Chapter 230: The Beginning of the Great Qin's Five-Year Plan
"There is no need to convene the Great Dynasty Meeting, notify the three princes and nine ministers to know the hundred officials." The First Emperor waved his hand and looked at Zhao Si.
"The five-year plan focuses on the locality rather than Xianyang, and the local county officials must be clearly informed, urging Li Si to let the local officials come up with a charter as soon as possible.
Roads, canals, farming, livestock, etc., are the main ...... As for commercial matters...... What do you think? The First Emperor hesitated and looked at Zhao Si.
The First Emperor originally wanted to say that business matters were not in a hurry, but the First Emperor knew that Zhao Si had a different understanding of business, and this kid was very interested in business, and he might have some whimsical ideas.
"Business is not in a hurry, this period of time is to be used to lay the foundation, the foundation is laid, agriculture is prosperous, the country is prosperous, even if you don't ask, business will rise because of this, additional products, this thing can't be banned, how can you need special support? The grandson is worried about setting rules for them. Zhao Si shook his head.
"Just think about it, since Li Si has already polished you, you can go and hold the edict in the East Palace to convene the three princes and nine kings to tell the hundred officials." The First Emperor waved his hand.
"Is this appropriate?" Zhao Si smiled.
"It's been a long time since I've had a grand survey of the world...... "The First Emperor glanced at Zhao Si faintly.
This kid is lazy...... Just let him be in charge of the business notice, and he wanted to resign.
"This goes, this goes...... The great father of the world can't be in a hurry, I heard that the political affairs of the father are now handed over to the father? After five years, all localities have already built a large number of things, and it is inevitable that there will be measures to deal with such a big governance, and after five years, it is indeed possible to personally inspect local construction in order to review the results.
Then I will be with my father...... Father just happened to be in Xianyang! Zhao Si said with a smile.
The content of this five-year plan is large-scale infrastructure and large-scale projects.
The general direction has been set, but it does not mean that the following will be successfully implemented.
The abilities of officials in various localities are different, the local conditions are different, and there are good and bad people, and there are advantages and failures in things.
When a national policy falls, it cannot be completed perfectly, even in modern times, it cannot be done.
From the perspective of the ruler, it can only be said that Zhao Si gave a 100-point answer sheet, and after five years, all the officials of Great Qin can hand over a 60-point passing paper, well...... can be written in history.
It just so happens that in the era of large infrastructure construction, there is no room for clumsiness, and at that time, the real capable people, as well as the indiscriminate generation, will surface.
After the tide goes out, it is clear who is swimming naked.
Relying only on local official documents and reports will inevitably cover up each other and beautify political achievements, and it is indeed better to take a trip to the world to see with your own eyes.
Anyway, the main focus in the past five years is infrastructure, and the water channel road cannot be faked, and Zhao Si is not a fool who will be fooled by anyone, so he will inevitably bring some technical power with him, so as to test the quality and results of various infrastructure along the way.
"You have a good calculation......... "The First Emperor pointed at Zhao Si, a little helpless.
When it comes to playing, this kid is very active, but Zhao Si is really excited when he says this.
The main person is not relaxed when he surveys the heavens, and the first emperor does not go to eat, drink and have fun.
It would be good if there was a kid like Zhao Si on the road to relieve his worries and relieve his boredom.
"The eldest father is joking, but the grandson thinks about it, and if he doesn't see it with his own eyes, he really can't rest assured.
Moreover, if you don't see the results of the five years, you will inevitably have some regrets. Zhao Si smiled and spoke.
"Five years is still early...... I'll talk about it later......" The First Emperor waved his hand.
Zhao Si left when he heard this, and took the edict issued by the First Emperor and the "Great Qin Five-Year Plan" that Li Si had polished for himself to gather the Three Princes and Nine Secretaries.
Taiwei Wang Qian, Imperial Historian Feng Quji, Prime Minister Li Si, will be the Shaofu Qiangong......
The leading brothers of each department are arranged in order......
The ministers saw the salute, and Zhao Si didn't say much after returning the salute, and asked Ji Congee to present the "Great Qin Five-Year Plan" printed in advance to the bigwigs of various ministries.
"Now Daqin, the frontier is peaceful, the civil strife is pacified, the price of grain has dropped sharply, and the agricultural harvest is at the time of great governance, but if the country is governed, if you do not advance, you will retreat, for the king and the minister, not to be satisfied with the status quo. And tell the locality, in order to use the whip rope of the world, the people to use their strength, the officials to do their best, to plan the affairs of future generations, and set a long-term foundation......" After Zhao Si made an opening remark, let the officials read it by themselves.
Zhao Si's "Great Qin Five-Year Plan" is quite miscellaneous, basically writing where I want to go, but it is still a bit disorganized after being slightly integrated.
