Returning to Xiner's room, Liu Mo frowned.
"Husband..." Xin'er saw his expression and couldn't help but comfort her, "Xin'er is just a prostitute and doesn't understand political affairs. But Xin'er feels that people in this world are just fighting for a profit. Husband, why do you want to do it for others? Are you considering it?"
"Think about others?" Liu Mo was shocked.
"Yes, you are already a feudal official of the Great Xia Dynasty, and His Highness has also granted you the power to govern the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces." Xiner said, "I think, husband, you are not as good as..."
What should I do if I decide for myself? Liu Mo thought to himself.
The key question is that I am also in a dilemma. How can I face the Sixth Prince after forming an alliance with the Zhou Dynasty? This guy will definitely call me a traitor!
Ignore the kindness of acquaintance and show kindness, start a fight with him?
If you don't form an alliance, you will be attacked from both sides!
(Xin'er just guessed about the alliance and didn't know the inside story. She just wanted Liu Mo to do things according to her own wishes and not to think about other people. Of course, Liu Mo couldn't tell her the truth.)
"It's getting late, go to bed early!" Liu Mo announced.
That night, he lay restlessly on the bed. Even with Xin'er's constant comfort, he could not fall asleep.
In the early morning of the next day, the first thing Liu Mo did was to edit a letter and deliver it to the Sixth Prince as soon as possible.
Assassination and alliance, these two major events will be told to you, and the decision-making power will be left to you as to how to proceed.
Next, Liu Mo led Yang Yizhi and other Zhou Dynasty envoys to visit the new Rong City under construction. On the fourth day, Yang Yizhi came to say goodbye.
The Zhou Dynasty's visit to Daxia came and went in a hurry. It seems that the purpose is just to come in person to inform about the alliance.
For this reason, Liu Mo did not do much to persuade him to stay.
Before Yang Yizhi left, he said meaningfully, "Brother Liu Xian, make your choice as soon as possible!"
Liu Mo knew what this sentence meant: the war between the two countries was about to break out and was inevitable.
And his guess was quickly confirmed. Not long after, the Sixth Prince replied with a letter, which mentioned: Recruit soldiers, accumulate food, strengthen city walls, and build armaments to prepare for the war that will come at any time!
"Be prepared for the war to come at any time..." Liu Mo repeated this passage several times.
The wheels of war have started and no one can stop it!
Who the hell could be my enemy? Can you explain it clearly in advance?
Say nothing and continue to issue the recruitment order.
In ancient Chinese history, there were three military systems: world soldiers, recruiting soldiers, and conscription.
The so-called world military system means that generations of soldiers have been in the army and the army and civilians have been separated. In order to provide the army with a fixed source of troops, the founding emperor of Daxia implemented the separation of military and civilian rule and established a hereditary military household system.
The Ministry of Household Registration divides household registration into three categories: people, soldiers, and craftsmen. The people have Confucianism, medicine, and yin and yang. The army has captains, strong men, bows and soldiers. Craftsmen include kitchen servants, tailors, horsemen and boatmen, etc.
Military families are called military households, which are mainly responsible for military service, and military membership is hereditary, which means that once you join the army, you will be a soldier for life. After the father dies, the son will replace you, and it will be inherited from generation to generation, which is referred to as the military system.
As the source of troops stabilized, the Xia Dynasty established a garrison military system. From the capital to the local areas, guard posts were established. Therefore, all the sergeants of the world military system were also organized into the guard station, and their tasks included: guarding the local area and working in the fields for production.
The soldiers who guard local cities are called garrison troops, and the soldiers who farm fields for production are called garrison troops. The garrison troops produced and harvested grain on the garrison fields to supply both themselves and the garrison.
However, as time goes by, you will face a problem: the military household flees or the whole family is dead.
From the middle of the Great Xia Dynasty, more and more soldiers fled, and the world military system was no longer suitable for implementation. Conscription became the main means of replenishing soldiers.
Conscription system: A law promulgated by the Great Xia court in the middle period of the Xia Dynasty, stipulating the distribution of the number of conscripts according to the size of the county.
By the time of Wei Guang, the law stipulated that 1,000 people should be recruited from large counties and 600 people from middle counties. If wealthy households did not want to be drafted into the army, they could pay money to buy a quota, and officials would recruit them on their behalf.
Finally, the recruitment system: To put it bluntly, conscription is a forced recruitment of strong men, and recruitment means giving money. Both parties are willing to do so.
In fact, when the founding emperor of Daxia grew from only a few soldiers to more than 100,000, he relied on recruiting soldiers. Even when the Xia Dynasty was founded, a recruitment system was implemented, but no system was formed.
As for Liu Mo, he imitated the earth's system.
First of all, the first item: All people are soldiers! This does not mean that all the people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces should serve as soldiers and fight, but refer to the earth's military training system to encourage people within Liu Mo's jurisdiction to receive military training.
It’s okay not to be a soldier, but it’s always good to participate in military training and exercise. If the enemy attacks one day, wouldn't it be nice to have a good body and pick up weapons to protect your family?
Second, it is still recruiting soldiers, but the recruitment conditions are very attractive.
That is to imitate the Great Qin Dynasty that unified the Warring States Period, with twenty levels of military merit, and a military merit system that encourages killing enemies and seeking victory, ensuring the welfare of soldiers in a simple and crude way!
As long as a soldier captures the head of an enemy "Jiashi" (an enemy officer), he can obtain the first-level title of "Gongshi" and a hectare of land. A house with a servant.
The more heads you kill, the higher your title will be.
The evidence is the enemy's head (head). That is to say, after the war, the enemy's heads were cut off and brought back to the military camp as evidence.
If a soldier beheads two enemy "soldiers" on the battlefield, his prisoner parents can be released immediately.
Killing five enemy "soldiers" can lead to five households of servants.
After winning a battle, a minor official will be promoted to one level, and a high official will be promoted to three levels.
In the army, soldiers have different ranks, and the meals they eat are even different.
The third-level nobles have a bucket of polished rice, half a liter of sauce, and a plate of vegetable soup.
Those with two levels of nobility can only eat coarse rice. It would be good if ordinary soldiers without nobility can fill their stomachs.
Military honors can be passed down to children. If a father dies in battle, his credit can be credited to his son. When one person obtains military merit, the whole family can benefit.
Last but not least, there is no guilt if you don’t join the army. But...you can't expect any kind of treatment from me!
Too rough?
Just kidding, a life and death battle is about to begin.
Will anyone resist? Please, in these times of war and chaos, you all relied on me, Liu Mo, to have food and shelter.
If you don't obey me, get out of here and go wherever you fall in love with me.
