Now the Outer Dynasty is divided into three forces.

The old forces represented by the Li clan in Longxi, or the forces of foreign relatives.

The close service faction represented by the Jin clan in Liaoxi.

The Shaozhuang faction represented by the Hongnong Yang family.

Chang'an now has many government troops, the largest are: 800,000 Longxi Li Mansion Army, 600,000 Hongnong Yang Mansion Army, 500,000 Liangzhou Dongfang Mansion Army Cavalry, and 400,000 Liaoxi Jin Mansion Army Cavalry.

Prime Minister Li Guozhong has more and more troops in the Li family, and many high-ranking officials of the Royal Army have been replaced by his henchmen.

In the past, on paper, the Royal Army was known as "royal soldiers", who had been soldiers for generations. But the royal soldiers are getting fewer and fewer, either fleeing or dying in battle, and now they are all gone.

Therefore, the main forces of the Royal Army now are: poor peasants, criminals, second sons, slaves, evil boys, vagabonds, sons-in-law, etc. - often called "cannon fodder".

The so-called "good iron does not hit nails, and good men do not serve as soldiers", everyone who has a little money spends money to be exempted from military service, although in theory military service is mandatory.

Although everyone will say "marry someone to marry the imperial army", but that is just talk.

The structure of the Royal Army is disrupted, for example, a class of ten people, there may be ten provinces. Imperial troops were often transferred from place to place, officers were often replaced, and sometimes officers and soldiers did not know each other.

Senior officers were appointed by the emperor and were usually Wuju people.

These measures are all to make the emperor easy to control, and as for the combat power, he can't control so much.

Their military pay is not much, and their food is poor, basically at the level of starvation. They are very good at robbing the people, it is a bit difficult to fight bandits, and fighting the rebels is basically nonsense.

The main force of the government army are farmers and herdsmen, all of whom are the children of the people. They are all fellow countrymen, and the officers are the ministers of the government army, and even the children of the family, for example, the leaders of the Liangzhou Dongfang clan government army are Dongfang Yongwu and Dongfang Yongbai, and Dongfang Yongwu and Dongfang Yongbai's subordinates are Dongfang Tian, Dongfang Qi, Dongfang Liang, Dongfang Guang, and Dongfang Gui.

If the same number of imperial troops and the government army fight, it is guaranteed that the government army will beat the imperial army so that parents can't recognize it.

However, the imperial army has tens of millions, and it is commanded by one person, and the maximum number of a single government army is hundreds of thousands. From this point of view, the government army could not defeat the imperial army.

When I discussed combat effectiveness, I excluded the forbidden army. It's like when we fight crickets, we can't put hens in them.

If you don't count the forbidden army, there is still a stronger combat power than the government army in the same number, that is, the clan army - the Western Regions Army and the Mongolian Army. Why are they called the Clan Army? For all their people are soldiers, and every man is a soldier.

This time, the prime minister angered the inner court, because he not only desperately expanded the government army, but even stretched out his hand to the clan army - he actually recruited the powerful Western Regions clan army and the Mongolian army privately!

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No one knows how big the Western Regions Province is, because no one has been to the northernmost and westernmost part of it. In terms of proven area, it has five million square kilometers, mostly hot and arid deserts, and a very small part is an oasis. No one knows how much of her population is, because the Royal Revenue Department simply does not dare to go there to collect taxes.

There is a large oasis moistened by melting snow at the foot of the Kunlun Mountain in the center of the Western Regions Province, where the imperial court built a city with a population of less than 500,000, that is, Dihua City, the capital of the Western Regions. Don't laugh at the small city with few people, it is the only county seat in the Western Regions. In other words, the emperor was in charge of that small county, and then claimed to rule over five million square kilometers of the Western Regions.

The Mongolian province is larger than the Western Regions, and most of it is the desolate and barren Gobi Desert.

This Gobi Desert grows grass for two months a year, and the rest of the time it flies sand and rocks. The southern part of the Xiliang grassland is the most prosperous, the further north it is, the colder it becomes, and the northernmost part can hardly survive; The eastern part of the western Liaoning grassland is the most prosperous, and the further west it goes, the drier it becomes, and the westernmost part can hardly survive. And Mongolia is north of Xiliang and west of Liaoxi, now you know what kind of place Mongolia is, right? Anyone who survives the Mongolian Gobi is an elite.

