It's a terrible thing to have no goals.

Guan Yu has clearly realized this point. Once he loses his goal, he will slack off.

Just like those comrades in the past who said that once they made a fortune through war and their families were stable, they would lose the motivation to fight and would not be as brave as before when they fought.

If you don’t want to defend your home, you won’t have the strong fighting will that before.

After achieving such a great victory, there was nothing that could threaten the Wei Empire's enemy after looking around, so the slackness of the army would definitely happen.

So, what method should His Majesty the Emperor take to maintain the current state of the Wei army?

disarmament?

Not long ago, the disarmament in Jingzhou and Yangzhou also caused a lot of controversy in the army.

Two-thirds of the troops were removed from the two major camps of the Wei army, Jiangling Camp and Danyang Camp.

The laid-off soldiers returned to the land, went to work in various villages, or worked as militia instructors, and entered production positions.

Of course, some people in the army expressed their dissatisfaction, and some did not want to be laid off, but the emperor's orders cannot be disobeyed.

His Majesty’s preparations were quite complete, so no accidents occurred after the two camps were disarmament.

On the contrary, the public security management and economic conditions in Jingzhou and Yangzhou have become a little better.

The deposed military families still enjoy the treatment of military families, which is the main reason why the disarmament has not been subject to large-scale protests.

Everyone can still enjoy the treatment of military families and still live a good life. The court has not destroyed bridges across the river. This is the main factor that everyone can rest assured.

Once this model is successful, Guo Peng will definitely follow the trend.

At that time, Chengdu Daying in Yizhou, Hanyang Daying in Liangzhou, Yuyang Daying in Youzhou, and Xuantu Daying in Pingzhou might all face such a situation.

The Wei army had indeed had a large number of soldiers. The garrisons in Jingzhou had 50,000 before, and Yangzhou reached 60,000. After the disarmament, Jingzhou was only 20,000 and Yangzhou was only 30,000. It is said that these troops were prepared to go south to Jiaozhou in the future.

The two states abolished 60,000 troops in one go, and then scattered them among the people of Jingzhou and Yangzhou. This is probably the future model.

At that time, the 60,000 troops in Chengdu Daying of Yizhou, the 60,000 troops in Hanyang Daying, the 40,000 troops in Yuyang Daying and the 30,000 troops in Xuantu Daying would probably face a situation of disarmament.

Because it is really too expensive to maintain the size of the army of about 500,000.

Only with all efforts can the court support the military expenditure of 500,000 soldiers, not to mention the auxiliary soldiers.

Together, the military force of the entire Wei Empire exceeded one million, which was a great pressure for the Wei Empire, which had a population of only 60 million.

Guo Peng cherishes the people's strength. Considering the possible redundant soldiers in the future, he decided to streamline the troops and promote militarized training for rural militia.

According to the exact news obtained by Guan Yu, Guo Peng intends to reduce the number of troops to a scale of 200,000 after the world is pacified.

The Wei Empire only retained 200,000 professional soldiers, striving to ensure their elite level.

All the remaining soldiers were dismissed back to their hometowns to farm and produce, or served as village officials or militia instructors.

The most elite 200,000 people will be left to become the permanent army of the Wei army, and then Guo Peng may also implement a system called the military service system, which seems to be related to the new recruitment plan.

It has become the norm for the army. The Wei army will have a lot of mobile troops, but the permanent army is only 200,000. The main force is concentrated in the Luoyang area, and other branches are in danger and are intimidating the world's unofficial borders.

Local public security uses the current county soldiers or the revoked war soldiers to change their positions. It is said that they will also change their names afterwards, such as police.

The police meant to be alert, inspector, and the people who do this work were responsible for public security, and even some criminal cases, which were tied to local methods to do things.

It seems that His Majesty the Emperor wants to completely separate the army and local public security, so that the police and the army responsible for public security will no longer become soldiers in the same sense.

Then the power of the Fa Cao will increase.

What is this for?

Guan Yu didn't know this, and he didn't need to know so much, just knowing such a future.

Of course, there is no need to worry about his status, but his subordinates, those who followed him all the way, may not be sure.

If there are not so many soldiers, so naturally there is no need for so many officers. When soldiers are laid off, officers may also be laid off or demoted or retained. The number of officers in the army will become very limited, and the competition between them will become quite fierce.

Under such a situation, what changes will the Wei army face in the future?

No one knows.

"Yide, have you ever thought about what you should do after the war is over?"

"The war is over?"

Zhang Fei looked at Guan Yu strangely: "Brother Zhong, what are you talking about? How can the war be over? There is no war in the country and the mainland, so I will go to the border. There will always be wars in the border? The world is so big and there are so many enemies, how can there be no war to fight?"

Guan Yu expressed helplessness towards Zhang Fei's optimism.

"Don't you know about disarmament?"

"I know, so what?"

Zhang Fei shook his head: "Brother Zhong, you just think too much, and there are some things you don't need to think about at all. You can't figure out who Your Majesty is. If we can guess it through, that would be really strange.

But you have to know that Your Majesty will never do anything harmful to Wei State. No matter how disarmament is, there will be elite troops who will stay. No matter how peaceful it is, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no disaster. We just need to obey the orders to fight, and we don’t have to care about anything else.”

Zhang Fei's optimism is something that Guan Yu has always envied. Guan Yu always thinks that Zhang Fei can live so happily is because his optimism is working hard.

He is optimistic and can always find positive things and live hard for them. Such a person will never feel boring if he is with him.

Guan Yu can hardly remember what Liu Bei looks like.

But Zhang Fei is still alive and still plays with him, which is something he feels extremely grateful for.

It is a good thing for him to have Zhang Fei active in the same era.

In the future, the two brothers may still be able to gallop together on the land of foreign countries and continue to sweep away thousands of troops.

The news that the Wei army's pursuit troops successfully caught up with the fleeing people in the Xianbei region and successfully Bao Yuan'er soon reached the ears of Guo Peng, who was advancing north. Guo Peng was overjoyed and led his troops north to Huihe's pursuit troops.

The generals who were pursuing the troops were excited when they learned that the emperor personally led his troops to greet them, and rushed forward to the next day. They finally met with the emperor in mid-August.

Looking at the Xianbei prisoners who were dejected and depressed and moved south in a row of columns, Guo Peng was in great joy and met with Cao Chun, Cao Hong, Li Dian, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, commended them and praised them for their contributions.

"The merits you have made for me and the State of Wei will not be forgotten. Your names and achievements will always be left in history books and will be admired by future generations."

Guo Peng helped these five generals one by one.

They used their courage and tenacity to achieve the greatest results for the Wei army.

This wave of group destroyed the Xianbei, and preliminary statistics were based on the number of people, more than 1.2 million cattle and sheep, and more than 700,000 horses, which was equivalent to making up for all the materials spent by Wei for this Northern Expedition in one go, and then there was still a profit.
Chapter completed!