Yang Tinghe nodded and said: "Sure enough, it is well considered, people are generally desperate when they become traitors, and these tens of thousands of people have a way back, so it is naturally peaceful in the world; But how much money will be spent on these three initiatives, can you calculate the account? Just the identity of the reserves, one tael of silver a month, nearly 50,000 people is 50,000 taels, a year is 600,000 taels, and three years is 1.8 million taels, who will pay for this money? ”

Song Nan smiled: "Do you want me to come out?" Lord Yang wants to make it clear that the so-called reserve status is just to appease the anger in the hearts of the laid off soldiers, and one or two pieces of silver per month is actually equivalent to the relief silver of the imperial court, ensuring that they have food before they find a means of livelihood, and after three years, basically everyone has integrated into society and is used to making a living and begging for a living, and at that time, the goal will be achieved. ”

Yang Tinghe said with a smile: "According to this, the household department should have to pay this silver." ”

Song Nan said: "This silver is out of the household department, and the dismissed silver is out of the army, Lu Shangshu, you don't have to stare at it, you must pay this silver, because after the disarmament, the regiment and battalion will spend nearly one million taels of silver less every year, and this account is clear." ”

"Well, the first problem can be regarded as solved, then the second question, after the disarmament, the number of people in the Beijing camp has been sharply reduced to less than 100,000, who can guarantee the safety of the Beijing Division? Don't tell me what a big man beats a hundred old women, although we are not leading the army, but some simple truths are still understood, so it is not as simple as addition, subtraction and subtraction. The current large-scale reduction of regiments and camps is actually more out of the consideration of discipline and style, and can 40,000 or 50,000 fewer be better than 40,000 or 50,000 more? Don't lie to us. ”

Song Nan laughed and said: "What Yang Shoufu said is extremely true, Yang Shoufu is an understanding person, and it does have an impact on the strength of the regimental battalion, and it is an indisputable fact that each battalion of the regimental battalion has dropped from 10,000 to more than 6,000 people. However, the emperor has already promised me a construction that is about making up for the lack of defense forces in the capital. ”

Yang Tinghe frowned and said, "Oh? What is built? ”

Song Nan arched his hand towards Zhengde and said, "Your Majesty, can the minister say it in front of everyone?" ”

Zhengde waved his hand and said: "Say, sooner or later, it will be announced, and you should be allowed to discuss it." ”

Song Nan bowed down and agreed, turned his head and said with a smile: "In view of the fact that in this big competition, the officers and soldiers of the foreign military guards who participated in the competition were excellent, especially the two armies of Ulzhou Wei and Xuanfu Zhongwei, who were brave and good at fighting, and repeatedly overturned the Beijing camp under the horse, showing good combat power, and the emperor also praised it very much; The reorganization and disarmament of tens of thousands of regiments and battalions caused the decline of the defense force in Beijing, so I proposed that the emperor merge the two armies of Bazhou Wei and Xuanfu Zhongwei into one battalion, which is called the outer second military camp, which is stationed in the suburbs of Beijing as a supplement to the defense of Beijing, I don't know what you think? ”

"What?" Yang Tinghe screamed out in a gaffe. Lu Wan and the others, who understood the key to it, were also pale, Song Nan really would not let go of this opportunity, the so-called Second Outer Army, it seems that it does not belong to the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp, but in fact, his identity is more free, not only independent of the Beijing camp, but also separated from the identity of the officers and soldiers of the guard, and became an independent military camp.

"What? Is there anything wrong with that? Song Nan asked with a smile.

Yang Tinghe said hesitantly: "Then who does the emperor want this army to command?" ”

Song Nan shook his head and said, "I don't know, why didn't Yang Shoufu ask the emperor in person?" ”

Yang Tinghe raised his eyes and looked at Zhengde who was yawning on the throne, and asked in a deep voice: "Dare to ask who the emperor wants to lead the second army?" ”

Zhengde said: "I have been thinking about this for a long time, and I still think it is appropriate to let Song Nan take on the same role, the big competition has shown that the Shenshu Battalion is well trained, and Song Nan is also a general, this second army is actually similar to the Beijing Battalion, and I am more relieved to hand it over to Song Nan." ”

Yang Tinghe's face was gloomy, and he arched his hand and said, "Has the emperor made a decision?" ”

Zhengde said: "It's basically decided, could it be that Yang Shoufu has other ideas?" ”

Yang Tinghe shook his head and said, "The minister has nothing to say. ”

As the secretary of the military department, Lu Wan didn't know anything about this matter, and he was extremely angry in his heart, and shouted a little out of shape: "Isn't this taking off your pants and farting?" It is necessary to disarm and increase the number of troops. ”

Song Nan shouted: "What's wrong with Lu Shangshu?" Be careful with your words. What does it mean to take off your pants and fart? It was the Beijing camp that was disarmed, and the foreign troops were transferred, so where was the increase? ”

Lu Wan said coldly: "Then what about the food and materials of this foreign army?" Who will pay for the extra hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year? ”

Song Nan said: "The joke, of course, is out of the money allocated by the Ministry of Household to the Ministry of War, do you still need to ask?" ”

Lu Wan shouted: "Don't think about it, I refuse to give this money, and my military department has no money to pay any food and salary to the Second Foreign Army." ”

Song Nan shouted coldly: "Lord Lu, you are stupid, this second army is the soldiers and horses of Ulzhou Wei and Xuanfu Wei, no matter where they are transferred, their military salary is a part that must be allocated by the military department, even if they are not transferred to the capital, the military department will also be transferred; But thou shalt say that there is any extra silver, and what is the excess of silver. Is it true that when they return to their own station, your military headquarters will not pay them? It's ridiculous. ”

Lu Wan was completely confused, forgetting that these two soldiers and horses were actually the officers and soldiers of the active guard, and there was no reason to refuse to pay, let alone be confused, thinking that these were the two extra soldiers and horses.

