Wu Haowen looked at his "boastful" brother, and said in his heart that his brother still didn't know how to fight.

"How?" Han Zhongyan saw that his son-in-law's face was full of doubts, and asked with a smile, "Wangdao, do you think what your eldest brother said is wrong?" ”

"Yes," Wu Haowen didn't hide it, "my brother doesn't know soldiers. ”

Wu Haogu is a businessman, an artist, and a bad Confucian, and he doesn't seem to be close to the military, so he doesn't know how soldiers should be.

"And do you know the soldiers?" Han Zhongyan asked his son-in-law with a smile.

"My son-in-law recently learned a little bit about military affairs from my teacher."

Wu Haowen now respects his "Village Xiucai" teacher Hou Zhongliang a lot, because this Village Xiucai is from Guanxue after all, and in addition to deceiving children's "heavenly and human desires", he also knows a lot of practical knowledge.

"Hou Shisheng still knows the soldiers?" Wu Haogu asked curiously, "How did he teach you?" ”

"The teacher said: The reason why the country is the country is that it can choose the general; The reason why it will be a general is to be able to raise a soldier. No one loves the body, but uses the body as a stone; Don't love death, and those who defend the society with death have nothing to do. Therefore, it is said: Treat the pawn as a baby, so you can go to the deep stream with it; Treat the pawn as a beloved son, so you can fear death with it. For the country, we must choose generals, and for generals, we must love soldiers. ”

It's really a set......

Han Zhongyan nodded and said, "What is a monk?" How can you love the soldiers? Is it undressing and pushing food? ”

The set of undressing and pushing food is useless to the urban soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty today, it is all a trick to fool the simple village soldiers.

"Of course, it is necessary to undress and push food," Wu Haowen said, "but it is not enough to undress and push food, we must implement the law of tuntian, the policy of the township army, and make the soldiers and peasants one." Therefore, the eldest brother bought a million acres of land in Cangzhou to settle hundreds of knights, so it was better to settle 10,000 hometown soldiers. ”

"Do you want to raise a village soldier with a hundred acres of land?" Wu Haogu smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Now a forbidden army has an annual income of more than 50 yuan, if it is converted into a rent of dry land in Cangzhou, it will be at least more than 200 acres, right?" This is still not taxed and can only be received when the wind and rain are good.

Moreover, more than 50 yuan of the income of the forbidden army soldiers are all their own food and salary, not including equipment, military uniforms, etc. And the township soldiers have to bring a lot of things by themselves, how can they be enough for only 100 acres? ”

Wu Haowen thought for a while, "Then two hundred acres, so that 5,000 families can be placed." ”

"Two hundred acres is barely enough to support a family of township soldiers," Wu Haogu nodded, "It's just that it can't last too long, the example of the Tang Dynasty, the second brother should always know, right?" ”

According to the uniform field system in the Tang Dynasty, middle-aged men and Ding men over the age of 18 were each given 80 acres of land, 20 acres of Yongye field, and 40 acres of land by old men. In other words, if there is only one male in a family, there will be 100 acres of land. But a family with only one male is theoretically not going to be smoked. The government military system, which is in harmony with the Juntian system, stipulates that six households will draw one ding, and the rich households will be drawn first.

That is to say, the families of the soldiers who served in the service owned at least more than 200 acres of land, of which 100 acres belonging to the soldiers themselves were theoretically exempt. If the land owned by the families of the soldiers is generally less than 200 mu, the system of the soldiers will inevitably collapse.

However, 200 acres of land can maintain the government soldiers is the situation in the early Tang Dynasty, the industry and commerce in the early Tang Dynasty were underdeveloped, the manor economy was still the mainstream, and the common people did not have so many ways to make money as the people of the Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the imperial examination system in the early Tang Dynasty was only a formality, and the number of scholars was a number or two digits, which could not be compared with the grand occasion of four or five hundred in the Song Dynasty (and even as many as eight hundred in the Huizong Dynasty). Therefore, if the landlords and rich peasants of the people wanted to raise their class, they had to serve as soldiers and make meritorious contributions. That is, the children of officials and nobles want to be officials, and they usually become the guards of the inner government (equivalent to the guards) first.

So at that time, the country could maintain a huge army at a very low cost, and the quality of the soldiers was not bad - if the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty practiced martial arts and became soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the Song army would naturally go up.

However, in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the township soldiers maintained by 200 acres of dry land was not too high.

Wu Haogu sighed and said, "Second brother, do you think that today's 5,000 township soldiers can fight against six or seven hundred iron cavalry?" ”

Wu Haowen thought for a while and said, "It depends on the generals, so the first thing to choose is ...... generals."

There's no way to say that!

In the era of cold weapons, the combat effectiveness of 5,000 village soldiers was definitely not as good as that of 600 armored horses. As for the factors used by generals, there are too many variables, who can say clearly?

Han Zhongyan coughed and interrupted his son-in-law's tirade, "It is not easy to maintain the township soldiers, if there is no protection of the wealthy clan, it is easy to be invaded by people, and if it is used by the scholar clan, it will form a force."

If the township soldiers were easy to maintain, there would be no Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, and there would be no our dynasty. In contrast, the Imperial Horse Straight Knight, who owns 1,500 acres of land, is still relatively easy to maintain and control. ”

There is enough land in one square kilometer for agricultural and pastoral rotation – that is, the land is divided into three zones and rotated in the order of winter cereals, spring cereals, and pastures. Moreover, so much land on the plains had to be cultivated by horses, so it was easy to maintain the horses.

