In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 225
I saw the team members lined up in a long line, throwing knives in turn, and the target was a ten-step wooden stake.

Maybe it’s because I’ve just started practicing, and the hit rate is impressive. After throwing a row of 20 people, a small half of them either miss the hit, or fall to the ground, or the armor is not deep enough, and the strength is not enough.

Shi Hu'er also had a serious face and was a little flustered. He didn't expect the emperor to come to practice throwing knives for the first time and throw it like this.

"Don't worry, practice slowly. In the future, the whole army will distribute flying knives, and you can find a place to practice on your own." Zhao Yurui was not angry, and said with a smile: "The Mongolian and Jinjun have practiced since they were young. Let's start now, slowly. It took a few steps, so don't rush, give everyone a little time."

"Your Majesty is wise." There was a burst of praise from behind.

After passing the playground, Zhao Yurui came to a row of rooms.

The room is like a classroom or conference room for later generations, with many tables and stools lined up, and about 40 officers sat in it.

After Zhao Yurui went in, she quietly sat behind and watched them.

The instructor who was lecturing in front saw the emperor coming in, and his expression was a little excited, but he didn't get up and continued talking.

After listening to Zhao Yurui, they were basically the routines he had prepared for future generations.

Let these officers go to various places to publicize the ferocity of the Mongolian army, the wisdom of the emperor, the determination of the court, and the rewards for meritorious soldiers.

After talking for about a quarter of an hour, the instructor suddenly stood up: "Everyone stand up."

Wow, the scene got up at the same time, and Zhao and Rui also got up quickly.

At this time, the instructor turned around with everyone and kowtowed to the emperor.

Only then did all the students know that the emperor was behind.

The subsequent process was also arranged by Zhao Yurui.

This group of people trained in their respective camps for three months, and trained in the training camp for another six months. After the end, they were all scored, and according to the scores, they were selected to be sent to the state capital one by one.

They used to be basically vice-dutou, dutou-level, and after they were released, they would all be upgraded to a level.

The scene immediately became lively, and everyone chose the state they wanted to go to in front of the emperor.

Some choose Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian, places that are not very good at fighting.

Some choose Sichuan, Lianghuai, Jinghu and other front-line areas.

Those who choose the frontline theater will be secretly recorded and will be used as key training in the future.

At this time, with Shi Hu'er's wave of his hand, a group of soldiers came in, each holding a plate with several throwing knives on it.

These throwing knives are all specially made, with gold and silver inlaid on the handle, which looks extremely precious, and the names of these officers are engraved on them.

The emperor gave each of them a knife and said a few words to each of them.

Everyone was excited. This is an imperial gift, only officers who have passed the intensive training team have it. Many superiors, generals and above the rank of lieutenant general have no chance to come to the intensive training team, and they are not eligible to get this imperial gift sword.

This knife not only represented the trust and cronies of the emperor, but also represented that they could not fall into the hands of the enemy on the battlefield. If they were defeated, everyone would know what to do.

"Soon, everyone will leave Beijing and go to various places in Song Dynasty."

"I know that everyone doesn't want to be far away from home, away from their loved ones."

"We didn't want to leave the north before, but in the end we were driven to the south of the Yangtze River by the Jin people."

"Because this world is very real, where the strong prevail and the weak perish."

Everyone looked moved.

"Someone once asked me, why do we have to keep training here? Standing, sitting, running? Because these savages from the grassland are brutal and cruel. If we are not strong enough, they will razed us without mercy. Our homeland, humiliate our wives and daughters, and kill our children and parents."

Zhao Yurui's voice became higher and higher, and many people at the scene were so excited that their eyes were red.

In the end, Zhao Yurui almost shouted: "Take your long knives, bows and arrows, and go to various parts of the Song Dynasty to train elites. We want these barbarians to know that I, the Song Dynasty, are unstoppable, unyielding, and invincible!" Invincible-"

"Invincible." Shi Hu'er raised his arms and shouted.

The crowd at the scene roared: "Invincible."

When the knife was issued, Zhao Yurui and everyone would say a few words, asking where is their hometown?Who is in the family and what advice do you have for the court?
One of them boldly said that the price of sugar was so high that ordinary people couldn't afford it. Zhao Yurui immediately asked Hu Song to inform the sugar shop on Lin'an Street that before the soldiers left Beijing, they would each take ten catties of sugar. Voice.

"Your name is Xiang Shibi?" Zhao Yurui looked at the name on the handle of the knife, and knew that this person was called Xiang Shibi. During the chat, he knew that he was from Changzhou.

He later found out that Xiang Shibi was rather conceited, so he began to concentrate on taking the Jinshi examination, and he won the Jinshi a few years later.

But after Zhao Yurui ascended the throne, they first appointed artisans as officials, and then promoted and reused many young people to become officials directly, and some immigrants sent them directly to officials. This guy is quite conceited, and feels that Jinshi is not worth much now, and any cat or dog can be an official, so I don't want to take the exam.

Then the imperial court recruited troops from various places, so he signed up and went directly to the military attache route.

Xiang Shibi was also a famous anti-Mongolian general in history. In fact, many civil servants in the Southern Song Dynasty, including Cao Youwen and Du Gao who were around Zhao Yurui, were civil servants first, and later became famous generals by name.

No way, these people were forced out.

After Zhao Yurui operated like this today, these people naturally regarded themselves as disciples of the Son of Heaven and became Zhao Yurui's confidantes.

Zhao Yurui was quite satisfied when he left. Regardless of whether the last yells of these officers were from the heart or not, the morale in front of him has far surpassed that of the Imperial Army before he took the throne.

