Ma Zuochen said: "What is the plan of the son to teach me to wait." ”

Li Jing said: "First of all, we must see your strengths and weaknesses. Your advantage is that you are united in your heart, and everyone dares to fight, and on this basis alone, you don't know how many streets you have thrown off the officers and soldiers of Liaodong. Liaodong is bitterly cold, and the Liao people are tall and strong, and the quality of a single person is far superior to that of the thin southern native soldiers of Shizhu. The problem is not in physical fitness, but in the system. ”

Qin Bangping said: "How can I say this, the system of our dynasty has gone through more than 200 years, it has been effective, and it can be implemented to this day, how can there be a big problem?"

"Two hundred years ago, there was no big problem, when the world was initially decided, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and the abandoned land was everywhere, Taizu set up a military household system for the guards, and a large number of lands were included in the guards, and the guards were all over the country. After the world was peaceful, the army directly converted military households. Retain the army structure, farm like the peasants in peacetime, practice in agricultural slack, and directly form a formation to go out in the event of war. Their land was not their own but that of the state, and they were subject to rent, like the hired peasants, which went into a separate treasury, which was the source of the soldiers' armor, food, salaries, and silver rewards when they went out on the expedition. At that time, Emperor Taizu boasted that since ancient times, only I had raised a million soldiers, and it did not cost the country a single tael. ”

Ma Xianglin said: "Isn't it very good, it reduces the burden on the country. The army was isolated from society, self-contained, and listened only to the emperor, avoiding the infiltration of local forces. ”

"The problem lies in the fact that it is impossible for military families to break away from military registration and the establishment for generations, and the commanders at all levels are hereditary, and the father dies and the son succeeds. There is no war, and there is very little promotion beyond the ranks. The hired peasants were first and foremost free men, and they had an employment relationship with the landlords, who could move freely and choose their employers, while military households could not choose their superiors. Generations of ancestors must be controlled by the superiors. If you escape and are caught, you will be dealt with by military law, once with a whipping, twice with a military stick, and three times by hanging. In fact, it is a master-slave relationship. There is no difference between the children and slaves of large families. Life and death are in the hands of people, and they are not at the mercy of others. ”

Thus, absolute power leads to absolute ugliness of human nature, and in the past two hundred years, most of the good lands have been dispatched by the commander with various military orders, and have been put under the name of the officer. The military households are the most barren land. This is not to mention, officers at all levels do not farm, and military households must first plant the fields of the chief's family before they can go to their own fields. If you miss the agricultural time, you deserve it. What is even more unreasonable is that the officers do not pay the grain (field rent) of their own land, and this part of the officers has to be apportioned to the land of their subordinates, which is apportioned layer by layer, and finally falls on the heads of the low-level military households. Originally, Taizu stipulated that the grain of military households was 30%, which was lower than the general land rent of tenants. However, if the land is replaced with thin land, the output is small, and it must be combined with all the good fields, middle fields, and the total number of thin fields to calculate the output of 30 percent, and it is also necessary to share 30 percent of the grains of the good fields and middle fields of the officers. In fact, the land rent is as high as 80%, so you can only starve to death."

"The most exploited in the harvest is to dare to be angry, but the suffering of military households is not limited to this. If there is anything going on in the officer's family, it is common to call his subordinates as slaves, and the wives and daughters of military households have not escaped the destruction of the officials. The military households are so hungry that they have no physical strength. Many of the swords, guns, armor, mandarin ducks, and battle jackets were issued a hundred years ago, and they were all worn and unusable after three generations of parents and ancestors. Every time the soldiers were ordered on the school field, they were dressed in rags and looked like beggars, and when it was dark, they couldn't see with their eyes, and they were out of breath when they walked ten miles. Officers regard soldiers as mustard, and soldiers regard officers as enemies. It's already considered luck not to stab the commander's black gun, can such a soldier go into battle to kill the enemy? This is the reason why the 60 Japanese invaders burned all the way from Hangzhou to Nanjing, and were invincible, and the 100,000 guards could not resist it. ”

Ma Zuochen said: "The battalion guards were abolished, and in order to exterminate the Japanese after the Jiajing Dynasty, I set up a recruitment system. For example, the Qi family's army, etc., the combat power is not trivial, and it is always reliable."

"The conscription system is indeed usable, but this conscription brakes the interests of too many people, the original military household system, land output, officers are honored to their superiors at all levels, and the top beneficiary class is the lords and lords. After the conscription system was established, it was the imperial court that paid for the money. The original system of officers and soldiers did not get the benefits of a penny of silver, and the benefits were given to the soldiers. They are there to be ken. Besides, those slave-like soldiers and guards don't blush when they look at the recruits in Liaodong with a high salary of 18 taels a year. Moreover, the recruits are all southern soldiers, and there will be contradictions between the northern and southern armies here. What happened to the Jizhou mutiny, the Qi family's military salary was as high as fifty taels. And that's not even a reward. It's already attracted too many people's eyes. Later, something happened, and the descendants of the Qi family were deceived into paying salaries with their bare hands, but they were surrounded and killed by the northern army. The civil officials covered up and down and made it an iron case. ”

Speaking of this, Li Jing peeked at Qin Liangyu, only to see that when he said the Jizhou mutiny, Qin Dashuai's body shook obviously, and Ma Zuochen's expression was wrong, although he immediately returned to normal, he still did not escape Li Jing's eyes. Qin Kui was originally studying in Beijing, but suddenly left Beijing with his family and returned to Sichuan, which coincided with the time of the Jizhou Mutiny. Li Jing had long suspected that he had rushed too coincidentally. And intelligence shows that Qin Kui has contacts with Jiangmen and Qi Jiajun. This matter is too damn deep, and it involves the struggle at the highest level such as the emperor's liquidation of Zhang Juzheng. There seems to be something hidden here. Li Jing couldn't help but think secretly.

