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Be an official, kill people and set fire to be recruited.

Under the military system of recruiting troops, the Northern Song Dynasty court used money to support soldiers and could use money to recruit bandits. Not only did it save a considerable amount of military expenditure, but it also recruited more soldiers. Why not do it?

It was under this idea that Song Jiang's righteous army integrated into the Jinwu Army and became the Jinwu Right Army.

but--

This is what outsiders think.

The truth is that according to his own standards, Cai still selected capable and potential soldiers in the Song Jiang Yi army and trained them to completely become part of the Jinwu army. Then he divided the Jinwu army into two and turned them into the Jinwu left army and the Jinwu right army. Zhang Xian and Wang De were appointed as the deputy commanders of the Jinwu left army and the Jinwu right army respectively. Lu Junyi and Niu Gao were respectively the deputy commanders of the Jinwu left army and the Jinwu right army.

In addition, Cai still appointed Guan Sheng, Zhang Qing, Hua Rong as commanders, Sun Li, Hu Yanchuo, Yang Zhi, Lu Zhishen, Wu Song as deputy commanders, and Zhu Tong, Xu Ning and ten people from Song Jiang's rebel army were appointed as heads.

Because of the responsibility of guarding Onozawa, Cai Shen specially requested the Northern Song Dynasty court to form an amphibious camp, and asked the Northern Song Dynasty court to allocate some warships and ship craftsmen. Then, Cai Shen's confidant Li Bao served as the commander of the amphibious camp. Ruan Xiaoqi, Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu, Li Jun, Zhang Shun, Zhang Heng and other soldiers who were good at water battles were all incorporated into it.

In addition to these military officers, Cai still mediated by Cai Chong and Gao Qiu, transferred Zhang Xu, Jiang Xingzu and Zhao Ding into the Jinwu Army and became civil officials under his command.

Of course, it is impossible for everything to be as good as Cai's wishes.

Soon, the Northern Song Dynasty court began to restrict Cai Jianlai.

While Cai Shen grew up, Cai Shen received a notice from Cai Tao that the Northern Song Dynasty court was studying to send a civil servant to know the Jinwu Army. Nominally, this civil servant who knew the Jinwu Army was the boss of the Jinwu Army, not Cai Shen, the observer of the Jeju, the commander of the Jinwu Army, and the deputy general manager of the east and west routes of the Beijing-East Road.

In addition, the Northern Song Dynasty court brought the Taining Army, which was originally affiliated to the Huaiyang Army and the Xingde Army, which belonged to the Guangji Army, to the Jinwu Army, and was commanded by Cai Gan. He was promoted to the former commander of Taining Army, Wen Zongjian, as Cai Gan's deputy commander, who was the deputy commander of the Jinwu Army.

In theory, being able to control more troops from both soldiers is naturally a good thing that Cai still wants.

But it is not necessarily the case that the targets are the Taining Army and the Xingde Army.

Let’s talk about the latter first.

The Xingde Army was originally a powerful brigade among the Northern Song Dynasty imperial guards, but as time passed, the Xingde Army had already been in name only. This time, the Xingde Army did not even get 800 troops. The original commander Gao Yi was dismissed by the Northern Song Dynasty court for being unable to bear the serious salary and was replaced by the deputy commander Li Dajun as the commander.

But this matter was not over. Although Gao Yi had to die in the hell on earth on Shamen Island, the hole he left behind was not completely blocked because of his blame. I won’t talk about the vacancy of the one or two thousand imperial guards (it is impossible to find out when we work together). It is just that the hundreds of soldiers left in the Xingde Army have not received military pay for almost three years. Now they are making trouble every day, and they may have mutiny one day.

This leads to no one willing to take over the Xingde Army, the hot potato, because no matter who it is, as long as it takes over the Xingde Army, these problems must be solved.

This is also one of the reasons why Xingde Army was finally assigned to Cai Shen's name.

Let’s talk about the former.

