[There is one more more.] Around twelve o'clock. 】

"The Western Army is being dismantled?" Cai did raise his eyebrows, is this a poor dagger? He asked very calmly: "Could it be that Yukun has any new ideas?" ”

Han Gang shook his head: "The imperial court has already agreed before, and Han Gang is also involved, how can there be any ideas?" Which armies should be abolished and which should not be abolished are presided over by the two governments. However, before Wang Hou entered Beijing, he mentioned some rumors in Kansai, which caused uncertainty in the army. I only hope that the imperial court will announce this matter as soon as possible to reassure the army. In particular, the arrangements for the resettlement of the various commanders, commanders, and leaders who have been dismissed must be made public as soon as possible in order to prevent any changes. ”

In last year's war, both Song and Liao were injured, and the Great Song Dynasty hid in the nest to recuperate, and the Liao State shifted its target to the east to find it back, and the peaceful situation on the surface seemed to last a few more years. But since the Western Xia is gone, the Liao State is the only great enemy, and it is impossible not to strengthen the defense.

As the strategic center of gravity shifts eastward, military spending in the northwest will be cut, and even the number of troops will be reduced. Wang Hou went to Beijing this time and mentioned this matter to Han Gang several times, hoping that Han Gang could make the imperial court restrain a little and not hurt the vitality of the Western Army.

For the Western Army, it is absolutely impossible to invest as in the old days, there is no enemy, it is reasonable for the bird to hide the bow, but it is also impossible to put the horse in Nanshan. The Hebei army has only been working hard for a few decades before it has become so bad, and this lesson from the past has made the court take warning. Even though there will be no external troubles in the northwest for the time being, the threat of the Liao State is still there, and it is the consensus of the imperial court to maintain a western army that can conquer and fight.

The court's method of disposition was to divide the land among the retired soldiers. The old forts, if there was arable land around them, were placed on the spot, and if they were not available, or if there were not enough of them, they were relocated to other places. The newly opened fields will not be taxed for three years, and the old military fields will be exempted from taxes for one year. It's a great way to save money and effort, and the most important thing is to save money.

The imperial court's goal was to reduce the number of the Western Army to 200,000 men. Including the forbidden army, the Fan army and a very small part of the box army. Generally speaking, it is to keep the forbidden army of the upper rank as much as possible, and the focus of demobilization is on the battalion head of the lower rank. Those who can make money will stay, and those who can't make money will be cleaned up.

Comparatively speaking, in terms of combat effectiveness, the forbidden army is generally a little stronger than the upper rank. Although it is really inferior to the army, no one can compare with the upper fourth army of the Beijing division, but if it starts, how many people in the upper fourth army dare to brag in front of the generals and colonels of the Western Army? However, in the Western Army, the situation is more or less the same. Many of the soldiers in the lower ranks are eliminated from the battalion heads of the upper ranks, and most of them are old and weak, and they have not participated in many battles, let alone become the main force.

But in the end, who will be left behind is still to discuss the historical inheritance and past military exploits, and select commanders who have participated in several major wars and have made outstanding achievements. In the Tibetan army, a part of those who have a history and achievements should also be left behind to suppress the Tibetan people and raze them.

However, based on the experience of several disarmaments in the past, the most problematic problem of disarmament is not the soldiers, but the officers. It is easy to say that the high-grade officers are directly raised by the imperial court, and compared with the consumption of more than 100,000 troops, the salaries of hundreds of generals and colonels are not even a fraction. But what about the non-grade? From the head of the capital to the commander, officers of this rank are the backbone of the army, but they are not valued because they have not entered the stream. The strength of the Western Army was cut down, and if the imperial court abandoned it, how many officers would lose their identity.

The imperial court would not do that, and the low-level officers were extremely dangerous. The snake can't be without a head, the story of the five generations is well known to everyone, and the officers of the rank of commander and capital head are closer to the soldiers below, and it is easier for them to rebel with soldiers than high-level generals. They must be arranged in a good way, so as not to resent, and they must be separated from their soldiers and placed in another place.

"Oh, is that really the case? That can't wait, it has to be made public as soon as possible. Cai did nodded, waiting for Han Gang's next words, he didn't believe that Han Gang was just doing this.

Sure enough, he listened to Han Gang.

"There is another thing, Han Gang wants to be fair."

"That is, since the imperial court is measured by the past performance of each army, the commanders who remain must be the ranks of outstanding military achievements."

"Nature."

"So Han Gang wondered if it was better to set aside a room in the barracks of these commanders to display the flags and weapons of the enemy captured in the past, and then list the past achievements on the wall, as well as the rewards received, so as to motivate the soldiers and make them loyal to the king."

Cai was a little confused, "Why is this?" ”

"There is a country where there is a country, there is a country and there is history, and only with history can people gather people's hearts. Li Tang pursued Li Er, such as Yuan Hao, a barbarian, and he had to climb a good ancestor when he founded the country. ”

And Emperor Zhenzong of this dynasty made a holy ancestor Zhao Xuanlang who was reincarnated as Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, which is the same reason. But this one is not a good example.

