Seeing the malnourished appearance of these farmers, Su Yonglin felt a little sour.
It was always difficult for him to accept that the hardest working group of people in the world lived the most miserable lives.
It seems that all the suffering belongs to them, and all the beauty and romance in the world do not belong to them. They can only water the land with their blood and sweat, produce rich materials, and decorate the dreamlike luxurious life of emperors, generals, and ministers.
However, as the main body of production, they have no hope of even having a full meal.
Su Yonglin looked at these cowering farmers, remained silent for a moment, and made suggestions to Zhao Kaishan.
"These farmers are going to the battlefield. If they don't eat well, they won't have the strength to hold weapons, and they won't be able to fight the golden soldiers. Brother, I'd better pay attention to their food and let them eat well."
Zhao Kaishan listened to Su Yonglin's words and took a look at the "subjects" under his rule.
Seeing their weak looks, they nodded involuntarily.
"Well, what you say makes sense. Forget it in normal times, you still need to eat something in a war. The emperor still has hungry soldiers. Don't worry, dear brother, there will be enough food in a war."
Saying this, Zhao Kaishan lowered his voice and said: "Usually, I don't give them less food, so they won't starve to death, but for this group of people, you can't let them eat too much. If they are full, If you are lazy, you won’t work hard to farm.
When they are full but not full, they are the most diligent and do the most work. This is true for farming, and it is also true for leading troops in war. You cannot let them go hungry, but you cannot let them eat too much. You must eat enough. As a reward, they were satisfied. "
Zhao Kaishan patted Su Yonglin on the shoulder, got closer to Su Yonglin and grinned: "If these people are usually full, they will ask you for more after they win the battle. Human nature is greedy, and there is no end to it. When the time comes, will you give it or not?"
After hearing this, Su Yonglin still had a beautiful smile on his lips, making him look as proud as Zhao Kaishan.
"Brother's words make sense. I admire this method of preventing trouble before it happens."
"Hahahahahaha! Brother Xian is just too young. This kind of thing will not be easy for these farmers to control after he has made great achievements and obtained the land. After a long time, he has learned by himself without a teacher and let them eat too much. ah."
Later, Zhao Kaishan, who was very happy, decided to allocate an additional number of men to Su Yonglin to increase the number of troops he could command.
Su Yonglin only had more than 800 combat troops. Zhao Kaishan waved his hand and asked Su Yonglin to gather a thousand combat troops.
Zhao Kaishan needed Su Yonglin to clear out the Meng'an Mou Kehu in the surrounding villages when he led the main force to attack the county.
Su Yonglin also asked Su Yonglin to call on more powerful Han landlords who did not participate in the uprising to stand up and participate in the uprising together, striving to gain more supporters and expand the number of insurgents.
"We don't have many troops now. Brother Xian, don't think you are short of people. As long as you can win a few battles and kill a lot of Meng'an Mukehu, there will definitely be people who are willing to join you. Then there will be more people. What do you think, Brother Xian? ?”
Zhao Kaishan looked at Su Yonglin expectantly.
Su Yonglin smiled and nodded as always.
"What my brother said is absolutely true."
Zhao Kaishan was even happier.
"Don't worry, brother Xian, I know this matter is difficult. During the operation, as long as I capture the city, I will arrange troops to help you, and I will not let you deal with those golden soldiers alone."
"Thank you, brother."
Su Yonglin agreed obediently.
After discussing with Zhao Kaishan, Su Yonglin returned to his station and convened a meeting of 300 people - these old members of the Su family must have served as officers after establishing the army, so the current meeting is an officer meeting.
It is important for these future officers to first understand the overall situation of the uprising and what to do in the future. These things need to be held at a conference to talk about them.
"At the beginning of the uprising, General Zhao Kaishan would use his special relationship with Yizhou defense envoy An Zhen to invite An Zhen to a banquet, kill An Zhen at the banquet, causing the Yizhou government to lose control, and then quickly send troops to Linyi County. Attack Linyi County.
