Humane Yongchang

Chapter 484 Four Major Military Regions
Changning Palace, side hall.

Warm candles light up the gloomy sky.

Chen Shengduan sat in the hall, wearing a loose and soft, thick and crisp robe, in a very relaxed state.

"This Meng Tian will really arrange work for me!"

He put down the memorial that he had held in his hand for a long time, leaned back on the chair and said softly with a smile, the words were scolding words, but there was not much scolding in his tone.

Meng Yi, who was sitting upright and waiting for His Highness's order, heard his brother's name, his face remained unchanged, and he didn't even blink his eyelids.

The memorials on the king's desk were all sent by him, so he naturally knew that there were memorials submitted by his elder brother Meng Tian...

But he doesn't speak.

Chen Sheng didn't let him go: "Come, see the memorial sent by your brother."

Meng Yi looked distressed, raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty, this is not in compliance with the regulations."

Although the attendant room has the responsibility of uploading and delivering, it has no right to read the memorials sent by foreign ministers, and those who violate it will be severely punished.

Chen Sheng beckoned and said: "Others are not in agreement, you are in agreement, come and get it."

Meng Yi was stunned, and then he bowed to the end with gratitude, "Your Majesty's kindness of cultivation, I will remember it in my heart, and I dare not forget each other without teeth."

Chen Sheng smiled, didn't say any more, just picked up Meng Tian's memorial and handed it to him.

Meng Yi bowed and took his brother's memorial from Chen Sheng's hand with both hands, opened it carefully, and carefully read every word with his eyes.

Soon, he finished reading the hundreds of words of "Ten Books on Disarmament", and he immediately understood why the king sighed like that just now... What did the king say before?Ah yes, head iron!

My brother's head is more than just iron.

This is simply "trying harder than a guillotine"!

Meng Yi was surprised, not only at his brother's generosity, but also at his brother's stupidity and boldness.

Since ancient times, military power has been an important weapon in the country, and even father and son will be suspicious of each other because of this. You, a minister of the Ministry of War who doesn't even know where the gate of the Ministry of War is going to open, want to make a knife against the establishment of hundreds of thousands of troops?
Believe it or not, a suspicious king could send our family all to death row with a backhand?

Listen to me, thank you...

Chen Sheng picked up the tea bowl, drank it leisurely, and let Meng Yi think about it.

After finishing a cup of tea, he lifted the tea bowl and asked, "What do you think about this matter?"

Meng Yi came back to his senses, and quickly raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty, my humble minister's eyesight is clumsy, and I can't pick out the mistakes and omissions in Meng Shangshu."

Chen Sheng looked at him with interest: "Oh, you mean, you agree with your brother's strategy?"

Meng Yi gritted his teeth secretly, and said: "Your Majesty, my minister is far less visionary than Meng Shangshu, and dare not say 'agree', but after thinking about it for a long time, I only feel that what Meng Shangshu said...although...although it seems unconventional, but Every word and sentence is for His Majesty, for my man!"

Chen Sheng snorted, and asked noncommittally, "Tell me carefully!"

Meng Yi has been following Chen Sheng for a long time, and once he heard his "tsk", he knew that the king was a little dissatisfied with his way of speaking in a way of pretending to be confused.

But it was as if Chen Sheng knew that he was pretending to be confused, but he couldn't make him stand up straight and speak properly.

Even if Meng Yi knew that his king was dissatisfied with his way of speaking in a way of pretending to be confused, he couldn't change it.

The king can say "your elder brother" in one mouthful, so he and Meng Tian are regarded as one as a matter of course.

But he couldn't really see himself and his elder brother as one.

After going to court and changing homes, they are brothers and can cut money with their own interests.

But as long as you put on official clothes, as long as you step into the gate of Changning Palace...

Then the two of them can only be the CRRC Mansion Order and Minister of War who have nothing to do with each other.

They have different positions and different political opinions. If there is a conflict, it is possible to beat them to death in court!

"Report to Your Majesty, according to Meng Shangshu, there are more than 200 million people in our big Han with armor."

Meng Yi bit the bullet and said: "According to the official documents of the various states that Weichen has handled these days, it can be roughly estimated that the number of households in the world is less than 500 million, and the population is less than 2000 million. The master and the hybrid rice rely on it, and the people are still afraid that they will be overwhelmed and their lives will be difficult."

"This is one of them."

"Secondly, it has been six years since the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Kyushu until His Majesty unified Kyushu and wiped out the world!"

"In the past six years, there have been many heroes and frequent wars. There are ten to five or six young men in Kyushu, and two or three of the rest are soldiers in the army. Even the most benevolent places in the capital, the villages and towns outside the city are dominated by old and weak women and children. , Traveling a hundred miles, it is rare to see a young man twenty."

