"Ada, after all, our family is an emperor's family, and dozens of descendants can still be raised, but there are too many soldiers below to raise them, but it's troublesome! It's not a problem yet, but in another decade or two......"

Li Laiheng looked worried, he Ada Li is over fifty years old, and he doesn't look very well, and he will almost become the first emperor in another ten years. But he's still young, he's only in his thirties this year, and if he lives to be in his sixties, he still has to work for the group of soldiers below for thirty years.

This year is only ten years of co-governance, and the government soldiers have already bred and multiplied like this, and in another thirty years, the number of adults will be more than one million.

One million government soldiers, one soldier grants 100 acres of land, which is 10,000 acres!

It's not enough to take all the registered farmland in Sichuan and Yunnan and divide it!

If you don't give land to these million government soldiers, but choose to maintain the scale of 250,000 government soldiers and official households, then the entire government soldier class will be burdened by "Ding Yu" - the Dashun court does not grant land to support the second and third generations of government soldiers who have been bred does not mean that they do not exist, nor does it mean that they can find any way out. These people will eventually become a burden to the family of the soldiers, dragging the families of the soldiers who are not wealthy into poverty step by step.

The biggest difference between Dashun's military system and the recruitment system now implemented in Daming is that the former is a "contractor" and the latter is a wage earner. The land acquired by the government soldiers not only replaced military salaries, but also had to bear a considerable part of the expenditure on ordnance and military rations.

Therefore, once "Ding Yu" becomes a burden on the government soldiers, the financial resources of the government soldiers class will be greatly reduced, and if the Dashun court cannot give sufficient subsidies, then the combat effectiveness of the government soldiers will quickly collapse because of the decline in financial resources.

Now many big figures in the Dashun court are the original Shaanxi and Gansu military households of the Ming Dynasty, of course they know how the military household system is smashed!

The government military system or military household system is very beautiful to look at, and it is really easy to use in the initial stage, but it is very difficult to maintain it for a long time.

In other words, with the continuous breeding of the soldiers of the Dashun Mansion, the military strength of the Dashun Imperial Court will collapse by itself. Unless the Dashun Imperial Court can come up with more and more money and grain to subsidize the financially troubled government soldiers...... It's a bottomless black hole!

Moreover, in order to prolong the "shelf life" of the military class, the Dashun Imperial Court had to adopt a policy of suppressing commerce in order to achieve "a hole in profit". And the anti-business policy will cause the Dashun court to lack sufficient financial resources to subsidize the government soldiers!

Therefore, the powerful Dashun soldiers will definitely have a process of prosperity and decline.

In contrast, the military system that Zhu Cihong chose for the Ming Dynasty was relatively easy to maintain—although the Ming army also had land grants and military merits, the Ming army's new army (the new army of the Ming army) was fundamentally a mercenary army commanded by a career officer.

As long as Zhu Cihong can pay close attention to the cultivation and education of a small number of aristocratic officers and elite young soldiers, he will be able to use the officer corps of 10,000 or 20,000 and the Junior Guards Regiment of tens of thousands of people (nine-sided youths) to maintain the combat effectiveness of hundreds of thousands of Ming troops.

Although this military system of a small number of elites and a large number of state mercenaries seems to be inferior to the legendary "Qiang Qin Military Meritorious" and "Modern Nation-State Army", it is the only feasible way for the current Ming Dynasty, and it is relatively easy to maintain.

"Ada," Li Laiheng added, "Erchen's Northern Expeditionary Army fought several times in Siam and the Jing Navy of the Ming Army...... The area around the Golden City south of Ayutthaya (Ayutthaya City) was open to war, and there were victories and defeats for each other, and they did not take much advantage. It seems that the battle of the Southern Expedition will end at the Golden City of Siam. ”

"Stop at the Golden City?" Li Guo stopped and glanced back at his son, "Isn't it?" The Northern Expeditionary Army was specially trained for the Southern Expedition, so could it not even be defeated by a Ming Dynasty vassal army like the Jing Navy? ”

Li Laiheng shook his head and said, "It's not that the Jing Navy is strong, it's that our soldiers fell too ill during the siege of Siam City...... There were more than 30,000 men when they set out from Burma, and by the time they conquered the big city, there were less than 8,000 people who could still fight with blades! ”

"Less than eight thousand?" Li Guo was taken aback, "Siam's miasma is so powerful!" ”

In fact, it was not that Siam's miasma was particularly bad, but that Li Laiheng's Northern Expeditionary Army had been stationed at the water-covered city of Ayutthaya for a long time, and the army was stationed near the mosquito-infested water, which made it particularly susceptible to malaria.

