"Your Highness, the Huaijun brothers all want to stay and be government soldiers."

In less than half a day, the person in charge of registration was tired and half dead, because the Huai army was willing to stay. Since the establishment of the government soldier system, the status of the government soldiers is actually very high.

Even this is a very promising profession, which can be compared with the scholars of the Song and Ming dynasties.

During the Song and Ming dynasties, the imperial examination system was mature and stable, so studying and participating in the imperial examination was the only way for countless ordinary people to change their identity and fate.

Since the Western Wei Dynasty, after the implementation of the government soldier system, the government soldiers can not only get sufficient fields, but also do not have to bear the rent and transfer, they only need to bring their own weapons, participate in training during the slack time, and be called to fight in wartime. Of course, the benefits of the government soldiers are not only these, the most attractive thing about the government soldiers, especially the attraction of those landlords and wealthy households, is that the Northern and Southern Dynasties thought that there were frequent turmoil, so many dynasties were martial.

If you are good at being a soldier, you can be an officer, and if you are a good officer, you can also become a magistrate, and even those with high merit can enter the court.

This is one of the important reasons why the martial artists are the strongest in this era.

There is no ceiling above the heads of the soldiers, it is an infinite sky, as long as you are willing to work hard, you will have a chance, even if you are not a nobleman, not a scholar, not a child of an official eunuch, not a powerful landlord, it doesn't matter, you have the same chance to become a general of the imperial court, a taishou, or even a prime minister.

It's just that in the past, not anyone who wanted to be a soldier could be a soldier, and there were strict conditions and standards.

First of all, you have to be innocent, and then you have to be rich, and you have to have many brothers, and you have to be very strong and young, after all these conditions are met, you can become a government soldier, and the government soldier is selected every three years, and you have to wait for the lack of you to be able to choose well.

"General Chen, I just heard you say that Pengcheng and Jiangdu are short of food?"

"Your Highness, there is indeed a shortage of food, not only Pengcheng and Jiangdu, but also Xiapi, Donghai, and Liyang counties. It's only February, and it's still early for the summer harvest. ”

Luo Cheng nodded.

It is impossible for him to integrate so many Huai troops into the army, and now Luo Cheng is not very short of soldiers, the more soldiers there are, the more difficult it is to manage, and the more food consumed, it will also hinder the recovery of local production.

"It's not a secret, in fact, now the counties of Shandong are also short of grain, all by sea from Liaodong, but the transshipment is difficult, because of this, the imperial court now has six armies in Shandong, but they are all busy cultivating the fields, and they will eat the place, otherwise, we would have already hit Luoyang City."

"What does Your Highness mean?" Chen Ling was very smart, and he guessed what Luo Cheng meant at once, but he didn't break it.

"Now, spring sowing can catch up with a tail, since the soldiers want to be soldiers, then I think it is better to organize them into military tuns first, and let them disperse the counties to store grain, so that they can camp the fields during the agricultural time and train in the leisure time."

This soldier is not a traditional government soldier, but a special tuntian soldier.

This is obviously different from the government soldiers that the Huai army wants to be, but Luo Cheng also said that first Tuntian will solve the problem of military rations, and after the autumn harvest, another assessment will be conducted.

Of course, those who are selected as government soldiers will be placed in the military government, and military land will be allocated at the location of the military government, with 100 acres per soldier. And even if they didn't pass the exam, after they were dismissed and returned to their hometowns, they were given 100 acres of land in their hometowns.

As for those who have loose officials, all of them will be retained, and the ministry will be arranged according to the measure.

"The Jianghuai rifle is fierce and brave, very famous, Wang Shichong can dominate the side in today's troubled times, mainly relying on the Jianghuai rifle under his hand." Luo Cheng said with a smile, Jianghuai infantry players, like Danyang knife players, are all famous infantry in the world.

There is no cavalry in the land of Jianghuai, but the infantry is quite famous, and when the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Southern Dynasties were able to withstand countless attacks by the Northern Dynasties, but not only by relying on the Yangtze River.

"Choose 4,000 brave and fierce spearmen, and directly select them to join the government soldiers." Luo Cheng made the final decision.

