Chapter 371 Military Reform
In Wang Jinghui's view, Wang Anshi has raised his "financial management for the country" as a banner of reform, which is a mistake in itself. He has the hat of the Qingli New Deal and has set up a new mountain without using it, which is naturally different from the reform led by Fan Arbitration Committee Yan, and he is unwilling to repeat the beginning and end of the Qingli New Deal.
However, this seemed to him a completely wrong starting line. The leaders of the Qingli New Deal, such as Han Qi, Fu Bi, and Ouyang Xiusuo, who were still alive in Dujiangyan City, and the officials who entered the government during the Qingli period have grown into senior officials. As long as Wang Anshi is willing to make the name of the Qingli New Deal, they must first get these people in terms of love. Besides, the current emperor Zhao Xu is definitely not comparable to Renzong. Renzong is generous, but a bit abusive. Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu unfairly upholds the generous bloodline of the Song Dynasty emperor. More importantly, his determination is much stronger than Renzong.
However, Wang Jinghui cannot persuade Wang Anshi to change his family and establish the "Qingli New Policy" as his signboard, and the "Answer the Handwritten Decree" cannot replace the current "financial management for the country". Wang Anshi cannot accept such suggestions emotionally.
Speaking of which, Wang Jinghui is a little unworthy of Wang Anshi in this regard. With Wang Anshi's IQ, he will never look at the name of "Qingli New Policy" to promote his own reform methods. However, Wang Anshi just put it on the grounds of "managing financial services for the country". Doesn't he know that "a gentleman is ashamed of profit"?
This is obviously impossible. The only explanation is that Wang Anshi wants to put this reform on his own strong personal mark.
The thing about keeping name in history is also a great temptation for Wang Jinghui. However, he knew that although Qingyi had many opportunities to keep famous in front of him, most of his affairs were very desolate. He could not take such a big risk for this. Speaking of which, he was just a vulgar person. He liked money. He had no regrets for him. He just wanted to live a peaceful life and broke his life.
In contrast, in this era, many capable people emerged in the Song Dynasty. The task of leaving a name for history was handed over to Wang Anshi, Su Shi and others to complete it. He was unwilling to take any risks, otherwise he would stand up and preside over the reform himself.
In addition to such a big problem, Wang Anshi's reform has reached a critical moment. The only way is to take advantage of the opportunity to win the War of Destroying Xia to change the battlefield to divert the political opponents from their economic focus, thereby alleviating their own pressure.
But what's so bad is that Wang Jinghui put too much pressure on Wang Anshi. After the Baojia Law was abolished, Wang Anshi's other military system reform bills had to wait and see. This result really surprised Wang Jinghui himself, but he immediately realized the reason. When Wang Anshi carried out military system reform, Wang Shao's achievements in seizing Xihe were not a big deal in the eyes of the Song Dynasty's destruction of Xia. Zhong Yan, Yang Chongyue, and even the frost merits of the pseudonym Wang Shun were not inferior to Wang Shao. Wang Anshi's friendship with these famous generals was obviously very problematic, and his advantages in this regard were gone.
"Sir, the reform has been at a turning point at this point, because the reform has touched too many interests of all parties. Therefore, the objections it has attracted are also particularly large. It is better to change the battlefield than to put the recent reform task on military system reform."
Wang Jinghui turned to Wang Anshi and said, "Military system reform is the foundation of the country. Although it has little interest to others, there are not many people involved in it. At least the Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager and other royal relatives have family members in the army. Some time ago, Lu Jia, the Municipal Yishen, asked about offending eunuchs, which was equivalent to offending Empress Cao and Empress Gao. The two foreign relatives in the army must be unwilling to cooperate with their husbands."
It can be said that Wang Jinghui is the biggest obstacle for Wang Tuoshi to dare to use military system reform. These ten people have no power but their influence makes Wang Tuoshi quite afraid. Seeing that these ten biggest obstacles actually "incited" him to carry out military system reform, this is great good news for Wang Anshi.
Wang Anshi was in a much better mood, and he smiled and said, "The Later Father Xiang Jing has always been aware of the pedestrians. Because he implemented the new law of exemption from the implementation of the law, he lost income according to the article and negotiated with the Jing Zeng. He was not paid. For example, Zeng Qi (the younger brother of Mrs. Zeng) bought other people's trees without paying money. Instead, the internal minister complained with a false name. He falsely accused the Municipal Yisi. Is the descendant doing less in this life? As long as he is beneficial to the state, he doesn't have to worry about interfering with the descendant. After all, it is the Song Dynasty, not the Han Dynasty, Empress Lü is in power!"
Wang Jinghui nodded. He had a deep understanding of Wang Anshi's courage. If he had not been working hard for many years, there would be no way to deal with Wang Anshi. Although he was somewhat afraid of the royal family, Wang Tuoshi was not afraid of the royal family in this world. In history, at least when he was in the prime minister, he never gave face to Cao Hou and Xianghou. The despicable attitude of the Shenzong was also extremely determined, which also gave Wang Anshi a certain confidence.
