Very good!
Zhao Kaixin said: This chosen king has finally found a path to success... It is not to save the Great Song Dynasty, but to reopen a Great Song Dynasty.
Zhao Kai looked at the dozen civil and military officials who bowed to him, and felt so happy in his heart!
Because he knows he will win...Although the process will be tortuous, he will win in the end! Because he found the right route, which is to start a business!
Start a business! Doesn’t it sound scary?
But Zhao Kai knew that he would succeed in starting a business! And if you inherit the mess passed down by Zhao Ji, you will definitely be exhausted in the end!
Starting a business starts from scratch, and there are not so many things to do. For Zhao Kai, his entrepreneurial capital is quite large. He now has 60,000 Tiance troops, and also firmly controls eight semi-state armies including Taiyuan Prefecture, Xinzhou, Xianzhou, Ninghua Army, Bandaizhou, Pingding Army, Zhaozhou, Xiangzhou, and Huaizhou. Much better than Zhu Yuanzhang who started with one bowl.
Moreover, Zhao Kai is Zhao Ji's biological son after all. Although he is not the eldest son's direct grandson, with Zhao Ji's legacy, his appeal is still sufficient.
In addition, Zhao Kai already has 90,000 Tiance troops, which he collected and pulled together himself, and also went through a certain amount of reorganization... In the words of later generations, he did not rely on warlords to defeat warlords; Have your own reliable armed force!
The country that Zhao Ji left behind seems to be quite glorious. The territory is not small, and the governments in most areas are still functioning. It seems that it is not difficult to maintain it. But now the Song Dynasty has a big negative asset - sharing the world with literati and officials!
And sharing the world is not just words, but requires practical actions!
In the past, the Song Dynasty and the scholar-bureaucrats shared the world, so most of the land in the world belonged to the scholar-bureaucrats - in other words, the Song Dynasty court used the benefits of taking exams to become officials in exchange for the love of most of the landowning classes in the world.
The landlord class, in turn, relied on the privileges brought by taking the examination to become officials and accelerated the pace of land annexation.
This formed a cycle of "landlords studying - studying as examiners - becoming an official and making money - making money and buying land - landlords studying".
After more than a hundred years of development, most of the land in the Song Dynasty was occupied by these progressive scholar-bureaucrats and landlords.
The Song Dynasty, which was said to have developed industry and commerce, was actually an agricultural society. It occupied most of the land and also occupied most of the social wealth... Regardless of whether the wealth distribution model dominated by the imperial examination system was Fairness, whether it provides a fair path for class advancement. But one thing is for sure, this model of studying, becoming an official, and getting rich has absolutely nothing to do with fighting and meritorious service!
Moreover, the books that the literati and officials of the Song Dynasty studied hard for more than ten years or even decades... were of little use to the cause of fighting against the Jin Dynasty and the Mongolia.
Even officials selected through the martial arts examinations that specifically select military talents usually become civilian officials or use their military qualifications to serve as county lieutenants and county magistrates. Only a few actually join the army.
The reason for this is because the things tested in the martial arts examination are of little use to actual combat...such as writing an essay based on the Seven Martial Arts Books, or the archery assessment that does not matter whether you can hit the target or not.
This is the case for the martial arts examination. You can imagine how many military strategists will emerge among the Jinshi who come out of the civil examination.
In other words, the literati and bureaucrats who occupy most of the country's wealth have neither the obligation to defend the country nor the ability to resist gold and Mongolia!
And their large possession of social wealth had a crowding out effect on the military class of the Song Dynasty - there was only so much land in the world, and most of it was given to scholar-bureaucrats and landlords, so the fighting men who defended the country of the Song Dynasty would not get much of the money. .
Therefore, the Song Dynasty court could not directly use land to exchange for the loyalty and force of the Han people, nor could it use official promotion to encourage poor landlords to practice martial arts and join the army. They can only allocate part of the fiscal revenue, not the entire social wealth, to the generals who defended the Song Dynasty.
And this part of the expenditure is relatively small to begin with. If you give Song Dynasty so much Qingtian, how much money is left that can really be used for the military?
For Zhao Kai, who is crazy about fighting and spending money, the distribution method left by his ancestors is simply not enough to cover expenses. If he does not want to go bankrupt and lose the army, the only way is to share the world with the warriors. They have to divide the land and give them money. Their privilege as officials!
In Zhao Kai's view, if he wants to successfully attack Huanglong, he must equip and train an army of hundreds of thousands capable of fighting!
When Zhu Yuanzhang went on the Northern Expedition in the early Ming Dynasty, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun set out with an army of 250,000! This 250,000-strong army was not all Zhu Yuanzhang's capital, because he was also waging war in other directions and maintaining rule within the territory.
So the total force Zhu Yuanzhang had at that time was more than 500,000 to 600,000, and these were all capable armies!
