The government soldiers of the Tang Dynasty have no military salary, and the families who are conscripted as government soldiers can generally be exempted from conscription, and they can also have priority to get the mouth of the land after retirement, and the mouth of the land that died in the war will be inherited by the children and grandchildren, and the rent is also exempted. The price is that the government soldiers must provide their own equipment, and they must also pay for the travel expenses to and from the service.

Of course, the emperor is not short of starving soldiers. Although the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty did not have military salaries, they had food, salt, and tea supplies. Datang's treatment of government soldiers is actually quite good, although there is no military salary to be received in name, in fact, every government soldier can save a certain amount of food and salt from the army to subsidize his family.

Taking the Dingyuan Army as an example, the Dingbian Army is a border army system, each soldier eats six liters of rice (about equal to six catties) per day, about 22 stones a year, three liters of salt per month, and three buckets and six liters a year. Every year, silk, linen, and silk (缣, that is, today's silk, after the Han Dynasty, were mostly used as rewards and rewards, or as currency) each horse, which was about 3,400 yuan. In addition to these usual supplies, there were also supplies such as wine, meat, and tea to reward the army, which was about eight times a year for each soldier.

This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is the consumption of horses, war horses not only eat forage, just eating forage will not grow fat, they need to add food. According to the custom, a war horse costs three stones and three buckets of grain per month, and one horse has to eat nearly forty stones of grain in a year. This is a very large number, Chen Ying has more than 40,000 war horses, and he will eat 1.6 million stone of grain a year, which is about three times the amount of forage.

War horses alone are enough to bankrupt Chen Ying.

Chen Ying thought about it and decided not to reduce the staffing, but to increase the establishment, and the Dingyuan Army still protected the six Zhichong Provinces, but each Zhichong Province added a ranger regiment. This Ranger Regiment served as scouts, guards, and teleportations, and the Rangers were recruited from the Shengjie Army.

In this way, the 36th Regiment of the Six Prefectures of the Dingyuan Army, the first Zhichong Mansion was commanded by Zhang Huaiwei, the commander of the Zhichong Prefecture, and the five regiments of infantry and one regiment of cavalry under its jurisdiction, with more than 1,800 people in the whole prefecture, more than 400 war horses and more than 200 horses.

Ryazan, the commander of the second Zhichong Prefecture, has the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth and thirty-second regiments, a total of six regiments, more than 1,800 people, and more than 600 war horses and horses.

The 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and 33rd Infantry Regiments under the jurisdiction of the Third Regiment, a total of more than 1,800 people in the six regiments, more than 400 war horses, and more than 200 horses.

Duan Zhigan, the commander of the Fourth Folding Chong Prefecture, has the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th regiments, the 34th regiment, more than 1,080 people, and more than 600 war horses and horses.

Zhang Shigui, the commander of the Fifth Zhichong Prefecture, has more than 1,000 people under his command, including the 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th and 35th regiments, and more than 600 war horses and horses.

Luo Shixin, the commander of the Sixth Folding Chong Prefecture, has jurisdiction over the 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th and 36th Regiments. There were more than 1,800 people in the regiment and more than 3,400 war horses.

In this way, after the Dingyuan army reduced the number of horses, there were still more than 5,400 war horses and more than 1,000 horses.

Chen Ying transferred more than 1,800 men and horses from six regiments of the Shengjie Army, and then dismissed some of the old and weak Shengjie Army. In fact, there are many Turkic people, they are not simple killing machines, the war-weariness that breeds in their hearts is, in the final analysis, the mood of boredom and spontaneous thoughts, perhaps after a period of time, the martial arts in their bones have precipitated more deeply and purely.

Chen Ying authorized some of the generals to return to the locality, or participate in local affairs, or return to their families to work as farmers, and there was no compulsory way to integrate them into the auxiliary army, which was also to achieve the goal of bringing the army to the people. These Turks voluntarily abandoned the army and joined the people, and Chen Ying settled near Lingwu, using their strengths to artificially plant alfalfa grass.

Chen Ying conformed to these Turkic subordinates and reduced them into six prefectures of the Lingwu Army, with Yu Guni as the head of the Lingwu Soldiers and Horses Army, and Chen Jinyong and Ashina Simo as the deputy commanders of the soldiers and horses.

After the reduction, the Lingwu army was more than 9,000 people in six prefectures, with a total of more than 15,000 horses. Chen Ying sent more than 13,000 war horses to Chang'an, and the rest were rewarded or sold to the soldiers of the whole army.

As for the people rescued from the Turks, if there are relatives to defect, Chen Ying is willing to send the travel expenses and entanglement, and if there is really nowhere to go, he stays in Lingzhou and waits for resettlement.

For the people stranded in Lingzhou, after compiling household records, Chen Ying found that there were more than 57,000 people. Among them, there are more than 41,000 women, less than 8,000 men, and the rest are young children. In the face of these women, in fact, it is also a very headache, because of these more than 57,000 people, less than one percent have complete families, and most of them are lonely.

In fact, they are not really lonely, the real situation Chen Ying also knows that the main reason is that these people were taken captive to the Turks, and some have been forced to give birth to children for the Turks, even if they have a family, they have no face to go back.

If you don't deal with these women well, I'm afraid there will be big problems. Chen Ying looked at Xu Jingzong at a loss.

Xu Jingzong said: "This matter is simple, then it is independent!" ”

A husband without a wife is called a widower, and a woman without a husband is called a widow. Take the widow and the widow and reconcile it, and give the field house and the family, which is called the independence. The so-called co-independence is the use of official media to force widowers and widows to marry. This was the method that had to be adopted in ancient times for the purpose of population reproduction.

Chen Ying is actually very resistant to this kind of behavior in his heart, and what he pursues is free love and marriage. He tried to ask: "After the Lingzhou War, the strong men of Lingzhou have suffered serious losses, and the ratio of men and women has long been out of balance. ”

Xu Jingzong said: "The people of Lingzhou are insufficient, why not order these women to join forces with the soldiers of the Dingyuan Army?" Jingzong once inquired that most of the soldiers of the Dingyuan army were single, why didn't the general order these women to be independent with the soldiers, and then open up wasteland and give them land, no permanent property and no perseverance. ”

When Chen Ying heard this, his heart was immediately overjoyed, and he was united with no restrictions on the people he rescued, including the Turks. These Turks lost 30,000 or 40,000 casualties, but their families did not suffer much loss. There are also nearly 20,000 Turkic-age women.

Chen Yingdao: "This is also possible, the officers and soldiers of the whole army will be selected according to the size of their military merits, one wife and one concubine!" He was given 60 acres of military fields, 40 acres for his wife, and 20 acres for his concubines! ”

Xu Jingzong quickly recorded with a stroke of his pen, and Chen Ying continued: "In addition to the people who are independent, with ten households as the first, A as the head, ten as the fort, the fort as the chief, the ten forts as the town, and the town as the mayor. Along the border of the thin bone law canal in Lingzhou, a number of towns were set up, and the surplus horses, grain, and seeds in the army were ordered to help them reclaim the famine. ”

Chen Ying made a decision, and finally the eighteen towns of Lingwu were officially established.