This time to quell the Xuzhou military camp incident, the biggest gain is Zhao Zhongzhen, he usually has rich theoretical knowledge, but no practical experience, and this time to quell the riots in the Xiangjun army, he not only learned how to deal with similar problems, but also understood a lot of people sophisticated, just like Fan Ning said, if it is widespread corruption, it is a problem of the system, in this case can no longer target people, must unite most of the generals, with a clear heart to do foolish things.

As long as the loopholes in the system are plugged, I believe that most generals will not easily reach out, so as long as it is not too serious, they can let it go.

Zhao Zhongzhen especially admired Fan Ning's skills in writing announcements, although Fan Ning claimed to be selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, but Zhao Zhongzhen admired Fan Ning's ability to penetrate people's hearts and resolve the crisis with a clever method, nominally a punishment announcement, but in fact it implied the punishment standard, so that the huge obstacle of everyone's corruption was easily crossed by them.

It also made Zhao Zhongzhen understand the truth of grasping the big and letting go of the small, they changed the law to reform the system, not to arrest people, the reform system is big, and the arrest of people is small, and the change of law cannot be hindered because of arresting people.

An incident in the Xuzhou military camp made the young Zhao Zhongzhen grow up a lot all of a sudden.

Tomorrow is the public retirement meeting, and more than 7,800 over-age veterans from various military camps will gather at the Yingtianfu military camp to take off their uniforms, receive compensation, bid farewell to the military camp and return home.

Zhao Zhongzhen stood at the door of the big tent with his hands in his hands, looking at the heavy night with his hands in a daze.

"Tomorrow's 10,000-person conference has been prepared, what is Your Highness still worried about?" Wang Anshi, who was behind him, asked with a smile.

Wang Anshi is in charge of joining the Military Division, mainly for the specific subdivision planning of the resolutions of the Decision-making Division.

Like Fanning patted his head and thought of an idea, how to refine it and form specific and enforceable terms, that is, the matter of joining the military department.

Tomorrow's 10,000-person retirement conference is planned and prepared by Lu Huiqing of the Executive Division, and Wang Anshi is making a final review of the details of the preparations for tomorrow's conference.

Zhao Zhongzhen sighed, "A small Jingdong Road has made chickens and dogs jump, and the balance of interests is unfair, if the world changes, what should we do?" ”

Wang Anshi smiled slightly: "There are small ways to do things, and there are big ways out, in fact, I personally think that it is not impossible for this set of plans to be implemented in the whole army." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Zhao Zhongzhen turned around and asked with an interested face.

Before this, Fan Ning told him that they took advantage of the small change, so the court gave so much money and grain, if the world changed the law, I am afraid there would be no more, but now Wang Anshi told him that it could be promoted, which really surprised him.

Wang Anshi said unhurriedly: "Weichen knows that Fan Yuanjun thinks that if the world changes the law, the imperial court will not give so much money and food, but I think Fan Yuanjun has neglected an important question, that is, how many overage soldiers should be dismissed?" Fan Ning thinks that there are 300,000, but I think there are at most 100,000 people, and the difference between the two is three times, because Fan Yuanjun used the experience of the Xiang Army to set up all the armies in the world, in fact, the overage soldiers are mainly concentrated in the Xiang Army, and there are not many overage soldiers in the forbidden army, which is the largest part of the army. ”

Zhao Zhongzhen nodded, Wang Anshi was reasonable, Fan Ning was indeed negligent on this point, and he could not use the experience of the Xiang army to speculate on the number of overage troops in the world.

"Wang Tong, please continue!"

Wang Anshi smiled and continued: "We use 100,000 people to calculate, in fact, it is a matter of 20,000 hectares of land and 500,000 yuan of money, and one Ying Tianfu Zhao family occupies tens of thousands of hectares of land, 20,000 hectares of land, can't the imperial court take it out?"

Don't say 20,000 hectares, even if it is increased by three times, according to Fan Yuanjun's 300,000 over-age soldiers, 60,000 hectares of land, the imperial court can take it out, as for the three million yuan, the imperial court can completely compensate in the form of tax exemption, I believe that the soldiers will prefer this way. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Anshi sighed, "According to my many years of experience as an official, compensation is not difficult, the key is to implement, give the soldiers land compensation, but the need to take out the land is the local government, which has the most problems, so any change in the law in the end, is an implementation problem, the imperial court must set up a special strong supervision department to manage the implementation of the problem in various places." ”

After all, Zhao Zhongzhen is young, and he does not have a deep understanding of the importance of implementation, he is now more concerned about the effect of the change, he took a few steps with his hands, and said: "If only 100,000 over-age soldiers are dismissed, I feel that it is still too few, and the problem of redundant soldiers has not been solved." ”

"Your Highness, this requires taking the route of elite soldiers, the combat effectiveness of one million infantry is really no more than 300,000 cavalry, I think if the Great Song army can be compressed to 600,000, 200,000 cavalry plus 400,000 infantry, the problem of redundancy will be completely solved."

"That's going to cut half of the army! How to ensure the safety of Da Song? ”

"May I ask Your Highness, where is the security problem of the Great Song Dynasty now?"

Zhao Zhongzhen was stunned for a moment, it seemed that the Great Song Dynasty had not fought for decades.

