Chapter 206: Conscription System
One is because of the great distance, except for the guests on the stage. The people below couldn't hear what Li Chengji said at all. Only the people in the vicinity can see Li Chengji's figure. Far away, you can only see the high viewing platform.
Fortunately, the Recruitment Department has been prepared for this for a long time. When Li Chengji spoke, some subordinates with good memories secretly wrote it down. After Li Chengji finished speaking, he hurriedly wrote it down on rice paper with a pen.
Then pass it on to the Red Turban Army, and let them find some people who have a good voice, can read and hyphenate, and can speak well in front of the people. So as to publicize what Li Chengji said.
This method was not figured out by Mordur. It was Li Chengji who became the governor of Khorasan, and after taking the helm of Puhua, he often asked people to announce decrees in some more popular language. Sometimes, in order to deepen the impression of the people, they also made up proverbs or folk songs and spread them.
The results are praised by each other, making the accessibility of the decree very efficient.
At that time, the fields were divided into land, and six departments and divisions were set up, so this method was used. Even many rural people know about it. The landowners, who originally wanted to hide from the past, could only accept the reality.
Of course, there are also those who resist the law and are disrespectful. For example, in the remote area of Naheisha or Amu, the fields were concealed, and the slaves under the door were intimidated and prevented from eliminating slavery.
But after the decree spread, these things were stabbed. Soon the Supervision and Inspection Department of the Criminal Department of the Governor's Mansion launched an operation, and the landowner was also confiscated by the Red Turban Army.
Now, in the land of the three counties, no one dares to do illegal things under the nose of the Governor's Palace.
It was precisely when he saw the benefits of this method that Modur borrowed from it. It's just right for the moment.
It is foreseeable that when it reaches Li Chengji's ears, Modur will inevitably praise him.
When I got off the stage, because the environment was too noisy, it sounded quite strenuous. Li Chengji's original words were Chinese, and those guests couldn't understand it. It is only through the translation and re-paraphrasing that the people can understand the meaning.
In fact, Lee Seungji doesn't know Persian! But on such an important occasion, Li Chengji still led the Chinese dialect. The meaning revealed is also self-evident.
So after Li Chengji finished his opening remarks in public, Zhang Timing and others knelt on the ground and shouted: "Da Liao is mighty, long live Da Liao." ”。 More than 100 people were prostrate, as if they were kneeling to greet the invincible king.
Seeing this, some of the slightly slower movements also knelt on the ground with a hula la. The people in the audience didn't understand the changes on the stage, but when they were close, they still saw those big men who were out of reach on weekdays, and they all knelt. With the herd mentality, he knelt down and shouted long live.
Later, the whole people who were watching the ceremony also knelt down and shouted. The momentum was as grand as the prayers of the Muslims.
Li Chengji listened and did not let them kneel for a long time. For under the sun, it was noon. In the case of rushing work, the stage was built in a hurry. What curtain to top, that's impossible.
So they have the scorching sun above their heads! Every time I stay longer, my body gets warmer. But because of the dry climate, there is not much sweat on the body.
Although Li Chengji wanted Yang Wei, he didn't want to heat himself up for the sake of inspecting the troops.
After all, the impact of this is even more detrimental than that of Malu and other counties who do not obey orders.
After hearing Li Chengji's waiver, the guests on the viewing platform were the first to stand up. After each of them was seated, the people who were closer to him had to get up. In this way, the crowd is like a wave, from near to far.
At this time, a sonorous and powerful shout suddenly came from the east. That's the direction the soldiers are coming into the city! Originally, according to the proposal of the Ministry of War, the soldiers set off directly from the barracks in the city.
It was Puhua's old barracks, and the area was not large. During the al-Sadr period, there were less than five thousand permanent soldiers in the barracks. In the end, he is the lord of a city, and it is quite difficult to make offerings. In addition, the custom of fighting in the river was actually to levy private soldiers from feudal landowners during the war.
On weekdays, there is no need to raise soldiers at all.
This is the Iqta system inherited from the Arab Empire. To explain it in the meaning of the Central Plains Dynasty, it is to divide the feuds. However, it was not a prince or a prince, but land was given to cronies, administrative and military officials. However, it only has the right to collect taxes and has no direct management power. And the land is state-owned and cannot be hereditary.
It is similar to the mining system of the Central Plains Dynasty.
Later, the royal family of the Arab Empire was hollowed out by the Turks, and the governors of various places supported themselves. The Iqta system cannot be hereditary, and it has become an empty talk. In order to protect their territory, but also to protect their property in the increasingly corrupt public security environment. Therefore, all landowners had to raise private soldiers.
Less than dozens, more hundreds. Those big landowners who sat on thousands of miles of fiefdom and were rich enough to rival the country even raised thousands of private soldiers. In his own territory, he is calling for wind and rain, so not majestic.
Even some local officials have to act according to their faces.
In the event of war, these landowners would send private troops at the call of the monarch or governor. The Samanid dynasty and the Seljuk dynasty were all like this. Coupled with some subservient clans, a coalition army can be formed in a short time.
On the battlefield, the loot captured was the private property of these private soldiers and clans. This is not much different from the Crusades.
Although this system of raising soldiers will cause the military quality of soldiers to be uneven. On the battlefield, the degree of coordination is also not high. Combat capability will also be greatly reduced. But for the monarch, this can save a large sum of money on the next military budget. And in their eyes, these are cannon fodder. It is most suitable to use it to consume the enemy's troops.
Human life is cheap anyway! In the eyes of the rulers, the money saved is of course more important than the cheap human life.
This kind of recruitment system has been passed down to the present.
Therefore, when Sadr was in charge of Puhua, he only raised a branch army of 1,000 people. At other times, they borrowed only troops from various landowners.
So that after the Great Liao moved westward, it also inherited this way of recruitment.
However, Li Chengji did not follow the rules of the river. Although he also felt sorry for the military spending, in his opinion, this kind of temporarily assembled private soldiers were far from being comparable with the rising Mongolian cavalry in terms of combat ability.
When the time comes, a group of rabble, then they will lose a lot of money. So he would rather pay for it himself and build a large-scale, qualified army.
It's just that at present, there is not much surplus in the tax revenue brought by the three counties.