Wen Yanbo said: "Xingzhi, no, during the Han and Tang Dynasties, Hu Lu was still constantly invading, and how can my dynasty be regarded as a weaker one?" ”

Driven by Zheng Lang and Zhao Ji, the court seemed more respectful, and in the past, it was often called by name when it was in government affairs (see various historical records), but now it is called the official title for the elders and peers. It seemed to be a saying, Zheng Lang shook his head and replied: "Fei Ye, Kuanfu, after the Han military defeated the Xiongnu, how many times did the rest of the Xiongnu invade Han Xinjiang again?" The Tang Dynasty was a matter of turmoil, so where was it? The Uighur place, the place in the river (referring to the Central Asian region), even if there is an Eastern Turkic border, if the Empress Wu did not use Pei Yan, Cheng Wuting, Zhang Qianqiao and others to overhead Pei Xingjian, and later killed the good generals such as Heizhi Changzhi, Cheng Wuting, Zhang Qianqiao, Wang Fangyi, etc., and destroyed the Great Wall, how could they be trapped in the Khitan, Turkic and Tibetan provinces? The Ming Emperor opened the border, at first it was not an open side, it was only a self-defense counterattack, and when the Yuan Dynasty was opened, some battles were moderately launched, did it prevent the Tang Dynasty from becoming richer and stronger? At the end of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, did Hu Lu have the courage to come to Sao Bian again? It's just that after the death of Wang Zhonghe, he once again destroyed the Great Wall, and acquiesced in Li Linfu's dictatorship, blindly opened the border, and actually let Gao Xianzhi repeatedly send troops to the distant river, with the productivity of the Tang Dynasty, can he manage the middle of the river well? If you want to operate, you can't use the country's money to pay soldiers, study classes, win or lose, and don't damage the strength of the country. ”

"In my words." Zhao said.

That's the way to put it.

Don't be weak, and don't blindly open the edge.

"Don't dare to be. If it weren't for the Ming Emperor's faint government, in the early years of Tianbao, how could Hu Lu have the courage to invade the border, even if there were, it was only a small group of thieves who did not know the height of the sky, and it was not enough to do harm, not a vassal country like Western Xia. Regardless of the great favor of the state. Repeatedly come to the side. ”

"I'm not the weaker." Wen Yanbo still insisted on his opinion.

"Yes, but because I didn't grasp the word Zhongzhong well, I had the trouble of having a bow and snake shadow for the dictatorship of the Tang Dynasty's military generals, so I was introverted and reluctant. So the small countries of Western Xia and Jiaozhi thought that I was a weaker generation, weak, and very rich, so they repeatedly invaded. ”

Zheng Lang said this. couldn't help but glance at Wen Yanbo.

Wen Yanbo is still okay as the governor of the East Mansion, but if he goes to the West Mansion, he will inevitably be defeated, and he will not be able to understand the military, and he is even inferior to Lu Gongbi.

Zheng Lang said: "What is the attitude of the Western Xia people, leave them alone for the time being, after the exhaustive army and dethroned the military, the Western Xia was embarrassed, repeatedly made waves, and brought about their own destruction. Your Majesty. The minister proposed another thing, since Duke Wen proposed to cut the army. According to their advice, the ministers wrote a memo, one is to reduce the army, and the other is to strengthen and reform the army, so as to save money and maintain the combat effectiveness of the army. ”

"If there is such a thing, hand it over quickly," Zhao Ji asked in surprise, but secretly looked at Zheng Lang with questioning eyes, he was still in the earthquake, and it was not the right time to say it at this time.

Zheng Lang winked slightly.

