After leaving the cafeteria, the sun shone on her body a little lazy. Shi Quanbin looked at the quiet military camp and said to Du Zhongxiao: "I have been in the army for many years. Except for the troops facing the battle along the border, there are very few such quiet ones. The daily military camps are always very lively."

Du Zhongxiao said: "After lunch in the army, the teams are routinely arranged for this afternoon's affairs, a lecture, and then a rest. Now it is the time to rest at noon, so it is naturally quiet. After another hour, after the rest, it will be lively. There are also everything in the military camp."

Shi Quanbin became interested and asked Yao Shouxin on the side, saying, "Master of the cannon, what do you artillery soldiers do in daily life?"

Yao Shouxin said: "Big things are arranged by the camp. What to do, how many people are needed, and which classes to draw staff. Ordinary daily affairs are arranged by the team. Those who train will train, those who maintain, and those who are idle will help organize the barracks."

Shi Quanbin heard this and said, "So, aren't there any time for your army to be idle? How many days will it take for a school? How many months will it read?"

Yao Shouxin said: "The rules of our camp Tianxiang Army are different from those of other soldiers. There is really no time to spare in daily life. Even if there are days of relaxation, the class will be arranged uniformly and led by officers. Generally speaking, soldiers do not have much holidays unless it is an injury or special matter. The above-mentioned utility, the number of days of vacations per month is determined according to different levels. When holidays are to be held, the following will be signed by the squad general, and the above-mentioned envoys are signed by the battalion. There are officers on duty in the battalion every day, who specialize in these things."

Shi Quanbin looked at Du Zhongxiao and shook his head repeatedly: "It's not easy to join the army. You are so busy and have no time left. Who can stand it? How much money does your army pay? Otherwise, won't the soldiers run away?"

Yao Shouxin said: "The soldiers in our army are selected from the local area, except for some pocket money, and there is no salary. However, if one person joins the army, the family can be exempted from labor. For a family of five, it is equivalent to exemption from labor. Only with the above-mentioned effectiveness can there be a daily salary, and the family is also exempted from labor. Compared with the imperial guards, the salary is higher than that of ordinary soldiers there, and it is enough to support the family."

At this time, whether it is the imperial guards or the wing army, they are professional troops. Unless the elderly and weak are selected, they will be a soldier for a lifetime. Because their families join the army, many families rely on the salaries of soldiers to support their family. With a little population, they can still support it, and life will be very difficult after more than the population.

Because so many families rely on military salary to make a living, the first major event of the court is to raise a military. The word "maintainment" clearly shows the importance of this matter. As long as money and food are short, there is no need for many families to have no food and clothing, and these people still have knives. For the regime, this is a very dangerous thing, which is equivalent to having a sharp sword hanging above the head at all times. The salary of officials is not paid, which is nothing more than being dissatisfied and unable to rebel. Once the military ration is cut off, the army will also use a knife to ask for explanations for the sake of eating. It is really too much pressure to use rural soldiers, archers and foreign soldiers to replace the imperial guards along the border.

The regime faces a dilemma for a fully professional mercenary army. In order to maintain the necessary military strength, the number of troops must be of a certain scale. To sum up the huge number, even if each soldier spends less military expenditure, it will be a huge number when he goes to the court. At the peak of the past few years, the imperial guards reached more than 800,000, and more than 70% of the court's fiscal revenue was spent on the army. For soldiers, no matter how much the court spent, it was insignificant to spread to themselves, and they always struggled on the line of food and clothing. The court felt that it was difficult to support the army, and ordinary soldiers felt that their lives were not easy, and they were both dissatisfied.

This is a deadlock. Soldiers are not satisfied with their treatment, and their morale and combat effectiveness cannot be too high. If the combat effectiveness is poor, more troops must be needed. With more troops, the court cannot afford it. For individual soldiers, the treatment is even worse.

No matter how rich the court is, as long as the armed personnel are raised, it is impossible to treat too high. Ordinary workers are generally poor, and how high can the living standards of the army that does not engage in production be? If this system is to maintain a few full-time elite regular troops, supported by a huge number of reserve forces. Most of the costs of reserve forces are allocated to the people, and the regime mainly bears the military expenditure of the regular army. This is also the direction of continuous reform of the military system by officials, expanding the wing army and the township soldiers. The extreme is the completely militarized Baojia system, and at the same time reducing the number of imperial guards.

The situation in the Song Dynasty was special. The foundation of the regime was the imperial guards. The strong and weak branches were strong. The overwhelming advantage of the imperial guards over other military forces must be ensured to have the stability of the regime. The military threat along the border was huge, and sufficient regular troops must be ensured to confront the hostilities. The capital city must be guaranteed to overwhelm the local area. The number of imperial guards cannot be reduced no matter how much. There are more than one million troops in the world, six or seven hundred or seven hundred thousand imperial guards, and the wing army is only a few.

