Chapter 315: The Difference Between Guards and Armies
Baekyu didn't want to raise an army and didn't want to form a country. But! In the face of reality, he still slapped his face.
Those who migrated were sensitive and averse to military service. You want them to join the army to go to training and fight, and their faces change.
You brought them together for all-soldier training, and they were willing. They think! They know the visible stakes in protecting their homes, their families, and the people around them.
If you ask them to protect the trade city, to protect the merchants, they won't want to.
Baekyu's idea is! Step by step, we should first cultivate the idea that the people and the whole people are soldiers, and then cultivate the idea that the people and the whole country are playing a game of chess. Outcome! These people who migrated from Wei, as well as people from other countries, were all traumatized by the war and were reluctant to participate in the war.
The third brother-in-law and his treasurers all suggested that Baekyu retract his promise and start implementing a comprehensive tax system and collecting taxes now. Like other vassal states, make the country rich first. And then! When the country has money, it will raise the army again.
Bai Gui did not agree, he wanted to fulfill his promise, for a certain period of time, he would not collect taxes from those who migrated. When the population is not developed, it is resolute not to collect taxes.
Baekyu thinks! If you collect taxes, the burden on the people will be heavy. When the burden on the people is heavy, they will give up childbearing. If that were the case, the population would not be able to grow in a few decades. Without population, everything is for nothing.
Right now! Those who have migrated here, although life is good, but once you increase taxes, they will inevitably slow down childbearing. If you don't collect taxes, you're using the money from taxes to give them children.
If that's the case! It's not worth it if you collect taxes. What is that little money in taxes? And how much money can be created with an additional population? Isn't it?
Under Bai Gui's analysis, the third brother-in-law and others still agreed. But! The security problem on Linquan's side has still not been resolved.
Linquan is different from the deer park, which is a residential area, there is no city, there is no country, and there is only one tribal leader. The tribal leader simply has more land than others and is respected by the tribesmen. In the past, the Yiqu people came to attack you to submit to their Yiqu people, and then pay taxes to their king of Yiqu.
And Linquan! It was a rich place, and there was a trading city, and there were many valuable goods in it. The robbers or other tribes in the steppe are likely to organize people to rob them. So! If you don't have the power to protect it, the trade city will be in vain. The merchants were robbed, and they would not come here again to do business in the future.
"Since no one wants to serve in the military, and the white officials are not willing to raise an army, then! You can only take care of the health more. A shopkeeper came up with an idea.
The third brother-in-law also believed: "It is better to maintain the army than to maintain the guard." One guard can withstand dozens or hundreds of soldiers, and hundreds of soldiers usually eat for nothing, which is of no great use. So! The cost of maintaining the army is small, and the cost of raising the army is large.
Furthermore! After all the people are soldiers, how can there really be an enemy coming, and they can still be organized. As long as we are affectionate and reasonable to them, those who farm the land are still willing to come and help.
Imagine! Tens of thousands of people who cultivate the land are all soldiers, how big will that power be?
These people who farm the land are not unwilling to come to fight as soldiers, but they are unwilling to die for others. When they find out that the survival of the Trade City is directly related to their lives, they are still willing to participate in the battle. ”
"In that case! We took advantage of the character traits of the people in the deer park and recruited them in large numbers to come to the spring as guards. The people of the deer park are big, strong, and like to fight, so they can take advantage of this.
There are many ways we can do it, nurture their interests, train them. The people of Deer Park just like to live like this, and compete with others all day long, right? As long as we train properly, they are always strong and ready to fight. ”
"As long as the people in the deer park are willing to come, we will accept it, give them wages, and don't want them to work, they will only be happy."
After discussion, everyone felt that this method was feasible. The people of the deer park love to fight, so they fulfill their wishes and let them be guards. The people around the land like to farm, so let them farm.
Other than that! The people of Zhoudi like to have children, so let them have unlimited children, and develop and expand the population of Linquan.
In addition to strengthening security, Bai Gui also asked his third brother-in-law to be responsible for repairing with various tribes on the grassland and carrying out "diplomatic security".
If you have a good relationship with the surrounding tribes, they will not come to attack Linquan. Even if someone wanted to attack Linquan with a crooked mind, someone would immediately come and report to us.
Baekyu's security team is generally divided into two aspects, one is overt and the other is secret security.
Baekyu has always kept a secret team of guards, hidden in the shadows, and once they find out where there is a potential danger, they will solve it secretly, without knowing it.
I'm sure you're a bad guy and it's not good for me, and I'll kill you quietly, and you don't even know how you died.
Bai Gui has traveled the world all these years, and how many times have he escaped death and escaped the assassination of King Wei Hui, it was not his luck, but more often it was the secret guards who helped.
King Wei Hui and the others all knew that there was a mysterious escort team behind Bai Gui, but they just didn't know who these people were? Where is it hidden?
Exactly because of this! Bai Gui, including his caravan, will only encounter danger if he goes to a strange place to open up a market. In a strange place, others don't know how powerful Bai Gui is, so they come over and rob something stupidly. Outcome! Hit the gun. The robbery failed, but was destroyed by Bai Gui's caravan.
As soon as Bai Gui's caravan successfully entered the caravan, it immediately secretly escorted the team and expanded to the surrounding area in the form of radiation. All the ruffians, hooligans and bullies, as well as those with bad intentions and those who hide deeply, will die mysteriously.
Bai Gui's approach, similar to that of the "hoe squad", cleared the roadblocks for the cause of liberation.
Bai Gui left Linquan in a hurry, not only for the sake of Zhao Nu, but also for the sake of his children, and for the sake of Zhongshan Kingdom. More mainly! If he is still on Linquan's side, there are many policies that are inconvenient to implement.
Because! He had promised before, how it should be, no tax or less tax. But! Forced by the situation, let him slap his face!
There are some things that he says that can't be counted anymore.
For example! Levy taxes.
The tax policy he had laid down was no longer practical. But! Without taxes, it is impossible to recruit more guards. Without the financial resources, you can't support so many guards.
If there are fewer guards, the security of Linquan will be a problem.
So! Only when he left, the shopkeeper below and the third brother-in-law and others introduced new policies.
Not a backtrack, but! The situation is different.
(End of chapter)