Changsun Sheng took a sip of mare's milk wine, wiped his mouth, and continued: "After Wei Chi rebelled, the emperor dismissed the governors of the big states in various places, and the soldiers and horses of the whole country were nominally managed by the Ministry of War, but the Ministry of War was only responsible for the management of salaries and training in peacetime. ”

Wang Huaqiang said with a smile: "I know this, these soldiers are the government soldiers of the states and counties, I know that the government soldiers are managed by the hussar generals and chariot generals of the states and counties, and it is this government soldier system that I want to ask General Changsun for advice." ”

Changsun Sheng smiled slightly, and began to introduce this government soldier system endlessly:

At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the rebellion of the eight kings, the five Hu chaos, the entire north of the Yangtze River experienced hundreds of years of war, and finally, the Xianbei people of the Tuoba clan who crisscrossed the desert successively destroyed the Houyan of the Murong clan and the Hu Xia of the Hun Helian clan, which were also Xianbei people, and established the Northern Wei Dynasty that unified the north.

After Tuoba Xianbei entered the Central Plains, their original desert grassland hometown was occupied by another emerging grassland people, in order to guard against Rouran, the Northern Wei Dynasty established six military towns in the Great Wall area, guarded by Hu elite soldiers, and after a long time, these elite soldiers also became hereditary border troops.

At the beginning of the founding of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and the ordinary people ate chaff vegetables, but the elite soldiers of the six towns, mainly the Hu people, had no worries about food and clothing, had animal skin clothes to wear, and could eat meat buns at every meal, and lived a life of human beings.

At that time, the Hu people rushed to join the elite soldiers of the Six Towns, and they broke their heads for those enlistment indicators, and the popular slogan was that one person should be a soldier, and the whole family would be glorious!

However, for more than 100 years, there were no major wars between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, production in the north was restored, even ordinary families had wine and meat, and the housekeepers of large families could wear silk clothes.

In contrast, the elite soldiers of the six towns, wrapped in animal skins, gnawing on meat buns, and drinking wind and eating sand on the northern border, gradually became the hanging silk of the world, the bottom of society.

What's even more tragic is that the prisoners still have a sentence to serve, but these elite soldiers of the six towns are hereditary, and future generations have to continue to stand guard for the Northern Wei Dynasty, which is worse than the prisoners of labor reform. The glorious slogan of joining the army back then has also turned into a sky-high resentment that has been suffered from generations by putting on military uniforms.

In addition, the Northern Wei Dynasty began to carry out Sinicization reforms since Emperor Xiaowu, and even the royal Tuoba clan was changed to the Yuan clan, and the entire upper class suddenly played the Han aristocratic style, forcing the Hu people to change many ancient customs, such as brother to brother and brother to change to father and son, after the death of the father, those beautiful little wives will not be able to take the sons into the house.

At this moment, the elite soldiers of the Six Towns, who had been holding back the fire in their bellies, finally erupted like a volcano, setting off a great uprising in the Six Towns like a monstrous wave.

Although the uprising was finally suppressed, the unified Northern Wei Dynasty was then split into the Eastern Wei Dynasty, led by Gao Huan, a Xianbei Han human rights minister, who dominated the Kwantung region, and the Western Wei Dynasty, led by Yu Wentai, a Xianbei general who was born in the Six Towns Rebellion Army, and occupied the western region of Central Longxi.

At the beginning of the establishment of the army, Yuwentai set up twelve guards based on the elite soldiers of the six towns, and set up eight pillars of generals in the country, in addition to Yuwentai himself and the puppet emperor Yuan, in fact, the army is exactly six pillars of the generals, in charge of a town, each of whom has two generals, in charge of two guards.

This military system was based on the Hu tribe in the past, when each tribal leader was in charge of his own private army, grazing cattle in peacetime, and answering calls in wartime, and the khan was only a convener, and could not directly control the private army of these leaders.

The generals of the six pillars each had 12,000 Hu cavalry, and each army was 6,000 people, a total of 60,000 professional soldiers, which also constituted the main military force at the beginning of the founding of the Western Wei Dynasty.

Gao Huan and Yu Wentai each set up a puppet emperor of the Yuan clan, and you fought back and forth for decades, regardless of victory or defeat, and hundreds of thousands of fierce Hu cavalry were killed and wounded in this war.

