Before dawn, Wang Lin got up early and washed and changed clothes under the service of the maid. The main hall faces a lotus pond, where several dry lotus plants stand in the clear pond, and you can see the cool moonlight reflected in the water at a glance. In this northern land, it is rare to see such a Jiangnan charm, and it is very appetizing for Wang Lin.

This mansion was not originally owned by him, this was originally a noble mansion, because he was beheaded for participating in the case of King Langya's rebellion, and Gao Wei gave this mansion with an excellent location to Wang Lin.

It is said that His Majesty had a very good impression of Wang Lin and spoke highly of him, so Wang Lin became a favorite upstart in the eyes of the children of the noble family of Yecheng overnight.

Yesterday, he just returned home, and he received more than a dozen invitations, inviting him to a banquet, which can be regarded as the courtiers in Yecheng to win over and recognize him, which made Wang Lin can't help but feel big, although he was not weak in strength and power in the past, but in the eyes of those lords of the six towns in Yecheng, he still belongs to the countrymen who do not enter the stream, and he has the heart to make friends and there is no one to look at him. But feng shui takes turns, and I didn't expect him Wang Lin to have such a proud day.

How so...... The mood is still very happy......

Wang Lin seems to have forgotten his roots in Huainan......

In Huainan, after all, they are all regarded as sending people under the fence, and even if they have the strength, they have to obediently pick up their tails and be a man. But now it's different, today, he Wang Lin will officially enter the power stage of Daqi and become one of the leading figures!

Being a military leader in Huainan, I don't have anything, but for the sake of my descendants, is this a long-term way? Although Wang Lin was reluctant, he couldn't figure out this account. People go to high places. Feel at ease to be a military leader, and row in your own one-third of an acre of land all day long, which is a useless performance!

He carefully combed his beard and hair in the bronze mirror, straightened his clothes, and put on a set of treasured armor, and then felt that it was too bright...... Judging from rumors and yesterday's observations, His Majesty is a person who likes simplicity, will he not like this set of clothes that looks a little fancy?

Wang Lin hesitated for a moment, and took off the clothes he had already put on, "Go, pick out a dark robe for the old man, that one ...... The ...... of the cloud brocade threw this one ......! He tidied up the bronze mirror again, and now he felt much more stable, so he fastened his sword and prepared to go out.

Before he stepped out of the door, a group of people stepped into the door, dressed in short clothes, with serious faces, all murderous. As soon as Wang Lin wanted to draw his sword, he saw a young man in an aqua blue shirt stepping in from outside the door, and looked at Wang Lin dissatisfied: "What are you doing, I haven't seen you come for a long time, and I still want to invite you?" And ......" Gao Wei pointed and looked at him with strange eyes, "What are you going to do with this outfit?" Going to court? ”

"Your Majesty......, the minister is here to look solemn......" Wang Lin smiled bitterly in his heart, this Majesty is too beyond common sense, his logical thinking is incomprehensible. Wang Lin looked at Gao Wei suspiciously, this is not like an emperor who went to inspect, but like a gentleman who went to the countryside. He didn't bring any of the honor guards and accompanying officials for the emperor's trip, only a small chamberlain, "Your Majesty, ...... this?" He looked at Cushman and Wakefield quizzically.

Gao Wei sighed, and then said: "It's not easy for me to come out of the palace...... I have to inform the former dynasty and the harem, and wait for them to choose an auspicious day, prepare a guard of honor, and arrange for the forbidden army camp to pick up, so I have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse?" It's too troublesome, it's better to keep everything simple...... "Wang Lin understood, the emperor is a white dragon fish suit. I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart, everything was simple...... But you're a little too simple, aren't you......

"And I don't want to see only some superficial work, and I don't want to make such a small thing too much fanfare, so I quietly enter the village, and don't shoot ...... Let's leave it at that......"

"Change this body before you speak...... Bells and whistles...... Everyone knows that you are a big official when you wear this...... Hurry up. ”

Wang Lin: "......"

Gao Wei has been passed on for so long, and this is the first time that he has inspected the thugs under his command, the Yecheng Forbidden Army. This was one of the three most important military power systems of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

With the presence of the Yecheng forbidden army, the Northern Qi court can maintain the polarization of power, and the emperor will not be overshadowed by the nobles of the six towns.

Gao Huan has a special identity, he is a Xianbei Han in the six towns of Huaishuo, and he is also a member of the Gao family in Bohai, so he can eat well on both sides of the six towns and the Hebei family. Both sides strongly supported him, and when Gao Huan was still alive, the contradictions of the Gao clan in the Eastern Wei Dynasty were suppressed by Gao Huan's personal means and charm. But then, the situation changed.

After Gao Huan's death, although Gao Cheng successfully inherited the throne, he did not completely take over the power of the empire. Gao Cheng Gao Yang and other brothers naturally did not want to be a puppet, so they trained their own military strength to compete with Jin Yang and get rid of Jin Yang's constraints. This is the Yecheng Forbidden Army.

In this way, the Northern Qi Dynasty was divided into the six towns of Jinyang, the Yecheng Forbidden Army and the Hebei Wubao three major military groups, the contradiction between Jinyang and Yecheng, the contradiction between the Han and Xianbei, the contradiction between the family and the nobles, etc., plunged the country into endless internal friction.

This is an important reason why the Northern Zhou Dynasty can catch up with the Northern Qi Dynasty later. But even so, Gao Wei is helpless now, he can't disband the Yecheng forbidden army, let alone revoke the power of the six towns of Jinyang, he can only strengthen the power of Yecheng step by step, and use his absolute momentum to subdue the six towns of Jinyang and the Hebei family. One day, the loose military forces of Jinyang, Yecheng, and Hebei will be concentrated and used by him.

He is not the emperor who fights the world like Gao Huan, so he can't make drastic changes to the internal reform, and can only use a knife to eliminate the country's maladministration little by little. Moreover, Jinyang is very difficult to control, and even Gao Huan has to compromise with the six towns. Over the years, although the forbidden army has still maintained its independence, it has been very seriously infiltrated by the forces of the Six Towns. Gao Wei took advantage of the case of King Langya's rebellion, gave the forbidden army a thorough exchange of blood, completely controlled the Yecheng forbidden army, and he also implemented the military transfer system, the purpose is to mix sand and infiltrate the power of Yecheng into Jinyang little by little.

Now that he has ensured that the forbidden army is absolutely subordinate to the imperial power, the next thing to do is to strengthen the power of the forbidden army!

Around Gao Wei and Wang Lin, hundreds of people pretended to be ordinary people and scattered, invisibly opening a passage to isolate the pair of monarchs and ministers.

Gao Wei and Wang Lin entered the Beida Camp in a very low-key manner, and the Beida Battalion, as the head of the forbidden army camp, was the first to expand the number of soldiers. In recent months, there have been strong men from Jianghuai and Mount Tai to be transported, so the current Beidaying is more like a refugee camp than a military camp.

Wang Lin was taken aback, not because of this military camp that looked dilapidated and unorganized, but because he found that most of the people in this military camp seemed to be Han Chinese. Xianbei and Han Chinese are mixed.

Such a large-scale Han army is difficult to see in Northern Qi. The military system of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Western Wei Dynasty generally followed the Northern Wei Dynasty, and its military system also had its own characteristics, which was the Yi-Han division of troops.

Gao Huan started an incident, and the people who relied on it to make it happen were all other ethnic minorities and Han people who were Xianbei or Xianbei. Therefore, the main body of the army of the Eastern Wei Dynasty was the Xianbei soldiers. What Gao Huan adopted was the practice of fighting with the Xianbei people and the Han people farming and paying for grain.

At that time, although there were also Han soldiers, they were separated from the Xianbei soldiers and set up a separate army, led by the Han people. When Gao Yang was in power, he selected the brave and powerful Xianbei soldiers to form elite soldiers, known as Baibao Xianbei. At the same time, the brave and powerful people of the Han people are called warriors, guarding the border fortress.

Later, the Northern Qi Dynasty officially served as a Han Chinese, and still adopted the practice of Gao Huanshi, with the Han soldiers as an army. Gao Huan once set up two internal and external Cao in the Prime Minister's Mansion to be in charge of military affairs, and the inner Cao was a cavalry Cao, and the soldiers in his hands were Xianbei soldiers; Wai Cao is an infantry Cao, who is in charge of foreign soldiers and Han soldiers.

Later, the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Eastern Wei Dynasty copied and improved the system of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the power was transferred to the imperial court, and many positions changed, but the functions and powers of the internal and external two Cao still existed. The Northern Qi Military Department (known as the Five Military Divisions at this time) also managed Han Chinese and Xianbei soldiers separately.

Gao Wei seemed to sense Wang Lin's surprise, so he said: "The imperial court has taken a large number of strong men from the Xianbei tribes of Jianghuai, Yuzhou, Taishan, Hebei, and Yanzhou and Zhou, and sent them to Yecheng to train into an army, a total of about 60,000 people...... At least half of the soldiers are more than before......"

Hu Luguang and Gao Changgong went on the expedition, Gao Wei didn't want to rely too much on Jinyang's strength, this was a good opportunity for Gao Wei to show his muscles, so strong support for them was a must. But in this way, Yecheng's military strength has shrunk greatly, and the Yecheng forbidden army was originally only in the number of 350,000, and after Hu Luguang, Gao Changgong, Gao Yanzong, and Duan Shen were transferred one after another, there were only more than 8,000 people left. Fortunately, conscription was originally an important part of Cushman & Wakefield's disaster relief plan, so at this time, he was able to smoothly expand his troops.

"In Yecheng and other places in Hebei, the imperial court still has some official fields in its hands, and we follow the system on the other side, allowing them to train in the fields for half a day and half a day to achieve self-sufficiency as soon as possible...... The million stone grain and grass promised by the Southern Dynasty have already arrived in Qin County, and the imperial court still has some money and grain in its hands, which is enough to support until the end of the year, and at that time, we can be regarded as having survived......"

"Your Majesty, do you mean to follow Yuwentai and implement the government military system?" Wang Lin thought for a moment and asked.

"Yes...... but not either." Gao Wei said: "My military system is different from theirs......"

"Yuwentai's government soldiers were only born to win over the Han people and strengthen their national strength, but they did not have a complete establishment and system, and they were full of loopholes...... I not only want to implement this system, but also to integrate the government soldiers into the household registration and into the military establishment, and completely control them in the hands of the imperial court......! ”

The early government soldiers included Xianbei soldiers, Guanlong military households, and township soldiers led by Guan Longhao, and there were no ordinary households. The government soldiers are attached to the military register, do not be incorporated into the civilian register, do not bear taxes, and train for half a month in peacetime, stay in the guard for half a month, and go out on an expedition in wartime. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the conscription of government soldiers was expanded to the upper households, and later to the general households. Because the government soldiers could be exempted from taxes, people responded one after another, and the Northern Zhou government soldiers also rose in a straight line, and by the time of the Northern Qi Dynasty, there were 400,000 government soldiers.

Yuwentai relied on the Xianbei forces that took refuge in Yuan Xiu and ran west, and it was difficult to compete with Gao Huan, so when the Xianbei forces of the Western Wei were almost exhausted by the Eastern Wei Dynasty, Yuwentai had no choice but to use the power of the Han people, and the Eight Pillars Kingdom was also born, forming a Guanlong group that was difficult to control and the emperor took turns.

But in any case, the military system greatly strengthened the military and national strength of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and under the influence of a variety of factors, the destruction of the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty became inevitable. At present, there is no policy that can increase the military in a short period of time than the government military system. As for what the Northern Zhou thinks...... Heh, what you say is yours is yours? Have you applied for a patent?

Originally, the government military system evolved according to the military system of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Gao Wei himself could also make adjustments according to it, "every three years to pick points to fill the shortage, and the retired non-commissioned officers will be cut back home, and it will ...... Seventeen to forty-two years old. During the service, the sergeant was exempted from other conscriptions, exempted from taxes, and military funds, weapons, and food were all borne by the imperial court! "In the military system of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the sergeants had to bring their own clothes, dry food and weapons.

"Sergeants are not allowed to go out at will to settle in the territory of the village, they are engaged in agriculture in peacetime, they are idle in farming, and if there is a war, they are ready to go to war!"

"I have to make a ......law," Gao Wei muttered: "Referring to the former system and the military system of the Zhou State, the government soldiers are divided into sixteen armies, taking the national capital as an example, and the forbidden army guards are replaced...... Five times a hundred miles away, seven times five miles away, eight times a thousand miles away, a month ...... each time, nine times two thousand miles away, two months each time ......"

It means that the soldiers in each prefecture are grouped, in groups of five, and take turns to guard in Yecheng, and so on.

"The Sixteenth Army is divided into two provinces, the inner and outer provinces, and the four armies of the inner government must be guarded, and the rest of the states and counties ...... Commissariat ......"

"The generals of the government are directly appointed by the imperial court and commanded by the generals of the Sixteen Guards, and when they are dispatched, they must get the documents issued by the emperor and the Privy Council, as well as ...... The fish charm issued by the Ministry of War, when the war ends, will be attributed to the ......"

In this way, it is avoided that the generals under him will support the self-respect.

It is not unreasonable for the Northern Zhou Dynasty to grow stronger, aside from the fact that their internal affairs are far more clear than those of the Northern Qi, and their system is also more than that of the Northern Qi. The fundamental reason for a country's strength or decline is always the system and internal affairs, and if the system is advanced and the politics is clear, the country will be strong, and all kinds of contradictions and internal frictions will occur.

Why change the law? Because the laws and regulations applied in the past are no longer suitable for the present, the poor will change, and the change will be successful, which is the eternal way to strengthen the country.

From the top to the bottom of the Northern Qi Dynasty, from the imperial court to the local government, the policies and systems at this time were a big sieve full of loopholes in Gao Wei's view. But his status is destined to prevent him from carrying out bottom-up, thorough reforms. And from top to bottom, there are too many limitations, so he can only carefully maintain the balance in the court, like walking a tightrope, a long stream, and eliminate the country's ills little by little.

It's a tough road. But he had no choice.

"But government soldiers also have their limitations......," Gao Wei thought for a moment, and then added: "First, the government soldiers have a single training method, and they also have to farm, which is not professional enough to maximize their personal potential......

"Look at it, although the fighting quality of the Zhou army is good, but when it encounters Jinyang, the elite, it will be easily defeated, why? Because they are not war-fighting people...... It is destined that there will be limits to development......"

"Moreover, if there are frequent battles, the defensive lines are too long, and the military service is heavy, the soldiers are often forced to stay...... Fleeing ...... inevitable, and secondly, no dynasty could prevent land annexation, and if there was less and less land available for garrison farming, then the government soldiers would lose their economic base, and in that case, it would be even more difficult for the imperial court to recruit soldiers......"

"Although the world has not yet reached this point in my lifetime, I think it is necessary to prepare in advance...... Gao Wei said: "I plan to implement the military recruitment system at the same time as the government military system, that is, to spend money to recruit people who voluntarily join the army to serve as soldiers, not farming, and specializing in training and fighting ......!" ”

Gao Wei smiled again, "Of course, I just want to now, there is no such condition, the condition does not allow ......, my private treasury is empty and can already run rats, if I tell Zheng Yu now, I will let his spit drown......"

Cushman & Wakefield sighed with a sense of vicissitudes, "Let's wait for the next year......"

And Wang Lin was already speechless in shock, if he was thinking about this question, it would probably be how to deploy defense, how to train these soldiers better and more efficiently, but Gao Wei, he is thinking about the problem from the perspective of the system and the country. This is the gap between the emperor and the courtiers?

Gao Wei turned back to Wang Lin and said: "This forbidden army is completely under my control, you can rest assured that you can drill and arrange, and no one will come to hinder you, this military ...... To be honest, I don't understand very well, professional things still have to be handed over to a professional person like Wang Qing to do......" He patted him on the shoulder and said, "You don't have to put too much pressure on me, I will bear it for you...... Also, I have arranged a subordinate for you, that is, the Duke of Yanjun who has just taken the throne, Murong Sanzang ......, hehe, the son of the founding meritorious, will come to you tomorrow to order Mao, he is still young, you ......take care of it."

The Murong family has gradually declined over the years, and Murong Sanzang's brother Murong Shisu participated in the rebellion and wanted to overthrow Gao Cheng, but was killed. As a result, the situation of the Murong family has worsened, but fortunately, Murong San is hiding and can support the portal. A declining noble family didn't mind hugging the emperor's thigh at all,...... This young man is also very capable and has outstanding martial arts, and Gao Wei feels that he can use him.

On the one hand, Wang Lin is clamped, and on the other hand, he also cherishes talents. The emperor said it so politely, can Wang Lin still refuse? He had to give the emperor's face, so Wang Lin nodded and said, "The minister understands, please rest assured Your Majesty......"

"You do things, I am naturally at ease." Gao Wei's polite words also came as soon as he opened his mouth, "Okay, I've seen it, I've gone back to the palace first, you remember to go to court tomorrow and officially take office." ”

"......" Wang Lin was speechless for a long time, feeling that she had taken over a troublesome mess......

Sure enough, the pie will not fall from the sky, and the drills and integration of fifty or sixty thousand people ......, this is the rhythm of his old king!