Shang Wu needs to carefully understand a series of problems encountered in the basic economic development of the Republican Army, and how to understand these problems, the answer lies in the parliament.

The parliament is not only a place where a large number of businessmen express their political demands, but also a considerable number of other representatives, who come from all walks of life, for example, there are workers who sell their labor, there are also small traders and hawkers, and those who are engaged in the lowest ranks, who are elected by their own efforts, prestige, and who are putting forward their own views for the future development of the Republican Army.

For example, His Majesty the Emperor will not take into account the suffering of the people, and the issue of taxation is still a major contradiction leading to social contradictions.

However, the Republican Army can understand the situation at the bottom of the society through parliament, as well as newspaper reports, which are helping Shangwu to understand some specific issues, which will be of great help to how to further govern.

In the parliament, Shang Wu held a charcoal pen, and the small book kept nodding his head, recording something, and many members expressed their views and demands, and Shang Wu recorded them from time to time, because these are very important.

Through these congressional representatives, Shangwu learned something about what was happening at the bottom of the Republican Army.

On the surface, the IRA's policies seem to be much better and more advanced, but there are just as many problems. You must know that society is making great progress, and this huge progress brings all kinds of shocks, and the society will form huge fluctuations, and the impact is also very large.

The impact of the Republican Army having to get out of the situation that took hundreds or even thousands of years to get out in a relatively short period of time can be imagined.

The first shock was the moral dimension, and the IRA encouraged a lot of material production, such as agriculture, the rapid production of industry, and the rapid increase in trade. In such an atmosphere, the whole society will inevitably produce an important reference for taking economic interests as the criterion.

Under such a reference, the economy seems to have become the only standard, making money, is the most prominent part of your ability, on the contrary, you are morally noble, but the economic benefits are very low, and you are still looked down upon by society, which forms the whole society is on par with money. Moral standards in society are declining. This directly contributes to the occurrence of criminal acts. It's very dangerous.

There are many such examples, for example, traditional filial piety. In order to make money, many people have abandoned the elderly in the countryside, and a large number of laborers have been pumped into the development of the city, although they have brought a lot of money, but the traditional filial piety, the old people have lost their care for their children. The elderly are sick and cannot be treated, there are no children by their side, and even in remote places, the elderly die and turn into white bones, and the children only know when they come home. These things are real, if it weren't for the personal explanation of those parliamentary representatives, Shang Wu would not want to believe that such a thing would happen, what a terrible thing, this greatly exceeded Shang Wu's expectations.

The problems are not only these, but there are also many problems in the social atmosphere, for example, many times they look at economic interests and ignore many of them, such as the protection of some rights and interests of employees.

Although the republican army abolished the slave system, as long as the Han people will become free people, there are no slaves and maids, and they have some rights of vassals. But the brutal exploitation and all kinds of oppression have not been eliminated, but are worse than before.

Labor hours in the IRA generally exceed 12 hours, and this increases to 14 hours when unreasonable overtime is added. The IRA was able to guarantee formal education at the age of fifteen. But child labor still exists, because in order to survive, teenagers continue to join the ranks of migrant workers.

The IRA's education system is designed for a better future, but there is still a high level of child labor, as well as juvenile labor. This was something that Sangwu had not expected, and their physical and mental health was being threatened even more.

Therefore, some legislators began to question some bad phenomena in society, and he believed that excessive tilting into commercial activities would have too much impact on society. It can be said that while their bellies are full, bad things are also being done. Morality has been greatly challenged by economic interests.

In addition, there are also problems with the economic policies of businessmen and officials, who sacrifice a lot of things in order to maximize the pursuit of more economic benefits, such as fertile land, destruction of vegetation, cutting down of patches of forests, and pollution problems.

In the vicinity of Handan, there are many cases of strange diseases, and coughing problems caused by coal burning have become many, many people.

Sangmu realized it for the first time. There are really a lot of problems with the IRA.

