Li Chengzhong, who raised this question, is currently at the recruit training ground in Liucheng. He is standing on the reviewing stand and watching the first military parade of newly recruited soldiers. Gao Xingzhou came to Liucheng yesterday, and he came to urge and escort Li Chengzhong for Gao Xingzhou.
Five hundred war horses were prepared by the family. Gao Xingzhou stood beside Li Chengzhong, looking at the formation of new soldiers under the stage, and asked in a low voice: "The relationship between General Zhao and the Yingzhou Army is so bad, and he still insists on sending his sons to Liucheng."
I'm afraid they have bad intentions in joining the army, how dare Brother Zicheng take them in?"
Li Chengzhong smiled: "It doesn't matter. I always believe in one thing..."
Gao Xingzhou asked: "What's the matter?"
Li Chengzhong paused and said: "I believe that when a system is established from disorder to order, the power of an individual will always be vulnerable in the face of a strong orderly system. Although my army is small, it has already
An orderly system has been established. Either they will be automatically accepted by the order, or they will be automatically eliminated by the order. I don’t need to worry about this."
Gao Xingzhou was silent. Later, he asked: "My mother asked a certain generation to send her greetings. I don't know what difficulties brother Zicheng has. The Gao family can do their best."
Li Chengzhong said: "Dingkou, I am short of Dingkou now. Yingzhou has a lot of land. In addition to the large grasslands in the north, there is also a lot of cultivated land in the south, but there are not many people. There are several problems I have to solve now, but the last
The fundamental problem is the lack of Ding.”
Gao Xingzhou thought for a while, shook his head and said: "This problem is not easy to solve. Most people are unwilling to leave their hometowns. It is very difficult to persuade them to abandon their homes and come to you to farm and raise livestock. Moreover, the number of people is every
It is a foundation that the state capital attaches great importance to, and few military towns are willing to move and govern the people elsewhere."
Li Chengzhong said: "That's right. Even in Pingzhou, Governor Zhang is not very happy with the refugees moving back. I once made a request to him, hoping to move back the people who fled into the pass last year, but Pingzhou had a good harvest last year.
, Now there is no shortage of food in the warehouse, and Governor Zhang did not respond positively to my request. So far, I have occupied Liucheng for two months, and the number of refugees who have moved back is only a few thousand. Compared with the number of refugees who fled last year, it is still less.
To 20%. Moreover, many refugees have already obtained land in Pingzhou, and they are not very happy if they are asked to move back."
Gao Xingzhou said: "Guizhou was seriously plundered by the Khitan, and the Gao family may not be able to help."
Li Chengzhong said: "When I was a guest at your residence, my wife once said that she was willing to consider doing business with me in Yingzhou. I know that your family has sea ships, but I don't know how many?"
Gao Xingzhou did the math and said: "My mother is in charge of these things. I can't say the specific number, but I always have the impression that there are more than ten. Brother Zicheng attaches great importance to sea ships?"
Li Chengzhong smiled and said: "I heard that Yang Xingmi and Qian Wei were fighting fiercely in Jianghuai. Since there is a war there, there must be wars everywhere, and the people's life may not be very good. In this case, Brother Shangzhi, you can send ships to Jianghuai
, I can bring as many people to Yingzhou as I can. No matter men, women, old or young, I want them all. One young man or woman, two young children. I will pay you in cash when you bring them to the mouth of the Daling River.
,how?"
Gao Xingzhou's heart moved, and he secretly calculated that the price is very reasonable. The key is that the elderly, weak and young children also want it, so this will be much easier. As long as the people can be reunited and their families can be reunited, and their wives and children are not separated, there will still be many people who are willing.
The family moved to avoid the war. He immediately said: "What are your plans after the people arrive in Yingzhou? How will they be resettled?" This condition must be understood in advance, which is the basis for persuading the people to move.
"I plan to allocate farmland by dictation. The young and strong will be granted 20 acres of land each, and the old, weak and young will be granted 10 acres of land. Grain planting and farm tools will also be arranged uniformly. The land tax will be collected on a per-mu basis, initially designated as Sanyi.
The government will exempt grain-producing farmers from land tax, and levy half of the grain produced in the second year, and 10 percent of the remaining 30 percent of grain produced in the third year. From now on, Yingzhou will cancel the capitation tax and cancel any additional taxes."
This condition is considered very generous. Gao Xingzhou could not help but worry about Li Chengzhong: "How can Brother Zicheng's Yingzhou Army sustain such favorable conditions?"
Gao Xingzhou's concerns are very reasonable. Farmland output in this era was calculated in terms of people. Li Chengzhong once asked Feng Dao to make calculations. Taking Youzhou as an example, there is a person tax, a horse tax, and who is the farmer?
, road station fees, house building fees, dredging fees and other more than ten kinds of taxes and fees, the Jiedu government collected almost more than 60% of the people's income, which can be described as a typical Songun politics. The states under the jurisdiction of Lulong
This is mostly the case, and the states outside Lulong are even more unbearable. For example, under the jurisdiction of the Hedong Army, in order to resist the aggressive expansion of the Xuanwu Army, the Hedong Jiedu Mansion transformed the entire military town into a military machine. The people have completely lost their land ownership.
In addition to subsistence, almost all the income produced was expropriated by the Jiedu government, even large households were no exception. In Li Chengzhong's view, the governance policy in Hedong was a completely militaristic policy. The army was the sky, and the people had become a military town.
of farm slaves.
