After the rapid march, Zhao Pu had already led the army and came to the Daimyo's Mansion.

And the Daimyo's Mansion is one of the four capitals of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Northern Song Dynasty had a total of four capitals, namely Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo, Henan Mansion in Xijing, Daimyo Mansion in Beijing and Yingtianfu in Nanjing. At the beginning, along the old system of the five dynasties of Jin, Han and Zhou, Kaifeng Mansion was Tokyo, and Henan Mansion (now Luoyangdong, Henan) was Xijing. In February of the third year of Jingde (1006) of Song Zhenzong, Song Zhou (now Shangqiu, Henan), which Zhao Kuangyin once served as the envoy of the Later Zhou Dynasty to the German Army, was the foundation of the emperor's industry, and was promoted to Yingtianfu; In the first month of the seventh year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1014), it was promoted to Nanjing. In the second year of Song Renzong's Qingli (1042), Lü Yijian stationed in the Daimyo Mansion (now northeast of Hebei Daming) in the third year of Xianping of Song Zhenzong (1000), and asked the Daimyo Mansion to be Beijing. Tokyo is the capital and the political, economic and cultural center of the country; Xijing is the location of the branch; Beijing is an important town in Hebei; Nanjing is the smallest of the four realms.

In 1042 AD, that is, in the second year of the Song Dynasty's Renzong Qing calendar, there was a powerful Liao-Khitan in the north of the Song Dynasty. He gathered heavy troops in the area of Youyou and Ji, that is, the places of Jixian, Tongxian and Tangshan east of Beijing, and claimed to attack the Song Dynasty in the south. This news caused panic in Bianliang, Tokyo (now Kaifeng, Henan). The Song court convened civil and military officials in Tokyo to urgently discuss countermeasures, and there were three different factions: first, the escape faction, who advocated avoiding the Khitan edge and moving the capital west from Bianliang to Luoyang; The first is the Lord's Peace faction, they advocate sending people to the Khitan to sue for peace, which is nothing more than cutting some land, giving some money, and asking for a peaceful situation; The other faction was Lu Yijian, who advocated welcoming the enemy to the north and building a big name for Beijing, and if the enemy invaded from the south, he drove Beijing to personally command the War of Resistance and beat him to the head and bloodshed. Renzong adopted Lü Yijian's proposal, and in May of the second year of Qingli, he established the daimyo as the capital of Beijing.

In "Water Margin", Cai Jing's son-in-law Liang Shijie and Liang Zhongshu guarded here, and his subordinates Li Cheng, Yang Zhi, Suo Chao and other strong generals were like clouds. Lu Junyi and Yan Qing were born here.

As one of the four capitals, the Daimyo Mansion ruled Hebei and was the hub of Hebei and the front line against the Liao army. It's just that in the two operations of the Jin army to the south, the Daimyo's Mansion played a very small role.

The Jin army was very smart and didn't care about the gains and losses of one city or one place, but went straight to Bianliang, intending to conquer Bianliang and make a forced landing on the entire Great Song Dynasty. The iron cavalry of the Eastern Route Army was only under the Daimyo's Mansion and walked by. At this time, the Daimyo's Mansion was full of tension, and the city was full of rumors.

After learning that the army of His Royal Highness King Yi arrived, officials of all sizes in the Daimyo Mansion arrived one after another to carry out greeting activities to meet the prince.

After that, it is the reception feast, good wine and good food, and it is very rich.

At the banquet, there was a lot of talk and laughter, and various officials looked at the prince, and Zhao Pu was also observing these officials.

After the banquet, Zhao Pu began to check the money and grain, soldiers, armaments and other conditions of the Daimyo's Mansion, stacks of piles piled up, it was extremely troublesome to check, but Zhao Pu didn't care, with the help of several masters, he began to sort out the accounts, but the more he checked, the more surprised, the more he checked, the more he felt abrupt.

In half a day, only part of the accounts were found, and only the tip of the iceberg was seen.

At this time, the Daimyo's Mansion was completely a scumbag, and there were originally 50,000 soldiers, but as a result, the empty salary was serious, and in fact there were only 30,000. And among these 30,000, 5,000 are old, weak, sick and disabled, not to mention fighting, even running away is a big problem. And of the 25,000 people, 10,000 went to King Qin of Bianliang.

King Qin is very important, no matter whether he can beat the Jin army or not, no matter how bad the combat power is, he has to go, this is a strategy to win the emperor's trust. Even if it was for pretending, he had to go, so there were only 10,000 soldiers in the Daimyo Mansion at this time.

10,000 is 10,000, something is better than nothing.

But the actual combat power is miserable.

The army is meant to fight, but it is not to fight all the time. When not fighting, at leisure, these soldiers naturally become the best labor force. These soldiers played the role of tenant farmers, farming for officials, gentry, and the like, and collecting extra money. Because of the serious fire consumption, because of the serious deduction of food and salary, how to feed the children without extra money.

