Cultivation of chastity

Li Jing let go of his thoughts about the recruitment system. After all, such things as the recruitment system are really not unusual at all.

During the Warring States Period, Wei Wuzu under Wu Qi was considered the beginning of the recruitment system. Wu Qi led Wei Wuzu to walk sideways throughout the Warring States Period. This in itself shows that the recruitment system is actually not bad.

Even with the blessing of an excellent commander, the soldiers brought out by the recruiting system are better than those brought out by the mansion system.

However, in the system of recruiting soldiers, because soldiers follow the general to get money, this will lead to warlordization of the army over time.

As long as the recruitment system is implemented, there is no way to avoid this point, at least in the feudal era, there is absolutely no solution.

But the general environment has decided that the foreign race will bring 10,000+ people to the cloud, but Datang wants to conquer the foreign race, it is impossible to bring 10,000+ troops to the past, and the organization and willpower of the Fubing system determine that they need enough people Only then can clouds appear.

You must know that this time Li Shimin is the commander-in-chief and Li Tai is the logistics. The real soldiers of Datang did not exceed 10.

As for the corvée under Li Tai's command, it was really just corvée.

Therefore, this led to the inevitable need to change the government military system to the recruitment system, which is definitely the general trend.

Otherwise, in the future when Datang faces many small countries, it will be impossible to beat them violently, so how can it be possible to maintain the peace of Datang.

When the finances needed by the frontier defenders continue to annex the Datang economy, even the scene of the Ming Dynasty will reappear.

"The Fubing must be reformed to the recruitment system, because only the soldiers trained by the recruitment system have stronger organizational skills, stronger willpower, and even stronger physique." Li Tai expressed his conclusion with great certainty.

"Does King Wei think so too!" Li Jing heard Li Tai's words, but he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

In any case, at least Li Tai's strategic understanding is no different from his own.

Thinking of this, Li Jing put his hands on the policy of switching from the military system to the military system that he had painstakingly researched over the years.

"Well, so in addition to soldiers and generals, the recruiting system needs to add a third variable, supervising the army!" Li Tai said involuntarily.

"Is that just the case..." Li Jing couldn't help feeling a little disappointed when he heard Li Tai's words.

It's not that there is such a thing as supervising the army, but for the command on the battlefield, it is actually quite annoying for the supervising army.

"Yeah!" Li Tai nodded and said, "The Supervising Army is aimed at organizations, but he is not supervising generals, but supervising centurions, chiefs, and even soldiers.

The supervisory army and the general are not a system, and they have no right to interfere with the general's ability to command operations.

The people they are responsible for are only the centurion and the soldiers below the centurion! "

"Huh?!" Li Jing couldn't help being taken aback when he heard this, and said, "This...then why are they going to the barracks?!"

"The purpose of teaching literacy is to give lessons to the soldiers, to let them know the principles of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, to let them know the reasons for fighting, and to monitor whether the supplies in the barracks are sent to the soldiers." Li Tai said calmly. .

What Li Tai didn't mention was that after the emergence of the recruitment system, the generals would be able to master things like eating empty pay and drinking the blood of soldiers without a teacher.

Therefore, the existence of these supervising troops is to supervise this kind of thing.

Of course, it is more likely that they will be dragged together to eat empty wages and drink the blood of soldiers, but if people read a lot, there will always be people who choose to say no to the darkness instead of directly collaborating with the local gangsters.

Then the contacts he has accumulated from teaching and educating people will at least give him the possibility to fight hard.

In short, Li Tai will keep the cards for others, but how well they can play depends on them.

"You can still operate like this..." Li Jing couldn't help squinting his eyes, but he also keenly discovered the meaning of these people.

And Li Tai continued, "At the same time, even if the commander wants to promote the soldiers, at most he will reward the soldiers to become temporary centurions, that is, they can enjoy the treatment of centurions, but there is no official establishment in the court.

In the future, even if there is no way to continue to improve in the post of military exploits, at most the title can be improved because of killing the enemy. "

"The King of Wei intends to put the power of appointment and removal of generals and above in the hands of the imperial court. Is this difficult?" Li Jing was puzzled.

