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Chapter 569 Three hundred forbidden troops, I want to choose my own people to dispatch!

Outside the city of Bianjing.

Li Yan brought Lin San to the Forbidden Army Camp.

After the notification, Lin Yuanjing came out soon: "Erlang, why are you here?"

Li Yan said with a smile: "Come and see my father, I have something to do by the way, please help me."

Lin Yuanjing was quite pleasantly surprised: "Good! Good! Come with me!"

Ever since he was almost scared by some words, he no longer persuaded him to learn, couldn't keep up with his son's topics of conversation, and no longer restrained him. Then he saw his son's cold star and cold moon gun in the martial arts training ground. Stop teaching.

Then I realized I had nothing to do...

Sometimes Lin Yuanjing felt proud, and sometimes he was quite disappointed. Now that he was finally needed, he was very happy and led Li Yan into the camp.

The outer city of Bianjing was much larger than the inner city, and there were as many as thirty-two barracks of the imperial army, most of which were located not far from the city gate, so troops could be transferred into the city at any time, and it was much more convenient to take turns to defend.

And this barracks is used for training, but the first thing that attracts the most attention after entering is not the training ground, but the stretch of broken thatched huts around it.

Li Yan took a closer look and frowned: "Those are the places where the forbidden army lives? How much did it cost to build such dilapidated houses?"

Lin Yuanjing said: "There are only four buildings, and the original houses were extremely simple. What you see now is reinforced by soldiers."

The Northern Song Dynasty adopted a military recruitment system. People who joined the army lived behind the barracks and took over their family members. There were special houses for them to live in. At first glance, this was a kind of welfare treatment, but not to mention the role played by these relatives. The role of hostages is that once a soldier flees, he will be fined and confiscated as a slave. The key is that the conditions of the barracks dormitory of the ordinary forbidden army are too simple.

After seeing is believing, Li Yan couldn't help sighing: "I heard An Daoquan mentioned before that on the edge of the outer city, there are simple houses made of grass and bamboo boards. The cost is still ten per room, and they are rented to the poorest outsiders. As a result, the construction standard of the military barracks is actually only four rooms, this is really a real slum."

Lin Yuanjing sighed: "In the early years, these soldiers were even more miserable. Whenever they went out to station, their wives and children could only stay here and wait."

"When the Xihe River opened, whenever a messenger carrying a letter came back, there was constant crying in the camp. It was all wives and children crying helplessly after receiving the news of their death in battle. It was really uncomfortable to hear. To the extreme, in the end even this house may not be able to be kept, and the dead man will be kicked out..."

"Fortunately, the rules have been loosened in recent years. The army moved to other places to fight, and the wife and children can also move there. After all, the station is not like Bianjing, and the housing can still be guaranteed."

Li Yan pursed his lips, looked away, and walked inside, and soon a huge training ground came into view, where hundreds of forbidden soldiers were practicing.

It is said that it is a military training ground, but it is only clearly circled, and there are still many potholes. The imperial guards avoided those areas, so that they stood crookedly, regardless of whether they had obsessive-compulsive disorder or not, it was very uncomfortable to watch.

Li Yan looked past the group of imperial guards and looked towards the high platform, where he saw a burly man in armor and holding a bone, standing on it majesticly, his brows were also slightly frowned: "Is that Ban Zhi? "

Lin Yuanjing said: "That's right. This person's name is Wu Sui. He has extraordinary martial arts skills and is good at teaching art. Many of the Banzhi guards in the palace are the children of powerful and powerful people. They are used to make up the number, but there are also veritable Banzhi guards. This is one of them." one."

Li Yandao: "I heard that there is also a generational tradition in the Banzhi. Since the time of the Taizu, they have been in the palace. They usually choose tall and strong women deliberately when they marry, so everyone is tall and powerful. Is there such a thing? "

Lin Yuanjing said: "There are some, but the number is very small. They have lived in the inner palace for a long time, and they are the most elite force guarding the official family."

