The Huaxian Temple, located ten miles northwest of Kaifeng Prefecture City and built along the Jinshui River, has now been completely renovated. The main entrance has been changed to open facing the Jinshui River. A small pier was built with bluestone outside the door, and the sides of the pier are weeping willows, which is very charming. The newly built Taoist temple portal is clean. Although the scene is not big, each pillar, one stone, one hall, and one pavilion, as well as the small courtyard in the Taoist temple, obviously took a lot of thought and the repair was very meticulous. It seems that Huang Zhisheng, a master of the capital, still has real skills.

Although the Taoist temple is exquisitely cultivated, the gods worshipped in this Taoist temple are a bit unpopular, and the two Taoist priests Guo Zhenren and Liu Zhenren who were in charge seem to care about incense. Therefore, the business of this Taoist temple has always been cold.

However, today this small Taoist temple seemed to have a big deal. On the road not far outside the Taoist temple, there were a long list of chariots and horses, and also a well-clad escort guards. These chariots, coachmen, grooms and even servants who followed him to serve were all served at this time. They sat in groups under the willow trees while enjoying the coolness while eating and drinking with juice.

As for the treacherous prime minister of the Song Dynasty they escorted, Zhang Dun, the assistant minister of the Left Master Archery Sect, had already entered the Taoist temple at this time. Accompanied by Wu Haogu and Zhang Dun's confidant Zhang Yi, he climbed to the commanding heights of the Yingxian Pavilion in the Huaxian Temple.

Wangxian Pavilion is a three-story pavilion, not large. There is only a small "pavilion" on the three-story building, with windows on all sides and a large four-cornered spire on it.

It is summer now, so the windows on all sides of the "pavilion" are open, and there is a table table under each of the four windows, with copper basins filled with ice placed on the table table. The breeze blowing from the Jinshui River passes through the house, bringing some coolness to the people in the house.

There were not many people sitting in the "pavilion", and there were two old men in the center, one Confucian and the other. The Confucian scholar dressed up as Zhang Dun, wearing a soft hat and a casual outfit, which was both cool and chic, and graceful. The Taoist priest dressed as Murong Wangyou, feathered clothes and star crown, holding a feather fan, chatting and laughing, and he looked like a high-profile personality.

The two of them were accompanied by Wu Haogu and Zhang Yi, both dressed as Confucian scholars and looked a bit talented. They could also discuss the general trend of the world while chatting and laughing, and they could also respond to the two famous ministers and great scholars.

Behind Murong Wangyou was a man like an iron tower. It was Zhong Ge'er, who came to Kaifeng Prefecture, who was surnamed Zhao. He did not participate in the conversation, but just frowned as if he was thinking about his thoughts.

After a while of leisure, Mr. Murong shook his feather fan, looking very masterful. He smiled and said to Zhang Dun: "Grandpa Zhang, you and I have also said a lot today. After all, it is nothing more than the Khitan that will perish and the northern country will be in chaos. If the Song Dynasty wants to be stable, it will take Yanyun to consolidate the mountains and rivers... This principle is easy to explain clearly, but if you want to restore Yanyun, it is not enough to rely solely on the principle, and you have to do practical things!

And can the Song Dynasty do practical things now? When I was in the north, I heard that the officials in the Song Dynasty were most worried about being able to conquer elite soldiers who were good at fighting, for fear that someone would learn the yellow robe and skill of Emperor Yizu's art robe. Is this a matter?"

Murong Wangyou's words were too straightforward, which made Zhang Dun's old face a little uneasy, and he even looked down on the so-called great scholars of the North and the Confucian scholars of the North even more. They were indeed not very humble gentlemen!

He looked down on the other party in his heart, but he still showed no expression on his face. He just smiled and said, "You can return to peace in the five seasons of troubled times. Isn't it that Taizu and Taizong's general of this dynasty have the right to do it? As for the elite soldiers who can fight, isn't it the 200,000 useful people of this dynasty's Western Army?"

The so-called "utility" is also called "utility man" or "brave utility man". These people do not have a fixed organization, and do not need to be listened to in the military camp, and of course they do not need to be tattooed on their bodies. As long as they go to the military camp regularly, they can go to the military camp to go to war with the army. The income of the utility man is equivalent to the soldiers of the upper imperial guards and the central imperial guards.

Because they are relatively free and have good treatment, there are often some military men, children of officials, wealthy tourists in the world, and even scholars who are not yet qualified will be charged.

On the Sixth Road and Hedong Road in Shaanxi, the Utility Soldiers became synonymous with elite soldiers. Many local tyrants in Shaanxi and Hedong joined the army in the name of Utility and wanted to make military achievements. The core force of each general in the Western Army, that is, the private soldiers of each family, would also be named "Utility". For example, the Zhe family in the Prefecture and Prefecture had more than 1,000 effective Utility Soldiers, and the Zhong family, Yao family, and the Liu family, had hundreds of Utility Soldiers.

However, the "200,000 utility warriors" are bragging about the bully, which means that "Bai's bravery" is good if they can have 200,000 utility warriors. If they really have 200,000 utility warriors, it would not be the demise of the Western Xia, but the officials of the Song Dynasty sighed and died...

