"Your Majesty, where does Your Majesty plan to deploy the newly expanded army, how many soldiers and horses are there in Bianliang," Sima Guang stood up tremblingly and said.
"The new army is deployed in Bianjing.
In the Jianghuai and Jingxiang areas, the number of soldiers and horses required was set at 600,000.
Zhao said.
"Your Majesty's large-scale military training is probably unsustainable."
A minister stepped forward and said.
"What does Zhang Aiqing propose?"
Zhao Ji asked after looking at the minister, this person's name is Zhang Dan, and he is a rising star of the Fa Reform School.
"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that we can follow the example of the northern border army and implement the military cantonment of the newly formed army, which can greatly ease the expenses of the imperial court," Zhang Dian suggested to Zhao Xuan.
"Okay, just follow Aiqing's performance."
Zhao said.
"Ministers obey Your Majesty's Shengyu" After the dispersal of the dynasty, Song Shenzong Zhao Xuan was sent back to the harem, and today announced the expansion of the army, in fact, Zhao Xu's first step, the purpose of which is to let Zhao Xu have a subordinate army and horses, and Zhao Xu's big move has not yet been released, he needs to see the reaction of the ministers, and also needs to see Zhao Xu's reaction.
Sure enough, after today's court meeting ended, a flying horse quickly left Bianjing and headed for the Daimyo's mansion, and reported the news to Zhao Yu as quickly as possible; When Zhao Yan got this secret report, he said with a smile: "My emperor's brother is really good, this is to set up a political enemy for this king."
"Lord Wang, I'm afraid this matter is not so simple," Liu Changzuo said.
Zhao Yan smiled bitterly and said: "Actually, there is nothing wrong with the imperial brother doing this, it is nothing more than to let his son be able to ascend the throne smoothly, and now this king has a million troops, and at the same time controls the military and political power of Hebei and Jingdong, which will be feared by anyone."
"Then what is the prince going to do," Liu Changzuo continued to ask.
"Now that the enemy is present, there can be no more civil strife in my Great Song Dynasty, let the imperial brother leave with peace of mind, and the rest of the things will be talked about later."
Zhao Yan said.
Guanzhong Province, Jingzhao Mansion Qin Wangfu.
Li Wu had already received the information about the expansion of the Song army, Li Wu looked at the map and asked Wuzang Chenliang: "Tell me why the Song Emperor suddenly wants to train such a large army, what is his intention?"
Wuzang Chenliang pointed to the map and said: "Lord Wang, please see, the places where Emperor Zhao Ji trained his army this time are in the Bianliang, Jingxiang and Jianghuai regions, and these three places are finished in the shape of glyphs; According to humble and humble opinions, Emperor Song's move is nothing more than two considerations, the first is to increase the strength of the Song army, plus the 600,000 new army, the total strength of the Song army can reach about three million, which is enough to reach more than four times the size of our Xia army, once the two countries go to war, our Great Xia Empire can mobilize the main force of soldiers and horses at most between 500,000 and 600,000, while the Song army can meet all of them, relying on the advantage of numbers can exhaust our Xia army; Second, the new army of 600,000 was personally commanded by the Great Song Emperor, and its purpose was to balance Zhao Yan's strength; Another point is that once our army breaks through the first line of defense of the Song army and enters the Central Plains, these 600,000 troops will automatically form the second line of defense of the Great Song Dynasty and protect half of the southern part of the Great Song Dynasty."
"The analysis makes sense, so that you can immediately write a letter for this king and report it to your father."
"Yes, lowly command."
Twists and turns like this have basically been piled up with Li Liangzuo's dragon case, but Li Liangzuo did not make the slightest comment on this matter, as if this incident had not happened; In fact, Li Liangzuo did this is also a helpless move, now the Great Xia Empire has just annexed the Liao State, its internal is not very stable, and now the remaining territory of the Liao State Yanshan South of the part of Li Liangzuo was included in Hebei Province, and the area north of Yanshan was established Yanbei Province.
