There was a banquet in the evening. Yi Min, the magistrate and other officials greeted Wang Xiaolie, Wang Ruohai and Wang Yan, and parted happily. The next morning, Wang Xiaolie got up early. After washing, he met Wang Ruohai and Wang Yan.

Together, we randomly picked a restaurant to have breakfast.

After taking two fried dough sticks, an egg, and a bowl of millet porridge, Wang Xiaolie sat down at the table. He said to Yi Min who was accompanying him: "Do the soldiers training here have breakfast like this every morning?

?Don’t do better just because we are here.”

Yi Min said: "Back in Xuanfu, it is like this every day. Sometimes the colors are changed, but they are all the same."

Wang Xiaolie nodded: "This is the best. According to the rules of our army, anyone who changes the old habits of the army to cater to someone coming here will be dismissed."

Yi Quan said: "I understand humble position, I understand humble position!"

After taking two bites of fried dough sticks, Wang Xiaolie said to Wang Ruohai: "Although the food here is simple, it tastes delicious."

Wang Ruohai said: "Xuanfu didn't bring the pickles. The cook here pickled the pickles well and they are very delicious."

Wang Xiaolie said: "I'm not used to eating pickles. By the way, after dinner, give me the menu from your daily restaurant. Whether an army can have enough food and eat well has a great impact on morale.

Big. We can't be careless about these things."

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After breakfast, Wang Xiaolie, Wang Ruohai and Wang Yan separated and wandered around the recruit camp. They didn't return to their residence until it was almost evening.

The three of them were sitting and drinking tea under the ginkgo tree in the yard.

Wang Ruohai said: "Look at this new military camp, it is well managed and Yi Quan is a talented person. Shaanxi recruited 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers all of a sudden. There is a problem with the new military camp, but it won't work. With these 50,000 to 60,000 people from Shaanxi, we can expand

With one army, there will be no shortage of soldiers."

Wang Xiaolie said: "Yes. There are 50,000 or 60,000 in Shaanxi, plus the 30,000 or 40,000 captured during the Battle of Xijing, it's close to 100,000. We don't need to recruit many more recruits from Henan Prefecture and other places, and the number of soldiers is enough."

If we expand our army to 2,670,000, it will be enough to fight the Jin army."

Wang Yandao: "Under Xuanfu's rule, there were only Jingxi Road and half of Hedong Road. With these territories, I could not even imagine raising an army of 267,000 people. How many people need to eat and their homes?"

roll."

Wang Xiaolie said with some emotion: "In the face of a war to destroy the country, how is it possible to recruit soldiers? The more brutal the war, the less money the court has and the less it can afford to raise many soldiers. Without soldiers, they can only be defeated.

The fight will be even worse. If things go on like this, when will the Central Plains be restored? Therefore, our army is mainly based on conscription, and only the officers and utility personnel need to be financed."

Wang Yandao: "During the Xining period, King Jinggong carried out the reform and implemented the Baojia system. This should be what he thought. The army was all raised by the imperial court, and there really wasn't that much money."

Wang Xiaolie said: "It's not just that there is not that much money, the army is hired, and there is a problem with the positioning of the army. The army is to protect the family and the country, what about the hired soldiers? As long as the court has money, the army can

There is no connection with the people. Once this connection is broken, it will cause great trouble."

For a country, what does the army do? The regime must answer this question. Only after answering this question can it formulate corresponding systems. When the scale of the war is small and the intensity is particularly high, mercenaries are undoubtedly cost-effective.

There is no need for so many people. Those who participate in the war are all veterans. The country can achieve greater results with less money. But as the scale of the war expands, no matter how rich the regime is, it cannot afford mercenaries.

At the turn of the Song Dynasty, the strength of the Jin army did not exceed 150,000. However, after several large armies of the Song Dynasty were defeated, the strength of the Song Dynasty was even smaller. In the Battle of Fuping, Zhang Jun lost 200,000 people in the battle, which actually reduced the Song Dynasty's strength.

Almost all of the strategic mobile forces were lost. After that, the Song army could only rely on the Wu Jie brothers to guard the natural barrier at Shukou, and the support of several armies of Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and Liu Guangshi. The total number of these armies was less than 100,000.

