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The Imperial Guard was the central army of the Northern Song Dynasty, "called the Emperor's Guards". It was governed by the Palace Front Office, the Guards Horse Army Office, the Guards Infantry Office, and the "Three Yas".

In the early Song Dynasty, the imperial guards swept across the country and destroyed Hou Shu in two months. This imperial guard established by the Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin of Song Dynasty can be regarded as one of the strongest field infantry in Chinese history.

Initially, the jurisdiction of the imperial guards was in the central court and was sent by the capital when they needed to fight.

This management system brought huge supply pressure to the Northern Song Dynasty.

In order to alleviate this pressure, except for the Hanqian Division's Pang Japanese Army and the Tianwu Army, the other imperial guards implemented the "renewal system".

The so-called "retreatment system" is actually the responsibility of guarding and fighting in grain-producing areas, or in border areas.

In order to appease the soldiers, the Northern Song Dynasty imperial court specially stationed troops could bring their families.

In fact, this is no longer joining the army and fighting, but just living a life. Many troops have settled in the grain area and slowly integrated into the local forces.

The soldiers of the imperial guards also began to be sent from the capital to recruitment at the garrison, and their commanders were often held by local officials.

During the Shaosheng period, the Northern Song Dynasty court issued an edict on the prohibition of prefectures and counties to prevent local military and political affairs. In theory, it was to clarify the relationship between the entanglement between the imperial guards and the local area. In fact, it was because the Northern Song Dynasty court had already had nowhere to reach the management of the imperial guards in various places, and the imperial guards, who had lost the constraints of the local chief, began to form their own relatively closed interests system.

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Cai is still incompatible with the current imperial guard system because he is not a local person, but a parachuted.

Therefore, although Cai Shen was a member of the Cai family, after he arrived in Yangwu County, he was still resisted by local forces. The major families in Yangwu County even spoke out that their children would not be allowed to respond to Cai Shen's recruitment, and wanted to force Cai Shen to submit, or even wanted to get a share of the pie from Cai Shen.

Don't think that Cai is still only 500 people, but he has no power at all.

The century-long peace between the Song and Liao dynasties caused many troops of the Northern Song Dynasty to corrupt and decline.

The officials of the Northern Song Dynasty imperial guards who lacked the pressure of war began to use various means to seek benefits, such as eating empty quotas, smuggling with the army, and even servicing ordinary soldiers at will.

Let me put it this way, if another officer who knows how to operate comes to lead the 500 Jinwu Army, he can earn tens of thousands of dollars easily when he is young. If he takes advantage of time and place, there will be no limit.

Undoubtedly, Cai still airborne down and moved the cake of the local forces.

It’s no wonder that the local forces still gave Cai a warning.

In response, Cai still strongly responded directly and immediately announced: The soldiers recruited by the Jinwu army should not be the children of aristocratic families, but only honest and decent farmers.

The "unrestrained annexation" land policy implemented by the Song Dynasty, especially the Northern Song Dynasty, promoted social development to a certain extent, but also led to sharp contradictions between the landlord class and the peasants.

The so-called land annexation is the powerful class that accounts for a minority of the population. It uses its own dominant position to acquire a large amount of land in the hands of farmers through purchases, coaxing, coercion and other means, resulting in a high degree of land concentration.

The consequence of this phenomenon is that there are many farmers who have lost their land and they have a very difficult life.

And the soldiers Cai still recruited were these people.

Although the Northern Song Dynasty respected literature and suppressed military affairs, the income of military men was actually not low. According to Cai Xiang, who served as the envoy of the Three Divisions of the Emperor Yingzong Dynasty, at the beginning of Yingzong, there were more than 1.18 million soldiers in the country, and the number of soldiers in the wing was more than 48 million copper coins per year. On average, each person was about 40 coins per year.

Although the Central Imperial Guard has declined, it is still the most nominal guard who protects the emperor.

In other words, the nominal income of the Central Imperial Guard is actually greater than forty pieces, and on average, each person can earn about sixty pieces per year.

If the military can be given full amount to the soldiers, then joining the army will definitely be considered a high profit.

However, the officials in charge of the army worked together to greatly reduce the actual income of low-level soldiers. The Central Imperial Forces had a large gap, but they were on duty, but in fact they had less than twenty pieces of money. If you want to get a little more, you must know some skills, such as carpenters, lacquers, and stonemasons.

This also led to the fact that the current imperial guards are not good at fighting, but they all have unique skills, and Gao Qiu, the boss of the imperial guards, has also become the largest contractor of this era.

The Jinwu Army belongs to the Central Imperial Army, and in theory, it naturally receives the highest treatment, that is, on average, each soldier can receive sixty cords.

Unfortunately, half of the money was left when Cai Shen came to Cai Shen, and Cai Shen didn't even know where that half was going.

And this is because the big guys saw that Cai still had a deep background and did not do too much, otherwise Cai still might not even get half of it.

Of course, there are also considerations above. If they think about it, if Cai Shen only recruits one or two hundred soldiers, even if they give him enough military pay, there will be a lot of surplus. And how can he give him enough military sound?

But they never expected that Cai was not only planning to recruit 500 people, but also preparing to be a "fool" who made a sound.

Someone may ask, wouldn’t Cai still have to pay money in?

