Lu Yijian started, and the others no longer held on, and started asking the eunuch for pen and ink.

When Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji saw this, they looked at each other and smiled knowingly.

All of what Ko Ji said was discussed between the two of them and the officials of the Privy Council.

The aim is to put all the troops and horses where they should be.

From now on, the 710,000 Forbidden Army troops will not only guard the imperial city, but also sit on the border and fight external affairs.

Other than that, do nothing.

In the words of later generations, they belonged to the field army.

Can act as an expeditionary force when necessary.

The various armies established by various roads are responsible for suppressing local rebellions, exterminating local bandits, suppressing major riots, and helping various governments, states, and counties deal with some military problems that are difficult for them to deal with.

As for the soldiers and horses in various prefectures, states, and counties, they are mainly responsible for maintaining local security and are almost equivalent to external government officials.

It is somewhat similar to Wu Te in later generations.

There is no need for the officials to say much.

According to common sense, when Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji were reforming the military system, there was no need to fill people in local government offices, which would only increase the consumption of money.

The reason why they did this was to prepare for subsequent reforms.

A large part of the reason why the imperial power did not go to the countryside lies with the civil and military officials in the yamen at all levels, as well as the three groups of yamen servants.

Most of the civil and military officials at all levels of yamen, as well as the three classes of yamen servants, are the children of local wealthy households or local powerful people.

They not only controlled the speech of the court's subordinates, but also controlled local control.

Some inactive officials have basically been sidelined by them since they took office.

Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji did this just to add sand into it.

When the inherent tiger on the ground meets the dragon across the river who is assigned to various places, there will inevitably be a conflict in the distribution of interests, and the two sides will inevitably fight to the death.

The soldiers assigned to local areas are definitely not the opponents of those local powerful people.

Therefore, when necessary, Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen will secretly instruct local soldiers and horses to participate.

all in all.

As soldiers were assigned to serve as government officials, the situation in the Song Dynasty's civil affairs would be completely muddied.

It will be much easier for Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen to do their work then.

More importantly, the two of them supported the soldiers who were assigned to the local areas, and those soldiers would naturally speak for them.

The two of them can be regarded as having people in the place.

The local area will not be completely controlled by those powerful people.

Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen not only made plans one by one when dealing with the emperor's relatives and Wu Xun, they also did the same when reforming the military system.

Of course.

After the two of them agreed on this matter, they knew that the nails they planted in the military system would definitely be discovered.

But the two of them are not worried that their military system will not be implemented.

All military reforms are top-down.

First, organize the imperial army to stabilize the four directions and the entire Song Dynasty.

Then proceed to implement roads, prefectures, prefectures, and counties.

Penetrate the soldiers and horses bit by bit.

The last step is to allocate government servants.

At the stage of allocating government officials, the troops and horses of the government offices at the road, prefecture, state, and county levels have been fully deployed.

If the local powerful people resist this matter, the imperial court will have enough reasons, and soldiers at all levels will join in to suppress the local powerful people.

Force local powerful men to bow their heads and admit soldiers into the yamen.

If local powerful forces cause rebellion, the pacification department at the road level can quickly assemble soldiers and horses within the territory, assemble a large army, and press against the local area.

It can be said that this move is more conducive to maintaining local stability than the one soldier and three auxiliaries in the military system of the Song Dynasty.

If the yamen at the road level cannot deal with the rebellion of the local powerful, they can also call on the four Yong-prefixed imperial troops stationed in the four directions of the Song Dynasty nearby.

Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen placed the four forbidden armies of Yongding, Yongping, Yongxing and Yongan in Xining, Taiyuan, Bozhou, Yongzhou and other places respectively.

It acts as a two-sided supporter.

Internally, we can quickly rush to help all directions, and externally, we can quickly rush to help all directions.

To suppress internal pressure, the four Forbidden Forces with the prefix "Yong" can quickly join forces with local soldiers and horses to assemble a force of no less than 70,000 soldiers and horses.

Fifty thousand elite soldiers, leading more than 20,000 local soldiers, are enough to quickly suppress local civil uprisings.

