Chapter 148: War Dividends

Outside the Golden State Pass, a messy battlefield was finally restored and tidy after some cleaning. The corpses of the enemy were all centrally landfilled.

A large number of iron armor and weapons were seized.

What makes the Ming army even happier is that the reward for this battle is absolutely rich.

More than 7,200 Jiannu were shot, and those traitor troops were also annihilated in large numbers, and only about 3,000 of the 30,000 people finally returned.

This was simply the first time that such a huge victory had been achieved since the use of troops against Liaodong.

More importantly, after this war, the area south of Jinzhou Pass has become impregnable, and a large amount of land can be reclaimed, and the amount of land that can be reclaimed has reached nearly 5 million mu, including not only dry land, but also paddy fields. In addition, there are resources such as pastures and woodlands.

It is equivalent to the rewards of the Dongjiang Army and the Jinzhou Army, and they have all been settled.

In fact, 50 acres of land per head is not worth mentioning compared to the vast Northeast. Divide these lands, and there is still a lot left.

However, how to divide the land is a problem.

Because most of the soldiers have only a dozen acres of land for military merit, it is very inconvenient to produce. And it is impossible for a soldier to leave the army to farm, so who will go to war. So who will bear the cost of this land reclamation?

These questions were quickly placed in front of Zhu Youxiao, and when Zhu Youxiao received the news of Jinzhou's victory, he had already become much calmer, but his heart was very comfortable.

"It seems that the current strategy is very correct, as long as we insist on investing enough manpower and material resources in Liaodong, there is no need to worry about wild boar skins at all. Moreover, after some adjustments, the Beijing camp was enough to defeat the Jiannu with similar troops in the field battle, and at this time the field artillery was transferred to the past, and there was no problem in the open terrain and the Jiannu field battle, but the current strength was lacking.

In terms of mountain operations, Zhang Yan reported that Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army was developing into mountain operations, but the specific effect was not known for the time being.

As long as a batch of Beijing battalions is trained and put into the battlefield in eastern Liaodong, it is not a big problem to recover the Liaohe Plain, and Shenyang and Liaoyang can be easily recovered. It is that once Jiannu retreats into the mountains, if Mao Wenlong's mountain troops do not work, it will be more of a headache. At that time, the territory recovered by the Ming army was large, and if it was unable to exterminate Jiannu in the mountains, Jiannu would be able to rob everywhere.

At present, we can only wait for time to test the Dongjiang Army.

The question of land reward is naturally something that cannot be unrewarded, and if the land has been captured, it must not be rewarded, otherwise it will hurt morale.

It's just that the time has not yet come to disarm and return to the field, and land cultivation is indeed a problem. Sun Chuanting quickly came up with a way, and said to Zhu Youxiaojian: "Your Majesty, these acres of land can be operated by the Royal Agricultural Company, and then let the soldiers occupy the shares with the land." When they were discharged, the soldiers could choose to withdraw their shares, and after the withdrawal of shares, the Royal Agricultural Company could choose an area of land to divide among them, or they could return their money. ”

"Sun Aiqing's method is good, so I will use this plan to implement it." Zhu Youxiao was immediately overjoyed, if the Royal Agricultural Company came forward to operate these lands, and then distributed dividends according to shares, this was obviously the best way at present. In this way, the soldiers were rewarded and their morale was boosted. Moreover, when these soldiers are about to be disarmed and returned to the fields, they will withdraw their shares according to the land they have accumulated, and when the time comes, their military exploits will accumulate to a certain extent, and dozens of acres, hundreds of acres, or even thousands of acres of land can be cultivated into one piece.

If the land is divided now, it will be too fragmented. In the future, it will not be easy for these soldiers to manage these lands after they retire from the army.

In addition, if the Royal Agricultural Company stepped in, the problem of reclamation costs was solved. The cost of the Royal Agricultural Company is out, and the profit is divided.

The most important thing is that if this plan is implemented, the biggest beneficiary is actually Zhu Youxiao's royal capital. You must know how much land there is in the Northeast, and how much land can be rewarded according to the reward of 50 acres per person in Jiannu? Wouldn't all the other lands have been turned into the Royal Agricultural Company?

The military department soon announced this plan, and the officers and men on the front line were very happy when they learned of this plan. Most of the soldiers only have a dozen acres of land in their hands, and it is obviously not reliable to cultivate them by themselves. It is naturally best to be able to take a stake in the Royal Agricultural Company, and they can get dividends without them having to worry about it anyway. In the future, if you are discharged from the army, you can also choose to withdraw your shares and replace the land again, and there is no loss.

After some propaganda by the propaganda team, the morale of the soldiers in the previous life was very high. The great victory of Jinzhou Pass and the great victory of Mao Wenlong's breakthrough into the rear of Jiannu have also been counted in military merits, making the officers and men of the Dongjiang Army and the Jinzhou Army not afraid of war at all, but eager to fight against Jiannu. It has completely changed the problem of the low fighting of the Ming army in the past.

The victory of several battles has given them great confidence. Since you can win the war, and the distribution of military merits is relatively fair, and basically everyone can have a little bit, the good table can get a lot, and the bad table can get at least a little bit, and there is always a very little hope.

