Under Han Xin's command, the defeat of 200,000 prisoners and 150,000 prisoners in the Beishan area was only the beginning, and they then went to the nearby oasis to replenish the water supply, sent a part of the armed men to escort the prisoners of war to the territory of Wusun, and the brigade continued to move west.

On the way west, Han Shin won victory after victory, and in the end, even he, a naturally dull fellow, felt as if something was wrong.

"How did I notice that the enemy troops rushing towards me seemed to be rushing into each other in a panic?" Han Xin was talking about those large and small groups of natives from the Western Regions, and he asked Yu Fanjun strangely: "Is there anything I haven't noticed?" ”

Yu Fanjun shouted wildly in his heart, "I finally noticed it, but I noticed it!" In fact, what he was most speechless about was Han Xin's unparalleled talent in military talent, but Han Xin seemed to be an idiot in some things.

"Torture the captives, and ask them if they know by the way?" Yu Fanjun instigated and kept instigating.

Han Shin is dull at some things, but that doesn't mean he's really stupid. He looked at Yu Fanjun and said unhappily: "You already know, just tell me directly?" ”

Yu Fanjun was first surprised, "Huh!?" He sighed, and then began to tell his guesses.

"You're saying that something might be going on on home that affects the military, so the military is doing its thing?" Han Xin's face was dazed, and he muttered: "The master attaches the most importance to the military, and will not deliberately weaken the military, nor will he allow civilian officials to weaken the military, so what will affect the interests of the military?" ”

Spilling out most of the troops, leaving only the necessary troops as the headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Corps Xu Zhibu, a topic about the empire itself is also going on.

There were about 80,000 imperial cavalry in the Wusun territory, and the commander was He Yi. The 80,000 cavalry originally belonged to the 1st Cavalry Regiment and the 5th Cavalry Corps, but after they were reorganized into the Western Cavalry Corps, the two regiments were combined to a certain extent, which was equivalent to a temporary regimental formation.

A legion heading towards the North Mountain area was talking about the size rather than the number. They have been deliberately driving the natives of the Western Regions towards Han Xin's location, and they did not accept surrender in the process of expulsion, but instead slaughtered the natives of the Western Regions who had a sense of resistance as much as possible, so that the natives of the Western Regions who were constantly driven away had already been beaten into frightened birds, and then met the envoy corps escort team commanded by Han Xin and the accompanying warriors, Han Xin did not allow the natives of the Western Regions to surrender, and the natives of the Western Regions, who had long been chased and could not breathe, how could they surrender without taking a look at Han Xin's troops?

"Wouldn't that be an exaggeration?" Wei Han's face was full of confusion, and he said: "Han Xin's prisoners are close to 300,000, and the armed forces in his headquarters are less than 30,000. ”

"I heard that Han Shin has been performing ten draws and one kill." Xu Zhi didn't have any worries on his face at all, and said with a smile: "He also grouped the prisoners. Implement the joint sitting system. ”

One out of ten kills really works, both against enemies and against one's own people.

The execution of one out of ten kills against the captives is to discourage the captives, give the captives a sense of luck and happiness, and make people lose the will to resist. Not only do they have no sense of resistance, but they also become overseers, not allowing any of their companions to do anything that could be unfavorable, with the consequence that each of them will suspect each other and find it difficult to form a bond.

It is a punishment for a soldier who is not good at fighting on his own side. In fact, it is also a psychological implication, if the battle is not hard and everyone loses the battle, everyone may become the tenth, and the result is that the soldier will supervise his companions, and the final result is that everyone is supervised. You can only fight hard. If the attack fails, each of them may become one of the people who will be killed by lottery.

The system of joint sitting, imposed by the victors on the vanquished, was an even heavier shackle, and one person fled to kill the other. One squadron escapes and one squadron kills all, and one squadron escapes and kills an entire brigade. Escaping can only be the secret work of a few people. The more people there are, the more likely they are to be exposed, and most people are no longer called running away, but should be called riots.

