"Your Majesty, the country's redundant troops are already very heavy, and we can't increase our troops," Wen Yanbo, who had been diving for ten thousand years, finally spoke.

"Gong Wen, there are several intentions for this increase in troops, Zheng Baiqu will move a lot of irrigated farmland over there, so I said to Wang Ju that it is used to place soldiers, why is it used to place soldiers? First, the soldiers' families can be guaranteed and their morale will not be low; second, the soldiers will have surplus grain in their hands and will not hoard them, which will enable Shaanxi to get a large amount of surplus grain to be used for military rations or drought fighting. If it is replaced by ordinary people, a large number of people are migrated, and the handling is unfair, there may be a lot of disputes. If you don't ask, it will soon become the prey in the hands of many inferior gentry, Kantian, Yintian. ”

Wen Yanbo frowned.

Wang Ju also frowned, this merger with Yintian is better to mention less at the moment.

For example, in order to deal with the big landlords and tenant farmers, the Song Dynasty issued an edict that no one should prohibit the movement of the people.

When the tenant farmer is gone, the tenant farmer himself can escape.

This forced the landlords to treat the tenant farmers humanely and reduce the national crisis. So the usury came, let go of the usury, and owed me money, your wife and daughter are my people, and you are also my people, and if you don't pay the debt, where will you go? Jingyang is a little better, especially Chang'an, the situation is stricter.

Why is Chang'an stricter, there are many nobles!

Therefore, it is better not to talk about this annexation of the hidden field, but only about the increase in troops and the reduction of troops itself.

Fortunately, Zhao Ji took back his words in time: "But if you use the Baojie Army, the Baojie Army will also be arranged and resettled nearby, and there are not so many Baojie troops near Zhengbaiqu for placement." And there is also a shortage of drain labor. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know that villain instigated His Majesty, the minister only asked, do these tuntian pay taxes? Didn't the soldiers give money? Sima Guang asked from the side.

That little man. mentioned Zheng Baiqu, who else could it be?

Of course, now Sima Guang will not be difficult against Wang Ju for the time being. Just now, Zhao Ji even said Jiao Yong, and then targeted it. That's not the right thing to do.

"In Qing's opinion, what should I do?"

"It's not a military increase, but a reduction of troops, and Duke Wen has had an experience in reducing troops, and he once cut 80,000 forbidden troops."

"Your Majesty, Sima Guang's words are extremely true, the country's top priority is mainly redundant soldiers and redundant officials." Lu Gong wrote.

Others also gossiped about it.

There really can't be more troops.

"陛xià. I remember that at the time of the Spring Festival, His Majesty repeatedly instructed the ministers to reduce the number of subjects in the Jinshi Ming Scripture by the edict of the first emperor, and the ministers also obeyed the order. Why, it is because the officers and soldiers are too redundant. Look at Your Majesty and don't be harmed by the villain. Sima Guang said again.

"This person will not harm the country, so he will not be mistaken!" Zhao said. Didn't you say okay, don't worry about it anymore, why is it here again?

"It doesn't matter if it's harmful to the country or not. The proposal to increase the number of troops, His Majesty could not agree to it. Lu Gongzhu said again.

"Okay, I'll talk about cutting troops first. Let's talk about increasing troops. Zhao said excitedly. Everyone talks about cutting troops, but this time I say cutting troops, you don't object to it.

"I have a plan here, please refer to it."

That is the first step of the plan for reducing elite troops written by Wang Ju.

The eunuch was drawn from the inner palace as the envoy, and then the Beijing officials were drawn from the capital, as well as the governors of various prefectures, and the tripartite supervision cooperated.

There is a commander-in-chief Wen Yanbo in the court, and there are governors and governors in the localities.

The country is divided into 14 regions: Kaifeng, Yingtian and Luoyang, Linzhou, Bingzhou, Dingzhou, Damingfu, Jingzhaofu, Qinzhou, Weizhou, Gyeongju, Yanzhou, Jiangling and Tanzhou.

Why is there no Lingnan, but Tanzhou and Jiangling Mansion?

Kuixia Man, Meishan Man and North and South Jiangman!

