When Hong Tao walked out of the house with neatly dressed and dog-like hands behind his back, he corrected a misunderstanding of this era.

The tooth people were not the only professional intermediaries in the Song Dynasty, and there was also an old man who coexisted with them. There is a clear division of business on both sides, and no one interferes with the other.

According to Hong Tao's understanding, Xinglao is responsible for the intermediation and valet employment of manual work and most adult male laborers, and the tooth workers are generally played by older women, who specialize in introducing customers to jobs such as maids, children, kabuki, cooks, needlemen, etc., while also taking care of the work of some traffickers, such as buying and selling young women as concubines for large families.

The status of women in the Song Dynasty was not low, Hong Tao knew this in the Southern Song Dynasty, even a maid like Lian'er had personal rights, and the head of the family could not be beaten and scolded at will, nor could he be resold at will, so he could only be dismissed. At most, write a bad comment on the letter of introduction, reminding the family not to hire such a slave.

But concubines are different, in terms of personal freedom and rights, concubines are not as good as maids, a bit like slaves, they belong to the private property of men, and they have no inheritance rights. Even if the Great Song Dynasty Law stipulates that lynching is not allowed, it can be resold, just like Jiang Zhuyi, if it is not good, it will be sold to the Nunnery Hotel, and it will be miserable for a lifetime.

"If the official wants to buy a child without a father and a mother, can I have a sister-in-law to drive me?"

The hiring of the construction workers was done smoothly, and even if the colt did not come forward in person, the two elders would have done it. In their industry, their reputation is very important, if the service is not reliable, who will dare to hire them in the future, and there will be no intermediary fees if there are no customers.

But Hong Tao is not very satisfied, he is short of manpower now, and it seems that it is more reliable to cultivate himself in the long run. Since you want to cultivate, it's better to be a child, it's better to fool.

"The government really needs manpower, I don't know what kind of children the officials need, whether they are handsome or literate, or both?" Fu Ji obviously didn't understand the male host's meaning correctly, and she was a little crooked.

"Let those who have no father, no mother, no care!" Hong Tao didn't think about it, **This thing is not new, there are hobbies among the dignitaries and nobles in the Southern Song Dynasty, presumably the Northern Song Dynasty will not be completely clean, and it makes sense that Fu Ji would react like this.

"Officials don't have to go to their sisters-in-law, the Salesian Village is full of fatherless, motherless, and careless, if the officials can bring them back to the house to raise them, they can also get government funding."

Fu Ji still didn't turn a corner, thinking that the new master had more special requirements for the little boy, and was frowning and thinking about it. Lian'er understood first and had more constructive suggestions.

“…… That's right, it's still our Lian'er who is smart, go and let the groom prepare the horse, and the official will take you to buy delicious food! ”

Wake up the dreamer with a word, Hong Tao slapped the door of the head hard, this brain is over, there are free children to adopt, why spend money to buy it!

"You know this?" This time, Hong Tao was bold, he didn't bring a groom, and only took Fu Ji and Lian'er, two female streamers, out of the house.

What he relied on was not Fu Ji, a female official of the first six monks, nor did Lian'er know any martial arts secrets, nor did he have a new body that he couldn't pick up on his shoulders, but a small gilt plaque tied to the leather belt. Seeing that Fu Ji also glanced at the cards from time to time, her face was confused, and she couldn't help but feel even more proud.

"Ji has seen this thing in the palace, only the commanders of all classes can wear it, and the rest are not available, I don't know where the big officials come from this thing, and they must not be private."

Fu Ji's answer was very clear, this thing was a privilege only for high-ranking officials of the Royal Guard Force, and even the emperor could not distribute it privately at will, so how could it appear on the horse.

At the same time, it is also reminding Hong Tao, don't die, even if the crazy horse can't be dealt with by ordinary people, and can do some out-of-the-ordinary things, but it is not that there is no law to control.

"Hey, hey, hey...... The official is now the former secretary of the palace, so he naturally has this waist card. Wearing it, any forbidden army inside and outside Tokyo can be relied on, even if it is not a person of the temple, you have to give some face, it's amazing! ”

Seeing Fu Ji's knowledge, Hong Tao had to show off even more. This time into the palace is not all dedication, there is still something to gain, in addition to the western suburbs of the only name of the imperial garden, there is also a talisman, is this waist card.

Indeed, as Fu Ji said, the waist cards of the high-ranking officials of the palace department are really not given to whomever they want, and must be jointly signed by the emperor and the governor of the Privy Council. There is an extra word in front of me, which is equivalent to a temporary assignment and can be removed at any time.

Giving yourself this position and waist card is not to let yourself really be an officer of the forbidden army, just to make yourself cheaper. It is more troublesome to confer official positions, and it is easy to arouse the suspicion of courtiers, and a temporary military position is more suitable for one's status as a concubine.

Speaking of the forbidden army of the Northern Song Dynasty, Hong Tao got more accurate information from their mouths through getting along with the two prime ministers day and night these days. To say that the political system and military system formulated by the founding emperor of the Great Song Dynasty are really a bit overkill.