"Although I know a lot about military system, I have a lot of knowledge, but fools will have a lot of thoughts. I have a little experience in my family. If the teacher needs it, I can submit it immediately!" Wang Jingteng said with a smile.
Wang Jinghui naturally had his own ideas about military system reform, but he would not be so stupid that he brought the "department, brigade, battalion, platoon and platoon system of later generations to the Song Dynasty, but only introduced the concept of standardized production from later generations" how the army can be used in depth, etc.
However, Wang Anshi attached great importance to Wang Jinghui's suggestions, which was also the relationship between Wang Jinghui's neutral strategy in wars over the years. If the prince-consort of the little prince-in-law did not understand military affairs, I am afraid that no one among the senior officials of the Song Dynasty would believe it, but only he himself understood in his heart that he was indeed wandering around with half a bottle of water.
"It's not time to go, and you can send someone to get it if you change it!" Wang Anshi said with a smile.
He was really happy that Wang Jinghui was willing to give advice in the reform of the military system. In the past, Wang Jinghui always gave him a hindsight. Only after he had a problem could the prince consort come out to solve it, which made him very passive. However, if he was willing to think about the process of the matter, the prince consort had given him a warning in advance.
Military system reform is something that Wang Jinghui has been planning for a long time, but he will not give up his position before Wang Anshi takes action. He took the initiative to look for Wang Anshi because he could not bear the loss of time. The rebellion of Yizhang tribe has already indicated the instability of ethnic minority areas in the southwest, and the inconvenience of transportation there will further increase the difficulty of quelling the rebellion of the Song Dynasty.
Of course, Wang Jinghui would not wait until the road is repaired before making military plans. The only way is to train troops while repairing the road, which has led to the reform of the entire Song Dynasty military system.
If Wang Anshi is unwilling to take action, he can only join hands with Wang Anshi to promote military system reform, which will also open up a gap in the new reform for Wang Anshi so that he will not stop and continue to rush forward and open the way for him.
With Wang Jinghui's strong suggestion, Wang Anshi's military system reform began with the special forces and military equipment supervision and manufacturing. The special forces were only completed by a special forces trained not far from here. Strictly speaking, this special forces cannot be considered a "regular army", which further highlights that the combat efficiency of special forces is far better than that of ordinary local troops, and even the imperial guards cannot be compared.
Wang Anshi wanted to vigorously develop the special forces, but he did not encounter any obstacles in this regard. At least in the eyes of the conservative Sima Guang, this is still very desirable - "Developing special forces is much easier than Baojiafa!" This is Sima Guang's point of view.
Originally, Sima Guang still had some views on the special forces, because the money required to develop a special forces is probably more than twice that of the Central Army. Their weapons and training are all troublesome things for the very resident institutions. When they are usually stationed, their military pay is about twice that of the imperial guards.
However, Wang Jing was very glad that the Yizhang tribe case gave the conservatives who were afraid of spending money a good example - the cost of using special forces to quell the rebellion is much lower than the cost of using the Xiang Palace or the Forbidden Palace in the past to quell the rebellion. According to Wang Anshi's special forces estimates during the palace system reform, the entire Song Dynasty needed to establish twenty-two special forces in Suzhou, Xingqing Prefecture, Qinzhou, Yan'an Prefecture, Fenzhou, Zhending Prefecture, Hejian Prefecture, Bazhou, Zizhou, Qianzhou, Juzhou, Yizhou, Guiyang, Qinzhou, Jizhou, Hongzhou, Jianzhou, Jiangning Prefecture, Caizhou, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Xuzhou and other places.
Such a distribution basically envelops the entire territory of the Song Dynasty, and the general anti-insurgency task mainly falls on these special forces. Of course, in terms of distribution, there are two special forces in the newly recovered areas of Xixia. They are all "over-organization" like the special forces in Luoyang and Kaifeng, Biandu. Because although the first batch of special forces in the use area are one "command", the number of people is two thousand, which forms a military system practice, that is, a special force is two thousand. As for the super-class system, for example, the two special forces in Xixia are organized to consolidate the security needs of the newly occupied territory because the Song Dynasty wants to consolidate the security needs of the newly occupied territory. The organization is three thousand, while the organization in the capital of the Biandu capital reached six thousand, and the organization in Luoyang is also 4,000.
In this way, the number of special forces will rapidly expand to 50,000, and now, in addition to the one that has become a palace and the one that is being trained, the total amount is less than 5,000. This seems that the gap is still very large. Judging from the equipment and expenses of the less than 3,000 special forces in Jiangyan City, Biandu, even if there is no war, the expenses of such an army will exceed 240,000 guan a year, which is equivalent to the expenses of the seven thousand forbidden palaces. If it is achieved according to Wang Anshi's advanced level, the expenses of the special forces provided by the Song Dynasty alone will reach 4 million guan a year, which is a bit scary. When Sima Guang learned the truth, he wanted to swallow back the words he said.
