Chapter Forty-Seven: Recruiting Warriors
It's just that there are some worries about winning the war, the armies of the kingdoms under heaven are all ploughing warfare as the main theme, and the Qin State is just rewarding ploughing warfare. The new army that Lin Mu wanted to establish was a purely war-born army, which only fought wars without farming.
It's just that the fusion of Liang Guo's military soldiers and Qin's Ruishi is good, but such an army, logistics consumption is a bottomless pit, which means that people need to be supported at all times, whether it is wartime or war preparation, can such a military system be implemented smoothly? Even the powerful countries in the world seem to be struggling, and can the Jin Kingdom afford it?
"Brother, the national strength of the Jin Kingdom, I'm afraid it will be difficult to bear such a heavy burden." Win Zhan hesitated for a moment, but still bluntly expressed the worry in his heart. The big country in the world, no matter which country, except for the basic army for defense needs, when there is no war, the strong men will work hard in farming, only in the big war or even the war of annihilation, will the country's strong men quickly assembled, with a soldier wearing two or three people to serve the war machine in an all-round way.
"Can a million Jin people produce three thousand fighters? Can! Lin Mu asked himself and explained: "The fighter of Jin is naturally impossible to be a standing army. Soldiers, the most important is the fine, not the much, I want a fighter, not more than 10,000! Today's Jin Kingdom is five thousand enough, five thousand, I can afford it! ”
Of course, Lin Mu knows that the constraints of the productive forces of the times are objective factors and are destined to be impossible to stand, but this fighter is obviously going to take the path of special forces, and belongs to the top of the pyramid in the framework of the Jin army drawn up by Lin Mu, not only the strongest combat effectiveness, but also the highest and most distinctive treatment gap, so that the soldiers of the Jin State should be regarded as a model and be honored to become the fighter of the Jin.
At the top of the pyramid frame, the army under the fighter battalion is the real normal main force of the Jin army, and it still retains its characteristics of farming and warfare, but the biggest difference with the soldiers of the fighter battalion is the surprise of social status, and there is no need to salute when seeing a hundred officials.
On top of that, there's a real disparity in treatment, which creates a stark contrast.
A complete set of new army military system plan has already taken shape in Lin Mu's heart, for shaping the sense of belonging and honor of the army, as a later generation, this era is afraid that no one can match, and in the pre-Qin era, the concept of the country is not available, Lin Mu wants to establish the national concept in the world on his own chassis, to let the soldiers know what to fight for, is to fight for the country, and he Lin Mu, as the monarch, is to fight for it!
At present, the Jin State, 5,000 elites are enough to control the country, the expansion of territory and the surge in population means higher treasury taxes, coupled with a batch of rich materials extorted from the Liang State, so that the fighter camp under the new army tent can raise him 5,000 people and horses at all, no, there is also Cao Yan, a rich man, ask him to borrow some and spend it first, and Cao Yan, who was born as a merchant, is estimated to be happy to take out his pocket.
Cao Yan, who is well versed in business, naturally understands that things that can be done with money are simply low-hanging fruit, and things that can be done with money are not a problem at all in the eyes of the super-rich.
The general trend of the world is unpredictable, and the training of the new army brooks no delay.
This time, it was almost effortless to get such a large piece of land from the hands of Liang Guo, Lin Mu faintly felt that things would not be so simple, and if the old Liang King was the kind of person who could endure it, he would not have tossed the Liang Kingdom into his current state.
This time, he was bullied by a small Jin Kingdom, and was severely humiliated by Lin Mu, a little monarch, on the head of his old Liang King, and lost face in front of the monarchs of the world.
Although he didn't know what Liang Guo was doing, Lin Mu had always been on guard against Liang Guo, and now he had to be cautious, even if he was not right, it would never be wrong.
There is no way, the Jin Kingdom under the leadership is now like a rapidly expanding bubble, which seems to be rapidly powerful, but in fact, it will burst as soon as it is stabbed, and it is just strong on the outside and dry in the middle.
The national strength of the Jin Kingdom has not risen for a day, and Lin Mu cannot and will never take it lightly.
As a result, it is all the more urgent for the new army to train and renovate its internal affairs.
This time, the new army first treats the symptoms, and the purpose is to centralize power, and then it is to make drastic changes to strength.