Li Yan nodded slightly. Such guards were a bit like the Beiya Baiqi in the early Tang Dynasty. Of course they couldn't reach that level, but at least during the Northern Song Dynasty, they were indeed the elite of the small group of elites.

Just mentioned Ban Zhi, Li Yan frowned, and asked in a low voice: "Is the food and salary of the imperial army enough recently?"

Lin Yuanjing looked around, and no one noticed this side, so he replied in a lower voice: "It depends on what kind of forbidden army it is, if it is a class guard, it must be paid enough, and it is a little bit reluctant to go to the fourth army." , the middle and lower imperial guards have never been enough..."

Li Yan knew it in his mind.

According to the "Song Dynasty Bingzhi", Banzhi's monthly salary ranged from 700 to 5000 renminbi, with many benefits, monthly rations, silk, silk, cotton and other clothing, and various subsidies.

Then there are the upper-class imperial guards, that is, Pengri, Tianwu, Longwei and Shenwei, commonly known as the upper fourth army, and the salary of these people is 1000 yuan.

The wages of the middle guards are 500-700 renminbi, the lower ranks are 300-500 renminbi, and the Xiang army is paid up to 500 renminbi, and the last ones are only paid with salt or salt.

If Suo Chao didn't have a concept, then when Suo Chao was called, he could earn 500 Wen a day, which was equivalent to the monthly income of the middle and lower-level imperial guards, because he walked like flying and delivered food quickly and well.

Of course, the Forbidden Army also has some other welfare subsidies, which can also be converted into money, and there are not many takeaway boys like Suo Chao in the entire Song Dynasty, so this comparison is a bit bullying.

But even if you can’t get so much money from Suo Chao, the normal salary of Suo Huan is much higher than that of soldiers. The key point is that Suo Huan gets actual copper coins. Generally, regular shops and restaurants are not likely to deduct these people’s hard-earned money. , after all, a lot has been scraped.

The salary of the imperial army is only a theoretical regulation. When it is actually paid, it will first be converted into materials such as cloth and silk.

The most classic example is that twenty-five years ago, the soldiers of the Weapons Manufacturing Bureau went on strike together because they worked overtime all year round and deducted their wages. How can I promise money?"

To put it bluntly, we know that the wages are not paid enough, but there is no money to pay.

I will recite the infamy, no matter how hard it is to be a soldier!

After sufferings and hardships, many soldiers and men are extremely poor. Li Yan asked again: "In addition to Ban Zhi and the upper-level imperial guards who have sufficient food and good treatment, how about the pitiful monthly salaries of the middle-lower imperial guards and the Xiang army?" , as long as there are a little more people in the family, it will be a drop in the bucket, how can they survive?"

After Lin Yuanjing was silent for a while, he sighed and said, "You may do some small business in Daxiangguo Temple's surname exchange, or you may go to the capital to run errands or be rascals, or you may have wives and daughters in the camp to pick up guests to make a living. ..."

Lin San, who was following behind, was speechless when he heard the words, but he thought of the Zhang Huan and his party that he met in Happy Forest at the beginning. They were typical rogues, extorting money from others, and then immediately gambled. It's bad, but according to this, they are still relatively wealthy, and there are more Custodians who are worse off.

During the Taiping period, when the Imperial Army guarding the capital reached this level, Li Yan could only shake his head silently, and then asked, "Father, I asked you to select some motivated Imperial Army and train them together. How many people have you selected?"

Lin Yuanjing was stunned, and he hesitated for a while: "I just started this matter, and there are not many people in terms of numbers. There are less than [-] people who are talented with guns and sticks on weekdays."

Li Yan: "..."

You have been the head of the Imperial Army for most of your life, and you only brought out thirty people, how can you say that?

The life of the key imperial guards is still not good, most of them live very poorly, if replaced by him, within a month, a team of at least [-] people will be pulled up. Is it so difficult to cultivate and cultivate?
Lin Yuanjing actually kept this matter in his heart, but he was used to going with the flow, what was arranged by his superiors every day, and when he came home from get off work, he didn't inquire about other people's secrets, let alone pay attention to other people's business. It is indeed difficult for him to take the initiative to attack, even if it is just to recruit some available people.

