Su Chen left after lunch, and Liwuzi also took the palace people to Qingning Palace to deal with the affairs after the wedding banquet.

The three daughters stayed in the Heart Cultivation Palace, without any restraint from anyone, the newlywed Yan'er, Lang Jun was gentle and considerate, and the relationship between the three was naturally very harmonious.

"Sister, did the emperor go to your room last night?"

"Guess what. ”

"People can't guess. ”

"I heard the palace maid say, the emperor walked out of your room this morning, how does the emperor feel when he stays in the palace of Zhuyu overnight..... Isn't it, the first taste, ecstasy?"

"Sister Daji, you are so annoying, Zhuyu ignores you. ”

Yun Zhuyu's face was full of shame, and he was so anxious that he stomped his feet, but he was reminded of the taste of last night by them, which was really delicate and soft, and almost turned into a mess of water.

"Is the little girl still shy?"

Daji blinked her beautiful eyes and said with a snicker: "Then let's do it, we can't lose our sister as sisters, didn't the emperor say that we should discuss the order of serving the emperor by ourselves? In my opinion, let Zhuyu come to serve the emperor first tonight." ”

Yun Zhuxin nodded and exclaimed: "Good idea, it just so happens that I still have a few pharmacies to study in the evening." ”

"Ah, you guys are so bad. ”

Yun Zhuyu is really unbearable, covering his ears, sitting and not listening, and the little appearance of blushing and flying cheeks is really cute.

While talking and laughing, the melodious voice like a silver bell kept coming from the Heart Cultivation Palace, which made people's hearts flutter.

It is said that the watered flowers are more moisturizing and coquettish, and now it seems that this is indeed the case.

......

Under Su Chen's order, the ministers and generals of the Military Aircraft Pavilion came to the imperial study room one after another to wait.

The hall is full of civil and military, all of them are powerful ministers, and they look like a small court.

"We meet the emperor, long live the emperor, long live, long live. ”

"We meet the emperor, long live the emperor, long live, long live. ”

"We meet the emperor, long live the emperor, long live, long live. ”

Sima Yi took the lead in kneeling down and led everyone to bow to Su Chen.

Although the emperor has already instructed you not to be so formalistic in private, but just listen to these words, the emperor asks you not to worship, you really don't worship?

The words of the leader sometimes have to be listened to in reverse.

"It's not so much politeness, let's be flat, let's sit. ”

"Wow. ”

Sima Yi and the others stood up respectfully, and Jia Xu was the first to say with a smile: "The emperor looks high-spirited and energetic today, so that the ministers can't help but feel ashamed of themselves." ”

No wonder this old boy has lived a long time in the history books, and from time to time he is patted with sycophants, not to mention the means, but it sounds exceptionally comfortable.

"The emperor is in good spirits on happy occasions, besides, the emperor was also majestic in the past, so we are naturally inferior. ”

Sima Yi opened his mouth seriously, and Jia Xu nodded again and again: "Zhongda is right. ”

"Talky, I have something to ask you. ”

Su Chen scolded with a smile: "How are the preparations of the new army?"

As early as before the beginning of winter, when Shang Ying was preparing for reform, his colleagues in the national reform, the army reform, formation, reduction, and expansion of the army in Daxia were also among them.

Now that a few months have passed, it should have paid off.

Regardless of whether the army will be mobilized in the spring of the next year, it is necessary for Su Chen to roughly sort out the affairs of the army at this time, in case the courtiers will make mistakes and do wrong things.

Everyone looked at Sima Yi one after another, including the eyes of several generals.

Sima Yi is the secretary of the military department, although the reform matters are led by Shang Ying, supplemented by everyone, but in the handling of military power, everyone is cautious, and basically Sima Yi takes the lead in handling it.

"The emperor, the ministers and others live up to expectations, and the affairs of the new army are basically prepared. ”

Sima Yi's face was pale, and he arched his hand and said.

"Well, let's talk about it. ”

Su Chen nodded and motioned for Sima Yi to continue speaking.

He is very concerned about this matter, no! It should be said that Su Chen attaches great importance to this matter!

Military strength represents the hard power of a country.

The army of Great Xia is the lifeblood of Great Xia, and it is the most powerful sword in Su Chen's hand, which must be taken seriously.

