Once the army of the Song Dynasty was running, the speed was amazing, which was completely different from the army of all dynasties. The changes were huge, the system was excellent, the speed was amazing, and the momentum was amazing.

The Song Dynasty had its own unique military transport system. The easiest way was to go to the front line with command as a unit and into pieces. Each command was 550 people, and five commands were a battalion. The most effective way for soldiers to go to the front line was to ride a carriage.

The Song Dynasty was no longer short of horses, but the horses of the Song Dynasty were divided into different levels. The best ones were naturally used as military horses or royal horses. The second ones were used as preparatory horses or as horses for transportation in the army. The second ones were used as horses for the people or box trucks to pull carts.

Don't underestimate these horses, even the slowest horses come much faster than ox carts and donkey carts.

But even though there were so many horses in the Song Dynasty, ordinary people were reluctant to use them. The reason was very simple. The literati and officials in the court "condescend" to use ox carts for transportation, and how dare others be superior to them?

Merchants are cautious and are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are the ones who are happy, so who will use horse carts?

As for arable land, people who pull carts and other things don’t use horses to do farming. Who is so spendthing?

Since horses have been saved by the people, it is natural to use the required places. So they are found in long-distance transportation. The slow horse is reluctant to give up the tenth reward, so the slow horse is naturally used to pull a cart.

Box trucks are the chariots and horses responsible for transportation. They can be seen everywhere on the land of the Song Dynasty. There were cement roads and railways in the Song Dynasty, which greatly promoted the development of public transportation.

Even with the emergence of trains, horse-drawn carts are still the main force in transportation. There are only dozens of trains in the Song Dynasty, and there are about ten trains required in Beijing every day, and almost all the rest are distributed to the four capitals.

How to fill the remaining transportation gap? A carriage is undoubtedly the best choice.

Horse-drawn carts can not only run on concrete roads, but can still transport them normally on railways. Just remove the wheels, replace them with special wheels, and stick them tightly on the rails to run.

Due to the number of people, the carriage had to be driven by four horses. The emperor, who originally belonged to the etiquette system, had six emperors, five princes, four nobles, three officials, two scholars, and one commoner. Now there is a problem.

For this reason, the Censorate once impeached such a thing, but Zhao Zhen rejected their memorials or kept them directly without sending them. Gradually, no one in the court said that the four-horse carriages were not alone, but dozens or even dozens of people. Is so many people not as good as a scholar-official?!

This time, the troops were dispatched to the imperial guards of Beijing City and Beiping Prefecture. The Song Dynasty has been unable to change its habit of garrisoning a large number of troops near the capital for so many years. In addition to the Beiwei Army, the Bai Army, the Imperial Army, and the Fourth Army and some of the Sixteen Guards, the number of troops sent by the Song Dynasty this time was about 400,000.

This is an extremely large and lengthy process. With the cooperation of more than half of the court's yamen, the civil officials naturally received news. Pang Ji, who was originally "sick" and rushed into the palace gate almost as quickly as possible, while the remaining group of civil officials followed closely behind.

Almost all the officials in the court arrived, and they even had some doubts in their hearts, why did they suddenly use troops? Why did the officials use troops without any signs before?

The husbands have been in the Qinzheng Hall for a long time, but the troops in the city have been gathering towards the border between Song and Liao. After the transformation of the Song Dynasty, the carriages have long become the best vehicle for transportation. There are shock-absorbing iron bars and rubber tires under the carriages. The combination of these two makes the carriages steadily walking on the cement road.

There were about thousands of such carriages. They were moving forward rapidly on the highway and on the railway, with almost no pause except for the rest time of eating grass on the road, even though they were moving forward overnight.

You can all arrive on the border of Song and Liao in less than three days!

If you want to use falsehood to be true, you must deceive everyone. Even the ministers of the Song Dynasty must think that this is a real battle to destroy Liao to achieve Zhao Zhen's strategic goal. If there are not a few civil officials who really understand the overall situation, this matter will be difficult to work.

So Zhao Zhen only met with Pang Ji, the minister, and Xia Shu, the assistant minister, and of course, Bao Zheng, the envoy of the Three Divisions. If it weren't for him, Bao Zheng, the "purse" of the Song Dynasty, wouldn't have been done.

The Qinzheng Hall belongs to the inner hall of the palace and has reached the scope of the forbidden area. Zhao Zhen had already washed away the smell of smoke from his body and received three important officials from the court here with a refreshing spirit.

"Is Mr. Pang's illness better?" Zhao Zhen looked at Pang Ji with a little teasing. He always asked for leave on the grounds that his legs were difficult to recover, and he wanted to resign if he was forced to retreat. Zhao Zhen knew that he wanted to retreat bravely. He had already taken the position of a minister like a minister in the Song Dynasty, and during his term of office, the Song Dynasty recovered Xixia. What else was there to be inconsistency?

Even if you are a minister, you can get the treatment of Kaifu Yi and the Three Sessions, which is already a great deal in the history of the Song Dynasty.

Pang Ji's old face turned red: "Your Majesty, my leg is hard to cure, it's really unbearable... But Your Majesty suddenly launched troops to fight the northern expedition and mobilized no less than 400,000 imperial guards overnight. The old me thinks it's quite inappropriate!"

Xia Shu nodded and said, "Your Majesty, the time is not yet ripe. Your Majesty also issued an oral order to attack Liao, slowly plan to attack Liao, first destroy its wealth, then seize Liaodong, and the three routes are in full swing, and it is thunderous! But now..."

Zhao Zhen knew that he could not hide it from these two people. He looked at Bao Zheng who was surprisingly quiet and said, "Is there nothing that Bao Xianggong wants to say?"

Bao Zheng shook his head slightly: "I am only responsible for the national treasury management and storage. I am the person who is planning the money of the Song Dynasty. I only need your Majesty to issue an order and draw up the charter. How much is used and where it is used? I will record it in the book and issue the funds..."

This is called nothing to say? He asked almost everything he should ask! Pang Ji and Xia Shu looked at each other, but he didn't expect that Bao Zheng was usually hiding his weakness!

Zhao Zhen nodded and said, "This time, the purpose of summoning you three to meet is to let you three know the profound meaning. This time, it is a plan to siege Wei to save Zhao. It seems to attack the Liao Dynasty, but in fact it is to rescue Shi Yuansun's army. The Liao people have sent troops from Liaoyang Prefecture and arrived at Huanglong Prefecture, which is quite waiting and watching."

The three of them were shocked. Zhao Zhen's words made them feel that things were difficult, otherwise the government would not have paid such a great price to use this strategy of surrounding Wei and saving Zhao.
Chapter completed!