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Chapter 410: Cai Xiaowu's Military Reform

In the State of Song, even the princes were just nominal princes. Apart from some salary, the rest had no rights, and the princes were like this, let alone other nobles.

But Cai Yan is an exception. He is neither a prince nor a king of a different surname when he founded the country. Instead, he ran overseas and occupied a barren island and established himself as king. Even in the eyes of the court, he was no different from the savage king of Nanyang, but was just a vassal king of a small country.

No matter how small the Ming Dynasty was, it was a country in Southeast Asia, and Cai Hua was also an overseas vassal king. It would be fine if Kaifeng did not admit it, but he even issued an imperial edict together with the deadline.

If you admit it, you will admit it. As long as the little bastard gets out of Jiangnan and spits out something in Jiangnan, Zhao Ji will not be able to pinch his nose and recognize it. The key is that Cai Yan is stubborn and has a temper. The more he drives him out, the more annoyed he will not leave!

Love admitting or not, Cai Yan decided to take the initiative first. On the second day after Zhang Tao, Zhang Yuangan and Wang Shixin entered the government office, the three of them had not yet awakened from the excitement of easily seizing the military and political power in Hangzhou, or they had not yet sighed or ridiculed the stupid excitement of the Cai Mansion. As a result, when the three of them came to Cai Mansion and were about to force Cai Mansion to leave Jiangnan again, they saw that the plaque of Cai Mansion changed, turning into the three words "Ming Wang Mansion".

"This...this..."

Zhang Yuangan looked at the three gilded characters in a daze and instinctively sensed the danger.

"Bastard...Chia's children——"

Zhang Tao roared to the sky, angrily shook his sleeves and boarded the bamboo curtain and left the wooden sedan chair.

In just ten days, the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang were covered with military orders from the Ming Palace to temporarily take over all the wing soldiers, Baojia Army and Volunteers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang under the name of the Nanyang Protectorate.

On the first day of July, the prefectures and counties in Jiangsu and Zhejiang posted the reform of the Ming Dynasty's military system, abolishing the Baojia Army, the Volunteer Army, and all forms of rural troops were abandoned. The wing troops of each prefecture and county were changed to military military soldiers. The land and money needed by the military soldiers were all from the Protectorate Office...

Cai Yan reformed the military system and wrote an article in the Minsheng Daily, focusing on analyzing the shortcomings of the Baojia Army and the Volunteer Army, and focusing on explaining the necessity of the soldiers of the garrison.

Before Zhang Tao, Zhang Yuangan, Wang Shixin reported the impeachment and sent it to Kaifeng, Cai Yan slashed the basic military system of the Song State. For a moment, Jiangnan was in an uproar and the world was shocked...

Zhao Ji was sick again, his forehead was covered with layers of turbans, and he wanted to angrily scold the shameless child, but even opened his mouth and felt as if he had torn a piece of flesh and blood.

When Zheng Juzhong saw no one speak, he sighed in his heart, but his face looked serious.

"The official family is not the time to conquer..."

"Bang!"

Zheng Juzhong clasped his fists and lowered his body as soon as he spoke, Zhao Ji angrily threw the bowl of medicine in his hand at the old man's feet.

"The officials and old ministers do not say that the Liao Kingdom is about to destroy the country. Although the children who are treacherous and rebellious are talking nonsense, they are not wrong. Whether it is the people or the gentry, merchants hope that the court will abolish the Baojia Army and the Volunteer Army."

"That child is extremely cunning. Ten families have one guarantee, five guarantees are one guarantee, and ten major guarantees are one guarantee. Each household has two strong men to choose one as the guarantee. One day, every day is three liters of rice and ten cents of salt and vegetable. Therefore, the people are dissatisfied with the method of Baojia."

Zheng Ju Center sighed, three liters per person, ten cents of salt and vegetables, and three liters are three kilograms of grain. In other words, the imperial court only gave Baoding food, and it was all right to ensure that he would not starve to death.

In the year of disaster, there is no food to play like this. When the world is peaceful, who doesn’t have a bunch of old and weak people to support? Moreover, it is Jiangnan, which spends a lot of daily life.

