Chapter 339: Using Water Instead of Troops, Training Outside the City

“Everyone knows it when he’s seen it!”

"It's so hard for you to have to go out of the palace to do business on such a hot day!"

"..."

All the way back to the palace, the chamberlains laughed at him and flattered him all the way.

Chen Zhongheng frowned slightly, but refused to answer.

Once he responds, someone will gossip about him.

In this palace! It's a place full of traps.

All the way in, I met Zhao Zhen.

"Guan family, thank you for your gratitude to Shen An's sister."

When giving a minister something or a reward, those who go away should remember the minister's expression and reaction, and then come back to report it, so that the emperor knows what he is doing.

But Guoguo is just a little girl, there is no need for this.

Zhao Zhen asked: "Where is Shen An?"

Chen Zhongheng said: "They said they went outside the city to train the Mangshan Army."

Zhao Zhen smiled and said: "There are only more than a hundred people, so it's rare for him to take notice."

More than a hundred people are just a drop of water, insignificant in the ocean of Bianliang.

But it is always a good thing for a courtier to be serious.

Zhao Zhen said with some depression in his heart: "If the north is low, the Yellow River will continue to flow north and change its course, and then the Liao people will rush over directly. The Song Dynasty is unstoppable, what can I do!"

The matter of changing the course of the Yellow River was suppressed, but the threat from the Liao people came.

"Guan family, please see the Liao envoy..."

A waiter came outside the door, and Chen Zhongheng turned around and shook his head.

Zhao Zhen was already covering his forehead in pain. How could he see the Liao envoy at this time?

…

"...form up...let's go!"

More than a hundred people lined up neatly, with indifferent expressions, and their footsteps gradually became heavier.

"Keep your legs straight."

"Hold!"

The footsteps became more orderly.

More than a hundred people started to move forward on the straight road in the village. There were not many people, but they were full of momentum.

Zhe Kexing originally did not agree with this exercise, because he felt that walking neatly or not was useless to the army.

The purpose of the army is to kill people.

Kill your opponents, kill your enemies, and protect your home and country.

What are you doing walking?

But when the array gradually took shape, he couldn't help but said in shock: "Can you walk with such momentum?"

Shen An shook his head and said: "It's not good enough. We need to develop an indomitable momentum, and we need to bring out murderous intent. How can an army do without murderous intent? Tell Huang Chun, I want to see murderous intent!"

Someone ran to notify Huang Chun, and Shen An said: "This is not just walking. First, it is necessary to build an army with strict military discipline. This is essential."

"The second is cohesion. When you are in this group and walk out of the majestic array together, you will have a sense of belonging!"

A sense of belonging is the most needed thing in the army, and if it is supplemented by rigorous training, it is an invincible army.

"With strict military discipline, strict drills, and sharp weapons, who in the world can defeat such an army?"

Zhe Kexing nodded and said: "Brother An Bei, the array is so neat, are we going to use long spears in the future?"

In the army, only the spear array needs to be kept in order.

“No matter what you’re using, it always pays to be neatly organized.”

Shen An refused to reveal the future direction, he was waiting for the opportunity.

Then he went to Izumo-kan.

There is a bit of a choking smell as soon as you enter.

Although coking coal seems smokeless, the faint smell is more pungent.

‘Dan furnace’, no, it should be called steel furnace now.

Several strong Taoist priests pushed and pulled the handle of the bellows together. She Hui stood on the side and looked at the situation in the furnace through the small opening from time to time.

This was the first furnace. She Hui was a little nervous. Seeing Shen An coming, she said, "We have to wait."

"Not in a hurry."

Shen An is really not in a hurry. It's too early to come up with good things now. Once he appears in this world, all kinds of constraints will come one after another.

What is the most difficult thing from ancient times to the present?

The hardest thing to do!

It is best not to do anything, as long as you know how to be a good person, then you will be powerful, wealthy, and beautiful, and you will not lack anything.

Whenever something is done, interests will be involved, and when there are interests, there will be disputes...

Then……

While doing things, you also have to appease, settle, and argue...

This is the price of doing things.

She Qing came in with a smile on her face, but it looked a little forced.

"Waiting for an edict...people's hearts are a little unstable!"

"Why?"

Shen An had already seen Tang Ren, but he still asked about Sheqing first.

She Qing said: "People in the temple are always worried about the future."

Shen An understood and said, "Gather them."

Now it's just a furnace, and most of the people in the Taoist temple are idlers.

Except for officials, no one wants to support idle people. This is the consensus.

Out of instinct, those Taoists who have nothing to do are worried that they will be kicked out in the future.

The Taoists gathered in the yard and looked at the big boss Shen An anxiously.

Shen An said: "I hope that in a few years, officials can come here in person, so...work with peace of mind!"

That's all?

The Taoists were unsure, and someone asked: "We have nothing to do, waiting for the imperial edict! Will we be kicked out?"

This is their biggest worry.

Shen An smiled and said: "Someone here said that in the future, only lazy people will be kicked out of Izumo Temple."

After a moment of silence, someone asked: "Really?"

Shen An shook his head and said: "I am not short of this little money, so I still say the same thing, work with peace of mind."

He turned around and said to She Hui: "Except for a small amount of the refined items, all will be handed over to the Third Division."

