In the evening of the same day, Shi Jin led people to carry a few large boxes into the mansion.

Zhao Ta went over to check, and was overjoyed, it was a crystal that was more transparent than the previous state treasury, there was very little cotton wool in it, and there were not many ice cracks.

In particular, there is a purple one, which is only the size of a fist, but it is more than enough to make a monocular.

At noon the next day, the first telescope was made by Zhao Ta, which was made of amethyst, and after trying the effect in the yard, he was very satisfied.

Although it can't be compared with the telescopes of later generations, it is enough in the current era.

The so-called practice makes perfect, and then Zhao Ta made three more in one day, all of which had the effect of looking far.

The next day, Liu Suiyun came to report that the Xihe soldiers had withdrawn.

Zhao Ta immediately ordered the scouts to travel hundreds of miles away to investigate, and after confirming that all the other party's soldiers and horses had indeed left, he immediately launched a military reform.

First of all, the military system of three divisions was set up, the Tianjian Division, the Dide Division, and the Shengwu Division.

Among them, the Tianjian Division is the division of the special arms, regardless of infantry and cavalry, but the ordnance is different from the conventional army, highlighting the word peculiar.

Zhao Ta divided the Tengjia Army into the Tianjian Division, the first army, with ten guards, ten battalions for each guard, and ten teams for each battalion, with a total of 10,000 people.

The Dide Division is a regular infantry division, and the original Xining Prefecture plus the Longyou Protectorate has a total of 8,600 infantry troops and 2,000 light cavalry, most of which are guarding Xining and Longyou Military City.

Zhao Ta eliminated the 2,000 light cavalry, and all the 8,060 infantry were under the control of the Di Desi, and the number was the Second Army, but the second army was not enough, and it was only 10,000 people short, and it was slowly replenished later.

The Katsubu Division is a cavalry division, all of which are mainly light cavalry.

The 9th and 10th commanders of the Dragon Guard, which Zhao Ta brought from Tokyo, were renamed the First Guard and the Second Guard of the Third Army, respectively.

But these two guards are also insufficient, because the ninth and tenth commanders were originally 600 people each, but after the military reform, there were 1,000 people in one guard, but for these two guards, Zhao Ta had no intention of adding, after all, it was his own lineage, and there was no need to fill in more people.

The 2,000 light cavalry owned by Xining Longyou were also classified as Wusheng Division, and they were renamed the third and fourth guards of the Third Army.

In this way, Zhao Ta had a total of 21,800 soldiers under his command.

In addition to these, there were still hundreds of soldiers secretly recruited by Liu Suiyun at that time, because there were only 10,000 pairs of rattan armor, and many people had no rattan armor to wear.

Zhao Ta organized the remaining soldiers into a feather artillery battalion, specializing in stone artillery arrows and crossbows, this battalion was not included in the three divisions, and was directly managed by the Longyou Protectorate.

Then Zhao Ta appointed Liu Suiyun as the governor of Longyou Protectorate, and was in charge of the military administration of Xining Longyou.

Xu Ning and Yang Zhi were the deputy protectors and assisted Liu Suiyun in navigating the military.

Ouyang Bei is the commander of the Tianjian Division, and Shi Jin is the commander of the Tengjia Army of the First Army of the Tianjian Division.

Lu Junyi is the commander of the Dide Division, and Lu Da is the commander of the Second Army of the Dide Division.

Du Wei is the commander of the Wusheng Division, Zhang Xian is the commander of the Third Army of the Wusheng Division, and Lu will be the deputy commander.

The three divisions are under the jurisdiction of the Longyou Protectorate, and the Longyou Protectorate is directly responsible to him.

As for Zhao Ta's own family, he only changed the flag, not easy to flag, and still called King Qin, but did not use the Song number.

The flag is played with the word Qin, and the flag is called by Zhao.

This is also the biggest change that Zhao Ta can do in front of him, there are few soldiers and generals, and it is not appropriate to make a big change.