"Nearly 300,000 captives supervised each other, and Han Xin only used 1,000 people to control them well." Xu Zhi said in a tone full of admiration: "Han Xin's talent in military affairs is really quite high, it is conceivable that as long as it is allowed, 300,000 prisoners of war will be managed like this, and as long as Han Xin is willing, they can become an army." ”

Xu Zhi refers to the fact that Han Xin restrained 300,000 prisoners of war with 1,000 people, and when these prisoners of war developed the habit of obeying orders, the identity of 1,000 managers was transformed into officers, and the 300,000 prisoners of war were further reorganized and issued weapons, and a large army was formed.

Wei Han nodded, he seemed to remember that there was such a thing, Han Xin had done similar things on the grassland, and the servant army of the grassland tribe started with Han Xin, and there would be such a servant army in the end.

"The country wants to legislate, and there has been a debate about the definition of the military recently," Xu Zhi was a little worried: "I heard that His Majesty mentioned three provinces and six ministries some time ago. In this system, the military would be inferior to the civilian clique, which would be disastrous. ”

Lu Zhe has mentioned the three provinces and six ministries, although he will not mention it later, but it is undoubtedly a signal for the civil official group, and it is a signal that the emperor is beginning to feel that the status of civil officials should be improved.

The military status of the empire has always been high, that is because the country was established by them fighting hard with swords, and then the military took the steps of great expansion, which of course is inseparable from Lu Zhe's commitment to improving and determining the social status of soldiers.

In fact, the high status of the military was not formed in the hands of Lu Zhe, under the previous historical background factors, each warring state out of the need for self-preservation and expansion, each country also attaches great importance to the military, and the status of military generals naturally needs to be promoted, resulting in at least three or four hundred years of history in the civil official group is basically not embarrassing or embarrassing status, and only a few outstanding civil officials can become the first person under the king.

The empire attaches great importance to the great expansion brought about by force, but excessive force is often full of uncontrollable risks, and the risks brought by military generals are far greater than those brought by civilian officials, after all, military generals control violence, once there is chaos, it will be a war-torn life, and civil chaos will be very limited in the short term.

Seeing that the empire's military generals group is getting more and more powerful, but the feudal system has not yet been perfected, Lu Zhe is estimated to be hesitant in his heart. That's why I think of three provinces and six ministries. Later, there was a change in the hexagram and no longer thought about restructuring into three provinces and six ministries, because he believed that he could still restrain the military general group, and he could use convention legislation to improve the system during the restraint period.

In fact, why didn't the military find that its collective had swelled to the point of being fearful? But they don't have a very good way, many times the strong can only be strong, and a little weakness will get a very miserable end. The only thing they hope for is that the emperor is confident enough to continue to use his long gaze to solve the signs of what seems to be risk.

The military is looking for a solution, and all they can do is to show their loyalty to the emperor on the one hand, and then pick out a person to be molded into a hero, and the identity and background of this hero must be suitable, then as Yu Fanjun guessed. There is no better person than Han Shin.

"Actually, some civil officials are really a scourge, and they don't want to think about what happened to His Majesty's establishment of the First Office and the Second Mansion." Xu Zhi sneered: "They only see our possible threats, how can they not think about how they can sit and talk without us working hard?" ”

Lü Zhe set up the Taiwei Administration, the General's Office, and the ruling government, which was equivalent to the General Staff Department in later generations, and had the right to formulate military plans, but did not have the direct right to transfer troops; The General's Office has the right to transfer troops, but they need to follow the battle plan drawn up by the Imperial Lieutenant's Office; The ruling government took control of the logistics of the General's Palace. They need to follow the instructions of the Captain's Office to transport the baggage to the designated location.

The First Office and the Second Mansion seem to form a cycle, each with its own conveniences and limitations, and there is also a link that cannot be bypassed, that is, any legion-sized order needs to be stamped by the Emperor in order to be effective.

When Lu Zhe set up such an administrative system, he thought of the separation of powers. In fact, there is not much omission in the execution, and the only loophole is himself.