It's almost gone, and with the Mozhou earthquake coming soon after the earthquake is over, it will be a good thing to propose reform at this time. So he said: "Your Majesty, for the things of the Heavenly Dao, the ministers think that they are too far away, and they often do not seek the true heart of the Heavenly Dao. If the way of heaven has a heart for humanity, and earthquakes are frequent, the minister thinks that it is not a treacherous tyranny, is it a treacherous petty dictatorship? Even if Han Qi is at fault, it can't be said that Han Qi is a traitor, it's just a mistake in some moves. The reason why there are frequent earthquakes is that the state has shortcomings and does not punish them. Those who don't know are not to blame, and those who know don't change, isn't it a heavier mistake? This is a mistake on the part of His Majesty, a mistake on the part of the two governments. In particular, if the redundant military situation is not changed, the earthquake will not subside. ”

Ouyang Xiu fought back: "According to the meaning of Xingzhi, if it is changed, the earthquake will subside?" ”

"Uncle Yong, I don't know, if the sky has no heart, earthquakes will be frequent, if the sky has a heart, the court will reform the old and make the new, work hard, enrich and strengthen the country, and benefit the people of Li, the earthquake will disappear. However, the sky has a heart, the sky has no heart, I really don't know, Zi said, worship ghosts and gods and stay away, the master has said so, besides, we ordinary people? Zheng Lang replied noncommittally.

Ouyang Xiu thought that he was playing tricks, and many ministers wrote to impeach him, but at this time, Ouyang Xiu didn't dare to be in the limelight, snorted, and stopped talking.

Zheng Lang sent someone to fetch a thick fold.

The first step in reform was the ban on the army.

At this time, 740,000 people were reduced to 600,000 by reducing the old, weak, and disabled among them. When the forbidden army is small, it is necessary to maintain its combat effectiveness, starting with ensuring the combat effectiveness of the forbidden army itself.

The first step is to reform the Song Dynasty soldiers do not know the generals, the general does not know the habit of soldiers, the Tang Dynasty system is also a government of 500 people, and the Song Dynasty is almost the same as a command, but in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, most of the generals concurrently serve as the envoys, although the government as a unit, the actual generals and soldiers have been together for a long time, know each other, and the combat effectiveness is strong. It is impossible for the Song Dynasty to use the festival to make it, and having the festival is just a false position.

Only starting from the grassroots level, the Song Dynasty also had a higher level of command units in the command envoy, the highest level is the three ya, and there are classes under it, such as the front of the palace commander has two classes on the left and right, the inner hall has four classes on the left and right, and the scattered staff has four classes on the left and right, etc., a class has two to five straight, the most are thousands, the few are only 1,000 people, and the special class is only a few hundred people. There are also some classes that only have virtual power, but do not have the actual right to lead troops. The management was very chaotic and did not play a role in the establishment.

Zheng Lang made modifications, abolished the system of direct classes, and set up regimental commanders on the command envoys, except for the special commanders of the second battalion, the rest were in charge of the five battalions, and the regimental commanders were all waiting, all knowing, deputy knowing, and escorting the shift. The official system is still similar to that of the Banzhi, except that the command of the Banzhi has been turned into a regimental commander, which is clear.

The significance of the reform is to normalize the command of the military organization at a higher level, so that the soldiers will be familiar with it, at least below the regimental command envoy, the middle and low-level generals and soldiers will be very familiar with it, and it will be conducive to the middle and low-level generals to command the soldiers during battle. By the time of the battle, the command will change from a battalion to a regiment, and the command will become swift and powerful. For example, in the battle of 100,000 troops, it was possible to give orders to more than 200 commanders, but now it is enough to give orders to more than 400 regimental commanders.

It effectively made up for a serious drawback caused by the Song Dynasty's overcorrection of the military generals' dictatorship, and at the same time, even if 2,000 and hundreds of soldiers rebelled, it would not cause much harm.

In fact, strictly speaking, it is to formalize the class and straight of the Song Dynasty.

The measures taken since the restructuring are still being used.

When some ministers saw this, although some had doubts in their hearts, they were not very quiet.

This is the first step in reform. The second step of reform is to enhance its combat effectiveness. There must be a strict system of rotation. Every battalion is required to go to the border. Without the edification of the frontier, many of the forbidden troops in the capital are mostly gentlemen.

The reason Zheng Lang didn't explain, to what extent it was so sneering, these ministers heard and witnessed it.

