Chapter 143: Long-term Mechanisms and Labor Reform Farms
Originally, these people already had a firm determination to defend their new lives, but now that the field protection team is organized, they have a concrete channel to realize this demand at once, so they are rushing to join the field protection team one by one.
Moreover, for the half of the land endowment that was underpaid, many people insisted that the government take back the order, because they felt that if they paid less, they would slap themselves in the face.
Do you need these to defend your land and homeland? These simple people felt that they couldn't hang their faces.
After Jiang Chuan knew this, he sighed and ordered to continue to ensure that the original policy remained unchanged. He knows that when passion surges, people are willing to pay any price.
According to his vision, this field protection team is a long-term militia organization, and it is also a direct source of replenishment and expansion of troops in the future. Now because of the external threat of the Tartars, the people are full of motivation and rush to join the field protection team.
But in the future, once the Tartars are destroyed by themselves, once this external threat disappears, will the people still have the passion to join the field protection team at that time?
Although according to his vision, the field protection team trained every three days, and the training was organized by the Jiang Jiajun soldiers who served as the captain, teaching mounted archery and basic infantry tactics.
When he is not training, he is still a farmer, and he continues to tend his fields.
But after all, training takes time, and if there is no threat of foreign enemies in the future, it is difficult to say whether these people are still interested enough to join the field protection team.
According to Jiang Chuan's experience and understanding, everything that relies only on passion and has no long-term benefits cannot last.
During the Warring States Period, there was a policy in the State of Lu: All citizens who have done good deeds can enjoy the rewards of the government, so there are many people who do good deeds in the State of Lu, and the folk atmosphere is very good.
Once, Confucius's student Zilu helped a person on the road, but did not go to the government to receive the reward. After he returned, he triumphantly boasted to his teacher Confucius that he did good deeds without asking for rewards, which shows how noble his character is.
As a result, Confucius not only did not praise him, but scolded him.
Confucius said, you think you are very noble, but in fact you are a fool who sells your reputation and spoils great things. You do good deeds without expecting anything in return, and you are praised by others. In the future, if someone who has done a good deed wants to receive a reward, will it not appear that others are of inferior moral character? It is human nature to pursue profits, if you do this, who will be willing to do good things in the future? Over time, the atmosphere of the Lu country has deteriorated.
Zilu woke up after being scolded by the teacher, and then realized that he had done a big stupid thing and regretted it.
Therefore, if you want to keep the people motivated to participate in the field protection team for a long time, you must have a long-term welfare mechanism to let them know that it is beneficial to do this at all times.
In addition, Egawa plans to add more welfare measures to complete the system in the future.
This is also a basic idea of his hiding troops among the people. It looks very similar to the Eight Banners system of the Tartars, but it is actually very different.
The Eight Banners system of the Tartars is usually a common people, but in wartime they are all warriors. Moreover, all weapons, armor, and war horses are brought with them when they go into battle, and there is no regular training, and there are no benefits. All rewards come from wartime loot, such as people, wealth, and land.
The field protection team selects some people to become the field protection team, and these people usually train once every three days and do not undertake combat tasks. As soon as the scale of the war expanded, and the government issued a warning order, they had to go to war.
Of course, all their weapons and war horses are provided by the government, and now they have the benefit of paying less than half of the Tianfu, and Jiang Chuan wants to pay them monthly training salaries in the future. If you are called up by the government and need to go to war, there is also a corresponding military pay.
Even those who perform well in the future and have made meritorious contributions can be conscripted into the army and become official soldiers.
After becoming a regular soldier, you can receive the corresponding titles and rewards according to your military exploits. Of course, the current military merit title system is still in the making, but it will definitely be implemented in the future.
This kind of interlocking system, coupled with corresponding welfare benefits, is the long-term mechanism to ensure a stable number of soldiers in the future.
But now Jiang Chuan doesn't need to make it so clear to these people, he just needs to let these people know that the field guards are protecting their own fields.
