Qiming 1158

Chapter 15 You Can't Overfeed Them

Seeing the malnourished appearance of one or two of these farmers, Su Yonglin felt a little sour in his heart.

It was always difficult for him to accept that the hardest people in the world were living the most miserable lives.

It seems that all the suffering is theirs, and all the beauty and romance in the world do not belong to them. They can only water the land with their blood and sweat to produce rich materials, decorating the dreamlike luxury life of the emperors and generals.

However, as the main body of production, they even have an extravagant hope for a full meal.

Su Yonglin looked at these cowering peasants, was silent for a moment, and made suggestions to Zhao Kaishan.

"These peasants are going to the battlefield. They don't have enough food, but they don't have the strength to take weapons, and they can't fight against the golden soldiers. Brother, please pay attention to their food and let them eat more."

Zhao Kaishan listened to Su Yonglin's words and looked at the "subjects" under his rule.

Seeing them look helpless, he nodded involuntarily.

"Well, this makes sense. Forget it in peacetime. You still have to eat something to fight a war. The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers. Don't worry, brother, when you go to war, you will have enough food."

Saying this, Zhao Kaishan lowered his voice again and said, "I usually don't give them less food, so I won't let them starve to death, but this group of people, you can't let them eat too much, they are full, If you are lazy, you will not work hard to farm.

When they seem full but not full, they are the most diligent and do the most work. This is the principle of farming, and the same principle of leading soldiers to fight. They can't be left hungry, but they can't be too full. As a reward, they were satisfied. "

Zhao Kaishan patted Su Yonglin on the shoulder, leaned close to Su Yonglin and said with a grin, "If these people usually have enough to eat, they will ask you for more things after winning the battle. Human nature is inherently greedy, and there is no end to it. Do you give it or not?"

After Su Yonglin heard this, there was still a good-looking smile on the corner of his mouth, making him look as proud as Zhao Kaishan.

"Brother is right, this is a way to prevent trouble before it happens, and my younger brother admires it."

"Hahahahaha! Brother Xian is too young, this kind of thing, wait for Xian Brother to make great achievements to get the land, it has been a long time, without a teacher, let them eat too full, these farmers will not be easy to manage what."

Afterwards, Zhao Kaishan, who was very happy, decided to allocate an additional part of Ding Zhuang to Su Yonglin to increase the number of troops he could command.

Su Yonglin only had more than 800 combat troops, and Zhao Kaishan waved his hand to make up for Su Yonglin, asking him to gather a combat force of 1000 people.

Zhao Kaishan needed Su Yonglin to sweep the surrounding villages of Meng'an when he led the main force to attack the county seat.

He also asked Su Yonglin to call on more Han landlords who did not participate in the uprising to stand up and participate in the uprising, so as to win more supporters and expand the number of the uprising army.

"We don't have a lot of troops right now, so don't think that there are too few people. As long as we can win a few battles and kill a group of Mengan Mokehus, there will definitely be people willing to join you, and then there will be more troops. ?"

Zhao Kaishan looked at Su Yonglin expectantly.

Su Yonglin nodded with a smile as always.

"Brother said very well."

Zhao Kaishan was even happier.

"Don't worry, virtuous brother, I know this is difficult. When I take action, as long as I conquer the city, I will arrange an army to help you, and I will not let you deal with those golden soldiers alone."

"Thank you brother."

Su Yonglin agreed obediently.

After discussing with Zhao Kaishan, Su Yonglin returned to his station and convened a meeting of 300 people-these veterans of the Su family must have served as officers after the army was established, so the current meeting is an officer meeting.

It is very important for these future officers to understand the general situation of the uprising and the things to be done in the future. These things need to be discussed in a conference.

"At the beginning of the uprising, Commander Zhao Kaishan would use his special relationship with An Zhen, the defense envoy of Yizhou, to invite An Zhen to a banquet, kill An Zhen at the banquet, let the Yizhou government lose control, and then quickly dispatch troops to Linyi County, Attack Linyi County.