It wasn't until the Jin army moved south that these tenant farmers took up arms again to protect the daimyo's mansion.

One can imagine how low the combat effectiveness of these soldiers is.

It may be that Yan Wu has been resting for too long, and the swords, guns, and spears in the treasury have long been rusted. And even rusty weapons are seriously insufficient. Some officials in charge of the treasury took advantage of the power in their hands to come up with the idea of these weapons, and these weapons were shipped out of the country, and then remade into agricultural tools to make huge profits.

And the treasury has a lot of money, as much as three million. There is only a small amount of grain, and most of the granaries look full, but if you examine the grain hoards closely, you will find that there is a layer of planks in the middle, but the bottom is empty.

And looking at the Daimyo's Mansion, it is still prosperous. Under the tense atmosphere of the war, the restaurant was still open, and the green building was still open, and there was no pre-war mobilization at all.

Looking at this situation, Zhao Pu was worried.

Fortunately, the main force of the Jin army all went south to besiege Bianliang, and most of the Jin troops who remained in Hebei were mainly defensive, and had no intention of attacking the Daimyo's Mansion, so the Daimyo's Mansion was safe and sound.

"What a cheat!" Zhao Pu's eyes were full of despair, the situation in the Daimyo's Mansion was too dangerous, once the Jin army attacked, it would not be able to hold it at all, and it would definitely be lost. Moreover, the Daimyo's Mansion is located in the key place of Hebei, which is the place where the Jin army will inevitably attack, and once Bianliang falls, the Daimyo's Mansion will be lost overnight.

Looking at the bad accounts, Zhao Pu had the urge to cut people and cut down all the officials up and down the Daimyo's mansion. But this is just a thought, it is destined to be a dream.

The bad situation in the Daimyo Mansion today is not the fault of some people, but the fact that too many people are involved. Once the action is made, the officials of the Daimyo Mansion, large and small, will not be able to run above the seventh floor. Once it is done, the implication is too great, and it will mean that the military, political, and financial departments of the Daimyo Mansion will collapse completely.

"This era is really not the afterlife. In the future, if there is such a basket, the shooting will be shot, the sentence will be sentenced, the shuanggui will be shuanggui, and the party will be expelled from the party, and it will be done cleanly and neatly; But this era is not good, even if they set up such a big basket, they can only endure it, and they should not see it! ”

Zhao Pu was very helpless.

The level of education in the Song Dynasty improved a lot, but they did not go to school, and the level of illiteracy was still high. Not to mention the Jinshi, the flow of people; It is a talented child, and between local townships and counties, it is also rare and rare animals. In this era, there is no compulsory education, and the overall level of education is in a low position, which is destined to have a scarcity of literati and a scarcity of officials.

In later generations, it doesn't matter if a large number of officials are cut, anyway, there is no shortage of officials in the Celestial Empire, and if a large number of people go up, there will be no social turmoil at all, but the people will applaud and cut off a large group of corrupt officials.

"The Daimyo's Mansion is not a good place either. There is no future in staying in the Daimyo's Mansion, so I'd better keep running! Looking at this situation, Zhao Pu was ready to run away again. If you don't run away and stay in the Daimyo's Mansion, there is only one dead end.

However, there is always an excuse to run away?

Just when Zhao Pu was thinking about it and making an excuse to run away, an invitation letter was sent to invite King Yi to go to the largest flower building in the Daimyo Mansion - Tingyunxuan and have a small gathering.

"It's a good interest, Bianliang is in full swing, and it's in full swing here!"

Zhao Pu sneered. There is an animal in the world, called a pig, which knows that it may be cut down and sold for meat in the future, but then forgets about it.

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The local administrative divisions of the Song Dynasty were basically two-level systems, that is, the government, prefecture, military, and prison were the first level, and the county was the first level. The magistrates of the Song Dynasty were all appointed by the central officials to "know XX matters", and the senior officials were called "judge XX matters". With the state as the standard unit, it is mostly called "knowing the military state affairs of X state".

Zhizhou is also the official post of the Xiang Army, except for Zhizhou, each state has a "general judgment", whose status is similar to that of the Sui Dynasty. Documents issued at the state level must be signed by a general judgment before they can take effect. The purpose is to implicate the power of Zhizhou.

And at this moment, all the important officials of the Daimyo Mansion gathered together to discuss something.

"This prince is not simple, there are capable people under him, and he will check the accounts as soon as he pulls it!"

"There are so many accounts, just rely on a few masters, and you can't deal with them in a month!"

"Even if something is found, if there is any, can't we be exiled to Hainan?"

"That's not going to happen, the prince thinks we're neglecting him!" Yin Wang Anzhong, the Daimyo's Mansion, flashed shrewdness in his eyes. "Now, Bianliang is besieged, and the Daimyo's Mansion is also in the midst of wind and rain, and there must be a strong army to protect it. The eight-character army is a strong army, and there must be more honor guards for the eight-character army, and we can't be lazy! ”