A family head asked a question related to everyone's vital interests: "How to arrange military rations and salaries?!" ”

Wei Yan patiently explained: "The township soldiers have no military rations and salaries, all of them are self-funded, and the expenses of the training day are collected from the local pavilion chiefs and township orders from the local families and landlords.

The military rations and salaries of the county soldiers are a quarter of that of the regular army, and the remaining shortfall can be obtained through the tuntian, and the wasteland near the county seat is allocated to the county soldiers, who take turns to reclaim the wasteland, and all the harvest income is at their disposal!

The military rations and salaries of the county soldiers are half of that of the regular army, and the remaining shortfall can also be obtained through the tuntian, and the wasteland near the county town is allocated to the county soldiers, who take turns to reclaim the wasteland, and all the harvest income is at their disposal! ”

One of the heads of the family asked, "General Wei, where are there so many fields for them to open up the fields?" ”

Nearly half of the land was in the hands of the family, and most of the remaining wasteland was occupied by the Tuntian Corps.

"The fields within a radius of two miles from the county seat and the county seat are all strategic land, and all of them are allocated to the county soldiers and county soldiers. Wei Yan said coldly: "The military fields are close to the city, so it is convenient for them to quickly switch between plowing the fields, training, and fighting, this is a strategic arrangement, no one is allowed to break this rule, and the saboteurs will be dealt with by military law!" ”

"How should weapons, armor, horses and other ordnance materials be deployed?" One of the family heads noticed that Wei Yan didn't talk about this issue.

"I know that many of you families have privately opened iron mines and private iron shops to build weapons and armor, and in the future, you can continue to build weapons and armor, and then sell them to all levels of government, and then distribute them to county soldiers and county soldiers by all levels of government offices! As for the township soldiers, they use the weapons eliminated by the county soldiers and county soldiers, while the county soldiers and county soldiers use the weapons, armor, and horses eliminated by our officers and soldiers. Wei Yan replied: "In order to economize, I propose to start with the county soldiers to use the equipment eliminated or captured by the regular army, the county soldiers use the old weapons of the county soldiers, the township soldiers use the old weapons of the county soldiers, and so on." ”

A family head asked: "But in that case, won't the combat effectiveness of the county and township soldiers be greatly affected?" ”

Wei Yan longed: "The old weapons are used because the new weapons are not enough, if we make great progress in steel smelting here, we can slowly use all soldiers, whether it is the regular army, county soldiers, county soldiers, and township soldiers, to use standard weapons and armor." ”

"Format? What does this mean? ”

"The values of the same weapon and armor are the same, so that a series of matters such as production, distribution, supply, and maintenance can be followed by rules and targeted. Everyone imagines that the Qin State swept the six countries with the power of one country and dominated the world, and part of the reason was because their weapons and armor were all made of the same high standards. ”

Everyone nodded in approval, looking forward to it, they all knew the history, and knew that the tyrannical Qin had a lot of great military features that were not inherited by the Han Dynasty, if General Wei could move some of the military systems of the Qin Dynasty over, it would greatly shorten the time to pacify the world, and it would also be beneficial to these families.

"Listen to the general, the regular army is a little more elite than the county soldiers, so can the county soldiers be selected into the regular army?"

"I set up township soldiers, county soldiers and county soldiers, just to use these soldiers and horses to defend the place, and the regular army in addition to defending the main city, is also responsible for the southern expedition to the north, in addition to selecting the elite from the enemy's surrendered troops, you can also select the elite from the county soldiers and tuntian soldiers to supplement." Wei Yandao: "Now the regular army has 100,000 horses, which seems to be huge, but in fact it is not enough to fight against other princes, and the imperial court needs to recruit further troops. ”

As soon as Wei Yan's words fell, some subordinates from the family all got up one after another and said: "I am willing to dedicate one-fifth of the family soldiers to the general and support the great cause of the lord!" ”

The heads of those big families who had already expressed their hearts received the instruction, and they also stood up and expressed their willingness to give one-tenth of the family soldiers to Wei Yan to support Wei Yan's great cause.

There are also more than a dozen big families and the heads of small and medium-sized families who are vassals of them, knowing that Wei Yan is invincible in all battles, and follows Wei Yan's regular army to the front line to make meritorious contributions, which is convenient for promotion, and will help the future of the family a lot, so they have expressed their willingness to give one-tenth of their family soldiers to Wei Yan to support Wei Yan's great cause.

Wei Yan saw that they meant that they wanted to use their own great god to let their children also get military merits and get promoted, since these people were selfish, Wei Yan also said unceremoniously: "Two ugly words are ahead.

