Chapter 151: Rising to the Challenge

Although Zhao Ta asked for everything to be simple at the enthronement ceremony, the atmosphere that the people in the palace thought was necessary should still be there, and there was no need for the prince to do this, oh no... Your Majesty is worried, now the four major caravans have formed a huge commercial kingdom in the Great Song Dynasty, which is all rich and not bad at all. Now that the big shopkeeper has become the emperor, can they not be happy?

I think that a few shopkeepers back then were just running a few small caravans that did not enter the stream, relying on the pit and abduction to live, and then followed His Majesty to fight the world, not only made enough money, but now they also have face, all of them have the merit of supporting the dragon and become imperial businessmen. Several shopkeepers decided at the moment that they must have a good time and celebrate His Majesty, and they must not weaken their momentum and make people look down on them.

A few people have made up their minds, the government abides by the rules and does not hold celebrations, we 'folk' do it, and all the expenses do not come from the public, but the pockets of a few big shopkeepers. The servants in Beijing were kidnapped by the Jurchens and rescued by His Majesty, naturally they were grateful to Dade, needless to say, not to mention money, spontaneously rehearsing new programs overnight, and the content was needless to say full of praise.

Aoshan is the indispensable highlight of the major festivals of the Great Song Dynasty, they set up a color gate in front of the Xuande Gate that is higher than the huge Aoshan in the fourth year of Xuanhe, and all the industries belonging to the four major caravans in Bianjing City have set up color sheds and hung up the dragon flag. After Bianjing was recaptured, they reacted quickly and not only restored to their former size, but also took the opportunity to buy some bankrupt stores that had been looted, and reoccupied Bianjing, the largest domestic market.

Some people took the lead, and others followed suit. The colorful sheds and lanterns on the street make Bianjing City, which has just experienced the war, show its vitality again. Flower Street Cruise. It's a bit old-fashioned for the tricksters to perform these things, and a few people are talking about holding a grand fireworks show. The city was prone to fire, so they chose the location at Jinming Lake. I said hello to Kaifeng Mansion early and set it up.

After Zhao Huan ascended the throne, he was in turmoil, the country was in turmoil, and the finances were tight, and there had been no celebrations in the capital for two years, and the people who had escaped death were also looking forward to such a carnival to vent their depression and sorrow in their hearts and improve morale. When night falls, there is a bang. In the sky, 'Long live the new emperor, long live, long live!' A series of dazzling characters were printed in the night sky, and people in every corner of the city could see it, pushing the atmosphere to a climax!

Red, yellow, blue, green... Colorful pillars of light soar into the sky, exploding dazzling flowers in the air, and people's moods are also changing with the change of the scenery in the air, sad and melancholy mood seems to be extinguished with the fireworks, praying that the future days can be as warm and colorful as fireworks...

On the second day of the enthronement ceremony, the decree was given again. The Emperor Taishang and the Empress Dowager entered the Longde Palace for retirement; Princess Zhu was crowned queen, and her mother was the world; The princess of Liaoshu is a noble concubine, and the Xiao family is a concubine; Zhu Yannian, the father of the Jin Dynasty, is the prince of the country, and his mother is the second wife; At the same time, a group of clans who suffered during the northward journey were posthumously sealed.

On the third day, the Holy Decree Shangshu Province posthumously sealed Liu Ju, Ouyang Xun, Li Ruoshui and other courtiers and righteous men who were killed during the national disaster. and set up an ancestral shrine to worship. Some people with good intentions found that the people on the posthumous list were officials and righteous men who were truly loyal and conscientious, loyal and unyielding, and fought to the death against the enemy, or refused to participate in betraying the country and the king. The minister who kept a minimum of honor. Even Xiao Guan Suo Li Bao, who was beheaded on the street by the imperial court, was comforted by Zhao Xue. And the people who were also killed by the Jin people, such as Shangshumei of the Household Department, Yin Chengli of Kaifeng Mansion, Anfu of the Ministry of Rites, and Chen Zhizhi, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, who had expanded the silver for the Jin people, were not listed, even Liu Yanqing, who escaped and was killed at the gate of the city when the city was broken, was not on the list.

It didn't take two days to do this. The Kaifeng Prefecture posted a notice to severely punish those who assisted the Jurchens in plundering the people, killing people and setting fires, and collaborating with the enemy to rebel when the Jin army was besieging and breaching the city. All whistleblowers will be rewarded after verification, and at the same time, a wanted notice was posted to arrest the leaders of the divine soldiers 'Guo Jing, Yang Shi, Liu Wuji' and other charlatans. For a while, people who had misdeeds could not help but panic, they thought that when the new emperor ascended the throne, he would definitely give amnesty to the world, and they could get rid of their crimes, but they did not expect to wait for the pardon, but waited for the officers and soldiers.

On the night of the day the notice was posted, all the gates of Kaifeng Mansion were closed, and the officials of Kaifeng Prefecture, with the cooperation of the law enforcement team of the Zhongxing Army, searched the whole city to arrest the gangsters who had already been known to have committed illegal acts. At the same time, the doors of some puppet Chu and former court officials who were at home were knocked open by the soldiers of the Imperial City Division, and these officials and their families were taken away and their belongings confiscated.

