I am Da Song

Chapter 114 State-run Ranch, Royal Ranch

Both the Beiwei Army and the Jingsai Army have corresponding dedicated horse farms. A little comparison between the two cavalry can probably tell the performance of the ranch behind the horses.

The military expenditures of the other two armies are detailed every year. With this reference, Zhao Huan can easily find out the corruption of the pastures in the two places.

Zhao Huan said to Yue Fei: "The Beiwei Army and the Jingsai Army can take dozens of officers and non-commissioned officers to go to the ranch to monitor every year, to rate the operation and corruption of the ranch, and to give feedback to the censor."

Yue Fei nodded solemnly, and said: "There are hundreds of officers and non-commissioned officers in the army, and they are rotated every year. It is indeed not easy to get along with the ranch. Moreover, the life and death of soldiers are at stake, and these people cannot tolerate carelessness."

"This is just a palliative measure." Zhao Huan said calmly.One of the four major disadvantages of the Song Dynasty is that the scholar-bureaucrats are shameless. As long as the ranch is still ruled by men, these people will definitely try to exploit loopholes in the system.

This system can at most guarantee that if there is a good general or an honest official in office, at least one of the Beiwei Army and the Jingsai Army can maintain its combat power.

If the two chief generals of the cavalry army and the two chief officers of the ranch all degenerate, and both of them are gentle and fierce, then the Beiwei army and the Jingsai army will still become ostentatious like the upper fourth army.

Yue Fei was also very embarrassed, it was not convenient for him to open his mouth about such things as satirizing his colleagues.Everyone knows that the scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty are so corrupt and depraved that they are dying of illness. As long as they are allowed to manage government affairs, there will be corruption and eventually corrupt the government.

He could only comfort him and said: "Cure the root cause is not a one-day matter, and the officials can take it easy."

Zhao Huan shook his head and said firmly: "If I compromise today, I will be unable to change the entire huge system in the future. The ancients said that those who do not plan for the overall situation are not enough to plan for a region; those who do not plan for eternity are not enough to plan for a time."

"For this reason, I think the reverse is also true. I have decided to change the entire dark system, and horse politics is one of them. When I clear up this horse politics, I will completely clean up one area. The six departments and nine ministers are all cleaned up. My Great Song court has also taken on a completely new look."

"It's completely new." Yue Fei said with emotion, "Does the government want to use the horse policy as the starting point for the new policy?"

Yue Fei didn't have any special feelings about the New Deal.Basically, when the Song Dynasty changed its term of emperor, it was necessary to implement a new deal.The authority of the government is now in full swing. If they don't take the opportunity to implement the New Deal, how can they still be the emperor of the Song Dynasty?
Zhao Huanzheng nodded and said: "The great affairs of the country lie in the Rong, and the great affairs of the Rong lie in the horses.First of all, reforming the horse administration is a matter of course, and the northern pastures have been looted by the Jin army. The officials of the Taipu Temple have no power, so they can overthrow everything and start all over again. "

"However, if the officials don't reform the style of the scholar-bureaucrats, it will be nothing more than changing the name of the ranch again, and it will still be difficult to change the corruption of the scholar-bureaucrats." Yue Fei pointed out the key point.

Zhao Huan said: "In the Song Dynasty, we fostered integrity but did not eradicate corruption, which caused the scholar-officials themselves to feel deeply about this. There are eleven honest officials and nineteen corrupt officials. There are a thousand corrupt officials, but only one or two can be corrupted. Fortunately, the deeds have been exposed, but the scholar-bureaucrats are protected by officials and officials, and the reputation is that they can't bear to kill without authorization."

"That's why I decided that horse administration should no longer be handed over to scholar-bureaucrats, but to businessmen."

"Give it to the merchant?" Yue Fei was stunned by the whims of the officials.Scholars, farmers, businessmen, businessmen are the most humble.How can the scholar-officials agree to hand over the authority of the scholar-bureaucrats to the businessmen?
Zhao Huan looked at Yue Fei with a smile. Sure enough, everything was unacceptable because the current situation was not corrupted to a certain extent.