In order to avoid another military coup d'état as much as possible, the emperors and ministers of the Song Dynasty worked hard to suppress and weaken the power of the army, no matter how troublesome they were, regardless of the side effects.

There are basically two methods they adopted, which can be summed up in two sentences: the central government collected all the world's strong troops and set up camp in Gyeonggi to prepare for the feudal guards; The local city was destroyed, the armament was withdrawn, and the soldiers were separated.

The explanation is to bring all the elite soldiers from all over the country to the capital, and then tear down the local fortifications, such as the city walls and fortresses, and not give new weapons and equipment, and then frequently transfer the army station, so that each chief general has no chance to form his own team and force in the army.

This has only one purpose, that is, to guard against the rebellion of their own people at all times, and even if some local officials want to rebel, they do not have enough troops and equipment to stifle the possibility of internal cannibalism in the cradle.

To say that this method is also quite effective, in the end of the Song Dynasty, whether it is the Southern Song Dynasty or the Northern Song Dynasty, there was no large-scale civil war, even the scale of the peasant uprising is far smaller than the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

The reason is that the local armed forces are too weak to withstand the blows of the central forbidden army, and there is no chance of spreading at all.

However, this method also has great side effects, reducing the efficiency of defending against foreign aggression. It's like a person who ties his hands, even if he doesn't hurt himself, he can't fight with outsiders.

If you want to say that the two Song Dynasty are tenacious enough, they have to tie their hands and resist the northern people for hundreds of years before they are killed, if they can untie these shackles, even if they release one hand, it is estimated that they will not end up being annihilated by force.

At present, there are more than 200,000 forbidden troops gathered near Bianliang City, and more than 100,000 forbidden troops are going to the border to be stationed in turn.

The forbidden army is all based on conscription, and once enlisted, everyone has to serve for the rest of their lives until they retire. Among these professional soldiers are military families who have been soldiers for generations, and there are also elite soldiers selected from various local armies. They can bring their families, and being a soldier is a job for these soldiers, and they are paid to support their families.

In addition to the forbidden army of less than 400,000, there are also more than 600,000 van troops in various places. Unlike the forbidden army, the main task of the Xiang army is not to fight, but to serve, a bit like the agricultural reclamation corps or construction corps in the early days of the founding of New China.

Most of the Xiang army will be stationed in the state, road, and army, and participate in local construction in peacetime, and when encountering border troubles, they will act as the logistics force and assistance role of the forbidden army, and basically will not be dominated by the Xiang army to participate in the battle.

In addition to recruitment, the old, weak, sick and disabled who were eliminated from the forbidden army will also be transferred to the Xiang army, and some of them are prisoners. For example, Lin Chong, the leopard head in the Water Margin, was convicted after being framed, and he was sent to serve in the army by the tattoo.

However, the title of the head of the 800,000 forbidden army guns and sticks was blown too big, and from the Southern Song Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, there were not so many combat troops to teach when the troops were at their largest.

Besides, the forbidden army is not all subordinate to one organization, for example, the forbidden army in Tokyo City is divided into two departments: the palace department and the guard department. The number of forbidden troops in the front division of the palace is small but particularly elite, for example, the pro-army is selected from the pro-army, and the number is only more than 1,000, and then mixed with the pro-subordinate officer troops under the jurisdiction of the Imperial City Division to form a central guard force, which is jointly responsible for the task of defending the palace and the emperor.

However, the two sides do not belong to each other, contain each other, and restrain each other, and the Imperial City Division cannot command the troops of the Imperial City Division, and the Imperial City Division cannot command the personal subordinate troops of the Imperial City Division.

In addition to the Zhubanzhi, the Horse Army and the Tianwu Infantry Army under the Dianqian Division and the Dragon Guard Horse Army and the Shenwei Infantry Army under the Guard Division were the most elite combat troops in the Song Dynasty. Collectively known as the Upper Fourth Army, they will always be stationed in the capital, and they do not need to abide by the law of changing the military to go out to the frontier.

In addition, inside and outside the city, there are four armies of Shenyong, Xuanwu, Xiaocai, Ningshuo and Xiaosheng of the front division of the palace, which are divided into upper and lower armies, and each army has ten commanders;

The three armies of the Tiger Wing, Cloud Cavalry, and Armed Cavalry of the Guard Division are divided into two armies on the left and right, and each army is also ten commanders. Coupled with water armies such as Water Tiger Jie, anyway, according to Sima Guang, there are more than 400 commanders of the forbidden army stationed in the capital alone.

The commander was a common unit in the combat army of the Song Dynasty, and each commander had 400 to 500 soldiers under his command, with slightly less cavalry and slightly more infantry, which was almost equivalent to the battalion commander of later generations.

Hong Tao served as the front secretary of the palace, Du Yuhou, second only to the commander, that is, the army commander, and the deputy army commander or division commander can be called. And it has the added duty of monitoring officers and enforcing military law, and is a bit like the head of the military police in the army.

However, this position is generally not permanent, and it is basically a temporary assignment, and the officials who hold this position are all about to get on the sedan chair and pierce their ears and eyes, and the fate of demolishing the bridge when they cross the river.