Moreover, after all, the number of samurai (knights) in front of the palace is not large, and they serve in the front of the palace, so it is easy to get official status and rewards, and the manor they own will not be invaded by the powerful and powerful, so it is naturally easy to maintain.

"Chongdao," Han Zhongyan said again, "The imperial court has allocated 1 million yuan to you and Shi Zhizhou, but you have to make a good use of it, and you have to purchase 700,000 mu of land no matter what." Also, there are many people in the court watching this, do you know what to do? ”

Wu Haogu said: "Don't worry, the lower officials understand." ”

……

Zeng Bu waved his hand and asked the scholar and the female envoy who were waiting in the study to leave, leaving only his son Zeng Xun and the visiting Ji Yi.

"Say," Zeng Bu looked at Ji Yi, "what do you have a good plan?" ”

"Xia Guan can let Wu Haogu not buy enough land in Beicang Prefecture." Ji Yi replied, "As long as he can't buy the field, there is no way to place so many knights, and the royal horse in front of the palace is also a commander of two or three hundred people, so he wants to expand it further." ”

Zeng Bu stroked his beard and looked at Ji Yi with a smile, "If the imperial horse in front of the palace can't be done, and the Privy Council Military Science Department is also closed, how will Yanyun fight the Northern Expedition in the future?" ”

Zeng Bu, who has been up and down in officialdom for decades, knows that it is easy to disrupt the situation and difficult to do things! And in order to win in the political struggle, it is not enough to just disrupt the situation, but also to give a way. Otherwise, if you stir up the situation of the old party, but you can't come up with a way, you will definitely be kicked by the official family to Haizhou for retirement in the end.

The old party was so miserable before, wasn't it because it couldn't give a solution to the problem?

"Xianggong, the Northern Expedition in the coming day will naturally depend on the front army of the palace and the western army." Of course, Ji Yi has a way, "It's just that you can't engage in this kind of powerful knight, such a method is too land-consuming, 500 families will have 750,000 mu, and 5,000 families will not have 7.5 million mu?" Where to find so much land? ”

Of course there is land! There are more than that. In addition, the Sanyi Huihe also "washed away" tens of millions of acres of land - of course, the land will not disappear out of thin air, but it is not in the official books.

So tap the potential, there are still 10,000 Gozen samurai...... It's just that Zeng Bu, An Tao, and Zhang Qi don't approve of this kind of "feudal cavalry". Because the number of warriors in front of the palace really reached 10,000, it would not be to suck the blood of the Western Army, how could the Western Army have so many elites? If you want to gather so many people, you can only feudalize a large number of Kaifeng and noble children.

At that time, the armored cavalry of the 5,000 generals and nobles will be stationed near the left side of Kaifeng, is this still the Great Song Dynasty that governs the world? Isn't this the set of aristocratic children in the early Tang Dynasty acting as guards of the inner government?

This Tang Chu ...... But there is no such thing as a martial arts!

Ji Yi continued: "If you want to improve the strength of the classes in front of the palace, you must restore the method of the ancestors to select the elite of the world to enter the front of the palace. ”

"Widely selected the world's elite? Have it? Zeng Bu shook his head, now is not the time to open the country, the heroes of the world have long been "reading the Five Classics to the window", and even the martial arts exam has to be shot on a standing horse, where is there an elite for you to choose?

Besides, if there are elites, they won't come to Kaifeng Mansion to be soldiers! What are the benefits of the temple secretary to others? Do you give 1500 acres of land? Do you give the official body? If you don't give anything, it's just a few dollars of money, how can the elite come stupidly? Can't you make these few dollars as a local tyrant and a bad gentleman? You must know that a few taels of money in the local area can be compared to banning spending in Kaifeng Mansion.

"Under the heavy reward, there will be a brave man." Ji Yi said, "According to the salary from the Jiupin officials, 144 taels a year, plus rewards and miscellaneous, 200 taels a year will be given." ”

"Give so much?" Zeng Bu's brows furrowed tightly, "How many classes in front of the palace are raised?" ”

"At least 50,000 soldiers must be raised, plus the 50,000 elites of the Western Army, 100,000 soldiers can fight a dozen Yanyun."

Ji Yi calculated, "Not counting the expenses of officials, 10 million yuan a year is enough." ”

"10 million?" Zeng Bu shook his head again and again, "Where did you get so much money?" ”

"How can there be no money?" Ji Yi said with a smile, "One Duting Station sold for more than 2 million...... Isn't it 10 million to sell 4 pieces of such land a year? ”

Can it be like this? Zeng Bu pressed his forehead, he was really confused, he didn't expect this method.

"In addition," Ji Yi said, "there are 500,000 forbidden troops now, and there are only 50,000 Western troops that can really fight." The remaining 450,000 yuan is spent on raising money and food, if the 100,000 and 200,000 are abolished, won't there be money to support the front of the palace? ”

"Abolish 100,000 to 200,000 forbidden troops?" Zeng Bu thought for a while, "How to cut?" You can't make trouble, right? ”

"Isn't it okay to make up for more and less?" Ji Yi said with a smile, "It's impossible for the classes in front of the palace to increase to 50,000 people in a year, right?" It's good to be able to elect a few thousand a year, but the forbidden army can be reduced by more than 10,000 a year, what kind of trouble can be made? ”

"That's a good idea." Zeng Bu nodded, "Remember, the old mansion will arrange for you to enter the right place more times, and then you will write the proposal of expanding the front of the palace into a countermeasure, and dedicate it to the official family when the time comes." ”