Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 554 Hidden Soldiers in the People
"Can you kill the Yuwen family this time?" the fourth child asked.

Luo Cheng squeezed his chin, "This time the Yuwen family will have to peel off their skin if they don't die, but it's probably difficult to kill him directly. After all, the old dog Yuwen is the emperor's first confidant, and the emperor's eldest daughter is still married to the Yuwen family. Woolen cloth."

The news Zhang Liang received from Luoyang was that Luo Yi punched the old dog out of one eye in the palace last time. Now the old dog stays in the mansion every day to lick the wound. Pretending to be dead and selling misery, Princess Nanyang even went into the palace all day crying to tell Luo Yi that she was cruel and brutal.

After a few days, the emperor's anger gradually faded away. It was almost over, but who would have thought that there would be another big news here, and it was Yu Wenhuaji himself who said that Yu Wenshu was the one who assassinated Luo Cheng The mastermind behind the scenes, especially since he also revealed many other things that should not be said.

For example, Yu Wenshu engaged in some inside stories about Li Hun and Li Min. Although Yu Wenshu was the presiding judge of this matter, the problem is that the emperor is the one who actually did it.

Now Yuhuahua and Dazui are spreading the news everywhere, and this matter has gotten out of control.

It is said that after receiving the report, the emperor was furious.

Originally, if Yu Wenhuaji was severely punished, this matter would be over, but now the emperor is already annoyed.

"The latest news is that both Yu Wenshu and his son were expelled by the emperor as citizens, and even their titles were deprived. Let them go back to Guanzhong Daxing."

The fourth child twitched his lips, "There is a point. When Yu Wenshu was defeated in the Liaodong campaign, he was dismissed as a citizen, and he said he would never be hired. As a result, he was immediately reinstated, and his title remained the same. And what Yu Wenhuaji, when the emperor visited the Turks in the north, he was angered by the emperor and demoted to a slave because of smuggling, but he didn’t get up again later. I think it’s unrealistic to expect the emperor to kill Yuwen’s family. Why don’t we come too? If a person retaliates against him in his own way, we will also send someone to do it."

"You're not stupid, are you? Have you forgotten what happened to the assassination?" Luo Cheng reminded the fourth child that it wasn't Yuwen's family who assassinated Luo Cheng last time, it was just directed and acted by him.

"Oh, I almost forgot if you didn't tell me, so we have already framed Yuwen's family once." The fourth child rubbed his head and laughed.

"How can this be framed? If the Yuwen family doesn't always trouble us, how can I fight back? This is just back and forth." Luo Cheng sneered, "Forget it, leave the Yuwen family alone, anyway, this time Tackling them severely once will stop them from being arrogant for a while, and as for saying that they can’t be killed, there’s nothing they can do about it, after all, his Yuwen family is the emperor’s loyal dog, and if the emperor doesn’t deal ruthlessly, who would dare to beat them to death?”

Beating a dog depends on the owner, and Yu Wenshu is the emperor's loyal dog.

Luo Cheng is more concerned about the affairs of Liaodong now.

The left-behind position in Liaodong has been handed over, and the left-behind mansion has been erected. Now the first thing is the matter of soldiers and horses.

It is not unacceptable to reduce the 10 horses to [-]. Luo Cheng has decided to keep the soldiers as much as possible, especially the heavy cavalry, light cavalry, Mo Dao, bow and crossbow. These are all elite troops. .

Now Luo Cheng has [-] armored heavy cavalry, [-] light cavalry, and [-] Mo Daomen under his command.These are the most elite, and Luo Cheng will not withdraw. Most of these elites belong to the former Fifth Army of the Left, and there are also soldiers and horses left by the original Luo Yi and other departments.

Now Luo Cheng is integrating, weeding out the old and the weak, keeping the heavy cavalry, light cavalry, heavy infantry Mo Daomen, crossbowmen, etc. as much as possible, and cutting off some auxiliary soldiers, chariot soldiers, and spearmen.

"Isn't this a good match?" The fourth child raised a doubt.

"Did I say you're stupid?"

