The legend of the king of crossing

Chapter 84

On the way back to the city, it started to rain suddenly.

There seems to be a lot of rain this year. According to Si Tianjian's report, April is dominated by rainy days. I don't know if it is because of the leap month.

"If this continues, it will affect the harvest of the crops." Wen Tianxiang said suddenly.

"Well, there is such a possibility, follow me to the imperial study for further discussion."

Back at Ninggan Palace's study room, I opened the window and looked, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the sound of crackling raindrops kept ringing.

"Xiaoqi, after tomorrow's court, I will send a message to Si Tianjian to change the weather report from the original ten-day report to three-day report. If it continues to rain in April, as Si Tianjian said, then you have to think about it." Figure out a way, and keep an eye on changes in food prices.”

"Yes, official."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After I sat down, I looked at the thoughtful Wen Zhang and said, "Wen Zhang, how do you feel about the Imperial Army's trip?"

"Your Majesty, I have two thoughts."

"tell me the story."

"Your Majesty, from the two incidents of the forbidden army's trip and Jinhua's suppression of bandits, I think it is the best way to replace training with combat. The momentum of cavalry and archery cannot be trained in the barracks. I used to do it too. I heard from my master that Commander Meng has a battalion of divine arrows, the only one who dared to fight against the Mongolian cavalry in the wild. This kind of momentum can only be gradually formed between life and death, so I dared to ask the emperor for instructions to send Zhejiang Lu's bandit suppression missions are all handed over to the youth guards, who will be tested in the bloody flames of war. Another point, I just had a vague idea to split the youth guards into different arms."

"Separate arms?" I thought to myself, this is also my thought after reading the summary of the Youth Guards, and I am planning to train the Youth Guards into a special force similar to future generations.

"How to divide?"

"Your Majesty, there are horses, infantry, and archers in the forbidden army. This cavalry archer must have two or three years of skill to become an army, and it is difficult to surpass the Mongols who grew up on horseback. They can be widely used in muskets. In the end, the minister's young guards were all musketeers, and there was no need to spend time training archers. In the battle of Daliu Mountain, if there were more soldiers who were good at climbing rocks like He Quchen, it would not be necessary to let them go deep alone. As for the specifics The division method, I haven't figured it out yet."

"Wen Zhang, the first point is fine. I promise you, the second point is very good. You young guards must have those who are good at climbing, those who are good at swimming, and those who are good at lurking in the wild and fighting in the field. , and even those who are good at assassination. In short, there must be talents in all aspects. After the guns and artillery are equipped, some new skills will appear. You should think about these carefully before reporting to me. Your idea is correct. But one thing to remember is that the basic quality of all personnel must be strengthened. No matter how we divide the arms in the future, physical quality and ideological quality are the foundation. As for your performance in this bandit suppression, I am quite satisfied, Shen Mo said it very well, what I want is General Wenzhang."

"Yes, Your Majesty, please remember."

"Junshi, is this cavalry archer the only soldier in the forbidden army who can be called an elite soldier?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, according to my understanding after entering the Ministry of War, the Forbidden Army has not participated in wars for nearly ten years. At present, its military strength can be divided into three categories. Less than 1 people, half of this group were brought back to the capital by Jia Sidao from Meng Shuai's army, and the other half were from frontier troops from various places; Composed of strong and strong soldiers, they look very powerful, but they have never been on the battlefield. From what I see, they can only be seen as fancy and useless. There are about [-] such soldiers. The above two types of soldiers are treated better than others. The remaining [-] imperial troops are uneven, most of them come from Xiangjun from all over the country, and some are newly recruited civilians. Overall, their combat capabilities are far inferior to those of the Yangzhou frontier army. It is a cavalry archer who stays in the capital camp all year round, and his fighting spirit will be exhausted, and he will become ordinary."

I nodded and said: "Leave the matter of the forbidden army aside for now, Junshi, find opportunities to get in touch with the generals of the forbidden army. Among those people today, Wang Sheng and Wu Songhan don't seem to get along well with the rest, maybe they can make friends. "

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"As for the Xiang army, I intend to change the original plan and gradually dismantle it. Some of the Xiang armies in the inland areas can be transferred to the state capitals to serve as government servants, and the other part will be disarmed and returned to the fields. In the early stage, the state capitals only retained less than a thousand people according to their size. The establishment is to deter young people, and it is under the unified management of the Ministry of War. All those in the border areas are included in the border army. Song Rui, Jun Shi, what do you think?"

