The news of the change of dynasty in the Central Plains soon also spread to the Liao State, for the Liao State at this time there is no idea of taking advantage of the chaos, the Liao State since the establishment of Taizu Abaoji, the Central Plains has experienced three changes of dynasty, on the contrary, from the perspective of recent decades, every time the Central Plains of the world changes color is not a good sign for the Liao State. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, the successive emperors of the Central Plains Dynasty have a kind of attitude towards the northern Liao State, and have the idea of annexing the north, and the Great Zhou Emperor has also personally conquered the Liao State, and then the Song Dynasty Zhou, Song Tianzi also attacked the Liao State several times, and each time the two countries were exhausted.

Now that the Tang Dynasty has replaced the Song Dynasty, I don't know what kind of attitude the emperor of the Tang Dynasty has towards the Liao State.

This is that the Liao royal court convened the ministers to discuss the strategy of dealing with the new Tang Dynasty.

After decades of development, up to the Liao Dynasty, down to the folk state, the traces of sinicization have been very obvious, and even the palace buildings of the Liao State in Beijing Linhuang Mansion are not much different from the Central Plains.

From a nomadic people to a semi-nomadic and semi-pastoral farming people, the Liao State also attached great importance to building cities and living in the same place as the Central Plains, almost abandoning the habits of the grassland peoples, tall cities, strict military defense, mobile and powerful cavalry, which may be an important reason why neither the Great Zhou nor the Great Song Dynasty could defeat the Liao in a short period of time.

Liaoshangjing, is the place where the emperors of the Liao Kingdom stayed the longest in a year, there is a rich and colorful Khitan and Han culture intersection, and the prosperity of the market is not much inferior to Bianliang in the Central Plains.

Of course, no matter how much the Liao people worship Sinicization, but there is still thousands of years of grassland blood flowing in their bones, in the palace group of Shangjing, several towering main halls stand out, in the periphery of these palaces, there are hundreds of large and small large tents, they are the residence of the Khitan nobles and the guards who defend the palace, and they are to cut off their ears.

From the perspective of the political pattern of the Liao State, the Liao State at this time is very similar to the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods of the Central Plains Dynasty thousands of years ago, the actual rulers of the country are ruled by the nobles divided by the emperor, and the Liao State is divided into thousands of households and ten thousand households of different sizes, and the people of the Liao State have no obligation to be directly ruled by the Liao Emperor, they only pay grain and tribute to the thousands or thousands of households that rule them, and bear the needs of war.

Of course, the Liao Emperor was the most powerful of these nobles, and whenever there was a war, the Liao Emperor issued an order to the nobles of the Liao State, asking them to gather their tribes to join the emperor's army to fight, and distribute the spoils according to their military merits after the war.

The people of Liao are soldiers, and they are for the people, and their combat effectiveness is very strong, and they can almost do all the people are soldiers, and then the Jin State, which has a title in history, is called the Great Jin Meng'an Restraint, which is very similar to the Qing Eight Banners system in later generations.

One hundred and ten years later, Genghis Khan founded the Great Mongolia and also adopted this system of military and civilian integration, until the establishment of the Great Yuan, until later when Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the Great Yuan and established the Ming Dynasty, this system was also continued, and became the military system of the Ming Dynasty, known as the guard system, the commander of the guard is continued by the nobles of the Ming Dynasty from generation to generation, the army of the Ming Dynasty is out of the army, and the people are in, the border passes are divided into three points to defend the city, and the inland is eight points to defend the city, but this system of military and civilian integration is not suitable for the Central Plains nation, Long-term agricultural work has long made the army lose the ability to fight, so the Ming Dynasty has only appeared a few decades after the defense system has been useless, and the country's regular army combat has gradually been replaced by the conscription system.

The reason why the military system created by the Liao State can last for nearly a thousand years is actually related to their geographical location, and if they go out, they will be soldiers and they will be soldiers, but whether the Liao people are in or out, their life is the battlefield, or fighting with people, or fighting with birds and animals on the grassland, for them, hunting is their way of life, and there seems to be no difference between shooting people and shooting animals.

Therefore, this kind of military system of all the people is the most suitable for the use of the grassland dynasty, it can allow the grassland people to quickly assemble, and swing the greatest and strongest attack power, and the mobile cavalry is running wild in the grassland like the wind, coming and going freely, and the previous northern expeditions of the Central Plains dynasties have suffered a lot.

