As soon as this plan came out, Gongzi's henchmen were startled.

Not to mention that there has never been such a thing as an active coup d'état in which the army went berserk to kill national thieves, but the fact that the Mo family declared war on the initiative will shock the world.

He asked tremblingly, "In this way, I am afraid that the Mo family will go north......"

Pang Juan sneered: "If you are good at using soldiers, can't you be active and passive?" ”

"Now that the princes are gathering in Luoyi, saying that they are meeting the Son of Heaven, is it appropriate to believe it? He knew that this was a matter of discussion between the princes and against Mexico. ”

"However, the Mo family is newly five thousand miles away, and they can't afford to go north for a while, so they just don't know. If our army provokes, the Mo family will not move lightly, but will choose to declare war and not move the army. ”

"The current situation of the Mo family needs time. Within three or five years, if Nanyang Jianghan has not recovered, there will be no one in the world who controls the Mo family. ”

"And how can the princes not know? Therefore, the princes must take the initiative to attack, and the Mo family only needs to hold it, and the princes must take the initiative to attack, and they must use troops together and advance in several ways. ”

"If the Mo family really has the ability to go north, how can he sit back and watch the princes meet the alliance? If he still has the strength to spare, he will take advantage of the failure of the princes' alliance to attack instead of defending, whether it is to break any of Han, Wei, Wei, or Qi, the princes will be powerless to attack. He didn't do it, he didn't want to, he couldn't. ”

Gongzi pondered for a while, felt that it seemed reasonable, and asked uncertainly: "You are saying that if this is the case, the princes must quickly give up their differences and discuss the anti-ink matter first to come up with a result." And by then, Gongzi has already died, and if the Wei State is unstable, the Mo family can threaten Qi and Han? ”

Pang Juan was confident, nodded and said, "Chengyang, successively Wei and Qi." Once the princes are angry, we will withdraw our troops in the name of Chengyang to prevent the princes from interfering, and Qi Wei will beg us not to withdraw, and we will agree to any conditions. ”

"Daliang, connecting the enclave of Han, if our army wants to abandon Daliang, Korea will definitely fight with any princes who want to continue to cut Wei."

"The matter has come to this, the land must not be cut, but if you fight like this, you can cut less. Moreover, if the land is ceded in such a situation, it is to take the overall situation into account and think of the general righteousness, rather than being oppressed by various countries. ”

"Xihe can enter the capital, and he can deter those who do not kiss his son. The princes did not dare to let the Wei State be in chaos at this time, and they would not add fuel to the fire. That's it.

"In the battle against Mexico, if there is a big victory, Han, Qi and Qin are both strong, and Wei is not good; If it is defeated, no one will be able to stop the Mo family from going north, and it will still be unfavorable to Wei. Therefore, there are only small victories and small defeats, and Yu Gongzi is the most beneficial. ”

"We can take the opportunity to change and rebuild the army with military veterans as soldiers, Sima Chang, and Wu Chang. With the Mo family Chen soldiers in front, the prince can clean up the old nobles to centralize power, and the princes dare not let the Wei State mess up, and they will definitely not support those old nobles. ”

"The only way to revive the Wei State is this."

Gongzi said with a confidant: "This matter is big, and it is not my master." I'm going to Luoyi right away......"

Seeing Gongzifu's henchmen leave, Pang Juan had other plans in his heart.

In his opinion, the road of Wei can only go on like this.

He had been in Xihe for a long time, had been in the army for a long time, and had read a lot, so he saw the problem of Wei Wushu.

Thirty years ago, Wei Wushu was the strongest army in the world, and it is undeniable that Wei was the first to engage in a pure infantry phalanx, and it was also the first to open a precedent for the semi-recruited army plus government military system.

At that time, the Wei State expanded in all directions, and each expansion meant land, population, and could transform military achievements into tangible benefits.

Thirty years ago, the Wei soldiers were still young, and once they were selected, they could really fight five peasant soldiers at a time.

A newly selected Wei Wushu, the family has enough land, the brothers and parents in the family do not need to serve, they only need to farm at home, and everything in the family is earned from the military.