Wang Jinghui didn't expect that Wang Zishi would make such a big noise. He sighed in his heart: "Wang Anshi is worthy of being a radical. He really wants to eat a fat man in one bite!" Even if his military knowledge is poor, he knows that according to Wang Anshi's plan, special forces will account for more than 5% of the number of the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty. It is difficult to describe the special forces in later generations as one of them. Unless it is like North Korea's first method of picking and doing it like Wang Anshi, will the special forces be everywhere in the streets in a few years?
What Wang Jinghui didn't know was that Wang Anshi had only met with his reformers in the study and came to such a conclusion, and he had never consulted the Privy Council with the most say. Even Wang Shao had too long to ask for this matter and Fang Qi asked about it. He and the backbone of the reformers did not even have a simple calculation of the palace fee. Isn't this a plan too terrifying? It must be said that Wang Anshi is really a "decisive" person. Wang Jinghui regretted having sex with Wang Anshi at this time. Such an impatient attitude may have no other effect than trouble and destruction.
Sudden opposition poured a basin of water on Wang Anshi, but fortunately, the old man was much less angry than before. The ministers and emperor Zhao Xu also expressed their great doubts about this "Great Leap Forward" plan. Although Zhao Xu saved a lot of private money, the purpose was to use it for future wars. However, the annual expenditure of 4 million yuan was not large in his eyes, and it made him feel a little hesitant. Therefore, there was no Wang Anshi's plan.
After learning about the Funing Palace Conference, Wang Jinghui wrote a letter to make achievements and discuss that Wang Anshi should "go slowly". In terms of the current situation of the Song Dynasty, only 10,000 special forces were enough, of which 4,000 were in the Western Xia and 4,000 were in the south. Due to the relatively developed transportation near Biandu, there were originally heavy troops stationed to defend, and a thousand were symbolically placed, and the remaining one thousand was placed in Han Qi to be used as a "road tyrant" - it was enough to go deep into the Liao Kingdom to rob everywhere.
Of course, in the letter, Wang Jinghui also admired Wang Anshi's original plan very much. The plan to build a military 22 special forces proposed by the young Wang Anshi was very reasonable on the map. Unfortunately, the Song Dynasty did not have so much spare money to support it, so it could only wait until the Song Dynasty really had the strength to build such a huge military system before it could be realized.
At least Wang Jinghui would not believe that Wang Anshi still had the opportunity to implement such a huge special forces plan, with a military expenditure of 4 million jin to support 50,000 people every year, and it was scattered all over the place. This is really a bit too extravagant. If the proportion of special forces in the army in later generations was based on the proportion of special forces in the army, the Song Dynasty might have established a conventional force of more than three million people to reach the proportion of 50,000 special forces.
Although Wang x hated Wang Jinghui's "remote control command" of the reformists, he also knew that if it was his turn to plot, he wouldn't be able to pick a few people in this Biandu City as the prince-consort's opponents. Especially when calculating money, he might not be even more of a rival.
For the reformists, it was just a change of numbers on the memorial, but in the eyes of the conservatives, it was a great victory - at least for the first time they forced Wang Anshi to change his original intentions, such as his reform plan was more reasonable.
From 50,000 to 10,000, this number is acceptable to everyone, and the Privy Council led by Wen Yanbo is also very satisfied with it. Although they had planned to expand the special forces in their hearts, it was very difficult. With Wang Anshi's memorial, it would not be much easier.
Judging from the situation, the southwest ethnic minority areas and the newly occupied areas in the northwest will undoubtedly be areas where rebellion is frequent. If the special forces commander is stationed there to quell the rebellion nearby, the work of the Privy Council will be much more trouble-free in the future.
Wang Jinghui was very cautious in the reform of the military weapons supervision of the Song Dynasty. The military industry departments of the Song Dynasty were basically controlled by eunuchs. Although they were not the chief officials, they were distributed in every corner of the military industry. They were responsible for the procurement and other affairs. Although there were no eunuchs or rebellion in the Song Dynasty, Wang Jinghui was still very careful about this. In the past, he got along well with eunuchs and relatives. Even if the emperor sent an order to the son-in-law's mansion, the eunuchs were fighting for it, because Wang Jinghui never stings on rewards to them, even if he passed a message, it would be a few dozen cents of money.
As for the relatives of the foreigners, the relatives of the foreigners accounted for a large part of the business partners of Wang Jinghui. This was also a way for him to use these relatives to eliminate unnecessary troubles, and it was also a way to plan for Old Lady Cao and Empress Dowager Xiang.
The Song Dynasty used the lessons of the Han and Tang dynasties and controlled the power of eunuchs and relatives very strictly, but Wang Jinghui did not think so. At least the Tong Guan, who was a disaster to the country and the people, was in charge of military power. Although Li Xian was a positive figure like Zheng He, he often held military power. During the War to Destroy Xia, Li Xian was the general supervisor. Although the General Staff of the Song Dynasty had been constructed for several years, there was no shortage of senators and military personnel around the emperor, there was still a lack of military supervisors. In the final analysis, the royal family was too suspicious. They were unwilling to lose the candidates for military supervisors, and they were even unwilling to see that the chief general and the military supervisor were both military generals. Emperor Taizu was the best example of the general's peaceful evolution into the emperor. People were very cautious!
Chapter completed!