Lu Fei as a person of later generations, he knows very well that the Liao people's military system is powerful, there is no military system that can compete with it for thousands of years, even when firearms were popular in the Ming army in later generations, the Ming army only had the power to parry against the Houjin army that only knew how to shoot eagles with scimitars, which shows that advanced firearms are not the only magic weapon to win on the battlefield, in the final analysis, there must be an advanced military system.

It is not a simple matter to change the military system of a dynasty for a long time, it takes a rather long process, which involves all aspects of the national economy and people's livelihood, Lu Fei is not capable now, not that Lu Fei's ability is insufficient, but the level of productivity in this era is not strong enough to support an independent military force.

Ming Taizu once proudly declared: I raise a million troops, and it does not cost the people a grain of grain.

But the total number of people who eat and drink these millions of troops is to provide for them, and whoever raises them, the army feeds itself, so it is not surprising that this is still an army, it is simply a militia of half workers and half people, and its combat effectiveness is getting lower and lower.

Lu Fei wants to build a pure mercenary army, but the weak small peasant economic dynasty can support a few professional soldiers, 10,000, or 100,000, and if it exceeds 100,000, I am afraid that the finances of this court will go bankrupt.

According to the military and political measures inherited by the Tang Dynasty from the Great Song Dynasty, there is a trend of professionalizing the army, but the fatal thing is that the recruitment system of the Great Song Dynasty is a lifelong service system, unless there is a possibility of retirement due to war injury or illness, otherwise it will have to die in the army, which is rigid, although there are many opportunities to be in the army, but there are few positions for military generals, and there are also worries about life, so as to make the soldiers in the army age, the combat effectiveness is getting lower and lower.

Since the big quarrel with Xue Juzheng, Lu Fei has accelerated the reform of the forbidden army, first of all, to streamline the army, and remove some veterans and soldiers who are only paid for mixed military salaries.

Lu Fei remembered a sentence, in this era of low productivity, a husband did not plough or suffer from hunger, and a woman did not weave or suffer from the cold, and the finances of the imperial court could not be dragged down by these redundant soldiers.

The art of war is cloudy, and the soldiers are fine but not in the public, and Lu Fei is convinced of this principle.

Five days after the disarmament decree was issued, Lu Fei was greatly disappointed by the figures reported by the various armies of the forbidden army, and only about 600 soldiers were cut off in this disarmament by the entire 200,000 people of the entire forbidden army plus the 10,000 soldiers of the city patrol armament department.

Seeing this kind of figure, Lu Fei only has no choice, disarmament means taking out some people's iron rice bowls, and it also weakens the strength of many people to a certain extent, although Lu Fei only issued a disarmament decree this time, but many people have guessed that what Lu Dianshuai wants to do may be just the beginning, and the ultimate goal is to dominate the military.

Choosing to refine the front division of the palace at such an embattled time, Lu Fei was very determined, no one knew whether Tian Chongjin or who else would suddenly march towards Bianliang, if he didn't have a fairly powerful army in his hands, it would be terrible.

Although there are many hesitations at this time, there is also a tangible advantage, that is, it can be used in a big way without hiding people's eyes and ears, and it can act under the banner of preparing for war, and from the perspective of the overall situation, no one dares to openly express opposition.

It was another complicated day, day and night, Lu Fei's tired body leaned on the carriage, and he didn't want to think about anything in his heart, so he went home with the shaking of the carriage, Meimei took a hot bath, slept a little, and waited for tomorrow to start a day of hard work.

A group of pro-cavalry was clustered in front and behind the carriage, and just as they were about to go to the Tianbo Bridge, Lu Fei suddenly shouted to the coachman who was driving the carriage: "Turn around and go to Xue Xianggong's mansion!" ”

The coachman turned back with a promise, it was already the beginning of the lights on the road, Lu Fei picked up the curtain, this situation couldn't help but remind him of the dusk when he met the third sister of the Yang family, but now no matter how he looked back, there was no white-clothed beauty in the lights.

The carriage 'clicked' and walked, unhurried, when the night completely fell, it had come to the gate of Xue Juzheng's mansion, and the soldiers handed over the name sticker, and after a while, they saw the gate of Xue's mansion open, and Xue Juzheng led his wife and children and a group of domestic servants to pour out.

This somewhat surprised Lu Fei, who had just leaned out of the carriage, shouldn't it, the two had a big quarrel a few days ago over whether to negotiate peace, and they still brushed their sleeves angrily before leaving, why did they treat themselves as guests so quickly.