The Song Dynasty had the harm of punishing the six edicts. The strategy is to buy security, but buy security. These people still come out to plunder, and do not buy An. More out of the plunder. If it is to plunder the wealth, it will be forgotten, Guan Jian also plundered the Han people.

Forget it about plundering the Han people for serfs, and the right of the first night of all evils, this is also counted, and there are many barbarian leaders who like to eat human flesh and eat hearts and lungs.

The imperial court was forced to have no choice, so it had to station a large number of forbidden soldiers in this area, but the weather here was very hot, and the northern forbidden soldiers were not used to it. Often every time there is a rotation, only * Cheng Cheng soldiers can come back, and the dead are innumerable.

This Wang Ju didn't think much about it, the wicked have their own wicked grinding, and there will be a fierce man to deal with in the future.

At the moment, it is still a matter of military reduction.

After these envoys and the capital arrived in the states, they immediately ordered the battalions to assemble the forbidden troops in the name of testing the school's martial arts.

Then roll call with a roster.

At this point, you will immediately find a very cruel problem, that is, empty salary. This problem is too heavy, not only does it eat up a lot of the country's finances every year, but it will cause many consequences, such as if the armor is changed, it will be distributed to the battalions according to the soldier's registration, including those who eat empty salaries, then how to deal with these armor battalions, and some people even dare to sell it to the Tanguts. This consequence is not strict zhòng.

For example, at the beginning of a campaign, 100 battalions of officers and soldiers were transferred according to their military status, many soldiers and horses, and 40,000 or 50,000 people. However, the real force can be less than 20,000 men. A battle that could have been won, but it was defeated.

Why is it found that soldiers do not write off when they die, they do not go down when they flee, they do not recruit soldiers when they have vacancies, and some even instruct soldiers to flee in order to eat empty salaries. In particular, the border troops of the wheel garrison, obviously a battalion of 500 people, 300 people escaped, they went out to do private work to earn a living, or went home, the generals did not care, until the end of the rotation, you can come back together. But this salary went into the pockets of the battalion generals.

However, once the roll call is called, there will be various reasons, such as carrying out a mission, or guarding the fort, or stringing up. What is the serial arrangement, because it is a state and a state to investigate, the soldiers only stab the number, such as the Zhenwu battalion only stabbed Zhenwu two words. Then the battalions in the neighboring states can be strung together. Therefore, it is necessary to let the officials block the intersections and strictly prohibit the transfer of troops.

However, there will be a lot of trouble, but at first only the name is called, and the others are not asked, so as not to have bad consequences, and some commanders will mutiny with sergeants.

After the roll call, the school martial arts, such as archers, the standard Song bow kills two stones, and it has to be opened three times in a row to be qualified. If you can't even achieve this standard, then don't go into battle to kill the enemy.

Those who pass and those who fail are marked separately under the military register.

A state inventory has been completed. Then the commanders and deputies of each battalion were shouted to assemble in each prefecture.

Those who eat empty salaries are strictly zhòng, regardless of whether they have merit or not, they are advised to retire on the spot. At this time they left the barracks. There are no soldiers in their hands, and they can't afford to raise storms. Then immediately disperse the strength of their battalions in units. Regrouping with other battalions in the vicinity. By these commands, the head of the capital was persuaded to retreat a second time.

The first is to deter empty salaries, and the second is to persuade the upper generals of each battalion to retire with the least commotion.

Then, those who failed to pass the school examination, as well as those who were over 50 years old and had no actual combat experience, were all persuaded to return.

As for those soldiers who are not registered for various reasons, such as being sick, such as guarding the forts. The third reorganization was carried out, and the schools were examined and screened again one by one, so as to prevent some generals from using these people to make a fuss and continue to cause a large number of empty salaries.

This is a forbidden soldier, followed by a box soldier.

It is easier to do this, they don't need too strong combat effectiveness, and they don't dare to mutiny. As long as one of them is the only child in the family, the elderly, and the one is singled out, there is a way to live. Let them leave the barracks on their own, and give them a subsidy of ten dollars a year for five consecutive years. There is a basic guarantee for them to leave the barracks, and those who have no way out continue to stay in the barracks to support and work. With this, the army can be reduced with the least cost and the least commotion.

