Chapter 525: The Tang Enclosure Movement Military System Reform
In fact, the sheep cannibalism movement is wrong, and the enclosure movement can also be promoted in China. www.biquge.info For China, for long-term history, it should be regarded as a short-term pain.
As long as you have studied history, you probably will not forget that sheep eat people and have to be enclosure. The British aristocracy, in order to make more money and export more wool, converted a large amount of agricultural land into grazing land. Grazing does not require so many people, and large numbers of farmers lose their land and are forced to move to cities to earn low wages to feed their families.
In the short term, the peasants are pitiful. Losing their land, bankrupt and forced into the cities, the whole family worked from morning to night, in order to get a meager salary from the factory owner who had no conscience. As a result, there were many peasant revolts.
In the long run, however, it led to an agricultural and industrial revolution. There are a lot of influences, what undermines the smallholder economy, and the big landlords are more willing and capital to invest in the fields, build irrigation systems, and use agricultural and mechanical use. The enclosure movement also provided raw materials and markets for the Industrial Revolution.
Rural areas have become a source of raw materials for industry and a market for the sale of products. The large number of bankrupt peasants caused by the enclosure movement made Britain more urbanised, and it also provided an ample source of labor for industry. The export of wool has also become the capital of industrialization, otherwise Britain will be poor and white, how can there be capital to industrialization.
It all seems like a good thing. One of the big problems in France is that there are too many small yeoman farmers. After the Revolution, a large amount of land was allocated to small yeoman farmers, which was inefficient and hindered the industrialization of France.
And like China too. Although there were many large landowners, the fields were very fragmented, one in the east and one in the west. A great field was divided into many small pieces by the ridges, and divided among many people to cultivate. This seems to take care of a considerable number of farmers, but in some respects, it is not efficient.
Although intensive farming, agricultural yields are higher than those of rough farming. However, the disadvantage is as mentioned above, because the land is not concentrated, it is impossible to try new technologies, and the big landlord, he can try to draw a small field and cultivate new crops.
In this way, it is broken into small fields, and it uses more manpower, who do you let to experiment? Even if the landlord is willing to subsidize the field, the peasants are probably not willing. If you still remember, Li Chen's housekeeper at the beginning, the experiment in Chashan was like this, don't look at the land is yours, if you are fooling around, the farmers will not want to rent your land.
In addition, the irrigation system is too broken, it is not easy to lay the irrigation system, ripping off, in order to get a little more water, and a little less work, there is a lot of trouble. In the end, one ridge is equivalent to less income, a field is divided into three pieces, and the ridge in the middle is equivalent to two rows of rice and wheat are missing.
With machinery, the efficiency is improved, the output is increased, and the excess manpower is put into other production. It also contributed to the emergence of capitalism, and in the long run, the results of the enclosure movement were good.
However, if you are a party or the kind of person who has been enclosed, you probably won't think like this. was forced to leave his hometown, and worked hard for that humble salary, if it was a party, no one wanted to.
We can learn from history textbooks that the enclosure movement is a good thing for Britain. But when it falls on the head of the individual, no one will agree with the pain on the skin.
Promoting sheep herding in the grassland, Li Chen did not have that kind of dark thoughts, to see if they would eat people. As for Datang, he does not plan to promote it.
It's not that he didn't think about promoting the industrialization of Datang. However, he already had an idea to achieve that goal. How? The answer is, the New World.
To put it bluntly, the enclosure movement is to turn small fields into large fields, mechanize farming, and make production more efficient. At the same time, the field is also easy to arrange irrigation ditches and whatnot. Large farmers are also more resistant to natural disasters than those who are small yeoman farmers. There is also the drive of the population to the cities to provide cheap manpower for industrialization. However, in Li Chen's vision, these can be solved by immigrants from the New World.
First of all, if a small field becomes a large field, he will ask the local agricultural judge to come forward to demonstrate, and use the government's fields to demonstrate, with the same area, the production efficiency of the field is higher than that of the small field, and the income is more than that of the small field, then those traditional big landlords will begin to consider and try to merge their small fields into large fields.
There is no need to advocate capitalism, human nature is to seek profit. What Li Chen had to do was to guide them out. They will follow suit.
So, what about the peasants who are forced to lose their land? Isn't the sheep eating people, but the grain eating people? Or is it money that eats people?
