Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"The Crusades?" Li Shimin was taken aback by these words, "Really?"

He looked at Li Ke suspiciously, the Pope?Crusades?Is there such a powerful empire in the West?Doesn't that mean that it is also stronger than Persia?After all, if the other party has this ambition to carry out the Eastern Expedition, it means that they have absolute confidence that they can defeat these countries in the East.

Judging from the information Li Shimin currently knows, although Persia, a country that has existed for hundreds of years, has a smaller population than Datang, its overall strength should not be underestimated.Not to mention that we can fight back and forth with Persia in Arabia. I heard that there is a Byzantium in the west.

The other party must be closer to these three countries. Do they want to fight all the way to Datang?

"Of course it's true." Li Ke said without changing his face or heartbeat.

"No wonder you are so anxious to push Datang's defense line near the West Kunlun Mountains." Li Shimin suddenly realized, he probably understood why Li Ke was in a hurry.

"You sent Pei Xingjian to Zhonghua to get the latest news, right?"

"However, according to my opinion, their possibility is not high. Regardless of the fact that the three countries in the middle are not small countries, it is said that the distance from the west to the current border of our Tang Dynasty is at least five or six thousand miles, so far away. Expeditions, not everyone is a champion." Li Shimin shook his head, "Without sufficient logistics, reasonable war mobilization, and a strong national system, if you want to launch such an expedition, the possibility of success is infinitely close to zero."

"And you are talking about the Pope, that is to say, it is religious? I admit that some fanatics can erupt with great fighting power, but since it is a large-scale war, it is impossible for all soldiers to be fanatics. It is highly unlikely that any of the officers are fanatics."

"It's just believers. The casualties, sufferings, life and death during the battle are enough to make them start thinking about why they are fighting. There is no real benefit and enough family and country feelings. It's just for an unfounded god. I'm afraid it's not the army along the way. They're all deserters."

I have to say that none of the famous emperors in history was simple, and my father has already agreed on too many things.

Li Ke looked at his father with a smile and said, "No matter what, we have to be prepared."

"Well, I understand, so you can start the reform of the Tang Dynasty's military department. Some military academies you mentioned before can be built. Let's start with the Sixteen Guards of Chang'an." Li Shimin said.

Chang'an sixteen guards, in fact, one guard is almost equivalent to an army, and the number of each guard is different. It used to range from 25000 to 4000. However, the Chang'an sixteen guards are currently being restructured as a whole, and there will be no Chang'an sixteen guards in the future. This unequal situation.

In addition, according to Li Ke's thinking, the sixteen guards are actually not useful near Chang'an, and soldiers from three guards are enough. In addition, soldiers from other guards can be transferred outside.

Of course, the premise of doing this is that the security forces are fully replenished.

Speaking of which, Qin Qiong is now the general with the most troops in the entire Tang Dynasty, and the total number of the entire security army is close to 50.

Datang's Fubing currently has a total strength of less than 70.Of course, this is also because the security forces recruit retired soldiers locally and then conduct training, so the security forces are only responsible for dealing with the local situation.

In other words, the armor on them is not comparable to the protective area of ​​the Mingguang armor and the active armor of the Tang Dynasty, but compared with any other country in the world, it is considered heavy armor.

With such troops, weapons and equipment are not left behind, they are enough to defend the city!

In other words, the army before the Tang Dynasty seems to have more than 60 soldiers, but these soldiers still need to guard the place, and there may only be 10,000+ for external combat.

But now, it is no exaggeration to say that Datang's current 70 troops can be used to fight abroad!The available troops are not at the same level at all!

The most important thing is that Datang's current military system is not a mansion military system, but a compulsory military service system, that is to say, all soldiers have to undergo continuous training for at least one year, and then they will enter actual combat.

Datang didn't know the later generations, so the actual combat must be actual combat. If there is no enemy, how can we actually fight?Sweep bandits!Throughout the Tang Dynasty, as long as there are bandits and bandits robbing places, no matter how many people there are or how few people there are, the local government soldiers will just pull them over and do it.

When not training for actual combat at this time, when will you be training for actual combat?

Therefore, this year, in the entire territory of the Tang Dynasty, I don't know how many bandits, large and small, have been wiped out. At least four to five hundred bandits and bandits have been killed.

And the killing of these bandits and bandits has another advantage. At least more than 30 people have re-registered their household registration in Datang.

There is no way, at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in chaos. I don’t know how many people fled into the deep mountains and old forests in order to avoid the military disaster, and many of them even fled from the whole village.

Although Datang conquered the world, it was impossible to distract himself from looking for these people in the vast mountains and forests.

But now, anyway, the Tang court has money, uh... Mainly His Royal Highness the King of Qin has money, and if there is no shortage of food, what is needed to mobilize these soldiers who need to be trained is just a little money every month.

To be honest...there are not many, the main reason is that the profits are high!And the monthly money of these government soldiers was taken back, and they were all consumed in the end!The common people are short of ironware now!Li Ke has a lot of ways to make the economy prosperous, and he is not afraid of the people making money.

Make money and invent new things for them to buy.

I bought a plowshare, and a columbine cart, I bought a columbine cart, and an iron pot, I bought an iron pot, and I bought a kitchen knife, I bought a kitchen knife, and I will have various iron daily utensils in the future. When these are replenished, In the future, there will be carriages with iron wheels, and even some sewing machines and so on.

Finally, there are all kinds of cloth, houses, glass, and more.

All in all, people care about food, clothing, housing and transportation, and Li Ke started with these aspects.

Therefore, in the name of military training, Li Ke asked these government soldiers to drill into the deep mountains and old forests if they had nothing to do. In the worst case, it would be used as training, large-scale mountain cross-country, mountain combat, mountain adaptability training, etc., and at the same time they could also train military doctors. Treatments for various common diseases.

It's all good!

So this is how these populations came. Some villages hidden in the mountains were discovered. At first they were a little nervous, but the soldiers who discovered them did not do anything.

Especially now in the world of the new Tang Dynasty, the village chiefs in these villages are also very disciplined, and they all express to contact the nearest village to register for household registration and naturalization.

At the same time, these political commissars also said that if they were willing to move out of the deep mountains and old forests, the Datang government would still allocate [-] mu of land to each household. How could these villagers be unwilling?