This is natural, otherwise how could Cai still firmly grasp the military power of the Jinwu Army?

It's gone far.

As soon as the recruiting banner was unfolded, Cai still asked someone to place Huang Chengcheng's copper coins around and wrote the sound of the Jinwu Army clearly and posted it on the recruiting wall (just on the side of the recruiting notice), and stated that as long as you are selected to enter the Jinwu Army, you will pay a salary of three months, that is, nine pieces per person (this is just the military salary of the new recruits. As the military age increases, the military sound will also increase).

In this era, one can buy about 200 kilograms of rice or half a piece of cloth, and three kilograms are enough to support a family. In other words, Cai still treats the recruiter absolutely generously.

With sufficient military resources, Cai still gave him absolutely generous treatment, so naturally there were many people who came to the recruitment.

In this case, Cai still has to choose the best soldiers.

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"What? I lost the election?"

At the first trial, a burly man shouted in disbelief.

Not only was the burly man incredible, but many of the onlookers also looked incredible.

I saw this big man, like a black bear, muscles and bones like an iron cow, with yellow hair on his chest, two ribs on his back, thousands of pounds of strength on his arms, and tens of thousands of cold lights in his eyes. Anyone who saw him would give him a thumbs up and say, "Good man!"

Moreover, some people who recognize this good man know that this good man is Xu Meng, a famous hero from far and wide. He has a very good martial arts skills. Even if he has bare hands, Wushao is not his opponent at all.

However, all the heroes like Xu Meng were not selected and were in the initial examination!

This made everyone wonder!

When everyone saw the person chosen by Cai Jian, they were even more puzzled. Except for the black, thick and strong skin, the people chosen by Cai Jian were all more ordinary than the other, and they all looked silly. A few of them were obviously those with short-straits in their minds. To put it bluntly, these people were obviously stupid, stupid, and slow to react. How could they compare to Xu Meng? Everyone really couldn't understand why Cai Jian and the others chose such people to join the Jinwu Army, and they didn't choose a hero like Xu Meng to join the Jinwu Army?

Xu Meng can naturally gain such great fame in Yangwu County, so he can't easily pass it over, especially if he thinks he is right.

Therefore, seeing that he was defeated, and those stupid people were selected, Xu Meng immediately stopped doing it. He ignored the servants of the Cai Shang family who had defeated him, but rushed to the place where Cai Shang was sitting, clasped his fists and said, "General, the villain Xu Meng, a native of Yangwu County, admired the general's reputation and came to join the army, but he did not expect that the villain's enthusiasm for serving the country was exchanged for the result of failing the first exam. The villain asked himself that he still had some force and had a rough understanding of military letters and strategies. I don't know why he was defeated? Please let the general know!"

Cai Shen looked up at Xu Meng and asked without answering, "Are you a city home?"

Xu Meng replied: "The little man grew up in Yangwu County, so he is naturally considered a city man."

Cai still asked again: "Have you ever held a post in the government?"

Xu Meng replied: "The villain has worked as a jailer in this county for two years, so he should have served in the government."

Cai still asked again: "Are you timid?"

Xu Meng replied: "The villain is full of courage."

Cai still summed up bluntly: "You don't meet my recruitment standards, so you lost the election."

Cai still read Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Ji Xiao" and "Strange Soldier Training".

Qi Jiguang's soldiers are four and four not to choose.

The four should not be separated by:

1. People in the city don’t want it.

According to Qi Jiguang's standards, people in the city have seen the world and are not very obedient to the orders of their superiors;

2. Don’t want to hold a post in the government.

Qi Jiguang believes that those who have served in the government are already very familiar with the government system and are full of military power;

People over 30 years old should not, but those with fair skin should not.

Qi Jiguang believed that older people were exhausted, and according to the saying at that time, people with fair skin were all those who did not work much and could not endure hardships;

Fourth, you should not be brave enough, and you should not be brave enough;

Needless to say, such people cannot be considered good soldiers at all, while those with particularly bravery are prone to extreme and aggressiveness.

And the four key points are:

First, farmers should be required to work in the fields every day.

Farmers can endure hardships and have the energy, so what is important is to obey management;

2. Be big, thick and strong muscles.

Needless to say, this post is not in good health, how can you fight a war?

Third, you must have a divine look.

The eyes are the window of the soul, and the eyes are full of spirit, which means that a person has good energy and spirit.

Fourth, you must see the government that is afraid.

Such people obey management and are easily portrayed as elite soldiers.

Cai Jian, who has served as an instructor for many years, has a personal experience of the practicality of Qi Jiguang's military selection standards.

Therefore, the recruitment standards set by Cai Shen this time largely refer to Qi Jiguang's standards for selecting soldiers.

And using this standard to solve Xu Meng, except for being strong, it can be said that none of Xu Meng can meet the standards.

Therefore, Xu Meng was naturally defeated.

Xu Meng said dissatisfied: "The general's method of selecting soldiers is a bit too unique, right?"

Cai Shen looked at Xu Meng and asked, "Are you questioning my method of electing soldiers?"

Xu Meng clasped his fists and said, "The villain dares not, but if the general wants to convince people, he must see the gap between me and the general's carefully selected elite soldiers, right?"
To be continued...