"Your Majesty, a scholar and minister, you don't know about military affairs, so you should not talk about military affairs. However, today's edict will make the Jin country run for the affairs of the military state, and he should be reluctant to speak soldiers. If there is any inappropriateness, please forgive your majesty. ”

Today is the day when Wu Haowen went to the Chongzheng Palace to bid farewell to His Majesty. He is now Honglu Shaoqing and Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Datong Mansion! And he also received the secret mission of betraying the country to seek glory!

In the past few days in Kaifeng Mansion, he also heard about the "Quartet Extermination Golden Strategy" proposed by Feng Ming on behalf of Zhang Li - although the Great Song Kingdom has made a lot of progress in military affairs, the imperial court is still a leaky sieve. There is no such thing as secrecy! If the Great Zhou Kingdom wants to destroy Jin, it will definitely not be known to everyone when the decision is undecided.

Although he knew the "Quartet to destroy the golden strategy", Wu Haowen still should not betray the original intention of the country.

"Wu Qing is my confidant, and it doesn't hurt to have something to say."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wu Haowen bowed, "The minister thinks that it is better to ask for others than for himself." If the imperial court wants to pacify the Jin State, it does not need to pretend to be Liang, Zhou, and Western Liao. These three are not the same as the Great Song Dynasty! And my Great Song Dynasty has a vast number of thousands of miles, with hundreds of millions of people, and the country is sufficient, which can be called Fengheng and Yuda, and there are countless people who dare to fight and are good at fighting. If the wealth can be used to the best of its ability, and the soldiers can do their best, why should the northern barbarian state be concerned? It's not impossible to swallow the periphery and extinguish the cold.

If wealth cannot support soldiers, soldiers cannot defend the country. A country of thousands of miles, hundreds of millions of people, cannot be united. The security of the country depends on the balance of power with all parties. The strategy of the Quartet to destroy gold is to break the balance of all parties. This is an important matter for the country, please think twice. ”

What is the ...... Seems a bit outdated!

But it is indeed a safe statement, if it was more than ten years earlier, when Wu Haowen just joined the ranks, he would never have been able to say it.

And now he can be regarded as an officialdom for many years, and because Wu Haogu has been thrown into idleness, he has time to study new and old knowledge.

He was able to rank first in high school in the imperial examination, and his IQ was definitely not low. And he is not very old, but he has accumulated a lot of officialdom experience. Naturally, the problem is more thorough, and there is a reference of Zhou Guo. Of course, we can see the reason why the Great Song Kingdom is rich and weak.

But seeing the reason doesn't mean that you can change anything!

Because change, especially a seismic change, usually means a huge shock.

"What is the best use of money, and what can be done by the soldiers?" Zhao Ji asked.

"Such as Zhou Guo." Wu Haowen replied, "The Zhou State uses the soil to raise soldiers, to enrich the country with business, to strengthen the army with soldiers, and to protect industry and commerce with strong soldiers, so that industry and commerce, strong soldiers and the country are one." This is the foundation of Zhou! And I, the Great Song Dynasty, have different national conditions, and we can't use the law of violent Zhou, otherwise the world will inevitably be in chaos......"

"Can't you do the law of violence week?" Zhao Ji frowned and said, "But now there are many scholars who envy the wealth and strength of the Zhou State, and think that the Zhou State's method of enriching the country and strengthening the army is feasible. Wu Qing, what do you think? ”

The state of Zhou is, of course, an enviable country. The country is prosperous, the people are rich, and the soldiers are strong! Although the traditional Confucian scholars and scholars did not look down on them, some of them were influenced by the new learning, but they wanted to take Zhou as their teacher.

Even among the low-level civil officials who were born in the formal imperial examination, there are many people who want to take Zhou as a teacher and change the law to strengthen the country.

"Be cautious about changing the law of your ancestors!" Wu Haowen said, "The state of Zhou was a country that was just beginning to flourish, and it took the land of Yanliao, rather than establishing a foundation in the Central Plains. It's like a blank sheet of paper, and you can play to your heart's content. And my Great Song Dynasty, a family and country for more than 100 years, and the superior five seasons of the Sui and Tang dynasties, all kinds of systems are by no means made in a day, but accumulated over hundreds of years. Don't be violent, otherwise the country will not be a country! ”

"What can't be done violently?" Zhao Ji asked again.

"Among all the laws, the law of the land is the most difficult!" Wu Haowen said, "The violence of Zhou lies in raising warriors with land. In the land of Zhou Juguo, there are 90 million acres, of which more than 80 million acres, all support knights and government soldiers. There are more than 200,000 knight manors and government soldier granges. They are all official and indivisible.

The wealth of a country is ultimately land-based. The state of Zhou raised warriors with seventy or eighty percent of the country's wealth, how could its country not be strong? How can its people not be violent? The land was given to the samurai, and the use of the state was only derived from industry and commerce, so how could the country not attach importance to industry and commerce? So the root of the Zhou law lies in the land! And can I give ninety percent of the land in the world to those with armor?

If you can, you can get millions of strong men in a few years, and you can wipe out the week!

If not, how can we follow the law? ”

Wu Haowen is not wrong, Wu Haogu made that set of methods of strengthening soldiers, and the root of it is to use most of a country's wealth to raise warriors.

