Afterwards, Li Xiuning was arranged into the palace, where she had always had her room.

Li Yuan missed his daughter, and no matter where he went, he would always reserve a room for her, which had become his habit.

Regardless of whether the daughter comes back to live in it or not, this room will always maintain the same furnishings and style as that of the third lady's boudoir in Tang Gong's mansion.

Seeing that in the room, even the tables, chairs and benches were restored to the style she had when she was in Luoyang Tanggong Mansion, Li Xiuning was so moved that she shed tears.

……

The next day, Li Xiuning changed into the military uniform and armor of the Tang Empire.

Today's Great Tang Empire has begun to take shape. Although it is not as good as the Great Sui Dynasty, the army of the Great Tang Empire has a full 50 people.

And this number is still growing.

Although after a long period of war consumption, the number of the army has not decreased but increased.

This made Li Xiuning very curious.

Originally, she wanted to ask her father how he did it, but when she followed the guards out of the palace and saw the army arresting people all over the street, she immediately froze.

The streets of Yuyang County were in chaos, and countless strong men were incorporated into the ranks of soldiers and forced to join the army.

Among these people, in addition to ordinary people, even monks, merchants, and scholars were arrested into the army to supplement the army's war losses.

It is better to say that they are more like consumables than human beings.

consumables of war.

When the front is lit up, they have to fill it up immediately.

This kind of behavior is simply brutal!

Li Xiuning immediately prepared to step forward to stop him, but was stopped by the accompanying guards.

"His Royal Highness, His Highness the Crown Prince, and His Royal Highness the King of Qin have all stated that you are forbidden to take care of the idle affairs in the city. You have been assigned to be the commander of the Yellow Army. Please follow us!"

The soldier's tone was very cold, and he didn't mean to treat Li Xiuning like a princess at all.

Although he called the princess on his lips, he was very disdainful.

Li Xiuning was instantly furious.

She immediately furiously scolded: "You are so courageous! I still want to take care of the idle things in this city! Get out of the way!"

"Your Highness, please don't make things difficult for your subordinates!"

The soldier blocked Li Xiuning with a troubled face, and refused to let her pass.

"You guys are even arresting thirteen or fourteen-year-old children, don't you think that the world won't be able to sit still? Well, since I'm not allowed to pass, I'll go back and talk to my father!"

Li Xiuning was furious, then turned around angrily, and strode back to the palace.

Li Yuan, Eulji Moondeok, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin and others are all there.

Li Yuanba was also there, but he sat aside and took a nap, not asking about world affairs at all.

A pair of huge golden hammers for beating drums and urns was placed aside, and his feet rested on them, soundly asleep.

Despite the seriousness of the occasion, no one cared about him.

Li Yuanba has a very serious aura of getting up. If he can't sleep well, he will kill someone when he wakes up.

When several servants were waking him up, their heads were mercilessly hammered and they died tragically on the spot.

"Father, why do we have an army of 50, but we still need to recruit strong men to expand our military supplies?"

Li Xiuning rushed into the hall regardless of the obstruction. Although he was questioning Li Yuan, his eyes were always on Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng.

"Xiu Ning, you are too rude!"

Li Jiancheng frowned, put on a posture of a big brother, and taught a lesson: "At any rate, you are also a princess now, and the father is already the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. You have learned court etiquette in vain?"

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"No problem, no problem, Xiu Ning hasn't changed for a while, so it's understandable, Jian Jian, as a big brother, why can't you be more tolerant?"

Li Yuan immediately persuaded him calmly, and Li Jiancheng finally gave up.

Afterwards, Li Shimin explained to Li Xiuning: "Third sister, you have to know that although our army is large in number, the combat strength of our soldiers is uneven. There are few veterans and many recruits."

"Soldiers who can experience real battles but survive are already very precious. Such soldiers often have high combat effectiveness. On the battlefield, they can play an unexpected role, so we must protect them."

"And we don't have that much time to train the army, so we can only rely on this method of replacing recruits to maximize the probability of survival for the veterans, and at the same time, extract more soldiers who are promoted to veterans from the recruits."

"Replacing training with actual warfare, and selecting elites through elimination-style promotion. Only in this way can our army maintain its combat effectiveness."

"Otherwise, even if our army passes the Yanmen Pass, we will suffer more casualties and have a higher defeat rate in the face of well-trained soldiers from other counties in the Sui Dynasty!"

After listening to Li Shimin's words, Li Xiuning couldn't help but snorted coquettishly: "Second brother, you sound nice. Your way of promotion is at the price of death. They are ordinary people who have not been trained. It would be nice to be alive.”

"And one in ten lives, I think what I said is too optimistic! What is the foundation of our country? It is the people. Without the people, what is the meaning of the existence of this country? Like you, every time you go, Just force conscription and arrest the most capable men, so how can the common people believe in our new Datang regime?"

"Xiu Ning, there is some truth in what you said."

Li Yuan couldn't help but nodded his head: "After all, we can get to where we are today, mostly relying on public opinion and taking advantage of the people's resentment towards the Sui Dynasty. If we do this, how is it different from Yang Guang's tyranny? For the common people, it’s just another exploiter!"

"Shimin, after completion, you are not allowed to do this in the future!"

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