And what to build a dynasty and establish a country, there is no way to talk about it at the moment, the world is about to be in chaos, and it is the best policy to accumulate grain and slow down the king.

The military and the government cannot be separated for the time being, and there are wartime measures in wartime, and everything must be governed by the army, and only after the chaos can we rest and recuperate, and for the time being, we must focus on the military.

It took Zhao Ta three days to complete these changes, and then on the one hand, he began to recruit troops with great fanfare, and on the other hand, he began to urgently train the army.

The salary of the recruited soldiers, including the current military salary in the army, he directly increased it by fifty percent, which was fifty percent higher than the original Great Song Dynasty.

The Great Song Dynasty opened forty taels of money a year, and he directly opened sixty taels, and the Great Song Dynasty opened ten taels of silver, and he opened fifteen taels.

This is not like Liu Suiyun secretly recruiting troops, but posting the recruitment list all over Xining Prefecture and the three counties below, and Tubo also sent familiar households to deliver the message.

A few days later, Xining City became lively, and there was an endless stream of soldiers.

There were many Tibetan households in Xining, and some of the original yellow-headed Uighurs and tribesmen from the Qiuzi Kingdom who had dispersed came to join the army.

Naturally, there are many Han people, all of whom have taken a fancy to the military salary offered by Zhao Ta, and Zhao Ta also issued a series of reward systems, and the reward for land is also higher than that of the Great Song Dynasty, which naturally attracts more people.

Zhao Ta doesn't have too high requirements for these Han Fan who are in the army, it doesn't matter if they are tall, short, fat or thin, and their age is very relaxed, as long as they are innocent.

In this way, it didn't take long for even Shengfan in the south of Xihai Lake to come over for refuge, which was a bit unexpected by Zhao Ta.

He asked the officials of Xining to rush to ask the reason, and when he came back, he reported that in the winter of last year, Fannan suffered a rare snowstorm in a hundred years, not only the livestock froze to death, but even the beasts on the mountain died a lot, and in the spring, the ice and snow did not melt for a long time, and the barley could not grow, and there was a situation of starvation in the tribe, so in order to survive, he had to go north to find a way to survive.

Zhao Tan frowned when he heard this, he didn't know the situation of going to Dongfanan, so he immediately asked Liu Suiyun to ask.

After Liu Suiyun came, he said: "Lord Wang, it was true that there was heavy snow in the south of Suifan, but my subordinates didn't expect that these Shengbo would actually go north to join the army. ”

Zhao Ta pondered: "Fannan is now controlled by a few large departments, but there is actually a mess of sand below, and many small tribes have no contact with those most of them at all, otherwise they will not go north to survive." ”

Liu Suiyun said: "What does the prince mean ......?"

Zhao Ta touched his chin and said, "Although I know these situations, I haven't been in contact with them personally, so I don't know how these Shengbo are reliable and reliable?" ”

Liu Suiyun groaned: "Lord, I have been in Longyou for the past few years, but I have dealt with Shengbo more than once, since these people are called Shengfan, they are different from Shubo, they are very savage, they are unwilling to obey discipline, and they don't know the etiquette, they do things recklessly, and it is often difficult to communicate. ”

"Oh?" Zhao Tan frowned and said, "How is the combat effectiveness?" ”

Liu Suiyun said: "A single Shengfan has a strong fighting ability, they are good at short knives, short spears and bows and arrows, and they are not afraid of pain, ordinary soldiers may not be their opponents one-on-one, but these words together are not orderly, but can be easily broken." ”

Zhao Ta said: "That's the reason for not having been trained, some small tribes, more than a few hundred, less than dozens of people, know what kind of combined attack tactics." ”

Liu Suiyun said: "Does the prince mean to recruit these students? ”

