Chapter 238 Recruiting troops

Zhao Qian touched his chin and said, "Let's leave Mu Huan, what's the situation in Rongzhou now? How many prefectures and counties have been captured by Anhuaman?"

Ma Yu said embarrassedly: "The south of Huaiyuan Village is all under the jurisdiction of Anhua barbarians, or they have already been in charge of the same industry! Their name is Ten Prefectures to make righteousness! But in fact, there are only nine prefectures! They are Shang'an Huazhou, Zhong'an Huazhou, and Xia'an Huazhou, which are also commonly known as the three prefectures of Anhua. In addition, Yizhou was originally bound by ten prefectures, except for Fanzhou and Wenquanzhou, Shangzhong and Wenquanzhou, and Jinchengzhou, all of them have surrendered to the enemy. They are Zhenningzhou, Zhizhou, Wenzhou, Sishunzhou, Mikunzhou and other five prefectures in Yizhou, and Leshanzhou in Rongzhou. Many villages and towns in our Song Dynasty were in panic all day long. Those who were captured and abandoned were sent to the Transport Department every day!"

Zhao Qian knocked on several cases and said, "There is a strange place here. The Anhua Man is so powerful that the soldiers of the state are raised. Rongzhou and Yizhou have no two thousand troops together, so how can they be safe?"

Ma Yu lowered his head and said with some shame: "Fortunately, these barbarians competed for the position of the leader. The three states of Anhua have always been dominated by Zhong'an Huazhou. The governor of the state, Meng and Hanyang, had been passed down for twelve generations. As early as the Tang Dynasty, they had already established themselves in Anhuazhou and had a deep foundation. Moreover, this time, the nine states joined forces, Yizhou occupied seven states, while Rongzhou only had two states. However, the governor of Xia Anhuazhou, Feng Chang, broke our Song Dynasty and became famous in one battle. Therefore, for this issue of leadership, Zhong'an Huazhou and Xia'an Huazhou quarreled endlessly."

Zhao Qian was also disappointed when he heard this. Rongzhou and Yizhou were preserved to this day, but the internal strife of Anhuaman. This was a great irony to Guangnan West Road. As the leader of Guangnan West Road, how could Zhao Qian behave on his face?

Now the incident of "Anhuaman Rebellion" on Guangnan West Road gave Zhao Jin a strange feeling. The Song army successfully quelled the rebellion, or the Anhuaman Rebellion succeeded, but it was not because of who was the elite soldiers and who had more soldiers. Judging from the current situation, the core reason for the victory or defeat was that whoever compared to the trap. Just like the Song army, Zhang Huaizhi, a guy with great ambitions and talent, ruined more than 2,000 Song troops, causing Guangnan West Road to fall into a terrible place.

An Huaman is not much inferior. Meng Hanyang, who is fighting for power and profit, dragged An Huaman's back, making it possible to take advantage of the opportunity to occupy Rongzhou and Yizhou. This is really a matter of fact that the more people think about it, the more cowardly they feel.

"I wonder how many soldiers and horses An Huaman has now?" Yang Wenguang saw that the atmosphere was a little awkward and was not used to it, so he couldn't help asking.

After hearing Yang Wenguang's question, Ma Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, paused, and said, "There were a lot of troops. At first, he was called a 30,000 army, but now he is called a 200,000 army. If the water is gone, this time, Anhua Man merged with the soldiers and horses of Jiuzhou. The force must be more than 50,000! If the number of soldiers and horses is used, no less than 20,000 to 30,000 troops will be used!"

Yang Wenguang was shocked and said, "How can the current military force do to the Anhuaman?"

Zhao Qian came back to his senses from his thoughts and nodded, "Recruiting soldiers is a must, but it depends on how many soldiers are to be recruited!"

"The more you have, the better!" Yang Wenguang was not polite and directly applied Han Xin's words. However, there was not the following sentence.

Wang Ranbo coughed and said, "Your Majesty, it's not expensive, it's too much to recruit too many people. It's troublesome to raise soldiers in the future!"

Zhao Qian knew what Wang Ranbo meant. In fact, in the Northern Song Dynasty, no matter which local civil servants were, they were all disgusted with increasing the power of military personnel, that is, military strength. It should be noted that raising soldiers requires money! This money was not allocated from the central government, but from the local government!

If he wants to be promoted, he must have political achievements. Where does this political achievements come? Of course, the governance of the place has come! This is just a matter of money. If a canal is repaired and the local harvest will lead to a proud political achievements! The problem is that if the money is used to raise soldiers, the civil servant will not only have no political achievements, but will have a tight life. When encountering famines and without money to provide disaster relief, he may be sentenced to a poor disaster relief and will be exiled to the miserable place in Qiongzhou (Hainan Island)!

Zhao Qian ignored Wang Ranbo's grievances and asked directly: "Can you recruit ten thousand soldiers?"

