"You'er, Zhinu, now you two are the generals of the Hu Ben Guard (third rank), and one is the general of the Hu Ben Guard (from third rank).... You two must manage the Hu Ben Guard well."

Li Shimin sat in the Ganlu Hall and looked at Li You and Li Zhi with a smile.

However, as soon as Li Shimin finished speaking, Li Zhi on the side hurriedly said, "Father, we will definitely manage the Hu Ben Guard well, but... the entire Hu Ben Guard should have 15,000 guards, but now we only have 1,000 people, and the number is not enough."

"People...you go and recruit yourself." Li Shimin said with a slight smile.

"Father, this is not right. The army of the Sixteen Guards was not recruited by themselves, they were all soldiers of the palace...!" Li Zhi was a little surprised.

This government soldier is very beneficial because the government soldier has its own bows, arrows, clothing and food, which is not supplied by the feudal state. When the government soldier is in conquest, except for the heavy weapons and war horses supplied by the feudal state, everything else should be raised by itself. The government soldier's personal funds are mainly seven things and food, and the seven things should be directed to patronage, quilts, supplies, bows, arrows, saddles and bridles, and weapons.

The soldiers of the Sixteen Guards are also all the soldiers of the palace. The greatest advantage of the soldiers is that they can better control the military power.

Secondly, soldiers serve as soldiers in wartime and for the people in leisure time, which allows the emperor to directly control the military power. If there is any war, the emperor can issue orders to the generals below and summon these people.

Save the cost of war. When fighting, is there any military troops who have not moved their food and grass before they move? The generals who lead the army first consider the issue of military rations. If there is not enough food and grass supply, how to fight. Often, half of the war is fought, the army will be in chaos without food, and the morale of the army will collapse without others fighting themselves. When the troops in the palace go to conquer the grain, the horse area will have to purchase it themselves. This greatly reduces the pressure on the court to supply front-line materials.

Also, Mulan joins the army for her father, which is a typical government soldier. In any dynasty, there are wars and periods of relatively stable periods. Soldiers are also laborers in their spare time, allowing them to engage in production, be self-sufficient, reclaim wasteland and use national resources to the greatest extent possible, and save military expenditures. In addition, implementing the government soldier system, the first thing to do is to implement household registration, which is conducive to the imperial court's management of population.

"Yes... the sixteen guards are all soldiers in the palace, but you can't do it. You are the seventeenth guard in Chang'an. The soldiers are already full, so your Hu Ben Guard has to recruit people by yourself, and you also need to solve the problem of food, grass, weapons, and monthly salary by yourself." Li Shimin said with a laugh.

"What..." Li Zhi was ridiculous: "Father, you are cheating on your son and your fifth brother... 15,000 people, and people eat horses in a month, so it's not more than 100,000 yuan..."

"It's not more than 100,000 yuan. Your uncle Changsun calculated that it should be less than 150,000 yuan a month... There is no way, the army recruited by itself is so expensive. However, you have me remembered that 15,000 people must be full, and the combat power cannot be small. I will arrange for your Hu Ben Guard to compete with other guards every tenth day, and lose and punish you once and once."

"Clam..." Li Zhi is almost crazy now. What's the point? He has to spend money, maintain combat effectiveness, be full of staff, and punish him.

"Father...you...you...you...you...you don't become this general...you don't have money...even if the fifth brother has money, he can't spend this money like this. Although we are princes of the Tang Dynasty, this is too scammed!"

Li Zhi looked refusal.

However, Li Shimin looked at Li You and asked, "You'er, are you willing?"

At this time, Li You bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, I will not let Your Majesty down..."

"Haha...good...Zhinu, your fifth brother agrees, what else do you have to say?" Li Shimin looked at Li Zhi with a smile.

Li Zhi said speechlessly at this time: "Fifth brother agrees. What else does my son have to say? It's just that my father... give me some things."

Li Shimin smiled and shook his head: "No more, okay, you can leave."

Li You bowed and left. Li Zhi on the side wanted to say something, but was captured by Li You. Looking at the two sons who left the Ganlu Palace, Li Shimin sighed slightly: "I hope you two can find a way."

Why did Li Shimin actually creates more guards out of thin air, one is used to give Li Zhi a way out, and the second is to explore a new military system.

The government military system is no longer possible. The emperor Li Shimin has seen the disadvantages of the government military system: First of all, the government military system is the unity of soldiers and farmers, and the combat effectiveness of these soldiers is of varying quality. Some may be veterans, and everyone knows each other together and takes care of each other on the battlefield. Some are new recruits who have not received special training, so their combat effectiveness is poor and they are prone to desertion problems.

Secondly, the territory is much larger than before. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, you can return after a few months of expedition, but now you may not be able to return for a few years. If you leave your hometown for a long time, you will worry that your land will be annexed. Moreover, the equipment used by the soldiers to go to the expedition is prepared by themselves, which makes the soldiers' enthusiasm worse.

