When the delegation entered Guanxi East Road, the population increased at a speed visible to the naked eye. This was the original Guanxi Sixth Road, which was the territory of the Han people from beginning to end, and was controlled by Zhao Song. It can be said that compared with the original Xixia land, this place is the real basic structure of the Song people.

Even if the sixth road of Guanxi is just the most barren piece of land in the Song Dynasty.

Xiao Olila carefully observed that he had not yet entered the Song Dynasty in the traditional sense.

Then he found that compared to Luntai City, which is still under military control, this place seems a bit different.

As there are more people, there is more prosperity. Needless to say, this is more important, he saw the real life of the Song people.

Although he could only take a few glances from afar, just a few simple glances were enough. These Song people were not as happy as the rumors outside said.

Whether it is the farmers outside the city or the citizens inside the city, most of their clothes are ordinary, and they are not said to be all silk and satin. But it is undeniable that these ordinary Song people have a good mental outlook, each with rosy complexion and strong body.

Obviously they are all able to eat and wear warm clothes.

For the Western Liao, for example, today, this is the treatment that only warriors in the direct tribes of the Khitan and Dangxiang tribes can enjoy.

On one hand, the most ordinary people are already the backbone of society. Not to mention the difference in quantity between the two, just talking about the difference in class and hierarchy can make people clearly feel the irreparable gap between the two.

To be honest, a country where people at the bottom of society can eat and wear well is still a country with a population of billions. Its strength is really beyond the imagination of Western Liao.

After the rumored beauty was exposed, although the truth exposed could not be as brilliant as the gems imagined, the Song Dynasty, which was as dazzling as gold, was still so great!

Xiaowulila, who originally thought that the only chance of Khitan was in the West, now he thinks that it is even more so.

A rich and martial country is really not something that the Western Liao Dynasty can be provoked by today.

Walking all the way from the Western Regions to Guanzhong, although they often passed by sloppyly along the way, there was a scene they had seen more than once. That was the local soldiers from various prefectures in the local states.

Local soldiers are militias, or the previous bow and arrow club.

Zhao Song emphasized literature and suppressed martial arts, and the Song army was not very powerful. This seemed to be a fact recognized by the billions of people in later generations.

But in fact? The martial spirit of the people of Zhao Song was definitely very different from the "taken of course" by many people in later generations.

The Bow and Arrow Club is the representative of it.

When you hear this name, many people will think of the shooting hall. In addition, the crossbowman is the main force of the Song army, so many people take it for granted, thinking that it is a sense of instantaneity of an organized archery team.

But in fact, in the bow and archery clubs in Guanxi, Hebei and other prefectures and counties, all of them are large-scale comprehensive martial arts training grounds. They not only draw bows and archery, but also swords, guns, sticks, axes, hooks and forks. It can be said that in addition to armor, shields, fire cannons and other control products, there are all bow and archery clubs in the Song army.

"Fist", "Dan Zhuan", "Sword Dance", "Dance Man Card", "Bow Shooting", "Jo Sumo", "Shooting Crossbow", "Playing Stick", "Playing Sticking", in short, there is a practical fighting training ground.

The combat effectiveness of rural militias from all over the country who walked out of the inside was even more combative than that of Zhao Song's military and institutional troops.

Because the biggest purpose of this archery club at the beginning of its establishment was to protect the country and protect the people.

From the sprouting in the late Tang Dynasty to the maturity of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms periods, the only purpose of the Bow and Archery Club was to protect the country and safeguard the people - the government no longer thought about it. **, hooligans and bandits were prosperous for a while, and the people in the world were suffering from disasters, so the people could only save themselves: each household had a male, and participated in the Bow and Archery Club. They "bring a bow and hoe, wear swords and woodcutters, and are often like bandits coming." They can draw their swords at any time to fight their lives!

After time entered the Zhao and Song dynasties, the bow and archery clubs in the Central Plains gradually disappeared, and as of now, only the bow and archery clubs in Hebei and Guanxi still maintained their basic role.

Because that place is close to the border, the people of the bow and arrow club are the best supplements for the Song army.

In history, the two Song dynasties were incredible violent soldiers from the six routes of Guanxi - from Xuanhe Northern Expedition to reinforcements from the big and small races, then Fan Zhixu, Qian Gai's army, and then the Battle of Fuping, hundreds of thousands of troops were successively unearthed, and the remaining defeated generals were introduced into Sichuan and Shu by the Wu brothers, and the possibility of the Jin army entering Shu - or the waves of anti-Jin in the Central Plains of Hebei, the bow and arrow club played an extremely important role in it.

However, in today's time and space, Zhao Gou, who has eliminated foreign troubles, said that he would not allow such "terrifying" non-governmental organizations in Hebei and Guanxi.

And without external threats, the people from all over the world of Hebei and Guanxi may not be willing to go and play with guns.

At that time, Zhao Gou could take advantage of the situation to completely ban the Archery Society. However, what should we do if the many people in the north and south of the country attracted the treatment of the Song army?

With the bow and arrow club, these people can get in touch with simple military exercises and understand military rules and regulations first!

It can not only reduce the burden on the army to a certain extent, but also strengthen the people's martial spirit.

The complete erase of the bow and arrow club is contrary to Zhao Gou's original intention.

Not to mention that with the development of the great migration of immigrants, the conflicts between immigrants and indigenous peoples were quickly detonated. Although the living environment of immigrants was not as miserable as the chaotic times of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, it is also very necessary to "carry a bow and hoe, wear a sword and woodcutter, and be armored and saddle horses, and often come if the enemy arrives."

In this case, Zhao Gou's only choice was to spread the bow and arrow club nationwide, which was to convert the bow and arrow club into public!

When the Western Liao envoys went to Bianjing to meet, the local soldiers who had been transformed from the Bow and Archery Club had already flourished again.

Because there are too many civilians in the world who are eager to enter the army to avoid their families being "moved"!

The craze for military participation in the Central Plains, which had already been declining in the Han area, once again reached its peak.

Yes, the people don't want to fight.

Even if the rewards of joining the army are very generous, and even if the military merits are very fragrant, there are still many people who would rather be "silent" than the family to be safe.

Anyway, I have food and drink, and I can still live anyway, so why do I have to make a living from the knife?

If you really want to make money, then let the person go out to work while the farm is slack, and women can also weave textiles at home.

In a word, when human survival needs are satisfied to a certain extent, human desire to fight will be greatly reduced.

Until the arrival of the great migration of the whole nation!

Joining the army has become more popular in a short period of time.

The Western Liao delegation has seen local soldiers in training more than once, and there are not many local soldiers in each county, but how many counties and prefectures are there in the entire Zhao Song Dynasty?

When that number is completely summed up, it will definitely be an "astronomical number" called Xiliao that is desperate for!
Chapter completed!