"The left and right compartments of Holding the Sun have been completed, each with 7,500 men, for a total of 15,000 troops."

In the Hall of Wende, Zhang Shuye reported truthfully.

"The Tianwu and Dragon Guards have also been replenished, each with a strength of 15,000 men. There is still a vacancy of 5,000 for the Divine Guards, and they are recruiting."

This is the strength of the emperor's four armies.

"The last time I accepted a bribe and went to work in Zhaoye Xinfu, the trial of the military governor's office was completed. Yesterday, I beheaded him in public, and he was reported to the three armies."

According to the organization of the army of the Song Dynasty, the capital, command, army, Xiang, and number army.

Each one has 100 people, and each of the five cities has a command. The command is equivalent to a battalion, also called a command battalion.

The five commanders form an army. The army here is a small army, equivalent to the concept of a regiment, with a number of 2,500 people.

Above the small army is the compartment, which is divided into left and right compartments. Ten small armies are one compartment, and the left and right compartments total 50,000 people.

This is a regular setup.

In the past, the emperor's four armies had 200,000 troops, but the actual strength was only 40,000. The shortage was very serious.

The first priority in reorganizing the Central Guards this time is to rectify the vacancies and regularize the organization.

Zhao Ning obviously was not prepared to organize 25,000 people into one compartment according to the traditional establishment.

Why?

Because there are not many generals of the Song Army who can command large armies now.

The biggest shortcoming of the Song Army was its command failure when encountering large-scale battles.

In this case, we might as well control the number of people in each car first.

The number is tentatively set at 7,500.

Zhang Shuye added: "According to His Majesty's wishes, the Gongsheng Army is included in the upper army, and the Shenwu Army is also organized to form the Sixth Army of the Emperor."

Zhao Ning felt very satisfied after reading the latest establishment of the Guards Brigade.

The Shenwu Army was of course reserved for Yue Fei, and the designation of Yue Fei's army was the Shenwu Army.

Historically, the name of Yue Fei's army was Shenwu Houjun.

The Yue Family Army is not the Yue Family Army, that is what the people call it, just like everyone also calls Han Shizhong's army Han Family Army, and Zhang Jun's army Zhang Family Army.

What's even more funny is that some people said that they were killed because they called them Yue Jiajun.

Then wouldn’t the Yang family generals be killed by the Yi tribe?

Zhao Ning looked at this year's military expenditures of the Guards Brigade again.

Good guy, the budget was directly quoted at 10 million yuan.

Looking at it again, haha, they are still necessary expenses.

Expenditures are mainly divided into the following four categories: salary, daily food, armaments, and war horses.

The salary has increased from the previous 600 fen per month to 1,000 fen per month. This is reasonable, after all, the emperor is in the army.

Food is calculated as 1.5 kilograms per person per day. After all, daily military training is intensive and physical exertion is huge.

Armaments, including armor, swords, various blunt weapons, crossbows, etc., are calculated at 120 per person.

Finally, there are war horses. Each army has 2,000 cavalry, and each cavalry is equipped with two horses.

After this calculation, the precise cost is 8,750,625 strings!

Among them, the grain will cost 200,000 shi (24 million jins), but considering the consumption of transportation and logistics personnel, at least 700,000 shi (84 million jins) of food must be prepared.

The rest is logistics.

So, the military just burns money.

This is only the Sixth Army of the Emperor, not counting the border defense troops in Shaanxi, Hebei, Hedong and other places, as well as the local Xiang troops stationed there.

Zhao Ning looked calm and said: "Have the troops transferred to Sifu passed?"

"It's over, everyone is in place." Zhang Shuye hesitated for a moment and continued, "But many of them are new soldiers, and I am worried that I will not be able to control the situation."

Zhao Ning said with a calm expression: "It's okay to mix some veterans from all over the place and go in. The new recruits will always go to the battlefield."

"What your Majesty said is true."

"How is the armor of the soldiers?"

"The Ordnance Supervisor has provided 50,000 pieces, and the rest are still being worked on."