"If you don't return the surplus young and strong in the generals to their hometowns and multiply as soon as possible, I'm afraid the household registration in the world will continue to decrease. At that time, the power of the people will be as weak as a city of sand and sand, and it will be broken at the touch of a finger. Even if our king's division is the most powerful in the world, we will be invincible in battle." Invincible and invincible, I am afraid that it will be difficult to hold back our Hua Xia's fall."

Chen Sheng, who was in deep thought, raised his eyelids and looked at him: "It's gone?"

Meng Yi clasped his hands: "The humble minister is presumptuous and discusses the government affairs indiscriminately, please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

"you are right."

Chen Sheng raised his hand to help him across the void: "It's even better than your disappointing brother, I didn't realize it before, but that guy is actually a pig-faced guy with a loud heart, he clearly saw the problem, But he kept talking about the establishment, military discipline, and consumption of food and grass over and over again, and he refused to say a word about the really important things, and you have to be a brother to fill in the gaps for him!"

Meng Yi was stunned for a few breaths, and suddenly his back broke out in a cold sweat, and he clasped his hands again and said: "My minister is terrified!"

Chen Sheng waved his hand: "Don't be afraid, I will help you deal with your unsatisfactory brother later, and vent your anger for you!"

Meng Yi didn't dare to say anything...

Chen Sheng tapped the table with his fingers, reflecting on himself: "Is it too urgent?" '

He has long planned for the soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty.

Song Yi's construction corps and Wang Ben's garrison corps are not only a workaround, but also a pilot for a new plan.

In his original idea, although there are more than 200 million soldiers and horses in Kyushu, in addition to the new armies such as the Red Clothes Corps, Huben Corps, Longxiang Division, and Garrison Division, which are led by Jixia Xuegong Bingke as the backbone, Other soldiers and horses are all unstable factors!

This is by no means Pride and Prejudice.

He has a theoretical basis!

The biggest difference between the new army and the old-fashioned military system does not lie in the difference in military discipline and combat methods.

It's the difference in the center.

The old military system in Kyushu was based on the commanding general as the absolute core.

If an army is a healthy person, even if the general is the brain of the army, the brain controls the body to fight and decides the fate of the body... Similar to the example of the general leading the entire army to rebel, it is not uncommon throughout the ages. There is even no shortage of traitors who take the entire army to seek refuge with foreign races.

And the real new army is a decentralized, or idea-centered army.

Decentralization has extremely high requirements for communication, which cannot be met by a big man. Chen Sheng chose to focus on ideas, and in actual operation, by mistake, he centered on himself.

The specific manifestations are... as long as Chen Sheng is still alive, no matter who is going to lead the Red Army and the Huben Army, it is impossible to lead the Red Army and the Red Army to turn back the big man.

Song Yi's Construction Corps, Wang Ben's Tuntian Corps, and even the Bolang Army and Youzhou Army are all troops brought out by the old military system.

With more than 100 million soldiers and horses in the old military system, is it true that all the generals are willing to be Han generals and the Han army?
From Chen Sheng's point of view... not necessarily!

If it is true that all the generals are willing to serve as Han generals and the Han army, why hasn't the Youzhou Army sent envoys to Jinling to negotiate the inclusion of the Youzhou Army into the Han until now?

Therefore, these soldiers and horses of the old military system are equivalent to bombs in a sense. As long as someone secretly stirs up fire and sows dissension, they may turn against the big man again at any time!

Even the generals in command of these armies are really willing to be Han generals and have a sip of tea and rice, but once the subordinates can't stand the instigation, kill the officials, attack the city, and hang their banners, Anti is death, not anti is also death...

The big man can't just send someone to watch them 24 hours a day in order to prevent these people from rebelling, right?
Wouldn't that be the government forcing the people to rebel, forcing them to go to Liangshan?

For the same reason, dismissing these people on the spot and ordering them to return to the fields is only a way of delaying the symptoms but not the root cause.

Since a problem has arisen, it must be solved. If it is solved, it will not be a problem. If it is not solved, it will remain a problem forever.

Is it difficult to manage together, but easy to manage when scattered?
Therefore, Chen Sheng has been planning to use the new army as the skeleton to prepare for the four major military regions in the southeast, northwest, and north.

The two million troops, including the Youzhou Army and the Bolang Army, were dispersed and thrown into the four major military regions, where they were rebuilt and smelted together.

After all the troops of the old military system are deeply branded with his big man, they will be disarmed in batches.

In a sense, these unarmored soldiers who have been repatriated to their hometowns are also the best reserves. If there is a war of subjugation and genocide in the future, it is better to summon these trained unarmored soldiers than to summon those who do not even have spears. Newcomers who have been touched are more likely to form an army and form combat effectiveness.

