“…… I think the establishment of a conscription system and the implementation of compulsory conscription are a method that can be tried, and now the reform of military service is imperative and unavoidable! ”

At the weekly military meeting in the northeast, Tang Haoran put forward his ideas for the first time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info conscription and establish a conscription system! No one knows better than him what it means to establish conscription. And for the conscripts mentioned by adults, Shang Dequan, Kong Lingtang and others were all surprised, they were no strangers to the term conscription, more or less always heard the German instructors in the martial arts hall mention, but for China, at least for China in this era, it is extremely unfamiliar, and even a little unrealistic.

"Ran Shuai!"

This claim is the name of Tang Haoran in the Northeast Army today, which is completely different from the adults in the officialdom, but now this title has just emerged in Fuzhong.

"This from ancient times to the present as a soldier has been called food, grain, grain, the man who eats food, when the soldier eats food, it has long been a matter of course, this compulsory soldier only gets personal food and clothing and a very small allowance, if the implementation of the compulsory military system may be difficult to recruit new soldiers,"

As the head of the joint logistics department of the border guards, in addition to managing logistics, he is also responsible for recruiting new soldiers, but this recruitment office has not set up a local recruitment point.

"Moreover, since the founding of the new army, because of the sparse and small population in Korea and the Kwantung region, uh, and northeast, the officers and soldiers are recruited in the Guannai, although this recruitment of Ding Yong has the cooperation of the local government, but it must be promised a generous salary before it can be done, and now all provinces in the Guannai are running the new army, and the recruitment of Ding Yong is even worse than yesterday, if our army intends to only hold an army of 100,000, it will be maintained according to the standing army, the reserve army and the reserve army. Thirty thousand recruits must be recruited each year. Therefore, it is necessary to consider increasing the salaries of soldiers. At present, the salary of soldiers in the customs has been generally raised from 3 taels to 4 taels for military training. ”

As the head of the joint logistics department, he may not be concerned about the training of the new army in the provinces in the Guannai, but he has no choice but to pay attention to the increase in the salary of soldiers in the interior, and at the same time, various localities have followed the example of the new army to establish a three-class armament system of standing army, reserve army, and reserve army, but at the same time, they have raised military salaries, and this has suddenly put pressure on the Northeast Army, whose soldiers are dependent on the mainland.

"That's why we need to build conscripts! Implement conscription! ”

Faced with the point of view, Tang Haoran categorically interrupted his words and said.

"As for what kind of tradition, I think conscription is our Chinese tradition. As early as the Shang and Zhou periods, China already had a conscription system, and the implementation was that all the people were soldiers, and the old and weak women and children in the tribe participated in the battle. By decree at the time, every tribesman was obliged to fight as a soldier during the war. The core of the army is composed of the royal family and the children of the nobility, that is, the "three clans" and the "many sons". The backbone force is the armor of civilians.

And during the Warring States period, a standing army system was established. Standing troops are the backbone of the army, and they are all selected through conscription examinations. The selection criteria are quite strict. Whoever is selected is exempt from taxes and servitude for the whole family.

After Qin unified the Seven Kingdoms, a nationwide conscription system appeared. The peasants were the main source of soldiers. The military service and labor in the Qin Dynasty were extremely onerous. At that time, the population of the country was about 20 million, and there were 2 to 3 million people who were regularly conscripted for military service and hard labor. Han Cheng Qin system. It is stipulated that men shall serve in the military twice in their lifetime for one year, in addition to annual training in the field of farming. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, people who were familiar with the situation of ethnic minorities in the north were recruited to form "Hu Cai", and people who were familiar with the Yue affairs in the south were recruited to form "Yue Cai", until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the conscription system of the whole country was destroyed, and in the Three Kingdoms, there was a "world military system", and the father and son were soldiers for generations to ...... for soldiers.

talked about the history of military service in ancient China, and in the end, Tang Haoran concluded.

"Throughout the ancient military service system in our country, for thousands of years, conscription, military households, and conscription appeared one after another, and they were mixed with each other. Generally speaking, the military household system is more respected because of the integration of soldiers and peasants and the fact that the government does not need to pay for raising soldiers, but it is easy to be abolished and destroyed; The conscription system separates military and production, which is conducive to the development of production and an increase in population, but it will also bring about a new stubborn problem -- eating empty salaries and easily reducing combat effectiveness. In short, the evolution of the ancient military service system, like the change of dynasties, has its own advantages and drawbacks. Today, since we intend to reproduce the glory of China's old days, this originated from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, flourished in the Warring States period, and advocated the conscription system in the Qin and Han dynasties, and should be restored! ”

In fact, since the Franco-Prussian War, the world has entered the era of "total warfare", and the only way to win is to mobilize the strength of the whole country.

In that tragic eight years in another time and space, if there was no conscription system built before the war, there was no "strong men" who were ridiculed and ridiculed by the world, and there was no compulsory military service, perhaps this country would have been defeated long ago, and how could it have become one of the four great powers in the world by virtue of that war.