The first sentence is that everyone is equal before military law, and if your sons do not obey military orders, if they escape from the battle, if they burn and loot, this general will definitely be dealt with by military law.

The second sentence is that there are knives and guns on the battlefield, and the swords have no eyes, if your children are unfortunately killed in battle, you should not blame General Ben.

I tell you these two points now, and if you now say that you do not want to participate, General Ben will not be reluctant. ”

Since those family masters had already said such things, how could they take it back, so they said one after another: "The army should have obeyed the general's orders, how can there be immortals on the battlefield, everything depends on the general!" ”

In this way, more than 20 families and more than 100 small and medium-sized families attached to them sent some family soldiers to join the regular army, and according to the statistics, there were more than 31,000 in total, plus 12,000 people selected from the county soldiers in the ratio of 1 out of 10, a total of more than 43,000 people.

Wei Yan transferred more than 3,000 lightly wounded soldiers from the regular army to various pavilions, townships, and counties to serve as pavilion lieutenants, township lieutenants, and county lieutenants, or to serve as assistants to these lieutenants, and to do different positions according to their military ranks, those below the rank of samurai should be pavilion lieutenants or deputy pavilion lieutenants, those below the rank of great samurai should be township lieutenants or deputy township lieutenants, and those below the rank of lieutenant commander should be county lieutenants or deputy county lieutenants. In fact, many counties were small, with only about 10,000 households, so all other official posts at the township level were abolished, and only one township lieutenant was left to command three or four township soldiers.

Among the more than 43,000 newly recruited, 3,000 were selected to supplement the 3,000 vacancies that had been transferred, and the remaining half were organized as soldiers and half as auxiliaries, so that Wei Yan had two more divisions under his command.

In this way, the regular army under Wei Yan has 200,000 horses, 100,000 soldiers, and 100,000 auxiliary soldiers, and temporarily claims 100,000 horses, because most of Wei Yan's troops are newly recruited, whether it is a surrender or a private soldier contributed by these families, they have not undergone long-term and arduous training, so Wei Yan does not have a high evaluation of the combat effectiveness of the regular army.

Under the training of generals such as Wei Yan and Xu Huang who are good at military training, they may be able to be reborn in half a year.

As for Wei Yan himself, he really felt that he should spend more time in the barracks to train his soldiers and horses.

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The system of all the people being soldiers has been implemented, and now, it is necessary to carry out education for all, and when the education for all is carried out, within ten years, the Han nation will no longer be sheep, but a real dragon entrenched in East Asia, eating all those small fish and shrimp, especially the reptile in the East China Sea.

It's easier said than done to carry out education for all.

Wei Yan was ready to set up an official school with great fanfare, but the heads of those big families and the private scholars who were attached to them opposed it one after another.

Wei Yan knew that these bastards said all kinds of reasons for opposition, and they simply wanted to inherit the official position from generation to generation and keep the inheritance of their family, and they were most afraid that their hereditary official position would be replaced by the children of the poor family or those mud-legged families. Wei Yan convened all the heads of the family to discuss together, in order to temporarily dispel their doubts and fears, to mix deception and deception, and to set the basic policy of "education for all".

At the banquet, Wei Yan said in a high-sounding manner: "The reason why the government school is greatly promoted and the children of the lowly and poor are allowed to go to school is to follow Confucius's 'people's permission, so that it can be used; No, let the children of the peddlers, pawns, yeoman farmers, tenant farmers, and slaves all accept the Confucianism of the sages, let them know etiquette, know benevolence, know humility, know shame, let them no longer rely on the Yellow Turban remnants to make trouble, accept the rule of the family and the court in a proper manner, no longer resent, no longer resist! ”

Wei Yan felt that he had said this very well, presumably these family heads had nothing to say, who knows, as soon as his voice landed, he heard a sharp and piercing objection: "What the most holy Confucius said is that the people can make it, but they can't make it known; Yasheng Mencius once said that those who work hard govern people, those who work hard govern people, those who govern people eat people, those who govern people eat people, and the general meaning of the world is also. What Confucius and Mencius said is an eternal truth that cannot be changed! Who is you, who dares to change the holy words of Confucius and Mencius, it is really a great rebellion! ”

Wei Yan fixed his eyes and saw that it was Wang Xiao, the head of the Wang family of Hongnong County, who seemed to be a vassal of the Taiyuan Wang family, with a dignified appearance and awe-inspiring justice, and it seemed that he was a gentleman in the whole world.

