The women chattered, and finally discussed and came to a conclusion that Bailiyan would probably not return home tonight.

At the same time, King Xian received a report from the Yongxing garrison yesterday, and he already knew that Bailiyan had rushed back to Yongxing, and waited with everyone in Bailing Garden early in the morning to summon Bailiyan's business opportunities.

Baili Yan came in the dust, and saw King Xian bow and salute:

"Chen Baili Yan see the king."

"Hehaha...... The widow Yongxing Hou, hurry up and be exempt. ”

"King Xie."

After Bailiyan put away the number of gifts, Gao Xun stepped forward with a smile and said:

"The Marquis of Yongxing fought to level the eldest grandson, turning the danger into a disaster, which can be described as a great contribution, and our ministers admired it to the fullest, please accept the honor of Gao Xun."

Gao Xun wanted to worship, and Bai Liyan stretched out his hand to stop:

"Master Gao's words are serious, the westward advance is smooth, all thanks to the bloody battles of the soldiers, the king's wisdom and wisdom, the supervision of the army in the camp of the Hou, how dare to be greedy for the merits of the sky."

Baili Yan was modest and cautious, and did not receive a high gift, and at this time King Xian said:

"Yongxing Hou does not have to be modest, this battle opened the immortal foundation of my Xian country, since the founding of the ancestors, there is no one in the country who can match Aiqing, Gao Aiqing's great gift is enough to deserve it."

"The king praises falsely, and the ministers are afraid. Although the overall situation has improved at present, it is extremely delicate, and there is still the disaster of destruction if you are not careful. ”

"What Yongxing Hou said is that the widow understands in his heart that the previous time was a greedy person who ignored Aiqing's loyalty, and almost caused the disaster of the country. The matter of giving up the land, the widow should take care of it. ”

"King Shengming."

"Up to now, the widow has also figured it out, all these countries are all deceitful and deceitful, and they all blame the widow for underestimating the situation, alas, ......"

King Xian sighed for a long time, full of gloom, and then Gao Xun said:

"The king does not have to blame himself. Now that the overall situation has stabilized, the top priority is to retreat from the Jin army as soon as possible, recuperate, and lay a solid foundation for our country to become strong in the future. ”

"What the tall man said is very true." Bai Liyan agreed, and continued: "The minister rushed back to China this time, first, for land concession and peace talks, second, for tax reduction and relief for the newly occupied land, third, for the Jin army, and fourth, to adjust the military system to facilitate the placement of rebel generals and reduce the number of personnel. ”

"At present, the great enemy, why is Yongxing Hou in a hurry to reduce the number of troops, in case the countries take the opportunity to attack, what can they do."

Gao Xun asked, and King Xian felt the same way:

"What Gao Aiqing said is extremely true, and the widow also thinks that it is inappropriate to reduce the number of posts in the current military system, Yongxing Hou, can the reduction of posts be postponed?"

"Does the king know that my Xian army has soldiers now?"

"Geometry?" King Xian asked.

"More than 800,000."

"How much!" King Xian was taken aback.

"Exactly, not counting the hundreds of thousands of people who have been recruited, and the rebels in all parts of the west of Qiu County are still surrendering their land to the King of Yintian, and now the two rebels of Shengyan and Thunder have collapsed, and the destruction of the divine power is imminent, and there are still Wanchuan who have not been recovered, so it is estimated that in the first half of next year, there will be at least 200,000 rebels who will return to our army in order to survive.

At that time, our army will have a million people, and with such a large number of posts, there will be neither a major war nor land to cultivate, and the annual consumption of grain and grass for raising troops alone will reach a huge amount of seven or eight million stones.

However, if the number of personnel is reduced, the resettlement of rebel generals needs to be solved together, and with the current salty system, it is impossible to fairly arrange to stay one by one, and if the handling is slightly improper, it will lead to pulling people away to join other countries, and it is also possible to rebel again. ”

"The military system is a big deal, and there is no precedent for all countries to mobilize the whole body, so Yongxing Hou has to think twice."

Gao Xun said, King Xian's expression became solemn, he paced left and right with his hands for two steps, and said after a little thought:

"How is Aiqing going to change the law?"

"Don't move the general, gradually implement, eliminate the left and right nobles and lowly, implement the system of stiptory, give priority to the reduction of the old and weak, eliminate redundancy and retain the elite. The garrison was changed to a town army, the conscripts and the county soldiers were combined into one, and they were uniformly organized into auxiliary troops to guard the localities, and the elite and strong young people were selected to expand the labor battalions, and a reserve was set up to replace the people's army, so as to facilitate the young and middle-aged people in the army to return to their hometowns to work in agriculture and restore agriculture and population.

The king may not know that the former kingdom of Sun was extremely prosperous, with fertile land, rich products, a large population, and a strong army, but now it is better than hell on earth. Everywhere the ministers passed, the fields were barren and the grass grew wildly, the people were lost, the widows were everywhere, the young and strong men were less than one, a dead air and lifeless, and the scene was no less miserable than the two counties of Xianxi and Qiunan.

Disarmament and resettlement are imperative, and no layoffs are not enough to ensure the safety of the community. ”

The local situation of the eldest grandson country, where the black turban forces are entrenched, is generally stronger than that of the other victimized princes, but it is not much better.

For the Xian State, which only has seven counties, it is obviously impossible to digest four counties, and it is obviously impossible to absorb three or forty counties than Jin, Zhi, Wei, and Changsun Dong, and annex ten counties.

And now it has occupied seven or eight counties, raising an army of millions and millions of people, and the expenses are huge beyond the capacity of the national treasury.