"It's just a try. If these centurions want to go further, as long as they have accumulated a certain amount of meritorious service, they can take the initiative to apply for further study in the Art of War Academy.

As long as the military academy passes all the examinations, he can become a centurion with a well-organized imperial court, and from then on he can be appointed as a school lieutenant or a local governor.

To put it simply, this school of military art is the path that ordinary centurions must go through to become lieutenants.

In this way, the imperial court controlled the army of the commander-in-chief as much as possible without affecting the performance of the commander-in-chief. " Li Tai said.

To be honest, Li Tai is very clear that his design is aimed at the bottom layer, but it cannot be said to be safe if it does not target the upper layer.

Because if the upper level really wants to do something, it only needs to be deceived. The soldiers at the bottom don't know the overall situation, so naturally they don't know what they are doing, and they may be coerced away.

But this model waits until certain things are really uncovered, and when the loyal and patriotic thoughts accumulated in the usual times conflict with their own interests, that person will eventually be shaken.

Changing one's mind in a second is really not something that ordinary humans can easily do. Under such circumstances, it may be an opportunity for Datang officials.

After all, a chaotic army, even with good equipment and extraordinary physique, still guarantees the lower limit of the army's combat effectiveness. It is unrealistic to want to exert the upper limit of the army's combat effectiveness.

"This is a good control method!" Li Jing nodded when he heard Li Tai's words, and frowned again, "But if that's the case, isn't the power of this Art of War Academy too great?!"

"As long as the headmaster of this school is a saint, then the power of this Art of War school doesn't matter.

Pass similar imperial examinations every year, select the best among them as disciples of the emperor, and then award honors and appointments! "

Li Tai couldn't help saying, "Wait until they establish a master-student relationship with the emperor, and then appoint or remove them from their positions."

"This is a novel idea, does the saint also mean this?" Li Jing couldn't help but sigh when he heard Li Tai's words.

"I'm discussing this with you, Duke Wei." Li Tai said calmly, "Although these ideas of mine are relatively novel, they are ideas, and it will take a long time for them to really come to fruition.

But first put it forward, and then implement it in this direction, then naturally there is a direction! "

"What King Wei said is true!" Li Jing nodded, not objecting to what Li Tai said.

At this time, Li Tai continued, "And the entire system of the school is to strengthen the soldiers in terms of organization, improve the cultural accomplishment of the soldiers, and make the soldiers enforce orders, but this is not enough, and the soldiers need to be strengthened in terms of will! "

"Oh, the will can also be trained?!" Li Jing's eyes lit up even more when he heard Li Tai's words.

Li Jing knew very well that if the army could be strengthened in terms of organization, the army trained in this way would definitely become the best soldiers in the world.

As for wanting to further temper his will, to be honest, Li Jing didn't dare to think about how strong this kind of soldier was.

But Li Jing admitted that willpower is really important to the combat effectiveness of soldiers. If organizational strength determines the lower limit of an army, then the upper limit of an army of will is basically determined by willpower.

Needless to say, in the Han Dynasty, Fenglang Juxu and Yanran Legong, the distance of thousands of miles, if the soldiers did not have enough willpower, they might run and run, and then the whole army would mutiny up.

"Yeah!" Li Tai nodded, "The training of willpower first requires the soldiers to have enough faith.

An army without faith is like a sand sculpture by the sea, which will collapse when it is washed by the water.

But a soldier with faith is like a rock on the seashore, which is not moved by the waves! "

What Li Tai didn't say was that he felt that the military discipline of the military soldiers in the Tang army was really bad, but this kind of poor military discipline was an inevitable part of the military system.
After all, the government soldiers brought their own weapons and dry rations. What they wanted was to go to the battlefield and defeat their opponents and then loot them severely, so as to make a fortune and reach the pinnacle of life. Even Li Shimin couldn't stop such a collective will.

So there was no chance to activate the government military system before, so Li Tai naturally wouldn't say much about the army, and emphasizing military discipline was meaningless.

But now if the recruitment system is changed, then these soldiers will eat their own food and pay, so it is only natural for them to set rules for them.

"Then what are you going to do, King Wei!?" Li Jing was still actively listening.