At this time, Wang Xiaolie's army was about 120,000, and its strength exceeded half that of the Song Dynasty. However, at this time, ordinary people believed that if they were not soldiers from the Central Plains, and were not led by veteran generals, their combat effectiveness would inevitably be doubted. The victory of Shaanzhou shook the world, and it was the largest

The reason is that Wang Xiaolie proved that his army can fight.

The army of the Song Dynasty at this time cannot be viewed from the perspective of future generations. Throughout the Northern Song Dynasty, the court did not recruit troops in Jiangnan, and the people in Jiangnan did not know how to fight. Until the rise of Yue Fei, Zhao Gou had more than 200,000 troops, and almost all of his troops came from the north.

.In the first twenty years of Zhao Gou's southern crossing, his military strength had no advantage over the Jin army.

Wang Xiaolie implemented a conscription system under his rule, established new barracks, and trained qualified soldiers, which was subversive to the entire strategic pattern. The Jin army's invasion of the south had to face Wang Xiaolie's superior strength. However, the Jin army's combat effectiveness was not enough.

Victory in this situation.

The Song Dynasty has always used a recruitment system, which is related to the regime's positioning of the army. In the eyes of the emperor and ministers, the army is the minions of the court, the emperor's eagles and dogs, and has no responsibility for protecting the country. When facing the enemy, fight as long as you can.

But just run away, and the army won't have any psychological burden.

It is precisely because of this positioning that the Song Army has never had an advantage when facing the Jin Army, except for the short period of Yue Fei's rise. Without an advantage, Zhao Gou was deeply afraid of the Jin Army. This fear led to Zhao Gou's

Cash policy.

Wang Ruohai said: "The army of this dynasty was inherited from the Five Dynasties, so it naturally has problems of one kind or another. From the time when the two Prime Ministers Fan and Han were in northern Shaanxi, to Wang Jinggong's reform, many ministers saw the problems in the army. It's just where the problem came from, and there are different opinions.

.How to solve these problems, many people have come up with many ways, but in the end they have not been successful. Only by announcing the implementation of the conscription system and building new military camps can the situation be solved."

Wang Xiaolie said: "How do I know what problems our army has? I only know that our army could not fight at that time and made many jokes. If the army wants to fight, it must first set aspirations for the army. What aspirations should we set?

Soldiers serve to protect the family and the country, not for any one person. Only when you have made a determination can you implement the conscription system. Civilian conscription is not just about touching your upper and lower lips and giving an order. It is not just the words of the poet Pian Si Li Liu,

Just follow the imperial edict. If you want to recruit soldiers successfully, you must make changes in local affairs. How to attract people to join the army? How to let these people stay in the army with peace of mind after joining the army? What will these people do after they retire? Thousands of people

Continued, we must proceed with caution. We started recruiting soldiers when we were in Xiangyang. While recruiting soldiers, the local government was still changing its policies. Until now, we dare not say that our military conscription system has been perfected. In one or two years, the earliest soldiers to be recruited will be

It’s time to retire. How are these retired people arranged? It’s a test for us!”

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Wang Yandao: "Military matters require local cooperation. I have never heard of such a thing. Once an army is raised, people and food must be recruited from the local area, but the local area is unwilling. Now, in addition to surrendering, people in the army must also

How can they be willing to accept local arrangements?"

Wang Xiaolie said with a smile: "This is something that the local government must do. How well it is done is the performance of the local officials. If the assessment is strict, the local government will naturally not dare to slack off. That's why I said that changing the conscription system to the conscription system is by no means a simple matter.

Just give an order, but there must be corresponding measures."

It is very troublesome to change the military recruitment system into a conscription system. It requires a lot of policy coordination and the efforts of local officials. It is not about issuing an order that conscription will be required in the future, and the conscription system will be established.

People in later generations thought it was simple because they had a lot of experience and mature systems for reference. In the Song Dynasty, facing the new social situation, everything had to be done from scratch. We had to be down-to-earth, change bit by bit, and try bit by bit.

Only in this way can we gain public support.

Over the past few years, Wang Xiaolie has tried a method to increase people's enthusiasm to join the army, so that the army will not be short of soldiers. Next, he will face the problem of how to solve the worries of soldiers when they retire. If people join the army without worries, everyone can

Join the army enthusiastically. Instead of just facing difficult situations, let everyone join the army with enthusiasm.
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