I saw Xue Juzheng dressed in regular clothes, arched his hand, and said: "Lu Dianshuai came to the cold house, it is really full of brilliance, there is a loss of welcome, sins and sins, please." ”

Lu Fei couldn't help but take a closer look at Xue Juzheng's 180-degree turn, it didn't look like he was pretending, and Xue Juzheng had always regarded himself as upright, and never made these flattering acts, but today is really hard to figure out.

Xue Juzheng's actions made Lu Fei a little ignorant, stunned, looked around blankly, smiled, and said, "I, am I going to the wrong door?" Is this Xue Xianggong's mansion? ”

Xue Juzheng stroked his beard, made a gesture of invitation, and said with a smile: "If it is fake, after returning home from duty today, the old man is hesitating whether to go to your house again, but unexpectedly, Lu Dianshuai, you will not talk about it, but you will think of the old man in front of you." ”

Lu Fei was even more surprised, slowly walked into the Xue Mansion, and had no intention of looking at the Xue family's garden, and said: "Xue Xianggong really deserves to be the prime minister, and his mind is not comparable to ordinary people. ”

Today's Xue Juzheng has completely changed a person, as if he has a little bit of the joy of an old child, haha smiled, and then simply attracted his family members to Lu Fei to see him, here Lu Fei did not dare to hold it up, and the return gift was also very respectful.

As these cliché processes were over, Xue Juzheng asked the maid to bring tea again, and then waved his hand to let everyone retreat.

In the hall, Lu Fei and Xue Juzheng sat down as guests, and then Xue Juzheng said: "Lu Dianshuai has a lot of opportunities, he won't really have time to come to me as an old man." ”

When Lu Fei heard this, he hurriedly stretched out his arms, looked left and right, and said with a smile: "What? Am I not here to be humble? Isn't it sincere enough? ”

Xue Juzheng laughed and said: "Since you are here for this, General Lu is empty-handed, and the old man can't see your sincerity at all." ”

Lu Fei was stunned for a moment, and immediately laughed again, and said: "Seeing the smile, I came in a hurry, this gift is negligent, I will definitely make up for it in the future, today I am here to be humble, and I want to ask Xue Xianggong to give the younger generation an idea." ”

Xue Juzheng seemed to have guessed it, and said with a smile: "The old man is also looking for you with something, just right, before you speak, can you allow the old man to take the lead to see if you and I are the same thing?" ”

Lu Fei hurriedly said: "I only heard that Xue Xianggong has a good way of governing the country, but I didn't know that you can still use divination, okay, you can guess it." ”

I saw Xue Juzheng get up and leave his seat, walking back and forth in front of Lu Fei, with a deep thought, and after a while, he approached Lu Fei and whispered: "But for Shi Baoji, Shi Fei's horse?" ”

Lu Fei's eyes couldn't help but widen, grinned a few times, and muttered, "You, you really know the art of divination?" ”

"Haha!" Xue Juzheng's laughter was very loud and full of spirit, and then he said: "It's not that the old man guessed accurately, it's what General Lu has done these days, plus what has happened these days, it's not difficult to guess." ”

Lu Fei was surprised and hurriedly said, "Where did you guess?" ”

Xue Juzheng said: "Not long ago, you intended to send an envoy to Hebei to negotiate peace, and then drastically cut off the old bad habits of the forbidden army, although there has been no significant effect so far, but the old man can see that General Lu has courage, and now you have not decided who to send to Hebei, so the old man concluded that you are here for Shi Baoji." ”

Lu Fei smiled, frowned sideways, and said, "That's all?" ”

"Isn't that enough?" Xue Juzheng said very confidently, and said: "Shi Baoji was originally the commander of the inner temple of the forbidden army, because of the relationship between his father and Princess Yanqing, the Shi family has a high reputation in the court and the opposition, and there are a large number of cronies in the forbidden army and the border army. ”

Lu Fei was convinced, and immediately hugged his fists and said: "Admire and admire, I really think about it, but it's just ......"

Xue Juzheng hurriedly said: "I'm just afraid that this is sending sheep into the tiger's mouth, and it is more likely that Shi Baoji will take advantage of the prestige of his Shi family to raise his arms after he goes to Hebei, right?" ”

Lu Fei nodded and said, "That's right, it's because I can't make a decision that I came to ask the old minister to decide for me, do you think this matter is feasible?" ”

Xue Juzheng smiled slightly, then nodded and said, "It's feasible, not only is it feasible, but this move is quite clever." ”

Lu Fei's heart tightened, as if this little Jiujiu in his heart had been discovered, and he hurriedly said, "Why?" ”