In a contest with Liu Tingzhu yesterday, Li Ce's name had already spread throughout the barracks, and everyone knew that there was a very powerful new commander named Li Ce.

When training early this morning, Liu Tingzhu stood in the front row with his head held high, looking very regular, he lost the contest with Li Ce yesterday, and Li Ce's open-mindedness really made him admire, well, this commander is good!

Li Ce looked around, and couldn't help frowning, he didn't look carefully yesterday, but if he looked at it carefully, how could his soldiers look old, weak, sick and disabled?

Li Ce quietly called Liu Tingzhu aside and said sincerely: "Everyone, you also know that this commander has just taken office, and there are still many things that are not clear, so I need to ask you for advice. ”

Liu Tingzhu and the others were busy and didn't dare to say, saying that if the adults had any questions, just ask, and the subordinates would know everything.

Li Cedong looked around, and said with some embarrassment: "What do I think of the soldiers under our command, so many old and weak, eh...... Look at that old man over there......"

Several people looked in the direction of Li Ce's finger, only to see a thin old man, holding a spear in his right hand, the spear standing on the ground, the old man standing crookedly, it seems that without the support of the spear, this old man may not be able to stand firmly.

Can you fight like this? I'm afraid it's not bad not to drag other people down, oh, other people, look at other people, old and young, hunchbacked hunchbacks, crooked mouths...... This special mother is too cheating!

A few of them were also a little embarrassed, Liu Tingzhu scratched his head and said: "My lord, you don't know, the army at our border is naturally incomparable with the regular forbidden army. ”

"Why?" Li Ce said a little angrily.

"Most of our soldiers are recruited from the local area, or they are homeless or rural, and they are recruited, so naturally this quality is ...... Hey, hey," said one of them bluntly.

"In the garrison of our Hebei West Road, the army led by Zhao Xianghui was transferred here from the capital seriously, and it was called the real forbidden army, the soldiers were all majestic, tigers and bears, riding all high-headed horses, and heavy armor all over the body, tsk......" Liu Tingzhu said enviously.

"Grass, aren't we a ragtag army in this comparison!" Li Ce finally couldn't help but scold.

"Well, it's pretty much the same, even the weapons and equipment and supplies are a lot worse." Liu Tingzhu said dejectedly.

"And the ......," the other added in a whisper.

"It's also the army of the Great Song Dynasty, are we raised by our stepmother? Why be treated unfairly? Li Ce was a little angry.

In fact, he also knew that for practical reasons, there must always be a distinction between the ace army and the miscellaneous army, and it was impossible to be absolutely equal, but he was unfortunately assigned to the miscellaneous army, and he couldn't help but feel a little angry.

"I'll go to the old official," Li Ce said with annoyance.

"My lord, I don't know if the officials are in command, and he can't help it......"

"What's going on? Just let me take this group of old men to train? Don't talk nonsense" Li Ce glared at him and said angrily.

"My lord, I heard that you and ......" Liu Tingzhu looked like he wanted to speak and stopped.

"If there's a fart, let it go!" As soon as Li Ce looked at Liu Tingzhu's rolling eyes, he knew that he didn't hold back his fart.

"Hey...... Yes, yes, my subordinates heard that you have a close relationship with Chen Jingluo, and if you go to Lord Chen, it may be effective. ”

Li Ce thought that what he said was right, so he nodded: Okay, I'll go and ask for an explanation, and you can train here as usual.

Liu Tingzhu and others were overjoyed and said: "Obey orders." ”……

When Li Ce entered the house, Chen Yaozuo was writing hard, and he didn't know what he was writing. Li Ce saw that there were no outsiders, and he strode into the door without knocking.

"I don't know if I come in, I don't even knock on the door, I guess it's you, no one in the whole army dares to be so presumptuous except for you." Chen Yaozuo said without raising his head.

"Hehe, it's still the master who understands the apprentice." Li Ce poured a cup of tea and brought it to Chen Yaozuo.

"Nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief, what is the matter?" Chen Yaozuo put the brush in his hand, took the teacup, and scolded with a smile.

"Master is wise, I can't hide anything from you." The guy grinned and gave a top hat first.

"Why can't you hold on so quickly?" Chen Yaozuo frowned.

"Where, no, oh, too." Li Ce muttered.

"It's nothing, you make it clear."

"It's not that I'm afraid of hardship, but there's really no reason to persevere."

"Huh? What do you mean by that? ”

"Master, you see what kind of soldiers my commander is, some of them are seventy or eighty years old, and they can't stand on their own feet, how can they train to fight." Li Ce deliberately shouted with an exaggerated expression.

"Oh, it turned out that I was crying poor, hehe...... The army at the border has always been like this, and you can see that the other commanders are also like this. Chen Yaozuo said.

"It's always been like this, it doesn't mean it's right, how can you bring such a group of old ladies." Li Ce continued to complain.

"Messing around." Chen Yaozuo scolded lightly.

"I don't require all my soldiers to be physically strong, but at least they can't all be old, weak, sick and disabled, right? If you want me to say, some old soldiers should have been disarmed and returned to the field a long time ago, how can a person of such an age still be in the front-line army, isn't it a drag on people. ”

"You only know one thing and don't know the other, how can the court not know, these people have no combat effectiveness for a long time, the court claims to be 600,000 troops, and the real ones can only be used are more than 300,000, but the court has no way." Chen Yaozuo let out a long sigh.

"Why is there no way? Disarmament. Li Ce said.

Chen Yaozuo said: "How can it be as simple as you think, do you know how our soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty are recruited?" Don't you hear the saying that raising soldiers is self-consolidating? The purpose of raising troops is not only to cope with foreign wars, but also to maintain domestic stability. In times of hunger, soldiers are often recruited, which is the founding policy of our dynasty, so that there is no problem of displaced people and hungry people, and there is no common people to revolt, and they can be counted in one fell swoop. If the number of troops is reduced, there are hundreds of thousands of displaced people out of thin air, how to resettle, huh? After speaking, he looked at Li Ce with burning eyes.

"This ...... Relying on military recruitment to solve the problem of displaced people is not a long-term solution after all. Li Ce also sighed, the problem was far more complicated than he imagined.

"The imperial court is now difficult to ride a tiger, and the Liao State has been eyeing the tiger and waiting for an opportunity to go south, and the imperial court does not dare to withdraw the army. We can only find a solution when the time is ripe in the future. Chen Yaozuo looked at the plane tree in the courtyard with deep eyes, and his eyes were a little helpless and expectant.

Why did it get involved in military affairs, it seems to be off topic...... Li Ce muttered, It is also such a major matter that I can't control as a small commander.

"But the big aspects can't be changed, but now they can be changed."

"How can I be flexible?" Chen Yaozuo hesitated, he vaguely felt that there must be some conspiracy in this house, but he couldn't help but ask.

"That's what I think, isn't there three or four thousand people in the box, how can I pick out five or six hundred young people from them, and hand them over to me for training." Li Ce said with a shy face and a smile.

"You want to be like the Tiger Ben Army of Cao Bin, the founding general of the People's Republic of China, hehe...... Well, kind of interesting. Chen Yaozuo stroked his beard and smiled.

Li Ce saw that there was a play, but Chen Yaozuo suddenly changed his words again, sighed and said: "The idea is good, but there are more important things to do right now." ”

Li Ce raised his head and said, "What's the matter?" ”

"The Yellow River in Hexi is overflowing, the flood has become a disaster, the imperial court disaster relief order has come down, and the Hexi region has urgently summoned the people to fight the disaster, but the manpower is still insufficient, and the division is planning to transfer a part of the army to rescue the emergency." After Chen Yaozuo finished speaking, he looked at Li Ce with eager eyes.

Damn, don't you, do you want me to go to the disaster? It's really hard to steal chickens and rice......

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