Chapter 369 Customs Establishment Military Integration
The term "customs" appeared in China for the first time.
For China, a farming nation, the sea is mysterious and requires awe. Everyone thinks that the other side of the sea is the end of the world. The theory of a round sky and a square place was very popular at that time.
Under such circumstances, there may be little offshore fishing, let alone distant ocean exploration.
But when all the aristocratic families saw that Gongsun Sheng's coffers were getting fuller and fuller, going out to sea to hunt for treasures and so on, it made them feel itchy. They were obviously full of fear, but they were also very curious.
But Gongsun Sheng used his actual achievements to prove that there are many ethnic groups overseas that are different from China, and there are also many specialties and treasures that China does not have.
Under such circumstances, the theory of a round sky and a square place was doubted for the first time. As the Xun family began to build ports and ships, more people joined the army to explore for treasures at sea.
It was at this time that the term ‘customs’ appeared.
Xie Bian, a new department jointly established by Gongsun Sheng and Cao Cao, heard that the person who suggested opening this institution was still the dean of Huaxia Academy.
It can be said that the aristocratic families both love and hate that person.
Naturally, I love his knowledge and the economic profits he has created for his family. More importantly, many of the family's children are cultivating in the Xiaoyao Sect, and he is the outer elder of the Xiaoyao Sect.
What I hate is that this thing has directly led to the improvement of the status of industry and commerce, and has also caused the princes to appoint and dismiss officials recently. They must first ask whether the person has studied economics. If not, they need to attend a crash course for three months.
to take office.
In fact, the most critical point is that when many aristocratic families planned to remonstrate and stated that industry and commerce were harming the country, the princes from all walks of life directly passed the responsibility of promoting industry and commerce to him.
This suggestion directly gave me the feeling of 'In fact, it doesn't matter if he is happy or not, but if he is not happy, what if he gets angry and ends up sending hundreds of outer disciples of the Xiaoyao Sect to kill my whole family?'
Push yourself to the side of the victim.
Well, the princes themselves have been "forced to have no choice", are the ministers still planning to make trouble for the lives of the princes? Now, "speaking out and daring to remonstrate" has been linked to "harming people's lives", who dares to persuade them?
If you continue to give advice under such circumstances, then the princes will all suspect that you have some evil intentions.
Although, their intentions are really bad...it's just that targeting industry and commerce and targeting the princes themselves are completely different concepts, okay?
Therefore, even if the aristocratic families have all kinds of thoughts, they can only suppress them for the time being.
If you have the time, you might as well see what the so-called customs is used for. If you can get an official position or something, it can at least solve the employment problem of the family's children. So, they began to look at the notice carefully and look at this
What exactly does the so-called customs do?
After watching it for the first time, they roughly understood that the customs is in charge of ships. This is actually how it should be. If the customs does not care about ships, does it really control the sea?
It's just that everyone is very curious about the extent of this so-called ship management.
After watching it for the second time, they already had an idea.
It turns out that this customs is mainly responsible for registering sea ports in various places and registering all ocean-going ships. Unregistered ships are prohibited from going to sea, and once detected, everyone must be decapitated.
Why do you need to register? It turns out that this is for the convenience of officials to check the goods and people boarding the ship. Think about it, if you let everyone compile a private army and then load it on ships to go to sea, God knows whether they are going out to hunt for treasures, or if they go directly to the offshore
Wouldn't it be a big deal to conduct a sneak attack on a city?
And the notice also made it very clear that the customs also has a function, which is to count and collect taxes on the goods on ships entering and leaving the port. Different taxes are collected according to different commodities.
At the same time, ships other than the national navy are prohibited from trafficking in weapons and armor, as well as all advanced technologies from China. Once discovered, the Yi tribe will show it to the public!
Hiss! What a severe punishment! Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but take a breath.
But everyone also understands, do you understand the enemy? You can arm others so well and let them counterattack China? Who dares to betray China's advanced technology? Even if they are not barbaric, they must all live in the border.
, when the time comes, let them be the first to enjoy the slaughter of the fully armed aliens.
As for when they saw the so-called tax collection function, both of them had expressions of "Sure enough," it was obvious that they had expected it in advance.
However, this tax is mainly collected from those caravans involved in offshore trade. After all, besides China's coastal trade, who else would trade with China these days? However, we have to admit that sea transportation is indeed much faster than land transportation, which is rare.
