Pei Gai earnestly taught the generals, saying that if you want to rely on clinging to other clans to glorify everyone's family, Ze is descendants, that is meaningless - the big family is prosperous, and often even the descendants have to break each other's heads for an official position, how can you consider relying on the family?

And he said: "All the great clans must pay attention to the scriptures, and they will be eunuchs for several generations before they can become famous." Qing and others started because of their military exploits, that is, they want to make their children learn, how can there be a great Confucian willing to teach him? If you can't be taught by Confucianism and build a car behind closed doors, how many generations will it take for your family name to be high?

"The children of the Jiangmen should be heirlooms of martial arts, serve the country in the world, gallop on the battlefield, and have the hope of being famous."

immediately recounted the conversation with Dong He the day before yesterday, saying: "A twelve-year-old child, he has insight and knows that the country cannot be without generals. Isn't it ridiculous that Qing and others want their children to abandon martial arts and learn literature? If the door is not passed on, all from the middle of the army, in the troubled times after many wars, such as Qing, etc., or can learn to become a famous general, in peacetime, the war is a little off, then the general is rare, and the country will inevitably decline.

"The country is declining, how many wealthy families have broken their homes because of it, this matter stopped yesterday, haven't you witnessed it? Could it be that Qing and others want their children and grandchildren, still born in a war-torn world, and then they don't learn martial arts, and they run away with their pawns, isn't it miserable? ”

The words made all the generals depressed - only Tao Kan closed his eyes slightly, his face was expressionless, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Wen Lang's collar trilogy, often by Pei Gai's side, knows that if the governor has no solution to a problem, he will definitely seek to deal with it, and he will not talk about the difficulties in all aspects first, then since it is a long and chaotic story, there must be a plan. Therefore, he arched his hand and said: "The ministers are foolish, and they still hope that the capital will teach them good strategies." ”

Pei Gai nodded, and said: "The prosperity of the former Han Dynasty is that there are good sons of six counties, and they have been on the expedition for generations, father and son have been successive, and Wu and Xuan have expanded their land for thousands of miles because of it. The famous generals of the Han Dynasty, how many come from it, Wei and Huo are famous all over the world because of this, although they are not the home of scripture, how can they be said to be not expensive? ”

In fact, he is a bit of a sneak change here, because at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, the family of scholars did not rise, and most of the people in power were martial nobles - but for this, even Tao Kan may not be able to understand it clearly, let alone don't generals.

"I am going to Taiguanzhong today, and I should also rebuild the good family of the six counties, so that I will be the military minister of the country, sweep away the filthy atmosphere inside, and fix the people outside! Why don't you help me, and make the family high. ”

Pei Gai has been considering what kind of military service system to use, whether it is conscription, conscription, or hereditary military system. Each system has its own advantages and disadvantages, and in modern society, because the development of military science and technology requires even the most basic soldiers to master a considerable degree of technical ability, it is natural to use conscription, the so-called "volunteer soldiers" – especially for China, which has a large population – but in an agrarian society, this benefit is greatly reduced.

The current system of the three armies of the Great Sima is basically a combination of the conscription system and the world soldier system -- the regular soldiers are all recruited, and the military and civilian tuns, which are the most important sources of supplementary troops at present, have the shadow of the world soldiers. The conscription system is relatively beneficial to improving the quality of soldiers, but at the same time, the burden on the state's finances is also very large, and if the financial resources are not available, resulting in a decline in the treatment of soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the recruited soldiers may even be inferior to that of conscripts.

——For the sake of local stability, the Northern Song Dynasty stuffed all the homeless, hungry, hooligans, and grass bandits into the barracks, so that the army was redundant, and the country could not afford to support them all, and as a result, the army was weak, and it was almost the bottom of the Central Plains Dynasty. In the later period, the only Western Army with combat effectiveness actually belonged to a combination of world soldiers and recruits.

The benefits of the conscription system are indeed reflected most obviously in the Western Han Dynasty, the country can conscript a large number of troops to participate in the war at any time, and they will be scattered and returned to the peasants on a daily basis, which will not cause too much pressure on the finances - of course, like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he will not succeed in fighting big battles, but if the conscription system is adopted, it is estimated that Emperor Wu will be able to completely bankrupt the country in his prime.

However, conscription has an impact on agricultural production – especially during times of war – and the impromptu recruitment of peasant soldiers is not trained and may not be highly effective. Therefore, while the Western Han Dynasty popularized the conscription system, it also recruited more so-called "six counties of good families", that is, in the area with the most martial arts in Guanzhong - Tianshui, Longxi, Anding, Beidi, Shangjun, and Xihe - recruited the children of middle-class families, and built Yulin, Qimen and other armies as the main force in the army.

Because generations have to join the forbidden army, in fact, the "good family of the six counties" also has a certain meaning of world soldiers.

It is very disadvantageous to be a soldier of the world, one is prone to warlordization, and the other is that as the war becomes rarer, the soldiers gradually become corrupt - dragons may not give birth to dragons, phoenixes may not give birth to phoenixes, and rats may not be able to make holes - it is unusable. The Ming Dynasty is the best example, most of the military households in the middle and late periods were reduced to hard labor and cannon fodder, and the only ones who could really fight were the so-called generals, which belonged to recruitment.

