"The Crusades?" Li Shimin was a little stunned by these words, "Really? ”

He looked at Li Ke with some suspicion, Pope? The Crusades? And the West still has such a powerful empire? Doesn't that mean that it is more powerful than Persia? After all, if the other side has this ambition to carry out the Eastern Crusade, it means that it has absolute confidence that it will be able to defeat these countries in the East.

Judging from the information that Li Shimin currently knows, although the population of Persia, a country that has existed for hundreds of years, is not as good as that of the Tang Dynasty, its overall strength should not be underestimated. Not to mention that there is an Arab back and forth with Persia, and I heard that there is a Byzantium in the west.

The other party is definitely closer to these three countries, do they want to fight all the way to Datang?

"Of course it's true." Li Ke's face did not change, and his heart did not beat, and he spoke directly.

"No wonder you're in such a hurry to advance Datang's defense line to the vicinity of the West Kunlun Mountains." Li Shimin suddenly realized, he probably understood why Li Ke was in a hurry.

"You sent Pei Xingjian to China to get the latest news, right?"

"But in my opinion, the possibility of them is not high, regardless of the fact that the three countries in the middle are not small countries, let's just say that the distance from the west to the current border of my Datang is at least five or six thousand miles, such a long expedition, not everyone is a champion." Li Shimin shook his head, "Without sufficient logistics, reasonable war mobilization, and a strong national system, if you want to launch such an expedition, the possibility of success is infinitely close to zero." ”

"And you're talking about the Pope, that is to say religious in nature? I admit that some fanatics can burst out with great combat effectiveness, but since it is a large-scale war, then it is impossible for all soldiers to be fanatics, and it is not very likely that all officers are fanatics. ”

"It's just a believer, the casualties, suffering, life and death on the way to the battle are enough to make them start thinking about what they are fighting for, there are no practical interests and enough feelings for the family and country, just for a god who doesn't exist, I'm afraid it's not that this army is deserters all the way."

I have to say that none of the famous emperors in history is simple, and my father has already said too many things.

Li Ke looked at his father and said with a smile: "No matter what, we have to be on guard." ”

"Well, I understand, so you can start the reform of the military department in Datang, some of the military academies you mentioned before can be built, starting with the Sixteen Guards of Chang'an." Li Shimin said.

Chang'an Sixteen Guards, in fact, a guard is almost equivalent to an army, the number of each guard is different, before it was about 25,000 to 4,000, but at present, Chang'an Sixteen Guards are in the overall restructuring, and there will be no such asymmetry in Chang'an Sixteen Guards in the future.

In addition, according to Li Ke's idea, there are not enough practical sixteen guards near Chang'an, and the soldiers with three guards are enough, and the soldiers of other guards can be transferred.

Of course, the premise of this is that the security forces are completely replenished.

Speaking of which, now Qin Qiong is the general with the largest number of troops in the entire Tang Dynasty, and the total number of the entire security army is close to 500,000.

The total number of soldiers in the Tang Dynasty is currently less than 700,000. Of course, this is also because the security forces recruit retired soldiers locally and then conduct training, so the security forces are only responsible for dealing with the local situation.

In other words, the armor on their bodies is not as good as the protective area of the Mingguang armor and the active armor of the Tang Dynasty, but in fact, compared to any other country in the world, it is considered heavy armor.

Such troops, weapons and equipment do not fall, they are enough to defend the city!

In other words, the army before the Tang Dynasty seemed to have more than 600,000 government soldiers, but these government soldiers still needed to guard the localities, and the real ones used for foreign operations may only be more than 100,000.

But now, it is no exaggeration to say that Datang's current 700,000 troops can be used to fight abroad! The available forces are not at all a level!

The most important thing is that Datang's current military system is not a government military system, but a compulsory military service system, that is, all soldiers must be trained continuously, which is at least one year, and then they will enter actual combat.

The Tang Dynasty does not know the future generations, the actual combat is definitely to be the actual combat, if there is no enemy, how can the actual combat? Mountain Sweeper! In all parts of the entire Tang Dynasty, as long as there are bandits and bandits robbing the road, no matter how many people there are, the local government soldiers will directly pull people over.

If you don't train at this time, when will you train in practice?

Therefore, this year, in the entire territory of Datang, large and small bandits do not know how many have been swept away, and at least four or five hundred bandit gangs have been killed.

And there is another benefit to the fact that these bandits and bandits have been killed, at least more than 300,000 people have re-registered their household registration in Datang.

There is no way, at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and I don't know how many people fled into the deep mountains and old forests in order to escape the military disaster, and even many of them fled from the entire village.

Although the Tang Dynasty won the world, it was impossible to distract himself from the vast mountains and forests to find these people.

And now, anyway, the Tang Dynasty court has money, and the amount is ...... The main reason is that His Royal Highness the King of Qin has money, and in the absence of a shortage of food, all he needs to mobilize these government soldiers who need training is the little money every month.

Let's be honest...... It's really not much, the main thing is that the profit is high! And when the monthly money of these government soldiers is taken back, isn't it all consumed in the end! The common people are short of iron tools now! Li Ke has a way to make the economy prosperous, and he is not afraid of the people making money.

When they make money, they invent new things to buy for them.

The ploughshare was bought, and the columbus was bought, and the columbone was bought and there was an iron pot, and the iron pot was bought, and there were kitchen knives, and there were all kinds of iron household utensils in the future, and when these were replenished, there would be horse-drawn carts with iron wheels in the future, and even some sewing machines, etc.

Finally, there are all kinds of cloth, houses, glass, and so on.

All in all, food, clothing, housing and transportation, the common people care about this, and Li Ke also starts from these aspects.

Therefore, in the name of military training, Li Ke asked these soldiers to drill into the deep mountains and old forests when they had nothing to do, and they should be trained as a big deal, large-scale cross-country in the mountains and forests, mountain warfare, mountain adaptability training, etc., and at the same time, they could also train the military doctors to treat various common diseases.

All good things!

So that's how these people came, some villages hidden in the mountains and forests were discovered, and they were a little nervous at first, but they found that their soldiers didn't do anything, just discharged the political commissars, reasoned with them, and talked about policies.

Especially in the world of the new Tang Dynasty, the village chiefs in these villages are also very well-behaved, and they all said that they would contact the nearest township and register for naturalization.

At the same time, these political commissars also said that if they are willing to move out of the deep mountains and old forests, the Tang government will still allocate 100 acres of land to each household.