The freight volume is also large. In the absence of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, sea transportation is more valuable than land transportation.
Perhaps in the future, there will be no need to dig the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. In this way, there will be no Caobang, and millions of people will not have to rely on this canal to survive. And those lands may be developed,
By then, real estate developers will obviously be grinning from ear to ear.
As for the second charge item that accompanies the trade tax - the pirate tax, there is no way to collect it.
These days, there are only Chinese ships on the sea, so there are no foreign warships. Under such circumstances, why should others give part of the spoils they gained from bloody battles to the country? And in order to improve the common people
The motivation to go to sea obviously cannot be collected by this piracy tax.
Now that the issue of tax collection has passed, there is another issue that everyone is concerned about, and that is the issue of private armed forces.
The three companies jointly developed a detailed list of ship classifications and nuclear crews at all levels. It clearly indicates the standard number of nuclear crew members that can be allowed on each sea-going ship.
In addition to these crew members, any private company's fleet, according to the class of the ship, can only allow a maximum of thirty private armed personnel on board the ship of the lowest class, and only 200 people can be allowed on board of the ship of the highest class.
At the same time, it stipulates that all private enterprises are divided into three levels: A, B, and C according to the size of the enterprise. There are clear limits on the number of private soldiers that can be trained at each level, and the list of private soldiers must be reported to the customs for filing and a maritime armed certificate must be obtained.
Only then can you board the ship.
Obviously, the main reason for doing this is to prevent the family from blindly training a large number of soldiers.
This behavior can be big or small. In a small way, it is to avoid over-recruiting local people, which will lead to the loss of cultivated land and productive population. After all, the sea is dangerous. One disadvantage is that hundreds of people will lose their lives, which will be harmful to China.
In other words, this is really a waste of population.
Broadly speaking, what if you train so many soldiers not for export, but for rebellion? One family may not be able to see it, but if several families unite together, there will be tens of thousands of troops for the princes.
In front of us, which prince is willing to have such an army appear so arrogantly in his own territory?
Even in the past, although aristocratic families had their own private soldiers, the level of training was low, and most of the time they were part-time soldiers, and most of the time they appeared as servants. In addition, the power of the country was devolved, so they
Just tolerated it for a while.
Obviously, the three countries will merge soon. This is the general trend. As long as the well-informed families know it. The new regime is emerging, but it is also the most independent, at least in the first two generations.
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Under such circumstances, the new king must not allow uncontrollable forces to exist under his rule. Therefore, it is understandable to impose certain restrictions on the private armies controlled by various aristocratic families. After all, he only restricted it, not banned it, right?
There are only a few functions and powers of the customs for the time being, but there is a sentence at the end, "More powers are subject to further discussion and improvement." Obviously, there may be other functions in the future, but these are the few for now.
As for these functions, although the aristocratic families made less money and the risk factor of going out to sea to hunt for treasures increased, it could even be said that it did not even hurt their skin, so after internal discussions, they chose to compromise.
Therefore, on the day when the switch officially started operating, the princes also began to actively cooperate.
As for the aristocratic families that were the first to cooperate with the customs in carrying out business, their children were also assigned to work in the customs, and the major aristocratic families also received some benefits from this.
At the same time, the Chinese Military Academy was officially established in Luoyang, which indicated that Luoyang was likely to become the political center of the new regime again.
Of course, most of the buildings in the military academy are still under construction, but relying on the former imperial village as a foundation, the main building has been simply completed.
Then, the Huaxia Military Academy welcomed its first batch of students. They included military generals from the three major forces, and they will be here for three months before being dispersed to guard various frontiers.
At the same time, political commissar classes also began, and 1,300 literati began to enroll. After graduation, they would be assigned to serve as political commissars in various major armies.
On the one hand, their responsibilities are naturally like psychologists, removing the psychological shadow of the soldiers; on the other hand, they are to constantly do ideological work on the soldiers, and when the general rebels, take away his power, and then use the temporary commander's power to
identity, arrest the officers and soldiers who participated in the rebellion, and send them to the Ministry of National Defense for processing.
In this way, the new political system, the new orthodoxy, has quietly begun to be implemented without even realizing it. And the first to be implemented was in the military field.
Only when everyone gives up their control of military power can they be qualified to discuss the next step of cooperation.