Although the Northern Expeditionary Army, which was trained for the southern expedition, made the necessary preparations in terms of equipment and tactics, they had not really fought in Southeast Asia after all, so they lacked experience in malaria prevention and control.

The Jing Navy has been in Southeast Asia for many years and has accumulated enough experience in the prevention and treatment of tropical diseases, and Daniel Zhang has long expected that the Dashun army from the north will have an outbreak sooner or later. Therefore, after entering Siam, he did not rush to war, but mobilized the Siamese army and civilians and overseas Chinese who opened farms in southern Siam to build a fortress on the bank of the Chao Phraya River, known as the Golden Fort.

After the Dashun army broke through the city, Daniel Zhang relied on the Golden Fort to block the Chao Nam River and peeped into the city, and fought a protracted battle with the Dashun army.

Li Laiheng sighed: "Ada, now there are many sick and even dead people in the Northern Expeditionary Army. Moreover, many of the soldiers who had moved to Ava had also died of illness...... It seems that the water and soil in the south are not suitable for us for a while.

Although my Dashun army is strong, it can't be wasted like this. Therefore, the child thinks that Dashun can stop at Dacheng in the south. If Ayutthaya does not defend it, withdraw to Burma. Anyway, the battle of Ayutthaya captured a lot, and it was not returned empty-handed. ”

Li Guo frowned deeply: "Only Sichuan, Yunnan, and Myanmar are still too narrow......" He lowered his voice, "In case Sichuan and Yunnan are lost, only one Myanmar, can you still hold on?" ”

"Ada," Li Laiheng paused and lowered his voice, "Now that Duoduo is dead, and Spain has been newly defeated in Japan, the pressure on the southeast sea has been greatly reduced. The child estimates that the Ming Dynasty is going to use troops outside the pass, this is our chance! ”

"Opportunity?" Li Guo looked at his son.

Li Laiheng said in a low voice: "Ada, now is the time when our Dashun Mansion soldiers are at their peak, and the first generation of government soldiers who follow Lao Banzai and you to fight the world can still fight." And the second generation of government soldiers has a large number of soldiers, and they have all practiced martial arts since childhood, and they are more capable of fighting than their parents. Two generations of government soldiers are superimposed, and 400,000 people can be pulled out. Moreover, the second-generation government soldiers all want to get the land, and they will definitely fight hard.

Let's take advantage of this opportunity to give it a go! If it drags on, when the second generation of government soldiers reaches the time of starting a family, I'm afraid they will be poor......"

Li Guo fell into deep thought.

He also knew that the force of the Great Shun Empire was now reaching its peak!

Because the "second generation" of Shun will grow up in large numbers in the next three to five years! These people were raised by their fathers as warriors! They can fight, and there are many of them, and they also have the desire to fight - most of them have nothing but ability!

If the opportunity is missed, when this group of people all start a family and fall into the quagmire of poverty, then not only will the combat effectiveness be weakened, but it may also become a trouble for the Dashun court.

"Where?" Li asked.

"How about leaving Qishan?" Lee Rae-hyung asked.

"Out of Qishan?" Li Guo thought for a while, "Can't you take down the river?" ”

"No," Li Laiheng shook his head, "Fighting in Xiajiang is a water division, how can our water division be the opponent of the Ming Dynasty?" Moreover, the Ming Dynasty built many fortresses on both sides of the Jingjiang River and laid out huge cannons, which we can't defeat. ”

The battle between the fort and the fort is math......

"So...... Is it advisable to have two broads? ”

"No." Li Laiheng still shook his head, "It is not enough to take Guangxi to make it easier to take the overall situation, and to fight in Guangdong, we also have to fight for the water division." Moreover, the Ming army could mobilize heavy troops into Guangdong by sea...... We have crossed mountains and mountains, but we have lost time and have no chance of winning.

On the contrary, it is out of Qishan and fighting in Ganshan, which is the most beneficial to us! Our dynasty has been operating in Hanzhong and Gongchang for many years, building forts and hoarding grain, and the foundation has been solidified, which can support the soldiers to go north! ”