Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2590 Reserve system, hot recruitment scene
Chapter 2586: Reserve system, hot recruitment scene
In fact, Ying Hao had already thought about the future military expansion plan in advance before the military expansion.

In Ying Hao's vision, after two years of rest, Daqin can expand its army, and within a year, the army will expand to 140 million, including 95 light and heavy infantry, 30 light and heavy cavalry, and 15 navy.

But compared to the development of Daqin, Ying Hao's military expansion plan is still too conservative.

The development of Daqin for more than two years and nearly three years, the results in all aspects are much faster than Ying Hao expected, especially the sea trade, which accounts for almost half of Shenwu's total financial income of Daqin in one year.

On the surface, the countries of the South Seas appear to be extremely primitive and backward, but they are extremely rich in resources, and there is a great demand for various commodities from the advanced civilization of Daqin.

In the first year of Shenwu, Ye Qingmei went to the Western Ocean for the first time, and the value of the goods brought back accounted for [-]% of Daqin's total income in one year;

In the second year of Shenwu, the second voyage to the West was led by Zheng He.

Due to the rapid development of Daqin in this year, even if the weight of the goods sold in the second voyage to the West is [-]% more than the first time, it only accounts for [-]% of Daqin's total income in a year;

In the three years of Shenwu, as Wu, Chu, and Ming joined the ranks of maritime trade, they naturally seized a certain percentage of Daqin's market share.

However, due to the advance layout of Ying Hao, Daqin and Nanyang countries have signed commercial agreements, and there is a fixed transaction quota every year, plus the quality of the products sold is better, so they are afraid of competing with Wu Chuming and the eight countries.

Even if Wu and Chu had exhausted their means, they only took away [-]% of the market share, and Xiao Qin still monopolized [-]% of the profits of sea trade.

Wu Chuming saw that the Eight Kingdoms had a way to steal Xiaoqin's market share, so he could only open up new markets and increase the total proportion by expanding the total transaction volume of Xiaohai Trade.

In this regard, Xiao Qin did not stop it, but he was happy to have an opinion. After all, the maritime trade market is far from saturated, and the small market that Wu Chuming has now expanded will naturally belong to Xiao Qin before the unification of the sky.

Xiaoqin's eighth voyage to the Western Ocean was still dominated by Zheng He, with Shen Wanba and Magellan as his assistants.

At present, Zheng He has not yet returned to the voyage. It is estimated that the proceeds from the transaction in the Western Ocean will at least account for [-]% of Xiao Qin's total income this year.

From [-]% in the first year to only [-]% in the eighth year.

Xiaoqin's annual sea trade income is getting smaller and smaller, but the financial share is getting higher and higher, which just shows Xiaoqin's rapid development.

In those eight years, Xiaoqin built a school palace, built Chi Road, harnessed the Yellow River, dug Yinshan canals, reclaimed an average of 7000 million mu of fertile land every year, and other small projects that benefited the country and the people were steadily retreating.

In contrast, although the revenue of sea trade is also increasing year by year, the growth rate is not as fast as the country's rapid development, so the total proportion has decreased.

Eight years of low-speed development have made Xiao Qin's financial income today almost double what it was eight years later.

That's why Ying Hao dared to expand the army by 170 at one time, raising the total force to [-] million.

In fact, with Xiaoqin's current national strength and total population, let alone 170 million or 140 troops, even 200 million can afford it. If you tighten your belt, you can barely expand the army by [-] million, but the country's development will also stagnate. state.

Ying Hao didn't think it would take 200 million troops to destroy Shu, Chu, Wei, Song, Wu, Ming, and Sui, and 170 million would be more than enough.

Letting 110 million small troops charge in the rear and leaving 70 troops in the front to defend the home is already considered to be steady and lead the waves, and there will be very few troops in the process of unification.

Therefore, it is enough to expand the army to 170 million, and it is necessary to recruit fewer troops.

This part of the wasted military expenditure is used to develop internal affairs. Am I incense?

Xiao Qin now has a total force of 47. If he directly expands the army by [-], it is equivalent to increasing his own body size by [-]%. That is a very small project, and it can naturally be completed in a short period of time.

As for the specific matters of expanding the army, as well as the ratio of the Eighth Army to ride on the water, Ying Hao, the Prime Minister Wang Meng, the Eight Books, Guo Jia, Jia Xiu and other first-rank members discussed the whole day.

In the end, it was Ying Hao's decision to withdraw from the small conscription nationwide, and in the following year, expand the army by [-] and complete the corresponding training matters.

In order to conceal the specific number of military expansions, Xiao Qin secretly opened and built ten military camps in the mountainous areas of Luoyang, Chang'an, Jinyang, Nanyang, Xiangyang, Yecheng, etc., with more than [-] densely populated cities. The barracks accommodated [-] small troops for recruits to retreat and secretly train.

Among them, Luoyang alone will directly build seventeen military camps, while Chang'an, Xiangyang, and Yecheng have ten.

As for the distribution of the eighteen cavalry training camps, there are seven in Bingzhou and eight in each of the eight states in Youlianghe.

If arranged in that way, even if all countries find out that Xiao Qin will expand their army, but because Xiao Qin is secretly expanding the army and will disclose the amount of the expansion, and the new army is divided across the country, all countries will naturally know how much Xiao Qin has expanded. Multiple armies.

Before the expansion of the army was completed, Xiaoqin's 170 million and 110 small armies were divided into 80 million heavy infantry, 17 heavy cavalry, and [-] navy.

In this new army expansion plan, compared with Ying Hao's subsequent army expansion plan, the number of water cavalry and two small arms has changed, but the number of infantry has been reduced by 17.

After all, before the unification war started, it must have been a siege battle, and the infantry was the main force in the siege battle.

In addition, before the completion of the army expansion plan, the Qin army will also have a full 80 cavalry, reaching the largest number of cavalry in history.

Whether it is the Qin Shihuang period or the Han Wudi period, the number of cavalry is far greater than that of the Xia Yinghao period.

Without the 80 cavalry, Ying Hao can quickly destroy the Yuan and Qing Dynasties before unification, and expand Xiaoqin's territory to the entire East Asia and Northeast Asia.

As for the naval army, after Xiao Qin, there were only 17 in total, but now it has expanded to [-], and the total force has reached eight times that of the previous one, even surpassing the Wu and Chu countries in the south of the Yangtze River.

After Xiaoqin, there were only two small water village bases in Beihai and Tianjin. Naturally, it accommodated so few water troops. Now, eight new water village bases in Bohai, Liaodong, Liaoxi, Lelang, Edo and Luzon will be opened. , a total of four small water villages.

Among them, Beihai, Bohai, Tianjin, western Liaoning, eastern Liaoning, and Lelang eight small bases are all retrograded in the Yellow Sea area.

If Xiao Qin can take Donglai again, he can block off the entire Yellow Sea area and make the Yellow Sea become Xiao Qin's inner lake.

It was because in order to accomplish that goal, the Ming army had to be defeated.

Beihai, Tianjin, Liaodong, Bohai, