Jia Yucun hesitated for a moment and glanced at Xue Jun beside him.

He is a native of Huzhou, and he is studying and being an official in Jiangnan, well, Yangzhou is not Jiangnan, but it is also close to the edge of Jiangnan, and he really doesn't know much about the situation in Shandong.

This sudden chaos made him also confused, and he didn't know what to do for a while, and he couldn't come up with many coping strategies.

But seeing Feng Ziying ask him, if he didn't even have an answer, he was afraid that he would be underestimated, and maybe he would be used as a scapegoat when he was really cornered.

"Brother Feng, I am also a newcomer, and I am not familiar with the situation of this Shandong boundary, but I also know that the first line of this canal is the hinterland of Shandong, and there is always a garrison, even if this guard is mobilized, I don't know if there are battalions along the first line of the canal?"

The Great Zhou Dynasty followed the Ming system, except for the north and south of the two capitals, with the Weisuo army as the main military force, but the Great Zhou Chengping eighty years, except for the north of the nine sides and the south of the Fujian, Zhejiang and coastal frontiers need to face the Mongols, Jurchen rangers and sea pirates, the inland areas are generally calm.

Even if there were occasional bandits, they were extinguished immediately, so in the past one or two decades, the guards have become increasingly eliminated and weakened due to insufficient military resources.

For example, the Linqing Guard should have 5,600 guards according to the Great Zhou Dynasty, but the Great Zhou Dynasty followed the Ming system, and in fact, more than two-thirds of them were reduced to garrison soldiers, that is, the so-called military households, mainly in Tuntian, and they had long been no longer accustomed to military affairs, but only used as a fixed source of military personnel.

And there are only more than 1,000 people who really retain the establishment, and among these more than 1,000 people, there are also old and weak, and half of the soldiers who can pull out the battle are already Amitabha.

However, in the inland provinces, in addition to the guards of the various guard posts, there were battalions stationed in key places.

This battalion was basically drawn from the elite of the guards, and was led by battalion officers such as the chief soldier, deputy general, staff general, guerrilla, and garrison.

In other words, these forces are equivalent to the emergency forces of the provincial garrisons, and they are the troops that can really be used to fight tough battles, and they must not only accept orders from the military headquarters to fight on the border at any time, but also be responsible for the stability of a place, and the current guard army has been reduced to an ordinary public security force, and it is difficult to support the overall situation.

Feng You glanced at Jia Yu Village, this Jia Yu Village is also powerful, and asked the key in one sentence.

With the current bandits in Linqing City, I am afraid that even if the hundreds of guards come back, they will not be able to help, if there is no town guard to exterminate them, I am afraid that this bandit will become more and more troublesome.

Of course, Feng Ziying didn't know how many battalions were stationed in this Shandong province, but Feng You knew.

"Along the canal line, only Jining and Dezhou have battalions stationed, and Jinan in the east also has them."

Feng You did not mention Denglai and other coastal places, the first way was far away, and the second was that the battalion soldiers defending the sea frontier were not within the reach of ordinary people.

"I'm afraid this battalion is not so easy to mobilize, right?"

Xue Jun is also an official eunuch, and his ancestor is a Ziwei Sheren, but his generation has declined, and he has completely become a merchant family.

Of course, he can be regarded as an emperor and a businessman, and he knows a little about the affairs in the government.

According to the regulations of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the three major battalions and battalion movements in Beijing are all under the direct management of the military department, and if it is an ordinary local affairs, the battalion soldiers will not intervene.

Even the ordinary ringing horse bandits, they can't mobilize the battalion soldiers, that is the matter of the local yamen and the inspection department, and no matter how bad it is, there are still soldiers who have summoned guards from all over the country to help deal with it.

For the battalion soldiers, there are only two things that can be moved, one is that the military department orders the transfer of the border to fight, and the other is that the capital division and the line capital department request transfer, and there is only one reason for the capital division to be transferred, that is, there are bandits rebelling or the Japanese invade the interior.

