"King!"

After Qingji established the probation system and was approved by a group of ministers and doctors, Wu Zixu, who had been reappointed as the Grand Sima, stood up with a tooth wat in his hand.

Wu Zixu bowed to Qingji on the throne and said: "In recent years, there have been occasional rebellions in the six counties of Lingnan and the three counties in the southwest, and the losses of the military revolution have been quite serious. ”

"Now that my Wu State has destroyed Chu and swallowed Yun, opened up thousands of miles, and placed counties and counties to govern, not to mention the officials, the standing soldiers are already stretched......

"The minister thinks that my Wu country should bring 300,000 armor to supply demand and garrison the Quartet."

"Please see the king!"

300,000 with armor?

As soon as Wu Zixu said this, he immediately made the ministers and doctors above the court can't help but talk to each other and whisper.

With the national strength of today's Wu State, it is not a problem to say that it is 300,000 armor, even if it is 1 million armor.

Eight or nine Li Shu came out with one soldier.

It is equivalent to one or two families separating a soldier, which is not very reasonable, but it can be done.

It's just that wearing a million armor is no joke.

If it were not at the critical moment of the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species, the moment of life and death, it would be impossible for the Wu State to give everything in this way.

Today, the standing army of Wu has as many as 200,000 soldiers, which seems to be a lot, and it is better than that of Jin Qi.

However, Wu currently has nineteen counties, two or three hundred counties, and its territory is vast.

It is east to Yizhou Island and Ryukyu Islands, west to Maiwu Gorge and Wujiang River, south to Jiaozhi and Ailao, and north to Huaisi and the coast of the East China Sea.

The huge territory of Wu occupies more than half of China......

It's a pity that the land is vast and sparsely populated!

In this case, even the state of Wu, which has a standing army of 200,000, will become overstretched when it encounters an accident and there are large and small rebellions in the country.

"The king, the minister thinks, but!"

Dazai Jiran, who has always been relatively "stingy", came out and said: "My Wu country is now full of treasury, rich in warehouses, and raising 300,000 standing soldiers, no problem!" ”

Thirty Li Shu raised a soldier, and the state of Wu could afford it.

Because Wu's military service system, of course, is a conscription system, but the vast majority of them are not professional soldiers.

According to the rules set by Qingji, all men above 16 and under 40 in China must enlist in the army, every three years, or every five years.

Every year, Wu will carry out a conscription campaign, depending on the proportion of Dingkou in the county where it is located.

Whether it is the children of nobles or ordinary people, they must not evade military service.

Because even the son of King Wu, the son of Wu will inevitably enlist in the army at the age of fourteen, no matter how noble others are, it is impossible to be more noble than the identity of the son......

It is precisely because the princes of Qingji lead by example that this military service system of Wu State can be implemented without hindrance.

Not only that, every year in the state of Wu, when the peasants are slack, the local government, mainly the county level, organizes a large-scale military training.

The target is nothing more than retired soldiers of appropriate age, or teenagers who take the initiative to participate......

The martial style of Wu is very popular, and it is also due to the fact that the people are fighting hard every year!

"Good!"

Qingji bowed slightly, and played Wu Zixu's proposal to expand the army.

In general, the standing army of 300,000 in Wu is not too much of a burden.

After all, there is no war on weekdays, and the soldiers of the standing army outside the national capital also have to reclaim the land to support themselves.

Unless it is a war, a soldier sacrifices, or a war exploit, otherwise there is no need for the state to pay for compensation and give rewards......

As for the ordinary annual salary, it is not a treatment that ordinary soldiers can enjoy.

Wu Guo will give the soldiers due treatment according to the 20-level military merit title system.

In the military, the meal eaten at each meal varies depending on the title.

"Hairpin bird" can have a bucket of polished rice, half a liter of sauce, a plate of vegetable soup, and half a stone of hay.

In the case of the old man, from the first rank of the official to the twentieth level of the marquis, the annual salary ranges from 50 to 1,000 stones......

"My lord, the minister thinks that the southwest of my Wu country, as well as the six counties of Lingnan, often rebels, and they have been repeatedly prohibited. Why? ”

Wu Zixu said bitterly: "The kindness of the king, Ze is surrounded by the Quartet, but the new Wu people are not grateful, and they will take revenge and disobey the king!" ”

"If it is suppressed by a large army, as soon as the army is gone, I am afraid that the rebellion will start again and cause trouble on the border!"

"That's why the minister thinks that the king should be an immigrant to the border to stabilize the southern border!"

Immigrants on the border?

In the eyes of Wu Guojunchen, this is indeed a desirable approach.

In all dynasties, there have also been examples of immigrants fighting on the border, and the results have been remarkable.

As far as Qingji knows, in history, Meng Tian expelled the Xiongnu in the Hetao area under the order of Qin Shi Huang, and then set up counties in the local area, and moved Guanzhong immigrants into the Hetao area for reclamation and garrisoning.

After the victory of the Qin Dynasty's southern expedition to Baiyue, the occupied area was set up as counties, and hundreds of thousands of Qin troops in the southern expedition were reclaimed on the spot, and a large number of Central Plains immigrants were relocated into the Baiyue area, with hundreds of thousands of people.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in order to strengthen the northern border defense, more than 700,000 people were immigrated at one time, enriching the northern counties, and implementing the combination of soldiers and peasants.

In this way, the burden of the state's military salaries has been reduced, and the security of the border has been ensured.

As a result of the measures taken to immigrate to Shibian and Tuntian, the economy and culture of the northwest frontier of the Han Dynasty developed rapidly.

Every inch of rivers and mountains is gold, who is in charge of the separatist force?

The loss of land and the real side of immigration are two completely different outcomes......

And in the government and opposition of Wu State, there have always been two different voices.

One is the imaginary edge, and the other is the real edge!

Anyway, the public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable.

As the monarch's Qingji, for a while, he did not establish whether it was an imaginary edge or a real side.

Because what Qingji advocates has always been to adapt measures to local conditions, rather than stick to the rules......

"The king, the minister thinks it's inappropriate!"

As soon as Wu Zixu's voice fell, Shicai also agreed with Wu Zixu's plan to expand the army, and immediately stood up and retorted: "What Da Sima proposes, immigrants to the border? ”

"But I don't know, where is Li Shu who wants to move?"

"Please King Mingjian!"

"In the past, our Wu country had six counties in Lingnan and three counties in the southwest, and used money, farm tools, cattle, cloth, houses and other things, and even knighthoods to encourage domestic Li Shu to enter the southern tuntian to reclaim the famine, but with little effect."

"In the past ten years, under the strong authority of the king, all those who have committed adultery, that is, prisoners, have been exiled to Lingnan and southwest, so that they can settle there and multiply."

"It's just that there are only a few thousand prisoners and convicts, how can they gain a foothold in the face of millions of southerners?"

"I'm afraid that before they can assimilate the southerners, they will already be integrated by the southerners......"

After a pause, Ji Ran bowed towards Qingji again, and said angrily: "King! ”

"It's really inappropriate for immigrants to go to the border! The minister thought that he should stabilize the country's foundation, move the southerners of the four realms into the interior, organize the households, and properly resettle! ”

"In this way, within a few decades, the people of the south will definitely be naturalized and completely become a part of my Wu country!"