In April 1o36 AD, after Yuan Hao of the Western Xia conquered the three states of the Cao family, with the help of the Cao family's century-old accumulation of wealth, he began to reform the Western Xia, and the continuous reform finally transformed the Western Xia from the primitive tribal system into a feudal dynasty that could compete with the Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info\\. qВ5、c0m\

At the beginning of April, Yuanhao of the Western Xia Dynasty collected the soldiers of the party tribes, selected the young and strong among them, and formed a regular army with two draws, one horse and one camel, one tent, one bow, five hundred arrows, and other flags, drums, guns, swords, sticks, and sticks were fully equipped to form a regiment to train the army.

In addition, Yuan Hao also specially set up 200 gunners, called the Poxi Army; The brave and good fighters among the captured Han people were organized into the front army, which was called the Crash Ling Lang Army; The timid and unskilled elders of the Han Chinese were stationed in Suzhou, or they were relocated to other places to engage in agricultural production.

Yuan Hao expanded the captive army to 150,000, selected the children of the tribe's wealthy families and nobles, and formed six classes in the imperial siege, and became hostages while being responsible for guarding the safety of the Xingqing Palace.

Yuan Hao also changed the infantry armor captured from the Great Song Dynasty to iron cavalry armor, forming 3,000 elite heavy armored cavalry, all wearing heavy armor, and using rope hooks to connect the heavy armored cavalry together, forming the famous Tiefu Tu in later generations.

After the reform of the military system, the army of Western Xia increased to as much as 500,000, and the huge army threatened the surrounding countries of Western Xia, such as the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State.

At the end of April, after Yuan Hao's military reform, the number of soldiers increased, and the territory expanded, Yuan Hao decided to reform the military name and promote the county and benefit the frontier.

Early May. The soldiers of the Western Xia Yuanhao were divided into the left and right compartments, and twelve supervising military divisions were set up, namely Shenyong in the left compartment, Xiangyou in Shizhou, Jianing in Youzhou, Zhuo Luo and Nan, Jingsai in Weizhou, Baotai in Xishou, Chaoshun in the right chamber, Gansu in Ganzhou, Xiping in Guazhou, Yan in Heishui Town, Weifu in Montenegro, and Baimaqiang Town.

After reforming the military name, Yuan Hao further consolidated the external defense of Western Xia. With Helan Mountain as the center, Yuan Hao mobilized troops to garrison various border areas, 70,000 soldiers guarded Xingqing Mansion, 50,000 soldiers guarded Xiping Mansion, 50,000 soldiers stationed in Helan Mountain, 50,000 soldiers in Youzhou on the left side, 50,000 troops on the Song Dynasty's Yuyan Road, Linzhou, and Fuzhou, and 50,000 troops on the Ganzhou Road on the right side, responsible for defending the Tibetans, Uighurs and other ethnic minorities, and 50,000 soldiers in the south. Responsible for the defense of the Song Dynasty Huan, Qing, Zhenrong Army, this area has Tiandu Mountain, Weijing Mountain, White Leopard, Anyan Prefecture, Luo Luo and other military towns. Yuan Hao also sent 70,000 soldiers to defend the Liao State.

At this point, the Western Xia finally completed the transformation from a tribal system to a feudal system, and Yuan Hao further strengthened the power of the monarch, laying the foundation for the future enthronement and the establishment of the Western Xia Dynasty.

The great expansion of the Western Xia army greatly stimulated the sensitive nerves of the Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty. At the same time as the expansion of the Western Xia, the Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty immediately sent large armies to station on the border of the Western Xia, preparing to deal with the possible invasion of the Western Xia and suppress the inflated ambition of the Western Xia Yuanhao.

At the same time as the Great Reform of Western Xia, the Bianjing Imperial Court of the Great Song Dynasty was also carrying out the same reform. However, unlike the Western Xia, the reform of the Western Xia Yuanhao went smoothly, and no one dared to oppose it. And some people in the Bianjing court wanted to reform, even if the official family proposed it, there were a group of people who obstructed and opposed it.

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Fan Zhongyan has been very annoyed recently, very annoyed, since he heard about the reform of the Western Xia, he prepared a book of 10,000 words in the name of the new army training envoy, and submitted it to the official family, hoping that the official Zhao Zhen can increase his efforts on the basis of the reform proposed by Zhao Lei in Guangzhou.

However, as soon as Fan Zhongyan folded it, it was refuted by the officials. Hundreds of officials obstructed it, why Zhao Lei's reform could be easily passed, and his Fan Zhongyan's reform requirements were so difficult to pass, which was the reason why Fan Zhongyan was irritable and depressed.

In the tent of the new army camp at the north gate of Bianjing, on the Taishi chair designed for Zhao Lei, Fan Zhongyan frowned and sat on it, while opposite him, Ouyang Xiu sat with a folding fan in his hand and a dashing demeanor.

"Uncle Yong! Why don't you say that the officials and the hundred officials of the imperial court agree with my proposal to streamline the army! You must know that many armies in the south have been rotted to the bones, and there is no combat effectiveness at all, and keeping them will only waste the food of the imperial court, so it is better to disband them all and train the new army from the new! Fan Zhongyan frowned and looked at Ouyang Xiu, and asked in a puzzled tone.

"Brother Xiwen! I told you a long time ago that the imperial court will not agree to reduce the army, this matter Sanshi brother has seen more thoroughly than you, he put forward so many reform requirements, but he did not say anything about the army, Western Xia is just a small land, it has an army of 500,000, and the Great Song Dynasty is so vast, is there more than 1.2 million troops. Ouyang Xiu shook his head and said sincerely to Fan Zhongyan.

