Qin Lang read the letters from Luoyang priests to him, and took a record with pencil while reading.

The pencil is not used for lead, but graphite mined from graphite. The wood makes it easy to write pencils. Although it seems inconspicuous, just like the box of matches on his desk, it is now becoming one of the specialties of Luzon.

It's late at night and people are quiet.

The glass lantern on the desk is bright and free of smoke and dust.

Qin Lang put down the pen in his hand and fell into deep thought.

The Luoyang court was very stable, and the Tang Dynasty was also very prosperous, with a feeling of burning fire and cooking oil and flowers. However, the government officials in the court, such as Lai Ji, Pei Xingjian, Shangguan Yi, etc., also discovered some hidden worries in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and there were still many.

The Tang Dynasty inherited the Northern Dynasties, so Hu Feng had a very strong desire for expansion. Although it has only been more than 40 years since its founding, it has only been around forty years, but it has passed through the Five Emperors and the pace of war has never stopped.

The Northeast conquered Liaodong and North Korea, seized the old land of Beixiqi in Yanshan, and even established the Bohai Sea, Heishui and Xianbei three protectors in the farther Baishan Heishui, and had border towns and garrisons.

The southwest also actually controlled Qianzhong and Yunnan, crossed the Honghe River, conquered Yongchang Lishui, as well as the Piaoyue and southern Tibet.

In the northwest direction, the Zhenguan Dynasty conquered Dangxiang, the Qiangs in the West Mountains, and then pacified Tuyuhun, destroyed Tubo, and adopted Supi and Xiangxiong as gui Mi. The far-off Western Regions, from nothing to something, not only restored the old border of Anxi of the Han Dynasty, but also went deeper into the Hezhong area.

These are all produced by several generations of Tang army in the past fifty years with swords and blood.

Although the alliance and peace agreement with the Dashi had just reached a temporary cession, the direction of the Western Regions will remain the first priority for the Tang Dynasty to use foreign troops in the future. It is even now encircling and suppressing the Western Turkic tribes, and at the same time, it is also facing the problem of how to conquer the Sogdians who rebel in the river.

We must also guard against the Tochar and the Cannibal who may make a comeback at any time, and even guard against the Turkic Khasa tribe.

Whether it is Cheng Chumo or Lai Ji, these prime ministers who are in charge of the central civil and military affairs have a consensus that the Western Regions will have to station heavily in the future.

Even because the Western Regions are too far away, the generals of the Western Regions have to be given higher power, not only limited to military command, but also the power to supervise money and food. Otherwise, they will not be able to deal with such a special situation as the Western Regions. They will ask for instructions on the court in everything, and it will take two months to travel thousands of miles apart.

And if the power of affairs is different and the front lines are hindering each other, you won’t think about doing things.

The previous system of the punctual governor's office and the general management office in the wartime was increasingly out of date and could not cope with the new situation in the Western Regions. In the future, the Western Regions need to be permanently stationed in heavy troops, and even the use of troops to the Western Turkic tribes and Sogdian countries in the River were normalized.

The traditional government troops were drawn and formed in the Western Expedition Camp was no longer keeping up with the situation. It turned out that the border troops in Anxi Beitingfu were mostly drawn from the mainland of the Central Plains to garrison. The disadvantage was that the government troops would have to be replaced in one or two years, which would weaken the combat effectiveness of the front-line border troops.

Even because of the war, the imperial court often extended the service period of the border guards, which made the soldiers stayed in the border for many years, and the people were thinking about returning home, and the wife and children at home were also affected.

There is an urgent need to change these old systems that do not conform to the new situation.

Qin Lang had proposed to change the system of the government army very early, because under the new two-tax system, the government army system is no longer in line with the development of the new era, especially when the equal-field system has been abandoned, the foundation of the government army system no longer exists.

Qin Lang initially suggested that the recruitment system would replace the government military system, supplemented by compulsory military service, and to form a new Tang army with Han professional recruitment plus foreign conscripts.

