Discussions with Cui Shang on matters such as the burial of fallen soldiers and the awarding of meritorious services, preferential pensions for military families, non-stop food and clothing, and enlistment of children and nephews in the army lasted for more than an hour. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Cui Shang has obviously worked this matter and knows a lot about it.

In fact, in the Li and Tang dynasties, there were quite perfect rules and regulations on the aftermath of the fallen soldiers, but with the secession of the feudal lords in the later period of the Li and Tang dynasties, the conditions of the feudal lords in various places in terms of land and finance were different, and these stereotypes were gradually selectively abolished or changed.

Cui Shang also pointed out that a small county like Gushi is currently unable to afford excessively high preferential treatment, meritorious service awards, etc., especially the number of soldiers who died in these two battles is too large, and if it is to be solved according to the standards of the Li Tang era, it is simply not affordable.

What's more, due to frequent floods and droughts, natural disasters, wars and chaos, and a huge number of people fleeing famine and becoming homeless, there is no problem of insufficient military resources at all.

Taking Gushi as an example, due to the ant thieves raging in Shouzhou, the number of displaced people who fled from Shengtang, Huoqiu, and Huoshan to Gushi is not small, and recently because Yingzhou was looted by ant thieves, the number of Yingzhou displaced people who crossed the Huai River has increased significantly, and the number of victims in the east and north of Gushi is in the tens of thousands, and many are heading towards Gushi County.

Previously, when the Caizhou soldiers went south, they intercepted and captured many homeless people and directly incorporated them into their people's team, so it can be said that many of the people who died in Gushi City were war-torn refugees from Yingzhou.

"Erlang, referring to the current preferential care regulations in various places, there are nothing more than a few categories, the most common, choose his sons and nephews to replace the army, because the treatment of non-commissioned soldiers in the army is higher, especially the elite of the tooth soldiers forbidden army, secondly, for his family members do not stop food and clothing, Mu Zong before the five years of non-stop food and clothing, and after Mu Zong, changed to three years, mainly for the children of the fallen soldiers to provide five years of living needs; 。 ”

Cui Shangyang made an introduction to the preferential pension regulations of the Li Tang Dynasty, and made an analysis in combination with the current situation of the Gu Shi Army, believing that the current Gu Shi Army does not have the ability to solve the conditions of the preferential pension in accordance with the parallel method of the three systems conceived by Jiang Feng, and such a price is too great.

Although Gushi has now received money and grain support from Daliang and Nanyang and Ehuang, this is only a short-term benefit, and it is difficult to say whether it can get such support in the future.

However, Gushi's current economic strength is obviously unsupportable, and if the promise cannot be fulfilled, the morale of the military will be damaged even more.

Jiang Feng stroked his chin and didn't say anything for a while.

He understood what Cui Shang meant, the area that the current Gushi Army could control was too narrow, only one county of Gushi, and he could barely add an uncertain Yincheng County.

These two counties were very little affected by the ant thieves, and most of the cooked land was under the control of the local gentry, and the government had very little official land in their hands.

However, because of the small number of people in Yincheng, the south is close to the Dabie mountain area, and there are some raw lands and mountains and forests under the control of the government, but the conditions are not good.

"Bai Ling, what do you think is the most attractive thing for the soldiers, or what is the reason that allows them to fight without fear of life and death?" Jiang Feng said slowly, word by word: "Excluding the factor of protecting their own homes and families, what is the most realistic and attractive factor for the soldiers?"

Cui Shang was a little stunned by Jiang Feng's words, and after thinking about it, he said: "Of course, it is a meritorious service, on the one hand, meritorious service can be promoted, on the other hand, even if there is no Xuntian, at least there is alternative money." ”

"Do you mean that Xuntian is still the most attractive?" Jiang Feng asked again, and he heard the meaning of Cui Shang's words.

"What else is worth asking? More than a farmer, who can provide them with a field controlled by an unpopular foreign gentry, which is even exempted from taxes, and which can be passed down to their descendants, is certainly worth the struggle of their lives. Cui Shang said as a matter of course: "Where are the prefectures and counties still granting land? Tenant farmers are either attached to the gentry, or they can only take refuge in temples and Taoist temples, and their nature is almost the same, and they are indispensable for all kinds of land endowments and labor, so how can they be compared with Xuntian, who does not have to pay anything?"

Indeed, in fact, since the middle of the Li and Tang dynasties, the Juntian system has gradually collapsed, and the lack of land to grant has become the biggest problem.