The third step of reform is to reduce the difficulties of soldiers. Those who are already in the capital will be counted, and those who are not in the capital will gradually be resettled around the capital in the future, and go west to Luoyang. North to Daimyo, east to Yingtian, south to Cai Deng, close to the capital, easy to transfer, if there is an emergency, can also be urgently transferred to the capital to defend the safety of Gyeonggi. Of course, it is also necessary to ensure that more than one-third of the forbidden army in the capital can be mobilized as quickly as possible.

Here, Zheng Lang explains. The reason why we do this is simple. Although the imperial court is not thin on the forbidden army. But the price of the capital is expensive, and it is not easy to live in a big place. Although it is not thin, if his family is not able to support only the salary and food of the forbidden soldiers, the family will still not be able to make ends meet. But in the countryside, the cost of living is low, you can use some deserted land, reclamation, and confiscated land for resettlement, even if not, their families can also work, or tenant farmers to make a living, even if they don't work for others, there is no arable land at home, if they live in the countryside, with the salary of the Song Dynasty, it is enough for the forbidden soldier's family to live, then the ugliness of doing business in the military camp, or letting the wife be a military prostitute will be reduced, and the combat effectiveness will increase invisibly. Rural people are simple, and it is definitely not okay to let them do business, but let them be soldiers, and their combat effectiveness will be stronger than that of urban soldiers. A well-known example is the Qi family army, Qi Jiguang mostly uses rural soldiers, which is precisely for this reason.

Zheng Lang said before that many people thought about it over and over again, and had to admit that it made sense, and it could be compared in the Song Dynasty, and the treatment of the forbidden army in the capital was definitely the best, but on the battlefield, the combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the Fan army and the township soldiers, and even the compulsory archers were inferior.

The strategy of still taking into account, reassuring the army's heart, and reducing the cost of soldiers, on this basis, did not advocate the reduction of all the forbidden troops in the capital together, and there were measures to defend the capital later, that is, Baoding. In fact, this point is very important, Gyeonggi is an important place, and it has the first position in the hearts of the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty. Looking for the reasons for the demise of the Tang Dynasty one by one, there were not many soldiers in the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and they were scattered to various places together. At the very least, there must be a strong force in the capital. The first is Gyeongseong, and the second is Gyeonggi. If you can't do these two things, you won't be able to carry out any reforms, even Zhao Ji himself has a fear in his heart.

However, this has to be done slowly, because there is a Dabi system, and the families of the Dabi who were selected to join the forbidden army in the future will be resettled in the countryside near Gyeonggi one after another, and those who have been settled in the capital will not move, so as not to cause uneasiness and commotion.

The fourth is fine armor and weapons, even if it is this year, after the establishment of the second steel supervision in Huazhou, the technology is more advanced, and it will be replaced with steel armor and weapons on a large scale. Or take your time so you can save money.

The fifth point is to eat empty wages!

Zheng Lang didn't know how much empty pay would occur, but there was.

If not dealt with in time, once it spreads, the consequences are very serious. For example, the quota is 600,000 forbidden troops, and all kinds of measures later, which are enough, but if there is a vacant salary, there are 600,000 salaries, and in fact there are only 300,000 and 200,000 forbidden troops, which is a serious waste and will cause serious problems.

To reduce the number of forbidden troops to 600,000, it is necessary to ensure that the country has 600,000 forbidden troops, and no one is missing.

At the beginning of the reduction, let the military officials check the number of each battalion, and if there is a vacant salary, they will be severely punished, and the relevant commanders will be dismissed and dismissed from their posts.

In fact, most officials can only take office after they reach their thirties, and those who lead officials in their twenties are still in the minority, and now there is another 70 persuasion to retire, and the political life span of officials is seriously shortened, and if there are no more officials, more than 1,000 official vacancies will automatically be created in a year. These vacancies must be topped.

