I am Da Song

Chapter 83 National Power
In order to transfer the imperial arsenal, the soldiers and civilians in Tokyo paid tens of thousands of casualties.

Now that the military workshop has initially resumed production, Zhao Huan has to come and see for himself anyway, whether he is worthy of the heroic sacrifices made by the soldiers and civilians in Tokyo.

Zuo Prime Minister Mei Zhili accompanied Zhao Huan to inspect the new imperial armory. As prime minister, Mei Zhili was in charge of the government, and Zhao Huan also gave him great power during the war, and he hardly made any decisions on his handling of government affairs. any constraints.

While his power expanded, it also brought great convenience. In terms of military logistics, he has great power, and he knows everything about equipment manufacturing and material supply.

Although the country is in crisis, its administrative efficiency and supervisory system have reached a peak.

Everyone knows that equipment manufacturing and material replenishment are coordinated by the left. Of course, if there is a problem, he must be held accountable.

It is precisely because of this that the imperial armory resumes production extremely quickly.

Mei Zhili introduced to Zhao Huan: "According to the system, there are more than [-] craftsmen in the imperial army, but there were casualties and separations in the outer city."

Zhao Huan nodded, expressing his understanding, and asked, "How many people own the Imperial Army now? Can there be 4000 people?"

Mei Zhili smiled, stroked his beard, and calmly replied: "The officials have greatly underestimated the power of the country."

"En? Could it be..." Zhao Huan's eyes lit up.

Mei Zhili replied with a smile: "Before I came here, I looked through the roster on purpose. As of yesterday, there were one envoy of each division, three deputy envoys of each division, three internal guards and supervisors, and two Wanquan craftsmen. 400 people, 600 ironsmiths, 200 bowmakers and fletchers, totaling more than [-] people."

This once again refreshed Zhao Huan's understanding of the administrative efficiency of the civil government of the Song Dynasty, and exclaimed: "How can there be so many craftsmen?"

Mei Zhili explained: "Most of them came from the Xiang Army. The soldiers with high levels of craftsmanship in the Xiang Army will be regarded as military craftsmen, military craftsmen, or academy soldiers. In addition, according to the system, if the number of military craftsmen is insufficient So they recruited folk artisans to supplement it. This process is familiar to the Imperial Military Weapons Institute, the Bow and Crossbow Building Institute, and the North and South Workshops. Now that the siege of the city is in danger, and the workshops send out rice and charcoal as salaries, folk craftsmen are flocking to them.”

Zhao Huan also smiled.Xiang Jun, this is another unique scenery of the Song Dynasty.Although the Xiang army is an army in name, they basically do all kinds of work, such as paving roads and building bridges, fishing and farming, manufacturing armor, etc., but they are not responsible for fighting.

So when King Qin of the Xiang army entered Beijing, the rulers of the Song Dynasty never thought of sending them to the battlefield. The main force of the forbidden army was wiped out, but these humble Xiang army survived.

But after listening to it, Zhao Huan had no intention of sending them to the battlefield.Originally, they had never been trained for marching and fighting. All they did was craftsman work, so it would be good to add it to the workshops everywhere.

Then Zhao Huan looked around and asked, "How did the government find this good place? It's spacious enough, and it was changed to the Imperial Armory. I see that the trees are shady, and there is green water in front. It's really a place." Good place."

The only pity is that the green water has now dried up, leaving only a dark river channel.

"It used to be Daganming Temple, east of Dongzangku, and directly to Taxation Street in the north, occupying thousands of mu of land."

Zhao Huan sighed and shook his head, and said, "Tokyo is full of temples, you can meet them everywhere you go. Are there any temples around here?"

"There is also Qianming Temple in the north, and the East Temple is not far to the east."

Hearing this, Zhao Huan felt helpless, and asked, "There is already a Daganming Temple, why do we need to set up a Qianming Temple? Forget it, I don't want to know more about it. The one on the east side is also a temple?"

Just to the east of Daganming Temple, there are high-rise buildings full of colorful brocades, feasting and feasting. If this is also a temple, these monks are too coquettish, right?How delicate and charming.

Mei Zhili looked in the direction of Zhao Huan's finger, with an embarrassed expression, and said, "That's not a temple, it's a brothel. The East Temple is still to the east of the brothel."

Well, this is really full of the pragmatism of the Central Plains Zhu Xia.

The Buddha and the prostitute are neighbors, the Sanskrit sounds are curling here, the cymbals and flutes are playing next to them, and accompanied by some decadent sounds, panting and chanting softly.

It is a Central Plains miracle that these two groups of people can live in harmony without fighting.Maybe it can also be regarded as a unique harmony of yin and yang?
Mei Zhili said embarrassingly: "I consider that this place is wide enough and has little impact on people's livelihood, so I decided to transfer the imperial armory to this place. If the official family cares about prostitutes, I will find another place, or put these Whores go away."

Zhao Huan waved his hand and said, "Forget it, don't waste your energy on the details, the siege is in danger, and you should go all out to put into production. How much armor equipment can the Yuqian Military Institute produce every day?"

"Reporting to the official, the Imperial Armor Institute has always focused on the production of armor and banners. As soon as it resumes production, it can produce [-] sets of infantry armor per day and thousands of flags."

Zhao Huan nodded and asked, "The three workshops are now fully producing, how many armor tools can they produce every day?"

"Slightly fluctuating, the total is about [-] sets of infantry armor, more than [-] sets of leather armor, [-] sets of divine arm bows, [-] strong bows, [-] hand knives, [-] long spears, spears, and flags, crossbows, arrows, Fifteen thousand feathered arrows."

"The armor is enough to arm 1000 people every day, but the feather arrows are slightly insufficient, and a large amount of feather arrows will be consumed in daily battles."

This is already quite substantial, meaning that the inner city defenders will be buffed daily.With 1000 people a day, if the war lasts for a month, the defenders will increase to 3.

In two months, the defenders will increase to 6 people...if there is that much population.

But at least for now, the defenders will grow stronger with each passing day.

Zhao Huan asked, "How are these armors distributed?"

"Now the battle for defending the city has been stabilized. If there is no accident, the army will not suffer too much damage. On the contrary, the Shenwu You Army has the will to go out to fight. Therefore, the two armies share the armor equally, and each army can be assigned a share of armed commanders every day. "

Zhao Huan raised his hand decisively, and said: "Don't tell me that there are no accidents. Often behind such words, there are all kinds of accidents. Especially the virtue of the imperial army, no one knows what kind of moths they will make. And The defense of the inner city is of great importance, and I don't want any accidents to happen."

Mei Zhili comforted: "Now the Jin army is still filling up the moat and making it rigorous with the four walls of defense. There should be no mistakes in the defense of the city wall."

"I hope so. How is the military uniform distributed? Is it equally divided between the two parts?"

"The military uniforms are rotated on a daily basis. Yesterday's military uniforms were given to the Imperial Army, and today's military uniforms will be given to the Shenwu Youjun."

"Then go to the Shenwu Youjun to see what kind of demeanor this new army of mine looks like after its neat uniform and bright armor."

The two stopped talking and were about to leave, but an anxious voice came from the side: "Guan, can you stay for a while?"

(End of this chapter)