Li Su and Liu Bei were very easy-going and talked freely without any outsiders. They chatted like this for an afternoon, and could not see any restraints of etiquette from the monarch and ministers.

When Liu Bei heard that he felt sad, he nodded involuntarily. When he just summoned Li Su to come to the south that day, he was worried that Li Su would go south for nearly a year and a half, and both sides became unfamiliar and restrained, and were not used to interviewing and exchanging top-level national affairs directly.

But soon Liu Bei got used to it: Brother Boya was selfless and still had the same style as before.

Of course, if you are witnessing other ministers in public places, you must still talk about the etiquette and law of the monarch and ministers. Both sides know how to grasp this.

"Berya is still cautious. In order to reform the commercial tax system, he even thought about three steps. He thought of the possible reform of the conscription method.

At that time, those who are unwilling to reform the commercial tax will bear the anger of "the court cannot afford to support so many soldiers to unify the world, so they have to reform the military system", so that the anti-military reform and anti-commercial tax reform will argue with each other, and the court will naturally wait and see."

After Liu Bei figured these twists and turns, he couldn't help but sigh. But then he changed his mind and wanted to roughly understand the direction and outline of the scary "soldier source system reform" that Li Su expected to use to see if his acting skills are realistic enough.

Liu Bei thought he was still very familiar with military affairs, and his second and third brother Yun Changyide and others were also very familiar with military affairs. They should know better than Li Su when it comes to recruiting troops. Therefore, Liu Bei felt that he could help Li Su improve his acting skills and work together.

Li Su was stunned. At first, he just told Liu Bei about the general strategy and direction of promoting reform. Unexpectedly, Liu Bei was so concerned about the details of these virtual moves that he didn't intend to use, so he had to take some time to explain it roughly.

"Your Majesty, the new conscription system I intend to use to fake a shot can be roughly called the "Presidential Army System" or the "New County Army System".

It is nothing more than that after the war in the world, the land was deserted and some prefectures and counties were vast and sparse. The court could give land to the landless farmers again, and then ask the people who took the land to the court to go out to serve in the military service in exchange for the fertile land they distributed to the war years.

Of course, if the world is peaceful in the future, in peacetime, there is no military task, and the land you are assigned to have to pay taxes, and corvee labor cannot be exempted. However, a stable deduction and discount clause between corvee labor and military service can be given.

In general, this system is somewhat similar to what we used to "service instead of tax" tribes such as Bajun Banyan Man, and is considered to be their inheritance and development. At the same time, it has been promoted to all ethnic groups, and we Han people can also use it..."

Li Su combined his general understanding of the military system when he read history in his previous life with the actual experience of governing those military-service nations before this life, and then he talked freely and revealed a lot of details.

(The specific content in the future is not enough. There are a lot of books on reforming the government system. In general, if the country sends land to you, you have to serve as a soldier for the country. All weapons and equipment must be prepared at their own expense, and the source of troops is connected with administrative divisions and land.

In general, the Han and the late Tang dynasties were in the system of recruiting troops, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the early Tang dynasties and the Ming dynasties were inclined to the conscription system. The military households of the Ming dynasties were actually a variant of the military army, but the Ming dynasties only distributed land to military households, and the Southern and Northern Dynasties were generally granted land.

After the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the land was generally granted by the maximum theoretical land grant, and even if you don’t actually have that much land, it would be levied at the top. In the civil affairs department of the Ming Dynasty, we could learn from the two tax laws that were started by Yang Yan. Since the land was not distributed to ordinary people, the land tax on ordinary people would be levied according to the actual land possession, and the tax on ordinary people was levied according to the actual land possession, and the tax was 'taken to the acres'.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty was equivalent to taxation according to the late Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, and the conscription according to the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the early Tang Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang took half of each side and spliced ​​it together.)

However, this in-depth explanation shocked Liu Bei again - because he knew that Li Su did not intend to use this "false move" at all, and he wanted to help Li Su improve his acting skills.

But why does a false move sound so realistic and rich in details? What about "I know more about the soldiers"?

