Fenghou

Chapter 306 Recruitment
As night fell, a gorgeous carriage drove into the Qin Mansion. It was the mistress Wang who had returned from the palace.

Mrs. Wang was helped out of the carriage by two personal maids, and one of the maids stepped forward to salute: "Madam, master is waiting in the study!"

"I see, is my nephew here today?"

"Report to Madam, Wang Yanei did not come."

Mrs. Wang took off her outer cloak, and then went to her husband's inner study.

Qin Hui was already waiting for his wife at the door of the study. Since Wang Shi became the queen mother's confidant, Wang's status in front of her husband had improved significantly. Qin Hui was very caring and considerate to her, and basically she could satisfy her requests.

"Ma'am, it's hard work. It's cold outside. Come in and have a drink of hot tea!"

Mrs. Wang went into the room and sat down, complaining a little: "I asked Boer to come here today, but this kid is so ignorant that he didn't come."

In the past, it was Qin Hui who scolded Wang Bo for being useless, but now it was the other way around, and it was Qin Hui's turn to excuse him.

"After all, he is an adult, and there will be more things to do. There must be some delays. Speaking of Bo'er, I have already taken care of his affairs for him. He only needs to go to Taixue to study for another year. I can recommend him. The post of master bookkeeper."

Wang took a sip of tea and said lightly: "Don't bother your husband, the queen mother promised to let him be the Yuezhou branch envoy of the Yantie Supervisor, and he will be named as a member of the sixth department."

Qin Hui was startled. Wailang, a member of the sixth department, was in charge of the sixth rank, and Wang Bo was nothing. He was sealed as a sixth rank all at once, and he was also a vacancy in the Yuezhou Salt and Iron Supervision. This would definitely be watched.

Qin Hui has now replaced Lu Yihao as the Right Prime Minister, and has great power, but he is still relatively cautious. After all, his foundation in the court is too shallow, and he can't do something like Wang Bo's appointment as a sixth-rank official. If you violate the court rules, you will be outraged.

He couldn't help but secretly complained about his wife's short-sightedness, but he couldn't say it outright. After all, this was what the Queen Mother wanted. He had to talk to Wang Bo's father about this matter, and let them decline it.

Qin Hui stopped mentioning this matter, Wang glanced at her husband, and said: "The queen mother is very unhappy today, she is very disappointed with the official family, the person she hates the most is going to be promoted to the Duke, the queen mother did not dissuade her husband The officials are also deeply dissatisfied!"

Qin Hui smiled wryly and said: "Why am I willing to see this result? I am not a royal family. I was made a Duke at the age of [-]. It is estimated that there will be an uproar in the court tomorrow, but I have no choice. This is a public promise from the government. He You must fulfill your promise, otherwise, what is your nonsense?"

"The queen mother asked you to think of a way. For example, Chen Qing is not the coach. How about transferring this to the coach?"

Qin Hui's face sank, "Don't say such stupid things. If Li Gang is promoted to the third rank, the Jurchens will have to peel my skin. Do you think I didn't expect that? I would rather give Chen Qing the third rank than give it to me. Li Gang, if Li Gang gains power again, I will become an abandoned son of the Kingdom of Jin. Without the support of the Kingdom of Jin, I can become the Right Minister? What do you think Wan Yanchang is going to do in Lin'an?"

"Isn't Wan Yanchang going to Lin'an for negotiation?"

"negotiation?"

Qin Huai sneered, "Isn't it okay to send an envoy to the negotiations? Do you still need a high-ranking Jurchen like Wan Yanchang to personally risk Lin'an? You don't understand this kind of high-level political struggle. Wan Yanchang's coming to An is a gesture in itself. I am reminding the officials that the Kingdom of Jin is preparing to reconcile with the Song Dynasty in the southeast direction. Now the anti-gold faction in Zhizhengtang is too strong, which is not conducive to this kind of reconciliation. The officials understand the message he conveyed, so there is Lu Yihao. Dismiss."

"Then what does this have to do with your husband?"

"Wan Yanchang came here to support me, understand? Back then, Wan Yanchang had reached a secret agreement with the officials, and I would serve as a political adviser, laying a wedge between the Song and Jin Dynasties. Otherwise, I would be such a baseless person." A petty official with no qualifications, who just came back from the Kingdom of Jin, is suspicious of an official, will he use me?"

"I'm confused, are the officials anti-gold or peacemakers?"

Qin Hui said coldly: "His face is anti-gold, but in his heart he is negotiating peace. His face is for the world to see, and the truth is in his bones. There is also the Queen Mother, who also came back with a mission. She was sent by the Kingdom of Jin Lu Yihao's resignation from the supervisory official family has a lot to do with her, I'm afraid that she is too selfish and can't tell which is more important, she wants to kill Chen Qing wholeheartedly, but I don't know that Li Gang is the real problem."

