The huge victory of Houjin brought great joy to Daming. It didn't take long for the Son of Heaven to reward the land, issue medals, and reward the heroes.

Liaodong Town was also successfully dismissed by Zhu Youxiao, and the soldiers happily retired from the army and went to farm, owning at least 80 acres of land, so that they could have no worries about food and clothing in the future. Zhu Youxiao considered that natural disasters may occur more frequently in the next few years, and they are likely to affect the eastern Liaoning region, so in order to prevent these veterans from surviving and rebelling, he announced various measures to protect veterans.

First of all, the Supreme High Command has set up a 'Veterans Security Department' to provide relief to all disaster-stricken servicemen who have been discharged from the army and engaged in farming, and to help them resume production free of charge. Second, veterans can be exempted from agricultural taxes in the event of injuries, illnesses, and disasters. Third, veterans of the army can be exempted from forced labor, and the agricultural tax shall be paid at the rate of one-tenth. At the same time, it is stipulated that the agricultural tax for veterans shall be levied by the Department of Veterans Security, so as to avoid problems in the local government.

The dismantling of the Liaodong Army is only the first step, and the second step is to gradually dismantle the professional soldiers in the Central Army. The first to be eliminated were the pikemen of the Central Army.

By this time, Houjin had been wiped out, the Ming army had field artillery units, musketeers were also equipped with bayonets, and most importantly, 40,000 cavalry had been trained. At this time, the infantry no longer needed pikemen for protection, so pikemen were among the first to be eliminated after the war.

Of the 15 infantry divisions of the Central Army, 70,000 pikemen were dismantled.

The reward of the Central Army in this battle was much higher than that of the Liaodong Army, and many soldiers even accumulated two or three hundred acres of land as a reward for military merits, and they were directly a small landlord after retiring from the army. Of course, the court now discourages them from renting land to tenant farmers. After the introduction of the Tenants Act. There is little future for this model.

So many soldiers of the Central Army were discharged from the army. The land was converted into a stake in the Military Agricultural Company, which was established by the Department of Veterans Security.

Agricultural companies set up by the military enjoy preferential tax rates, as well as advanced agricultural production technology, and receive dividends every year as long as the grain can be sold.

However, although 70,000 soldiers of the Central Army have to be discharged, only half of them have actually been discharged, and the remaining half have been retained or turned into compulsory soldiers.

Li Lin is a pikeman who voluntarily turned into a compulsory soldier. He didn't want to be discharged from the army, and he didn't want to leave the barracks. His ancestors were all military households in Yansui Town, and they had been digging in the soil until his generation met a good emperor, so that he could eat his stomach, feed his family, and make contributions.

He didn't want to continue digging in the soil, he wanted to build a greater feat. Li Lin, who has been trained by the cultural classes of the Central Army, knows that there will be many opportunities to make contributions in the future. Because on that world map, there are still large areas of land that do not belong to the Ming barbarians.

It doesn't matter if the pikeman is eliminated, he can be converted into a musketeer. Continue to serve for five years. As long as he can improve his culture a little more, he is likely to become an officer.

In fact, less than 40,000 people were discharged from the Central Army in the first batch. Some of the pikemen left behind were converted into musketeers, some into artillery, and even scouts and cavalry.

The professional soldiers in the Central Army are the three branches of artillery, cavalry, and reconnaissance, and these three branches of the army are professional soldiers that do not need to be abolished.

It is also relatively easy for veterans of the Central Army to change jobs, because they have learned a certain culture in the army, and many of them are sent to technical colleges to study and change jobs in the direction of technical work. The companies of the Royal Consortium also welcome these veterans of the Central Army, and the recruitment of qualified employees is the priority to choose the veterans of the Central Army.

The musketeers in the Central Army will be replaced by compulsory soldiers one after another. Some will be sent to the Royal Military Academy to further their studies as officers, some will be discharged from the army, and some will be converted into compulsory soldiers.

In the Forbidden City, the emperor is holding a meeting of the Supreme Command.

