Chapter 52: The First Knife

The turmoil in the Zhou State had ended, and after Wen Yong burned all the correspondence documents of the civil protectors and officials in front of the ministers, promising not to investigate further, the political situation of the Zhou State also stabilized. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info What Wen Yong has to do now is to heal the wounds after the war as soon as possible, let Zhou Guo recuperate, and reform and strengthen. After ten years of observing the court situation, Wen Yong already had a certain plan for the future of the Zhou State.

In fact, every traveler knows that the reform of the hegemony in the war era No.1 is still the famous field system, that is, the mixed praise and criticism of the Shang monarch cultivation method in later generations, it is a man-eating monster, Wen Yong also wants to reproduce the tiger power of the Great Qin Xiongshi in the land of the Great Zhou, but after thinking about it, the best is not necessarily the most suitable, and the current situation does not allow Wen Yong to make such a big stride in reform.

First, it is rare for a thousand years for a hooligan like Shang Yang who is willing to sacrifice his body to forcibly rip off the rights of the aristocracy.

Second, the big and small officials of the Zhou State are all clan lords, and if they want to move, the turmoil is far better than that of the Qin State back then.

Third, when the law was changed that year, the Central Plains were competing with each other, and Wei was attracted by the Qi state, which was constantly trying to challenge the hegemony, which gave the Qin state the opportunity to tide over the turbulent period smoothly. Now that the two powerhouses in the Central Plains are standing side by side, and the Chen State in the south has the Yangtze River moat, it is so troublesome to develop a naval army to fight him, so the two countries in the Central Plains can only stare at each other and drool. Wen Yong dared to change the law, Murong Xuan of Qi definitely didn't mind taking a large army to Zhou State for sightseeing, when the old aristocracy had just been suppressed, and the new aristocracy had not yet become a climate, Wen Yong, who was alone, was beaten by all kinds of fancy ways every minute.

Now he sent a Shang Ying to Wen Yong and said that he wanted to help him change the law, Wen Yong's first reaction was not to agree, but to immediately pull out this evil demon and cut it down.

Therefore, what Wen Yong has to do is not to tear down and reshape the old system, but to repair and innovate the old system step by step, and break the long-frozen political deadlock. At the very least, unify the north first, and then talk about major reforms.

After straightening out his thinking, Wen Yong summoned a group of henchmen except Wen Xin, who led the troops to resist the Qi State, to the imperial study. In addition, the patriarch Wenlan and the veteran Jingquan were also invited here by Wenyong.

coincides with the idea of Wen Hu, Wen Yong's first knife is ready to be opened on the army, military power is the right of power, only by holding the military power in his hands, Wen Yong has the confidence to display his ambitions and continue to deepen reform.

Moreover, a strong army is the foundation of a neutral country in this troubled era, and now the army has been defeated, and then the fall of Wen Bao, the army of the Zhou State has been scattered after the purge, and has entered the weakest period of chaos, and then it is afraid that it will cause a catastrophe, and Wen Yong also took this opportunity to reorganize the military system.

The military system of the Zhou State is still extended to the previous dynasty, except for the palace and some of the elites stationed at the border gates, the other troops are requisitioned by the militia groups of the state capitals in wartime, they are actually farmers, farming on weekdays, only in wartime will they receive a notice to bring their own weapons and dry food to the state capital to report, free of charge for the country, even if the war is killed or missing arms and legs, they can only get a very low pension, so there are often evasion of military service.

Such a system is somewhat primitive and barbaric, and it is difficult to guarantee the combat strength of the army.

As far as the military system is concerned, the first to top the list is undoubtedly the recruitment system of later generations, and the combat effectiveness of professional soldiers is definitely not to be said, but the current situation is that the recruitment system will consume a lot of money and food, and the long defense line of the Great Zhou Dynasty will also take away a large number of domestic labor, and the development force is seriously insufficient, and the population is missing due to war today, only one-third of the Zhou State in the world can not afford to feed the recruitment system, and forcibly implementing it will only drain his own blood, so Wen Yong decided to retreat to the second, and implement the military system of the previous life on a large scale after changing it according to the existing situation. After accumulating strength, the conscription system will be revised batch by batch.

