Zhao Xingde looked as usual and smiled, "The emperor did not send hungry soldiers. If there were no soldiers fighting to the death, the Liao soldiers came over and not only wanted to rob money and food, but also killed my people. This one is also possible. However, I want to add another one. When each department raises funds, you must first find local officials. If the local officials can handle the money and food, you must not harass the people. In addition," his tone condensed, "In fact, at that time, you must not harm the lives of the people, and you must not take the opportunity to insult the female family. Do not wipe out the food in each house, and leave food for the people. If these points cannot be achieved, then Zhao will not be able to accommodate all the heroes."

Chen Dong and Zhang Wudi frowned at the same time. Chen Dong wanted to speak, but after looking at Zhao Xingde, he still held back and said nothing.

Zhang Wudi thought for a while, finally stomped his feet and shouted: "Okay!" He reached out to take back the paper with the rules from Zhao Xingde's hand, turned around and left, and muttered, "His grandma's, there are so many stinking rules." Chen Dong said with a worrying look on his face: "If these people blackmail the place under the banner of Baoyi Army, Yuan Zhi, you may not be able to escape the stigma."

Zhao Xingde looked at Zhang Wudi's back and whispered: "If I could recruit more heroes and heroes to serve the country, what would I be reluctant to let go of my little reputation like a cloud? The most urgent task is to stop the Liao army from sweeping the southeast. To form a army in all directions, the military discipline cannot be compared with the original imperial guards. Now that we are in a hurry, we must count on the soldiers to fight, and we can only put the others aside first." He looked at Chen Dong, hesitated for a moment, and asked: "The military weapons and war horses of Xia State can be hanged on the tent of the Song Dynasty court. If you return it in the future, why should you be anxious? Although the southeast is rich, it is the place where the Song Dynasty's money, grain and taxes are produced. But according to the system of the court's strong and weak branches, the prefectures not only have no soldiers, but also have very little money and grain storage. When fighting, money is used everywhere. Where do you raise money to pay this large amount of money?"

Zhao Xingde learned from his personal experience that to maintain a war-capable army, not only should we prepare food, armor, weapons, war horses, cold and summer clothes and other military supplies in advance, but we should maintain military pay. When fighting, the money and food will be spent more like flowing water. After defeating the battle, we need money to revive the battle. After winning the battle, we also need money to reward the fierce morale. Once the food and salary cannot be provided, the morale of the army will be unstable immediately. In the Hebei camp, there are countless times of wages and mutiny.

Chen Dong said in a deep voice: "I have my own way."

"What the hell is it?" The more he didn't say it, the more worried Zhao Xingde was.

Chen Dong was silent for a moment, sighed, and whispered: "Although the treasury of the southeastern prefectures and counties is empty, there are many powerful and wealthy households in various places. General Yue and I discussed that we will allow each prefecture and county to recruit Yi soldiers. The powerful will prepare their own armor and weapons for the Yi soldiers. According to the number of soldiers, the leaders of the Yi soldiers will be awarded the title of Shi Chief, the one who can recruit 100 soldiers will be awarded to Dutou, the one who can recruit 500 soldiers will be awarded to command, and the one who can recruit 5,000 soldiers will be awarded to command."

He smiled and said, "Xingzhi has recruited thousands of heroes from the world here, so he was given the position of commander of the Fake Baoyi Army." He took the word "fake" seriously. Because the emperor was hunting in the north, most of the important officials of the court were coerced by the Liao Kingdom. Although Chen Dong had a high reputation and had the support of many scholars of the Neo-Confucian Society, the official positions he had personally granted were only a temporary measure, so he must bring the word "fake" to wait for the future to be justified and then complete the name.

Zhao Xingde nodded and agreed: "The world is in chaos, and strong soldiers and horses are the emperor. It is not a big deal to be appointed as an official? There are tens of thousands of heroes in the Song Dynasty. If one-tenth of them can fight to the death, even if the Liao people win consecutive battles and fight a few more battles, there will be no one in the Khitan tribe." He frowned and said: "Shaoyang, what I worry most is that our court will be defeated and then be discouraged. After a few small battles, no one wants to fight with the Liao people again, but instead seek peace and peace. Even if the Han attacked the Huns, at first

At that time, there were more defeats and fewer victories. However, with the wealth of Chinese people, they kept twisting his hard work and fought hard, and did not kill him, so they swear to reconcile. Although they got the northern desert in the air, they finally exhausted the Huns and eliminated the great troubles of our Central Plains. If the Han Dynasty was just alone, they would probably not be able to continue the country for four hundred years." He sighed, "It was just that Emperor Yuan was cowardly and reluctant to make friends and misunderstand the good situation, so that the Diyi was able to recuperate and grow, and finally the disaster of the Five Barbarians invading China."

"What does Yuanzhi mean?" Chen Dong's heart moved. He has been busy dealing with the situation recently and has very little time to think about what to do in the future. After listening to Zhao Xingde's words, he seemed to have some insights.

"The Khitan government is urgent and it is difficult to last. The Liao army has more than a dozen races including Khitan, Jurchen, Shiwei, etc., and they have been in peace. From this point of view, even if we cannot win for a while, we can just grit our teeth and hold on and never seek peace, and we can drag down the Liao Kingdom. In addition, there are few Khitans and many Song Dynasty people." Zhao Xingde's tone was a bit cold, "As long as we kill many battles, the Liao Kingdom will definitely shed the last drop of blood before us."

