It is not an easy task to organize and train the new army, and the new army's camps, recruitment, and the construction and protection of the new army's logistics yamen are not things that can be done overnight. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ。 qΒ5、\\

Zhao Lei was dressed in a purple official robe, sitting in the office study allocated to the new army by the official family of Tianzhang Hall in the Imperial City of Bianjing, and on his left hand side, sat Zeng Gongliang, who was in his thirties and had a serious face.

Sitting under Zeng Gongliang, also in his thirties, with a black face and a square chest, and a tall man who looked upright, was Ding Du, an official of the Ministry of Industry who co-edited the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts" with Zeng Gongliang.

And on Zhao Lei's right, the cautious thirty-year-old official is Han Qi, the future prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, who is both civil and military.

"Lord Zeng, Lord Ding, Lord Han, this official invites three adults to come today, first, I want to get to know the three adults, after all, we will be officials in the future, and we must take more care of each other; The second is the matter of the formation and training of the new army, which should be discussed with the three adults. Zhao Lei sat in the study and said to Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du and Han Qi with a smile on his face.

"Lord Zhao is polite, the lower officials are valued by the lord, and he has been ordered to come to assist the lord in organizing and training the new army, and the lord will directly order if there is anything." Hearing Zhao Lei's words, Zeng Gongliang said aloud very directly.

"Yes! Since we have come here by order, of course I will do my best to do my best to do a good job of the envoys handed over by the officials! Ding Du also said in a deep voice on the side.

Han Qi also smiled and nodded, Zhao Lei looked at Ding Du and said, "Since that's the case!" The official is welcome, I heard that Lord Ding is good at armor, and the official is ready to entrust the case to Lord Ding. Lord Ding will supervise the case for the official family and the imperial court, and be responsible for the production of the case, and the official hopes that the case can be reformed and improve the quality of the soldiers. ”

Case! Hearing Zhao Lei's words, Ding Du was very excited, after all, he has been obsessed with the production of weapons and armor since he was a child. I wanted to show my strength in the case for a long time, but now the opportunity was sent by Zhao Lei, where he could excuse himself, and quickly stood up and said firmly to Zhao Lei: "The lower officials will definitely take care of the case and live up to the trust of the officials and adults!" ”

"Good! Here is the information of the case, Lord Ding took it back and took a good look, which will be of great help to Lord Ding in supervising the case in the future. Zhao Lei took out a thick stack of books from the desk, handed it to Ding Du and said.

After Ding Du thanked him, he took Zhao Leidi's book and ignored the fact that he was in the study. Sit back in your seat and start looking at it right away.

When it came to Ding Du's attitude, Zhao Lei smiled slightly, not annoyed, he knew the temper of Ding Du and Zeng Gongliang. If it weren't for the obsession with military weapons, it would be impossible to write the only official military book in Chinese history, "Wujing General Essentials", Zhao Lei admired Ding Du's sense of responsibility very much, and what he hoped most now was that Ding Du and Zeng Gongliang had real talent and learning, and the logistics yamen of the new army could make achievements to help the new army improve its combat effectiveness faster.

"Lord Zeng is good at attacking and defending weapons, so this official handed over the weapons to Lord Zeng, hoping that Lord Zeng can make more new weapons. Help the Great Song to overcome the enemy! Zhao Lei picked up the information of the armory, handed it to Zeng Gongliang and said.

"Thank you Lord Zhao for your attention, the lower officials will definitely live up to expectations!" Zeng Gongliang clenched his fists and said in a deep voice, taking the information of the ordnance station handed over by Zhao Lei.

"As for the iron case, the official originally intended Xue to take over from Lord Xue, but Lord Xue is far away in Chengdu, although the official family has already summoned him to Beijing, there is no more than a month, so it is difficult to come. This iron case is temporarily under the control of the official, and Han Da is both civil and military, and he is also concerned about military affairs, so the official invited Lord Han to the new army to help the official organize and train the new army, and Lord Han will not refuse! Zhao Lei said to Han Qi with a smile.

"Lord Zhao is polite, the new army is related to the safety of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is an honor for the next official to join the new army!" Han Qi stood up and clenched his fists and said respectfully.

"Good! Since there is no problem with the three adults, the official will talk about the formation and training of the new army, and the official family has promised the official to allocate 10 million taels of silver for the new army's expenditure this year, but from next year, the imperial court will not allocate silver to the new army, and the new army will spend money from next year's local expenditure, and it will be spent from the logistics yamen. Zhao Lei looked at the three big Song Junjie in the study, and indifferently said the plan discussed with the official family.

"What! How can this be? The formation and training of the new army requires a lot of silver, whether it is recruitment, training and equipment, it needs a lot of silver, 10 million taels of silver to support the new army for three years at most, and the imperial court will no longer allocate silver in the future, what should the new army do? With the logistics yamen of the new army, the logistics yamen of the new army has money there, and it is not a household department! When Han Qi heard Zhao Lei's words, he immediately asked in shock.

"Not bad! There are a large number of officials and craftsmen to feed the case, the iron case and the ordnance office, if the court does not allocate silver, what will happen to the three yamen? Zeng Gongliang also asked Zhao Lei with a shocked face.