Wei Yan hates such a hypocrite the most, he was talking about Xingtou, but was interrupted by such a person, and heard the foolish people's sentence "The people can make it, but they can't make it known", he couldn't help but be furious, and his anger rushed to the top of his head, and he stretched out his hand to pull out the Yitian Sword to kill Wang Xiao, but before he pulled out the sword, he was awakened by another clear voice: "Lord, don't be reckless, although Wang Xiao has no words, but he has the aura of Confucius and Meng, if the lord kills him, there will be great disrespect for Kong and Meng, I'm afraid of this, The lord will also offend the world's scholars, don't be careful! ”

When Wei Yan heard Xu Shu say this, the blood that rushed to his brain slowly flowed back, and he gradually calmed down, he didn't have enough prestige to resist Kong Meng Sage head-on.

However, Wang Xiao's doubts are not difficult for him, it is not critical whether Confucius and Mencius's thoughts are right or wrong, the key is how people understand!

Wei Yan said coldly: "Zi said: 'Flourishing in poetry, standing in ceremony, and becoming happy, the people can make it impossible to know it. 'Wang Xiao, how do you understand this sentence of Kong Sheng? ”

Wang Xiaoyang said smugly: "As everyone knows, what Confucius means is that we rule the people, just instruct and drive them to do things, don't let them understand what they are doing!" ”

"What a great man Kong Sheng is, but the wise words he said have been misinterpreted like this by you evil intentions and selfish rats," Wei Yan has been trying hard to restrain his anger, but whenever he hears such clichéd foolish words, he can't hold back his indignation: "If the original meaning of Confucius is to drive the people to do things without letting them know our purpose, then where does the spirit of benevolence and righteousness advocated by Kong Sheng exist?" Zi said, benevolence, love people. According to your understanding, how did Kong Sheng ever love those subordinates, and how could he have benevolence and righteousness! In my opinion, Sage Confucius is great, and you are obscene and ugly to distort Sage Confucius's remarks so unreasonable! ”

Wang Xiao was scolded by Wei Yan, and asked with a gloomy face: "Since General Wei said this, how do you understand Sage Kong's words?" ”

Wei Yan said coldly: "For the people, those who can make them free, and those who cannot also make them known. The whole sentence of Confucius can be understood in this way, the three things of poetry and music are the foundation of educating the people, and we must do a good job of it, if the people master the poetry and music, it is a good thing, and they should be allowed to play, if the people have not mastered it, we must educate them, let them know and understand these things. ”

When Sima Hui heard Wei Yan expound on Confucius's controversial words, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Only by breaking the sentence and understanding it like this, can it be seen that Confucius is a benevolent, righteous and sage!" ”

Wang Xiao saw that the great Confucian Sima Hui in the sea supported Wei Yan's sentence in this way, his face became more and more green, and he asked tightly: "Then how do you understand Yasheng's words?" ”

Without waiting for Wei Yan to answer, Sima Hui said sharply: "I see that you Wang Xiao have also read for a few years, you should remember the words before Yasheng's words, 'Then the world can be cultivated and made for?' There are things for adults and things for villains. And the body of one person, and the preparation of a hundred workers, if it must be used for its own use, it is to lead the world and the road. ’

On the whole, what Yasheng really wants to express is that there is a division of labor in the art industry, it is impossible for most of them to be officials, and it is impossible for everyone to be farmers, and everything that everyone does is indispensable.

You take it out of context, think that those who work hard must override those who work hard, and think that they are the masters of all the people at the bottom!

You never thought about what your ancestors were before they came from.

They are no different from those low-level people who have been oppressed by you to the point of dying, if they all hold official positions from top to bottom like you, and do not allow any low-level people to have the opportunity to come up, I am afraid that you are also digging in the soil now! ”

Lu Zhi's words did not sober up Wang Xiao, but made him even more resentful, stood up Tengdi, and pointed at Sima Hui and Wei Yan: "Only by acting according to our understanding can the world be peaceful!" According to your misinterpretation, the world will only be in chaos! Those who disturb the world will wait! ”

Insulting Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu can bear it for a while, insulting Lao Tzu's master, Lao Tzu can't bear it, Wei Yan lost his cool on the spot, jumped up, rushed forward and gave Wang Xiao a resounding slap.

Wang Xiao was standing on the side of the case at the time, Wei Yan's slap made him fly out a foot away, lying in the center of the banquet, lying on the ground and vomiting blood vigorously, spitting out a mouth full of broken molars, and his face was swollen like a pig's head.