Although most of the tax revenue of the Song Dynasty was also used to raise soldiers, the proportion of tax revenue in a country's wealth was low.

Later generations of powerful countries can reach more than 20 percent of GDP in taxes. But the Song Dynasty did not have such a tax collection ability, and it would be good to really receive a few percentage points from the government - the government received a few percentage points, and the officials who handled it had to make at least the same amount, and many gentry and wealthy merchants had ways to evade taxes, so the tax pressure on ordinary people was very great, and there was not much room for increasing revenue......

On the other hand, the Zhou State did not use taxes to raise soldiers, but used land to raise soldiers, and directly distributed most of a country's farmland and pasture to military citizens. Although on the surface, Zhou's military spending is not much, but most of a country's GDP is actually used to raise troops. The income of more than 200,000 knights and soldiers of the Zhou State was, of course, far more than that of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty.

With the income guaranteed, the morale and combat effectiveness of the troops are of course guaranteed. And most importantly, those military citizens really think of themselves as the masters of the country - most of the country's wealth is theirs, who are they not the masters? The Führer Wu Haogu is going to be finished, and they will have to become poor and bare, and the wives and children at home will starve to death.

Therefore, when it comes to survival, these military citizens are desperate. Moreover, Lao Tzu still has a son when he dies, his brother still has a younger brother when he dies, and even old people and women may go to war...... So the Zhou army is an invincible army!

And the Great Song Dynasty, although there were many new-style officers, ordinary soldiers and grassroots officers were too poor. There is also nothing worth defending in a desperate way, so something will go wrong with a truly strong enemy.

Zhao Ji sighed: "I have been raising soldiers for more than 100 years, but it's a pity that none of the people I have raised can fight and fight......"

"Your Majesty," Wu Haowen said, "the people raised by my dynasty are for Annei." The people raised by the storm week are used for the outside. Therefore, although my brother opened a country of thousands of miles, he did not dare to be the emperor, and he still had to play the signboard of the world for the public. Here's why! ”

Wu Haogu's "the world is for the public" does not mean to seek benefits for hundreds of millions of toiling people, but for the interests of hundreds of thousands of citizens. And most of these hundreds of thousands of citizens are military citizens, so Da Zhou is in the same world as military citizens. The ruler must constantly meet the needs of the military citizens for land for the country to move forward smoothly.

Therefore, in the long run, the Great Zhou Republic was an extremely expansive state, and each generation of heads of state had to carry out a military expansion in order to gain land for the new military citizens.

But the land in the world is always limited, the land with higher value is even more limited, and people's desire to occupy land will always be more than land......

In addition, a balance should be maintained between military citizens and business citizens, as well as between the elite and the military citizens at the grassroots level of the republic. It's not easy to say, but it's even harder to do!

In fact, the four great unified dynasties of Qin, Han, Sui, and Tang in Chinese history all had a bit of military merit, that is, the route of relying on military landlords to serve in the army to defend the country. But this set of routes has come to an end because it can't find the kind of expansion object that is both rich and weak.

And Zhao Song's route is to simply give up expansion and concentrate on peace. Therefore, the land and military service in the Great Song Dynasty were decoupled (in most cases), and it was not the military landlords who controlled the vast rural land, but the scholar and doctor landlords who controlled the vast rural land. They used imperial examinations, rather than military merit, as a means of maintaining and improving their ranks.

Of course, the scholars and landlords did not exclude industry and commerce, and there were many landlords who were also engaged in commerce and handicrafts. The difference between them and the military landlords of the Zhou State was mainly in two aspects: first, the land was privately owned, which was mainly obtained through buying and selling (whether the sale was fair is another matter); The second is to take the imperial examination as the main upward channel, and to be an official as the best means of accumulating money.

That is to say, the scholars of the Song State obtained land by buying, and the military citizens of the Zhou State obtained land by sealing it; The scholars and doctors of the Song State amassed money mainly by greed, and the military citizens of the Zhou State mainly relied on robbery - well, they were not good people!

However, it is relatively safe for the emperor to rely on corrupt scholars - in the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties in history, there are indeed few emperors who were dragged from the throne by their subordinates. In the previous dynasties, there were all kinds of usurpation, all kinds of rebellion, and the profession of emperor was really dangerous......

Zhao Ji now understands these ways, and he sighed: "Practicing the law of the ancestors, for more than a hundred years, how can you say that you can change it?" And up and down, all of them are scholars...... If the state does not depend on them, who else can it rely on? ”

"Your Majesty." Wu Haowen said, "The imperial court rules the world with scholars, not with martial citizens." If you abandon the doctor, there will be no great Song Dynasty. ”

The so-called "abandonment" of scholars and doctors is to stop the imperial examination and redivide the land!

The population of the Great Song was at least eight times that of the Great Zhou, and the land (arable land) was at least five times that of the Great Zhou. If the land is divided, the military merit will be abolished. Millions of strong men are also available! There are millions of troops who grant land, and it is not a problem to destroy Zhou.

But the question is, what did the Great Song Dynasty rely on to carry out such intense reforms?

Zhao Ji sighed: "Wu Qing, I already know...... Therefore, I have my own opinions, and I will not be swayed by the scholars' wild words, even if you let go and negotiate with the Jin country, even if it is a million years old, you can also give it to the Jin people. ”

Wu Haowen bowed, "Your Majesty Shengming!" ”

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