During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the nobles drove in front in person, and the soldiers on the car were all trained elites, perhaps the children of the family or the heroes who took refuge, in addition, all the slaves or armed civilians on his fiefdom were followed, that is to say, during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the nobles who charged into battle were nobles with heads and faces, and most of the slaves and civilians followed the soy sauce to fill the façade.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, when the princes competed for hegemony, they all talked about pomp and circumstance, claiming to be chariots and chariots, so the carriages were all nobles with status and knighthood, at least soldiers who had won great merits in the war, it can be seen that the great powers in the Spring and Autumn Period were actually killed from the sea of corpses and blood, only when enough people were killed, enough food was robbed, the area occupied was large enough, and enough slaves and civilians were obtained, so that there were enough financial and material resources to distribute to the soldiers who obtained merit, Support the development of such a large-scale tank unit.

But with the gradual abandonment of chariots, the unprecedented development of foot soldiers, horse pawns began to rise slowly, and the army pattern is constantly changing, and to the current Daqin, with the completion of the abolition of 300,000 troops in the northwest, this kind of national military service system has actually begun to deform now, since the pacification of Huhu, this rotational military service system has been unable to continue to implement, because fighting on horses requires long-term training to maintain strong combat effectiveness, and the recruited ordinary guards are definitely not good, so since the conquest of Huhu, The two elite horse pawn units in the northwest have never been replaced, and are actually slowly evolving into a kind of professional soldiers.

In fact, professional soldiers are a better direction of development, because the service time is long, so the training is more sufficient, the combat effectiveness will be relatively high, and they are also familiar with the order of marching and fighting and the life and death on the battlefield, so now Wang Li and Meng Tian's 60,000 elite horsemen plus 30,000 auxiliary horse soldiers are basically elite soldiers who have meritorious deeds and are familiar with bow and horse fighting, and they definitely belong to the ordinary aristocratic class of Daqin.

The current situation is that the military service of these elite horsemen has begun to solidify, and they cannot return home after the service period, but it has begun to be not so easy to obtain military merits, especially the Northern Army, which has not fought for several years, has been idle for several years, and has nothing to do at the border.

Therefore, in the current situation of Daqin, the military service system of all soldiers is actually completely unsuitable for the continued development of Daqin in the future, and the compulsory rotation of military service system of two years per person has also become a heavy shackle, which is not conducive to the development of people's livelihood and national security, but also brings a heavy burden to the imperial court and local government.

In later generations, China also had a universal military service system, but it was a combination of compulsory soldiers and volunteers, that is, every citizen has a service obligation of more than two years, join the army for necessary military drills and national construction, and after the end of service, you can apply for retirement home, of course, you can also apply to become a volunteer to continue to serve, and the status of retired soldiers will also be transformed into reserves, if there is a war, you need to give priority to responding to the call of the country to return to their respective troops to take up arms on the battlefield.

Volunteers, on the other hand, are professional soldiers, who sign a service contract with the state, and the state pays salaries, promotes military ranks, and confers military ranks according to the terms of the contract such as the length of service.

In Chen Xu's view, Daqin's current military situation is in the gap between the two military service systems, the compulsory military service system and the volunteer military service system, but there are no clear provisions in the law.

And the 20-level military lord system stipulated by Great Qin has now become a fetter for the development of the Great Qin army in the direction of regularization and professionalization.

Great Qin's military exploits were all obtained by fighting and killing the enemy.

If there is no war now, then there will be no military merits.

And if it is a rotation of military service, then it doesn't matter, anyway, a year of boiling will pass, and then go back to his hometown to continue farming, but today's horse pawns are all elites, and they belong to the absolute elite soldiers of Daqin, and they have been solidified and began to serve for a long time, so it is necessary to solve the problem of improving the military merits of these soldiers, rewarding them and guaranteeing retirement.

If these problems are not solved well, and these soldiers will not be able to obtain the military merit rewards and retirement guarantees they want for a few years, they will inevitably accumulate a lot of resentment in their hearts, and they may mutini and make trouble one day.

And this time the Yanmen Pass soldiers smashed Jingbian Temple is a very bad sign, the army has begun to be a little arrogant because of idleness, perhaps in this way to express their dissatisfaction.

But whether Wang Li did it intentionally, or the soldiers on the border did it unintentionally, this made Chen Xu, who didn't want to interfere with the army before, a little vigilant.

After Qin II came to power in history, the Great Qin Righteous Army surged, and Wang Li led the 200,000 Northwest Army, known as the most elite of Great Qin at that time, to the south to suppress the uprising, but it was repeatedly defeated and was captured alive by Xiang Yu almost no effect.

It can be seen that by the end of the Qin Dynasty, in fact, the combat effectiveness of the Qin army had been greatly reduced, and it was not like the invincibility of the world respected by later generations, and Chen Xu believed that a very important reason was that the military service system of taking turns to garrison the border was no longer suitable for the imperial pattern of national unification, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled on the way to the border, and the other was that after a few years of calm at the border, the military spirit began to slacken, and the generals and soldiers lost the courage to fight.

The army is the cornerstone of a country's stability, but it is also the biggest hidden danger of a country's turmoil, if the army problem is not handled well, the short-term peace and prosperity of Daqin may also be short-lived.