The imperial court never knew how many people there were in the Mongolian province, some said it was 100,000, some said it was million. Her provincial capital is called Kulun, and it is located next to Dingling Lake. However, no one has ever been to the imperial court, because there is no Kulen at all.

It is said that there is a "tribal council" in the province of Mongolia, and they decide everything on the Gobi Desert. The "tribal senators" are mobile, and they go wherever there are many water and grasses. In other words, the emperor claimed to rule the province of Mongolia without even an inch of land.

I looked at the royal map printed by the imperial court.

It shows one provincial capital, three counties, and 67 counties in the Western Regions, and one provincial capital, four counties, and 77 counties in Mongolia, but no matter how well it is drawn, and even the population, gross domestic product, and cultural outlook of each county are marked in detail, it is all fake. The ridiculous empire will only be able to do so on the map, is it a shame?!

Just like the current Central Plains, Hebei, Liaodong, and Lingnan, they have long been not the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty can't beat them, so they won on the map.

Moving on to the soldiers of the Western Regions and the Mongols.

They were soldiers of the whole clan, and all men between the ages of sixteen and sixty were soldiers. When the battle was fought, the patriarch led the soldiers to charge, and they never left a mouth alive, and after killing the captives, they were pickled and made into food.

They have a harsh environment and few soldiers, but there are many soldiers. The rate of joining the army in the interior is 1 percent, and the soldiers in the interior eat grain, and they carry a pile of grain and baggage with them when they fight, and the raff is several times more than the one who fights in the war.

In other words, the mainland soldiers claim to be a million-strong army, and less than half of them can fight, or even less.

Nomadic provinces such as Xiliang and Liaoxi have a one-tenth participation rate. Their cavalry ate jerky, and every day soaked a small piece of jerky in water was food, and they had little weight and moved quickly.

In the Western Regions and Mongolia, almost everyone is a soldier, and even women are better than men in the mainland. They didn't bring anything with them to fight, they robbed weapons and food. Fortunately, they were smaller than the government army, and the largest clan army numbered only a few thousand, usually only a few hundred.

Mongolia and the Western Regions fought with Western Liang, Liaoxi, and Liaodong all year round. Fortunately, Mongolia in the Western Regions encountered these nomadic provinces with strong combat effectiveness, but fortunately, Mongolia in the Western Regions was a plate of scattered sand, and if the interior faced them directly, it would be a disaster.

But I also think that the inner court and the forbidden army are the arbiters of everything, and if the Mongols and the Western Regions are too strong, the forbidden army will still destroy them in minutes.

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The reason why Prime Minister Li Guozhong angered the inner court was because he recruited tens of thousands of Mongolian troops and tens of thousands of Western Regions troops.

The environment in the Western Regions and Mongolia was so harsh that people still wanted to run inland, but the three equally murderous nomadic provinces stopped them.

The prime minister directly sent people to the Western Regions and Mongolia, holding gold and jewelry, promising glory and wealth. His men said to them, "I have come to hire you." Be the emperor's mercenary, leave this ghost place, and enjoy all the glory and wealth. Come to Chang'an! The bustling Chang'an is the center of the world. You can have whatever you want in Chang'an, you don't have to rob it at all, and you don't have to worry about being chased by cavalry, because you are the emperor and the prime minister's people. ”

The prime minister's people said that several tribes agreed, and they moved their tribes to the south.

How can Xiliang allow people from other provinces to come to their own territory? Again, they played the old trick and sent cavalry and herdsmen to surround the mercenaries.

Outcome? The mercenaries drove away Xiliang's cavalry and herdsmen like chopping melons and vegetables. The Western Liang Army fought the Western Regions and Mongolia, and it has always been tens of thousands of people fighting hundreds of people, when have I seen tens of thousands of Mongolians in the Western Regions together, they were all scared away.

So, those tens of thousands of troops came to Gyeonggi and Chang'an City as if they were in a no-man's land.

