"The minister is afraid, and he should not be praised by His Majesty."

Su Dawei saluted sincerely.

This time, Li Zhi was angry instead.

"Did I praise you? You're ...... Shameless. ”

How could Li Zhi not know that Su Dawei did it on purpose, deliberately putting on a self-spitting appearance, anyway, no matter what Li Zhi said, it was a compliment from His Majesty.

Li Zhi was really annoyed by Su Dawei's appearance.

Catch fire?

The anger hurts the body, how can there be so much fire.

What's more, when he was angry, most of it was pretending to be seen.

Xu Jingzong and the others in the hall cast their eyes on Su Dawei, which was quite complicated.

Let's say that this Su Dawei is less wise, his mentality is really good.

How many people were staring at Li Zhi, and their mentality collapsed, and they were full of ugliness.

Su Dawei's two-skinned face and spittle self-doing skills are quite a bit Cheng Cheng biting gold, pretending to be crazy and stupid, and being stupid, making people angry.

"Dongtai Squire, you tell Su Dawei, why do I hold down the rewards of those sergeants, and am I a mean person?"

Hao Chujun was still smiling at the corners of his mouth, but when he was a little bit by Li Zhi, his face changed slightly, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

knew that he had just spoken for Su Dawei, and he did not escape from Li Zhi's eyes.

This explains His Majesty's decree to the government soldiers, which is not an easy job.

Well said, no credit.

If you don't say it well, I'm afraid that it will make Your Majesty angry, and even get caught.

However, he has been named by Li Zhi, and he can't get rid of it.

There is no lack of wisdom for those who can get to this position.

Hao Chujun stood up, saluted Li Zhi first, and then coughed lightly, the old man in his fifties shook his sleeves slightly, and said to Su Dawei: "Su Shaoqing was in Baekje before, and he has been in the military formation for a long time, and what he has seen and heard is naturally the difficulty of the sergeants, but you don't know...... The difficulties of His Majesty and the Imperial Court. ”

"I want to hear about it."

Su Dawei bowed his hand to Hao Chujun, looking humbly asking for advice.

It's all said and done, no matter whether it's justified or not, we have to make this matter clear.

Find out the reason why Li Zhi is harsh on the Tang Army's rewards, and also have an explanation for himself and the robes in the army.

If you can change Li Zhi's mind a little and treat some soldiers a little kindly, it will be a great good.

Hao Chujun, a native of Anlu, Anzhou, the son of Hao Xianggui, the assassin of Chuzhou, and the nephew of Xu Yushi.

lost his father at an early age, and he knew how to make it easier to read the Book of Han.

It is a Jinshi in the Zhenguan period, and Gao Shilian, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, took a fancy to him, awarded the book Zuolang, and attacked the Gongshan County, known as Hao Yongshan.

After Li Zhi ascended the throne, he moved to the Ministry of Ministers.

Assisted Li Tao to defeat Goguryeo, and worshiped Dongtai Shilang.

In other words, Hao Chujun is not a civilian official in the ordinary sense, he is more or less a soldier.

When Li Tao was conquering Goguryeo, he was in charge of logistics scheduling, and was familiar with the situation of the government soldiers, the Tang Dynasty military department, and the official department.

Therefore, Li Zhi asked him to come out and explain to Su Dawei that he still had a set of vision.

This is also Li Zhi's ability, he will use people.

"Su Shaoqing talked about the reward of soldiers before, so does Su Shaoqing know how many soldiers I have in Datang now?"

"This ......"

Su Dawei hesitated: "I only know that there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and I ...... the specific number Ignorance. ”

Hao Chujun nodded, and continued: "My Tang Dynasty is mainly based on government soldiers, and at the same time, there are also the Beiya Forbidden Army, military recruitment, border army, and local regimental training that is not out of production, Su Shaoqing knows?" ”

Su Dawei: "......"

Know a fart.

He knows that the forbidden army is the left and right to lead the left and right governments, and he knows a little.

Border Army......

Well, there should be.

As for other so-called military recruitment and group training, he was a little confused.

"Speaking of the military system itself, Su Shaoqing should know that there are 634 prefectures in the country at most, each of which is classified according to the upper, middle and lower levels, ranging from 1,200 to 800 people.

If calculated on average, there are roughly 630,000 soldiers in the country.

Not counting the many supporting institutions, and logistical auxiliaries.

If all the numbers are counted, I am afraid that the numbers will have to be doubled.

And to provide these auxiliary and military reserves of the province, millions of people will be put into the military at the same time in the country.

Our Datang now has a population of nearly 17 million, and if the government and military departments are kept full, there will be more than 3 million people in the whole country, and they will have to go out of production to prepare for war.

Do you know what that means? ”

Hearing this, Su Dawei's face turned green.

In proportion to the population, that is, about one-sixth of the people, they are invested in military institutions, and they are intensively prepared for war.

Even if the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty adopt a rotation system, half of them are in service all year round.

That's also millions of people, who are out of work to serve the military.

There is war at any time, and there must be a battlefield at any time.

Not counting the aftermath of the war losses and attrition.

This is an unsinkable burden for any great empire in the agrarian era.

Yes, the Tang Dynasty is rich, and all countries are coming.

No matter how rich you are, you can't afford such consumption.

Su Dawei understood that Hao Chujun was reminding himself by listing numbers that Datang could no longer maintain the heavy rewards it had when it was founded.

