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

Chapter 196

This time, Zhao Yurui and Peng Yibin teamed up to get rid of Li Quan, and directly connected Shandong and Huaihe Rivers into one. The situation is very good.

Moreover, there are not many military leaders in Shandong at this time, most of them were killed in Chuzhou, and there are some who hold heavy troops outside, including Shi Qing and others.

At the time of Jiaoxi and Shiqing, Haizhou Xia Quan successively stated that he would continue to follow the court, because the Zhongyi Army was originally a soldier of the court in name.

Zheng Yande in Yizhou refused to accept it and wanted to raise troops to make trouble.

In late May, Xia Quan, Shi Qing, Du Gao, and Peng Yibin formed a four-way encirclement, broke through Yizhou, and captured and killed Zheng Yande.

So far, most of the land in the south of Jinan and Linqing in Shandong and in the east of Shandong has been owned by the Southern Song Dynasty.

After living in seclusion in the south for many years, the Southern Song Dynasty finally had the opportunity to enter the north of the Yellow River.

But at this time, except for Chuzhou, the other places are still under the control of the local military leaders. In name, they are still the Song people's territory, and the Song people's army is actually the local military leaders.

Among all the army leaders, only Peng Yibin was willing to accept the Song court sending civil officials and military generals to its territory. The others could accept civil officials and refused to accept military generals.

Zhao Yurui wanted to stabilize the situation around him now. After Li Quan was eliminated, other people might not dare to move around for the time being. He would have enough time to rectify the country, so he was not in a hurry to continue dealing with other military leaders.

And Peng Yibin now occupies Qingzhou, Jinan, Linqing, Dongping, and his power almost envelops other military leaders in it.

After the Southern Song court occupied Chuzhou, they could surround Xia Quan, Shi Qing and others with Peng Yibin, which was quite deterrent.

The most urgent task at the moment is to control the recruitment of Peng Yibin's soldiers and horses, and to rectify the soldiers and horses in the east and west of Huainan.

There is still enough time left for Zhao Yurui. As long as the Kingdom of Jin survives, he will have time to immerse himself in development.

He also couldn't eat a big fat man in one bite, so he ignored the other army leaders, stabilized them, and immediately organized Peng Yibin and the Lianghuai soldiers.

In June, the imperial court issued a decree to arbitrarily seal officials, Shiqing and Xia were all under the control of the local governments, rewarded with [-] catties of white sugar, and married with [-] guan, for temporary appeasement.

At the same time, the imperial court began to reorganize the troops of Lianghuai and Peng Yibin.

Set up the Shandong Capital Division, with Peng Yibin as the deputy commander of the capital, and ten armies under his subordinates, with a total of 6 people, mainly stationed in Qingzhou, Jinan, Linqing, and Dongping, forming four corners. The generals at the grass-roots level were appointed as his subordinates, and Peng Yibin readily accepted, but many of his subordinates were dissatisfied, especially Yan Shi and others who were stationed in Dongping.

In August, the emperor summoned Peng Yibin, and his subordinates tried to dissuade him.

After Peng Yibin hesitated, he still went to Lin'an to face the saint.

In addition, Huainan East Road was at the forefront of the Southern Song Dynasty. When Xu Guo was there, he once did one thing. He called together 13 soldiers and horses from all over the country to inspect in Chuzhou City, just to frighten Li Quan.

After Du Gao came this time, Huainan East Road and West Road were merged into Huainan Road. There was no other way. There were not many people Zhao and Rui could trust, so they could only combine the two roads into one road to form a place like the governor of the Ming and Yuan Dynasties. official.

With Du Gao as the envoy of Huainan Road, he knew Qingyuan Mansion, mainly operating Huainan West Road, and Zhao Kui was the deputy envoy, knowing Yangzhou, mainly operating Huainan East Road.

Chuzhou is known by Yue Ke, and Taizhou is known by Xu Xiji.

The Huainan capital was established, with nine armies, each with 6000 soldiers, and Zhao Kui also served as the commander of the capital.

