Chapter 267: Let's get around
"Experience? Hehe! Li Yuanjing gave the eldest grandson Wuji an amiable smile, how hypocritical and hypocritical he was.
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The eldest grandson Wuji looked embarrassed, the court really didn't have a good way to deal with the matter of Qian Zhuang, mainly because everyone was inexperienced.
If you really talk about it, on the contrary, Li Chengqian is the most experienced, and everyone else is looking at the sea from the mountains, and there is no problem with playing with their mouths, but if they really let them go up, they have to be blind.
However, Li Yuanjing's previous work was impressive, and the speed of expansion was even more dazzling, forming a stark contrast one after the other.
Therefore, what Li Yuanjing said is also right, at this time, the DPRK and China have no way to give any effective advice to Qian Zhuang from the strategic aspect, because everyone is a novice.
And the only thing the court can do is to let Qian Zhuang put forward his own ideas, and then the court considers how to support it according to all aspects, but when both sides are not confident, it becomes what it is now.
"This matter can be regarded as suppressed for the time being, but Your Majesty is still angry in his heart!"
The eldest grandson Wuji fell in love with Li Yuanjing's monkey spirit, so he simply changed the topic, but it's okay if I don't talk about you?
"The plan you put forward has basically been adopted, but the current problem is the number of troops, Your Majesty feels that 50,000 is a bit much, but if you send two generals, the number cannot be less than 40,000!"
Li Yuanjing was not surprised by this result, as for why the number of people could not be less than 40,000, the reason was also very simple.
It is because of the establishment of the Tang Dynasty army, although the government military system is destined to be only an army cobbled together by the military government, and there is no upper limit in theory.
In practice, however, it is a bit more difficult to control, and generally speaking, a general is in charge of an army, consisting of four to nine small formations.
But this kind of specification is relatively rare, the most common is the composition of five military formations, divided into five formations, front and back, left and right, each military formation has 5,000 people, and the establishment of an army is 25,000 people, which is universal.
In addition to the 25,000-man army is more common, the rest is an army of 20,000 people, and the system of the government military system can allow the scale of the army level to change at will, and when necessary, the main general can even summon five armies to form a super army formation.
An army of 10,000 people is not impossible, but if you send a major general of the level of Li Jing and Li Daozong, and only let people lead an army of 10,000, both sides will not be happy.
"That shouldn't be a problem, right?" Li Yuanjing squinted his eyes slightly and looked at the eldest grandson Wuji.
It really doesn't matter the number of troops, it's all Li Shimin's words, he can give as much as he wants, and no one else can change this result.
The whole plan was passed, there is no reason to get stuck in terms of the size of the army, if it is really stuck here, then there must be other problems behind it.
"Hehe, Your Majesty wants to use the new army ......," the eldest grandson Wuji reminded pointedly.
"The New Army?" Li Yuanjing frowned fiercely, the new army mentioned here is not the kind of new army of later generations, but an army composed of new people.
The normal government soldiers are selected once every three years, and this is mainly due to the system of the government soldier system.
Once a year can neither guarantee the quantity nor the quality, because those who can afford to be soldiers in the Tang Dynasty are all well-off families in the words of later generations.
Therefore, the strongest group of people in Datang is the government soldiers, if they don't have a family background, they can't support the cost of being a soldier at all.
That's right, the government soldiers need to bring their own equipment, and each newly selected government soldier will subsidize a certain amount of funds, which are only enough to buy some basic equipment.
But it is far from enough to only have these equipment on the battlefield, so all the government soldiers without exception will pay out of their own pockets to buy some convenient equipment, and they are reluctant to pay at this time, so they can only give up their lives on the battlefield.
"Where do people come from?" Li Yuanjing asked, at the end of the previous year, when the northern expedition to the Turks, he had only recruited government soldiers once in advance, and there was still more than a year before the next recruitment, where to find someone at this time?
"Hidden Household!" The eldest grandson Wuji said.
"Is it raised by the imperial court?" Li Yuanjing couldn't help but snort coldly.
Hidden households, this is a good choice, and it seems that the imperial court should have reached some kind of agreement with the family, so the family is also willing to release these hidden households.
But then people do have it, but what about the money?
Hidden households can not afford the cost of equipment, and hidden households are used to saving money on weekdays, and they are basically not hungry for food, and there is no need to think about eating at all.
Under such a life thought, people's physical conditions are a great hidden danger, it can be said unceremoniously, with the way of selecting government soldiers to select 5,000 people, and then recruit 5,000 people from the hidden households, both sides of the training for a year, even if the government soldiers let 2,000 people hang.
To say another exaggerated, even if the government soldiers don't fight, they can go around these people by just holding their noses and going around in circles, unless they are willing to spend a lot of money to improve their food and improve their physical fitness within half a year.
"Raise it!" Eldest Sun Wuji secretly took a breath, a little unconfident.
"What to raise? Have you ever calculated how much it will cost? According to the estimates, the new army will receive a monthly subsidy of 100 yuan per person for the first year, and a subsidy of 60,000 yuan a year for 50,000 people.
You know better than anyone else how much the equipment is, this group of people is not just a subsidy, you have to arm them from head to toe, there is no problem with these 50,000 people and a million pounds, right?
Their physical fitness is not advantageous compared to the government soldiers, if they want to quickly improve their combat effectiveness, they must work food, and they have to eat some meat or something every once in a while, have you calculated how much money a year? Is 2 million a year enough? Li Yuanjing patted the table and asked.
"The equipment of the imperial court is responsible, there is no need to buy it, the grain imperial court is also out, there have been bumper harvests in various places in the past two years, but there is no shortage of grain, and the rest is the 60,000 guan and the money to buy meat......" The eldest grandson Wuji quietly glanced at Li Yuanjing, careful of his liver.
"Even if it is like this, it will cost at least 500,000 yuan a year, and it will also build a warship, isn't it that this king looks down on people, and the court takes so much money?" Li Yuanjing couldn't help but say with contempt.
"You...... Don't you have three mines, just make up for it! The eldest grandson Wuji said in a mosquito-like voice, shame, shame.
At this moment, the eldest grandson Wuji couldn't find a crack to stuff it in, this idea was originally made by himself, so he could only find a way to tell Li Yuanjing by himself.
As a result, I didn't expect that before I could figure out what to say, Li Yuanjing came to the door by himself, so let's say it, but now the more I talk about it, the more I feel ashamed, not only I am embarrassed, but even the face of the court is lost.
"Huh?" Although the voice of the eldest grandson Wuji was not loud, Li Yuanjing still heard what he said, and couldn't help but be angry and happy by these words, and the court was eyeing his three mines, and then quipped: "Is it that this king tried his best to mine it, and finally issued it to these soldiers in the name of the imperial court?" ”
The eldest grandson can't put his head into his arms without hatred, but the words have come to this point, how can he be embarrassed?
Well, the eldest grandson Wuji still felt that he couldn't be too hard, so he had to coax him to come: "Now after all, you are in the homeland, and there are some things that you are not suitable for, but what you have done is in your majesty's eyes, and this batch of troops is likely to be your Zhao country's army in the future!" ”