"Your Majesty, Dongtai Shilang, I understand the truth, I believe that the robes in the army also understand the difficulties of the imperial court, but there are some things, I think that not only money, such as the honor of soldiers, but also the pension after the disability and death, we can do better."

"This question is very complicated, Su Shaoqing, what you see is only the treatment of soldiers, but what the court has to consider is the law of eternity, which is long-term."

Hao Chujun sighed lightly: "Before, I was in charge of logistics and support for the British conquest of Goguryeo, so I saw a lot, and some things were not as simple as you imagined.

If we follow the strategy of the past, let's not talk about how many fields can be rewarded, let's talk about post-war pensions, do you know how much manpower and material resources need to be mobilized for tens of thousands of people's pensions? ”

Hao Chujun stared at Su Dawei with his eyes: "I have calculated, if there are 5,000 people injured in the First World War, it will cost several times more money and food to care for and appease their families than to recruit soldiers, and the officials in charge of this matter will need about 200 people." And for at least ten years after that, it took up a lot of energy from the imperial court to complete these tasks. ”

After a pause, after Su Dawei digested it, he continued: "Today's imperial court is unable to appease everything, if you can't level the bowl of water, why don't you give up all of it, only pay the pension money, and don't care about the rest." ”

This sounds a little cold-blooded.

The meaning is very simple, the Tang Dynasty court does not have so much money and manpower now, so it does this kind of thing without "return" all year round.

Su Dawei's mood was difficult for a while.

He took a deep breath and said: "It's not without benefits, the soldiers who kill the enemy in front of them all hope to be rewarded, and they have no worries, so that they can be brave."

Dongtai Shilang said that the difficulties of the imperial court, I understand.

But how did Taizong do it? ”

"Time has changed, when Taizong was in power, we still had enough acres, and the wars were not as frequent as they are now, and after the destruction of the Eastern Turks in the First World War, we captured a lot, and we could recuperate for several years."

This was said a little vaguely, but Su Dawei still understood.

First of all, during the time of Taizong, there was still an ownerless field in the world.

But now, the fields that can basically be divided have been divided.

In the land of the Tang Dynasty, there is no fertile land to reward to the nobles of military merit.

As for the remote corners, if you say that there is no field, then there must be.

But Su Dawei would not be stupid enough to ask such a question.

In any era, the value of a house in a big city is very different from that of a broken adobe house in the 18th-tier countryside.

As far as the productivity of the Tang Dynasty is concerned, no one will plant the land that has been given horns.

And Hao Chujun's previous words explained that instead of being able to make a bowl of water even, it made the grassroots compare and resent.

It's better to cut it all, everyone doesn't have it, and there is nothing to say.

Moreover, during the period of Taizong Li Shimin, the destruction of the Eastern Turks belonged to a one-punch fight, so as not to come with a hundred punches.

Plenty of time to recuperate.

But in the Li Zhi Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty expanded on all sides, and also fought in turns on all sides, and the government soldiers fought day and day, endlessly.

The combat environment and intensity are not the same.

It's not like before, you can grab such a huge war dividend.

The enemies around him, the rich ones, have already been beaten and looted by Datang Fat.

That's how Datang's money came from in the past.

But now the surrounding population is either poor or a family of the Tang Dynasty, and this kind of war money is becoming more and more difficult to earn.

And as the empire spreads out, the more marginal effects appear.

The cost of various expenses has increased exponentially.

In a word, it used to be profitable to fight wars.

Now there is a loss of money to fight a war.

If there is not enough money and manpower, then it can only be simplified.

What is the glory of the soldiers, the condolences and condolences, now all are simplified.

At the national level, this approach is ruthless enough, but it is very practical.

The country's money and resources are always limited.

There are more on the other end, and there must be less on this side.

Besides, during the Taizong Dynasty, the court was simple and servant, and Taizong took the lead in advocating frugality.

Now in the Li Zhi Dynasty, the Daming Palace has been erected, the Tang Dynasty is Chang'an, and all countries are coming to the court.

If you want it to be thrifty, it won't go back.

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.

Seeing Su Dawei standing there silently, Hao Chujun added another critical blow.

"I'll say one more thing."

Hao Chujun coughed lightly, his old eyes narrowed slightly, and he stroked his beard lightly and said: "In the past, the reason why the soldiers had no regrets in a hundred battles was because they stood on top of Juntian, but now there is not so much good land to reward in the Tang Dynasty, and secondly, are those soldiers back then still soldiers?" ”

"What do you mean by that?"

Su Dawei was slightly stunned, and then reacted: "The soldiers of the year should all have land now." ”

"Yes, the soldiers who founded the country back then were already military nobles, can their descendants still fight bravely to kill the enemy as they did when the country was founded?"

Hao Chujun and Shangguan Yi and Xu Jingzong beside him looked at each other, and there was a trace of helplessness in everyone's eyes.

"In fact, throughout the history books, the founding of the country was the peak of martial arts, because of the war, the rest must be young and strong, and they must struggle to survive, or earn a future.

But after the country settled down, these people, those who were capable, were all made princes and became nobles.

After the first and second generations, no matter how generously you are rewarded, you can't be as elite as the founding of the country.

The combat power is deteriorating. ”

Su Dawei finally nodded in agreement: "Dongtai Shilang is right. ”