There are quite a few of them, but there are even more people in the back, tens of thousands of officials are waiting behind, and there are thousands of alternate officials who have been deposed this time, and a large number of new posts are produced every year. Under the new policy, the shade subsidy has become a five-year supplement, and there are more than 2,000 people who are qualified to make up for the shade, as well as six or seven hundred scholars and fellow scholars of various scientific examinations. If it is strictly enforced, after 50 years, the phenomenon of redundant officials will be gone. But it is impossible, it can only be said that it is strictly enforced, and the phenomenon of redundant officials will get better and better.

At the moment, the problem is still serious.

Many of the officials have reached the time of the shadow, and there are some who have performed well and have been deposed and replaced. There are civil servants. There are military attachés. Therefore, after each vacancy, there will be many people fighting for it.

So Zheng Lang proposed that the civil officials should appropriately investigate the hidden fields, and the military ministers should appropriately check the empty salaries of each battalion and the situation of greedy ink deductions. Accepted as an assessment score. This is also the bottom line of being an official, if you can't even cover up, what qualifications do you have to be an official.

It is this article that has generated some controversy.

Article 6 Selection of schools. There are three sources of generals, the descendants of the military generals, the descendants of the meritorious generals, and the promotion of the meritorious generals. With a slight change, from the commander to the commander, the commander must be evaluated, mainly with bows and horses, and select the strong or those who have military merits. The regimental commander not only requires martial arts, but also requires command ability, and must enter the West Mansion to be assessed by the officials of the West Mansion and the Third Class Academy. You can only do it after passing the assessment. As a shadow supplement, or as a descendant of meritorious heroes. You can enter the army, and you can only hold a deputy position, so as not to harm the country. Those with outstanding performance can also be assessed together with ordinary soldiers or go to Xifu for assessment before they can serve as commanders and regimental commanders.

This article may seem controversial, but it is not serious. All the scholars here also looked down on those generals, and some of the descendants of the generals entered the army, and they wanted martial arts without martial arts, and they had no ability, and there was a miasma among the anti-generals, and most of the scholars felt very hateful.

That is to say, one judgment and six treatments.

The second is the box soldiers.

The most serious expansion in peacetime was the Xiang army, which swelled to 500,000. Raising a box soldier is not as good as raising a forbidden army, but its cost is more than that of a village soldier, and it actually has little effect on the battlefield, and only plays the role of state labor. The law of exemption from military service was restored, and with the cooperation of the dart superintendent, a large number of township soldiers and baoding were supplemented in various places, even when the disaster came, there was also a strategy of labor relief to resettle the victims, and the van soldiers were no longer so needed. Therefore, Zheng Lang pleaded to cut the number of 250,000 people, cutting half. It is not completely cut, and there are still some later, and some of them are returned to various village soldiers.

In fact, Zheng Lang did not spend much ink on the box soldiers.

All the strategies are mainly one ban and two townships.

The following is the township soldiers, which are very complicated, there are township soldiers, archers, soldiers, militia, and baoding, and the strong men are not counted, they belong to the local errand service. All kinds of volunteers, the Bow and Arrow Club is not counted, the former is a messenger, and the latter is a spontaneous armed self-protection organization of the people. If you go down further, there are more names, Shaanxi Baojie Baoshun, Hebei Zhongshun, Hebei Shaanxi Strongman, Qihu, Hebei Hedong Strong and Bow Society, Hebei Hedong Shaanxi Yiyong, Shaanxi Husai, Sichuan Shaanxi Tuding, Jinghu Righteous Army, Tuding, Crossbowman, Guangnan West Road Tuding, Guangnan East Road Gunner, Fujian Road Gunner, Kui Shi Qiansi and other places of the Righteous Army, Tuding, Jiangnan West Road Gunner, Yongqin Xitong Zhuangding, Hebei Hedong Dare Yong, Fan Bing, etc., all belong to the category of loose township soldiers.

The emphasis is on the soldiers and the barbarians, the former is the main one, after all, the north is the headache of the country, and even if there is a disturbance in the south, it is not enough to harm the country.

