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Chapter 423 Let the Ai family go and check it out! (third change)

Chapter 422

And Meng's daughter secretly glanced at Gao Taotao's direction, turned her gaze back, and landed on Zhao Xu's face. Now Zhao Xu seems to be a different person, no longer rejecting others like Cai Cai just now Besides, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in my heart, and subconsciously replied. "I'm afraid that the empress will blame my servant for being unvirtuous..."

Zhao Xu couldn't help but smile, originally, he thought she was a girl who kept to the rules like the little emperor's grandmother, but he really didn't think about it, it turned out that those were just her disguise.

And here, after hearing Wang Yang's words, Gao Taotao couldn't help sitting up straight and reprimanded lightly. "Stop talking nonsense, the Xiang soldiers are my Song army, how can they be used for labor?"

"Your Majesty, I have already inquired about it before. The establishment of this Xiangjun was intended to bring together those displaced from Beijing due to the disaster. Moreover, there are many old, weak, women and children among the Xiangjun..."

"Naturally, but since they have joined the Xiang Army and have their salary, they should be able to support their families. Moreover, the imperial army of the Great Song Dynasty will recruit elite soldiers from the Xiang Army to serve as the imperial army..."

"Your Majesty said, I know about it, but before I entered the palace today, I encountered a group of Xiang troops, all of them were old and weak, and none of them were young and strong. Such a team cannot be practiced. Second, they won’t be able to go to the battlefield, so it’s better to hand them over to humble ministers.”

"Wait, you said that Xiang army, there are only old and weak in the team, not young and strong?" Gao Taotao suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Yes, Weichen stopped by the side and waited because the Xiang army team happened to pass by. Weichen has been carefully looking at it. There is a team of more than a thousand people, but they are either twelve or thirteen to fifteen years old. Six years old, or an old man in his forties to 60s, none of them are young and strong." Wang Yang replied very firmly.

"How is this possible? I remember that during the review last year, I still remembered that although the Xiang army was not as strong as the imperial army, they were all young and strong. How could it be..." Zhao Xu also raised his eyebrows curiously.

Gao Taotao's face became more and more gloomy. After taking a deep breath, Gao Taotao said calmly. "Soldiers are the great affairs of the country, and the army is the sharp weapon of the country..."

"But ma'am, if the army is well-trained and elite, it can be a powerful weapon for the country, but those side soldiers, in the eyes of my ministers, really don't look like soldiers at all, and they can't go to the battlefield at all."

"Furthermore, the reason why Emperor Taizu established the Xiang Army in the past was to enable those people who lost their homes due to disasters and had no food and clothing to make a living. The renovation of public toilets in Bianliang will allow some Xiang Army to leave their military status and rely on Wouldn't it be nice to work hard to support the family, which not only reduces the burden on the country, but also allows them to support themselves?"

Gao Taotao was a little distracted before, but what Wang Yang kept talking about there also made her feel that it made sense.

After a long time passed, Gao Taotao waited until Wang Yangtao had finished speaking non-stop, and then said calmly. "Aijia needs to think about it first, you should step back first."

Looking at the empress dowager's expression, Wang Yang couldn't see any emotion at all, and he didn't know if she listened to it, let alone whether she answered or not, so he just nodded. "Then the humble minister can just resign. By the way, my lord, there are still five days at most, and the renovation of the toilet ditch in the palace can be completed."

After Wang Yang left these words, he said goodbye to Gao Taotao and Zhao Xu. Of course, he did not forget to salute the young woman sitting next to Zhao Xu. He was not blind and could clearly see Zhao Xu. The hooligan looked at the charming young woman with eyes like a big bad wolf.

After Wang Yang left, Gao Taotao also noticed that there seemed to be something wrong between Zhao Xu and the Meng's daughter, but this kind of wrong was exactly what she was willing to see.

The corners of her mouth could not help but slightly twitched, and she found an excuse for being tired, and asked the Meng's daughter to send Zhao Xu off on her behalf.After seeing the two leave, the smile on Gao Taotao's face gradually dissipated.

"Successful, you can go and find out for Ai's family. Which commander is under the jurisdiction of the team of soldiers in the city today? The important thing is to find out for Ai's family. Why is there no Young and strong?"

Although Gao Taotao's tone seemed very calm, Xu Degong still saw that Gao Taotao's fingers were habitually tapping there lightly.

And Xu Degong, who was familiar with the Empress Dowager, knew very well that this meant that the Empress Dowager was extremely angry and angry, but she was just enduring it now.

Xu Degong couldn't help rolling his eyes secretly. Although he didn't know very well about those Xiang troops, he also knew some Xiao Jiujiu in them.

Although the Xiang army almost didn't need to fight on the battlefield, they also acted as auxiliary soldiers. For example, when the army went out to fight, they were responsible for transporting food and grass behind.

Or if a city wall needs to be built in a certain place, or even a government office, people will be drawn from the Xiang army to do it.Therefore, the Xiang Army was also jokingly called the Conscript Army.

However, it is precisely because the Xiang army is mostly composed of refugees, victims of disasters, or people who are waiting for crimes, and because there are almost no battles, the military does not regard it as a robe.

And those local officials often use Xiang Jun as free laborers, after all, their salaries come from the military pay.As long as you have a good deal with the commander of the Xiang army, you can just rely on lip service to say as many people as you want.

Of course, a sum of money will be paid to bribe the commander of the Xiang army. In this way, they do not need to hire a large number of civilians for many projects, and it does not cost much to bribe a commander of the Xiang army.In this way, those local officials will naturally be able to enrich their own pockets from it.

But Wang Yang was a little dissatisfied with these farts about Wang Yang, that old woman Gao Taotao didn't do such simple things for herself, so it would be good to give an explanation on the spot.

It's not like now, when I always worry that I won't be able to complete my bold words.

However, early the next morning, when Wang Yang entered the palace to go to the construction site, he happened to see a group of imperial guards escorting several pale-faced officials, who happened to be dragged away from the side door.

Wang Yang was just stunned, and continued to do his work, but when he returned to the government office in the afternoon, he got the news that it turned out that an army commander and more than a dozen Xiang army officers actually took the The young and strong members of the Xiang army were transferred out to serve as servants in their own houses, and some young and strong members of the Xiang army were even handed over to mine owners in other places to mine.

This made Gao Taotao furious, and immediately ordered that all the officers in this side be locked up and taken to prison for strict interrogation.

According to the military organization of the Northern Song Dynasty, the army is organized into four levels: Xiang, Jun, Ying, and Du. The Xiang governs the ten armies, the army governs the five battalions, and the battalion governs the five capitals.100 people each.

The battalion level is the basic organizational unit of the Forbidden Army. Whether it is for defense, frontier and combat, the battalion is often used as a quantitative unit to calculate the strength of troops.

The organization of Xiangbing is one level lower than that of the imperial army, and there are only three levels of organization, that is, army, battalion, and capital.

As for the soldiers in the army, they will first be handed over to the officials stationed in the Guards and Infantry Division in charge of the Xiang army to appease them. By the way, those young and strong soldiers who were sent out as slaves or went to mines to mine will be found one by one.

　The third update arrived. Well, thank you dear friends for your continued support. The author will definitely continue to work hard.
　　
　
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