Wang Ranbo was shocked, let alone Wang Ranbo, even civil and military officials like Ma Yu, Chen Guangying, Feng Shanji were shocked.

Chen Guangying had just been scolded by Zhao Jin, and he spoke a little, but in the end he still had no courage.

Ma Yu didn't have this kind of concern and directly persuaded: "Prince, the mountains and rivers on the west road of Guangnan are poor! I suddenly raised 10,000 more soldiers, which is enough for a while, but I have to raise them for a long time, so I am afraid that the court will allocate money! And suddenly recruited 10,000 soldiers, but there was not so much equipment, money and food!"

Feng Shenji also spoke, "Prince, the number of recruits of this kind is too large. Not only is it difficult to raise the Guangnan West Road, but it is also afraid that it will cause panic among Vietnam and Dali. If it causes misunderstandings between the two countries, it will be a loss!"

Zhao Jin didn't know these reasons? It's just that recruiting soldiers requires the assistance of these civil servants from Guangnan West Road, and civil servants don't want to recruit too many soldiers. Instead of being petty in order to recruit more soldiers, they simply offer a price now. After Zhao Jin took a step back, Wang Ranbo couldn't stop them.

"Five thousand soldiers!" Zhao Qian said.

Wang Ranbo's face turned pale, five thousand soldiers! Just the settlement fee is enough to make the warehouse empty!

"Prince! Five thousand soldiers? A soldier spends 20 guan to settle down! This costs 100 guan! The prince sells his subordinates, but there is not that much money!" Wang Ranbo said decisively, speaking with a decisive look, looking like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water.

Zhao Jin frowned and said, "Okay! Then there are four thousand soldiers!"

Wang Ranbo still refused. Before he could speak, Zhao Qian scolded: "I have given up again and again! How can I transfer the deputy envoy still have any opinions? Do you think my humility is weak?"

Wang Ranbo immediately withered and said sickly: "That's good...that's fine! However, the prince, the soldiers recruited should not exceed one thousand chassis soldiers! The rest are local braves and vassal soldiers!"

Although Zhao Qian had fought a war, he was not very clear about the Dao. He knew that Wang Ranbo agreed so happily. There must be no good things! He did not laugh at him for fear that his subordinates knew that he didn't know something. Instead, he asked Feng Shenji: "What's the difference?"

Wang Ranbo could not have imagined that Zhao Qian was so smart, and even more shameless. He could only look at Feng Shenji with a gaze, thinking that Feng Shenji would not break the matter too much.

However, Feng Shenji relies on Zhao Jin now, so where can he cheat Zhao Jin? After showing a slightly apologetic smile to Wang Ranbo, he looked at Zhao Jin seriously and said, "Prince, although the wing soldiers are not strong in the mainland, they have great combat power in poor places on Guangnan West Road. Of course, this is related to the abundant money and food. A wing soldiers can pay 500 coins and five dou of rice a month. It's fine for the latter! The former is amazing, enough to buy five stone grain! Each has two pieces of silk and cloth in winter and spring, and half a piece of silk and silk, and the treatment is good!"

This treatment is no different from other soldiers? That is, there is half a piece of Ling Luo, and it seems that it is Bian Rong's favorableness. Just after thinking about it carefully, Zhao Jin understood that it was coming! The prices of Guangnan West Road are low, and the prices of cloth here are relatively high. After all, fabric manufacturing is a technical job. I don't want these cloths, so I can sell them a lot of money. In addition, the money is enough to become a well-off society in a year. And there may be oil and water to be harvested. If you can get more, it depends on where you sit on your butt.

Feng Shenji continued: "One wing soldier costs ten cents of money per year. One thousand wing soldiers costs ten cents of money! If it is four thousand, it costs 40,000 cents of money, and Guangnan West Road will probably destroy the family! But the village bravery is not like that, but they come with their own weapons, usually fifteen cents a month, and fifty cents a month during wartime. The vassal soldiers brought their own weapons, horses, no military pay, and only exempted land tax. During wartime, one person paid five dou of rice and grain per month, and those with horses provided two stones and three dou of grass."

Feng Shenji still knew the situation on Guangnan West Road, but it was very difficult to raise so many soldiers, so he said something fair to Wang Ranbo.

Zhao Qian thought about it and cut the railway decisively: "There are all local soldiers, including the local soldiers!"

As soon as Zhao Qian opened his mouth, he immediately added 500 wing soldiers. Wang Ranbo's face changed drastically! These are 500 wing soldiers! It costs 5,000 jin to raise soldiers every year! If you buy land on Guangnan West Road, it will be enough to buy 5,000 acres of good land a year! Even if you buy paddy fields, it will be enough to buy 2,000 acres of paddy fields!

