Facing Ji Li's inquiry, Tang Jing said with a smile: "The current black dog and red dog are all toothless tigers, how can they be called letting the tiger return to the mountain?" Take two useless patriarchs for two thousand star beads, why not? ”

"Childe, do you have any other plans?" Ji Li, however, did not believe it.

Let's go over,

Tingshan has been calm, and Ji Lixi hasn't felt anything.

Recently, there have been frequent crises in Tingshan, but Childe is commanding and scheming, as if he has changed a person.

The depth of his thoughts made Ji Li's heart palpitate.

"Yes,"

Tang Jing didn't hide it, "Think about it, the two tribes of Black Dog and Red Dog, not to mention the loss of the army, the patriarch was also captured, just like an unguarded little daughter-in-law, she fell down as soon as she pounced." What will the surrounding tribes do? ”

"Pounce... Isn't it, encroaching on two? "The raccoon has been taken into the ditch.

"And after that?"

"After that..."Ji Li vaguely understood something, "After that, Tingshan will have another powerful neighbor?" ”

"Clever!"

Tang Jing was very pleased, "Standing in Tingshan's position, the two little daughters-in-law who are weak but do not fall down and swear to die are far better than a group of vicious wolves who have just eaten a full meal and have a big appetite. ”

This time, the three coalition forces attacked, saying that it was revenge, but in fact, it was not for the wind dog hunting ground?!

"So, will the Susha Congress agree to the exchange?" Ji Lixi still had doubts.

Two Thousand Star Beads,

Even for Susha, it's not a small amount of money.

"How not? The three formed a coalition army and went on an expedition to Tingshan, but they were all picked up by the Susha chieftain behind his back, even if it was for the sake of the face of the Susha people, he couldn't save this money. ”

Tang Jing saw it thoroughly, "And, I guess, Chief Susha is also very happy to see the two patriarchs return." ”

It can be seen from this time that the Susha chieftain instigated the three black dogs to fight for the wind dog hunting ground, and the attitude of the main sect of the Susha country towards the affiliated tribes is definitely not to want any of them to become bigger.

The Art of Balance,

It's a lot of fun.

"I see, I'll send someone to do it." Ji Lifu had no objections.

"By the way," Tang Jing suddenly remembered something, "Before, the five thousand Tingshan people brought back from the Wind Dog Tribe, were there any martial arts talents among them?" ”

"Well, I didn't check it out." Ji Li was a little ashamed, "Childe wants to replenish the soldiers?" ”

"There's no way around it."

Tingshan's plate is so big, and Tang Jing can't conjure people out of thin air.

Some people may ask, why can't young and middle-aged men who have no martial arts talent be recruited into the army, and put them in ancient Huaxia, isn't this the most conventional method of operation?

The reason is actually quite simple.

First, compared with ordinary men, martial artists have been trained in martial arts since childhood, and they can fight when they are called, saving a lot of trouble in recruiting training.

Even if it is a village soldier, he has to undergo military training every year.

Second, the warrior is full of blood and energy, and if the food in the army is good, the strength will increase day by day, from the first level of the star realm, to the second, third, and fourth, the longer the veteran, the stronger the strength.

And

Warriors can serve for a long time, unless they are seriously injured, they can basically serve for more than ten years.

In fact, this is beyond the scope of the standing army, and it can be regarded as a professional soldier, whose combat effectiveness, training quality, and combat experience are comparable to ordinary people who are temporarily conscripted?

It's really on the battlefield,

It's not a joke to fight three against one.

Moreover, these warriors who have served for a long time, once they retire and return to their hometowns, they are the best candidates for positions such as pavilion chiefs, village masa, and anti-thieves.

Because of this,

The 800 vassal states all practiced a standing army system of "taking the soldiers as the core and the township soldiers as the supplement".

Of course, there are pros and cons.

For every soldier the state supports, it needs to set aside 50 acres of arable land, in addition to the annual salary, rewards for meritorious service in battle, and meat, grain, grass, ordnance and so on consumed in daily training.

This is doomed,

None of the vassal states could afford to maintain an overly large standing army.

Taking the Tang State as an example, the standing army only had the Mingguang Brigade, the Wuhammer Brigade and the Mountain Cultural Brigade, with only 7,500 people, and in this way, the military expenditure alone accounted for more than half of the royal court's financial expenditure every year.

