Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 269 Military Exercise
The so-called military parade was, of course, deliberately shown off to the Liao Kingdom, and by the way, it also frightened the other military governors.

In recent years, the Imperial Army of the Song Dynasty has indeed been dispatched less and less, especially the most elite Palace Front Division, which has hardly been used in recent years.

Because almost all the front officers are stationed in Beijing, and the wars in the Song Dynasty in recent years have really made it unnecessary to use the imperial troops stationed in Beijing. Even if people rush over there on bicycles, everything over there will probably be over long ago.

"Everyone, the Song Dynasty has been in peace for a long time, and its military equipment has been weakened. These soldiers are far worse than they were ten years ago. It's a joke. It's a joke."

After saying that, I heard banging, banging sounds, and countless salutes fired in unison. Then, rows of people and horses were all armored, and almost all of them were heavily armored cavalry. Those cavalrymen had broken armors hanging on their waists. Armor hammer, holding a eight-foot-long spear in his hand, and behind him, he had two big wings imitating the Polish Hussars.

Slowly walking in first as if he were a guard of honor, Zhao Guangmei also smiled and explained to Xiao Siwen: "Father-in-law, this is our most elite Long Jie Army in the Song Dynasty. However, in recent years, due to the weakening of military equipment, they are just serving as guards of honor. I haven’t seriously killed anyone in seven or eight years, and I’ve long since stopped being good at it. It’s just throwing bricks and mortar to attract others, it’s just a scumbag.”

Seeing this, Xiao Siwen's face was not very good-looking. The main function of the heavy cavalry was to rush into the formation. This did not do much harm to the cavalry of the Liao Kingdom, but in fact, the Liao Kingdom was not all cavalry, at least Yan Yunshi. The six states have a large number of infantrymen made by powerful Han people.

Brother Yelvxiu frowned and said, "This heavy cavalry is not cheap."

Zhao Guangmei smiled and said: "It's okay, it's okay. The horse is a sweat-blooded BMW bought from Hexi. The armor and vest alone only weigh about [-] kilograms of iron. Our Song Dynasty Trading Company now makes armors on assembly lines and electric motors." Bed production, this kind of armor can only produce seven or eight hundred sets a day. It can be expanded during wartime, but it is not interesting. This military unit is really the same in our Song Dynasty. We are all serving as honor guards. If you feel If you’re interested, let’s go to Kaifeng to see the factory when we’re done. If you need equipment, I’ll sell it to you at a cheap price. Come, come, have fun, have fun.”

As he said this, some attendants actually distributed watermelons to them.

In fact, these Long Jiejun seemed to be acting as a guard of honor. Their spears had the flag of the Song Army on them. After entering the city, they divided into two lines and lined up from the city gate to the edge of the parade ground to form a circle. It stopped moving.

However, the people in Luoyang all over the city were excited, and people came to join in the fun. In fact, more than half of these people were from Kaifeng. Seeing the elite equipment and majesty of Long Jiejun, every one of them could not help but scream. Waves of cheers.

After that, the cavalry were still on the scene, but they no longer had heavy armor. They only had a breastplate as protection. The horses were also naked. They looked like light cavalry, but they were not equipped with crossbows.

"This is the main cavalry force of our Song Dynasty Palace. There are two valiant cavalry armies on the left and right, totaling 1 people. They are the most important force to protect our Song Dynasty court. Of course, it is only a mere [-] cavalry, compared with the Liao Kingdom's millions of commanders. Compared with strings, they are really not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning."

While they were talking, the ten thousand soldiers and horses had already entered the school field in formation, but the leading class had already marched out. On the school field, they all took out their rifles and reined in their horses. There was a crackling sound. With a sudden burst of fire, the jars used as targets were smashed into pieces one after another. The range of the shot was more than [-] steps, which made the three prime ministers of Liao Kingdom stand up in one stroke. The people of Luoyang who were watching the excitement cheered in unison and were extremely excited. .

"Is this a musket? How can it be so powerful?"

The Liao Kingdom actually also had muskets, which were not too difficult to manufacture, but the range of the Liao Kingdom's muskets was far less than this, and it was actually so accurate, which is simply unbelievable.

"It's okay, it's okay. In terms of distance, it's actually not as good as the previous Divine Arm Bow. Is it accurate? In fact, it's just that. It's not much better than the Divine Arm Bow. You three, sit down, sit down, stop blocking The audience in the back.”

To put it bluntly, it is just a combination of rifling and nitric acid cotton gunpowder. There is no technical difficulty. Zhao Guangmei told them the principle without even hiding anything. She also kindly said that if you want, I can sell you the equipment and we can produce it ourselves.

The Liao Kingdom had insufficient electricity and nitrate soil, so it was impossible to produce nitric acid cotton gunpowder on a large scale. As for the rifling, it was the product of pure electric machine tools, and the little electricity in the Liao Kingdom was simply not enough.