Because the three systems have their own advantages and disadvantages, most of the dynasties after the Eastern Han Dynasty have been used in a mixed manner - of course, there will definitely be some kind of military service system as the main body. In Pei Gai's impression, the most capable era of the Central Plains Dynasty was the so-called "strong Han and Tang Dynasty", the Han Dynasty aside, the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty's armed forces, in fact, was only manifested in the early stage, that is, when the "government military system" had not yet collapsed, and the day when the conscription system first rose.

Therefore, he himself preferred the "government military system", that is, the conscription system with certain preconditions. The main reason why the government soldiers were available was to ensure that the land was divided in place and that there was a fairly large and stable class of rich peasants, which was the easiest way to create a strong army and not increase the financial burden of the state when the land was redistributed after the great chaos and when the new trend of annexation had not intensified.

Of course, for the time being, universal conscription is not on the agenda - most of the displaced people in Guanzhong have been resettled, and how many "conscripts" are wealthy enough to be conscripted by the state? Since the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, in fact, the main body of the army is recruited soldiers and world soldiers, and as for the rise of Pei Gaizhi, it cannot be excepted.

However, recruiting soldiers is too expensive, and the "100,000 strong army" that Pei Gai has been thinking about for a long time has been forced to withdraw because of financial embarrassment, and considering that since he promised to divide the land in three or five years, the supplementary source of recruited troops will be declining, and universal conscription will definitely be put on the agenda. In order to make up for the shortcomings of the conscription system in the future, we had to consider the "good family of the six counties" that integrated the recruitment of soldiers and the world soldiers, so as to serve as the main force of the army.

Originally, there was no urgency in this matter, he didn't believe that he couldn't win Shi Zhao in a generation-at least Shi Le would have to hang up first in less than twenty years--he couldn't pacify the Central Plains. And when the Central Plains is ready to use force in a foreign land, it may not be too late to consider the issue of changing the military service system. But just as the generals made a plea, Pei Gai was inspired by Xun Guanniang, and the policy of creating a "good family in six counties" was put on the agenda in advance.

Therefore, I suggest to the generals, you all change your nationality!

Hejian people, Hanoi people, Nanjun people, Xiapi people, all the lieutenant generals and soldiers of our army, can change their nationality to Guanzhong, or Hedong and Pingyang. Especially in Guanzhong, there are not many first-class high-ranking families, those second- and third-rate families, are you still afraid that you can't be proud of them with your own martial arts?

After changing your nationality, even if your children will follow the literature in the future, the authentic reviews of your hometown will not be able to control you - although because of the chaos in the world, the authentic reviews everywhere are often fictitious, and it is easier to rely purely on the family to get officials - you have to go through the examination system of my line. And I turned my head and asked someone to make a "Records of Honored Generals", listing all your family names on it, if the world is in the military, and has made many meritorious contributions to the country, not only to worship the marquis, but also to worship the prince is not extravagant, compared to several generations, I am afraid that the "Records of Honored Generals" can not be combined with the "Surname Chronicle", no essay on martial arts, flat head Qi respect?

For the generals, changing their nationality and returning to Guanzhong was a good idea they had never thought of before; As for the "Records of the Honored Generals", it is just a little pastel on the face for the time being, can it really be as the Metropolitan Governor said, in the future, its importance is no less than the "Surname Chronicle", and even the two books can be merged, it is purely a carrot hanging in front of the donkey's eyes, and it can't be eaten.

If there are scholars here, especially the children of wealthy families, they will naturally scoff at this-dreaming, a big vote, even if they climb high because of their military exploits, they will never want to be on a par with us. What is the "Record of Honors and Generals", you are just having fun behind closed doors.

Even Pei Gai himself doesn't have much expectations for this strategy, at least in the foreseeable one or two generations, he can't do what he wants - think that the Guanxi nobles in the early Tang Dynasty will not be able to sit on an equal footing with the Guandong Gate Valve until the Empress Wu and even the Xuanzong Dynasty. Fortunately, most of the generals were uneducated, and Tai Ban was taken to the ditch by the governor's tirade, thinking that this matter would be successful, so he couldn't help but grin and laugh non-stop.

Of course, if you pour cold water on your head, they will say, "If the Governor has made a plan, how can there be anything that cannot be done?" You can't see this, it's just that your own vision is too short-sighted! ”

In fact, the main purpose of Pei Gai's move is to firmly control these generals under him, and then form a military family and form a world army that can be used as the core of the army to make up for the lack of conscription or recruitment.

So the generals expressed their attitudes one after another, saying that they were willing to change their nationality to Guanzhong, and only Tao Kan and Guo Mo were silent at the table. Pei Cai looked at the two of them and asked, "Do you have any objections to this?" Guo Mo hurriedly surrendered his hand: "What the Metropolitan Governor said is indeed a good policy, and the last general is just thinking about whether to change his nationality to Guanzhong, or Hedong, Pingyang, ......."