Of course, by doing so, it is impossible to solve the problem of empty wages all at once.

There will be, but much less.

And after eliminating these old, weak, sick and disabled, the strength of the army has increased instead of decreasing. At least 10 battalions of forbidden soldiers were transferred. There will be more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, not 20,000.

Well done, then. This time alone, two or three hundred thousand forbidden soldiers may be eliminated.

So this increase in troops is not harmful to the country, but anyway. Once the elimination begins, the number will drop sharply, and everyone will only look at the numbers, not the real soldiers, and they will be very worried. Especially the Shaanxi side.

Therefore, in the area of Zheng Baiqu, the strong people were selected from the volunteers, and the family was nothing more than an only child, and the tattoo was incorporated into the Baojie army. And with Zheng Baiqu being able to support his family, I believe that many volunteers will be willing to join the Baojie army.

Then we can increase the number of nearly 20 battalions of the Baojie Army, first, the water conservancy has received labor, second, the strength of Shaanxi's border defense has been enhanced, and third, although some expenditures have been increased, there will be a reduction of 200,000 or 300,000 soldiers and horses, and this small increase in expenditure is nothing.

In fact, the combat effectiveness of the Baojie army is also stronger than that of the forbidden army.

"The forbidden soldiers are not as ......good as the Baojie army," Zhao Ji said in one breath and sighed loudly.

Everyone was silent.

If Han Qi is here, he can still call Han Qi. But Han Qi went down, and everyone didn't have to make peace.

Whether it is strong or weak, the battle of Dashun City is a demon mirror.

"Gong Wen, this matter will be handed over to you, for the sake of the Great Song Sheji, I hope that Wen Gong will do it well." Zhao Ji said cautiously.

"The old minister must live up to His Majesty's expectations." Wen Yanbo immediately said, without thinking about it, the reduction of troops was already his appetite, and if the reduction of troops was done well, it would be a great achievement. And there's a big secret......

The corners of Sima Guang's mouth were bitter, how smart he was, he immediately reacted that he was pitted by the little emperor and Wang Ju. The two deliberately only talked about the front, not the back, first talked about the increase of troops, and did not mention the reduction of troops, and they took the lead in opposing it. This opposition was implemented by the unanimous consent of all the people to reduce the number of troops.

In fact, it is only the first step in the plan to reduce and strengthen the army.

Later, you have to implement it step by step, and if you are in a hurry, there will be a big mess.

So Zhao Ji began to say the second thing, Fangchang Hedu and the two-eight-point system.

What is the 28-point system, in the past, the Song Dynasty pit implemented a class system, and this pit was handed over to you to contract, and how many lessons had to be handed over in a year. Many large families have made such a contracting system miserable. As a result, many pit mines "cannot be contracted" and have to be operated by the state. However, the state has to pay the cost of exploitation, to serve the people, and to use Xu officials to manage, and as a result, Xu officials are harsh, or short, or they are not able to make a living.

Therefore, the 28-point system is now implemented, and the service households themselves are responsible for the cost of mining, and the state will send people to assist or provide them with technical assistance at most, and the service households themselves will be responsible for the rest, and 80% of the mining income will go to them, and they will be allowed to sell it themselves, and the government will get half of it. But this dichotomy, the government can't help but pay any costs, and it will no longer harsh the people as servants. Then it will be combined with the auction system of the Fangchang River, so that "the people are wide and the wealth is surplus".

As long as it is executed well, the imperial court can get rid of one big burden after another.

Even without the gunpowder distribution system, the state pit mining would not become a government that harmed the people, but rather benefited the people, and the imperial court itself made a lot of profits.

"That's a good idea." Zeng Gongliang said.

Some bigwigs looked at Wang Ju, believing that the little emperor would not be able to see it if he stayed in the palace.

So who came up with this strategy?

No wonder the little emperor said that this person will not only not harm the people, but also will not be mistaken.

Talent, although Han Wei had already seen the twists and turns, he couldn't help but sigh again in his heart, and then thought, Jiefu, when you enter Beijing this time, don't be compared to a little hairy child. (To be continued) R466