"How is the progress of the reorganization of the troops?"

In Jing'an Fang, the old Taisun Mansion has now become an office for Yi Feng outside the palace, and all the staff and subordinates of the former Taisun Mansion are now working here. Although the three provinces and six ministries all worked in the imperial city, the real authority of the Great Sui Imperial Court was here. Under the shade of the willow trees in the lotus pond, Yi Feng drank tea and chatted with his subordinates, but what he said was a militaristic matter. Yi Feng can temporarily move the three provinces and six ministries, but he will not be negligent for a moment when it comes to military power. After the rebellion was put down, a large number of soldiers and horses had been gathered in Gyeonggi. Yi Feng's 100,000 Northern Ya Forbidden Army, He Ruobi's 120,000 Southern Ya Rebel Army, Gao Gong and Wang Bao's 100,000 Southern Expeditionary Army, in addition to Yang Su and Shi Wansui's 80,000 Northern Expedition West Route Army, plus 100,000 Huainan Army and 50,000 Jingzhou soldiers led by Yu Wenshu, Zhang Heng, Duan Da, and Guo Yan, plus 50,000 Guanzhong Infantry Army led by Yuan Heng to surrender, plus 15,000 Guanzhong cavalry led by Dou Kang to surrender, and 80,000 Guanzhong Army led by Brother Changsun Hong later surrendered.

Together with the defenders who remained behind in Daheung and surrendered, a total of nearly 700,000 horses gathered in Gyeonggi. Two-thirds of the world's armies are gathered here.

It is very dangerous that so many troops are gathered in the Chang'an area. But Yi Feng was not at ease at the beginning, and he disbanded those armies on the spot, and brought them to Beijing for the purpose of unification and reorganization.

According to Yi Feng's requirements, for these 700,000 troops, they must eventually be incorporated into the north and south yazhong. Yi Feng's Beiya had 250,000 troops in the Five Guards and Ten Armies, of which there were more than 100,000 troops in Huaihuang's lineage, and more than 100,000 were Turkic troops. Yi Feng now intends to select the elite of these troops and horses gathered in Guanzhong. 200,000 people were selected and incorporated into the Northern Ya Army. So that the Beiya forbidden army can reach 300,000 people, and each guard and each army has a full quota of 20,000. And those more than 100,000 Turkic troops. For the time being, it will become a supernumerary unit of the Beiya Forbidden Army, and some will be appropriately selected and recruited into the Beiya Army. But more, they will definitely be allowed to return to the grassland in the future, after all, they had an agreement when they surrendered, and they would be allowed to return to the grassland after the war. Although the specific arrangements for their return and their resettlement after their return have not been fully considered, it is impossible for these Turks to remain in the Central Plains forever. Yi Feng also had to do a good job as soon as possible, and selected another soldier and horse to supplement the Beiya Forbidden Army.

The Northern Ya Forbidden Army will eventually be 300,000 forbidden troops of the Five Guards and Ten Armies, while the Twelve Guards of the Southern Ya will still maintain an establishment of 40,000 people per guard. The number of the 12 guards remained at 480,000.

However, the Southern Army is completely different from the Northern Army, which is a forbidden army, guarding the Gyeonggi Division and the Gyeonggi region, and will also be stationed in some large cities and rotated regularly. The 300,000 forbidden troops of the Northern Ya will be professional soldiers, they are recruited into the military system, and the strong and brave warriors are recruited from the government soldiers and border armies. The imperial court provided equipment and was a professional soldier who received a salary. And the Nanya will be completely different, the soldiers of the Nanya government are still the original soldiers of the imperial court. Young and strong men were recruited from among the common people as government soldiers, and then the court granted them land. In normal times, the government soldiers work as farmers at home, but as government soldiers, they get the fields and do not need to wage rent anymore. It's just that they take turns to assemble and train every year, and they take turns to be stationed in the place. and the guards who entered Beijing. The government soldiers had to bring their own weapons and equipment, and there was no military pay. In peacetime, it belongs to the hussars and chariots, and each province has a small number of officers and non-commissioned officers, who belong to professional soldiers and are paid. During the war, the imperial court requisitioned government soldiers to assemble and fight, provided grain and grass, and issued allowances and rewards, and returned home after the war. The government soldiers are for life, until they quit the government soldiers after the age of 50, their fields can continue to be cultivated without tax until death, and the government land granted after the death of the government soldiers is returned to the military government.

The soldiers of the border government are compulsory soldiers, and every adult male of the Great Sui is obliged to serve in the military, and every healthy adult male needs to serve in the border army in the border town for three years. Three years later, those who were not promoted to officer were discharged and returned to their hometowns. Soldiers in the border army had a service allowance, but no salary. However, if there is an outstanding person, he will be promoted to the Northern Ya Forbidden Army, or he will have the opportunity to be selected as a government soldier after returning to his hometown after completing his service.

