Starting from Comprehensive Martial Arts: Bu Dao Lu

Chapter 245 Swallowing the Song Dynasty (6)

Xu Da's army mainly consists of expansion troops (guard troops) and perfect guard troops!
During this army reorganization, Xu Da went to great lengths to expand his combat troops (guard troops). The original border troops, forbidden troops, and Xiang troops of the Song Empire, as well as the armies under Fang La, Tian Hu, and Wang Qing, were basically eliminated after the old and weak were eliminated. All of them have been classified as warriors!
As for the guardsmen, in addition to the guardsmen directly drawn from the Ming Empire, farmers from the Song Empire were re-recruited to serve!The empire exempted farmers from taxes and corvées who joined the guards!

Therefore, it was not difficult for Xu Da to expand the garrison troops in the territory of the Song Dynasty!
It was the preferential treatment given to the guardsmen that made the people of the New Ming Dynasty in the Song Dynasty feel that the dynasty was changing!

You know, in the current Ming Empire, even relatives of the emperor, civil and military officials do not have tax-free treatment!Even the guardsmen in the Ming Empire were only exempted from corvee service, but this tax was unavoidable!

The rapid formation of guardsmen means that the Ming Empire really controls the territory of the Song Dynasty!The future territory of the Song Dynasty will be the Northern Territory of the Ming Dynasty!

The formation of guard troops is supported by the empire's policies, so it is actually not troublesome.

The trouble is the integration of soldiers!
But no matter how troublesome Xu Da is, he will not give up.

After all, in Xu Da's eyes, these soldiers who came from the frontier army, forbidden army, Xiang army, and bandit army of the Song Empire were all factors that were not conducive to the empire's rule in the northern region.The best way to eliminate these unstable factors is to send them to the battlefield to build the empire!

If these people die on the battlefield, it will naturally not affect the empire's rule over the Northern Territory!

If these people survived on the battlefield and performed meritorious service, then they would be the empire's most loyal supporters in ruling the Northern Territory in the future!
Therefore, even if it is troublesome, Xu Da does not dare to be careless at all!
After all, this is what Zhu Qi and Emperor Xiaokang meant!
These integrated armies will all move westward!Most of the soldiers will join the army attacking the Xixia Empire!There are also some elites who will be added to the border defense lines of the Khitan Empire and the Dajin Empire where King Zhu Wenzheng of Jingjiang is stationed!
However, the number of these soldiers is huge, and it will take a lot of time for Xu Da to deal with them all!
Xu Da was busy reorganizing the army, and Emperor Xiaokang, with the assistance of Dao Yan, also began to reorganize the bureaucracy in the Northern Territory!

As one of the five great empires in China, the territory of the Song Dynasty (Northern Territory) had countless inhabitants, and there was absolutely no shortage of talents!
What is lacking is a mechanism for discovering talents and a path for them to rise!

Fortunately, the current Ming Empire does not lack these two items.Moreover, under the guidance of Zhu Qi, the current Ming Empire has perfected these two items!
Emperor Xiaokang first promoted and re-employed a group of talents from the original Song Empire based on the information provided by Dao Yan!

Then we began to prepare for the imperial examination and select a large number of officials!

The imperial examinations of the Ming Empire were different from those of the Song Empire!

The imperial examinations of the Song Empire selected noble officials, while the imperial examinations of the Ming Empire selected officials who did practical things!
In today's Ming Empire, if you want to be an official, you must start as a clerk.If you can't even do practical things well, it's impossible to become an official in the Ming Dynasty!
Although the powerful families in the Northern Territory were dissatisfied with Emperor Xiaokang's imperial examination reform, they did not dare to say a word in the face of the bright swords of the guards!
Soon, waves of hard-working officials were recruited by Emperor Xiaokang to the states and counties in the northern region, gradually replacing the original officials.

Emperor Xiaokang had a sword and a spear in one hand and Kai Enke's big stick in the other. The effect was excellent!Facts have also proved that there is no shortage of doers in the Song Dynasty. What is lacking is a stage for doers!
Emperor Xiaokang's drastic reforms also quickly stabilized the territory of the Song Dynasty!
Of course, it’s not that easy to swallow up an empire!

In addition to the army, the court, and the people, an empire also has rivers and lakes and intelligence!

