Song Jiu still did not dismantle and said: "In recent years, our dynasty fought against the Liao gangs, with victory and loss, joy and sorrow. Here, a few of them have not been on the battlefield, but most of them have been on the front line in person and were injured, including me and His Majesty."

Song Jiu rolled up his sleeves and fought in Qigou Pass. He was injured in many places, especially his forearm. Because he was not protected by armor, he was the most injured. Now he can still see deep scars and arrow marks.

He said again: "My minister is not as serious as Your Majesty's injuries. Your Majesty, I forgive you for being rude."

Song Jiu bent down and lifted Zhao Kuangyi's leg robe and said loudly: "Everyone, look, this is the injury caused by the Liao bandits to Your Majesty. The king was humiliated and the minister should die!"

This is the truth.

No matter what Kou Zhun and Wen Zhongshu were thinking, they did not say a word at this time.

Zhao Kuangyi would not miss this opportunity. He gently patted Song Jiu on the shoulder with his hand: "Song Qing, I am also for the descendants of the 100 million people in this country. You have done a good job, don't blame yourself."

Don't you understand yet?

They bent down together, with tears in their eyes, and swearing to be loyal to death.

Zhao Kuangyi was very satisfied, especially with Song Jiu.

In fact, Song Jiu was not very satisfied. Song Jiu was suspicious. Since ancient times, China has dominated the world with Confucianism. Confucianism has also talked about loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, but why is the cohesion so poor? Let's make an analogy. Now, we should not have begun to defend the weak foreign policy of internal emptiness and external weakness. But look at the cohesion of the Han people, and put out the list of important generals under Yelu Xiuge. Let's not talk about the Han family. In addition to the Han family, there are many Han generals who are actively acting as pioneers in invading the Song Dynasty.

Why is this so?

Except for the ethnic concept that had not been truly formed, of course, Song Jiu did not dare to let it be formed. It was not a good thing for ethnic minorities within the Song Dynasty to have a national concept together. The other is this concept of family and country. The country of the Song Dynasty was not a country of Han people, but a country of the Zhao family.

Therefore, if it continues for a long time, it is not conducive to the formation of national cohesion.

If he can't understand, he is not a thinker and philosopher. Due to the needs of reality, the Zhao family is stable and the world is stable, helpless! Also, although he doesn't usually speak, almost no one dares to say anything when he speaks. Even if he deliberately keeps a low profile, he thinks seriously, his position is still at the peak of the high place and cold. If he can't go any further, he will have to move his nest if he goes to Zhao Er again.

So be extra careful when doing things.

But Song Jiu had not opened it yet, but walked out and ordered the clerk to bring a few huge candles and roll up the huge map on the wall behind.

Kou Zhun screamed, "Hey, there is a secret door here?"

It was useless to know, he only had a key, in Zhao Kuangyi's hands.

Zhao Kuangyi opened the secret door and lit a huge candle. There was a huge secret room inside. The Privy Council and the Secretariat were both on the west side of the imperial city, and the north side was a little depressed. Zhao Da and Zhao Er were both unqualified masters. There were not many palaces built. However, Zhao Kuangyi, the imperial city to the south, built many buildings, such as the Shangshu Province, the Menxia Province, the Palace Province, the Six Shangshu Bureau, the Imperial Chef, the Mingtang, the Political Affairs Hall, the Secretariat, the Three Library of Books, etc. The imperial city was not big, so it was a bit crowded.

Especially the two major offices, east and west governments, there are many houses. Due to the angle, this space is divided. If you don’t think about it, no one will pay attention to it outside.

With the help of huge oil candles, more than a dozen people could clearly see everything inside. It was a huge super sand table, divided into two parts, part of which was the terrain of the entire Song Dynasty, which was a little rough, and part of which was the terrain of the border between the Song and Liao dynasties. It went to Fufeng Erzhou and Beihetao in the west, and the sea in the east. This was clearer. Even some small peaks were imitated, and the materials were made of sand and gum.

There was a long table next to it. Song Jiu then cut the fire paint with a knife and showed this plan to everyone.

Looking at this physical object, you will be clearer when you look at this plan again.

Kou Zhun was still in a daze: "Mr. Song, why don't I know?"

"Don't you know now?"

"but……"

"Don't have it, this must also be kept confidential. If it is leaked and let the enemy country know, it means that all the mountains, rivers, rivers, and border defenses on the border of our border will notify the enemy country together. The fewer people know, the better."

Wen Zhongshu murmured: "With it, there will be no mistakes in military affairs."

"It's not that exaggerated, but with it, it will help."

When he started reading the plan, Kou Zhun suddenly said, "Why am I going to come back?"

He will soon make great military achievements if he doesn't come back. Look at Zhang Qixian, it is because of his contribution to Daizhou that he is famous in the court and the country. The little Kou regrets it.