The government military system began in the Western Wei Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties, which divided the world into state capitals, each of which was led by a general, and then planned by the binary system, until the hands of the eight generals of the Zhu Kingdom, and finally all the rights were returned to the emperor. The system of the government military system is to select the strong people in the government and organize them, to work in agriculture when they are busy and to train in their spare time, which not only ensures the domestic labor force, but also gives the soldiers a certain combat capacity.

After handing over the prepared documents of the government military system to a few people for circulation, Wen Yong asked, "Do you think Aiqing thinks it is feasible?" ”

Jing Quan hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty is wise, this law straightens out the official positions in the army, and it is of great help to our army's orders." ”

Wen Ran Laocheng was a little more serious, and said with doubts: "Your Majesty, one of the military systems of the government, once recruited, the family members of the soldiers in the army will immediately be incorporated into the army, no longer accept labor calls, rent reductions and levies, I am afraid that people will take advantage of loopholes, evade labor and affect local management and construction in the future, do you want to consider it again?" ”

This is a policy of buying the hearts of the military and encouraging them to join the army, and the black-hearted Wen Yong has made changes compared to history, only reducing the tax, not exempting it. Although the implementation of military registration will leave the hidden danger of government decree differentiation, in order to reorganize the army's morale as soon as possible, Wen Yong said irrevocably: "Since there are men in the family who have worked for the country, only wives and children are left, and then conscription may cut off the people's way of life." However, the patriarch's words are not unreasonable, so let's do it, a person can only let the parents, wives and children of direct blood relatives be naturalized with them, and if they die in battle, their children will be naturalized after they reach the age of sixteen. ”

Wen Ran Twist nodded and said, "That's a good idea." ”

Wang Gui also saw the huge potential of the government military system, but he also saw some hidden dangers, so he asked: "Dare to ask Your Majesty, the government soldiers are organized and trained by the general of the government, how are the generals selected, and is the centralized training of the soldiers of the government easy to cause chaos?" The taxes of military personnel will be collected by the military office, and will there be a local division of power after the independence of money and grain? ”

Wen Yong said: "I plan to let the government soldiers still train in the county government on weekdays, and recruit veterans who have been discharged from the army due to injuries to be responsible for training, and only in wartime will the government soldiers from all over the country be concentrated." This also gives the veterans who have been disabled for the country some way out. As for the money and grain collected by the military personnel in the tuntian, I plan to set up state warehouses in several important places to store them in case of war. ”

The specific implementation details of the government soldiers were agreed with the subordinate system for a long time, and finally the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty was divided into 24 prefectures, and the positions were 24 prefecture generals, 12 generals and six pillars from low to high, and the edicts were collected into documents and sent to various places.

The military framework has been drawn out, but how to fill in the ranks has become a big problem.

After Wen Yong crossed out the military attaches who he knew were incompetent, the military attaches in the current court were so withered that they could not fill these vacancies. Fortunately, Zhuguo was originally to divide the rights of the Great Sima, and if he can't get it together, he can first appoint Jingquan, Wenlan, and Wengui to take charge of them, and he is not busy appointing them all, but the most basic Zhonglang generals in each prefecture must be established first to ensure that the government military system runs first.

Wen Yong will definitely not appoint someone sitting here to choose, and it is difficult to guarantee that their recommendation will not bring convenience to his cronies, and it is very easy to form a faction, so that Wen Yong's hidden intention of decentralization will be in vain.

Wen Yong said out of balance considerations: "Wen Jian, Old General Jingquan, and Old Wen Zong, you will select the guards, the Imperial Forest Supervisor, and the meritorious generals from various local gate lords to conduct an assessment, and select the remaining Zhonglang generals. ”

Wen Jian represents the Imperial Forest Supervisor, Jing Quan brings the local generals, and Wen Ran represents the royal family, and the generals elected under the control of the three of them should be able to ensure that the power in the army will not be unbalanced.

As for the general, Wen Yong must ensure that he is personally promoted and appointed, and firmly grasp the power of the general.