In the evening, Zhao Mengqi accompanied Qian Duo and sent her best friends out of the mansion.

It’s not that they couldn’t even accept the dinner, but because the Yan Prince’s Mansion was outside the city, these little ladies had to go back to Lin'an City before the city gate was locked.

When saying goodbye, Xie Yunqiao, Hu Zhen and others looked at Zhao Mengqi, all of which were full of resentment and resentment.

But Zhao Mengqi seemed to be unaware of it, just maintaining the politeness and smile that the owner should have, "I hope the little ladies will forgive me if I am not well-received."

Seeing his indifferent appearance, Liu Huan couldn't help but have some minor tempers. He stomped his feet, twisted his waist and turned toward the ox cart, "Let's go!"

Sighing in his heart, several young ladies squatted and said goodbye, and got on the ox cart one after another.

Wanwan, who was silent behind, walked to the edge of the car and was about to get on the car, couldn't help it. She looked back at Zhao Mengqi, and there seemed to be thousands of words in her eyes, but in the end she just turned into a squat.

The coachman waved his whip and made a crisp sound. The two old cows standing side by side stepped away and pulled the wide ox cart and squeaked on the road.

In the carriage, it was dull for a long time, but the young ladies always glanced at Wanwan from time to time, with jealousy and defense, and wanted to question, but had no position.

In the end, Xie Yunqiao broke the stalemate, "Sister Wanwan, when will you come back after you return to your hometown?"

Obviously, the other people were also very concerned about this issue and immediately raised their ears.

How could Wanwan not understand the thoughts of these young ladies in the family? She felt that there was no need to let them misunderstand it, so she shook her head and said, "I will never leave this time when I go back to Wujiang."

"Ah? Why?" Liu Huan was a little puzzled.

"My father had a life-and-death friend, Liu, and was a child of a large Wujiang clan. When he was young, they joined the army together, and they were brothers and sisters. Later, shortly after I was born, my father made an agreement with Liu Shibo to marry him. The document was made. Next month, I will be sixteen years old, and it is time to make a promise to perform a great ceremony..."

Wanwan explained lightly, no joy or sorrow, as if she was talking about other people's affairs.

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Zhao Mengqi did not think too much about Wanwan's return to her hometown. His subconscious mind was still the thinking of later generations, but he was just going back to his hometown.

But I forgot that in this era, the carriages and horses were very slow and the letters were very far away. The difference between "life separation" and "death separation" was actually not much. Not only was it difficult to meet again, but there was even no news.

After he had a short rest of half a day that day, he started to get busy again the next day.

The most important thing is to recruit soldiers. If you want to make changes to the Song Dynasty, if you don’t have an absolute force in your hands, everything will be just a fantasy.

Speaking of which, the Song Dynasty had more than 600,000 troops on the books at this time, mainly composed of imperial guards, garrison troops, wing troops, local troops, and archers. The imperial guards were divided into three directly under the jurisdiction of the states and imperial guards.

The initial five troops were led by Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, Wu Jie and Yue Fei. At that time, they were the absolute main force in the fight against the Jin Kingdom.

After the situation stabilized, Zhao Jiumei and the ministers in the court were naturally unwilling to let go of military power. After a series of reorganizations and reorganizations, the thirteen main forces directly under the border were formed, with a total of about 200,000 people.

There are only these thirteen armies who can really fight. Other states are generals and imperial guards, but not generals and imperial guards. They are basically equivalent to erotic soldiers. Most of them are privately occupied by officials and undertake various tasks. Occasionally, they can suppress bandits and suppress rebellions and maintain local stability, which is almost the same as the status of the Xiang army.

This is too complicated and cannot be clarified by a few words. However, Zhao Mengqi wants to make changes to the entire military system. The best way is to first establish a new army model in the name of the royal guards, and then transform other troops after the experiment is mature.

So, he had to recruit 5,000 people at the same time, which scared all the civil and military officials of the court. You should know that all the troops in Lin'an had nominal 100,000, but due to frequent mobilization and the vacancies, it was actually only about 70,000.

The ministers felt a little relieved after they found out that the recruitment requirements were fourteen to sixteen years old. They thought that these were just half-grown children and it was impossible to form combat capabilities in a short period of time.

Recently, people from the Imperial City Department have frequently gone in and out of various temples and transported the accumulated money to the Yan Prince's Mansion. Therefore, some ministers thought that the Yan Prince had too much money and bit their hands, so they found themselves playmates.

Although he had almost 20 million yuan in his hand, the military pay he gave when recruiting soldiers was not as outrageous as recruiting workers, mainly to prevent dissatisfaction from other troops.

The Song Dynasty implemented the recruitment system. Joining the army was a lifelong profession, and military pay was the highest in history. However, the payment of the regular salary was very complicated, including currency, cloth, ready-made clothes, corn, as well as rewards and military merits.

In summary, the money spent on an elite soldier in the early and mid-Song Dynasty was about 40 to 50 jin a year, but the rice price was almost twice as much as before, so now a soldier in the main army costs more than 100 jin a year.

Therefore, according to this base, Zhao Mengqi added a little bit and set aside, "the regular salary is six stagnant, and the remaining food and clothing cost are all included in the army, and the rewards and military merits are not lower than those of other armies."

This income is not very attractive to ordinary citizens in Lin'an. After all, the average monthly expenses of each person are only 50,000 yuan.

But for refugees and poor people, it is like a pie falling from the sky. Especially half of the young man has not yet grown up, but his appetite is amazing. If he throws it into the Yan King's army, he will not only care about his fullness, but also provide a lot of subsidies to his family.

More importantly, the King of Yan set rules that he could retire freely after serving for fifteen years.

So outside the barracks where the Yan King Guards were located were crowded with recruits.
Chapter completed!