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"First, we'll try it out in the capital region and Henan,"
"Continuously plugging loopholes and fine-tuning policies,"
"Then it expanded to Guanzhong and Huainan."
Zhao Yuan said, "Once the south is pacified,"
"The Huai River region is the most important part of the reform of the Xiang Army."
"That can be changed,"
"There shouldn't be any problems nationwide."
The Xiang Army of the Song Dynasty
It's not just for fighting wars.
They have a variety of responsibilities.
First, transporting supplies.
Whether it's transporting grain or fodder,
Or the various policies and regulations of the imperial court,
The first consideration was to have the local militia do it.
Laborers are only conscripted when there is a shortage of manpower.
Second, they constructed water conservancy projects, repaired city walls, built palaces, and constructed imperial mausoleums.
This type of government project,
The local troops were also given priority in deployment.
Then, laborers will be conscripted to supplement the workload.
Third, land reclamation and restoration.
Border regions or a few inland areas,
If land reclamation is needed,
They also threw the local troops over there.
Fourth, to be used by officials.
Officials were summoned to leave the capital.
Supervisory officials inspect local areas,
Officials travel long distances to take up their posts.
Even officials moving to new homes,
They can directly hire Xiangjun soldiers as bodyguards and errand boys.
Even when an official's parents pass away,
Officials have important duties to fulfill and cannot return home to observe mourning for their parents.
You can apply to have the local militia assist with funeral arrangements.
In principle, the number of garrison troops allocated should be no more than one hundred.
Or perhaps the official himself died of illness.
They dispatched local soldiers to escort the body home.
In principle, no more than thirty soldiers should be transferred from the garrison.
Or, the officials might summon the local militia to serve as menial laborers.
He even made the local militia serve as his subordinates without pay.
Even the lowest-ranking deputy commander,
It is also possible to employ a garrison.
At the prefectural level,
It can command two hundred garrison troops.
During the Song Dynasty, border generals even deployed large numbers of local militia to cut firewood and burn charcoal.
No subsidies will be given.
It's equivalent to long-term hard labor.
The charcoal produced was sold by the general for profit.
This practice was once very popular.
This made it unbearable for the troops who were burning large amounts of charcoal.
They fled directly into the mountains and gathered to become bandits.
Because too many charcoal-burning soldiers fled...
The Northern Song court had no choice but to issue an order to ban it.
It was explicitly forbidden for the local troops to engage in charcoal burning.
There are many other messy things too.
The garrison soldiers who could serve as patrol inspectors or postmen,
They were already considered very lucky among the Xiang Army.
They were even required to perform tasks such as logging, shipbuilding, brewing wine, mining, producing weapons, delivering documents, and doing odd jobs in temples and monasteries.
Anyway, let the local troops handle whatever needs to be done.
You think the Song Dynasty court was kind-hearted?
Whenever trouble arose, they would organize refugees and rebels into local militias.
Are so many local militias across the country being paid for and supported by the government for nothing?
Zhang Ruyu, an official of the Southern Song Dynasty,
To summarize in eight words: When the Song Dynasty ruled the world, it mobilized all local troops.
It was precisely because the Xiangjun's business scope was so broad that
Too many people are involved.
Zhao Yuan has always struggled to implement comprehensive reforms.
In Sichuan, a large number of local militia and laborers were resettled to cultivate wasteland.
They were even relocated to Nanyang and Xiangyang.
As a result, the government often faces a severe shortage of manpower.
Larger public works projects
All laborers must be conscripted.
This will severely test the governance and coordination abilities of local officials.
Ironically, various prefectures and counties in Sichuan are still undertaking large-scale water conservancy projects.
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The deeper areas of the Xiang Army reform were in the Huai River region.
To put it bluntly, it's a matter of the fundamental principles and the future.
If the Lianghuai Gangjun is abolished
Should we form another Huaihe River transport army?
Zhao Yuan's idea was that
Gangjun was removed from the Xiangjun order.
They were integrated into the same system as the courier soldiers.
Specializing in postal and transportation services
The entire system was placed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War.
This is the Privy Council and the Grand Marshal's Mansion.
They seized too much power from the Ministry of War.
This was a form of compensation and balance given to the Ministry of War.
No bathing today,
Zhao Yuan, along with Li Shishi and Liu Huiniang,
They returned to the inner palace by carriage.
We stopped again when we were almost there.
On a whim, I climbed the city gate.
I strolled along the city wall of the imperial city for a while.
The Genyue Garden in the northwest is truly an eyesore.
It was almost completely abandoned.
Numerous pavilions and towers,
They chopped it up for firewood during the siege.
The stones were also moved away to be used as falling rocks.
A pile of stones of various sizes was placed on the city wall.
Well-preserved high-quality Taihu stones
It was auctioned off by the government to a wealthy family.
The stones that have already been smashed
People are free to come and move things.
Or they can be wholesaled to construction companies.
Today, Genyue is overgrown with weeds.
The rare and exotic flowers and trees are neglected.
It stands there abruptly in the northeast corner of the city.
Perhaps it can be cleaned a little.
Repair a few more pavilions.
It is intended for Tokyo residents to enjoy during their daily leisure time.
Zhao Yuan had a sudden inspiration.
I thought of the Astronomical Institute.
An observatory could be built on the summit of Genyue Mountain.
Even if the capital is moved in the future,
The observatory here doesn't need to be moved.
Compare with astronomical observation data from Luoyang.
The astronomers of the Song Dynasty often falsified data.
The emperor had no choice but to re-establish the Hanlin Academy of Astronomy.
The original intention was to have the Imperial Observatory and the Astronomical Institute supervise each other.
As a result, the old and new astronomical departments colluded to fabricate data.
They fabricated observational data to deceive the emperor.