"I don't want to cut the army! It's just a matter of cutting down on the less effective armies and then recruiting new recruits. Fan Zhongyan also knew that the army of the Great Song Dynasty could not be reduced, which was not only related to the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty, but also related to the happiness of tidying up the face of the Great Song Dynasty. So he explained to Ouyang Xiu very directly.

"Cut! Just kidding, those armies in the south are all guys who have been mixed up in the local area for decades, just pull one out, there are not a lot of them in the locality, and if you cut them, what a shock it will bring to the Great Song Dynasty! Moreover, even if they are laid off and the military department recruits new recruits, who can guarantee the combat effectiveness of the new recruits, and the weak combat effectiveness of the southern army is not due to the non-commissioned officers, but a local factor, unless the war burns to the south, it is impossible to imagine that the prosperous southern army has the combat effectiveness of the northern army. Ouyang Xiu said coldly with disdain.

Thinking about Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu thought about it and continued: "Brother Xiwen! The southern army is only 200,000, and the elite of the Great Song Dynasty are in Bianjing and the north, the most important thing for us now is not to be more serious with the southern army, but to find a way to continue to reduce the expenditure of the imperial court, as long as we increase the investment in the northern army, we can recruit more elite soldiers in the north to guard against the ambitious Yuanhao of Western Xia. ”

"Not bad! I shouldn't have brought up the matter of reducing the southern army first, it should be the reform of the shadow law, Sanshi once mentioned that the shadow law is too simple when he was in Bianjing, one person is an official, and all his children and grandchildren are shaded, and the Great Song Dynasty has more than 4,000 shaded officials in just a hundred years, this proportion is too large, such as Lu Yijian's youngest son, a villain with no talent and no virtue can be shaded and mixed with seven grades of false duties, like him, there are at least hundreds of talented and shaded officials in the Great Song Dynasty, and the court will spend millions of taels every year, I have long had the idea of changing the shade law, and tomorrow I will play the Ming official family, Change the law of sun and grandson to the single son of the shadow method, an official can only have one son to be shaded, and see what methods those officials use to make their sons who are not learned and unskilled become reserve officials of the Great Song Dynasty. Fan Zhongyan said this, his tone became more and more stern, and his eyes were shining.

Although this matter affects the rights of many officials' children and grandchildren, this right is based on the damage to the interests of the Great Song Dynasty, and the support of King Meng Zhao Yuanyan and the consent of Zhang Shixun and Yan Shu and others make this matter quickly conveyed, and since then, the Great Song Dynasty's Mengyin Law has become a single son of the Great Song Dynasty, saving millions of taels of silver for the Great Song Dynasty every year.

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Just when the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia were changing, Zhao Lei, who was far away in Guangzhou, was not idle, and set out to open the prelude to the great wave of immigration of the people of the Great Song Dynasty that lasted for decades.

After several months of construction, the Guangzhou Naval Port has begun to take shape, and Zhao Lei has also merged the three major local naval forces in coastal Mingzhou, Quanzhou and Guangzhou, plus the coastal naval non-commissioned officers recruited by the Ministry of War, Zhao Lei already has a powerful navy of 20,000 people and nearly 200 warships.

In the vast South China Sea, hundreds of warships shuttled back and forth between Guangzhou, Qiongzhou and Liuqiu, and the local officials in Guangzhou had reached an agreement with the Liuqiu family, and the Great Song Dynasty court successfully turned Liuqiu into an overseas state of the Great Song Dynasty after paying five six-rank official positions and some land resources, and Liuqiu Prefecture also officially appeared in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

Qiongzhou and Liuqiu were originally famous big islands in the South China Sea, and the islands were full of good natural harbors, and Zhao Lei led the navy under his command to easily find two ports in Liuqiu and Qiongzhou to build naval bases.

Zhao Lei's most important resettlement plan also began to be implemented, and tens of thousands of poor people along the coast of the Great Song Dynasty, such as Guangnan East Road, Guangnan West Road, Fujian Road and Nanzhejiang Road, dragged their families and families to the fleet of the navy, and crossed the sea to immigrate to the unfamiliar Qiongzhou and Liuqiu, two islands in the South China Sea.

Zhao Lei's immigration plan was not hindered much, in fact, at this time, the land annexation of the Great Song Dynasty was very serious, and many people lost the land they relied on for their livelihood.

Although the Great Song Dynasty was commercial, but after all, it could not solve the employment problem of everyone, countless people who had no land, lived by odd jobs, and lived in poverty, under the temptation of Zhao Lei and Sansi's cooperation, for the fertile ownerless land of Qiongzhou and Liuqiu, far away from their hometowns, took the warships of the navy, and went to Qiongzhou and Liuqiu to find the life of their dreams.

The immigration plan reached the end of May, Zhao Lei showed that he underestimated the allure of Qiongzhou and Liuqiu those ownerless lands to the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and from his arrival in Guangzhou began to lead the naval warships to transport the people to Qiongzhou and Liuqiu, in just two months, nearly 300,000 people on the four coastal roads of the Great Song Dynasty gave up their poor life in their hometowns, took a little belongings at home, followed the naval warships, and went to Qiongzhou and Liuqiu, and the people in Qiongzhou and Liuqiu were assigned to the land, and the people in Qiongzhou and Liuqiu were propagandized everywhere under ecstasy. Attract more people along the coast and in the inner 6 who are ready to give up the poor life in their hometowns and prepare to go to Qiongzhou and Liuqiu to find a way to live.

Zhao Lei lived a few months peacefully, commanding Minzhuang to build a port every day, taking the naval fleet out for training, and transporting some people to Liuqiu and Qiongzhou.

thought that this kind of peaceful days could last until the beginning of the navy's combat effectiveness and the day when he and Ma Yi competed for sea control, but a major event in the South China Sea interrupted Zhao Lei's calm and busy days.

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