In the economic field, the decline in bonds has caused a lot of losses to the interests of most farmers, and their interests have suffered personal damage, while the small business group, they want further tax cuts, or some tax reductions on the road, because their costs will be further pushed up.

Business owners want to be able to get greater preferential development policies, such as tax exemptions, tax incentives, and more convenient resources, all of which are in their own interests. For the first time, Shangwu felt that parliament might not be a good choice. But only by giving people more rights can they be guaranteed more rights. There's no way around it.

On the other side, Jia Xu also felt a headache.

He listened to the words of some generals and deputies of parliament. The fighting power of the Republican Army is certainly great, but it is built on the basis of the militia.

Select more advantageous military forces from the militia to supplement the active combat forces.

In the early days, the Republican Army had more land, and ** the bond was on the rise, and the combat effectiveness of the army, as well as the soldiers, was guaranteed. But now the situation has changed. Land annexation has become serious, many of the soldiers' families have no land, and most of their family members have moved to the cities, and their physical and mental health has been greatly threatened. Coupled with the impact of economic benefits, the benefits obtained by merchants are much higher than those obtained by soldiers. Soldiers become defenseless in the face of economic accounts.

As a consequence, the quality of the Republican Army has dropped dramatically. The number of troops is decreasing, albeit slowly, but the impact is very large.

There is also the issue of employment for veterans, although the society will provide some positions, but they need to be retrained, and the army needs honor to maintain, especially the sense of honor of those soldiers. It is vulnerable to shocks in the face of economic interests.

Jia Xu was very embarrassed by this. And the generals are looking for a new way to solve the problem.

The professionalization of the military, that is, the early method of recruitment, was carried out by using economic benefits to improve the military treatment of soldiers while satisfying the Republican Army's reduction in the number of soldiers. The gradual reduction of the Republican Army's military spending is not good news for officers and soldiers, and this trend cannot be changed in the short term.

If you want to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army, the only way is to increase the number of professional soldiers and take the line of elite soldiers. In this way, the number is reduced, and the military expenditure remains on a certain scale, which is reduced to a certain extent. And the combat effectiveness may remain balanced, or even strengthened.

As a result, the cost of weapons will increase, and the interests of the military and the military-industrial complex will be tied together, and in the future a large military party will inevitably be formed.

Although Shangwu is very lenient about the party, Jia Xu has to worry a lot about their threat, and this may really happen.

In Jia Xu's opinion, he has encountered a lot of problems.

The treatment of the military, and the roots of everything that the Republican Army maintained before the old system. And now, this foundation is changing, either the republican army is re-establishing a new economic base, order, and re-expanding the demands of the army, or, using other means, changing their current state of affairs to their advantage.

The IRA still needs a reform of itself. This is an adjustment to the new situation. Perhaps these problems are an important need for the IRA to change, Jia Xu believes. These are the situations they have to face right now.

The initial victory of the Republican Army was a political victory, but also an economic victory, and they transformed and upgraded the existing agricultural economy. However, with the continuous expansion of the Republican Army and the continuous expansion of the scale of capital, the problems brought about will inevitably arise in various new situations, and the emergence of such situations will inevitably bring them great trouble.

Because their past set of economic policies seems to have been unable to adapt to the new economic changes that have developed, and the emergence of such changes has brought them great trouble, and even caused them to have many new situations that should not have arisen, which are problems that the Republican Army has never encountered before.

If you want to adapt to this situation, you have to make changes, and the crisis is also an important turning point for the future of the Republican Army.

In contrast, the trouble for the imperial court is very big.

"There have been a lot of illegal activities in various places, and land annexation has become extremely serious. In this way, the foundation has been lost. Cao Cao looked at the piece of paper in his hand helplessly. Those are transcriptions of some of the latest news. Judging from the latest situation, the situation at the imperial court was very bad, and the land annexation became more and more rampant under the blow of peasant uprisings in various places.

But the imperial court is now in the midst of infighting, and the control of such a annexation is not very serious, and Cao Cao knows that trouble has arisen. And it's huge. The situation is getting out of control.