...

After nearly two years, the number of the injunctions has finally recovered, barely reaching 340,000.

It is said that there are fewer, but there are actually not enough households in the Song Dynasty. In addition to the imprisonment, there are also a large number of wing soldiers, rural soldiers and some local soldiers in the south. It is said that there are many, but there are really not many. If you want to defeat the Liao Kingdom, there are actually very few imprisonment soldiers.

Song Jiu, the wing soldier, wanted to compress it at one time. The country implemented labor-for-relief measures, but there were many disputes and contradictions at one time. The court was good at it, but the officials below were corrupt and took a little, and there would be few more victims. This caused a lot of trouble. However, the official atmosphere was not too bad at this time. Whether Zhao Da or Zhao Er, they should pay attention to rectifying the style of officials and protecting the people. Don’t doubt it. To be honest, if the system was backward or caring for the people, it might be that some presidents in later generations might not be as good as Zhao Da and Zhao Er, especially Zhao Er.

Therefore, some water conservancy roads, cultivated land, or other projects in various places were implemented one by one by one by one. Unless a major project, there were many states and prefectures that required coordination and did not dare to use labor for relief. However, Song Jiu did not dare to reduce the scale of the wing soldiers in the end. There were still many errands in each state, such as guarding prison cities, building ships, escorting grain, assisting bandits and theft prevention, etc. The scale of the wing soldiers was still around 300,000.

Song Jiu was helpless, the ban on the army was even more difficult, and the treatment was poor. Some escort work was also dangerous and unstable, and even the basic military farm could not be cultivated normally. Therefore, Song Jiu deliberately moved out some places to ask the family members of the squad to plant cotton and mulberry plants to supplement their income.

In short, there are many problems in the country, and this is the military. There are also various servants. In front of the yamen, the pavilions of salt, tea households, craft households, craft households, and shop households...

In fact, Lingnan, which implements the exemption law, also has a lot of problems.

There is no way to do this, we can only regulate it one by one to reduce various harsh policies.

However, if you want to be good, you are actually still a ban on the army. Once Yan Yun takes it back, the border defense will not have to be so tight, and there will be no need to raise so many ban on the army. The war gradually decreases, and the saved economy can be used to lenient the people.

The actual idea is beautiful. When it comes to that point, maybe everyone will lose their hands and feet, and the economy will be tight, and it may not be further lenient to the people.

Two days of mysterious God in the West.

A series of military mobilizations followed.

Before Zhao Kuangyin founded the country, the army was strict and could be said to be the strongest army of hundreds of battles. Now it is almost gone, either sacrificed or retired, and there are very few, and most of them became generals and schools of various battalions. However, Zhao Kuangyin's army can still be called a powerful army, destroying Bashu, capturing Jinghu, Hunan, conquering Southern Tang, capturing Southern Han, conquering Taiyuan several times, and several small-scale battles with the Khitan, but there are not many left in this army now.

Especially in the battle of Qigou Pass, almost all the elite military camps were on the eastern front. Even though Song Jiu showed courage, most of the soldiers had not been brought back. Fortunately, some of them were brought back, and although they fled, they still remained honorable, and they retained their blood. However, in the battle of Junzi Pavilion, many people were ruined.

Therefore, almost half of the 300,000 imperial guards are new recruits now, especially 70% of the soldiers in the imperial guards who died heroically.

I can only train slowly.

The smaller the elite army, the less dared to push the new recruits to the front line. Song Jiu was very worried about this in Xifu. He had to practice. Some of the new recruits pushed the front line and mixed with veterans, but the proportion was small, so he did not dare to weaken the combat effectiveness of the front line. Some were placed on the second line, allowing them to feel the atmosphere of the front line battlefield. In this way, Song Jiu was still trembling, avoiding the fear of Xiao Yanyan becoming crazy, and invading generously to break through the front line. Fortunately, the Liao Kingdom has been disabled in the past two years and the border is quiet.

So it seems that the proportion of cavalry is increasing now, and the actual combat effectiveness is weakening.

There was no choice, so the cavalry trained in the northwest, except for the Fanqiang cavalry, were transferred to Hedong and Hebei to set up defenses, leaving only a small number of soldiers to continue to guard the garrison on the spot. However, the northwest was not empty, and it was not that far.

Then these recruits were transferred to the northwest one after another, and continued to hone their skills, selecting some brave soldiers from them to increase the number of light cavalry.

Very normal military force mobilization.

However, 25,000 light cavalry arrived in Hedong and Hebei, and the pressure on the Liao Kingdom increased.

Not only that, the Song Dynasty began to build warships in Dengzhou as Song Jiu and Zhao Pu said before. It was not in Cangzhou, along the seaside to Pingzhou, Liao Kingdom. This was a real sea ship that could reach the Liaodong Peninsula of Liao Kingdom at any time, or even threaten the Liao Kingdom’s Tokyo City along the Liao River.

