Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 546
"But if you did this, King Wei, then you should have a way to arrange it!" Li Jing couldn't help saying.

"Yes!" Li Tai replied with a nod, "First of all, it is divided into those who have meritorious service and those who have not. Those who have meritorious service will retire, and they will be given priority to the local captains and reserve supervisors, so that they can train better soldiers.

If the more soldiers trained can enter the standing service, the greater the reward they will receive.

The second is to enter the bad people! "

"Bad person?!" Hearing this name, Li Jing couldn't help but have some doubts in his mouth.

"Strictly speaking, they can't be regarded as bad people, but more accurately, they are arranged to become servants in some key cities.

As big as a storage order, a city gate order, or as small as a street tiger, there is always a place for them.

And when these positions are full, they will be allowed to enter the corvee. After all, they are organized, disciplined, trained and talented. Being corvee can at least solve their life for the rest of their lives! " Li Tai said to Li Jing.

"I see!" Li Jing said without any objection when he heard Li Tai's words.

"In this way, the reserve service, standing service, and veterans are completely constructed into a complete circulation system.

That is the basis of the recruit system!It seems that King Wei is more inclined to pay attention to the individual excellence of soldiers. "

"Yes!" Li Tai nodded without denying it, and said earnestly, "Although it is better for Han Xin to send more soldiers, for me, the smaller the proportion of the country's overall soldiers to the whole country, the better. More power to build the country.

Aye established the world, after 20 years of the rule of Zhenguan, now there is a scene of the Tang government being in harmony with the people, and what I want to do now is not to be militaristic, but to use the original strength of the Tang Dynasty to assist the population of the Tang Dynasty recovery! "

At this moment, Li Tai looked quite serious, without any hesitation.

After all, Datang's foundation is too weak. Even now, how much Datang's population has recovered, to be honest, Li Tai doesn't know yet!
If it is possible, theoretically speaking, it is best to go out and conquer when the population of Datang reaches 5000 million, that is, 1000 million households.

But in reality, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait until that time is exhausted, so when the population reaches about 500 million households, I will start to implement the policy of enfeoffment.

As for now, at most, after completing the reform of the military system, he decided to conquer Xue Yantuo and the Eastern Turks in the Western Regions. As for participating in the war between Sassanid and Persia in the west, Li Tai said, Persia, you can hold on until you Get rid of the East Turks, then they will use the Silk Road to transport supplies for you!
"The government military system has been transformed into reserve service, the standing service is used as professional soldiers, and the veterans are training reserve..." Li Jing couldn't help thinking when he heard Li Tai's words, "How many soldiers do Wei Wang think is appropriate to keep?"

"15 to [-] adaptive soldiers, plus [-] cavalry, I think it's almost the same!" Li Tai thought for a while.

When Li Jing heard Li Tai's words, the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching, and he said with some suspicion,

"The adaptive soldiers you mentioned are not all wearing armor that weighs at least 160 catties!"

"Of course!" Li Tai replied after hearing Li Jing's words, "However, if it is really spread out on a large scale and soldiers can be selected from all over the country, then the average weight of the soldiers can be tempered to 170 catties.

Even ten years later, it is not impossible to select soldiers and work hard to reach 180 catties! "

Li Tai knew very well that this generation of Tang people, unless they were from aristocratic families, came from the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty. Basically, this group of soldiers can only bear armor weighing 160 catties.

But now, as the grains and miscellaneous grains produced by myself are gradually enriched, for this generation of children in the Tang Dynasty, they have changed from being a troubled person to being able to eat enough.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the common people can almost grow to an average height of about 168, and the weight of soldiers can also reach 170 catties.

But in the future, Li Tai will work hard to open up transportation, strengthen animal husbandry, and guide the people to eat meat, eggs and milk.In this way, it should be no problem for the average height of Tang people to reach about 172 in the future, and the weight of soldiers can reach 180 catties.

Under normal circumstances, this should mean that the 20 soldiers selected by Datang from tens of millions of people can definitely reach the elite of 180 catties.

But if you want to go further, the road of natural recovery has basically come to an end. It depends on whether Sun Simiao can make a top-notch medicinal soup, so that people can break the acquired shackles after taking a bath in it, and continue to increase their own weight.