"The ministers think it is feasible, but in this case, it is bound to conflict with the Privy Council."

"Of course I know this, so I have to wait for the opportunity."

"Your Majesty Shengming."

"By the way, Song Rui, have you finished building those one hundred muskets?"

"Return to Your Majesty, it's all over. Lan Yu has sent Yun Zhongfei to lead fifty bodyguards and fifty young guards to secretly escort the muskets to Kuaiji this morning. According to the plan, the young guards will stay in the villa to receive musket training. Yun Zhongfei Fei and the others will take Mr. Shen Yiqiu back to Lin'an by the way."

"Well, let Quanjue stay in Qiuquan Villa for a while longer, and come back to the capital after Zhang Shijie takes shape."

Lu Xiufu said: "Your Majesty, mentioning Zhang Shijie, the elaboration report sent to his hometown to investigate a few days ago, what Zhang Shijie said that day is all true."

"Very good. Quanjue sent me a letter a few days ago and said that Zhang Shijie agrees with Longya's purpose and is willing to contribute to the rise of the Song Dynasty. I think it's time for him to join, Junshi, you let me know about this matter." People from Longya’s intelligence department notified Quanjue to allow Zhang Shijie to join Longya.”

"Yes, Your Majesty, should you tell him that the head of Dragon Fang is His Majesty?"

"can."

Zhang Shijie is a character, and he may have guessed it from Quanjue's identity.

"Song Rui, is Yun Bofei's development of the second-generation musket going smoothly?"

Wen Tianxiang said: "Your Majesty, everything is going well, and all the supporting facilities are ready. According to Mr. Shen's suggestion, three large punching machines were built under a waterfall on Luoshi Mountain. Using water energy can greatly increase the power of the machine and improve the quality of the machine. The accuracy of musket molds and the speed of manufacture.”

"Well, very good, when Shen Yiqiu arrives, I'll go to the Gunpowder Department to have a look, Xiaoqi."

"The little one is here."

"Notify Concubine Quan that it's time to go to Ningkun Palace."

The rain was still falling, although it was much lighter. We walked around the corridor in the palace. Although we took a few more steps, we didn't have to walk in the rain.

As soon as Xie Daoqing saw me, he smiled and said, "Officer, you write these numbers really well, what 1, 2, 0, concise and clear, after Jiu'er taught me, I just do calculations on paper recently when I have nothing to do. Playing cards with your concubines in the past few days, it is much more convenient to calculate wins and losses."

I laughed to myself, it turned out that the Arabic numerals I pirated were first used for gambling: "The mother thinks it is convenient, so the child plans to promote it across the country."

"Of course it needs to be promoted so that our court and subjects can easily count. This is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people. My mother supports it. Officials, please give this counting method a name."

"These numbers are given to the subjects by the queen mother, so they are called Xie's number method."

Xie Daoqing laughed and said: "The official family is more and more able to please the empress, well, the empress will borrow your achievements."

"Well, the boy will arrange the household department to promote it to the whole country tomorrow."

After everyone sat down, Yu Xiurong said with a chuckle: "Officials, recently every time the Empress Dowager finishes playing cards, she always praises the official methods."

Xie Daoqing pretended to be serious and said: "That is, otherwise, like before, I would be deceived by you girls every time I counted winning or losing."

"Queen Mother, why not, Sister Quan, you say yes." Yang Meiren and Concubine Hu smiled together.

Quan Jiu smiled and said nothing.

"Jiu'er is not like the three of you." Xie Daoqing looked at me and said, "Officials, you must be hungry when you go to the Forbidden Army camp today. Let's eat first, and everyone will talk while eating."

Everyone responded together: "Well, it's time to eat."

"Officials, the young guards' trip to Jinhua did well this time, but the number of young guards is too small. The queen thinks it's better to expand to a thousand."

I said happily: "The queen mother is really wise, the child is just about to propose an expansion to the queen mother."

Xie Daoqing laughed heartily and said: "It seems that my mother and son are connected."