In fact, he has already written to Pingyang Guo to discuss the matter of clinging, and at this time he is weighing two sets of strategies, which is better and which is inferior. After all, Pingyang Guo is different from other families, and his own family Taiyuan Guo is willing to join the sect, so it is probably no problem to accept himself. However, as the Metropolitan Governor said, they may be whispering to themselves now, but they may not be able to treat their children and grandchildren in the future...... And all the generals have changed their nationality, and they no longer mention the matter of attaching to famous families, if they are the only exception, I am afraid that they will be ostracized.

So he just considered between Binh Duong and Guanzhong. If you change your nationality to Pingyang, even if you don't cling to it, it will be "Pingyang Guo's" in the future, and you can even expect to confuse Taiyuan Guo's family, how many people know that this Guo is not another Guo?

As for Tao Kan, he finally opened his eyes, arched his hand towards Pei Cai, and said, "What Ming Gong has planned is very far-reaching...... It may benefit the country for a hundred years, and it will also benefit the generals. However, Kan has lived in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and he is not used to the climate of the north, and he has to return to his hometown after all, so it is inconvenient to change his nationality. As for the children and grandchildren, as Ming Gong said, they have their own blessings, and there is no need to think too far. ”

Pei Gai secretly scolded Tao Kan in his heart for being stubborn, but he couldn't think about it, so he had to let him.

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A few days later, after discussing repeatedly with his wife, and even almost fighting, Dong Biao finally led Dong He to Pei Gai again and asked Pei Gai to put him in the "orphan camp" so that he could be disciplined.

And during this time, Pei Gai also persuaded dozens of other middle-level military officials with growing children, and asked them to send their children over.

So with a vote and a half, he went out of Chang'an City and went to the "orphan camp" in the southern suburbs to inspect - it was originally scheduled to be the Doutian Wall in the eastern suburbs, but I don't know why, Pei Wei resolutely refused to let it, so he had to change the land.

The so-called "orphan camp" is that after Pei Gai destroyed Liu Yao in Dali and seized the authority of Chang'an with the momentum of great victory, he compensated for the survival of the soldiers, and gathered the orphans whose parents died in the army, organized them into a camp, and raised and disciplined them in a unified manner. Since then, many folk orphans, and even Hu and Rong teenagers have joined one after another, and now it has expanded to more than 1,000 people.

When the orphans enter the camp, the youngest ones are only six or seven years old, and the older ones are about thirteen or fourteen years old—no matter how small the children are, they are inconvenient to manage, and they are directly handed over to the bereaved families to raise; Hu and Rong were not allowed to be more than eight years old, because only blank paper was easy to draw.

The orphan camp is managed by some veterans who have been wounded and retired from war, and their wives, the head of which is also called "Battalion Governor", surnamed Jin Tao, a native of Wu County. This Jin Tao, claiming to be the former Han Dynasty Wuling Taishou Jin Xuan, lived in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, because of the dilapidated family business, so shortly before Pei Gai's Northern Expedition, he crossed the river and joined the army, accumulating merit to achieve a certain Sima. But he was lucky, and when he was stationed in Dali, he fell from the city with an arrow, broke his leg, and had to retire. Considering that it was difficult to return to Jiangzuo after thousands of miles away, and begged to stay, Pei Gai ordered him to form an "orphan camp" - currently with the rank of lieutenant.

Jin Tao had already received a message that the Metropolitan Governor was coming to inspect, so he quickly gathered all the children together and lined them up neatly on the school field in the camp. On the side of the school field, Pei Gai took the sons of the troops and generals to climb the base and look.

Jin Tao gave an order, and the orphans all bowed to the ground and shouted in unison: "Boy, wait to see the Metropolitan Governor, the Metropolitan Governor will live long and be healthy!" ”

Pei Caixin said that it was okay, and he didn't wish me "long life...... When I looked closely, I saw that the orphans were in front of the short row, behind the tall columns, the ranks were neat, as if they were cut by axes and knives, and even the kneeling movements were all neat, which was not much worse than their own elite soldiers.

He had already asked for the art of war department to extort the people—but the punishment was more lenient than that of the real army, and after all, they were just children—Jin Tao also understood it, and felt that the governor of the capital must want to raise these children, and in the future, he would be able to follow the orders one by one, and he would not dare to slack off. Seeing this, Pei Gai was very satisfied, and immediately ordered a few orphans, called them to the base, and asked them if they were short of daily food and clothing? What do you usually do?

In fact, Pei should look at the previous question carefully, and you can see the clue - the orphans are dressed very simply, but their clothes are neat, and there are not even many patches; One by one, the face is red, and there is naturally no shortage of nutrition. As for the latter question, orphans of different ages answered one after another, some said that they lined up during the day, practiced martial arts, and studied at night, and some said that they also had to clean the barracks, help collect firewood, and cook.

Pei Gai asked Jin Tao, "Do you have any time to play?" ”

When Jin Tao heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, and snorted: "Even if you use military law, how can you still play?" ”

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