Chapter 758: The Commercial Market Under the Cloud of War Part 1
When the spring season of the first year of Jianzhong Jingguo came, Jiehe Commercial City, a new commercial city located between Song and Liao, was in a prosperous and lively manner.
However, unlike the atmosphere in previous years where everyone fell into money and was only concerned about making money, this year's spring in Jiehe Market has become a bit more stern.
At the beginning of the year, the Senate of the Shangcheng City passed several laws to strengthen baojia training and equipment. All registered male citizens, over 16 years old, under 60 years old, and in good health and no major diseases, began to receive military training in batches.
The doctoral group affiliated to the Yuntai Academy also received a large special grant from the Senate of Jiehe Shang City to hire a group of doctoral students who graduated from the Academy, and also entrust the Knights Academy to conduct short-term training and equipment for them.
The doctoral courses for the Yuntai Palace of Doctoral College originally contain a large amount of military academic content, and they are all the essence extracted by Murong Wangyou from the courses of the former Military Academy, which can completely allow doctors to have the knowledge of low-level officers.
Now, two months of intensive training have been completed. By March, about 150 doctoral doctors in the regiment have been added to the Jiehe Baojia. The same number of Baozheng and dozens of mount police officers have formed a huge Baojia officer regiment in the commercial city.
Subsequently, the training of citizen Baoding suddenly became severe. In less than five days, more than 15,000 male citizens who were registered and qualified met the Ding Officer of the Dadu Baoding Office of the Shangshi City was actually a member of the Baojia Officer Corps.
These annoying officials of the Ding Ding will check the physical conditions and preparations of male citizens, and then assign troops and the Baojia team they are in according to the situation.
After the distribution is completed, of course, it is a troublesome recruitment and rigorous training. According to the latest laws, 15,000 male citizens have to contribute ten days to military training every month!
Moreover, within these ten days, the serving citizens must live in the military camp outside Jiehe Commercial City and cannot go home. The fierce Baojia officers have to force various physical fitness, queues, and military skills training, or undertake patrol tasks inside and outside the Commercial City.
The service time of each citizen is also continuous, and after careful planning by the doctoral organization, it can ensure that 5,000 civilians can be used in the market at any time.
In addition, due to policy restrictions, the civilians in the market were unable to be equipped with armor, so they had no choice but to equip rattan hats and Jiehe leather shields.
The rattan hat is a helmet that uses edge balls. It is said to be used on construction sites to prevent falling objects from hitting the head. In fact, it also has certain protection against bows and arrows.
The so-called Jiehe leather shield is actually a Roman shield, which is a drawing provided by Oliga. The main materials are wood, outer Mongolian cowhide and metal. It is arc-shaped from the top and rectangular from the front, and has excellent protection capabilities. Not only are the militias of Jiehe people equipped with leather shields, but even the patrol soldiers who are heavy infantry are equipped with leather shields to enhance their melee protection capabilities.
The rattan hat is the standard for Jiehe Citizens. Everyone is given a archer or a sign player.
Jiehe Pixi Shield is only equipped with sign players. The so-called sign is a combination of javelin and shield. At first glance, it looks a bit like a Roman infantry, and the javelins you use can also be thrown. However, most sign players do not have the arm strength to throw javelins at all, so the javelin is just a fighting weapon used as a short spear and a shield.
In addition to sign soldiers equipped with javelins and leather shields, the civilians of Jiehe Shang City will also serve as archers. In addition to bows and arrows, they also have a rattan hat and a long sword. They have no other equipment as Baoding. They cannot equip armor and crossbow machines! They can have rattan hats, leather shields, javelins, buffalo horn bows and long swords, which is a bit of a slug ball.
In addition to the civilians, Jiehe Commercial City or Jiehe Shipping Department also owns several other armed forces.
First, it is under the patrol command of Jiehe City Shibo. This soldier was expanded on the basis of the Bu Zhanslave Team. Although it was only the establishment of the Xiang Army, it was paid for the imperial guards, and there were also many benefits to enjoy. Those who died in battle or were injured could also receive generous pensions. Therefore, many heroes who were in Jiehe Market went to apply for the recruitment, and the number of people also expanded from the original 200 to 1,000.
This unit composed of war slaves and recruited heroes is a bit similar to the Dragon Martyrs, and is in cooperation with the civilians of the market. However, the tasks performed are slightly different. They will not undertake the task of archers, but will be heavy infantrymen, wearing strong and holding sharps, and participating in hand-to-hand combat.
The second is that the water patrol command is also affiliated to the Jiehe Maritime Ware Department. This is actually a fleet belonging to the Maritime Ware Department! It is now divided into two parts: the Business Fleet and the Patrol Fleet. The former is responsible for the offshore seas, while the latter is responsible for the inland rivers.
The investment and business fleet responsible for offshore did not expand rapidly, but the patrol fleet responsible for inland rivers expanded several times after Wu Haogu left Jiehe River, with the number of people increasing to more than a thousand. More than a dozen eight-car warships were ordered in the yard of Jiehe Commercial City.