According to the calculation of one guarantor in each household, at least 20% of the population in the south of the Yangtze River is the guarantor. The 10-day update seems to be short, but this is just the time to go to the garrison to guard the place. The time on the road is not counted. It is better to live closer to your family, but how far is your family? If it is a war, what about the transfer of thousands of miles? Then it is difficult to say that you can't go home for a long time.

Twenty percent of the population becomes a baudin, even if it only provides food, it is difficult to count the food. Of course, local governments cannot really need 20% of the population to guard it at the same time. Perhaps only one or two people need to provide 20% of the baudin's food every year. Even so, it is a huge expenditure, which has caused unbearable pressure on the local government.

What should I do if the local government is unable to support so many baodians? Then turn a blind eye to increase the checkpoints and increase the 2% pass-through tax to increase income. This alone is not enough to support the baodians? The government regards these baodians that are so cheap that they only provide food and drink as a way to buy baodians, such as renting them to merchants for freight and construction. Gao Yanei is so favored by Gao Qiu, the most important thing is to use free baoan army and Baojia army freight and construction.

Baoding himself was unwilling to work for the government for free. After all, merchants who could collude with the government were very few. After all, most merchants hated Baoding's charging levels set up by Baoding even more. Baoding did put great pressure on local governments. Almost no one from top to bottom was willing to exist the Baojia Army and the Volunteers. A big reason for Wang Anshi's fall was also due to the existence of Baojia Army.

One of the biggest reasons for Wang Anshi and Yining to reform the military system was to save money. He hoped to use the Baojia Army that only needed food and drink to replace the millions of imperial guards who recruited soldiers. The result was not ideal. Not only did he fail to save money, but it caused dissatisfaction with the imperial guards and the further increase in military expenditure, resulting in countless private tax collection checkpoints in various places.

After the reform of Yining failed and the Yuanyou Party came to power, the court also repeatedly hoped to abolish the Baojia Army and the Volunteer Army, but in the end they retained these village troops. The most important reason was that these Baojia Army, the Volunteer Army, were cheap enough to be used as "suppression" people.

The consumption of the Song State was too great every year. The Yuanyou Conservative Party was more willing to restore the ancestral system of "official collection, official fortune, and official sales", which required difficult-to-measure personnel to participate in transportation. At first, the "recruitment" that the people were accustomed to became the "recruitment" system again. However, Cai Jing was the first to complete the task of the court and the first to do the "recruitment". The method to use was very simple, which was to use the original Baojia Army and the Volunteer Army to replace the people who needed to be conscripted for free.

It costs ten to ten to ten million jin of silver every year, and the huge consumption of materials requires difficult manpower to participate in transportation. The resistance to recruiting the people for free is too great, especially in the wealthy areas in Jiangnan. However, after using the existing free Baojia Army and the Volunteer Army, the resistance of the civilians has been much smaller. This is also one of the most important reasons why the imperial court still retains it to this day even though he knows that the Baojia Army and the Volunteer Army have many disadvantages.

But then again, only a fool is willing to work but not spend money to support his family!

The recruitment that clearly uses money to carry out transportation has become a recruitment that only works but not money. It was originally a job of earning support for the family by participating in transportation, but because the court used the free Baojia Army and the Volunteers, it lost its income. How could the people not have any complaints?

Zheng Juzhong did not name the ordinary people in his words, and did not explain in detail why the Baojia Army was dissatisfied. But the big bosses sitting in front of Zhao Ji knew it well.

Seeing that no one helped him persuade him, the official family asked him to speak again, Zheng Juzhong had to smile bitterly again and persuade him.

"The Cai family's children are too cunning. Since Xining, court officials and people of all counties have hated Baojia Army and Volunteer Army. Today, the treacherous and treacherous children are willing to abandon them. The people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang can only celebrate. If the court is too dissatisfied, I am worried... I am worried that *** is afraid of being captured by the treacherous and treacherous thieves, and there may be a big disaster in Jiangnan..."

"asshole--"

Zhao Ji was furious and had no dishes in his hand to throw them away. He angrily threw the Minsheng Daily sent to Hangzhou in front of Zheng Juzhong...

"read--"

"Read to me-"

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