It had only been ten years since the Xiangjun Mansion was established, and the stone steps of the Ministry of War Yamen were stepped on by the generals of the seven military mansions.
I don't know why the rumor that the Ministry of War is going to reduce its armaments has spread. Although everyone understands the truth, when their own personal interests are harmed, no one will obey the greater good and ignore the small gains.
This time, Su Ce had no intention of getting involved and reducing armaments. This matter could be big or small. Gong Xiangcheng of Chu State led the nobles to quarrel with the civil servants in the court for three days in a row. The sage knew not to force the military too much.
Otherwise, culture will outweigh military strength. With the surrounding enemies watching eagerly, reducing military preparedness will undoubtedly harm one's martial arts.
Therefore, the sage Zhao Yumin also learned from Su Ce's tricks and allocated two million guan from the inner government to the Ministry of War for military equipment repair.
The Secretary of the Ministry of War knew that this matter was a hot potato, so he simply took out 100,000 guan from the treasury of the Ministry of War and 300,000 guan for each military mansion to repair armaments and sent them to the seven military mansions on the same day.
Now the headache has become the seven military mansions. How to repair them has become a headache for the seven military mansions. I don't have the energy to argue with the Ministry of War in the court. At this time, how to spend the three hundred thousand yuan that I got in vain?
It's giving me a bit of a headache.
Is 300,000 guan too much? It's not much. It's really not much for the Northern Army. It takes two guan to make a first-class horizontal sword. The cost of a spear and a bow is the same, and for a large-headed armor, a set of armor costs five
Sixty guans, a set of fish scale armor is nearly 100 guans, and the cost of Shanwen armor and bright light armor is easily several hundred guans, 300,000 guans seem to be too much. If the infantry elites are calculated as one hundred guans, they can only make up for three thousand elites.
Weapons and equipment, while the elite cavalry can only muster a thousand cavalry.
As for the troops under the Northern Army Mansion, there are nearly one million people on and off guard, 60% of whom are wearing armor. There are nearly 600,000 men wearing armor, which took hundreds of years to save.
Therefore, Su Ce gave up the plan to redesign the weapons from the beginning, and could only work on the weapons. For example, the horizontal knife needed to thicken the blade, the long gun needed to add ribs and length to the head, and the arrows also needed to adjust their shape. These are all
In order to increase the ability to break armor.
As for the large-head armor, we can only set a minimum standard. As for the previous experimental baggage vehicles, we can only make up a hundred thousand troops for use. The Northern Army Mansion cannot support any more.
Therefore, the 300,000 yuan can only be used to repair military equipment. After Su Ce handed over these matters to the Fourth House of the Northern Army Mansion, he began to communicate with the Northern Army nobles about raising troops in the future. However, the Northern Army nobles seemed to be still immersed in this.
In the past glory of the Northern Army, Su Ce could only temporarily suppress his worries.
From this incident, Su Ce also saw the future crisis of the Northern Army Mansion, or the crisis of the Four Sides Army and the Central Military Mansion based on the government military system.
The soldiers of the government need to prepare their own weapons. Although the Ministry of War will provide some money and food, it is only a small number. Take Su Ce as an example. When he joined the army, he had a bow, thirty arrows and quiver, a horizontal sword, and a collar.
There are also war horses, plus the supplies and money needed for public utensils in the army. Su Ce's joining the army cost him fifty guan of his family's money. It is true that the Ministry of War and Household Affairs allocated fields to Su Ce's family, but the output of the fields
It also needs to be saved up.
The remaining gaps were given by Li Sizhe from the Anbei Protectorate, such as spears, crossbows, etc.
As a soldier, if there is a war, you can maintain a balance of payments by relying on the spoils of war, and you can even make some money. However, if there is no war and you lose the spoils of war, the military government will soon be faced with a situation where it cannot support troops. This is why the North The reason why the three military governorates currently only have a total of 210,000 troops garrisoning them is that they really cannot afford to raise more troops.
The crisis in the Beijun Mansion is not a bad thing for Su Ce. The more money and food he draws from the Su Mansion, the more powerful Su Ce's voice will be in the Beijun Mansion.
After the Dragon Boat Festival meeting with the sage Zhao Yumin and the prince Zhao Zaicheng at De Sheng Lou, the distinguished generals of the Northern Army Mansion led by Su Ce stopped to attack and defend the East Palace. However, there was always a thorn in people's hearts. What the prince did back then was... It broke the hearts of everyone in the Northern Army.
