"That little brother is here first, thank you for the fourth brother." Wuyi couldn't help but be overjoyed, and bowed deeply to me.

"Look at these two brothers, how good they are." Grandma also said with a happy face.

The mother also nodded with satisfaction, indeed. Although the fifth child is not born by my mother, but it is better than my own child, when I was still in the house, I especially loved the fifth child, who had no mother, and I heard my mother say that when my mother left, this kid cried and made trouble not to go with my mother.

It's just that my mother was worried about suffering outside, so she didn't bring this kid out. Now, I am busy with work again, but I am the fifth, and now in the house, most of them are handled by Li Yan, and they are also in order.

To my mother, I really treat it as a mother, although this kid's temper is stubborn, but he is very filial, which is the most satisfying to me.

"By the way, good grandson, is your aunt here to make a toe?" At this time, my grandmother beckoned to me and asked.

"Just the day before yesterday, my grandson just received the news that they had arrived in Yulin County, north of Jiaozhi, and I thought it would take seven or eight days at most." I shook my grandmother's hand and smiled.

Grandma nodded, sighed lightly and said, "Then it's almost time to get to Jiaozhi, alas, this daughter-in-law is embarrassing enough, and your uncle has been sharing this for many years, I really don't know what happened to your uncle now." ”

"Grandma, don't worry, today's Jiaozhi is equivalent to the rule of his grandson, and Jiaozhi Taishou is also an interesting person, so most of the affairs of Jiaozhi are handled by my uncle." I paused and continued.

"Grandma, you can rest assured, there will be no danger if it is my aunt, my grandson has sent a whole regiment of elite guards to escort me, and a few days ago, my uncle has already greeted the Taishou of Yulin County, so there will be nothing wrong."

Hearing this, Grandma nodded with a sigh of relief. "Well, that's fine, so that the husband and wife don't have to be separated by thousands of miles......"

"Mother, you miss your eldest brother too, right?" The mother sat down beside her grandmother and was considerate.

"Yes, my own child, can you not think about it, can you not read it?" Grandma turned around, grabbed her mother's hand, and said with emotion. "I really don't know when Lu Dao will be able to see Dalang."

When I heard this, my heart was astringent, and I took a step back and bowed deeply to my grandmother. "My grandson is not filial, and I ask my grandmother to teach me."

"You kid, get up, come here, good grandson, what are you talking about? The old woman doesn't blame you, it's good for you to complain first. Grandma kindly stroked her shoulders with a kind face. The old man knows that the land of Jiaozhi is very important in the grandson's statecraft, otherwise, how could you let your uncle stay in that wild place for so long? ”

"Grandma...... "I can only be speechless, grandma is so knowledgeable, what else can I say, after thinking about it, I smiled at grandma." Grandma, don't worry too much, my uncle will return to Chang'an by the end of autumn next year at the latest. ”

Although my grandmother is very knowledgeable, it doesn't mean that she doesn't want her son, hearing what I said, my grandmother's eyes lit up and she sat up straight. "Good grandson, why is this?"

"Grandma, because my grandson has already made a plan, next year, I must take the land of Lingnan into my hands and open up the passage with Jiaozhi and the southeast coast." For the family, there is really nothing to hide from such a plan.

Now the gang of the General Staff is spitting all day long, and the stars are flying sideways, deducing the strategy of advancing south. As early as the beginning of next year and as late as the early summer of next year, the army will march south. During this time, 50,000 soldiers have been selected from the original army in Shu, plus two field armies, mixed into a group army, and at present, secret intensive training is being carried out in the southern Shu region.

Although the climate here is not as good as that of Cochin and the southeastern coast, it is already very similar, and it is precisely because of the fear that the northerners will not adapt to the climate of the south, so after returning to the division. He quietly sent the Sixth Army and the Seventh Army back to Shu, entered the southern Shu area, and formed a southward group army with the 50,000 Shu soldiers for strict mixed training.

And the commander-in-chief of the southward group army is still Qu Tutong, no way, since the last time Qu Tutong wanted to take advantage of the big victory to go into hiding, so as not to cook the rabbit to death and the dog cooked, after being severely reprimanded by this son, the old guy regained his spirit, and no longer wanted to do anything moderate or anything like in the past, so the original son was worried that Qu Tutong was old and not easy to go south.

As a result, the old guy jumped out and shouted that he started the south, so even if he couldn't finish it in his hands, he must be asked to do his best again, so the heavy task of seizing Lingnan and opening up Jiaozhi and the southeast coast must be handed over to him.

Originally, I meant to belong to Li Jing, but the problem was that Qu Tutong, an old man with great prestige, jumped out among the three armies, and Li Jing could only shrink his neck in a gloomy manner.