"After the Tumubao Incident, the nobles in the court suffered heavy losses, breaking the balance of the triangular power structure of the nobles, civil officials, and eunuchs. Civilian officials began to dominate, and since their power increased, they naturally wanted to seize more benefits, so they saw the benefits of the conscription system. ”

"The military expenditure of my Ming Dynasty was mainly self-sufficient in the army at the beginning, and later became the three sources of military tun, salt introduction, and local people/transportation, and after the orthodoxy, the central fiscal annual silver gradually became the main source of military spending, and the amount became larger and larger, from four or five hundred thousand taels a year to four million taels now, the reason is that the guards are overwhelmed and recruited more and more. And the total income of the household warehouse is only four million taels every year. ”

"All this money was used to maintain the conscription system, and after the civil officials and the northern generals jointly killed the Qi family's army, they basically reached a tacit understanding. The money of this conscription system cannot be given to the soldiers, but must be returned to the civilian officials and generals, and the soldiers will not starve to death. A regular soldier's annual salary of eighteen taels of silver is enough to feed a family, and they have no worries about food and clothing. The imperial court is a non-negligent appropriation. But the money came out of the household department, and it drifted away first. When he arrived in Liaodong, he went from the superintendent to the civil officials at all levels, and took another half of the military preparation. That's half gone. ”

"The remaining half, the gate and the officer will take another half and a half. The remaining thirty percent will be paid to the conscripts, but they are often underpaid. ”

Qin Minping said: "Thirty percent is five taels or four dollars of silver, and it is not enough to support the family, but it is more than enough to support yourself." If you find more young people who have not started a family, you can also maintain it. ”

Li Jing smiled when he heard this, "Do you know that the large and small shops in Liaodong are monopolized by Jiangmen and wealthy families, no matter how much silver there is, can it be eaten as food, or can it be worn as clothes?"

Qin Minping said: "What does Zhengyi mean, is it possible that there is no silver to buy things?"

"What are the prices in Liaodong?"

At this time, Qin Liangyu interjected, obviously this is a key issue, "Zhengyi, you tell Aunt Qin about it,"

"A load of rice, three coins of silver in the harvest year of Jiangnan, five coins of silver in the year of arrears, and the highest is not more than one tael. Shuzhong should be about the same, Aunt Qin, do you know how much silver is in a load of rice in Liaodong"

"How much silver, you can still not make one or two,"

"One or two pieces of silver, Aunt Qin, you send the civil officials and the generals as a meal," he said, stretching out a hand and spreading his five fingers.

The whole room gasped, and there was a buzzing chatter.

"As for the price of cloth, I won't talk about the price of oil or anything, you can imagine it with reference to the price of rice."

"It's too dark, and it's not allowed to be a soldier to live" "What is the difference between this recruitment and the guards" "These dog officials in the imperial court will collapse the world sooner or later" "These dog officials have embezzled most of the imperial court's annual income, and they have to monopolize the market and knock on the marrow, which is really like a tiger and a wolf"

"Aunt Qin, listen to the advice of the little nephew, didn't you say that the imperial court subsidizes part of the baggage, and when you get to Beijing, you don't need silver, you want food. When you get to Liaodong, you really can't afford rice. And you can't win it, and you can't win it. ”

Qin Liangyu obviously couldn't sit still, and she felt bad in her heart, she had already guessed what Li Jing was going to say next, the water in Liaodong was too deep. Or said: "If we can't win, our skills are not as good as others, but why do you say you can't win, is it because you are afraid of causing trouble because of the competition."

"What is the essence of the Jizhou Mutiny, and why do Jiangmen and civilian officials have to get rid of the Qi family's army. It's just because Qi Dashuai claims to be a lackey under Zhang Ju's main gate. And be implicated. The Qi family army was too capable of fighting, so they first exterminated the Japanese invaders, fell to Jizhen and subdued the Mongols, and basically controlled the border troubles. The question is how to increase the number of recruits and how to get money if the border troubles do not expand. Therefore, Jiannu was jointly raised by Li Chengliang, the commander of Liaodong, and the civil official group in the imperial court, you have exterminated it, suppressed it, how can you get money if you don't fight. The credit for the victory of your guest army must be given to others, and you must bear the casualties or something. Jiannu can fight, but to what extent you must master the degree of fighting, and don't break through the bottom line of others. The fight was too bad, and people may secretly support it. You're going to have no faults."

Ma Xianglin said angrily: "Isn't Jiannu in an invincible position like this, how can this battle be fought." ”