Your Majesty is wise and martial, but it is difficult to say whether the orders of various places will be disobeyed! ”

"Master Wei, you are slandering, slandering the local order!" Xu Ji almost jumped to his feet.

"Lord Xu, you have instigated Your Majesty to select show girls from the people and enrich the harem, I have to suspect your sinister intentions!"

Wei Hu said with a dark face: "I heard that your Lord Xu's daughter Xu Zhiqing was born with a beautiful face and a beautiful appearance, and the country is fragrant. Lord Xu, you want to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix and become a relative of the emperor, you can't be blamed for this, but what is your intention to encourage Your Majesty to work hard and lose money and recruit beautiful women? ”

Xu Ji does have a daughter in the boudoir, named Xu Zhiqing. This beautiful woman is famous far and wide, and is compared to the living Xi Shi and Zhao Feiyan, who can be called a generation of stunning beauties.

Xu Zhiqing was born in a family of eunuchs, twenty-nine years old, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and talented, no less than other men.

Ran Min had heard of some of Xu Zhiqing's reputation, this woman was very smart at a young age, and she interacted with some literati and writers. Xu Zhiqing's handwriting is very good, and there are even some of her calligraphy and paintings in Daliang!

was poked by Wei Jian to his sore feet, Xu Ji couldn't help but say angrily: "Wei Yan! I think it's you who have ulterior motives! Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, and the seventy-two concubines in the three palaces and six courtyards are no more sparse and ordinary, but now Your Majesty has changed the Yuan to the emperor, and it has been two years since the capital was built, but the palace is full of old people, how can this have a heavenly atmosphere? ”

"Heavenly weather? What is Heavenly Weather? Wei Yan said loudly: "At present, the country has just been established, the society is safe, the four seas are uneven, and the world has not yet been unified. Not to mention the loss of money and labor, how can the world look at Your Majesty by selecting show girls with such fanfare? ”

"Your Majesty is concerned with the safety of the society, the honor and disgrace of the country, the selection of show girls, the birth of children, and the spread of branches and leaves are for the benefit of the country and the people!"

"Hmph, aren't there enough children of His Majesty's concubines?"

"The more the merrier!"

"Xu Ji, you're arguing with strong words!"

"I think you're the one who makes strong arguments! Wei Xuan, you are clearly not thinking about Your Majesty, for the sake of Great Wei! ”

"Ridiculous! For the sake of Your Majesty and Da Wei, is that what you do? You are flattering, flattering, and sloppy, and the country's society will decline because of ministers like you! ”

"Good! Wei Chen, you are so disrespectful! ……”

"Enough!"

Seeing Wei Jian and Xu Ji arguing there, Ran Min was the first two big, and finally couldn't hold back the anger in his heart, and said angrily: "What are you arguing about? Do you think of the Temple as a vegetable market? If you want to quarrel, go out and quarrel! ”

"Your Majesty is angry!" Xu Ji and Wei Jian hurriedly admitted their mistakes.

"The draft is on hold for the time being."

Since Ran Min said so, Xu Ji and Wei Jian couldn't argue, so they had to give up.

Jiankang, Taicheng.

Chu Lianzi, the Empress Dowager who listened to the government, said loudly: "Zhuqing, Shang Shulang Xie An has recently played, the imperial court should follow Ran Wei's example, streamline the government, and train a strong army that is directly trained and commanded by the imperial court." Let's all talk about it! “

Hearing this, the ministers under His Majesty's platform immediately turned their heads to each other and whispered.

It is not an easy thing to form a new army, especially if the elite army streamlines the government, it is very likely to infringe on the interests of many scholars, so when I heard Chu Lianzi's statement, in fact, many ministers were unwilling from the bottom of their hearts.

Seeing that these ministers were talking a lot, they didn't say anything, and Chu Garlic frowned.

"Xie An, tell everyone what you think."

Xie An suddenly stood up, first bowed down and saluted the little emperor and Chu Garlic on the platform, and then turned around and said loudly to the ministers: "Regarding this matter, Xie An needs to explain to everyone present. ”

"After the overthrow of Zhao Zhao, Ran Wei replaced him and settled in the Central Plains. Zhao Zhao is not as powerful as Ran Wei, and the latter is more powerful than the former! How powerful and terrifying Ran Wei is, I believe that the rank is obvious to all, and they all know it! ”

"The Central Plains was in turmoil, the Han and Hu people killed each other, corpses were everywhere, and rivers of blood flowed. This is the time of my life and death! Ran Wei and I are fighting for Hanshuo and Chinese orthodoxy, as the so-called heaven has no two days, there are no two masters of the earth, and the world of great contention is only the supremacy of strong soldiers! ”

"It has been thirty-three years since I crossed to the south. Li Shu of the Central Plains is eager for Wang Shi to restore the Central Plains, dominate the world, and reproduce the glory of Taikang's rule of the world! When Nai's luck was not good, his fate was ill-fated, the imperial court repeatedly went on northern expeditions, few gains, and even lost Guangling, Huaiyin These important towns and important places, and were once drunk by the Wei army on the Yangtze River! ”

Xie An said angrily: "The Han and the thief are not separated, and the royal industry is not partial!" If I want to survive and prosper, I must have a strong army! An army as powerful as the Sixteen Guards of Wei! ”

Hearing this, the ministers nodded one after another, but some raised objections.