After looking at Cai Qu's reaction, Han Gang continued, "An army with inheritance and merit is far more than a battalion leader without a background. And a newcomer who joins the army and stays at the head of the old battalion and the head of the new battalion for the same amount of time, and it is definitely different after he comes out. After the big victory, why do you boast about your martial arts? One is for awards, and the other is for incentives. Honorees, meritorious people; The inspirer is the descendant. If the past exploits are displayed in the battalion, and the recruits are enlisted, and the commander personally leads them to teach military history, how can they not be inspired? ”

"Is there a class to teach?"

Han Gang nodded and smiled in Cai Qu's confusion: "This can be regarded as edification." ”

Han Gang has always been advocating education, and both education and non-class have done it on the head of the red guy.

can recall what the Beijing camp changed last year in order to reward money. This incentive is true, but it also depends on the person, and the effect is at most temporary, if you really want the red guys to work hard, you still have to use a reward, not the so-called edification.

"This matter Yukun is reasonable, you can think about it. However, we still have to discuss it with Xifu. Yu Kun has already talked to Zihou, right? ”

"Not yet, but I just had some ideas."

"Really? …… But it's a good idea. ”

Han Gang thanked him, and smiled slightly bitterly: "It's impossible to say how effective this is, but you can't watch the Western Army turn into the appearance of the Hebei Army." If there is a change in the southwest, there is still a place to use them. ”

Is this really the reason? Cai was too lazy to guess. Although Han Gang was solemn, it was just a trivial matter and had nothing to do with national affairs. made Cai look forward to it in vain, but it didn't matter if he promised him.

The last time there was an incident in the southwest, it was Wang Zhongzheng who led the western army to pacify, and if there was chaos in Shu in the future, the soldiers and horses that the imperial court would use would of course be the familiar western army. If there is a change in the north in the future, even if the western army is far away, it will still come in handy.

"The Western Army is going to cut nearly forty percent this time. The daily expenses will be reduced by a quarter, and "the amount of food and salary for the forbidden army and the box army of the lower rank cannot be compared with the amount of the upper army," and the wartime expenses have been omitted, and the surplus in the hands of the political affairs hall this year may not be able to catch up with the sum of the past three or five years. ”

"There are a lot of places to use," Cai Qu quickly picked up, "Thank you Yukun, the post office alone is millions of dollars to spend." ”

"It's only a temporary overhead, and it's still invested in several years. and other postal offices are all over the township, and mail delivery all over the world comes from this, and Ken is willing to earn more in the future. ”

The total investment in a few years is only one million, and in Han Gang's opinion, it is not much at all, and even feels that it is too little. The more money invested in the channel, the faster the entire network will take shape, and the greater the influence of the postal business, and Han Gang, as an initiator, will naturally benefit a lot from it. He hoped that the postal service could take shape as soon as possible.

With the spread of the postal system in the world, Gyeonggi, Jiangnan, Jinghu, Hebei, Hedong, Guanzhong, Longxi and Shuzhong, and the prefectures and counties in all major regions of the world have invested a lot of manpower in construction. It is not a reorganization of household registration, but only the determination of the portal, and the transfer of the postal post from official and military to civilian, so the expenditure really has to be calculated, and it is not large, just a million yuan, just a temporary investment.

Kaifeng was the fastest in construction, and all of them were incorporated into the postal system, from the many counties on the periphery to the streets and alleys inside and outside the capital. And the towns below will be able to take shape in the early spring. At that time, you can already start making money. Subscribing to books, periodicals, and mail deliveries are all lucrative livelihoods. In an era when messages could only be delivered by letter, it was impossible not to make money by having a postal network. It can make up for the deficit of the imperial court post system.

"According to what you mean, Yukun, those two newspapers should not make less money, right?" Cai did take a sip of the tea that had cooled down a little and asked with a smile.

"I heard that it did sell more." Han Gang thought for a while, "But the roots of the two newspapers are in the league, and the games in the capital can't be seen in other counties, and the games in the county won't be published in the newspapers." Not much more than I want. ”

"Gather sand into a tower, gather armpits into fur. Kaifeng Mansion is so big, if every village below can buy a few newspapers, it will add up to tens of thousands. One earns a few pennies, although it is not much, and it is scary enough to run dozens of times in a year. Cai did sigh.

The business situation of the post office, where can he hide it from him, the prime minister. Since Han Gang swore that he could make money by helping people deliver letters, he would naturally have been registered on his side a long time ago.

It's just that there are more counties and towns in the periphery, but with the number of counties and towns under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture, the subscription volume of the two major newspapers has suddenly risen to a higher level, and it seems conservative, but it has turned its head upwards. The core influence also spread from the surrounding capital to the entire Kaifeng Prefecture. Judging from this momentum, the wealthy families in the villages below will also be very enthusiastic about subscribing to newspapers.