Kaifeng.

"The emperor joined forces with 500,000 Jianghuai, and wanted to ask the army of Kaifeng!"

In the vertical arch hall, Wang Yue's expression was exaggerated and alarmist......

150,000 has become 500,000 again, and I have to say that he is also extremely exaggerated!

"The emperor has only been in Zhenjiang for more than two months, how can he conjure up an army of 500,000? And the war in Zhejiang has only been subsided for two years, where did so many young and strong soldiers come from? ”

Uncle Zhang said angrily.

It's not like he doesn't know anything.

This is simply impossible, if the Emperor Taishang had this efficiency, the Great Song Dynasty would not be able to go today!

"The east and west roads of Jiangnan add up to three million households, and the two roads of Huainan add up to no less than this, ten households and one ding will get more than 500,000 troops, not to mention that the emperor is now sitting south of Changhuai, and the generals of various departments will add up to hundreds of thousands, plus those box troops, township soldiers, and establishments, as long as they are willing to spend money, what is the difficulty of 500,000 soldiers?

Besides, it's just a claim, and it's not really 500,000.

But it is known as an army of 500,000, and the 150,000 must always be there, and all the boats south of Changhuai are used, and there is no need for war horses and the like.

How much can an infantry cost? ”

Wang Yue said.

"What the King of Zhongshan said is very true, since the Emperor Taishang has set up a separate court, he naturally can't take it as usual, even if it is just Huainan, the land of the four roads in the south of the Yangtze River is enough to raise 500,000 soldiers and horses, and Li Yu can raise more than 100,000 troops to resist the king in just two ways, not to mention that now the emperor has several times Li Yu. It is indeed impossible to raise 500,000 soldiers in a hurry, but it is not difficult to raise 150,000 soldiers, not to mention that before the emperor went south, the total number of troops that could be used in his hands was almost 50,000.

Two months is enough to transfer the headquarters of the southeastern generals to Yanhuai, and these are already close to 100,000.

150,000 is no bluff! ”

Liu Xi said.

He is now a member of the Privy Council.

As for Liu Tao, although he was appointed as a young ruler, he was relieved of military power, because he was a southerner, Zhao Huan is now very uneasy about the southern officials in the court, although he will not be driven away, but he does not dare to put it in the position of really controlling military power, a place like the Privy Council must be used at ease, and he really trusts Liu Xi and Liu Jian brothers. Liu Jian is still promoting the Imperial City Division, which is equivalent to Gao Yu to the great painter, as for the palace marshal division, which has existed in name only, and the 800,000 forbidden troops in Tokyo are gone, what palace marshal division is needed, that is, Liu Jian is in charge of the imperial city and the inner city defense by promoting the imperial city division.

However, it allowed Zhao Huan to completely get rid of a cancer that had plagued the Great Song Dynasty for so many years......

There is no need to feed the so-called 800,000 forbidden troops in Tokyo.

Now the inner city is a total of 30,000 forbidden troops including the Western Army, which is directly under the command of the Imperial City Division, and the following is also divided into six commanders like the field army.

One on each of the four walls.

Then add two Ma Jun.

Originally, I didn't know how much on the books, and I didn't know how much in reality, and it had completely become the so-called 800,000 forbidden army headed by Gao Yu and the generals at all levels who ate empty salaries, and there were still a bunch of signboards left, and they weren't even empty shells......

An empty shell means that there must be generals at all levels.

But now there are not even generals.

Those generals were originally either Gao Yu, Cai Jing and these henchmen, or those wealthy nobles ate together, this time some of them fled the capital, and the rest did not escape, and he also used the excuse of Cao Jin's rebellion, and all the original forbidden army in the capital was reorganized, and Liu Jian was responsible for the selection, and the available ones were left in the forbidden army of the Imperial City Division, and the pure waste was waiting to be disposed of at home......

Anyway, they are not short of money.

At least it won't be deprived of food.

In other words, they have reached the level of generals of the forbidden army, and they all have houses and fields around the capital, so they don't need to care about this at all.

Soldiers and low-level officers were thrown to Liu Jian for reorganization, and there were not many forbidden troops in the capital, except for those who had broken away from the forbidden army and incorporated into Kaifeng Commune before the rebellion in the outer city, there were more than 20,000 people in the inner city, all of whom were given to Liu Jian for reorganization. As for the scumbags in the prefecture, Hebei, and Beijing, Tokyo and west, they were also reorganized, among which Hebei's direct Jiaoshi Dao, Kaifeng and the surrounding areas were handed over to his uncle Wang Zongmiao, in short, the number of inventory eliminated the old and weak.

Zhao Huan really couldn't bear the forbidden army anymore.

But all the forbidden army can fight a little, even if he is not the same as Wang Yue's subordinates, as long as he can reach the ordinary level of the Western Army, he will not fall to this point!

Theoretically, he has an army of one million, the forbidden army of Fujie, Hebei, and Northwest combined, not to mention one million, seven or eight hundred thousand, even if it is seven or eight hundred thousand on the books, but the fact is that he is helpless even those Diao people in the outer city, Wang Yue's 20,000 cavalry went south, he had to surrender on his knees, and when he thought about it, he had an urge to be angry and want to scold his mother.

In fact, at this time, not only the forbidden army, but also the imperial court was rapidly slimming down.