Situ Cai Mo came out and said, "Xie Lang, we all understand your intentions. But how easy is it to form a new army and streamline the administration? Where are the soldiers? How much is the salary? Who's in charge? How to train? How big? Wait, these are big questions! Anyone can say empty words, but if you can build a strong army casually, the imperial court will have already recovered the Central Plains. ”

"Lord Situ, that's a good question."

Xie An replied: "The source of soldiers, food, who is in charge of the troops, weapons and armor, horses, training, size, etc., these are all questions. First of all, there is the problem of the source of soldiers, we already have the source of soldiers! ”

When everyone heard this, they all looked at Xie An in confusion.

"Aren't the displaced people who fled from the north to escape the war the best source of soldiers? They were able to cross the river to the south alive, in addition to the luck of inviting heaven and blessing to life, their strong physical fitness cannot be ignored! ”

"And the new army wants to recruit such brave and good fighters. This is one of them! ”

"Second, these displaced people from the north are enterprising, enduring, and more importantly, they are from the Central Plains! More than anyone else, they are eager to restore their homeland and return to Sangzi! With such a will, they will definitely be more unstoppable and indomitable in the future battles against the Wei army! ”

Hearing Xie An say the two reasons for the source of the troops, the ministers all bowed their heads slightly and agreed.

The northern soldiers and horses have always been stronger than the southern ones.

Throughout the ages, in all the dynasties of China, almost all the regimes in the south were in a remote corner, and the one that could complete the great cause of reunification was none other than the regime in the north!

In the era of cold weapons, it was much easier to go from north to south than from south to north!

It depends on the overall national strength, and the most important thing is still - cavalry!

The best cavalry in ancient times often came from three places: Hebei, Hedong (Shanxi) and Helong (Gansu). These three places are close to the plug, the people are brave and martial, and there are excellent grassland resources.

The saying that the cavalry in Hebei is excellent seems to be traced back to Hufu cavalry shooting, and the Youzhou Tucai and White Horse Yicong of the Eastern Han Dynasty are famous.

From the Sixteen Kingdoms to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were frequent wars, and the cavalry in this area ran through the wars of many forces, after the Tang Dynasty, the main defense of the Eastern Turks and Khitan, and it was the main force of the Anshi rebels and the three towns of Heshuo, and there were still cavalry of the Jingsai Army after the Song Dynasty.

Hebei is a great plain without shelter, often becoming a battlefield for decisive battles of large forces, and the strong side of cavalry can often take the initiative. And there is a ranger culture in the local area, and the children of Haoqiang are proud to practice martial arts and participate in war.

Shanxi, including a small part of Inner Mongolia (Hedong, Shuofang, Bingzhou, etc.), is also a traditional northern horse farm.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Jin Kingdom in the south was strong, the north was the land of Chidi and Baidi, and the Yinshan Mountain in the north was also the political and cultural center of the grassland people.

The inhabitants of this place can ride and shoot well, and they are not inferior to their northern counterparts. Since the Han Dynasty, many cavalry generals such as Lu Bu and Zhang Liao were born here, and Zhu Rong and Yu Wentai of the Northern Dynasty were also born in this area.

Gansu (Hexi, Longyou, Liangzhou, etc.) was originally the land of the Dayue clan, with abundant water and grass, suitable for both agriculture and animal husbandry, and connected with the Western Regions, which can import war horses from Central Asia, so it has always been the core area of Chinese horse politics. During the Warring States period, the Qin people were famous for being good at herding horses, and then the two Han Dynasty, Northern Wei Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, and Tang Dynasty all worked hard to operate.

This place is famous for the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry of the Han Dynasty and the Shence Army of the Tang Dynasty.

After the Western Xia conquered this place, it was also known for its strong heavy cavalry.

Regarding Xie An's statement, Yin Hao had different opinions: "Xie Lang, in this way, the new army you want to form is all from the Central Plains in the north?" ”

"Not all, at least the main body is a northern soldier."

"Huh. Xie Lang, you want to train a strong army, that's right, you want to be a strong soldier, that's right. But this new army you want to train is mainly from the north, and I have a problem with that! ”

Hearing this, Xie An was not flustered at all, and asked Yin Hao to let the horse come over.

"Please teach me the Servant."

Although Yin Hao is a well-known talker, when it comes to Taoism, many Confucians who are rich and rich are not as good as him, but Xie An is not afraid at all!

"Hehe, I don't dare to teach you, I just want to say some thoughts in my heart."

Yin Hao said solemnly: "Does Xie Lang think that my southern soldiers are not better than northern soldiers?" As Xie Lang just said, the new army has northern soldiers as the backbone, I know that there are many athletes in the north, but I also have elite people in the south! ”

"Lord Servant Shoot has misunderstood, I have no intention of belittling the Southern soldiers."

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Chapter 0477 - The Source of Troops from the North and the South