Prince Yun’s Mansion, study room.

The secret conversation between Tong Guan and Zhao Kai is still continuing.

The old treacherous minister Tong Guan not only did not realize the reality that he was a treacherous minister, but also imagined that he could become a loyal person in history, get a beautiful posthumous title, and finally be buried in the soil with a glorious burial.

So when he saw Zhao Kai who he had fully supported revealed his true face as a "Li Shimin type", he immediately saw the hope of being a loyal person. After the court was dispersed today, he found an excuse to find out the truth and truth from Zhao Ji, and then took advantage of the night to make a heart-to-heart talk for Zhao Kai.

The heart he had made to Zhao Kai was of great significance to Zhao Kai, who had just arrived and did not understand the history of the Song Dynasty!

"The Lone King understands!" Zhao Kai nodded slightly, "The Grand Tutor means that if you want to win the Northern Expedition, it is not enough to rely on tens of thousands of Western Army alone. You must let the officials and people of Hebei contribute money and efforts together!"

Isn’t this the principle of the people’s war? Zhao Kai immediately understood. Although he had never taught the “Four Great Soldiers Books”, the school had taught this principle, and he did not expect it to work in the Song Dynasty.

"The king is wise!" Tong Guan said, "In fact, when we were fighting against the Western thieves in Shaanxi, we were also military, civilian, officials and gentry, and we did not rely solely on the imperial guards. In the northwest and border areas, the imperial guards were only one of the troops, not the only soldiers who could fight. In addition to the imperial guards, there were also archers and foreign soldiers along the border, and they were also soldiers who could fight and could fight, and their strength was not inferior to those of the imperial guards."

"Arrowmen and foreign soldiers..." Zhao Kai muttered for a moment, and remembered again, "Their strength is quite good!"

The so-called "archers" do not refer to archers who draw bows and shoot archers, but a militia that integrates farming and warfare in the northwest border area of ​​the Song Dynasty. These militias began to appear in large numbers in the northwest after the rise of Dangxiang. They belong to local armed forces under the jurisdiction of the pacifier route. These militias did not receive military pay, but were allocated official fields near the border for them to cultivate. In Shaanxi, there were relatively loose land in the Pacifier route, and an archer was about

You can get 200-250 acres of land. Of course, these 250 acres are tax-free. In addition, the archers themselves and a certain number of families can also be exempted from corvee service. Although the land in the northwest is barren, the number of 200-250 acres is not small. In addition, the benefits of family members being exempted from servitude are enough to attract heroes from all walks of life in the northwest to recruit archers. Moreover, the archers can rely on those lands, as well as the rewards and spoils they often get with the army to fight, and they can also have food and clothing.

In addition, these archers along the border often fight at their doorsteps, and behind their homes are their wives and children, they often act very tenaciously, even surpassing the serious Northwest Imperial Army (that is, the Western Army).

The commanders and generals from all sides of the northwest border also knew that these archers could fight, so every time there was a big battle, a considerable number of archers would be directly assigned to the main force, allowing them to charge in the same way as the regular Western Army! In this way, the strength of the Northwest Imperial Army was magnified - there were quite a few of these archers along the border, and the number of border archers along the border in Shaanxi (not counting the Yongxing Army Road) was as many as 100,000!

In addition to the archers along the border, the Northwest Imperial Army also has a group of reliable helpers, which are the so-called foreign soldiers. Foreign soldiers are the army of Xifan (Tubo) or other tribes loyal to the Song Dynasty. The Zhe Family Army, who commanded the prefectures and prefectures for generations, is the most outstanding representative of them.

Tong Guan then said: "In addition to archers and foreign soldiers, the Fushi and the five border routes along Shaanxi and the prefectures and prefectures below were good at mobilizing civilians to help the Western Army transport troops and food and build cities because they have been in war for a long time.

Therefore, when the Northwest Imperial Army was fighting in Shaanxi, the left and right were assisted by archers and foreign soldiers, and countless people were transported and transported behind them. Building castles was by no means alone.

