Xue Li's name may be a little unfamiliar, but when it comes to his words, it is a big name.

Even a person who doesn't know anything about history will feel a little impressed when he hears the three words Xue Rengui.

And Xue Rengui has a strong magical color, and magic also accompanies him all his life.

Xue Rengui was born in the ancestral house of the Xue family in Hedong, and was a descendant of Liu Song and Xue Andu, a famous general of the Northern and Southern Wei dynasties, and his great-grandfather Xue Rong, grandfather Xue Yan, and father Xue Rail, successively served as officials in the Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, and Sui dynasties.

A family of four generations is an official, even if it is not as good as those families, but compared to some small families, it is also famous.

It's a pity that Xue Liang died a little early, so that Xue Rengui was relatively poor and had a low status when he was a child, and he could only make a living from farming.

His wife Liu is just a daughter from an ordinary family, in fact, it is not easy for Xue Rengui to marry a wife.

In history, Xue Rengui did not respond to the call to join the army until the last years of Zhenguan, when Li Shimin was conquering Goryeo, and since then he has been out of control.

And now, Xue Rengui actually came out early and left his two young days at home.

If you want to talk about the reason, it is because of the ghost that Li Yuanji did after he came to power.

This Datang is getting stronger and stronger day by day, and the atmosphere of commerce is shrouded everywhere, and even ordinary people are thinking of ways to make money to support their families and live a better life.

Xue Rengui has been studying the military books left by his ancestors since he was a child, although he is farming, he really asks him to work with others to make money, he still can't erase that face.

But seeing that other people's lives are getting better and better, their own family can only be the same as before, although there is food, but it is difficult to have the opportunity to improve the food.

If you have to find a reason, it is that the economic role of the Li Shimin period for the entire Tang Dynasty in history is not great, and the greater role is to lay the foundation.

And now there is money and food, although the money is not much, but it is growing every day, what is the food......

With the input of various advanced equipment, the effort spent on farming is getting smaller and smaller, the manpower invested is getting less and less, and the output of food is increasing.

In other words, the whole society was relatively stable before, and everyone was in the same situation, and there was no other way to make a living except farming.

But now the situation is different, while the society is relatively stable, everyone has many ways to make money, Xue Rengui can't wipe his face, so in fact, his family's assets have been surpassed by many families in the village.

If it continues like this, his family's life can only become more and more sad, and he will be pulled further and further away by others.

Let a man who has been familiar with all kinds of military books since childhood go into business? Isn't that obviously embarrassing?

So for Xue Rengui, being a soldier is the best choice.

And only if he became a soldier, could he ensure that his two sons could enter the academy to study, and entering the academy meant that even if they died in battle, they could have a craft to support themselves, and no matter how bad they were, they could still be a bookkeeper with others.

Coupled with his wife's persuasion, Xue Rengui moved his heart, and it happened that the military academy enrolled, and after inquiring about the specific situation, Xue Rengui signed up for the military academy.

Military cadets are between students and soldiers, and for students like Xue Rengui, the advantage of him is that the four years of study in the military academy are also considered military age.

After the reform of the professionalization of the army, one of the most important criteria for judging the amount of military pay for a soldier is the length of military age.

That is to say, the military rank is the same, and compared with a person with eight years of military age and a person with four years of military experience, the military salary of eight years of military service is much higher.

And, another benefit of cadets is that they have a higher starting point.

Although the requirements are also very high, if you join the army in a normal way, if you are lucky, you can catch up with a war, and if you are lucky, you can make a career and get promoted.

But four years, at best, is a captain or a team leader, which is normal, although it is possible to be a team leader or something, but the probability is too small.

At present, which team in the army is not a great achievement, not to mention killing hundreds of enemies, at least it has to kill dozens of enemies to have this qualification, and if you pull out one casually, the military experience is at least more than ten years.

And at this point, we have to mention the division of military age during the reform of the military's professionalism.

Because it involves the issue of military salary, the military age must be converted before the specific military salary can be determined.

And many of the Tang soldiers were adapted from the previous government soldiers, and the nature of the government soldiers is also known, and it is impossible to be a government soldier for as many years as a military age.

Therefore, the specific conversion method is to fight for one year, and convert it according to one year's military age, and for years without war, three years will be converted into one year's military age.

