After looking at everyone, Xu Ping said in a deep voice: "After all, the military system has to be changed. At least it must be recruited and there must be in and out!"

As long as he has the ambition to use troops to the outside world, in fact, everyone knows that the system of troops needs to be changed, but how to change is a big problem. Speaking of the Song Dynasty, we have to talk about three redundant things, and the core of the three redundant is redundant soldiers. What made Song Renzong most criticized in history was that when he was in power, all the problems showed signs, but he did not make up his mind to change them, and eventually became terminally ill.

However, is it so easy to change? Historically, what made the Song Dynasty's ills difficult to recover was the battle against Yuanhao. One was that it cost a huge price, and the financial situation was ultimately unable to support it and the problem was not completely solved. Another was that the war in the northwest started a large-scale increase in troops, and the number of imperial troops reached an astonishing number. It could only enter but not exit. If it was calculated based on the average age of the newly added imperial guards in his twenties, it would have an impact on the national finance for thirty or forty years. In fact, once the number of imperial guards increased, it would be difficult to reduce in the subsequent period. This impact lasted much longer, and continued until the Shenzong period.

Wang Anshi's reforms talked about military affairs most about the general's military strategy to solve the problem of "the soldiers do not know the general, and the general does not know the soldiers." In fact, in the military, the general's military strategy was just a little bit, not the real core. The focus on the general's military strategy was to cooperate with the conclusion of the Song Dynasty's poor analysis of foreign wars, that is, the soldiers and generals did not know each other, which was an important reason for the low combat power. In order to make up this conclusion, a series of other important measures were deliberately skipped.

At least when Wang Anshi was reforming, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty obviously did not think that the lack of understanding between soldiers and generals was the biggest problem, and the military system was the biggest problem. In history, Wang Anshi designed the future military system with conscription instead of recruiting, and the Baojia system was prepared for future conscription. He and Emperor Shenzong of Song realized that the limits of the regime's rule in this era were not enough to support large-scale wars under the recruiting system. If we want to go to war abroad, the recruiting system could not be adhered to, otherwise it would collapse before victory.

Logically speaking, in terms of military affairs, a series of systems started with the sealing of piles by the imperial guards. The sealing of piles is a relatively gentle way to reduce the number of illegal troops. That is, the imperial guards have a gap due to old age, illness, and escape, and no longer add them. The posts of the imperial guards are reduced by natural reduction. Every time such a gap occurs, the Privy Council seals the quota, called sealing of piles. The amount of posts sealed by the piles is deducted according to the expenses of each imperial guard and used to implement the Baojia system. The reduced army of the imperial guards is filled with the recruitment under the Baojia system. As time goes by, the number of imperial guards has decreased, and more and more recruits is increased, and the recruitment is finally replaced by recruitment. The general system is in line with this conscription system, fixing the organization and command system, and realizing the flow of soldiers.

It is obvious that in this process of recruiting troops instead of recruiting troops, the combat effectiveness of the imperial guards will be rapidly weakened. Because of the shortage of piles, the remaining old and weak are the old and weak, and the more they go to the future. Of course, the historical reality is that this process was interrupted. Due to party struggles, the old party weakened the Baojia system after the rule of the army, and the Baojia system was no longer transformed into the recruitment army. This is what the Song Dynasty often said that the recruitment declined, and Baojia also declined. When Huizong was in power, the money for the shortage of piles was even used to enjoy and show off the show, and no longer used the organization and training of Baojia. During the Jingkang Incident, the Jin army was at the city, and the actual number of the imperial guards in the capital was only 30,000 to 40,000, and they were all old and weak. This situation was originally inevitable under the shortage of piles, and the system was like this.

Looking back at history, we have to lament that human beings always keep committing suicide. The new and old party struggles, and when every party comes to power, it says that the previous ills should be eliminated. The actual situation is that the ills are not eliminated, but the useful ones are removed. The real ills are preserved instead. If they don’t do this, how can people know the shortcomings of opposing parties? If they want to do something that is really useful to the country, but they don’t have the ability, they can only show bad things and let the onlookers know why the bad people are behind the stage.

Xu Ping's historical knowledge is average, and the textbook he learned did not explain in detail the content of Wang Anshi's reforms in the military system reform. Just talking about the strategy of military affairs is not even considered a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause. But Xu Ping clearly knew that under the current military system, there was no big battle. Defence was difficult, and if you wanted to fight, don't think about it.

The military system had to be changed, and the recruitment was combined, which suddenly calmed down the hall.

This is not the first time Xu Ping mentioned the problems existing in the military system. And every time he mentioned it, it became more acute, and the problems and measures mentioned were more specific. However, peace in the world has been going on for decades. Who has the courage to change the military system?

After a long silence, Zhao Zhen said: "The military system is related to the foundation of the country. How can we change it easily when we are anxious? Moreover, with the combination of recruitment, the nearly one million imperial guards and wing troops will inevitably withdraw many people. How can these retired people ensure their food and clothing? They have no skills in the army for their whole lives and have no food and clothing."

Speaking of this, Zhao Zhen looked at the ministers in the hall, shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly: "Isn't this a driving force into a bandit?"

Xu Ping stepped forward, held the scepter and said loudly: "Your Majesty, I am thinking about the way these people are going to do! If there is no way out for those who have been eliminated from the army, how dare I mention this?"

Li Di said in a deep voice: "Where are you going? Xu Ping, now we are talking about not three or five hundred people, nor three or five thousand people! Once the imperial guards and the wing army are to be repurchased for dual purpose, it is not possible to eliminate 350,000 people. Thirty-five million soldiers, plus his wife, children, and young, there will be millions! Even though the Song Dynasty is big, it cannot withstand such torture!"

Xu Ping said: "My husband, if I had nowhere to arrange these people in the past few years, but now it is different. The Xiaguan was in Yongzhou and started sugarcane services. After several years, he recruited 200,000 to 300,000 people from Fujian Road. Now there are sugarcane services, farmland services, and various companies under the three departments. The Xiaguan calculated that these newly built yamen recruited at least tens of thousands of people a year, and at most twenty or three hundred thousand. Now is the time for them to develop and recruit people. If they missed these years and the posts were full, they would waste this opportunity. One carrot and one pit. If you want to fill in people at that time, you have to pull up the radish in the field first. Some people will lose their jobs and will be in trouble."

Chen Yaozuo said: "This matter is easy, but people are used to living in one place. Who would want to switch to another place? Strike the soldiers and let them go to the third department to beg for food. I am afraid that people will be unstable, so I will start a mutiny first!"

Xu Ping said: "It was the review of the Accounting Record that I discovered that the companies under the Three Divisions now hired people who live in the same life as those in the Imperial Army. If those who are particularly profitable are better than those in the Imperial Army, it is not impossible to make the soldiers willing to retreat from the army. The officials thought that they should start from the following three points. First, the Imperial Army should be trained strictly and should not be as casual as before. The hard work in the army is the right thing to do. Second, let the people in the army know that there are many places that are better and more suitable for them than in the army. Third, many companies under the Three Divisions can no longer be managed according to the old habits of the field as before. Instead, they should refer to the military system. In the company, they are specialized in the army, not soldiers."
Chapter completed!