Lu Xiangsheng reported to Zhu Youxiao about the military expenditure reduction plan formulated by the General Staff, "While reducing the number of professional soldiers, the imperial court will continue to expand two cavalry divisions, so as to build ten cavalry divisions, with a total of 50,000 troops. Five more field artillery regiments were expanded, thus increasing the size of eight field artillery regiments with 576 field artillery pieces. The size of professional soldiers was retained at 60,000. ”

"The existing musketeers of the Central Army are planned to be replaced with compulsory soldiers within two years. At the same time, 10 more infantry divisions will be built within two years, bringing the number of infantry divisions to 25 and the strength of 250,000 troops. In addition, the equipment of musketeers was comprehensively streamlined, and musketeers were no longer equipped with iron armor and leather armor, and the cost of musketeer equipment was reduced to five yuan per person, and the monthly food and training consumption was maintained within one yuan. The cost of equipment reported by Lu Xiangsheng is very low, only 5 silver dollars are needed to equip a soldier. But in fact, it is already very luxurious, the military purchase price of a musket is only 3 yuan, and the other 2 yuan is counted in the military uniform, shoes and socks. The monthly consumption cost of 1 yuan, food and gunpowder are the largest consumption, but in fact, 1 yuan is still very generous. After all, the soldier's food for 5 jiao per month is very enough, and it is full of meat and vegetables. The remaining 5 corners are mainly the consumption of gunpowder and other aspects.

"After the formation of the 25 infantry divisions is completed, the nine sides will be completely dismantled. The elite combat unit of the imperial court will be composed of ten cavalry divisions, twenty-five infantry divisions, and eight artillery regiments. It is estimated that the annual daily military expenditure is 12 million yuan. At the same time, the Navy's annual military expenditure is 5 million yuan, and the military expenditure is 17 million yuan. ”

"In addition, ten production corps are set up every year, each of which opens up a 100,000-mu farm, goes to the frontier to reclaim wasteland, and adopts the management mode of semi-agricultural and pastoral and semi-military training, so that the imperial court has a number of second-line troops."

"Let's revise the production corps to fifteen!" Zhu Youxiao said that the production corps is actually the model of later generations, but it is the same as the guard system of the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent, and it is a military tuntian. It's just that the health center system uses military households, which have been military households for generations, and these military households have to support their families, and they can't fight when they are old, and the corruption of the system over time is an inevitable result.

The production corps uses compulsory soldiers, iron-clad battalion soldiers, and fresh blood can be replaced every year. Seventeen or eighteen-year-old young people do not have the burden of supporting their families, and it also happens to be the stage of immature thinking, which is easier to shape, and dare to fight and rush when fighting.

In addition, all the production income of the production corps belongs to the imperial court, which is only responsible for supplying food, clothing, equipment, and some pocket money to the soldiers, and distributing some New Year's goods and other things during the New Year's holidays. Training when farming is slack, production when farming is busy. The output is fully capable of sustaining expenditures, and it will generate significant profits.

If it was before, the soldiers in this mode did not have much combat effectiveness. But now it's different, musketeers can go to war after two months of training. The soldiers of these production corps serve for a period of five years, and they can be trained to a relatively good degree in the use of queues and muskets. In the event of war, all of these production corps can be mobilized for battle.

In addition, if the Ming Dynasty wants to expand outward, it must also have a large number of production corps, otherwise it will rely on civilian immigrants, and its ability to digest new territories will be too poor.

If you want to immigrate a large number of people to a certain area, you must at least have a basic thing. For example, if the food supply is not in place, there is simply no ability to migrate so many people.

If you rely on the method of slow migration, then the immigrants are dragged with their families, and they do not have the ability to organize and plan. It is far less efficient than a production corps, which is all labor.

Just like after eliminating the main force of wild boar skin, the Ming army has swept through the northeast, but at present, it can only resume production in Liaodong. Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty was basically the region of Liaoning Province in later generations. In later generations, Jilin and Heilongjiang are now difficult to immigrate, and those areas have no foundation, and immigrants can only blow cold winds in the past.

It is different to send the production corps over first, the imperial court only needs to transport military rations for one year, and there is no need to transport military rations for the second year. And there's also the food that can feed the people who migrated to the past. In addition, with the production corps as the core, cities and towns can also be formed. Once a town is formed, it can be immigrated in large numbers. Ordinary people in resource-poor and populous areas should be relocated to areas with vast and sparsely populated areas and abundant resources, so as to complete the basic allocation of resources.

The biggest problem of Daming at this time is that the allocation of resources is extremely imbalanced, so that many people do not have enough resources to live a good life.

Internal resource adjustment is one solution, but expanding resources through expansion is also a good solution. (To be continued......)