The environment of Datang is really good.

Before the Guanzhong area was not completely destroyed by the ecosystem, thousands of miles of wilderness, thousands of miles of fertile soil, worthy of being the country of abundance, all the way to go, only feel refreshed, if it is not in winter, I am afraid this feeling will be better, where is it like today's Loess Plateau? Covered with scars, almost a fatal wound that cannot be recovered, where can it be compared to the Guanzhong that gave birth to the Great Qin Empire that swept through the Six Kingdoms in the pre-Qin era?

Great Qin raised an army of one million with five million people, which is equivalent to one person in five people to be a soldier, almost all the number of strong men, not only the results brought by the Shang Dynasty reform and the developed agricultural science system of Great Qin, the fertile land in the Guanzhong region is also a very important part, if it is replaced by barren soil, no one can build an iron-blooded Great Qin.

When it comes to the Qin Dynasty, people will say that it is a strong Qin, and when it comes to the Tang Dynasty, it is called the Tang Dynasty, Suning has always thought that the strongest dynasty in the Chinese Empire is not the Tang Dynasty, but the Great Qin, the Tang Dynasty is the most prosperous, the Qin Dynasty is the strongest, the main force of the Tang Dynasty is the Longxi soldiers, the number of military governments in the Guanzhong region far exceeds that of other regions, and under the government soldier system, the main force of the Tang army is the Qin soldiers from the Qin homeland of Shaanxi.

Even in the Song Dynasty, the era of extremely weak army combat effectiveness, and the era when Yue Fei had not yet stepped onto the stage of history, the Guanzhong region still produced the strongest combat effectiveness of the Great Song Dynasty to deal with the Western Xia soldiers and the most famous generals. The combat effectiveness of the army in the northwest must be very strong.

From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the ecological environment of the Liangzhou area of Guanxi gradually deteriorated, making the concept of Guanxi gradually shift to the Chang'an area of Guanzhong, which is the gradual deterioration of the ecological environment. The Liangzhou area was still lush in the Han Dynasty. Today, it's a desert.

If there is no development plan for the rejuvenation of Jiangnan and Shandong, it is estimated that in more than 100 years, the Guanzhong region will inevitably decline. With the collapse of the Juntian system and the government military system. The decline of the Guanzhong region is unquestionable. The Tang Dynasty was the last glorious era in Guanzhong, and the Guanzhong of the Great Song Dynasty made the last sacrifice for the Chinese nation, in order to fight against the Western Xia and Liao Jin people for hundreds of years. Millions of Western soldiers did their last part on behalf of Guanzhong.

After the Great Song Dynasty, it was difficult for Guanzhong to make any contribution to the Chinese nation, and the blood of Guanzhong had been drained in the battle to resist the southward movement of the Jin people, and Guanzhong was worthy of China.

Suning has a special affection for this land, the strength of the Great Qin, the strength of the Han Dynasty, the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, and the tragedy of the Great Song Dynasty, all of which have an inseparable connection with the Guanzhong region, until the Jin soldiers went south to the Southern Song Dynasty and were no longer able to recover Guanzhong, for more than a thousand years, Guanzhong Erlang paid a qiē they could pay for the Chinese nation, until he was scarred and dying.

"What's the matter, Sanming, I always think you're not in high spirits." Du Ruhui rode on the horse, saw Suning with a somewhat gloomy face, and couldn't help asking, as the chief and deputy representative of the Tang Dynasty negotiation team, Du Ruhui naturally has to care about Suning, the Tang Dynasty negotiation team shoulders the mission of focusing on Dà this time, not only to deal with the extremely difficult Tubo people, but also to let the countries of the Western Regions agree to the re-establishment of the Western Regions Protectorate, so it is inevitable that there will be some open and secret battles, so it will be allowed to shoot Du Ruhui in person, Suning as a master of negotiations who has repeatedly participated in negotiations, With his rich experience and many experiences of fulfilling his mission, he was appointed as a deputy envoy.