For example, the height of modern Chinese people has been able to increase the average height of the people almost every ten years in the past few decades, which is basically the best proof that the people's material life has become richer.

But normally, after humans can eat enough protein normally, there will be an upper limit to the way to increase nutrition from external food intake, and then it will become more and more difficult to continue to break through in height.

Because the previous average height can only be said to be recovering when it grows taller, but if you want to break the average height as a whole, that is to realize the mutation and evolution at the genetic level.

Li Jing took a deep breath and said, "I understand the reason why infantry is the main force, but if there is only one type of army, it is too single, and what do you plan to do when you encounter some opponents who need long-distance?"

"Use a compound crossbow or Yuan Rong crossbow!" Li Tai looked at Li Jing but said, "When I followed Aye to attack Goguryeo, I felt that the range of bows and arrows was too short.

At that time, I brought 15 archers, but only 2 people actually shot bows and arrows. The big reason is the limitation of shooting distance! "

"..." Li Jing couldn't help pressing his head, he didn't expect that Li Tai would dislike the arrow and shoot it close.

"Do you want to block at a super long distance?" Li Jing heard Li Tai's words and said,

"It doesn't work now, but in the future, if the concentration of cloud gas is higher, you can use the arrow in your hand as a guide to guide the cloud gas bombing, or ignite the cloud gas and other combat methods to carry out ultra-long-range attacks.

At that time, you only need to train the corresponding talents, and you will be able to obtain ultra-long-range attack capabilities! "

"This kind of talent is indeed very strong, but it can't form a system!" Li Tai looked at Li Jing and said helplessly, "For me, if it doesn't form a unified system, the cost of many things will increase!"

Li Tai understood that for Li Jing, it was completely possible to figure out the talent of the army he wanted based on the position of the cavalry, and it would be great if he could adjust it according to his needs when he was on the battlefield.

For example, Su Lie was in such a situation. As long as Su Lie was given enough time, he could basically figure out the corresponding talents according to the needs of the battlefield.

For the top commanders of large armies, the talents required for directional pinching are basically basic operations.

But for Li Tai, this kind of operation that requires people to adapt to everything really needs a boss.

After all, don't look at Li Shimin, Li Jing, Li Daozong, Su Lie, Pei Xingjian... It seems that the famous generals of the Tang Dynasty will not be broken.

But this kind of purely relying on the aptitude of a top general among the people, and then he just chose to join the army, and then grow into a complete body all the way is really unreliable.

If this person is just like An Lushan, if there is no famous general in the Tang Dynasty and there is no dynasty, these are all uncertain!
Under such circumstances, Li Tai is still more biased, raising the lower limit of the Tang army, not asking how strong the Tang army is, it is enough to ensure that the Tang army is not so easy to be defeated.

"Then what are you going to do?" Li Jing continued to ask after hearing Li Tai's words.

"It's very simple. I want to continue to develop weapons. For these soldiers, crossbow bolts are actually not very meaningful. It's better to invest in research on ballista, 160-jin ballista, 180-jin ballista, or even heavier Ballista."

"King Wei, do you want to replace the archer with a ballista?!" Li Jing was stunned when he heard Li Tai's words.

"Why not!" Li Tai replied, "No matter how advanced the bow and arrow is, the limit is relatively speaking only by manpower.

But the ballista uses mechanical power, and its upper limit is terrifyingly high!
Nature-specific modifications could then also be made to allow people to either increase its range or increase the number of arrows it shoots.

As for the power, I think that as long as they are shot, even the academy soldiers holding a large shield will be directly blown away! "

Hearing Li Tai's words, Li Jing was silent for a while, feeling that he could no longer keep up with the trend of the times.

With the point of view that he must prove for the veterans of the old era, Li Jing said:
"King Wei's idea is naturally very good, but it is not easy to operate this matter, at least the ballista is difficult to manufacture!"

"Is it difficult?" Li Tai scratched his head when he heard Li Jing's words and replied, "Deconstruct and model the whole, then dismantle it, and hand over each part to a certain industry's assembly line for production.

