In this selection in Shangyuan Zhuangli, Xiang Yong, who is in his early 300s, was finally selected as Li Tai's new part.

These more than 300 people are tall and not to mention, most of them are capable of opening a three-stone bow and carrying a weight of 100 catties. The only problem is that there are not many people who are really skilled in riding, and only thirty or forty people can meet the standard of riding and shooting.

After all, raising horses is still a very luxurious behavior for ordinary people in Kannai. Even Liu Sanzhen, a veteran soldier who participated in the Battle of Shayuan and followed Li Tai into the customs, was completely incapable of riding, let alone these new soldiers who had just been recruited.

However, this is not a big problem, these new pawns need to be trained before they can go into battle to kill the enemy.

The drills of the new pawns can be handed over to the veterans left by He Batsheng to Li Tai. Most of these veterans are injured and sick, and it is difficult to put on armor again, but the past experience of the military brigade is still there, and the heavy physical labor is not competent, and arranging the training of new pawns can give full play to the residual heat.

Of these more than 300 villagers, some are powerful and shady households, some are landless people, and some are from all rural households. However, Yuwen Dao and the county magistrate are here, so they can open the door directly, which saves them the trouble of negotiating again.

In addition to the differences in the source of troops and the organizational form of the formal armed forces such as the Janissaries and the Sixth Army, another important difference between the Janissaries and the Sixth Army is that the Praetorian Guards and the Sixth Army are professional soldiers who are completely out of production, and the township regiments have to produce part-time in addition to training and combat.

Haoqiang's private armament is somewhere in between, and the armor and horse equipment and supplies need to be raised by themselves. The leaders of the powerful armies are different in their own abundance and frugality, and the combat effectiveness and organizational strength of the troops are also different, and the powerful military leaders are even far stronger than the regular Sixth Army.

No matter what the identity of these newly recruited villagers was, from now on, they and their families have become Li Tai's subordinates.

Because of the nature of such a private army, the imperial court and the prefectures and counties generally reject the powerful private equity households, because it will cause the loss of a large number of tax units. But we have to accept this phenomenon, in the final analysis, people are still poor and short-sighted, because the hegemon's finances simply cannot support so many unproductive troops.

The development of the government military system was divided into several stages, and the main target of the ninth year of the Great Unification was Guan Longhao's right, and the private army of these powerful troops was recruited.

Yuwentai wanted to play big this year, and expanded the recruitment scale of the township group, but the result almost collapsed. With the administrative and organizational capabilities of the hegemon, it is simply impossible to maintain such a large-scale military expansion. Therefore, the next policy will definitely revert to using Haoqiang as the levy unit, delegating power to maintain the scale of the armed forces.

Therefore, the early government soldiers are large and small powerful military leaders private songs, when the government soldier system was formed in the last years of the Great Unification, Yuwentai gave the surname Hu on the one hand, and at the same time stipulated that the government soldiers should change their surnames to the main surname, recognize the nature of the private music of the government soldiers and win over the middle-level generals of the government soldiers, so as to strengthen the control of the government soldiers.

In later generations, there are many people who are curious, why Guan Longhao can bear to turn their backs on their ancestral surnames and accept the surname Hu is because the premise of the formalization of private music is to accept the surname. When the majority of people accept such a system, even some noise will be eliminated as a destabilizing factor that destroys harmony.

Therefore, the surname Hu has little to do with Huhua or Sinicization, but a military resource allocation with Yuwentai and other Eight Pillars as the core, and the weak have to rely on it, and they will not be annexed by the strong in a disorderly manner.

The characteristics of the government soldiers in this period were that they had the dual nature of the regular armed forces of the imperial court and the private music of the generals, and the support of the army was shared by all members of this system, and how much power had to bear as much obligation as possible.

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The Six Pillars State is the supreme commander of the government soldiers, so there is a system of raising the army jointly provided by the six families. During this period, the main task of the government soldiers was to fight, although they also participated in the guards, but the main thing was to see the relationship between the government soldiers and the emperor.

This situation lasted until the period of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, when the soldiers of the government were changed to attendants, the institutionalization of the guards of the government soldiers, the direct contact between the emperor and the individual soldiers, and the formal large-scale recruitment of the soldiers and the provision of financial supplies by the imperial court, the private nature of the soldiers gradually changed.

The development of Li Tai's power can be regarded as a typical example in the early days of the government soldiers. Although he was awarded the position of governor of the capital, the imperial court and the overlord did not give him a single soldier, and all the soldiers, equipment and supplies needed to be raised by himself.

Therefore, how much power he, the Grand Governor, can wield, depends on how much energy he has. What orders the overlord has are only for him, he himself is a combat unit, and his subordinates are only subordinate to him.

Yuwendao stayed in Shangyuan for a long time before leaving and returning to Huazhou City, while the county envoys stayed behind to discuss the details of the bandit suppression with Li Tai.

More than 300 new pawns still need to be trained, and Li Tai can only use those old pawns at the moment.

When he went to northern Shaanxi before, he had about 600 troops, but when he returned, there were only more than 400 people left, and several subordinate officers of the administrative department each summoned some troops, and now the number of troops who can carry out the anti-bandit operation has recovered to more than 600 people.

