Since the first year of Jingkang, he followed Wang Song to attack Bianliang City, conquered in the east and west, and went from Hebei to Hedong to Shaanxi.

Ma Rong Hedong was born in a peasant family, although he has no ability, but relying on the strength of his two arms, he can also mix food and clothing, and live locally.

Who knew that the Jin people went south, and once their homes were completely destroyed, in desperation, Ma Rong also joined the loyal army with a few fierce and chivalrous fox friends and dogs, and became Wang Song's command.

After the big and small battles in the past few years, several fox friends around him have also been killed and injured on the battlefield, leaving him alone.

Ma Rong is a rough character, unruly but brave in battle, and likes to drink and eat meat with the soldiers below on weekdays, and brag about the mountains. It is precisely because of his "unmotivated" that to this day, he is still just a head, and he is only in charge of the brothers of No. 100.

Many of the old comrades-in-arms in the team were already battalion commanders, deputy commanders, and some even commanders of the first army, and many old comrades-in-arms wanted to promote him, but he refused.

He likes to charge into battle, the kind of hand-to-hand combat with pleasure and revenge and blood splashing always makes him forget and have a cathartic pleasure.

Often at the end of the war, he felt particularly empty. Countless times in his sleep, he would be awakened by the flying flesh and blood, corpses, and stumps on the battlefield, and he couldn't sleep all night......

Sometimes, he dreams that if he has dozens of acres of fertile land, he can hire some helpers and be an idle worker for half his life......

However, he can only hide these dreams deep in his heart and never confide in others. Thinking about it, just a few times a month, he took it to drink early, where is there anything left.

It's just that early this morning, he suddenly found that the dream in his heart had inadvertently become a reality.

In the morning, as soon as he entered the barracks, his sergeant Yang Er greeted him happily, and said loudly: "Ma Dutou, grant the field!"

Ma Rong's head boomed, but he didn't expect that the boiling matter of granting fields would come true!

"Yang Er, do you know how to teach the field?"

Ma Rong was inexplicable, and his tone was a little hurried.

Yang Erxi said: "Recruits and privates cannot be granted land, the number of years of land granting starts from the senior soldier, and if you have been a soldier for more than two years, you will be awarded 20 acres of fertile land; Those who have served in the army for more than three years will be granted 50 acres of land, and those who have been in the army for more than five years will be granted 100 acres of land. This is for the soldiers. For those of you who are officials, I have heard that each additional level will increase by 20 acres. You are the head of the capital, you should increase 40 acres, you have waited for 5 years, that is 90 acres!"

90 acres of fertile land!

Ma Rong was stunned for a long time, and then he reacted and turned around and ran towards the barracks.

Deng ...... All ......"

Seeing Deng Shixiong sitting in the chair, Ma Rong couldn't help but speak half slowly and became stammered.

"Ma Rong, are you here to ask about the field?"

Deng Shixiong's face was expressionless, he opened the roster in front of him, turned to a page, pushed the roster over, and said coldly: "How much land is granted, see for yourself."

Ma Rong's face turned red, he picked up the roster on the table, glanced at it, and couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Deng ...... Dutong, is it mistaken, how can it be 120 acres?"

"This is approved by the prime minister himself!"

Deng Shixiong's voice had some emotion and a little emotion.

"I'll give the roster to the prime minister

Look, Xianggong said, there are few old brothers in Hedong!"

Ma Rong's tears couldn't hold back any longer, and they flowed down all of a sudden.

"Don't bury everything in your heart in the future!"

Deng Shixiong turned around, walked out, and patted Ma Rong on the shoulder.

"What kind of person Xiang Gong is, you know, he treats us as brothers. If you're fine, just come over and hang out, no one treats you as an outsider!"

Ma Rong wiped his tears and nodded, "Thank you, Deng ...... Big brother!"

"It's better to call me Brother Deng comfortable!"

Deng Shixiong squeezed out a smile.

"When I have time to turn around, go to Xianggong's place for a walk. He'll be happy!"

Ma Rong didn't know how he got out of Deng Shixiong's barracks. I don't know when, the ghost sent the god to the outside of Wang Song's room.

"Be wise! Our loyal army fought against the Jin people, and was able to win many battles, relying on the word loyalty and righteousness, as well as meritorious service on the battlefield. Now with the addition of granting fields, the military heart is more available, and the recovery of mountains and rivers and the restoration of Yanyun are just around the corner!"

Compared with Li Ruoxu's joy, Huang Zong is much more cautious.

"Xianggong, if the soldier has been in the army all the time, by the twilight of his life, the soldier has already lost his combat effectiveness, but the land he has obtained has been growing, so what can he do?"

The Song Dynasty implemented the conscription system, after the recruitment, the family members can accompany the battalion, and they must be black-faced Nirvana, and they are not allowed to retire halfway, but in fact, they are soldiers for life.

Wang Song shook his head and said with a smile: "All sergeants, including officers, are no longer tenured. Soldiers will decide the time of retirement according to their physical condition, which is generally 5 to 10 years. Officers will be extended a little. This is done in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops, and secondly, to make the soldiers' lives after they are discharged from the army, and the granting of land is the guarantee for their livelihood after they are discharged from the army!"

Li Ruoxu pondered and said: "Xianggong, although this method is very good! But what if a soldier retires from the army and wants to sell his land?"

Wang Song said with a smile: "This is the soldier's own assets, of course, he will dispose of it himself, and no one can interfere." Most of the soldiers in the army were children of peasant families, and after receiving the land, few of them would sell it unless they had to. ”

"Doesn't the prime minister want to adopt the government military system?"