Chen Ling surrendered, and the six counties of Pengcheng, Jiangdu, Xiapi, Donghai, Zhongli, and Liyang were attached one after another.

plus the four counties handed over by Li Mi.

In this spring, Luo Cheng did not spend a single soldier, did not move a knife or a shot.

But he took ten counties under his command at once.

From Jiangdu to Xingyang, south to the Yangtze River and north to the Yellow River, the entire Jiangnan Canal is in the hands of Luo Cheng.

When the news broke, the world shook.

There are even some newly attached officials and scholars, and they are even more bold and direct to Luo Cheng, asking him to build the country on behalf of Sui.

Li Mi of Luoyang, after hearing that Luo Cheng won the ten counties so easily, and Du Fuwei took him Huaixi Lujiang, Huainan, Tong'an, and Yiyang, the four counties east of Dabie Mountain, a mouthful of old blood almost spurted out.

He worked hard, but for so long, he didn't expand at all.

It's this Luo Cheng, after the New Year, he sent troops into the customs, but the two roads in Hebei and Jianghuai have blossomed, and more than ten counties have been captured in a row.

This momentum made Li Mi terrified.

In desperation, he had to grit his teeth and start to attack Wang Shichong, and if he waited, he hadn't decided the winner here, and Luo Cheng was afraid that he had already reached the Tiger Prison Pass.

It's just that what Li Mi didn't expect was that Luo Cheng didn't take advantage of the situation to continue to march.

Instead, Luo Cheng issued another military order.

It reaches the Yangtze River in the south, Dabie Mountain in the west, Huaihe River in the north, and the four counties of the canal in the east of Shandong.

The Yangtze River, Dabie Mountain, Huai River, Tongji Canal, Luo Cheng's army stopped in front of these mountains and rivers and no longer advanced.

He set up two provinces, Huainan and Shandong, and awarded Du Fuwei as the envoy of the Huainan army and Luo Cunxiao as the envoy of the Shandong army.

Huaixi and Shandong, each stationed two armies.

Du Fuwei and Chen Ling's two divisions, as well as the original Shandong divisions, plus the Liaodong Army that went south, were all reintegrated.

The total number of soldiers and horses from all walks of life was nearly 200,000, but in the end, Luo Cheng was only reorganized and reduced to four armies.

Only the four armies plus Luo Cheng's tooth army of 6,000 were retained, a total of more than 100,000, and the remaining nearly 100,000 people were all temporarily organized into Tuntian soldiers, while the remaining four armies were organized into local government soldiers in two towns.

Luo Cheng did not continue to expand the strategy, he asked Du Fuwei and Luo Cunxiao to clear the thieves and robbers in the two towns, and at the same time appease the people and resume production.

And Luo Cheng himself rushed to Liaodong with his tooth soldiers.

Because at this time, there was a great rebellion of Goguryeo outside the gates.

The eldest grandson Shunde was in a hurry in Xuanwu County, and did not steadily promote the new policies, and launched all the new policies in one go, and these new policies were originally only planned by Luo Cheng to be implemented slowly in the future, and now he threw them out all at once.

At this time, the main forces of Liaodong were all going south, so many Goguryeo nobles and heroes took the opportunity to make trouble and raised troops.

This time, because of the new policy of the eldest grandson Shunde, the interests of almost all the Goguryeo nobles and powerful landlords were touched, so they received widespread support.

The momentum is great and the development is rapid.

Originally, Xuansu County was still controlled by the Goguryeo people, and the eldest grandson only brought 3,000 county soldiers and some officials over, and there was neither the Liao military government and the military town in the territory, nor the Han people Tunzhuang militia, so the whole county rebelled.

Led by the former Goguryeo nobles Gao Yeonsu and Gao Hye-jin, they re-raised the banner of Goguryeo's restoration of the country, and the momentum was like wildfire.

And Yuan Taizuo and the eldest grandson Shunde couldn't stop it, and the Yuan family deliberately sat back and connived at the beginning, giving them a chance to rise.

Jianghuai Shandong was newly annexed, the army had no food and grass, the place was ruined, and the Goguryeo people were making chaos in the rear, so Luo Cheng could only rush back to Liaodong first.