At the same time, isn't this the best time to promote the concept of "princes and generals should have kindness"?

200 million soldiers, 200 million fire seeds, when they are scattered all over the world, won't they be the fire of a prairie fire?
This is his plan.

He thought he had weighed it clearly, so he didn't consider other directions.

The group of generals headed by Meng Tian and Li Xin may have seen his plan, but because of his majesty, they dare not express their opinions directly.

As for the important ministers headed by Han Fei, Li Si, and Fan Zeng, they never cared about military affairs, so how could we see his plan from his arrangement?

It wasn't until Meng Yi inadvertently pointed it out that Chen Sheng suddenly realized... This world riddled with holes may not be able to wait until the day when the 200 million army is rebuilt!

'We still have to form a cabinet! '

He sipped the hot tea just brought in by the palace man, and said vigilantly: "No matter how broad my vision is, I only have one brain after all. I think about everything by myself. Maybe that day I got into a dead end and did something bad with good intentions... ...'

Think so.

He still hasn't given up on the idea of ​​the four major military regions.

It is true that disarmament cannot be delayed, but isn't it winter now?
Now even if some soldiers are sent back home, there is no farm work to do.

Seize this time, form four major military regions, conduct three months of high-intensity recruit training, and then abolish the old and weak, give them the status of the Han Army, disarm them gloriously, and return to their hometowns!
In each state, county, and county, veterans management offices have been set up to receive these soldiers who have disarmed and returned to the field.

On the one hand, distribute houses and farmland to them to ensure their future life.

On the one hand, they represent the military region they originally belonged to, and give them various humanistic care such as rice noodles and oil during the holidays...

'If you do this, there will be no one who wants to rebel, right? '

Chen Sheng thought like this, but immediately said again: "But this is not fair to the soldiers of the Red Army and the Huben Army?" '

"They risked their lives to conquer this world, but at the end of the day, they let those defenseless enemies enjoy their benefits under their banner..."

'Well, we have to think again! '

Chen Sheng stroked his forehead, withdrew his divergent thoughts, and started to stroke again: "Or, make medals with battles?"Tax relief with medals, and salary with military service? '

'But if we formulate policies in this way, will we not suffer from shortages but from inequality? '

' Instead of emphasizing the differences in their origins, only emphasizing the origins of the medals and military service... You used to hang out with others, but now you can't get any benefits. You can't blame us for this, can you? '

'Just do it! '

Chen Sheng made up his mind, and was about to ask Meng Yi to compile his thoughts into a book, when suddenly a visitor came in, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, Qing Ke, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has returned and is waiting outside."

Chen Sheng immediately said: "Let him in!"

"only!"

The visitor bowed and retreated.

Chen Sheng turned his head to look at Meng Yi: "Go to the dining room, order the cooks to prepare some special dishes and bring them over."

Hearing the sound, Meng Yi quickly stood up, suppressed his surprise and said: "Wei."

He has seen the scene where the king summoned his courtiers to have a meal together when he was having a meal.

He himself has been treated like this.

But the king specially passed on the meal for a certain courtier, and it was the first time he saw...

Meng Yi bowed and exited the side hall. As soon as he reached the door, he saw a dark-skinned man in black, as thin as an iron bar, with a dangerous aura on his body. He walked in quickly... It was Jing Ke, whom he hadn't seen for a long time. !

"I've seen the boss!"

He took the initiative to salute.

Jing Ke also replied, "I have seen Mr. Meng."

The two nodded with a smile, got up and passed by.

Jing Ke walked quickly to His Royal Highness, clasped his palms and bowed to the end: "Your Majesty Qing Ke, I pay my respects to Your Majesty, long live my emperor!"

"Qingqing, please stand up!"

Chen Sheng helped Jing Ke up in the air, and his soft true essence turned into a palm to gently lift Jing Ke up, and then looked down condescendingly and said, "It's much darker and thinner, um, and the breath is much stronger than before... This trip lasted a hundred years. Yue, did you suffer a lot?"

Jing Ke forced a smile: "Return to Your Majesty, I killed a hundred masters during this trip, and my servants were lucky, so I had to return to Hantu in one piece!"

"They are all warriors, and their sacrifices are to prevent our descendants from being invaded by Baiyue. If you write a biography for them later, I will personally send their gods to the Hall of Valor!"

Chen Sheng replied seriously, and then made a gesture of "Please sit down" to the left: "It's still early, I ordered the dining room to cook meals, we are not in a hurry, let's talk slowly!"

Jing Ke raised his hand and replied, "Dare not to obey orders!"

(End of this chapter)