Valley Emperor

In the past year, the population of the Tang Dynasty has skyrocketed, from a few hundred people at the beginning to nearly a thousand people, and more than 2,000 people at the end of the year to more than 3,000 people now.

The increase in population has not only increased the strength of the Tang Dynasty rapidly, but has also caused constant changes in the power of civil and military officials in the court.

For example, before the annexation of Shuilongzhai, the Tang Dynasty could be said to be dominated by Fang Dongquan. At that time, Fang Dongquan could even directly control and threaten Li Xuan's life.

After the annexation of Shuilongzhai, Huang Xueren relied on the people of the original Shuilongzhai and Li Xuan's deliberate support, making Huang Xueren second only to Fang Dongquan in power in the Tang Dynasty.

For a long time after that, the pattern of the Tang Dynasty was that Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren were competing. In this process, although Butcher Chen also gradually rose by his own powerful strength, he still could not threaten the power of Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren. .

Later, after defeating the Ming army in Luohu Valley and capturing more than 60 prisoners of the Ming army, Li Xuan and the Empress Dowager Bai joined hands to support Bai Yunqi, and let Bai Yunqi use more than 60 prisoners of the Ming army to form a standing army rear army.

After recovering Jiguan Mountain, Heihu Village and Huanggui Mountain, Cai Erhu entered the power core of the Tang Dynasty again.

Coupled with Wang Shanxu of the Guards, before the Ming army entered the mountains on a large scale, the main power of the Tang Dynasty, that is, the military power, formed a situation of two superpowers and more than one strong.

That is, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren used the greatest strength on the surface. Below these two, they were Chen Tufu, Bai Yunqi, Wang Danxu, and Cai Erhu, who were weaker in strength and influence.

The above six people jointly controlled the military power of the Tang Dynasty and formed a relatively stable pattern.

However, after a month of fighting against the Ming army, with the splendor of the Guards, this situation has undergone great changes. Wang Danxu, relying on the strong combat power of the Guards, was in the entire Tang Dynasty. voice has increased significantly.

Now it can be said that it is almost the same as Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, and even at some critical moment, Wang Danxu's words are even more important.

And this is just because he is the commander-in-chief of the Guards!

Fang Dongquan and the others had wondered if they had snatched the Guards from Wang Danxu, but they did not dare to act because they had too many scruples, because everyone knew that the Guards were not actually created by Wang Danxu, but instead. They were trained by their emperor 'Li Xuan', and the candidates for the commander-in-chief of the Guards and even the officers of each team were personally selected by Li Xuan.

If Fang Dongquan and the others dared to act without authorization and **** the military power of the Guards, they would probably end up badly.

So they put their hopes on this opportunity to build a full-time professional army. Everyone knows that it will definitely be dominated by the guards. As for the standing army, everyone, including Fang Dongquan, knows that the standing army is in front of the guards. , is simply unstoppable.

After the Guards complete their full-time professionalization, their scale will definitely expand, and they will even become the only backbone of the Tang Dynasty. Under such circumstances, does Your Majesty still rest assured that Wang Danxu will command the entire Guards alone?

Your Majesty, he is not afraid of any treasonous intentions of Wang Shanxu, and he brought the guards into the palace late at night?

Impossible, any high-ranking person, no matter whether it is a bandit leader or a mountain valley emperor, they always need to consider the balance between their subordinates.

Fang Dongquan and the others thought so, and they were right. In fact, Li Xuan really planned it.

The Guards will definitely complete full-time professionalization, and the scale will definitely continue to expand, but Wang Danxu cannot control the entire Guards as before.

When Bai Yunqi said that he was planning to build a full-time professional army, everyone's expressions became solemn!

At this time, Wang Shanxu stepped forward and said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, if our Guards can train day and night without being burdened by agricultural work, our combat power can go to a higher level, and we will be invincible in battle for Your Majesty!"

But at this time, Fang Dongquan said: "The guards are powerful, but the scale is only over 90 people, which is not enough to support me in the Tang Dynasty. Fifty people!"

Hearing that Fang Dongquan said that there were 350 people, the individual's reactions were mixed. The commander of the Guards, Wang Shanxu, frowned. The size of the Guards expanded. On the surface, it seemed to be a good thing for him, but the increase in the size of the Guards also It means that he can't control all the guards as before, and this is not a good thing.

And Liu Bagou on the other side of the civilian queue also frowned slightly when he heard this number. He didn't have as many scruples as the others, but went forward and said, "I think the full-time professional army can be trained, and it must be trained, but Three hundred and fifty people are too many."

