Li Gang and the other three listened and looked at each other.
The second matter was easy to handle. Many official positions in the court were indeed useless. If they were removed, so be it. It would not affect the normal operations of the court. Instead, it would increase the efficiency of the court and even promote a group of capable officials.
However, the first matter was more troublesome.
Increasing the national treasury's income by 30 million taels of silver within a month was not easy to do.
Bai Shizhong braced himself and stood up."" Your Majesty, it is indeed difficult to increase the treasury by 30 million taels of silver within a month. Your Majesty, do you think…"
Before Bai Shizhong could finish, Zhao Huan interrupted him.
"Bai Shizhong, don't find excuses for me. I can increase the income of the national treasury by more than 20 million taels, but you can't? If you ask me, thirty million taels of silver is still not enough. I haven't even told you to increase it by fifty million taels of silver!”
Fifty million taels? Li Gang, Wei Xu, and Zhao Ding were all shocked.
Wei Xu quickly stood up." Your Majesty, your 50 million taels is a bit too much. Please understand our difficulties!"”
Zhao Huan glanced at Wei Xu."
"It is precisely because this one understands your difficulties that this one did not ask you to get fifty million taels for this one. In any case, this one does not care how you do it. In this Great Song Dynasty, there are so many corrupt officials. If you cannot squeeze out silver, then this one really doubts your ability to do things!”
When Li Gang and the others heard this, they were immediately unhappy. They were all capable officials and had some backbone.
Hearing Zhao Huan's words, they all expressed that this matter was settled. Within a month, they would guarantee that they would have an additional 30 million taels of silver in the national treasury.
After arranging some more details, Li Gang and the others left Chuigong Hall and went down to do their work.
Li Gang and the others left, but Zong Ze and the others did not.
They were discussing the internal affairs of the imperial court just now, so Zong Ze and the others couldn't speak.
Zhao Huan looked at Zong Ze and the others. Even though they were all older and had a lot of white hair.
However, these people had been in the military for most of their lives. It could be said that they had a deep understanding of the military. There were many things that could be done by them.
" Zong Ze, Zhong Shidao, Liu Qi, Zhang Shuye," Zhao Huan said." I'll give each of you a mission. Complete it for me!"”
"Your Majesty, please give me your orders!"”
"Zongze, there should be more than 200,000 soldiers stationed outside Tokyo, right?”
Zong Ze nodded." Yes, Your Majesty. Because they didn't receive any orders from the Imperial Court, the loyal army that arrived outside the city didn't leave. They have been stationed outside the city, waiting for the next order!"”
Zhao Huan nodded.
"Take Yue Fei, Wu Ge, and the others and select 100,000 elites from the 200,000-plus Imperial Army soldiers to form an independent army. In addition, select 50,000 weaker soldiers to form an independent army. As for the remaining 50,000 soldiers, those whose combat strength is too low to continue serving in the army can be eliminated and sent home!”
When Zong Ze heard that, his expression changed and he asked Zhao Huan,""Your Majesty, many of these eliminated soldiers are injured. If we don't settle them down, I'm afraid it will chill the hearts of the soldiers!”
Zhao Huan nodded." I have already thought of this. Don't worry and do it. When the time comes, I will issue an imperial edict to settle them down!”
After obtaining Zhao Huan's permission, Zong Ze was relieved."In that case, I thank Your Majesty for your kindness on behalf of the soldiers!”
" General Zhong," Zhao Huan looked at Master Zhong and said," You've been in the army for many years. I'm sure you know a lot about the shortcomings of the military system and the imperfection of the military laws, right?"”
Zhong Shidao nodded." Yes, the Song Dynasty's army has all kinds of fake positions. Moreover, the military laws are simple and crude, and it's very troublesome to enforce them. Once on the battlefield, all kinds of shortcomings will be exposed, seriously affecting the combat effectiveness of the army!”
Zhao Huan nodded.
"Therefore, I want you, Old General Zhong, and General Liu Qi to go down and have a good discussion. You should reorganize the officer system of the Great Song and formulate a complete and effective military management system. As for the military law, you can go to the Ministry of Justice and discuss it together to formulate a complete military law!”
Zhong Shidao and Liu Qi bowed and accepted the order."I will obey!"
Then, Zhao Huan looked at Zhang Shuye.""Zhang Shuye, I also have a mission for you to do!”
"Your Majesty, please instruct me!" Zhang Shuye bowed.”
"I want you to create a complete military training manual. This manual contains the basic methods of training soldiers. Of course, this manual is only a reference, but this manual will be the basic manual for the training of the Song army in the future.”
Every general would have their own training style when training their soldiers. Zhao Huan would not ask every general to follow the training methods in this manual.
However, the most basic training methods must be present, and they must not be rough and barbaric.
After arranging these things.
Zhao Huan voiced his last thought."I will establish a new military position in the army. It will be called the Staff Officer. It can be called the Staff Officer Department. This military position will be held by civil officials for the time being, but it will be managed by the Military and Political Affairs Council.”
Zong Ze and the others looked at each other. Staff? What government office was this?
Zhao Huan did not explain in detail, and Zong Ze and the others could not ask. They could only bury their doubts in their hearts.
Finally, Zhao Huan gave the order.
"This one will give you a month's time. After a month, this one will want to see the results. The civil officials in the court are watching you and saying that this one has given you too much power.”
Zong Ze and the other three also turned serious.
In order to give the generals more power and prevent the civil officials from interfering with the generals, Zhao Huan had a disagreement with important officials like Li Gang.
Therefore, Zong Ze and the others knew that if they couldn't produce results, the army would never be able to escape the suppression of the civil officials.
Thus, the four of them made up their minds to create an army capable of fighting for the Great Song.
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