In other words, if a person becomes a government soldier at the age of eighteen and has been a government soldier for thirty years, but has never fought a battle, then his military age can only be ten years.

And he fought for a year, then the military age is ten and a half years, don't underestimate the gap in this half a year, correspondingly, it is the gap between the military salary of ten yuan per month, and it is one hundred and twenty yuan a year, for ordinary people, one hundred and twenty yuan is not a small amount.

Therefore, the advantage of military cadets is this, since graduation, they have four years of military age, and they do not have to be like ordinary soldiers, from the second class, then to the first class, in the third year of the inferior, the fourth year of the first class, and then the retirement home, or into another new field, as a corporal, the corresponding rank is the captain.

Since the cadets graduate, they will enter the army as cadets, and have a one-year internship in the position of the team leader, and at the end of one year, if the grades are qualified, the internship will be removed, and they will officially become the team leader.

Note that the squad is at the rank of officer, whether in the new military system or in the old military system.

The new military system has also made the division of ranks much clearer, that is, the officer above the team is the officer, the soldier below the senior rank is the soldier, the sergeant level is above the soldier, and the officer below usually refers to the commander or the captain, but the establishment of the army no longer exists in the latest establishment of the military academy.

Although Xue Rengui is still very confident in his future, confidence is not everything.

The army means war, and war means death, and there is no doubt that ordinary soldiers and high-ranking generals can lose their lives in a war.

Therefore, even though he has been familiar with military books since he was a child, and his views on military affairs far exceed those of his classmates, Xue Rengui still does not dare to be careless.

And after entering the military academy, this feeling has become much stronger.

Because he suddenly discovered that the training of officers in military schools was not cultivated in the way he understood.

In other words, the training of officers in military academies is more about preparing for the transformation of the whole army.

Has the army been transformed? Turned.

Since the advent of bomb trucks, rocket artillery, and grenades, the army has been transformed, because the previous way of fighting has lost its effectiveness, and in the face of these threats, it can only be washed and sent to death.

When there is a complete shift in the way the way of fighting, it is transformation.

If it was a transformation before, then Xue Rengui felt that what he learned in the military academy was a real transformation.

A new way of fighting, and even in the future, it is necessary to abandon bows and spears, and even lose the horizontal sword, the main combat weapon of the Tang army.

In its place, there was the immature spear.

Now it is not mature, but the effect and power are showing, who can guarantee that this equipment will not be mature in a few years?

Four years is a short time, so short that you may not be able to do anything.

Four years is also a long time, so long that in the blink of an eye, the entire Datang has been unrecognizable.

At the gate of Chang'an in the distance, a team of people gradually appeared, and more and more people put more energy into it.

The busyness of the crowd interrupted Xue Rengui's train of thought, picked up the rag in his hand, and quickly swept away the snow on the table.

It was a time of celebration, but God was not beautiful.

It is not practical to set up a tent, so these soldiers can only be allowed to enjoy the delicacies that are already cold before they are served in the wind and snow.

Oh, I forgot, I ate hot pot, and it couldn't be cold.

Xue Rengui knew that it was the emperor who came, because he came late, so Xue Rengui had not seen even one side of the emperor until now, but he was not in a hurry, it was still a long time, and there was an opportunity.

There are two types of hot pots, one that requires a stove underneath, and the other that directly ignites briquettes and puts them in.

Both have different benefits, but now the briquettes are lit and put in, because it is more space-saving and does not need to dig a round hole in the table.

The imperial chefs are still busy, so busy in the cold weather that they don't even have time to wipe their sweat, constantly mixing various base sauces.

The cooks are busy washing and chopping vegetables, and the dishes are very rich, with meat and vegetarian dishes, and even the green vegetables that are difficult for ordinary people to see are also delivered by truckloads at the moment.

In addition to this, there were piles of liquor, beer, liquor, countless of them, all piled on one side and not on the table.

After being busy for almost half an hour, there was finally movement from behind, but this movement was not large, only a few people on horseback, carefully passing through the center of the pipe.

Those who knew these people were all waiting for the troops at the other end, and none of the people left knew these people.

"Do you know who this man is?"

Xue Rengui's arm was pushed, he was still his friend, and asked curiously, it seemed that no matter what was in front of him, there were always 100,000 reasons to ask in his heart.

Xue Rengui shook his head and said an answer that everyone knows: "It looks like a senior general of the expeditionary force." ”