"Your Highness, can you tell us in detail?" Li Jing asked Li Ke, cupping his hands.
"Of course, in the future, perhaps in the next few years or about ten years, Datang's military system will be transformed from the current government military system to a compulsory military service system combined with a professional military system, and in conjunction with the militia reserve system."
"All people are allowed to join the army at the age of sixteen. All expenses will be provided by the Tang Dynasty court, including monthly military pay. After joining the army for three years, they will retire and become militiamen. Retired soldiers will receive a portion of a one-time subsidy.”
"The militia, or to be precise, the reserve system, will be composed of these retired soldiers. They do not 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 and leisure periods. In winter, etc. We conduct patrol training during our free time to protect the place, avoid local bandits and bullies, and maintain local security."
"In this way, when the country has a war, these reserve soldiers will be recruited as soon as possible. They have sufficient combat experience and can adapt to military life and participate in the war as soon as possible."
"But not all soldiers who have joined the army will be discharged after three years. 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 military pay will be greatly increased. improvement to ensure a satisfactory life for their whole family.”
"Their retirement age will be set at 45. That's about it. Of course, there will be many auxiliary measures."
"For example, militiamen who have retired from reserve service will receive education and provide them with popular patriotic education."
"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 this. What you worry about in your life is how to fight and win the war. This is what I said, are you willing to cut off from the administration." Li Ke said lightly. .
Li Jing and other generals all began to think deeply. Even Cheng Yaojin and Yuchi Jingde were not confused. They all knew that this was related to their future. Although they may not be able to live that long, in short, this relationship into their future.
It can be seen from His Highness's words that the entire military system has been carefully considered and perfected. It is obvious that 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 confused, but what they didn't know was that ten years... was already quite a long time for Li Ke.
At that time, the steam engine must have been developed, especially after the large-scale steam engine was developed, another artifact could be put on the agenda.
In feudal society, a country's control of its land area depends on the control time from the center to the frontier. If it takes about a month for the army to arrive from the capital to the frontier, then it is basically still within the control range. If it exceeds this time, The probability is very difficult to control.
"Your Highness, the system you proposed is already very perfect, but if this is the case, then people must join the army voluntarily. But this cannot be achieved with simple military pay. If there is no full sense of honor, how many people can join the army? Are the people willing to join the army? After all, according to your plan, the people will be richer at that time!" Chai Shao, the Duke of Qiao, who seemed to be very healthy now, raised his doubts.
Sense of honor? Li Ke smiled, I am familiar with this, it is an area I am good at.
"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 Abloha, the last village in the country with access to roads.
"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 among the cliffs, almost isolated from the world, because they were once a group of people who were gathered together during the epidemic. , it can be said that they are waiting to die there."
"But as the epidemic slowly receded, some people survived, and such a village was formed, but the people around them were afraid of them, so they have been living a very poor life, and their way out with the outside world has also been limited. But it’s via a rope bridge connected to the cliff on the other side.”
"Or it takes a few days to walk out, the road between cliffs."
"There are only more than 200 people living in such a village."
"Suppose there is such a village in the Tang Dynasty, and outside of this village, one day almost all the villages in the Tang Dynasty have built official roads and are connected by official roads, and only this last village is left."
"But it's too difficult to build their road. It will cost millions of dollars!"
"At this time, what do you think you should choose? To repair or not to repair? Let them move out of that village and find a better place to set up a village for them outside?" Li Ke asked a question with a smile.
Li Ke's question stunned all the generals. Some of these generals were confused, some were thoughtful, and some frowned. It was obvious that they were all thinking about what Li Ke's question meant.
"Your Highness, either I, Old Cheng, don't want to answer the question, or...does our Datang have the strength? Can we provide official access to every village?" Cheng Yaojin asked awkwardly.
other people:"……"
Say you are stupid. You are very smart sometimes. Say you are not stupid. What questions did you ask? So are you stupid? Or just pretending to be stupid?
"Why can't there be one?" Li Ke was not embarrassed at all, he just asked calmly.
Cheng Yaojin was choked by Li Ke's attitude. Is it possible that there is really a country that can do this? Impossible, absolutely impossible!
"This... from any point of view, relocating these two hundred people is the best choice, right?" Li Jing hesitated and asked.
"I think so too. There are millions of strings and two hundred people. Why should we build this road? It's not a geomantic treasure land. Move two hundred people out and then give them millions of strings. Everyone can Five thousand guans are divided, which is enough to eat and drink for a lifetime. What do you want?" Zhang Liang, Duke of Sumima, also said.
"You all think so?" Li Ke asked with a smile.
"Yes." Everyone thought for a while, and there seemed to be nothing wrong with this. Isn't this the best option?