Some of those who have made military achievements can also have slaves and maids to serve as farmers, so that the family can afford to raise a real off-duty soldier.

In addition to the weapons and crossbows issued by the army, you can also buy better leather armor and horses to carry your own camels.

At that time, there were no firearms, no gunpowder, and even crossbows were rare.

At that time, the archers were still selected according to the village archery system of the village community, and the number of archers in various countries was not large, and the Qin State was still using old chariots.

The full-time training of the soldiers defended the counterattack and the formation impact, and no one could stop it.

Thirty years later, however, problems began to emerge.

More and more full-time military pawns are getting old, and when they get old, let their sons take over, and their combat effectiveness will inevitably decline.

In the past twenty years, the Wei State has fought three or four major wars, and all of them have been defeated, and there is no surplus land and population to reward military merits.

The gunpowder and firearms in Sishang have changed the situation in the world, and the invincible warriors in the era of bronze chariot warfare have fallen behind in the new era.

A Qin musketeer may be just a farmer who has been training for a year, and he can kill a soldier who has been training for twenty years by simple means.

The advent of gunpowder 30 years ago narrowed the gap between the peasants and the off-duty taxi class in Sishang.

It's the same when it comes to Xihe.

These new military yeoman peasants, or small landlords with military merits, were too expensive, and the advantage of training all day long when they were cold weapons was too great, and serving for a lifetime was very different from the kind of peasant soldiers who were conscripted in peacetime for a few days in wartime.

But now, the cost of one soldier is enough to support four or five soldiers who have been recruited to train in formation, and four or five soldiers who are armed with firearms in formation can outperform the soldiers.

There was no forced separation of families in the Wei State, and the treatment of military pawns was calculated according to the family.

Therefore, Wei often has some large families of more than a dozen people.

This large family of more than a dozen people did not need to pay taxes and labor because they provided for a military pawn, and about four young and strong men were sheltered by their brothers, who led the subordinate serfs and maids who relied on the exploits and booty of war to cultivate the land.

Once you become a soldier, you don't need to do hard labor, and this alone is much stronger than an ordinary family, and labor will destroy a homesteader family, and some people do not serve labor is the best means of land annexation.

After 30 years of development, the group of old warriors of that year, which family did not have seven or eight hundred acres of land, seven or eight subordinate farmers, and more than a dozen family members.

In addition to these, the weapons, armor, and food on the body of a soldier require about two young and strong laborers in the rear.

The changes of the year became incomplete, which led to the decay of the old aristocracy within the Wei State, and the new military pawns began to become interest groups and could not be moved lightly, which is the reform dilemma that the Wei State is facing now.

Pang Juan has always had great ambitions, and thinks that if he has the opportunity to assist Gongzi, he can try to make changes.

Too drastic changes were difficult to implement in the Wei state, so Pang Juan thought of a way of change that would not affect the interests of the majority ruling class.

That is, to use the battle between the sons and the nobles to start and divert the contradictions.

Since the foreign wars were defeated one after another, and the Wei State could not break the situation, and could not distribute enough benefits to satisfy the new and old nobles, then they took advantage of the dispute between the sons to kill a group of old nobles and use their land to feed the new military landlords.

These new military meritorious landlords, who were soldiers by profession, were much better than ordinary farmers in terms of training and discipline.

The reason for the defeat of Xihe was not that the military soldiers could not fight, but that the number of Qin people was too large, which made it difficult for the military soldiers to fight under "fair" conditions.

Pang Juan looked at the past 30 years of warfare and believed that after the appearance of firearms, cavalry, and infantry formations, no one could defeat twice as many enemies in a battle, including those armies in Sishang, unless there was too much difference in training and morale between the two sides.

Therefore, he believes that the direction of the military system of the Wei State is to change the military soldiers from "soldiers" to "soldiers", from soldiers to officers, dismantle the military soldiers, and create a group of professional officer classes to replace those decadent bloodline soldiers who are not in line with the times.

The soldiers practiced all day long, and their discipline and combat effectiveness were not inferior to those who were inherited from the bloodline, and compared with the orthodox soldiers, these soldiers occupied relatively less land.