In the era of the government military system, the Tang Dynasty had a large number of government soldiers, with the Zhenguan period of more than 600,000, and now it is more than 800,000. These government soldiers are basically concentrated in Guanzhong and Henan areas. In the beginning of Wude and Zhenguan period, Guanzhong government soldiers occupied 60% of the government soldiers in the world, and now Guanzhong government soldiers accounted for 30% of the government soldiers in the world, Henan government soldiers accounted for 40%, the two places accounted for 70%, Hedong and Hebei each accounted for 10%, and the remaining regions accounted for 10%.

Although the Guanlong Prefecture soldiers had strong combat effectiveness, the deployment of the military administration was too concentrated in the Henan area of ​​Guanzhong, which brought new problems. At the beginning of Wude and Zhenguan, they were facing the demand for the war of unity in the world, and it was necessary for the military administration to concentrate in the central Guanlong Central Plains area of ​​the core.

But now the core area of ​​the Central Plains is far away from war. What really needs to be stationed is the frontier, including North Korea, Liaodong, Hetao, Longyou Qinghai, Tianshan Mountain in the Western Regions, and the newly conquered southern Tibet of Piaoyue.

But these places do not have Zhechong Prefecture at all. Even the wealthy places in Lingnan Jiaoguang are still the military prefectures that Qin Lang had added when he was guarding the southern border.

Laiji and others all hope to change the system.

The most important thing to propose is to move the troops of the palace and the border of the world.

A large number of Zhechong Prefectures were deployed to the border areas, and then the Zhechong Prefecture soldiers from the border areas took turns to guard the border. There was no need to always draw the government troops from the mainland of the Central Plains to guard the border. On the one hand, it saved the trouble of taking turns to guard the distance, and on the other hand, the border soldiers were more familiar with the border areas.

Moreover, the original governor's office system in various places is combined with the new military system. At that time, the soldiers and generals will be united. The generals will know the soldiers, soldiers and generals will be familiar with the border land, the enemy, and even the border tax, tax, money and grain will be used to provide the army with the army.

In Qin Lang's view, this set of things was a strong feeling of defending the Liao territory with the Liao people. In other words, this was a set of things in which the Tang Dynasty began to appear in frontier vassal states since Emperor Gaozong of the Wu Dynasty and formed a formal Jiedu system during Emperor Xuanzong of Tang.

In essence, it is all because of the urgent need for military offensive and defensive military in the border areas, and the original old system was unable to keep up with the situation, and a new system was adopted, perhaps called patching.

Of course, this set of things is very practical. For example, if the Zhechong Prefecture is deployed to the border, whether it is moved to the current Guanlong Central Plains, or whether it is selected to select new prefecture soldiers at border sites in the future, and the border people guarding the border areas, they will also guard their own homes, so they will certainly be more motivated.

Even if the two are guarding the border in turn, they will be on duty nearby. Not to mention going from Henan to the Western Regions, they will waste a month or two on the way, let alone being unable to adapt to the climate over there after passing by, not to mention that they are not familiar with the geography, unfamiliar with opponents, etc.

Giving greater power to the border general is actually a war zone or military region system. At that time, it has strong command autonomy, and even a relatively independent and stable supply of financial resources, money and grain. This is very necessary for border towns like the Western Regions, thousands of miles away.

The imperial Privy Council commanded and mobilized everywhere, which could not keep up with the pace. If the border army's money, grain and equipment were completely transferred and supplied by the imperial court, it would not keep up with it.

Of course, the border areas are poor. Under the current circumstances, the Central Plains are rich. Even if the border areas have a certain financial power, they are still poor. They still have to support the support of the imperial government in supporting the army, but at least they have to give the front line a certain independent command and financial power.

The idea is good. After all, it is also a solution to the problems that have already arisen. It is a headache to treat the headache. However, they may be able to predict or fail to predict the problems that may be caused by this patched measure in the future, but it is also an urgent task to solve the problems that are present in front of you first.

