By the Surabaya River, Liu Xing was still laughing and discussing with Hui about the integration of the four factions.

On the edge of the desert, north of the clouds, Yue Fei had completed his initial strategic deployment and reorganized the 240,000 troops under his command.

According to Yue Fei's deployment, these 240,000 people did not continue to be established in accordance with the new military system formulated by Liu Xing.

The method he adopted was to have the chief officers under his command as the main generals and the commanders of each general army as the three main combat targets. That is to say, the power of a general soldier from the previous two standards was enhanced by Yue Fei to three standards when he was about to fight.

In addition to the conventional main battle combat targets of these three targets, Yue Fei assigned all the remaining transport troops in Suiyuan Province to the hands of each general military officer. Under each of the chief officers, he was equipped with a temporary transport battalion of 4,500 men.

The chief officer of the transfer battalion is not all filled by the transfer envoys of each standard and each town. Because those transit envoys were more temporarily sent to the state capital by Yue Fei to take on the function of patrol envoys.

Serving as the patrol envoy of the local state capital as a full-time transfer envoy is a later move by Yue Fei. The people who could be the last town transfer envoy under Yue Fei were all people with very bright brains and who could come up with a few or even a dozen people who could solve the tight problems needed in front of them with a single turn of their brains.

The transshipment envoys themselves are very capable and methodical in the transfer of money and grain and the replenishment of ordnance. Once the front replenishment could not keep up, Yue Fei could give an order at any time to turn the entire Suiyuan region, which had just recovered from its vitality, into his logistics support base as soon as possible.

And those transit envoys who went out with the army, in fact, Yue Fei said the same thing to those people at the beginning of his tenure: Where the army has arrived. Fight to feed the war. Well done. The transshipment is included in the regular army, and there is no need to worry about being eliminated. Can't do it well. Don't blame me then......

Liu Xing reorganized and expanded the army, and what he eliminated was transshipment, river defense, and part of the patrol troops. Now in the Northern Song Dynasty, Henan, Jingzhao, Shaanxi and Xichuan in the Central Plains, in fact, there is no longer a transport army and river defense battalion with more than the establishment of the association.

In accordance with Liu Xing's requirements and the goal of "heavy troops in the border areas and thin patrols in the interior," the patrol guards are also being selected and eliminated on a large scale.

According to Liu Xing's target plan, Suiyuan, Ningxia, Xichuan, and Shandong are the places where the patrol troops will leave the most at present. Suiyuan mainly defends the prairie of the Mongolian and Ughal countries, and Shandong mainly defends the sea. Xichuan defended Tubo and Xiqiang, while Ningxia united with Suiyuan to help defend the grasslands and the Western Regions.

After the Privy Council headed by Zong Ze exchanged military reports. Determine down the number of people. Each state capital in Suiyuan has a standard and 5,000 people are enough. Seven state capitals, attacking 35,000 people.

Each of the 12 prefectures in Ningxia had 5,000 men, but in the four prefectures near the Western Regions, an additional 2,500 men were allocated, bringing the total number of troops to 70,000.

The environment in Xichuan was complicated, so the privy envoys, including Yue Fei, thought that they should leave some more patrols in case of the situation in the Tang Dynasty when Tubo and Xiqiang fought together against the Central Plains. However, the total patrol strength of its thirteen state capitals was also reduced from 100,000 to 80,000 when Liu Xing made a decision at the end.

Although Shandong is the first line of defense along the coast, in fact, when Liu Xing learned that Wu Ling wanted to leave 100,000 patrols for Shandong, he actually went directly to train him. After being trained, Wu Ling could only give up his own ideas and accept Liu Xing's suggestion of 80,000 people.

So now the transshipment and river defense of the Northern Song Dynasty. Who will be responsible in the future? The verdict given by Liu Xing was to hand over all the private businessmen to be responsible. And Liu Xing also deliberately emphasized Zong Ze in the book of Eagle Flying: Remember. It is a private businessman, not an official supervising business, let alone an official businessman.

Zong Ze didn't understand at the time, why was this! You don't need to be an official or a businessman, and you don't need to be supervised by an official, but you have to hand over the security of the army and the transportation of river workers to private businessmen. Ten businessmen and nine traitors, if those merchants do some tricks, won't it be a big deal?

So the old marshal joined forces with the middle of the planters, and specially sent a letter to Liu Xing with the Eagle Flying Book, asking Liu Xing in a questioning tone if he wanted to hand over the fate of the country to a group of businessmen. If that is the case, will the businessman mislead the country and Liu Xing want to be a sinner for the ages?

Zong Ze alone didn't dare to question Liu Xing like this, so he pulled into the seed master.

Seeing the letter of inquiry sent by the two old marshals together, Liu Xing smiled bitterly and only gave an extremely brief reply: Ten years later, millions of merchants and soldiers will go to expand the territory, and the imperial court will only reward the land. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools......

If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools, which means that if a craftsman wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools. To do one thing well, preparation is very important.

Although Liu Xingxin was short, he said such things. When the letter was delivered to Zong Ze and the seed master, the two old marshals combined with Liu Xingcai that day to issue a new decree for the volunteers to seize foreign land and give them knighthoods, and the two immediately understood what Liu Xing would do next.

He did not use the imperial court soldiers and horses to conquer foreign lands, but only used volunteers and private merchants to hire transport wrestlers and river defense workers to expand the territory. The imperial court did not need to send a single soldier, did not need to spend a penny or food, but only gave a knighthood to the merchants and volunteer leaders after they conquered the territory of the new generals.

The wool comes from the sheep, and the title of those people must be a drop in the bucket compared to the taxes paid by their territories to the imperial court.

Therefore, after the two old marshals received the order of the volunteers to expand the territory and be knighted, they secretly laughed together that those businessmen were no more shrewd than Liu Xing, and naturally after seeing the letter, they immediately understood what Liu Xing would do in the future and no longer objected......

It was precisely because of these antecedents that Yue Fei first made the transit envoy serve as the state capital patrol envoy when he was deployed, which strengthened his supply capacity after the 240,000 army went out to the grassland.

Then, a few hours before Liu Xing and Hui joked, Yue Fei issued a decree in the name of the governor and acting governor: recruit private merchants from Suiyuan and Shanxi provinces to transfer wartime reinforcements.

Quasi-private merchants recruit volunteers on their own and go out with the army at the same time. The land captured will first be under the control of the Governor's Palace. After the war, according to the land taken by the volunteers of each department, Tianshu was awarded knights.

As soon as Yue Fei's order came out, the people in Shanxi and Suiyuan suddenly boiled. When those private businessmen saw the "Volunteers Expanding the Land and Sealing the Order" in front of the city gates everywhere, they thought that Liu Xing was just encouraging the people to come up with such a trick to take revenge on the aliens.

Now he didn't expect that Yue Fei would really take the lead in adopting Liu Xing's new decision when he was about to fight, and was ready to take the merchant army to the prairie.

So in just a few hours, the bosses of 63 various businesses in Suiyuan Province rushed to the Governor's Mansion to report to the Governor's Mansion through 21 transfer bosses, and they wanted to go to the army to expand the territory for the Great Song Dynasty.

The number of soldiers and horses reported by the bosses of these eighty-four commercial houses was 84,000. This made Yue Fei both happy and a little worried. (To be continued.) )