What else can I add to this?

How could he know that Li Su used the policy of left and right jumping that had happened in history as a false move, and naturally the details were richer.

Liu Bei sighed: "Boya is really... meticulous. After hearing this, I think your military reform is inevitable, otherwise how could it be so detailed - so, how are you going to implement the reform of commercial tax?"

Li Su: "Just so and so..."

The specific details are too long and will naturally be announced separately when it comes to the court.

After hearing this, Liu Bei felt that there was no big problem and could be taken to the court for discussion.

In addition, in order to cooperate with Li Su's plan this time, Liu Bei also made temporary personnel adjustments:

Originally, he did not intend to let Zhuge Liang take office as the "Henan Yin" after the New Year, which was a adjustment to Zhuge Liang's local official position, and moved from Hedong Prefect to Henan Yin.

Now, since we have to cooperate with Li Su's virtual and real cooperation with the reform, Liu Bei feels that we can place a representative official like Zhuge Liang as the "Assistant Minister of War" for two months.

Considering that Zhuge Liang is Li Su's favorite disciple, if he proposes the "reform of the military system" as Zhuge Liang, the outside world will definitely think that Li Su is taking serious action, and those stakeholders will be nervous.

Moving from the local prefect to the deputy position of the ninth central department of the court was not considered a demotion. Moreover, Zhuge Liang has always been the chief of the Grand Marshal and the chief of the general, and is known for his knowledge of military force. He was given the position of deputy position of the Ministry of War for a period of time, and no one could gossip.

If he no longer becomes the Henan Yin Yin in the future and wants to be adjusted to the officials of the Ninth Ministry, then he will be the Minister of War. Although the Minister of War is actually slightly lower than that of Henan Yin and Jingzhao Yin, it can be regarded as a training for Zhuge Liang.

He was too young and when he returned to his official position as a Beijing official in his early twenties, he was not suitable to go directly to the Supreme Court or even the Third Duke. The Nine Ministers must do it. No one stipulates that those who are valued can only be promoted but not reduced in their entire lives. Letting Zhuge Liang be the Nine Ministers is also beneficial to improving his official resume.

...

After Liu Bei summoned Li Su to have a private chat, the next day was a five-day grand ceremony. Considering that Li Su had just resumed office for less than two days, the reform was not raised, and everyone was not impatient. All the affairs in the court were still the same. Liu Bei just gave some whims to test it out.

At the same time, the new appointment of Zhuge Liang was announced, and Zhuge Liang's position as the prefect of Hedong was removed from now on and was changed to the Minister of War. The position of General Chief Secretary was still the same.

Liu Bei also roughly announced the reason for the transfer, which is about military expansion since this year. In the future, he hopes to normalize and institutionalize temporary military expansion matters, and has laws to follow, so Zhuge Liang takes advantage of this winter to take up his new job and sort out the relevant matters.

It was very fast to become the deputy position of Jiuqing at the age of nineteen. Just compare it horizontally, Fa Zheng was four years older than Zhuge Liang and three years earlier than Zhuge Liang when he entered the officialdom. Now he is only at the same level as him.

After the dynasty meeting, most ministers and generals whispered, thinking that they would make drastic changes to the conscription system.

"Does Your Majesty think that the current military raising system costs too much money? Or does the preparation of military supplies give too many chains of wealthy merchants and nobles in charge of logistics? Or does he think that the expansion of the military is too casual and has no law to be established and must be rectified?"

Today's Han Dynasty court has no fundamental reform in terms of military system compared to the Huanling period. Liu Bei's previous set of "Yizhou's remote areas with inconvenient transportation are inconvenient, and the people are inconvenient to pay taxes and support the country, so military service is used instead of taxes." This is just a temporary measure under the special geographical environment and transportation conditions, and it is not considered a system formation.