Huang Zong hesitated.

The government military system is a military service system that integrates soldiers and peasants, in other words, all the people are soldiers. Under the government soldier system, the whole country was divided into a number of military offices, and when there was no combat mission, the government soldiers were self-cultivated farmers, cultivating farmland and carrying out agricultural production. In the spare time, the military training is carried out collectively, and when there is a combat mission, the government soldiers need to bring their own dry food, weapons, and war horses to report to the military office where they are located, and then serve in the military to fight for the country.

The famous Tang Taizong Li Shimin dominated the world by virtue of the government military system. And this military system also created the prosperous era of "Zhenguan Rule" and "Kaiyuan Prosperous Era" in history.

"It can only be said that the current recruitment of the Loyal and Righteous Army is also a national battle, but there is a difference in nature."

"The Tang Dynasty's government and military system, the Juntian system, was combined with it and supported each other. The court gave land to the people, and the people served in the court free of charge. The Great Song Dynasty was laissez-faire in land annexation, treating the rich gentry favorably and the people at the bottom lightly. The people and the court have no land, where does patriotism come from? The rich are arrogant and lascivious, tired and sleepy, and indulged in wine, where is the patriotic energy?"

"History of the Song Dynasty" said: "The trouble of the merger of the powerful is still extreme. The house of power is flourishing, the habit of annexation is growing, the people are getting poorer, the economic system is deteriorating, and the upper and lower are tormented. ”

The land system of the Song Dynasty, "not suppressing annexation" and "not establishing the land system", neither equalized the land, nor restricted or cracked down on land sales, but protected land transactions, and the rulers of the Song Dynasty adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards the acute land annexation problems of the previous dynasties.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the "Juntian System" was implemented, which suppressed annexation, evenly occupied land and paid taxes per person, and also created the "rule of Zhenguan" and "the prosperous era of Kaiyuan". However, with the gradual dissipation of the effectiveness of the system and the occurrence of famine and war, a large number of people lost their land and fled after the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and the original tax model was unsustainable.

The Song Dynasty inherited this fiscal and taxation ideology, focusing on land and land annexation, which was intentionally or unintentionally ignored.

The annexation of land led to the loss of the rich but the tax burden was very small; The poor have no place to stand, the poor and weak families are thin and heavy, life is in poverty, the gap between the rich and the poor is widening, and the "two tax laws" have ended without a problem.

The serious disparity between the rich and the poor in the Song Dynasty exacerbated social contradictions, and those who owned a lot of land were all gentry and the like, such as the famous Sima Guang, Ouyang Xiu, Su Shi and others in history.

Wang Song said eloquently: "Since the Song Dynasty, in the past 180 years, peasant uprisings have emerged one after another. I don't know if you have noticed, but in every uprising, the rebel army has taken "equal wealth and poverty" as the slogan of the uprising. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Chengdu tea sellers Wang Xiaobo, Li Shun and others rose up because of the "inequality between the rich and the poor"; During the Xuanhe period, 36 people from Songjiang in Shandong raised the banner of righteousness, and put forward the slogan of "robbing the rich and helping the poor"; It was also during the Xuanhe period, when the Jiangnan La uprising, "no distinction between superior and inferior"; A few months ago, Zhong Xiang and Yang Qi of Dongting Lake on Jinghu South Road rebelled, and their proposal of "I practice the law, I should be equal to the noble and the low, and both rich and poor" is also aimed at the reality of the inequality between the rich and the poor in the world!

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Wang Song said: "And all this is the evil result of the imperial court's laissez-faire and ignorance of land annexation. In this way, even if Taizu is reincarnated, he will not be able to solve these problems! I can only watch the Jin people go south, wreaking havoc everywhere, and the people are miserable and miserable!"

The soldiers of the country naturally came from good families, and in an agrarian society like the Great Song Dynasty, they were naturally peasants on the vast land, which was also the source of soldiers. However, a large amount of land has been annexed, and the peasants have become landless drifters, and where can the country find good sources of soldiers? The "drifters" naturally lost their enthusiasm for serving the imperial court.

"Once the population of the people increases, the per capita land will inevitably decrease. The disparity between the rich and the poor inevitably leads to the loss of land for the poor. Land annexation was rife, and farmers lost their land and were forced to become dependent on the landlords, making their lives increasingly difficult. The "public land" controlled by the imperial court became the "private land" controlled by large and small landlords, and the uniform land system, on which the government military system depended, collapsed, and the government military system could no longer continue. If the government military system cannot be continued, it can only be a conscription system. ”

Li Ruoxu, who hadn't spoken for a long time, let out a long breath. His family is a big landlord in Quzhou County, so he naturally feels it deeply.

"No wonder the Jin people went south, and these forbidden troops of the imperial court were about to collapse at the first touch, it turned out that they were here at all!"

Zhu Mengshu shook his head and said: "Listening to the words of the prime minister is better than reading a book for ten years." It seems that this land annexation is a fundamental matter and has to be resolved.!"

Wang Song said solemnly: "Not only is it imperative to grant fields, but Juntian is the top priority!" These things will trouble the officials everywhere. ”

"Brother Ma Rong, come in and sit, a few old brothers in the army will come over in a while, everyone have a good gathering."

Seeing Ma Rong standing at the door, Wang Song nodded slightly, poured a cup of hot tea himself, and handed it to Ma Rong.