Chapter 161 Reform of the military system

Back in Youzhou, Li Cunhuan immediately began to gather his henchmen to formulate a system of military reform, and in the past, the merits of soldiers have always been based on the number of heads killed by the enemy.

Li Cunhuan appeared on the battlefield, such as the loyal and filial piety army, they suppressed the enemy with guns, and the lethality of the infantry was not very great, after all, others are not fools, stand there and let you stab. They can retreat, and if they can't retreat, they can also try to avoid the vital position, and it is basically difficult to stab them to death with one shot, and even more people will bleed to death from excessive bleeding. But do you say that the loyal and filial army is not important? They were like a solid iron wall, slowly but forcefully compressing the enemy's space, but they did not kill as many heads as cavalry. And in order to maintain the formation, it is impossible for them to kill the head on the battlefield.

Therefore, Li Cunhuan decided to decide on meritorious service according to his position, and no longer according to the first rank of meritorious service. The soldiers in the first row are naturally the most dangerous, so they should naturally receive the most meritorious service, and then they will be commended according to their performance on the battlefield. In the army, it is according to the task, and the task is dangerous, and the higher the natural merit. It doesn't depend on how many enemies' heads are killed.

Li Cunhuan just set such a simple framework, and he has already caused an uproar in the army. In the past, the military attached importance to the first level, so people could not help but attach importance to individual force. Although Li Cunhuan has emphasized the role of the collective many times, it is difficult to change this concept, simply put, two people kill an enemy, then whose head is this enemy? Can't it be split up, one person and a half? This is not selling watermelons.

Li Cunhuan's reform seriously affected the way for brave generals to obtain meritorious service, and even made the fierce generals feel that their thinking was challenged, and the military generals headed by Li Cunxiao and Gao Siji more or less expressed their opposition. Reform cannot be achieved overnight, and too drastic reform will only exacerbate contradictions, so Li Cunhuan decided to use this method among the infantry first. Li Cunxiao and Gao Siji were more cavalry officers, which did not offend their interests and traditional thinking, and also allowed military reform to be implemented.

Then there is the problem of pensions, the Tang Dynasty had pensions, but they were very small, and in the later period, warlords around the country did not care about the death and disability of soldiers, but only gave some meager rewards. Although Li Cunhuan once introduced a pension policy, this is not perfect, and it is mainly implemented in the Danzhou area, which is too restrictive.

Li Cunhuan decided to change this phenomenon, and he arranged for Zhou Dewei to divide the degree of disability into three levels, with different levels and different amounts of bereavement benefits. At the same time, it will also arrange for the wounded soldiers to be placed in the locality, and it is also thanks to the development of Li Cunhuan in Youzhou, although it has not become an industrial city, but in this troubled era, it has been talked about industrial intensive, and there is still a position for the wounded soldiers to be placed in places such as the ordnance supervision as security guards, and if they still maintain a certain combat effectiveness, they will also be arranged to guard the city gate.

Li Cunhuan began to revive silk fabrics on a large scale, and at the height of the Tang Dynasty, Hebei was the largest concentration of silk fabrics in the north at that time, although it was not as famous as Shuzhong. And silk fabrics naturally need a large number of women to weave, Li Cunhuan established a large number of silk weaving workshops in Youzhou, and the families of the sacrificed soldiers were given priority to absorb, and with a job, even if they lost their husbands and fathers and there was no male surname labor in the family, the family's life would be much better.

After Li Cunhuan and a group of henchmen perfected the reform, it was already June, and good news came from Liaodong that the Andong army had conquered Jian'an Prefecture. However, at the end of the Liaodong Peninsula, in the Shabei City (now in the area of Luda City), the Khitans still resisted stubbornly by relying on the strong Shabei City. Fu Cunxian did not intend to fight the other party to the death, but ordered the soldiers to surround Shabei City.

At the same time, it also connected the trade routes between Silla and the Balhae Kingdom, but what Li Cunhuan did not expect was that after the road was opened, first of all, the Balhae Kingdom was very vigilant against the Anton Army, and did not rashly accept the other party's request for trade, and at the same time mobilized soldiers on the border, I don't know whether to prepare to seize Jian'an State, where the Anton Army has not yet gained a foothold, or just to strengthen the defense.

On the Silla side, they actually fell into a rebellion, and now Silla is once again in the Three Kingdoms period, Silla is centered on Jinju and controls the place equivalent to the north of the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, and there is a peasant named Zhen Xuan who occupies the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and the land of Baekje, which is roughly the land of the old country of Baekje, and calls himself emperor and the country name Baekje.

Finally, in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, there was a guy named Gong who claimed to be the Silla royal family and led the peasants to revolt, but when he achieved success, he abandoned the name of Silla royal orthodoxy, claiming to review Goguryeo, proclaim himself king in Kaesong, and proclaimed himself the king of Goguryeo.

(Note: The Gong descendants called the queen three times to change the name of the country, and now it should be called Taifeng, and Mumu feels that it is easier to remember that it is called Goguryeo, so it does not reveal the history of changing the country name to Taifeng.) ）

Seeing the appearance of Li Cunhuan, Goguryeo's Gong descendants and Baekje's Zhen Xuan were cautious, and Silla made contact in every possible way. They have always called themselves vassals of the Tang Dynasty, even if they ascend the throne and get the canonization of the Tang Dynasty, this is orthodox. Otherwise, both in the people and in the court, the prestige will be greatly weakened.

As for Gong and Zhen Xuan, needless to say, the two guys were born in rebellion, who knows if Datang will settle accounts with them, after all, Silla has been a vassal state of Datang for so many years, who knows if he will become a white-eyed wolf after supporting you guys? But they didn't know that Datang had already existed in name only, otherwise they wouldn't be so nervous. The army that appeared in them now was more appropriate to be called the Lu Longbing than the Tang Army.

Li Cunhuan asked Yelu Abaoji to be transferred back to Youzhou, accompanied by an envoy from Goguryeo. Yelu Abaoji stayed outside the customs for a long time, and Li Cunhuan himself was not at ease. And Yelu Abaoji's position was taken over by Duan Ziyao, and he also served as the protector of the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate.

Li Cunhuan officially divided the power of the Jiedu envoys, and most of them protected the government, while the Jiedu envoys were in charge of the army. The division of military and political affairs has greatly weakened the power of the envoys. However, Li Cunhuan did not make a move on too much power.

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"Your name is Wang Jian?" Li Cunhuan asked with a somewhat strange face.

"Back to the general's words, Wang Jian, the lord of Kaicheng City, the subordinate of Yiguo, is my name." Wang Jian, who had a white face, said with a flattering smile, that official language was not very standard, full of southern dialect.

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