However, Li Jing was still appointed by us to the post of chief of general staff of the southward group army, and Ma Sanbao was the deputy chief of general staff. At present, except for General Qu Da, who left half a month ago, the others have already rushed to the southern Shu region to inspect and reorganize the troops.

In addition to a climatic reason, there is also a very important reason that the northern Yunnan region belongs to the former Sui Dynasty, but the southern Yunnan region is not, it is a group of Baiyue remnants composed of various tribes of various sizes, occupying the land of southern Yunnan.

The only consolation is that the Kunming area is now under the rule of Ben Gongzi. However, the southern Yunnan tribes are not stable, and there are often frictions and conflicts with Shu, and it is precisely for this reason that this son did not dare to let his uncle go directly from southern Yunnan to Jiaozhi, but took a detour.

However, the Southward Group Army was placed there for training, and naturally it was not just playing with knives, but fighting there in actual combat, and while fighting in actual combat, it was also revising its combat methods in light of the environment and climate in the south.

For example, all the long-range strike weapons of the southward group army, such as bows and crossbows, have all been replaced with steel crossbows, and steel crossbows coated with butter not only have their range and hit rate not pressed by wood-based bows and crossbows, but more importantly, they have good adaptability and are not easy to rust in areas where rainy weather is often in the south.

In addition, a large number of portable medicines were added to the southward group army to prevent diseases. Of course, there are a lot of preparations, all of which are targeted according to the messages delivered by Jiaozhi before.

At present, nearly 100,000 people are struggling to build cement straights in Shudi. In addition, the local fishermen and boatmen, who couldn't stand the high-paid ****, joined the river exploration team and the Yangtze River sailor.

Naturally, it was necessary to intensify the exploration of the waterways in order to facilitate the movement and mooring of a large number of boats, and because of the use of local fishermen and boatmen, this work was carried out very smoothly, and at present, most of the river sections have been mapped by the routes of the boats.

With such a river map, the terrible consequences of hitting the reef can be greatly reduced. What has not yet been discovered is only the last section of the territory of Qiqi County, and at present, Shuzhong is stepping up the construction of transport ships and docks. It is necessary to make use of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River system and its main tributaries for the purpose of sailing and, more importantly, for the transfer of troops and baggage.

At that time, even if the cement straight road is not repaired, it doesn't matter, you only need to transport enough materials for 100,000 troops to fight for three months to Shuzhong, and then you can use the convenience of the waterway to reach the ancient Yelang country, today's Qiqi County, and it is much more convenient to enter the land of Lingnan from now on.

It greatly saves manpower and material resources, in short, this son will not be stupid in order to fight, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people to be people, to the most angry and resentful, the Sui Dynasty can be close to the past.

Therefore, Ben Gongzi vigorously developed transportation and water transportation, not only to make it convenient for the people to travel, but also to facilitate the central control of the localities, and more importantly, to make the country no longer consume a lot of manpower when the country was at war, making the domestic situation turbulent and unstable.

What's more, today's army is not the original army, and there is not even a military salary, and this son implements a recruitment system, which means that all soldiers are paid, and they will no longer be like in the past, to work for the country without even getting a penny, maybe it won't be long before they are on the battlefield.

Well, in ancient China, there were two kinds of convocation systems for the national army, one was conscription, and the other was conscription.

The so-called conscription system is not much different from the military service of later generations, and in countries or ethnic groups that are mainly agricultural, military service is often a forced or semi-forced choice, and under certain conditions, the people have the necessity and obligation to engage in military duties, and the system is conscription.

However, the ancient conscription system was much more cruel, and the national conscription would not give these conscripted soldiers a penny, at most they would be provided with armor and crossbows, so that they could have the ability to fight.

But some dynasties even needed these conscripted people to prepare weapons themselves, and there were not even a few who were too poor to simply carry a kitchen knife or hoe to the battlefield.

The conscription system originated in the Spring and Autumn Period, when Wu Qi recruited good materials and formed the first special elite unit of the countries in the form of recruitment instead of traditional conscription: military soldiers. In the past, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the conscription work was mainly for urban hukou, and with the expansion of the scale of the war, the rural conscription work was also impressive, but the conscripts had no wages and had to solve the problem of weapons and food by themselves.

Sometimes in the middle of the war, the weather turns cold, and I have to write a letter to my hometown, ask my mother to make winter clothes, and let my father send them, which is really a loss of money and life. After the battle, the conscripts touched their heads, and if they were still there, they went back to their respective homes to continue to work in the countryside.

Wu Qi reformed this traditional conscription system, he recruited soldiers with strict screening criteria, and once Wu Qi enlisted in the army, he paid them salaries and became professional soldiers, rather than being temporarily conscripted to go home after fighting. These people put down their farm work and carried halberds, which is equivalent to finding a long-term job, not only receiving a salary, but also "one person enlists in the army, and the whole family is glorious": the whole family is exempt from forced labor and taxes, and is also given land and houses.