In fact, no matter who sits in the palace, it will not have a big impact on the Northern Army, but it will affect the upper levels of the Northern Army Mansion. A saint has made peace. For the sake of the saint, the Northern Army Mansion will no longer attack and defend the East Palace. However, If it is not fired, the arrows of the Northern Army hanging high above the head of the East Palace will one day fall.
The king's body, the minister's methods, this is why it is always said that the prince's methods are gloomy.
As a king, he does not enter the chess game, and even chess players can do it. However, the prince sacrificed his life to enter the game, and the cost was just to win the support of the Western Military Mansion.
Su Ce has also reflected on the past while handling the official affairs of the Northern Army these days. The prince is a little too anxious. The three prime ministers and prime ministers have been replaced many times in the court, which has caused instability in the court. The prince is in urgent need of a force that can suppress the court. The Northern Army did not provide this power, so the prince had no choice but to borrow power from the other three-sided mansions at that time. Only the Western Army's forces were available to the three-sided mansions at that time. It is no wonder that the prince made a foolish move.
Being in the middle of the situation and having unclear vision is not the fault of the prince. The root cause is that the subordinate officials of the East Palace want power. The prince has the power to supervise the country. If the subordinate officials of the East Palace are promoted to Liubujiu Temple, the young and strong civil servants who follow the prince will only become worse. loyalty.
But the prince Zhao Zaicheng forgot that the sage Zhao Yumin was still on the throne, and the officials he replaced were single-handedly promoted by the sage Zhao Yumin.
If you don't advance in the officialdom, you will retreat. The saint and the prince are father and son, but when Donggong became a minister of the dragon and became an important minister of the court, he was naturally unwilling to give up his power prematurely.
The instability in the court is, in fact, at its root, a fight between two groups of East Palace ministers. Just because of the Crown Princess incident, the East Palace was questioned by the world. The Crown Prince saw that Jiuhu was about to be destroyed, so he was too anxious to make meritorious deeds to prove himself to the world. Although the usefulness of martial arts as a prince is unknown, his martial arts has the power to destroy the country and destroy his mortal enemies.
But the prince Zhao Zaicheng never expected that the backlash from the Northern Army would cause him to almost defeat Dongchuanhe.
Su Ce was born in the Northern Army, later served in the East Palace, then in the Forbidden Army, and finally returned to the Northern Army. Logically speaking, he had an old relationship with the prince, but Su Ce could not help the prince, and even became the vanguard of the Northern Army's resistance to the prince. This is Su Ce voted for the Northern Army's superiors, otherwise Su Ce's position as the leader of the Northern Army would not be stable.
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As for the aftermath, the saint came forward to reconcile with the prince on behalf of the Northern Army, Su Ce, but the two sides did not want to cause turmoil in Daqian, and who was not an actor.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the prince sent his servants several times to invite Su Ce to go hunting outside the city, but Su Ce refused because he was busy with new affairs in the Northern Military Mansion.
Even Su Ce only showed up at the court once on the first day of each month. The sage Zhao Yumin understood that Su Ce was trying to reduce his influence in the court. The ministers should behave appropriately. The sage Zhao Yumin also issued a special oral order. After the first day of the court meeting, there is no need to go to court on the remaining days to deal with military affairs.
After all, the Ministry of War and the nobles in the court have already put too much pressure on the civil servants. If seven military leaders with large armies come to court, the civil servants will be hampered in their work, and what will happen if the officials finally have a chance to recuperate? rise.
The sage Zhao Yumin has a steelyard in his heart. Civil and military conflicts can occur but cannot cross the line. Military generals can be arrogant in war, but civilian officials will accept some grievances. In non-war times, civilian officials must still be reused, but the generals' face must still be maintained. The balance between civil and military affairs means that military commanders should not bow their heads and civil servants should not be unruly. This is the bottom line.
A while ago, the civil servants wanted to reduce their military equipment. This was undoubtedly to make the military generals bow their heads. The sage Zhao Yumin stopped the civil servants. Otherwise, the army would be unstable. The seven-army guard in Chang'an City would be able to make those in the court shout, "Horse release Nanshan, swords and guns." The pawns who entered the treasury disappeared from Chang'an City silently.
Only by having mutual concerns and checking each other can we achieve a balance between civil and military affairs.
