"The tone of foreign policy has been set, and the problem of teaching has been solved by the way. The next topic is the interior of my Great Sui. ”

Yang Tong looked at everyone and sighed: "Since the great chaos in the world, the war has gone through more than ten years, and all the people are tired of the war and turmoil. During my southern tour, I deeply felt the people's extreme desire for a peaceful life, and they did not want war, turmoil, hunger and cold. Longing for a life where you don't have to worry about tomorrow, facing the scrawny people, I have a heavy heart, and the only thing I can do now is to end the war as soon as possible and unify the world. ”

When the generals heard this, their spirits were lifted. The policy of 'divisiveness, division, and support' implemented by various countries is what the ministers should do, and they are not interested, and when it comes to internal problems, it must be war, and where there is war, there are meritorious deeds.

"What is discussed today should be next year's battle plan! But don't be shackled by the 'battle plan', because many things happen suddenly, and no one can predict them in advance. For example, Xiao Miao's surrender was not in last year's 'plan', but things still happened, and there were some things that could not be implemented as scheduled, such as the plan to recover Huaibei, which was finally canceled. The 'battle plan' is to discuss what may happen in the coming year, and it does not mean that everything will be done according to the 'plan', and it will still change according to the changes in the current situation. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Tong glanced at everyone, saw that everyone had no opinions, and continued: "Regarding next year's military operation, I propose that Li Shangshu of the Ministry of War explain it, although he has been leading troops outside, it does not mean that he is not in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of War. ”

Everyone laughs!

Many people wear many hats, not to mention Li Jing, but Yang Gongren and Yang Shanhui, the two servants, are all leading troops to fight outside, which is also something that cannot be helped. Fortunately, with Flying Eagle Messenger, many things can be handled in different places.

Li Jing got up and saluted, and then said unhurriedly: "Holy Lord, colleagues! I have three main points to make. The first is recruitment, our Great Sui currently has a total of 11 corps, the first, second, third, fifth, sixth, and seventh have 60,000 each, the fourth, ninth, and tenth have 30,000 people each, plus 40,000 soldiers of the 11th Army headed by General Du, and the total strength of the main battle is 490,000; The 50,000 troops compiled from Xiao Mo were stationed in Nanjun and Jiangxia respectively, and after the Qingzhou army that originally belonged to Dou Jiande was reduced, there were still 20,000, and there were 40,000 navies...... And the local armies and reserves under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Armed Forces are not counted! That is to say, the nominally able army that can fight is as high as 610,000 people, but in fact, in addition to the Fourth Army stationed in Liaodong, which cannot be moved, Henan County needs to have a main army to sit in the town for a long time, one is to protect the safety of the imperial capital, and the other is as a reinforcement, where there is a need, you can send support, and other border counties also need to be stationed, so calculated, the army that can be used is actually about 400,000. In the opinion of the ministers, in order to ensure the thunderous momentum next year, the military needs to expand the mobile army by 600,000, and the source of troops comes from the previous retired soldiers. ”

"Tell me the reason for the expansion." Yang Tong said.

"Whoa!" Li Jing bowed his hand, and continued: "The main reason for the expansion of the army is that we have obtained too much land this year, especially the land dedicated by Xiao Miao, each county is almost a frontier county, and a large number of garrisons are needed, in addition, Lin Shihong needs the navy as the mainstay, so the establishment of the Third Fleet is imminent, and finally we have been mainly cavalry, and there is a serious shortage of infantry, so the preliminary plan of the Ministry of War is to establish the Third Fleet, with 40,000 people, garrisoning Jiangxia, and expanding the army by 100,000 foot soldiers, mainly for Bashu and Jiangnan!" The specific recruitment plan will be taken out by the military department before the upper yuan. ”

All the civil and military officials agreed, and everyone knew in their hearts that the next two years after tomorrow would be an important year of conquest, and in order to ensure absolute strength suppression and victory in every battlefield, it was necessary to expand the army; Moreover, the Great Sui Dynasty has a lot of money and can fully afford to raise so many troops, not to mention that after the unification of the world, it will have to be disarmed in large quantities, and it will only take a few years to support so many troops. Therefore, no one rose up to oppose the proposal of expanding the army.