"This official has already discussed with the official family, and in the future, all the new army's silver expenditures will come from the new army's logistics yamen, and the source of the new army's logistics yamen's money will depend on us to find a way, but this official already has a way." Zhao Lei told the three of them about the fact that honeycomb coal and coal stove had been traded with Pan Fusheng.

Carboniferous! Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du and Han Qi looked at each other in shock, and began to sigh that Zhao Lei was knowledgeable, you must know that charcoal can burn this kind of thing, many people are playing its idea, but no one has been able to solve the problem of black smoke and poisonous gas in charcoal for thousands of years, but now Zhao Lei can solve these problems, think about the population base of hundreds of millions of people in the Great Song Dynasty, if everyone uses charcoal, how much profit will it generate! These profits, not to mention raising a new army, are more than enough to raise all the armies of the Song Dynasty.

"In this way, the iron case is not to recruit people and open a coal mine, the coal of the imperial court has been used for iron smelting, and the reserves cannot even be supplied to Kyoto, let alone the entire people of the Great Song Dynasty." Han Qi's eyes flashed, and he said in a deep voice.

"That's right, so the official decided to take out two million taels of silver from the 10 million taels of silver allocated by the imperial court to the iron case, and let the officials of the iron case speed up the mining of coal minerals in various places, and then make it into coal that can be burned, and supply it to Bianjing first." Zhao Lei said his plan indifferently.

"Coal has always been a mineral that the imperial court has not banned mining, many blacksmiths are using coal, and these coals are from private individuals, once the coal can be made into smokeless and non-toxic burning goods, the people will definitely mine coal minerals on a large scale, should the adults suggest that the government and the people should not mine coal privately." Zeng Gongliang immediately showed a large amount of silver from the coal, and these silver were more related to the affairs of the New Army and the New Army's logistics yamen, so he immediately asked carefully.

"Lord Zeng doesn't have to worry, this matter has already been played by the official, and the coal will soon become the same as gold, silver, copper and iron, and become a mineral prohibited by the imperial court, and it will be a big crime to mine it privately, and all the coal mines will be protected, rest assured!" Zhao Lei said to Zeng Gongliang with a smile.

"Now that the problem of money and food for the training of the new army has been solved, I don't know where the new army's barracks and the new soldiers' sources are?" When Han Qi heard that the problem of the new army's food and salary had been solved, he immediately asked about the most urgent issue in the formation and training of the new army.

"The recruitment of the new army's soldiers, this official has discussed with the official family, recruited from Hebei Third Road, Yongxing Military Road and Qinfeng Road, the five northern border roads, these frontier people face the harassment of Western Xia and Liao, brave and aggressive, compared with the physical fitness of the people from all walks of life in the south, and now the military department has issued the recruitment order to the northern five roads, 25,000 soldiers, more than a month!

As for the camp of the new army, the training of the new army should not only take into account the camp, but also be responsible for the security and confidentiality of the new army's logistics yamen, which is formed by the merger of the case, the iron case, and the armament, so the camp of the new army is particularly important, so the official family has set aside a large open space for the new army camp in the open space north of Yishan outside the Fengqiu Gate in Bianjing. Zhao Lei said proudly to the three New Army officials.

Hearing that Zhao Lei thought everything through so thoughtfully, Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du and Han Qi all got the answers they wanted, and after discussing some details, they left and left, and they were busy with the affairs of the new army.

In the following days, Zhao Lei, Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Han Qi broke their legs for the affairs of the New Army.

Ding Du took over the case, and while he was busy rectifying the case, he recruited more craftsmen to fill in the case, and made gunpowder arrows on rocket cars and armor, shields, and weapons needed by the new army.

Zeng Gongliang took over the ordnance institute, and at the same time instructed the craftsmen to seize the time to make rocket cars, they also had to refine the fierce fire oil (oil) and test the gunpowder formula according to Zhao Lei's intentions, and strive to make black powder that can explode as soon as possible.

Han Qi, the deputy envoy of the new army, replaced Zhao Lei and was responsible for coordinating the recruitment of new soldiers, shuttling between the military department and the Privy Council every day, to organize, to command, and to have capable generals.

As for Zhao Lei, he was busier than Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du and Han Qi, he pondered hard about the open-pit and shallowly buried mines of gold, silver, copper, iron and coal in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty, marked out the specific places on the map of the Great Song Dynasty, and let the local government find them, and also had to deal with the demand of various yamen for various metals in the iron case.

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At the same time that Zhao Lei and others were busy with the affairs of the new army, the court was also busy.

Pang Ji, who was demoted by Li Di, with the support of Lu Yijian, attacked Fan Yan more unscrupulously for disrespecting etiquette and law, and violating customs, three times a day, and the continuous recital finally led to a storm in the court, Fan Yan had no choice but to go to the official house to defend himself, and launched a fierce confrontation with Pang Ji, who was far away from Bianjing, and Li Di and Lu Yijian behind the two also fought-for-tat, accusing each other above the court, and the contradictions between the two sides intensified.

The conflict between Li Di and Lü Yijian finally angered the official Zhao Zhen, who ordered Pang Ji to come to Beijing and set up a court in Dali Temple, appointing Song Shou to try this absurd case.

The final confrontation between Li Di and Lu Yijian, the two prime ministers, is finally going to be staged in Bianjing.

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