Song Jiu still did not dismantle it, and said: "Over the years, our dynasty has fought against Liaokou, there have been victories and defeats, joys and sorrows, here, there are a few who have not been on the battlefield, but most of them have been to the front line in person, and they are injured, including me, including Your Majesty. ”

Song Jiu rolled up his sleeves, in the battle of Qigou Pass, he was injured in many places, especially his forearm, because he was not protected by armor, he was the most seriously injured, and now he can still see deep scars and arrow marks.

He also said: "My minister, it is not as serious as the injury of Your Majesty, Your Majesty, forgive your Majesty for being rude." ”

Song Jiu bent down and lifted Zhao Kuangyi's leg robe, and said loudly: "Everyone, you see, this is the injury that Liao Kou inflicted on His Majesty, the king is humiliated, and the minister deserves to die!" ”

This is the general righteousness.

No matter what Kou Zhun and Wen Zhongshu thought, at this time, they didn't say a word.

Zhao Kuangyi would not miss this opportunity, and gently patted Song Jiu's shoulder with his hand: "Song Qing, I am also for the descendants of the hundreds of millions of people in this country, Qing has done a good job, don't blame yourself." ”

Don't you understand that?

Ups and downs, with tears in his eyes, swore allegiance.

Zhao Kuangyi was very satisfied, especially with Song Jiu.

In fact, Song Jiu was not very satisfied, Song Jiu doubted in his heart, China has ruled the world with Confucianism since ancient times, and Confucianism also emphasizes loyalty and patriotism, but why is the cohesion so bad? Just use an analogy, now, it should not have started a weak foreign policy of guarding the inside and outside, but look at the cohesion of the Han people, open the list of heavy generals under Yelu Huge, don't talk about the Han family, in addition to the Han family, there are many Han generals who are taking the initiative to be the vanguard of the invasion of the Song Dynasty.

Why is this so?

In addition to the fact that the national concept has not really been formed, of course, Song Jiu does not dare to let it form. The ethnic minorities within the Song Dynasty had a national outlook together, which was not a good thing. The other is this concept of family and country. The country of the Song Dynasty was not the country of the Han people, but the country of the Zhao family.

So for a long time. It is not conducive to the formation of national cohesion.

I don't want to understand, he is not a thinker and philosopher, forced by the needs of reality, Zhao Jiasteady, the world is stable, helpless! Also, don't look at him usually doesn't speak, but when he speaks, almost no one dares to speak. Even if he deliberately kept a low profile. If you think about it seriously, his position is still on the pinnacle of that kind of high place. can't go on it anymore, and if you go on it again, Zhao Er will have to move the nest.

So be extra careful.

But Song Jiu hadn't opened it yet, but walked out of the hall and ordered the officials to bring a few giant candles, and then rolled up the huge map on the wall behind him.

Kou Zhun screamed, "Hey, there's a secret door here? ”

It was useless for him to know the truth, only a key was in Zhao Kuangyi's hands.

Zhao Kuangyi opened the secret door and lit a giant candle. Inside is a huge secret room, the Privy Council and the Chinese book are in the west of the imperial city, and the north side is slightly depressed, and Zhao Da and Zhao Er are not particular masters. Not many palaces were built. However, Zhao Kuangyi, the imperial city in the south, built many buildings one after another, such as Shangshu Province and Menxia Province. Dianzhong Province, Liushang Bureau. Imperial Kitchen, Mingtang. The government hall, the secretary department, the three halls of the book collection, etc., the imperial city was not large in the first place, so it was a little crowded.

In particular, there are more houses in the east and west of the two major offices, and there are more houses because of the angle relationship, and if you don't think about it, no one will pay attention to it outside.

With the help of huge oil candles, more than a dozen people can clearly see everything inside, it is a huge super sand table, divided into two parts, one part is the terrain of the entire Song Dynasty, this one is a little rough, and the other part is the terrain of the Song-Liao border, west to Fufeng Erzhou and Beihetao, east to the sea, this is clearer, and even some small peaks are imitated, the material is made of sand and gum.

There was a long table on the side, and Song Jiu used a knife to cut through the fire paint and show this plan to everyone.

Looking at this object, it is clearer to look at this plan.

Kou Zhun was still in a daze: "Gong Song, why don't I know the Dao?" ”

"Isn't it Zhilu Dao now?"

"But ......"

"Don't do it, this must also be kept secret, if it is leaked out, let the enemy country know the way, it is equivalent to all the mountains and rivers on the border of our country, and the border defense of the fortress will notify the enemy country together, and the fewer people who know the way, the better."

Wen Zhongshu muttered, "With it, there will be no mistakes in military affairs. ”

"It's not that exaggerated, but with it, it will help somewhat."

began to read Ji Lu's book, Kou Zhun suddenly said again: "Why do I want to come back." ”

If you don't come back, you will soon make great military achievements, look at Zhang Qixian, it is because of the merits of Daizhou, so he is famous for the government and the opposition. Kou regretted it.

