Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 474
It was Zhao Zhongzhen who gained the most from the quelling of the Xuzhou military camp incident this time. He usually has rich theoretical knowledge but no practical experience. As Fan Ning said, if there is widespread corruption, it is a problem with the system. In this case, you can no longer target people. You must unite the majority of generals and use a clear heart to do stupid things.

As long as the loopholes in the system are plugged, I believe most generals will not reach out easily, so as long as it is not too serious, they can be let go.

Zhao Zhongzhen especially admired Fan Ning's skills in writing announcements. Although Fan Ning claimed to be selling dog meat, Zhao Zhongzhen admired Fan Ning's ability to penetrate people's hearts and resolve the crisis with a clever method. In name, it was a punishment announcement, but In fact, it hinted at the punishment standard. In this way, everyone's corruption, a huge stumbling block, was easily crossed by them.

It also made Zhao Zhongzhen understand the principle of grasping the big and letting go of the small. Their reform is to reform the system, not to arrest people.

An incident in the Xuzhou military camp made the young Zhao Zhongzhen grow up a lot at once.

Tomorrow is the public retirement meeting. More than [-] overage veterans from various military camps will gather in the Yingtianfu military camp, take off their military uniforms, receive compensation, bid farewell to the military camp and return home. This is a very important ceremony for future similar The reform created a precedent.

Zhao Zhongzhen stood at the door of the big tent with his hands behind his back, staring at the dark night with his hands behind his back in a daze.

"Tomorrow's meeting of ten thousand people has been prepared, what are you still worried about?" Wang Anshi asked with a smile behind him.

Wang Anshi is in charge of the Department of Joining the Army, mainly for detailed planning of various resolutions of the decision-making department.

Like Fan Ning, who scratched his head and came up with an idea, how to refine it and form various specific and enforceable clauses, that is the matter of joining the military division.

Lu Huiqing of the executive department is fully responsible for the planning and preparation of tomorrow's [-]-person military withdrawal meeting. Wang Anshi is reviewing and reviewing the details of the preparations for tomorrow's meeting.

Zhao Zhongzhen sighed, "A small Jingdong Road is messed up, and the balance of interests is unfair. If the world changes, what should we do?"

Wang Anshi smiled slightly and said, "There are small solutions, and there are big solutions. In fact, I personally think that it is not impossible to implement this set of plans to the entire army."

"How do you say that?" Zhao Zhongzhen turned around and asked with interest.

Before this, Fan Ning told him that they took advantage of the small reform, which is why the court gave so much money and food. If the world reforms, I am afraid there will be no more, but now Wang Anshi told him that it can be promoted, which really makes him A burst of surprise.

Wang Anshi calmly said: "I know that Fan Shijun thinks that if the world reforms, the imperial court will not give so much money and food, but I think Fan Shijun has neglected an important question, that is, how many overage soldiers will be dismissed? Mr. Fan Ning thinks there are 30, but I think it is at most 10. The difference between the two is three times, because Mr. Fan is using the experience of the Xiang army to set up all the armies in the world. In fact, the over-age soldiers are mainly concentrated In the Xiang Army, there are not many over-age soldiers in the imperial army, which is the head of the army."

Zhao Zhongzhen nodded, Wang Anshi made sense, Fan Ning was indeed negligent on this point, and cannot use the experience of the Xiang Army to infer the number of over-age troops in the world.

"Wang Tong, please continue!"

Wang Anshi smiled, and continued: "We use 10 people to calculate. In fact, it is a matter of 50 hectares of land and [-] yuan of money. The Zhao family of Yingtian Mansion occupies tens of thousands of hectares of land. The imperial court can't get it out. ?

Not to mention 30 hectares, even if it is tripled, based on Fan Shijun's 300 overage soldiers, the imperial court can afford [-] hectares of land. As for the [-] million hectares, the imperial court can use tax-free compensation. I believe soldiers will prefer this way. "

Speaking of this, Wang Anshi sighed, "According to my many years of experience as an official, compensation is not difficult, the key lies in implementation. Soldiers are given land compensation, but it is the local governments that need to take out the land. There are the most problems here, so At the end of any reform, it is a matter of implementation, and the imperial court must set up a special strong supervision department to manage the implementation issues in various places."

After all, Zhao Zhongzhen was young and didn't have a deep understanding of the importance of implementation. Now he is more concerned about the effect of the reform. He walked a few steps behind his back and said: "If only [-] over-age soldiers are dismissed, I feel that it is still too little. It doesn’t solve the problem of redundant soldiers.”

"Your Highness, you need to take the route of elite soldiers. The fighting power of a million infantry is really no better than 30 cavalry. I think that if the Song army can be compressed to 60, 20 cavalry plus 40 infantry, the problem of redundant troops will be completely eliminated." solved."

"Then half of the army will be laid off! How can Da Song's safety be guaranteed?"

"Excuse me, Your Highness, where is the safety problem of Da Song now?"

Zhao Zhongzhen was stunned for a moment, it seemed that Song Dynasty hadn't fought a war for decades.