At this time, we also need to send troops immediately, starting from Zhaojiazhuang, to attack the two Jinmen guarding the guards in Yizhou, take down these two guards, and destroy the real female soldiers in Yizhou. , this is our task. "

After briefly explaining their tasks, Su Yonglin began to talk about some military and political common sense in the Jin Kingdom.

There are three kinds of states in the Jin Kingdom, the Jiedu state, the defense state and the governor state.

Jiedushi, defensive envoys and governors are nominally the military and political leaders of a state. Although they do not have the actual power to command the army, they are also indispensable and important roles in fighting.

For example, they can be responsible for signing civilians such as Han, Khitan, and Xi people to serve as soldiers, and then organize signing troops to serve as cannon fodder to help female real soldiers fight and so on.

Killing these state chiefs can disrupt the actions of local officials in the Jin Kingdom, making it impossible for them to react quickly and organize effective defenses.

This will create the best conditions for the rebel army to seize the opportunity in the early stage of the uprising.

As for the military aspect of the Jin Kingdom, it is relatively complicated.

After Wanyanliang ascended the throne, he focused on making some changes in the military, which were summed up by Su Yonglin's many years of data collection.

Wanyanliang cancelled the Marshal's Mansion of the capital led by the Jurchen nobility, and established the Privy Council with reference to the Song Dynasty system, with the Privy Council and the Privy Council deputy envoys in charge of the military in the center.

At the local level, three recruitment divisions and three military command divisions were set up to be mainly responsible for the military. Together with the central army, there were a total of seven military regions.

The recruiting division is mainly in the north, in the Liaodong area, dealing with the northern nomads.

The General Army Division was set up in the Central Plains, mainly dealing with the Southern Song Dynasty, and also guarding against the Western Xia.

The enemy that Zhao Kaishan and others need to face directly is the Yidu Army Division that Wanyanliang set up on East Shandong Road.

There are not many military forces set up in the Central Plains by the Jin Kingdom.

According to the information provided by Zhao Kaishan and others, Su Yonglin learned that the current Jurchen accounts that Jin Guonan moved to the whole of Shandong had a total of twelve Meng'an, six on Shandong East Road and six on Shandong East Road.

According to their calculations, it can be basically determined that there are about 3 households and 4000 people in each Meng'an, including 6000 Jurchens and about [-] slaves.

In other words, the number of Jurchens on Shandong East Road they directly faced was about 18.

And the whole Shandong has almost 36 Jurchens.

Of course, these are all Jurchen households, and they are generally not responsible for the military. They only join the army when the emperor recruits troops to fight. Usually, they are mainly responsible for agricultural production, and they also bear special taxes such as "tow head tax". Compared with the military, they may have production functions. more important.

In terms of military affairs, there are about [-] Zhenfang Mengan, mainly composed of female real soldiers serving in the military, that is, the standing army in non-wartime.

Zhenfang Meng'an is a military institution set up by the Jin people in order to control the Central Plains, like a garrison.

Zhenfang Meng'an is different from Meng'an in the sense of private households. Minor households can reach 3 people, while Zhenfang Meng'an generally has more than 300 people, and at most no more than 500 people.

Jinting would provide Zhenfang Mengan with land, clothes, certain rice grains, and money, so that they could settle their fields, so Zhenfang Meng'an was also called Tuntian Meng'an, Tuntian Army and so on.

"That is to say, in non-wartime, in addition to the various number of miscellaneous labor and guard-like grain shooting troops in the hands of local state capitals, there are about 2 Jurchen soldiers in Shandong under the leadership of the Yidu Commanding Army Division , responsible for the defense and alert work in Shandong against the Southern Song Dynasty.

And once it comes to war time, the emperor ordered the expansion of the army, then the 10 Jurchen households in the twelve Meng'an households will have to send young men to join the army, and the local state government will also issue Han civilians to join the army, plus people like the Sheliang Army. The handyman army can easily pull up an army of [-] people. "

(End of this chapter)