Ten days later, Wang Yuan returned to Chengdu. Ordered someone to send Gao Moyan back to Gao Xianzhi in Anxi, and after resting at home for two days, Wang Yuan immediately began to be busy.

In the days when Wang Yuan left Chengdu, Song Jiangong, Liu Dehai and others had begun to recruit troops on a large scale. However, progress has not been fast.

The reason is, of course, that Wang Yuan has extremely strict requirements for joining the army. When leaving Chengdu, Wang Yuan put forward a request for recruiting soldiers. The first is the age limit. When Wang Yuan took over the Jiannan Army, he discovered the shortcomings. Although the Ministry of War made detailed regulations during the Tang Tianbao period, the so-called eighteen men are middle-aged men, and twenty-two are strong men, and joining the army is of course the first to join the army. However, in the Jiannan Army that Wang Yuan saw, there were all teenagers from fourteen or fifteen years old to old men in their fifties and sixties. Although it is still mainly young and middle-aged, more than 30% of the young and old soldiers will obviously make the combat effectiveness of this army decrease.

Wang Yuan also asked the reason, the reason is that the people are reluctant to join the army, and the middle-aged man is the main labor force in the family, often shouldering the livelihood of the family. After joining the army, the salary is low and dangerous, so I would rather find a way to let the young son and the old man replace it than let the pillar of the family join the army. And when Xian Yu Zhongtong and his predecessor Zhang Qiu and Qiong were in office in Jiannan, they didn't care about it. Then it developed to the point that the army could use money to buy off the recruited officials, pretending to be young and strong with the old and young, and it became a way to make a fortune. Another reason is also because of the scarcity of people in the border areas, and the lack of soldiers, which also leads to the limited number of strong men to choose from, and they have to be offset by the old and the young.

The criteria given by Wang Yuan for joining the army are that men must be above the middle age, and the maximum age cannot exceed 40 years old. And with this criterion to recruit soldiers and horses, the number of soldiers and horses that can be recruited can be imagined. And the two right roads of Jiannan Long, after the battle with Tubo, the shortage of soldiers is as high as 80,000. The loss of 50,000 soldiers and horses of the Jiannan Army was less than half, and almost all of the 75,000 soldiers and horses of the Longyou Army had to be replaced, because the Longyou Army was almost wiped out, so the gap in the source of troops became a big problem.

Age is one thing, and physical condition is another. The age is appropriate, but there will be a large number of people who are not qualified because of physical reasons. The age and health are qualified, but they can't ignore people's livelihood. The only son cannot join the army, the main labor force of the family cannot praise the army, and the court of the rich and noble families is exempted from military service, or allows money and goods to be used to pay for military service.

After listening to the complaints of Song Jiangong, Shuhan, Liu Dehai and others, Wang Yuan knew that he had to come up with a countermeasure, and how to make people willing to join the army was the key to the problem. And the problem of scarce troops is actually not difficult to solve. The population of Jiannan and Longyou has been reduced by conscription every year, but the people in the inland state capitals are thriving, and it is a good way to attract men from other state capitals to join the army under suitable conditions.

So, after some research, a set of plans to attract strong men to join the army was released. The first is to improve the treatment of soldiers who join the army. According to the standards of the imperial court, the monthly salary of a soldier is always a little more. But this salary really couldn't allow them to support their families, Wang Yuan ordered the salary to be doubled, but the soldiers of the Jiannan Army and the Longyou Army were paid between two and three times per month. In addition, all the families who join the army can receive a horse of cloth and ten stones of rice every year, and at the same time, the local government establishes a local military family system. If a soldier kills the enemy in the army and makes meritorious contributions, the local government will beat gongs and drums to come to offer condolences and give out commendations. There is both face and benefit. If a soldier dies in battle, the Jiannan Provincial Government promises to provide for the home of the deceased soldier and subsidize money and food to raise his children to adulthood, so as to eliminate the worries of the soldier who joined the army.

The mere doubling of soldiers' salaries has actually increased the salaries of soldiers by more than one and a half stars. You must know that even in Chang'an City, earning two yuan a month is enough for the family not to go hungry for a month, but it is poorer, but it will never be hungry. And Wang Yuan's move is to raise the soldiers from a passive service to a position where they can support their families. Even if many people do not join the army, they farm and do business at home, and they only do about two times a month, so the money they earn by joining the army is actually higher than their income from farming and helping at home.

Moreover, these additional conditions are also very attractive, the guarantee of life and death, the arrangement of death, and joining the army is still an adventurous road to get ahead, how can it not make the young men of Jiannan and Longyou, who were originally reluctant to join the army, excited.