Break up the Xihe soldiers, and use them as the base as officers such as the army commander and Sima Chang at the grassroots level. Using the conscripted peasant soldiers as soldiers, it was soon possible to pull out a politically reliable army that was attached to the royal power; A legion that is inferior in combat effectiveness to pure warriors, but can still fight.

Sacrifice a group of old nobles, such as taking advantage of this dispute between Gongzi and Gongzi, and get rid of the henchmen and nobles of Gongzi and Gongzi, and let about 5,000 military pawns divide their corpses and become a new batch of low-level military nobles in Wei.

These old men who were born as military soldiers will become officers, enriching the new legions in the future, and the large number of farmers and craftsmen in the cities and towns will not need to fight for anything, but only the officers at their heads will know.

With such a group of military nouveau riche who will obey the king's orders and depend on the king's power, then the prince can have an army in his hands that obeys his orders, and he can subdue the rest of the nobles, so as to gradually begin to change.

And these military upstarts who were born as military soldiers can be hereditary officers, get a good education by virtue of their land and family wealth, and train enough junior officers by virtue of the family traditions of professional officers.

As long as there are enough officers, all kinds of people can be trained into qualified troops who march to the beat of drums and are not afraid of bronze cannons, and Wei Wushu can be transformed from an elite elite of expensive professional soldiers into a new army of cheap conscripts with expensive junior officers.

Newcomers who were born as warriors were given certain privileges to be loyal.

With military soldiers as grassroots officers, train the new army, and subdue the old nobles.

On the premise of not making any changes, the old nobles were forced to provide soldiers and a certain amount of military expenses.

On the premise of not touching the fundamental interests of the old nobles, we should re-establish a new army whose combat effectiveness can be basically guaranteed and whose numbers are far superior to those of the military soldiers.

The rewarding soldiers do not reward the soldiers, because if the soldiers are rewarded, the Wei State cannot afford to reward them at all, because even if the land that rewards the new warriors is still cut out by cutting a part of the flesh of the old nobles.

Pang Juan's concept of military reform is based on the military system in Sishang, but it is not the same, after all, the economic bases of the two sides are different, and the national strength is also very different.

But there is one thing, Pang Juan knows very well that there are also a group of "soldiers" in Sishang, that is, those professional soldiers and professional officers, who are the basic guarantee of combat effectiveness, and things like the Xuanyi Department and the Mohist Organization, Wei Guo can't learn it, so he can only learn this method of mixing professional soldiers and conscripts.

However, the professional soldiers in Sishang received wages, and the profits of industry and commerce, taxes, and cheap food in Sishang could ensure that the money was enough for the professional soldiers to live.

Wei State can't do it, it can't afford it, so it can only use land instead of money, because if you want to replace land with money, you need developed industry and commerce, which Wei State can't do, so you can only drink water to quench your thirst and send land and replace it with tax exemption and exemption.

Looking at the world, Pang Juan feels that his set of military reform strategies is more similar to that of Qi State, and it is also to let some soldiers be hereditary officers, and the interests of the war are closely related to them. But the Qi State is a set of economic and military dual changes, those officers and nobles with the surname "Xuanyuan" are not comparable to the amount of land and population control of these soldiers, and the economic model is completely different. Because of the proximity of the Qi state to Sishang, it was possible to deepen the system of peasant slavery, so that those officers and nobles could benefit, sell grain and crops for profit, and have cheap farmers trapped in fiefs as soldiers.

If Wei wants to rejuvenate, it has to take another path. A road of foreign expansion in which the monarchy relied on the warriors and the monarchy to suppress the old nobles, the old nobles and the monarchy, and the new military landlords to suppress the rebellion at the bottom. If he does not expand externally, he can only eat each other between the new military landlords and the old nobles, just like his current strategy, relying on Gongzi's corpse to stabilize the hearts of the military soldiers - when there is not enough to eat externally, something big may happen. But this is something to be considered in the future, Wei has reached a dead end, and can only go on, otherwise he will not even have the qualifications to talk about the future.