Chapter 672 Contracting

In August, all the grain in Kaifeng Province had been sold, and grain prices began to fall.

Frequently close the position, Guanghui warehouse, and begin to use resources to store grain.

The city Yisi began to sell Chen Mai, and Suyou began to inspect the 16 counties, supervise the collection of grain, and inspect the mulberry forests and canals by the way, so as to prepare for the autumn and winter projects.

The field of Kaifeng Mansion was squared twice - it was measured once before, and then Su You gave it another time under the banner of letting the clan train on the spot.

After two times, all the hidden fields, borrowed fields, were all taken out.

The clans have been suppressed by the civil officials for so long, and this time they finally raised their eyebrows, this trick is good! Your Majesty, this is to make us angry, we have learned this, this time it is Lao Tzu's turn to be ruthless to the civil officials!

The River Canal Division thought that the cost of Su You's recruitment of civil servants was too high, and the Guards Department in charge of the Xiang Army also thought that the amount of one husband and eight acres plus four acres of land was too high.

What do we do? How can these affairs be done with the labor of the people? This is originally the glorious task of our Beijing Division!

The strange military system of the Song Dynasty Xiang Army is indeed very speechless, saying that it is not a regular army, it occupies the salary and military quota of the regular army, and has become the fundamental source of the heavy burden of redundant soldiers in the Great Song Dynasty.

Let's say it's a regular army, it's full of the old, weak, sick and disabled, homeless criminals, and it's all engaged in miscellaneous work.

To put it bluntly, the low status, heavy labor, and miserable life are what a certain person in later generations defined - talking animals.

It was only now that the Northwest Xiang Army began to participate in the war and gradually became part of the military force.

For other prefecture capitals, it is basically a labor force recruited by the guards, who are registered in the guard department, and then supported by the yamen in various places.

Organized in the army, the treatment is half of that of the forbidden army, and it basically does not undertake training and combat.

Take the Kaifeng Mansion Xiangjun as an example, they are responsible for the eight divisions, cattle and sheep divisions, the imperial courtyard, the Houyuan workshop, the Houyuan craftsman's office, the north and south workshops, the silk brocade courtyard, the bow and crossbow courtyard, the east and west water mill affairs, the east and west kiln affairs, the imperial kitchen, the imperial meal, the French wine warehouse, the oil depot, the vinegar warehouse, the cloth library......

Listening to these names, you should roughly know whether these people are military personnel or not.

In addition, he was also responsible for the footsteps, horse delivery, city building, road construction, grain transportation, and reclamation of Kaifeng Prefecture.

The most important thing is the honor guard of the officials, greeting and sending off.

This question was raised by many people of insight in the Song Dynasty, "The army in the world does not serve to fight and consumes food and clothing, and it is redundant." "thinks that it" has a monthly fee of grain, an annual fee treasury, and a family of several people, and cannot protect itself. ”

Some people even think, "Those who are in the army, I don't know what it means." The husband is used to stab, the worker is cavalry and shoots, so the soldiers are also; Serving tricks, serving in toilets, and soldiers? ”

This was actually the huge chaos brought about by the Song Taizu warlords at the beginning of their rule, and then later emperors thought it was a good law and inherited it in one go. As a result, not only did the Xiang army not play any role as an army, but even more exaggeratedly, it did not even play the role of normal labor.

This situation is very similar to the state-owned enterprises in the period of the big pot rice and iron rice bowl in later generations, no one wants to work, and they all want to be lazy. Pay less, but do less work!

What is even more exaggerated than later generations is that those managers of the Xiang Army only have 200 people under their hands, but they dare to ask the state for the salary of 400 people!

Then the state wants to use them to do some urgent business, and the meager salary that usually does not move them will definitely not be able to mobilize them, and they have to pay another money.

What's even more interesting is that such people unscrupulously occupy the share of the local army, and on paper, the states and states are all strong and strong, in essence, they are all draggers, couriers, storekeepers, and doormen.

Even so, managers have to use the people of the state to do their own business! Private affairs are at the front, and state affairs are at the back!

Officials who are in charge of the point and have a little conscience, such as Su You, Zhao Luan, and Cai Ting, will make the Xiang army enrich into real combatants and defend the place.

