Li Shimin frowned, quietly looked at Cheng Zhijie and waited for him to explain. Lao Cheng smiled: "So we can't copy the Han Dynasty's conscription system; We need to do something about him. Our conscription system should draw lessons from the past, and first of all, it can also be called a conscription system.

First, every young person who reaches the age of 18 must serve in the military, although the dragon son and grandson, the noble emperor is not immune, and the military service time is 3 years, which can effectively ensure the quality of the military source.

Second, we should select the best of the best and form a more elite contingent of professional soldiers, who are full-time fighters and are the most important force for us to defend our homeland and defend our country and expand our territory.

Thirdly, the main reason for the formation of warlords is that they have both their land, their people, and their endowments, and their power is too centralized. We should share their rights, the general is only responsible for training and fighting, and all military funds, equipment, grain and grass are assigned to the military department; Let them lose the soil of the right to breed**.

Fourth, in order to prevent the generals from colluding and deceiving the superiors and subordinates; The generals in each region need to be rotated every five years, and the military department directly assigns suitable generals and soldiers to participate in each battle. ”

Everyone looked at each other when they heard this, and they all felt that these things were a little unbelievable, but there was something reasonable and reasonable to implement.

Li Shimin said like a cat's claw in his heart: "Cheng Aiqing, hurry up and write a piece of music for us to discuss." ”

Cheng Zhijie nodded and said, "Yes!" The ministers obeyed. However, the government military system still has a certain degree of advancement. In order to prevent chaos, Your Majesty might as well keep it for now, and let's change it little by little. ”

Li Jing hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the king of the county is the words of Lao Cheng to seek the country, and I hope that Your Majesty will check it." Li Shimin nodded uncontrollably, and then ordered Cheng Zhijie, Li Jing, Li Shiji, Qin Qiong, Zhang Ding, Fang Xuanling and others to form a preparatory group, and let them discuss an implementable plan and submit it as soon as possible.

Hou Junji saw that he had been excluded from this core group again, and his eyes were full of dissatisfaction and anger when he lowered his head.

In the past few years, Datang has had a smooth sail and water, not only the internal wind and rain have been smooth, the grain has been harvested year after year, the world has not forgotten the road of governance, and the night has not closed the door, and only a few dozen people have been sentenced to death in a year.

After more than ten years of continuous education popularization, the strength of the Maison has been greatly hit. They used to occupy 70% of the places in scientific research, but now they are less than half. Among them, the Cui family has begun to transform under pressure, the Zheng family has almost declined and withdrawn from the ranks of wealthy families, and the other five surnames and seven families have also been weakened to varying degrees.

Moreover, the politics of Datang are clear, and the people live and work in peace and contentment; Maritime transport and the Silk Road brought a great deal of wealth to the Tang Dynasty, and taxes on peasants across the country were as low as ever recorded. With money in the hands of the people, the level of consumption has also increased greatly, and the reduced taxes have been fed back to the state in another way.

Although the eldest grandson of the royal family had a serious illness, he did not die in the tenth year of Zhenguan. Li Chengqian also began to deal with government affairs with his father, and was recognized by hundreds of civil and military officials.

The prosperity and wealth of the Tang Dynasty aroused the envy of all ethnic groups in the west, and merchants on the Silk Road came in an endless stream, some of them took away a large number of silk, porcelain, tea, printed books from the Central Plains, and also brought a large number of exotic treasures such as lapis lazuli and precious stones.

The wealth of these merchants aroused the covetousness of the tribes of the Western Regions, but they usually appeared in groups and hired some samurai guards; There is no way for those horse thieves to start. But slowly, some big tribes are also eyeing them.

Although the Central Plains has been stable in the past two years, the Western Regions have been far from peaceful. In particular, Ye Hu, the Great Khan of the Western Turks, was killed by his own uncle because of his high-pressure rule; His uncle established himself as the Khan of Mohedu, the Marquis of Quli.

Mo Helu was originally only a small khan, and he called himself a great khan and the people of the country were not convinced. The crossbow lost Bi and jointly elected Mud Mohe as Khan. Ni refused to take his position, and he was on the special service of the son of the Yehu Khan, who was the Khan of Yibiba. Wild Leaf Protector and Mo Helu attacked each other, and the battle continued.

Since he was the son of the former Khan, most of the Western Turks supported him. Most of the Dulu Khans in the west and the chieftains of the Mohedu tribe were attached to the Yako.

Mo Helu was defeated and fled to Jinshan, where he was killed by the mud. The various ministries jointly promoted Ye Hu as the Great Khan of the Western Turks. He was defeated by Xue Yantuo. He was suspicious and vicious, killed the hero Yili Little Khan, and exterminated his clan, causing everyone in his subordinates to endanger themselves

Attacked by Shebei Dagan and Crossbow, he fled to Kangju and died soon after. The Western Turks were the Khan of the Continent.

After Ni Yu was elected as the Western Turk Khan, he sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to express his attachment, and Liu Shan, the representative of the Tang Dynasty, arrived in the Western Turks and canonized Ni He as Xi Li Lu Khan. After the death of the mud disease. His younger brother Tong'e set up a succession to the throne for the sake of Sha Bo Luo Li's loss of khan.

Although Shabala Khan unified the Western Turks, after a series of wars, the country was already in a depression; Many soldiers and generals are obviously officials, but they are actually bandits; Survive by robbery.

