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Chapter 670 How about Filling the Three States with the Xiang Army? (first update)
Chapter 679

The problem now is that the army can be handed over to Zhe Keshi to control. In addition, when Zhe Keshi came to attend his wedding, Wang Yang had already communicated with Zhe Keshi and Master Su.

The 40 soldiers who are ready to choose young and strong and willing to serve the country will stay, and those who are over [-] years old or under will be turned into herding soldiers and let them stand at the junction of Yanzhou and Hongzhou Grazing horses in the large grassland.

As for those who do not want to continue to join the army, the state can give them land to cultivate and exempt them from taxation for ten years. After ten years, the land will belong to them personally. At that time, they will naturally start to pay taxes to the government. endowed.

For this plan, Su Xueshi and Zhe Keshi both deeply agree with it, thinking that this idea is very good. After all, the most lacking thing in the land of the three states is the population.

If these descendants are willing to stay here for the sake of the fields, not only will they bring population to the three states, but their planting and grazing industries will also attract traders. Only in this way can the three states be gradually revitalized.

But the biggest problem now is that although the total population of the three states is less than 16, it is still more than a hundred thousand.

And last year, they all belonged to the people of the Xixia Kingdom, and now the three prefectures are all under the control of the Song Dynasty. The reason why they stayed did not mean that they were willing to stay.It's just that most of these people are ordinary people who have no way to visit relatives and friends.

Their family has been here for generations, and they cannot give up easily, they can only stay.For these common people, both comfort and vigilance are needed.

In addition, even if there are those who are willing to stay to farm and herd among the soldiers, they were also from the Xixia Kingdom before.

Now, these lands have been owned by Da Song. Under such circumstances, if there are only aboriginal people, these three states will be very dangerous.

After all, the Song Dynasty was a new occupation here and had no mass base. However, it was too laborious and costly to immigrate people from other places, and such a thing could easily cause a civil unrest.

If those people who did not come here voluntarily are not used to the bitter cold in the north, and there will be troubles at that time, then the matter will be even worse.

However, how can the people of the Song Dynasty be willing to come to the land of the three states that has just experienced the war?
"Brother, with your talents, can such a problem be difficult for you?" Wan Bin sat opposite Wang Yang, eating delicious food happily, and beside him was a very tall woman from the Northland, Hmm... This guy's taste really hasn't changed.

I don’t pick girls who don’t have long legs. The important thing is that this guy is not tall, at most about 1.6 meters. But this girl likes to pick girls with long legs, and there are a few girls with long legs who are short ?

Well, Wang Yang decided not to pay attention to this guy's special interest, and raised his brows to ask back. "Brother, do you have any good ideas?" In the past few days, he was so worried about how to increase the population of the newly occupied three states in a short period of time that he even had less time to sleep.

Of course, Mr. Wang would never admit that the lack of sleep was caused by the newlywed Yaner being too happy.

"Wan is a businessman. From the perspective of a businessman, if I want to do business here, I must first have someone. If not, then I will think about how to attract customers. In terms of advertising planning, my brother You are much better than Wan Mou, why do you still ask me?" Wan Bin replied with a laugh.

Wang Yang put down the wine glass in his hand thoughtfully, and glanced not far away, the three beauties over there were playing poker with Wan Bin's first... so many concubines.

"Thank you, brother, for reminding me. Wang really remembered it. There is a way to use it."

Seeing Wan Bin's doubtful look, Wang Yang said a little proudly. "Soldiers."

"Xiangbing? This Xiangbing is also a soldier of my Great Song Dynasty. I'm afraid you can't let Xiangbing come here to reclaim and live here." Wan Bin couldn't help asking curiously.

"Brother Wan, you don't know that this group of soldiers is not so much the army of the Great Song Dynasty, but rather our reserve army of the Great Song Dynasty, which is also the source of the reserve troops of the Great Song Dynasty's Imperial Army."

"As for my Great Song Dynasty, the imperial army numbered about 55, and the number of side soldiers, although smaller than the imperial army, was still 37. The important thing is that most of these side soldiers are young and infirm."

"Furthermore, whenever disasters occurred in the Great Song Dynasty, until the civil uprising, the victims would be reorganized into Xiangbing soldiers. As a common practice, although there were always returnees after disasters, there were very few of them. Wang only found out after inquiring about it. "

"That's because those victims who were classified as Xiang soldiers are mostly poor people. Even if they return to their hometowns after the disaster, they can't afford to rebuild their homes. They might as well stay among Xiang soldiers and still be able to eat military rations and receive military pay to support their families. .”

"The other thing is, if there are a lot of soldiers in the box but there are no soldiers, a battalion of horses may only be a few dozen cavalry, a battalion of soldiers may be less than one or two hundred, and there are many generals and schoolmen, the government should give them the full amount... "

Wang Yang shook his head and showed off his proficiency in classical Chinese. In fact, these words were all bragged to Wang Yang by the old driver of Su Dongpo when he was talking about military affairs.

That is to say, the problem of empty wages for Xiangbing soldiers is extremely serious, and the court supports money and food according to the number of five hundred Xiangbing soldiers in a battalion.And those military officers have been concealing the fact that their barracks are not fully staffed, and naturally most of the military maintenance expenses they received have fallen into the pockets of these generals.

However, the court was in a daze, and didn't know the following questions at all. Even if they sent someone to check, those guys would accept bribes from the officers and pretend to be deaf and dumb.Such a situation will inevitably cause the court to be unable to grasp the situation of the army, and will also seriously weaken the combat effectiveness of the court army.

Before, Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi took more decisive measures to reduce redundant soldiers and generals in response to these two long-standing disadvantages.In the first year of Xining (1068), the year before Wang Anshi implemented the reform, Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty issued an edict: "If the recruiting slips of the various road supervisors and inspectors are not in compliance with the law, they will be punished. Those who do not accept the forbidden army will be sent to the Xiang army, and they will not be appointed to the Xiang army. Those who are exempt from the people."

According to the "old system of the Northern Song Dynasty, when soldiers arrive at 61, they will be exempted, and they will not be exempted immediately." Song Shenzong issued an edict in his own hand, stipulating that "those who are over [-] years old and willing to serve as civilians should listen to them." There are so many people who serve the people, so redundant soldiers are a big province.

Song Shenzong and Wang Anshi also revoked part of the designations of the chambers and forbidden soldiers, or reduced the command numbers of some designated chambers and forbidden soldiers.The ban number that was revoked at that time.

There are Guiming Bohai, Tuhun, Xiaosheng, Feimeng, Khitan Zhi, Anqing Zhi, San tribe, Xuanwei, Shenshe and other armies in front of the palace.

Guard Ma Junsi's Zhongmeng, Sanyuan, Guiming Shenwu, Xiaorui, Wuqing, Zhongrui, Weibian, Arima Ansai, and Bingzhou cavalry and archery troops.

(End of this chapter)