The Su family has only two sons, one is stationed in the Western Regions thousands of miles away, and the other is an envoy to Tubo and the Western Regions to participate in a more fierce struggle between words and swords, for the general reason for the rapid rise of the Su family like a rocket, clear-eyed people can see it very clearly, not to mention that Su Dingfang, who is in his forties, fought for his life on the battlefield, and Suning, who was only seventeen years old, also went out to fight and negotiate repeatedly for the country.

Suning raised his head and looked at Du Ruhui, and said with a smile: "Without him, it's just a little nostalgic for the past and the present, Guanzhong has paid too much for the Tang Dynasty, and it has also paid too much for Huaxia, the former Qin swept the six countries is the Guanzhong soldiers, and most of the former Han Dynasty against the Xiongnu, the Western Regions and the Qiang people are also Guanzhong soldiers, and when they arrive in the Tang Dynasty, it is still the Guanzhong soldiers who clean up the Turkic people Tuguhun people, and the Guanzhong people are too bitter." ”

Du Ruyan was stunned when he heard this, and then smiled: "This is also a helpless thing, as you said, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty can compete with the soldiers of the highlands only the Qin soldiers of Longxi and the Yan soldiers of Saibei, and the Yan soldiers of Saibei also have to guard Beiping, guarding against Xue Yantuo Goguryeo and other foreign tribes, they can't move, and the task is equally severe, so the heavy responsibility of dealing with foreign tribes in the west has to be pressed on the Qin soldiers of Longxi."

In other regions, although Jiangnan and Shandong have begun to initially build military offices, but the number is still small, it is not easy to maintain local law and order, if you go abroad to fight, I am afraid that you can only disgrace the Tang Dynasty, not to talk about training, only to talk about the body is also slightly poor, Jiangnan is warm and humid, the people are short, the strength is not as good as the northern soldiers, not good at arching horses, the southern soldiers go north to fight, since ancient times, the losers are the majority.

Sun Quan's 100,000 soldiers of Eastern Wu went north to Hefei, but they were defeated by Zhang Liao's 7,000 soldiers and horses, and the Northern Expedition was not a few after the Jin Dynasty moved south. ”

Suning said: "In fact, not to mention the environmental and physical factors, Chen Qingzhi and Liu Yu are not accidental, the use of soldiers is not fierce, but in fine, the southern soldiers are not inferior to the northern soldiers, if you talk about the water army, it is natural that the southern soldiers are preferred, those who are familiar with the water nature, when they fight, they are not necessarily worse than the northern soldiers, I think that if the Tang Dynasty wants to develop the army and increase the number of troops, it must develop Jiangnan, and the soldiers of Jiangnan will also be included in the main army, even if it is only the water army." It can also bring unexpected results.

At least if the army in Jiangnan is successful, there will be no need for the northern soldiers to go south in the Jiangnan war, and there are not a few people who are not adapted to the water and soil in the south, and Cao Mengde is also defeated because of this? The army of Jiangnan can be used to deal with the enemy of Jiangnan, if everything has to use the northern army, then the people of Guanzhong will not be miserable? ”

Du Ruhan nodded with a smile and said helplessly: "But it's the same, but, no matter what, deal with Tubo and open up the Western Regions." It's still Guanzhong soldiers. Fighting in those desolate places, the Jiangnan soldiers are not good, and the Saibei soldiers are not necessarily useful, and the Guanzhong soldiers, who are most familiar with the local climate, still have to come in handy. The Western Regions Protectorate is a good place. It is estimated that a large number of troops will also be needed to defend Guanzhong. ”

Suning frowned and said, "Although the government soldiers are good. However, there is a major flaw, the government soldiers take it from the local area and use it locally. Wartime for soldiers, idle time for farming, not completely out of the land, there is still a considerable part of the farm work needs to be done by the soldiers, once the Western Regions are all protected, it may not be feasible to set up a military government in the local area, they are all foreigners, and the Tang Dynasty is not the same heart, if you want to say that the immigrants in the past can not move hundreds of thousands of people at once, the bitter cold land, even the people of Guanzhong are not very willing to go over, right?