There was a Western Turkic army disguised as bandits, killed a caravan returning from the Tang Dynasty, and obtained a large number of treasures. A senior general wiped the blood stains on the jewels and said to the main general: "Big brother, Shabaluo Khan has repeatedly ordered us not to rob the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, but we are doing this in a bit of a violation." ”

"Humph! Others are afraid of him Datang, but I am afraid that he will not come! Not a single Tang man was able to pass through my station; Besides, the Khan ordered me not to kill the Tang Dynasty merchants, but I didn't relentless at all when I picked up our filial piety. If you take ours, you can't have nothing to say! ”

"Big brother is right, this Tang Li family is not a good thing, although Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng are dead, but Li Shimin is still there, we can't let them go! We just want to force Sha Boluo to send troops and fight to the death with Datang. ”

The big man in the middle gritted his teeth fiercely and said: "I, Yuan Mujue, am not with the Tang Dynasty in this life and this life, either he dies or I die." The days are long, not the day; I also hope that the two brothers will help me. ”

Li Tianchang and Wang Buchao said: "Big brother Hugh should be polite, the three of us knocked our heads on the ground one by one, and we all learned art with Brother Dongfang, and swore that we would be blessed and enjoy hardships together, so naturally we should fight to the death with my brother and the Tang Dynasty." ”

The news of the death of the Tang merchants in the Western Regions was soon spread to Chang'an. Li Shimin was furious when he heard the letter, and the successive wars in the Western Regions during this period of time had an impact on the Silk Road in the Western Regions, and the commerce of the Tang Dynasty suffered great losses.

The people led by Li Chengqian went to the table one after another, asking the emperor to send troops to protect the safety of the merchants of the Tang Dynasty and dredge the commercial pillar roads of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin first sent Master Zhang as an envoy to the Western Turks, reprimanded Shabaluo Khan, and asked him to protect the safety of the Tang merchants and severely punish the murderers.

Sha Boluo received Li Shimin's harshly worded ultimatum, and he was also slightly displeased, and secretly complained in his heart that his subordinates did not obey orders; So he sent the generalissimo Left Wheel to investigate.

The left wheel has long been honored by Yuan Mujue and the three of them, he is also an ambitious person, this period of time has developed smoothly, and he wants to compete with the Tang Dynasty, and it is best to take the army to the Huahua World in the Central Plains.

Therefore, his investigation can be imagined, and Yuan Mujue and others took out some of the money and gave it to Sha Boluo, and the matter was over.

Seeing that the Western Turks had not replied for a long time, Li Shimin once again mobilized a large army of the whole country to prepare for an attack on the Western Turks.

Li Shimin appointed Cheng Zhijie as the general manager of the march on the Green Mountain Road and led the army to conquer. Also accompanied by Li Jing and Li Shiji as deputy directors.

There are Qin Qiong, Zhang Ding, Luo Cheng, Kan Ling, Xiong Kuohai, Shi Danai, Duan Zhixuan, Luo Shixin, Pei Xingyan, Lan Tianbi, Su Dingfang, Wang Wendu and other veterans of the Great Demon Kingdom; There are Li Yuanba, Li Daozong, Liu Hongji, Wei Chi Jingde, Hou Junji, Qiu Xinggong and other Tang veterans; There is a stubborn and lost thinking power, Ashina Dur, and Qi Bi He Li. There are also Li Su, Qin Huaiyu, Xue Rengui, Gao Kan, Wang Xuance, Heiya Changzhi, Liu Renliang, Cheng Huaimo, Cheng Chengmo and other Tang rookies.

This time, Datang sent 200,000 troops, more than 1,000 generals, and brought a lot of new types of troops and weapons to the desert.

As soon as Cheng Zhijie's army left Chang'an, the Western Turks got the news; The news of Datang's dispatch of troops still made Sha Boluo jump. Sha Boluo hurriedly called the left wheel to the palace to discuss countermeasures.

Zuo Wheel was disdainful of the arrival of the Tang Army, he patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, the Great Khan, if the Tang Army dares to come, I will not let them pass through the Shepherd City." ”

Although Shabaluo was skeptical, he still chose to believe in his first brave general. He handed over his 100,000 troops to the left wheel and asked him to lead the army to resist the Tang army. Then he sent envoys to Xue Yantuo, Gaochang, Tuyuhun and other places to ask them to send troops to help resist the Tang army.

Xue Yantuo's Yinan Khan, Gaochang's king Lu Wentai, and Tuyuhun's Khan Murong Fuyun all thought that the Tang Dynasty could not be allowed to destroy the Western Turks and lay a nail in Mobei. Therefore, they all lined up their generals and led an army of 150,000 to support the Western Turks.

Cheng Zhijie went to Dingxiang to meet Chai Shao, replenished some supplies, and then continued to cross the vast desert like northwest to Yanran Mountain.

The vanguard of the Western Turks was Yuan Mujue, Li Tianchang and Wang Buchao, who had a deep hatred for the Tang Dynasty. They led an army of 10,000 and were the first to meet the vanguard of the Tang Army.

The vanguard of the Tang army was Luo Cheng, the son of Luo Yi, the king of Beiping. After Li Yuan killed Dou Jiande, Dou Xianniang took her father's body and left the imperial court in disgrace to live in seclusion. Luo Cheng also gave up his status as a prince and followed her to Shandong.

After the two got married, they wandered the world, and only recently came to Chang'an, I heard that Cheng Zhijie was going to send troops to fight against the Western Turks, and this huge battle may be the last major battle of the Tang Dynasty; So Luo Cheng had some itchy skills, and automatically asked Ying to help fight.