North Song

Chapter 720: Thousands of miles in an isolated city, full of gray-haired soldiers

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Although Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng were shocked, they were able to sit still.

They have been ups and downs in the Huahai for many years, and they have never seen any scenes.

They are confident that they will remember how much Kou Ji said.

Cao Wei and others had a bad feeling in their hearts, but due to their face, they did not ask for paper records.

After Kou Ji collected the expressions of everyone in his eyes, he smiled and said: "My Da Song military system is too complicated, so many problems arise. Therefore, after discussing with many colleagues in the Privy Council and officials, I decided to go to Fanjian Jian.

The first is the numbers of the ministries.

My name is too complicated, so many people can't remember it completely, and a lot of jokes have been made.

So after discussing with the officials, I felt that I could simplify the name of the Great Song Bingma.

After simplification, the Song Dynasty Forbidden Army no longer used the previous designation, but replaced it with a new designation.

They are Sizhen, Siyong, Lianghu, and Liangsai.

The four towns are Zhendong, Zhennan, Zhenbei, and Zhenxi.

The four eternals are Yongan, Yongping, Yongding, and Yongxing.

The two tigers are Huben and Huwei.

The two plugs are static plug and protection plug.

The above numbers are all forbidden army numbers.

Soldiers are all 50,000.

A total of six hundred thousand soldiers and horses.

They were guarded in the four borders of our Song Dynasty, southeast, northwest.

Among them, Zhendong and Zhennan are both naval forces.

Zhenbei and Huben sit in the north.

Zhenxi and Huwei sit in the west.

Static stop, protect stop, sit on the border of Song and Liao.

The four armies of An, Ping, Ding, and Xing guarded Xining, Taiyuan, Bozhou, and Yongzhou respectively.

In addition to the above 600,000 forbidden forces, there are three other forbidden forces based in Bianjing.

They are Yulongwei, Tianwu, and Pengri.

Among them, Yulongwei has a full force of 10,000.

Tianwu and Pengri each have a full quota of 50,000.

In order to prevent Yulongwei, Tianwu, and Pengri from living in Bianjing for a long time, it is training and it is difficult to defend the imperial city.

Every three years, 10,000 elite soldiers are drawn from the Forbidden Army to make up the Yulongwei. The original Yulongwei 10,000 soldiers and horses are assigned to the army to make up the vacancy.

Every ten years, 100,000 elite soldiers are drawn from the Forbidden Army to make up for the Tianwu and Peng Japanese armies. The soldiers and horses of the original Tianwu and Peng Japanese armies are sent to the armies to make up the vacancies.

This is to ensure that, at all times, the garrison in Bianjing city, as well as the town troops in various places, maintain excellent combat power. "

At this point, Koj paused.

Regardless of his face, Zhong Shiheng ordered the eunuch standing next to him to help himself with paper and pen.

Kou Ji's simple words, the amount of information given, has exceeded all the previous words.

Zhong Shiheng's head can remember, but the military system Kou Ji mentioned has completely broken the inherent military system of the Song Dynasty. The knowledge inherent in his mind is not enough for him to distinguish the rationality of it.

He must write it down and carefully analyze it sentence by sentence.

Then when we discussed later, there was something to say.

Some people may think that what Kou Jiming said is very simple. Why does Shiheng think that there is a lot of information

That's because everything Kou Ji said was based on the existing Great Song Soldiers and Horses system.

The new designation, the new equipment of soldiers and horses, the deployment of military commanders, the deployment of soldiers and horses, and the deployment of soldiers and horses all need to be considered.

More importantly, the recruit system proposed by Kou Ji only integrated 700,000 forbidden troops, and there are many more forbidden troops that have not been integrated. How to arrange these forbidden soldiers is also a big problem.

Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and others frowned and thought to themselves.

They were analyzing Kou Ji's words one by one, their minds were turning quickly, but they didn't mean to interrupt.

After a pause, Kou Ji continued: "After the reorganization of the Forbidden Army, the Sanya and the Privy Council will merge into one place. There will be no Sanya, only the Privy Council.