The Tibetan soldiers were mainly Tibetans, Qiang, Di and a small number of Uighurs, and now the Jurchens are added. The composition was very loose before Qingli, and most of them were pure militia nature, and they were officially formed after Qingli. There are soldiers, brave soldiers, brave soldiers, archers, strongmen, etc., among which the soldiers can be regarded as armies in the strict sense, and the others are all forms of militia, which are very chaotic. The construction is more chaotic, some are based on the various ethnic groups as a unit, the big leader and above from the history of the assassination to the palace servant, and make up for the inspection of the clan, the sub-leader is the capital army master, the one who is more than one hundred tents is the military master, the capital Yu Hou, the commander, the deputy commander, the military envoy, the deputy soldier and the horse envoy, and the merit is the one who makes up for the assassin history, the generals of the guards, the envoys, the system, the chongban, the worship of the official to the palace servant, etc., as well as the ten generals of the lowly and lowly people. Others are divided into teams and teams.

In history, when Xining was restructured, it became orderly, and it was still seriously drawn. Those who are more than nine Ding will draw five Ding, those who are more than six Ding will draw four, four Ding will take three, three Ding will take two, and two Ding will take one, and the back of the hand will be stabbed. Although there was little taxation on the Tibetan people, it was very disdainful, including policies such as not allowing relatives between the Tibetan and Han people.

This time, they were cancelled one by one.

The integrity of the various tribes is still maintained, and once it is disrupted, it will lead to bad consequences. However, the establishment is the same as that of the forbidden army, those with less than 100 people are taken as units, and those who are full of commanders are taken as a unit. Half-farming, half-training, the same as the Shaanxi Baojie Army.

A small number of formally formed soldiers (i.e., sergeants who have left the tribal realm and are truly under the leadership of the state) are treated in the same way as the forbidden army, and are even allowed to relocate their families to the vicinity of Gyeonggi if they are willing to do so. The marriage system was opened and the Han and the Han were allowed to join relatives in order to integrate the Han and the Chinese.

At the same time, the number of draws will be reduced, and three will be drawn above nine. Draw two out of five or more. Draw one of more than two dings. or built as a soldier, or as a strongman, or as an archer. The militia is slightly subsidized in nature and is only trained during the winter slack, but the wartime rewards are the same as those of regular sergeants. in order to increase motivation.

The number of draws has been reduced, and the fact is also disarming. 100,000 soldiers is too much, and they must be reduced to about 60,000, and a small number can improve their salary. Boost morale. The same is true in Hedong, Hebei, where a mechanism similar to that of the Fan soldiers was established, with 20,000 people in Hebei and 15,000 in Hedong, and Shaanxi was reduced, and the 130,000 troops of Baojie and Baoshun were reduced to 60,000 people, and the militia in the south increased by 40,000 township soldiers. The cultivated land of the garrison shall be given to him as a subsidy.

There are many benefits. First, it is close to home, there is no suffering from rotation, especially in the hot climate of the south, if there is a part of the local village soldiers to supplement, it will reduce the rotation of the northern forbidden army and reduce unnecessary deaths. When the second war comes, a group of troops can be urgently mobilized. Third, his family's consumption is not large, and half of his salary is below that of poor households, and farming is enough to ensure the family's income.

In fact, it is equivalent to the restoration of a part of the local army establishment.

Zheng Lang was jealous, and he didn't dare to put more in quantity.

This group of troops is equivalent to a regular army, supplemented by farming, and training and combat are the mainstay. Although the forbidden army was reduced, the number of township soldiers increased by 190,000, and the combat effectiveness did not decrease. The actual cost was only equivalent to the cost of 100,000 forbidden troops.

Since they were regarded as regular armies and increased the combat effectiveness of the frontiers, they wantonly reduced all kinds of strong and brave people, such as 100,000 strong people in Hebei, 50,000 strong people in Hedong, and 40,000 strong people in Hedong. Other sectors have also drastically cut unnecessary volunteers, strong and strong people. Free these people together and let them concentrate on farming.