As far as Zhao Huan knows, in history, the army of the Southern Song Dynasty could do business and raise military expenses by itself, and there was a special name called "Huiyi". Yue Fei's Huiyi officer was Li Qi, a professional businessman.

The logistical supplies and military expenses of the entire army can be handed over to merchants, not to mention just a part of them raising horses.

But Yue Fei's surprise now can only show that the current situation is too good.So much so that all officials habitually feel that the imperial court can still maintain its operation without making too many changes.

Zhao Huan asked with a smile: "It's hard to accept?"

Yue Fei said solemnly, "It's hard to imagine that military affairs should be handed over to businessmen."

"Haha." Zhao Huan smiled happily.It's getting more and more interesting.

Yue Fei didn't know why, so he still suggested cautiously: "The imperial court and scholar-bureaucrats will definitely strongly oppose the official proposal."

Zhao Huan was very calm about this, and said lightly: "The Song Dynasty gave too many privileges to the scholar-bureaucrats, which has blinded them and lost their minds. They want unfettered privileges and a lot of gold and silver. Therefore, even if the wealth of the Song Dynasty is poured out, it will be difficult to satisfy their gluttonous desire."

Speaking of this, Zhao Huan revealed his strategic design and said: "Since they love money, I will give them the opportunity to obtain wealth. The ranch is under their full control, and the army purchases war horses from them at a reasonable price every year. Half of it will be distributed directly to the members of the ranch.”

"If they have enough horses to supply the army, they can also sell them to the people. The profits they get can also be distributed among themselves."

This set of processes is obviously the state-owned military industry model of later generations.

But horses are different from tanks and armored vehicles. They are not too harmful, and they can also be sold to the people.

With a shrewd manager, a ranch can quickly become profitable.And it is a steady stream of profits, which is far more beneficial than the previous one-shot deal.

This is tantamount to distributing the proceeds embezzled by the former horse administration officials to all the staff of the ranch in a reasonable and legal manner.

Zhao Huan said: "Since corruption is unavoidable, I will satisfy their desire for profit. In the Song Dynasty, we will replace the Taipu Temple and the left and right Qijiyuan with state-run ranches and royal ranches."

Yue Fei asked worriedly: "Can the scholar-bureaucrats agree to the government's new policy when scholars retire to businessmen?"

Zhao Huan clapped his hands together and said with a big smile, "Yue Qing, when did I need the consent of the literati? All the officials related to the horse administration were wiped out by the golden men. They couldn't even find a war horse! So I just want to It is enough to set up a new organization, appoint a group of new people, and take care of more than [-] war horses for me. The scholar-officials have no objection at all."

Yue Fei raised his expression and said, "If this is the case, there will be a new atmosphere."

The biggest advantage of Zhao Huan's plan is that it is not an enemy of the scholar-officials as a whole, but only against officials related to Ma Zheng.

These horse officials were also ridiculed among the scholar-bureaucrats, and what they did was really outrageous.

That's why Wang Anshi reformed the horse protection law, so that he could easily deprive them of their power and keep the war horses among the people.

War horses can be raised in the hands of ordinary people, and of course they can also be raised in the hands of businessmen.

This means that the implementation of this state-run bill will have relatively little resistance, and the target population will be very concentrated.

Moreover, these people broke away from the scholar-bureaucrat class, and their status was equivalent to changing from public officials to establishment staff.There are no such privileges as scholar-bureaucrats, and there is no preferential treatment such as not killing scholar-bureaucrats.

Afterwards, Da Song will be able to eliminate corruption in state-run ranches and royal ranches, and strictly enforce the law.Yushitai can raise the butcher's knife high and wipe out any corrupt people without worrying about the scholar-bureaucrats' objections.

This alone is enough to make the horse administration system after the implementation of the state-run law the cleanest and most efficient department in the Song Dynasty.Because this is the first system in Song Dynasty to strictly enforce the anti-corruption policy.

(End of this chapter)