Yang Tinghe was silent on the side with a cold face, Song Nan really did not let go of this opportunity, and mobilized two guards and horses to be stationed in the capital on the occasion of disarmament. Jiang Bin, the current marquis of the regimental camp, has also stayed in Ulzhou for more than ten years; The other soldier and horse is the team of the Xuanfu Central Guard, and Xu Tai, another marquis under Song Nan, was born in the Xuanfu, which shows that these two soldiers and horses were selected to become the defense force in Beijing after careful consideration.

In other words, these two soldiers and horses are absolutely subordinate to Song Nan, except for Song Nan, I am afraid that no one can command them; Although Zhang Lun returned to the post of governor in the Beijing camp, the marquis under his command were not casually instructed, if there was any abnormal behavior, the marquis would definitely not blindly follow, but would choose to turn against each other. In other words, the regimental battalion could not be fully controlled, so Song Nan chose to establish a new Beijing battalion team.

With the Shenshu Battalion and the Second Foreign Army, as well as the two Beijing battalion soldiers and horses led by Xu Tai and Jiang Bin as the main force, plus the nearly 20,000 Jinyi guards in Beijing in Song Nan's hands, a rough calculation, Song Nan can mobilize as many as 50,000 soldiers and horses at any time in the future, which is simply incredible.

Yang Tinghe felt more and more that if Song Nan was a person loyal to the emperor and the Ming Dynasty, it would be nothing, but if he had any intentions with heavy troops, almost no one could suppress him, no one could stop him, especially when the regimental battalion was greatly weakened, and the Shenji battalion was brought to use, and there were only more than 50,000 people who could come in handy, which could not form an overwhelming advantage.

Yang Tinghe lowered his head and pondered anxiously, and Song Nan's voice of questioning came from his ears: "Yang Shoufu has already asked two questions, but there is a third question?" It's also good to solve the doubts together and make a decision early. ”

Yang Tinghe raised his eyes to look at Song Nan's young and handsome smiling face, and carefully thought about what he could see from the simple eyes like small white flowers under the thick eyebrows, but he found that there was nothing in those eyes.

"No, there is no doubt, Lord Song and the British Duke have thought it through. There shouldn't be any major flaws in this matter. On behalf of the Cabinet Members, I would like to express my agreement that on the day when the regimental camp begins to be reorganized, the Outer Court will certainly cooperate. ”

Yang Tinghe agreed that the others could only express their consent or reservations and put them in their stomachs, and the matter of disarmament and rectification of the regiment and battalion was officially passed on, and a holy decree was issued after Zhengde's permission; At the same time, another decree announcing the establishment of the military camp of the Second Outer Army was also promulgated, and Song Nan was appointed as the commander of the Second Outer Army, and the same guards and horses were stationed in Ulzhou to fill the vacancy of the Ulzhou Guard, and the First Guard was mobilized from Henan to fill the vacancy of the Xuanfu Central Guard.

Before the arrival of the New Year in the fifth year of Zhengde, more than a month later, the wind and clouds surged, the Beijing battalion and the battalion changed greatly, and the composition of the soldiers and horses inside and outside the capital also changed greatly. For a while, Song Nan was in the limelight, and he was even more honorable, and no one in the court was not looking sideways.

Faced with such a situation, Yang Tinghe finally started to act, and he had already prepared a way to deal with Song Nan, but he didn't want to launch it too early. Now that Song Nan's power is greater, Yang Tinghe, who is calm on the surface, finally has fear in his heart......

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On the night of the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, Yang Tinghe quietly entered the palace and rushed to the harem Renshou Palace in the name of giving gifts to the harem dowager concubines before the annual leave.

Empress Dowager Zhang was playing finch cards with several concubine sisters under the lamp, and when she heard Yang Tinghe asking to see her, she hurriedly put the cards in her hand and summoned him to meet him; Seeing that Yang Tinghe was dressed in an ordinary cotton robe and looked extremely low-key, he couldn't help but be a little surprised. Yang Tinghe entered the warm pavilion to invite An to bow to the end, so he was silent, and the concubines and female officials knew that Yang Shoufu had something to discuss with the queen mother, so they all said goodbye and left.

When the doors and windows of the warm pavilion were closed and there was no one in the house, Yang Ting and the corner of the robe knelt down on the futon to kowtow to the Empress Dowager Zhang, and the Empress Dowager Zhang hurriedly said: "What's wrong with Lord Yang?" Something is wrong when you enter the door, is there something to tell the mourners? The last time the princess chose a horse, the mourning family didn't blame you, you still watch for the mourning family, and if there is a suitable person, you will ......"

Yang Tinghe's deep voice interrupted: "The Queen Mother, the ministers are extremely incompetent, and the ministers in the court are powerless, so they can only turn to the Queen Mother for help; I beg the Queen Mother to protect my Daming Society. ”

Empress Dowager Zhang frowned and asked, "Why is it so strict?" What the hell is going on? ”