Chapter 697 Seeing is Believing

After a few glasses of wine, several people gradually started talking about what they had seen on the road.

Gongcheng's blog said with emotion: "To be honest, when I first arrived in western Beijing, I heard people talking about what Xuanfu did, which was very different from other places. At that time, I felt that I was not suitable here. I really walked around and saw

The people below live and work in peace and contentment, and people of the right age join the army enthusiastically, which is completely different from other places. Only then can we truly realize that Xuanfu's unusual methods are not unreasonable, and then we really want to stay and work."

Li Hui shook his head: "I don't have so many ideas. I just want to be an official here because the salary here is generous and never defaults on arrears. How can it be easy for me to take my whole family and flee thousands of miles to the south of the Yangtze River? I just want to find a stable job now.

You have a good job and live a good life with your salary."

As soon as this was said, everyone laughed.

Plenty of money is indeed the first reason why almost everyone comes to Jingxi. However, people cannot live just for money, they must also have pursuits, especially these people. After arriving in Jingxi, some people felt that Wang Xiaolie was deviant.

I don’t want to stay here. Within a few months, nearly 20% of the people have left. Wang Xiaolie specially divided these people into several groups and went to the following prefectures and counties to have a look. After seeing it, he made a decision.

In the past few years, wars have continued, and even the most remote places such as Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian have been unable to live in peace. Under Wang Xiaolie's rule, the wars in the past two years have been unstoppable, and there have been no bandits. It is like a paradise. Especially when the people are stimulated by the new policies.

They all joined the army enthusiastically and left a deep impression on these new Jinshi.

At this time, there is a saying that there are no shortcuts in the official career, and the admiral's clever tricks are just tactics. The Southern Song Dynasty court particularly liked to recruit soldiers. A very important reason was that Zhao Gou did not have many troops. Especially in the battle of Fuping, 200,000 people were wiped out.

Since then, the Song Dynasty's military strength has been stretched thin.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the imperial court has not recruited troops from the south of the Yangtze River, and there are very few imperial troops stationed there. One consequence is that without the Central Plains, there is suddenly no source of troops. Especially without Shaanxi, it has become more difficult for the Song Dynasty to recruit troops in recent years.

After Zongze's death, the forces originally in Tokyo moved south, disrupting the entire world. One reason is that although these people are not large in number, most of their cores are the original imperial guards. And the more they gather, the more they gather, and it becomes difficult to control them.

It was not easy for the Song Dynasty to exterminate these people. They also wanted to use their subordinates as a source of troops, and they struggled for several years.

Wang Xiaolie was in Xiangyang and Dengzhou, which were not the traditional source of troops in the Song Dynasty. As a result, it took several years to train an army of 100,000. How was it done? This is a question that many officials are confused about. During this visit to several states, these

Jinshi slowly cleared his mind.

New barracks and military schools are Wang Xiaolie's tools for quickly training soldiers. As these two become more and more mature, army construction will become faster and faster. And a large number of officers who have been tested in actual combat can quickly expand the army. Combined, there will be a steady stream of troops.

's army.

In local areas, families who join the military are given preferential treatment. The preferential treatment is not just nominal, but real. Each state has special officials to manage the family affairs of military personnel. If something goes wrong, as long as a family member joins the military, there is no need to worry about the local situation.

Officials ignored them. Coupled with tax exemptions, local enthusiasm for joining the army was very high.

Zheng Gangzhong said: "When I came to the west of Beijing, I wanted to drive out the barbarians and restore the Central Plains. Wang Xuan raised the rebel army, and no forbidden troops participated. In the past few years, he fought against the Jin army several times, and it can be said that he has won every battle. From the local

Recruit soldiers and support one hundred thousand soldiers. If there are two or three generals like this, why worry about losing their homeland? When I came to the north this time, after seeing Xuanfu's rule, I realized that what I thought was simple. Xuanfu's method

, they are all connected with each other, even if one link is missing. Who would have the ability to change another general? Even if he has this ability, he does not have the self-control of Xuan Fu. If you want to restore the Central Plains, you must not only Xuan Fu, but also Xuan Fu.

Use the method of Xuanfu."

Wang Xiaolie is not afraid of others learning from him. Being able to learn well is considered a skill. In fact, in this era, no one can learn. The methods of military management and government can be learned, but they cannot be implemented in other places. Soldiers can be recruited, and new barracks can be built.

Military Academy, but where does the money come from? All of Wang Xiaolie's policies have an indispensable backing, and his finances have always been abundant.

When the imperial court saw Wang Xiao hunting and sealing Huizi, they could also learn to seal it. However, the Huizi printed by the imperial court was always regarded as waste paper within a few months. Even if the craftsmen were carefully selected and their craftsmanship improved, it would not be enough.

usefulness.

Many things look like one thing, but actually doing them is another thing. You think it's because of this or that, but it's actually not the case.

In this world, the cause-and-effect relationship of many things is very confusing. You may think that it is because of this, but in fact, there is no relationship between cause and effect, it is just an illusion. Correcting this illusion is not easy.

In Wang Xiaolie's previous life, one incident left a deep impression on him.

Professor Yi, a well-known lecturer on the Three Kingdoms, was interviewed and asked why the heroes of the Water Margin especially liked to eat cattle when the Song Dynasty banned the slaughter of cattle. Professor Yi said that the slaughter of cattle was prohibited in the Song Dynasty and all beef was not allowed to be sold. The heroes of the Water Margin

Eat, because they have the opposite word. Moreover, the shops where these heroes order beef are usually very small, and they don't care about the government's ban.

This question has been very confusing since it was asked.

If the government bans the slaughter of farm cattle, will the people stop eating beef? In fact, there is no correlation between the two, let alone causation. It is not the slaughter of farm cattle that people have beef to eat. If the cattle are not slaughtered, won't they die of old age and illness?

?The common people will dig a hole and bury the cows that die of old age and illness? They will also be eaten.

Most of those who say that people in the Song Dynasty did not eat beef are non-professional historians. For example, Professor Yi teaches Chinese, not a historian. He suddenly became famous because of good storytelling, not good historical research.

Become famous. After becoming famous, you feel like a history expert.

The problem of beef should not be a problem in the first place. Just because the real conditions have changed and pork has become cheaper, some people have suggested that people in the Song Dynasty valued mutton, but regarded pork as a cheap meat, and rich people did not eat it. Correspondingly,

Some people involved beef, saying that people who eat beef have objections.

In the non-industrial era, the cost of raising grass-eating sheep and cattle was higher than that of pigs. So most of the time, in most places, pork was more expensive than beef and mutton. People in the Song Dynasty liked to eat mutton, and it was not only cheap, but also continued to be

related to habits.

Wang Xiaolie's policy is to show it clearly to others, and even explain the principles to them. If they don't understand, they still don't understand. Why they do it and what the consequences will be, many people can't see clearly. It's like banning slaughter.

Farming cattle has little to do with selling beef, but many people believe that there is a causal relationship.

In a complex society, if you want to see things clearly, you need a clear mind. And there are not many clear minds in this world.

(I'm sorry, I didn't make up what I owed yesterday today. Let's do it tomorrow. Sorry.)
Chapter completed!