The great victory against the Later Jin Dynasty brought great joy to the Ming Dynasty. Not long after, the emperor rewarded the land, gave the medal, and was a great reward of the meritorious officials.&1t;/p>

Liaodong Town was also successfully sacked by Zhu Youjiao. The soldiers happily retired from the army and farmed, with at least 80 acres of land, so that they could have food and clothing in the future. Zhu Youjiao considered that natural disasters might be frequent in the next few years, and it was likely to affect the Liaodong area. In order to prevent these veterans from rebelling, various veterans guarantee measures were announced.&1t;/p>

First, the Supreme Command established a "Veter's Security Department", which provides relief to all the affected soldiers who have been reborn and help them resume production free of charge. Second, veterans can be exempted from agricultural tax when encountering injuries or disasters. Third, veterans can be exempted from corvee service, and agricultural tax is paid in ten. At the same time, it is stipulated that the agricultural tax for veterans will be collected by the Veterans Security Department to prevent local governments from causing problems.&1t;/p>

The first step is to abolish the Liaodong Army, and the second step is to gradually abolish professional soldiers from the Central Army. The first ones to be laid off were the spearmen in the Central Army.&1t;/p>

At this time, the Later Jin Dynasty had been eliminated, the Ming army had field artillery units, and the musketeers were equipped with bayonets. The most important thing was that 40,000 cavalry had been trained. At this time, the infantry no longer needed pike soldiers for protection, so the pike soldiers were among the first batch of targets to be removed after the war.&1t;/p>

The Central Army's 15 infantry divisions have been abolished by 70,000 spearmen.&1t;/p>

The rewards for the Central Army in this battle were much higher than those of the Liaodong Army. Many soldiers even accumulated two or three hundred acres of land and became a small landlord after they were discharged from the army. Of course, the court does not encourage them to rent the land to tenant farmers now. After the introduction of the "Ten Rent Law", this model has no future.&1t;/p>

Therefore, after many Central Army soldiers retired, they converted their land to a military agricultural company established by the "Veterans Security Department".&1t;/p>

Agricultural companies established by the military enjoy preferential tax rates and advanced agricultural production technology. As long as the grain can be sold, there will be dividends every year.&1t;/p>

However, although the Central Army soldiers were about to be discharged from the army of 70,000, only half of them were actually discharged. Some of the remaining half were kept, while others were converted into conscripts.&1t;/p>

Li Lin is a spearman who voluntarily turned into a conscript. He did not want to retire from the army or leave the military camp. His ancestors were all military households in Yansui Town and had been digging food in the soil. It was not until his generation that he met a good emperor, allowing him to eat his stomach, support his family, and achieve success.&1t;/p>

He did not want to continue to dig food in the soil, he wanted to make greater contributions. Li Lin, who had been influenced by the cultural course of the Central Army, knew that there would be many opportunities to make achievements in the future. Because there were also a large area on that world map that did not belong to the barbarians of the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

It doesn't matter if the spearman is eliminated, he can be converted to a musketeer. He continues to serve for five years. As long as he can improve his culture, he is likely to become an officer.&1t;/p>

The first batch of Central Army retired were actually less than 40,000. Some of the pike soldiers left behind were converted into musketeers, some turned into artillery, and even scouts and cavalry.&1t;/p>

The professional soldiers in the Central Army are three types of arms: artillery, cavalry, and scout. These three types of arms are professional soldiers that do not need to be laid off.&1t;/p>

The Central Army's veterans are also relatively easy to transfer to their jobs, because they have learned a certain culture in the military, and many of them are sent to the Technical College to study and transfer to technical jobs. The Royal Consortium companies are also very welcome to these Central Army's veterans. Recruiting qualified employees is preferred to choose the Central Army's veterans.&1t;/p>

The musketeers in the Central Army replaced 6 conscripts with conscripts. Some of them were sent to the Royal Military Academy to continue their studies and become officers, some were discharged from the army, and some were converted to conscripts.&1t;/p>

In the Forbidden City, the emperor held a meeting of the Supreme Command.&1t;/p>

Lu Xiangsheng reported to Zhu Youxiao about the military expenditure reduction plan formulated by the General Staff. "While laying off professional soldiers, the court will continue to expand two cavalry divisions, thus building ten cavalry divisions, with a total of 50,000 troops. Five field artillery regiments are expanded, thereby increasing to the scale of eight field artillery regiments, with 576 field artillery pieces. The scale of professional soldiers is retained at 60,000."&1t;/p>

