Song Jiu said slowly: "At the same time, we must work hard, if the minister does not work hard, be humble, and conscientious, it is His Majesty's protection of the minister, and others do not agree with it, and they are impeached one after another, and His Majesty has to take off the minister's official position." ”

Zhao Kuangyi's forehead.

"But you can't ignore the wisdom, the minister didn't know what to do when he was young, and he wanted to get the Jinshi, but the poetry was not the minister's strength, and he repeatedly fell behind, if the minister did not change the direction, he would be unpopular from now on, and even at this time he would be very depressed. However, the minister changed his direction, gave full play to the strengths of the minister, and gradually entered the eyes of the first emperor and His Majesty, which is wisdom. ”

"Decision-making also needs wisdom, the minister first said that the origin of the festival, the Tang Dynasty implemented the government military system, the early Tang Dynasty was extremely powerful, often many times with less wins, casualties are not large, so each expedition is enough to make up for the cost of military rewards and pensions, the enthusiasm of the soldiers is high, and there is enough arable land to settle the families of the soldiers, so it has created a strong government soldiers. Later, in the Tang Dynasty, since Gaozong's later years, Wu Zetian gradually took power, Xue Rengui's army was defeated in Dafeichuan, and the casualties became larger and larger. ”

In his previous life, Song Jiu praised Wu Zetian more than he depreciated.

In this life, I read more history books, seriously reflected, but it was more derogatory than praised, although Wu Zetian was okay in internal governance, but it was too poor militarily, after killing many famous generals, every battle was defeated, the battle of Dafeichuan, the battle of Qinghai, the battle of Yinzhijiahe, the battle of Luohan Mountain, the battle of Huangzhang Valley, the battle of Dongkip Stone Valley, often a defeat casualties of as many as 100,000 troops, if placed in the battle of Sanchuankou, only thousands of casualties of troops shook the Song Dynasty of the government and the opposition, it is unimaginable.

It can't be because Wu Zetian is a woman, it's great to be an emperor. exaggerated Wu Zetian infinitely.

"The casualties are enormous, and the rewards are insufficient. Arable land is in short supply, creating a vicious circle. Coupled with the slow speed of government soldier recruitment, the government soldier system collapsed, and the Tang Dynasty set up a festival envoy system. It was relatively good at the beginning, and in several foreign battles, there were more victories and fewer defeats, and the country gradually became stronger. However, because the military generals of the Tang Dynasty also entered the prime minister, Li Linfu deprived the Han people of the opportunity to lead the troops to fight for the Jiedu envoy for the sake of dictatorship, and many Hu people were in charge of the troops for the Jiedu envoy. It doesn't have to be my race. Their hearts must be different, such as General Dangjin, Hei Zhi Changzhi of the Tang Dynasty, Ge Shuhan, Gao Xianzhi and others. However, Emperor Tang Ming became more and more mediocre, infinitely magnifying the festival degree to make it powerful, An Lushan alone with Pinglu, Fanyang, Hedong three towns of Jiedu, has administrative power, has military power. He had financial rights and allowed him to mint coins, and his jurisdiction area was several times greater than that of the Northern Han Dynasty, almost encompassing most of Hedong and Hebei. The area is larger than Wu Yue, and the tail is too big to fall, which is why there is an antipathy. If he only has one town. Do you dare to rebel? ”

"Not necessarily ......," Lu Duosun wanted to interrupt Song Jiu's words.

"Lu Gong, I know the way. After the Tang Dynasty, many feudal towns did not have a large jurisdictional area, but they did not listen to the transfer of the imperial court. It was worse in the fifth generation, but it was a product of the decline of the state. I am not against this move of the imperial court, but only to talk about the origin of the festival envoy in order to make decisions. ”

"There are two points, the border guards have always had the upper hand on the Khitan over the years, with the merits of the generals, and the convenience of the policy, they can independently mobilize local taxes, they can make more profits, and they also have money to recruit warriors, buy secret agents, reward soldiers, if they are all taken back, what will be the consequences?"

Not only that, Zhao Kuangyin also treated these bigwigs well, Guo Jinxiu's mansion exceeded the royal scale, and the minister was impeached, but Zhao Kuangyin scolded him instead, so that Guo Jin had something to do quickly, and there was no reply.

Therefore, Ma Renyu dared to go deep alone and snatch up several states in the northwest of Youzhou, plus Tian Qinzuo's 3,000 and 60,000, the Khitan people were cold.

Otherwise, how could the Khitan sit back and watch the Song Dynasty safely take back the Southern Tang Dynasty?

I can't say this, Zhao Kuangyi will be very unhappy.

"Secondly, once all the festival envoys are canceled, the soldiers will not know the soldiers, the soldiers will not know the generals, and the war will come, how to ensure victory?"

"What do you think?" Zhao Kuangyi's eyes flashed with coldness, and he asked in a deep voice.

"The festival makes the system seriously harmful, cancel it at this time, and approve it from top to bottom, which is the fortune of heaven and the time of day. But the minister thought that wisdom and hard work were still needed. ”

"What is hard work and wisdom?"

