The current military rules of the Song army have changed. If you kill one, you will get rewards, and if you kill five soldiers, you will get a higher level, and you will increase in order.
The most uncomfortable thing about many soldiers who can cut and kill is not that they have no money to spend, but that they have to read. The eighth-rank official military officer has begun to have an additional requirement, which is to read. The higher the requirements for reading, the higher the requirements.
You don't require you to write articles, but you can always understand them.
Let’s talk about food.
Sixty-five kilograms of coarse grains a month sounds a lot, but people will feel a lot.
Modern people may not even be able to finish thirty kilograms of grain a month because of the difference in side dishes.
The original Song army had almost no side food, and they all depended on food for food.
The Song army is still 65 kilograms of grain now, but it is changed from coarse grains to grains, with fine grains mixed with coarse grains, including rice, wheat, sorghum, and millet. The increase in the amount of side food is huge. Just pickled fish and dried sea fish, the total demand of the troops in various places north of the Yellow River is as high as tens of millions of dan every year.
These are not coastal.
The consumption of pigs and sheep is calculated by millions of heads every year.
There is no way to calculate dishes like radish.
There were thousands of military vegetable kilns in Zhending Prefecture, and the annual storage capacity was as high as tens of millions of dan. It was not only enough for the military to need, but also sold a little to earn some money for the people.
Let’s talk about Bianliang.
The incident of the Bianliang City earthquake was resolved, and some officials began to sort out earthquake relief matters and summarize plans.
This disaster relief plan was originally studied by Wang Dan and others before, but the official rescue was added.
Because Liu An's earthquake prediction was accurate, the official documents began to be placed in various prefectures, especially the other six prefectures predicted by Liu An, requiring preparations for prevention and disaster relief.
This matter should be over, in theory.
But Bianliang City has become even busier, and the ships on the pier have become more and more. Several battalions have been training and sorting out their arms from morning to night.
In Zhaixing Pavilion, the purchase of medicinal materials began to double, one plus several times.
Liu An also finished his work and came to Zhaixing Pavilion Hotel.
Yelu Longqing also set up a small banquet to prepare good tea.
Before Liu An entered the door, Yelu Longqing got up and poured a glass of wine for Liu An. Liu An looked at the wine glass and grinned: "Have you poisoned this wine?"
"It's down, do you dare to drink it?"
"It shouldn't be. Sometimes I want to use a knife and it's a moment of impulse. Generally speaking, when this impulse passes, people feel at peace, and there will be no second time. When we reach our identity, there will be impulse, but sometimes when people think about it, they will naturally become more profitable."
Yelu Longqing nodded: "It's reasonable."
"Is there something wrong?"
"have."
"Eat first, eat half of it before talking about things. I'm really hungry. I'm afraid I can't even eat anything you say." After Liu An said that, Yelu Longqing didn't answer, picked up the chopsticks and started eating.
After the meal on the table was really half reduced, Yelu Longqing spoke: "Almost even children in Bianliang City know that you are going to attack Qu Yue."
Liu An slapped his head: "I don't know if this is the one who talks too much."
"Don't pretend, don't mess around, it's boring."
"Okay, don't pretend, you say."
Yelu Longqing leaned back slightly, held his hands behind his chest, stared at Liu An for a cup of tea, then said: "I have studied you, and some people say that you are from a merchant and you can't get up early without profit. This seems reasonable, but it's not enough. I think Qu Yue must have great value, not simple profit."
"That's right, Qu Yue is indeed a strategic location. It is very important there."
This is the truth, Yelu Longqing could hear it.
Yelu Longqing said again: "I, the Great Khitan, accompany you to fight Qu Yue."
“Why?”
Liu An didn't understand why Yelu Longqing had to participate in this matter. The Song and Liao dynasties had an alliance, but it was an alliance without a war, and there was absolutely no relationship between an offensive and defensive alliance.
"Why, because our Great Khitan is declining and is trapped by you again, and if you don't seek change, there may be no obvious harm in ten years, but twenty years may not be necessary, and fifty years may be difficult to protect yourself."
Liu An didn't answer the conversation, nor looked up, and continued to eat on his own.
Yelu Longqing didn't expect Liu An to react immediately. He didn't care about how much Liu An heard, and said to himself: "In the New Year, the Jurchens paid tribute and surrendered to my Great Khitan. From the map, our Great Khitan is more than three times the territory of the Song State, but what about it."
Yelu Longqing stopped: "You say, I listen."
Liu An shook his head: "I won't say it."
"You must say it, I will give you thirty golden martened fur."
This makes people feel a little excited.
Liu An put down his chopsticks: "To the north is an ice field, to the east is a sea. You are not good at moving in the water. To the west is very interesting. It is said that the grassland surrenders to you, but in fact, even the five major tribes are all ambitious, but they are not strong enough, or they have no chance to attack. To the south, we are the Song Dynasty."
"That's right."
After the Battle of Youzhou, Yelu Longqing reflected deeply on why he was defeated.
In the end, he found that if the Song Dynasty was a weak soldier, they could win. But once the Song Dynasty fought desperately, there would be problems with the Khitan military system.
Take the Battle of Datong for example. The Liao army suffered less than 20% of the war losses and began to collapse. The Song army had a unit responsible for cutting off key roads, and the war losses exceeded 50% and were still defending the dead.
Judging from morale.
The morale of the Liao army rose quickly, but once the attack encountered resistance, its morale began to decline rapidly.
The Song army surrounded the Liao army, and the Liao army was preparing to fight to the death. When the Song army shouted, put down their weapons, they would eat food, neither kill nor hurt. At that time, half of the Liao army threw away their weapons.
Death in battle, no pension, no medical treatment when injured.
It is this reason that the Liao army was unable to fight a tough battle, so that it was defeated by Datong and that it was captured.
Yelu Longqing wants to change.
He had just tried the Song army's method of military pay, military equipment, military uniforms, medical treatment when he was injured, and pension when he died in battle. As a result, as soon as the budget came out, Yelu Longqing was powerless.
No money.
The Song army was reorganized and became stronger and stronger.
However, the Liao army was not as good as before. The nobles were too greedy and the low-level soldiers were resentful. If this continued for a long time, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Therefore, Yelu Longqing wanted to seek change.
Liu An said at this time: "You really have golden marten fur."
“Yes, but very few.”
"The golden sable is a variant of the sable. It has a sparse ethnic group and as far as I know, it may not be available from Zhongjing, your Liao Kingdom, to the north. It can only be two thousand miles away, and it will only be available on the extreme ice field. How did you get it? I sent someone."
Yelu Longqing sighed inwardly that Liu An knew a lot, and replied: "Ten years ago, I sent 500 people north, and only 37 people came back."
Chapter completed!