"Dad, I'm back." Li Wu shouted as soon as he entered the house.

"Hurry up and wash your hands, and the meal will be waiting for you." Li Laoer's voice came from the house.

As soon as Li Wu came to the dining table and sat down, Old Man Li slapped Li Wu and said, "Don't be in a hurry to sit down first, worship the prince's immortal card before eating, our family can have a good life today, but thanks to the prince." ”

Under the leadership of Li Laoer, the Li family of six knelt down to Guo Qi's immortal tablet on the offering table, praying for Guo Qi's longevity and good health; After returning to the dinner table, Li Lao Er sighed: "A good official like the prince, I am a person whose bones are buried in most of my body, but I have never heard that it is the blessing of the people of Yongzhou that the prince can come to Yongzhou!" ”

"By the way, Dad, I saw my lord today; The lord asked me if I wanted to be his pro-army guard, and I said that I had to come back and discuss with you and Brother Song. Li Wu said to Li Lao Er while eating.

"My lord? Who is this lord? ”

"Dad, why are you confused, this lord is naturally the prince! Now all the officials in Yongzhou call the prince the lord. ”

"Oh, you just said that the prince asked you to go and be a pro-army guard for his old man."

"Yes! I won't discuss this with you! ”

"Smack!" Li Lao Er slapped Li Wu on the back of the head and scolded: "It's a fart to discuss!" The prince can let you enter the pro-army guard, it is a blessing that you have cultivated for eight lifetimes, that is the prince's trust in you, you should promise the prince on the spot, and come back to discuss; Don't give Lao Tzu a meal, now hurry up to the palace and tell the prince that you are willing. ”

"Dad, it's all curfew now, and I can't get out of the house." Li Wu grinned painfully; "And the prince said, let me write to him tomorrow."

"Daddy, our Wu'er has a future, and now he is on an errand in the Yamen, what are you doing in the army! As the old saying goes, 'good iron doesn't hit nails, and good men don't serve as soldiers', why let us go to Wu'er! ”

"You old knows a fart! Was he an ordinary soldier? That's the prince's personal guard, who follows the prince to protect the prince, and in the future, he will learn great skills from the prince, and maybe he will be able to become a general!

This Yongzhou and Xirong border, and it is indispensable to fight with Xirong in the future, and Wu'er can defend the country and avenge the ancestors of our Li family when he joins the army; Second, maybe you can make a meritorious contribution on the battlefield, and you can even be awarded a noble title when you come back! At that time, it will be glorious to the ancestors. ”

"Daddy, doesn't the notice say that if you don't pay more food and serve more, you can also get merit points in exchange for a knighthood? Why did you let our son go to war! There are no eyes on this battlefield, what if you get hurt! ”

"You old lady can't make sense! Let's not talk about the merits on this battlefield, and the merits are worth earning; Let's just say that everyone thinks the same as you, who will defend the country! When the time comes, this good life will be gone; Besides, all the young and strong people in Yongzhou have to serve in this military service, and Wu'er is just a few years earlier;

Stinky boy to Lao Tzu, tomorrow I will go to the prince, after arriving in the army, you must serve the prince well, in the future, even if you die in battle, you can't let the prince lose a hair, understand? ”

"Remember, Daddy." Li Wu said solemnly.

Decades later, when Li Wu recalled today's events, he really admired his uneducated father's bottom-up, and it was precisely because of Li Laoer's strong support that Li Wu was able to become a general under Guo Qi later, and follow Guo Qi to dominate the world together.

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The next day, King Yong's Mansion, in the conference hall.

Hu Qiong, Song Yiming, Tang Bi, Ling Jing, Zhuo Yidao, Ma Jiu and several other officials all arrived at the conference hall early to wait for Guo Qi's arrival.

"There are some things that have been delayed by this king, and you have been waiting for a long time." Guo Qi said after bringing Li Wu behind him in.

