Chapter 338 is beginning to bear fruit
The next day, when Zhao Pu woke up, he looked at the two beauties around him, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Thinking of the scene of lingering with the two beauties last night, the kind of fiery excitement from the primitive, Zhao Pu felt very comfortable.
After getting up, getting dressed, and sitting at the desk, Zhao Pu began to look at the work and rest plan, and wrote with a pen.
A good schedule should be prioritized and dealt with one by one, so that the limited time can be used to make the greatest results.
January is divided into three days, and one decade has ten days. Plan the work and rest time, work content, and the completed ones in ten days, and write down the reasons for not completing them. During these ten days, Zhao Pu stayed in the barracks for at least three days, inspecting the situation of the Lin'an Bazi Army, and also going to the military academy to inspect the work, or to meet with the generals.
In troubled times, soldiers come first.
To control the army well, in addition to relying on the system, it is necessary to rely more on personal relations and inspections. Talismans are just dead things, and at critical moments, they may not be effective.
In order to achieve absolute control over the army, an absolute understanding of the army's combat effectiveness, as well as a clear understanding of the generals and the analysis of tactics, it is not too much to pay more attention to the army.
There are still three days to go to the morning court, hold cabinet meetings, and review the recitals. In the early dynasties, it was mainly to meet with the courtiers, maintain a sense of presence, and maintain deterrence; The cabinet meeting is mainly to supplement the problems and loopholes that have arisen in the past ten years.
The cabinet was set up to make up for the lack of prime ministers, and mainly played the role of secretary and staff officer. But in the case of weak military power, the cabinet would replace the emperor and exercise power. In short, the power of the cabinet depends on the degree of attention of the emperor to the government. It's just that at this moment, the Great Song Dynasty still has the prime minister, but he put the cabinet on the stage in advance.
It is more to let the prime minister and the cabinet check each other.
The literati's desire for power. It is greedy and endless, and as long as the emperor has the slightest slackness, he will intensify his devouring.
There are four more days, two days to rest and two days to deal with some chores.
The schedule is tight, and sometimes, I don't pant for a month, like a mule.
However, fortunately, his continuous reforms have achieved certain results. The post-disaster reconstruction work of the Great Song Dynasty. Relatively rapid development has been achieved, and in just over a year, it has returned to the pre-war level, with a large increase in finance and taxation, and everything is developing in a good direction.
Economically. The wartime economic system has already taken shape. Zhao Pu once wanted to build an arsenal, a shipyard, etc., but just think about it or forget it! Those official workshops of the Song Dynasty. It's too inefficient. Of the ten times of money, less than five of them are used, and more of them are greedy.
If there is time, Zhao Pu may carry out in-depth reforms and transform these defense industries, just thinking about it. Forget it!
Among them, the personnel are complicated, colluding with each other, the water is too deep, and once the reform is carried out, a large number of people will have to be mached. And after a large number of machetes, they may not be able to improve efficiency, and they can simply be overheaded. For some inefficient workshops and low-tech industries, Zhao Pu simply contracted to some businessmen.
Mainly commercial offices, it is enough for the government to check whether the quality is up to standard.
I am not afraid of collusion between officials and businessmen, and every transaction is recorded and then pressed.
And in order to prevent monopoly, after all, once a businessman monopolizes the country's military industry, the disaster for the country is enormous. Zhao Pu divided some weapons into more than a dozen pieces, each responsible for an insignificant small module, and finally put them together. In some key areas, important things, the government workshop is arranged.
The arms business is so huge that even if it is divided into a small piece, the profit is still amazing. With the help of weapon production, Jiangnan merchants have been firmly tied to chariots, and these merchants are not against the war, because the war will bring them great profits.
And once a war breaks out on the front line, the entire Jiangnan civilian workshop and government workshop will start at full speed, forming a huge engine to push the chariot forward.
In fact, at this time, the war between the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin State has been continuing, and fierce battles have broken out many times in order to compete for Huaibei, southern Henan, and Shaanxi. Every day, a large amount of materials are consumed, food is eaten, and all kinds of siege and defense equipment are taken away in piles and piles, one after another.
At this time, between Song and Jin, there will be no absolute life-and-death battles, but there will be countless battles of hundreds and thousands of people.