The military expenditure of other Han troops, which are mainly based on the source of military resources, has been very high in recent years. Not to mention the distant future, just say that this year, Hebei and Yuan Shao fought in a bloody battle, and the south spent more than a few billion to destroy the Sun family.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about food rations, a soldier ate one and a half stone of food a month, but it has not counted the wartime meals and the rewards of wine and meat. According to the average official price of one stone of food, a soldier is in a wartime state all year round, and it costs 6,000 yuan for the country to eat. This does not count the loss of food transport, but the part eaten by the transported people.

Guan Yu led a small combat force of more than 100,000 yuan for more than a year, and he had to transport losses. He spent 1.5 billion yuan of military spending on the country after eating.

Weapons and equipment, pensions for combat damages, and other consumables, are generally twice the ration expenses.

So Liu Bei's current battle model of giving money for business is now, and the Hebei battlefield costs at least 5 billion a year. If the battlefield is farther and the transportation will take a thousand miles of expedition, it will double.

(Note: Duan Bing's western expedition to Pingliang was because the journey was too far and the supply was difficult. He only brought 30,000 people to fight for a year and a half, and spent 4.4 billion. Guan Yu was because Li Su ordered logistics and transportation technology for him, which doubled the loss. He still fought against the defensively, and only spent 5 billion to bring nearly 200,000 people to fight for a year.)

Li Suping Jiangdong, at the peak of the combat troops, the size of the troops was only about 150,000, and the number was smaller than Guan Yu, but the expedition was longer than Guan Yu. Even though the cost of water transportation along the Yangtze River was lower and the battle time was half shorter than Guan Yu, Li Su's total cost in the end was still similar to Guan Yu-

This is mainly because it costs money to build various advanced warship fleets. Li Su's war equipment is too technical, and the Navy has always been a money-burning thing. Li Su alone spent one-third of the budget on building those five-tooth armored warships with iron-packed waterlines.

If Liu Bei's court did not rely on commercial taxes, the annual income from the head tax and field taxes would definitely not be enough.

After all, according to the latest data within Liu Bei's sphere of influence, only 18 million people are counted as 40% of the full tax-paying men, that is, 70 to 8 million (old men and children do not pay taxes, women and boys aged 10 to 15 are reduced by half. According to the normal population structure, the total population multiplied by 0.4 is basically equal to the equivalent full tax population)

There is also a tax exemption for 400,000 combat troops. Previously, Liu Bei's court stipulated that 60 days of military service during wartime would be worth a year-round rent and transfer to a man. Therefore, a man in the family would be exempted from taxes for five additional people.

The 400,000 troops do not pay taxes, and the taxpayer population is equivalent to only four or five million. According to the rent-in-one transfer, each strong man will be 1,800 yuan a year, and the total national theoretical fiscal revenue is only 8 billion yuan.

But the income of the court cannot be used to fight wars, and there are other expenses. So many officials and minor officials have to support them. In particular, after Liu Bei became emperor, he changed from distributing grain to officials at all levels, and even raised wages. The expenses of other government projects were not included.

Therefore, the war between the north and the south this year at least consumed the surplus that the court had saved since 196.

Unless Liu Bei reforms the military system and changes the current system of raising soldiers with high military salaries and changes it to a model similar to the "domestic military system" in which the court does not pay military salaries and only cares about food, it will be easier to get rid of financial pressure and large-scale explosions of soldiers.

Otherwise, Liu Bei would not have launched such a large-scale war under the current military wage system. You have to save two years ago and fight another year.

The court officials knew this account well, and they thought to themselves: Your Majesty saw that the situation is very good now, and he would definitely not be willing to make the cause of unification of the world and was dragged down by the lack of money to pay the troops. Are you planning to carry out a reform that will prevent the army from paying wages or at least paying less?

Even the troops' payouts have been reduced, and all kinds of money-making processes will definitely be tightened, and it is much harder to make money in terms of purchasing military supplies...

Those who are worried about this are not wrong, because if the government system is really implemented, the soldiers in the government system will take care of their own equipment. How could they give the quarantine officer the chance to make money and get kickbacks in the equipment purchase process?

You have to be the recruiting system of the Song Dynasty. The weapons and equipment were purchased by the court for imperial soldiers. Only the military officer can you earn the equipment money?
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