The Privy Council is in charge of dispatching troops and also in charge of dispatching generals. "'

As soon as Kou Ji said this, everyone present, except for Zhao Zhen, almost frowned into the word Sichuan.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the reason why the Sanya and the Privy Council were established separately to be in charge of soldiers and generals was because they were afraid that the power of dispatching soldiers would fall into the hands of one person.

Now that General Kou Ji has all the right to dispatch troops into the Privy Council, they naturally feel uncomfortable.

Kou Ji looked at the crowd while continuing: "From now on, the Privy Council will only control the Forbidden Army."

Upon hearing this, Lu Yijian and others looked at a loss and did not understand the meaning of Kou Ji's words.

Kou Ji said: "After the Privy Council takes over the Sanya, it will seize all the tiger charms. In non-wartime, the Forbidden Army must pass through the Privy Council's military seal. The Privy Council's military seal has one seal and two divisions, half of the official's palm and half of the pricy's palm.

If it is necessary to dispatch troops and generals, the two seals must be combined and the dispatch document must be affixed before dispatch.

In wartime, when the Forbidden Army was dispatched, officials would issue tiger symbols at all levels. "

Lu Yijian and others stared wide-eyed.

The final result of Kou Ji's move was that Zhao Zhen really won the world's military power, and Zhao Zhen and the Privy Council held military power together.

Today's privy envoy is Kou Ji, which means that Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji will both be in control.

What are they doing now

innovation!

What will you do in the future

Completely innovate Da Song!

Now that the two of them are in the reform of the military system, they are firmly holding the military power in their hands. What is their purpose

Lu Yijian and others know it well.

They are preparing strength for future innovation.

Lu Yijian and others are almost certain that Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji will definitely make concessions in other military systems in their subsequent discussions.

But on this one, the two will never make any concessions.

Kou Ji guessed the thoughts of Lu Yijian and others through the reaction of Lu Yijian and others, but did not explain much. He continued: "The above is related to the military system of the Privy Council.

Next, I will talk about the military system involved in the Ministry of War.

Once the new composition of the Forbidden Army is completed, many soldiers of the Forbidden Army will inevitably be left behind.

At that time, the remaining soldiers and soldiers of the Forbidden Army will be assigned to the defenders.

The roads set up by our Great Song Dynasty all set up a defensive army.

Ten thousand people in full.

Controlled by the Ministry of War.

Military pay is distributed by the Ministry of War.

All sides, feudal lords, government offices, city guards, and rural soldiers and horses were all abolished.

All prefectures, prefectures, and counties set up government soldiers, state soldiers, and county soldiers.

The government has 1,000 men, the state has 800 men, and the county has 500 men.

The above-mentioned soldiers and horses are all under the jurisdiction of various prefectures, prefectures, and counties. Each prefecture, prefecture, and county government also has corresponding officials.

He belongs to the Ministry of War, but the military pay is allocated by the Ministry of Households, and the salary is equivalent to the three squads of government officers.

After the three levels of soldiers and horses at the prefecture, state, and county levels were established, the remaining soldiers and horses were filled into the third squads of each government.

The number of officials in the third squad of the county yamen was set at 30.

The number of prefectural yamen is set at ninety.

The number of government offices is also ninety.

After completing the three squads of government service, the remaining soldiers and horses will be reinstated and retired to farmers. "

When Lu Yijian and others heard this, they couldn't completely react. They frowned one by one, and their brains were noisy, and the more they thought about it, the more chaotic they became.

The proposal made by Kou Ji is very in conflict with the existing military and official system.

Every conflict in their minds can form a huge spark, and in the end the sparks connect into one piece and become a sea of fire, burning their heads into a mass of paste.

"Help... help the old man get pen and ink..."

Lu Yijian couldn't hold it anymore, so he greeted the eunuch around him and helped him get his pen and ink.

Lu Yijian opened his head, and the other people no longer insisted on it, and they asked the eunuch for pen and ink.

When Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji saw this, they looked at each other and smiled knowingly.

All of what Kou Ji said was discussed by the two of them and the officials of the Privy Council.

The aim is to put all the soldiers and horses where they should be.

From now on, the seven hundred and one hundred thousand imperial soldiers and horses, in addition to guarding the imperial city, will be sitting on the border and fighting outside.

Otherwise, do nothing.

In the words of later generations, it belongs to the field army.

