Zhu Youzhen has never understood how important a strong army is. Only when you have absolute strength in your hands can you do what you want to do. Otherwise, even if he is the emperor, he will not be able to put his ideas into practice.

So in Beijing, he banned the Beijing camp and set up the Beijing Guard. And in Liaodong, they did not give up army building.

In the past, the main force of the Praetorian Guard was in Liaodong, but there were only more than 30,000 people. More troops in Liaodong were the former Liaoxi soldiers and the Dongjiang army.

The Dongjiang Army is good to say that the original establishment no longer exists, the original generals of the Dongjiang Army are idle except for Liu Xingzuo, the Dongjiang Army is being transformed according to the model of the Praetorian Guard, Liu Xingzuo has seen the strength of the Praetorian Guard, and is also very cooperative, and in time, it will be completely integrated into the Praetorian Guard system.

The Liaoxi Army was more troublesome, and the Liaoxi generals had been entrenched in Liaoxi for generations, and their marriages were intertwined, and it was very difficult for them to give up their interests. When Sun Chuanting was patrolling Liaodong, he also adopted more pacification measures.

But now, whether it is Zhu Youzhen or Lu Xiangsheng, they have decided not to accommodate these Liaoxi generals. There are 30,000 Praetorian Guards in Liaodong who are shocked, and they are no longer afraid of these generals making trouble.

Sun Chuanting, who had been in western Liaoning for two years, was transferred to Nanjing as the secretary of the military department, and Zhao Shujiao and Cao Wenzhao, who had a lot of ties with Liaoxi, also went to Beijing to be their uncles, in order to completely rectify the soldiers in western Liaoning. Moreover, after the battle of Yongpingfu, the Liaoxi soldiers suffered great losses, and it was the time to take the opportunity to rectify.

The situation in western Liaoning was no different from other border towns, a large number of military fields were divided and occupied by the generals, and ordinary soldiers became tenants of the generals. In the past ten years, the imperial court allocated millions of taels of silver to Liaoxi every year, relying on empty salaries and corruption, the original Liaoxi generals were all rich and had money to support a large number of families, so the combat effectiveness of the Liaoxi soldiers was okay in the border army.

Now, naturally, this situation cannot be allowed to continue, and it is necessary to weaken the strength of the generals of Liaoxi as soon as possible and quickly integrate the entire Liaoxi Town.

Lu Xiangsheng announced that he would recruit soldiers from western Liaoning to go to southern Liaoning and Dingliao to reclaim the right guard in order to expand the strength of southern Liaoning and Dingliao right guard. Dingliao Right Guard refers to the area of Phoenix City, Zhenjiang Fort, and the eastern side of the Liaodong Peninsula bordering North Korea, which has been lost for more than ten years like southern Liaoning, coupled with the great war just experienced, the area of the vast desert is now sparsely populated, and a large number of fields are abandoned and idle.

Lu Xiangsheng promised that all military households willing to go to southern Liaoning and Dingliao right guards, regardless of men and women, and those over the age of 12 would be given fields, ten acres per person, and a land deed would be issued, which would be their private property forever.

Most of the military households in western Liaoning did not have their own land, and they all relied on tenant farming for the generals and fighting with the army to support their families. Now that Jiannu's strength is weakened, the threat to Liaodong is no longer great, and although it is not as safe as Liaoxi to go to Liaonan and Dingliao, it is not unacceptable.

As a result, many military households enthusiastically signed up, and a large number of military households brought their families and went to southern Liaoning and Dingliao under the escort of the Praetorian Guards. When the families arrived, the Praetorian Guards would help them build their houses, and the men would be incorporated into the Praetorian Guard. The fields in southern Liaoning and Dingliao have been developed, and within a few years, they will be able to produce their own grain.

And for this situation, although the generals of Liaoxi were not happy, they had no choice. They could not stop the military families from running towards their own happy lives.

Recruiting military households to settle in southern Liaoning was only the first step for Lu Xiangsheng. Next, Lu Xiangsheng announced that because a large number of Praetorian Guard officers and soldiers were transferred to Beijing to prepare for the establishment of the Beijing Division, so that the number of soldiers in the Western Liaoning Guard was vacant, and the officers and soldiers were specially recruited for the entire Western Liaoning, whether they were ordinary Liao soldiers, or the families of the generals, and even the officers of Western Liaoning, they could all sign up for the draft, and they were included in the establishment of the Praetorian Guard after passing the assessment.

Since the Praetorian Guards were stationed in Liaoxi, they were actually somewhat antagonistic to the original Liao soldiers, and the treatment of the two sides was completely different. The high salaries and benefits of the Praetorian Guards, as well as the brilliant victory in the battle against Jiannu, also made the Liaoxi soldiers and low-ranking officers very envious.

Now that they have the opportunity to join the Praetorian Guard, many Liao soldiers are naturally very happy. Even the families of the former generals were also very excited. For the generals, although the salary is much more than that of ordinary soldiers, it is enough to support their families, but the future is like this. If you join the Praetorian Guard, you will have the opportunity to be promoted to an official for meritorious service, and even be knighted.

By now, everyone has seen that the future of Liaodong must be the Praetorian Guard, and with the successive victories against Jiannu, the power of the Praetorian Guard in Liaodong will become more and more heavy. Now that they have the opportunity to join the Praetorian Guard and become one of them, they naturally will not give up this opportunity.

As a result, for a while, many officers and soldiers in western Liaoning enthusiastically signed up, all wanting to join the Praetorian Guard. In this regard, although the generals of Liaoxi were not happy, they had no way to stop it, so they could only watch their men go to the camp of the Praetorian Guard.

Of course, it is not easy to join the Praetorian Guard, and you must go through an examination. physical fitness, combat skills, and whether he has committed adultery in the past, violated military discipline, and so on.

These Liao soldiers live on the front line of the war against Jiannu all the year round, and their combat quality is still quite high, and they are good soldiers with a little training. As for whether the large-scale recruitment of Liao soldiers will make the team impure, and whether it will make the Praetorian Guard army affected by the generals of Liaoxi, there is no need to consider it. Those who are soldiers will listen to whoever gives money and food, and besides, there is a system of the Praetorian Guard, and as long as you join, you will quickly integrate.

In just two months, Lu Xiangsheng recruited more than 10,000 officers and soldiers from Liaoxi into the Praetorian Guard, and together with the original Praetorian Guards in Liaoxi, he formed an army of 40,000 people, including 8,000 cavalry. Recruiting military households to go to Dingliao in southern Liaoning and find Liao soldiers to join the Praetorian Guard, these two measures greatly weakened the strength of the generals in western Liaoning.

Now in western Liaoning, each city has a Praetorian Guard responsible for guarding, and the military households in western Liaoning have gone home for spring ploughing, under normal circumstances, Lu Xiangsheng will not order the gathering of troops, nor will he order the training of the far Liao soldiers, in this way, those generals in western Liaoning can master only a small number of personal soldiers. The original generals wanted to gather troops for training on their own, but it was impossible. The money and grain are in the hands of Lu Xiangsheng, and he does not allocate money and grain, unless these generals pay for their own training.

In order to ease the situation and prevent chaos, Lu Xiangsheng did not carry out more drastic measures, nor did he deprive these generals of the military land they occupied. Let's leave it at that, and wait until Jiannu is completely driven out of Liaodong.

If these Liaoxi generals are honest, it is not impossible to let them be landlords, but it is impossible to hold power again.

ps: Dizzy, I originally wanted to sleep for a while and get up to code words, but I slept until dawn. This chapter is from yesterday!