Technology has widened the generation gap and allowed opponents to learn even though their opponents cannot.

These three are all knowledgeable, especially Brother Yelu Xiu and Yelu Xiezhen. As Yelu House grows older, most of the military power of the Liao Kingdom is in their hands. Of course, they understand Zhao Guangmei's intimidation.

This thing is indeed not as powerful as the Divine Arm Bow, but the Divine Arm Bow, which weighs more than 80 pounds and requires two people to operate it, cannot be run on horseback.

Knight cavalry!This is not a small number of elites from the Song Dynasty, but the main force of the Dianqian Division, totaling more than 1 people.

Thinking like this gave them a headache.

Of course, in fact, Zhao Guangmei is also bragging. The production of nitric acid cotton in the Song Dynasty is not that rich. If we really open up the production, the ammunition pressure will be very high. It is really just a scare. If we fight, it will take several years to accumulate. It only lasts a month or two.

Damn that prodigal Zhao Dezhao just used half a ton in one go.

The Song Dynasty was the era of pseudo-electricity. The electricity generated was all based on water power. Coal-fired generators were being built all the time, but this has never been successful. He was a liberal arts student and didn't understand. It was all up to the local craftsmen to figure it out according to his instructions. After using the nitric acid cotton, the new muskets were not suitable for the cavalry to be loaded with old-fashioned black powder, so they still had to switch to bows and arrows for shooting.

As the heroic cavalry army slowly retreated, the next person came, also a group of cavalry, but when they saw this cavalry, the expressions of the three of them became even worse, as if they had eaten shit.

"Three of you, this is the Khitan tribe that I belong to as the former secretary of the Great Song Palace. I used to be a Khitan tribe, one of the tribes in front of the temple. Unexpectedly, there were more and more Khitans who abandoned the dark and turned to the bright side. The more, no, let them form an independent army. Although our Song Dynasty has now separately transferred the foreign armies of the Hu to form a loyal vassal army, but in order to reflect the friendly relationship between our Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty, we specially made these How about the Khitan cavalry staying in the Dianqian Division? It's not bad. How does it compare to the Liao's Pishi Army?"

The Song Dynasty, no, it should be said that the Khitan Banzhi has been equipped with the Pishi Army of the Liao Kingdom since the Later Zhou Dynasty. Whether it can be defeated is another matter. The key is to pull it out and disgust the Liao Kingdom whenever there is an opportunity. .

Of course, there were also Han people in the Liao army, and some of them fled directly from the Central Plains to form an official organization. Everyone did the same thing.

However, since the founding of the Song Dynasty, especially in recent years, more and more Khitans have come to the Song Dynasty with weapons and horses to become soldiers.

These are all Khitan people, not Yanyun Han people, and there are even more Yanyun Han people. They think it is impossible for the soldiers to give them this opportunity.On the contrary, there are fewer and fewer Song people in the Liao Kingdom.

Xiao Siwen quickly changed his expression and admitted frankly: "The Song Dynasty has become rich in recent years. As the exchanges between the two countries gradually increase, it is understandable that some people secretly come to live in the Song Dynasty. If it were not for the Song Dynasty, It is an undisputed fact that Song Qiang is strong, so how could the three of us come here in person?"

Hearing this, Zhao Guangmei smiled, gave Xiao Siwen a thumbs up and said, "My father-in-law is really able to pick it up and put it down."

"It's nothing. If you lose, just admit it."

Next, naturally comes the infantry, especially the most elite Gongsheng Army and the Japanese Army, which have all implemented a comprehensive change of equipment. One is a combination of light and heavy infantry, a three-stage rifled flintlock gun that shoots heavy-armored infantry with both hands. They were closely guarded by big swords, and the other was simply an artillery brigade. They used small cannons to fire at the designated targets, directly blowing up the small town specially built on the school grounds to pieces.

On the palace wall, Empress Dowager Du took the lead. All the civil and military officials applauded. The people in the city also cheered vigorously. A group of military governors outside also clapped in cold sweat. Zhao Guangmei took the opportunity to say calmly. :
"To be honest, the combat ability of our officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty Forbidden Army has actually deteriorated. Life is getting better day by day. There is nothing we can do about it. It is a taboo for the army to not fight after being trained for a long time. Recently, Corruption in the military has also been revived. My eldest brother has told me many times that this will not work. In the next few years, we must, must, find an opponent with enough weight to let the frontline commander Went out to practice.”

"To be honest, I'm scared too. Although the weapons and equipment of our Song Dynasty are getting better and stronger, fighting in the end still relies on people. If people are not good, no matter how advanced the weapons are, they are just like those of the transport brigade. Captain, although the current group of children also grew up in the military camp, their murderous nature, blood spirit, and military literacy are actually far worse than their parents. There are too many people who live in good times. I started to be scared to death.”

"So my opinion is the same. Now, when all the veterans who founded the country have not retired and the soldiers are still brave enough, try to fight all the battles that should be fought for future generations. You said, I think so, right?”