Wang Anshi said sharply: "I think first of all, both the Xiang army and the Xiang soldiers can be abolished, and only the forbidden army should be kept. The role of the Xiang army is nothing more than to provide logistical support for the forbidden army, not to fight against the former enemy. In this peaceful and prosperous world, they are not needed at all. , This will cut another 50 troops."

"But what if there is a war between the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, and the Xiang army is suddenly needed?"

"It's very simple. The Baojia Law is implemented in all state capitals in the world. Using the Baojia Law to concentrate peasants and ordinary residents for military training can offset their hard labor to a certain extent. I believe it will get the general support of the peasants. Once a war breaks out, the court can quickly Organize a temporary army of one million people to provide strong logistical support for the imperial army to go north.

Secondly, if the government needs labor, it is entirely possible to use the method of exchanging taxes for labor to recruit labor. Your Highness, don’t worry about the reduction of taxes. If the army is cut in half, the financial resources of the imperial court will only be sufficient. The money can be used to strengthen the construction of border defenses. With money, you can really do a lot of great things. "

When Wang Anshi said this, Zhao Zhongzhen felt like waking up from a dream, and he bowed deeply, "Thank you Wang Tongpan for your teaching!"

Wang Anshi took the opportunity to take out the "Book of Emperor Renzong's Words" that he carried with him, and presented it to Zhao Zhongzhen respectfully, "This is the reform outline written by my minister with years of experience in governing local states and counties. The thinking that I just said is also in it. Your Highness can take a look if you have time."

Zhao Zhongzhen took the thick book, nodded and said, "I will definitely read it carefully!"

Early the next morning, 840 overage veterans gathered in Yingtianfuxiang Army camp.

There is some discrepancy between these people and the number on the military register. The number on the military register is more than 400 people. After deducting the more than [-] people who have been disqualified for compensation for their own crimes, there is still a gap of [-] people. This is actually nothing. The soldiers disappeared. Of course, no one will pursue this matter, and all kinds of compensation are based on the actual number of people.

This is the reason why it is necessary to hold a veterans' meeting for overage soldiers. On the surface, it is to give an explanation to the overage veterans, but in fact, the compensation is to be paid by head. Otherwise, the compensation of more than 1000 empty soldiers will make some people fat again. pocket.

The square was full of people, and nearly [-] overage veterans sat cross-legged on the ground, anxiously waiting for the announcement of the final amount of compensation.

The ceremony was very brief. Jingdong Road appeasement envoy Fan Ning gave a simple farewell speech to everyone, and then went to collect compensation from more than a dozen large tents marked with the state of residence, and then returned to their hometowns.

"I know that everyone is very sad, that the compensation is unfair, and that they have been wronged, but I can tell you that after a few years, you will be glad that you left the army in time today, and everything is for the earlycomers, including The same goes for retirement compensation.

All of you here are over 40 years old and have been in the army for at least ten years. Now that you return to your hometown, you can at least farm to support yourself. If you don’t want to farm, you can rent it to others and start a small business by yourself. Maybe it will be difficult to start. A little bit, but there will always be hope in life, but if you return to your hometown ten years later, your strength is exhausted, but you may not have the compensation of today, where is your hope at that time? "

Fan Ning spoke very plainly, but also sharply. There was no great reason, so he told all the soldiers in words that everyone could understand, that you left today because you took advantage of the small number of people. Now I can go back and start again, and staying in the army is only hopeless.

No one objected to his words, everyone listened in silence, waiting, saying these words had no meaning to them, what they needed was an announcement of compensation.

Fan Ning continued: "Next, I will announce the compensation to everyone. The compensation is divided into three parts. The first part is the compensation for military positions. Soldiers have [-] acres to go to the field, fire chiefs have [-] acres, escorts have [-] acres, and the captains and deputy captains It is [-] mu, and then the imperial court gave a little discount, all land will be exempted from tax for five years starting next year, and overage veterans will be exempted from hard labor for ten years."

There were whispers from below. The temporary increase in discounts was a bit unexpected. It was a surprise that they were exempted from tax for five years and exempted from hard labor for ten years. The riots caused the emperor Zhao Zhen to decide to reward the soldiers who did not participate in the riots. Tax exemption and labor exemption were temporarily increased rewards.

"Everyone, please be quiet!"

Fan Ning waved his hand, and everyone quieted down again. He continued: "The second part of the compensation is military service compensation. According to the service time in the army, you will be compensated for the usual money for one year, and the chief of fire will add ten at a time to the military service compensation. For guanqian, 15 guanqian is added to the charge, and 25 guanqian is added to the captain of the team. Adding Huo Chang's compensation of [-] guan, he finally got [-] guan as compensation."

"The last piece is a welfare subsidy, two shimi per person, everyone can't go home empty-handed! In addition, His Royal Highness Prince Liang made a decision to give each of you a wheelbarrow cart, worth two guanqian, so that Everyone can use the cart to push the money and rice back home."

There was a burst of enthusiastic cheers from below, and the soldiers got up one after another, and rushed to the large tents marked with the names of their hometown and state capitals. A long queue soon formed in front of the sixteen large tents.

(End of this chapter)