Yang Tong groaned slightly, and said slowly: "Of course, I have no opinion on expanding the army, but we should disclose this news, and say that the Great Sui army will expand by 500,000 on the existing basis!" ”

"Wonderful! Holy Lord's strategy is wonderful! ”

Fang Xuanling praised: "If my Great Sui announced the expansion of the army by 500,000, Li Yuan and Li Mi, who were at a disadvantage, would definitely be restless and forcibly expand the army, not only the people's fear deepened and they resisted, but also made the fertile land barren and the people unhappy, and finally made the resistance under the rule of Er Li continuous, and the monarchs and ministers were anxious. ”

Yang Tong said: "This is called an arms race, that is, with the huge population base and money and food of our Great Sui, the enemy's people's livelihood, people's hearts and other national strength are all dragged into the quagmire of war, and finally in the process of crazy army expansion, the people's livelihood withered, the people's will collapsed, and the people could not survive, so they would naturally rise up to rebel." For me, the Great Sui, those people who dare to be angry and dare not speak out are the foundation of a stable place! ”

People are animals that are good at selective forgetting, for the people under the rule of the pseudo-Tang and pseudo-Wei, no matter how much effort Li Yuan and Li Mi put into them, it is a matter of course, but as long as they take a bucket of rice from their home, they are enemies, great evildoers, and devils!

In this way, when the Sui army enters the country in the future, as long as they give a little favor, the people will be grateful to Dade, and will not think that this is the responsibility and obligation of the Great Sui Dynasty. Next, all the systems of the imperial court will be logical.

Is it true that human nature is like this?

"Please Li Shangshu talk about the second arrangement!" Yang Tong motioned for Li Jing to continue.

"Armament is the second requirement!" Li Jing glanced at Yang Tong, and then said: "The war in the next few years involves the battle of destroying the country and destroying the gate, the enemy's resistance will be unprecedentedly tenacious, and the means will emerge in endlessly. ”

At this time, Jiang Xingben, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, said loudly: "Li Shangshu, please allow me to interrupt first." ”

"Jiang Shangshu, please speak!"

"I want to ask Li Shangshu, how much is the amount you are talking about, can you give an accurate number?" Jiang Xingben asked.

Li Jing said with a smile: "No one can say for sure, the amount that the Ministry of Industry can rush out of work day and night is my bottom line, I am here 'Han Xin's more soldiers, the better', you give tens of millions of arrows, I am not too little, give 10,000 arrows, never too much!" ”

Jiang Xingben smiled angrily: "Ten thousand arrows are not too many?" Li Shangshu really opened his mouth, you can't make so much if you sell me. ”

"I also know that some strong men are difficult, but we can't let the soldiers have no arrows to use, and they will go to attack the city in the face of the enemy's arrows, right? Arrows are valuable, human life is priceless, Jiang Shangshu. Li Jing said solemnly.

"This ......" Jiang Xingben was helpless.

"That's it!" Yang Tong smiled and said, "Do your best here at the Ministry of Industry!" And the army Jiangxia can use the big river and fog to borrow arrows from Lin Shihong to his grass boat! ”

"Straw boat borrowing arrows?"

Li Jing pondered for a while, then laughed and said: "This method is good, Sun Quan did this to Cao Jun back then." ”

"Straw boat borrowing arrows" is really not fake!

It's a pity that Zhuge Liang didn't do it, and it wasn't the arrow that was attacked, and it wasn't a grass boat.

Five years after the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao led a large army to break through Sun Quanjiang's camp in Jiangxi and capture the governor Sun Yang. Sun Quan led an army of 70,000 to meet the battle, and Cao's sailors attacked the position of Sun Wu on the water, crossed to a sandbar, and were surrounded by Sun Quan, losing thousands of soldiers. Cao Jun was frustrated, but the wall did not come out. Sun Quan took a boat to watch the camp of Cao's army. Cao Cao ordered the archers to release their arrows, and ten thousand arrows rained down in unison, and in a short time, Sun Quan's 'flagship' ship was full of arrows, causing the hull to tilt. Sun Quan ordered the warship to turn around and receive arrows on the other side, and the arrows were all flat on the ship, and the drums returned. Sun Quan's courage and courage made Cao Cao sigh that "giving birth to a son should be like Sun Zhongmou".

Li Jing is familiar with the ancient classic war examples, and he thought of this allusion from Yang Tong's "grass boat borrowing arrows".

"When Shubao returned to Jiangxia, he took advantage of the foggy weather to drive the grass boat to Jiujiang from time to time, and gave Lin Shihong a 'grass boat to borrow arrows', you must remember that soaking the grass man, if you let people come with a wave of rockets, it will be miserable." Yang Tong said with a smile.