"Effort and wisdom is the positioning of wisdom, absorbing its strengths and removing its weaknesses in order to make correct decisions. These Tianchen have been thinking about its pros and cons, and have never fully figured it out. But the minister thought that it could be canceled, and he also wanted to keep some of it. First of all, the Central Plains and the south are not very harmful, and these festivals can be abolished and officials can be governed normally, so that political power can be centralized, which is conducive to the rule and tranquility of the country. However, the border areas in the northwest and north should be screened out, and there may not be a festival envoy, but some observation envoys and regimental training envoys can be set up, and the people in these border areas have little arable land, and most of them are soldiers and soldiers, so the imperial court can continue to delegate the financial and tax power to the soldiers, so that they can deal with the invading enemy flexibly and flexibly. However, the scope of jurisdiction should be further narrowed so that some generals would not be ambitious. ”

The coldness on Zhao Kuangyi's face finally disappeared, and a look of hesitation appeared.

"Moreover, people have shortcomings, but also strengths, civilian people are good at governance, military generals are good at leading troops in battle, Gu Chen thinks that these observation envoys and regimental training envoys must be served by military futures, and civilian officials should not interfere. The last thing is the institutionalization of rotational warfare, and all officers and men are rotated every three years and divided into three shifts, so that the training envoys and observers of each regiment can understand most of their subordinates, and make up for some shortcomings of the rotational garrison system, in which soldiers do not know generals and generals. ”

"Zhuqing, what do you think?" Zhao Kuangyi looked at Xue Juzheng, Shen Yilun, Lu Duoxun, Cao Bin, Chu Zhaofu, Pan Mei and Wang Renho and asked.

Xue Juzheng and Shen Yilun pondered, Cao Bin was habitually silent, Pan Mei and Wang Renho had a slightly smaller right, this is a big policy change, it is not good to interject, and Pan Mei still needs to avoid it, but Chu Zhaofu said: "If this is the case, the minister thinks it is okay." It not only promotes strengths and avoids weaknesses, but also avoids overkill. ”

"Then that's it, Lu Qing, you come to draft the edict." Zhao Kuangyi said.

It can't be delayed any longer, and it must be carried out in a thunderous way to avoid surprises.

Lu Duoxun's draft edict cannot be called an edict yet, and it must be copied by the Zhizhi before it can be called a real edict.

Song Jiu said again: "What the minister just said is a general, and the issue of soldiers is also unresolved. ”

"Tell me about it."

"The first emperor had the drawbacks of punishing the Tang Dynasty's military system and the feudal town system, and insisted on prohibiting soldiers in the capital. However, this disadvantage is more serious. ”

"Go on."

"If Your Majesty wants to hear it, can you let the minister out of the palace? Take a common man into the palace. ”

"That's not right." Xue Ju is righteous.

"It's okay, Song Qing. Take him into the palace. Zhao Kuangyi said.

If Zhao Kuangyin is wise and martial, or the emperor, you are far inferior to your eldest brother in military affairs, it is called not knowing each other.

But when it comes to supplementing and revising Zhao Kuangyin's policy, Zhao Kuangyi will like it very much.

Song Jiu couldn't cry or laugh in his heart, left the political hall, and after a long time, brought a beautiful woman in.

The woman was so frightened that she didn't know how to bow to her.

Song Jiu asked, "What's your name?" ”

"The people's daughter's name is He Siniang." The woman replied in a trembling voice.

"Who is your husband and what kind of business are you engaged in?"

"The husband's name is Li Rui, and he is a soldier of the Tianwu Army."

"He's a soldier of the forbidden army, why do you want to be a military prostitute?"

"Yi'an, it's ...... you to bring a military prostitute to the palace," Shen Yilun said.

"Gong Shen, the problem is serious, please allow me to lose my courtesy. Ho, you answer this officer. ”

"The people's daughter's family is poor. There are two more children, and the husband's salary is not enough to support the family, so the people have to work as a military prostitute......"

Song Jiu nodded and asked the eunuch to take her down. Then he looked at Zhao Kuangyi and said, "Your Majesty, this is the big problem." Although the court is well-intentioned, it includes the box soldiers. There were more than 300,000 sergeants, and once there was a war with the north. The number of men-at-arms will be higher. In particular, the forbidden soldiers are mostly in the capital. The price of goods in the capital is expensive, and there are some middle- and low-level generals who are not good enough to deduct the salaries of lower-level soldiers, and most of the soldiers cannot support their families. In the past, when the first emperor conquered Jinghu, Southern Tang, Bashu and Southern Han, all states and counties had some wealth, and by plundering wealth, they could make up for some lack of income. But the Central Plains is about to be unified, and the great enemy is the north. Let's ask what kind of wealth can be plundered by sending troops to the north? ”

"Or the imperial court increased the salaries of soldiers so that they could support their families, but the minister calculated that a family of four or five people wanted to barely survive in the capital, plus the part of the soldiers' deductions, the remuneration of the generals, and the manufacturing and maintenance costs of weapons and armor, it would cost at least more than 100 yuan to raise a sergeant. Then more than 300,000 soldiers need at least 40 million soldiers. The total income of the state for a year is all spent on soldiers, and it will not be enough. But if the original appearance is maintained, there will be such a miserable situation of letting the wife become a military prostitute, and even the food and clothing of the family cannot be solved. ”

This is also a big problem.

