Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 5 Forbidden Army Thousands of People (This chapter is free)

But Zhao Xingde's saying this is a coincidence.With only [-] elite heavy armored infantry waiting for the enemy, even if [-] iron cavalry came to attack, not to mention [-] firecrackers bombarding in the back ring, it was almost a certain victory.Although the Privy Council said that the cost of a cavalry is worth five steps, the cavalry will definitely not forcefully charge the elite infantry that is five times their own.The strength of the Liao people's iron cavalry is that they look ahead and stay behind, and they come and go, making people exhausted and unable to guard against it.The man didn't expect him to be so tricky, but he had proposed the method of cavalry charging earlier, he couldn't help but blushed, his eyes widened and looked at Zhao Xingde, his face was bulging with veins, as if he was about to jump up.

Zhao Xingde was about to give up when he saw that the person at the same table with that rough man seemed to have whispered something, the man looked happy and said loudly: "The enemy of the Song Dynasty is the Khitan, and there is nothing in the Liao Kingdom. There are more than 40 cavalry available to the bow and shoot hunters. If the scholar's method is used, five steps can be used as one cavalry. Wouldn't Song Dynasty have to train 200 million forbidden troops? Haha, hahaha, it's really amazing! "

At this time, the imperial army of the Great Song Dynasty claimed to have 80 soldiers, and with the addition of the Xiang army, the number of soldiers in the country exceeded one million. The cost of redundant troops had already caused the court to burn out, and it was absolutely impossible to train 200 million imperial troops. All the prison students saw this rough man After being reminded by the companion, following Zhao Xingde's words, he actually pointed at the big deadlock and loophole between the redundant soldiers of the Song Dynasty and the finance, and his heart sank.At the same time, I can't help looking high at that rough and bold man. He can jump from a simple confrontation between the two armies to the financial and economic aspects of the court. It can be seen that he is not an ordinary person who only knows how to be brave and ruthless.

Zhao Xingde smiled slightly, cupped his hands at him, and said in a deep voice: "After going around a circle, I went back to the previous point. I have already made it clear that the gunfire saves effort. The gunner does not need to maintain and practice for years like the bow and crossbow. If the Song and Liao battles, you only need to recruit local bravery, and after a little training, you can be used as a firearms player instead of a crossbowman. I think I have tens of millions of registered permanent residence in the Song Dynasty, and I can recruit more than 2000 million strong men. I really want to get to that At that time, how difficult is it to train a million gunners?"

The rough man was stunned for a moment, recalling that Zhao Xingde had indeed said that the firearms player was easy to train, he didn't know how to refute it, so he glanced to the side subconsciously, only to see the person beside him writing a letter on the table with chopsticks dipped in water He slapped his head and said with a smile: "I was almost surrounded by a scholar. You only need one thing to beat your pawns who are forming a formation." He held back the words , bought a pass, and looked proudly at the Song Guo scholar opposite.

Zhao Xingde stared at the companion next to the rough man, and saw that the man had an ordinary face, just drinking tea with his head down, without looking at him, as if he was out of the way, but he was the one who gave advice to his companion twice .Zhao Xingde pondered slightly, moved his finger on the table slightly, raised his head and said to the rough man and his companions: "There are advantages and disadvantages. Although the thing you rely on is a sharp weapon to break the formation, it is just a bit cumbersome. Cavalry belt Acting with it and binding your hands and feet are both advantages and disadvantages. If the two armies confront each other, it is not yet known who will win the battle!"

Unexpectedly, Zhao Xingde guessed what he said, and looked at him in disbelief. The two of them were playing charades, but they choked the eunuch next to him. Chen Dong said in a low voice, "What kind of weapon is this? Powerful." Leaning forward to look in front of Zhao Xingde, the character written on the table with wine just now is a character of "Pao", and it is different from the character of "Pao" next to the stone characters usually used at this time, the left side is next to the character of "Fire", which is very impressive You can tell it's artillery at a glance.

The person sitting next to the rough man thought carefully about Zhao Xingde's words, sighed in a low voice, and stretched out his hand to erase the word on the desk, it was also a cannonball, but it was just a cannonball next to the stone characters that are commonly used at this time.Although she was a little dissatisfied with these supervisors making noise in the inn, she didn't want to cause trouble. Just now, she reminded the subordinates that she did it occasionally. Seeing that there were capable people among the supervisors of the Song Dynasty, she stopped entanglement and just bowed her head to drink tea and eat.Seeing that the master didn't speak or make any sound, the rough man saw that the master stopped talking, and a dozen people ate and drank sullenly, and got up and left the inn not long after.