Lin Mu and the two talked in detail for a long time, and introduced to him the specific matters of what is the promotion system.
The so-called "promotion system" is a system for cultivating brave fighters, and the comparison with the art of raising Gu is because the ancients understood it well, in fact, it is no different from the selection of special forces in later generations, and the elite soldiers selected through cruel elimination are the kings of the soldiers.
The promotion system is a new military system that absorbs some ways of selecting special forces in later generations, and the routine has not changed much, and then complements each other in combination with the current background of the times.
Corresponding to the promotion system is the elimination system, that is to say, even if you pass the cruel assessment to become a sergeant of the fighter battalion under the account, it does not mean that you can sit back and relax, and the promotion system is relative to the elimination system is a spur to be prepared for danger in times of peace, so that every fighter battalion soldier is clear, stopping is like sailing against the current, not advancing is retreating, retreating means elimination.
Elimination means depriving the fighters of the Jin Dynasty of their supreme honor, and they will also lose the incredible actual treatment that is higher than that of ordinary soldiers, the biggest deprivation of which is the honor and social status of the fighters, and the greatest honor of the fighters of the Jin Dynasty is undoubtedly the social status that does not need to be saluted to the hundred officials.
It also takes into account the day when people will eventually be unable to do their best, and the day when they will be old. Lin Mu set up an honorary merit, that is, nine years of service, nine symbols of the extreme, in the fighter camp tent within nine years to ensure that not to be eliminated, and at the same time within nine years to establish the meritorious service to meet the minimum requirements, you can retire, return to the hometown, retired from the rest of the life do not need to pay a big salute to the Jin State hundred officials, and this honor is not hereditary.
That's right, Lin Mu is to gradually build the army of the Jin State into the prototype of a semi-professional army, and shape the honor that belongs to the army, especially in the grassroots soldiers of the army.
In the Warring States Period, the most like a professional army, there was only the flourishing Wu Qi Liang soldiers, it can be said that Wu Qi's Liang soldiers were the beginning of the first military professionalization in human history, a 50,000 well-equipped professional troops, and it was not inconceivable to defeat the 500,000 cultivators of the Qin State who had not changed the law.
He knows very well that the foundation of the strength of an army is the problem of the military system, and the system is more perfect, more advanced, and more suitable for serving the war is an ironclad truth.
Greatly improve the status of soldiers, in ancient times, armor soldiers were called martial arts, and improving the social status of soldiers can be said to be a very impactful move.
It can be met that once the fighter battalion under Lin Mu's tent forms combat effectiveness, it must be an elite force with unprecedented force value, and if there is an immortal commander in command, his division will inevitably win the battle, attack and conquer, and be invincible and broken.
“…… As for the present, the conscripted new army can be allowed to use the monthly salary system, but those who enlist in the army can first receive a monthly salary of three stones, and the food in the army is not counted as a monthly salary. "Lin Mu obviously won't take it all out at once, and the fact that the Yulu system alone has a fatal attraction for countless people, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the soldiers of the countries did not have food. The country has to go to war, and the common people even have to bring their own dry food.
If there is no contrast, there is no harm!
Hearing Lin Mu's oral account of winning the war, I was shocked inexplicably, this unprecedented military system and incentive system, especially for the promotion of the status of soldiers, has an incredible impact in the era of heavy culture and light military force.
After the shock, there was excitement, winning the war, thinking that in the future, the fighters and troops of the Jin State would be compared to the sharp soldiers and troops of the Qin State, what would happen? But he was a little worried: "Brother, this month's salary is three or five stones, and the expenses of the army soldiers are not counted within the monthly salary, this is ......."
In short, to win the war, I am still worried about whether the national strength of the Jin State can bear such a burden, even if it is the scale of 5,000 people, according to such expenses, it is enough to support the logistics expenses required to lead an army of 30,000 people.
"If you want the horse to run, you have to give the horse grass, my brother doesn't need to worry, I will solve the money and military needs, the first task is to recruit personnel to enlist in the army to train the new army, and when I have a solid foundation, it is the beginning of a drastic change, and the Jin country will be rich in the world!" Lin Mu said at the moment.
With such a guarantee, he was completely relieved to win the battle, "Brother, when will you be recruited?" ”