settled on Qinfeng Road

Zhang Shixun and Lu Yijian glanced at each other with some concern, afraid that Zhao Yu's request was agreed to by Song Renzong, which would change Zhao Yu's strength in Shaanxi. At that time, although they were ostracized by Xia Zhu and Yin Zhu and others, with enough confrontation force, these exclusions will become dispensable.

What makes Lu Yijian and them feel a little good is that fortunately, Zhao Yu has already fallen into the trap, and now he sees the move, and he thinks that it is enough to make Zhao Yu's life in Shaanxi not have a good time to go there.

"Official, although Qin Fenglu is not the main battlefield, it is also an extremely important place, and the younger brother feels that a pacification envoy is not enough to stabilize Qin Fenglu!" Zhao Yu said.

Song Renzong hesitated for a moment, nodded and said: "You can add a slight envoy and appease the envoy, but it is a separate way, so you still need to obey Xia (Zhu) Aiqing's orders and dispatches, is there a problem?" ”

"Brother Chen, I think this is also necessary!" Zhao Yu did not object, and he also knew that it was useless to object.

Song Renzong was afraid of Xia Zhu, and he didn't necessarily have much trust in Zhao Zhu. On the one hand, it mixed sand in Shaanxi, and on the other hand, it also added a shackle to Zhao Yu. This is what the emperor of the Song Dynasty is best at, and the rebellion of the feudal towns of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms made the Northern Song Dynasty go from one extreme to another.

"The minister is in the Privy Council, and he is familiar with the important military affairs of my Great Song Dynasty, and knows that the imperial court is ready to launch a war against Western Xia next year, or even this year. The intention is to revive the sluggish morale. In this case, the subordinate brother also needs to make some cooperation, but in Qinfeng Road, and even in the Shaanxi area, the subordinate brother does not have a familiar soldier and horse! I am afraid that when the time comes, there will be more than enough success and more failure. Zhao Yu said.

Lu Yijian interjected: "The Shengjie Army seems to have been founded by the prince, why do you say that there are no familiar soldiers and horses?" ”

"Although it was founded by this king, how many years have passed?" Zhao Yu immediately retorted. "And what is Lu Xianggong's intention? This king is the prince of the Great Song Dynasty. will never contact the old ministry privately, so the relationship between this king and the Shengjie army is just a relationship that exists in name only! ”

Song Renzong waved his hand, stopped Lu Yijian, who was about to refute, and said slowly: "Then I don't know what the seventh brother's request is?" Will you transfer the Shengjie army on Jingyuan Road to your command? ”

Song Renzong's face was expressionless at the moment, which made everyone in the Imperial Palace more or less uneasy. What did Song Renzong think? Do you really want to transfer the Shengjie army to the Wei King?

The Shengjie army was a strong army, and after it was stationed in Shaanxi, it was further strengthened, and the establishment was no longer 3,000 people, but 4,500. The actual number is about 4,000. And among them were about a thousand cavalrymen.

It is necessary to know what the situation of the Song army is, often tens of thousands of troops, but only hundreds of horses, even if the generals and personal soldiers in the army are added together, there may not be a thousand horses.

The Shengjie Army can be described as a strong army in Shaanxi, which is quite famous.

Although Zhao Yu couldn't really have any thoughts about Shengjiejun in his heart. But he knew better that this was more likely to be a temptation by Song Renzong. And he hadn't thought about winning the army before. Therefore, Zhao Yu quickly controlled his desires. Shuang Li shook his head and said, "How dare my brother ask for such a strong army? The younger brother is just a little appeased, and the Shengjie army should be better off with the Xia Jing Slightly Xianggong. ”

Hearing this, Song Renzong's expression became a little more happy, and he asked, "What does the seventh brother mean?" ”

"Please ask the imperial brother for approval, and the younger brother will transfer the Guangjing army from Guangnan West Road to Qinfeng Road. Included in the command of the ministers! Zhao Yu owed a debt and said solemnly.

Guangjingjun Song Renzong also knew something, after all, it was impossible for him not to pay attention to Zhao Yu. He knew that this was a box soldier, although he was trained well by Zhao Yu. But in the end, it's just a soldier!

The treatment of the soldiers is far worse than that of the forbidden army, and the forbidden army spends 50,000 yuan a year, that is, 50 yuan, which is the cost of the imperial court for the forbidden army. And the 30,000 yuan spent by the van soldiers a year is not particularly bad at first glance. In fact, it is not the case, the task of serving in the box soldiers is very heavy, just like Zhao Yu built the Tokyo Stadium, but he used the box soldiers, and he did not give a penny to the box soldiers. If you want to say that you want to give money, you will pay food to the soldiers during the construction period.

Therefore, in some places, it is not surprising that the profits of a soldier's work in a year are more than the military salary he receives. Therefore, the escape of the soldiers in the Northern Song Dynasty was also relatively serious.

The preconceived idea made Song Renzong's first feeling that he felt very general about Guangjingjun, so he didn't hesitate much, and Song Renzong said very happily: "Since the seventh brother asked for this, how could I refuse?" According to what you said, Ye Aiqing, you will draft the edict! ”

Ye Aiqing in Song Renzong's mouth is surnamed Ye Qingchen, and the word Daoqing. A native of Changzhou (now Suzhou), he was the eye of the Tiansheng in the second year of the list, and served as a museum. Now he is serving as the intellectual system, which is quite trusted by Song Renzong, and there are rumors among the people that Song Renzong wants to use Ye Qingchen as the third envoy on behalf of Zheng Jian.

