Meng Tian untied the long tassel and took off the martial crown, and knelt down to worship with his cloak scattered.

"Your Majesty is heavy, first guard the northwest but Hun Hu, and then guard the Western Regions of Longxi Town, ten years and no achievements, Ping Hun Hu Zhengyue clan in the Western Regions, are all Di Daohou and Yinshan Hou and many sons and daughters of the flesh and blood, and my Daqin is also the most important law, meritorious reward, excessive punishment, this resale of equipment is difficult to escape, but the minister still asks His Majesty to the Western Army to be lenient to comfort the soldiers for the country's bloody merits, the minister is willing to take the Marquis of Che to atone for the crime, scattered slaves and servants as civilians, and please forgive Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, the accumulation of disadvantages of the military system is not unique to the Western Army, the same is true of the Northern Army, the original Wucheng Hou Yanmen Pass connived at the soldiers to destroy the Jingbian Temple, it is because the soldiers of the border are indignant that they have nothing to do on weekdays, so they almost caused a catastrophe, and the Marquis of Tongwu also died on the way home, although the minister is not in the front-line barracks, but he has already heard of the scattered military discipline in the barracks, and please ask Your Majesty to be aware of the s......ins, and lightly punish the sins of the Western Army soldiers such as the Marquis of Jingwu, Didao, and the Marquis of Yinshan."

The commander of the military department stood up, slowly walked to the center of the hall and knelt down on one knee next to Meng Tian, "The old minister, as the commander of the military department, has the responsibility of supervising the allocation of equipment and the merit examination of the soldiers, and the old minister of the Western Army's resale of enamel equipment also has an unshirkable responsibility, and is willing to be punished by His Majesty, but as the Marquis of Jingwu said, the shortcomings of the military system are becoming increasingly prominent, and Your Majesty needs to make a decision to reform the system as soon as possible, so as not to make it more difficult for the soldiers to be restrained in the future!" ”

"The ministers seconded the proposal, and asked Your Majesty to make a decision as soon as possible!" Many officials from the Ministry of War and other offices stood up to take the post.

"Your Majesty, your brother Jiang Hu is in charge of a town of the Western Army for Your Majesty, where the environment is more severe and difficult than Dunhuang, every time I talk about the Western Regions in the past three years, I always have to repeatedly mention the suffering of the soldiers of the Western Army, lest the soldiers make trouble and mutiny because they can't bear the harsh environment, but what makes him happy is that the soldiers have still abided by military discipline in the past three years, and the brothers also said that the soldiers of the Western Army are grateful to Your Majesty for their thoughtfulness, and sent enamel equipment and compressed military rations and other materials to solve the pain of the soldiers who are not adapted. It is these that allow many soldiers to persevere, but after all, the Western Army is thousands of miles away from their homeland, the wind and sand and bitter cold plus the longing for their hometown relatives, and they have been unable to get any military merit rewards for three years. ”

Jiang Heng, as the head of the three products of the Ministry of Officials, spoke differently from the weight of the people who had just a large group of people who topped the post, so after Jiang Hu finished speaking, the third-grade officials of several powerful departments of the six ministries of the three provinces stood up and echoed the top post, and even the Ministry of Household Order Gao Teng, the Ministry of Industry Ling Zaihong, and the Criminal Department Ling Yin Wu all stood up to exonerate the soldiers of the Western Army.

Looking at the officials in the court who almost stood up, as well as Meng Tian and Li Xinwei who were kneeling on the ground, the first emperor's mood slowly calmed down, opened the recital of the reform of the military system presented by Meng Tian on the imperial case, slowly read a few pages, closed it, and then slowly swept his eyes over the entire court, and finally stayed on the empty Taishi chair next to him for a second before retracting his eyes and speaking: "The environment in the Western Regions is sinister, and the soldiers of the Western Army are indeed in difficulty. But it is necessary to restrain the generals not to have such a situation again, my Great Qin established the country by law, rewarded and punished, Jingwu Hou did not strictly commit the crime of negligence, and was fined for half a year, Di Daohou Yinshan Marquis, as the chief general of the two armies, knew that the soldiers resold equipment but covered it up, and forged military letters to request the allocation of armaments caused a great waste, so the two main generals were fined and confiscated for one year, and the rest of the generals were punished in this way, have you ever heard clearly! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Meng Tian, Li Xin, Jiang Hu, and many civil and military officials all breathed a sigh of relief, and the extremely depressing atmosphere in the court instantly relaxed a lot.

"The law is strict, rewards and punishments have been excessive, but the military system has been around for a long time, what do you think about the reform of the military system just now?" After lightly punishing Meng Tian and Li Xin, Qin Shi Huang began to pay attention to the core issues that caused the incident.

Although Meng Tian, Li Xin and others had the intention of exculpating themselves, the reasons they said were very sufficient, and now the change of service has indeed reached the point where it is impossible to support this kind of ultra-long-distance force projection and maintain combat effectiveness for a long time.

If you don't change, sooner or later something will go wrong.

But how to change, although Meng Tian listed some methods, but in the eyes of the first emperor, it is still not good enough, and most of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty are blind to the reform of the military system, not to mention that the army is the family affair of the Son of Heaven, how to change it is not the turn of others to dictate, all you have to do is to wait for the emperor's decree to reform the system after it is issued and follow it.

Seeing that the officials above the court were silent, Qin Shi Huang stood up with a long sigh of depression and said: "Today's court discussion is over, Feng Xiang, Wei Bingbu, Meng Dafu, Di Daohou, Jingwu Hou and I went to Zichen Hall to discuss, and the rest of Aiqing dispersed!" ”

"Congratulations to Your Majesty!"

In the chorus of civil and military officials, the First Emperor took a few books and brushed his sleeves away, and Feng Quji, Meng Yi, Meng Tian, Wei Yi, and Li Xin followed the two palace people to the Zichen Palace.

The court discussion is generally a recital that has been proposed and has a solution, and when encountering some things that the emperor cannot make up his mind, it is inevitable to discuss it privately with some ministers who rely on him.

The reform of the military system involves too many layers and too complicated things, and according to Meng Tian's recital, it is necessary to change the current national military service system into a military service system like selection, which is expensive but not expensive.

For a general who is truly proficient in the art of war, a well-trained elite soldier is far stronger than a large rabble.

However, under the current military service system, elite soldiers are rare, because the age of the service personnel is uneven, and the physical fitness is also obvious, in the army of Daqin, down to the fifteen-year-old boys, up to the sixty-year-old old people, and before the war, there will be a large-scale conscription of civilians, this is the three armies stipulated by Shang Ying, both strong men for the first army, strong women for the first army, men and women for the old and weak.

The first army of strong men is responsible for fighting, the first army of strong women is responsible for battlefield escort and treatment, and the first army of men, women, the elderly and weak is responsible for logistics grain and grass transportation.

This is Shang Ying in response to the first emperor's desire to conquer the six countries and unify the Central Plains, in order to get enough soldiers, women have been counted among them, it is in the Great Qin this kind of poor military and military merit reward under the stimulation, the Great Qin finally swept the six countries one after another, although the cost is huge, or let Qin Shi Huang spurt blood to the end.

Great Qin has a population of only 5 million, and after the unification of the Six Kingdoms, the population of Qin's Laochao Guanzhong has dropped to 3 million, which is completely a victory made with his life.

After the unification of the six countries, the first army of strong women has been abolished, but the military service system has not undergone fundamental changes, from 15 to 60 years old men take turns to serve, the whole Daqin is still in a rather turbulent situation, and the annual January labor and two years of military service per person have also seriously affected the production and life of the people, and also seriously hindered the development of agriculture, industry and commerce.

And this military system has been around for a long time, and no one has ever mentioned the accumulation of evils.

Now after the successive accidents of the Northern Army and the Western Army, under the stories of Meng Tian and Li Xin and others, Qin Shi Huang finally realized the seriousness of this topic.

At present, if Daqin wants to be regarded as elite soldiers, the horses and pawns in the northwest are considered elite, because they were selected from the original 300,000 army, after several years of training and fighting, the combat effectiveness is naturally quite strong, but in this case of overdue service, the military spirit is quite unstable.

The other most elite are the Guards Forbidden Army and the Lieutenant Forbidden Army.

But these two forbidden armies are also changed every year, and they are just young and sturdy soldiers selected from the four barracks of the Gongwei Jing Division, and they are stronger than ordinary armies in terms of combat effectiveness and weaponry, but the strong foundation is not because of professional training, but because of selection and strict laws.

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, the Chinese princes continued to grow in the continuous battles, and a large number of military bulls were born, such as Sun Bin, Sun Wu, Guan Zhong, Wu Qi, Wei Yi, Le Yi, etc., and the Chinese civilization gradually blended together in this kind of continuous war, leaving countless brilliant war cases and rich knowledge of the art of war, which has influenced the war history of China for more than 2,000 years and even the whole world.

Although so, after all, these are primitive wars, battles that overthrow the country at every turn, so all the art of war advocates military strategy, so the highest art of war has been produced, that is, the soldier who surrenders without a fight.

Under the guidance of this art of war, all kinds of strategists began to travel among the princes, selling their various techniques of subjugation, and the combination of vertical and horizontal was vividly interpreted by a group of vertical and horizontal masters.

In the specific war, it is to rely on force and national strength to support, and the soldiers can win if they hold out for a long time, and force does not necessarily refer to the elite army, but refers to the fierce and forbidden to die.

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qin and Han dynasties, the military training was done yesterday by Guan Zhong, who created the method of the Five Teachings, and later this method was soon extended to all the vassal states, thus giving birth to different main forces of various countries.

Xunzi once said: Qi's technical attack cannot meet the warriors of the Wei clan, and the warriors of the Wei clan cannot meet the sharp soldiers of the Qin clan.

And the big Qin Ruishi, who was seen by the world as a tiger and a wolf, is really just more afraid of death, they are all a group of guys who pin their heads to their trouser belts for military merit, every enemy is a slave beauty in their eyes, and a big + sign can float up with a knife, and at the same time, there are system prompts, "slave +1", "field property +1", "lord +1".

As long as you are brave enough and lucky enough, a war will be won, and countless people will be rewarded with rich military merits, regardless of whether they are high or low, until they become nobles, especially those prisoners and slaves who are on the border will work harder for freedom.

Therefore, under the instigation of the **** leader Shang Ying, Daqin rose strongly, and ordinary civilians endured harsh laws and regulations, but the national strength was extremely strong.

However, time has changed, and the various strict laws and military service systems that supported the rise of Great Qin have slowly reached a dead end.

When various reforms in Daqin were constantly advancing, the national strength was booming, the happiness index of the common people was rising day by day, and China was about to usher in an unprecedented prosperous era under the rule of the First Emperor, the army that made the First Emperor the proudest and most assured had accidents one after another.

After listening to Meng Tian's statement and Li Xin's crying in the court, Emperor Shi felt the seriousness of the matter, so after lightly punishing the generals of the Western Army, he decided to listen to the opinions of several humerus ministers again, and study what went wrong with the cornerstone of maintaining the safety of Great Qin and how to remedy it.