The First Happy King of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 512

"What's going on? It's very simple. The most direct explanation is that it can alleviate ethnic conflicts on the border. If the border army is used to deal with those horse thieves, it will only stimulate those border residents, and more and more horse thieves will appear. The horse thief comes to deal with the horse thief, that is an internal conflict, and there is no entanglement with the official, is this explanation satisfactory to Uncle Cheng?" Li Muyun was unwilling to be woken up from his sleep by Lao Cheng.

I think when the little old man was in the cottage, whenever he came back, he would be called around by old Li Yuan like a girl.

Now that the little old man has finally returned to Chang'an, there is another Cheng Yaojin in the cottage. I don't know what he thinks, but he will come to find himself for such a trivial matter.

But Old Cheng obviously had other ideas, grabbed the cold tea on the table last night and drained it in one gulp, and sat down on the chair carelessly: "I am so satisfied, you have raised five thousand cavalry, that is the key to the matter! As a county king, you actually keep so many private soldiers, what do you want to do, rebel?!"

"I rebelled? Who will believe me if I say it!" Li Muyun rolled his eyes and got up from the kang, took the fur fur Mu Yu handed over and wrapped it around his body: "I can rebel with five thousand cavalry? Then Li Mu of Dingxiang City Ji has tens of thousands of people under his command, wouldn't he be even more likely to rebel."

Cheng Yaojin suddenly had a feeling for Niu playing the piano, looked at Li Muyun's nonchalant expression, frowned and said: "Listen clearly, they are private soldiers, your five thousand Khitan cavalry are completely private soldiers, you raised them yourself, where is Li Ji? Tens of thousands are soldiers from the court, they are raised by the court, that's different, understand!"

It was rare for Lao Cheng to be reasonable, Li Muyun was a little surprised, the rumors he had heard before were that Lao Cheng was messing around and not stingy, but he never thought that when he was also reasonable, this was really the sun coming out from the west.

However, things like private soldiers can be big or small, it all depends on how to explain it. It may be difficult to explain Lao Cheng's problem if it is placed on others, but it is not a big problem when it is placed on Li Muyun.

"Uncle Cheng, I just want to ask you one question, will there be any casualties when the frontier army wipes out the horse thieves?"

"Of course there will be casualties, but it's their responsibility to serve as soldiers and eat food." Old Cheng replied.

"It is true that this is their responsibility, but how much pension will the court give every year? Soldiers only get five pennies for death in battle, and two to three pennies for disability. What can such a little money do?" Li Muyun asked again .

"Don't worry about what you can do, the rules are the rules!"

"But I don't think there is anything wrong with the current situation. I have brought together all the horse thieves near Shuozhou, unified management, unified deployment, and let them engage in production. First of all, this is to reduce the casualties of the frontier army; Be obedient and consciously maintain the law and order in Shuozhou, which is much better than the state capital in charge of the frontier army..."

Cheng Yaojin looked like he was not willing to enter, and interrupted Li Muyun with a wave of his hand: "I don't care about that, I just want to know, what is the use of your five thousand private soldiers, you can't explain this clearly, I and you It's not over!"

This old Cheng may seem rough, but he is rough and fine. As the governor of the Andu Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, he must understand everything under his rule.If the fact that Li Muyun had five thousand private soldiers under him fell into the eyes of someone with a heart, it would be easy for him to be charged with conspiracy to commit treason, and Lao Cheng would be punished if he didn't make it right.

Therefore, Lao Cheng must deal with these 5000 people. If they can be disbanded, they will be disbanded. If they cannot be disbanded, they will be incorporated into the army.

In fact, no matter which dynasty you are in, keeping five thousand private soldiers is not a big crime. If the emperor is more magnanimous, he may end up being assigned. Not impossible.

However, Li Muyun didn't know this. In his impression, raising private soldiers was not a big problem in ancient times, and there was absolutely no need to go online, so he was a little annoyed seeing Lao Cheng being so serious, and he clicked and said: " I am not a private soldier, but a security guard, a militia, and a spontaneous organization of the people!"

Cheng Yaojin ignored Li Muyun's word games, snorted and said disdainfully: "Don't make up new words for me, I've been talking for a long time that as long as you have soldiers in your hands, you are private soldiers."

"I..." What is a scholar meeting a soldier?What is playing the piano against the cow?Li Muyun knew this time.

"What are you, you still have the face to say that you are not a private soldier! And..." Cheng Yaojin stood up from his chair, pushed open the room, pointed at the two gatekeepers and said angrily: "You See their equipment for yourself, see for yourself!"

"What's wrong with the equipment? Is there any problem?" Li Muyun looked at it for a long time, but didn't see anything wrong.

"No problem?" Cheng Yao stared at Jin Niu, and waved to the young man outside: "You, you come in, take out your knife and arrow."

The young people outside didn't even look at Lao Cheng, they just stood there straight without looking sideways, as if they didn't hear what Lao Cheng said at all.

In the end, Li Muyun was afraid that Lai Cheng would not come to the stage, so he whistled at the minion: "You have been here, take off all the equipment on your body, and show it to General Cheng."

"Yes!" Hearing Li Muyun's order, Xiao Luo turned around and entered the room, and put the big dog-leg scimitar on his body, the arrow with the three-edged arrow, and the bow with the pulley on the table.

Unexpectedly, Lao Cheng's attention was diverted again, and he stared at the young man with bright eyes, and he didn't know whether he was angry or emotional: "Okay, okay, you said you don't know how to train soldiers, and you still want to train soldiers?" What kind of training is it! Ah! Tell yourself!"

"Ah, this..." Li Muyun looked at Lao Cheng awkwardly.

"Don't give me this and that, let's talk about your raising private soldiers first today, and then we will study the military training later, let me tell you, if you don't understand these things, you will be considered a heavenly king , Old Cheng will never end with you!"

For Li Muyun, Cheng Yaojin currently hates and loves him at the same time. What he hates is that this kid causes trouble all the time. He keeps five thousand Khitan cavalry in his hands when he has nothing to do. Is this something normal people can do?With so many private soldiers, how would he, the governor, tell the emperor? If there is no reasonable explanation, he might have to drink a pot with this bastard.

What I love is that those weapons are really good, just looking at them has such a murderous look, and those private soldiers are also good, they are no worse than the regular army of the Sixteen Guards. If you report this kid's military training skills to the emperor, Doesn't he have another recommendation for his old age?

But Li Muyun is so lazy, he just wants to eat and wait to die all day long, and he doesn't know how to make good use of his backer, who is as good as the Supreme Emperor. If he wants to join the military, it will take some trouble.

(End of this chapter)