A room of soldiers snoring one after another, Zhao Xingde couldn't sleep, so he simply put on his clothes, spread out a piece of letterhead, and wrote down what he had seen and heard in recent days, what he thought and felt:

"Shaoyang, Minghuan, Shouyi Zhujun, Jingshi farewell, every time I think about discussing with you, it is like yesterday. Under the Taixue House, Brother Shaoyang once said that the so-called party of gentlemen, with the same way, the far-sighted people set their policies inside, and the pragmatic and capable people run outside, then the world can be governed, and the world enjoys peace. The younger brother is blunt, serving in front of the Hebei army, there are ten days, the so-called people who run outside, when the recent seeing, thinking and feeling, report to the king, in order to seek the same way to learn, solve doubts.

On the day of the military march, the transfer envoy conscripted thousands of men to serve with the army, because the rich paid money and were exempted from service, and the conscripted people were all poor, and they slept in the open air, worked hard for thousands of miles, and carried heavy baggage, and wept with each other every late night, or said that there was no food for the next day, and the agricultural time was mistaken, and it was possible to sell children and women. Or it is said that the government is driven by many people, and there is no time to return home, so it is inevitable that he will be a ghost in a foreign land. Hearing this cry of suffering, I wept and wept. The younger brother tossed and turned, thinking that the so-called exempt money from the imperial court was all taken from the top, so that the battle of the rich was exempted, and the battle of the poor was not reduced but heavy. Why not use the money of the rich to pay for the transportation of the poor, so that the rich will enjoy themselves, and the poor will eat their labor, and each will have his own place.

Bianjing to Daming, passing through more than a dozen states and counties, but the road is not less than a hundred tax cards, the villagers jokingly call the small law field, the business tax is harsh, if cloth, aquatic products, grains, bamboo and wood, books, paper, lacquer, rice bundles, sporadic vegetables and eggplants, there are no taxes. All things are born to support people, and the uneven production in various places depends on business travel to communicate with each other. However, if the river is blocked and the business travel is blocked, there will be barrenness, and if the flood and drought plague, it will also be a disaster for people? For example, the salt tax is the heaviest, and if the Central Plains Prefecture is the capital, the poor people, and those who don't know the taste of salt in October also have it. However, as soon as they entered the border of Hebei, everyone was salty, and it was caused by the military and private trade of the salt of Liaoxia. The military and private markets are forbidden by this law, but the poor people on both sides of Hebei rely on this to know the taste of salt, and they are also sad.

The camp of Hebei is rushed, and the armies have been in the border court for a long time, and they should be the strong force of those who dare to fight and fight. However, as my brother saw, most of the soldiers were serving as generals, selling salt and weaving, making leather and iron, and all kinds of industries were everywhere. Or the Yun court wants to guard the inside and outside, so it always makes the military needs insufficient, so as to control the camps.

Or the Yunxing camp has been in line with the door for a long time, and it is difficult to get rid of the evils. In my brother's opinion, Taixue has set up martial arts, why not expand it, if Wang Wengong wants to make my Taishu take charge of the state and county, so that all the armies are above the head, personally accept the favor of the imperial court, and slowly use martial arts students to represent the generals privately.

Or the soldiers are ignorant, and the soldiers are rewarded by the court, and the gratitude is given to the generals, and the court does not reward the armies lightly. In the view of my younger brother, everyone has a heart, and they are educated, so that they can distinguish between right and wrong, know reason, know loyalty, and uphold the responsibility of our generation.

It is very nonsense for people to use the words "sharpening the knife to hate the disadvantage, and the knife is sharp and hurting the finger of the people", which is very nonsense. Things may not have a loyal heart, and people often have a sense of shame. If the court treats the armies like their parents, then the armies serve the court and always treat their parents like a child. Our dynasty takes the soldiers as the danger, and relies on the army more heavily than the previous dynasty. If according to the policy of the younger brother, the general will be out of official education, and the soldiers will be loyal, then they will only see the Great Wall of the country, and there will be no opposing army.

