Chapter 215 - Changing the Law (1)
Just when it comes to the division of fields, it's a whole bunch of problems. There are many disadvantages of one-size-fits-all, but the advantage is that it is simple and difficult to exploit loopholes; There are many benefits to segmentation, but the disadvantage is that it is complicated, which means that it is easy to make mistakes and has a high possibility of exploiting loopholes.
There is also another problem in measuring land. Today's Great Song Dynasty, most of the people who perform grassroots work are small officials of the county government, but their character is really not trustworthy. It's just that they are tired of playing cats, and sometimes it is difficult to investigate and deal with them, as the so-called emperor is far away, and he, the emperor, can't stay on the ground every day as a supervisor.
This is only in the division of land, and there are various problems in other areas as well.
For example, the Song Dynasty did not inhibit land annexation, which caused a large number of peasants to lose their land and accelerated the concentration of land, and after the concentration of land, a large amount of grain would be concentrated in the hands of the landlords, and the landlords would inevitably sell their grain in exchange for gold and silver, which objectively produced a large amount of grain would flow into the city and form commercial grain;
The implementation of the military household system is actually to suppress land annexation and turn land into a small-scale peasant economy. The small-scale peasant economy, which is fragmented and backward, coupled with a lack of security, will store a large amount of grain at home, which objectively reduces the amount of commercial grain.
And now, the imperial court is bound to fight, and fighting a war will inevitably consume a large amount of grain, and it will inevitably hoard a large amount of grain, and the small peasant economy is not conducive to the hoarding of grain.
In addition, it is not enough to just divide the land, some families are poor, there are no sickles, no axes, no cattle, and no seeds, all of which must be raised by the government. This is again fiscal consumption, and the fiscal expenditure is bound to be huge, if you add the fire consumption in it, plus the exploitation of all roads, the number will be even greater;
In addition, with the spread of the war, the loss of population increased, and at this time, there were fewer people and more land, so more land could be divided. It was not long before the arrival of people fleeing from the north would inevitably cause demographic pressure and social problems on the local area. It's okay to divide the land, but you need to leave room for the unexpected.
In addition, the area where the military household system is implemented should not be too wide in scope so that it can be better controlled.
Furthermore............
In short, there is too much to do in addition.
These are all big problems, and if they are not handled properly, they will change the law at least and become degenerate, at worst they will change the law and harm others, and finally they will fail to change the law.
Once the problem is identified, a solution must be found.
You say a word, I say a word, at the beginning there was some nonsense, and there were still some scruples about each other, but as the discussion continued, they gradually entered the topic, and the content of the words became more and more practical and targeted.
And Zhao Pu also saw the wisdom of the Great Song Elite Group again.
There are too many elites in the Great Song Dynasty, but it's a pity that these elites spend too much time pondering about writing poems, picking up girls, and intriguing with each other, and using a lot of energy and brainpower on crooked ways. Once the attention of these elites is shifted to the people's livelihood, army building, and various institutional reforms, the wisdom that bursts out is terrifying.
Zhao Pu was once again shocked by the elites of the Great Song Dynasty.
After debating with each other and looking for problems, the original military household system has been changed beyond recognition, and it is completely different, but it has not changed the people's consciousness of joining the army, improved their combat effectiveness, and stabilized the society.
Finally, it was finalized.
First of all, the military household system will be implemented in Henan, northern Hubei, southern Shandong, and some areas of Guanzhong, forming a horizontal and narrow area, which will overlap with the Yangzhou-Xiangyang-Qinling defense lines of the Song Dynasty. These areas have all fallen in the past, and they have all been sacked by the Jin army. Because of the looting of the Jin army, the landlords and gentry here were swept away, and the main force of the law change was reduced. In addition, these areas are all stationed in the elite of the Song army, which can calmly deal with all changes.
Specifically, the region is centered on large cities and large fortresses, while some remote small states and counties do not implement the military household system.
Secondly, the military household system is the center, and the armor protection system, the differential military system, the village defense system, the weak civilian system, and so on are also implemented as auxiliary systems. There are various shortcomings in the military household system, and these shortcomings are inherent in them, and they can only be offset by relying on some auxiliary policies. For example, the armor protection system is set to five households for one guarantee, and ten guarantees for one family, and the chief of the security and the chief of A are directly elected by the villagers, and if one household violates the law, the whole household will be punished; If the chief of the security department violates the law, the first chief will be punished; If you don't report it, the crime will be added to the first degree. The reign of terror was carried out by means of joint sitting, mutual concealment, and mutual cheating were reduced.