Zhao Tan nodded: "Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the northwest has been operated for many years, Han and Hu are mixed, Qiang and Tibet are interconnected, and after the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, more attention was paid to the northwest, and the integration of the Fan Hu in the past two hundred years, among the generals of the Western Army, half of them are Fan people, and the ripe Tibet began in Shengbo, and now Xining soldiers are in short supply, this king wants to cut the Yellow River and rule, and go north to cut the summer, it is the time to use people, so that Shengbo is a good source of soldiers. ”

Liu Suiyun said: "My subordinates know, and my subordinates will convene the officials of Xining in the next meeting to discuss this matter, and see if they can take advantage of the disaster in southern Tibet to persuade some Shengbo tribes to move to the vicinity of the West Sea, so as to take root and live and cultivate their mouths to fill the households." ”

Zhao Ta said: "Pick some good skills among the Shengbo who came over and keep them for this king, and this king will train and train himself." ”

Liu Suiyun said that he was leaving, and then in the past few days, the spies scattered outside by the broken jade building got back a list from Huangzhou, and the Great Song Dynasty officially declared war on Liao.

Zhao Ta hurriedly summoned everyone to discuss, dozens of people were sitting in the lobby of Zhizhou, he shook the list text in his hand, squinted his eyes and said: "It will take a few days for this order to come from Tokyo, according to the calculation of time, the Western Army must not have crossed the Yellow River at this moment and entered the boundary of the Northern Liao Territory." ”

Lu Junyi said: "Lord, in this case, is it inappropriate to take this opportunity to go to Huangzhou and Kuozhou?" ”

Zhao Ta said: "It should be like this, not now, and when!" ”

Liu Suiyun said: "Lord Wang, in the past few days, the scouts have reported that there are soldiers and horses stationed on the line at the junction of Huangzhou, and I can't see how many, it seems that I have been prepared in advance, intending to prevent our army from going east." ”

Zhao Ta touched his chin when he heard this: "It's okay to do this, can you see clearly what banner that army is fighting?" ”

Liu Suiyun said: "It's the Yao Ziqi, but it's not Yao Gu, Yao Gu should lead his troops north to conquer Liao, and his subordinates speculate that it is his nephew Yao Pingzhong." ”

Zhao Ta smiled slightly: "I know, this matter will be discussed later, you wait to go to the city with this king first, and this king will show you a good thing." ”

The generals were puzzled when they heard this, but when they saw Zhao Ta get up, they all followed him out of the hall.

Half an hour later, climb the head of Xining East City, only see the green mountains in the distance, the water is rushing, a good plateau scenery.

Zhao Ta stretched out his hand to the back: "Take it out." ”

Zhou Ji immediately opened the wooden box behind him and took out a bamboo tube-shaped object the length of his forearm and wrapped in copper foil.

Zhao Ta took it in his hand and looked at it, it was the telescope he made of crystal stone, this was the amethyst one, and the effect was the best.

He put the mouth of the cylinder in front of his eyes, and then rotated it slightly, only to see that the rushing water in the distance suddenly came closer, as if it was in front of him, although the image was not very clear, but the identification was safe, and the trees and ridges on the shore could be seen.

Zhao Ta put down his hand and handed the mirror to Liu Suiyun: "Liu Duhu take a look." ”

Liu Suiyun wondered, everyone was puzzled, no one knew such a thing in Zhao Ta's hand, although there were sharp eyes and saw that the two sides of the tube seemed to be transparent crystals, but they didn't know what it was.

Liu Suiyun took the telescope suspiciously, and then put it in front of him like Zhao Ta and looked into the distance, and his body suddenly trembled: "Lord Wang, this, this is ......"

"It's just a thing." Zhao Tayun said lightly.

"The prince is talented and virtuous, God bless the prince, God bless the prince, with this thing, great things will come true!" Liu Suiyun shouted excitedly.