Externally, the four Forbidden Army prefixed with Yong can quickly assist the four Forbidden Army prefixed with Zhen, as well as the two Forbidden Army prefixed with Sai.

Whether they are rushing to aid the Song and Liao border areas, the northern border areas, or the western border areas, they can quickly gather 150,000 elite troops.

150,000 elite troops are enough to deal with any enemy attack from either side.

What's more important is that if the four Forbidden Forces with the prefix "Zhen" go on an expedition, the four "Forbidden Forces" with the prefix "Yong" can quickly take over from them and assume the important task of guarding the border.

All in all, in terms of troop deployment and distribution, Kou Ji and Zhao Zhen racked their brains to come up with a relatively sound and stable military system.

Zhao Zhen and Kou Ji racked their brains to come up with the profound meaning of troop deployment, but Lu Yijian and others have not yet thought of that part.

They were still quickly digesting what Kou Ji said.

Kou Ji did not continue to speak when they sent someone to get pen and paper.

Although he had the idea of ​​disgusting Lu Yijian and others, he could not put it into action.

What is being discussed at the moment is state affairs, not trivial matters.

After they got pen and paper, Kou Ji slowly said: "As for the supervision of the army, the system of supervision of the army will be retained, but in the Forbidden Army, the supervision of the army will be implemented up to the battalion level.

It can be implemented at the local level to the capital level.

Moreover, civilian officials and eunuchs will no longer serve as supervisors.

The officials are preparing to revive the military examination. From now on, the supervisors in the army will be filled by Jinshi who have passed the military examination.

In martial arts, in addition to the martial arts test, a part of the literary test will also be added accordingly.

The Supervisory Army is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War.

Abolish the temporary arbitrary power of the supervisory army."

"In terms of military positions, complicated military positions are banned and everything is simplified. Except for the Dragon Guards, the other chief generals of the Forbidden Army are awarded the rank of general. The commanders of the left and right wings are changed to left and right generals. The head of the Tenth Army is changed to general. The battalion is changed to general.

Captain, Dutou is still Dutou...

Each army has two generals and ten lieutenants.

Each government has troops and horses, and two captains.

The troops and horses in each county do not have official positions. They are dispatched according to the situation and are decided by the county captain..."

Kou Ji spoke very generally about martial arts, but Lu Yijian and others generally knew what Kou Ji meant.

For example, the rank of general does not mean that there is a separate official position. The imperial court has corresponding official positions. The rank of general includes the second-rank auxiliary general, the Zhengguo general, the third-rank Huaihua general, and the champion general.

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In the past, such official positions were just promotions, but Kou Ji just turned the promotion into actual duties.

The specific ranks of the generals will definitely be set according to the existing ranks of the imperial court.

There are also corresponding official positions in the imperial court, such as generals, generals, lieutenants, etc.

Except for the generals on the left and right, the rest are on casual duty.

Kou Ji abandoned the cumbersome actual duties and directly adopted simple casual duties.

The biggest visible benefit of doing so is that the professional titles of military attachés at all levels have become clearer, and the court has thus saved a large amount of salary on tedious official positions.

After Wang Zeng heard this, he wrote it down.

Obviously he was very satisfied with the military system proposed by Kou Ji.

Wang Zeng's attitude is very simple. As long as it can help the court save money, he agrees with it and thinks it is good.

After everyone finished writing what he said, Kou Ji continued: "In terms of recruiting troops, the Ministry of War will cooperate with the local yamen to recruit troops, and the Privy Council will allocate troops."

In the past, the imperial court was very casual in recruiting troops.

During wartime, the imperial court would issue documents to local government offices to recruit troops, and then allocate them nearby.

At the same time, when each army is fighting, in order to replenish the number of troops in time, they will also set up camps to recruit troops. Some military supervisors, pacifiers, etc. can also recruit troops when necessary.

Some simply draw them directly from other troops.

Others directly took criminal prisoners, prisoners who were assassinated, etc. into the army.
To be continued...