The first emperor of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 20 The Supreme Emperor is Back
"For the long-term peace and stability of our Great Song Dynasty, our country must form an army that can fight when it is called, and it will surely win the battle!" Zhao Huan said to the ministers present.

All the ministers knelt down in unison and said in unison: "Your Majesty is wise!"

Wise, that is naturally wise, this is the slogan of a strong army in later generations, and now Zhao Huan uses the wisdom of more than 1000 years of later generations to compare with the elites of the Song Dynasty in front of him, and naturally he is completely victorious.

"I simply formulated some regulations and decided to rectify our army. You circulate them and share your opinions. If there are no problems, then follow this method and implement them." Zhao Huan said, and put a stack of rice paper Handed it to Li Gang.

Li Gang took the document, read it carefully, and handed it to Zong Ze next to him.

Everyone looked at it one by one, and all the ministers looked at Zhao Huan in surprise, wondering how he came up with these strange ideas.

[-]. Dismiss some soldiers who are unwilling to stay in the army, and set up a member of the army at the commander level of each army. The rank is the same as that of the commander. The occupation is mainly responsible for the ideological education of the soldiers, and the education of the soldiers should be proud of serving the country.

[-]. Dismantling the Xiang Army, only setting up the Forbidden Army, and privately setting up local troops is not allowed in various places. All troops are under the unified management of the Dianqian Division, and are uniformly dispatched by the Privy Council.

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Eloquently, Zhao Huan listed a total of 23 items, which are the 23 items of the Song Army that are often said by later generations.

After everyone finished watching, they couldn't turn the corner for a while.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean, from now on, all boys will have to go to the barracks for training when they reach the age of sixteen?" Li Gang asked.

Zhao Huan nodded, and said: "There are tens of thousands of Jurchens in the Kingdom of Jin, but they can defeat hundreds of thousands of our Song army. Haven't you thought about the reason? The Jurchens are all soldiers, and we Well, soldiers are not soldiers, you can’t fight wars, and people are not people, so you can’t farm fields honestly. The implementation of the compulsory soldier system is actually to ensure the foundation of our soldiers in the Song Dynasty. Big sword, that is a million heroes!"

"Well said!" Yue Fei couldn't help saying excitedly when he heard what Zhao Hua said.

Everyone focused their eyes on Yue Fei, and Yue Fei realized his gaffe, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is wise, in this way, our Great Song Dynasty can also become a soldier for all the people, and then no country will dare to bully us."

Zhao Huan was very receptive to Yue Fei's compliment, he said with a smile: "Talk about your own thoughts and see if there is anything else that needs to be added."

Zong Ze thought for a while and said to Zhao Huan: "Your Majesty, what is the job of joining the army?"

Zhao Huan explained: "The reason why there are so many deserters on our battlefield is that a large part of the reason is that their ideology is not well understood, and they don't understand etiquette, justice, integrity and shame. This political commissar is to focus on the ideological education of the entire army. The so-called Go up to attack the strategy, go down to attack the city, only when the thoughts of the whole army are united can we truly form a powerful combat force."

Zhao Huan, who came from later generations, is well aware of the power of brainwashing. He was taught to love his motherland since he was a child. Naturally, there will be few traitors who run away. It is like the current Song Dynasty, who abandoned the city and fled. Officers abound.

All the ministers present were a little silly at this moment. The person in front of him was really the Prince Zhao Huan they were familiar with before. Wasn't he always submissive and not enterprising?Why did he suddenly become enlightened as soon as he took office, and came up with so many weird things, and these ideas sounded very advanced.

"Your Majesty is wise, I have no objection to this reform!" Li Gang said first.

The rest of the people followed suit.

Zhao Huan slapped himself and said: "Okay, since this is the case, then let's implement this policy. I only have one request, and that is to implement these policies to the letter. In that way, I have been given a discount, and no one should intercede with me, no matter who it is, it will be dealt with directly by military law!"

"Here!" The ministers took orders.

"Okay, next I will announce the appointment, Li Gang will be the Privy Council Envoy, Zhao Ding will be the Dianqian Secretary, and Han Shizhong will be the Deputy Dianqian..." Zhao Huan appointed, which can be regarded as a reward for merit.

All the people he pointed to knelt down happily to accept the order.

"Also, set up the Feiyu Army, a special force, with Yue Fei as the overseer." Zhao Huan added suddenly.

Yue Fei stood at the end of the crowd. Because of his age and seniority, he always felt that he was a bit out of place with this group of people. Now that he heard Zhao Huan's appointment to everyone, it was impossible to say that he was not a little disappointed. Now he is too young to be qualified for either party, but he still has hope in his heart. Now that he heard Zhao Huan's appointment, he was ecstatic, and hurriedly knelt down excitedly to thank him.

This militarization reform by Zhao Huan was also the beginning of the Song army turning from weak to strong. After the decree was promulgated, as many as half of the Song Dynasty army was demobilized, but the remaining people were all real soldiers. The real combat effectiveness of the Song Army has not been weakened much by this.

This is also part of the reason why when the Jin army went south again, it was killed by the Song army.

On the other side, the Supreme Emperor Zhao Ji, his escape speed was not slow, and he had already fled to Zhenjiang in a short time. At this time, he heard that the Jin army had retreated.

Zhao Ji was overjoyed, his heart seemed to have wings, and he wanted to return to Kaifeng as soon as possible. As a pampered emperor, when did he suffer from such ups and downs? The magistrate was not very enthusiastic about him as the Supreme Emperor, and he violated his own decree, which made him a little unhappy, so he wanted to hurry back to Kaifeng even more.

So ten days later, Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan met again in Kaifeng Mansion.

Zhao Ji walked on the streets of Kaifeng Mansion, looked at the bustling crowd outside through the chariot, always felt that Kaifeng seemed to have changed, but what changed?Zhao Ji couldn't speak for a while.

"Cai Jing, do you have this feeling that Kaifeng is no longer the original Kaifeng?" Zhao Ji asked Cai Jing next to him.

Cai Jing, as a close minister next to Zhao Ji, naturally understood the meaning of what Zhao Ji said. He thought about it and said to Zhao Ji: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, you might as well go to Luoyang, Your Majesty, to recruit soldiers and horses, in case the Jin army Attack again."

(End of this chapter)