In one night, more than 3,000 people were arrested in the capital, but this was only a part, and the investigation of traitors and thieves continued, and the scope also expanded to Gyeonggi and Hebei and other areas that were once occupied and controlled by the Jin army. The DPRK and China also set up a 'Suppression of Traitors' composed of the Imperial Historical Observatory, the Criminal Department, and the Dali Temple, and began to try these traitors.

Soon, He Su, Sun Fu, Wang Zongwei and others, who were mainly responsible for the destruction of the city, were removed from all official positions and titles, confiscated their family property, and assigned to Lingnan for management; Wang Shiyong, Xu Bingzhe, Wu Qi, Mo Yan, Hu Si, Wang Shao, Wang Jizhi, Yan Bowen, Yu Dajun and others betrayed the country left and right, forced the emperor, took the crown prince, insulted the six palaces, took the concubines, arrested the clan, and stole the forbidden property of the officials removed from their posts and titles, issued Shamen Island, confiscated their family property, and their children were not allowed to participate in the imperial examination.

Fan Qiong, on the other hand, was beheaded for treason and was beheaded in accordance with military law, accompanied by hundreds of street gangsters and rebels in the city who took advantage of the fire to rob and kill people. The rest of the people were assigned to the hard labor camp according to the size of their crimes, and together with the captured Jin army, they took on the 'heavy task' of building roads, building bridges, building cities, mining, etc., to rebuild the Great Song Dynasty and benefit the people!

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"Take five people as a team, and push one person as the captain; Twenty-five people in five Wu are A, and one person is not selected as A. One hundred people in the top four are the front and rear teams, and the team will be two people in the main and second teams; Five teams of 500 people are the department, and there are two generals and two deputy generals; There are 2,500 men in the five departments, and there are two chief and deputy commanders. The captain of the army is charged with the martial arts at the section level or the long line for the public, and the first is filled with the martial arts at the level of the ten generals and the martial arts for the public, and the front and rear teams each have one person to lead the team, and the ten generals are selected to be brave and brave enough to lead the people into the thief, and one person is charged to the team, and the ten generals and the commander and the deputy team will be charged with the deputies, captains, and small envoys, and the main and deputy departments will be sent to the big and small envoys and above to be filled with martial arts, and the commander of the court is poor..."

Although it was late at night, the Chongzheng Hall was still brightly lit, and Zhao Ta crouched between the desks to review the recital, which was the job he hated the most, but now he had to do it. He read Li Gang's plan for transforming the new army softly, but after reading it, his brows furrowed, this was actually a preliminary plan for the organization of the troops, and it did not solve the actual problems and break through the original confinement, but he also realized that the original military system had collapsed and there was no need for its existence.

The reason why Zhao Ta placed his Zhongxing army in the Gyeonggi area was precisely because he was worried that the current state of military chaos would cause a major chaos if the bullets could not be suppressed, so the top priority now was to solve the problem of the stability of the army. He carried out the second strike hard in Beijing, that is, he first eliminated the capitulation faction in the DPRK and China, purified the social environment, and showed his thunderous means to deter those who harbored different intentions.

At this time, as the main force of the Great Song Dynasty's army, it can be roughly said that there are four, the first of which is its own Zhongxing Army; the second is the Tokyo Left-behind Division Army created by Zong Ze; the third is the Shuaifu army brought by Zhao Gou; The fourth is the Shaanxi Army. In addition to the above-mentioned three major military forces, there are also many small troops, some of which are actually soldiers and bandits who are the backbone of the rout, and their leaders are probably the main culprits of burning, killing, and plundering; Some were originally civilian armed forces, and in order to resist Jin, they accepted the moderation of the Song court; There are also improvised armies of officials to defend the homeland, and so on, depending on the situation.

But think about it, in the past few years, the Great Song Dynasty was full of wars, wars and chaos, the forbidden army was defeated again and again, and finally achieved positive results, in fact, it is difficult to say that there is a relatively fixed military system. But now it is urgent to integrate the country's military strength and deal with the war and domestic chaos that may break out at any time, and Li Gang also agrees with his own opinion, but now that he has made such a thing for himself, isn't it still wearing new shoes and taking the old road?

After the founding of the Song Dynasty, the country quickly and decisively began to restore the civilian government of separation of powers and checks and balances, and handed the country over to civilian officials, who began to subconsciously respond to the challenges brought about by historical changes. What they actually have to solve is the first problem for almost all human civilizations: how civilian governments get along with professional armies.

For the first time in history, the civilian government instituted a system of professional soldiers that was close to perfection, and strictly stipulated that the military and generals must obey the leadership of the civilian government. But the civilian officials seem to have failed the good intentions of the founders. The civil servants of the empire quickly became arrogant and abused their leadership. Over the next 100 years, few civilian officials managed to improve the quality of professional soldiers, and in the opposite way discriminated against them.

The culture of discrimination against military personnel by civilian officials hurts the country almost more than the loss of a horse breeding facility. In fact, the professional soldiers of the Song Dynasty enjoyed the best and most generous salaries in the world at that time, equipped with the most advanced weapons at that time, but they enjoyed unprecedented mental torture, lost their enterprising spirit, and lost their determination and sense of honor to die in battle, and gradually became a group of wastes who ate and waited for death and had no combat effectiveness.

"It seems that it is not an overnight thing to make these scholars who have become accustomed to high civility and low martial arts change their views, but it must also go on!" Zhao Ta thought about it, as soon as his three fires were burned, he encountered difficulties in reforming the military system, but he must not give up... (To be continued......)