To be honest, Li Tai didn't see much talent in tactics and Li Jing didn't see much talent, but Li Tai's theory on military strategy and military system also made Li Jing feel thought-provoking.

The most important thing is that when King Wei does things, he really doesn't just pay attention when he slaps his head, but more or less has a plan, at most it is whether the plan is really executable.

But relatively speaking, King Wei attached great importance to military affairs but not limited to military affairs.

This is why Li Jing has always insisted that Li Tai is a famous player.

Because in Li Jing's opinion, a famous general is not the one who wins the war on the battlefield, because it is really too easy to win on the battlefield.

A real famous general should be someone who can formulate the rules of the battlefield like Sun Wu Baihan, and even influence the rules of the future battlefield to a certain extent, and Li Tai is such a person in Li Jing's view.

Therefore, compared to other people, Li Jing is more willing to communicate with Li Tai, because there are really few people in the entire Tang Dynasty who can really communicate with him about military affairs, and most of them talk by themselves and others listen to them.

But when it came to King Wei, it was King Wei saying that he was listening. Only in this way, it could be seen that Li Jing admired Li Tai.

"Life bestows respect, and death bestows honor!" Li Tai said to Li Jing after thinking for a while.

"Respect?" Li Jing thought for a while, then said seriously, "Whose respect is King Wei referring to?"

There is no way, this is not a cowardice, the recruited soldiers are all called bandits and soldiers, and they have no respect for the soldiers at all.

But now this is the Tang Dynasty, and being a good general is the pursuit of almost every person in the Tang Dynasty. Under such circumstances, Li Jing really didn't feel that anyone disrespected the soldiers. After all, at least the sword in the hands of the soldiers should be respected.

"It's the common people, the common people respect the soldiers!" Li Tai said seriously,
"If soldiers only regard being a soldier as a profession, then the fighting power they display is only themselves.

But if they are willing to wield their knives for the sake of the people of the Tang Dynasty, then their fighting power will inevitably surpass their own. "

To be honest, after coming to the Tang Dynasty, what Li Tai was most unaccustomed to was the common people's attitude towards soldiers.

What banditry is like a comb, soldiers are like a grate, especially when he personally watched the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty burn, kill and loot, especially the generals of the Tang Dynasty are used to it, this is something that makes Li Tai very helpless and powerless.

After all, in the environment I live in, I can distrust the government, but I can't distrust the army.

Especially when a major disaster occurs, the army almost always rushes to the scene to rescue the people immediately, and the people also turn to the army immediately to entrust their trust.

After staying in such an environment for a long time, Li Tai really thought that the army should be like this.

As a result, I came to the Tang Dynasty. Well, I overestimated the army in the feudal era a little bit, but I just did some things to eat and get cards, and my moral level was already very good.

I have to say that the great man who really created the military and civilian fish and water situation from scratch is really a military strategist and politician who has crossed the times.

At least before the emergence of such an army, it is doubtful whether his military ability can be compared with that of a soldier.

But after he created such an army with his own hands, and even passed it down for a hundred years, it still won the trust of the people. It can only be said that the level of the Four Saints is the limit of the military strategist, but not the limit of that great man.

"People?" Li Jing couldn't help being a little dazed when he heard Li Tai's words, because he didn't understand.

But Li Tai said solemnly, "Yes, the army and the common people should not be viewed separately, but put together.

They come from the common people, and they must protect the common people. Without the belief in protecting the common people, they are just a group of thugs without faith, and they will eventually degenerate after mastering force.

Without their protection, the common people are just lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and they have no power to fight back even if they face alien races.

Therefore, the army should be the shield of the people and the sword of the country. We should try to instill this concept in the army, so that even an ordinary army should have the belief to fight to protect the people! . "

"Then what about the specific operation?" Li Jing knew about Li Tai's philosophy, but this kind of thing couldn't just be verbal.

After all, the most important thing is to implement these two words. After all, it is easiest for politicians to talk empty words.

"According to my idea, the army should be constructed in three levels!" Li Tai said seriously to Li Jing.

"Three levels? Which three levels!" Li Jing couldn't help asking when he heard Li Tai's words.

"Reserves, regulars, and veterans!" Li Tai said.