On the other hand, the 100,000 army needs 6,700,000 taels a month alone, and the annual salary of 10 million taels is undoubtedly a huge expenditure, and if this expenditure can be saved, more money can be used to strengthen the building of the army and navy.

"Ran Shuai, although this conscription system is good, but after all, there are few outsiders in this pass, and I am afraid that conscription will not only cause some people to evade military service, but I am afraid that it will also affect production and affect the ...... immigrants."

When cautiously raising objections, Shang Dequan deliberately added,

"In my opinion, we can try it out first, because conscription is really a big deal, so it is better to be cautious, and we can not use coercion when trying it out outside the customs, and as for the inside of the customs, we can continue to carry out recruitment, so that we can not only maintain the combat effectiveness of the troops, but also discover all kinds of deficiencies in time during the trial and revise them in the future."

Shang Dequan's prudence naturally won the approval of others, and for them, who had studied modern military command under the colonel, they naturally agreed with the establishment of a conscription system in China, but it also made them have to consider the practical problems of the three eastern provinces, especially the reality of the Chinese that "the country does not know the people, and the people do not know that there is a country."

"Throughout the ages, the country does not know that there are people, and the people do not know that there is a country, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, how could it be that it relied on the banner soldiers, it relied on the hundreds of thousands of green battalions recruited in the north, and relied on the salary of the Ming army, and the Hunan army of Zeng Guofan also relied on the courage of double pay?"

Although on the surface, the salaries of the new army are similar to those of the Beiyang Naval Division and those of the land division, but in fact, the salaries of the new army soldiers are not deducted from food and service fees, and there is no concern about the officers and commanders, and the actual income of the soldiers is twice that of Beiyang, so they are naturally willing to serve their lives, and if the military salaries are cut off now, this will naturally cause chaos.

"Well, that's true, what Zichun said is extremely true, this conscription has a lot to do with it, and it has to be handled with caution!"

First agreed with Shang Dequan's cautious suggestion, Tang Haoran looked at Teng Yuzao and said.

"Xingfu, now there are 100,000 officers and soldiers, and the annual salary is not less than 10 million taels, what if it is a million divisions? How much does it cost to raise a soldier with a good salary? ”

This is a simple math problem, but in the face of the adult's rhetorical question, several people have fallen silent, how can the country afford the military expenditure of 10,000,000 taels, now the Qing Dynasty only has 70 or 80 million taels a year, if it is all a new army, how can it train a million strong army?

"The premise of the conscription system is to give generous salaries, it is inevitable to eat food as soldiers, the food of this soldier, eat the grain of Beiyang, eat the grain of my Northeast Army is also eat, not to talk about the so-called loyalty, everyone has seen this battle, even if the Qing army is the elite of Beiyang, it is also a touch and collapse, not heroic at all, the conscription system can bring elite soldiers, but the soldiers are not loyal!"

Although Tang Haoran, who was holding the Qing army to talk about things, was a little unreasonable, he said this in order to elicit his own opinions.

"Compared with the mainland, what are the advantages of our Northeast?"

asked rhetorically, looked at Tang Haoran with a smile on his face, and said with a straight face.

"In the past, we relied on generous salaries to attract people to become soldiers, but don't forget that our soldiers are all peasants and ordinary people, so if you want to attract them, in addition to generous salaries, you can also use their heart's desire to attract them! The reason why this is a lowly soldier since the Song Dynasty is because there is nothing to gain from being a soldier, if I am not a thousands of people in China who are not heavy on literature and light on military force, they will not end up in this step, so I intend to restore China, I must first restore the martial arts of pre-Qin Spring and Autumn China, therefore, Tang decided that from now on, all my northeast border guards, after three years of service, can be awarded 40 acres of land, and those who retire due to disability can be awarded 60 to 100 acres, and the land is all familiar land for agricultural reclamation! Even if a brother dies on the battlefield, he can also grant land to his family, and this land will never be taken back, and the title deed will be granted! ”

"Yet, if so, if so......"

There is no need to think about anything else, everyone understands what it means to grant forty acres of ripe land, and from then on, there is no need for the painstaking lobbying of the recruiting officer, and hundreds of thousands of good people will pour into the northeast to join the border guards for those forty acres of ripe land.

"If this is the case, not only will there be no need to worry about recruiting troops from now on, but the spirit of the army will also be completely driven by adults!"

For those soldiers, if they want to keep the 40 acres of military land, they must fight without hesitation, otherwise once they fail, they will lose everything, including the promise of the 40 acres of cooked land.

"Handsome and slow."

Teng Yuzao's voice sounded immediately, and his brows furrowed, revealing a look of anxiety.

"In the three northeastern provinces of China, there are indeed hundreds of millions of acres of barren land that can be cultivated, but under the command of my lord, it is impossible for these 100,000 officers and soldiers to be forever, and our border guards cannot only defend the northeast border forever...... How is this field granted? ”

Facing Teng Yuzao's worries, Tang Haoran interrupted him with a wave of his hand.

"There is not enough land in the Northeast, not Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Hetao, there is so much land in the world, isn't it enough for us to distribute to millions of officers and soldiers?" (To be continued.) )