"The existing musketeers of the Central Army plan to complete all replacements with conscripts within two years. At the same time, ten more infantry divisions will be built within two years, so that the number of infantry divisions will reach 25 and the strength will be 250,000. In addition, the musketeers will be fully streamlined. Musketeers will no longer be equipped with iron armor and leather armor, and the equipment cost of musketeers will be reduced to five yuan per person, and the monthly food and training consumption will be maintained within one yuan." Lu Xiangsheng reported that the equipment cost is very low, only

It takes 5 silver dollars to equip a soldier. But it is actually very luxurious. The military purchase price of a musket is only 3 yuan, and the other 2 yuan is counted as military uniforms, shoes and socks. The monthly consumption cost of 1 yuan is the largest, food and gunpowder are the largest consumption, but in fact 1 yuan is still very abundant. After all, the food for soldiers at 5 cents per month is very enough, and they are all meat and vegetables. The remaining 5 cents are mainly consumed in gunpowder and other aspects.&1t;/p>

"After the twenty-five infantry divisions are formed, the nine sides will be completely abolished. The court's elite combat troops will be composed of ten cavalry divisions, twenty-five infantry divisions and eight artillery regiments. The estimated daily military expenditure will be 120,000 yuan per year. At the same time, the navy's annual military expenditure will be 50,000 yuan, and the military expenditure will be 170,000 yuan."&1t;/p>

"In addition, ten production corps are formed every year, each production corps opens a 100,000 acres of farm, goes to the frontier to reclaim wasteland, adopts a semi-agricultural and semi-military training management model, so that the court has a group of second-line troops."&1t;/p>

"The production corps should be modified to fifteen!" Zhu Youxiao said that the production corps is actually the model of later generations, but it is the same as the garrison system in the Ming Dynasty, and they are both military farms. However, the garrison system uses military households, and has been military households for generations. These military households have to support their families and cannot fight when they are old. Over time, the corruption of the system is an inevitable result.&1t;/p>

The production corps uses conscripts, and the iron-killed soldiers can be replaced with fresh blood every year. Young people aged 17 or 18 have no burden to support their families, and they are also in the stage of immature thoughts, which is easier to shape. They dare to fight and rush during battles.&1t;/p>

In addition, all the production income of the production corps belongs to the court. The court is only responsible for supplying soldiers with food, clothing, equipment, and some pocket money, and ordering New Year's goods during the holidays. Training during the slack farming period and production during the busy farming period. The output can completely support expenditure, and it will also generate considerable profits.&1t;/p>

If it were in the past, soldiers in this mode did not have much combat effectiveness. But now it is different. Musket soldiers can go to the battlefield for two months to train. The soldiers of these production corps serve for five years, and the queues and muskets can be trained to a relatively good level. Once a war occurs, all these production corps can be mobilized to fight.&1t;/p>

In addition, if the Ming Dynasty wants to expand outward, it must have a large number of production corps, otherwise it will rely entirely on private immigration and its ability to digest the new territory is too poor.&1t;/p>

To immigrate in a certain area, at least one basic thing must be needed. For example, if the food supply is not in place, you will not be able to immigrate so many people.&1t;/p>

If we rely on the method of slowly immigrating, then the immigrants will be with their families and have no organizational and planning capabilities. They are far less efficient than the production corps that are all laborers.&1t;/p>

Just like after the main force of wild boar skin was eliminated, the Ming army had swept across the Northeast region, but at present, it could only restore production in the Liaodong region. Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty was basically the area of ​​Liaoning Province in later generations. Jilin and Heilongjiang in later generations were difficult to immigrate now. Those areas had no foundation, and they could only blow cold wind in the past.&1t;/p>

It would be different if the production corps was sent first. The court only needed to transport military rations for one year, and the second year did not need to transport military rations for another. Moreover, there was grain output, and these grains could feed the immigrants. In addition, with the production corps as the core, it could also form towns. Once the town was formed, it could immigrate to the area in large quantities. People from areas with poor resources and large populations were immigrated to those areas with vast and sparse populations and abundant resources, thereby completing the basic resource allocation.&1t;/p>

The biggest problem at this time of the Ming Dynasty was that its resource allocation was extremely malfunctioning, which made many people not have enough resources to live a good life.&1t;/p>

Internal resource adjustment is a solution, but expanding the territory is also a good solution. (To be continued...)&1t;/>&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!