The so-called 10,000-mile road must be traveled from the feet, and the younger brother wants to set up an account in the daimyo to teach the soldiers the way of loyalty and righteousness, do you think so? ”

Zhao Xingde sometimes pondered, sometimes wrote hard, and sprinkled thousands of words in one go. There were three drums outside, and only then did he seal the letterhead with fire paint and mark it with a private seal, but he felt very tired and sleepy, so he fell asleep on the bookcase.

At dawn the next day, Xingde woke up in dizziness, except for Han Shizhong sitting in the room, and several other generals had left.

"When the scholar was in Bianjing, he borrowed tens of thousands of pieces of silver, although the matter was not done, Lao Han still accepted your love." Han Shizhong said with a smile, "Now that there is a fortune deal, do you do it?" He was talking about the business of the Hebei army escorting the caravan to the Song-Liao border to the mutual market. There was a buffer zone hundreds of miles long between Song and Liao, and both Song and Liao preferred to send troops to fight the grass valley rather than allow their own people to settle there. Due to the intermittent restraint measures similar to the trade embargo imposed by the Song State on the Liao State, and also due to the huge profits brought by the embargo and high tariffs, the trade of private goods was greatly stimulated, and this buffer zone with sparse population became an excellent mutual market for business and travel between the two sides, and also became a good place for horse thieves and bandits and even the masked Song and Liao troops to loot goods. Later, the powerful caravan found the volunteers of the state and county, and even the officials and soldiers of the Hebei battalion to escort them.

Han Shizhong said that the business of the protector business, just the first payment is as much as 2,000 yuan, and after the matter is completed, it will be divided according to the final profit, which is one of the most profitable transactions in the Hebei army. Han Shizhong first arrived, and this transaction was deliberately given to him by Yuan Guangfu of Hebei Daying in order to make friends with him.

This large caravan originally hired more than 100 prefectures and counties to be brave, and Han Shizhong brought dozens of cavalry to escort it. Although Zhao Xingde was only a scholar, he had always been shrewd, and Han Shizhong needed his help to supervise whether the leader of the caravan had deliberately lowered the profits of the transaction and deceived him. Zhao Xingde hesitated for a moment, considering that the idle horse thieves would definitely not be able to eat such a large caravan, he finally couldn't suppress his curiosity about the private goods market in the Liao and Song dynasties, and agreed.

In the Hebei Xingying Marshal's Mansion, Tong Guan officially announced to the generals of the Xingying that Liu Yanqing would return to Beijing and transfer to the rank of General of the Left Guard, and that he would take over the military power of Hebei. No matter what the generals have in mind, they all flatter the new appointee.

Tong Guan didn't take the big handsome shelf, and after deliberately comforting the generals under his command, he said slowly: "Whether it is the southern invasion of the Khitans, or the imperial court through Youyan, the Hebei camp is the first to bear the brunt. In the situation of Hebei, Xiongzhou Waqiao Pass, Bazhou Yijin Pass, and Baozhou Gaoyang Pass are the throats, and Hejian, Zhending, and Zhongshan are important towns. If the Liao cavalry breaks through the pass and enters, our dynasty is on the defensive, then the three towns refuse to go ahead, the imperial court is set up behind it with heavy troops, and the Hebei Xingying Marshal's Mansion is placed in the Daimyo Mansion to respond to the three towns, which is appropriate.

However, if our dynasty wants to use troops Youyan, the Hebei camp is set up in the Daimyo's mansion, it is inevitably too far away from the frontier, when Emperor Taizu and Wuzong were in power, the imperial court was determined to go north to the north through Youyan, and the Hebei army camp was in Yingzhou. Before I left Beijing to take up my post, His Majesty personally explained ......"

Speaking of this, Tong Guan was silent, his eyes looked down, and the generals' hearts were all in a daze, and they unconsciously stood solemnly and stood upright, quietly listening to the official edict.