Xiao Siwen turned to look at him and said: "The three of us came here with sincerity. That's it. Let's talk about the conditions. How many shares can we get and how much loan can we get?"

"With a loan of one billion yuan, we will build a railway from Jizhou, Yanzhou, and Yunzhou to connect with Xiongzhou and Taiyuan in our Song Dynasty respectively. In our Song Dynasty, we will also build railways to Taiyuan and Xiongzhou respectively. Work will start at the same time. As long as the tracks are merged, supplies from the north to the south will flow unimpeded from now on. Daliao will naturally be able to sell more than just horses and slaves. We will also build a railway to the Liao Kingdom and go to Beijing."

"For the common people, railways will naturally lead to a better life, and mineral resources can circulate freely. For example, my brother and his navy need huge pine trees. There are a lot of them in Liao Kingdom. If there are coal and iron ore deposits, there will be more and the usage will be large. It will not be a problem for the people to live a good life. It will not be a problem for cities connected to trains to have electricity. I guarantee that the people's lives will be much better because of this railway. .”

"For you, building a railway requires a lot of steel. It is no exaggeration to say that our Song Dynasty alone used countless steel from Kaifeng to Luoyang, and even private iron factories and iron ore mines owned by trading companies , and coal mines, they have all made a lot of money in these years, and the price of steel has more than tripled compared to three years ago. I remember that you control the iron ore in Liao Kingdom?"

"Of course, this is just a small thing. Land acquisition is a big trouble. You don't know how much money I spent just on land acquisition. Hey~"

To be honest, this was the founding king of their generation, and with Zhao Guangmei's reputation, everyone knew that he was a ruthless person and did not dare to be too presumptuous, otherwise just acquiring land would be a huge trouble.

Once power is delegated to administrative units at the county level or below, all kinds of troubles will inevitably occur. This is only a short section from Luoyang to Kaifeng, which is the core area of ​​the Song Dynasty.

Who knows what will happen to Yao Mozi when the railway is being overhauled, Zhao Guangmei is already ready to kill again.

But for those Liao nobles, this was an opportunity.

Because they can plan where the railway will go, the compensation for demolition will be transferred from their left hand to their right. The one billion loan they gave them will set aside the compensation money.

The three of them definitely don't care about money, but those people below them who are doing the actual work cannot possibly care.

It is the same in any dynasty. The closer to the end of the dynasty, the more greedy the bureaucratic class will be, because if they are not greedy anymore, they may not be greedy anymore. When the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, the more money they have in their hands, the more they can protect their families. Safety.

In other words, the interests of the bureaucratic class and the ruling class are actually completely opposite. This can be said to be true in the current Liao Kingdom. Song money is now a hard currency in the Liao Kingdom, and the exchange rate of Liao money is almost impossible to read.

"Of course, the most important thing must be the shares. After the merger of Liaoguo Commercial Bank and Dasong Commercial Bank, there will be a large-scale split, and then listing and financing. We will talk about how to allocate the shares later, but I can assure you If all the shareholders of Liao Guo Commercial Bank, large and small, are added together and all the money is distributed when the company is split and listed, the total value will not be less than 100 billion yuan."

"As for political power, shareholders of commercial banks are marrying each other, which naturally includes you. I can promise you that in the future, the railway will be built, Song and Liao will be merged into one family, and the sixteen states of Yanyun will be under the direct control of the Central Committee of the Song Dynasty, but there will be another big government Father-in-law, you will temporarily take over the post of governor. We will discuss the appointment of the prefecture magistrate required by the sixteen states. When Feng'er grows up someday, you will step down and let him take over. Feng'er is my son, his surname is Xiao. , but he is also from the royal family of the Song Dynasty and is listed as one of the future princes of the Song Dynasty."

After thinking for a while, he couldn't help but cover his face and said: "It's unfortunate for our family. There is no one in this generation of our old Zhao family who wants to be emperor. The next generation... who knows if there will be another generation. If Feng'er wants to be, he can't. The hope is really great, haven’t you seen that we have pushed Old Xue up now?”

As he said this, he couldn't help but rub his eyebrows.

Lao Xue said that he would work for another two years at most, and he would be beaten even if the affairs of the household department were settled.

Damn it, such a great country can't find anyone willing to be emperor.

Did you agree that the country will never be without a king for a day?

We don't pretend that the emperor is a false king. In modern Europe, his power should be second only to the president of Gaul, and much higher than the power of the general commander of a modern country.

"There are also two great kings. Among the four roads of the Liao Kingdom, Zhongjing Road, Shangjing Road, Linhuang Mansion, and Tokyo Road, each will set up military envoys to absolutely guarantee your political, economic, and even judicial power in these Khitan hometowns. To put it bluntly, , except for Yelu Xian, if you mess with me, I will never let you suffer."

(End of this chapter)