In line with these policies, Wang Yuan also designed spiritual rewards and erected an ideological offensive to join the army for the glory of the country. Each state and county has set up a special conscription team. All men who join the army enlist in the army, they all ride tall horses with big red flowers, beat gongs and drums and send them off along the streets. The local chief officer personally gave a banquet to the soldiers and their families, and encouraged them to kill the enemy for the country and not to disgrace their hometown and parents. All in all, a set of incentive systems from material to ideological has been vigorously developed under the impetus of Wang Yuan. Wang Yuan even wrote a unified encouragement message for the governors and guards in various places to send Ding to enlist in the army, and for them to read the encouragement in front of the public.

Song Jiangong, Ge Shuhan and others were dumbfounded, there were so many tricks in the handsome's belly, and he made so many famous names, I don't know how he came up with it. And the key is that these measures are becoming more and more effective, and the people in Jiannan and Longyou have been mobilized, and some state capitals have even gone through the back door in order to join the army.

Of course, what they are most puzzled about is how these measures can be fulfilled. It's not a big deal to wear saffron and ride a white horse to see off, the key is that which of those material measures doesn't cost money? In terms of doubling the military salary, it is impossible for the imperial court to make up the difference, so it is difficult to make up the difference between the two tight 130,000 soldiers and horses, if it is full. Every month, Dashuai has to put more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan of money into it, can Dashuai get this money?

In this question, Wang Yuanfu smiled. Slowly, now Wang Yuan has millions of yuan in his hands, which can be described as extremely wealthy. This money is enough for Wang Yuan to last for a year and a half without any problems. And that's the worst-case scenario. In fact, Wang Yuan had already discussed with Yang Guozhong, and Yang Guozhong also agreed to increase the allocation of military salaries to Jiannan Dao and Longyou Dao. The amount given by Yang Guozhong is an additional increase of 500,000 guan. Of course, this money can't come out of thin air, naturally Yang Guozhong deducted it from other festival envoys, but Wang Yuan can't control whose money he deducts.

And because the four provinces of Jiannan, Longyou, Anxi, and Hexi suffered huge losses due to the painful Tubo battle, when Wang Yuan and Gao Xianzhi were in the capital, Xuanzong had already agreed that the money and taxes of the four provinces would be halved within two years, so as to restore their vitality. This can intercept 500,000 or 600,000 per year. Together, Wang Yuan can get nearly one million yuan of financial support every year, which is also what Wang Yuan dares to do. Where is the confidence of Taiwan's excellent military policy?

Of course, these are not enough, the population of Jiannan and Longyou is so much total, in recent years, the loss of young and strong people has been serious, Wang Yuan can not dry up and fish, let the young and strong people of the two provinces join the army and waste acres of land. So another policy of digging into the wall was also released.

Wang Yuan sent officials who could speak well to the state capitals of Shannan West Province, Qianzhong Province, and even Gyeonggi Province, which were adjacent to Jiannan and Longyou Provinces, to lobby and set up propaganda platforms in more than a dozen large state capitals to preach the preferential policies for joining the army in Jiannan and Longyou Province, and to encourage strong men and idlers in these places to go to Jiannan Province and Longyou Province to join the army. He also promised that if a strong man from the outer road entered the two provinces of Longyou and Jiannan to join the army, he would be allowed to enter the official status of the two provinces of Jiannan and Long. Once naturalized and joined the army, they can get 15 acres of land and 10 yuan of settling-in allowance, so that their families can settle down in Jiannan Road and Longyou Road.

As soon as this move came out, there were many responders. These inland state capitals are already crowded and have few land, and many people are having a very difficult time. Now that there are such good conditions to attract them, they naturally refuse to miss it. In just half a month, nearly 30,000 families have moved their families, and some people who are not happy in the local area are willing to change their living environment. In the past, this was not possible because of the restrictions of the government's household registration, but now there is no need to worry about it at all.

30,000 households, that is, nearly 200,000 people poured into Jiannan and Longyou. Land, Jiannan Road and Longyou Road are sparsely populated, so they are nothing. As for the ten yuan settlement fee for each household, although it is a little painful, after these people are under their jurisdiction, they will have to pay the ten yuan through taxes sooner or later, so there is no need to worry. The only thing that made Wang Yuan feel sorry was that these officials of the state government were shocked when they learned about this, and they filed complaints one after another, so that Xuanzong had to ask Yang Guozhong to write a letter to Wang Yuan to tell him not to do this.

Wang Yuan reluctantly stopped, but successively attracted 40,000 households from the dozen or so state capitals to settle in Jiannan and Longyou. The problem of soldiers was solved by 40,000, and the population of the two provinces increased by more than 200,000 out of thin air.

And that's not all, the way to conscription turned out to be available in every possible way. Liu Jun found another way to open up a new path, and his results made people speechless, Wang Yuan was first shocked when he knew it, and then laughed.