"Whoa!" Qin Qiong surrendered his order.

"Holy!" Yang Gongren arched his hand at this time and said: "Jiangxia County is an important copper and iron ore mining area in my Great Sui, and the ores in this area are shallow and easy to mine. From the beginning, it was monopolized by the government and was extremely tightly controlled. After the first emperor ascended the throne, due to the great increase in the demand for copper and iron, the law was relaxed, allowing private mining, but the copper and iron ingots mined must be sold to the government. After the announcement of the lifting of the ban, the family gate valves have participated, and the first few years were relatively strict, but with the decline of the bureaucracy, the mine supervisors and mine owners colluded with each other, resulting in a large amount of copper and iron flowing into the people, and the gate valve family sought greater profits. ”

"The future battlefield is mainly concentrated in the south of Huaishui, according to the minister's opinion, simply let the craftsman go to Jiangxia to cast arrows on the spot, go straight down the river to reach Jiangdu, go up the Yangtze River to Nanjun, Yiling, until Bashu; Reverse Han water straight up, up to Jingling, Xiangyang, Xiyang, even if it is transported to Liyang by land, it is closer than Luoyang. The large volume of water transportation will save a lot of manpower and time. ”

Yang Tong remembered that Jiangxia was the famous Daye mining area in later generations, and asked excitedly: "Shubao, have the mines been abandoned?" ”

Qin Qiong shook his head and said: "In order to obtain the support of the family, Xiao Mo is almost allowed to be mined, and the last general will follow the order of the saint, not only will the mineral deposits be taken back and closed, but also in the name of encroaching on official property, those families will be exterminated, and the seized copper and iron ingots are piled up, but these things are too heavy to be transported to Luoyang, and the last general will all throw them in the treasury, if these iron ingots are all cast into arrow clusters, the last general can't imagine how amazing the amount will be." And those mineral deposits are not abandoned, as long as the Holy Lord gives an order, they can be used normally. ”

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this, this is really sleepy, and someone came to send pillows!

Without waiting for Yang Tong's instructions, Jiang Xingben said: "Weichen will let the craftsmen go south after the year and open the furnace to cast arrows." ”

"Okay, the arrows and armor are decided!" Yang Tong said to Li Jing, "Li Shangshu, you continue to talk about the third point. ”

"Whoa!" Li Jing also said: "The third point that the minister wants to say is about the arrangement of slave soldiers, last year, there were many slave soldiers who made military merits, and they have met the requirements for obtaining the nationality of the Great Sui, and the minister suggested that the Ministry of Civil Affairs should settle down for these people as soon as possible, allocate land, and help them start families, one is to reflect the integrity of the imperial court, and the other is to help soldiers fight with peace of mind; The third is to take this opportunity to encourage more slave soldiers to fight bravely, so that my Great Sui can unify the world faster. ”

"May I ask Li Shangshu, how many slave soldiers are there who meet the requirements?" Yang Shidao, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, got up and asked.

"About 2,000 people." Li Jing thought for a while, and then added: "At most, three thousand, only a little." ”

"......" everyone was speechless!

This year, as many as 150,000 slave soldiers participated in the war, all of them were death squads, and countless people died, but less than 3,000 people met the standard of serving the people.

The requirements are high, you can imagine.

"It's so easy!" Yang Shidao said with a smile: "As soon as the list of soldiers arrives, I will place them in each of the five counties, so that they will not get together." And in front of many slave soldiers, let the officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs issue the Great Sui nationality one by one, so that other slave soldiers are envious on the side. ”

"Thank you!" Li Jing is so modest.

Yang Shidao said with a smile: "It should be, it should be." This is the responsibility of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. ”

"The content of Li Shangshu's conversation involves a lot of military secrets, including the key direction of our military offensive next year. I hope that all of you here will keep it a secret, and that you will not leak anything except for the expansion of the army, which needs to be widely publicized. ”

Everyone here is Yang Tong's absolute confidant, he is not worried about everyone leaking, but he is afraid that some people will drink too much and inadvertently reveal their tone.

"Yes!"

The crowd obeyed.

From Li Jing's speech, we can know that the main direction of attack of the Great Sui next year should be Li Mi, Lin Shihong, and Meng Haigong first, and the pseudo-Tang Dynasty will clean up last, which is not only related to strength, but also related to the terrain of mountains and rivers, etc., especially the pseudo-Tang Dynasty has become a place of refuge for the gate valve, and it should be left behind and taken seriously.