Shandong has not been around the border for decades, only in the pre-Ming Dynasty, so it can be ignored, as for the rebellion, this hinterland of Shandong is under the nose of the Beijing Division, and the occasional civil unrest is also extinguished in an instant, and there is no need to garrison the town camp at all.

Without the writing of the capital division, ordinary people want to go to the garrison barracks to learn to beat drums and knock on the door like the yamen and say that the battalion soldiers are moving, which is nonsense at all.

Feng You obviously knew this, the garrison battalion soldiers, like the nine-sided garrison, generally speaking, would not listen to the local authorities at all, even if it was the words of the capital division and the line capital division, they had to consider one or two, depending on the situation.

Not to mention the people asking for help, that sentence can be pushed to the local health center.

If you want to move the battalion, it is not impossible, then you have to move the Shandong Capital Division.

The problem is to go to Jinan to report, and the Shandong Metropolitan Division will definitely send someone to investigate when he learns the news.

Even if it really proves that there is indeed a bandit, if you meet someone who is not responsible, you may have to ask the military department, and I don't know how long it will be.

If you are a little bit responsible, you also need to write to let the battalions of Dezhou or Jining or Jinan send troops to Linqing, and I am afraid that it will not work for ten days.

In case this gang of bandits is really entrenched in this Feng family's mansion and does not leave, it will be difficult to support the dry food and water stored in this secret room, even if everything goes well and the officers and soldiers are driven away, I am afraid that the people in this secret room will not be able to survive for two.

"Mr. Jia, I know what you mean, it is difficult to transfer the battalion troops, and it will definitely be too late." Feng You shook his head resolutely, "I have to wait until the battalion soldiers come, I'm afraid that it will be three autumns." ”

"But the Linqing guards have all been transferred, and I don't know who ordered it, and I don't know when we can return, so it's hard for us to sit back and wait for death?" Jia Yucun is also a little anxious, he still has a good future, and he can see that he can climb the line of the two families of Jia and Wang, and he can make great achievements, how can he die in this Linqing City?

"Uncle You, in addition to the battalion soldiers and guards, are there any soldiers around here who can call for help?" Feng Ziying was also helpless.

He didn't know much about the military movements within the Great Zhou, but he didn't know much about it because he was born in a Jiangmen family, and ordinary people didn't know anything about it at all.

"And then there's the Cao Bing." Feng You sighed.

The Cao soldiers are stationed near here, but everyone knows what the Cao soldiers are, nominally the guards who protect Cao Yun, but in fact they have long been reduced to a bunch of garbage that lives on the waterways, even worse than those guards, and they are not worth mentioning at all.

Although Feng Ziying didn't know the situation of Cao Bing, she could also feel from the expressions of Feng You, Jia Yucun, Xue Jun and others that this Cao Bing could not be relied on at all.

The task of the Cao soldiers is to guard the water warehouse, and then escort the grain into Beijing, in December of the first year, the grain into the warehouse, the governor of Cao Yun is responsible for supervising the grain into the warehouse, and start the grain to the capital, and complete the Cao Yun in September of the following year, it is considered a great success.

The five major national water warehouses are located in Huai'an, Xuzhou, Linqing, and Dezhou, plus Tianjin, which is a maritime company, has become the biggest reliance on ensuring the food supply of one million people in Beijing.

Therefore, for the Cao soldiers, the heavens and the earth are not as big as the grain, and as long as they do not endanger the safety of the grain, they will not participate in any other affairs.

Because the grain is the lifeline of millions of people in the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, no one has dared to fight the idea of safe transportation in the past few decades, which also makes the soldiers along the canal increasingly reduced to the same place as the people.

Not to mention pulling it out to fight, even if it is really attacked by bandits, as long as the matter is not too big, they are more willing to suppress it.

It's a big deal to prevaricate with the excuse of "drifting", which has become a common practice.