The enemy Zhao Kai is facing now, the newly emerged Kingdom of Jin, is only slightly stronger in terms of military strength than the declining Yuan Dynasty that Zhu Yuanzhang is facing. How could Zhao Kai attack Huanglong without an army of 500,000 to 600,000 men? Although he has powerful generals like Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, and Lan Yu are no worse than Yue Fei and Han Shizhong, right? And Zhao Kai's own abilities are definitely not as good as Zhu Yuanzhang's...
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"Okay! Gujia promises you!"
Zhao Kai tried hard to keep his face full of iron-blooded expressions and not to laugh - he was a filial son, so he should be very sad and angry when he heard that his father was killed. How could he laugh?
Zhao Kai, who finally suppressed his smile, continued: "The Gu family can ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor, but you must also agree to the three conditions of the Gu family!"
"Your Majesty, just say whatever conditions you have. Don't mention three, just thirty or three hundred. We will agree to them!"
"Yes, your Majesty, just say it!"
"Your Majesty, we all listen to you!"
"What does the king say?"
Zhao Kai nodded with satisfaction...these are all loyal! We must treat them well in the future, but we can't be like Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhao Kai solemnly said: "First, it is not the time for the Gu family to ascend the throne. The Gu family must first take Yanmen and Fanshi and lock the gates of Hedong before ascending the throne.
Therefore, the matter of the gold thief pouring water into Kaifeng Mansion must be kept secret now, and no one below can know about it. "
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will keep my mouth shut!"
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will take Yanmen and Fanshi as soon as possible."
There is actually no controversy about this point. Yanmen Pass is the gateway to Hedong, so of course it must be captured.
Zhao Kai added: "Second, the Gu family must share the world with the warriors and officials, implement the Yingtianfu military system, reward military merits, and make important use of meritorious officials!"
"The king's plan is very good, and I can't wait for it!"
"The king reopened the Song Dynasty. He is the master of entrepreneurship, and he should be like this!"
This one is key!
The key to the success of Zhao Kai's business is the Yingtian Prefecture Military System and heavy rewards and military merit - only by establishing the Yingtian Prefecture Military System can he gather enough people. With heavy reward and important use, warriors will risk their lives to fight!
"Okay!" Zhao Kai nodded heavily, and then said, "Liangchen, Yizhi, Pengju, Wuji, Kezhi, Uncle Xin, Shaoyan, Boying, King Kong, He Dalang, He Erlang... Gujia The third condition is proposed to you!"
"us?"
"Your Majesty, just say whatever you want to say!"
"Your Majesty, we agree!"
"Yes, we all listen to the king..."
Zhao Kai nodded and said: "The Gu family wants to marry ten of you! From now on, the twelve of us will be brothers with different surnames. We will share hardships, share blessings, create great achievements together, and never let each other down... .how?"
Zhao Kai, who is proficient in the "Four Major Art of War", has enlarged his tactics again - this is imitating the Three Brothers in Taoyuan! And there are more people here, twelve!
Liu Bei only had two good brothers, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and he made eleven good brothers in one go, which was much more than Liu Bei!
Now Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, Zhang Jun, Chen Ji and the others were so moved that they were speechless.
Their master, Zhao Kai, actually wanted to sworn sworn sworn friends with them!
This really means treating them as brothers!
"My younger brother, Zhang Jun, comes to see your superior!"
It was Zhang Jun who reacted first... He bowed his head and called me my younger brother.
Zhao Kai looked at him, this guy is so old, how can he be called "Chen's brother"?
Zhao Kai asked: "Boying, are you noble this year?"
"I...I am twenty-five years old this year!" Zhang Jun said seriously.
He is already forty this year, but he is young at heart, so he reported himself to be twenty-five... he cannot be older than Zhao Kai!
Because the eldest brother must be Zhao Kai!
"My younger brother Han Shizhong pays homage to my eldest brother!"
Han Shizhong has also become younger!
"Good minister, do you value Geng?"
"Brother, my younger brother is twenty-six this year. He is the same as the king, but his birth date is one month younger."
Zhao Kai looked at Han Shizhong for a while and felt that he looked younger than Zhang Jun, but he still nodded: "Liangchen, you are the second brother Han, and Boying is the third brother Zhang."
Huang Wuji continued: "Brother, I am Huang Silang!"
Chen Ji also reacted and quickly said: "Brother, Brother Chen is one month younger than Fourth Brother Huang, so he can only be five!"
Zhao Da, Han Er, Zhang San, Huang Si, Chen Wu, then Li Liu, Xiang Qi, He Ba, He Jiu, Dong Lao Shi, Liu Shi Yi, and finally Yue Fei and Yue Twelve Lang!
After everyone reported their ages and arranged their sizes, Zhao Kaicai said to the three old people present: "Lu Qing, Liu Qing, and Tong Daguan, all three of them are elders, so please be a witness!
Today, twelve of us have formed a sworn alliance in the woods and sworn to the heavenly alliance. We will work together to drive out the golden thieves, attack Huanglong, and reopen the Song Dynasty! "