Wang Bao reported to Yi Fengyu, "According to His Highness's plan, the Privy Council intends to select 200,000 troops from various armies to supplement the five guards and ten armies of the Northern Ya, and then all the rest will be incorporated into the twelve guards of the Southern Ya. However, the 12 guards of the Southern Ya only have an establishment of 480,000, and now in addition to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in Gyeonggi, there are about 300,000 soldiers in various places. Therefore, in the end, we may dismiss about 300,000 old and weak people and let them return to the fields. ”

"There are not many soldiers, but the fine." Yi Feng is still positive about the Privy Council's plan. A large number of troops does not mean that the army is strong, but the most intuitive manifestation of a large number of troops is the tremendous pressure on the country's burden. Yi Feng wanted to organize the army into the three ya, and came up with three military systems, the conscription system, the government military system, and the compulsory military system. With this combined military system, the standing army of the imperial court was only 300,000, and these troops were all elite soldiers recruited and paid professional soldiers. In addition to granting land and exempting the field, the imperial court did not need to support these hundreds of thousands of people, they were self-sufficient, maintained enough training every year, and at the same time maintained a quarter of the number in the garrison place. In case of war, you can quickly gather all the government soldiers. The border army adopts a small number of professional officers with compulsory soldiers, but also to save military expenditures, but also to continuously train enough reserve troops for the imperial court, if the war requires, these retired border soldiers who have served for several years of military service and have good military qualities can be conscripted at any time.

It turned out that most of the soldiers in the imperial court were government soldiers, and a small number of soldiers in the border areas. Yi Feng built a new Beiya Forbidden Army and added a large number of standing troops, and the increased military expenditure was not a small number. However, Yi Feng still insisted on building this standing forbidden army, and at the same time, this time he also expanded the number of forbidden troops again, whether it was in the country or in the shape of the frontier, it was not good. Moreover, Yi Feng does not intend to just do nothing, he hopes to open up the territory and improve the living space of China.

"It is particularly important to withdraw those who should be withdrawn, and it is particularly important that after the 300,000 officers are dismissed, the officers in the original armies will be strictly evaluated, and those who fail to pass will be dismissed." In an army, the commander is the soul, the non-commissioned officers are the skeleton, the generals are the backbone, and the equipment is the courage of the soldiers. It turns out that many officers in the army are the sons and daughters of officials, and many of them have no experience at all and become generals as soon as they enter the army. For this kind of behavior, Yi Feng intends to resolutely put an end to it.

Yi Feng turned his head and asked Liu Wenjing, "Are we still financially rich now?" ”

"How much does Your Highness need?" Liu Wenjing was a little wealthy, the Turks were quickly defeated in the south, the rebellion was quickly quelled, the Huaihuang market was soon reopened, and with the improvement of Yanglin's status, the commercial trade under Yi Feng Control became more and more prosperous, and the circulation of goods was rapid. Many industries under Yifeng's own name bring a lot of income to Yifeng every day, and at the same time, after the reform of the tax system in Huaihuang Market and Zhucheng, the tax revenue has also increased greatly, and the industrial and commercial tax tariff is a huge amount. Now that Yi Feng is in power, all parts of the Kanto region have been initially stabilized, the new tax system has been implemented, and the new tax has no impact on ordinary people, but the taxes collected from all over the country have risen sharply, and the summer harvest has just passed, and now Yi Feng's hands are indeed full of grain and silver. What's more, after the rebellion just was put down, a large number of aristocratic officials involved in the rebellion would have their property confiscated, which was also a huge additional income.

"Try to raise as much money as possible, this Zen ceremony will be more grand and lively. After ascending to the pole, a military parade was held by the way, which was grander. Then there is the award ceremony, when the time will be given to the meritorious soldiers in the Northern Expedition and the two wars of the rebellion this year, and the reward will be thicker. In addition, after the military parade and the award ceremony, the 300,000 retrenched soldiers will return to their hometowns, and each of them will have to pay a dismissal fee, which will also be more generous. Then, about 200,000 government soldiers will also be disbanded and return to their hometowns, and they will also be rewarded with a sum of money, which cannot be less. Finally, it is necessary to purchase equipment for the newly selected and recruited 200,000 Beiya recruits, which also costs a lot of money. In short, this time we are going to have a bloodbath. ”

Liu Wenjing was not calm this time, and silently calculated how much money he had to spend, but after a while, he gave up, it was all hundreds of thousands of people, and it would not be a small amount of money.

"Your Majesty, is it necessary to throw money like this?"

"Of course it's necessary." Yi Feng did not have the slightest heartache, involving hundreds of thousands of troops, there was no room for the slightest sloppiness, and the army was rewarded generously, which was a simple and good way for him, the new emperor, to win the crowding of those soldiers as soon as possible. Moreover, many of the soldiers who were dismissed were originally the people who were forcibly conscripted in this rebellion, and they followed Yang Xiu and Yang Guang to fight for several months, and now Yi Feng let them go home, and giving another sum of money can be regarded as compensation for the passage and the imperial court. Yi Feng knows that since ancient times, soldiers are the easiest to become bandits and thieves. If they just casually dismantle these hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and then let them return to their hometowns by themselves, if they don't have the money to pay for the journey, will they join forces to rob along the road? Will it simply occupy the mountain as the king? It is possible, especially when he is about to be succeeded by Chan, and there are many failed contenders for interests, and if these people take the opportunity to fan the flames and manipulate secretly, it will be very easy to make a little mess at that time. Although even the rebellion can be quelled, the damage caused cannot be recovered. It is difficult to build, easy to destroy, and it may take hundreds or thousands of years for a city to flourish, but it may be enough to destroy it.

"Don't be reluctant to give up money, you have to spend what you should spend." Yi Feng admonished. (To be continued......) R1292