Chapter 77 Military Expansion Order

After hearing what the Right Prime Minister Zhao Wenhan said, the Left Prime Minister Lin Gaoyuan chuckled and said, "The frontier vassal kings do have the responsibility to resist foreign invasions, but Beijun only has 30,000 soldiers. Does Prime Minister Zhao think that the Northern King can use these 30,000 soldiers to repel the invasion of the barbarians?"

Zhao Wenhan then said, "I didn't say that.

Speaking of this, Zhao Wenhan looked at Emperor Xia on the dragon throne again, and then continued, "Your Majesty, Beijun is the first line of defense against the barbarians. The conventional 30,000 soldiers have long been insufficient to resist the invasion of the barbarians, so I think it's time to issue an order to expand the army to Beijun. "

As soon as Zhao Wenhan said this, the court was immediately full of discussions.

Since Emperor Xia ascended the throne, in order to prevent the princes from rebelling, a military restriction order was issued.

In the fiefdom of a prince, according to the area of ​​the land, there is no more than a certain number of soldiers.

The upper limit of the number of troops in Beijun is 50,000, which is why Lu Chen only recruited 10,000 soldiers when he said he wanted to recruit new troops.

Zhao Wenhan's words seemed to be no problem. After all, Beijun was on the front line of resisting the barbarians, and it was reasonable to give the King of Beijun more soldiers.

But...

Once this precedent was opened, the princes of other borders would use the same excuse to expand their armies.

Resisting the barbarians is to resist foreign invasions. What about the other major dynasties in other directions of the Great Xia Dynasty? Although there have been no wars in the major dynasties for many years, who can say for sure? What if a dynasty attacks us one day?

If Beijun has expanded its army, other frontier vassal kings will certainly ask for expansion.

This will obviously cause a chain reaction.

And once Beijun expands its army, other dynasties may suddenly attack Daxia.

Not all vassal kings are law-abiding. It is possible that they collude with foreign enemies and use this as a bargaining chip to ask the court to issue an order to expand the army.

Emperor Xia is not a fool. He knows the consequences of issuing an order to expand the army to Beijun.

However, at this time, Emperor Xia still said: "Draft an edict. Beijun is the first line of defense against the invasion of barbarians. Beijun's 30,000 soldiers are not enough to resist the invasion of barbarians. From now on, the upper limit of the number of soldiers in Beijun will be increased to 150,000. In addition, Beiwang is the vassal king of Beijun's fiefdom. No matter what happens, Beiwang cannot escape from the battlefield and must defend Beijun!"

After hearing what Emperor Xia said, Zhao Wenhan immediately bowed and said: "Your Majesty is wise! "

Emperor Xia glanced at Zhao Wenhan coldly, and then continued: "Minister Wang, Minister Chu, Prime Minister Lin, Prime Minister Zhao, the four of you stay and leave the court."

After saying that, Emperor Xia stood up from the dragon throne, waved the long sleeves of his dragon robe, and turned around and left.

Obviously, Emperor Xia was very uncomfortable with the expansion of the army in Beijun, but he had to do it.

Now that Daxia is undercurrent, it is impossible for Daxia to send hundreds of thousands of troops to the north to resist the barbarians.

If hundreds of thousands of troops are really sent to the north, it will shake the foundation of the country.

Emperor Xia also saw that the invasion of the barbarians this time is most likely related to the aristocratic family. As for whether the prince is involved, it is unknown.

Now is not the time to care about these things.

Behind the war is politics. If it is really as the King of the North said in the letter, the barbarians want to Beijun established a country, that is absolutely not allowed.

Beijun is the gateway to Daxia. Once Beijun is occupied by the barbarians, the barbarians will head straight for the capital in the future.

Emperor Xia knew that to resolve this crisis, he had to compromise not only with the barbarians, but also with the noble families.

This made Emperor Xia feel very aggrieved. Since he ascended the throne, this was the most aggrieved time for him.

The main reason was that he had just reorganized Daxia's army, and the barbarians came south too suddenly, leaving him no time to breathe.

