Wanli 1592

Chapter 1012 Military Service
There are many ways for Xiao Ruxun to prevent the army from slacking off. In addition to the fun mode of sports competition, there are more severe and cruel modes, such as confrontation exercises.

The army must not forget to drill, and it must not forget to fight when there is no military war, otherwise the combat effectiveness will decline rapidly. The reason why the Han army in the Western Han Dynasty could maintain considerable combat effectiveness was not only because of the great threat of the Huns, but also because of the long-term uninterrupted of martial arts.

The Han army paid no less attention to the combat effectiveness of the army than the Qin army.

In the Han Dynasty, China’s population was not as large as it is now. Facing the pressure of the powerful Xiongnu, the military service system of the Han army was close to the compulsory military service system for all people. And according to the principle of three years of farming and one year of storage, he will officially serve from the age of 20 until the age of 23.

During the age-appropriate period, except for the annual slack training, each person has to serve in the military twice in his life, each time for one year, once in the local area, called "Zhengzu", and once in the frontier or the capital, called "Shuzu" or "Guard". Once there is a big war and the troops are insufficient, the trained farmers must immediately gather and go to Chang'an, and then prepare to fight.

Because of the uninterrupted training during the slack season, even the reserve soldiers who are not in service have strong combat effectiveness. Taking advantage of the strong source of soldiers provided by this method of all the people as soldiers, Emperor Wu of the Han finally defeated the Xiongnu and established the Han regime in East Asia. Absolute hegemony.

This kind of military service system is also a good reference in modern times, but it gradually became impossible to implement it later.

In addition to the problems at the policy level, the biggest reason is the decline of centralization. Local land and farmers are controlled by local powerful gentry. The country has no land and no farmers, so the military system gradually deteriorates.

The decline of the central government’s control over the localities was the reason why the military system could not continue to be implemented. Of course, the rise of local power was accompanied by the rise of the imperial examination system, and the rise of the imperial examination tax-exempt bureaucracy was also accompanied by the decline of the country’s military power.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun intends to drive the imperial examination tax-exempt bureaucrats into the bottomless abyss after eliminating the scumbags left over from the previous Ming Dynasty, and does not allow bureaucrats to be exempted from taxes in any sense. What Yongzheng did not fully accomplish, he will fully accomplish.

The Daqin government is a big government, and the good life imagined by some people will be gone forever. Xiao Ruxun will firmly grasp the local authority, and absolutely will not give the local powerful gentry the possibility of rebirth.

For this purpose, it is also very necessary to determine the military service system, so Xiao Ruxun has issued a circular in the provinces under his complete control, implementing the military service system of the Han Dynasty on the basis of certain improvements.

Men who have reached the age of [-], no matter how high or low, must register with the government, and each needs to serve in the military twice, each time for one year, and the rest of the time they are on standby as reserve soldiers.

Farmers need to receive military training during their slack, and they cannot be unfamiliar with military skills, and the three classes of scholars, businessmen, and businessmen cannot be excluded.

However, due to the relatively large mobility of soldiers and businesses, there is no concept of slack farming. Although registration is still required, if you cannot perform military service, depending on the amount of family property, you are allowed to pay the government to exempt from military service twice in your life, but you are still a reserve soldier. Once the country needs it, it is still necessary to enlist in the army.

In order to encourage joining the army and improve the status of soldiers, Xiao Ruxun also made a rule that prisoners are not allowed to be sent to the army. The army is glorious, and only clean and good family members can join the army, and prisoners are only worthy of being coolies.

Moreover, if one person performs military service for one year, the whole family can be exempted from military service and taxes for one year. Soldiers can get a large amount of rewards when they return home after military service.

If you are willing to stay in the army and develop into a professional soldier until you retire at the age of 56, the family members will become military members, which are not the same as ordinary households. They will receive special treatment for tax service, and can get grain, oil, rice and noodles from the state every year. Soldiers have two family holidays a year, allowing them to go home and visit relatives.

In addition, Xiao Ruxun also stipulated that there is only one case in which an individual can be exempted from land tax, that is, to join the army and make first-class meritorious service. The family of the person and his parents' family can be permanently exempted from land tax after first-class meritorious service, but it cannot be passed on to future generations. , if I and my parents die, the offspring will no longer have such treatment.

As for other taxes, there is no possibility of tax exemption, especially the commercial tax. Once this hole is opened, it is unknown how many loopholes will be exploited in the future.

Sometimes improving the status of a soldier is as simple and quick as Song Taizong's suppression of the status of a soldier. As long as people see the real benefits, the social status of a certain profession can be quickly improved. Tax exemption and service are the best means.

And such a policy can also quickly increase people's enthusiasm for childbearing, and if there are too many children in the family, it will not feel bad to send one out to serve as a soldier.

Xiao Ruxun feels that the current population of Daqin is still too small, it is barely enough to develop the country, and it is too little to go abroad to open up the world, so while carrying out such steps, we must also encourage childbearing, and give money, grain and oil to families who are struggling to bear children , Tell them the attitude of the country to encourage childbearing.

Under such impetus, the settled provinces have begun to develop vigorously.

And other things were carried out in an orderly manner under the impetus of Xiao Ruxun.

Against this background, Xiao Ruxun announced the holding of a joint military confrontation exercise between the Qinglong Battalion and the Suzaku Battalion, which will be held in the Shijingshan area in the northwest of the capital, with 5 participants.

A large number of White Tiger Battalions have already moved to Liaodong, so they are unable to participate in military exercises. The Xuanwu Battalion is mainly stationed in the three southeastern provinces, responsible for maintaining public order and land reform, and cannot participate, so the Qinglong Battalion and Suzaku Battalion can only be allowed to engage in this military confrontation.

This confrontation exercise is multi-faceted, including the confrontation between spearmen and sword and shield soldiers, gunpowder confrontation, cavalry confrontation, and gunner confrontation, as well as cooperative confrontation between soldiers, physical confrontation, and so on. Several confrontation items.

Under the guise of the decisive battle between the Qinglong Camp and the Suzaku Camp, basically all the military officers of the entire Daqin Army were attracted.

This can be regarded as the largest military confrontation in half a year. It is said that the winner can get an extremely generous reward, while the loser will be punished and even ridiculed by the winner.

So Qinglongying and Suzakuying have put in all their efforts, and Ma Wei and Zhao Hu have been blowing their beards and staring at each other for several months.

Zhao Hu and Ma Wei were the two generals who made the most contributions in the previous Northern Expedition. One led the main force to fight in the south of the Yangtze River and the Central Plains. The most powerful army in the imperial court was incorporated into an organizational system, which made great contributions.

The Qinglong Camp and the Zhuque Camp also faced each other because of this confrontation. No one saw it as pleasing to the eye. Everyone was saying that this confrontation would determine which army the Great Qin First Army was, and whoever won would naturally earn a lot of money. Full, if you lose, you will be scolded.

Therefore, neither Zhao Hu nor Ma Wei wanted to lose, and they trained their troops desperately, and the requirements for their respective troops were higher than before.

(End of this chapter)