Since then, there was no one else to argue with the supervisors. These Tai students felt complacent and were about to make another discussion, but Zhang Bing said solemnly: "Everyone, Mr. Zhoushan begs for the people, and he wrote to the sage, please abolish the search. The two evil laws of the people's fat and the people's anointment, the law of subjugation and the law of intermediary, were reprimanded and exiled to Qiongzhou by the "treacherous" prime minister Cai Jing. Tomorrow is the day when the husband leaves Beijing. But Zi wants to send Mr. Zhoushan off with great fanfare, Shaoyang, Shouyi, Yuanzhi, gentlemen, do you dare to go?"

"It's just too much to ask," Chen Dong said, "Mr. often says that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. I can't wait to follow Mr. to Qiongzhou." He looked to the side, and Deng Su also said: "That's right, fly camp dog dog What is there to be afraid of, the jumping beam clown?"

The ancestral family law of the Song Dynasty is not to offend people with words. Once a major state event occurs, the students of the imperial court can even say what the servants dare not say, and attack what the Taiwan remonstrance dare not attack.Even Cai Jing, the most powerful prime minister in the world, has to let go of his dignity. On the one hand, he vigorously improves the food, clothing and treatment of the imperial students, and on the other hand, he personally intervenes in the assessment of the upper house students. Yu Jiudang and Qingliu.

Tai Chang Shaoqing Huang Jian is quite popular among the Tai students, and Chen Dong and others are senior leaders among the Tai students. When there was such a clamor, the Tai students couldn't hold back, and they all said "go together, go together "I dare not!" Zhao Xingde and Li Rui intertwined their eyes, nodded slightly, and said in a low voice: "It's a great event, how can I miss it."

All the prison students discussed the matter of going to the Bianhe Wharf to see Huang Zhoushan off tomorrow, and then ran separately to contact everyone. Zhao Xingde also ran to several fasting houses. , the setting sun hangs the cornices of the iron tower of Kaibao Temple and gradually falls, the glazed tiles reflect a brilliant light, the sky is crimson in the sunset, the sparrows and swallows are flying back to their nests chirping, the smoke from the official kitchen of Taixue Swipe straight up.

Taixue provides free meals to the students. The students in the upper, middle and lower houses all eat in the official kitchen of each Zhai. The dining hall of Huazhang Zhai is quite spacious and bright. There is a thick and heavy rectangular food table in the middle. The homemade beauty lamp exudes soft and dim light. More than [-] imperial students sit on both sides of the food table. In front of every six people are four dishes and one soup. Willow sprouts and lotus seed soup, and the staple food is steamed buns with vegetarian fillings, which are now called steamed buns.

There is another anecdote about the steamed stuffed buns of Taixue. In the past, besides steamed buns, the staple food of official chefs also included soup cakes, rice, barley rice, and cooking cakes. The students ate steamed buns, and the officials felt that the taste was quite good after tasting them, so they said with satisfaction: "It is worthy of supporting scholars with this!" From then on, the official chefs of Taixue only made steamed buns as a staple food.

As the saying goes, don't talk when you eat, don't talk when you sleep, all the students of the Taixue work hard, just wipe their mouths after eating, and leave. The servants of the government clean up the dishes. "Yi", "Shangshu", "Poetry", "Zuoshi Chunqiu", "The Analects", "Mencius", "The Doctrine of the Mean", "University", "Xueji", "Confucianism", "Jingjie" are all classics. Compulsory content, with particular emphasis on new learning classics such as "New Meanings of the Three Classics", "Zi Shuo", and "Comments on the Tao Te Ching" written by the former Prime Minister Wang Anshi.

At that time, it was advocated that poetry and prose should be learned at the end of the day, and historiography is often borrowed from the past and not the present. Therefore, no matter whether you take the imperial examinations or the imperial examinations, you only focus on classics, especially the writings of the former prime minister Wang Anshi, who are proficient in classics. It is the most basic condition for a student to become an official. In the school, although there are some people who just want to live a happy life, most of the students only take a rest after dinner, and like Zhao Xingde, they read at night by candlelight until night. Shen just turned off the lights and went to bed.