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Archer camping system in the Northern Song Dynasty

The so-called archers were first introduced in the Zhenzong period by the general Cao Wei, who imitated a militia guarding the border policy that had existed in the Later Zhou Dynasty, and improved the system.

Its core is to recruit young and strong Han and Tibetans on both sides of the border, give each household two hectares of land, and order them to be farmers in peacetime, train in leisure time, and go out in wartime. In fact, it is a variant of the military system.

However, in order to strengthen the archers' determination and fighting will to defend the border, Cao Wei applied for special preferential treatment-free rent forever.

Sure enough, the combat ability of archers has been greatly improved, and many people are willing to become archers.

However, soon, with the increasing financial pressure, in order to save money, tax archers appeared.

That is to say, in addition to the distribution of land, archers who still have to pay taxes like ordinary households.

This greatly dampened the enthusiasm of the frontier archers.

Therefore, in the Qingli era, when Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi were guarding the border, they simply incorporated all these old archers into the forbidden army.

After the Xining reform, as the war progressed, the archer system was restored in order to increase the enthusiasm of the military and civilians along the border.

It was also changed to the archer camping system, adopting Cao Wei's old suggestion that archer applicants, in addition to being given two hectares of land and fifty mu of horses, were also exempted from their summer and autumn taxes and predestined payment.

At the same time, following the military system of the Forbidden Army, these archers were organized, trained, and organized according to the command.

This greatly improves the combat capability and enthusiasm of archers along the border.

As a result, archers have become the most powerful supplementary means for the Western Army of the Song Dynasty!
It is also the source of the elite of the Western Army!
However, Hedong is different from Shaanxi. There is very little wasteland here, and even less land to be reclaimed.

Before Lu Huiqing took office, the number of archers in Hedong hadn't increased, which is why the combat capability of the Hedong Army has been unable to increase.

After Lu Huiqing took office, this problem was solved!

How did you solve it?
Money wasted!

Since Lu Huiqing took office in Hedong, he directly applied to Bianjing to restore Xining's seven-year land-buying law in Hedong.

Use the deposits of the exemption money from Hedong, that is, the leftover money, to buy land from the people in Hedong, and then rent it back to these people, and exempt them from the two taxes.

The condition is: voluntarily apply to become an archer.

As a result, the number of archers in Hedong has greatly increased, and the combat capabilities of the generals in Hedong have also been greatly improved!

At this point in time, the combat power of the Hedong Army has actually caught up with that of Yan Yanlu.

It's just that there wasn't a big fight, so there wasn't a chance to show it.

In addition, let me say it in a low voice, in the second year of Yuanyou, after writing Lu Huiqing's demotion edict, Su Shi proposed to restore Lu Huiqing's law of buying land and recruiting labor to strengthen border defense, and it was passed...

So, Su Dabeard is really a chaotic and lawful camp!

(End of this chapter)