Chapter 295: Martial Arts (Medium)
Naturally, the law of armament cannot be just a law established for the benefit of veterans.
After focusing on the veterans, there are more contents in the military law, so that as soon as this law is promulgated, the whole country will rejoice and uplift.
What is the reason for the whole country to do this?
The main reason is that Liu Xing passed this law, which officially clarified the standing reserve military service system and the standing reserve system of the border army and the forbidden army.
According to the provisions of this new law, all men who have reached the age of 16 and have studied and played in the village school and the school for ten years are to be soldiers and reserve soldiers. In times of war, as long as the imperial court recruits men, no matter whose family they are, they must unconditionally enlist in the army to join the army.
Those who evade military service face at least three years in prison. Those who shield and help them evade military service are also sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to five years.
Along with the prison sentences, these people face confiscation of their land, fines, and even a ban from marrying before their birth.
Whoever dares to evade military service, what is reflected in the law of military preparation is that it will definitely make him worse than death.
With such a rule, the whole country knows and knows not to evade military service. Only by constantly strengthening ourselves and adapting to this new military service system can we live well and live well.
In this way, according to the household registration statistics of Huizong's reign, only in the provinces of Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Shanxi, Dongchuan and Xikang, there were 9.21 million households and more than 51.3 million people in the territory of the Xin Dynasty. According to the ratio of one-twentieth, there are less than one million strong men who have to serve in the military every year.
With such a large base of soldiers, who would not know what the result would be? It must be that no one in the four seas dares to disturb the peace of the land of the Shin King. When the various states heard the number of millions of troops, they would be so frightened that they didn't dare to provoke the Great Song Dynasty again.
National tranquility is the truth that the people can prosper. It's a person who understands it. So for this point it is a national celebration.
Just carrying out military service reform, Liu Xing believes that it is not enough.
Weapons are more important than the number of personnel, and it was precisely by relying on a series of firearms and new weapons brought by Liu Xing, as well as the "confrontation" chariots introduced from Western Xia, that the Golden Dog suffered a series of defeats, so that Wu Jue, Wu Luan and Liu Ziyu drove King Kang's soldiers out of the land of King Xin so easily.
Therefore, in the "Law of Armed Preparation", Liu Xing has another chapter: those who produce new weapons and are effective when they are used on the battlefield will be granted three generations of franchises and the right to supply and lose. Those who succeed in improving weapons will be given priority to be given the right to franchise and supply weapons.
Why? When many of the people first saw this. I don't know what that means. But when those craftsmen and craftsmen saw this, they almost tore down the roof tiles on the city gate tower with cheers in front of the city gates.
Why do the craftsmen cheer like this? The reason is very simple, Liu Xing not only gave the privilege of being a soldier, but also gave the privilege of craftsmen.
As long as you engage in invention and creation, and make weapons with high practical performance that can really come in handy when killing enemies on the battlefield, then the court of King Shin will let you have the privilege of producing weapons, and it is an exclusive operation.
This means that the craftsmen who used to work hard day and night to carry the work for others, as long as they use their brains more and really contribute to the military preparation, they themselves no longer need to be lowly workers, and directly become bosses with franchise rights.
And such a boss, whether it is under the official supervision and business management system. will be officially protected by the Northern Dynasty for three generations.
Leaning on the big tree to enjoy the shade, leaning on the big tree of the imperial court. The craftsmen almost saw that they and their children and grandchildren would have to gain a steady stream of wealth every year by processing and producing new weapons created by them for the imperial army, so that they could also live a life of human beings.
With such a future, it is difficult not to make the craftsmen cheer. The rejoicing of the craftsmen was all the more exhilarating, for there was hardly a city in the country where the craftsmen had been in a state of madness since the day the Law of Martial Arts was promulgated.
The madness of the craftsman is not a trouble, and it does no harm to others. They just locked themselves in the room after getting off work, and all kinds of whimsical ideas and all kinds of weird tricks were used, and they began to develop all kinds of new weapons......
The soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first.
Everyone who has read the book understands the meaning of this sentence, and Liu Xing is naturally no exception.
With a huge base of soldiers, and with the country's craftsmen gathering up in groups to rack their brains to develop sharper new weapons, the next thing that may affect military equipment is the matter of grain and grass.
To ensure military rations, when Liu Xing discussed with Zong Ze and Zhang Suo in the Tianshu Pavilion, the method he thought of made the two old marshals admire again.
What did Liu Xing think of? The first method is to follow Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms and engage in the tuntian system. But times are different, and the population is different. The population of the Central Plains is now far more than the population of the Three Kingdoms era, so it is impossible to engage in military annexation throughout the country.
So what to do? The Tuntian Law formulated by Liu Xing in the "Law of Armed Preparation" has made an improvement that keeps pace with the times: all newly conquered land will be military Tuntian within ten years, and it will not be distributed, subleased, or sold.
Wherever there is no terra nullius, where no one wants to go, recruit new soldiers to establish military cantonments, and collude with felons to replenish military cantonments. The army does not compete with the people for land, and all the property of the army belongs to the military department and the officials of the Privy Council......
If it is just to build tuntian to increase the army's own supply capacity of grain and grass, it will not be too directly beneficial to the people of Yunpu world. However, when the words "the army does not fight for land with the people" appeared, the people of the entire Xin Dynasty became happy.
Why are they happy? That's because all the military cantonments are only allowed to occupy those fields for ten years, and what will happen to those fields after ten years? It was not ordered by Liu Xing to distribute to the local people who had no land, or to lease it to those families with large populations but not enough land to cultivate.
In this way, ten years later, those fields will still be returned to the people, and countless opportunities for new land production will be placed there, which will make the people cheer and jump.
The return of military land to the civil law was only the first point that Liu Xing made Zong Ze and Zhang Suo, as well as the courtiers admire.
The second rule set by Liu Xing in the "Law of Armed Preparation" is the real rule that really makes the government and the opposition praise and the people cheer: 20% of the production of the soldiers of the military tun is saved, and the local disaster year relief food is prepared. Twenty percent of the production of Juntun was divided and handed over to the local yamen to be distributed equally to poor families.
When soldiers go to farm, they should save 20% of the grain they grow for local disaster relief in the future, and they will also give 20% to those poor families.
What is this approach? This is one of the specific implementation methods that Liu Xing declared to return the wealth to the people and the prosperity of the whole people.
Imagine a poor family that, for various reasons, can't have enough to eat even if it has land. If it were in the past, it would definitely not be selling children and daughters, at least you have to give away a few children in the family, so that you will be separated and your ethics will be hurt.
But what about when such a rule comes out? At least those families don't have to sell their sons and daughters anymore, at least they can eat enough with the help of Juntun.
What a blessing and what a blessing! Zong Ze didn't dare to think or think that the rules and regulations that Zhang had never thought of in the past were officially written into the "Martial Arts Law" by Liu Xing, and the result was that the jubilation and celebration activities of the military and civilians across the country were directly pushed to a boiling point. (To be continued......)