He didn't want to let his son down, so he moved his eyes: "I told you Uncle Zhang about this, he can help, should we go find him?"

Li Yan thought about it, but he remembered Zhang Bofen, the coach of Ma Jun.

There are many instructors, large and small, in the imperial army. Those who have seven ranks of official positions like Lin Yuanjing are already considered good. At least they can wear green robes. It's just a small ninth-rank official at the end of the day, but the two get along very well, and the two families also visit a lot during the holidays, so they can be called close friends.

Li Yan didn't expect that cheap father could only bring out thirty people, and some of them might have wishful thinking and didn't want to listen to the arrangement at all, so he could only say: "Okay, let's go see Uncle Zhang."

Zhang Bofen was at the other end of the barracks, holding a stone pier, trying to build up his strength. When he saw Li Yan and Lin Yuanjing approaching, his eyes lit up: "The virtuous nephew is here!"

Li Yan saluted: "Uncle Zhang!"

Zhang Bofen laughed, and said to Lin Yuanjing: "Nephew is really a good-looking talent, Brother Lin has a son like this, the family will be happy!"

Normally, Lin Yuanjing would have smiled heartily, but this time he was a little embarrassed, always feeling like he was holding back, and gave Zhang Bofen a look.

Zhang Bofen didn't understand what it meant, but Li Yan said directly: "I don't know how many motivated Forbidden Army there are under Uncle Zhang's command?"

Only then did Zhang Bofen understand: "Is this the case? Brother Lin did tell me before that I can have more than two hundred people here."

Lin Yuanjing: "..."

Why is our gap so huge?

Li Yan is not surprised, after all, he is the coach of the first army, and this number is normal: "In that short period of time, can Uncle Zhang gather them together?"

Zhang Bofen's expression became serious: "I don't know what my nephew is going to do?"

Li Yandao: "Judge Gongsun led [-] fast-track archers, and then transferred [-] people from the Forbidden Army of the Beijing Camp to go into Wuyou Cave to wipe out the culprits. This operation is different from the past. There are internal and external troubles in Wuyou Cave. I hope that the people we pick out will be part of it."

What happened yesterday was so big that even the main store, Tiexuelou, was closed. Zhang Bofen naturally knew about it, but he didn't expect that someone would invite him into Wuyou Cave to kill the thief, and his face changed: "That ghost Fan Lou is no better than others, if you tell them about this, they will not be willing to go."

Li Yan narrated the ins and outs of what he could say, and finally concluded: "In the environment like Wuyou Cave, I can't guarantee that there will be no danger, but compared to other dangerous and unpredictable battlefields, this is already the best. Chance."

"Uncle Zhang, the reason why I asked my father and you to mobilize the motivated Forbidden Army is to change their lives. At least tell them about this and let them make a choice."

"After all, when the Queen Mother's edict is issued, the three hundred forbidden troops will still be deployed. If you believe in me and Judge Gongsun, you should make preparations in advance."

Zhang Bofen fell silent, thinking of Wuyou Cave, a nightmare that has shrouded Bianjing for hundreds of years, he flinched.

But seeing Lin Jia Erlang, who is now famous in the capital and more and more people talk about, and the cold-faced judge who has become the Queen Mother's confidant, he became a little moved.

In the end, the dilapidated continuous houses in the Imperial Army camp, and the ragged families of soldiers made Zhang Bofen make up his mind: "What my nephew said is right, this is an opportunity, I should really tell them, I believe in you father and son, this is a matter of course." Me alone!"

Li Yan clasped his fists, watched Zhang Bofen leave, and then looked at Lin Yuanjing: "Father, gather your hands, just today, we will do something that will shake the whole Bianjing, and even all the states in the world!" event!"

(End of this chapter)