Excluding the expenses of the royal family and the salaries of officials, the annual fiscal and tax revenues barely maintain a balance between revenue and expenditure.

In a year of disaster,

Or if you want to start some big project, the royal court will be stretched.

In this case, unless it is time of life and death, no vassal state will have the will and ability to recruit from ordinary adult men, and that would be suicide.

As a matter of fact

In ancient China, it was known as an army of 300,000 at every turn, and more than half of them were auxiliary soldiers such as van soldiers, or simply farmers who served in the military.

The armies of all dynasties and generations are mainly recruited temporarily, fighting wars during wartime, and after the war is over, they will go back to their own homes, find their own mothers, and carry hoes and plough the land again.

The earliest standing armies, such as Wei Wushu and Qin Ruishi in the Warring States Period, and then the forbidden armies of the later dynasties, were very rare, and they were not as rare as the Pangu Continent.

Standing in the perspective of the garden mountain,

Now it is far from the time when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, and Tang Jing is naturally not willing to break the convention.

If you really want to recruit ordinary adult men into the army, it will take a long time to train recruits, not to mention how to determine the treatment? You can't keep up with the soldiers.

If you don't keep up, you will also go to the battlefield and sacrifice your life and die together, how can you divide it into three, six, nine and so on?

After the end of the war, should these people be discharged immediately? If it is not decommissioned, not to mention disrupting the people's farming plan, it is easy to trigger a series of chain reactions.

It's troublesome to think about.

"I understand, I'll send someone to check it out." Since it was negligence, Ji Li, of course, did not dare to slack off.

"Go ahead!"

Tang Jing's thoughts had already drifted to Yaocheng, "Second uncle, what will you do?" ”

…………

As Tang Jing expected,

Although the Susha chieftain Yi Muxun was very unhappy, he still pinched his nose and promised to redeem the two patriarchs.

Before leaving, Tang Jing also met the two of them and said with a smile: "Both, are you interested in making another deal?" ”

"Phew!"

The Akainu patriarch didn't bother to speak.

For the Inuyi people, being ransomed, although it saved a life, but the face was also lost. From now on, the Akainu tribe doesn't want to raise its head in the main sect.

What the chief said,

He has to do it obediently, how can he not be aggrieved?

"It seems that the Red Dog Patriarch doesn't want to redeem the warriors in the clan," Tang Jing took a moment to turn his head to look at the Black Dog Patriarch, "I wonder if the Black Dog Patriarch is interested?" ”

"You mean, you can redeem our warriors? Yes, interested. The Black Dog Patriarch was immediately excited.

Akainu Patriarch: "......"

I can't wait to slap myself twice, why don't I know how to take it?

The two patriarchs are not fools, they know very well that without the army, even if they return to the tribe, they will be blamed by the clan elders, the key - how to deal with the group of evil wolves around them?

But if the warriors can be redeemed, then the situation is two.

"If you're interested, it's fine."

"Then, dare to ask, what kind of redemption is it?" The Black Dog Patriarch asked.

"It's simple, people for people. There are a lot of Tang people in your clan, right? For every twenty Tang people, one warrior is exchanged. How's that going, it's a good deal, right? Tang Jing smiled gently.

But in the eyes of the two patriarchs, they looked like a devil.

Bargain for a ghost!

According to this calculation, it will cost 2,000 Tang people to ransom a hundred warriors, and 20,000 to redeem a thousand.

The Red Dog Tribe doesn't know, the Black Dog Tribe has a total of three or four thousand Tang people, and when converted, it is only enough to redeem less than two hundred warriors, what can it do?

"Gong, Gongzi, is it a little more, five for one, five for one, can it be successful?" In order to redeem the warriors, the black dog patriarch can also be regarded as able to bend and stretch, and his old face is open.

Although the Akainu patriarch still held his head high, his ears were straight.

"Expensive, huh? If it's too expensive, don't change it. Tang Jing looked indifferent.

"Don't, don't," the black dog patriarch laughed with him, and sent Tang Jing to kneel, "It's not that I don't want to, it's really that there aren't so many Tang people in the clan." ”

"Not enough people? If you don't have enough, buy it. We Tang people are not all slaves in Susha Country, and we can buy and sell as we please, right? Tang Jing was smiling on his face, but his eyes were cold.