Zhao Ta touched his chin and said, "Liu Duhu is overly speaking, isn't it just a long-term thing, worth making such a fuss?" ”

Liu Suiyun's shoulders trembled, but his eyes did not leave the mouth, and he said loudly: "Prince, this thing must have been created by the prince, doesn't the prince know that this is the clairvoyance mentioned in the book?" Originally, my subordinates always thought it was just a legend, but I didn't expect it to be able to be made, this thing, this thing is important for the military! ”

Zhao Ta said: "I know that it has some effect on the army, otherwise I wouldn't have thought of making this thing, but it may not be as important as Liu Duhu said, right?" ”

Liu Suiyun said: "Lord Wang, this thing is very useful for gaining insight into opportunities and observing the enemy's situation, especially when the opponent's cavalry is superior, this thing can curb the opponent's movements!" ”

"Stifling the other party's movements?" Zhao Ta's eyes narrowed when he heard this, but he didn't think about it carefully.

"The prince can ponder and see, that Liao is good, Jin is also, the cavalry crisscross the grassland, come and go like the wind, especially the Jin country, it is known for light cavalry, the battle of the foot Dagang, the female straight 20,000 defeated the Liao country 700,000, and chased for a long time, these 20,000 can be all cavalry, the fight is a surprise, lightning attack, tossing and turning, so that the other party is unguardable, but if you have this clairvoyance, on the plain, where can you still allow the other party to exert speed wantonly, this thing ...... This thing restrains cavalry! Liu Suiyun said excitedly.

"It does." Zhao Ta thought for a few breaths and nodded slightly, the light cavalry is a speed, the telescope can detect the other party first, then the speed of the opponent's cavalry can be greatly reduced, and the battlefield is a millimeter difference, a thousand miles away, it is not wrong to say that the telescope can restrain some plain light cavalry.

"Commander Lu, you guys, take a look!" Liu Suiyun took down the telescope at this time and handed it to Lu Junyi, rubbing his hands excitedly and said: "Jin Guo is the great enemy of Shenzhou, and his subordinates have been thinking about how to break the opponent's cavalry, and now with this clairvoyance, many strategies can be implemented." ”

Zhao Ta smiled and said, "Since it is useful, then this one will be handed over to you." ”

Liu Suiyun seemed to think of something at this time, and his face turned pale: "Lord Wang, this ...... This clairvoyance won't be the only one, will it? ”

Zhao Ta glanced at him, and couldn't help laughing: "It's not a precious and rare thing, how can it be just this one." ”

"The real prince?" Liu Suiyun was overjoyed and said, "Do you still have it in your hand?" ”

Zhao Ta just wanted to speak, but he heard the exclamations over there, it turned out that it was Lu Junyi who passed the telescope, and everyone was shocked when they saw it, and they didn't know what kind of artifact it was.

Zhao Ta shook his head and smiled: "Of course, Zhou, take out the rest." ”

Zhou immediately took out the remaining three ordinary crystal mirrors in the back, and Zhao Ta said: "This thing is called a telescope, there are four in total, the one you gave you just now has the best material and the clearest view, these three are slightly worse, but it does not affect the distance." ”

Liu Suiyun took it and tried it one by one, and the more he looked at it, the more excited he became, and said, "Lord Wang, can you still make it?" Four is not enough. ”

Lu Jun hurriedly said at this time: "Lord Wang, I want one too." ”

Zhao Ta said: "The one just now is for Liu Duhu, and these planes are for the commanders of your three divisions, and then they will be rebuilt and sent down according to their ranks." ”

Liu Suiyun said happily: "Lord Wang, the subordinates of such heavy weapons feel that they should be registered for management purposes, otherwise once they are lost, it will be a huge loss." ”

Zhao Tan said with a smile: "Just do such a small thing." ”

Liu Suiyun said: "The subordinates know, and the subordinates obey the order." ”

At this time, the people in the city will pass the first telescope back, and Liu Suiyun will take it in his hand: "This one will be made into one, and the other three will be two, three and four respectively. ”

When they heard that there was a future, they rejoiced, and looked at the city for a long time, before they went down to the city.

The next day, Zhao Ta discussed again, and the next day began to prepare the army, and three days later, the army went straight out of Xining and went to Huangzhou to kill......

(End of chapter)