Eight hundred and seventy-first chapter audience (2)
/s日pt>Liu Che is currently reading the reports from the Shaofu and Taichang.
The report is so long that it fills up the entire case.
These reports are all related to the rewards that the Han Dynasty will pay to soldiers and officers in the recent and next three months.
Generally speaking, in this Battle of Mayi, the rewards given by the Han family to the army were mainly divided into three parts.
First, there is no doubt that it is the title and land.
According to the title of land and house for military merit, soldiers who have been awarded the title for military merit can obtain the land and houses corresponding to the title.
Back then, the Qin Empire relied on this hand to defeat the whole world.
The bravery and fighting will of the Qin soldiers ranked first among all other countries.
The powerful army including Wei Wuzu did not dare to fight against the Qin army.
Since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, in fact, except for the strict implementation of land and houses named after military merit in the early years of the country, after Taizong came to power, the system of paying land and houses according to title began to gradually stop.
On the one hand, this is because the emperor of the Han Dynasty frequently bestowed titles on people, which resulted in the proliferation of titles with lower titles in the country.
Later, the ingenious system of losing millet and donating titles almost plunged the system of military honors, land and houses into the abyss.
It was not until Liu Che came to the throne that he slowly revived it.
Even so, the current Han family's military meritorious system of land and residence is still lame compared to the Qin Dynasty.
Qin's jue system was based on the farming and war system.
What stands out is that there is a clear gap between each level of title and the next level and the previous level.
For example, within the Qin system.
Only people with a title can keep slaves, and the upper limit of an individual's land is closely related to his title.
But the Han Dynasty did not have these restrictions.
If you have money, you are an uncle.
A wealthy businessman with a millionaire family, even if he is just a commoner, can still keep dozens of slaves at home, buy clothes and horses, and acquire hundreds or even thousands of acres of land.
But a wealthy man with no money may still be a tenant of this wealthy businessman who is a commoner.
Therefore, back then, Chao Cuo said in no uncertain terms: The noble is what the superiors are good at, and they die from poverty; millet is what the people sow, and it grows on the ground and there is no shortage. A man who gets a high title will be exempted from sin.
What I really want is to have people from all over the world put millet on the border in order to receive a title and be exempted from sin. If they are only three years old, there will be a lot of millet.
What I mean is that your Majesty can grant you a title as you wish, and it costs nothing anyway.
This sentence indirectly proves that in the Han Dynasty at that time, the military meritorious service system had collapsed.
Because Qin's title is very valuable.
Starting from the hairpin owl, we have enjoyed privileges.
For example, Qin law stipulates that when a hairpin owl joins the army, he will be given a dou of rice, half a liter of sauce, a plate of vegetable soup, and half a stone of hay for every meal.
Starting from no update, one person can be exempted from the update service.
In the Han Dynasty, only public transport and above could enjoy this treatment.
The real watershed in the Han family's title system started with the fifth level of the ninth level.
From this level onwards, nobles and common people were divided into two classes.
The official and general families of the Han Dynasty were based on the five great officials.
The reason is that the Han Dynasty granted food and towns starting from the fifth official.
This enables them to have spare money and manpower to organize and train their children and nephews.
The feudal monarchy system of the Han Dynasty began from this.
However, those who can climb to this title are all mid-level officers or above.
Unless you're lucky enough to behead a big shot in the enemy's army, you idiot, you won't be able to get through to the fifth level even if you fight for the rest of your life.
As for the Han family, the titles of Duke and Dafu were not valuable at all.
It can even be said that there is almost no difference in social status and treatment between the fifth-level public officials and the first-level public servants.
That is to say, it looks better in appearance.
Only when you reach public service and above, the treatment and role of the title will be reflected.
The design of this institutional system is obviously to facilitate the upper-class nobles to oppress the lower-class people, exploit them, and enslave them unscrupulously.
This kind of system is certainly conducive to governance in times of peace.
But in times of war...
But this is a huge mistake!
In the final analysis, fighting relies on soldiers to charge into battle and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
In times of war, soldiers are expendable.
If more lower-class people cannot be encouraged to actively join the army, then when all the elite soldiers that Liu Che and his ancestors have worked so hard to train and cultivate die or become old, who will help Liu Che expand his territory and dominate the world?
Do you want to imitate the Emperor Wu and conscript criminals and surrogate sons-in-law to play martial arts?
That has proven to be a huge mistake.
In the early days of the Han-Hungarian War, one Han acted as five barbarians, and thousands of Han troops chased tens of thousands of Huns cavalry all over the grassland. Huo Qubing sealed the wolf and lived in Xu Mountain, chasing the enemy thousands of miles north, and there was no one who dared to stop him.
Later in the war, it no longer appeared.
The reason is that the people are tired of war.
A good man no longer wants to join the army.
Therefore, the country could only use adopted sons-in-law and prisoners as the main force of the army.
Why does this weird image appear?
Why did Emperor Wu want to be creative and play martial arts?
The answer is that the existing Han military meritorious service system cannot well stimulate high-quality civilian men to join the army.
