Xiao Tienu was authorized by Zhe Yanchong to supervise military affairs in Liaokou as the capital commander. He was ambitious at the beginning, feeling that he had 3,000 elite soldiers under his command, and Liaokou soldiers and horses were said to be only 2,000 people, and he commanded 2,000 people with 3,000 people.

But when he arrived in Liaokou, he realized that he was not facing a thousand or two thousand people, but the entire government machine of the Han Ministry! Although there are only 2,000 people in the Wuwei battalion in Liaokou, these 2,000 people are just the blade of the Liaonan army! And not the whole of the armed forces of southern Liaoning.

In the history books of various countries, the major battles in ancient times often boasted that there were hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, but in fact, the number of people who actually entered the battlefield during the war was by no means that large, because such figures usually included the logistics team. Especially in the kind of war of annihilation of the country with a thousand-mile expedition, there are generally more people escorting grain and grass along the way than actually fighting on the battlefield!

The number of the Liaokou army claimed to the outside world did not include either the large number of sappers or the civil guards in charge of law and order in the city of Liaokou - and these people were in fact very well organized and could play a certain role in defensive warfare. The military system of southern Liaoning arranged by Zhe Yanchong and Cao Guangbi and the soldiers and horses brought out by Xiao Tienu are completely different things, and these troops have quite strict procedures in daily training and transfer, and the economic life and social honor of the soldiers are even more intertwined with the system of the southern Liaoning government.

After a large number of immigrants from the Great Song Dynasty, Murowei and the Jurchens of the East China Sea moved in, the Han officials settled the stronger of them in the northern part of the Liaodong Peninsula through various conditions, and within a few years successively established dozens of villages integrating agriculture and animal husbandry, each with a population ranging from a few hundred to 2,000 people. The ethnic origin of these villagers is mainly the Song people, but there are also many Donghu people. The Hu people were fierce, and most of the Song people who could be selected here were not fuel-efficient lamps, so in the early days of the establishment of the village, there were fights almost every day. The civil officials of Jinmen suggested that the Hu and Han should be separated to avoid trouble, but Cao Guangbi and Yang Yingqi did not do so after discussing it, but set up rules for rings and fights in each village, and if they really encountered something that they had not to solve by themselves, they would go to the ring to see the truth - but they would be severely punished for private fights under the ring. After the rings were set up, the brawls in these villages slowly turned into an open, orderly, and restrained contest. As the saying goes, "if you don't fight, you don't know each other", the Hu and Han residents of these villages did not move towards riots in this orderly competition, but towards mutual understanding and recognition. Especially after the Hu people became accustomed to communicating in Chinese, this sense of identity became even stronger.

The land on which these villages with military purposes were set up by the Han was not fertile, but the main task of the villagers here was not to farm and raise horses, but to live a life of farming, herding and army, and the military training presided over by the Liaokou generals was obviously the main theme of their lives. The Han did not levy taxes on these villages, but instead received a large annual subsidy to reward those who excelled in military training.

Gradually, the villagers who were most able to adapt to the fighting life in these villages completely became full-time soldiers, settled in the 12 villages on the northernmost line, and no longer engaged in agriculture - these are the 12 villages that the military of southern Liaoning called the Upper 12 Villages that had nothing to do with agriculture, and the soldiers of these villages would take turns to serve in Liaokou and stay in the Upper 12 villages for training when it was not their turn. The full-time soldiers of the upper 12 villages are divided into upper, middle, and lower ranks, and the soldiers with the lower rank of physical fitness and combat skills have to regularly accept the challenge of the villagers ranked higher in the central villages, and if they fail, they will be beaten back to the central villages, and live the life of farming, herding and military again. Correspondingly, the toughest villagers in the central villages can get a chance to enter the upper twelve villages by defeating the inferior warriors of the upper twelve villages. Those who could not adapt even to the central villages were relegated to the southern villages, which were mainly farming.