If there are changes like the Six Towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the future, that is also a future matter. Maybe new solutions can be found in the future?

When the Northern Wei Dynasty was established, the capital was built in Pingcheng, which was located in the north of Dai, so Rouran on the grassland poses the greatest threat to them. Therefore, the Northern Wei Dynasty established several military towns along the Yinshan Yanshan line, among which the six towns were the strongest. At the beginning, the Northern Wei Dynasty attached importance to the six towns, after all, it was at the gate of the country, and the six towns were treated with high salaries, and the children of nobles and even gentry and powerful families rushed to the six towns. This was like gilding, and it was also a great opportunity to make achievements.

But later, as the Northern Wei moved its capital to Luoyang, the situation gradually improved. The Northern Wei gradually ignored and even looked down on the six towns in the northern border. Gradually, the children of meritorious nobles and high-ranking officials refused to go to the six towns again. The soldiers in the six towns were unable to get any good promotions, and even insufficient supplies for money, grain, equipment, etc., and even became an exile place for criminals.

The proud six towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty became the border desertion that everyone disliked, so the Six Towns finally revolted, overthrowing the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Liuhuan Group and Yuwentai Group, which later replaced the Northern Wei Dynasty, were also from the Six Towns at that time.

Historically, the ten border towns in the Tang Dynasty established during the rebellion of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty eventually lost control. Although the rebellious Northeastern Fanyang Pinglu Jiedushi An Lushan led the Northeastern Legion was not the strongest among the major legions at that time. Jiannan and Longyou were the strongest, and even the imperial court gave priority to preventing it, even if the rebellion of the Northeastern Legion was not the strongest, it still attacked Luoyang and Chang'an without any storm.

This is also the result of moving from one extreme to another. The focus of the Wude Zhenguan Dynasty was to unify the world and stabilize the Central Plains, so the elite of the world was in Guanlong. By the time of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, it had reached a peak of expansion. It was in the northeast direction and had been in Liaodong. It was even in the Korean Peninsula, and even destroyed Baekje and Goguryeo for a while. Later, because of the dispatch of troops to deal with the Tubo and Mobei Hu people, the Silla people took the opportunity to seize the south of the Datong River, and Xi Qi was once rebelling and inconsistent.

In Jiannan, Longyou, we have to face the joint persecution of Tubo and Nanzhao. In the Western Regions, we have to face the resistance of the Western Turks, we have to compete with Tubo, and we have to face the advance of the cannibalism.

In Liaodong, Liaoxi, Jiannan, Longyou, and Hexi, these battlefields are too far away, and they are no longer temporary conquests and operations like Zhenguanchu, but have become normalized wars in a tug-of-war manner, with separatist and regular wars. In this case, the military system of the Tang Dynasty went to another extreme.

Three major border troops were formed, and they were stationed in the border areas for a long time, but the two capitals and the Central Plains were instead empty. Although there were imperial guards in the capital, the imperial guards did not go into battle for a long time and could not fight at all. Facing the rebels in the Hebei region, the Central Plains was defeated for thousands of miles, and the imperial guards in the capital also lost two capitals in a row.

As a later generation, Qin Lang now seems to have seen the hidden dangers that this kind of reform will face.

This basically means establishing a border town military governor. If the border town military grouping is formed, there will inevitably be strong branches and weak branches in the future. Even if the Tang Dynasty now has 200,000 imperial guards, the border army faces a complex military environment, every day, training and equipment, and the Beijing Imperial Army has little experience in fighting wars. Even if it is well-equipped, it will definitely not be able to defeat the border army in the future.

However, if the current situation is not changed, the border troops will definitely find it difficult to maintain the stability of the border for a long time, let alone continue to expand externally. If it can be changed, it will be strong and weak, and in the future, the border towns may reverse the central government or even the separatist towns.
Chapter completed!