It is convenient and fast, and then all of them are unified and combined. I believe that when the assembly line is perfect, the entire industrial chain will be fixed. "

It is precisely because the ballista can be modularized, and even the various parts needed for the ballista can be disassembled into various factories of the Tang Dynasty, that Li Tai thinks that the ballista has more prospects than the compound bow.

Because the industries involved in the ballista are quite rich from upstream to downstream, there are almost more than 200 accessories, and even in the future, they can continue to improve and improve, even if it is only an order from the military, but as long as this kind of product exists, it can support many people. It is convenient for the common people to adjust the overall economy by themselves.

"Assembling line..." After all, Li Jing knew about Qin and what an assembly line was.

But even so, Li Jing did not expect that the assembly line operation of the Qin Dynasty would start to revive under the hands of King Wei.

"The king of Wei means that he wants archers to completely withdraw from the stage of history..." Li Jing couldn't help but took a deep breath and said,

"I don't know if the king of Wei has ever thought about it. If crossbows are used to completely replace bows and arrows, then the growth of soldiers who have been using crossbows may be limited to the second talent.

Not to mention the higher military spirit and miraculous army, even the fighting power of the Imperial Guard may not be able to achieve it.

To some extent, if you use the ballista a lot with the adaptive talent, then the adaptive limit will only end there. "

"Then let's stop here!" Li Tai said to Li Jing indifferently,
"The era when the future of the Tang Dynasty was spelled out with one's life is long gone. At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the common people longed for heroes to clean up the troubled times.

So there is a true man like Aye, and there is also a god of war like you, Duke Wei.

You are the heroes who made Datang complete the task of unifying China in the shortest possible time. "

"The king of Wei is too famous!" Li Jing smiled when he heard Li Tai's praise.

"In this new era, the importance of population has been fully stimulated. Relatively speaking, the value created by a living person is at least higher than that of a dead warrior.

Therefore, it is completely possible to use a small ballista instead of a crossbow, no matter the distance or power is fully guaranteed.

As for the hit rate, it is good to use the scale to cover the attack directly. Even in the face of the iron cavalry charge, it can completely form the Qin Dynasty crossbow array, so that any enemy who wants to attack head-on will be directly shot by the ballista! "

In front of Li Jing, Li Tai described the benefits of using the ballista in the future.

"Wei Wang seems to still want to take the road of self-adaptive and tool mastery!" Li Jing couldn't help but sigh.

"Isn't it possible!" Li Tai shook his head to Li Jing, "I never think that war is a matter of a soldier, a commander, or even an army itself, but a matter of the entire Tang Dynasty.

Then the combat effectiveness of a fighter must also be completely piled up with the entire country. "

"Aren't you afraid that if you take this road, the government soldiers will not grow up in the future!" Li Jing couldn't help sighing.

"No!" Li Tai shook his head and said, "Although these two talents themselves don't have much explosive power and lethality, the combination of these two talents can determine that they can adapt to almost all new era weapons.

If it is said that their armor keeps the lower limit of the Tang army, then the large weapons specially built for them in the future are to ensure their diversity and upper limit.

Especially the generals on the front line can completely let the rear manufacture corresponding equipment according to the needs of the front line battle situation!
In my opinion, fighting a war is the comprehensive power of a country. At least the combination of self-adaptation and tool mastery can realize a large part of the country's power, which is very difficult for other talents to match!
The guards, military souls, three talents, and even miracles you mentioned are indeed very powerful and powerful high-ranking troops.

That's all, their number is limited after all, and if they can't form an effective system to compete with Datang, then it doesn't make any sense to me.

Because in the future, as long as Datang Chidao can reach, then Datang's supplies will be able to reach.

Datang's materials can be achieved, and the talents of self-adaptation and control can be brought into full play.

At that time, even if it is just a recruit, as long as he is willing to shoot the arrows of the ballista, he will be able to fight against the top army, instead of being defeated by the opponent! "

Li Jing was silent for a while, took a deep breath, and said to Li Dejian, "You make a record of what I said today with the King of Wei, and report it to the imperial court with the two of us, so as to assist the military reform of the Tang Dynasty!"

"No!" Li Dejian replied very solemnly.

(End of this chapter)