At this time, we also need to send troops immediately, starting from Zhaojiazhuang, to attack the two Jin defensive meng'an in Yizhou, capture these two defensive meng'an, and eliminate the Jurchen soldiers within Yizhou. , this is our task. "
After briefly talking about their mission, Su Yonglin began to talk about some common military and political knowledge in the Jin Kingdom.
There are three types of states in the Jin Kingdom: Jiedu state, defense state and governor state.
Jiedu envoys, defense envoys and governors are nominally the military and political leaders of a state. Although they do not have the actual power to command the army, they are also indispensable and important roles in fighting wars.
For example, they can be responsible for signing civilians such as Han, Khitan, and Xi people to serve as soldiers, and then organize the signing of soldiers to serve as cannon fodder to assist the Jurchen soldiers in the war.
Killing these state officials can disrupt the actions of the local officials of the Jin Kingdom, making it impossible for them to react quickly and organize an effective defense.
This will create the best conditions for the rebels to seize the opportunity in the early stages of the uprising.
As for the military aspect of the Jin Kingdom, it is relatively complicated.
After Wan Yanliang came to the throne, he focused on making some changes in the military. These contents were also summarized by Su Yonglin after years of collecting information.
Wan Yanliang abolished the Marshal's Office dominated by the Jurchen nobles and established the Privy Council based on the Song Dynasty system, with the Privy Envoy and the Deputy Privy Envoy managing the military affairs at the center.
At the local level, there are three recruiting departments and three military commanding departments that are mainly responsible for military affairs. Together with the central army, there are seven military regions in total.
The recruitment department is mainly in the north, in the Liaodong region, dealing with the northern nomads.
The Tongjun Department was set up in the Central Plains region, mainly dealing with the Southern Song Dynasty, and also had the function of guarding against the Xixia Dynasty.
The enemy that Zhao Kaishan and others need to face directly is the Yidutong Military Division set up by Wan Yanliang on Shandong East Road.
The Kingdom of Jin had a lot of military forces in the Central Plains.
According to the information provided by Zhao Kaishan and others, Su Yonglin learned that there are currently twelve Meng'an Jurchen households in Shandong that have been moved south by the Jin Kingdom, six on Shandong East Road and six on Shandong East Road.
According to their calculations, it can be basically determined that each Meng'an has about 3,000 households and 30,000 people, including 24,000 Jurchens and about 6,000 slaves.
In other words, the number of Jurchens on Shandong East Road they directly faced was about 180,000.
In Shandong as a whole, there are almost 360,000 Jurchens.
Of course, these are Jurchen households and are generally not responsible for the military. They will only join the army when the emperor recruits troops for combat. They are mainly responsible for agricultural production and also bear special taxes such as the "cow head tax". Compared with the military, they may have production functions. more important.
In terms of military affairs, there are about fifty garrisons composed mainly of female real soldiers serving in the military, which is a standing army in non-wartime.
Zhenfangmeng'an was a local military institution set up by the Jin people in order to control the Central Plains. It was like a garrison.
Town defense meng'an is different from civilian households' meng'an. Private households' meng'an can reach 30,000 people, while town defense meng'an generally has more than 300 people and no more than 500 people at most.
The Jinting would provide land, clothes and a certain amount of rice and money to Zhenfang Meng'an so that they could farm, so Zhenfang Meng'an was also called Tuntian Meng'an, Tuntian Army, etc.
"That is to say, during non-war times, in addition to the various numbers of handymen and guard-type grain-shooting troops controlled by local state capitals, there are about 20,000 Jurchen soldiers in Shandong under the leadership of the Yidu Tongjun Division. , responsible for the defense and alert work against the Southern Song Dynasty in Shandong area.
And once the war comes and the emperor orders the expansion of the army, then all the 36,000 Jurchen households in the twelve Meng'an areas will have to send strong men to join the army, and the local state government will also issue Han civilians to join the army, plus the grain-shooting army and the like. The miscellaneous troops can easily raise an army of 100,000 people. "
