God knows how angry Zhao Duan was when he understood the cause and effect.
Originally it was just a trivial matter. Although the one-cent tax increased the burden on the people, it was completely within the tolerance of the people, and it was just this time.
As a result, the following people actually used this matter to make a lot of money, and finally brought the matter to the point where it is now out of control!
"Who are the officials involved in this matter in these counties! I want to kill them!
They are digging for the roots of the Song Dynasty!
Today they dare to oppress the people in this way, magnifying one cent to 20%, and tomorrow they dare to rush into the treasury to steal money!
I'm going to chop them up! Only by cutting them into pieces can I eliminate the hatred in my heart and give an explanation to the people who lost their lives because of their stupid behavior!
And you are also trash. As a superior officer, you are expected so much by your subordinates without knowing it. You are derelict in your duties! It is inaction!
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Zhao Duan roared angrily, and all the officials were sprayed bloody, but no one dared to speak. It was not until Zhao Duan vented all the anger in his heart and his whole body gradually calmed down that the officials relaxed.
Seeing that Zhao Duan's expression gradually relaxed, Zhang He dared to stand up and said: "Your Majesty, how to deal with those prisoners is a matter for later. The top priority now is to suppress the civil unrest in the four counties as soon as possible and restore the four counties." of stability.
Otherwise, if we continue to allow the situation in the four counties to spread, the Song Dynasty's losses will become greater and greater, and will eventually reach the point of irreparable!
Your Majesty, please put the priority of the matter first and send troops to support the four counties immediately! "
Zhang He's words made Zhao Duan calm down completely. He also knew that incompetent rage is the most useless. Even if you are angry to death, what if you are angry to death? The prisoners just continued to do whatever they were supposed to do, and did not take this matter to heart at all.
What he has to do now is to suppress the chaos as soon as possible, so that he can have time to go back and deal with the criminals.
After thinking for a moment, Zhao Duan asked: "Can't all the four county guards stop the mob?"
Zhang He sighed, hesitated for a moment but seemed to understand the current situation, so he stopped hiding it and explained directly: "Your Majesty, the garrison has been an important force for the imperial court to guard various prefectures and counties since the founding of the country.
Even the imperial court assigned them a fixed amount of land as food rations.
However, times have changed.
More than a hundred years have passed, and the garrison system has long since become a mess.
There was a serious shortage of deserters in various garrison stations. Officers embezzled military expenses, occupied land, and even forced soldiers to farm land for them and act as tenants without paying them. As a result, soldiers could not get military pay and finally had to become deserters and leave this place.
The actual number of soldiers in each garrison is probably less than one-tenth!
Most of them are old people, who were forced to stay by the officers in order to continue to embezzle military pay. The old people were too old and their legs and feet could no longer run, so they had no choice but to stay.
Your Majesty, I would like to ask such a garrison, even if they face only a mob of common people, what can they do and how long can they resist? "
Zhao Duan gritted his teeth. It was not that he didn't know about the matter, but the matter of the garrison had been a big problem that could not be solved in the history of the Song Dynasty.
Now that Zhang He said it nakedly, it really made Zhao Duan look very unhappy.
But this is indeed a fact. Zhao Duan took a deep breath and knew that these garrison troops were really useless, so he stopped looking for a solution from them.
Continue to ask:
"Where's the Xiang army? Maybe they can be sent out?"
The Xiang Army is a unique army of the Song Dynasty. Every time the Song Dynasty encountered natural or man-made disasters, the people rebelled. After the suppression was settled, in order to keep the people who rebelled because they could not survive, they would be organized into groups. Enter the army and let them eat military rations.
Up to now, the number of Xiang troops accumulated over the past dynasties has reached nearly one million.
The existence of the Xiang army cost the Song Dynasty a considerable financial expenditure every year.
But the existence of the Xiang Army is good or bad. The disadvantage is that the court needs to spend a lot of money to support them every year, and they have little combat effectiveness.
But the good thing is that if the Song Dynasty wanted to do a big project that required a large number of manpower, it would be enough without using the civilian army.
As a result, the Xiang Army has naturally become the official construction team of the Song Dynasty. Once a place encounters natural disasters and suffers great damage, the Xiang Army will basically do the work during post-disaster reconstruction.
To put it bluntly, they are just a bunch of civilians wearing military uniforms.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Xiang army is low, the opponents are also common people, everyone is of the same level, and the Xiang army still numbers in the millions.
How can it be better than the civilian army that caused chaos in the counties, right?
But Zhang He's next words made him frown again.
Zhang He said with helplessness on his face: "Your Majesty, the Huns invaded last year. Although they were expelled later, the damage caused by the Huns to the land east of Hedong was extremely serious.
So shortly after the war, in order to carry out post-disaster reconstruction, the imperial court had sent the only 500,000 people who had spare time to rebuild in Hedong.
Nowadays, there is no Xiang army in Bianjing at all. "
"This means that now our capital city of Song Dynasty, Noda's Bianjing City, actually has no other troops to mobilize except my imperial army?"
Zhao Duan's eyes widened and he said in disbelief.
Zhang He nodded helplessly:
"Your Majesty, that is indeed the case."
"Breathe! Breathe! Breathe! Breathe!"
After Zhao Duan took several deep breaths, he finally restrained the anger that almost exploded.
In the capital city of a country, except for the emperor's personal guards, the court actually has no troops to mobilize?
How ridiculous is this?
This is simply a big joke!
"How many people need to be transferred?"
After calming down, things still needed to be done, and Zhao Duan could only suppress his anger and ask.
Zhang He thought for a while and then said: "Now that the Tianwu Army has gone with Prince Zhenxi to clear out the remnants of the Wulin, there are only the Japanese Army, the Dragon Guard Army and the Divine Guard Army left in Bianjing.
Now that the four counties are in chaos, Pengri is the only full force of the Forbidden Army, with a total strength of 50,000, while the Dragon Guard and Divine Guard are less than half of that, with a total of only more than 40,000.
According to the current situation, each of these four counties must send at least ten thousand people to be completely sure of suppressing the chaos in these counties.
As the capital of Bianjing, its defensive strength is extremely important and cannot be lost.
Your Majesty might as well keep the Japanese-praising army, while the Dragon Guard Army and the Divine Guard Army are divided into four branches, with tens of thousands of people heading to the four counties to suppress the rebels.
This will not only ensure the safety of Bianjing, but also solve the chaos in the four counties as soon as possible. "
According to Zhang He's idea, even if there are hundreds of thousands of rebels, they are still just mobs after all. Facing the most elite imperial army of the Song Dynasty, 10,000 people are simply more than enough to suppress them!
Zhao Duan hesitated for a long time after hearing this. After all, this is the Forbidden Army, and the main task of the Forbidden Army is to protect itself, not to fight.
Taking away two of the four forbidden armies in this way will undoubtedly bring great security risks to Bianjing City.
However, there is still a Forbidden Army left.
The local situation could not be delayed, so after hesitating for a long time, Zhao Duan finally compromised and nodded and agreed to send the Dragon Guard Army and the Divine Guard Army to suppress the chaos.
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(End of chapter)