No, let them emigrate, the world is so big, and they need a lot of people. As long as you are willing to go, fifty acres is nothing, and a hundred acres of fertile land jumps. It not only settled the peasants, but also produced a new large landowner. Although it is said that support is needed in the early stage, Li Chen also has a way, and when he is supported, he will be a stable Tang people.
Even, this can be reversed, allowing the peasants to emigrate, forcing the big landlords to adopt the land, otherwise you will not be able to find the tenant farmers who help you cultivate the land.
And what about industrialization? Quite simply, who says that industrialization must exploit the common people? Who dictates that industrialization requires a bunch of cheap labor, exploited by those factory owners, and then causes a series of social unrest. Labor protests, burning machines, boycotting new machinery, resisting the use of new machinery more efficiently?
To put it bluntly, on the one hand, the boss is mean, hoping to hire workers at low wages, and it is best not to pay them. On the one hand, there is the issue of profits, and if there is enough profit, it is not impossible to use more labor.
If you want to make a profit, you need to have competitive goods. Datang's only opponent at present, and its commercial opponent, is Tianfangren. However, they also gradually began to be chaotic, and business snobbery declined slightly.
Other places, Europe during the dark period, the newly developed Americas, and the South Seas will all be dumping grounds for Datang goods. Even, Datang goods sell very well in Tianfang.
The market is discovered, and the next step is to develop industry and commerce, promote factories and new production technologies. The Daejeon Movement has cultivated a bunch of rural markets, which will also be the digest of Datang commodities. Although it did not produce a large number of cheap laborers, it was just the right time to promote more productive machinery. It is equivalent to skipping the stage of exploiting labor at low prices.
In the absence of competition, Datang's fundamental problem at present is to increase production, produce more, and try to sell more, but in fact, the market is not yet saturated
The shortage of workers directly puts those merchants and factory owners in front of the vast market, in order to make more money and produce more goods, they will try to improve the efficiency of machinery, instead of exploiting labor at low prices, and of course, there is no low-cost labor for them to exploit.
On the one hand, this promoted the development of machinery, and the businessman instinctively pursued an efficient mode of production. On the one hand, it can also allow workers to enjoy high wages. There is a shortage of labor, so they have to pay high wages to retain workers.
The increase in mechanical efficiency and the need for high-quality workers will make them take the initiative to improve the quality of workers. And the vast market, without the opponent market, will also bring them enough profits, do not need to exploit, can also have money to develop again.
Li Chen's idea is very beautiful, he doesn't know if he can realize it, but since there is a way to skip that painful stage, he doesn't plan to go back. After all, can you guarantee that the way Western countries succeed will succeed in Datang?
Li Chen thinks a lot about the people, and he also thinks a lot about the soldiers. Arrange a lot of ways out for them, so that they will not be unable to live after they retire. As for arranging for them to be upright? Thinking about it again, first of all, there are not many of them who can read, and it is too wasteful to cultivate.
However, for those soldiers who do not accept and do not want to be transformed, Li Chen will be ruthless. We must not allow this atmosphere of not knowing the river to continue to grow. It's the same regardless of that place.
However, in many places, it is the soldiers who are bullied by the officials that will be chased out of command. Like this military rebellion, several places were calm enough to accept the orders of the imperial court, such as eastern Zhejiang. Li Chen also had to take into account the fact that these soldiers were oppressed and had to resist.
'My Datang military system will have a complete transformation. After talking about the disposal of the soldiers, Li Chen said that he had reformed the Tang military system. The soldiers and horses of the three towns are just a model, and in the future, the other towns will be concocted in the same way, and the imperial court will not care whether they live or die, and will definitely be properly resettled, but the old army must not be left without transformation.
And in this case, the Divine Ce Army will further expand, and it can't be expanded too much, otherwise it will be a problem to be so large and powerful.
Li Chen first wanted to reform the army, not only so that the soldiers would not move to chase the commander, but also to let the military power be completely controlled by him.
He didn't plan to focus on civility over military force, so he had to start with the military system. Create one, obey the orders of the court, will not chase the commander, and can fight to win the army. The last point is the most important, you can't fight, it's useless for this army to ask for it.
Li Chen put forward his opinion. Since the collapse of the military system in the Tang Dynasty, the Xuanzong Dynasty changed to a cavalry. After the cavalry is not good, it is currently the Northern Ya Tenth Army led by the Shence Army.