"As long as we fight a few more slaves, maybe we will be landlords in the future. And the emperor said that these lands are earned by our hard work, and less than 1,000 acres can be tax-exempt! ”

"But no, I heard that there is a guerrilla in the Dongjiang Army, who single-handedly brought back the heads of six Jiannu, and has already been rewarded with 300 acres of land."

"There are many guerrillas who have died, and there are only a few who can have that luck after all, so let's be our regular army with peace of mind! Anyway, Jiannu is not positive, but not us. ”

"Jiannu has more troops than us!"

"There are more than people, how many people are we in Daming? In two years, the emperor will come out of the Beijing camp with Li Lian, and he will not kill Jiannu twice! ”

"It's a pity, it's all military merit! Wouldn't there be too many competitors by then. ”

The soldiers chatted excitedly about military exploits in private, and their hearts were all hot. For these big-headed soldiers who have no chance to get ahead through the guò branch and have no talent for business, it is obvious that they can only get ahead by military merit.

Nowadays, the systems of the Beijing camp and the Dongjiang army are more and more similar to the model of the Qin Dynasty, all of which are rich rewards for military exploits and harsh military laws. However, just the military is similar, and the state system is not the same. The legal model of the Qin Dynasty is relatively inflexible, it is suitable when the place is small, but it is not good when the place is large, Liu Bang and those people are anti-Qin, many of them have violated the law because of irresistible reasons, and they will be killed according to the law, so it is better to simply do the opposite.

The Royal Agricultural Company soon sent a large number of personnel to Golden State to measure land, organize reclamation, water conservancy repair, and cultivation. However, this time, the Royal Agricultural Company adopted a different way of doing business in Liaodong. Instead of giving 30 acres to tenant farmers for farming, the wage labor system was used for agricultural production.

Obviously, Liaodong can be built into a commercial grain production base, and since it is a production of commercial grain, the higher the natural efficiency, the better.

In addition, the population of Liaodong has decreased sharply after the war, and most of the people who have been rescued have been resettled in Beizhili as workers at this time, and various companies under Royal Capital have begun to give priority to recruiting these people who have been evacuated from Liaodong.

In addition, under this employment model, the risk of the workers in charge of production is relatively low, and they can get paid as long as they work, without considering natural disasters and other factors.

In Beizhili and other places, the reclamation of wasteland was distributed to tenant farmers, firstly, the cost of reclamation was relatively high, so the labor of tenant farmers was needed. The purpose was to reassure the people, so the land was divided for them to cultivate. A lot of cultivated land in Liaodong can be cultivated casually, and there are no people who need to settle the people, so naturally there is no need to adopt the previous model for production, and the hired labor system is obviously the most suitable.

As for the management side, it's actually not that difficult.

Officialdom, state-owned enterprises and so on have always rotted, and they all rotted from above to below. Grasp the top, layer by layer. If the top level has this anti-** consciousness, coupled with the report of the grassroots, it is easy to put an end to the problem of rot.

The most fatal thing is that corruption at the top of the pyramid is the first, which will set off a wave of state-owned assets carving up. For example, millions of state-owned enterprises and millions of collective enterprises have collectively closed down, and then a large number of laid-off workers have appeared. After eating it, you can buy assets at a low price, and the good name is to help the country bear the burden, and even the state has to discount money to these people. In contrast, the United Kingdom's attitude towards state-owned assets with problems is completely opposite, and the assets of the countries that have problems cannot be thrown indiscriminately.

This phenomenon is obviously impossible for Zhu Youxiao's royal capital, because the royal capital belonged to the emperor's private property from the beginning. It's your own, so you naturally don't need to dig your own corners. In his lifetime, it was clear that the Royal Capital would not have been mismanaged. The children and grandchildren in the back, as long as the brain is still normal, there is no big problem.

The agricultural production technology of the Royal Agricultural Company at this time can be said to be the most advanced in the Ming Dynasty. The private agricultural production technology has been widely absorbed by the Royal Agricultural Company, and the Royal Institute of Science and Technology has begun to study many agricultural production topics, from breeding to the design and invention of agricultural tools.

The production technology is advanced, and the hired labor system makes the most of the labor, and some temporary workers are recruited when the farm is busy. There are really no temporary workers, and the army can be transferred to harvest crops. At this time, as long as there is no overproduction of agricultural products or large-scale disasters, it is impossible to lose money.

If this trend continues, it is clear that the Royal Agricultural Company will become larger and larger, and when the time comes, the problem of overproduction can be avoided by planning production every year. Moreover, it is no problem to overproduce in one or two years, and if there is too much grain, it can be saved as reserve grain, and in the second year, the planting area of some grain will be reduced, and the planting area of cash crops such as cotton will be increased, and the problem will be solved immediately.

Natural disasters are actually not terrible, and they cannot last every year. It was clearly a corollary that the Royal Agricultural Company was profitable.

As for the forest land and minerals in Liaodong, it is obvious that after they are recovered, they will be handed over to the royal capital for disposal. At present, the fiscal expenditures of the internal treasury and the state treasury are obviously in a state of confusion, and it is impossible to distinguish between the state and the private individuals. So when these assets are handed over to Royal Capital for disposal, Royal Capital doesn't even have to spend money.

The war brought dividends to the officers and men of the Ming army, and it also brought dividends to Zhu Youxiao. The land, forests, minerals, etc. of Liaodong are all beckoning to Zhu Youxiao. (To be continued.) )