1. Su Jiakang sent Diao Leixun to lead two hundred Ming troops to secretly try to attack the baggage troops of the Datang New Army, but what Su Jiakang and Diao Leixun did not expect was that the size of this baggage force would be as high as more than 500 people, and there was also the main force of the Datang New Army to escort them.

In this case, Diao Leixun did not dare to lead the army to launch an attack, and in the end he could only watch the baggage troops of the Datang New Army leave from the ambush, and then returned to Zhengtai County all the way dejected.

After Su Jiakang listened to the report of Diao Leixun's trip, although he was very dissatisfied with Diao Leixun's retreat without daring to fight, he also knew that with Diao Leixun's 200 remnants at that time, he could not pose any threat to the baggage troops of the puppet Tang thief army.

But even if he could understand Diao Leixun's choice, he was still quite dissatisfied!

If Diao Leixun dared to lead the army to attack, even if he was stubbornly resisted by the puppet Tang thief army, but under the ambush, it was still possible to cause a lot of casualties to the puppet Tang thief army, and as for his own side, he might suffer heavy losses or even be wiped out, but how could there be no dead in a war?

What's more, it wasn't him Su Jiakang himself who died, it was just a group of lowly martial artists!

For the sake of strategic victory, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and for the future of his Su Jiakang, Diao Leixun should have launched a suicide charge at that time!

However, although he had these thoughts in his heart, he did not show it, even though Su Jiakang did not care about the lives of Diao Leixun and other soldiers, but now the safety of Zhengtai County still needs these lowly martial artists to protect.

For the safety of Zhengtai County, Su Jiakang endured his anger as a Jinshi official, but comforted Diao Leixun and other soldiers who returned in vain.

If Su Jiakang's attempt to attack the Datang New Army fails, it will directly lead to a serious result: the Datang New Army will use this batch of materials to build more weapons in the next month or two.

It takes time to build weapons, and it is a long time, and it will not be available for a while and a half, but the expansion of the Datang New Army has not been stagnant due to the lack of weapons, but has continued to maintain the momentum of high-speed expansion.

In every town in Zhengtai County, the Datang New Army has set up a recruitment point and recruited a large number of qualified recruits.

What kind of people can be eligible, first of all, they are born, such as the children of local farmers, who meet the height requirements and physical fitness also need to meet the minimum requirements.

And it has to be an honest person, preferably the kind that can't let out a fart with a kick, flamboyant, too flexible and even smart.

Secondly, if the parents are still in the family and there are more than two brothers in the family, those in the poor family will be given priority, even if the height and physical fitness are slightly worse.

On the one hand, there are parents at home, which means that there will be concerns and will fight for the parents at home.

There are many brothers in the family, and there is no need to worry about cutting off incense at home after the death of the war, which can allow the soldiers to not have too many worries when fighting.

The poor in their families meant that they needed more land after joining the army, giving them a reason to fight to the death for the land.

These are specifically for those farmers who have no skills themselves, but some special types of troops do not have too many requirements, such as cavalry, as long as you know how to ride, physical fitness can barely get by, you can successfully recruit, if you also bring your own war horse to enlist, immediately give the rank of non-commissioned officer.

There are also archers with the same treatment, as long as you pass the archery level, even if you were a rogue before, you can successfully apply.

This is because there is an extreme lack of cavalry and archers in the new army of the Tang Dynasty today, and it is difficult to train.

However, there is another group that has also been given preferential treatment, and that is the literate people!

As long as you can write hundreds of commonly used words on the spot, if you want to join the army, you will immediately be given the rank of warrant officer, and you will enter politics, and you will immediately be arranged to serve in various institutions.

If you are still the kind of person who has received formal education and has reached the level of a scholar, even if you can't even pass the county exam before, you can immediately be given an official hat, and you can be awarded the rank of second lieutenant immediately when you join the army, and enter the martial arts school under the Privy Council to study, and after outstanding academic performance and inspection, you can enter the Tianzi class taught by Li Xuan himself, and become a member of the core officer level in the Datang New Army.

As for those who have obtained the official fame of the previous imperial examinations, that is, Xiucai, the Tang Dynasty is reluctant to let you join the army to fight, but the nine internal departments are whatever you choose, and the most time they are a Langzhong, and a squire after the assessment period is at your fingertips.

In the Tang Dynasty, there are only two talents now

As for the higher-level lifters? If you dare to come, Li Xuan will give you the title of a scholar, or even a noble earl.

As for Jinshi or something, the Tang Dynasty has no arrangements for treatment for the time being, because it is estimated that there will be no Jinshi in the world who will take the initiative to run over to give Li Xuan loyalty, if there is really one, Li Xuan dares to directly throw out the title of a duke, a scholar, and nine Shangshu can be picked at will, if you are not satisfied?