"Wow. ”

Sima Yi nodded, and then slowly introduced to Su Chen all the details about the preparations of the new army recently.

Originally, the system of the Great Xia army was very bloated and complicated, and this time the military reform first started with the census of the number of troops, and the army of the ten major counties in the country, including the imperial capital, had about nearly 10 million people!

Yes, you read that right, there are nearly 10 million troops, which still excludes 500,000 Sima troops and 200,000 reserve troops in Eastern Xinjiang.

If the number of troops of nearly 10 million people is all elite, or most of them have the strength of county guards, Su Chen can also accept it, but this is not the case.

In addition to the Great Xia Iron Army and the Great Xia Town Guards, these nearly 10 million troops are divided into various corners of the ten major counties, and many of them are not regular soldiers and soldiers, but all family lords, squires, officials, children, high-ranking servants, etc., these people with mixed backgrounds act as soldiers and are named in the army.

For example, there are more than 100 large and small cities and towns in Taihe County, and the county guards in the general city are full of 1,000 people, and the number of guards in the capital is relatively large, ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 people, according to the geographical environment and situation.

According to common sense, the number of full guards in Taihe County will not exceed 200,000, right?

But the actual situation is that the number of nominal guards in Taihe County exceeds 850,000, of which nine-tenths are nominal in the military establishment, eating military salaries every year, and emptying the national strength of Daxia, and once it is wartime, there are only less than 100,000 real guards that Taihe County can mobilize!

This is a very frightening ratio, and it is also the status quo of the extremely corrupt army.

This is a mess left by the previous emperors, not accumulated in a day, but also caused by the shortcomings of the existing system of the Great Xia Dynasty.

Chaos in the military has emerged one after another in other industries and fields, and even in various grass-roots government offices.

It is precisely because of these constant chaos that the original strong national strength of the Great Xia Dynasty has rapidly declined and moved into an embarrassing and dangerous situation.

Fortunately, in the past few months, Sima Yi, the Military Aircraft Pavilion, and generals at all levels have worked together to clean up the chaotic status quo.

In particular, the handling of chaos in the military is a top priority.

In order to show its determination, the Military Machine Pavilion has killed tens of thousands of soldiers and grassroots generals in the army in the past few months, and at the same time questioned many local officials who colluded with the family gate lords, and also copied many family gate lords who made a lot of national fortune.

"According to the emperor's decision, all the prisoners were beheaded to set an example, and at the same time, all the proceeds of the raid were put into the treasury. ”

Sima Yi said slowly: "At the same time, in the past few months, the reform, reduction, and reconstruction of the country's military establishment have all been completed. ”

"You're doing a good job. ”

Su Chen nodded, he would not be soft on this group of vampires.

At the critical moment of the national crisis, they still think day and night about how to suck a mouthful of the country's blood, a group of greedy people, not killing them is not enough to calm the anger of the monarch.

Don't look at the military salary of a soldier, it is not much, but the sum of thousands, or even nearly 10 million, is a huge military expenditure, which is very terrifying, and at the same time, it also seriously drags down the existing military combat strength of Great Xia.

This is also why for so many years, Great Xia can only rely on the Si family army to fight against the orc empire.

If half of the military establishment of these tens of millions of people is regular soldiers who can fight against foreign enemies, then Great Xia, which has an infinite number of years, will not be so embarrassed and overwhelmed by an orc empire.

"The chaos is now all gone?"

"Nine out of ten, the remaining side branches are not to worry about, and all the cleaning and tidying can be completed before the beginning of spring. ”

"Good. ”

Su Chen nodded and said, "The establishment of the new army can be promoted and implemented, and what is the effect?"

"It has been promoted to the whole country two months ago, but there is no war at present, and it is impossible to see how effective it is. ”

Sima Yi didn't dare to say it all the time.

Su Chen smiled and said, "Tell me about it, I have my own opinions." ”

The basic situation of the army needs to be explained, otherwise there will be a follow-up war, and everyone doesn't know how many troops the protagonist has under his hands, and what is the combat power, right?

There won't be much of this plot, explain it in a chapter or two, and I'll return to the theme soon.

(End of chapter)