When necessary, it can serve as an expeditionary force.

The various armies set up on various roads are responsible for suppressing local rebellions, suppressing local bandits, suppressing large-scale riots, and helping various provinces, states, and counties to deal with some military issues that are difficult for them to deal with.

As for the soldiers and horses of the provinces, prefectures, and counties, they are mainly to maintain local public security, which is almost equivalent to making up for the government.

Kind of similar to Wut of later generations.

Yamen naturally don't have to say much.

According to common sense, when Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji were innovating the military system, there was no need to cram people in various government offices, which would only increase the consumption of money.

The reason they did this was to prepare for subsequent reforms.

The imperial power did not go to the countryside. A large part of the reason lies in the civil and military officials at all levels of the government and the third-class government officials.

Most of the civil and military officials at all levels of the government, as well as the third class of government officials, are local wealthy households, or local powerful children.

They not only controlled the imperial court's speech to the next, but also controlled local control.

After some inaction officials arrived at the localities, they were basically in a state of being suspended by them.

Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji did this to add sand.

The inherent sitting tiger meets the cross-river dragons who are distributed to various places. There will inevitably be conflicts in the distribution of benefits, and the two sides will inevitably fight to the death.

The soldiers assigned to the localities are certainly not the powerful opponents of those localities.

Therefore, when necessary, Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen will secretly instruct local soldiers and horses to participate.

all in all.

As the officers and soldiers were assigned to the local government to serve as government officials, they would definitely muddy the water of the Song Dynasty's cultural affairs.

It will be much more convenient for Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen to get started.

More importantly, the two of them support the soldiers who are assigned to the place, and those soldiers will naturally speak for them.

The two of them can be regarded as having people in the place.

The place will not be completely controlled by those tycoons.

Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen were not only planning to deal with the imperial relatives and Wu Xun, but also when reforming the military system.

Of course.

After the two of them agreed on the matter, they knew that the nails they had planted in the military system would definitely be discovered.

But the two of them are not worried that their military system will not go on.

All military reforms are from top to bottom.

First arrange the Forbidden Army, stabilize the Quartet, and stabilize the entire Song Dynasty.

Then advance the implementation of roads, houses, prefectures, and counties.

Infiltrate the soldiers and horses bit by bit.

The last is the distribution of government officials.

At the stage of allocating government services, the army and horses of the roads, prefectures, prefectures, and counties have been set up.

If the local tycoons resist this, the court has sufficient reasons, and soldiers and horses at all levels will join in to suppress the local tycoons.

Forcing the local tycoons to bow their heads and accept the soldiers to enter the yamen.

If the local tycoons cause chaos, the comfort department at the road level can quickly assemble the soldiers and horses in the territory, assemble a large army, and press against the locality.

It can be said that this move is more conducive to maintaining local stability than the one soldier and three assistants in the military system of the Song Dynasty.

If the yamen at the first level of the road can't deal with the local tyrannical rebellion, you can also call the four eternal ban troops sitting in the four directions of the Song Dynasty.

Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen placed the four forbidden forces in Yongding, Yongping, Yongxing, and Yong'an respectively in Xining, Taiyuan, Bozhou, and Yongzhou.

It plays a role of two-sided support.

Internally, you can quickly rush to all directions, and externally you can quickly rush to the Quartet.

With internal pressure, the four forbidden troops with the initials forever can quickly assemble with local soldiers and horses to assemble a force of no less than 70,000 soldiers and horses.

Fifty thousand elite soldiers, led by more than twenty thousand local soldiers, are enough to quickly suppress local civil commotions.

Externally, the four forbidden forces at the beginning of the eternal word can quickly assist the forbidden forces at the beginning of the four towns and the two forbidden forces at the beginning of the stop.

Whether it is rushing to aid the Song and Liao borders, the northern borders, and the western borders, 150,000 elite soldiers can be assembled quickly.

One hundred and fifty thousand elite soldiers are enough to cope with an enemy from either side.

More importantly, if it is an expedition of the Forbidden Army with the prefix of the four towns, the Forbidden Army with the prefix of the four forever can also quickly take over from them and take on the important task of defending the border.

All in all, Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen racked their brains in terms of military deployment and distribution, and they came up with a relatively sound and stable military system.

Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji racked their brains to come up with the deep meaning of the deployment of troops. Lu Yijian and others have not thought of that one for the time being.

They are still quickly digesting what Kou Ji said.

Kou Ji did not continue to speak when they sent someone to pick up the pen and paper.

Although he had the disgusting idea of Lu Yijian and others in his heart, he couldn't put it into action.

What is being discussed right now is state affairs, not a trifling matter.

Kou Ji slowly opened his mouth after they got the pen and paper: "As for the supervising army, the supervising army system is retained, but in the forbidden army, the supervising army is promoted to the battalion level at most.

It can be promoted to the municipal level at the local level.

And the supervising army is no longer filled by civilian officials and eunuchs.

The official family is ready to revive the martial arts, and the supervising army in the army will be filled by the jinshi who came out of the martial arts.

In the martial arts, in addition to the martial arts test, a part of the literary test will be added accordingly.

The supervising army is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War.

Ban the supervising army's temporary arbitrariness. "

"In terms of military positions, the banning of complicated military positions should be kept simple. With the exception of the Yulongwei, the rest of the forbidden army will be the chief general of the forbidden army. Captain, Dutou is still Dutou...

There are two generals and ten lieutenants.

Each government has two soldiers and horses, and two school lieutenants.

The soldiers and horses of the counties do not have official positions, they should be dispatched, and the lieutenants of the counties are the masters..."

Kou Ji's statement on military service is very general, but Lu Yijian and others are generally aware of what Kou Ji means.

For example, the general position does not mean that there is a separate official position. The court has corresponding official positions, the general position, there are the second-rank auxiliary generals, the Zhenguo generals, and the third-rank Huaihua generals and the champion generals. .

In the past, this type of official position was only an increase in official position, but Kou Ji only turned the increase into a real position.

The general's specific ranks will definitely be set according to the current rank of the imperial court.

The imperial court also had corresponding official positions for generals, generals, and school lieutenants on the left and right.

Except for the left and right generals, the rest are scattered positions.

Kou Ji is tantamount to abandoning the cumbersome actual job and directly adopting a simple casual job.

By doing this, the biggest benefit currently visible is that the titles of military attachés at all levels have become clear, and the court has also saved a large number of cumbersome official posts.

After Wang Zeng heard this, he wrote it down specially.

Obviously he was very satisfied with the military system proposed by Koj.

Wang Zeng's attitude is very simple. As long as he can help the court save money, he agrees and he thinks it is good.

After everyone had written his words, Kou Ji continued: "In terms of recruitment, the Ministry of War and the local yamen will jointly recruit troops, and the Privy Council will allocate them."

The imperial court used to be very casual in recruiting troops.

In wartime, the imperial court would issue documents to various local yamen to recruit soldiers and then distribute them nearby.

At the same time, when the armed forces are fighting, in order to make up their troops in time, they will also be deployed on the school grounds to recruit troops. Some supervising troops, comfort envoys, etc., can also recruit troops when necessary.

Some simply drew directly from other soldiers and horses.

Others directly charged criminals and prisoners with stabs into the army.

In short, there were too many ways of recruiting troops in the Song Dynasty. In addition, the great officials in frontiers such as the appeasement envoys could draw troops and horses from other armies, which resulted in a very chaotic number of soldiers and horses in each army. One of the reasons for the blood of soldiers.

As long as someone helps to issue a transfer order, or someone endorses it, then the soldiers and horses under the rule of each army can be in their own camp today, and tomorrow can be in the camp of others.

Or maybe there are only a few thousand men in the army, but they ask the court for tens of thousands of people.

The soldiers only get a salary, but the generals who lead the soldiers can get more benefits.

Some in the military have backgrounds, and they don’t make a fuss about this matter.

After Kou Ji finished talking about the recruiting method, he didn't speak again.

Lu Yijian and others were taken aback for a moment.

Lu Yijian rubbed her eyebrows and stared at Kou Ji, "What else?"

Kou Ji said so much and was tired. Hearing what Lu Yijian said, he smiled and said, "There is also the number of years of service for soldiers and horses."

Speaking of this, Kou Ji paused and sighed: "We can't let the soldiers and horses die in the barracks anymore. That would be too cruel. Since they shed blood for me, they should not continue to cry.

