Zhao Zhen pondered for a while and said, "Qin Feng Road lacks troops, but if he is drawn from other routes, he is afraid of accidents."

Li Di put on reading glasses, looked at the map carefully, shook his head after listening to Zhao Zhen's words: "Other routes cannot be tuned! Xu Ping's memorial also repeatedly said that this year, Dangxiang will inevitably use troops to the east, Fuyan and Linfu, and it is precisely to use troops to those two routes that caused the emptiness of Dangxiang in the western part and was seized by Qinfeng Road. The war concentrated on Jingyuan and Qinfeng Road. Anyway, it will be the next year, and this year, to prevent Dangxiang's invasion will still be in the Fuyan and Linfu Road."

From Xingqing Prefecture to Hengshan area, it is not easy for Dangxiang to move through the desert in the middle. This kind of mobilization was not easy for Dangxiang. At this time, Dangxiang's main force had actually been concentrated on the Eastern Front, but it had not made a large invasion. Yuan Hao urgently needed a quick battle and a victory on the Eastern Front, which put pressure on the Song Dynasty. Then he came to the west and fought for the important area around Huluchuan Valley Road.

Zhao Zhen nodded, thought for a while and said, "Yes, the troops on Fuyan and Linfu Road cannot be transferred. Should we transfer the imperial guards in the capital?"

Lu Yijian said: "Most of the imperial guards in the capital have been transferred, so it is not easy to transfer them again. Besides, except for Qinfeng Road, the other types of people along the border say that the imperial guards in the capital cannot fight, and the cost is too high, which makes the local imperial guards dissatisfied. To supplement the troops on Qinfeng Road, it is better to recruit separately. Now the imperial court has sufficient money and food, and it will be recruited another 100,000 or 200,000 people, and it can still be supported."

When Zhao Zhen heard about recruiting soldiers, he felt a little trembling. After the chaos in the Dangxiang, the army expanded rapidly during this year. During the Tianxi period of Emperor Zhenzong, the number of imperial guards in the world was less than 450,000, of which 380,000 were directly under the imperial guards. Now, the total number of imperial guards in the world has exceeded 600,000, while the number of imperial guards in the three yamen is less than 300,000. A large number of troops were transferred to the northwest. Another one or two hundred thousand was recruited, and then they went straight to the scale of a million imperial guards. This number was really scary.

Li Di said: "The four troops along the border of Shaanxi are 220,000. The two troops in Fuyan and Jingyuan are 70,000, Huanqing and 50,000. The original posts of Qinfeng Road are less than 30,000. Xuping trains the troops and Zhili imperial guards are only more than 35,000. If the war is transferred to Qinfeng and Jingyuan Road next year, Qinfeng Road must increase its troops, and at least it must compare with Jingyuan Road to 70,000 or 80,000 people. It is better to re-recruit, now the three departments are enough to support it. It is only a plan for long-term stability if they take two or three years to defeat the Dangxiang."

When the war with Dangxiang was started, the Khitan was eyeing him and had to increase troops from Hebei and Hedong. Now most of the imperial guards are still guarding against the Khitan, but they cannot move there. Most of the imperial guards in the capital have been transferred out, and they really cannot be adjusted.

The situation is here, and Zhao Zhen has no choice but to say: "In the past one or two years, I will recruit a lot of soldiers. I am afraid that there will be no idle people in the northern routes. Moreover, the young and strong people along the border routes will be the village soldiers and archers even if they are not affiliated with the military."

Lu Yijian understood Zhao Zhen's meaning. Several traditional military sources are located in the border areas. Recruiting people from there is actually a disguised weakening of the local defensive ability. At this time, you should be very cautious.

Seeing that Li Di did not speak, Lu Yijian said, "Your Majesty, Xu Ping proposed to recruit troops from Sichuan and Shu. There are densely populated areas and rich places. Recruiting 100,000 or 200,000 people will not cause scarcity of local manpower."