In this case, what Li Liangzuo needs is to digest these newly occupied lands, and now the Great Xia Empire and the Great Song Dynasty are still in the honeymoon period, and the trade between the two countries is very prosperous, which is an important part of the Great Xia Empire's fiscal revenue, once this situation is destroyed, the finances of the Great Xia Empire are bound to become very tight, this situation is the last thing Li Liangzuo wants to see, and now the Great Xia Empire is not fully prepared.
"Your Majesty, Xiao Yuanshan has descended to the Song Dynasty, without Xiao Yuanshan's containment, the Great Wall defense line in the north of the Great Song Dynasty may be completed in a very short period of time, with this city wall, it may not be easy for our army to go south" Li Xiaoren said to Li Liangzuo; "Now that Emperor Song has organized another 600,000 troops, its purpose is self-evident, and the ultimate goal is to come at us, and how to deal with Your Majesty must be deployed as soon as possible."
"I know, brother Huang, you step back first, I want to be alone and quiet," Li Liangzuo said a little tiredly.
Li Liangzuo felt that he was so tired, today's history has long deviated from the original track, Li Liangzuo no longer has the ability to predict the unknown, the current Great Song Dynasty is much stronger than the original historical Great Song Dynasty, the strength of the Song Army of nearly three million troops makes Li Liangzuo feel numb in the scalp, it is impossible to say that Li Liangzuo has no pressure.
"Little Fuzi, send a decree to the kings to enter Beijing."
After being silent for a long time, Li Liangzuo said.
"Servant Command" After Xiaofuzi left, Li Liangzuo still looked at the map, this is the latest Song and Xia confrontation map, from the map, the Great Xia Empire is like a hungry wolf with a bloody mouth, and now the Great Song Dynasty is a hedgehog that has been covered with thorns, so that the hungry wolf has never been able to put his mouth down, from the territory of the Great Xia Empire, the territory of the Great Xia Empire is more than twice as large as the Great Song Dynasty, but if you take into account the comprehensive national strength, the Great Xia Empire is still not comparable to the Great Song Dynasty.
After the Great Song Dynasty lost Hanzhong, Guanzhong, Longxi, Taiyuan, Zhending, and Hejian, although the territory and population were reduced, its fiscal revenue increased instead of decreasing; In order to stimulate economic growth, the Great Song Dynasty carried out further reforms, vigorously encouraged private ownership of land, and at the same time encouraged overseas trade to reduce the amount of trade with the Great Xia Empire, and at the same time began to crack down on the sale of clean salt at home, etc., the Great Song Dynasty This series of actions has had remarkable results, otherwise the Great Song Dynasty would be able to drag the Great Song Dynasty to death with an army of three million.
Dynasties throughout the ages, to have a million army has been quite powerful, no dynasty like today's Song Dynasty has three million male soldiers, these three million troops are not poorly equipped peasant army, of which more than two million are well-trained border army elite, these two million troops are specially trained to fight against the Xia cavalry, they are equipped with a large number of bows, spears, horizontal knives and Mo knives, of which the Mo knives are equipped with hoplites, of course, firearms; And the 600,000 troops that have been trained are all on par with the border army.
The annual military expenditure of the Great Song Dynasty accounts for more than sixty percent of the entire fiscal revenue, and the financial revenue of the Great Song Dynasty has been growing steadily in recent years, about 150 million yuan, of which sixty percent is about 90 million yuan, this figure is equivalent to the annual financial income of the Great Xia Empire or even higher, and it is basically enough to feed the three million army with such a sum of money.
Thanks to the master's three recommendations, Tianyu is grateful {The fiscal revenue of the Northern Song Dynasty reached 1.6 billion guan at its peak, while the Southern Song Dynasty stabilized at more than 100 million guan all year round, so Tianyu did not exaggerate in the slightest at this point; The three million troops of the Great Song Dynasty are not all professional soldiers, except for the elite troops, the rest of the border guards need to be tuntian, and the grain grown is also military food, so this greatly reduces a considerable part of military expenditure, otherwise these military expenditures are simply insufficient. }: