The entire Han Dynasty became a country that could be cultivated and warn, in fact, it was similar to the Yingyang Mansion and Zhechong Mansion set up by the Sui and Tang dynasties in the later generations, and in the final analysis, it was to let the people serve as soldiers in wartime and farmers in peacetime to ensure that war and farming would not be delayed.

But after all, these civilians cannot be compared with the well-trained army, and the Han will inevitably maintain a considerable number of troops on the border, and these civilians who can be formed at any time are actually mainly used as reserve troops.

Unless it is a national campaign, there should be no chance for these people to play, and in fact they are equivalent to militia.

According to the policy formulated by the Taiwei Office, it is a five-year rotation, and in fact, the time of service in the army is from the age of 18 to 23, and after the age of 23, they will return to their hometowns to participate in agriculture and become a reserve. After all, for a twenty-three-year-old, he has served in the military long enough, but his age is still perfectly suitable for farming.

And once a big war broke out, these people were also the priority targets of the army.

In fact, what the Taiwei Mansion wants to do is to turn the entire Han into a large barracks, and Ding Zhuang from all over the country can be mobilized to participate in the war at any time. Of course, this also requires speeding up the replacement of the army's non-commissioned officers and the training of ordinary people in peacetime, which is also a big expense, but compared to the entire Han Dynasty, when there are no soldiers available, it is naturally much better to directly pull the people into battle as cannon fodder.

From Nan Chen to the Great Han, they all pursued a semi-professional elite army policy to make up for the gap in numbers with the north, and if the Han generals were directly asked to command a group of rabble, I am afraid that these generals would also be helpless.

"The Ministry of Industry has begun to develop new repeating crossbows and fire arrows." At this time, Wu Ping, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, also stood up and said, the Ministry of Industry has always been in the same breath as the Taiwei Mansion, and the Ministry of Household has worked so cooperatively, so it is naturally impossible for the Ministry of Industry not to speak.

Indeed, Xiao Maha's first strategy was to mobilize the forces of the entire country, so that the Han Dynasty was completely under the wartime system, and the emerging industry and commerce were also indispensable.

According to Li Xinchen's instructions, the Ministry of Industry focused on developing more siege equipment and single-person high-kill equipment. With more and denser cities in the Northlands and more enemies, equipment is the easiest and quickest way to bridge the gap right now.

Of course, Li Xinchen will definitely not let go of the use of firearms, once he has firearms, the gap between the two sides will be narrowed in the shortest possible time, but it is precisely because the power of firearms is placed here, so the Ministry of Industry's exploration in this area is still secretive, and it will not be revealed before the real development of firearms that can be used, at least throwing attack weapons such as sky-shaking thunder.

However, in addition to being a secret firearm, crossbows and improved ladder trucks are the objects of everyone's attention, and if the Ministry of Industry can really develop these, it will actually be enough to increase the combat strength of the army by a large margin.

In addition to the Ministry of Industry, there is also the Ministry of Commerce, and immediately Tang Zhengliang, the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, also stood up: "Your Majesty, now the money houses in various places have been basically established, and now through the money village court, you can extract benefits and enrich the treasury. In addition to this, there is also our caravan, which has penetrated north into Guanzhong and even Hebei. ”

Li Xinchen bowed slightly, trade is probably also a key element that many people ignore, not only commerce can directly or indirectly control the money of most of the upper classes of society in the hands of the imperial court, but also through the north-south trade exchanges to further control the north of the trade, after all, when people are used to some goods, they will gradually be inseparable from them.

"Coordinating farming, warfare, industry and commerce, this is the first policy of the minister," Xiao Maha said loudly, "and the second strategy is to come to the Taiwei Mansion to join the army, Yang Su should report to His Majesty." ”

Li Xinchen bowed slightly, in fact, Yang Su's strategy is to encroach step by step, devouring Yu Wenxian and Yang Jian's land in the corners little by little, and Nanyang, which has been semi-surrounded by Li Xinchen, is the next primary target, this method of encroaching forward step by step is obviously less likely to arouse the vigilance of the other party, so that the other party thinks that "the outside must first settle the inside", and still focus on the inner opponent.

After all, judging from the current overall situation of the world, a Nanyang is really insignificant to the two sides with Luoyang as the main battlefield, but everyone knows that Li Xinchen wants to completely block the two sides in the Central Plains, Guanzhong and Hebei in this way.

After taking Nanyang, Li Xinchen also has the ability to completely participate in the chaos in Luoyang, and at the same time can threaten the flanks of Guanzhong and Huaibei at the same time, and the latter two are the lifelines of Yang Jian and Yu Wenxian respectively.

Xiao Maha then said: "The second strategy is to encroach step by step, and try to get more people and more prisoners from the enemy's hands as much as possible, so as to make up for the gap between us as much as possible." ”

After a pause, Xiao Maha looked at Li Xinchen: "Speaking of which, how does Your Majesty plan to settle the Turks captured in this Northwest Battle?" ”

"Just enough for them to be captives of the northerners who are trying to replace the workshops and mines." Li Xinchen said in a deep voice.

The previous mines and workshops, especially some workshops in the deep mountains of Bashu, were all made of the Northern Zhou soldiers captured by Li Xinchen in a series of battles in Bashu, in fact, there was a sense of waste, this time it happened to fill in the Turks, and these Northern Zhou soldiers who had been reformed by labor for such a long time could also be added to the army, and even some of them, their hometowns were already under the control of the Han Dynasty.

Xiao Maha bowed slightly: "The minister's last strategy is to choose a suitable time, and in one go, directly break one of them." ”

"So which one should you choose?" Li Xinchen asked with a smile.

In fact, this point has coincided with his thoughts, and the problem has returned to the original place, but compared to Li Xinchen, Xiao Maha and they still expect to be able to win steadily, obviously after the first two steps, the big man has enough national strength as a backing, and at the same time, he has formed an advantage over the enemy in more directions, so he naturally does not worry about the possible consequences after defeat.

"The minister thinks that he should break through the pass first."

"Why?"

"Guanzhong is small and populous, and there is also the emperor of the Zhou people, compared to Hebei, the terrain is vast and mostly plains, Yuwenxian is cruising with cavalry, it is difficult for us to destroy it in one battle!" Xiao Maha said in a deep voice, "If you break through the pass, then I Huainan and Jingxiang will become a line in Guanzhong, and you can defend yourself when you retreat, and you can go straight to Hebei when you advance, so as to become a unified state in the world." ”

Li Xinchen's gaze immediately turned to Gu Yewang and the others.

"The ministers seconded it!"

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