After hearing Yao Shouxin talk about the military system of Yingtianxiang Army, Shi Quanbin felt it was very novel. Originally, officials in the court believed that Yingtianxiang Army came from the fiber-pulling army in the past, but they were just eliminating it. After all, they still found that Yingtianxiang Army had nothing to do with the Xiang army coming to Yingtian, and they did not inherit the former at all. They were completely newly built.

After Yao Shouxin finished speaking, Shi Quanbin asked with great interest: "So now, how many% of the envoys account for the entire army? How many% of the soldiers?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "Architecture requires a lot of knowledge. Unlike other military branches, envoys have more utility, accounting for nearly 50%. If officers at all levels are added, ordinary soldiers account for about 50% of the total soldiers. They are mainly distributed in places where artillery transport, baggage, guards, etc. are not special knowledge."

Shi Quanbin frowned: "Like such soldiers are soldiers, and those who use cannons are used as envoys, so can those who hold swords be willing to accept it? Even the food is different in daily life, and there are different everywhere, and no soldiers are causing trouble?"

Yao Shouxin smiled and said, "I'm talking and joking about the regiment training. The envoys who practice artillery are all learned with others. Why do others not accept it after the exam? When fighting, there are countless soldiers who can support a cannon. The artillery warriors need to cause chaos. What should the infantry that receives the benefits of artillery? Besides, the envoys are different from what soldiers do in the army, and their treatment is naturally different. With the ability, they can also learn to practice artillery examinations."

Shi Quanbin once led troops for a long time, and felt that Du Zhongxiao's wing army was different from ordinary imperial guards. If he was in the imperial guards, how could he be willing to treat the guards with a knife with a knife, how could he be willing to treat others worse than others? According to tradition, several chaos a year will occur. If the imperial guards do not send it to them, of course they have to pick up the knife and ask for it themselves. How many people who have knowledge to fool them in the imperial guards are not known to them. Many soldiers are the ones who are in the imperial guards, and they rely on their official positions to do things. According to the rules here, wouldn't illiterate soldiers still be inferior to officials?

Yao Shouxin smiled and said, "When the regiment training was first introduced to the West Beijing Road, many commanders were illiterate. At that time, the commanders were organized to compile many study books. The commanders who could not learn would not come to the Xiang Army and all went to the local camp. In our army, all officers must be able to handle official documents within their duties, without official positions, only various auxiliary officers and functions. Not only artillery, but also in other army. Now, when fighting, the chief general is not allowed to go forward. The army has its own wartime rules and tactics, and they must follow the rules."

"How to determine military merit?" Shi Quanbin blurted out. This is a big problem in the army. Military merit is the yardstick of measurement, so you should not be careless at all.

Yao Shouxin said: "Military merits have their own rules. The effectiveness of front-line combat and soldiers have their own military merit algorithms. Generals and commanders have different algorithms. The army has their own military merits. After the commanders agree together, they report to the superiors to decide. Compared with the imperial guards, we have much less military merit, but as long as we win, we should be rewarded with promotions. I remember saying that now, the rewards and punishments of this dynasty are heavy and light. When we see the victory, everyone strives for the first place and everyone grabs military merits. When we encounter danger, everyone retreats. Everyone knows that there will be no more punishments. The rewards and punishments of the wing army are somewhat different."

Shi Quanbin nodded and remained silent for a moment. He had a big question about Du Zhongxiao's statement. As long as he led the troops on the front line to fight, who would not remember as much military merit as possible after the war and refuse to give up the defeat, so that he could maintain the hearts of subordinates. In this way, how could the officers and soldiers be willing to submit?

Can such an army fight? Shi Quanbin was doubtful in his heart. Du Zhongxiao was a young Jinshi, and he was a successful career, and he made a powerful weapon like guns and cannons. It was not a strange thing to be stubborn. He had fought so many wars with Dangxiang a few years ago, and he must have seen it and had his own ideas. But after all, it was just a talk on paper. Is it so easy to actually implement it in the army?

According to Shi Quanbin's understanding of the imperial guards, this approach is not good at all and cannot maintain the morale of the military. From the fundamentals of the regime, the combat effectiveness of the imperial guards is maintained by the court with money. The strictness and lenient military discipline are the result of the battle between the commanders and subordinates. Different troops vary greatly. However, if the reward cannot be given a heavy reward, the morale of the military will be dispersed and the morale will be low, and other methods cannot be replaced.

Thinking of this, Shi Quanbin said: "In the past, when fighting, the commanders and officers were responsible for merit, mainly for promotion. The effectiveness and the contribution of merit between soldiers were mostly rewards. Is the same in your army? Do you want to pay special money when practicing combat in the army?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "The army of Yingtianxiang is different. Whether it is a general or a utility, a soldier, the main purpose is to promote the promotion, and rewards are supplemented. The rewards in the army are just a matter of meaning, not much money, mainly due to changes in status. For example, for ordinary soldiers in the army, one person is exempted from service in the family except for themselves, and one person is added to service. After three merits, they will not be in service for life and will be accumulated in sequence."

Shi Quanbin shook his head repeatedly: "Will local people recognize this practice? Will soldiers recognize it? Which one will fight for the first place during wartime?"
Chapter completed!