Chapter 873: Military Reform for Shougt City
On September 17, 1175, at nine o'clock in the morning, after obtaining the political and military command of Shougett City from Leopis, Yan Tielong directly handed over the politics to Mary Yixue, and White Alysie laid Mary Yixue in order to cover Mary Yixue.
The reason for choosing to put Mary Yixue in charge of the administration is that the other party understands the various cultures and traditions of Shougett City, and when she summoned wise men to discuss various political plans in Shougt City last night, Mary Yixue showed amazing political acumen and gave many ways to benefit Shougett City.
And choosing White Allisie to subsidize Mary Yixue is also a political consideration, after all, there is a Sword Saint standing behind White Allisie, and he must make the subordinates of the Holy Sword think that Leopis attaches great importance and favor to their eldest lady, so that it will be easier to command them.
Yan Tielong's arrangement was still a little dissatisfied with the Sword Saint's subordinates, after all, they thought that their eldest lady was the queen, but they could obey Yan Tielong's command, which also made Yan Tielong a huge help for military reform.
And Yan Tielong thinks that the great man of the earth country once said that the gun is out of policy, so he wants to concentrate all the army in the hands of Leopais, and at the same time, he also wants to brainwash the army with inhumane loyalty and love for the people.
However, it is a big trouble to control the entire military strength of Shougt City, because there are dozens of large and small forces in Shougt City, but fortunately, there are also one-thirtieth of the army that can be controlled, and these thirtieth of the army is elite, and their composition is the dowry of the Holy Sword, the members of the Holy Tattoo Mercenary Group and the members of the Clan Diagram Martial Arts Hall.
Of course, for the dowry of the Sword Saint, Yan Tielong directly invited Bai Allisie to the Sword Saint dowry camp to persuade him, and Yan Tielong chose Bai Allisie to persuade the Sword Saint to obey his orders, because those Sword Saint dowries were obedient to Bai Allisie.
With the support of the elite of the army, Yan Tielong did not attack the nobles, after all, Yan Tielong was worried that forcing the nobles would produce a battalion roar, which would outweigh the losses, so he chose the militia.
After all, the militia negotiably occupies more than half of the total army, and these militias have a greater sense of belonging than the aristocratic armed forces.
However, the militia is not easy to control, and there are many thorns among them, so Yan Tielong's first priority is to improve morale and make most of the militia obedient.
Originally, Yan Tielong wanted to increase the morale of the soldiers under his control by scattering money, but Nightstar Ruosi said that the previous solution to the Greenskin invasion had left little money in the treasury, and the little money left was used to rebuild the broken buildings of Shougett City, so Nightstar Ruosi asked Yan Tielong to save money.
There was not enough money to boost morale, Yan Tielong had no choice, he just used the chicken soup for the soul that came to the barracks in the morning to start talking about the future to boost morale.
And Yan Tielong's future Soul Chicken Soup has a very good effect, and those militiamen who were impressed by the good treatment and salary in the future began to propose Yan Tielong's arrangement, but there were also many thorns who disdained Yan Tielong's Soul Chicken Soup, because they thought that Yan Tielong's future benefits for them were like the moon in the water was unreal.
For those thorns who were not convinced, Yan Tielong directly let the members of the Sword Saint Dowry and the members of the Clan Martial Arts Hall educate them one-on-one, and the effect was very good, and by the afternoon, most of the thorns had obediently obeyed the order for training.
Training from morning to evening, Yan Tielong found that there were many beliefs in the army, and most of these beliefs in the army were the Bagula Hercules Cult, which was not a good thing in Yan Tielong's heart, after all, if there was a problem with the Bagula Hercules Cult, it would become a big crisis.
When Yan Tielong knew very well that he couldn't force these soldiers to change their beliefs under high pressure, after all, it was easy to mutiny if they were not handled well.
When Yan Tielong was thinking about how to make the soldiers' faith change from God First to Order First, Mary Yixue invited him to the council hall to discuss important matters.
When Yan Tielong came to the hall of the ceremony, he asked Mei Li Yixue, who was handling official business, what was the matter with him?
Mary Yixue asked Yan Tielong, she directly pushed the pile of documents in front of her to Yan Tielong, saying that after reading it, she would understand why she wanted to come to him.
Hearing Mary Yixue's words, Yan Tielong directly picked up the document and read it, but when Yan Tielong read a few documents, he didn't bother to read them and directly asked if the content of the documents was all to report that he was abusing lynching in the army to exclude dissidents?
Mary Yixue has not yet expressed her position, and Bai Erlina, who is on the side, admits that she hopes that Yan Tielong's methods will not be too drastic, which is not a good thing for the slightly stable Shougett City.
For Boss Bai's great-granddaughter, Yan Tielong was still too naïve about the other party's evaluation, and even Mei Li Yixue didn't see why the nobles wanted to attack him, so he just asked the second daughter in front of him, did the soldiers raised by Leopai serve Leopais, or those nobles?