Wang Anshi said sharply: "I think that first of all, the Xiang army and the township soldiers can be abolished, only the forbidden army will be retained, and the role of the Xiang army is nothing more than to provide logistical support for the forbidden army, not to go to the front of the enemy to fight, and now that the world is peaceful and prosperous, they are not needed at all, so the army of 500,000 will be reduced." ”

"But what if there is a war between the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, and the Xiang army is suddenly needed?"

"Very simply, the implementation of the Baojia Law in the state capitals of the world, and the use of the Baojia Law to concentrate the peasants and ordinary residents for military training can offset their labor to a certain extent, and I believe that it will be widely supported by the peasants, and once war breaks out, the imperial court can quickly organize a temporary army of one million people to provide strong logistical support for the forbidden army to go north.

Secondly, if the government needs labor, it is completely possible to use the method of exchanging taxes for labor to collect labor, Your Highness should not worry that the tax will be reduced, and if half of the army is cut, the financial resources of the imperial court will only be very sufficient, and the money can be used to strengthen the construction of border defenses, and the imperial court will really be able to do a lot of great things with the financial resources. ”

When Wang Anshi said this, Zhao Zhongzhen actually had a feeling of waking up like a dream, and he bowed deeply, "Thank you for Wang Tongju's teaching!" ”

Wang Anshi took the opportunity to take out the "Book of Speeches of Emperor Shangrenzong" that he was carrying, and respectfully presented it to Zhao Zhongzhen, "This is the outline of the law change written by Wechen with many years of experience in governing local states and counties, and the idea that Wechen just said is also in it, Your Highness can take a look at it when you have time." ”

Zhao Zhongzhen took the thick book, nodded and said, "I will definitely read it well!" ”

..........

Early the next morning, 7,840 overage veterans gathered at the Yingtianfu Xiang Army Camp, and they were overage veterans who had been cleared out of the military camps on Jingdong Road.

There is a discrepancy between these people and the number of people on the military register, the number of people on the military register is more than 9,600 people, and after deducting the more than 400 people who have been disqualified from compensation for their own crimes, there is still a gap of 1,400 people.

This is the reason why it is necessary to hold a conference for the discharge of over-age soldiers, ostensibly to give an explanation to the over-age veterans, but in fact it is necessary to pay compensation to the head of the army, otherwise, the compensation of more than 1,000 air soldiers will fatten the pockets of some people.

The square was full of people, and nearly 8,000 overage veterans sat cross-legged on the ground, anxiously waiting for the final compensation amount to be announced.

The ceremony was brief, with Fan Ning giving a brief farewell speech to everyone after being appeased by Jingdong Road, and then going to receive compensation from a dozen large tents in the state of household registration, and then returning to their hometowns.

"I know that everyone is very heavy, that the compensation is unfair, that they have been wronged, but I can tell you that in a few years, you will be glad that you left the army in time today, and everything will benefit those who arrive early, including the compensation for leaving the army.

All of you here are over 40 years old, have been in the army for at least 10 years, and now when you return to your hometown, you can at least farm to support yourself, and if you don't want to farm, you can also rent it to others and do some small business by yourself, maybe it will be a little more difficult to start, but there will be hope in life, but if you return to your hometown in ten years, your physical strength has been exhausted, but there may not be today's compensation, where is your hope at that time? ”

Fanning said very plainly, but also very sharply, there was no big reason, just directly in words that everyone could understand, to tell all the soldiers, you left today to take advantage of the few people, is the advantage of the forerunners, now you can go back and start again, continue to stay in the army only despair.

No one objected to his words, everyone listened silently, waited, saying that these words no longer meant to them, and what they needed was the announcement of compensation.

Fanning continued: "Next, I will announce the compensation to you, the compensation is divided into three parts, the first part is the compensation for military positions, 20 acres of soldiers on the field, 30 acres of fire chief, 50 acres of the division, and 100 acres for the main team and deputy team, and then the imperial court gave a little preferential treatment, all land will be exempt from tax for five years from next year, and over-age veterans will be exempted from labor for ten years......."

There was a whisper below, the temporary increase in the discount was a bit unexpected by everyone, it was actually exempt from tax for five years and ten years from labor, this was really an unexpected surprise, speaking of which, I have to thank the group of soldiers who made trouble, it was their troubles that made Zhao Zhen, the son of heaven, decide to reward the soldiers who did not participate in the trouble, and the tax exemption and exemption from labor are the temporary increase in rewards.

"Everyone, please be quiet!"

Fan Ning waved his hand, everyone quieted down again, and he continued: "The second part of the compensation is the military age compensation, according to the length of your service in the army, one year of compensation for the consistent money, the fire commander on the basis of the military age compensation plus ten yuan at one time, the charge division plus thirty yuan, the deputy of the team plus eighty yuan, for example, Zhang San has been in the army for fifteen years, then his military age compensation is fifteen yuan, but he was promoted to the fire commander last year, and he will add ten yuan of fire chief compensation, and his final compensation is twenty-five yuan. ”

"The last piece is a welfare subsidy, two stone meters per person, you can't go home empty-handed! In addition, His Royal Highness King Liangjun made a decision to give everyone a wheelbarrow cart, worth two yuan, so that everyone could use the cart to push Qian Mi home. ”

Suddenly there was a warm cheer below, and the soldiers got up one after another and ran towards the big tent marked with the name of their home state capital, and soon a long line formed in front of the sixteen big tents.