And to change the current system of the Great Qin army, then the implementation of the military service system that combines compulsory soldiers and volunteers in later generations Chen Xu believes that is the best way.

Conscripts serve in the local county, receive training and dispatch from the county lieutenant, and are responsible for emergency tasks such as county security and some emergency rescue and disaster relief.

Volunteers are regular combat troops, which can be recruited by the civilian population or transferred by compulsory soldiers, and after becoming volunteers, they can receive salaries, be promoted according to the length of service, and replace the current military knights with military ranks, even if they do not fight in peacetime, as long as they perform well during the service period, they will also get the rewards they deserve, and they can also be promoted according to their performance and evaluation.

The establishment of a modern national army through a complete system is a powerful guarantee for Daqin to maintain long-term peace and stability in the future.

And the Yanmen Pass incident may be a very good opportunity for Chen Xu to intervene in the reform of the army.

However, before Chen Xu has completely figured out the reason and considered it clearly, it is useless to talk to a pure literati like Chen Ping.

Therefore, Chen Xu put down the matter of investigating Yanmen Pass first, and asked Chen Ping to help deal with the second thing that came today, that is, to publish a crack advertisement in the newspaper for a long time, and Qinghe stores all over the country purchased dried flowers and herbs and some spices all year round, mainly osmanthus, jasmine, gardenia, honeysuckle, roses, peonies, orchids, citrus flowers, chrysanthemums and mint.

As for the purchase price of various flowers and plants, Chen Xu directly threw a table written by Fan Caiwei to Chen Ping.

If you want to make perfume into a money-making industry, you must expand the scope of the acquisition of flowers and plants, and most of the flowers and plants will only bloom in spring and summer, many of the flowering period is very short, a few days will wither, if you arrange people to go around the purchase of flowers is certainly not realistic, so the purchase of dried flowers is almost the only means, as long as the dried flowers are purchased, you can arrange people to go to various places to prepare essential oil workshops to slowly refine, and then send the refined essential oil back to the perfume workshop in Xianyang for modulation and packaging for sale.

And the perfume industry is also a great way to help people generate income.

Nowadays, Daqin's economy is in a state of accelerated take-off, and the wealthy businessmen have made great profits during the period, whether it is steel, cement, ceramics, tea or daily grain, cloth, pottery, clothing, leather goods, etc., in fact, they are all controlled by the rich businessmen, and the biggest profits are still these already powerful classes, but in any case, ordinary people have also got some opportunities to make money because of the rapid development of these industries. The second is that there is no good source of income, now with the continuous reduction of agricultural taxes, in recent years, the people's rations are more and more sufficient, and with the vigorous development of commerce, farmers in the terminal still have many opportunities to make money, such as going to factories and mines to work, digging medicinal materials, picking tea and grapes, etc.

At present, Chen Xu uses perfume to give the people a way to make money, that is, picking flowers and plants, this work is not intensive, women and children can complete it, and it is not complicated to deal with, as long as the time is right, the purchase price is appropriately higher, and it can also play a purpose of equalizing the rich and the poor, and the money of the rich class is plundered and circulated to the hands of the common people.

And thinking that there will be so many messy varieties in the perfume god blessing god series in the future, Chen Xu smiled bitterly and felt that his head was big, but this matter was destined to be handled by a group of women in the future, and he didn't have to worry too much, just think about it, as long as the wives are happy.

Since she has perfume, including the usual calm and quiet water gentleness, she has completely become a different person, and she enthusiastically participates in the preparation and packaging of perfume every day, and the perfume she concocts is different from Yingshi Mengwan Fan Caiying, light and elegant, without half a kitsch taste, which is very in line with Chen Xu's understanding and definition of perfume.

After staying in the newspaper for about half an hour, Chen Xu gave Chen Ping a bottle of perfume in the experience pack before leaving, and then went to the Qinghe Marquis Mansion under the escort of a group of guards.

Today's Qinghe Marquis Mansion has long been changed to Zuo Xiangfu, but whether it is Chen Xuhou's Mansion or the entire Xianyang people, they still call it Qinghe Marquis Mansion, it seems that the three words of Qinghe Marquis are authentic, and they can truly represent Chen Xu's status and identity.

However, Chen Xu's family now lives in the Qinghe Courtyard outside the city most of the time, and the Hou Mansion has become a place for him to rest after he enters the city on an errand.

Qinghe Hou's Mansion is very quiet, most of the domestic servants and guards have gone outside the city, only more than 100 people are left here, of course, although the sparrows are small, the servants and maids are fully equipped, so after Chen Xu returned to the house, the housekeepers and stewards all came to visit, and the maids also quickly served fragrant tea and beat their legs and shoulders.

"Take the Benhou token to the Nanshan Courtyard outside the city, and let the commander Chen Yong bring ten teenagers over!" Chen Xu took out his white jade token and handed it to the leader of the guards.

"Yes, Master Hou, my subordinates will do it!" The leader of the guards put away the jade plate and went out, and soon after a few loud orders, there was a sound of horses' hooves and left the Hou Mansion, and Chen Xu went to the study with a teacup, spread out the paper and pen, and waited for the maid to leave and close the door after grinding the ink, Chen Xu began to think about the reform of the army.