In the end, the military service system of the government was too heavy. Although participating in the government soldier could be exempted from labor service, the age was from 21 to 59 years old. It took too long, and now the production of the country in the late Zhenguan period was greatly improved. The people had money in their pockets and would rather pay taxes out of their own pockets than be a government soldier.

All the government system was established on the equal-field system. The equal-field system was a system of allocating land according to population implemented from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty. Some of the land belonged to it after a certain period of cultivation, and some of the land was returned to the government after its death.

The implementation of the equal-field system affirms the ownership and possession rights of land, reduces land disputes, and is conducive to the reclamation of unowned wastelands, thus playing a positive role in the restoration and development of agricultural production.

The implementation of the equal-field system and the new rent and adjustment volume associated with it has been reduced compared with the previous period and the implementation of the three-rank system is conducive to relying on farmers to get rid of the control of powerful families and transforming them into a state household registration, which greatly increases the number of self-cultivated small farmers controlled by the government, ensuring the source of taxes and service, and thus enhancing the authoritarian centralization system.

However, Li Shimin had already felt some signs of collapse of the equal land system. As the national strength of the Tang Dynasty continued to recover from the war, the population increased and the number of wealthy farmers, that is, the new generation of landlords, and the number of idle land decreased, it was difficult to achieve equal land again.

If the equalization of land cannot be achieved, the system of military troops in the palace will completely collapse. So the emperor Li Shimin saw it in advance. He was going to let Li You's Hu Ben Guard explore a new recruitment system first.

This is Li Shimin's power, killing two birds with one stone, and everything he does has two or even multiple meanings.

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After leaving the Ganlu Palace, Li Zhi complained speechlessly: "Fifth brother... My father is too much this time, and we have to recruit money, weapons, food, and even personnel ourselves.

My God... 15,000 people, how do you ask us to recruit? Although there are millions around Chang'an, it is still difficult to recruit 15,000 people."

"Take it slow... there will always be a solution..." Li You looked at Li Zhi with a smile.

"Oh... As long as the fifth brother says there is a way, there is a way... As for money, fifth brother, you know that I don't have money... My salary is less than 100 cents a month, and sometimes I have to borrow it from Yizi.

So I can't pay for this Hu Ben Guard." Li Zhi looked at Li You and said with a smile.

"I don't expect you to get money, but what about you... do what you can..."

"Of course... as long as I work hard, I'll be on call." As soon as he finished speaking, Li Zhi quickly looked at his watch and said, "Oh... time is coming, I'm leaving."

"Where are you going?" Li You asked.

"Chenxi Palace... Today, my mother invited other ladies to watch the show, which was the big show "Peony Pavilion" you made... I said Fifth Brother, how did you have this brain? "Peony Pavilion" is so good."

After saying that, Li Zhi rode his bicycle without looking back and ran towards Chenxi Palace.

"Peony Pavilion" is a play arranged in the form Li You used, but it is either arranged in any drama, or in the singing style of the Tang Dynasty at that time, and with a little drama.

The plot is as follows: Du Liniang, the daughter of Du Bao, the prefect of Nan'an, Fujian, went to the garden to play, and had a secret meeting with scholar Liu Mengmei in her dream. After waking up from the dream, she suffered from lovesickness and died of pain.

Three years later, Liu Mengmei went to Lin'an to take the exam. After passing through Du Liniang's grave, she picked up her self-portrait, met Du Liniang's ghost, dug a grave and opened a coffin, so that Du Liniang would be resurrected. The two became husband and wife. However, Du Bao did not admit their union. It was not until Liu Mengmei won the top scorer and the emperor took charge that the matter was successfully resolved.

Among them, the heroine is Shao Yiyi and the hero is Xiao Yan... You don't know that as soon as this drama came out, it caused a sensation in the whole Chang'an in just one day. Originally, Li You was just going to have fun in Dunhuafang, just for entertainment. Li You didn't want his wives to be too idle.

If the backyard is too idle, something will happen. Quan Zhixi is in the school now, Yueying takes care of herself, leaving Shao Yiyi, Cui Xiuniang and Xiao Yan. So the three of them must be asked to do something, so Li You made a script and talked to the three of them.

Cui Xiuniang became the director, Shao Yiyi and Xiao Yan became the male and female protagonists. They originally thought they could use it to pass the time, but who knew that the first game was full. After watching the first game, the entire Dunhuafang was in full bloom, and they desperately shouted the names of Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei.

No wonder... The story of "Peony Pavilion" is beyond common sense and has a fantasy nature... The huge artistic power contained in Du Liniang's image strongly touches the hearts of ancient young men and women.

With the wonderful performances of Shao Yiyi and Xiao Yan, the male and female protagonists were instantly played. Now Shao Yiyi and Xiao Yan are both named everyone, one is Shao Jia and the other is Xiao Jia. The two must not appear in Chang'an, as it will cause the whole Chang'an people to be crazy.

Now there have been less than five episodes of "Peony Pavilion", and this fifth episode has reached a point where there are so many people.

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Chapter completed!