After Li Si's polishing, in addition to the height of his thoughts, he is more organized.
The first is to state the concept of the master plan as laying the foundation for all generations, and to put it bluntly, it is to lay the foundation.
Secondly, according to the classification of the military, government and people's livelihood, the performance goals and future prospects that should be achieved by each department are divided into three public and nine secretaries.
Then, according to the geographical division of the prefectures, the future prospects of each region are formulated.
In addition to the construction of people's livelihood, such as the frontier land, there are also city construction tasks and so on......
In addition to this, each region has a task of population growth.
Of course, there is no particularly strict mission goal, and there are no actuaries in this era, and even if there is, there is no reason to set one, which is a political matter......
But if you perform well, there will definitely be a reward, and there will be no punishment for those who are well-behaved, but if you delay your poor performance, you will definitely be punished greatly.
"As for the army, Gu plans to initially establish a system of parallel conscription and recruitment within another five years...... Zhao Si said.
"Of course, they are still nominally conscripts, but within five years the salary rations must achieve a certain breakthrough, according to half of the net profit of a strong laborer in a year, followed by weapons, armor, clothing, etc...... All issued by the government, no longer need to bring conscripts, five years later, within the army, whether it is clothes, armor and weapons, it is necessary to achieve reunification......" Zhao Si began to talk eloquently.
Reform of the military system is necessary, and the current military system of Great Qin is the most primitive military system.
It's about the same as conscription, there is no salary, and the most numerous low-level troops, except for "soldiers", are only equipped with weapons, as for armor and clothing? Think about it.
In these years, being a soldier is a loss-making business, not only has no salary, but when you come, you have no money, so how miserable it is.
This point has been confirmed by Heifu's family letters, and there is no need to say more.
"Great Qin's military service is no less than a million ......," Wang Jian said quietly.
The standing strength of the Qin State is really exaggerated in all dynasties, of course, this is also because the current military system of Great Qin is the most primitive military system, and most of the recruitment costs have been passed on to the head of Qian, so the government's military expenditure is not as large as imagined.
However, if the military system is reformed and the government bears all the costs of recruitment, then the annual military expenditure will be an astronomical amount.
There are 600,000 soldiers and horses in Lingnan, and if you add Zhao Si's feudal state in the frontier, there are also 500,000...... Combined with the troops deployed in the various counties and the feudal areas, the total strength must be more than 1.5 million.
"How many of the more than a million military service are actually considered military? The frontier land of the domain is both cultivated and warned...... It is not clear whether it is conscription or military service. Zhao Si shook his head.
"Take the 600,000 soldiers and horses in Lingnan as an example, the actual combat strength of these 600,000 soldiers and horses may not even be 200,000, of which 50,000 can be regarded as elite soldiers...... When you pick up a weapon, it's a soldier, and when you put it down, it's no different from a farmer......" Zhao Si rubbed his eyebrows.
"In fact, not only Lingnan, but also the border armies everywhere are ......"
This has something to do with the national policy of Great Qin, 600,000 soldiers and horses sounds like a lot, in fact, this is to expand the corps, military conquest is secondary, the main purpose is to enrich the production and construction of the frontier, so the quality of the source of soldiers is generally low.
In particular, the 600,000 soldiers and horses in Lingnan have a ridiculous amount of water, and their main personnel are composed of sons-in-law, merchants, traitors, and leaders of the Six Kingdoms...... There is no comparison with the Great Wall Corps at all.
If it is really 600,000 elite soldiers, Lingnan still needs to implement the policy of peace and harmony?
Of course, in fact, if you look at it from the eyes of a modern person, the combat effectiveness of the Great Wall Corps is also lackluster.
Under the conscription system, it is impossible to have elite soldiers in the true sense of the word.
The Qin State's combat effectiveness was strong because its farming and warfare system ensured that its lower limit was relatively high.
If you really want to talk about elite soldiers, the only thing that Great Qin can call elite soldiers is the Yulin of Xianyang.
The Yulin garrison is a completely off-duty soldier, and all of them are veterans with military merits, a group of strong military skills, and everyone who pulls it out is an existence that can be an officer.
Don't look at Yulin, there are only a few thousand people, with them as the core unit to expand, it is easy to pull out an army with no less than 200,000 people and quite good combat effectiveness.
If the two armies really face each other, it would be okay for thousands of Yulin to fight more than ten times the Lingnan soldiers.
If you deal with the barbarians on the border of the domain, you don't consider the climatic and geographical factors...... It's not an exaggeration to take one as a hundred.
"On the side of Lingnan and Northern Xinjiang, the 11th troops were reorganized into a standing army, and they were rotated once every five years, and the rest were reorganized into the Futuntian soldiers." Zhao Si opened his mouth and said.