"The emperor only gave us a mansion of 1000 men, but we can still form county soldiers? At that time, the mansion soldiers will have heavy cavalry, light cavalry, heavy-step swordsmen, elite crossbowmen, sword players, etc. You Wouldn't the county soldiers be asked to train more spearmen? If we really want to fight, then the county soldiers and the government soldiers will be combined to complement each other?"

"That's true."

The county soldiers are lacking in armaments and training, so it is more suitable for the county soldiers to practice simple spears, etc. In case of war, if they are combined with the government soldiers, then 15 government soldiers can be doubled to [-] or even immediately. It is [-] horses.

The fourth child said with a smile, "I'll make him a thousand soldiers of the county when I go back."

"De Xing, how many people do you have in Lushun now? Eight thousand soldiers? Where do you get so many people? You have to eat at one bite, and you have to walk step by step. You have nine thousand soldiers in Lushun, so you can make up four. Five thousand county soldiers. In terms of armaments, the two expeditions to Liao left a large amount of ordnance. I can equip each of your county soldiers with a spear, a horizontal knife, and a bow. Of course, there is no hope for horses. .”

"Only four or five thousand?"

Luo Cheng glared at the fourth child, "Four or five thousand is not bad. If you can practice well, you can have [-] troops in Lushun County. At that time, the government soldiers will be the soldiers and the county soldiers will be the auxiliary soldiers." It is also very good to co-organize an army. Soldiers are expensive and not expensive. It is the last word to train and polish. Of course, don’t forget to cultivate the fields after training. Now that the Central Plains are getting more and more chaotic, maybe one day there will be no Food can be transported through the customs, and then we will have to rely on ourselves, if there is no food, then no matter how many soldiers there are, they will be hungry."

The fourth son said, "Then I have to find a way to recruit more people from the Central Plains. After discussing with the Yuan family this time, they retreated a hundred miles. We can take this hundred miles and recruit some refugees from the Central Plains. Cultivate and cultivate."

Luo Cheng nodded.

"First allocate land to the government soldiers. Each soldier must have at least one hundred acres of land. In addition, those who are selected into the county soldiers must also be granted land."

"That's for sure, but before we gave land and concubines to [-] soldiers and horses, and now half of them are leaving, how do we deal with this?"

Luo Cheng thought for a while, "Let's take back the soldiers who have left. Anyway, they can no longer manage them after they leave, but I have to give them a sum of money as compensation to show my intention. As for their Xinluo concubines and refugee concubines , Those who are willing to take it back have no objection, but the family members of these concubines cannot go together, if they are not willing to take it away, then stay here."

Land can be said to be the least valuable thing in Liaodong today, but as long as the Sui army is willing to garrison here and not give up here, then land is also very valuable.

"Tell those Fubing brothers who were selected by us to move in, and we will give them land according to their population. As long as they are 60 to 20 years old, regardless of gender, we will allocate [-] fields to each of them. Mu, and those under [-] years old, regardless of gender, we will allocate [-] mu of land to each person. We will give them as many fields as there are people in the population.”

"Will these lands be divided into rents?" asked the fourth child.

"Fubing's own land does not need to pay rent, but for the land shared by his family, we stay in the mansion and share it with them fifty-five for the first ten years. After ten years, we will collect rent and tax according to the imperial court's rent.

"[-] to [-] points, is it too high?" The fourth child was speechless.

"We don't harvest by dice, but by mu. How many mu of land we harvest, especially we harvest according to the harvest, not fixed rent. We take half of the harvest, and how much land we distribute to them. Even if there are five or six people in a family, they can at least have one or two hundred mu of land, even if they don’t get the government soldiers’ share, even if they plant extensively and only keep half of the mu, they can still harvest a few buckets of grain.”

It seems to take away a lot, but if Luo Cheng no longer rents and collects other various taxes and miscellaneous fees, then in fact, as long as his life is stable, he will definitely be able to have enough food and clothing, even better than the days in the Central Plains. After all, in the Central Plains today, ordinary people’s homes It's just ten or twenty mu of land, or even no land.

(End of this chapter)