Murong Wangyou gently put his feather fan on his face and smiled, "If the Western Army of the Song Dynasty really had 200,000 bravery, the Western Xia would have been destroyed long ago, and the land of Yanyun would have been restored long ago. My husband would not come to Huaxianguan to see me, the counselor in the north."

Zhang Dun narrowed his eyes and looked at Murong Wangyou, without answering, as if he was waiting for the other party’s following.

Murong Wangyou smiled and said, "I heard that in the Western Army, most of the useful soldiers were private soldiers of the generals. It seems that the Song Dynasty officials were not completely tolerant of soldiers as generals. This useful method can be used to train soldiers with a little improvement."

"What do you say?" Zhang Dun asked.

Old Man Murong shook his feather fan and said with a smile: "First talk about whether the utility soldiers raised by the Western Army's generals can fight. Do you think they can fight?"

"Of course we can fight!" Zhang Dun replied, "If we can't fight, who will spend money to support us?"

Murong nodded and said, "The Western Army is probably the same as the private soldiers of our Yan land. Recruitment, training, equipment, expenses, and salary are all taken out of their own pockets. Private soldiers who can eat but cannot be fought, but no one will raise them."

Zhang Dun said: "The utility soldiers of our dynasty can get rewards and money and food from the court."

"Who will I send it to?" Murong asked, "To the utility man himself, or to the generals who support the utility man?"

Zhang Dun said: "It is natural to be adaptable on the Sixth Road in Shaanxi."

"Since you can adapt in Shaanxi, why can you only remain unchanged in Kaifeng?" Murong Wangyou shook his feather fan and glanced at Wu Haogu who was sitting horizontally. What he was going to tell Zhang Dun today was actually all proposed by Wu Haogu.

He, the military advisor, seemed to have become Wu Haogu's voice-over!

But Wu Dalang has many ghost ideas! I don’t know if he is “reincarnated by the immortal” or “reincarnated by Guiguzi”?

"Reform?" Zhang Dun asked, "Mr. Murong means to let the generals of Kaifeng Prefecture maintain utility soldiers?"

"Of course not." Murong Wangyou smiled, "I mean that the method of raising the sects of generals can be used to train new troops... The reason why sects of generals can fight is that the soldiers are the generals."

"There are soldiers for generals..." Zhang Dun frowned.

"There is a general" is a taboo! When the Song Dynasty officials heard these four words, they were afraid that they would immediately think of the traitors!

Murong Wangyou looked at Zhang Dun with a worried face and smiled and said, "There are soldiers as generals, and there are both big and small. If a general is owned by a general, there will be a hidden danger of owning a soldier.

But what about a unit of soldiers or a team of soldiers? A team of only a hundred people, and a hundred people who carry out rebellion is probably a death sentence, right?"

"this……"

Zhang Dun nodded, this is a solution.

In fact, when the bureaucracy is not efficient, the shortcut to enhancing the combat effectiveness of the army is to delegate power!

Wu Haogu, who majored in Western oil painting in later generations, was quite familiar with the Western Renaissance and the hundreds of years since then, and of course he also knew some Western military systems. During a considerable historical period, almost the period between the gradual collapse of feudal military service and the complete maturity of the compulsory military service system, there were also a large number of mercenaries in the Western army. For a period of time, mercenaries and even major components of the army of Western countries.

During this period, the efficiency of the bureaucratic system in Western countries was not very high, lacking supervision and bribery. If the bureaucratic system was used to control the army, it would not be able to adapt to the fierce and frequent wars in Europe.

Therefore, the armies of various countries have adopted a "contracting system" of "army for generals", which is a contracted by the regiment commander, battalion commander or company commander, responsible for recruiting and training soldiers, and the scope of contracting is not necessarily true. Sometimes it is large, sometimes it is small, and sometimes it can also buy and sell military positions.

For example, Duke Wellington, who defeated Napoleon in Waterloo and Hugh Goff, who led the army in the Opium War, were both "donation classes" that cost money.

In short, from the traditional Chinese perspective, they are all very corrupt.

However, it is undeniable that under the inefficiency of the feudal bureaucratic system, proper contracting in the army is still conducive to improving combat effectiveness.

If it is uneasy to regard a team of several thousand people as a separate contractor, then a team of hundreds should be relieved, right?

I have never heard of a hundred soldiers who can usurp the throne... If you are worried, you will not be able to recover Yan Yun, just eat and wait for death.

Zhang Dun's brow frowned again: "But... if you want to train 50,000 elite troops, you must have 500 teams. Where can the court go to find so many teams? I'm afraid it will be of different quality?"

The difficulty of "small contractors" lies in where to find so many "little military contractors". Zhang Dun always has a way to find ten generals who can lead troops. But if there are five hundred team leaders who can lead troops, Zhang Xianggong has no choice.

Zhang Dun said: "If you are just a substitute, it is probably difficult to become an elite soldier, right?"

Old Man Murong laughed and said with a smile: "I heard that the Song Dynasty had martial arts and martial arts. Aren't these martial arts and martial arts used to select team leaders?"
Chapter completed!