In the face of Yan Tielong's very bland inquiry, the clever Mary Yixue already understood that those nobles who rebuked and slandered Yan Tielong must have installed their own family children into the army belonging to Leopas, but that noble disciple quickly became a high-ranking member of the army with the help of family power, which also gave them indirect control of Leopais's army.
In the future, once Leopis unifies the king, it will inevitably be reformed, and once the reform touches the interests of those nobles, then the armies that were originally Leopis will become those noble forces.
Seeing Mary Yixue's incomprehensible expression, Yan Tielong directly said that if it weren't for the sake of guarding the stability of Gert City and preventing external forces from taking advantage of it, he would have planned to recover the nobles' troops, and in his words, the current armaments of the nobles could already threaten the rule of Leopas.
Hearing Yan Tielong tell that the nobles' armed forces have threatened her husband's rule, Bai Allisie already understood what the nobles on the table wanted to do, she was very angry in her heart, but she couldn't do anything to those nobles, and even had to win over those nobles, after all, once the foreign enemy contacted those nobles to make trouble, it was also a headache.
However, Mary Yixue thought that those nobles used the soldiers of the army to be dissatisfied with Yan Tielong, and let the families of the soldiers form public opinion to put pressure on the royal family, and once it was not handled well, it would greatly damage Leopais's previous honor and reputation.
After listening to Mary Yixue's worried story, Yan Tielong thought about it seriously, after all, Mary Yixue's worry was very likely.
However, one of the soldiers in charge of intelligence soon told Mary Ixue that there were rumors in Shougett City that the royal family had mistreated the soldiers.
Narrator: When Allisie hears a report from the intelligence soldiers, she is finally angry and asks her guards to arrest all the rumors.
Fortunately, Yan Tielong and Mary Yixue hurriedly stopped it, otherwise Bai Alysie would really let her dowry guards catch those who spread far away.
Just when Yan Tielong and the others couldn't think of such a solution to those who spread rumors, Arya came to the conference hall, and she brought the food to Yan Tielong and let them have dinner first, and then they were thinking about other things after dinner.
Yan Tielong was not polite to his fiancée's kindness, he ate directly, and told his fiancée's troubles about asking.
After listening to her fiancé's story, Arya thought for a while and said that why didn't her fiancé announce the future treatment of soldiers? In her words, as long as her fiancé promised the soldiers the melancholy conditions after the reunification of chicken soup chicken soup to the people, then the people might let their families desperately stay in the army.
Hearing his fiancée's reminder, Yan Tielong's eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought of a series of coping methods in his heart, which could even weaken the influence of the sect on the army, so he couldn't help but pick up his fiancée and turn around a few times, and excitedly expressed that the other party was his goddess of luck!
After Yan Tielong put his fiancée down, he didn't care about the food on the table, took the quill on the side and started to deal with it.
And Mary Yixue and Bai Al Lixi saw that Yan Tielong was excited about the scorpion plan, they didn't bother, but they were very curious about what Arya said just now that Yan Tielong promised the soldiers, after all, Yan Tielong didn't tell them just now.
In the face of the second daughter's inquiry, Arya began to tell Yan Tielong that once he agreed, those meritorious soldiers would receive various policies, such as three years of tax exemption, children have the opportunity to learn knowledge, and so on.
After listening to Arya talk about Yan Tielong's soul chicken soup and promise to the soldiers, she couldn't help but think that Yan Tielong's promise to those soldiers was too good.
To take the tax analogy, the average kingdom is 30% for the people, and the nobles are 30% to 80% of the remaining 70%, so the ordinary people who have 100 copper coins pay the taxes, and he is left with 14 to 49 copper coins.
And Yan Tielong's policy of promising the soldiers was that the soldiers who worked for Leopis could cultivate the royal domain, so that they only needed to pay 10% to 30% of the king's taxes, and they did not need to pay taxes to the nobles, so that with the same hundred copper coins, after the soldiers paid the taxes, they could also get 70 to 90 copper coins.
Moreover, Yan Tielong also promised those soldiers that they could continue to learn knowledge, and they could also let their children enter the royal academy to study; you must know that the human literacy rate in this world is extremely low, most of them are illiterate, and only nobles and wealthy businessmen have the opportunity to learn, which is also a kind of cultural monopoly.
After listening to Elia, Mary Yixue immediately recognized that Yan Tielong's policy could make soldiers loyal to Leopais, which was a good thing for Leopis now, but she also said that the treasury funds could not support Yan Tielong's policy at all.
After writing the plan, Yan Tielong heard Mary Yixue's words, and he said that Mary Yixue's worries were not a problem at all, and in his words, the country appropriately raised the commercial tax, and at the same time improved the status of the merchants, so that the merchants would also pay taxes, and if they didn't work, they could form caravans to trade.