In Kaifeng Prefecture, the personnel adjustment of the two prefectures has been completed.

Today's meeting of the government hall was headed by the newly inaugurated prime minister, He Zhizhong, a scholar of Jixian Academy.

The Son of Heaven was still not in court, and after the Zaifu had made a routine salute to the empty throne in the Vertical Arch Hall, they gathered together in the government hall to discuss the important political affairs to be dealt with today and the major policies of the country in the future.

"The rice fields of Taifu Temple have been checked in the latest account books of the Gyeonggi Inventory, and a total of more than 3,000 hectares of hidden fields have been found, and more than 5,000 hectares of fields with different field taxes have been found! It's shocking! "He Zhizhonggao sat in the middle hall where Cai Jing once sit, and took the hot report from Taifu Temple in his hand first," He Li also reported that the land of Gyeonggi was prevalent, and 978 out of 100 folk land belonged to wealthy families. More than ninety percent of the farmers have no land to become customers. Most of the remaining peasant households only have a few acres of thin land, which is not enough to make a living, and they have to rent land for gentry. He also said that in the long run, the country will not be a country...... I wonder what you think? ”

The second prime minister, Ji Yi, gently turned the teacup in his hand, and said in a solemn tone: "He Wenzhen is reasonable, my style of annexation is indeed too much. ”

These days, Ji Yi has worked hard to dress himself up as a "progressive", has a close relationship with the retro party, and also protects the official body of the four of the retro six gentlemen who have not yet been awarded officials, with the posture of using the retro party. Prime Minister He Zhizhong is also confused - Ji Yi is a famous "layman", he has been running for profit since he became an official, and he is also a rich gentry, and the land under his name is absolutely one of the best among today's officials, what is it to pretend to be high?

He Zhizhong frowned and said: "Remember, it is the practice of the country's ancestral system not to suppress annexation, if it is changed suddenly, I am afraid that it will provoke Shilin shock, and the world will be uneasy!" ”

Dazai's words are very true. However, now that the small people are in poverty, many of them have become homeless, and they can't help but think of something. It is better to first distribute the more than 3,000 hectares found in Gyeonggi Road to the destitute peasants who have no land and no land in Gyeonggi Road, so that they can live in peace. ”

What the!?

Divide the land among the poor!?

This time, it was not He Zhizhong who was taken aback, but even several "New Party" or "Restoration Party" Zai Zhizhong were also taken aback.

Tong Guan, who had just returned from the northwest, stroked his only beard and said: "According to He Wenzhen's performance, the real estate obtained by Qingtian should be granted to the government soldiers, and each household should be given 30 acres. More than 3,000 hectares can be granted to more than 10,000 households. That's more than 10,000 soldiers! ”

Ji Yi smiled: "The 30 acres of land near the left side of Kaifeng Mansion can support a family of soldiers?" Brother Michio is not joking. The left and west of Kaifeng Mansion are almost all dry fields, and they are not fertile at all. Unless it's a vegetable field with an annex, you can still make more money.

Otherwise, one acre of land is hard to cultivate, and the average income is only a stone and a few buckets, more than 100 catties. How much can you get for 30 acres of land? But more than 40 stones. How much money can you get for one stone? How can I feed a soldier?

And a good family business can't help but have many children and grandchildren! Now 30 acres of land are granted, and it will be divided into three in ten or twenty years, what kind of soldiers are you raising? ”

It is indeed not enough to raise a soldier on 30 acres of dry land. In Yandi, Wu Haogu raised a soldier with 150 acres of dry land, which was four times more!

Moreover, the Zhou State was a fledgling republic, which was different from the loose and collapsed Song State. The state of Zhou is in the period of "its prosperity and prosperity", holding high the banner of the world for the public, and it is both a citizen and a parliamentarian, and the top and bottom are more serious and united.

Therefore, it is possible to strictly implement the inheritance system of the eldest son (in fact, one son) of the vocational field. It can be guaranteed that 150 acres (100 acres in black soil) of the grange of the government soldiers will not be inherited by the property.

It also guarantees the recovery of non-life citizen granges that are unable to serve – soldiers with life citizenship can enjoy granges for life, and if they are unable to serve, they are required to pay taxes. If you are disabled (you must have been injured in the military), you are exempt from paying taxes.

However, in the actual implementation process, as long as the government soldiers have an heir to serve, they will not enjoy this exemption treatment.

Because the heirs of lifelong citizens only have the status of temporary citizens, the treatment has dropped a lot. They must accumulate years and military merits before they can be promoted, so they must serve early to ensure promotion to lifelong citizens.

If you can be promoted to an officer, even if you are the lowest-ranking officer, you can change from the government soldier class to the knight class, and the amount of land you get will increase more than ten times at once!

Even if you can't become a knight, military exploits can be exchanged for lucrative bounties.

Considering the probability of victory of the Zhou Republican Army in foreign wars, it is definitely more cost-effective to join the army than to sit at home and gnaw at the old......

And the situation in the Song Dynasty is completely different, the 200 acres of Tianfu soldiers in the northwest (the fields in the northwest are too poor, 200 acres are far less than the 150 acres of Yandi, but much better than the 30 acres of Kaifeng Mansion) has only been passed down for many years? How many soldiers of the Western Army and the Shuofang Army are selling their fields and properties (the fields of the soldiers cannot be transferred in theory)?

The government soldiers can't keep their fields in the northwest, where the military leaders and generals are very powerful, let alone in the Kaifeng Mansion, where the wealthy families gather.

Therefore, Ji Yi did not fully adopt the suggestion of the retro six gentlemen, but proposed a more politically correct method of dividing the fields - distributing the hidden fields found to the landless poor!

