Chapter 0377 Pyongyang Production and Construction Corps

If the tun farming system is a unique product of the feudal era, then the corps system, or the production and construction corps, is undoubtedly the result of improvement and improvement in the new era of later generations, on the basis of the feudal tun farming system, especially the 'military farming' system.

As for its essence, it is not very complicated: the formation of a semi-military organization and socio-economic system for the purpose of consolidating border defense, developing the local economy, and accommodating border guards.

To put it more bluntly, it is to reclaim the frontiers, serve the troops in the people, engage in production in peacetime, and be able to fight in wartime.

In fact, the original version of this 'Tun Ploughing and Garrison' has been repeatedly promoted by feudal emperors in the original history.

For example, in the Han Dynasty in history, Dr. Chao Cuo, a doctor of "Shangshu", once asked for "migrants to the real border", and used some criminals, slaves and recruited peasants to garrison the fields;

In the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the famous general Zhao Chongguo also suggested to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to carry out Tuntian; Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also adopted his suggestion and sent a large number of soldiers to the Western Regions of Tuntian.

However, compared with the improved version of the Production and Construction Corps, the purpose of this original version of 'Tuntian' is very simple: in order to reduce the difficulty of logistical supply, the front-line troops can produce and cultivate on the spot, so as to achieve self-sufficiency in military rations.

In other words, the cultivation in this era is basically a 'production corps', not a 'construction corps'.

As for the historical reasons, why the ancestors and grandsons of Han Wen and Han Wu only implemented this kind of 'production corps' system and did not bring the 'construction corps' system by the way, there are no more than two reasons.

First, the limitations of the times;

Second: the lack of production tools, as well as ultra-low cost performance.

-- The essence of the Production and Construction Corps is the product of adding the two unrelated responsibilities of 'production and construction' and 'border defense' to the same group and organization;

However, in the Han and Han military periods in history, this kind of organization group for solid border defense and development did not have the ultra-high cost performance of the new era in later generations.

During the period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, although the northern border wall also belonged to the territory of the Han Dynasty and had a certain degree of construction necessity, the lack of national financial revenue made it impossible for the Han Dynasty at that time to take into account 'construction' and 'border defense';

Among the choices between the two, compared with the slow and relatively less urgent 'construction', it is obvious that the 'border defense' problem, which has been plundered by the Northern Barbarians for many years, needs to be solved more urgently.

In the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, through the hard work of the kings of Wen and Jing, although the Han dynasty greatly improved the country's financial situation, the destination of tun farming also changed from the northern border wall of the Han dynasty to the Western Regions separated from the Han dynasty by a whole Hexi corridor.

If we look at it from the perspective of 'whether it is capable of doing it', it is obviously not too difficult for the Han dynasty in the period of Emperor Wu to set up a production and construction corps that integrates production, construction, and border defense in the Western Regions.

But on this issue, the courtiers and officials of the Han Wu Dynasty took into account a very crucial factor.

- Cost-effective.

Tun ploughing is for border defense; production, in order to allow the border troops to supply themselves with military rations; The purpose of construction is to make the local area a sacred and inseparable part of China since ancient times.

Therefore, if it is in the core part of the Han Dynasty, this combination of production, construction, and border defense as one of the cultivation methods can be said to have a good cost performance;

But in the Western Regions, in such an 'enclave' that is tens of thousands of miles away from the core territory of the Han Dynasty, it is obviously not so cost-effective and necessary to smash pots and sell iron for construction.

Of course, if the Han dynasty completely occupied the Western Regions and officially incorporated the Western Regions into the territory of the Han Dynasty, then after completely owning this land, it would be understandable to engage in construction;

It's a pity that after Wei Qing and Huo Quai's two SSR out-of-print red cards in succession, Emperor Wu Liu Che drew an equally 'rare' collector's version of the waste card: General of the Second Division, Li Guangli······

Of course, in addition to the 'unaffordable' of the Wen Dynasty and the 'unnecessary' of the Wu Emperor Dynasty in history, there is another important reason that the advanced system of the Production and Construction Corps did not appear in the land of China.

The limitations of the times.

Whether it was the civil official Chao Cuo of the Wen Dynasty or the famous general Zhao Chongguo of the Wu Emperor Dynasty, the purpose of his request for tun cultivation was not to look at the problem from the perspective of the country and economic construction, but purely from a military point of view, wanting to solve the urgent needs of the Han family at that time.

- In the reign of Emperor Wen, 'recuperation' was still regarded as a major national policy, but the instability of the side wall for many years made it impossible for the Han family to focus all its attention on the beginning of the reform with the people within the Han family;

Therefore, Chao Cuo's proposal to migrate people to the border is just to consolidate the border defense, and by the way, let the border troops be self-sufficient, and not to destroy the speed of accumulation of national strength in other regions.