Those people look like fierce people, tens of thousands of people have messy shawls, and only leather jackets are draped around their waists (even women are in this shape), and everyone is a head taller than Chang'an. As soon as they came to Chang'an, they robbed meat and women, and they didn't seem to have seen money, so the money was very safe.

When they robbed, the prime minister's people shouted: "Don't resist, the court bought it all." ”

They snatched the head of the Royal Army, but the Imperial Army did not dare to resist, dropped their spears and sabers and fled. The mercenaries took the weapons of the imperial army and walked through the streets as if they were the masters of Chang'an.

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The master of Chang'an is the forbidden army.

The mercenaries soon met the true masters of Chang'an.

In Niujie in the Chang'an Industrial and Commercial District, hundreds of mercenaries grabbed a bunch of milk wine, beef soup, grilled steak, kraft jelly, and beef offal.

When they were robbing, the five forbidden troops on duty were in the fortress at the corner of the street and looked at them coldly.

The mercenaries saw the Forbidden Stronghold and wanted to go in and grab something.

Of course, the forbidden army wants them to get out.

Of course, the mercenaries did not roll, and they also slashed the iron gates of the fortress with large knives.

Everyone on Cow Street stared at the two groups, five forbidden soldiers hiding in the fortress on one side, and hundreds of drunken mercenaries slashing the fortress with knives on the other.

Everyone is watching the excitement.

The Janissaries answered a phone call, and one of the Janissaries walked up to the heavy machine gun on top of the fortress, which opened fire. The heavy machine gun could fire fifty rounds a second, and the Janissaries fired for several minutes.

I have to say, the mercenaries reacted really fast. Except for the dozens of mercenaries at the beginning who were shattered, the rest of the mercenaries hid like the wind in hotels and shops on the street. Some people even hit a big hole in the brick wall, and some jumped on the roof of a three-meter-high house and ran away.

The Janissaries would not let them go, and heavy machine guns fired at the hotel shop.

Pity the crowd of people who are watching the excitement, with a smile on their faces, all beaten into a sieve.

Later counts show that 42 mercenaries died and more than 200 civilians died.

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Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court, scolded Prime Minister Li Guozhong at the court.

Li Guozhong said with a gloomy face: "It was the emperor who ordered the soldiers of the Western Regions and the Mongolian soldiers to come to King Qin!" Even if they rob, can't the subjects endure it?! ”

Liu Xingchao: "I don't care if they rob or not, but if they dare to provoke the forbidden army, I will destroy them all!" Also, you have traveled thousands of miles to find these troops from the Western Regions and Mongolia, are you here to rob the civilians of Chang'an or to recover the two rivers of rebels? ”

Li Guozhong: "I trained them first, and then incorporated them into the regular Royal Army, and finally went to exterminate the two rivers." ”

Liu Xingchao: "You'd better hurry, because every day they are in Gentle Township, their combat effectiveness weakens by a point." After a few years, they were no different from the Imperial Army. Therefore, you better hurry. ”

Li Guozhong said slowly: "Then I continue to recruit, what does it matter?" ”

Liu Xingchao's eyes trembled as he stared at him, and his nose made a "hum" sound.

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At the inner court rally in the evening, Liu Xingchao, the head of the inner court, complained: "What nonsense! A bunch of troublemakers! Siyi didn't dare to provoke even the inner court, and the prime minister dared to let them in! ”

Siyi refers to the Extreme North Province, the Extreme South Province, the Western Desert Province, and the Donghai Province. The Western Regions of Mongolia are not considered to be the Four Empires, but they are next to the Far North Province and the Western Desert Province, so the Inner Court generally does not want to have anything to do with them.

Liu Xingchao suddenly asked me, "What happened to those two women in the Holy Land and Sichuan?" ”

Me: "Those two women haven't been seen in days. Rui'er plays with the queen every day, and Yao'er plays in Xi'an County and Chang'an County all day long. ”

Liu Xingchao: "Stop staring at them, go and see the mercenary people." Look at their bottom line. The target now is the outer pilgrimage, not the Holy Land. ”

Me: "Guaranteed to complete the mission!" ”