Time flies, the years pass by like a shuttle.
On October 1, 235 of the Han Dynasty, Sun Hao, who had been on the throne for exactly forty years, held a grand military parade outside the city of Anyang. A total of more than 100,000 soldiers from the Imperial Guards and the Imperial Guards participated in the parade.
As tens of millions of centurions from the "annual contract system" slowly grow old, except for a very small number of centurions who still hold important positions in the army, the rest of the centurions have retired, received generous rewards, and lived the life of ordinary people, marrying and having children.
Sun Hao woke up in the 191st year of the Han calendar. At that time, Sun Hao looked like he was 20 years old. That is to say, Sun Hao is now 64 years old, but he does not look old. He looks like he is in his early 40s.
Crown Prince Sun Heng walked up to Sun Hao and said respectfully, "Father, it's already 9 o'clock. May we begin the military review?"
Crown Prince Sun Heng was born to Queen Zhen Luo and is also the eldest son. He is 41 years old this year. With Sun Hao's intentional support, Sun Heng's position as crown prince cannot be shaken by other princes.
Now, even the military power of the most elite Imperial Guards in the Han army has been handed over to Sun Heng by Sun Hao. The government affairs that should have been handled by Sun Hao have all been handed over to Crown Prince Sun Heng as early as ten years ago.
It can be said that although Sun Hao still held the title of emperor, he was actually equivalent to the emperor emeritus, and the crown prince Sun Heng was only one abdication ceremony away from the throne.
Sun Hao nodded slightly, "Let's get started!"
Sun Hao has always been very satisfied with Crown Prince Sun Heng. Even though Crown Prince Sun Heng is over 40 years old, his combat power value is still 100 points, and his wisdom value has reached 96 points.
Although all of Sun Hao's 188 sons were born with supernatural powers, extraordinary martial arts and outstanding abilities, Crown Prince Sun Heng was the most outstanding one.
Whether in civil or military affairs, Crown Prince Sun Heng was better than his younger brothers.
However, the princes are all too outstanding, which may not be a good thing for the Han Dynasty.
Before Sun Hao was sealed, if his sons had not been so outstanding, the turbulent era of "A Hundred Kings Fighting for Supremacy" would not have occurred.
Under the advice of several counselors from the "Annual Signature System", Sun Hao made all his sons princes and awarded them a fiefdom, but he only allowed these princes to form a 2,000-strong royal guard to ensure that these princes and their descendants would not threaten the orthodoxy of the Han royal family.
Because the territory of the Han Dynasty was too vast, at the suggestion of the Left Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, the Han Dynasty added a province level on the basis of the three-level administrative regions of prefectures, counties and counties.
Currently, the Han Kingdom has a total of fifteen provinces, and the fiefs of Sun Hao’s more than one hundred sons are almost all in the Nanling Province and the Wandao Province.
The Nanling Province was established in the 218th year of the Han calendar after Crown Prince Sun Heng personally led a large army to capture the State of Teng and set up the entire Baiwan Mountains as the Nanling Province.
The Wandao Province was established in the 222nd year of the Han calendar after Crown Prince Sun Heng led the Han navy to capture all the islands of the Jin State.
The fiefs that Sun Hao bestowed on his sons basically only consisted of one county, and all the fiefs added up were less than one-tenth of the Nanling Province and the Wandao Province.
After getting Sun Hao's permission, Crown Prince Sun Heng immediately ordered his men to beat the hundred cowhide war drums. Soon, the troops of the First Regiment of the Imperial Guards walked to the reviewing stand to accept the review of the emperor and the crown prince.
The army of the Han Dynasty was still mainly composed of the imperial guards, the imperial guards, the navy and the garrison troops.
Among them, the Imperial Guards were stationed in the Jingfu area, with a total of ten towns. From the first town to the fifth town, each had 100,000 Snow Dragon Cavalry, 50,000 Tiger Cavalry, and 50,000 White Robe Soldiers.
From the sixth town to the tenth town, each has 100,000 Great Snow Dragon Riders, 50,000 White Robe Riders, and 50,000 Mo Dao Soldiers.
Although most of the hundred generals in the "annual contract system" have retired, those elite troops have been passed down.
Moreover, many descendants of the centurion generals joined the Han army, making the combat effectiveness of elite troops such as the current Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, Huben Cavalry, and White Robe Cavalry still very strong.
The Imperial Guards consisted of forty towns, of which the first to the tenth towns each had 50,000 Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, 50,000 Tiger Cavalry, 50,000 White Robe Soldiers, and 50,000 Vanguard Death Soldiers.
The 11th to 20th towns each have 50,000 Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, 50,000 White Robe Cavalry, 50,000 Mo Dao soldiers, and 50,000 Northern Palace soldiers.
The 21st to 30th towns each had 50,000 Black Armor Cavalry, 50,000 Beiwei Cavalry, 50,000 White Horse Volunteers and 50,000 Qin Rui Shi.
The 31st to 40th towns each had 50,000 Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, 50,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry, 50,000 Zhao Bian Cavalry and 50,000 Wei Wuzu.
The navy consisted of eight towns, each of which had thousands of warships and 200,000 soldiers.
The Xiang Army had 42 towns, each with a strength of 200,000 troops.
Therefore, people described the Han army as "a hundred elite towns", which means that the Han army had as many as one hundred towns.
The current total population of the Han Dynasty is about 2.8 billion, but supporting a standing army of more than 20 million still puts enormous pressure on the Han Dynasty's finances.
However, due to the threat from the Apulian Empire in the western continent, Sun Hao and Crown Prince Sun Heng never dared to carry out disarmament.
The Apulian Empire was originally the strongest empire in the Western Continent. After the Apulian Empire conquered the barbarians in the Western Wilderness, it used the elite army formed by the barbarians to successively annex several countries in the Western Continent.
Now, in the entire Western Continent, except for the Wevard Empire, the Fana Empire, the Kingdom of Boulogne, the Kingdom of Flanders, and the Kingdom of Blois, all other countries have been annexed by the Apulian Empire, including the Parthian Empire, which has long since become a Western country.
The territory of the Apulian Empire almost occupies three-quarters of the entire Western Continent, and its population exceeds 1.1 billion. The other two empires and three kingdoms combined have a population of less than 400 million.
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