Li Chengzhong knew Gao Xingzhou's concerns, but he did not intend to implement this kind of military-first politics. From his simple point of view, military power obtained by squeezing the people was unsustainable. The concept of sustainable development has been deeply rooted in
Li Chengzhong's heart always affects his thinking. Of course, Li Chengzhong also understands that although the policy of hiding wealth among the people can achieve "sustainable development", the government's strength will not be concentrated enough in the short term, and the Yingzhou Army's logistical support
Definitely not as good as other warlords.
Fortunately, Li Chengzhong's treasury is now full. The money and cattle and sheep he gained from ransacking his homes can support short-term expenses. Moreover, the scale of the Yingzhou Army is also on a smaller order of magnitude and is within the controllable range. As for the future, Li Chengzhong will of course want to pick up the pieces.
He had learned countless magic weapons and secrets for success in time travel, so he explained to Gao Xingzhou: "Of course the Yingzhou Army must support it, so I plan to use war to support war."
The first problem that Li Chengzhong needs to solve is the Dingkou problem. The tens of thousands of Dingkou in Liucheng and the surrounding areas are completely insufficient to support his next development. His Yingzhou Army has already been organized into more than 1,700 people.
There are a thousand people training in the recruit training camp, and the ratio of soldiers to civilians has reached 20 to 1. Of course, this high ratio, which will be extremely horrifying to future generations, is nothing in this era. The ratio of 10 to 1 is a common phenomenon.
, but in the Yingzhou Army, an army that pursues elite soldiers, this ratio is already a huge burden.
Li Chengzhong's unremitting pursuit of elite soldiers was a subtle idea. Elite soldiers meant the most diligent training and the most neat and effective equipment. Of course, it also meant consuming a lot of food and meat to ensure the soldiers had sufficient physical strength.
It means building better equipment to ensure the safety of soldiers.
Taking Li Chengzhong's ideal Yingzhou Army as an example, the soldiers must eat three meals a day, and each meal must be full and contain oil, meat, and vegetables. Meals alone consume more than two tons of food than other armies.
More than twice as much.
In addition to simple meals, Li Chengzhong prepared to uniform the uniform color of the entire army and equip it with armor. In this era, the army's clothing lining the armor was diverse. An army often only ensured that the main force of the army had the same color, such as the elite of the Hedong Army.
, the world is also called the Black Crow Army, because their uniforms are uniformly black in color, but they come in a variety of styles and shapes. As for the vassals of the Hedong Army, if you take off their armor and weapons, you can't tell whether they are soldiers or civilians.
The same problem exists in the Xuanwu Army, but the Xuanwu Army is the most powerful army in the world and is slightly better in this regard. Zhu Quanzhong occupies a large area and is much stronger in terms of manpower and material resources. Although the Xuanwu Army's army cannot
The uniform colors are completely unified, but the various armies are relatively uniform. For example, Zhu Quanzhong's Ya army is all in Shanghong, his general Ge Congzhou's army is in Qing, and He Delun's army is all in yellow.
Taking Li Chengzhong's army as an example, there is still no uniform of uniform color and style. No matter how neatly arranged the array is, it looks very eye-catching. This was intolerable to Li Chengzhong, who came through time in later generations, and he has always been grudged about this.
Huai. After occupying Liucheng, he immediately took action to solve this problem. Nowadays, many cloth workshops have sprung up in Liucheng. Almost half of the women in the city have joined the workshops to earn wages, with the purpose of making military uniforms.
The military uniforms Li Chengzhong prepared for the Yingzhou Army were divided into training uniforms and combat uniforms. They were all khaki, which was the orthodox uniform color of the Tang army. For this reason, Feng Dao reluctantly took out 10,000 uniforms from the treasury.
Come and make acquisitions.
The armor of the Yingzhou Army is divided into three types, light armor, heavy armor and iron armor. Both light armor and heavy armor are leather armor. The difference is that the light armor only covers the vital parts, while the heavy armor covers the whole body. The main equipment of light armor
Crossbow battalion and cavalry battalion, heavy armor equipped sword and shield battalion. Insert half a set of bright light armor on the front of the heavy armor to become iron armor. The iron armor will be used to equip the spear battalion.
In addition, fine wooden spears, swords and shields, bows, arrows and crossbows also consume a lot of financial resources. At least one-fifth of the 200,000 yuan that Li Chengzhong plans to invest in government procurement this year will be used specifically to encourage merchants to set up workshops in Liucheng.
Produces weapons. It should be pointed out that when Li Chengzhong seized the treasury of Khitan Pinbu Dalangjun Tuli, he found a batch of Mo Dao and heavy axes. These things aroused his strong Mo Dao complex. He is planning
The Mo Dao team in the army will hold Mo Dao and heavy axes and "advance like a wall" to re-ignite the glory of this luxurious military branch.
Of course, these only exist in his blueprint planning and are far from being realized. But he has already started to deal with the problem of feeding the army in the above way, and the problem of military uniforms will also be gradually solved within three months.
The construction of the army has also begun... Judging from the above military expenses, Li Chengzhong's ratio of soldiers to civilians has long been in an extremely dangerous situation. He must expand the base of Dingkou under his rule and use a larger number of Dingkou to support his army.
Elite military policy.
Encouraging the Gao family's ships to go to the Jianghuai area to recruit people is one way, but it will not yield results in the short term, so Li Chengzhong and Feng Dao coincidentally set their sights on the southern part of Yingzhou. To be continued. (..), you