When Yang Guang heard Wang Shao's words, he was quite unimpressed, and immediately retorted to him: "Wang Changshi's words are wrong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info has always been to eat grain as a soldier since ancient times, there are millions of households under the rule of Hebei Province, as long as the imperial court is willing to pay food, why worry about not recruiting enough soldiers? ”

Wang Shao smiled faintly and arched his hand: "Have you ever heard of the phrase 'ten miles of different winds, a hundred miles of different customs'. The reason why Xia Guan was chosen by the Holy Lord to serve as His Royal Highness's official was mostly because Xia Guan was originally from the Wang family of Bingzhou. The area of Kanto and Hebei is quite different from Guanzhong, first of all, there are many wealthy families here, and they have great influence and appeal among the people. The one million households under the administration of Hebei Province that I just mentioned are only based on the facts, and the number recorded in the account books of the people of each prefecture and county alone may be less than 12/12 of this number. Because the vast majority of small families, in order to evade military service and rent adjustment, they do not hesitate to give up their families as slaves, and are willing to be slaves and vassals of wealthy families, and even privately buy the head of the village, and the man becomes a woman, and the strong becomes an old man, who is not subject to conscription, all this, how can the prince see it when he is in Guanzhong? ”

Yang Guang had not never heard of the important families and families in the Kanto region, but as Wang Shao said, it was the first time that the number of people recorded in the state and county account books was so different from the actual population. At that moment, he asked Wang Shao suspiciously: "According to Wang Changshi's words, the power of these wealthy families is inevitably greater, but I don't know how many small people are usually enslaved under their family's name?" ”

"As far as the lower officials know, the two families of Fanyang Lu and Zhaojun Li alone, there are 100,000 people who are slaves under their names, and the total number of slaves and tenants under the name of the Wang family of Bingzhou, who was born in Xiaguan, is also 70,000 or 80,000."

"Isn't that enough to build an army of tens of thousands with the strength of one family and one surname? In this way, the imperial court only needs to rein in these wealthy families, can't it recruit enough soldiers? Yang Guang was surprised that the Kanto and Hebei families had such a strong strength, and at the same time, he couldn't help but take it for granted.

"The prince has taken this matter too simply." Sure enough, Wang Shao smiled and replied very solemnly, "According to the usual saying four or five hundred years ago since the Han and Wei dynasties, only those who have been eunuchs for more than three generations can be called the family of one state and one county. And that's just one of them.

Second, the reason why it is difficult to recruit enough troops in the Kwantung and Hebei regions is not only related to these Han families, but also has a great relationship with the military system of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty. Unlike the previous dynasty and my Great Sui, the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty implemented the government military system more like the so-called clan soldiers, Fang soldier system, all the armies of the two dynasties did not directly serve the imperial court, but loyal to the generals of the unified army, even the Northern Qi Dynasty as the forbidden army of the Liufang Army, but also the first to serve the general of the Liufang, and the general of the unified army was loyal to the emperor. As a result, the daily food needed by the government army was privately supplied by the generals of the unified army, thus forming an inseparable personal dependence relationship between the generals. This is also the main reason why not long after the ascension of the saint to the pole, he issued a clear edict, ordering the soldiers of the government to change back to their old surnames and no longer have to follow the surnames of the generals. However, because the family soldiers and square soldiers system in the Kanto and Hebei regions have lasted for a long time and can be said to be deep-rooted, it is indeed not easy to recruit Ding Zhuang into the army in these places in the name of the imperial court. ”

Although Yang Guang didn't understand it very well, he could also hear from Wang Shao's words that the reason why the imperial court could not recruit enough troops in the prefectures and counties under the rule of Hebei Province to form a new army to resist the Turkic invasion was probably directly related to the local wealthy families and the military system implemented by the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi dynasties for decades, but what he didn't understand even more was why Wang Shao was so eager to tell him these things on the first day he arrived in Bingzhou.

From Yang Guang's slightly confused eyes, Wang Shao seemed to sense something, and immediately pulled the topic back: "In the battle of Lingshi Fort last night, the hussar camp of King Jin was lost by nearly half, and the prince's eagerness to seek revenge from Hu Kou can be said to be the same heart, and the lower officials can also deeply understand it. The reason why Fang Cai Xiaguan wanted to talk to the prince about the two biggest problems faced by Xingtai was to remind the prince that at this critical juncture when the imperial court was using troops in many ways, he must not try to be quick for a while, ignore the overall situation of the imperial court, turn defense into attack, and rashly go out of the city to invite the Turks to fight, so as to cause a big disaster. ”

"According to you, if we can't recruit enough troops in one day, we will have to retreat in this city and be beaten passively?" Hearing Wang Shao mention the battle of Lingshi Fort, Yang Guang couldn't help but blurt out and asked.

"Lord Wang, the lower official is the head of the government officials, and I have to remind the prince that the first responsibility of the Holy Lord to order the prince to go out of the town and merge the state is to protect the territory and not to seek an opportunity to start a war with the Turks." Wang Shao did not shy away from saying bluntly, "Before the prince arrived in Bingzhou, Xia Guan and Zhang Fujiao and other colleagues in the Taiwan did not agree with Wei Wang gathering heavy troops at Linyu Pass and taking the initiative to attack Yingzhou, and originally hoped that when the prince arrived in Bingzhou, he could persuade him to stop the army and truce, but he focused on guarding the pass steadily, and did not admit that when Wang Ye first entered Bingzhou, he completely ignored the number of enemy and our troops, and was eager to avenge the dead and wounded hussar battalion soldiers. The lower officials were entrusted by the saint and had to correct the prince a little, so as not to lead the prince astray and make a big mistake. ”

"Lingshi Fort is located in the south of Bingzhou City, close to Bingzhou, is it possible that the Turks are coming to the door, and you still want this king to be beaten willingly?" Yang Guang couldn't bear it anymore, and started to shoot the case.

"I implore the prince to write a letter immediately, ordering someone to urgently send it to the Zhongjun of Weiwang at Linyu Pass, urging Weiwang to urgently transfer 20,000 soldiers and horses back to the annexation of the state to ensure that the annexation of the state is safe." Wang Shao didn't raise his head, and said to Yang Guang with an almost commanding command.

"You, you ......" Yang Guang trembled with anger, pointed at Wang Shao with his hand, and wanted to cut him with a knife to relieve his anger in the sky.

"The Turks who attacked Lingshi Fort last night, we can't rule out the possibility of the main force led by Sha Bo, with more than 10,000 people in the city of Jizhou, once the Turks launch a large-scale attack, it is difficult to ensure that the city of Jizhou is not lost, in order to defend the overall situation of the territory, but please send a letter to the king immediately, and return to reinforce Tibet and the state." Wang Shao said, and he was going to kneel down for Yang Guang.

"You don't need to give such a great gift to this king. That's what I wrote. Calming down his mind a little, Yang Guang thought that as Wang Shao said, he had just arrived in Bingzhou and lost such an important city to the Turks, wouldn't he greatly disappoint his father's ardent expectations for himself, so he forcibly suppressed the anger that was about to erupt in his chest, waved his hand to stop Wang Shao, and reluctantly compromised with him.