"Ah, I only took the Pu knife and shook it twice in front of him, and the thief collapsed to the ground in fright, and immediately began to drip urine between his legs!"

There was a loud laugh in the hall.

The man who spoke was Ge Huai, who served as the third general under Meng Hui. It was the fake merchant in the soap hat in the evening. The majestic body and rough voice can't help but remind people of the legendary famous warrior monk Lu Zhishen in the late Northern Song Dynasty.

Meng Heng's habit in his life was to gather fifty to seventy subordinates at night, and all of them sat on the ground. From top to bottom, everyone talks about one thing, or something they have experienced, or a rumor on the street. When encountering something funny, everyone laughs for a while, but it is never allowed to expose other people's privacy.

At this time, everyone's most enthusiastic conversation was nothing more than the dozens of stupid thieves who were captured alive at night.

Meng Hui grinned and picked up a fried dough and put it in his mouth to swallow, and asked, "What about those accomplices of the unscrupulous sergeant, have you found out?" ”

Someone in the hall replied loudly: "All of them have been handed over to the Criminal Investigation Division for interrogation, and it is estimated that further search and arrest operations will begin tomorrow." ”

Meng Hui nodded with satisfaction, and sighed again: "The soldiers who received the state's salary to protect the people have actually degenerated into bandits who pretend to be enemy soldiers, which is really not dignified at all. ”

A loud voice suddenly responded in the hall: "The villain thinks that although these officers and soldiers are unforgivable, they are still excusable. ”

Meng Heng was furious and shouted, "Who dares to say such things to my subordinates!" ”

A man with a majestic body and a resolute face in the team of the pro-soldiers under the hall stepped forward and replied calmly: "In fact, the handsome man has already known it in his chest, so those who hate it are just restraining the virtue of the general." ”

Meng Heng snorted and said, "It turned out to be Wang Jian, you are new to my camp, and you don't know that the military law is strict, if you defend such nonsense, you will have to serve with a stick." Get out of here! ”

Could it be that it was really the hero who later held the Diaoyu City leisurely under the elite siege of the Mongolian Great Khan, Zheng Yunming, who was sitting in the guest seat, quietly glanced at it from the corner of his eye, and it was indeed a dignified hero. But I wonder if my small time crossing incident will have any impact on the exploits of this future national hero?

Wang Jian didn't know the strange thoughts of the young minister on the seat, and stepped forward and said loudly: "The situation of those new sergeants recruited in order to prepare for the attack of the Northern Army this year is already obvious to all in Huangzhou, and there is no need to hide it from the marshal. The imperial court was willing to pay for the exiled refugees to serve as soldiers, but it could not afford to pay the rest of the salary. Nowadays, the camp of the newly recruited army is not much better than the concentration of beggars, and the families of the sergeants have no clothes and no food, so they can only go to the river to dig some loaches and collect some grass roots to satisfy their hunger, and in exchange for food, some sergeants even sell their children privately to the merchants in the city as slaves and maids. The most outrageous thing is that when the generals were in arrears for several months and the soldiers were not paid, in order to cope with the inspection of the upper peak, these beggar-like sergeants were forced to operate their own silk and cotton jackets, so that when the state officials came down to review, they could be clearly dressed and their military appearance was magnificent. This kind of general, who only cares about his own promotion and wealth, and does not care about the life and death of his subordinates, the sergeants under his command, have any other way to live except to block the road and rob? ”

There was silence at the time of the hall, and many of Meng Heng's subordinates were drawn from the garrison troops in various places, and they were not clear about the various shortcomings in the Song army. Indeed, in dealing with the long-standing problem of the Southern Song Dynasty army being chaotic as soon as it was fought, scattered as soon as it was chaotic, and turned into bandits as soon as it dispersed, we cannot easily blame all the blame on the lax discipline of the sergeants. In the final analysis, it is because after crossing to the south, it still adheres to the chaotic policy of "using displaced people to fill the army and avoid becoming bandits" when he was in the north. Zheng Yunming remembered that in "Sima Fa", it was said that the wise, the brave, the greedy and the stupid can become qualified soldiers as long as they take the method of control, which is also the principle that all people are soldiers. However, Zheng Yunming believes that such rules are no longer suitable for today's battlefield. The reason is simple, first, the country's finances are already overwhelmed by the burden of such a large number of full-time soldiers. Second, such a large number of military personnel has a commensurate ability to win and weaken.

The solution is to eliminate the old and weak, that is, to set up a reasonable military retirement system, and at the same time increase the supply and training of the brave, so that they can play the most effective against a strong enemy that has never been encountered in history. Naturally, this required a major reform of the army and even the state system, which was basically an impossible task for the Song Dynasty, which was about to have an imminent external threat.

