Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"Your Highness, can you tell us in detail?" Li Jing asked Li Ke, arching his hands.

"Of course, in the future, maybe in the next few years, about ten years or so, the military system of the Tang Dynasty will change from the current military service system to a compulsory military service system combined with a professional military system, and cooperate with the militia reserve system."

"All common people are allowed to join the army at the age of 16. The Tang court will provide all expenses for joining the army, including military pay every month. After joining the army for three years, they will retire and become militiamen. The retired soldiers will receive part of the salary. A one-time subsidy."

"The militia, or to be more precise, the reserve system, will be composed of these retired soldiers. They don't need to train day and night like when they were soldiers. They only need to conduct restorative training organized by the local military government every year during the busy farming period. In winter, etc. Patrol training in spare time is used to protect the place, avoid some local bandits and bullies, and maintain local law and order."

"In this way, when a war comes in the country, these reserve soldiers will be recruited as soon as possible. They have sufficient combat experience and can adapt to life in the army as soon as possible to participate in the war."

"However, after joining the army for three years, not all of them will be discharged. Some outstanding soldiers will be allowed to become professional soldiers such as captains and captains! The so-called professional soldiers mean that they will be soldiers for life, and their salary will be greatly increased. Improvement to ensure that the life of their whole family is met.”

"And their retirement age will be set at 45. That's about it, of course there will be a lot of auxiliary measures."

"For example, militiamen who have been discharged from the reserve force will receive education, and patriotic education will be popularized for them."

"And you generals will form another military department that belongs to the military alone, and the generals will implement a rotation system. For example, every few years, the generals from the Western Regions will be transferred to Youzhou, and the generals from Youzhou will be transferred to the Western Regions."

"These will have a reasonable military system. Don't worry about these. What you worry about all your life is how to fight and how to win. This is what I said, are you willing to cut off from the administration?" Li Ke said lightly. .

Li Jing and all the other generals became contemplative. Even Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Jingde were not careless. They knew very well that this was related to their future. to their future.

From His Highness's words, it can be seen that the whole set of military system is well thought out, obviously His Highness already has a plan in mind.

In just ten years, can Datang complete these preparations?Ten years is very short.

Many generals were somewhat puzzled, but what they didn't know was that ten years... was quite a long time for Li Ke.

At that time, the steam engine must have been developed, especially after the development of a large steam engine, another artifact can be put on the agenda.

In a feudal society, a country’s control over its land area depends on the control time from the center to the frontier. It takes about one month for the army to arrive from the capital to the frontier, so it is basically still within the control range. If it exceeds this time, High probability is difficult to control.

"Your Highness, the system you proposed is already very perfect, but if this is the case, the common people must join the army voluntarily, but this is not something that can be done simply by military salary. Are the common people willing to join the army? After all, with your highness’s plan, the common people must have been richer at that time!” Chai Shao, who still looks very healthy, raised his doubts.

Sense of honor?Li Ke smiled, I am familiar with this, it is my field of expertise.

"Where does the people's sense of honor come from? It comes from the country's care for them." Li Ke said with a smile. He remembered a video he had watched in his previous life, a documentary about the last mile. Video of Abu Loha, the last road-accessible village in the country.

"Let me ask you a question." Li Ke said softly.

When everyone looked over, Li Ke asked calmly: "There is such a village, they live between cliffs and are almost isolated from the world, because they used to be some people who were gathered together during the epidemic. , it can be said that they are waiting to die there.”

"But as the disease receded slowly, some of them survived, and thus formed such a village, but the people around them were afraid of them, so they lived a very poor life all the time, and their way out with the outside world was also difficult. But through the rope bridge connected to the other side of the cliff."

"Or it takes a few days to go out, the road between the cliffs."

"There are only more than 200 people living in such a village."

"If there is such a village in Datang, and outside of this village, one day almost all the villages in Datang have built official roads and are connected by official roads, only this last village remains."

"But it is too difficult to repair their roads, and it will cost millions!"

"At this time, what do you think should be chosen? To repair or not to repair? Let them migrate out of that village and find a better place outside to set up a village for them?" Li Ke asked a question with a smile.

Li Ke's question stunned all the generals. Some of these generals were dazed, some were pensive, and some were frowning. Obviously, they were all thinking about what Li Ke's question meant.

"Your Highness, it's not that I, Old Cheng, don't want to answer questions, or...does our Tang Dynasty have the strength? Can we provide official access to every village?" Cheng Yaojin asked awkwardly.

other people:"……"

Say you are stupid, sometimes you are very smart, say you are not stupid, what questions do you ask, so are you stupid?Or play dumb?

"Why can't there be?" Li Ke was not embarrassed at all, he just asked calmly.

Cheng Yaojin was stunned by Li Ke's attitude, His Highness's reaction, is it possible that there is really a country that can do it?Impossible, absolutely impossible!

"Well... From any point of view, moving these 200 people is the best choice, right?" Li Jing asked after a moment of hesitation.

"I think so too. There are millions of guan and two hundred people. Why build this road? It's not a place of good geomantic omen. If two hundred people are moved out and millions of guan are distributed to them, everyone can The [-] points are enough to eat and drink for a lifetime. What are you trying to do?" Yu Guogong Zhang Liang also said.

"You all think so?" Li Ke asked with a smile.

"Yes." Everyone thought about it, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it, isn't this the best choice?