When I was in the northwest, I saw a battalion of veterans, a battalion of gray hair.

Thousands of miles in an isolated city, full of gray-haired soldiers.

This allusion should have been heard by Lu Correspondence. "

When Kou Ji mentioned'a lonely city, full of white-haired soldiers', the expressions of everyone present became a lot more solemn.

Lu Yijian sighed: "The old man naturally knows that a lonely city is full of white-haired soldiers. It is the story of Guo Xin, Guo Ziyi's nephew, Guo Xin. When Guo Xin was young, he went to Anxi to join the army. Civil strife broke out in the Tang Dynasty. The Tang court lost contact.

He led the soldiers and horses of his men and guarded in Anxi for more than a decade. He did not get in touch with the Tang court until after the Tang court had settled down.

At that time, the Tang court was already strong in the outside world and could not give Guo Xin much help, and did not recall him. It just gave Guo Xin the title of Wuwei County King and promoted his soldiers to seven or eight ranks.

But it didn't help him and his soldiers.

But even so, he and his soldiers were still happy and still helped the Tang court guard Anxi.

But they once again lost contact with the Tang court.

Losing contact this time is Yong Jue.

They stayed in Anxi for forty-two years, and the old green youths turned into gray-haired old men.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, in the forty-two years of war, only a few thousand people were left dead.

In their last battle, they faced a 100,000 army of Tubo.

After that battle, they were all buried in Anxi, with no survivors. "

Lu Yijian was very sad at the end, and he didn't even want to describe the miserable scene.

Kou Ji took a deep breath and said heavily: "Their heroism is worthy of being remembered forever by my Han man, but their story cannot happen.

We have the ability to let the white hair in the army return home to enjoy their twilight years, so we must let them return home to enjoy their twilight years.

I know that even if they have gray hair, they have no regrets or regrets when they rush to the battlefield to bathe in blood with the enemy.

They have no regrets because they have no regrets.

But if we reproduce their story, we will be ashamed of them, and we will be ashamed of all the soldiers in the world.

Therefore, I can't just watch the soldiers die in the camp.

I can't just watch them gray-haired, and shed the last drop of blood for me.

If this blood is going to shed, we will shed it, not them.

I will not only set the number of years of service for them, but also let them return to their hometown when they have spare capacity, let them marry wives and have children, and let them spend the rest of their lives prosperously.

They deserve to be treated so favorably by the court, right

Lu Gong? "

"Then set it to ten years! Forbidden army soldiers, ten years into the army! Ten years later, those who are willing to stay in the army will continue to stay in the army. I promise him to marry a wife in the army, maybe he will move his family to his side. .

Soldiers who return home should be made up to the third squad, or in the barracks at all levels of government.

The court helped them get wives.

If no one is willing to marry, I will take someone to help them grab it.

This robber, Li Yuanhao did it, Yelu Longxu did it, and I did it too.

For my great Song Zhongyong, I am willing to be a robber! "

Zhao Zhen was infected by the words of Lu Yijian and Kou Ji, and the benevolence in his heart was awkward, and he spoke these words.

In fact, when Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen first negotiated, they set a limit of fifteen years.

Zhao Zhen personally overturned the age limit set by him and Kou Ji.

Kou Ji thought about it for a moment, but didn't refute Zhao Zhen's words.

If it were before, he would naturally not approve of Zhao Zhen's proposal.

This is because when the soldiers entered the camp, most of them were young people. Ten years later, when they were the most experienced and able to fight, letting them return home early would not be of much benefit to Da Song.

But it's different now.

He made guns and artillery.

With muskets and artillery, soldiers can save a long time of martial arts training after entering the camp.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of soldiers will not drop sharply because of their early retirement.

More importantly, Zhao Zhen sent retired soldiers to Yamen at all levels to serve as garrison soldiers, which meant hiding soldiers from the people.

When it's really time for them to play, they can quickly assemble.

Therefore, Zhao Zhen's proposal is not good or bad, Kou Ji can barely accept it.

Kou Ji's acceptance does not mean that others can accept it.

When Lu Yijian and Wang Zeng heard Zhao Zhen say that they were going to be robbers, their jaws almost fell off.