"There are only more than 3,700 people in the Tang Dynasty. If 350 people are selected as professional troops, a full 10% of the population cannot be employed in agriculture. This is unbearable for us in the Tang Dynasty!"

Selecting some people for full-time training and turning them into full-time soldiers. In fact, this topic has been discussed in private before they returned to the mountains. After all, they all know that if the troops want to be able to fight, they still rely on it. Training, in order for the troops to maintain their daily training for a long time, it must be a professional army that has been full-time, not a semi-professional army like it is now.

However, the number of professional troops that are completely full-time is also very particular. It cannot be said that you can train as many people as you want.

If it is a normal ancient agricultural country, in order not to affect the normal agricultural production, the proportion of the total population of its full-time professional soldiers in peacetime is usually less than 1%, and rarely more than 1%.

For example, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the population was about 450 million, and the national professional army was about one million. The professional army accounted for only a little over 0.2% of the total population.

For the enfeoffmented countries in the West in the Middle Ages, this ratio will be further reduced, usually only 0.1 or even lower, even after mobilization during wartime, it is difficult for this ratio to exceed 1%.

Based on the existing population of the Tang Dynasty, the number of professional soldiers can only be controlled at a scale of about 100. If it is even higher, it will affect normal agricultural production.

However, the above figures are all based on a normal country, but is the Tang Dynasty a normal country?

Certainly not. Although they also grow their own food, most of the ordnance was robbed, and a lot of food was also robbed.

The Tang Dynasty is still a group of bandits in essence. If you talk to a group of bandits about whether the professional army is 1% or 3%, it makes no sense at all.

Because the Tang Dynasty did not live by farming at all!

This also leads to the fact that if the Tang Dynasty wants to build a professional army that is completely full-time, its proportion must be much larger than that of a normal country. However, no matter how large it is, there must be a bottom line.

And this bottom line was limited by Li Xuan to 300 people, that is to say, the Tang Dynasty would usually have 300 professional soldiers who were not involved in production and trained all day long to figure out how to fight.

If there is a large-scale war, these 300 people will be the core, and young and strong bandits will be temporarily mobilized to fight. As for how many people will be temporarily mobilized, there is no specific data, because by then, everyone who is healthy Young and strong men have to participate in the war, and there will be about six or seven hundred people in general.

Liu Bagou objected to 350 people, and even said that 200 people would be enough, while the military insisted on more than 300 people, and Butcher Chen even said that it needed 400 people.

But Li Xuan was puzzled. Your Butcher Chen is planning to go there to find 400 people?

You must know that this time to build a full-time professional army, Li Xuan did not intend to continue to retain people in the standing army on a large scale.

The expected full-time professional army, the source of its soldiers will be composed of four people, the first is naturally more than 90 people in the Guards. The soldiers in the Guards were originally trained for professional soldiers. A professional army is a matter of course.

The second is the more than 60 archers in the standing army. The reason why they were chosen was not because of their quality, but because there were only these archers in the Tang Wang division.

Without their words, we can only find a group of half-bowed bows to shoot arrows. As for training new archers, it will take many years, and Li Xuan said that he can't wait.

By the time he trains the archers, either his Tang Dynasty has been wiped out by the Ming army, or his muskets have already been mass-produced, and the bows and arrows will be phased out and equipped with muskets in batches.

In his plan, archers and spearmen are the same products used for transition. They are used now, and when the production of muskets comes up, they will be thrown away.

The third is the officers at all levels and above in the standing army. These people are people with relatively good grades in the previous training process. At that time, Li Xuan trained them as professional soldiers.

The fourth is the more than 20 gangsters under the command of Butcher Chen. These gangsters are not very good~www.wuxiaspot.com~ but they are ruthless, not only ruthless towards the enemy, but also ruthless towards themselves, daring to wear armor to attack. There are only such people in the standing army in the enemy formation.

As a result, the expected number of professional soldiers is a little over two hundred. As for the rest, Li Xuan plans to recruit from the newly captured villagers!

The reason is very simple, these people are honest enough!

The best soldier is not the bravest one, nor the wisest one, but the most honest one!

In this way, three hundred people should be able to gather enough, as for most of the old fritters, how far they go!

After the approximate number of people was determined, everyone began to discuss the establishment again.

This is a multi-armed army that will have archers, heavy armored sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, cavalry, musketeers, and baggage soldiers. How to configure so many arms can maximize combat effectiveness? Not a hassle.

In addition, Fang Dongquan, Wang Danxu and the others are more concerned about how many senior generals will be in this newly established professional army, and who will these positions go to?