This is also very simple, first of all, a large number of officials have fled, whether they are fleeing home or looking for a great painter, anyway, Zhao Huan doesn't care about them here, the indispensable position is reappointed to a cronie, but it is dispensable, especially the vacant positions that can be completely canceled, so they simply do not continue to appoint, and even those who have not escaped, those completely useless official positions have begun to find excuses to dismiss officials, or simply not pay salaries......

If you can't stand it, you can go!

Anyway, this is not Zhao Huan's responsibility, his father occupied Caoyun, and he was left with taxes in Beijing, Tokyo West and Gyeonggi, Hebei, Hedong, and Shaanxi had to supply the army, and he had to supply part of the supply here, so he had no money to support the idlers!

If you are dissatisfied, you go to the emperor, and the money and food are all there with him!

He is so poor that he has to use patches when his clothes are torn, and even the beauties of Gen Yue's harem have been dismissed!

Even his father's strange stones began to be sold cheaply, and rare birds and beasts were all sold by him.

It's true.

Nowadays, Huayang Palace is like a grocery market, every day there are merchants invited by eunuchs to come, what do they like, whether it is those strange stones, rare birds and beasts, strange flowers and plants, and even including the works and collections that his father did not take away, all kinds of antique utensils, in short, you can take it away with money, and even the Qingming Shanghe Tu was bought by the King of Zhongshan, but it was just a discount on the arrears.

Anyway, Zhao Huan was not interested in these things at all.

Now he's interested in money.

Because money can win over the army for him, while not being able to pay the salaries of officials, he has no less salary for the armies in Hebei, Shaanxi, and Hedong, and even more timely than his father, he is already very clear at this time that the princes of the court will not be able to protect him, no matter whether his father fights back or Wang Yue wants to usurp the throne, the princes of the army will not give him any protection. But on the contrary, those few army leaders can, Seed Master Dao, Yao Gu, and these people can beg for it, and the army under them can at least make Wang Yue think twice before usurping the throne.

So now Zhao Huan is trying his best to win over these military leaders.

With Liu Jian as his cronies, let Liu Xi preside over the Privy Council, and then give the military power of Hebei to the master of Dao, the military power of Hedong to the concession, and the military power of Shaanxi to Yao Gu, they are all Xuanfu envoys, with the title of privy council, and in fact hold the real control of the armies of the three places.

The civilian officials can no longer control them.

Although they still cannot be said to be warlords, after all, civilian officials control logistics and local administration, but they no longer have the right to interfere with the army.

As for their dissatisfaction......

Dissatisfied!

What can they do?

Zhang Xiaochun was very dissatisfied with Zhe Keqiu, and kept playing to tell Zhe Keqiu, but he still couldn't stop Zhe Keqiu from kicking his son Zhang Hao out of the army.

His son was one of the two Song armies who sat back and watched the death of the seed division in history.

"Even if there are really 150,000, the King of Zhongshan is invincible, are you still afraid of these rabble?"

Liu Tao said disdainfully.

"Liu Gong, my cavalry are all from Liaodong, and they died of illness before they crossed the Huai River, and they still had to die in the south of the Yangtze River, so they have to wait for winter, not to mention that Huainan is full of water networks, my cavalry is long in the sky, and it is difficult to move an inch in these places in Zhenzhou, and it will be easy to wait until the winter freezes."

Wang Yue said.

"What about the Jurchens going south in winter?"

Uncle Zhang said.

"It's okay, there are generals in the north who are enough to resist, and the outside must first be inside, the Jurchen can slow down, but the emperor must solve it!"

Wang Yue said.

"What about the money and food of the imperial court?"

Liu Tao said.

"This is exactly what I want to say, everyone, extraordinary times, extraordinary measures must be taken, the current imperial court is indeed very difficult, the money and grain of Caoyun cannot be reached temporarily, and all the battlefields need money and food, so we have to try to let them find a way to solve it themselves, the north is not without food, just like Hebei, if there is no food, how did the three towns of Heshuo fight against the imperial court for two hundred years?

Could it be that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty returned the fortune to Tian Chenghei?

Even if the northwest is known as a barren land, there is no shortage of food, if the northwest is short of food, how can Western Xia establish a country?

In fact, the grain can be squeezed, the key is to see how to squeeze, so my proposal is to give the generals in various places as much power as possible, and let them find their own ways to raise money and grain, just like I led the army to the south, but have you ever asked the imperial court for the military rations that have always paid one stone of rice?

Am I not the same as without wants? ”

Wang Yue said.

Uncle Zhang took a deep breath at night......

"What do you want to say? Let the seed master torture the gentry like you, and let Zhe Keqiu be like you, and tie up the magistrate to rob those gentry? ”

He couldn't help but say.

"Xianggong's words are not right, what is robbery, I just give them a chance to express their loyalty to the officials, and also give them a chance to serve the country. This Great Song Dynasty is the Great Song of all the Great Song Dynasty, and it is not the official family's own, whether it is the invasion of foreign enemies or internal rebellion, it is also the business of everyone in the Great Song Dynasty, not the official family's own business.

We, the generals, are desperately working hard in the front with their troops, and is there anything wrong with them giving some money and food in the back?

They have lost nothing but something outside of their bodies, and we have lost our lives! ”

Wang Yue howled in a very Qiong Yao style.