Speaking of which, Gao Yu is no longer the legendary Captain Gao if he doesn't understand.

Wu Haogu originally wanted to join forces with the Jiangmen tyrants who occupied a large area of land in Cangzhou - he didn't want to take all the land out of the hands of the Jiangmen tyrants and distribute it to the knights from the northwest, but to transform some of the Jiangmen tyrants into feudal knights.

Of course, the 500 students in the Military Science Department still have to be resettled, so the 750,000 mu of land still has to be collected.

But at the same time as acquiring the land, Wu Haogu also wanted to take out five hundred to one thousand knight places to distribute to Jiangmen and local tyrants. In other words, the local tyrants of Jiangmen who are willing to sell their land to Wu Haogu can get a knight quota. The benefits in this are great!

Gao Yu gently turned the wine glass and asked, "Then the knights here in Cangzhou, do you want to allocate land?" ”

"Of course it has to be assigned, what is the former knight of the palace without a job?" Wu Haogu smiled, "We can buy their own land and give it to themselves."

That is, to buy 1,500 acres of land from the local tyrants who have land and power in Cangzhou, and divide their own strong children. But only if they have to sell us some more land. ”

Gao Yu pondered and said, "In other words, 1,500 acres of land can be sold for 3,000 acres of money, and you can also get an additional hereditary dispatch of a knight in front of the palace?" ”

"That's right! That's it. Wu Haogu smiled, "Brother Gao, do you think this condition can buy us enough land?" ”

"Of course you can buy it," Gao Yu furrowed his brows, "But if we do this, the imperial history in the court will have a reason to impeach." ”

A knight not only has 1,500 acres of professional land, but also gets a settlement fee, additional money and rewards when he serves, and serving in the imperial front also means that it is easy to get an official position.

Even among the founding generals of the Cao family and the Pan family, most of the children have no way to get an official position. After all, these families have been breeding for more than 160 years, and which family does not have thousands of men? Being able to get dozens of official bodies is already a great honor.

Therefore, the number of knights in front of the palace is also attractive to the first-class wealthy families of the Great Song Dynasty, not to mention Cangzhou tyrants such as the Wudi Chai family.

But the problem is that this approach is a bit of a private practice, and it is easy to be caught by the imperial history and criticized harshly.

Wu Haogu smiled indifferently: "If you want to get things done these days, it is inevitable to have some bullet stamps on your back...... Besides, if we can't buy the land and mess up the errand, the people of the Imperial Observatory will spare us? ”

Gao Yu was still frowning, as if he was weighing the gains and losses.

Wu Haogu smiled and said: "And what the officials and the ruling people really care about is not how much benefit we have made in Cangzhou......

Gao Yu immediately interjected: "Where is it?" There was no money to be paid for this errand. ”

Looking at Gao Yu, who was a little complaining, Wu Haogu smiled, "Yes, yes, yes, there is no profit, we are all loyal ministers, and we serve the official family wholeheartedly." ”

Gao Yu nodded, "That's what it was!" ”

"But do you know what kind of soldiers the officials and the rulers want?"

"Who doesn't know?" Gao Yu snorted, "Don't you want the horses to run fast, but also want the horses not to eat grass?" But where can I find such soldiers? ”

"Isn't that the Imperial Knight?"

Wu Haogu snapped his fingers and said: "First of all, what the official family is most afraid of is that the soldiers are generals, even if the soldiers are the same...... Otherwise, the Department of Military Studies would not have been abolished.

Secondly, the officials and ministers are all looking at Yanyun in the north, so they want soldiers who can fight.

Third, why can't the imperial court raise elite soldiers now? Isn't it because there are too many people in the yamen who can be officials and make money, and too few who can do things and are willing to do things? Anything that can't be bought for a businessman, there's nothing that won't be messed up!

It's the same with raising soldiers, if you don't buy it and throw it out, it will be the current virtue of the Kaifeng Forbidden Army, isn't it to die by relying on them to go to the Northern Expedition Yanyun?

Fourth, the way to buy soldiers out is nothing more than to have soldiers for generals, the government military system, and the knight system that we are now engaged in. It is not safe for the soldiers to have officials, the government military system and the knight system are all single soldiers or several soldiers, and there is no way to rebel with that little force, and the officials must rest assured.

But now that the imperial examination is flourishing, the rich families of the people have gone to study, no one is willing to be a government soldier, and there is no way to use the poor as a government soldier to grant land on a large scale. Moreover, it is better to use 1,500 acres of land to maintain an infantry than to use 1,500 acres to maintain a cavalry and an auxiliary army.

Therefore, what we are doing now is very much in line with the wishes of the officials, and the rulers of the court are also satisfied. As long as it can be done, it's not a big deal to let Yushi catch it with a little trick. ”

Wu Haogu's analysis is indeed reasonable! Song Huizong wants to be a holy monarch, and the deacons want to recover Yan Yunli's immortal achievements, in the final analysis, they must have good soldiers!

But where do the good soldiers come from? The imperial court is not at ease if the army is in charge, and the government military system cannot pass the two passes of Juntian and the imperial examination, the poor cannot afford it, and the rich do not want to be it. So the only thing that is more feasible is to engage in feudal knights. Compared with the government soldiers, although the knight is a high-priced boutique, it is easy to maintain, after all, there are so many people, and they are all under the nose of the official, and it is not easy to be corrupted.