If the Donghai Ring in Jinmen is a deviation from the selection of urban ronin, then this village in the northern part of the Liaodong Peninsula is the avenue for the Han to select soldiers in the countryside. In the case of the flourishing martial arts of the Han Dynasty, it is an honor to be able to enter the Upper Twelve Villages! What's more, with this honor comes economic security.

After Xiao Tienu communicated with the soldiers in Liaokou, he learned that the military village was not only a selection system, but also an education system - the soldiers were not required to memorize the Four Books and the Five Classics, but at least to be literate. Among the warriors of the Upper Twelve Villages, those who are familiar with ancient and modern battles are also relatively easy to promote. Of course, loyalty and self-discipline are also part of the content of the precepts.

"These people will be very obedient, but they will also be very disobedient!" Xiao Tienu thought.

These generals are indeed obedient, because Xiao Tienu is a general officially appointed by the Privy Council of the Han Dynasty, not because Xiao Tienu is Xiao Tienu! They listened to the general's orders, not Xiao Tienu's.

"One or two, they were all made by Cao Lao Er in the mirror!" Xiao Tienu scolded behind his back. But he was actually very jealous in his heart! When he was at the foot of Yin Mountain, he thought that he was already the fastest developing of his brothers, but it was only now that he completely subverted this view in his heart! The number of soldiers in Liaokou and Shangshi Village is not very large, especially compared to the existing non-military population of the Han Dynasty, it is simply too low! If the Han Ministry can one day get rid of its vassal status and expand its army openly, Xiao Tienu himself will feel terrified when he thinks about that kind of development potential: "Five years-no! Three years - no! One year! As long as there is one year of full conscription and training, no one in the north will be our opponent! ”

However, Xiao Tienu vaguely guessed that Yang Yingqi would not support this level of army expansion in the short term, because even he knew that it would cause too much pressure or even damage to the economy of the Han Ministry: "Unless he is forced to hurry!" ”

Soon after arriving in Liaokou, Xiao Tienu began to adjust his thinking: "You must take out all the money and people in Lao Qi's pocket!" ”

For the relationship between the economy, people's livelihood and the military, Xiao Tienu and Yang Yingqi have a deep understanding. But the starting point and foothold of the two are completely opposite.

Yang Yingqi believes that military force is used to ensure the economy and people's livelihood, and it is necessary not to interfere with the development of the latter for the sake of the former. However, Xiao Tienu thinks that to make the people's lives better is to let them not rebel, and the economic development of the rear is good, in the final analysis, it is for conquest, conquest, conquest! Therefore, Yang Yingqi always carefully maintained the balance of the Han economy, people's livelihood and military, on the one hand, channeling the martial style of the Han Ministry, and at the same time doing everything possible to increase the proportion of civilian officials, refusing to let the will of the warriors dominate the future of the Han Ministry. Perhaps it was this reason that made Yang Yingqi always seem too careful, and it also made the military strength of the Han Department not break out to the level that Xiao Tienu hoped for in the short term.

In a word, Yang Yingqi hopes that the Han Ministry can grow into a people's livelihood-oriented regime, while Xiao Tienu hopes that the Han Ministry can become a militaristic state!

"Lao Qi's meaning is always that it is good to maintain the force of the Han Department in a situation where it is enough to resist the enemy, but ...... But the boss may not think so! As soon as he thought of this, Xiao Tienu smiled, thinking that he had realized the reason why Zhi Yanchong reused him. It seems that there is no contradiction between the boss and the seventh! But after all, he refused to break his face with Lao Qi, and even refused to stand opposite Lao Qi, so he asked me to sing against Lao Qi! ”

Xiao Tienu understood that if Zhi Yanchong really planned to do this, it would not hurt him: "But how big is the boss's appetite? Independent? Swallowing gold? Still is...... Even the Great Song wants it? ”

This is a very important question, if he finds out the bottom line of Zhi Yan Chong, then no matter how excessive he does, as long as the development of the situation coincides with Zhi Yan Chong's expectations, he can get Zhi Yan Chong's acquiescence and support!

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