Although Zheng Jian has just been promoted from the position of Kaifeng Mansion to the third envoy for a short time, the position of the third envoy is extremely important, although he is not the prime minister, he is known as the prime minister. Therefore, the three envoys have not been able to do it for a long time, and it is already great to be able to do it for three years, and most of them have been promoted to other places after doing it for less than a year.

Zhao Yu glanced sideways at Ye Qingchen and found that he was very thin, and his appearance was not handsome, but it also gave people a sense of durability. And if Zhao Yu is not mistaken, the current third envoy Zheng Jian was born in the second year of the Heavenly Sage, while Ye Qingchen was born in the second year of the Heavenly Sage. The relationship between the two will definitely not be weak.

And what I have to say here is that Zhao Yu's former master Song Zhen is the champion of the second year of Tiansheng, and his younger brother Song Qi is the intellectual system, although he is not as good as Ye Qingchen, but he is also a figure that cannot be underestimated.

Now Zhao Yu found out that unconsciously, Song Renzong had quietly promoted a large number of Jinshi from the second year of the Heavenly Sage to take up high positions. Although Lu Yijian and Zhang Shixun, the old ministers left behind during the time of Song Zhenzong and Liu E, are still in high and powerful positions, their foundations are not as stable as they used to be.

Just when Zhao Yu was thinking, Song Shou stood up and objected: "Official, please think twice!" The Guangjing Army is stationed on Guangnan West Road, which is the northwesternmost direction of our Great Song Dynasty, and Qinfeng Road is located in the southwestmost of our Great Song Dynasty, one south and one north, spanning thousands of miles away? In such a deployment, not to mention the hard work of the soldiers, the lack of adaptation to the water and soil is also a very serious problem. In the past, the forbidden army was stationed in Guangnan, and there were no five or six out of ten, but today the Guangnan Xiang soldiers are stationed in Shaanxi, I am afraid it is even worse! This order is nothing more than a loss of military strength, and it also adds thousands of unjust souls along the road! ”

Song Shou said very seriously, but it was a heart-wrenching word. It seems that he is holding grievances for these Guangjing Army soldiers, but in fact, he is satirizing Zhao Yu who doesn't even know how to lead the troops to fight in such an attempt?

Song Renzong hadn't thought about this problem before, but now when he heard Song Shou say this, he regretted it. Song Renzong saw that there were many gray-haired people who participated in the imperial examination, and he couldn't help but increase the number of people who passed the palace examination. Later, it was decreed that as long as the number of times he participated in the imperial examination reached a certain number of times, he could participate in an alternative imperial examination. This imperial examination is actually to reduce the difficulty and let the old scholars pass it more easily.

Now that he heard that thousands of people were going to die, Song Renzong felt creepy when he thought about it, no wonder he had just said yes to Zhao Yu. "Seventh brother, I've seen this matter, right? If so many people are going to die, I think it would be better for you to recruit a soldier and horses on the spot, and I promise a formation of 5,000 men! ”

Zhao Yu shook his head and said calmly: "Brother Huang, there will be fatigue on the road, and there will be unsuitability to water and soil, but it will not be so serious. The younger brother has his own solution to the unsuitability of the soil and water. ”

"This ...... Is it feasible? Song Renzong was still skeptical, after all, the problem of adaptation to water and soil has plagued China for thousands of years. In fact, if it weren't for the existence of this problem, China's expansion would have accelerated and immigration would have been even stronger.

"Lord Wang, Weichen knows that you are sincere in your meritorious service, but you can't joke with the lives of soldiers! Even if it's a box soldier, it's very precious! Song Shou said helplessly, as if he was really dedicated to the public.

Zhao Yu secretly hated in his heart, these guys are really not enough to succeed and more than to lose!

Fortunately, Zhao Yu had already prepared his words before, and said confidently: "Brother Huang, since the younger brother dares to say this, naturally he will not joke about the lives of the soldiers of the Guangjing Army." After all, the Guangjing Army was recruited by the younger brother himself, and the younger brother also had feelings for the Guangjing Army. The younger brother saw that it was better to do so, so he let the soldiers of the Guangjing Army go north, but if there was something unwilling, he could return south on his own. In this way, if it is really unadaptable, there is no need to send officials to investigate, and the soldiers will not joke with their own lives, right? ”

When Song Renzong heard this, this also made sense, nodded and said: "Seventh brother's words are feasible, so let's do it!" ”

Zhao Yu didn't just forget it, and asked Song Renzong to transfer some old troops to his command. This is also necessary, and Song Renzong readily agreed, but because Lu Yijian interfered with it, the number of subordinates allowed to be transferred to his command was greatly reduced.

Only Zhou Xin, who was in charge of prison affairs on Guangnan West Road, Sun Pengyuan, and Song Baiyin, the directors of the Transfer Division, were transferred to Zhao Yu's command. In addition, Zhao Yu also got more than 20 official confession documents, which should have been more than 50 copies, but because Lu Yijian made an obstruction from it, the number decreased sharply.

These confessional documents Zhao Yu are all ready to promote the officials from the Guozi Academy on Guangnan West Road, on the one hand, they were born in the Guozi Academy and have enough loyalty to Zhao Yu. On the other hand, the way they receive education tends to be pragmatic, and after systematic education, after some training, they are more proficient in handling tedious chores than ordinary officials. (To be continued......)