Gao Yu's face gradually showed a convincing expression, but a little dark cloud on his brow still did not dissipate, "Da Lang, I don't worry about the 500 people in the Military Science Division, they are all selected by Zhang Qi and Lu Huiqing, and they are not far behind." But we have to pick out another 51,000 from the forbidden army generals and local tyrants on the Hebei side, can these people be used? Don't be embarrassed in front of the emperor when the time comes. ”

"There is a way...... No matter how bad the knights on this side of Hebei are, they are much stronger than the cavalry in front of the imperial front. ”

Wu Haogu smiled: "It's really not good, let's open a knight school in Jiehe, so that the boys of each family can come to learn when they are young, and after they learn it, will they be able to use it for the country?" ”

In fact, Wu Haogu didn't expect the generation of knights he had summoned now to be of any great use? Sensei said that the "N generation" from Hebei's strong family is the so-called elite selected from the Northwest Forbidden Army, but in fact, that's it.

A Western Xia could not be defeated for so many years, and in history, the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty was also violently beaten by Jin soldiers around the Jingkang year......

Therefore, the knights who can really be used still have to rely on the knight academy for systematic training. The role of the knight's house is actually two, one is to provide useful students for the knight academy - at least they must know equestrianism, know horse nature, know how to raise horses, and be able to shoot bows and arrows on the back of a running horse.

After a few years of rigorous training and tactical education, you will be able to become an elite cavalryman who can really fight.

The second is to expand the horse herd - the knight's manor uses the method of crop rotation to raise horses, which is much better than the method of raising horses by the herdsmen of the Northern Song Dynasty. A thousand knights' homes are a thousand small private horse farms, and when Wu Haogu's breeding horse farm in Jiehe has a small success, he can quickly expand the horse herd through them.

Gao Yu's brows finally expanded, "It turns out that you have thought about it...... Then we will jointly hand a secret fold to the official family, explain the reason, and ask Cangzhou to select the disciples of the forbidden army to serve as the former knights of the palace.

As for the selection of the sons and daughters of the people, they can't come clearly for the time being, but there will always be a way. ”

……

The night was dark, and in the mansion of the Privy Council of Kaifeng Prefecture, there were only a few lights tonight.

It is now past three o'clock, and for the ministers who are going to rush to the court early tomorrow morning, it is definitely a time to lie down and sleep soundly. But late at night, An Tao was still in the study of the inner courtyard, meeting with the two visitors. One of these two visitors is Ji Yi, a Cangzhou judicial member of the army. The other one is a few years older than Ji Yi, with a slender melon seed face and three long beards, which is Lu Yihao, who has just been awarded the Cangzhou General Judgment.

Lu Yihao was a jinshi in the first year of Shaosheng, and it has been less than eight years since he joined the army, but he has been promoted from Mizhou Sihu to Cangzhou Tongju, which can be described as a good future.

Of course, generally speaking, there is one or a group of "nobles" standing behind officials with good prospects, and Lu Yihao is no exception; he was promoted by Li Qingchen, the bigwig of the New Party, and naturally he is also a member of the New Party.

An Tao leaned back on a rose chair, looking a little sluggish. In addition to being sleepy, the reason for the malaise is that the new party has recently put the old party on the side of political disputes - Cao Yu, the commander of the former secretary of the palace who was close to the old party, quietly gave the most difficult old camp in the north of the state to the shop house for "demolition", and also called it "the old camp demolished first", so that An Tao and Lu Jiawen could not refute it.

At the same time, the three yamen of the palace, the horse army, and the infantry army also stated that they could not arrange for retired veterans or civilians (military dependents) to temporarily borrow the various military camps under their jurisdiction. Moreover, some people have released rumors in the old camp in the north of the state that after the old camp in the north of the state is rebuilt, the two divisions and three yas will not allow retired soldiers and civilians to move in...... In other words, once they move out, there is no way to move back!

Although it is a rumor, the credibility is quite high. This barracks is not for the common people to live in! How can those veterans who have retired from military service and the "military dependents" who have long had nothing to do with the army live in the barracks? Moreover, the two divisions and three officials have never collected their rent (the rent is collected by the official camp officers)!

So as soon as this rumor came out, those veterans and military dependents were killed and didn't move. Even if the shopkeeper is willing to lend them hundreds of houses to live in, it will not work.

Therefore, these days, Lu Jiawen and An Taochou, who supported Lu Jiawen, are all worried, they can't tell the emperor that the military camp can't be demolished - they have to say it, and Song Huizong will let Wanjia Real Estate Bank demolish it! And I guarantee that it can be removed......

They also can't be demolished because there are no demolition teams to send. That's the forbidden barracks! How dare the soldiers who repair the house in the store house to provoke? When the time comes, who will let the family shoot a crossbow into a hedgehog? As for the mobilization of the forbidden army by the Privy Council, let alone think about it, this is not the case with the imperial army. If you want to transfer troops in Kaifeng Mansion without the emperor's edict, it won't be a rebellion?