As the capital continues to send out officers, his control over the local officials will become stronger and stronger.

In the next few days, soldiers from the Beijing army would leave one after another. Zhao Yurui would summon each batch of people, say a few words one by one, and try to win over the soldiers. These people would go to all parts of the country to train and lead troops for Zhao Yurui.

But this is still not enough, there are no battles to be fought now, and Zhao Yurui asked all parts of the country, all armies, to send officers at the command level to Beijing in turn for intensive training, and the imperial court gave local and long-distance subsidies to these people. After the training, Zhao and Rui will also meet one by one, and then put them back where they were.

In just a few years like this, the entire Song Dynasty will be headed by important officers at the command level, they will all know Zhao Yurui, and they will all regard themselves as Zhao Yurui's disciples of the emperor.

In addition, in non-wartime, all commanders who are promoted to lieutenant general, or above lieutenant general, must come to the capital to meet the emperor.

The emperor wants to reward and give the knife face to face.

Controlling soldiers and horses is of course important, but court expenditure and restructuring are equally important.

September of the second year of Baoqing.

Zhao Yurui recruited his uncle Quanzhong early on.

Quan Zhong's current position is the envoy of the Liangzhe system, and the doctor of the tax department (Zheng Liupin).

After the reorganization of Zhao and Rui, the two Zhejiang provinces were merged to set up an envoy division, with ten divisions under it. (household, ritual, military, criminal, worker, official, merchant, firearms, tax, city ship (road with port))

The two Zhejiang provinces are the pioneers of restructuring. Like the two roads in the south of the Yangtze River, the two roads merged into one road.

Quan Zhong first worked at the Dinghai Shipyard, then served as the county magistrate, and after the merger of Zhejiang and Zhejiang in May this year, he went to the tax department to serve as a doctor.

The emperor has been on the throne for less than two years, and he has been promoted several levels in a row, and has reached the sixth rank.

The former chief of security has not changed much in the past two years. Every time Zhao Yurui sees him, he always feels that he is protecting his life.

Although he is a sixth-rank official, he still looks like a security chief.

"Yu Ruina——" the chief security officer entered the hall, looked left and right to see that there were no outsiders, and immediately called out his nephew's name obsequiously and kindly.

He is notoriously thick-skinned, otherwise he wouldn't have fooled Yu Tianxi into bringing his two nephews to Beijing.

Of course Zhao Yurui didn't mind, hehe smiled and beckoned him to sit down.

From the root cause, Zhao Yurui would not have had the chance to be emperor without the chief security officer fooling Yu Tianxi back then, so Zhao Yurui was very polite and caring to this uncle.

The uncle and nephew chatted for a while, and a servant called out from outside, and Guo Chengzhang, the deputy commander of the Shenwu Guard Battalion, came to see him.

The security chief who had been smiling at first immediately straightened his face and looked at Zhao Yurui respectfully. His face changed so quickly that even Zhao Yurui sighed.

Guo Chengzhang represented the power of the Guo family, the former commander of the Forbidden Army. During Zhao and Rui's seizure of power, the Guo family also took a clear stand on his side.

Guo Chengzhang used to get a loose official rank, he didn't have to go to work to get a salary, and he played with Zhong You and the others every day.

After Zhao Yurui seized power, he was promoted step by step, and he was given a real post as the deputy commander of the emperor's pro-army Shenwuwei.

But Guo Chengzhang is used to having fun, so he is really not expected to be a soldier.

Zhao Yurui also had a headache, and it was difficult to deal with such good brothers. After all, they often played mahjong and billiards together.

So recently I plan to send Guo Chengzhang elsewhere.

He had met Guo Chengzhang alone before, and Guo Chengzhang was very happy to hear it. After all, he needed hard training in the Son of Heaven's army, and he might fight in the future.

The original imperial army of the capital has been reorganized into the emperor's army. There are currently 6000 armies, each with [-] soldiers. Zhao and Rui may recruit and expand the fifth army in the future to make up the [-]th army.

"Your Majesty, I greet you. Long live your Majesty." After Guo Chengzhang entered the palace, he followed the rules and stood up.

"Give me a seat." Zhao Yurui habitually bestowed a seat, no matter who came, he would have a place to sit, this was the favorite of all the ministers.

After a while, Li Huang, Shangshu of the Ministry of punishment, and Du Fan, Shangshu of the Ministry of household affairs, also came.

The head of security was very active, got up one after another, and called Mr. Shangshu kindly twice.

Guo Chengzhang was young, so he didn't realize it at first. After the chief security officer called him, he came back to his senses. He got up reluctantly, and then said hello to each other, which was regarded as a way to save face for the emperor.

This person is not suitable for being in the officialdom, Zhao Yurui thought silently.

The four of them sat under the emperor's head, looked at each other a few times, and then looked at the emperor.

The emperor called them here, there must be something else.

When Li Huang was outsourcing Qingyuan Mansion to Zhao Yurui, he proposed the tea and salt official in Changping, East Zhejiang. Du Fan was the salt supervisor of Minghechang at that time.

Minghe Farm was one of the largest salt farms in eastern Zhejiang at that time.

Whether Zhao Yurui was the king of Wei or when he ascended the throne, he had never touched the matter of salt, tea and wine.

Salt, tea and wine in the Song Dynasty were one of the sources of tax revenue for the court, and many people were involved.

Now he feels that the throne is more stable, and he can handle these matters gradually.

"Let's take a look." Zhao Yurui waved his hand, and a servant handed a paper to them.

Everyone looked at it.

(End of this chapter)