"What's wrong? I don't have the ability? I have someone to take over!" Zhao Qian kept looking at Feng Shanji as he spoke, as if he was saying to Wang Ranbo, if you dare to say something, I will plan to let Feng Shanji take over.

Wang Ranbo thought for a moment. His arm could not resist Zhao Qian's thighs, which were about the size of his arm, and he agreed wisely. If he agreed, his face would not be as mourning as his mourning, then it would be extremely perfect.

"Prince, the subordinates must use troops to the Anhua barbarians as soon as possible, so the scope of recruitment does not have to be too wide. Just focus on Guizhou and recruit soldiers in Rongzhou, Yizhou, Pingzhou, Liuzhou, Xiangzhou and other places!" Ma Yu suggested.

Zhao Jin nodded and praised, "I am worthy of being a veteran. I will leave this recruitment of troops to Matige to take charge!"

After a pause, Zhao Qian said to Feng Shanji, Yang Wenguang and Li Shouzhong: "You three are also with Matijie. They are more arrogant than claiming to follow my king into Guizhou. This time, they are all recruiting troops on Matijie!"

After saying that, Zhao Qian comforted Ma Yu: "I am young and can't teach people, so please ask Matisha to guide these talents. If there is anything wrong, Matisha will scold him."

Although Zhao Jin was very low-key, Ma Yu still knew what Zhao Jin meant, and he took the opportunity to hold this new army. Not to mention complete control, he had to let his own people control at least most of them.

If you know, can Ma Yu still refuse? He pretended not to know and said happily: "It is an honor for the prince to say this!"

The few people set the details and dispersed. When they left, Zhao Qin suddenly called Yang Wenguang.

Ma Yuran knew about it, and after looking at Wang Ranbo, the two of them showed a subtle smile and then accelerated their pace to leave.

Du Xiansheng, who drafted the memorial in the Baihu Hall, also wrote the memorial, picked up the rice paper and blew it, took it over, and said, "Your Majesty, what do you think?"

Zhao Qian picked it up and read it quickly, pointing to a few places and said, "Change these places, don't use the words "Huatuan Jinxiu". Just do whatever you want. What I want is direct, not soft!"

Du Xiansheng had already become accustomed to it, and did not look embarrassed. He just took the draft back in disappointment and politely said to Zhao Feng Shiran: "I'll take it back to modify it now!"

After saying that, Du Xiansheng left.

At this moment, there were only Zhao Chen and Yang Wenguang in the White Tiger Hall. Yang Wenguang glanced at Zhao Chen, then lowered his head and said nothing.

Zhao Qian looked at Yang Wenguang and asked, "Zhongrong, do you know why I asked you to stay?"

If you change to a scholar-official, you may turn around the corner or pretend to be stupid. But Yang Wenguang was very direct and didn't think about whether this would not give Zhao Feng face. "Your Majesty wants to talk about what Pan said?"

Zhao Qian was not upset that Yang Wenguang was so direct. He just liked Yang Wenguang, and he was frank enough! "Nothing wrong!"

When Yang Wenguang saw that Zhao Jin had admitted it, he couldn't help but feel resentful and said with resentment: "Why is the prince so embarrassed by Pan Tidian? Although Pan Tidian is wrong, it is not so! And don't the prince know that if you do this, it is likely to push Pan Tidian to the deputy envoy of Wang Zhuanyun? In this way, the deputy envoy of Wang Zhuanyun will be like today. If you scold me, you will scold me if you say you are suppressed?"

Zhao Qian shook his head and said, "Zhongrong, you are too young! I did this to offend Pan Su, but have you ever thought about it? Since Pan Su dared not come to see me, wouldn't he hook up with Wang Ranbo, Zhang Shixun's lackey? Instead of waiting for them to hook up and take advantage of the time to get rid of me. I might as well send them away and quell the Anhuaman rebellion. At that time, I had such a great victory in my hand. Could it be that Pan Su dare not see me?"

Yang Wenguang was stunned, but his emotions immediately became a little depressed, and he said, "The wit of the prince is nothing that is not something that the general can guess, but..."

Zhao Chen interrupted Yang Wenguang and said, "I know that I won't make things too difficult for Pan Su! After all, after all, he is also the Congsun of King Zheng!"

King Zheng and Pan Mei are awarded the title!

Although Yang Ye died because of Pan Mei, the Pan family was a general, and Yang Wenguang did not want Pan Su to be suppressed by Zhao Chen because of such a small matter, and it is inevitable that there will be some sadness for the death of a rabbit and the fox.

In fact, even if Yang Wenguang didn't talk about this, Zhao Qian wouldn't do anything to Pan Su. After all, although Pan Mei was dead, he still had his own beauty. Otherwise, even if Pan Su was talented, he wouldn't have been to become a prison official at Guangnan West Road at the age of 35. This was a magistrate all the way.

If possible, Zhao Jin was still preparing to recapture Pan Su, the rebellious guy.
Chapter completed!