"It's a pity that the sage of the Yuan Dynasty..." Chen Dong sighed inwardly.

Zhao Xingde asked again, "I just talked about raising troops. Now I am still not able to accept the land tax. At least half a year, how do you raise money and grain now?"

Chen Dong looked a little ugly, and he was silent for a moment, and finally said, "A temporary measure is probably a way to raise money and grain by donating his children. This matter was first proposed by some gentry from the Neo-Confucian Society of the Prefectures and County. If you donate money and grain or more every year, you can go to the county school. In the southeast, there are about hundreds of wealthy families who can afford this donation. If there are fifty donations in a county, you can get 25,000 stagnants of money and grain every year, which is enough to pay the daily expenses of the 500 imperial guards. Many of the recruited Yi soldiers brought their own clothes and supplies. As long as Ezhou is equipped with armor and war horses, military supplies, and military supplies are difficult to buy on the market. In this way, donations from Jinghu South Road alone can raise nearly 20,000 soldiers. The so-called "food and grass will come first before the troops move. Chen Dong was trapped in money and grain, and wanted to compete with Cai Jing and other treacherous parties, weighing the pros and cons, and finally agreed to this method.

"The county school donates students?" Zhao Xingde said suspiciously, "Although the southeast is rich and there are many top-notch wealthy households with tens of thousands of stagnants of property. But donating 500 stags per year is not a small amount. Can the county school scholar be worth so much money? I'm afraid..."

"If you follow Mr. Huang Zhoushan's saying, it is already unusual for county scholars to learn from the county," Chen Dong said slowly, "The officials of the prefectures and counties are all recommended by them. The priests are noble and can be seen without kneeling, without going through the county school, without being interrogated by the county officials, and not afraid of prison disasters. There are several counties in the south of the Yangtze River, which is really..." Chen Dong shook his head. Under the influence of the Neo-School Society, there are now more than one hundred prefectures and counties that are far away from the north to hunt the official family but do not obey the Liao thieves. Some of them are in the Lishang Society.

The middle-aged people were in charge of the situation, while the local gentry was controlled by other counties. In some places, the real people in the society were squeezed aside. These wealthy families had a large family and had widespread property. They would not migrate to avoid disaster unless they had to. Chen Dong was not worried that these people would defect to the Liao army, because once the Liao army arrived, they would definitely plunder the prefectures and counties. The first thing they suffered was these wealthy gentry. But now they had to deliberately make up their families to avoid them from joining Zhao Qi and Cai Jing.

"There will be a lot of criticism in this way. Your reputation and the management society may be...destroy."

"The fire is burning, let's take care of the present." Chen Dong shook his head and said, "In the Han Dynasty, in order to attack the Huns in the north, he even sold official positions and titles. The Liao army was unstoppable, and the traitors of Caijing just kept avoiding the enemy. They were eager to follow the power. If this was not the case, I am afraid that the southeast half of the wall would have fallen before the new army was established. In order to restore the collapse of the building, since Zhao Xingzhi did not spare any reputation, what is my little reputation in Chen Dong?"

Zhao Xingde was silent for a moment and suggested: "Since that is the case, in addition to Zhenguo Army and protecting the rebel army, it is better to grant these rebels the military numbers in the name of prefectures and counties to inspire the heart of protecting the hometown."

Chen Dong nodded, said nothing, but looked up at the distance. The donation of life was a big deal against his original intention, but the situation was prohibited and he had to do so, so he really didn't want to think about it anymore. If Zhao Xingde hadn't asked repeatedly, he wouldn't even want to mention it.

Zhao Xingde also said, "We can transport war horses in Shu, but I guess it will be summer when tens of thousands of war horses arrive. In midsummer, if the feed is not well fed, the horses are most likely to get sick. If there is not enough cavalry assistance, it will not be so easy to defeat the Liao soldiers. It is best to start preparing for horse-raising grass, horse sheds, etc. In the future, in addition to enclosing land to build horse farms for war horses, at least 30% of the fields should be used to plant grass."

"Planting grass and raising horses?" Chen Dong was stunned and started to have a headache again. "What should I do about the food?" He had not considered the feeding of war horses. Once Zhao Xingde reminded him, he realized that large-scale horse raising is not only a heavy burden for southern prefectures and counties, but also many important officials of this dynasty concluded that this was impossible.

"It is better to have enough food than letting the Liao thieves kill. The minimum cavalry must be maintained." Zhao Xingdedao, "If we don't do this, it is equivalent to suicide. I heard that there are already pastures everywhere in Hebei and Henan." He sighed.

Zhao Xingde originally thought that it was impossible to raise horses in the south, but in the years of military career, there was no place where he passed by. As long as he was careful, he could not only raise ordinary horses, but also raise high-quality war horses. After careful consideration, it was just that the ministers and ministers of the Song Dynasty did not understand horse politics at all, while the officials of the prefectures and counties below blindly dealt with the responsibility. It was a practice that was not worth the loss. Over time, the three of them became tigers, and many people actually thought that the Song Dynasty could not raise horses. For the Song people, raising horses was indeed not cost-effective enough. The cost of maintaining cavalry was extremely high. But in this era, if there were not enough cavalry in war, many tactical choices were missing out. No matter how clear the account was, it would be greater than the cost of the country's destruction and family destruction.
Chapter completed!