Changan!

Liu Ponu still squatted in his small village, although the palace in Weiyang Palace was more comfortable.

But as long as he is in Weiyang Palace, he will always be caught by Liu Che, a bad old man.

So Liu Ponu, the chicken thief, simply stayed outside, as long as you can't find me, then it is impossible to catch my strong man.

The formation of the new army began long ago, and it was natural that there would be no problem with the number of soldiers.

Although the Han Dynasty has gone through 20 years of war and has lost tens of millions of people, it is still no problem to form a new army of 100,000 people.

Of course, in the short term, the number of troops of the Han Dynasty has increased a lot compared with half a year ago.

Moreover, this is still in a non-war period, and if it had been in the past, the people would have been mourning for a long time.

However, this time the people did not react much, and even expressed support for the military service reform of the imperial court.

How can ordinary people have so many crooked thoughts?

It is only necessary to explain the policy to them, and this explanation is much simpler.

Don't mention words such as the righteousness of the family and the country, and the words of loyalty and patriotism.

Just tell them two points directly, the first point is that the new army will serve on schedule, the first period is five years, in principle, the first phase will only leave 30% of the people into the second phase, and the second phase will leave less than 10% into the third phase, in addition to the new army has a military salary, and the amount of military pay will rise once a year according to the service period.

The second point is that the reform of the new army is comprehensive, and the imperial court plans to complete the reform of the army in five to ten years, and after the reform is completed, the original military service system will be abolished.

That is, the next five to ten years will be a transitional period, and the two military systems will be synchronized and parallel.

However, with the increase in the number of new troops, the old military system will gradually reduce the recruitment of civilians until the reform is fully completed, and the previous system will be completely abandoned.

This also means that after the reform is completed, the people no longer need to register with the government according to the rules, and they will have to serve in the military when they reach the age.

Of course, the income of the imperial court is not much now.

Although compared with before, the use of workshops in various places has brought a lot of profits to the imperial court, but if it is built according to the new army, that income is not enough at all.

Therefore, the standard set by the imperial court for the military salary of the new army is not high, but whether it is high or low, at least it is money, and it is not completely a prostitute as before.

Similarly, in order to avoid not being able to attract people to enlist in the army because of low salaries, the new military system still retains the provision of compulsory conscription.

It's just not the same as the previous forced call-up!

With the strong combat effectiveness of the new army in the Western Regions, the imperial court gradually realized that the times were really different.

In the past, it was basically difficult to recur the kind of military operations that involved hundreds of thousands of troops, and the number of troops stationed on the border could be reduced accordingly.

In other words, the Han Dynasty does not need troops of the same size as it is now to hold the current country.

Naturally, the terms of compulsory conscription were changed accordingly, and each state had to report the total population of each state and the number of people of prime age to the imperial court in April of each year.

The imperial court will decide how many people to be conscripted before July according to the actual situation of the year, and the state capital, after receiving the reply from the imperial court, needs to distribute the number of conscripts in equal proportion to the counties, and each county will be distributed to the counties, townships, and villages.

The identification of the number of soldiers will then be completed by November, and the soldiers will be sent to the designated barracks by December.

Liu Ponu almost single-handedly completed this set of recruit recruitment system, but it was not difficult for Liu Ponu, it was nothing more than making some changes according to the actual situation of the Han Dynasty, and copying the rest of the homework.

The mandatory clause ensured that the imperial court could have enough soldiers to recruit when there was a need, and in normal times, one out of five people who signed up might not be able to draw one.

As for the current new army, Liu Ponu directly became the shopkeeper.

Naturally, the 500 people who Liu Che took away were training, and some of them were selected to follow the elites who were transferred from the North and South Battalions to learn how to be a good logistics soldier.

After all, in Liu Ponu's plan, the next army is professional, which also includes logistics transportation or something, so it is naturally impossible to recruit a large number of conscripts to be responsible for logistics.

"Your Highness, the rise of this wheat doesn't look good...... an old farmer picked up the snow on the ground, and looked at the wheat that had not changed for several days and said with a sad face.

"It's okay, I've asked Youzhou, winter wheat is like this, don't look at it now, but it will rise like crazy after spring, and I've heard people say that if the snow falls this winter, the higher the wheat harvest will be in the coming year." Liu Ponu comforted without panic at all.

Ruixue Zhaofeng year, this palace knows best!

By the way, who wrote this poem?

Forget it, even if you don't know it, even if you don't know it, if you feel embarrassed, give it to Lao Zhou......

"I hope so, if this winter wheat can really be made, the people's lives will be comfortable......" The old farmer looked forward to it with a face full of satisfaction.

Although the clothes on his body are not thick and not warm, the old farmer's heart is warm, and in this cold winter weather, the old farmer still has to take half a day to wander in the fields every day.