Song Jin clashed in the stalemate, and maintained calm restraint in the confrontation.
If the Jin Kingdom wants to destroy the Song Dynasty, it is already powerless, so it can only replace defense with attack; The Song Dynasty wanted to go on a northern expedition, but it was also more than willing to do it, so it could only attack instead of defend.
At this time, the battle of Song and Jin not only did not drag down the Song Dynasty, but accelerated the economic recovery of Jiangnan and led to abnormal prosperity.
Zhao Pu secretly said in his heart: Sure enough, war is also conducive to economic development.
In history, the war was dragged down, only the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping, which lasted for three years, the two countries had nearly a million troops facing each other, and the food was almost gone. and when the Han Dynasty invaded the Xiongnu in the north, it also exhausted the treasury and suffered a great loss of vitality.
The reason why they failed was to a large extent because the Qin State and the Han Dynasty were both in the initial stage of agricultural civilization, and their commerce was underdeveloped, and the war was slow to recover, and the national strength could not bear it.
However, the Song Dynasty was different, with a developed commodity economy and the birth of capitalism, comparable to Britain and France in the seventeenth century. No! It should be far more than the British and French of that era. Compared with the slow regeneration rate of agricultural civilization, the commodity economy has a faster regeneration rate.
As long as the front line does not appear and the hundreds of thousands of troops are annihilated in the north, the war can continue to be supported.
The gap between the rich and the poor in the Song Dynasty was huge, resulting in the emergence of a large number of rich people and the existence of a large number of civilians who lost their land, which made the peasant uprisings of the Song Dynasty wave after wave, like the waves of the sea, but it was difficult to shake the rule of the Song Dynasty, and it was more troublesome. And as the war progressed, the contradictions were alleviated to a certain extent, and the number of peasant uprisings was reduced.
Peasant uprising? To a large extent, there is not enough to eat, as long as there is enough to eat, who wants to rebel?
In order to solve the problem of food, the policy of the Song Dynasty was to recruit a large number of displaced people into the army, and if there was a bite to eat, there would be no rebellion. It did slow down the peasant uprising and reduce the danger of the collapse of the Song Dynasty, at the cost of low combat effectiveness and a large number of troops. And Zhao Pu also recruited the displaced people into the army.
It's just that more of a military household system is implemented!
In addition to other harsh land taxes, the land tax for military households is very low or even free, and the punishment for military tenants who encroach on military land is also extremely strict.
In the Huaibei region, Xiangyang area, and Guanzhong area, the military household system is generally implemented, and displaced people are recruited to join the military household.
In comparison, the military household system of the Ming Dynasty was a hereditary system, while the military household at this time was more of a contract system, with a round of ten years.
In order to better enhance the combat effectiveness of the army, the military household differential system is implemented, which is divided into two categories: one is to divide the land less, only farm, only receive simple training, and belong to the auxiliary soldiers; One is to divide the fields into many fields, receive strict training, belong to the soldiers, the division of soldiers and auxiliaries, the entire army, divided into two levels, one is the temporary army, temporary soldiers; One is a professional army, which specializes in being a soldier;
At the expense of land, reduce part of the fiscal expenditure.
At the cost of land, gain the support of some landless people, so as to reduce the number of displaced people, as the so-called fewer displaced people, the number of peasant uprisings is also less.
As for the land, Zhao Pu didn't care at all.
In this era, the people of the world regard land as the foundation, regard land as their own business, put land in the supreme position, all kinds of reforms are also based on land, all kinds of disputes are also based on land, and the fall of various dynasties is also based on land. But in Zhao Pu's view, this is completely meaningless.
Once the unclaimed land on the front line is divided, you can go to other regions to divide the land, such as Taiwan, Northeast China, and Southeast Asia.
In the Age of Discovery, the most important thing was land.
Immigrating to Taiwan and immigrating to the Northeast is enough to give enough land, but I am afraid that there is too much land and I am too lazy to farm.
Especially in the Northeast, where it is black soil, and if you sprinkle a seed, you can grow crops. The Songhua River, the Nenjiang River, and the Ussuri River are all fertile enough to feed a large population. (To be continued......)