There are many ways that Xiao Ruxun keeps the military from slacking off, and in addition to the fun mode of sports competition, there are also more severe and cruel modes, such as confrontation exercises.

The army can not forget the drills, and when there is no military war, it cannot forget the battle, otherwise the combat effectiveness will decline rapidly, and the reason why the Han army in the Western Han Dynasty can maintain considerable combat effectiveness is not only because of the big threat of the Xiongnu, but also because of the long-term uninterrupted military exercises.

The Han army attached no less importance to the combat effectiveness of the army than the Qin army.

In the Han Dynasty, the Chinese population was not as large as it is now, and in the face of the pressure of the powerful Xiongnu, the military service system of the Han army was close to the compulsory military service system of all the soldiers, and the Han Chengqin system, at that time, it was stipulated that regardless of the nobility, men must register with the government at the age of 20, and according to the principle of three years of cultivation and one reserve, they officially served from the age of 23 until the age of 56.

During the appropriate age period, in addition to the annual agricultural training, each person has to serve twice in his life, each time for a year, once in the locality, called "Zhengshu", once in the frontier or capital, called "soldiers" or "guards", once there is a big war, the troops are insufficient, the trained peasant households must immediately assemble to Chang'an, and then prepare for battle.

Because of the uninterrupted training during the slack period, even the reserve soldiers who were not in the service period had strong combat effectiveness, and using the abundant military resources provided by this method of all-people soldiers, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty finally defeated the Xiongnu and determined the absolute hegemony of the Han regime in East Asia.

This kind of military service system is also a good reference in modern times, but it gradually became impossible to implement later.

In addition to the problems at the policy level, the biggest reason is the decline of centralized power, the local land and peasant households are controlled by the local powerful gentry, and the country has no land and no yeoman peasants, so the military system is gradually decaying.

Of course, the rise of local power was also accompanied by the rise of the imperial examination system, and the rise of the tax-exempt bureaucracy was also accompanied by the decline of the state's military power.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun plans to wipe out the debris left over from the former Ming Dynasty into the bottomless abyss in one fell swoop, and does not allow bureaucrats to be exempt from taxes in any sense.

The Great Qin government is a big government, and the good life envisioned by some people will be gone forever, Xiao Ruxun will seize the local authority to the death, and will definitely not give the local powerful gentry the possibility of regeneration.

In order to achieve this goal, it is also very necessary to determine the military service system, so Xiao Ruxun has issued a circular in the provinces under his full control, implementing the military service system of the Han Dynasty on the basis of certain improvements.

Men over the age of 20 must register with the government, and each of them is required to serve twice for one year, and the rest of the time is on local standby for reservists.

Peasant households need to receive military training when they are not working, and they must not be unfamiliar with military skills, and the three classes of scholars and merchants are not exempt.

However, due to the relatively large mobility of scholars and merchants, there is no concept of agricultural leisure, although it is also necessary to register, but if you cannot perform military service, according to the amount of family property, it is allowed to pay the government to exempt yourself from military service twice a lifetime, but you are still a reserve soldier, once the country needs it, you still have to be conscripted into the army.

In order to encourage the army to improve the status of soldiers, Xiao Ruxun also made provisions that prisoners are not allowed to join the army, the army is glorious, only a good family with a clean net worth can join the army, and prisoners are only worthy of being coolies.

Moreover, if a person serves in the military for one year, the whole family can be exempted from military service and taxes for one year, and a soldier can get a large amount of reward when he returns home after completing his military service, and if he makes meritorious service during his military service, he can also get an additional reward.

If you are willing to stay in the army and develop into a professional soldier until you retire at the age of 56, your family will become a military dependent, which is not the same as an ordinary household, and you will receive special treatment for taxation and service, and you will receive grain, oil, rice and noodles from the state every year, and professional soldiers will have two family visit holidays every year, and they will be allowed to go home to visit their relatives.

In addition, Xiao Ruxun also stipulates that there is only one circumstance in which an individual can have the qualification of tax exemption, that is, to join the army to establish a first-class meritorious service, and the family of his own family and his parents for first-class meritorious service can be tax-exempt forever, but it cannot be passed on to future generations, and if he and his parents die, the descendants will no longer have such treatment.

Sometimes it is as simple and fast as Song Taizong suppressing the status of soldiers, as long as people see the tangible benefits, they can quickly improve the social status of a certain profession, and tax exemption and exemption from military service is the best means.

And such a policy can also quickly increase people's enthusiasm for childbirth, and it is not distressing to send one more child out to serve as a soldier.

Xiao Ruxun felt that the population of Daqin was still too small, the development of the country was barely strong, and it was too little to go abroad to open up the world, so while carrying out such a pace, it was also necessary to encourage childbirth, give money and food and oil to families who worked hard to give birth, and tell them the country's attitude of encouraging childbirth.

Under this push, the settled provinces have begun to develop vigorously.

And other things are also carried out in an orderly manner under the promotion of Xiao Ruxun.

Against this background, Xiao Ruxun announced the holding of a joint military confrontation exercise between the Qinglong Battalion and the Suzaku Battalion, which was held in the Shijingshan area in the northwest of Beijing, with 50,000 participants.

The Xuanwu Battalion is mainly stationed in the three southeastern provinces and is responsible for maintaining public order and land reform, and it cannot participate, so it can only let the Qinglong Battalion and the Suzaku Battalion engage in this military confrontation.

The confrontation exercise was multifaceted, including the confrontation between spearmen and sword and shield soldiers, the confrontation between gunmen, the confrontation of cavalry, the confrontation of gunners, the confrontation between soldiers, the confrontation of physical fitness, and so on and so on more than a dozen confrontation items.

Under the guise of the decisive battle of the Qinglong Battalion against the Vermilion Bird Battalion, it basically attracted the generals and officers of the entire Great Qin army.

This is the largest military confrontation in six months, and it is said that the victor can be extremely richly rewarded, and the loser will be punished and even ridiculed by the winner.

So the Qinglong Camp and the Vermilion Bird Camp are all riveting, and Ma Wei and Zhao Hu have been blowing each other's beards and glaring at each other for several months.

Zhao Hu and Ma Wei were the two generals with the greatest merits in the previous Northern Expedition campaign, one led the main force to conquer Jiangnan and the Central Plains, as the main force to advance, and the other went all the way north on the West Road, reversed the Northern Expedition after occupying Sichuan and Shu, successfully occupied the northwest, and incorporated the most powerful army of the Ming Dynasty into a system, which made great contributions.

The Qinglong Battalion and the Vermilion Bird Battalion are also-for-tat because of this confrontation, and it is not pleasing to anyone who looks at it, everyone is saying that this confrontation will determine which army the First Army of Great Qin is, and the winner will naturally make a lot of money, and the one who loses is estimated to be scolded.

Therefore, Zhao Hu and Ma Wei were unwilling to lose, and they worked hard to train their armies, and their requirements for their respective armies were higher than before.