Song Gexing

Chapter 194 Good news comes one after another
After some debate and explanation, the ministers finally understood the difference between the river governor and the previous governors. Fortunately, it was only a temporary assignment at the moment, otherwise this would be another official reform.

However, those officials who have achieved great results still see the benefits of governorship. If he is a permanent official, the risk of chaos in remote areas in the future will be greatly reduced.

As mentioned earlier, rebellions continued in the Song Dynasty, and they all occurred in remote areas, including Shuzhong. Shuzhong in this era was not as prosperous as later generations.

Only Yizhou Road is still prosperous, and the rest of the roads are economically underdeveloped, including the important town of Chongqing, which was only a military town in this era.

If there is a governor sitting in the town, the probability of rebellion will be greatly reduced, because the governor has soldiers in his hands, and he can completely extinguish them in the bud.

Unlike the transfer envoys, when encountering such situations, they could only notify state officials and temporarily mobilize local troops. However, the real combat effectiveness of the Song Dynasty was the imperial army.

Although more than half of the Forbidden Army is stationed in certain places for work, it is not found in these places. The economy is already underdeveloped, so it is impossible to station the Forbidden Army again.

Is it possible that the poor people have to raise troops again? This is not the original intention of the Forbidden Army stationed there. Therefore, the troops in these places only have Xiang troops and militiamen, and they cannot react quickly to eliminate the chaos before it begins.

But the governor is different. Not to mention the three thousand forbidden troops deployed by Zhao Fang this time, even a thousand forbidden troops are stronger than the five thousand Xiang army and militia.

The Imperial Army of the Song Dynasty not only had the best physical fitness, but also had the most sophisticated weapons. They might not have a chance of winning against the Liao Kingdom and Xixia, which were also elite, but they could completely crush them against civil unrest.

In ancient wars, it is not true that numbers can lead to superiority. Unless the ratio is so large that one is desperate, the gap between elite soldiers and ordinary soldiers cannot be offset by numbers.

Elite soldiers generally have a high rate of wearing armor. Even martial arts masters would shy away from an army wearing armor, because you can't kill him with one blow, but he can kill you with one blow.

It was a completely unequal massacre. Ordinary bows and arrows could not even penetrate armor. This is why in the rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Wenzhao was able to lead thousands of people and killed 10,000+ Li Zicheng, and collapsed.

If it weren't for the fact that too many Ming troops joined with armed forces in Chuang Wang's army later, no matter how much trouble Li Zicheng made, he would have been killed and not even Mao would be left.

This is the fundamental difference between the regular army and the rioters. Only the regular army can deal with the regular army. Don't talk about future wars, because the weapons are completely different.

The muskets of the Ming and Qing Dynasties were not enough to even out the difference between elites and ordinary people, but the emergence of breech barrels and fixed-loaded metal ammunition made armor a burden.

But armor can still play a protective role, but in order to increase speed, heavy armor can only be sacrificed. Why research body armor if it is really useless.

"What do Zhigui think of the newly appointed governor?"

After the court meeting ended, the ministers returned to their posts together in twos and threes. There were many people paying attention to this matter, including the ministers of the government.

No, Ouyang Xiu asked about Han Qi right away, but before Han Handsome could answer, Fu Bi spoke first: "Why did Uncle Yong ask him? I'll tell you this. The governor has set up a good job this time. If Lu Chuyue has done a good job in practice, and I support the permanent establishment of this position."

Ouyang Xiu turned to look at him: "Brother Yan Guo, don't you understand what I mean? I'm asking whether the governor has too many troops."

At this time, Han Qi spoke up and said with his hands behind his back: "The governor's target of 3000 people is indeed too much, but it is understandable that this is the first trial. If it is really necessary, it will be adjusted permanently. Uncle Yong does not need to stick to this."

"Although it is a trial, it is too much!" Ouyang Xiu was not retorting, but muttering to himself. Fu Bi smiled and said, "You! Don't you know who Lu Chuyue is?"

Hearing this, he stopped nagging: "Yes, Old Man Lu's cousin, it's right for the officials to trust him!"

Han Qi and Fu Bi smiled, secretly laughing at the fact that this guy didn't know who Lu Jujian was. He was Lu Yijian's cousin and the biological son of Lu Mengzheng, the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty.

Although Lü Meng was still in his prime, Song Zhenzong asked him which of his sons could be recommended as outstanding. He said that none of his sons were outstanding, and only his nephew Lu Yijian was a great talent.

But those were polite words. Lu Mengzheng had seven sons recorded in history books, but in fact, the Lu family tree records eleven sons, all of whom were Jinshi.

This Lu Jujian is one of them, and his talent is not inferior to that of Lu Yijian. The reason why he failed to achieve the position of prime minister is not because he is not talented enough, but because there are too many capable people at his contemporaries.

In addition, he met two people he couldn't deal with in his life, Xia Song and Sima Guang, both of whom became obstacles in his career.

To say that he was indeed ill-fated, he was not qualified enough when Lu Yijian was in power. When Lu Yijian became senior enough and returned home, the age difference between the two brothers was nearly 20 years.

Back then, he offended Xia Song badly because of Shi Jie's opening of the museum. When Xia Song went home to retire, another person he offended, Sima Guang, came to power.

In addition, he opposed Wang Anshi's reform, so how could he be promoted? Of course, the most important thing is that at his age, he happened to meet the era of talent explosion in the Song Dynasty.

The twin stars of Han Qi and Fu Bi, Ouyang Xiu, Cai Xiang, Yu Jing, Wang Yaochen, Bao Zheng, and a lot of famous ministers who have gone down in history are not very outstanding people and basically cannot stand out in this era.

But he still left a strong mark in the history of Song Dynasty, which shows that his ability is also very outstanding.

The arrival of Zhao Fang has changed history. He naturally trusts Lao Lu's cousin. That's why he made the decision to let him bring three thousand forbidden troops without worrying that he has too much power.

The arrival of the first year of Xining opened the chapter of the Song Dynasty overseas. On the 21st of the first lunar month, the good news just came from the palace. Queen Meng Xin and Zhang Shaohua, one of the first batch of beautiful ladies to enter the palace, were both pregnant.

Immediately afterwards, he received news from the Navy's First Fleet that it had landed in Tamna and obtained the right to garrison the port, which made Zhao Fang very happy.

As mentioned above, the Tamna Kingdom was the Jeju Island of later generations. The Jeju Island of this era did not belong to the territory of the Koryo Kingdom. It was just forced to send the prince to Koryo as a hostage under pressure.

Nominally, Goryeo and Tamna were both vassals of the Song Dynasty, but at this time Goryeo was actually a vassal of the Liao Kingdom, and they had shy and secret interactions with the Song Dynasty.

Since the land route was blocked by the Liao Kingdom, Goryeo did not dare to offend the powerful Liao Dynasty, but was unwilling to submit to the Khitans, whom he considered barbaric. Therefore, it encouraged the people to trade with the Song Dynasty by sea.

But Tamna is too far away from Liao, plus it is an island country, so there is no need to worry about the strength of Liao, so it still maintains the tradition that the Central Plains Dynasty is its suzerain.

Like Ryukyu, they would still send people to pay tribute to the Song Dynasty. Although the things were not precious, they showed the attitude of the vassal state.

(End of this chapter)