As for Emperor Wu's dynasty, although after Wei Qing and Huo Quai, the Han family achieved great foreign strategic advantages, but the generals of the Han family after the two of them had an obvious talent gap.

Whether it was Li Guangli, the general of the Second Division, or Li Ling, who was regarded as a 'peerless national soldier' by Sima Taishi, they did not take over the banner of the Han military from Wei and Huo.

The most important thing is: compared with Qi Wei and Huo's 'fight and eat wherever they want', not only do they not need too much logistical support, but they can also get tens of millions of cattle, sheep and livestock back, and the Han family's foreign strategic goals after these two people have almost become smashing grain and using human lives.

The foreign war has been unfavorable for many years, and the domestic complaints are full of complaints, and the pressure on the treasury is huge, that is, Emperor Wu, who once came up with the idea of 'accepting it when it is good', waiting for the next Wei and Huo to be born, and then plotting the northern strategy.

However, the generals led by Zhao Chongguo were obviously unwilling to give up the huge strategic advantages that the Han family had achieved at that time, as well as the opportunity to make contributions at their fingertips;

Therefore, Zhao Chongguo's request for Tunbian came into being.

- Zhao Chongguo said: Your Majesty, you have already hit this part, you can't just do it!

Emperor Wu said: I don't want to give up, but you have not achieved anything over the years, but the court still has to send you a steady stream of food, and the treasury can't stand it?

Zhao Chongguo did not give up, so he said: In this case, why doesn't Your Majesty cultivate in the Western Regions and let the front-line soldiers grow their own grain and eat themselves?

There is no need to send food to the front line, and the treasury will not be so stressful.

In this way, due to the pressure of domestic public opinion and the government treasury, Emperor Wu Liu Che, who was unwilling to give up, accepted Zhao Chongguo's suggestion and officially began to cultivate in the Western Regions.

However, the idea of 'building the Western Regions' did not appear in anyone's mind.

In other words, the Han Dynasty's control over the Western Regions at that time, as well as the public opinion in China that became increasingly resistant to war, were far from enough to support the Han Dynasty's 'construction of the Western Regions'.

Later, Li Guangli, the general of the Second Division, also followed in the footsteps of Li Ling, the 'national scholar', sentenced the Han to Hu, and the martial emperor Liu Che was discouraged, and in his later years, he wrote an edict to the Luntai, which was regarded as forcibly pulling back Liu Hansheji, who was on the verge of collapse, but also announced the complete failure of the Han family's 'Western Regions Strategy'.

Compared with the historical Emperor Wen's cultivation of the northern wall and Emperor Wu's cultivation of the Western Regions, the Han family under the leadership of Liu Ying now has several extremely important advantages.

First of all, it is naturally Liu Ying's existence that makes all the 'limitations of the times' lose the possibility of influencing the Chinese nation in the Han Dynasty.

As a guest of later generations, Liu Ying's thousands of years of historical vision is enough to make the Han family walk on the right path at every moment.

At the very least, on a relatively less erroneous path.

secondly, compared with the period of Emperor Wen in history, the financial situation of the Han family today is healthier; Compared with the public opinion environment in the later period of Emperor Wu, there is no 'anti-war' voice in the Han family today.

Of course, the most important thing is that compared to the Western Regions, which is far away in the 'sky', North Korea is located to the east of the Yan Kingdom, directly bordering the core of the Han Dynasty's territory.

Under this series of 'advantages', the establishment of the first production and construction corps in the history of China and even the history of mankind on the Korean Peninsula has become Liu Ying's best choice.

First of all, the geographical characteristics of the Korean Peninsula of 'surrounded by the sea on three sides and adjacent to Han on one side' make the local border defense task not as arduous as that of Yanbei and Daibei; Taking into account production and construction while defending the border, there will not be too much pressure.

Secondly, it is the identity of Liu Ying's later visitors that makes Liu Ying have a great deal of confidence in the fertile land of North Korea: here, it is not a barren grassland, not Hexi, which is full of loess.

Here, there is an endless black earth buried deep under the ice and snow!

If, through several decades of construction, Korea becomes another major grain producing area of the Han dynasty after Guanzhong and Bashu, it will play an extremely crucial role in both the northern strategy of the Han dynasty and the easing of land and class contradictions within the Han dynasty.

In the end, it is a set of governance concepts that Liu Ying explored after the grain and rice official camp.

-- The implementation of policies requires experimentation.

To put it bluntly, the Production and Construction Corps is not a 'strategy for eternity' prepared by Liu Ying for the Korean Peninsula, but for the northern border wall areas such as Yan, Dai, and Shang.

After all, the historical experience of Emperor Wu Liu Che told Liu Ying: Han may always be strong, but Wei and Huo will not exist forever;

When the dynasty was strong and there were Wei and Huo supporting the field, the Han family was naturally able to achieve the achievement of 'going north out of the Great Wall for 3,000 miles, so that Hu Lu did not dare to go south to herd horses'.