"So that's the case, then I'll tell the Queen Mother that Li Gang cannot be considered!"

"There's no need to talk about it. The government's decree has already been made. I just want to catch Chen Qing in the future, and I'll tell the Queen Mother in time."

"Then I also want to tell the queen mother that my husband will help her with all my strength, and I can't let her resent him."

Qin Hui nodded, it is indeed a terrible thing to be resentfully targeted by an old woman in the deep palace.

The recruitment of new recruits in Jiangling Mansion is in full swing, and they are recruiting and training at the same time.

As the capital, Chen Qing can command an army of about [-] people. This is the military salary and food provided by the court, but a little more is fine, for example, some logistics soldiers are needed, such as cooks, grooms, military doctors, craftsmen, Clerical and so on.

Generally, this kind of logistics soldiers cannot exceed [-]% of the total force, so under normal circumstances, the maximum number of people that can be commanded by a governor cannot exceed [-].

Of course, it is not impossible to recruit more soldiers if it is necessary for combat, but the imperial court will not bear the military salary, food and grass, and has to solve it by itself.

This leads to the biggest problem in the Southern Song Dynasty, the private army.

Because of the need to fight against gold, the imperial court relaxed the over-recruitment of all independent troops. It can be said to turn a blind eye. For example, Zhang Jun's Zhang Jiajun, Han Shizhong's Han Jiajun, Liu Guangshi's Liu Jiajun, Yue Fei have appeared The Yue family army of Wu Jie, the Wu family army of Wu Jie, the Liu family army of Liu Kai, etc., the actual army each of them commanded has greatly exceeded their own strength limit, and the court also acquiesced.

The spoils obtained from victorious battles also belong to themselves, and the court does not pursue them. After all, they need to support the army.

However, not every Duguan can get the opportunity to lead the army independently. This needs to be approved by the emperor. Qu Duan, Liu Ziyu, Wang Yan, Wu Lin, and Fu Xuan did not get this opportunity.

Kong Yanzhou already had his own private army, but he still could not get the approval of the emperor, so he surrendered to the puppet Qi army in order to protect his own private army.

As a matter of fact, Chen Qing's army already had a rudimentary form of the Chen family's army, and the biggest feature was already in place. His army followed him, and when he was transferred to Huguang, the army also followed him to Huguang.

However, Wang Yan's eight-character army failed to form the Wang family army. He was transferred away, and his army was handed over to Fu Xuan and Chen Qing.

This is also the fundamental reason why Zhao Gou rewarded Chen Qing but not Li Gang in the Battle of Dongting Lake. Chen Qing's army was actually independent and not under Li Gang's jurisdiction.

This is the biggest compensation Chen Qing received from the Western Army when he was transferred to Huguang. The imperial court recognized his independent capital, and Chen Qing agreed to come to Huguang without hesitation.

This right of independence is too important to him, without it, he can only fight against Zhu Shengfei, otherwise Zhu Shengfei has the right to take away Chen Qing's army and send him to Bashu for training. It is a kind of compensation for being suppressed by Zhu Shengfei for the reason.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Southern Song Dynasty, in order not to be destroyed by the Jurchens, they adopted this compromise attitude towards the warlords, but once the Song army negotiated peace, the emperor Zhao Gou and the court began to quickly withdraw military power. The most serious incident , that is, Fengboting Yuefei was killed.

Yue Fei was killed for many reasons, one of which was that he refused to obey the edict at the last moment. Emperor Zhao Gou felt that Yue Fei's army was out of control, and worried that Yue Fei would support himself in the Central Plains.

The topic is far away, so turn around.

At present, Chen Qing's army has [-] soldiers, including [-] cavalry and [-] infantry. In addition, there are [-] sailors lent to him by Li Gang and not owned by him. The actual strength is [-]. ,

At present, the strength of the Song army is far less than that of the puppet Qi army, and the situation is very unfavorable. The imperial court approved Li Gang to recruit another [-] troops. After the quota was broken down, Chen Qing got the quota of [-] troops.

Chen Qing still has [-] prisoners of Yang Yao's elite army who were not handed over to Li Gang. Ten warships rushed to Xiangyang and cooperated with Niu Gao to block the Han River.

In the past few days, Chen Qing recruited [-] recruits in Jiangling, and there were a lot of recruits, not only the children of Jiangling Mansion, but also the people of the counties and counties around Dongting Lake thanked Chen Qing for not disturbing the people, and sent their children to join the army.

In just three days, Chen Qing's newly recruited army reached [-] people.

Today was the last day of recruiting new recruits. At the recruiting point of the Yangtze River Wharf in Jiangling County, a recruiter that Chen Qing could never have imagined came.

(End of this chapter)