According to Zhu Qi's plan, the Martial Arts Alliance is only open to the outside world, not to the inside!Therefore, after the Ming Empire swallowed up the territory of the Song Dynasty, under the auspices of Emperor Xiaokang and Dao Yan, the intelligence system began to separate!
First of all, the Martial Arts Alliance will move all its core strength to the outside world!In addition to Qilin Valley, which cultivates talents, and Suzaku Tower, which is responsible for money, the Qinglong Society, White Tiger Hall, and Xuanwu Sect have all dispersed their elite forces into the Five Grassland Kingdoms and other empires in the Chinese continent!
Although Qilin Valley and Zhuque Tower retained many bases and channels in the territory of the Song Dynasty, their main energy was also transferred outside the Ming Empire!

The power of the Martial Arts Alliance in the Song Empire was quickly eaten away by Dongchang, Xichang, Jinyiwei, and Liumen!As for the Imperial City Division of the Song royal family, it was also completely annexed by Dongchang, Xichang, Jinyiwei, and Liumen!

From now on, the intelligence of the Northern Territory (the Territory of the Song Dynasty) will be handled by Dongchang, Xichang, Jinyiwei, and Liumen, and the Martial Arts Alliance will no longer participate!With the foundation left by the Martial Arts Alliance and the power of the Imperial City Division, although the Ming Empire's control of the Northern Territory is not impregnable, it has reached a new level!
In addition to the elite forces of the Martial Arts Alliance, the Qingyi Tower, the Sun Moon Sect, and the 'Tianzun' organization under the Martial Arts Alliance were also taken over by the empire and cooperated with the empire to supervise the rivers and lakes in the Song Dynasty!

The leader of the Sun Moon Sect, Dongfang Bai, is keen on the world, and Zhu Qi specifically approves his resignation as the leader of the White Tiger Hall and joins the Six Sects! The 'Tianzun' organization was also divided into two. Some of the people who were willing to stay in the Song Dynasty joined the Jinyiwei and became the peripheral organization of the Jinyiwei!

Another part of the 'Tianzun' organization's personnel integrated into the Martial Arts Alliance and followed Zhu Qi to expand the territory!
Xie Xiaofeng and Murong Qiudi surprisingly joined the Martial Arts Alliance and continued to follow Zhu Qi!Therefore, Zhu Qi arranged for Xie Xiaofeng to be the leader of the White Tiger Hall, and Murong Qiudi to be the deputy leader to lead the White Tiger Hall!All the people who followed Zhu Qi's "Tianzun" organization were integrated into the Martial Arts League, and Murong Qiu, the Tianzun, became the bare commander. However, the husband and wife were in charge of the White Tiger Hall together, and Zhu Qi also valued this couple very much!
Although the general direction of the division of the Martial Arts Alliance has been set, it will still take a long time for the Martial Arts Alliance to completely spread out its elite manpower!

Emperor Xiaokang methodically strengthened the empire's rule over the Northern Territory (the territory of the Song Dynasty), but Zhu Qi led a large army and fought fiercely with the Xixia Empire!
Xiaokang January 11, [-]!
Just after the New Year, after waiting for a long time, the Northern Army, sharpening their swords, launched an overwhelming offensive towards the border of the Xixia Empire!
In just a few days, more than a dozen cities on the border of the Xixia Empire fell into the hands of the Western Expedition army!

If Zhu Qi suppressed the Song Dynasty Empire, he was using deceitful tactics to take him by surprise!The Western Expedition army's attack was upright and one step at a time!
The generals of the Western Expeditionary Army who knew that Zhu Qi controlled an entire country by himself were extremely surprised!

Originally, they thought that with Zhu Qi's terrifying methods, the war in the Xixia Empire would be as violent as the Song Empire, but Zhu Qi's steady and steady actions resulted in frequent wars!

In fact, the Western Expedition's army's attacks on cities and places were deliberately done by Zhu Qi!
First of all, the people of the Xixia Empire were mostly grassland barbarians, which were different from the people of the Song Empire!The people of the Song Empire and the people of the Ming Empire have the same roots. The people will not have any resistance to the Ming Empire's encroachment on the territory of the Song Dynasty!

But in the face of the grassland barbarians, if the Ming Empire did not kill them, it would be impossible for the Ming Empire to stably rule the grasslands in the future!

(End of this chapter)