"The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry are closely related, and the tasks for next year are already very clear. The Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Martial Arts, the Ministry of Crime, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Learning, and the Ministry of Commerce can gradually follow up with the military victory. As for the Ministry of Rites, the focus is on the outside world, and the future tasks have been made clear before, except for excavating and cultivating more envoys who are good at improvisation, there is no need to say anything else. The next focus is naturally on the ministry. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Tong looked at Fang Xuanling, who was desperately trying to push the woman into the palace just now: "Xuanling, tell me about the plans of the Ministry of Officials for next year." ”

Fang Xuanling got up and saluted Yang Tong, then cleared his throat and said slowly: "There is the ruling of the Imperial Department and the law enforcement of the Criminal Department to solve the case, there is nothing to say about the governance of local officials, the key is the issue of reserve officials, because this year is a big harvest year, there are too many places recovered, not only the reserve officials are empty, but even the low-level Beijing officials of the Ministry of Officials are all sent out, and Weichen, the secretary of the Ministry of Justice, has almost become a commander without soldiers." ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

This year's development momentum is indeed too fierce, and there are not a few decent battles, and dozens of counties have been dealt with in vain. The busiest and most troublesome thing is not the military department specializing in military affairs, but the ministry headed by Fang Xuanling, who needs to send people everywhere not to say, and what is even more annoying is that he has no one in his hands, so many county-level officials are selected from the students of Tsinghua Academy, although these people have no experience in governance, but as long as they arrange the policies formulated by the Great Sui and implement them according to the script, there will not be too many mistakes.

"The first task of the Ministry of Officials next year is to open a scholar's examination, otherwise, it will fall into the dilemma of having no officials available. For next year's imperial examination, Wechen decided to hold it in early February. Fang Xuanling said.

Yang Tong frowned, "It's only been two months, and time seems to be very tight!" ”

"Time is very tight, but everyone knows that the core topics of the imperial examination are closely related to practical politics, which means that the scholars have been preparing for many years, and there is plenty of time to prepare for the examination. Their time is mainly spent on the road, but we have the Eagle Messenger, tomorrow we can send the scientific examination time to the counties, now is the agricultural season, everyone is at home, less than five days, the world can know! It should be too late to hold on. ”

"What about those who can't catch up? What to do? ”

"Weichen can't help it!" Fang Xuanling thought for a while, and then said, "Unless there are a few more test centers." ”

"That's a good idea!" Yang Tong deeply agreed, nodded and said, "That's it!" In addition to Luoyang, there are also test centers in Zhuojun, Yecheng, Taiyuan, Daxing, and Qijun Licheng, and candidates can register for scientific examinations nearby. The officials of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Imperial Department went to these places to serve as local examiners. In order to avoid the leakage of the test questions, the questions will be sent to each test center the day before the test, and I will send Shura Wei to supervise the receiving personnel of the Flying Eagle at the same time as the examiner, lock the box, seal it, and then keep the box and key separately, and open it in public the next day. What do you think? Can you add something? ”

"The Holy Lord's arrangement is very proper, and the minister has no objection. However, the test center and the nearest registration must be highlighted on the notice, so as not to let the candidates come to Luoyang. ”

"Then set the time for the scientific examination today, and send it to the counties immediately tomorrow, so that the counties will be issued to the counties as soon as possible, and if there is any county that is procrastinating and slack, the county guard will be severely punished, not only will he be removed from his post, but he will never be an official, and the three generations will not be allowed to participate in the scientific examination. As for the exam questions, it doesn't matter if it's a little late. ”

"Wechen will agree on the details today."

"That's it!" Yang Tong nodded and said with a smile: "The important things have been arranged, and now you need to add them, or you can say that the headquarters has a plan." ”

"The situation in the Criminal Department is similar to that of the Ministry of Officials, many low-level officials have been dispatched, and a large number of people who are proficient in the law need to be supplemented..."

"So is Mibe!"

"Dali Temple also needs it."

"The military department needs to replenish the troops."

"Faculty ......"

Seeing that all the books were needed, Yang Tong felt a big headache!

He has never been short of food, money, weapons and equipment, or soldiers. And the problem of local officials and officials of the local criminal department and the imperial department seems to have always been a big problem.

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Brothers and sisters, there is a serious shortage of people in the various ministries of the Great Sui, and we are seriously short of votes. Nearly 30,000 collections, if the average one person has one vote, then we have more than 20,000 a day, isn't it?