Zhao Si had already thought about this......
The border army is too watery, even if Zhao Si plans to change the conscription to recruitment, it is impossible to pay wages to individuals.
Millions of mouths are secondary, if Daqin's more than one million soldiers and horses are really all high-quality soldiers, Zhao Si will find a way to make up his salary and weapons for them if he tightens his belt.
Just kidding, there are more than one million high-quality soldiers, equipment and salaries can keep up, and it is enough to push Eurasia horizontally.
The problem is that among the more than one million people, it is difficult to say whether there are 300,000 of them who can be called high-quality soldiers.
What is a high-quality soldier? The son of a good family, tall and big, strong comprehension, military literacy, strong obedience, and not afraid of death......
When the dynasties were at their most prosperous, they may not be able to pull out 500,000 high-quality soldiers.
Zhao Si's plan was to select relatively outstanding members from the border armies in various places, organize them into standing troops, and have the government provide weapons and equipment and rations.
Since then, he has been in charge of fighting wars and military literacy drills, and has been rotated every five years, and has been a professional soldier since then.
As for the rest? On the one hand, production, construction, and development will not be left behind, and on the other hand, military spending will not be excessive and wasteful.
"In that case, the minister has no objection." Wang Jian nodded when he heard this.
"When it comes to the reform of the military system, it will affect the whole body, and I also ask General Wang to pay attention." Zhao Si said when he heard this.
"Although the minister is an old bone, he still has the strength to share his highness's worries." Wang Jian nodded.
There is no need to say much about this matter, after all, Wang Lidu is almost bound to Zhao Si, and the Great Qin Five-Year Plan was proposed by Zhao Si, and Wang Jian is still a captain, so he should do his best.
The most important thing is that Wang Jian has felt that his time is running out, and in the last stage of his life, he hopes to make Wang Li's road wider.
Sun is thousands of miles away, although Wang Jian has not said anything, how can he not worry in his heart?
After confirming the reform of the military system with Wang Qian, Zhao Sifu looked at Li Si again.
"As for people's livelihood everywhere, the first priority is to build roads.
First, the world's galloping roads should be completely connected within five years to connect all counties in the world, and second, the official roads of each county must be able to reach the gallop directly.
There is a fixed number of official road standards, and there is no need to change them, just as before.
The second is the channel farming, according to local conditions, the situation is different in various places, it is difficult to be constant, within five years, it is inevitable that natural disasters and insect disasters, it is not good to rule in advance, all to the actual production of the past years, and then the reward and punishment.
And then there's the population...... It is necessary to encourage the people to have more children and more livelihoods, and now that agriculture is convenient, it will not be difficult to have children.
All localities must be supervised, if there is an act of drowning infants, regardless of men and women, they will be severely punished, and those who are born and abducted will be killed, this is not a five-year policy, but a long-term policy, and must be strictly supervised. Zhao Si said.
Li Si naturally has no objections, as the head of the hundred officials, the highest level of counties and counties, he is naturally responsible for the summary and actual implementation of the people's livelihood in various places.
"Will be the Shaofu ......" Zhao Sifu looked at Qian Gong again.
"The system will also be reformed within the Shaofu, and the salary of the craftsman should be paid, and the treatment should also be improved, but now that the law has changed, it cannot be driven by livestock, and the craftsman does not work as a farmer, but can only work for a living......"
Qian Gong nodded, he had expected this for a long time, but he had been pretending to be confused.
There's no way, the sooner you start, the sooner you pay, although you will be a young man and there is no shortage of money, but who can come up with it?
Nowadays, the general trend is also a matter of no choice.
"In addition to the restructuring, it is to call more craftsmen, in addition to the Xianyang Bureau, Longxi, Lingnan, Liaodong, Jiaodong, Langya, within five years, these five places will be built out of five more production places, and minerals should be vigorously mined, which is the first ......priority."
The requirements for the general Shaofu are relatively simple.
Increase, increase, or increase.
"The history of the chestnut...... Although Daqin has abundant grain production, there is never too much grain, and the cost of grain will only increase in the future...... Here is detailed, and it will be presented to Lone after the discussion. ”
"Imperial Doctor, supervising the county officials of the world......"
"Servant...... Set up a horse factory in Yinshan...... In addition, Kannai has also opened up a breeding place for good horses...... Five years from now, I'll see 200,000 new horses! ”
"The law has been changed, and the court commander must no longer do the things of the old law, but set an example so that the new law can be implemented as soon as possible......"
"The pawn changed to a big order...... It is advisable to send envoys to other countries, to investigate the actual situation of other countries' territories, and to ...... the political trends of the DPRK"
(End of chapter)