Chen Gui, the minister of the Ministry of Industry on the side, added: "It is said that there was a shortage of iron some time ago, so the progress of the weapons inspection was a little slow."

The iron ore mines in the Northern Song Dynasty were mainly in Hedong, Hebei, and Shandong. These places are now affected by war, and it is normal for iron ore mining to be affected.

Chen Gui added: "Now I have slowly made up for it."

"Well, I understand."

Zhao Ning thought, iron smelting can be considered a heavy industry, and the foundation of heavy industry cannot be built overnight.

The amount of iron smelted in the Song Dynasty ranks first in the world, but its consumption also ranks first in the world.

For now, there are actually many soldiers on the front line who are not wearing armor. A large number of soldiers are wearing armor except for some elites from the Sixth Route of Shaanxi, elites from various ministries in Hebei and Hedong, and then the Emperor's Imperial Guard Brigade.

However, the Jin Army was able to ensure that all regular soldiers wore armor, which relied on the development of iron smelting in the Liao Kingdom and the prosperity of the Liao Iron and Steel Mines.

In fact, according to the historical development trajectory, by the Ming Dynasty, many of the iron smelting areas across the country had been mined in the south.

For example, Huguang Province, which accounted for one-third of the country's iron smelting volume during Zhu Yuanzhang's time, was the basic condition for the establishment of Wuhan Iron and Steel in later generations.

Zhao Ning has laid out this point, and Tang Ke's trip to Jinghu North Road is actually an important move.

There are actually quite a lot of iron ore deposits in Fujian and Guangdong. At least during the Ming Dynasty, there were many private iron ore mines there, and in the Song Dynasty, there were also many privately mined iron ore mines.

As for the famous Zunhua Iron Mine, in the Yanyun area, the Song Dynasty is now out of reach, let alone the Anshan Iron Mine in Liaodong.

After Chen Gui withdrew, only Zhang Shuye and Gao Qiu were left in the Wende Hall. Gao Qiu said: "Guan family, there have been some voices in the capital recently, calling out for Xi Gong's injustice."

"Crying for injustice for Xigong? Is there anyone else crying for him?"

"It was said that Zhang Jun forced all armies to fight decisively. Xi Gong was the first to object. If Xi Gong's policy had been followed, so many people in Shaanxi would not have died in the battle. At that time, there were countless soldiers in front of the formation who were unwilling to fight anymore. Zhang Jun

Arrange archers at the rear and kill anyone who dares to retreat, thus causing a great rout."

"Collect the list of those who complained for Xi Gong."

Gao Qiu glanced at the emperor and asked, "Is this what the officials want?"

"Without him, I just want to see who they are."

Gao Qiu immediately understood why the emperor had not dealt with Xi Gong, but instead imprisoned him.

Is this intentional?

"Yes, I will collect them in the next few days."

Last time Gao Qiu mentioned that Xi Chong, the son of Xi Gong, came to Bianjing, probably because of his father's case.

He, Zhao Ning, just wanted to see how many people were behind this incident who wanted to confuse right and wrong to save Xi Gong?

"Guan family, there is another matter. I found some suspicious people in Bianjing today."

"Um?"

"In particular, there are many from Fan Lou, and most of them come from Hebei to inquire about the imperial court's recruitment situation."

Zhang Shuye said: "Maybe it was made by Jin Guoxi."

Zhao Ning said: "As expected, the Kingdom of Jin sent some agents here to find out our true situation."

"If this is the case for the officials, if they are implementing the New Deal on Gyeonggi Road and are noticed by the Jin people, will they take the opportunity to go south?"

Gao Qiu's face turned pale while Zhang Shuye was talking. It was really possible to say this.

The New Deal will definitely harm the interests of most people. If there is chaos on the Gyeonggi Road, the court will be in chaos. If the court is in chaos, the Jin army will take the opportunity to go south. Wouldn't it mean that internal and external strife will break out at the same time?

Gao Qiu said: "Guardians, do you want to arrest everyone who behaves suspiciously?"
Chapter completed!