Lu Wende, Zhao Kui's subordinate, was reused and promoted to deputy capital commander, leading the two armies to garrison Chuzhou.

There are many soldiers and horses in the Lianghuai court, but not many elites. Du Gao, Zhao Kui, Lu Wende and others carefully selected six cavalry armies from the 10,000+ Lianghuai soldiers and horses. After the navy and three armies, they found that there were nearly 10 soldiers. There are more people than few.

After the emperor found out, with a swipe of his pen, he set up the Tenth Army to hoard land.

In fact, the Southern Song Dynasty has always had a tradition of hoarding troops.

On July [-]th of the eighth year of Qiandao, Zhao Shanjun, the magistrate of Luzhou, said: "The imperial court divides the troops to garrison the fields. It is a sincere plan. However, if the troops stationed in the garrison, those who are willing to cultivate will not be sent, and those who are sent will not be willing to farm. When those who are dispatched are lucky enough to be spared, those who are dispatched are arrogant and lazy.” Zhao Shanjun’s “garrisoned troops” is equivalent to the regular army of the imperial army in the Northern Song Dynasty. When the regular army was sent to plow the fields, these soldiers still received their due money and food. .This situation is not limited to Luzhou, but also exists in other regions.

On May 240th of the ninth year of Qiandao, "Guo Gang, the commander of all the troops stationed in Zha Yuqian in Jiankang Prefecture, said: "There are more than [-] customers in Yingtian Guanzhuang in Taiping Prefecture (now Dangtu County), accounting for more than [-] officers and soldiers. The harvest, in addition to giving seeds to Litian people, has a total of more than [-] stones of rice, more than [-] stones of wheat, and a total of more than [-] coins.Officers and soldiers are invited to give [-] guan (some say more than [-] guan).

It can also be seen here that the regular troops in the Southern Song Dynasty were all paid for their salaries, and the income from farming was not enough to pay their salaries.

In the first year of Shaoxi (1190), Liu Wei, the magistrate of Hezhou (now Hexian County), dealt with Hezhou Tuntian. The paddy field, known as the rich field, was one hectare for every five people, and one person got [-] mu.Lutian is divided into farming and soldiers, "each person shall not exceed three or two mu."At the same time, "remaining fields ordered to recruit tens of thousands of crossbowmen to cultivate" should mean calling tens of thousands of crossbowmen to cultivate.

In the third year of Jiading (1210), Liu Yu, the Secretary of the Imperial College, accompanied the Jin envoy to the Xuyi army.After returning to the court, he reported to Song Ningzong that the Lianghuai area is a barrier to the south of the Yangtze River, and it should be restored after the war.The land in Huainan is fertile, irrigation works are well developed, and the people are brave and unrestrained. Please gather the exiled people, clear ditches to store water, provide agricultural equipment, and borrow money to grow grain. Organize them to cultivate the land, cultivate it in peacetime, and defend it in wartime.Song Ningzong ordered Liu Juan to manage Lianghuai farmland.

In the seventh year of Jiading, Cui Yuzhi was in charge of the Huaidong appeasement envoy. After official business, he selected guards and assembled militia.Relying on the dangerous mountains and forests of Chuzhou, he created Wuzhai and formed a loyal militia.Since then, the Jin people have not dared to invade Huaixi.The people of Huai raised many horses and were good at riding and shooting. According to the technique of Wannu, the Wanma Club was established, and the people were recruited as rural soldiers, who farmed and guarded.

In the same year, Haozhou Yingtian Guanzhuang "recruited 310 Jiuding farmers and reclaimed 110 mu of land and water fields".About [-] mu per Ding.

The Southern Song army's garrison was similar to the Ming Dynasty's military households, but the examples mentioned above were all successful examples, and the failure of garrison far exceeded the above examples.

The success of farming in the Southern Song Dynasty depends on who the officials in charge are.

A talented person like Cui Yuzhi was able to farm and raise horses when he was an envoy in Lianghuai, and created a ten thousand horse society. That is to say, Lianghuai had tens of thousands of war horses at that time. Jin Guo didn't even dare to fight Huaixi, which shows how powerful he is.