This is an explanation and a way to expand production scale.

The third company gives out iron ore and recycles steel. This is business.

The next step is to ask Sansi for money.

You have to pay the processing fee!

Shen An was advancing step by step, not impatient or impatient.

When the Taoists heard this, they immediately beamed with joy.

"Go get water!"

She Hui just gave an order. After a while, the water in the water tank was full, and there were full buckets next to it.

That's positivity.

"Xiaguan has been depressed recently, but after listening to what Tai Zhao said, Xiaguan just felt refreshed and a surge of strength came up. He is a hundred times more energetic, a hundred times more energetic!"

Tang Ren still had his habitual flattery smile.

"What's the matter?"

Outside Izumo Watch, Shen An asked a little ecstatically.

Tang Ren immediately said with a frown on his face: "As for the imperial edict, the Liao envoys are aggressive, saying that they want the Song Dynasty to destroy the capital temples and monuments in Fuzhou."

This matter can be regarded as a sequelae of the Yellow River's diversion.

The Song Dynasty believed that the Yellow River was a barrier, and the Liao people were a little imaginary, worried that they would suffer heavy losses along the Yellow River.

Now that the Song Dynasty has given up on the Yellow River diversion project, the Liao people probably think that there is an opportunity for blackmail.

"They offered to add new year coins. If they refused, the cavalry would cross the Yellow River and attack Bianliang."

Tang Ren was a little frowning, he felt that this was a dead end.

"It's impossible to change the route, but what if the Liao people come?"

Tang Ren had a headache. "While waiting for the imperial edict, the Liao people's request to see the officials was rejected. They have already told the embassy that they are ready to go back."

"This is a bluff."

Shen An said disdainfully: "If they really want to attack, the Liao envoy should send people back privately to report the news, instead of threatening them in a big way."

Tang Ren smiled bitterly and said: "But no one dares to say that the Liao people will not take the opportunity to go south."

The Liao people went south. This was the driving force that drove the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers to change the course of the Yellow River. If it had not been for the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, they would have committed suicide for the fourth time. But it was not the Liao people who were defending at that time, but the Jin people.

The two rode horses side by side, Shen An was deep in thought, and Tang Ren whispered: "I heard that the officials were angry, and someone came up with an idea. When the Liao people went south, they would directly break the dikes and release the water, using water instead of troops. Directly drowned the Liao people."

"This is a lose-lose situation, and Song Dynasty will be hurt even more."

The so-called use of water to replace troops means releasing water to flood the Liao army going south, but the people in this area will also suffer.

Shen An asked: "Have the officials agreed?"

If Zhao Zhen agreed, he would be either frightened or evil-hearted.

Tang Ren shook his head, "The officials scolded the man, and the ministers also impeached him... It is said that the man has invited himself to Xiazhou County."

He didn't say who it was, and Shen An wasn't interested in asking.

"There is no way around this matter..."

"Wait for the order to save me!"

Tang Ren grasped this sentence as if he had received a life-saving straw, wishing he could commit himself to it.

Shen An went to the palace and didn't know what he said to Zhao Zhen, and then Yujia went outside the city.

The next day, in the Privy Council, the three yamen chiefs were there, Song Xiang was also there, and Shen An was sitting at the side.

Song Xiang held the tea cup and said slowly: "The officials just ordered to select 10,000 people for training. They must be tall and strong. You can carefully select them."

The officers of the three yamen all nodded in agreement, and Li Zhang asked, "But if you take it out, you won't come back?"

This is asking whether to form a new army. If so, then it is time to recruit new people to fill the vacancies after being drawn away.

Song Xiang shook his head and said: "Half a month is enough. We will go back later."

Half a month!

Li Zhang smiled and said: "It's better this way, and the army will save them something to chew."

The three yamen officers all laughed.

Then the laughter dissipated in Song Xiang's indifference.

"The expenses of these 10,000 people in half a month are not small, and the official family will bear them all, so you must be careful and don't commit fraud, otherwise the military law will be ruthless!"

Song Xiang stood up and said, "That's it. You wait until you go back and start immediately."

Li Zhang asked: "Who will give it to you after you pick it out?"

"Shen An."

Song Xiang went out, and Shen Ancai, who had been silent, said: "These people must be gathered as soon as possible and then sent outside the city."

Is this a big deal?

Li Zhang thought of the Liao people jumping from the beams and asked, "But we want to deal with the Liao people?"

Shen An smiled and said, "Don't say it."

…

In the embassy at this moment, the Liao envoy was roaring.

"...The Jingguan and the stele are a provocation to Daliao. If they are not removed, millions of cavalry will trample Bianliang!"

Tang Ren said numbly: "Okay, step on it."

"The Xixia people are going crazy. UU Reading www.uukanshu.net If Daliao joins forces with them, you and others will be reduced to flesh in an instant!"

"Okay, meat paste!"

Tang Ren got the latest instruction, which was to cheat.

As long as you can fool the Liao envoy, it will be a great achievement to turn around.

And outside the city, in a large village.

"Array up!"

"Hold it! Hold it!"

"Kick your feet up!"

"Start...go!"

The footsteps were scattered, then gradually became orderly.

…

At the beginning of the month, continue to ask for monthly votes. A small bowl of gruel for breakfast...