At this time, the atmosphere was silent, King Xian was silent for a long time, his expression was gloomy, and he said:

"When is Yongxing Hou going to be disarmed?"

"After the Jin army retreated, before negotiating with Weiguo, the old, weak, sick and disabled in the newly attached rebel army were first cut, and after negotiating with Weiguo, redundancy was cut, and the surplus young and strong were reorganized into a labor battalion tuntian, and finally our army was mobilized again, striving to complete the military system change within two years."

"How is it evaluated?"

"At present, the treasury is very tight, and there is not much food and grass, so the system of stipends is first implemented among military attachés at all levels, and after the local stability is settled, it is distributed to ordinary soldiers. Based on this calculation, it will take five or six years before it can be fully implemented. ”

"General Lu Gao, what do you think?"

King Xian asked, and Lu Gao thought for a moment and replied:

"It is feasible, but the current situation is still unstable, and I don't know if the adjustment of the military system will cause chaos and be taken advantage of by other countries."

"General Lu has a point." Nuo said with certainty, and then hurriedly said: "The military system has not been used for hundreds of years, and the princes will inevitably pay close attention to it at that time. ”

At this time, Bailiyan interjected:

"Lord Nuo, please rest assured, the temporary military system will generally follow the old-style military system, only the left and right will be eliminated, and the relationship between military positions and commanders at all levels will remain unchanged."

At the same time, we should reform the mode and structure of operations, enhance the efficiency of employing troops, and open up more channels for personnel promotion, so as to ensure that there is a reasonable channel for the advancement of military personnel, so that the fine military experience and thinking can continue under the framework of the system, so that the whole army will not be wiped out because of the turmoil in the country, and the elite of the whole army will be disintegrated.

Operations under the traditional cold weapons still depend on the decision of a commander-in-chief, and the merits of the commander-in-chief determine the fate of the whole army and the whole country. At present, most of the commanders-in-chief are selected from the aristocracy, and the commanders who are promoted to the "right" military attaché.

The advantage is that the kinship is the bond, the monarch firmly controls the army, and the shortcomings are also obvious, the aristocracy of the Chengping Dynasty is seriously corrupt and degenerate, and it is difficult to be embarrassed by the great war, and the aristocracy is a minority among the people after all, although the aristocracy has a large number of educational resources, but the probability of the birth of talents will not be much higher than that of the toiling masses, and at present, too much literacy is not necessarily a good thing, Taiwei Ding Yang Marquis Zhang Jun is a typical negative teaching material.

The elimination of the left and right nobles and the lowly not only basically eliminated the basic obstacles to promotion, but although absolute fairness could not be guaranteed, at least it ensured fairness in most cases, and at the same time established promotion standards and salaries to promote the promotion of outstanding military attaches and motivate military attachés to be loyal to the army and the regime.

At present, the productive forces are generally low, serving as soldiers is only for food, the state treasury purchases ordnance and armor, and it is not easy to supply grain and grass.

However, in order to motivate soldiers to kill the enemy, all countries use land titles and "citizen welfare" as incentives, and large numbers of large titles and rewards are easy to breed a large number of new landlords and powerful classes at the same time, and over time, land contradictions are intensified, causing hidden dangers in internal affairs.

The new land policy and the popularization of advanced agricultural technology in Xianguo have greatly stimulated the enthusiasm for production and land utilization, greatly increased land output, enriched material consumption, and have met the basic conditions for the distribution of basic salaries.

The reform of the military system has not only reduced redundancy and eliminated the risk of repeated rebellion, but at the same time has decentralized labor to local areas and replenished manpower, while the army has retained capable soldiers.

Of course, there are also risks brought about by this, and any change in the system is a redistribution of interests, eliminating the noble and lowly, and the interests of the aristocracy will bear the brunt.

The aristocracy has long been hereditary military and official, and in most cases only promoted but not demoted, forming a huge interest group in the army, using the army to transport commodities and running goods for profit, and the situation of not paying public grain for cultivation can be seen everywhere before the Battle of Yongxing.

To a large extent, the rebellions of the princes' armies of various countries were caused by the oppression of middle- and lower-class military attaches and soldiers by powerful generals, using them for benefits without distributing them, and the internal contradictions caused by them turned into open contradictions and intensified.

The reason why countries do not dare to use the military system, but only push for minor administrative repairs, is, in the final analysis, that the aristocracy controls the political power and also controls the army, and the pace of reform of the New Deal is too great and the interests involved are too deep, which will inevitably lead to a backlash from the army.

After more than ten years of administrative reform, the interests of the nobility in the local area suffered an unprecedented blow, and at the same time, the new rebel army was annexed, so that the military size controlled by the aristocracy was seriously diluted and weakened.

The success of political reform, coupled with the tremendous changes in the composition of the army, is undoubtedly a God-given opportunity for the reform of the military system, and the slightest hesitation, the opportunity is fleeting, and the aristocracy will gradually control the army, and when the administrative reform enters the deep water area, touching the interests of the aristocracy, the army will surely become the biggest promoter of the aristocracy's opposition to the administrative reform.

Therefore, the success of the early reform can be used as an inspiration for the accumulation of wealth and a driving force for continuing to promote reform, but it cannot be used as a starting point for reversing the deep-rooted and accumulated shortcomings. In order to consolidate the existing achievements of reform, it is necessary to take military reform as the starting point and use force to guarantee the existing political achievements.

Once the redistribution of interests is completed and the majority feels fair and satisfied, it will be difficult for a small group of nobles in the upper echelons of society to shake the tide of the big picture.

When everyone's rights are denied again, it will be the New Deal that will be extinguished, and the anger will be provoked on a much larger scale.

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