But the situation in Hebei is completely different. Hebei has been in peace for a long time, and even the local garrisons have become decayed, let alone others? When the Northwest Imperial Guards arrived in Hebei, not only did they lose archers and foreign soldiers, but even the civilians responsible for transporting and building fortresses were difficult to mobilize. It can be said that they became lonely! With 70,000 or 80,000 years of war, they have been exhausted. Of course, it is very difficult to defeat the Khitan, which has become a defeated enemy... Now the king is about to lead troops in Hebei, but he must learn from the lessons of the old ministers. He cannot fight alone!"

After hearing Tong Guan's words, Zhao Kai frowned a little, "Tai Shi, it may not be easy to not be an isolated soldier in Hebei, right?"

Tong Guan smiled bitterly and said, "The old minister has no choice but to do anything, but the king still has some solutions."

"Please give advice from the Grand Master."

"I dare not give advice, just tell me some lessons!" Tong Guan looked at Zhao Kai and said, "The ancestor system of the Song Dynasty did not kill scholars and officials... Therefore, it is difficult to cure civil officials, and civil officials with backgrounds (Jinshi) are even more difficult to cure. After the king arrived in Hebei, if possible, he would use military officials to govern the local area. If this military official is not effective, the king can also engage in military law. If the civil servants mislead the matter, what can the king do to them? These people cannot fight or kill, and they can only coax them well. How can they fight?"

Zhao Kai nodded slightly, but somehow thought of Qin Hui. Qin Hui is a literary talent! It seems that he can't get rid of it casually... He has to get the ironclad evidence of his stolen country!

"I have received the teachings," Zhao Kai made up his mind and asked again, "I wonder if the Grand Master has any other good words to say?"

"There is no good words," Tong Guan sighed, "It's just a lesson from defeat... The Western Army is unreliable, and the victory of the Jie Army is also useless. If the king wants to achieve great achievements in Hebei, he cannot count on them, but should train new recruits again!

If the king wants to train a truly useful new recruit, he needs to keep in mind two points. One is that the more the troops he recruits, the better! The second is that the smaller the general he uses, the better!

The local soldiers are simple and daring to fight, honest and reliable, far better than the soldiers of the Western Army.

The young general, a newborn calf, is full of vitality, eager to win, brave and brave, and is much better than an old general like me. Of course, the old minister knows that there are two or three veterans available in Hebei... Yang Weizhong is one, and Liu Yan from Chixin Team is also one."

Tong Guan is really heartbroken!

The "three don'ts" he proposed to Zhao Kai now is really a good word.

These three are not needed, one is not to be a scholar, but to try to use the least amount of cultural officials who cannot be killed or beaten. Second, don’t want veterans. Tong Guan himself is a veteran. Of course, he knows that most veterans are old and have a lot of plans and cannot do good things at all. Third, he doesn’t want veterans. Most veterans are soldiers, and they can’t do anything well when they are in war training. They are all good at cheating.

Zhao Kai thought about it and found that the troops he had seemed to be mainly veterans, but most of the generals were still relatively young, only He Guan was older. In addition, there were not many difficult officials to serve in the civil service, and now they were Qin Hui and Chen Ji.

"What the Grand Master said is, the Gu family remembers it!" Zhao Kai smiled, "Although the Grand Master is a veteran, you are the only one who is lonely... Gu will report to the official family tomorrow, how about you please transfer the Grand Master to Hebei together?"

"No, the old minister cannot leave the official family now." Tong Guan came to Zhao Kai today to make friends with him, of course, to find a way out for himself, but now is not the time for him to leave.

Tong Guan said: "Although the old minister is so old, he has been in charge of 20 or 30 years, and he still knows how to stand in Kaifeng Prefecture!"

"Then, there will be the Grand Master in Kaifeng Prefecture." Zhao Kai thought for a while and said, "The Grand Master in Kaifeng should try his best to persuade my father to stick to it and never give up his throne and escape!"

"The old minister knows the right measure," Tong Guan paused, "The king would better set off as soon as possible... Now, the Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo is a place of right and wrong."

"Gu is about to leave as soon as possible!" Zhao Kai said, "When Gu goes to Mutuogang and chooses a horse, then takes the money and stuffed things in it, then sets off immediately."
Chapter completed!