……

After nearly two years, the number of forbidden soldiers finally recovered, barely approaching 340,000.

After all, there are less than five million households in the entire Song Dynasty, and in addition to the forbidden soldiers, there are also a large number of box soldiers and township soldiers and some native soldiers in the south. Saying that it is too much, it is really not much, and if you want to defeat the Liao State, this forbidden army is actually pitiful.

Song Jiu, a soldier in the box, once wanted to compress it, and the state implemented labor relief measures, but in fact, there were many disputes and contradictions, and the court's intentions were good, but the officials below were greedy, and if they took a little, there would not be much in the hands of the victims. As a result, it has also caused a lot of trouble. However, at this time, the atmosphere of officialdom was not too bad, whether it was Zhao Da or Zhao Er, they all paid attention to rectifying the style of officials and caring for the people. Don't doubt it, if you really talk about the backwardness of the system and care for the people, maybe some presidents in later generations may not be as good as Zhao Da and Zhao Er, especially Zhao Er.

Therefore, water conservancy roads, cultivated land, or other projects in various places have been implemented one by one through labor relief. Unless it is a major project, how many state governments will need to coordinate, and they dare not use labor for relief. However, Song Jiu still did not dare to reduce the size of the van army, without him, there were still many miscellaneous servants in various states, such as guarding the prison city, building ships, escorting grain, assisting in preventing bandits and thieves, and so on. The size of the van soldiers is still around 300,000.

Song Jiu was helpless, the forbidden soldiers were hard, the box soldiers were even more miserable, the treatment was poor, and some of the escort work was also dangerous and unstable, and even the basic tuntian could not be cultivated normally. Therefore, Song Jiu deliberately moved out some places to let the families of the soldiers plant cotton and mulberry to supplement some income.

In short, there are many problems in the country, and this is a soldier. There are also servants, all kinds of errand servants. In front of the ya, the pavilion of salt. Tea households, workshop households, artisan households, workshop households......

In fact, even Lingnan, which implements the exemption law, also has a large number of problems.

There is no way to do this, so we can only regulate them one by one and reduce all kinds of harsh policies.

However, if you want to be good, you will actually ban the soldiers, once Yan Yun takes it back. The border defense does not need to be so tight, there is no need to raise so many forbidden soldiers, and the fighting gradually decreases, and the saved economy can be used to relieve the people.

The actual idea is good, but if we really get to that point, maybe everyone's hands and feet will be loosened, the economy will be tight, and the people may not be further relaxed.

The mysterious two days of the Xifu God.

This was followed by a series of military moves.

The army before Zhao Kuangyin founded the country was strictly disciplined, and it can be said that it was the strongest division in a hundred battles. Now almost all of them are gone, either sacrificed, or discharged, and. Very few, most of them became battalion generals. But Zhao Kuangyin's army can still be called a strong army, destroying Bashu. Collect Jinghu Hunan, cut down the Southern Tang Dynasty. Collect the Southern Han Dynasty and conquer Taiyuan. and several skirmishes with the Khitan, but there are not many left of this army now.

Especially in the battle of Qigou Pass, almost all the elite military camps were on the eastern front, and even if Song Jiu was brave that time, most of the soldiers had not yet been brought back. Fortunately, he brought back some of it, and although he escaped, he retained his blood. However, in the battle of the Gentleman's Pavilion, many people were buried.

Therefore, almost half of the more than 300,000 forbidden troops are new recruits, especially seventy percent of the soldiers in the elite military camps in the original forbidden army.

I had to train slowly.

The less elite the army, the more dare not push the recruits to the front line, and Song Jiu was very troubled by this in Xifu. I can't help but practice, some of the recruits are pushed to the front line and mixed with the veterans, but the proportion is small, and they dare not weaken the combat effectiveness of the front line, and some of them are placed on the second line, so that they can feel the atmosphere of the front-line battlefield, so Song Jiu is still trembling, and he is afraid that Xiao Yanyan will have a nervous break, and he will invade magnanimously and break through the first line, fortunately, the Liao State has also been disabled in the past two years, and the border is quiet.

So it seems that now the proportion of cavalry is increasing, and the actual combat effectiveness is weakening.

There was no way, so the cavalry trained in the northwest was hastily transferred to Hedong and Hebei together in addition to the Fanqiang Township cavalry, leaving only a small number of soldiers to continue to garrison in the same place. But it's not that the northwest is empty, and it's not there yet.

Then these recruits were transferred to the northwest one after another, and they continued to sharpen, and some of the braver soldiers were selected from them to increase the number of light cavalry.

A very normal movement of troops.

However, 25,000 light horsemen arrived in Hedong and Hebei, and the pressure on the Liao side increased.

Not only that, but the Song Dynasty began to build warships in Dengzhou, as Song Jiu had previously said with Zhao Pu. If it is not in Cangzhou, it will go up the sea to Pingzhou in Liao, this is a real sea ship, which can reach the Liaodong Peninsula of Liaoguo at any time, and even threaten the city of Tokyo in Liaoguo along the Liaohe River.

