Li Shimin heard that if the war lasted, the imperial court would inevitably delegate financial power, civil power, and even the right to recruit troops alone, and in this case, it would become a feudal town. And these feudal towns are small kingdoms with reading power, and it is difficult for the central court to control them. And if it goes on like this, it is very similar to the situation in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the imperial court could not control the local princes, and as a result, the local princes attacked each other, and the Han Dynasty lost the authority of the central political axe, and as a result, it perished.

Li Shimin also did not expect that there would be such a loophole in his government military system, and the government military system was built on the basis of the uniform field system, but once the uniform field system collapsed, it would have to go back to the old road of the conscription system. And the conscription system also has many shortcomings, and Li Shimin, as an ancient emperor, also knows a little about it. The reason why the government military system was invented back then was to offset these shortcomings, but now Li Shimin actually found that the government military system could not last, which made Li Shimin helpless.

"Then you tell me that the conscription system is ready!" Li Shimin said.

"The conscription system, in fact, means that the imperial court spends money to recruit troops, not only to provide soldiers' salaries, but also to spend money to provide grain, grass, and heavy weapons, and the imperial court has to provide almost all of them. From this point of view, the conscription system costs a lot of money, and it may even drag down the country. However, it is not without benefits, that is, the army usually trains on a full-time basis, and in wartime, it goes directly into battle to kill the enemy, so the combat effectiveness is more than a step stronger than that of the government military system. Li Junxian paused.

Li Junxian said that the combat effectiveness of the conscription system is stronger than that of the government military system, and Li Shimin has to admit this. Because the government military system is actually a reserve, and the conscription system is a regular soldier, so the gap is so big. In fact, the current army of the Tang Dynasty is not able to dominate the world, in fact, the Tang Dynasty army in Li Shimin's era was only strong in East Asia. And it was only in the era of Tang Gaozong to Tang Xuanzong that the influence of the Tang Dynasty really developed into Central Asia. The role of the conscription system in this should not be underestimated, because the combat effectiveness of the conscription system has been greatly improved. At that time, in fact, the implementation of the conscription system was also forced. During the period of Tang Gaozong, those government soldiers deserted one after another, and as a result, the entire country was seriously short of qualified soldiers, and was forced to implement a conscription system.

However, the success is also a recruitment system, and the defeat is also a recruitment system, and the fall of the Tang Dynasty is also related to the recruitment system. Because conscription soldiers spend money to recruit soldiers, the loyalty of such soldiers to the Central Emperor is somewhat questionable. They are all who have money, and whoever recruits them will give their lives. This is also one of the reasons for the rise of feudal towns.

The ancient emperor ** liked the government military system, because the ancient emperor was more strict with the internal military generals than the foreign invasion. The government military system, or the so-called guard post of the Ming Dynasty that was later transformed, is a variant of this government military system. This is because the soldiers of the government military system have a high degree of loyalty to the country, because their mother's land is given by the emperor, they naturally have to work hard for the court.

However, no matter how good the normal is, it must be implemented by people, and if people's hearts are crooked, then no matter how good the policy is, it will be implemented out of shape. Once the policy is out of shape, then the problem arises. And when the government soldiers of the Tang Dynasty first began to serve, they were quite normal. But later, those powerful people often called the government soldiers to do their own "private work", so the status of the government soldiers was compared to the house slaves of the powerful. The lower status of the government soldiers has further aggravated the evasion of military service by the government soldiers, which is even more dangerous. Later in the Ming Dynasty, the low-level guards became domestic slave tenants of high-ranking guards, because the guards were hereditary, so they could enslave the low-level soldiers for generations. So the Ming Dynasty's guard system also collapsed.

Therefore, from a historical point of view, this kind of government military system, or a variant of the guard system, will collapse sooner or later, and it is just a matter of whether it is sooner or later. However, it is difficult to convince Li Shimin of the conscription system, not to mention anything else, the loyalty of the conscription system is enough to make Li Shimin careful. If this problem is not solved, Li Shimin will also have a great headache.

"Your Majesty, I have said the advantages and disadvantages of the conscription system, how you want to choose, it all depends on your choice. In fact, if you want me to say that both the government military system and the conscription system have shortcomings, they are not good systems. However, from the perspective of the general trend of history, it is difficult for the government military system to truly be a long-term system of a country for hundreds of years. Because the Juntian system cannot be realized in our time, I am afraid that I will disappoint you, the emperor. Li Junxian made a final summary.

Li Shimin was helpless, and he had no good way. After all, Li Shimin was an ancient emperor, and his vision was far from being broad enough to solve this problem.

"Jun Xian, do you have any good ideas?" Li Shimin had no choice but to throw the problem to Li Junxian again, and even consulted Li Junxian on the sensitive issue of the general's loyalty to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, in fact, you can try to promote education among the soldiers, so that the soldiers can understand things." Li Junxian said.

"Recommending education, shouldn't you be wise and foolish?" Li Shimin asked.

Li Junxian shook his head again and again, and said: "Actually, the generals are wise and the soldiers are foolish, and they are all nonsense, and only people with ulterior motives say them." If soldiers are allowed to read and write, then they will understand who they are loyal to. It is only after reading and reading that the moral character will be greatly improved, and the soldiers will not give up their allegiance to the imperial court just for money. Your Majesty, you should also know that since ancient times, loyal ministers have been born from learned people, if a person is not educated, I am afraid he can only go with the flow in this world. And although there are some dog butchers who claim to be righteous, they are loyal to that person because some people have been kind to them. But as an emperor, it is impossible to directly apply his favor to every soldier. Maybe it was cast, but because the soldiers were uneducated, they didn't know how good the emperor was to them, so they followed their superiors with the crowd and were not loyal to the emperor. Therefore, if you want soldiers under the conscription system to be absolutely loyal to the imperial court, this is necessary to make soldiers cultured. ”

Li Junxian's method is actually the method of unification of all countries in later generations, that is, to improve the cultural level of soldiers, so that soldiers can have the concept of a country and a nation, and only then can soldiers be loyal. And the strength of the ancient army comes from strength, and the strength of the army of later generations comes from knowledge. And knowledge is the greatest power in the world. Once the soldiers have knowledge, they can have the concept of a country and a nation, otherwise they are a group of "mercenaries" who work for money, and they are not the country's army at all. (To be continued.) )