However, the sage Zhao Yumin also understood that for the army generals, they have the ability to overthrow the court from beginning to end, but they just don't want to, after all, the ultimate goal of the army is to ensure the stability of Daqian, otherwise those who are on the border of Daqian will be useless. The desperate struggle in the land will be meaningless.
When the affairs of the Northern Army Mansion were on track, Su Ce rarely attended the last court meeting in June.
The court meetings in Daqian are divided into large court meetings, small court meetings, large court meetings on the first day of the lunar month, and small court meetings held every third day on the other days.
Su Ce got up early in the morning. Under the night sky with the shining star, thirty personal guards were guarding Su Ce's carriage, and fifty Xuanwu guards were guarding the front and rear.
"Mr. Lang, we're here!" Luo Yang glanced at the towering palace walls and gates in the night.
Outside the Suzaku Gate!
On the huge long street in front of the towering palace gate, the guards of the palace were guiding the carriages and entourage of the civil and military officials who went to court. On both sides of Zhuque Street, Su Ce got off the carriage, and the guard Lang Guan introduced Zhuque. Gate, walking north along Chengtianmen Street, Su Ce smiled and nodded to the nobles, generals, and ministers from time to time.
"Crunch..."
"Crunch..."
"Boom!"
The heavy Chengtianmen palace gate was pushed open by Yu Linlang, and Su Ce walked quickly to the ranks of the noble generals holding the sword on his waist.
"Marquis of Jingyang County, why are you here today?" Gong Xiangcheng of the State of Chu was leading a group of distinguished nobles from Anbei while walking. Suddenly there was a noise behind him and he turned around to see Su Ce among the crowd.
"I'll come whenever I want!" Su Ce responded casually. Su Ce was still a little troubled when he got up early.
"Why did you come here today? Aren't you going to give us some air?" Gong Xiangcheng of Chu State pulled Su Ce to his side and asked in a low voice.
"I haven't come for a while, and I miss the saint!" Su Ce didn't have the energy to chat with Gong Xiangcheng of Chu State.
"Forget it, you kid has a gap in your heart. Those civil servants are a little restless these days!" Duke Chu pointed at the team of civil servants on the other side.
"Restless? Then let them be calm!" Su Ce raised his eyelids and glanced at the noisy civilian team. Compared with the quiet and neat team of noble generals, it was a mess. Su Ce was strict in managing the army.
Naturally, I can't see the mess.
"Come on, let's go find my people! Come and say hello!" Su Ce came over just to say hello to Gong Xiangcheng of Chu State, waved his hand to a circle of honorable men, and then walked to the back of the team.
Behind the nobles is the team from the Seventh Army Mansion. There are seven people in a row. Among them, the one closest to the center of the road is the general in purple from the Beijun Mansion. Su Ce was not polite and walked to the head of the team. Today, the general in purple from the Beijun Mansion is here.
Twenty-five, there are five generals in purple at the headquarters of the Beijun Mansion, who are Su Ce's deputies, and five generals in purple from each of the four subordinate houses are in charge of affairs in the Beijun Mansion.
The twenty-five generals in purple who came today are the twenty-five generals under the command of the Council of Generals.
They are also the twenty-five youngest generals in the Beijun Mansion. These people were all promoted by Su Ce personally, so they respect Su Ce the most.
General, the seventy-five generals in purple were divided into three batches. Su Ce did not interfere. This was divided by the Northern Army generals themselves. The twenty-five generals in charge were the most senior, and the twenty-five generals in the garrison were slightly less senior. As for the participating generals,
No matter how young the qualifications of the twenty-five generals appointed by the academy are, the twenty-five generals appointed by the academy have one common characteristic, that is, they are young.
They are all under the age of thirty, and they are all newly promoted generals in purple clothes who were promoted during the Battle of Dongchuan River.
They are all labeled as direct descendants of Su Ce. As for the twenty-five generals in charge, they have more or less the shadow of nobles, and the twenty-five generals of the garrison are all generals of the Northern Army. The generals are in the big dyeing vat in Chang'an City.
It was too easy to cause trouble, so Su Ce made a transfer to the general in purple in May. This transfer also allowed the Northern Army to achieve a delicate balance between the noble generals and the military leaders. The nobles wanted power, and the generals wanted merit. Su Ce
Want the future.
Originally, the Northern Army Mansion was composed of five commanders from the headquarters and five commanders from the four courtyards, but today Su Ce had a whim and wanted to see how loud the voices of the civil servants in the court were.