So Shen Mo has not been to Lin'an for the past three years, leaving the Privy Councilor empty. Is this really okay?

To be honest, if Shen Mo never went to the court for the rest of his life, everyone would never urge him to take office.

Because everyone knows that Shen Mo is definitely not the kind of official who sits in a seat but doesn't care about anything.

So once Shen Mo took office as Privy Councilor, it means he has to do something.

No matter what this man Shen did, it would not be good news to those court officials.

Besides, they didn't dare to say, "Since Shen Mo doesn't come, then you can appoint another one, yourselves?"

Because that is equivalent to shouting to Shen Mo: "Hey! Did you lose this Privy Councilor's golden seal?

Do you want me to pick it up?"

If that were the case, Shen Mo wouldn't have planned to come at first, but under their pressure, he would have to come! However, in this world, he often comes whatever he is afraid of.

Now these courtiers learned with resentment... Three years later, this Shen Langjun finally came!... After Shen Mo came to Lin'an, the first thing he did was of course to go to pay homage to the emperor.

After a few years of separation, Zhao and Rui were inevitably excited when they saw Shen Mo.

When they restructured the economy three years ago, the wonderful cooperation they made the cooperation between Zhao and Rui and Shen Mo more tacitly.

Today, when Shen Mo paid homage to the emperor in the Golden Palace, he found that Zhao and Rui were obviously fatter than they were a few years ago... Now he looked quite majestic.

Of course, there are some procedures to do all the etiquettes in the Golden Palace.

However, the real conversation was held after the court meeting and when Shen Mo was summoned by the emperor alone.

At the beginning of this conversation, Shen Mo openly suggested to Zhao Yurui that after taking over as Privy Councilor this time, he was preparing to reorganize the world's Song army! Zhao Yurui was of course shocked when he heard this.

After that, he thought about it carefully and felt it was natural.

According to his understanding of Shen Mo, Shen Mo has always been a man who made a decision before he acted.

He took the position of Privy Councilor three years ago, and because it cost a lot of money, he must have wanted to make a difference in this position.

Zhao Yurui also knew that his army was not good at all, and would definitely become stronger quickly after Shen Mo's reform.

But if all the soldiers of the Song Dynasty were reorganized, how easy was it?

However, since Shen Mo planned to do this, it means that he was ready, so Zhao Yurui also wanted to hear what Shen Mo thought.

...If you want to talk about how many people were there in the Song Dynasty army at this time?

In fact, according to organizational structure, during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, the number of troops nationwide was 1.4 million.

This was the dynasty with the largest number of troops during the entire Song Dynasty.

The current Southern Song Dynasty has become a little economically relaxed in recent years and has the need to resist aggression.

Therefore, the number of troops in the Song Dynasty was a little more than 1 million, which is about 1.1 million.

However, the number of the Song army cannot be seen from the perspective of organization.

Because when the Song army was fighting, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands were often wiped out, but a lot of them emerged in the next battle.

This is actually because during the battle, the battlefield is being consumed, and the court is constantly recruiting soldiers to make up for the vacancies.

On the other hand, there are many local soldiers and local soldiers in many places that are not recorded, but are in the hands of major clans.

Therefore, these village troops were not counted among these 1.1 million.

The reason why the number is difficult to tell is that the situation of the vacancies in the Song Dynasty was very serious.

So it is really hard to say whether there can be 30,000 troops here with a unit of 50,000.

As for the 20,000 soldiers who did not exist at all, after their military pay was allocated by the court, the money was naturally taken directly by the generals who led the troops... This is also a disadvantage that has been inevitable for every dynasty and every generation of troops throughout the ages.

So in terms of quantity, the number of soldiers in the Song Dynasty was really a confusing amount.

On the other hand, what about their combat effectiveness?

Sorry, that's even harder to say.

...In the Southern Song Dynasty, all the troops were actually divided into three parts.

The first is of course the imperial guards, the second is the wing army, and the third is the village army.

The Imperial Guard is the army stationed near Lin'an. Because the Song Dynasty adopted the "strong, weak and weak" method in terms of military deployment, the Imperial Guard should theoretically be the most numerous and most powerful force.

In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin personally established the "Soldier Style".

There are strict standards for the height and weight of a soldier, how many strong bows can be used to drive, and how many miles can run a day and a night.

Only men who can meet such standards can enter the imperial guards and then those who fail to meet the standards will be recruited by the wing army.

But in fact, this standard has obviously been ruined.

Otherwise, the Northern Song Dynasty would not have been beaten across the Huai River, leaving only half of the country.

Especially in the era of Tong Guan and Gao Qiu, the imperial guards were basically in the hands of these financial fans. The so-called 800,000 imperial guards became their tools for making money! Gao Qiu not only ate the vacancy here, but also did a shocking thing... He asked all imperial guards to go to the barracks or practice the locals, but they had to pay Gao Qiu himself! He asked these soldiers to go out to be hawkers, sell coolies, and be boatmen. In short, they had to hand over a fixed amount of money to me every month.

This makes it rare for the remaining soldiers who are already dissatisfied with the imperial guards, who are rarely trained once every few months.

Of course, after this, the soldiers were all traveling around the streets and selling vegetables and wine... If such an army could win a battle, wouldn't it be a damn thing?

This is the strong trunk in the "strong trunk and weak branches"!... Next we will talk about the branches, which is the wing army.

To be honest, the situation of the Xiang army... is not as good as the imperial guards! Because the Song Dynasty court has always had a tradition that once a thief cannot beat him or chase him or her, he simply recruited them to be an official army.

Therefore, many thieves regard the logic of bastards like "killing people, setting fires and being recruited" as their lifelong goal.

According to the record in Volume 67 of "Xuozizhi Tongjian Changbian": "In the fourth year of Jingde (that is, 1007), the dragon cavalry and the brave men in front of the palace were selected.

First, the thirteen commanders of this army recruited robbers to fill them. At that time, the bandits were very few, so they proposed to go all out."
Chapter completed!