If he waited another year, after Daxia's army was reorganized, he sent troops north, and those barbarian cavalry were nothing at all.

Unfortunately, there are not so many ifs.

The most urgent task is to discuss how to solve the crisis in Beijun.

After Emperor Xia called the four people just now to the study, he seriously discussed the matter of the barbarians going south.

In the end, the result of their discussion was to promote talks through peace. They would definitely send troops, but they would not send hundreds of thousands of troops to the north.

As for ceding the entire Beijun, that was impossible, but it was not completely out of discussion. Part of the land of Beijun could be ceded to the barbarians.

Anyway, Beijun was the fief of the King of Bei, and the King of Bei was just a useless prince and could not manage so much land.

After discussing the specific things to do, Lin Gaoyuan left Emperor Xia's study directly.

His face was not good, and he was obviously not satisfied with the result of their discussion.

Emperor Xia summoned four people in total, and one of them was a minister of the Ministry of Revenue, one was also a minister of the Ministry of War, and the other was a treacherous minister who only knew how to fight for power.

What good solution could the three of them come up with when they got together?

It was nothing more than the same old trick of ceding land for glory.

After Lin Gaoyuan returned to the mansion, he was very upset and did not speak for a long time.

At this time, a man in armor entered the hall.

After the man entered the hall, he immediately asked: "Dad, I heard that 300,000 barbarian troops went south. Is this true or false?"

The barbarian going south was a big deal. The ministers couldn't help but talk about it everywhere after they left the court, and soon Lin Xiuming, who was in the army, heard it.

Lin Xiuming is now the commander of the Qilin Army, and he cares a lot about war.

After hearing his son's question, Lin Gaoyuan came back to his senses, sighed and said, "It's not certain whether it's true or not, but the Northern King used the Red Silk Messenger, which is likely to be true."

Lin Xiuming continued to ask, "What is your majesty's plan?"

Hearing this question, Lin Gaoyuan chuckled, "Plan? Ha, he wants you to lead 70,000 elite soldiers to the north to help the Northern King fight against the 300,000 barbarian troops."

What?

Hearing his father's words, Lin Xiuming was stunned.

Lead 70,000 elite soldiers to fight against the 300,000 barbarian troops?

What a joke?

Since they are elite soldiers, they must be combat soldiers, but 70,000 combat soldiers, plus the 30,000 soldiers of the Northern County, are only 100,000 soldiers.

100,000 soldiers want to resist the 300,000 iron cavalry of the barbarians?

Lin Xiuming frowned. Obviously, the Great Xia Dynasty can mobilize about 500,000 soldiers now, why only send 70,000 soldiers to the north?

Lin Xiuming then asked: "Dad, after His Majesty reorganizes the military camp, won't there be 500,000 soldiers that can be mobilized?"

Hearing his son's naive question, Lin Gaoyuan snorted and laughed again, and then said: "500,000? Your Majesty dares to move these 500,000 soldiers? If these 500,000 soldiers are moved, Daxia may be in chaos."

Lin Gaoyuan did not say too many in-depth reasons. He said directly to Lin Xiuming: "I don't want to say much. When His Majesty's edict comes down, you will immediately lead your troops to Beijun and join the King of Bei."

"When fighting, you just try to delay the barbarian cavalry. There is no need to fight them to death. The real battlefield is not in Beijun, but in the court."

Hearing Lin Gaoyuan's reminder, Lin Xiuming seemed to understand something, and then said: "Okay, Dad, I understand what you mean."

...

Beijun, Yancheng.

A woman in a black long dress and holding a long sword slowly moved forward on the streets of Yancheng.

The woman's face was cold as ice, but extremely beautiful, like a goddess who was not in touch with the world.

At this time, a speeding carriage passed by her.

The wind blew open the curtains of the carriage, and a beautiful woman in white came into people's sight.

The woman in black on the side of the road happened to cross her line of sight with the woman in white.

But it was only a moment.

The carriage continued to move forward, leaving only the woman in black standing there, looking indifferently at the back of the carriage going away.