Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 91
"Huang Erzhu, what's the matter with your hands?" Zhao Dezhao would not be so stupid as to think that the festering of his palms was caused by the red injuries suffered by soldiers during drills.

"Your Highness, let me tell you: I work in a dyeing workshop, and I have to dye cloth in a dyeing vat every day. The juice in the dyeing vat is not clean, and it will become like this after soaking for a long time." Huang Erzhu knelt down and said.

Zhao Dezhao turned around to look at Sun Chengli, pointed to Huang Erzhu who was kneeling on the ground with his right hand, and asked in a deep voice, "General Sun, is this man really a soldier of your front office?"

"If you have anything to say, Your Highness, you might as well speak up!" Sun Chengli said with a dark face and the same tone of bluntness.

Zhao Dezhao sneered and said: "Then ask General Sun to teach me, how can a civilian craftsman who works in a paper workshop all day long be a soldier in front of your palace? How can he still come to receive the reward from my father?!"

Sun Chengli had already been beaten by Zhao Dezhao two or three times in order to present the reward today. He had been suffocated for a long time, and now he couldn't bear it any longer, and said in a rage: "Your Highness, do you think it was arranged by the old man?" Can the common people in the outside world accept the reward under false names?! Your Highness has slandered the old man so much, if you can’t explain it clearly, please enter the palace with the old man and come to Shengjia for a comment!"

Shi Yuanliang kept winking at this moment, Zhao Dezhao didn't understand what he meant for a while, so he didn't care about it, he just held on to the question tightly: "This king is asking you something, please General Sun answer this king!"

Sun Chengli blushed, his neck was thick, and he was panting with anger: "Your Highness, what do you want me to answer?! This man is a soldier in front of my palace. He has already said that he is working in the dyeing workshop!" Kneeling with one finger Huang Erzhu on the ground: "If Your Highness suspects that the old man is deceiving, you might as well ask him yourself!"

Zhao Dezhao would not be so stupid as to turn to ask the soldier himself. After he pondered for a while, he still caught Sun Chengli and asked, "What dyeing workshop?"

Sun Chengli rolled his eyes, and snorted with his nostrils turned to the sky: "How does this old man know what dyeing workshop it is?! This old man is a commander in command of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and he can't compare to His Highness's leisure. How can I have time to care about such irrelevant trivial matters?" Trifle!"

Zhao Dezhao held back his breath and said, "The Dianqian Division is the place where soldiers are trained and led, and there is actually a dyeing workshop under their jurisdiction. You, the commander, don't even know about it?!"

As soon as these words came out, the surrounding air changed instantly.

Zhao Dezhao noticed that the gazes of all the people around him were cast over, and everyone's expressions looked very strange, as if they had heard an extremely ridiculous sentence.

"Hahaha!" Sun Chengli raised his head and laughed three times, and then showed a look of looking at an idiot: "Your Highness, what did the old man say that my minister in front of the palace opened a dyeing workshop?"

Zhao Dezhao was really confused when he heard this.

Shi Yuanliang really couldn't see it, so he ran up to Zhao Dezhao abruptly and whispered in his ear: "Your Highness, the dyeing workshop should be the private workshop of the military officers. It is not surprising that the soldiers are forced to work."

Sun Chengli's voice sounded at the same time, his tone full of resentment:

"Officers of all ranks have shops, workshops, farms and other properties, ranging from one or two to dozens of them. Are there any dyeing workshops that His Highness should make a fuss about? Naturally, these properties of officers need to serve the sergeants under their command. We are working hard... May I ask Your Highness, why does this old man need to pay attention to such trivial matters that are completely irrelevant?!"

This time, Zhao Dezhao felt that he was really brainwashed!
Officers of all ranks entrusted their soldiers to work in their own private property, using them as free slave labor. Such an outrageous thing happened in the first-class elite army of the Song Dynasty, and each one of them felt that It is reasonable and habitual, and regards it as an "irrelevant and trivial matter", but instead regards his fuss as an unreasonable idiot!
Even, Sun Chengli was so angry that he jumped up and down, feeling that he was wronged.

What's more, even Shi Yuanliang on his side felt that this kind of thing was "not surprising".

It can be seen from this that the general concept of the army in the Song Dynasty has been distorted to the absurd level of confusing right and wrong!
Zhao Dezhao really didn't know the way of the Great Song Army, so he deliberately bent the boss's corner and dug some people who were familiar with military affairs from Shi Shouxin to listen to them.

But he was 1 convinced in his heart that a group of soldiers who were used as slave labor by officers all day long would never have much combat effectiveness. No wonder the combat effectiveness of Song soldiers has always been known as weak chickens. Not a weak chicken?
It took Sun Chengli two hours to assemble the officials and horses in front of the hall for the review, Zhao Dezhao endured it.

Of the 5 people on the list, there were only [-], and Zhao Dezhao endured the [-] to [-] military salary.

But now it's finally unbearable!
"Come here!" Zhao Dezhao pointed at Sun Chengli: "Get him down!"

The gun-wielding officers of the Golden Spear Squad hesitated and did not move. Only Zhao Dezhao's own two guards of the county palace stepped forward and twisted Sun Chengli's arms from left to right.

Although Sun Chengli was extremely startled, he didn't struggle. He stared at Zhao Dezhao and asked angrily, "May I ask Your Highness, what crime did this old man commit?!"

Zhao Dezhao sneered: "Okay! I will count one by one for you!"

"The army is ineffective, the soldiers are slack, and it takes two hours to assemble for review. This is a crime!"

"Crafting vacancies and drinking the blood of soldiers, the number of registered soldiers is [-], but the actual number is less than [-]. This is the second crime!"

"Allowing officers of all ranks to serve as sergeants, but not thinking anything wrong with him, has no shame, this is the third crime!"

"If you want to commit a crime, why don't you have excuses?!" Sun Chengli's forehead burst into blue veins, and he roared loudly: "When the old man followed the Holy One in the bloody battle, you were just a child with open crotch pants. How can you comment on the old man?"

"Disrespecting the king and being rude are the five crimes!" Zhao Dezhao stared at Sun Chengli's face and said with a sneer, "With these five serious crimes, can you still not be cured?"

After speaking, he shouted: "Hit him ten times with the military stick!"

"Who dares to hit me?!"

Sun Chengli's eyes were wide open, his beard and hair were stretched out, and his roar was like thunder, which made everyone's ears buzzing on the stage.

He looked around defiantly, and said loudly: "This old man is a personal general of the Son of Heaven. Except for the presence of the Holy Majesty, who is qualified to beat this old man? I want to see who has the guts!"

The veteran on the battlefield who has survived a hundred battles spoke out with a sense of power. All of a sudden, the attendants of the Golden Spear Squad, as well as several middle and lower rank generals present, were really stunned. There was a look of fear and fear on the face, and no one took the initiative to take the order.

(End of this chapter)