Later, both sides had to recruit a large number of Han people who were originally only in charge of farming and fighting regardless of the war, and the army dominated by pure Hu cavalry was also changed to a mixed army dominated by Han infantry and supplemented by Hu cavalry, while the military system of the Pillar State of the Western Wei Dynasty was retained.

Each general had two Kaifu under him, and each had a general to lead the army, and Yang Jian's own father, Yang Zhong, was one of the great generals at the time of the founding of the Western Wei Dynasty.

Now the states and counties of all parts of the Great Sui will be assigned to one of the twelve guards, and in almost all the states and counties, there are hussar generals' mansions and chariot cavalry generals' mansions to manage the horse infantry armies of these states and counties.

Speaking of this, Changsun Sheng smiled and pointed at himself: "For example, I, Changsun Sheng, now have the false title of Shuozhou Che Cavalry General, but I didn't arrive, just because I had to send an envoy to the Turks last time, at least a five-rank official had to be sent, so Gao Servant gave me such a five-rank official as the envoy of the mission." ”

Wang Huaqiang completely understood now: "In this way, the hussar generals and chariot cavalry generals in various states are the generals who directly command these government soldiers?" Their funds and salaries are allocated by the military department in Shangshu Province, so what kind of work do they need to do in peacetime? ”

Changsun Sheng shook his head: "No, the management of the government soldiers in peacetime is mostly carried out by the Sima in the state, and the hussar generals are stationed in the military camps outside the cities of each state, responsible for the rotation training of the government soldiers in their own states."

After the emperor was established at the beginning of this dynasty, he once implemented a large-scale law of equalizing fields, so that the people of the world had fields to cultivate, and the soldiers who were only in charge of fighting wars and did not need to farm were also allocated fields in this time.

The emperor felt that the north had been unified, and it was a matter of time before the southern Chen was destroyed, and there was no need to keep a standing army of millions of people, so many soldiers did not farm, and the country could not afford to support them, so he let these government soldiers usually farm and farm, instead of being a soldier like the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasty, they did not pay taxes at all. ”

Wang Huaqiang frowned: "But if you want to let the soldiers don't train like this, and completely farm the land, then after a long time, they will really become a farmer, I have also fought this time, and I have seen with my own eyes that the soldiers who are not trained cannot line up on the battlefield, cannot use weapons skillfully, and can only be slaughtered one-sidedly." ”

Changsun Sheng waved his hand: "This is the role of the hussar general and the chariot general, their main task is to train the government soldiers in peacetime, so that they can learn to line up, they will see and listen to the flags, the government soldiers are to take turns to serve and practice in the barracks every year in the agricultural leisure time, among which the outstanding health will also be selected to go to the field or enter the capital, Xiaoguo knights are selected from the elite of these local government soldiers."

After entering Xiaoguo, he no longer belonged to the roster of the local government soldiers, but was transferred to the royal inner register, which was managed by the leading generals on the left and right, so it was impossible for Li Fan to find Duan Yi and them. ”

Wang Huaqiang said with a smile: "That is to say, the household registration list, clothing and equipment of these government soldiers are managed by the Sima of each state, and the training in peacetime is to go to the military camp under the control of the hussar general and the chariot general, so that the civil and military can be separated, and the combat effectiveness is maintained, and the army will not become the personal armed forces of the hussar generals in various places, right." ”

Changsun Sheng nodded seriously: "Yes, that's the truth, like Duan Da's Yitong, it is an official position in the army when there is a war, when the army is temporarily organized, and the army is disbanded after the battle, this official position can only receive money, and there is no real power."

Of course, when the hussar generals and chariot cavalry generals in various places generally brought the soldiers of their own state into battle, they would be temporarily granted the same position of honor to command the troops of their own state, and after the battle, the bereavement and reward, unless they were promoted to officials, the money and other rewards were handled by the governor of each state and Sima. ”

Wang Huaqiang nodded thoughtfully: "No wonder these local tyrants in Guzang can cover the sky in Guzang City, even the long history of Guzang City and the hussar generals in Liangzhou are all members of their four families, and the history of the assassins in this state is just an empty ornament." ”

Changsun Sheng smiled slightly: "It's not as strict as you said, the army under the command of the governor of Liangzhou is a standing border army, which is different from the mainland, like Liangzhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou, the three large states that rely on the Turks, have a special military system independent of the government and military system, and they are directly standing soldiers here, and the military salary is also directly allocated to the general manager by the military department.

For example, Yu Qingze, the governor of Liangzhou, is also an important minister specially used by the emperor to suppress the local tyrants in Guzang City. ”