When Wang Wei heard about it, he was anxious.

The imperial court's move this time is not small, is it going to be a northern expedition again?

When he left Xifu, the General Staff Division had not yet been established, let alone trying to know Cui Yanjin's plan from Song Jiu's mouth. Even if he knew the way, at this time, Cui Yanjin's plan would have been unrecognizable, and he might not have figured it out.

Therefore, if you don't know the way, you will be anxious if you don't know the way.

How can we not know about such a big thing?

So he asked Zhang Qixian: "Shi Liang, what do you want to do when the Xifu dispatches troops?" ”

"It's windy in the south."

"It's windy in the south?" Wang Wei almost fell, but the word seemed to be easier to understand, and said, "You mean that the imperial court is going to go on a northern expedition?" ”

"I'm sorry, I can't tell you that."

That can be done, Wang Wei went to Chen Shu again: "Zhong Yan, the imperial court wants the Northern Expedition, but it doesn't say a word to Dongfu." ”

Chen Shu was silent.

"You are from the Third Division, you should know how difficult the imperial court's finances are this year."

"Has Your Majesty made a decree?"

"When His Majesty makes a decree, it's too late."

Wang Wei jumped up and down on the Chinese book, and even found Wang Huaji at one point: "Wang Zhongcheng, the imperial court intends to go on a northern expedition, the first two years of national disasters have been repeated, and the people have been miserable. ”

Wang Huaji is also very hard,

Compared with Lu Mengzheng and Kou Zhun and others, he is much worse, but he can be stable and low-key, which is quite appreciated by Zhao Kuangyi, and he once commented that he has the style of Yi'an. is that Wang Huaji's style is very similar to Song Jiu, he doesn't like tossing, he doesn't love the powerful, he doesn't flatter and honesty, he doesn't bully his superiors and subordinates, and he is loyal and outspoken. Therefore, he asked Wang Huaji to recommend people, and Wang Huaji thought in his mind and recommended dozens of people, including Wang Sizong, Xue Ying, and Geng Wang, these people are not bad. But he also recommended Jiang Zheng, Zhang Changyan, Liu Chenghai and other five people, these five people are all disciples of the original Song Jiu's broken school, three Zhizhou, one general judge, and one Beijing official, all of whom performed very well. Therefore, Wang Huaji held the attitude of being virtuous and not avoiding relatives, and listed it. In fact, there are more than these five outstanding officials who came out of the dilapidated schoolhouse, but they are somewhat evasive, including Wu Dazheng, a disciple Geng Zhiqing and Qianqian who Lu Yuqing once accepted, Wang Huaji did not recommend it.

However, on this fair list, let Wang Wei keep an eye on it.

Fortunately, Zhao Kuangyi took the initiative to protect him, otherwise Wang Huaji would be disgraced by Wang Wei.

In fact, what about these five former students of the school, Zhao Kuangyi proposed Jiang, Zhang and Liu, Jiang Zheng as the deputy envoy of the Duzhi, one as the envoy of the Sansi River Canal, and one as the deputy envoy of Jinghu Transport, it should be said that this is the most noble official among the disciples of the school except for Wang Huaji. However, the three of them performed well and were conscientious on the job, and they had to praise each other.

Can it be said that Wang Huaji's recommendation is unqualified?

But it can't be said that Wang Wei is looking for trouble with him, eighty percent of those students are students from Hezhong Hebei, and now I don't know how many officials have appeared, and Song Jiu is in that unfortunate position, it is impossible for the court to have no taboo at all.

Unless Song Jiu retires.

Is that possible?

In fact, it wasn't until next year that the situation changed slightly. A student named Su Shiheng died of exhaustion in office, but because he was only a magistrate, his salary was not much, and his style was honest, so his family didn't even have the money to escort the coffin back after his death. After the local people heard about it, thousands of people wrote a letter, and dozens of squires personally hired a boat to escort the coffin back to Beijing from Hunan. It is rumored that when the coffin left, the people of the county wore linen and filial piety, such as mourning.

This finally caused a sensation.

Since then, the imperial court has finally let the students of the academy go again.

In fact, compared with Jinshi, the students of the college have more achievements than Jinshi due to their different educational methods. But in a longitudinal comparison, the earliest batch of students is more productive than the current college students. However, because of Song Jiu, it was also because Song Jiu was stuck.

At this time, Su Shiheng did not die, Wang Huaji had no choice but to write to the imperial court, it is true that this is not a good time for the Northern Expedition, and Xifu is sneaky and does not conform to the imperial court system.

Zhao Kuangyi was happy and said something that made Wang Wei want to fall down again: "Wang Qing, you don't have to worry about this matter, it's just a wind, and it won't hinder people's livelihood." ”

Wang Wei asked depressedly: "Your Majesty, what kind of wind is blowing?" ”

"South Wind!"

Wang Wei wants to go crazy. (To be continued......)