"And the capital is a prosperous place, which is a good thing, but the forbidden army has been in the capital for a long time, it is inevitable that it will be contaminated with some flashiness, vanity is not afraid, but it will be terrible to put it on the army, this group of soldiers is fighting in the south and the north, it is a warrior, but when they are old, how can the next group of soldiers be used? Feng Changqing defeated Luoyang, is Feng Changqing not a famous general? It's not that he can't lead the troops to fight, but the soldiers he requisitioned are all the sons of Luoyang, the eastern capital, how can he be the opponent of An Lushan's soldiers? ”

"What do you think should be done?"

"The intention of the forbidden soldiers to defend the capital is good, with a large number of forbidden soldiers stationed near the capital, all localities will not dare to plot a rebellion, but it does not necessarily have to be all in the city. The imperial court can put most of the forbidden soldiers in the suburbs around the capital, and now the population is not dense, and there is a lot of open land that can be reclaimed, so a lot of arable land can be set aside as a permanent cantonment for the forbidden soldiers, and some of them can be cultivated in time, and some of them will be handed over to the barracks for logistics supply, and some of the forbidden soldiers will be obtained by themselves. In the meantime, some mulberry forests were set aside for his daughters to plant mulberry and increase their income. At the same time, the cost of living will also go down if you live in the suburbs. When the family is well fed, the soldiers will have the confidence to fight. ”

At present, it is not very difficult to achieve this, but the difficulty is that most soldiers may not be willing to put down their bodies to farm, but they can be fine-tuned and slowly promoted. Going back, the population is dense, the arable land is tight, and it is impossible to carry it out.

"A soldier is meant to fight, not an expensive toy. Therefore, it is necessary to eliminate all the old, weak, sick, and weak people in the barracks. Establish a strict discharge system. In addition to the generals, the soldiers reached 50, their blood and spirit had declined, and their combat effectiveness on the battlefield had declined, so they all had to be discharged from the army after the age of 50. But the court must give them 200 yuan for their old age, or to buy land, or to operate, or to buy a house, or to live, so that they can have something to support in their old age. ”

"It's going to cost a lot of money." Xue Ju is righteous.

"That's true, but Xue Gong, have you ever calculated from the other side that if you put the soldiers in the suburbs, no matter what form you use to settle the fields, the court will not need to bear their food and cloth. Even if the burden is reduced, the number will be reduced, how much money will be spent this year? And there is also an invisible one, these grain cloths cannot be calculated by market price, they are all transported from all over the place, how much labor is needed along the way? If you calculate the cost of these savings, how much will be saved in a few decades, it is more than two hundred dollars. At the same time, how much of the people's labor was reduced? Moreover, placing it in the suburbs, so that the soldiers away from the glitzy place, will also improve the overall quality of the army. ”

The reason why the Qi family army is strong is not only because of its well-trained and Qi Jiguang's command ability, but also because of its health, Qi Jiguang uses all the peasants as his soldiers.

There is no need for Qi Jiguang to give an example, as long as Song Jiu mentions it, everyone can think of it.

Once there are generous rewards and pensions for military exploits, then the soldiers will not only have enthusiasm when fighting, but also reduce their worries. Such an army is the long-term solution. ”

If these measures pass, it will be a big toss-up.

But no matter how you toss it, it will weaken the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty's dethronement of martial arts.

And Song Jiu also thought about it for a long time, the reason why he went against his previous approach and came to this toss still has an internal basis.

Now that the Song Dynasty is still in the initial stage, it is like a blank piece of paper, and it is easier to conceive a painting, at least much less than when Wang Anshi changed the law.

Secondly, Zhao Kuangyi was only uneasy about most of the generals in his heart, and wanted to suppress them, rather than despise martial arts, although his actions led to the complete light military force of the Song Dynasty.

Moreover, Zhao Kuangyi is ambitious, likes to toss, and is not afraid of tossing, which is similar to the later Song Shenzong.

Song Jiu finished his thoughts, but what he said couldn't be counted, Xue Juzheng said that it didn't count, and Lu Duoxun couldn't do it, in fact, at this point, he had to admire Zhao Pu's power ministers, and how difficult it was to make the emperor obey his words, it was because of his incomparable understanding of psychology, current situation, words, and government affairs, so that he could achieve it.

Don't say that a proposal that is not good for the country is a good proposal, and it may not make Zhao Kuangyi obey his words.

Compared with the two, he is too far away from Zhao Pu.

But it's okay now, Zhao Pu doesn't have the right to speak, otherwise he would have learned from Cao Bin?

Song Jiu retracted his thoughts and looked at Zhao Kuangyi. (To be continued......)