After Li Liangzuo finished handling government affairs in the imperial study, he returned to the harem and sent someone to find the queen who did not hide Feixue, the concubine Su Qiaoer and the concubine Liang Luoyao, usually the queen and Concubine Liang rarely meet, after all, the two were sisters-in-law before, and now the two of them are inevitably a little embarrassed to meet with a husband, so the two basically do not meet.
After the three of them came to Li Liangzuo's dormitory, Li Liangzuo said to the three of them: "The three of you are my most beloved women, and I have something to discuss with you. ” "Your Majesty, just say something," Wuzang Feixue said to Li Liangzuo.
Li Liangzuo smiled and said to Wuzang Feixue: "Now that I am implementing reforms in the country and training a new army, the cost of training a new army is huge, and the finances of the imperial court cannot improve in a short period of time, so I plan to reduce the use of the harem. ” Wuzang Feixue immediately expressed his support and said: "Your Majesty's reform, it is appropriate to reduce the use of the harem, and the concubines support Your Majesty." ” "The concubine also agreed."
Su Qiaoer and Liang Luoyao said together.
Li Liangzuo saw that these three people were so reasonable and said with a smile: "Okay, with the support of the three concubines, a big stone in my heart has finally landed, I originally thought that the three of you would still cry and make a fuss about me."
"Your Majesty, are the concubines so unbearable" Buzang Feixue said with a pout.
Li Liangzuo smiled and continued to say to the three of them: "Originally, the harem was used for one million guan per year, but I decided to keep only one-tenth, that is, 100,000 guan; Although this money is not much, it is also a lot, and in the future, this money will be handed over to the queen for safekeeping, and you will ask the queen for the monthly money, do you two have any opinions" Li Liangzuo asked Su Qiaoer and Liang Luoyao after speaking.
"The concubine has no opinion."
The two of them said together.
Then Liang Luoyao said to Li Liangzuo: "Your Majesty, the concubine has a suggestion. ” "Concubine Ai's suggestion is enough, there are no outsiders here."
Li Liangzuo said.
Liang Luoyao then said to Li Liangzuo: "Your Majesty, the concubines think that the palace can also open up sources and reduce expenditures, and the concubines can organize the palace maids in the harem to weave cloth, and then embroider patterns on the cloth, and buy them outside the palace, so that they can still make money."
Wuzang Feixue just wanted to object, but before the words could be spoken, he saw Li Liangzuo nodding and said: "Concubine Ai's suggestion is good, I am approved, the queen is responsible for this matter, Qiao'er and Yao'er, you two assist the queen." ” "Yes, the concubine obeys."
The three of them received the command together.
Unconsciously, the time came to September of the first year of assimilation, Wei Ge Ning Ling had already returned from the Great Song Dynasty, this time the envoy Wei Ge Ning Ling not only smoothly made peace with the Great Song Dynasty, but also brought back a large number of Song Renzong's rewards, at the same time, the border between the two countries was also reopened, a large number of Western Xia specialties began to flow into the Song Dynasty, and at the same time, the goods urgently needed by the Western Xia were also transported from the Great Song Dynasty.
Song and Xia have already made peace, and the border field has been reopened, Li Liangzuo began to fulfill his promise to begin to withdraw troops from the border, and at the same time Li Liangzuo ordered disarmament, and the original army of more than 300,000 in Western Xia was directly reduced to more than 200,000, leaving only 100,000 soldiers and horses in the country.
Among them, 30,000 imperial forest troops were stationed in the capital Xingqing Mansion, and the remaining 70,000 troops were all reorganized into border troops, 10,000 troops were stationed on the long national border line of thousands of miles on the Xia and Song Dynasty borders, 10,000 troops were stationed in Xiping Province, 10,000 troops were garrisoned in the Hexi Corridor to guard against Tubo, 10,000 troops were garrisoned in Heishui City to guard against the Liao army in Shangjing Province, and 30,000 troops were garrisoned in Tiandezhou, Yunneizhou, Dongshengzhou and Fengzhou in the four northeastern states to guard against the Liao army in the direction of Datong.
The army was reduced, and the military expenditure naturally had to be reduced, and the original military expenditure of 8 million guan was cut to 3 million guan by Li Langzuo, and all these expenses were used for the military expenses of the border army and the imperial forest army, and due to the retreat of the Xia army, the soldiers and horses of the Song army on the border were also greatly reduced.
So Li Liangzuo decisively ordered to abandon some unimportant fortresses on the border, so that almost all the military funds were used on the hearts of the border army and the Imperial Forest Army, so these border army officers and soldiers not only did not resist Li Liangzuo's reform, but also unanimously supported it.
After the reform was on the right track, Li Liangzuo began to devote himself to the training of the new army, and the 100,000 new army was an important force for Li Liangzuo to dominate the world in the future, and under the heavy military expenditure of Li Liangzuo, the new army was destined to be the most elite army in the world, and it was the best in the world at that time in terms of personnel quality and weaponry.
First of all, the soldiers were young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five who were recruited from the territory of Western Xia by order of Li Liangzuo; The source of the new army is different, the border army is mainly compulsory soldiers, while the new army is a conscription system, and these young men of the new army are eager to kill the enemy on the battlefield and make meritorious contributions.
The establishment of the new army was established by Li Liangzuo on the basis of the current situation and drawing on the establishment of later generations: one chief and one chief of staff for every five people, one chief and one deputy chief for every 20 people, one chief and one deputy captain for every 100 people, one chief and deputy commander for every 500 people, one chief and deputy lieutenant for every 1,000 people, one chief and deputy lieutenant for every 1,000 people, one chief and deputy general for every 3,000 people, one chief and deputy general for every 10,000 people, one chief and deputy general, one chief of the army, and one grain supervisor for every 10,000 people, and one chief general, one supervising army, and one chief secretary for every 30,000 people.
A military horse.
More than ten years ago, the Liao army broke through the city and burned the city, and the city was abandoned, and now Li Liangzuo will use this place as the base camp for the training of the new army.
Located in the west of Helan Mountain, northwest of the Tengger Desert, it is an excellent place for military training because people are extremely rare and there are a large number of pastures, and it is located in the hinterland of Western Xia and is not easy to be discovered by the spies of the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom.
With Li Liangzuo's arrival in the grain city, in addition to the 100,000 new army and a large number of craftsmen, as a later generation of metallurgical college students, Li Liangzuo remembered that there was a large amount of coal and a small part of iron ore resources in this vicinity, these resources may be small in the eyes of later generations, but in this era it is enough for Li Liangzuo to consume.
After arriving at the grain city, Li Liangzuo repaired the city, while sending people to look for minerals everywhere, mainly looking for coal and iron ore, although Li Liangzuo was not a good student in his previous life, but he still knew a lot about metallurgy, coupled with these top craftsmen in Western Xia, Li Liangzuo was confident to practice high-quality steel.
You must know that in ancient China, there was no way to make steel, and the so-called 100 refined steel could only be regarded as refined iron at most, so the weapons of ancient China were generally mainly heavy machetes; During this period, the Tangut people had mastered a relatively advanced method of ironmaking, that is, the cold forging method, and the armor of the elite iron harrier heavy armored cavalry of the Western Xia was the most advanced cold forging armor in this period.
The blacksmiths of Western Xia were also destined to be the most senior metallurgical talents in this period, with the experience of these craftsmen and Li Liangzuo's knowledge reserves, it was a matter of time before good steel was smelted, and the first condition to do this was to find coal and iron ore, as well as some rare metal minerals.
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