These ten armies are under the orders of the emperor, and among them, it is related to the military department, one is the promotion of middle and low-level military attachés, and the military department is in charge. The other is the Treasury Department, which is in charge of the initial management of weapons storage and weapons storage.
Li Chen set up a new governor's office of the five armies, which was parallel to the military department and managed the Tenth Army of the Northern Ya. At present, except for the Shence Army, the Tenth Army of the Northern Ya of the Tang Dynasty has been slowly dealt with almost completely. In the future, it will be dominated by the 10th Army of the Northern Ya. Rebuild Datang's new military system.
First of all, Li Chen divided the troops into three classes. A, B, C. The first army is the main force, the main field force, mainly to attack the enemy country abroad, and will be the most elite main army of the Tang Dynasty.
The second class will be the defensive legion. Li Chen wants to cut down the remaining one-third of the more than forty feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty. And then in these places, there will be a Second Class Corps. They're going to be defensive. Each has its own defense zone and is not allowed to fight across the border.
Finally, the townsman conceived by Li Chen. Li Chen wants to fully implement compulsory service, and all adult males must serve. They will become the third class. It is also mainly defensive.
They won't be long-lasting. They don't even know how to recruit them. How much time and how long each person serves. At that point, it will return to normal. In normal times, the local defense will still be dominated by the second class army.
Unless the third class is facing a rebellion, it must be conscripted to quell the rebellion, or a major event such as a rout. Manpower is urgently needed, and there will not be any great military responsibilities in peacetime, and the main thing is to let them train and familiarize themselves with military orders. Those party members are required to serve in the military service of the third class regiment.
Soldiers of the First Class Regiment will be discharged for a period of five years, at which time they will be discharged. After retiring, they will not be discharged immediately, they will serve in the second class corps. Eventually, he will retire to the third class.
There was a gradual process in between, and the First Class Legion would still be dominated by young soldiers who did not have the burden of family work. When they were reassigned to the Second Regiment, they would gradually begin to train them for future positions in local office, or to learn trades, and to coach them to start a family. Li Chen is well-intentioned.
This is the process of decommissioning, and if there is retreat, there will be advance. The Second Class Legion would also be a place for new recruits to be over-veterans. The second-class regiment will recruit new recruits, and after training, if there is a vacancy in the first class, it will be filled from the second class. Therefore, the second-class army may be mobilized more frequently, which is also Li Chen's idea, not to let an army completely lose its mobility, so that it is very comfortable to become someone's private soldier.
And what about the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies? Li Chen took the same name as the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in the early Ming Dynasty. But in nature, it's completely different.
The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, in nature, is the same as the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies in the Ming Dynasty, that is, to separate the unified adjustment. Separate the right to command troops from the right to transfer troops. However, it is completely different in nature. Zhu Yuanzhang had to be the governor of the five armies, and the five armies were not subordinate to each other. Even the soldiers below have little to do with them.
The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is a good idea. It is somewhat similar to the "Department of Defense-Joint Chiefs of Staff" system adopted by the United States and other countries. However, it's not the same.
Basically, the Ming Dynasty's Five Military Governor's Mansion was not a coordinating body. It is an organization that has no right to lead troops, and what is more troublesome is that it does not even have the right to command his subordinates. When he received the order to transfer troops from the Ministry of War, he sent it to the Metropolitan Command Division below, and then the Metropolitan Command Division issued it to the guards and offices below.
The Governor's Mansion and the Metropolitan Division sent generals and guards to respond to the dispatch of the military department. When the battle was over, the generals returned to the Governor's Mansion and the Metropolitan Division to return the Great Seal, and the soldiers returned to the Guard.
Yes, I believe many people have seen that this will fundamentally form a general who does not know the soldiers, and the soldiers who do not know the generals. The military department can't manage the guards, so he knows a general, but the general doesn't know if these soldiers can fight. If they are like Li Chen, they have stipulated the army drill code, maybe there are standards to refer to. However, everyone knows that there is no such thing.
This also caused the combat effectiveness of the Ming army to become lower and lower. What's even worse is that the Ming Dynasty implemented the world military system, and once you entered the army, it was as deep as the sea, and from then on, the good people were not you. After joining the army, he waited for his grandfather to pass on his son, and his son to pass on his grandson. How can this guarantee the quality of the soldiers? Moreover, in terms of will, the battle of the world soldiers was very poor, forced and voluntary, and the morale was very different.
Li Chen, who has experience in later generations, will certainly not go back.