The power of the warriors needs to be restrained, but not too much.

Li Qi could not imagine how the Jiaozhi separatist regime, which was now easily suppressed by the Southern Han Dynasty, could slowly grow in the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the Jiaozhi people broke through Jingjiang Mansion (Guilin) twice, and Yongzhou City was slaughtered three times......

It's just that if you think about it, Li Jiqian was able to start with hundreds of cavalry, and finally divided the northwest for hundreds of years, and the Great Xia State he established actually survived the two Song Dynasty for hundreds of years, and it is also relieved.

This is the result of excessive use of literature and martial arts.

Military warfare requires a lot of professional knowledge and skills, and the literati of the Two Song Dynasty have always been arrogant, thinking that they know everything, but in fact they are incomprehensible in military affairs. The old man Fan, who "burned for 800 miles and turned over the outside with 50 strings", except for the good writing of the words, he had not won many battles in Yanzhou for a few years.

This kind of commanding troops to fight, including peacetime training with troops, is still suitable for more professional generals.

The official system of the Tang Dynasty is divided into nine grades and twenty-seven levels, each of which is divided into three levels: positive, subordinate and attached, which gives civil and military officials at all levels enough room for progress and rewards.

Regarding the military system, the imperial court now divides the adjustment of troops in various places into three major systems: the standing army, the local reserve army and the tuntian army, of which the standing army is similar to the forbidden army of the Song Dynasty. The forbidden army included the Jinyang Forbidden Army and the fifteen local military towns of Shanbei, Yunnei, Heshuo, Hexi, Longyou, Sichuannan, Youzhou, Xuyan, Biansong, Luoyang, Jingzhao, Xingyuan, Jingxiang, Hengyang and Lingnan, and the rest of the local armies were changed to the reserve army of each state or the Tuntian army.

The reserve armies of each state are similar to the Xiang army of the Song Dynasty, and similar to the Tuntian army, they also have tuntian land and are responsible for maintaining local law and order. Only the command of the reserve forces of the states is in the hands of the state defense envoys or regimental training envoys, and is directly under the dual management of the Privy Council and the Ministry of War. However, the Tuntian Army in various places is under the direct jurisdiction of the Imperial Court's Tuntian Order, which is a separate set of military and political systems directly under the imperial court established outside the local military and political system.

The Tuntian District, which was established in various localities, played a role in restricting and supervising the power of military and political chiefs in various localities.

For example, if there is a rebellion or turmoil in a certain place, the standing armies of various places will generally not be able to defeat these local tuntian armies, which are mainly composed of retired veterans.

All kinds of waste are thriving, and Datang is not short of land now. On the contrary, the newly opened up tuntian areas in various localities still need a large number of people and labor to fill and reclaim.

Contrary to the previous dynasties, which encouraged the people to cultivate land at the beginning of the founding of the country, the new reclamation policy of the imperial court was to prohibit private ownership of land and not allow private individuals to reclaim wasteland at will.

It is okay to open up wasteland, but it must be joined by military households, and all the wasteland in various places has been assigned to the ownership of Tuntian District.

Needless to say, the newly opened farms and pastures were nominally leased to military households for farming and grazing, and the imperial court's policy was to gradually reduce the area of private land in the country and curb the development of the local landlord class.

In addition, there are various policy preferences and subsidies for those military cantonment areas, and even financial support from the imperial court. However, the slightest preferential treatment was never allowed for the taxes collected on the landlord's land. Unless it is after a major famine and with the special approval of the imperial court, the localities are allowed to reduce or reduce the amount of land taxes.

In addition, the sale of land between private individuals is strictly prohibited in various localities, and if you want to sell it, you can only sell it to the government.

This policy was to force the landlords and yeoman farmers to sell their land to the government and thus redirect their funds to industry and commerce. In addition, as long as you join the military tuntian system and become a military household in the military tuntian area, the life of the whole family is basically guaranteed. Becoming a military household can be regarded as an "iron rice bowl", and the social status of military households is higher than that of ordinary self-cultivated farmers.

Due to the war and destruction of the five dynasties at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the people in various places are still living in hardship, and because of the better treatment, it is not difficult to recruit military households in the newly opened Tuntian districts in various places.

In these military reclamation areas, the lives of military households were relatively stable, and they became the most loyal supporters of the imperial court. In fact, the imperial court relied on these tuntian armies scattered all over the country to strengthen its control over the localities.

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Only two years after the imperial court's forces returned to the Western Regions, the Tuntian Han army in Yizhou (Hami) had exceeded 6,000 households.

This kind of tuntian, which is far away from Middle-earth, cannot be achieved by relying on spontaneous force, and can only be achieved through various coercive means through the imperial court.

One of the most important products in Illinois is the "bitter salt", or sodium nitrate ore.

However, after sodium nitrate is treated with plant ash, the purity of potassium nitrate produced is difficult to control.

Since Li Qi told Kang Yanze that there were potash nitrate mines around Puchanghai (Lop Nur) in the Yizhou area, he simply selected students from the Jinyang Academy and personally led a caravan to the Western Regions to find potash nitrate mines. Prospecting and prospecting are necessary practical activities for these students studying the mining industry, and practice is sometimes more important than the classroom, and now the hunchback of this team from Illinois has become a classroom for these young people.

From Yizhou to the southwest, to Puchanghai, seven or eight hundred miles away, all along the way is the desolate Gobi Desert, between heaven and earth, at a glance, is an endless monotonous and desolate scenery.

The expedition included not only more than 200 camels, but also a 150-strong, well-equipped escort cavalry. The teachers and students of Jinyang School Palace are all treasures, and even the imperial court does not allow them to take risks everywhere without guards, and they are in the Western Regions.

There is not a single tree to be seen here, and even the spikes of the camel, which are the most tenacious in the Gobi Desert, have become sparse, and there seems to be no sign of life other than this caravan. If there is a strong wind, the sand and gravel will hurt the skin of the face, and the nose and mouth will be filled with yellow sand.

The riders on horseback tried to walk on the side where the camels were blocking the leeward, but the camels were extremely resistant to such harsh conditions, and remained unhurried, trudging through the strong winds, giving the people on the camelbacks a sense of safety.

Fortunately, there was no particularly bad weather, and after three days of traveling through this desolate Gobi area, the caravan finally became open and some sporadic oases appeared. Turning over a low hilly area, a vast saline marsh came into view, and in the center of this swamp was a huge lake......

"Ah, it's time to arrive!" Turning over several large dirt mountain bags, the guide in front suddenly shouted excitedly.

Kang Yanze looked up and saw a large area of saline-alkali depression in front of him, a large white area, covered with a thick layer of salt like snow, and a smile couldn't help but appear on his tanned face......

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