But when Wei and Huo were lost and the dynasty was no longer strong, the Han family also needed to have a relatively perfect system to ensure that the border defense cause in the northern region would not be wantonly trampled on by the northern nomads because of the loss of ancient wizards like Wei and Huo.

Therefore, the implementation of the Production and Construction Corps in North Korea is only Liu Ying's first step.

The second step is to summarize the experience to obtain a more complete and more in line with the current era of the 'Han version of the production and construction corps', and fully apply it to the entire northern border wall area of the Han Dynasty, so that the Han Dynasty has the ability to 'even if there is no Wei Huo, it will no longer worry about border defense problems'.

Thinking of this, Liu Ying's gaze at Cao Shen became more and more determined.

"The first batch of immigrants should leave this summer at the latest, and arrive at the Pyongyang Governor's Office by autumn and July at the latest."

In a deep voice, Cao Shen nodded, and looked at Liu Ying with a serious look.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty to show me."

"How many households and how many people should be organized into this 'Pyongyang Governor's Tun Farming Regiment', and what should be the key to the tun farming?"

Hearing this, Liu Ying couldn't help but take a deep breath, and immediately stood up and put all the plans that had been planned a long time ago in front of Cao Shen.

"Pyongyang's Governor Tun Cultivation Regiment was formed into 2,000 households, and the system of the soldiers on the march was one for five households and one for ten households;"

"There are 2,000 households in this people, all of whom are young and strong in their twenties and thirties."

"Compile this 2,000 households as a tun farming group, and follow the story of the past, the court conscription and the army; To be formed into an army, armed with swords and bows, marched to Pyongyang Commander. ”

"Everything along the way follows the system of marching troops, and military rations are transported from the Shaofu to the internal funds."

As she spoke, Liu Ying's expression became more and more serious, and her tone was even more cautious.

"When you go to the Governor of Pyongyang, all the soldiers of the Tun Farming Regiment will be given a brick house and a farm yard; Since arriving at the Commander of Pyongyang, the whole regiment has carried out the 'May Day' system, that is, five days of reclaiming barren land and one day of military drills. ”

"From the beginning of the next year, within three years of age, the whole regiment shall work and rest together, and all the grain obtained from cultivation shall be divided equally among the soldiers;"

"At the latest after the age of three, when 400,000 acres of barren land shall be reclaimed; After the age of four, he divided 400,000 acres of this field into the regiment, and the household was 200 acres. ”

"Within ten years of age, all those who work in the tun are exempt from tax, and in addition: the acres of land in the tun farming group cannot be resold; Whenever you want to fight, the tun farming regiment should be ordered to move, or you can be ordered by the general to block the enemy, and follow the story of the border wall. ”

"After the age of ten, the tun farming group was disbanded, and all the members of the regiment returned to the peasant family."

"And here and here, an application degree ······"

After telling all the plans in her heart, Liu Ying couldn't help but take a deep breath, and then looked at Cao Shen with a light smile.

"The grain and tools used for ploughing, and the houses of the cultivators, should be consume······d."

"All out of the Shaofu Treasury."

When she said the last sentence of 'all out of the Shaofu', Liu Ying only subconsciously panicked!

But after careful consideration, Liu Ying finally stabilized her mind, as if emphasizing, and nodded deeply at Cao Shen.

The real difficulty of the production and construction Corps is not production, nor the Corps, but construction.

The corps only needs to levy and issue soldiers, produce, and only need to give orders for 'tuntian';

However, the construction requires the court to undertake all the production tools and living materials in the early stage, such as agricultural tools and ordnance, as well as food, clothing, housing and transportation.

If millions or even millions of surplus people in the world go to North Korea to farm, it is obviously an unbearable burden for the Shaofu internal government;

However, the first batch of 2,000 people formed a tun farming group, which is obviously not a problem for the Shaofu insiders.

- It's just 2,000 brick houses, 2,000 sets of weapons and ordnance, dozens of ploughing oxen, and corresponding farm tools, and tens of thousands of stone of grain every year;

In the future, at the rate of two to three tun farming groups a year, we will increase the intensity of tun farming little by little, and considering the increasingly powerful financial resources of Shaofu, there should be no problems.

Hearing this, Cao Shen couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and bowed his hand to Liu Yingshen to express his order.

But soon, Cao Shen asked another soul question, which made Liu Ying stunned for a moment, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"Your Majesty."

"That is, the Pyongyang Governor's Tun Cultivation Regiment, which is based on the system of the army and is composed of 2,000 households, should be the establishment of the 'first school' in the army."

"That being the case, the minister has the courage to ask His Majesty."

"——Who should be the captain of this Pyongyang Governor's Cultivation Regiment?"

"In the regiment, Zhongtun, Qu, Sima team and other positions, who should be filled with ???"

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