Then why didn't a hero like Emperor Wu directly resurrect the system of military merit, land, and residence?
Instead, we need to hire a lame martial artist to fix it?
The answer is that in order to revive the old military meritorious system of naming land and housing to the point where it can stimulate people to join the army enthusiastically, its land granting system needs to be revived.
However, the Han Dynasty had no land to grant at that time.
Unless the confiscated land was filled in, how could Emperor Wu be willing to do so?
Liu Che is actually facing such a problem now.
If you want to encourage and stimulate the people and further increase the intensity of conscription, you need to grant land to the Han Dynasty. At present, the Han Dynasty has no land to grant in the interior.
Fortunately...
"There is no field in the Central Plains, but Dongou and Anton have plenty of fields!"
Therefore, with a stroke of his pen, Liu Che, with the power of victory in the Battle of Xiaomayi, Qiankun decided to grant land to soldiers and officers with military merit.
All were awarded to meritorious soldiers in accordance with the ratio of title to land stipulated in Han law.
For example, a Gongshi has 150 acres of land and a house, and two houses are built on top of 200 acres; a hairpin owl has 300 acres, and no more 400 acres.
But these lands and houses are either in Dongou, Anton or Huaihua.
If you want to get them, you must migrate to these places.
Soldiers with these four levels of titles accounted for more than 80% of the total military resources of the Han army.
In fact, Liu Che was using land and policies to lure soldiers to go to these newly acquired lands to thrive.
In the future, every time a region is conquered, this will be done locally.
In some distant places, the number of fields and houses will be doubled or even tripled.
In this way, it not only encourages immigration, but also strengthens control and rule.
For Liu Che, this is the best way.
only……
The financial expenditure is somewhat large...
Just to grant land and build houses for soldiers, if all the soldiers choose to immigrate, tens of millions will probably be spent!
Fortunately, Chinese people’s love for hometown has been extremely serious since ancient times.
Unless absolutely necessary, immigrants will not migrate to foreign lands far from their homeland.
In fact, those who would choose to immigrate immediately accounted for less than one thousandth of the total number of soldiers.
This is easy to handle.
However, a few million dollars of expenditure can be exchanged for thousands or even thousands of military families who can settle the land and guard the border.
This purchase is a great deal!
For soldiers who do not want to immigrate, their land and houses can be temporarily stored.
In other words, when they want to immigrate, they can just tell the officials.
Liu Che will definitely recognize this account.
And I will recognize it unswervingly!
Except for land and houses.
Of course, what the soldiers care about most is money.
These memorials mainly report on the expenditure of bills.
This time, in the Battle of Mayi, the Han army captured the Huns cavalry and nobles. In total, there were more than 20,000 people, and the livestock was close to 1.3 million. There were about 200,000 war horses (including those captured in the battles of Nanchi and Mayi,
The seizures in Nanchi mainly came from Lou Fan, Bai Yang, Yin Zhi Xie and Zhe Lan, which are ignored).
Undoubtedly, this is a huge benefit.
At least on paper, the Shaofu and other departments reported that the Han family could earn at least two to three hundred million after deducting the rewards for soldiers, officers and generals.
But these livestock cannot be cashed in for a while.
It is impossible for Liu Che to realize them.
Each of the cattle among the livestock will enter the Han family pasture and be used as seeds for farming cattle. At the same time, they will also be used as rewards for soldiers who have made many meritorious services.
As for sheep, that's fine.
But Liu Che doesn’t want to cash out for the time being.
He planned to send people to screen and select those with longer wool and breed them as sheep.
Sheep wool is a good thing, an inexhaustible gold mine in the future.
As for the horses...
It's even less likely to be cashed out.
Even draft horses or injured horses have their uses. At least they can be crossed with donkeys to breed mules and used as agricultural livestock.
In other words, these captured trophies were actually purchased by Liu Che out of his own pocket.
Even if you use all your cleverness and tricks to keep the price down again and again through various 'reasonable means'.
Their value also exceeds 350,000 yuan.
After deducting the 30% stipulated in the system, the remaining money is more than 200,000 yuan, which needs to be rewarded to all participating soldiers, soldiers and officials.
Fortunately, Liu Che was smart and cast one million gold baht in advance.
Through financial means, tens of millions of dollars were stolen from the pockets of these soldiers in a reasonable and legal manner.
Don't say Liu Che is cheating.
In fact, it has to be this way.
Without some tricks, the national finance will go bankrupt!
In addition, in the name of reward, Liu Che let the young man play the concept of secret exchange.
A pile of farm implements, utensils, various tools, salt and other government products were stuffed into the reward items.
Although the price is almost the same as that of Yantie Yamen, it is even cheaper!
However, this kind of behavior of secretly exchanging soldiers' rewards for their own products will definitely be criticized to death in future generations.
Fortunately, the people at this time were simple and simple and did not understand the tricks of these rulers, so they could still be fooled.
Through these means, Liu Che successfully controlled the reward and property within one hundred thousand yuan.
Even so, this is the biggest one-way expenditure ever made by the Liu family. (To be continued.)