When Wang Mian heard about it, he became anxious.

The court made a big move this time. Is it going to fight the Northern Expedition again?

When he left the Western Prefecture, the Staff Office had not been established yet, let alone know what Cui Yanjin's plan was from Song Jiu's mouth. Even if he knew, Cui Yanjin's plan had long been unfair, and he might not have figured it out.

Therefore, if you don’t know, if you don’t know, you’re anxious.

How can we not know about such a big thing?

So he asked Zhang Qixian: "Shi Liang, what do you want to dispatch troops and generals in the Western Palace?"

“There is wind in the south.”

"Is there a wind in the south?" Wang Mian almost fell, but this literal seems easier to understand, saying: "Are you saying that the court is going to fight the north?"

"Sorry, I can't tell you this forgivable."

What if it works, Wang Mian went to find Chen Shu again: "Zhongyan, the imperial court wants to fight the north, but he doesn't even say anything to the East Mansion."

Chen Shu didn't say anything.

"You came from the Sansi and should know how difficult the court's finances will be this year."

"Have your Majesty issued an order?"

"It will be too late to wait until Your Majesty issues the order."

Wang Mian jumped and jumped on the Secretariat, and even found Wang Huaji for a while: "Wang Zhongcheng, the court intends to fight the north. In the past two years, the country has suffered many disasters and the people are suffering and cruel. As the leader of the ministers, do you abandon the public because of your own personal gain?"

Wang Huaji is also very miserable.

Compared with Lu Mengzheng and Kou Zhun, he was much worse than those of Lu Mengzheng and Kou Zhun, but he was steady and low-key, and was highly appreciated by Zhao Kuangyi. He once commented that he had a very Yi'an style. That is, Wang Huaji's style is very similar to Song Jiu. He does not like to mess around, does not love the powerful, does not flatter and sincere, does not bully the superiors and the subordinates, and is loyal and upright. Therefore, Wang Huaji recommended his scholars, and Wang Huaji thought in his mind that he recommended dozens of people, including Wang Sizong, Xue Ying, and Geng Wang. These people are all pretty good. But he

He also recommended five people including Jiang Zheng, Zhang Changyan, Liu Chenghai, etc. These five people were all disciples from Song Jiu's original schoolhouse. Three magistrates, one magistrate, and one Beijing official, and all performed very well. Therefore, Wang Huaji listed them with the attitude of not avoiding relatives. In fact, there were more than these five people who came out of the schoolhouse. However, there were some taboos, including Wu Dazheng, who was honest and humble disciple whom Lu Yuqing accepted. Wang Huaji did not recommend them.

However, this fair list made Wang Mian target.

Fortunately, Zhao Kuangyi took the initiative to protect him, otherwise Wang Huaji would be disgraced by Wang Mian.

In fact, what happened to these five former students in the school, Zhao Kuangyi assigned Jiang, Zhang and Liu. Jiang Zheng was the deputy envoy of the Ministry of Education, one was the commander of the Three Sihequ, and the other was the deputy envoy of Jinghu Transportation. It should be said that this was the most noble official among the disciples of the school, except Wang Huaji. However, the three performed well and worked diligently, and the whole family had to praise each other.

Can you say that Wang Huaji's recommendation is not qualified?

But it cannot be said that Wang Mian was causing trouble for him. Eighty-most of the students were from Hebei, Hezhong. I don’t know how many officials have been released now. Song Jiu is in that cold position, and it is impossible for the court to be taboo at all.

Unless Song Jiu retires.

Is that possible?

In fact, it was not until something happened next year that the situation changed slightly. A student named Su Shiheng died of exhaustion in office. However, because he was only a county magistrate, he had little salary and a clean style, his family did not even have money to escort the coffin back after his death. After hearing this, the local people wrote a letter, and dozens of gentry personally hired ships to escort the coffin back from Hunan. It is said that when the coffin left, the people in the county were wearing mourning clothes, as if they had lost their parents.

This finally caused a sensation.

Since then, the court finally let the academy students go again.

In fact, horizontal comparison, academy students have more achievements compared to the Jinshi due to different educational methods. However, compared with vertical comparison, the earliest students have more achievements than the current academy students. However, it was caused by Song Jiu and was also stuck because Song Jiu.

At this time, Su Shiheng had not passed away, and Wang Huaji had no choice but to write to the court. It was indeed not a good time for the Northern Expedition, and the Western Prefecture was sneaky and did not conform to the court system.

Zhao Kuangyi laughed and said something that made Wang Mian think about it again: "Wang Qing, you don't have to worry about this matter. It's just a wind that will not hinder people's livelihood."

Wang Mian asked depressedly: "Your Majesty, what wind is blowing?"

"south wind!"
Chapter completed!