If Wu Haogu knew about this, maybe he would also think that Ji Yi's soul also came from later generations—most likely from China in the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century......

"Remember, how much land do you plan to give to the destitute peasants on Gyeonggi Road?" Zhang Kegong asked with a frown.

His family is Kaifeng Jiangmen, and he is a big landowner! There are also a lot of hidden fields, and this time it is also called the retro party to find out a lot!

"How much can I share?" Ji Yi smiled, "Give a few acres per household." ”

"How many acres are enough?" Zhang Ke said fairly, "If you can't harvest ten stones of wheat a year, and grind it into noodles at most five or six hundred catties, is it enough for a family to eat?" And you have to pay taxes and food! ”

Ji Yi smiled: "It's enough to be busy with the retro party...... There are more than 3,000 hectares of land, and they should be divided into 50,000 or 60,000 households. You have to divide it carefully, and you can't let the traitors be greedy for ink. Just ask He Wenzhen and them to do it, and build a yamen for them. ”

He glanced at Tong Guan, Zhang Kegong, and Zhang Shuye, the three bureaucratic landlords whose household registration is in Kaifeng, "These more than 3,000 hectares are staring at the whole world!" ”

It turned out that Ji Yi wanted to use a yamen who presided over Juntian to block the retro party, so as not to make trouble for them.

Now the retro party members take the initiative to move closer to Ji Yi, as a traitor who has been up and down in the sea for nearly 20 years, of course he will not push these special trouble-making clear streams outward.

"What about the soldiers?" Uncle Zhang asked. "If there is no land, is the government military system still engaged? If the government military system is not carried out, what kind of military system will be implemented? ”

Ji Yi smiled bitterly, "Shaanxi's Tianfu soldiers can't be maintained, can they get new government soldiers?" At least in China, it can't be done, and how to discuss it again with foreign vassals.

As for the military system, I think we still have to be honest in recruiting soldiers! ”

Zong Ze reminded: "The forbidden army was recruited, and it can't be fought at all!" ”

"That's a recruitment that didn't get it right!" Ji Yi said, "You have to give power to the battalion officials below!" Whether a soldier can ask for it or not, you have to let the battalion officer call the shots. They use and train soldiers, and it is not okay not to let them call the shots. The Privy Council and the Ministry of War only need to supervise the battalion officers, regardless of whether they have eaten vacancies, whether they have withheld military salaries and rations, whether they have occupied military service, whether their training is lax, whether they have lost equipment and horses, and so on. There are so many civilian officials in the Privy Council and the Ministry of War, and they are afraid that it will not be reliable to guard over three or four hundred battalion heads? Don't ask the state officials below to interfere, just send personnel from the Ministry of War and the Privy Council to supervise the random inspection, so that the responsibilities can be clear. ”

Although Ji Yi is a traitorous minister, he has accumulated a lot of experience in serving as a local commander and a supervisor for a long time. I see very clearly the disadvantages of the military system of the Great Song Dynasty.

I knew that the problem of recruiting troops was that the officers at the grassroots level could not call the shots, and that the Ministry of War and the Privy Council were not effective in supervising -- the civilian officers of the Ministry of War and the Privy Council should have fulfilled their duty of supervision, but they had to go out to direct the war. The power of overseer is scattered among the internal servants, the localities, and the two governments. As a result, they hindered each other, and no one really took care of things.

The traitor paused, and then said: "And don't recruit troops in the city, you have to go to the poor countryside to recruit soldiers." Only in the poor countryside can there be elite soldiers! Go to Shaanxi, Huaixi, Hedong, and Jinghu South Road to recruit troops. Soldiers should not be allowed to live in the camp with their families, and the barracks should look like barracks.

When you are a soldier, you have to be in the camp at four o'clock and practice every day. Can't live at home, can you fight like that?

If you don't bring your family, you don't have to mess up a bunch of things, and you can cash them all out. The food and clothing of the soldiers are all provided by the barracks, and they just have to make money. And don't do it for decades, what's the use of being an old man? Let them work for ten years at most, save some money, and go back to their hometown to marry a wife and have children. ”

The recruitment of soldiers in the Song Dynasty is really strange, and most of the soldiers are uncles with wives and children. Uncle is fine, as long as he is in good health, he is not unable to be a soldier. The problem is that soldiers can't bring their wives and children to the barracks! Living in the camp with your family and not becoming a common person who clocks in to work? The advantages of recruiting soldiers cannot be brought into play at all, and they become inferior to the government soldiers who integrate soldiers and peasants.

"Where's the money?" He Zhizhong asked, "Where does the money come from?" ”

"Disperse the forbidden army!" Ji Yi said, "I'm a lot older, what kind of soldier are you still a soldier?" Scattered and pulled down. The money spent by the Forbidden Army could sustain 300 infantry battalions of the Forces nouvelles and 20 battalions of cavalry of the Forces nouvelles. With 320 battalions, the imperial court is not afraid of the Zhou State and the Jin State! ”

The full strength of 300 infantry battalions is 240,000, and the full strength of 20 cavalry battalions is 36,000. That's 276,000. If you are a little more generous, counting the logistics and the soldiers of the yamen at all levels, the top sky is 350,000.

With an average annual expenditure of 100 taels per member, it is enough for the imperial court to spend 35 million yuan on the military expenditure of the new army. The navy will spend a maximum of 15 million, and a total of 50 million yuan will be able to ensure the national defense and security of the Great Song Dynasty in peacetime.

For the Great Song Dynasty, whose annual income can be maintained at 70 million, although the burden of military spending is heavy, it is not unbearable.

At this time, Tong Guan suddenly asked: "But the forbidden army is dispersed, how can so many officials of the forbidden army be arranged?" ”

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