When Song Yiming saw Li Wu standing beside Guo Qi in iron armor, he immediately understood something, and his heart couldn't help but be happy; Although the Yongwang group led by Guo Qi has just been formed, and the foundation is relatively weak, there is already a rudimentary form of factions in this small group.

One is the localist faction headed by Song Yiming, and most of the localists are literati serving as civilians; the other is the foreign faction led by Hu Qiong, who mostly holds military positions, and also manages Cangcheng, Ma Zheng, etc. in Yongzhou; Compared to the outsiders, the power of the localists is weaker.

But now that Li Wu is standing behind Guo Qi in iron armor, this shows that at the beginning of the localization faction began to enter the army, the strength of the localization faction naturally increased a lot; Although the small group has now formed the rudiments of a faction, the two sides are still united, and there is no rift between the two.

"I won't say much politely." After Guo Qi sat down, he said: "All of you are here today for the sake of the military system; But today, the king not only wants to talk about the military system, but also to set the matter of the title, so that it can reassure the hearts of the people, and also allow you to have a goal to strive for. ”

"Lord Shengming......" As soon as they heard that the title was going to be promulgated, everyone hurriedly patted their ass, this is closely related to everyone.

"Seeing that everyone is so excited, let's talk about the knighthood first!" Guo Qi smiled and said to everyone: "The tentative title of this king is twenty-one levels, from top to bottom, duke, marquis, uncle, son, male, duke, knight, each major level is divided into three small levels, such as knights, respectively, third-class knights, second-class knights, first-class knights, of which the first class is the largest, and the third class is the smallest;

All the titles can be exchanged for merit points according to the previous notice, as for how many merit points are needed for these titles, this king has drawn up a list of rules for you to see, if you have no objections, this matter is decided. ”

After everyone looked at Tiao Chen, they all exclaimed, because it is too difficult to exchange for a knighthood, even a small third-class knight costs a hundred merit points, you must know that now the people of Yongzhou, the merit value that can be earned every month is an average of five or six per family, that is to say, it takes twenty months to get the lowest knighthood without eating or drinking; However, everyone did not object, because as officials, they want to obtain merit points much faster than ordinary people, and they can still accept such conditions.

"Now that the matter of the title is decided, let's talk about the military system; The king intends to divide the Yongjun army into three ranks, namely the tooth soldiers, the government soldiers and the township soldiers; The tooth soldiers implement the recruitment system, the government soldiers and the township soldiers implement the military service system, and the basic establishment of the army is the same as that of the previous Yuxian government soldiers;

From tomorrow to form a tooth soldier, if you want to participate in the tooth soldier, you must pass the assessment, the tooth soldier temporarily recruits 5,000 people, plus the king's 1,000 personal army guards a total of 6,000 people;

All the single young men are organized into Tuntian soldiers, under the jurisdiction of the government soldiers, each battalion of Tuntian soldiers is 5,000 people, and the more than 30,000 young men in Yongcheng can be divided into six battalions, each battalion draws 1,200 people to form a government soldier, all the Tuntian soldiers and government soldiers can be separated from the Tuntian soldiers and government soldiers, and replaced by the township soldiers who should serve in the military;

All the young and strong people with families are all incorporated into the township soldiers, and they take the village as a unit, conduct military training during the slack time, and are responsible for defending their own villages, as a supplement to the government soldiers and tuntian soldiers;

Next, let's talk about the treatment of the tooth soldiers and the government soldiers......"

After a period of heated discussions, the issue of the treatment of the tooth soldiers and the government soldiers was temporarily determined, an ordinary tooth soldier can receive 20 meritorious service points every month, an ordinary government soldier can receive 10 meritorious service points, and the meritorious service points received by officers will increase in turn, and the size of the meritorious service will be recorded separately when they go to the battlefield, while the tuntian soldiers and township soldiers will not have meritorious service points as long as they do not go to the battlefield.