After inspecting the imperial village, Liu Che went to the nearby farm as usual.

Every time he came to the Forest Garden, whether it was a safari or an inspection, he would inevitably go deep into a place where people lived to inspect and ask the local elders.

As for the ordinary people at the bottom?

Excuse me!

As a feudal dynasty, the emperor could understand the situation at the grassroots level through the imperial history, and he could understand the situation at the grassroots level through the guò officials.

Even if the emperor is really not at ease with the grassroots, he can also send a large number of close attendants to the grassroots in the name of collecting wind and poetry, and to understand the situation of the people.

However, as an unspoken rule of the political game, the emperor generally cannot and will not have a direct dialogue with the people at the bottom!

Superiority and inferiority, social hierarchy, is not so easy to cross.

In the fifty or sixty years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, there has only been one precedent for the Son of Heaven to directly talk to the people from the grassroots.

This story is the famous 'Ti Ying saves his father'.

Other than that, not once.

Liu Che's car, after crossing a bridge, came to an open plain.

At this time, the autumn harvest has long passed, the taxes have been paid, and the fields that were a sea of green two months ago are now a barren scene, and there is not a single dead grass on both sides of the road and between the ridges.

Sitting in the car, Liu Che heard a shout and a trumpet.

He lifted the curtain and looked into the distance.

I saw that in the field about three or four hundred meters away, dozens of sturdy men were training their military formations under the command of two soldiers in armor. Practice swords, guns, swords, halberds, and even bow and crossbow marks.

Seeing this scene, Liu Che signaled for the car to pause.

And then. He got out of the carriage and walked across the ridge with great interest. Watching the drill on the other side.

In the early stage of the Han Dynasty, the idea of army building was extremely strong, and almost every Han sergeant had actually received three years or more of military skills training before enlisting in the army.

Generally speaking, in the county pavilions of the Han Dynasty, the people of Shifu were organized to conduct the most basic military skills training every once in a while, and men were taught to master various basic military knowledge and skills.

More crucially, there was no shortage of instructors at the grassroots level of the militaristic Han regime who trained the common people.

The standing army of the Han dynasty generally carried out a two-year service period.

One year to garrison the border or serve as a county soldier in the county, and one year to garrison in Chang'an.

Two years of military service. In the Han family, except for the royal princes and princes, almost no one can escape.

Even relatives also need to be symbolically enlisted.

This system created the strength of the Han family's armed forces, and also created a large number of strong men who had mastered the skills of killing people and were proficient in using various weapons.

As a result, the group of rangers came into being and became a headache for the grassroots government.

Even more troublesome for the bureaucrats was the fact that the peasants had weapons and military skills. has a certain ability to resist, which makes them have to scruple one or two when they extort bamboo and commit crimes.

If you do it too hard and too dark, the little people will be heartbroken. Entering the official's house in the middle of the night and killing his entire family was nothing more than losing his head.

This can also be regarded as a powerless and powerless Qiantou class. One of the few ways in this era that could deter and intimidate the landlords and bureaucrats.

Liu Che appreciates this very much.

Although said. The proliferation of civilian weapons led to the threat of vendettas and fights.

It's like the later generations of Miti people with guns. When he encounters a neurotic brain and is unhappy, he takes a weapon to make others unhappy.

But there is no comparison between the Han family and the Midi.

The present world is a world of the naked flesh and the weak.

The armed possession of weapons and the skills of self-defense by the common people frightened not only the bureaucratic landlords, but also the invaders.

Like the Song and Ming dynasties, hundreds of millions of people were conquered and destroyed by only a few million barbarians, which was unimaginable in the Han Dynasty!

Even in the later Eastern Han Dynasty, the force of a history of assassination could destroy the country on an expedition.

Even during the Three Kingdoms period, a separatist warlord could beat Wuheng and Xianbei.

For hundreds of years, external threats could never threaten the core of China itself.

Even the Xiongnu Empire, which was in full swing back then, never threatened the foundation of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Che knew very well that if he wanted to survive in this jungle world full of crises and where big fish eat small fish, the Han nation must continue to implement the current national defense policy.

In comparison, the side effects are almost zero.

Of course, the situation of the Han family is the same as that of Midi.

The common people have weapons, but the weapons held by the government are completely crushed by them, both in terms of quality and quantity.

Moreover, the landlords are powerful and the businessmen are also widely accumulating thugs and dogs.

For example, in the knife room of the great usury merchant of Qi State, Liu Che heard that he had a thousand thugs under his command and thousands of servants.

In the fight between the knives, even the government did not pay attention to it, bullied and dominated the market, forced to buy and sell, and if they disagreed, they fought and took people's lives at every turn.

But the government was helpless, even if he wanted to take care of it, he casually threw out a scapegoat between the knives, leaving the government speechless.

However, this person's good life is coming to an end, and Liu Che has already put the name Daojian in the first batch of immigrants for his Lingyi project.

This made Liu Che also feel a little emotional.

The Mi Emperor of later generations has also produced similar underworld giants who cannot be controlled by the government and cannot be controlled by the law.

It's just that the one from Midi was finally handled by the IRS.

And the Han family, if the magistrates and the law can't help it, the emperor will move it to Guanzhong, cut its roots, and slowly cook it.

Today's knife room, the Zhu family in the past, and Guo Xie in the future are almost all solved by the Han family in this way.

After watching the militiamen's drills for a while, Liu Che suddenly had an impulse to try how many reserves and county soldiers the Han family could mobilize in Guanzhong, and how effective this force was in an emergency.

The best way to prove this is to issue an amnesty and mobilize the armed forces of the entire customs department for a large-scale military parade.

After thinking about it, Liu Che extinguished this thought.

It's not that you can't do that.

Rather, the time is not yet ripe.

The relevant laws and systems are not perfect, and rash action will only make jokes and even foreign appearances.

Now it is no more advanced than in later generations, and administrative orders can reach every administrative unit from top to bottom.

Moreover, rashly organizing and mobilizing reserves will make the people very confused and even cause chaos.

It's just that Liu Che thought about it, the reserves can't be moved, and the county soldiers can always be mobilized?

It's winter, and it's the season of the traditional Son of Heaven military parade.

Liu Che thought for a while, and said to the king: "Go, tell the prime minister, after tomorrow's court meeting, I will go to the Five Emperors Temple, worship heaven and earth, and order all counties in Guanzhong, all beacons, battalions, captains and above, lead half of their troops and horses, to the Wei River, I will come to read, beat the drums, and watch the might!" ”

The Han dynasty stationed nearly 100,000 standing soldiers in Guanzhong, half of which was 50,000.

The temporary transfer of these 50,000 people, the review, and the knocking at the same time, probably should not be wrong.

What Liu Che wants to see more is to take this opportunity to promote a few young people, clean up a group of unqualified officers, and further strengthen his control over the army. (To be continued......)

ps: I re-read what I wrote before today, and sorted out my thoughts, so I delayed, and the 2 more I owe today will make up tomorrow ~ R1292