Infrastructure: I survive in troubled times

Chapter 289 People (four more)

"That's right! None of those who were dragged out to fight came back!" Jiang Shuisheng said in surprise when he remembered, "We all saw reinforcements."

"People without roots, what a disaster!" Lin Nanzheng sighed, "It's been a few months, and I haven't heard from them."

Han Qinhu elbowed Lin Nanzheng, if you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb!It's really a pot that doesn't open.

"What are you doing to me?" Lin Nanzheng tilted his head slightly and looked at him in confusion.

"Don't shout loudly." Han Qinhu glanced at him angrily and said.

"Then what do you want to say?" Lin Nanzheng raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at him and lowered his voice.

"Don't talk about catching strong men." Han Qinhu muttered in a low voice.

"Why?" Lin Nanzheng looked at him with doubtful phoenix eyes and said.

"Because many of our family members have been arrested and dragged to the battlefield. They don't know whether they are alive or dead." Hong Lianshuo looked at the two of them with dark eyes and shook his head slightly, "Including, my father, father-in-law and husband."

"Uh..." Lin Nanzheng looked at them dumbfounded, "Me?"

"What you said is the truth." Hong Lianshuo looked at him gently and said, "There is nothing to hide." He said deliberately, "There is no need to trouble others."

Han Qinhu, who was exposed, scratched his head in embarrassment, "You continue."

Hong Lianshuo smiled when he heard the words, "That is to say, we are now farmers with a hoe and a farmer with a big knife."

"Soldier-farmer integration system." Lin Nanzheng looked at her with phoenix eyes and said.

"The advantages and disadvantages of this combination of soldiers and farmers are obvious." Hong Lianshuo looked at them with dark eyes and said, "There is a way to raise soldiers for a thousand days and use them for a while. During daily training, you can quickly gather a group of soldiers when you use them." An army with high combat effectiveness. However, the shortcomings are also obvious. With the current road conditions, it only takes time on the road. The transfer of young and middle-aged men will definitely affect the farming season and increase the burden on farmers."

"This cannot be ignored, especially because we have few people." Han Qinhu said sharply, "If people miss the ground for a while, and the land misses people for a year, how can we fight if there is not enough food and grass?"

"The advantages of the recruitment system are obvious. It can reduce the burden of peasants' military service and save the consumption on the road. It is more powerful to concentrate on training and fighting!" Lin Nanzheng said after hearing the words and looking at them for a while.

"What about the shortcoming?" Sixi turned her eyes around.

"Disadvantages?" Jiang Shuisheng thought about it carefully, "When this or that general recruits soldiers, he must first recruit his own people, that is, relatives and fellow villagers. It is easy to form groups, which is not conducive to unity."

"Then if you don't recruit your own people, who are you recruiting! My own people have the same accent, so you don't have to understand." Chen Zhongyuan said naturally.

Hong Lianshuo snapped his fingers, looked at them with bright eyes, and said, "It's all right, but its biggest fatal flaw is that if this group of people gets together, as long as the imperial court's control drops, they will easily turn into private individuals." The army finally led to the separatism of the feudal towns, and wars broke out everywhere."

"Ah!" Ye Yunyu stroked the broken hair beside her ears, "Then what should I do?"

"The combination of soldiers and farmers is very suitable for us now. Everyone farms the land, and prepares their own clothes, food, knives and guns when fighting. Horses, bows, crossbows, armor and other heavy equipment are uniformly distributed by the court." Hong Lianshuo raised his index finger and said, "The advantage of doing this is that there are fewer people and insufficient labor force. It is indeed beneficial to farming in peacetime and serving as a soldier in wartime, and it can also reduce the burden on the court." He pursed his lips and looked at them and said, "But the disadvantages are also obvious. , that is, wait until the middle of the dynasty, because land annexation is serious, and the integration of soldiers and farmers will easily go bankrupt. So it is popular in the early stage of a dynasty."

Hong Lianshuo looked at them with dark eyes and said, "The military system used by each dynasty is not static. Basically, there are two words: practical!"

"You said you were a pragmatist." Han Qinhu said, looking at her with burning eyes.

"It's not just me, everyone else is the same. You know about the Changping battle between Qin and Zhao!" Hong Lianshuo said as he looked at them with dark eyes like ink.

"I know, Bai Qikeng killed Zhao Guo's 40 soldiers." Jiang Shuisheng said immediately after hearing the words.

Hong Lianshuo looked at them with bright black eyes and said, "And as I said just now, the Qin law stipulates that only men over seventeen can join the army, but the Battle of Changping pushed King Qin Zhao into a hurry. Children over the age of 15 in Hanoi are not allowed to join the army." Pushed up."

"But now Shuisheng, Sixi and the others were young when they joined the army. Many of them were child soldiers, and they were dragged directly to the battlefield." Hong Lianshuo looked at them with deep black eyes and said, "You wantonly arrest young men, regardless of your military system, first Let’s get the quantity together enough.”

"They don't even have the simplest training. If they are sent to the battlefield, they will undoubtedly be sent to death." Han Qinhu said with his brows furrowed, "You can imagine the fighting power."

"So! No matter what kind of military system, it is definitely not the reason for the strength of the dynasty, nor is it the main reason for its decline." Hong Lianshuo looked at them sharply and said, "Any military system can build a powerful dynasty, and any military system can can bring down a dynasty.”

"Then why?" Han Qinhu looked at her suspiciously and asked.

"There are many reasons. Military discipline is lax, armaments are slack, corruption is no less than that of temples, officers deduct military pay, and corruption is prevalent. Now most of the soldiers are refugees who are forced to join the army for the sake of stuttering, second-raters, criminals in prison, and many soldiers. There is no military discipline at all, the soldiers are lax and slack, and they are not ready for battle. There are a lot of bad habits, and soldiers and bandits are rampant." It is simply too difficult to write. Hong Lianshuo said casually, "In terms of the army, soldiers Those who don’t know generals, generals who don’t know soldiers, are stronger than weak branches.”

"Which general in this family is not with the soldiers every day?" Lin Nanzheng said without hesitation, "Besides, no emperor would dare to use generals like this. It is easy to only recognize the general and not the emperor. Soldiers are self-respecting. Generals who are abroad will not accept military orders, and if the gun is aimed at their own emperor, I don’t think any emperor will sleep well.”

"It's not always during the war. The emperor sent out the generals. After the battle, the military power and tiger charms were taken back, and the generals belonged to the court." Han Qinhu's brown pupils turned slightly, "This is a difficult problem, really. It's hard to understand, trust is too fragile. I didn't provoke dissension, and I was still a shadow of a snake! Don't mention that someone with a heart deliberately resorted to divisive tricks."

"So! The system of garrisoning land, granting land, or equalizing land. In terms of the military system, the conscription system, the system of recruiting soldiers, and the integration of soldiers and farmers." Hong Lianshuo looked at them with deep and honest eyes and said, "Any kind of system is not a powerful dynasty. root cause, and there is no most successful system."

(End of this chapter)