Bao Ding did not move, first, it was strictly enforced, and it was of a relief nature, second, they were scattered in the area of Liangjing and Huaibei, which could enhance the security of Gyeonggi and Gong Gong, the forbidden army was reduced, and the strength of Gyeonggi must be enhanced, and third, it was joined with patrols to prevent theft, which could reduce the occurrence of thieves, and the fact that after the implementation of the Law of Protecting the First was popularized, there was no peasant uprising near the capital, and fourth, it could play a supplementary function for the forbidden army, and a group of strong men were selected to enter the forbidden army, whose homes were not far from the capital itself, and some avoided the problem of family resettlement.

The second wave of reforms has finally been launched.

After reading the recital, the bigwigs had a lot of discussions.

Not all terms were agreed, such as the inspection system of civil officials and military officials, after many days of bargaining, became non-customized, and occasionally patrolled when needed, and could not be used as a regular system, so as not to cause a commotion and make the country quiet.

The cut was too ruthless, and the Fan people drew three or more from eight, two from four or more, and one from two or more. A slight reduction will increase at least tens of thousands of Tibetan soldiers and Tibetan militia. There was not much opposition to the formation of some armies in various places, and the local armed forces in Shaanxi have become like this, and in other places, it is true that this kind of rotation system has become very inconvenient because of the increase in territory, especially in some areas of Lingnan and southern Shunan. They were also worried that Shaanxi's military strength would be seriously weakened if it was cut too hard, and after bargaining, the number of township soldiers in Hebei became 25,000, that of Hedong was 20,000, that of the Baojie army was 80,000, and that of the township soldiers in various parts of the south became 50,000. The number of soldiers became 300,000. The militia in various places also increased in the number of Zheng Lang's performances.

A month later, Zheng Lang looked at the final figures, still shaking his head, after the reform, these township soldiers and Fan soldiers are called township soldiers, which are actually almost the same as the regular army, if they fight in their area, the combat effectiveness of these armies also exceeds the forbidden army of the rotation. The total number of forbidden village soldiers still reached 1.15 million.

And the number of volunteers in various places has increased slightly, making it impossible for Zheng Lang to carry out another step of the plan, so that more states and counties can implement the exemption law!

Can only wait. After the pacification of the Western Xia, the restructuring was carried out again.

There is also the time to cut the time.

Many people think that like Qingli, it will be cut in more than ten years to save the country's use, Zheng Lang did not agree this time, anyway, he owes so much debt, it doesn't matter if he owes a little, the sooner the country's finances will enter a healthy cycle.

The dispute lasted for a long time, and in late September, after the earthquake in Mozhou, it was finally settled and the edict was issued to the world.

Zhao Ji took his ministers to the temple to worship the ancestors and ancestors, which was Wen Yanbo's proposal.

No matter how many compromises Zheng Lang made, there were still many ministers who opposed it, and some ministers simply did not approve of such a large-scale reform of the army. The spring restructuring has stirred the world, and then the earthquake and flood, isn't it enough to toss?

But Zheng Lang and Zhao Ji insisted this time, and rejected all the advice that exceeded the bottom line, and as for the opposition, they didn't listen to it. Therefore, Wen Yanbo proposed, isn't it what Zheng Lang said, if God is merciful, the cause of this earthquake is the inaction of the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty. Now as a part, worship the ancestors of the Taimiao, and then worship the heavens. If you do, there will be no more earthquakes. But on the other hand, if there is another earthquake, then Zheng Lang's statement is wrong, and this is a disturbance to the people.

Zhao disagreed. Zheng Lang is talking about the way of heaven is far away, I don't know if there is affection or ruthlessness, Wen Yanbo, you misinterpreted.

Zheng Lang said at this time: "If this, according to Kuanfu's words, if the sky is affectionate, please bless me the Great Song Dynasty, if the sky is ruthless, the country has so many shortcomings, the reform is difficult, continue to use the earthquake to destroy the country's innovation, let us Song Dynasty be depressed forever." ”

agreed, but how to listen to this sentence made Wen Yanbo not taste. (To be continued.) )