The Taining Army is not as serious as the Xingde Army's empty salary problem. On the contrary, the Taining Army is well organized, and it is said to be a powerful force among the Central Imperial Army.

There is a thorn in the Taining Army that no one wants to take in. This thorn is Wen Zongjian, the commander of the Taining Army.

Wen Zongjian was the cousin of Yang Jian, the chief supervisor of the dynasty.

When Yang Jian was young, he worked in the harem and was in charge of the back garden. He was good at speculating on the meaning of Emperor Zhao Ji.

Since Chongning, he has been increasingly favored and served as the Minister of Escort of the Inner Escort.

The Northern Song Dynasty court established Mingtang, forged Nine Cauldrons, built Dasheng Mansion, Longde Palace, and Yang Jian served as the chief executive.

As early as the fourth year of Zhenghe, Yang Jian was appointed as the governor of the Changhua Army by Zhao Ji, and the first to establish a guard for the emperor to travel to consolidate his power.

Later, Yang Jian served as the governor of Zhen'an, Qinghai and Zhendong towns, and was promoted from the junior guard of the procurator to the Taifu.

Let me put it this way, Yang Jian's power is basically the same as Liang Shicheng. When the two fought, they fought all the way.

Didn’t Liang Shicheng always protect the crown prince Zhao Huan? Yang Jian stood by Zhao Kai, the prince of Yun, and conspired to shake the crown prince.

Even the prince dared to move, which shows how powerful Yang Jian is.

In addition to being Yang Jian's cousin, Yang Jian annexed a large amount of land and made money in Jingdong, and Wen Zongjian also acted as Yang Jian's minion.

Yang Jian secretly asked officials to formulate laws to obtain land deeds from the people, from A to B, from B to C, and pursued them all, until there was no evidence, and the land output was speculated and the rent increased. Starting from Ruzhou, it gradually expanded to Jingdong, Jingxi, Huaixi, Huaibei, and searched for abandoned embankments, abandoned dams, barren mountains, retreated beaches and large rivers where the rent was silted. After the rent was determined, although the land was flushed by the river and could not be cultivated, the rent was not reduced and exempted, known as the "Xicheng District".

In addition, the people of several prefectures near Onozawa relied on fishing to make a living. Yang Jian also set taxes on ships. Those who violated the matter would be arrested for theft. A county generally added more than 100,000 yuan in addition to the regular tax. According to regulations, taxes can be exempted when floods and droughts are encountered, but this place cannot be exempted.

In other words, Yang Jian was one of the culprits in the Song Jiang uprising.

Because of Yang Jian's protection, Wen Zongjian did not take anyone seriously and repeatedly contradicted Guan.

But even so, Wen Zongjian can continue to be promoted and rewarded.

Recently, Wen Zongjian even made the so-called great contributions by following Cai Jian and others' butts, and crossed the biggest bottleneck of military officers that other military officers were extremely difficult to overcome, and entered the ranks of rampant ranks.

but--

Ding Shun, the army of Guangji, was not an ordinary person - there was Gao Qiu behind him.

In order not to be implicated by Wen Zongjian and to no longer see Wen Zongjian, a person who has always disgusted him, Ding Shun simply used a trick to move flowers and wood to kick Wen Zongjian out of the Guangji army, and asked Wen Zongjian to come to the Jinwu army to harm Cai Jian.

These things all gave Cai Shen a headache.

However, what made Cai still the most headache was that Cai still had the power to control the Taining Army and Xingde Army, and did not interfere with the reorganization of the two armies of the Taining Army and Xingde Army. Otherwise, Cai could still reorganize and rebuild the Taining Army and Xingde Army, making it a part of the Jinwu Army like the Song Jiang Rebel Army, and then strengthen himself. If it were not for the special situation of the Song Jiang Rebel Army, Wang Anshi promoted the art of military affairs during the reform decades ago. Under the Song system, Cai still had no chance to command the two armies alone.

The Taining Army and the Xingde Army, one has low combat effectiveness but still listens to the tune or not, and the other has low combat effectiveness but still has many problems.

