The righteousness is something that Ma Chao is very happy about, but there are some things that still make others unhappy, of course not Ma Chao, but the Privy Council.

At this time, we have to start with Zhou Bida, whom Ma Chao has never met, in fact, there are also personal grievances in this. On that day, Zhou Tong's head was taken away by Wu Fan, and it was given to Zhou Bida.

Zhou Bida is now a governor of political affairs, that is, a replacement for the prime minister, and is deeply appreciated by Song Xiaozong. Recently, Song Xiaozong intentionally or unintentionally let Zhou Bida contact the Privy Council, which obviously means that Zhou Bida will go to serve in the Privy Council.

The Privy Council had already secretly contacted Zhou Bida, and these Privy Council people didn't know where they knew about Zhou Tong, so they were ready to put on small shoes for Xin Qiji. In the Song Dynasty, although the emperor agreed to build troops, it was the Privy Council that really carried it out, and they set the specifications of the military camp and controlled the funds.

The Song Dynasty generally had 50 people as a team, 2 teams as the capital, 5 as the battalion, 5 battalions as the army, and 10 troops as the box. The battalion, also commonly known as the "command," is the basic unit of operations. Xin Qiji wants to establish the Flying Tiger Army, with a military character, at least 2,500 people.

Of course, these people can't live in the city, and they can't live in Feihu Village, Feihu Village is Ma Chao's private army in a sense, Xin Qiji doesn't say it in his heart, he understands in his heart that he built the army this time, mainly the new army, and recruited people again, and he didn't mention anything about the past.

Of course, this Flying Tiger Army is clearly doing things for the imperial court, but in fact they are still Ma Chao's private army, trained and commanded by Ma Chao himself.

The first thing to build a camp is to choose a camp, and the camp is actually thought out by Xin Qiji, and it is the old camp of Ma Yin during the Five Dynasties period. Recruiting troops here, and soon the official Flying Tiger Bureau will have certain specifications.

Then, it rained all day, the barracks leaked, and the Privy Council took action at this time, they claimed that the treasury was tight and military spending needed to be suspended. If being a soldier is more painful than farming, who wants to be a soldier, this head is not in the belt of the work, in arrears, who will be truly obedient.

Xin Qiji was a little worried, but he didn't have so much silver in his hand to put it on first. Xin Qiji discussed with Ma Chao that the matter of military salary can be postponed, but where to live, what can I do? For the barracks to be magnificent, they need a lot of stones, and these stones are money.

Although Ma Chao can make money, but this ability to make money has to ask the stinky big brother, the stinky big brother gave Ma Chao an idea, Ma Chao thought it was good, so he told Master Xin Qiji, it turned out that Ma Chao used the law to make transactions, let those who committed crimes to transport stones, according to the number of people, give them enough to reduce the crime.

Most of these criminals were robbers and were physically strong, and some were unjustly imprisoned. The real crime is also more oppressive than the peasants who don't want it, as soon as Ma Chao's idea came out, Xin Qiji agreed.

After the order was issued, in a place called Matan in the north of Tanzhou City, suddenly there were many people who mined stones, Ding Ding was full of energy, and the carriages transporting stones on the road were endless. It didn't take long for the stone problem to cease to be a problem, and Xin Qiji didn't even spend a tael of silver. This matter let the people in the Privy Council know that they almost didn't have a belly explosion, and they also knew about this person named Ma Chao at this time.

But the people of the Privy Council are not convinced, the stone is naturally mined, you can ask someone to do it at will, what about the roof tiles? Even if you want to buy it, you don't have that much. (To be continued.) )