But to expect most officials to have the consciousness of capable ministers is to think too much.

I will go elsewhere after serving for three years, and it is serious to call people for free and make a lot of money.

If it is not solved from the system, the problem will always be the problem.

This problem is already very serious, Wang Lun rebelled, and the leaders of the Xiang army took the initiative to send weapons and food, only hoping that he could raise his noble hand.

Peng Sun, who is under Zhang Dun, is the thief Zhao'an, and now he is the commander.

Su You's old generals, Tian Shouzhong and Fan Longshan, are also typical elements.

"If you want a high-ranking official, you will be recruited; If you want to get rich, you have to do it. ”

It can even be said that the entire Great Song Dynasty, except for Hebei, Shaanxi, and Beijing, the rest of the places are regarded as completely devoid of troops, and they are not completely untenable.

This is the reason why Wang Anshi hurriedly dealt with the law. It is also the reason why in real history, even in the era of "abolishing the new law", the "Placement Law" is still being enforced.

In Su You's eyes, the root of this reason lies in four words - there is no distinction between military and government.

This is also a common feature of all warlord systems throughout the ages.

Therefore, when Su You was in Shaanxi, he was greatly transformed, the army is the army, and those who can fight, even if it is the Xiang army, after several major wars, have also become combatants.

As for the others, those that should belong to the transshipment department belong to the transshipment department, those who should belong to the people belong to the people, those who should be counted as enterprises are counted as enterprises, and those who should go to Tuntian go to Tuntian.

As a result, everyone's enthusiasm has increased, and they are always happy to do it for themselves, and Shaanxi's production capacity has suddenly increased a lot.

Su You is a civil official, and he is a civil official with a brilliant record, and the people in the Guards Division didn't dare to make trouble in front of him at all, so they had to run to Zhao Ji to cry.

So Zhao Ji called Su You: "Mingrun, do you also let the Xiang army get some benefits?" ”

Su You took the opportunity to make a counter-accusation, bitterly expounding the difference between the political system of a great country and the system of separatist government, and demanded that General Zhao make a clear distinction between government and business, and that all the workshops, divisions, treasury, wine-making workers, flour grinders, weavers, and sheep raisers that originally belonged to the management of the Xiangjun should all implement the contract responsibility system.

If the army chooses for itself, if it is willing to stay in the army, then it will participate in training to improve its military quality.

If you don't want to, then you will automatically remove the military position, turn into a worker, and become an employment relationship with the inner workshop, and let the owner choose.

If the owner doesn't want it, he will take it.

Those who are willing to retain their military positions will lead troops to fight in the future, and those who are willing to contract the workshop, except for the share that should be handed over, the rest of the remaining output will belong to themselves.

The rest of the people, who really have no skills, and those who have been eliminated by the contractor, Your Majesty, you will hand them over to me again, but the identity of this part of the people is no longer a box army, but a resident of Kaifeng Mansion, as the governor of the mansion, I will naturally consider a way out for them.

Zhao Ji is stupid, this, how can you operate like this? The state recruited the box army, just to raise these waste materials to prevent them from rebelling, you make such a fuss, what should the sergeants do if they rebel?

Cao Gao's two queen mothers spoke, why can't they? The family of the generals in Beijing, why can't they be suppressed?

Followed by the high envoy also came, Your Majesty, look at the production capacity of those workshops around the Ordnance Prison, and then look at the workshops of the Xiang Army, the north and south squares, and the ministers are a little embarrassed to compare them together.

Even the sake brewing can't be brewed in the neighborhood, so what else is there to say? Your Majesty, you've spoiled them.

Followed by Zhao Zongge and Zhao Hao, Zhao Zongge's son Zhao Zhongqian, pulled Zhao Xuan to cry.

The officials all say that we are rice worms, how much can we eat? The real rice worm of the Great Song Dynasty is not us-

It is true that you are also rice worms, but not to the level of the royal rice worms of the Ming Dynasty.

In particular, Wang Anshi's "Sect Reduction Regulations" is simply amazing, directly cutting off the road to the evolution of rice worms.

Zhao Ji is still a little unsure - how do I think you have any intentions? According to your meaning, those workshops can be contracted to the current commander of the Xiang Army, Tai Lieutenant, and they will be fine?