Damn, still not satisfied, the highest level of official hats are still not satisfied? Aren't you staring at his throne?

If you want his emperor's throne, hmph, Li Xuan will cut him down as soon as possible!

The weak and hard-working Tang Dynasty has a huge thirst for talents, even if this talent can only write hundreds of commonly used words!

It's a pity that in the past few years, everyone who has read some books, especially those who have read the Four Books and Five Classics, and are dedicated to the imperial examination, not to mention all of them, but they must be 99% of them have no good impression of Li Xuan's mountain valley dynasty, and even look forward to the Ming Dynasty being able to return to Zhengtai County.

The more knowledgeable and educated people are, the more they can see through the essence of the Tang Dynasty: this is just a group of bandits, whose brains are burned out and they play the game of founding the country and becoming the emperor, and sooner or later they will be exterminated by the imperial army.

In their opinion, there is no difference between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and even some people can't distinguish between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.

And they think so, there is really nothing wrong with it, because when the Tang Dynasty advertises and recruits troops, it also uses the titles of the imperial court, officers and soldiers, so many people think that this Tang Dynasty is the official dynasty, and Li Xuan is the most powerful emperor in the world.

You can't just think that they are stupid, but many villagers in these remote places have never even been to the county seat in their lives, not only they have not been, but even their parents and grandparents have never been, and many people will not go beyond the scope of their village in their lives, and the farthest place they have been to is the village next door.

They only know the meaning of the words "imperial court" and "officers and soldiers", but they don't know the difference between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.

The lack of knowledge, coupled with the fact that the New Army of the Tang Dynasty does not pay silver, but the treatment of the soldiers is definitely not bad, there is an family silver, the supply of white rice is open, and even a piece of land is distributed for free when you join the army, these three things together have created a large number of people, especially poor children, to join the army.

In this way, the Datang New Army recruited a large number of new soldiers in just half a month, not only filling up the existing several battalions and teams, but also recruiting all the soldiers needed for the newly established fourth battalion, the second mixed battalion, the expanded artillery team, and the newly established grenadier team.

In this way, in addition to the baggage battalion, which was originally full, the first garrison battalion reorganized from the Ming army's recruited prisoners, and at the same time, there were more than one team of heavy armor sword and shield soldiers and archers with 150 people each, and the cavalry team had expanded to 60 cavalry.

In terms of strength alone, the Datang New Army has completed the task of this large-scale expansion, and the total strength of the whole army has reached 3,800 people.

Among them, the main force, namely four infantry battalions and two mixed battalions, the combat strength of these six battalions reached 1,800 men.

After recruiting all the recruits and assigning them to various units one by one, Li Xuan guided the whole army to carry out large-scale training, and at the same time, in order to speed up the training progress of several other infantry battalions and form combat effectiveness faster, Li Xuan transferred troops from the first infantry battalion and the second mixed battalion to the other four battalions that were still recruits as the backbone.

Accelerate the growth of these four battalions in a way that brings the old with the new!

After the 1st Infantry Battalion and the 1st Mixed Battalion were transferred to more than half of the main force, although it is inevitable that the combat effectiveness will drop a lot, this is the necessary price that needs to be borne by the expansion of the army in the short term.

Moreover, although nearly half of the veterans in the 1st Infantry Battalion and the 1st Mixed Battalion have been transferred, they still have half of the veterans left, and they can still recover their combat effectiveness relatively quickly after replenishing new recruits.

If it were not for the formation and transfer of troops to the newly established infantry battalions, although the combat effectiveness of the first infantry battalion and the first mixed battalion could be maintained, it would have taken more than three months, or even more than half a year, for the other four newly established battalions to develop combat effectiveness.

This time is unbearable for Li Xuan!

Because the Ming army could not give him so much time to slowly expand and train.

At the same time as the military expanded, after Liu Bagou and others returned to Xikou Village, they also carried out work one by one according to the many policies set at the previous imperial strategic meeting, and the first and most important thing was to formulate and improve the tax system.

The autumn harvest was approaching, and they had to prepare for taxes under the autumn harvest, because then they would be able to raise enough military rations to be used in large quantities.

On the part of the Ministry of Taxation, tax officials continued to be dispatched to towns and villages, and at the same time, the first formal tax law of the Tang Dynasty was issued: the Tang Dynasty Tax System.

As soon as this tax system was promulgated, it caused great controversy, and this tax system was welcomed by the majority of small and medium-sized landlords and ordinary peasants, and at the same time, it was also strongly opposed by large landlords and businessmen!