Tong Guan said in a deep voice: "The Shangqi Hebei camp will deploy and command the troops of the large battalion and move the town to Hejian Mansion in case of the need to pass through Youyan. ”

Tong Guan's voice was full of energy, almost shocked the eardrums of the generals under his command buzzing, the Hebei camp has been set up in the Daimyo Mansion for 60 years, even if the generals go out of the town border, most of them have a family house in the Daimyo, and there are several generations of big families who have bought land and bought real estate, and the branches are scattered, and the Hebei Xingying has long regarded the Daimyo's Mansion as the backyard of the army. At this moment, the town is about to be moved at the sound of an order, and there is always some unwillingness. Just because Tong Guan said first, this is the emperor's order, and none of the generals are full of resentment, and no one dares to say a word against it.

"Since everyone has no objections, the commander also respectfully obeys the order, today is the eighth day of the eighth month of August, and after the tenth, the army will move to Hejian Mansion, and the families of the generals will go north with the camp to Hejian, and slowly move to, and you will have to work for you." Tong Guan said to the generals with a smile on his face.

After he finished announcing the edict and the details of the specific implementation of the town, he had his own staff to explain to the generals in detail, Tong Guan only sat on the white tiger skin Taishi chair, while looking at the looks of the generals to see who might be dissatisfied, while picking up a file casually, opening it and looking at it, it was the copy sent by Zhao Xingde to the capital.

Tong Guan was born as the palm print eunuch of the imperial study, the text was unhindered, he read Zhao Xingde's letter at a glance and ten lines, closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, "This Zhao Yuan is indeed a talent, exchanging martial arts supervisors for generals, and I am replacing these old generals of Liu Yanqing, prisoners, originally powerless, and even more rootless in Hebei, as long as I nodded, crying and shouting and crawling to be protégés, I don't know how many?" Teach the soldiers with loyalty, the miscellaneous family is the servant of His Majesty, patrolling the sky on behalf of the sky, in the Hebei territory, isn't loyalty to the imperial court loyal to the miscellaneous family? Hey, hey, hey, this article, well written. No wonder the official family loves to use readers so much. He opened his eyes and waved his hand to let his squire let go of the letter.

Fifteen days later, Zhao Xingde received a reply from Chen Dong and other members of the Science Society on the way to accompany the Hebei Daying. In addition to scolding an adulterous minister and evil officials to bully the king and the people as usual, in line with the doctor's consistent vigilance against military generals, Chen Dong and Deng Su praised Zhao Xingde's proposal to replace the generals of the army.

Zhang Bing, He Fang, and Zhu Sen were more interested in Zhao Xingde's idea of teaching the low-level soldiers with loyalty, and persuaded Chen Dong that the people of the Science Society pooled hundreds of silver coins for Zhao Xingde to buy things needed for lectures, and Zhang Bing, who was originally from Hebei, also recommended several celebrities and gentry from the Daimyo Mansion to Zhao Xingde, but when his letter arrived, Zhao Xingde had already crossed the Yellow River with the army.

Zhao Xingde carefully read the letters of his classmates and friends, folded them, and put them in his arms, feeling that his ideas were accepted by these like-minded friends, and his chest was filled with a feeling of joy. Easily unfolded a letter written by his senior brother Song An, and his face suddenly became gloomy, although Yushitai Qingliu intervened in the case of the loss of honor of the Liao envoy of the Dragon Boat Festival, but at the insistence of the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple, Li Ruobing, the supervisor of Duting Xiyi, was still demoted and exiled, and was instructed to drive in Jiupin Qiongzhou.

Zhao Xingde finished reading Song An's letter with an expressionless face, his heart was mixed, and he didn't know whether it was anger or guilt, he looked up to the sky and sighed, looking around the four fields, the Hebei army was marching between the two tributaries of the Yellow River into the sea, the sky and the earth were clear, as if they were one, and the clouds were thick and low, covering the sun, as if they were directly pressing on the ground. The soldiers who were marching also had gloomy faces. The army of 70,000 opened a long snake formation march, walking between heaven and earth, the chariots and chariots, the horses and horses, and they couldn't see the end to the north and the tail to the south.