The reason why I didn't come out for the rest of the day was because it was too cold and my body couldn't bear it.

"Your Highness, I heard that we have won a battle in the Western Regions?" Worried about the finished grain, the old peasants were concerned about national affairs again.

He didn't know what the specific thing was, but he knew that a few days ago, there was a flying horse from the Yumen Pass, and the kind of flag was planted on his body, and then the palace became excited, and even Chang'an City was renovated inside and out.

Of course, there is also a strike hard, in short, it is to make Chang'an look different in the short term, many people just heard that the Western Regions won the war, but a victory is worth it?

And this kind of national affairs should not have been asked by an old farmer, but he just couldn't help it, not for others, but for himself.

Liu Ponu glanced at the old farmer and wanted to say something, but in the end he couldn't open his mouth.

He didn't blame the old farmer, he just didn't know what to say.

The old peasant's son was in the ranks of the expedition to the Western Regions, but he did not go out as a new army, but one of the 8,000 elite soldiers in the first batch of troops to follow Li Guangli.

Facts have proved that Liu Ponu's dissatisfaction with Li Guangli is not a problem at all, and the bad Li Guangli has made a mess of the whole thing.

The most unreasonable thing is that Li Guangli took the remnants to stay outside the Yumen Pass for two months, to say the least.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

But after returning to Chang'an, when Liu Ponu asked him for the list of the dead, Li Guangli didn't know, he didn't count the life and death of his subordinates at all, he only knew how many people he had left.

Dahan has such unreliable generals, and it is not surprising that there will be successive defeats.

In the end, it was Liu Ponu who asked Han Yannian to count a list of Li Guangli's remnants and send it back, and then compared it with the list of expeditions one by one, and then the list of the dead was counted.

However, this list has not been released to the public, and Dahan has no precedent for publishing the list of the dead.

Liu Ponu also saw the name of the old farmer's son in the list of the dead, and for most people, this was just an unlucky stranger.

But for the old farmers, the results are different.

The old farmer had six children in his lifetime, four of whom died.

And his eldest son fell ill seven months ago because of an illness, and finally never got up again, and the only hope left for the old peasant was his young son who had gone on an expedition to the Western Regions.

The old farmer tried his best to persuade his eldest daughter-in-law to remarry his younger son, although this kind of thing sounds a little awkward, but it is still very common at the bottom of the current Han Dynasty.

There is no confusion of generations, and it is also remarried after the death of the person, which is not considered to be against human ethics.

The most important thing is that after remarrying the little uncle, no matter what, he will not starve his own child, no matter what, it is also his own nephew.

Of course, the most important thing is that you don't have to go to someone to talk to at home, which can save a lot of money.

The old farmer was still looking forward to the return of his young son, but he didn't know that he couldn't wait any longer this time.

This kind of eucalyptus is not only the old farmer in Dahan, Liu Ponu doesn't know a lot.

Although he also felt miserable, what could he do?

"Well, this time it was really a big victory, and when I saw the Han army in the back of the city-states in the Western Regions, I raised my hand and surrendered directly, plus there was a snow disaster on the grassland this year, and the city-states in the Western Regions were worried that they would be looted by the Huns after the beginning of spring, and now there was a powerful Han army in front of them, so they all came one by one in the hope of joining the Han to get the protection of the Han, if you count the time, the envoy group of the Western Regions should almost arrive!" Liu Ponu said expressionlessly.

"Hehe, I didn't expect our new army to be so powerful, and the enemy was frightened to surrender before we met, if it continues to develop like this, I'm afraid it won't be long before the Huns can be completely defeated, right?" Hearing the majesty of the Han army in the Western Regions, the old farmer suddenly felt a little excited in his heart.

"It's coming! After this batch of new troops is trained, they will send troops to the Western Regions, fast next year, slow the year after next, when the 120,000 new army will go north to the grassland, completely solve the hidden danger of the Huns! Liu Ponu nodded again.

Leaking military information?

Inexistent.

Everyone knew that this sudden formation of a new army of 100,000 was for the purpose of an expedition to the Western Regions to attack the Huns who had gathered there.

In order to arm these 100,000 people as soon as possible, the Lantian mining area has been expanded many times.

At the same time, a new workshop was opened in the area around Chang'an where there were iron mines, which was specially used to make guns and ammunition.

Everyone knew that they would definitely fight the Huns next, but they didn't know when it would be and how big it would be.

It doesn't matter if Liu Ponu tells the time and scale, even if the Huns know, what can they do?

Will they be able to withstand the steel torrent of the Han army?

You can't resist it, right?

At present, no country or force in the world can resist the all-out attack of the Han army, which is more than 10,000 people.

Not even the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe!