Chapter 718: Third Brother, You Pit Me
At present, the total number of soldiers in the Tang Dynasty is 680,000 soldiers, and the 16 guards of Chang'an have as many as 320,000 troops.
The 320,000 government soldiers of the 16th guard of Chang'an were originally selected as relatively elite, and the 320,000 government soldiers were counted, and the final retired soldiers were about 60,000, and these 60,000 people were mainly affected by their families.
Although they all signed retirement contracts, they did not refuse to become officials of the Datang Ministry of Public Security, and the monthly salary of the officials of the Ministry of Public Security was also provided according to the basic monthly salary of 150 Wen per month.
According to the different places of their household registration, these 60,000 government soldiers quickly returned to the local area, and then built the local public security bureau, and some of the original veteran captains and team members of the retired government soldiers were directly appointed as the heads of the local public security bureaus after they arrived at the locality, responsible for local public security incidents.
According to the news transmitted from all over the country, the entire Tang Dynasty 680,000 government soldiers, counting the 60,000 near Chang'an, a total of about 170,000 people want to retire and return to the local area, most of these 170,000 people are veterans, mainly over 35 years old, in fact, the reason for this is because some of the soldiers are old singles, either not married, or their wives ran away with others, and they still want to marry a wife.
And these 170,000 government soldiers are almost all over the country's more than 600 prefectures, but they almost all have the same choice, that is, to become officials of the Ministry of Public Security, after all, for the people, officials are actually quite attractive, just to maintain daily security, and the point is to have monthly money.
There are not only 170,000 veterans, but also about 200,000 retired soldiers at home, especially some of the soldiers who have made meritorious contributions to the Tang Dynasty, but are disabled.
These disabled veterans who have become local officials, in fact, if they don't go out of the task, they are just monthly money, for Li Ke, this monthly money is simply drizzle, and he doesn't care.
So there are as many as you want, the important thing is that if you collect these disabled soldiers, you will gather the hearts of the army! It can be said that the morale of the army has been greatly boosted! Because the soldiers no longer have to worry about their disabilities, they can't survive after retirement, and they can't even farm the land, so they don't have to worry about their own worries, can their morale not be improved?
Again, the poor are patriotic, because they know very well that if the country is gone, the home is gone. In the case of being free from worries, their courage to kill the enemy does not know how many times increased.
And Qin Qiong, who is the secretary of the Ministry of Public Security, can be said to have 370,000 troops in an instant!
The Tang Dynasty is different from modern times, these officials and officials of the Tang Dynasty have the right to wear armor and carry weapons and knives in the locality, and even equipped with bows and crossbows, although their armor is mainly leather armor, but this is also a huge force.
Theoretically speaking, these soldiers seem to have retired, but in fact, the strength of the Tang Dynasty has not decreased, because most of the soldiers of these local military governments will also maintain a part of the local government before.
Although 170,000 government soldiers have been removed, in this month's time, the entire Datang has recruited about 150,000 recruits over the age of 18.
In other words, the overall strength of Datang is only 20,000 lower, but in fact, the available troops are much more.
In the past, the local military government had a certain function of maintaining local law and order, but now because this part of the function is temporarily entrusted to the Ministry of Public Security, the 634 military offices across the country have begun to merge their functions.
The training of recruits is concentrated in a large military office.
After the statistics of these data are completed, the whole country began a large-scale military training, among which the vicinity of Chang'an City is the most enthusiastic, after all, there are currently 300,000 government soldiers collective training here, including some veterans to complete the new type of queue training, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as in full swing.
In addition, there is no shortage of grain in Datang at present, through the canal and canal, a steady stream of grain is transported to all parts of Datang by boat, especially in Guanzhong because of its dense population, it has always been necessary to supplement food from other provinces, and now there is no shortage of food in Guanzhong, and other nearby provinces do not need to supplement Guanzhong, and the grain of these provinces is also enough.
Taiji Palace, Liangyi Palace, Li Shimin is confronting Li Ke.
"You give an honest explanation to Lao Tzu, what did Changle do?" Li Shimin asked as he knocked on the table.
"I promised, Changle can't say." Li Ke shook his head and said quickly.
"Lao Tzu tells you, if you dare to let Changle do anything dangerous, if you can get out of bed within three months, I will have your surname." Li Shimin said with a glare.
"Isn't that still surnamed Li? You have the ability to have my mother's surname. Li Ke subconsciously spoke.
With a "bang", the stick in Li Shimin's hand was directly pumped on Li Ke's body.
"Oh, Dad, what do you want, how can I let Changle do dangerous things, it's too late for me to hurt her." Li Ke said helplessly.
"Changle practiced martial arts, rode horses, played with bows and crossbows, condoled the families of soldiers, and condoled border soldiers, tell Lao Tzu, which one was not made by you?" Li Shimin asked with a glare.
"That'...... She herself is very happy, and Erchen thinks it's good for them to live their wonderful lives. Li Ke shrugged his shoulders, "Besides, these places she went to are not dangerous." ”
"Wait, you don't really want Changle to be the empress, do you?" Li Shimin suddenly thought of something, looked at Li Ke with a vigilant expression, and said, "You won't let her learn something, will you?" ”
"Uh......" Li Ke choked, this, it can't be counted, I'm just cultivating Changle.
Li Shimin: "......"
"You owe a beating to Lao Tzu, right?" Li Shimin looked at Li Ke viciously.
"Oh, dad isn't, it's not up to you to decide whether this can be the empress, what's wrong with me letting her learn more? Besides, you're not fair. Li Ke shouted.
"How could I be unfair?" Li Shimin glared at him and asked.
"Li Tai went to participate in special forces training, so you don't care?" Li Ke said quickly.
"As a man, what's wrong with him training more? Lao Tzu still led the army to fight back then, he was just training, and he should be. Li Shimin said lightly.
Li Ke was a little speechless, if you knew what Li Tai was playing, you wouldn't have said that.
At this moment, twenty miles south of Chang'an City, near a special military camp at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, Li Tairen, who was lying in a mud puddle doing push-ups, was numb...... Third brother, you cheated me...... It's not at all the same as the troops I trained before!