Wei Wuji has no way, who let our king have no money, but he has to explode troops, his infatuation with the army is a kind of soldier, look at the crazy exploding soldiers after he was almost beaten after he failed to attack the enemy, transferred the first water division from the center, and transferred a field brigade, two militia brigades, four garrison regiments, four garrison battalions, and the second guards brigade, and also transferred seven or eight militia brigades and several field brigades from other places, from the original source of soldiers not even to 50,000, and suddenly burst out of 200,000 troops, Don't be mad, and then simply pulled in Xiao Fei's corps, as well as part of the Xuanyuan Longfei corps, as well as two field brigades on the Yangtze River defense line, the strength skyrocketed to 450,000 troops, and finally let the Jinqi Corps attack in an all-round way, and the Yangtze River Garrison Water Division cooperated.

This king can't be provoked, or he will have to crush you.

Now, in addition to the tens of thousands of troops of Xiao Fei's corps retreating, Xuanyuan Longfei's 30,000 troops returning to the defense line, and the tens of thousands of troops of the Jinqi Corps advancing to take over Shandong Prefecture before, there are still nearly 500,000 troops piled up on the territory of the entire Shandong Prefecture and half of Suzhou Prefecture.

Hundreds of thousands of prisoners, millions of civilians, hundreds of thousands of troops, nearly 100,000 dead and wounded, all of which need to be dealt with by themselves, all need to spend money.

Although this war eliminated the Qing army of Hong Chengchou, a great troublemaker, and destroyed his Lu state, the military expenditure and the cabinet's financial expenditure reached 200 million Chinese yuan, which is almost more than the total income of the Chinese state this year, last year, and two years.

As a king, he won't care about this, but as a courtier, that's what they do every day, what they care about, and they can't care if they don't care, even if it's a small amount of care, after accumulating for a long time, it will become an instinctive reaction, which is what Wei Wuji has experienced over the years as the secretary of the Ministry of Defense.

This kind of care urges you all the time and makes you feel uneasy.

Hearing Zhang Qiang ask him, he continued to answer: "Well, this, there are still about 30,000 ordinary militia members left in the core area, and most of these people are already old, I think it can be abolished and transferred, and directly delegated to the reserve militia team of the county government to become the militia in the account book for the elderly, which can save 98 percent of the funds." ”

"That's the case, then let's abolish and transfer, by the way, analyze how many militias of this type are currently in the country, and eliminate them all, let it gradually disappear in the future, no longer need to recruit such militias, and at the same time let the local government abolish some of the same old and weak government servants, arrest quickly, and save local expenses."

After speaking, Zhang Qiang looked at Wei Wuji and said: "You are blindly worried about the affairs of the local government, the garrison company and the ordinary militia are the affairs of the local government, and they are not under the control of your Ministry of National Defense, their military salaries are paid by the local government, the garrison battalion is also allocated by the local government, the garrison regiment belongs to the garrison headquarters and the garrison commander headquarters, and the garrison commander headquarters is dispatched by the people's militia department, and it is not your business." ”

Wei Wuji said with a smile: "Isn't it my overall arrangement, report together, and solve the provincial cabinet and military department together, and the local governors at all levels will consult with you." ”

Zhang Qiang patted his forehead and smiled: "You are afraid that people will not agree, come to me to ask for the holy decree, I don't know about those local officials, especially low-level local officials, they are afraid of how many accounts they have to turn over from it, and they can make private profits, I generally don't care about these, the water is clear, there are no fish, but now you have to make decisions for them, and you have also consulted the Ministry of War, the Cabinet and the Garrison General Headquarters, I will promise you, anyway, for the good of our Chinese country, I guess all the yamen above will agree with you, especially the household department, the less money they spend, the better. ”

"Okay, you go on, I see you can talk from ordinary soldiers to the Guards Division, and even my personal guard regiment." Zhang Qiang smiled and waved his hand.

Wei Wuji smiled and said: "That's what I mean, uh, uh, slow down, don't fight, there is nothing to do without your personal guard regiment and the guard division, anyway, those are not spending the money of the cabinet and the state, it is the money of your inner treasury, who doesn't know that your Imperial Merchant Group is making money every day,...... Well, let's talk about the militia brigade after the ordinary militia.

As I said earlier, all the ordinary militias have been abolished, and I have decided to do the same for the old and weak soldiers in other areas outside the core areas, so that they can be put on the roster, but they will no longer become actual militias, and a militia with a garrison and a high salary will be formed, so what about the ordinary militia in other areas?

I think it is okay for His Majesty to voluntarily emigrate them to uninhabited areas in Southeast Asia, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Baodao, or to mixed villages, towns and towns where we have few Han people, and I have here an approximate data of ordinary militias, all of which are militias from the state capitals in the original marginal areas, and although they have been transferred a lot in several battles, there are still about 300,000 such militias.