Yan Shu, who had been silent, shook his head: "The people in Shu are weak and unable to fight, how can they be recruited into the army?"

"All people are ordinary people, why do people in some places have no say that they cannot stand the battle? As long as they recruit people according to the soldiers, only those with Chinese figures will be recruited into the army. What is the difference between soldiers from Hebei and Shaanxi?"

Li Di said: "Shuzheng, that's not what he said. This dynasty has always recruited soldiers from Hebei, Hedong and Shaanxi. The fewer ones are Jingdong and Jingxi Roads, and the fourth Chuanxia Roads and Jiangnan Roads are very few imperial guards. The people there are not only thin, but also not skilled in military affairs. I am afraid that they will make up the numbers when they enter the army, and they will only spend money and food."

Lu Yijian still insisted on his opinion: "Cao Keming led Shu troops into Long, and Xu Ping had tested Shangke. It was Qin Fenglu who proposed to recruit soldiers from Sichuan and Shu himself. They fought on their own, so they should not be talking nonsense."

Although the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty was not small, the source of troops was actually very narrow, mainly three border routes. The imperial guards and generals were also related to this recruitment policy. The three border routes were originally not large in population, and a large amount of manpower was recruited into the army, which directly caused the population growth of these routes to slow down. Xu Ping wanted to recruit soldiers from Sichuan and Shu, not only was it close to Longyou, but it was convenient to recruit soldiers, but also intended to break the traditional recruitment pattern. Only recruit soldiers from the three border routes were recruited, and the relationship between the army and the resistance to reform was too great.

There are naturally differences in population figures in different places, but it is just an excuse to limit the source of troops. Since the Five Dynasties, the main force of the Central Plains regime was derived from the Shatuo regime in the Later Tang Dynasty and formed its own military culture. The source of troops in other regions is not suitable for joining the imperial guards. It is not so much a physical reason as a barrier to this unique military culture.

The military culture of the imperial guards is different from the traditional Central Plains military culture, with a strong Hu color. The traditional generals of the Northern Song Dynasty were either the Chinese Hu people or had a connection with the Hu people. The Han people who were once Hu, including the Yang family generals who were Yang Wenguang. It is extremely difficult for soldiers who were born as scholars in the Northern Song Dynasty to integrate into the imperial guard system, and it is difficult for those who have not served in the military for generations to stand out in the imperial guards, which are all related to this unique military culture.

If he cannot break free from this military culture, the imperial guards cannot be transformed. Xu Ping's reform in the army is on the one hand, and changing the source of the army is on the other hand, so his own army rarely uses the source of troops along the border.

Seeing that Li Di and Yan Shu still disagreed, Zhao Zhen said: "Xu Ping is organized in his work, so he naturally has his own reasons. He wants to recruit troops from Sichuan and Sichuan. I think he has to think clearly that such things can be done by him."

"Your Majesty is wise! Xu Ping's recent memorials tell the story of Zhuge Wuhou's Northern Expedition back then. The ones Wuhou brought were Shu soldiers, and he was not inferior to the battle with the Wei army. It can be seen that Shu soldiers are not unable to fight."

Zhao Zhen nodded and did not say anything. He trusted Xu Ping, but whether Xu Ping could fight could not give him enough confidence just by winning the battle against Yu Zang Huama. Cao Wei won countless honors and relatives and relatives, and he was born in the Cao family. He had countless relatives and friends and old friends to promote him, and the army was praised. Xu Ping was just the opposite. He defeated Yu Zang Huama. The generals and families who spoke around Zhao Zhen all said that the foreign tribes could not fight, and this big victory did not mean that Xu Ping could fight. They also specifically reminded Zhao Zhen that they should not put military power to Xu Ping because of such a huge victory, so as not to make a big mistake in the future.

Because of such a victory, Zhao Zhen was happy that he used Xu Ping right and was in sight of Dangxiang's victory. He was always instilled by the people around him that this victory was nothing. After a long time, his heart was also upset.
Chapter completed!