The military household system brought a large number of soldiers. According to the quality and quality of the soldiers, they are divided into elite troops, general troops, militia units, etc., and according to different ranks, the treatment is also different. Elite troops, with the strongest combat effectiveness, are mainly responsible for field operations and are treated the best; The general troops have medium combat effectiveness, mainly responsible for guarding the local city, and the treatment is secondary; And the militia only divided the land, and there was no food.
And according to the rank of the army, the elite troops are divided into the best fields, and the number is also larger; The general army is second, and the militia units are the worst.
The criterion for evaluating troops is mainly the level of training and combat exploits in peacetime. As long as there are many combat achievements, they can be upgraded from ordinary troops to elite troops; As for elite troops, when their training declines and their combat effectiveness declines, they will also be downgraded from elite to ordinary troops.
Ask the canal to be as clear as promised, for there is a source of living water!
Only by injecting living water and flowing continuously can a strong army be formed. Don't be afraid of the decline in the quality of the army, you can't do it, others will go up.
Zhao Pu's intention is to rely on the military differentiation system to form a competition mechanism, a virtuous circle, a small ratio every month, a large ratio every six months, continuous comparison, continuous survival of the fittest, the excellent recruit the eight-character army, and the poor are eliminated.
The village defense system is based on the village, building walls and fortresses to form a small fortress, so that the people can also have a trace of self-protection when they are attacked by the Jin army. In Zhao Pu's view, there are too many small villages and towns in the Great Song Dynasty. In times of war, it is simply not realistic to move all these people to the city, and they can only rely on these villages to form a simple defense.
I don't ask them to resist thousands of troops, but they want to have a trace of self-preservation;
These measures will inevitably lead to an increase in the private armed forces of the people, which is certainly conducive to the fight against gold, but the disadvantage is that it is not conducive to national stability. Historically, many private armed forces have become underworld forces, bandit forces, or separatist forces.
In order to reduce the shortcomings of the previous policies, there is a weak people system, the core of which is to prohibit private fights, and to deal with the incidents of fights and group fights between villages. In some villages, weapons and so on must be checked and filed from time to time, and the government treasury is closed in peacetime, and only in times of war or training can they be qualified to use weapons.
Third, the military household system is, in essence, a wartime economic policy. In Zhao Pu's view, the reason why the Song Dynasty has been defeated repeatedly is because of the improper system and the failure to transform national strength into military strength.
Even when it was destroyed by the Mongols, it only exerted three points of strength. If the Song Dynasty had achieved the goal of fighting all the people, transforming the idle economic system into a wartime economic system, and everything served the war, then what was the Liao State, one finger hit; What is the Jin country, it will explode with a fist; Mongolia is nothing, three feet and two feet, dead.
Fourth, it is to drive the whole with the part. As a matter of fact, people in the world have a misunderstanding, believing that it is difficult for a divided China to resist external aggression and that it must be reunified in order to be qualified to have a foreign war. In fact, as long as there is partial unification, local change, and local strength, it can repel foreign attacks, or even defeat them.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, China was torn apart, and at that time, just the Qi State completely destroyed the Yi tribe in the north;
During the Warring States Period, the Zhao State was only the power of one place, that is, it completely destroyed the northern peoples such as Lou Fu and Hu Lin;
In the Three Kingdoms era, Cao Cao defeated the Xiongnu just by relying on the power of the north;
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China was not reunified, and there were constant intrigues, but it still resisted Japan's attack and finally dragged Japan to death. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was not so much that China defeated Japan, but that China dragged Japan to death.
As long as the measures are appropriate, even if it only relies on the strength of Hunan and Hubei, it may maintain a momentum with the Jin army, or even gain a local advantage. And what Zhao Pu wants to do is to turn the Great Song Dynasty into a war machine, everything serves the war, everything is for the war, and this war machine is activated, as long as the war machine is started, it is enough to completely explode the Jin Army and kill the Jin Army.