Most of the other officials are looking for excuses to farm the land, and then find ways to take the land as their own.

Therefore, the entire Southern Song army's garrison of fields still ended in failure.

This time Zhao Yurui once again farmed in Lianghuai, using Cui Yuzhi's previous successful method and continued to implement it.

He couldn't figure it out, since there were successful examples, why didn't the court continue to implement it?
Still not an official.

Whether it was Xu Guo in the past or Xu Xiji now, these people are trying to control power and make money and seek personal gain.

Xu Guo, a dog official, can still gather 13 soldiers for a military parade. Both Zhao and Rui wonder if Xu Guo also came from time travel, so he is addicted to such a big official.

Du Gao's abilities are no worse than Cui Yuzhi's, and Zhao Yurui is more at ease if he presides over the affairs of the Huaihe River and Huaihe River.

But the biggest problems in the Southern Song Dynasty at this time were land annexation and official corruption.

In June of the first year of Baoqing, just after Li Quan's rebellion was put down, Zhao Yurui started to deal with the issue of rectifying officialdom.

In June, the imperial court issued several imperial edicts one after another. First, the former concubine, Mrs. Zhong, allowed to leave the palace, and then Zhong You went to Liangzhe to be the county magistrate.

Then both Zhao Mo and Zhao Ping were transferred to the local magistrates.

In June and July, Zhao and Rui replaced a large number of county magistrates and prefectural magistrates in various places in the Song Dynasty.

At the beginning of his ascension to the throne, he first changed important officials at the road level, mainly to test the obedience of the subordinates.

It turned out that the effect was very good. At this time, it was not yet the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the central government was still relatively prestigious, and no one below dared to challenge the central government.

After receiving the imperial decree, the military and political officials from all over the country were honestly replaced.

March, April and May are mainly to recruit new troops, fix salaries, and stabilize the morale of the troops.

At the same time, the newly appointed local officials will recommend suitable candidates from all counties, states and prefectures.

Throughout June, Zhao and Rui were looking at the assessment and information of the Ministry of Education on local officials in various places, especially those who had been exempted before. He wanted to see why they were exempted and why.

I dare not say that the Southern Song Dynasty official profile is [-]% true, but it is definitely better than, well, much better than the end of the Ming Dynasty, and much more reliable.

Then Zhao and Rui cooperated to look at other people's recommendations. After comparing the two, they basically counted which officials can use and which officials can't.

Recommendations from people like Wei Liaoweng, Cui Yuzhi, Li Zongmian, Du Gao, and Zhao Kui are basically talented people.

Lu Wende and Yu Jie, whom Zhao Kui recommended to Shi Miyuan back then, supported half of the Southern Song Dynasty.

The civil servants Cui Yuzhi recommends are all very good, they must be upright, honest and talented people, and he likes to recommend civil servants, not generals.

Beginning in July, Zhao and Rui replaced local county magistrates and state officials on a large scale.

Includes many local lifts.

To promote this position, the main money-making departments, such as tea and salt, liquor, and shipbuilding, must employ honest, clean, and talented people.

But in the current situation in the Southern Song Dynasty, it is not enough to just replace grassroots officials.

Zhao Yurui worked in Dinghai County himself, and Li Zongmian was the magistrate of Dinghai County. All the county officials could not give him face, and they could even evade the county magistrate.

In the entire feudal dynasty, only the grassroots in the Southern Song Dynasty had such a strange situation, and only the subordinate officials in the Southern Song Dynasty dared to "proclaim themselves local magistrates."

As a result, a larger restructuring has been brewing in Zhao Yurui's mind.

Generally speaking, later generations stand on the experience of predecessors, no matter what happens, the efficiency will become higher and higher.

Of course, there are also reverses. For example, the clan system of the Ming Dynasty was a hundred times worse than that of the Song Dynasty.

But some excellent systems of later generations can be learned.

On the second day of August in the first year of Baoqing, the Daqing Palace in the Imperial City of Lin'an City.

Zhao Yurui looked at the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, and felt quite happy in his heart.

(End of this chapter)