In this way, the garrison time will be extended, even if it is a rotation system, it will inevitably have an impact on agricultural affairs, the construction of Guanzhong will be damaged, and the grain output will also be affected, and it will soon be spring ploughing, and at least tens of thousands of troops will be needed to defend the Western Regions, so will it not have an impact on spring ploughing? There are only 600,000 soldiers in the whole country of Datang, so it is indeed a bit troublesome! ”

Du Ruhui shook his head and said: "That's why there is a Long March athlete, but the old man always feels that it is inappropriate, this is a major defect of the government soldiers, and it needs to be improved, otherwise Datang will open up more land in the future, what will it take?" ”

Suning also nodded, the idea of establishing a compulsory military service system that had been suppressed once again raised its head, I have to say that if the government military system is implemented in Datang itself, and the compulsory military service system is implemented in some places in Datang where it is difficult to directly set up a military government to collect troops on the spot, the government military system and the compulsory military service system are separated and used, and a group of professional soldiers are recruited, maybe it will be a way out.

Suning asked tentatively: "Du Xiang, what do you think would happen if the Tang Dynasty could establish an army that was not a government soldier but a complete army?" There is no need to farm, the Tang Dynasty pays the soldiers, and the food and clothing are all provided by the imperial court, the only thing they need to do is to be on call at any time, the main army will knock down the land, they will go to the town, or simply let them go abroad to fight, they don't need to farm, they just need to be soldiers to fight, what do you think? ”

Under the government soldier system, the government soldiers must bring their own weapons and rations when they go to war, only the imperial court will only prepare a part of the food in case of emergency, that is to say, the nature of the Tang Dynasty soldiers is similar to that of European knights, bring their own equipment and rations to fight, go home to receive rewards after the battle, and pay pensions to the court for those who die in battle, which is similar to mercenaries, and is different from professional soldiers under the compulsory military service system.

So Suning's words made Du Ruhui a little moved, if there is an army like that, it is estimated that today's problem will be solved, but the imperial court spends money to raise an army, this consumption is not ordinarily large, and the number must not be less, at least 50,000 people, how much is that? It's a bit of a waste to have food and clothing from the imperial court if you don't fight, but this army is on standby at any time, where to fight, and you can guard everywhere without the concern of your hometown, how good is this, but ......

Du Ruyan smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid it's difficult to recruit such an army, who doesn't feel homesick?" Not to mention staying in a foreign country for so many years, who can withstand it? ”

Suning said: "I can't say that, but it's okay for some people whose parents have died or who are born without a father or mother? There are also some homeless people who can't find women in Datang, so they simply go to foreign tribes to find them, and after knocking down the land, they will guard there, there must be a shortage of men there, can't these strong men in Datang occupy there? It won't take many years for the second generation of people to call Datang men dad! That's how the place is occupied. ”

Du Ruhui was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Hahahaha!" This is very true, this is very true, Sanming, when you come back from the negotiations, you can talk about this matter with Your Majesty, and see what your Majesty's reaction is, hahaha, but there are not many men in Datang who can't find a wife, aren't they just unemployed vagrants? There is no shortage of women in Datang, and if you do this, you don't know how many men can enjoy the blessings of Qi people, hahaha! ”

Suning smiled sinisterly, if this thing is done, it will really be beneficial, isn't this assimilation? It doesn't take long to kill the foreign men, and the women stay to live with the singles of the Tang Dynasty, the remaining children are all authentic Tang Dynasty people, calling the Tang Dynasty men fathers, how good is the effect?

However, such a system should be made clear to Li Erma, instead of engaging in a nondescript Long March athlete, it is better to recruit a group of professional soldiers who have nothing to worry about, or to explore the way for the compulsory military service system, although it cannot be implemented in full, but it should still be useful to mix it up, isn't it? (To be continued......)