But this is not the opportunity to do nothing, Zheng Yunming got up and bowed to Wang Jian, and said loudly: "This sergeant brother, please listen to the student's words." ”

"The country's shortcomings have been formed for many years, and it is impossible to solve them completely overnight. It is true that those captured rebels are subject to this, and they have no choice but to suffer. However, if you can't get through the oppression from above, you have to reach out to the people below, and you would rather cut off Zheng's head than agree to this accommodating method. ”

"Yun Ming has also heard that in the early years of Shaoxing, Yue Shuai's subordinates were brave and invincible, not because of their proficiency in swords and guns, and their extraordinary martial arts, but in strict discipline, the so-called discipline is the ten words 'freeze to death without demolishing the house, starving to death without taking captivity';

"The sergeants and their dependents are indeed poor and poor, not only Meng Shuai, but also the imperial court is very clear. When I set out from Lin'an, what the DPRK and China were discussing was calculating the accounts of the Rong Divisions in various localities so that the grain and salaries could be distributed smoothly. But these scum who looted merchants and travelers under the banner of the Mongols could not be forgiven. ”

"That's what happened," Meng Hui put on the majesty of a general: "Those who violate military law cannot be bypassed no matter what reason, otherwise where is the prestige of the imperial court?" Where is the credibility of the general? Hurry up and retreat! ”

Wang Jian snorted and retreated to the bottom of the hall.

"Although there is a reason for the matter, but the military law is not merciful," Meng Heng glanced at everyone in the seat, and said with a straight face: "Today with human favors, tomorrow with the friendship of the country, with millions of elite soldiers, will be useless after all, merit will be rewarded, and punishment must be punished, even if the soldiers are few and the enemy does not dare to despise them, this is the truth of a certain soldier." ”

Everyone claimed that it was, and Zheng Yunming also secretly praised in his heart: "Being able to compete with the Mongols for ten years without falling behind, it is really not a vain figure, and it still needs to be courteous, and one day this relationship will be used." ”

At noon the next day, Wang Jian, who buried his head in the main gate of the yamen, bumped into a little scholar, who hit Wang Jian, who was like a mountain, staggered a few steps backwards, and almost didn't fall to the ground.

Wang Jianxin said it badly, I don't know which son's subordinate he offended again, and he was about to go over to help. The scholar rubbed his shoulders and looked at it, it happened to be the soldier who was talking nonsense with his son at the banquet yesterday.

"Uncle Wang Jian, I can be regarded as finding you, my son-in-law has something to bring to you."

"Wang Jian, are you here, come here, Dashuai has a few words for you."

The big man who spoke almost together with Xian'er was the deputy general of the Zhongjun Tian who was Wang Jian's boss, and he took off a piece of tissue paper with the official seal from his waist: "Here are 200 yuan of Huizi, although it is not much, but it is the marshal who spent it from his minister's money, you take it, and give a little money to the families of the brothers who are being sentenced in the Ming Dynasty today, which can be regarded as giving them some reliance." ”

Wang Jian was stunned for a moment, and then made a deep gesture: "The kindness of the handsome, Wang Jian thanked the orphans and widows first." ”

Vice General Tian nodded, turned his head and asked, "That boy, what is the matter with Zheng Gongzi sending you here?" ”

"It was for one thing," Xian'er smiled and took out a note from his sleeve: "Here are 800 yuan from Gongzi's assistance, with these two sums of money in one place, it is enough to buy some land for orphans and widows to live." It's just that Childe has a request. ”

"What are the requirements?"

"It's good to do this quietly, don't make a noise, Childe is not a person who is greedy for fame."

"I see, that's what the handsome man means, it's just that your son-in-law has just taken office, isn't he afraid of thieves on the road with so much money?" Vice Admiral Tian asked casually.

"Where did you bring any money," Xian'er pouted: "Childe pawned the sable fur given by the old lady, which is also a treasure at home, and the right to store it here in the store, and send someone to Lin'an to withdraw the money to redeem it later." Even so, I'm afraid that the old man will be indispensable afterwards. ”

"How dare Wang Jian accept this money?"

"There is no need to shirk, Gongzi often says, the husband is in the world, when people are in trouble, when others are in danger, it is better than burning incense and worshiping the Buddha for ten years on weekdays."

"Then you have to go to meet Zheng Guanren and express your gratitude in person."

"That's not necessary, Childe is afraid that everyone will see off the trouble, so he has quietly boarded the boat early in the morning and hurried on his own, after I gave Childe's farewell letter to the marshal, I immediately took a fast boat to catch up with Childe."

Xian'er made a gesture towards the two of them and walked straight into the yamen.

Just as Zheng Yunming quietly bid farewell to Meng Heng and rushed to Xiangyang, on the official road leading from Dengzhou to Xiangyang, he was speeding one person and one rider. Horses were originally a good breed in the Western Regions, after being bred by herdsmen with rich grazing experience in the north, they became excellent mounts with a high degree of tameness and good at galloping, but from Taiyuan all the way to the south, it was inevitable that there was some physical exhaustion, and sweat fell drop by drop along the mane in the flying dust. The rider on the horse was just an ordinary Song man dress, carrying a black bag behind him, and he could see that his expression was a little wilted after a long journey, and he still kept gently hitting the horse's ribs with the whip, and it could be seen that he was really anxious.

In the darkness of the night, a thick tree trunk lay across the avenue. On the trunk sat a petite figure. Of course, the trunk was not dragged by her and placed in the middle of the road, although this person has extraordinary martial arts, after all, he is still a woman, and it is no fun to move this hundreds of catties of trees alone. But fortunately, the woman has a good hand, and it is easy to hire a few strong men to do this.

(Congratulations to Evergrande for winning the championship)