Under the implementation of this extremely attractive policy, various villages near Liaoyang have established field protection teams. Each field protection team has 100 people, and a total of 60 or 70 field protection teams have been formed. Among them, every ten field protection teams form a field protection battalion, and each field protection battalion has a school captain and two captains as deputies. In addition to the ten field protection teams, there are also 100 regular soldiers of the Jiang Family Army as the core.
The commander of this 100 regular army also served as the captain of these ten field protection teams, and took one of his people as instructors to train the field protection team members during training on weekdays.
Once in wartime, they are the real core of the battle, commanding and leading these field guards into battle.
In Liaoyang, all the field protection teams in these villages in Liaoyang formed a total of seven field protection battalions, and these captains were directly subordinate to the Wu'an Hou Mansion, and Sima Muyi of the Chinese army was responsible for daily management.
During the war, Hou Jiangchuan of Wu'an personally issued a conscription order to the captains of each Hutian battalion, and then they gathered their respective squads.
In this way, the Jiang family's army is equivalent to more than 7,000 more troops. These people can be directly converted into soldiers in wartime, and they can also deter those Tartars who intend to counterattack in peacetime.
Moreover, Jiang Chuan no longer needs to allocate a large number of troops to defend the suburbs of these villages, so he can focus on attacking the big cities.
Moreover, these people have also become the eyes of the Jiang family's army, once the Tartars want to bypass and attack Liaoyang from these areas, Jiang Chuan will get the news as soon as possible, so they can take precautions as soon as possible.
Liu Ji, who watched Jiang Chuan's series of combination punches, was surprised, and when he understood the benefits, he was full of praise, praising Jiang Chuan's whimsical ideas and foresight.
Jiang Chuan was cheeky and praised by Liu Ji, and he also learned these ideas from the heroic people's army in his previous life. The field guards were the equivalent of a combination of the early peasant Red Guards and later the militia reserves.
Another thing is that Jiang Chuan took all the land of the Manchu nobles who had been exterminated into the ownership of the government, and then turned those prisoners into labor prisoners according to the battalion unit, let them work collectively on these lands, and sent soldiers to guard and supervise them.
And a series of management systems have been introduced, which simply means rewarding attendance and punishing laziness. Moreover, those who perform well and do not make mistakes can be released after one year and obtain the status of a free citizen. At that time, you can not only go to the city to work, but also apply to the government for the allocation of heaven and earth, and become a yeoman farmer.
Of course, Jiang Chuan also learned some of the systems of modern detention centers and implemented the joint sitting system. The prisoners were given a prison for every twenty prisoners, and each prison had its own election of a wardener and two deputy wardeners. If someone makes a mistake in this cell, they will all be punished. All those who are lighter are not allowed to eat, all those who are heavier are punished, and those who are most severely beheaded are beheaded.
In this way, the captives also formed an atmosphere of self-supervision and mutual supervision, staring at each other one by one, and no one dared to make mistakes easily. Once he makes a mistake, he may not wait for the punishment of the officers and soldiers, and the people in this prison will let him walk around without food first.
In this way, these lands were turned into collective farms, which could not only give full play to the role of these captives, but also increase the production of large quantities of grain, so to speak, killing two birds with one stone.
Through this series of combination punches, the Jiang Jiajun quickly stabilized the surroundings of Liaoyang, and at the same time calmed these uneasy captives, so that they did not dare to act rashly, and at the same time gave them hope of freedom. As long as you keep to yourself and work diligently, a new life beckons to you.
Due to time constraints, it took less than ten days to complete all this. Except for the 5,000 mobile troops that Jiang Jiajun retained at any time, almost everyone else was busy, and Jiang Chuan and Liu Ji stayed up all night for several nights in a row, because there were too many things for them to decide.
The reason why Jiang Chuan was in such a hurry was also because he was worried that once the throne on Shengjing's side was vested, the Tartars would be able to free up their hands to strengthen the defenses of Quang Ninh and Gaizhou.
Therefore, he had to stabilize the rear as quickly as possible, and then he could concentrate on attacking Quang Ninh and Gaizhou.