In the era of feudal lords, the feudal lords themselves were the largest landlords, and who wanted to give the land to others for nothing?

Even if the soldiers fought for their interests, they would rather be rewarded with things like silver coins and silks, and would never give a penny of land to the soldiers, which has become a common practice everywhere.

Unless it is some newly rising feudal lords, for the favored generals who have made great contributions to themselves or the wealthy families who need to rely on themselves, they may be able to reward each other from the newly acquired fields and mountains and forests, enhance their loyalty, and encourage them to work for themselves, and other ordinary soldiers will never be able to obtain such a generous reward.

In this era, land is still the most important thing in everyone's minds after all, more than everything, but for Jiang Feng, he does not have this complex, and for him, he needs a group of generals and soldiers who are firmly united around him to fight for the survival of his regime, which is the most important thing, so for himself, the fields and mountains and forests are not so important.

Similarly, the reason why people like Yang Kan, Ding Man, Guo Tai, Ge Han, Li Tong, and even Wu 12 and Wu 13 came to Gushi from Daliang thousands of miles away, although they felt that Gushi Jun had a future for development and could show their ambitions, but they could get more opportunities in Gushi, especially for their future children and grandchildren, and even lay down a family business.

Because their ancestors are like this, since the Huangchao Rebellion, the old Liang king has fought the world, and laid down the current Daliang world, and there are only these people who were originally just smugglers, butchers, beggars, hawkers, homeless, farmers and other inferior people, but now they can become the family of the wealthy family of Daliang, and now they also want to copy this dream.

"Bai Ling, I'm afraid we have to take this into account, we are too weak now, from the siege of the ant thieves to the current attack of the Caizhou army, after the two wars, how big is the loss of our soldiers? ”

Jiang Feng sorted out his thoughts and expounded his thoughts and intentions.

"At present, the Gushi Army is facing huge reconstruction pressure, the threat of the Caizhou Army has temporarily receded, but its threat to us is long-term, the contradictions between us and them are irreconcilable, and the existence of ant thieves will also pose a huge threat to us, although it seems that they helped us in the previous battle, but they cannot change the fundamental contradiction between us and them, which also requires that our Gushi Army must be stronger to defend their own security. ”

"And we want to build a stronger army, the needs are many, there are plenty and stable troops, high-quality officers, and the economy that can support this army, well, including money, food, horses, weapons and armor, everything, and the foundation is the land, the territory,......"

Jiang Feng spent a lot of effort to explain his point of view to Cui Shang, how to make Gu Shijun survive in this crack, and then develop and grow.

And to achieve this goal, one of the most fundamental problems is to make these officers and non-commissioned officers willing to work for themselves, and what they can give is land.

Of course, there must be many problems with this, such as where the land will come from, and how to reach a compromise with the local wealthy gentry who control the vast amount of land.

But Jiang Feng wants Cui Shang to understand that it is the Gushi Army itself that can make the Gu Shi Army really stand firm, not those wealthy families, at least not yet.

In short, he Jiang Feng is still a military leader who has nothing but the army, and he must first ensure that the officers and soldiers in his army can get what makes them work for themselves, so that they can work for themselves wholeheartedly, and then they can talk about anything else, and the interests of the gentry can only be temporarily put behind.

"Erlang, I understand what you mean, are you planning to use the land to reward the soldiers?" Cui Shang took a deep breath and nodded.

He understood what Jiang Feng meant, the gentry clan is not an object that Jiang Feng can rely on now, at most it can be regarded as a partner who can use each other, and what Jiang Feng really relies on is now the army soldiers, and they will still be army soldiers for a long time in the future, and even in the future, the army soldiers will be Jiang Feng's foundation.

Because Jiang Feng himself is from the Shu clan and does not have any gentry background, even if it may be related to marriage and gentry in the future, Jiang Feng is very sober, and what he can rely on is the army.

Now it is unrealistic wishful thinking to consider everything else, and for the sake of the interests of the soldiers of the army, even if it temporarily harms the interests of the gentry and the noble family, it is not hesitating.

"Well, this is what it should mean, and at the same time, it must be fulfilled, but how to implement it, you have to draw up a regulation, where the land comes from, how to reward, the distribution, ownership and use of land, inheritance, and so on, which are the foundation of our Gushi Army and related to the survival of our Gushi Army. Jiang Feng nodded: "This will be a very complex regulatory system, there can be a rough one now, but it must be quickly implemented, and it can be gradually improved in the future, so as to ensure that the morale of the military will be quickly condensed for me!" )