I think that most of the militia can be disarmed and returned to the fields, become ordinary people and businessmen, contribute taxes to the local government, and then select a part of the elite to be incorporated into the elite militia brigade and send it to the northern half of Suzhou Prefecture, which has just resolved the fighting, and is stationed in the northern half of Suzhou Prefecture, which has just been resolved. ”

Zhang Qiang nodded slightly, "In this case, we need a lot of militia elite brigades, there are only two field brigades in Baozhong Prefecture, and many places are still mixed townships, where there may be more disputes, just put three militia brigades, Yunnan Guizhou put two, Yunnan Prefecture put two, Henan Prefecture put two, Shandong Prefecture two, Anhui Prefecture one, Suzhou Prefecture North Half Prefecture one, Endong's three countries put one in each place, where there are already many ordinary militia brigades, and there are militia companies in the establishment, there is no need for many elite militia brigades, One is used as a militia corps, and it is responsible for managing the militia team there. ”

Wei Wuji listened while writing down what Zhang Qiang said, the fountain pen was invented by Zhang Qiang a long time ago, this kind of thing has been promoted in the Huaxia army, and even the newly destroyed Lu army, the government of the Lu State has people who use it, and have several imitation factories, specializing in selling this kind of pen, and creating a lot of profits for them, especially in their dealings with the Taixi people, selling a lot of fountain pens to the Taixi people.

As a result, the Tessie people, who were still using quills, were able to use fountain pens that were more advanced than their quills.

It is rumored that this kind of small object has been transmitted to the West, and the West is very satisfied with this small object, in favor of it, and accepted this kind of object, but in the land of China, and even in the country of China, when the pen was implemented, it encountered a lot of resistance, and many scholars are still writing with a brush, refusing to write with this convenient and practical object.

However, the Huaxia State Government and officials stipulated that they must write articles and various documents with a fountain pen.

After Zhang Qiang finished speaking, Wei Wuji stopped and counted it, and said: "Your Majesty, after this calculation, we have to reorganize and deploy, there are a total of fifteen militia elite brigades, not too much and not too little, the nearby militia brigades and militia elite brigades can be reorganized, which can fully meet the needs of these places, and a small amount needs to be adjusted." ”

"Well, if there are many of them, they will be laid off, and they will be retired, and those who are willing to emigrate will emigrate, and those who are not willing to return to their hometowns will be able to solve these resettlement tasks in the state, and those who are willing to return to their hometowns will contact the local government of their hometowns to make arrangements, anyway, we have so many government yamen, and there are many newly established workshops, so let them work in the workshops.

After three years, they will find a job on their own, or go to some new place to become immigrants, give them land and houses, and let them become common people, farmers, and support themselves. We don't care.

However, there will always be some people who will become vagrants and will not be able to support themselves, which may cause some social unrest, but our army will not stop expanding, and when the time comes, we will be called back to replenish the militia brigade, or become immigrants to new places. ”

Wei Wuji nodded while recording, and waited for Zhang Qiang to finish speaking and continued to report: "Fifteen militia elite brigades, such combat effectiveness has caught up with the garrison battalions, and some of our inland garrison battalions have abandoned martial arts, I want to wait for a while, pull the inland garrison battalions out to experience it, and those elite soldiers who have made meritorious contributions in battle and have shown that they are competent for the garrison battalions will be transferred back and replaced by garrison battalions, replacing those garrison battalions that have abandoned martial arts." ”

Zhang Qiang is very satisfied, "Okay, as a soldier does not fight, after a long time will become a flock of sheep, if they develop a certain degree of inertia, no matter how advanced weapons they have in their hands, they can't win the battle, let them go to war, let the elite soldiers who have fought come back to rest for a few years, the old ones retire, and the new young people who come in get their experience to teach, so that the old garrison battalion can relive the cruelty and skills of the battle, and the new garrison battalion is still full of energy, not forgetting the combat skills, and the combat effectiveness will not be reduced, such a proposal is good." ”

Wei Wuji didn't talk about the militia brigade and the militia elite brigade anymore, but continued to talk about the garrison battalion, "Your Majesty, our original garrison battalion is no longer enough to adapt to the current situation, and there are not many troops in the core area, but every county town arranges a garrison battalion, and every prefecture arranges a garrison regiment, so that there are too many troops nationwide."

I suggest that it is sufficient to arrange a garrison regiment in each prefecture and city, which is enough to deal with everything, with a total strength of two thousand, or a little more than three thousand, and even if there is some resistance from such a force, it can be quickly attacked, and with the field brigades stationed in the interior, even the rebellion of one state can be quickly extinguished. It would also reduce military expenditures for troops and garrisons. ”

(End of chapter)