The so-called "eight vehicles" means that they have eight water wheels as power. Human paddle steamers were very common inland river boats during the Song Dynasty. They did not use oars or oars, but used human foot pedals to drive water wheels to drive ships.
Because the Maritime Water Supplier Command is a serious Song Dynasty wing army, there is no restriction on weapons and equipment. Not only are it equipped with military crossbows, but even the bed crossbows are installed on warships. Two shells were even built on the banks of the Jiehe River outside the Jiehe Market, and dozens of stone generators were prepared to be equipped to block the water surface.
The third is the tammy knight who completely violated the rules. However, they did not station in Jie Henan City, but were still placed in the village outside the suburbs of Beicheng. They were outside the surveillance scope of the Song Dynasty court. According to the situation under the jurisdiction of the Shang and Municipal Police, Jiehe Fengying Bureau, which was directly under the court, has taken over the spy network set up by Zhang Shuye. However, the spies only operate in Jie Henan City and basically will not go to Beicheng, let alone the spy outside the north city.
Because crossing the river is the Liao Kingdom, the spy activities in the Liao Kingdom are under the jurisdiction of the northern room of the Privy Council and the Communication Guoxin. The mere response bureau cannot cross the boundary...
Moreover, there are a large number of Khitan warriors in Jiehebei City, so the secret agents of the Fengshen Bureau who were born in Kaifeng's imperial guards dare not go and find them to get them.
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A group of carriages and horses walked into the north gate of Shangshi North City. The chariots and horses attracted a lot of people's attention. The team of people and horses were all fierce men, dressed by Khitan warriors, and they could see the fierceness from their eyes. The carriages they guarded were exquisite and comfortable, and the curtains they used were sewn with high-quality furs. You can tell that they must be the best product created by Jiehe Shangshi Horse Carriage Store, and the price is not cheap!
These exquisite carriages lined up in a long row, and under the escort of those fierce Khitan warriors, they entered the northern city of Jiehe Shang City.
When entering the city, several Khitan warriors walking in front of the carriage also used black banners, with Khitan folk embroidered with words such as "Linya on the north, Tongzhi the Privy Council in the north" and "Privy Council in the South Court" and "Privy Council in the South Court" embroidered with Khitan folk.
That's right, this is the mission sent by the Great Liao Kingdom to the Song Dynasty, and now it has arrived in Jiehe Market.
When the carriage drove into the north gate of Hebei City, Xiao Deli lifted the curtain of the car, squinted his eyes and looked at everything around him.
Nowadays, there are wine shops and hotels everywhere on Jiebeimen Street. Now it is time for lunch. Many shoppers in the restaurant shout at the door with their voices, and the carts transporting wine and food were running across the streets in a daze.
In addition to the people, there were also soldiers wearing war jackets, holding large shields, and javelins and spears on the street, and patrolling in an orderly manner!
There are also some strong men who don’t look good, wearing various shirts, holding long swords, and walking across the streets with swaggers.
"parking!"
Xiao Delidi roared in a calm voice, and the Khitan warrior who was guarding the side immediately shouted: "The Privy Councilor has an order: Stop!"
The entire fleet of cars and horses were all parked on the street.
A fat man in his fifties in his 50s immediately ran from the front of the queue to the front of Xiaodelidi's carriage, bowed and spoke in Khitan: "My husband, it's not convenient to park here. You are in a hurry. The young man didn't have time to inform the municipal office to arrange for a clearance, so the police patrol in the market came to fine..."
Jiehe Commercial City is now in traffic jams! So the police station has the responsibility to sort out traffic!
"I know!" Xiao Delidi frowned. Jiehe Market is good, but there are so many unnecessary rules! You have to pay attention to parking a car... Even if you are the grand grandpa of the Liao Dynasty, if you want to enjoy the clearance of the road, you have to apply in advance, and you have to set the time and route. You are in terrible trouble!
"What's going on with those who carry shields and short spears?" asked Xiao Delidid, "I haven't seen it last time when I came."
"They are the baoding of the Shangshi City..." The fat man was Xiao Delidie's housekeeper in Jiehe Shangshi City. He was a Han Chinese. He sighed and said, "It has been a riot since the beginning of the year. He was a tycoon and trained. He also arrested dozens of people who disobeyed, and fined a lot of people for money, which made people complain. If Xiao Di was not too fat and old, he would have carried them to carry guns."
"Hmph!" Xiao Delidi snorted, "Is this trying to resist my Daliao Heavenly Soldier? It's really a dream!"
Is it a dream? Fat manager is not sure about it... Jiehe Commercial City now has more than 5,000 guards every day, and it can be doubled if necessary! In addition, there are patrol teams outside the southern city, and the water patrol fleet on the river surface. There are a total of 20,000 people.
"What's going on with those people holding swords?" Xiao Delididi pointed to a few "swordsmen" who came out of a tavern.
Chapter completed!