The reason why the Song Dynasty became a big coward and a big send-off was that, in addition to the fact that Emperor Zhao often said nonsense such as "If a man wants to fulfill his life ambitions, he should read the Five Classics diligently in front of the window", Han Qi and Han Xiangye's famous "Eastern

"The person who is called a good man outside the Huamen" naturally deserves a lot of credit.

The scholars who were originally civilized and military from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties became nerds who could not lift their hands or shoulders, and the backbone of the army was broken with a crack.

However, with the completion of the Martyrs' Shrine and Zhao Huan's personal visit to pay homage, the army's backbone, which had been interrupted for more than a hundred years, finally began to heal.

That's right, the trend of healing has just begun. No matter how many battles Zhao Huan fought with these soldiers, no matter how high the welfare benefits were given to them, the army of the Song Dynasty could only barely be considered capable.

beat.

Because there is no soul.

It would be fine if such an army always fights with favorable winds, but once it encounters a hard battle, especially when casualties exceed 20%, such an army will most likely collapse and then collapse.

The imperial army of the Song Dynasty in the past had the appearance of a bird, the army of the Liao Kingdom also had the appearance of a bird, and the army of the Kingdom of Jin also had the appearance of a bird.

For this kind of army, it is a matter of course that soldiers eat food. Whoever eats food will work for whom. This is the correct way to open up. As for talking about nonsense like defending the home and the country, it is tantamount to

Talking to a cow.

But after the Martyrs' Shrine is established, the Song Dynasty's army will slowly gain soul——

Why does the Chung Martyrs' Shrine have constant incense? If you can understand the meaning of the word incense, then everything will make sense - if a boy is born to the common people, someone will inherit the incense, but if a girl is born, the family will be extinct!

There is constant incense in the Martyrs' Shrine, which clearly tells these Qiu Ba people of the Song Dynasty that no matter how bold they are to risk their lives, they will still have incense and blood to eat!

Therefore, the completion of the Martyrs' Shrine not only shocked Kim Fu-shi and Park Seong-sung, who had already had ideas in their hearts, but also changed the appearance of the Song Dynasty's army.

Facing the assessments at all levels starting from the Privy Council, the soldiers who originally just wanted to muddle through suddenly stopped dawdling and began to train hard, just to stay in the army.

Then Zhong Shidao continued to pull out his hair - in the past, when he had a headache, he was cheating and cheating during the military assessment. Now, when he has a headache, these soldiers have become howling, and they are reluctant to lay off anyone! Tangled!

Zhong Shidao thought that although the emperor was "frivolous and could not rule the world", he was a good emperor and asked him to bring out the Taoist emperor, but it was at his own expense.

Official, are you planning to make the entire court bald?

But for Zhao Huan? What’s wrong with the ministers losing some hair? I’ll ask you what’s wrong! In my last life, I wrote code and novels. Which profession doesn’t lose hair?

As long as the morale of the military, which has been shaken due to the restructuring, can be completely stabilized, I will not care how many hairs are left on your heads.

Haven't you heard? A smart head doesn't grow hair. Do you care how many hairs you have left? I might as well care about the post system of the Song Dynasty.

So Zhao Huan, who didn't care about the ministers' reputation at all, summoned Zhuang Chengyi, the Minister of Hubu, and Li Wende, the Minister of War, into the palace on the second day after the completion of the Martyrs' Shrine.

"That's what I thought."

Zhao Huan stretched out his hand and drew on the map: "We, the Song Dynasty, have planned thirty-six chief envoys. The following are more than a thousand counties. Even if one county can have hundreds of villages? It's just...

One hundred thousand? Right?”

After Zhuang Chengyi and Li Wende both nodded in agreement, Zhao Huan continued: "So, I use two digits to replace the chief envoy? Then use two digits to replace the state? And the last two digits replace the county.

village.

Calculating it like this? The maximum six-digit number is nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine? It is almost enough for all the chief envoys, prefectures, counties, and villages in the Song Dynasty, right? What if the six-digit number is not enough?

I can add one or two more.

For example, Bianjing City? You can start with zero one, add another zero one in the middle to represent the imperial city, and then use zero one to represent the Daqing Palace. In this way, as long as you know where you want to send a letter or something, you can

Isn’t it much more convenient if you only need to write down the address and this number? You no longer need to ask someone to take you with you?”

Zhuang Chengyi thought about it in his mind and responded: "That should be enough."

Zhao Huan hummed and said, "So, I plan to restructure the post station."

"From now on, this post will be divided into military, political and civilian functions, all of which will be under the control of the Ministry of War."

"The military ones are naturally responsible for matters related to the Privy Council and the army. The political ones are naturally responsible for the distribution of court documents and newspapers, and are no longer responsible for the reception of officials. As for the civilian ones, they are naturally responsible for it.

Things like delivering private letters and transporting private supplies."

I was originally curious as to why the government-restructured post station called me, the Minister of Household Affairs, to come. After hearing this, Zhuang Chengyi probably had an idea in his mind - of course, the army and the court should not be concerned, but when it comes to civil affairs, then

Don’t we have to collect money? How can we collect money and save the household department?

Then Zhuang Chengyi bowed and said: "As a warning to the officials, the Ministry of Household Affairs is willing to use part of the money to build a post station together with the Privy Council and the Ministry of War."

Li Wende, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, was not thinking as fast as Zhuang Chengyi. Hearing this, he was a little dumbfounded and said: "Shouldn't it be your Ministry of Household who took out the money to prepare for the construction? How can my poor Ministry of War have any money?"

Zhao Huan waved his hand and said: "We will discuss this later. Let me finish my words first."

Instantly turning on the actor mode, Zhao Huan said to He Ji who was waiting aside: "Is there any result about what I asked you to inquire about?"

He Ji bowed and said: "To inform the officials, I asked some barbarians in Bianjing City and found that the barbarians did not use Chinese characters for counting, but some strange symbols, which is quite interesting."

After finishing speaking, He Ji took out a piece of paper from his arms, and with Zhao Huan's permission, spread it out on the table. Pointing to the numbers on the paper, he said: "These symbols represent 0123456789. Barbarians are quite interesting."

, for example, twenty is written as 20, and six hundred and sixty-six is ​​written as 666.

Also, Wei Chen found that it is quite convenient to use the calculation method of barbarians, and it is much faster to do some simple calculations than to write or count sticks."

As soon as Zhuang Chengyi saw the symbols 0123456789 on the paper, his eyes were attracted. After He Ji simply demonstrated a few numbers and simple addition and subtraction, Zhuang Chengyi's eyes seemed to be alive on the paper.

It's like a root, completely irremovable.

With this kind of numbers and calculation method, the calculation speed will be much faster, and the account department will not have to be as tired as a dead dog every day!
Chapter completed!