God knows how much anger he felt in his heart when Zhao Duan understood the cause and effect.

Originally, it was only a trivial matter, and although a tax of one cent increased the burden on the people, it was completely within the scope of the people's bearing, and only this time.

As a result, the following people actually took advantage of this matter to make a lot of money, and finally got things out of control now!

"Who are the officials involved in this in these counties! I'm going to kill them!

They are digging the roots of the Great Song Dynasty!

Today they dare to oppress the people so much, magnifying one centimeter to two percent, and tomorrow they will dare to rush into the treasury and rob the silver!

I'm going to rip them off! Only by cutting them with a thousand knives can we erase the hatred in our hearts, and can we give an account to the people who lost their lives because of their stupid actions!

And you are also a waste, as a superior, you are so expected by the people below but you don't know it, you are dereliction of duty! It is inaction!

………”

Zhao Duan roared angrily, but no one dared to speak until Zhao Duan vented all the anger in his heart, and the whole person gradually calmed down, and the officials breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing that Zhao Duan's expression was gradually relaxed, Zhang He dared to stand up and arch his hand: "Your Majesty, how to deal with those criminals is a matter for later, and the top priority now is to suppress the civil unrest in the four counties as soon as possible and restore the stability of the four counties."

Otherwise, if the situation in the four counties continues to spread, the losses of the Great Song Dynasty will become greater and greater, and it will eventually reach the point of no return!

Please put your majesty first and immediately send troops to support the four counties! ”

Zhang He's words made Zhao Duan completely calm down, he also knew that incompetent anger was the most useless, even if you were angry, what if you were angry, those criminals would continue to do whatever they wanted, and they didn't take this matter to heart at all.

What I have to do now is to suppress the chaos as soon as possible, so that I can have time to go back and clean up those criminals.

After thinking for a moment, Zhao Duan asked, "None of the garrisons of the four counties can stop the chaotic people?" ”

Zhang He sighed, hesitated for a moment, but seemed to understand the current situation, so he no longer concealed it, and explained directly: "Your Majesty, the garrison has been an important force in the imperial court to guard various prefectures and counties since the founding of the country.

Even the imperial court gave them a fixed amount of land as rations.

However, current events have changed.

More than 100 years have passed, and the garrison system has long been rotten into a pot of porridge.

There was a serious shortage of deserters in the garrison posts, and the officers embezzled military funds, seized land, and even forced the soldiers to farm land for them, and became tenants who did not need to pay money, resulting in soldiers not getting their salaries and finally becoming deserters and leaving the place.

The real number of soldiers in the garrisons today is probably less than one-tenth!

Most of them were still old people, and those officers were forced to stay in order to continue to embezzle military salaries, and the old people were too old to run their legs and feet, so they had to stay.

Your Majesty, let me ask such a garrison, even if they are only facing a rabble of people, what can they do, and how long can they resist? ”

Zhao Duan gritted his teeth, it was not that he didn't know about it, but the matter of the garrison was already a big problem that the Great Song Dynasty had been big but couldn't solve.

Now that Zhang He said it nakedly, it really made Zhao Duan look very ugly.

But this is indeed a fact, Zhao Duan took a deep breath, knowing that these garrisons were really useless, so he didn't continue to look for ways from them.

Continue asking:

"Where's the Xiang Army? Probably sent out? ”

The Xiang army is a unique kind of army in the Great Song Dynasty, every time the Great Song Dynasty encounters natural disasters and man-made disasters, the people rebel, and after the suppression and pacification, in order to let these people who rebel because they can't survive, they will be incorporated into the Xiang army, so that they can eat military rations.

Up to now, the number of Xiang troops has accumulated nearly one million over the years.

And the existence of the Xiang Army will make the Great Song Dynasty pay a lot of financial expenditure every year.

But the existence of the Xiang army is good or bad, and the bad thing is that the imperial court needs to spend a lot of money every year to support them, and they have little combat effectiveness.

But the advantage is that if the Great Song Dynasty wants to do something that requires a large number of people, it basically does not need to use the people's army, and it is completely enough.

So, the Xiang Army naturally became the official construction team of the Great Song Dynasty, once a place encountered a natural disaster or something that suffered great damage, the post-disaster reconstruction was basically done by the Xiang Army.

To put it bluntly, they are just a bunch of ordinary people in military positions.

Although it is said that the combat effectiveness of the box army is low, the other party is also a common person, everyone is of the same level, and the box army still has a million.

How can it be stronger than the ordinary people in those chaotic counties, right?

It's just that Zhang He's next sentence made his brows furrow again.

I only heard Zhang He's face full of helplessness and said: "Your Majesty, last year, the Xiongnu entered the Kou, although it was said that they had been expelled later, but the damage caused by the Xiongnu to the land east of the river was extremely serious.

So soon after the war, in order to carry out post-disaster reconstruction, the imperial court had sent the only idle 500,000 people to Hedong to rebuild.

Now there is no Xiang Army in Bianjing at all. ”

"This means that now in my Great Song Capital, Nuoda's Bianjing City, there are no other soldiers to adjust except for my forbidden army?"

Zhao Duan's eyes widened and he said in disbelief.

Zhang He nodded helplessly:

"Back to Your Majesty, that's true."

"Whew! Suck! Call! Suck! ”

After Zhao Duan took a few deep breaths, he finally restrained the anger that almost exploded.

In the capital of a country, in addition to the emperor's personal guards and forbidden army, the imperial court has no troops to adjust?

How ridiculous is that?

It's a big joke!

"How many people do you want to transfer?"

After calming down, things still have to be done, and Zhao Duan could only suppress his anger and ask.

Zhang He thought for a while and then said: "If today, the martial army goes with the prince of Zhenxi to clear the remnants of the martial arts, and only the Japanese army, the dragon guard army and the god guard army are left in Bianjing City.

Now that the four counties are in turmoil, Zhuri is the only forbidden army with a full number, with 50,000 people, but the Dragon Guard and the Divine Guard Army are not even half, and there are only more than 40,000 people in total.

According to the current situation, each of these four counties must send at least 10,000 people to have a complete grasp of suppressing the chaos in several counties.

As the capital of Bianjing, the defense force is extremely important and cannot be lost.

Your Majesty might as well continue to keep the Japanese army, and the Dragon Guard Army and the Divine Guard Army will be divided into four groups, with 10,000 people all the way to the four counties to suppress the rebellious people.

In this way, the safety of Bianjing can be guaranteed, and the chaos in the four counties can be resolved as soon as possible. ”

According to Zhang He's idea, even if there are more than 100,000 chaotic people, after all, they are only chaotic people, and in the face of the most elite forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty, 10,000 people to suppress it is simply more than enough!

Zhao Duan hesitated for a long time when he heard this, after all, this is the forbidden army, and the main task of the forbidden army is to protect themselves, not to fight.

Taking away two of the four forbidden armies in this way will undoubtedly bring great security risks to Bianjing City.

However, there is still a forbidden army left.

And the local situation could not be delayed, so after hesitating for a long time, Zhao Duan finally nodded in compromise and agreed to send the Dragon Guard Army and the Divine Guard Army to suppress the rebellious people.

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(End of chapter)