This directly affects the overall combat power of the Jinwu Army, and also affects Cai’s struggle for hegemony, so how can Cai’s not have a headache?

However--

Even if there is a headache, Cai still has to face it, otherwise what can he do?

Therefore, when we arrived at Onoze and dismissed the Song Jiang Yijun, who had been defeated, Cai still managed the Jinwu Left Army and the Jinwu Right Army, while seeking the Taining Army and the Xingde Army, and while building the Jinwu Army.

Building the Jinwu Army does not only refer to the construction of the Jinwu Army army, but also refers to the construction of the Jinwu Army military prefecture.

Because of the incident of Song Jiang's uprising in Onozawa, with Cai's mediation, the Northern Song Dynasty court decided to build a new military prefecture here in Onozawa, under the name of "Jinwu Army".

Military prefecture refers to strategic military important places, generally located on the border or strategic areas. It is dominated by commanding soldiers, military chief officials, and ministers of government affairs as the auxiliary, marching and law enforcement, strong cities and powerful soldiers guarding.

but--

During the Northern Song Dynasty, it acted more than in other dynasties.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the highest administrative officials of the military prefecture were mostly called "the military prefecture affairs of x prefectures" or "the military prefecture affairs of the military prefectures". They served once every three years and could not be re-elected or held positions above the prefectures and counties. As usual, the governor also served as the chief seal of the military commander of the Xiangjun.

In addition to the prefecture, each military prefecture also has one "president" person, whose status is similar to that of the Sui Dynasty and the level is not high. However, if a document is issued at the prefecture level, it must be signed by the prefecture to take effect. The purpose is to supervise the power of the prefecture.

As for Cai Shan, the Jeju Observer, the deputy general manager of Jingdong Road, and the commander of the Jinwu Army, in non-war times, theoretically speaking, there is only the power to train the Jinwu Army (including the Jinwu Left Army, the Jinwu Right Army, the Taining Army, the Xingde Army, as well as the nearby Xiang Army and the Township Army). There is no power to mobilize or reorganize the Jinwu Army.

In terms of power, even Song Jiang, the chief judge of the Jinwu Army, was still bigger than Cai during the war.

From these, it is not difficult to see how much restrictions were on military officers in the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, Cai Jian, who is unsubmissive, can imagine how difficult it is to manage his own power under such a framework.

but--

Having said that, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below.

After discussing with Song Jiang, Wu Yong and others, Cai found a solution to the Xingde Army.

This method was suggested to Cai Jian by Song Jiang and Wu Yong.

Simply put, it is to use money to bribe the soldiers who originally belonged to the Xingde Army, so that they can cooperate with Cai Shen to recruit a new army and be born through the shell of the Xingde Army.

To be honest, this method is a bit dangerous. Once discovered, Cai still has no other way except to rise up.

But then again, the messy Northern Song Dynasty is now in the future and will become more and more chaotic. In such a general environment, who would notice Cai Shen’s small actions?

Let's take a step back and say that if it was discovered by the Northern Song Dynasty court, Cai could still rise up and echo the north and south of Fang La, who was about to revolt, or simply kill south to join forces with Fang La.

Cai still believed that with his help, he and Fang La could definitely tie the river with Zhao Song, who had many problems, and then waited for an opportunity to annex Fang La. When the problems of Zhao Song broke out in a concentrated manner, he would then kill the Yangtze River and Zhao Song, Jin, and Western Xia to compete with the Central Plains.

Of course, this is the least possible way. Unless it is forced, Cai will never choose this path now.

In short, after careful consideration, Cai decided to adopt the suggestions of Song Jiang and Wu Yong.

Song Jiang and Wu Yong were very happy about Cai Jian's choice and were very active. Wu Yong even volunteered to do this for Cai Jian.

Cai still considered that there was no one more suitable person in his hands than Wu Yong, so he handed the matter over to Wu Yong.

At this moment, Cai still suddenly received the imperial edict - Zhao Ji and Cai still returned to the capital to go to the palace...

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