Lu Zhe, who was aware of this, was actually quite entangled, everyone has desires, and of course he wanted to maintain absolute control over everything. But he had to worry that once a deaf person appeared in future generations, the fragile balance system would collapse.

Lu Zhe did not rule out in his heart the ambition that his family would always be the ruler. But his heart is not more for the sake of the world, but more for his own race to be able to permanently stand at the top of the world's nations, but to put it mildly, it may be very selfish but extremely true, a nation that can always stand at the peak of the world's nations will inevitably have a stable upper class.

Throughout the history of any ethnic group, the more stable the superstructure, as long as the ethnic group does not block the path of the capable people of the ethnic group, the ethnic group will always remain strong.

Why does a stable superstructure keep the ethnic group strong? That's because there wasn't much turmoil! If there is no turmoil in a group that is so large that it all changes blood from top to bottom, even if there is bloodshed inside, it is not too exaggerated. If a group repeatedly changes blood from the top down, how many people should die in the turmoil?

The internal turmoil of a nation is the most tragic thing, its own people kill its own people, the people's livelihood economy that has been built up for many years has been reduced to ruins in the war, and I don't know how many generations of cultural knowledge have been destroyed in the war? The most terrible thing is that after one group of people replaces another group of people as the upper echelons, they will certainly denigrate the previous enemy, and the most overkill is to completely deny any contribution of the "predecessors", in this process there is no truth in history, because history is written by the victors.

It is a very bad thing to deny one's competitors in one piece, and the winner will completely erase the contributions of the loser, and may even falsify history by covering up some past events that are not good for him.

It's scary to think about! A nation can even falsify its own history at will, so how can the people of this nation respect their predecessors? Such a people will not respect those who have contributed before, they will only selectively create their own "gods" for their own political purposes, and then attack the faith on the other hand, anyway, as long as it is out of political necessity, they will do anything foolish.

A nation that does not know how to respect true history is doomed to have no heroes, and a nation without heroes will not have a strong will; A nation without faith is even more sad, they lack spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to persevere in the face of problems, and they will lack a moral outlook because of this, and then there is no bottom line in life.

"Then again, if Your Majesty wants to legislate, what kind of law do you want to enact?" Xu Zhi withdrew his gaze from a distance, and looked at Lu Chen who came over in a slightly confused way.

"There's no official newspaper yet." Lu Chen smiled and pondered for a while, and replied: "What laws are enacted have not really been determined, some gossip is rumored, to determine the autonomy of the imperial aristocracy in the form of legislation, and then some things that have been implemented but have not been taken seriously will also be included in the legislation." ”

"Noble autonomy?" Wei Han couldn't help but speak out and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"Your Majesty calls it 'the duties and responsibilities of the lords,' that is, to formalize the feudal system by the covenant law, and then to formulate what kind of people should have what kind of criteria." Lu Chen said with longing eyes, full of emotion: "Covenant, no matter how sacred it is, any covenant in history is destined to be passed on." What Your Majesty wants to do is to make the covenant of the whole world, that is, to let all the people know that there is such a thing, so that as long as the covenant is passed, no one can betray the covenant. ”

Wei Han's face was abrupt, and he nodded: "This is something that Your Majesty mentioned a long time ago, but it has not formed a legal provision. He spoke with a sense of lightness: "Your Majesty has said that whatever merit you make should be rewarded accordingly, and you can't kill the meritorious person because of the absurdity of too much merit." ”

Lu Zhe has said something similar, his original words are: It has always been a ridiculous act to kill a meritorious hero with merit and high power, and such a thing happened only because of the incompetence and jealousy of the king, and he didn't know how big the 'world' was. There is nothing more tragic for a nation than to have a hero die at the hands of the enemy, but to be killed by a conspiracy by the object of his allegiance.

Xu Zhi didn't quite understand why Wei Han, who was in the same silent mood before, suddenly became relaxed, and he hurriedly urged. (To be continued.) )