Although the number is not much, due to the excellent armor and strong mobility, the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. Unless there are tens of thousands of big bandits with power across states and counties, ordinary bandits are armed with handles.

Of course, if there is really that kind of big bandit, there is no need for Li Tai to make a move, the imperial court will dispatch the requisition and suppression, and the captured personnel and materials are all wealth.

These counties invited Li Tai to enter the country to suppress bandits, and they were naturally responsible for military supplies.

However, in line with the idea that the new business had just started and needed a reward, Li Tai did not ask for too high a reward, and only asked the county to provide some information about the horse materials and bandits, and the sergeants provided him with his own responsibility, but he needed full control of the spoils.

Such conditions can be described as very generous, and when Li Tai brought it up, he immediately won the high praise of the county envoys present.

Honestly, if it is possible, who wants to rule their own banditry?

However, generally there are bandits who have existed for a long time, and most of them are involved with the wealthy families in the territory, and the township groups often return in vain. The heroes are self-respecting, and it is also a tacit understanding in the township that cannot be expressed.

With the presence of bandits, county officials need to rely on the power of large households and need to be polite. The infestation of bandits has made the people's livelihood environment extremely bad, and intensified the dependence of ordinary villagers on wealthy and powerful families.

Although there are also some military leaders who are stationed in the localities, this part of the armed forces is not under the jurisdiction of the county, and the county has no obligation to provide for them. If you want to use it, you can also send money, food and materials first, and how many materials can be exchanged for a head is discussed first.

Some of the military leaders who are short of food will take the initiative to attack the bandits. But after the battle, you will stay in the county and county offices, and you will need to bear the expenses of my marching and fighting!

So sometimes, it's not that county officials don't want to purge bandits in their territory, but they can't afford to do so.

As long as the bandits did not make too much trouble, they did not even dare to report it, and the Taiwan government really wanted to send thousands of men and horses into the country to clean it up, and even if the bandits were killed, the treasury would be empty. It is really difficult to say who is a soldier and who is a bandit in this case.

But now that Li Tai is the king of volumes, the cost of suppressing bandits has been greatly reduced, and the envoys of these counties and counties have a lot less scruples, and they are scrambling to raise their hands to speak, and each of them puts forward the needs of suppressing bandits in the realm.

Seeing this picture of the crowd's enthusiasm, Li Tai couldn't help but be taken aback, is the bandit problem in the Guannai realm already so serious? It's hard to believe that you can still hold on! Are you really asking me to suppress the bandits, or do you want to use me as a knife and sweep away dissidents?

Business is too good and troublesome, after all, Li Tai only has more than 600 people to dispatch at the moment, and most of them have just experienced the guerrilla war in northern Shaanxi and are still waiting for Shili to recuperate.

Therefore, he put forward several conditions, stipulating that the first batch of bandits to be suppressed must have a fixed range of activities, within 100 miles of the Luoshui Valley, and must have conclusive evidence of the crime, and there must be a record of actual invasion of the county and county.

If it is really the kind of rogue who wanders around and has no fixed whereabouts, it is a waste of time to track it down, and if it escapes to a county where there is no agreement between them to suppress bandits, it will be troublesome.

Not to mention that the county officials took revenge for personal gain, just because the township heroes did not obey the control, they returned to the bandits, and only after they did it find out that it was a false accusation, and the Taiwan government asked who was responsible for the crime? What's more, I plan to do this along the coast of Luoshui, if everyone does this, it will be a mess, and the country will not be a country!

With these few qualifications, the next scene is no longer chaotic, and everyone chooses their own choices, and then the masses judge them, and finally select the bandits who are recognized as the most troublesome by the four roads.

Li Tai had a little understanding of the situation of these bandits, and he couldn't help but sigh that the situation of bandits in Guanxi was indeed quite serious.

The longest existence of the road has been active for decades, from the Wan Qian ugly slave chaos in the Kansai period existed, the earliest active in the southwest of Yuanzhou, in recent years only gradually to the southeast, last year after the Bishan War also all the way to the Guanzhong Plain in the South Baishui County, several around the county, plundered nothing.

Other bandit leaders even held state and county official positions in the early years of the Great Unification, and because they did not obey the orders of the hegemon, they fell into the grass and became coars, and controlled an area to set up county control.

Li Tai also agreed with the envoys of these counties and counties to send troops to suppress the bandits, and waited until the Zhuang people came to inform the guests that they had come to visit.

He had just walked out of the middle hall here, and several Feng Xiao stepped forward with tense faces, but opened his mouth with a crying voice: "What is wrong with me, so that you are disgusted by Brother, so you summoned others to educate me and want to drive me out?" ”

Li Tai was puzzled when he heard this, patted his head and frowned and asked, "Where did you hear these evil words?" ”

"Do you still need to listen to others? I've seen people come into the school to ask about things and ask Brother how you teach! ”

When a few Feng said this, his tone turned to anger: "I only said that you have a deep affection with Brother A, but I didn't expect that just because I can't visit and pass the word to Miaoyin Lady for Brother A, you will choose someone else to take my seat!" ”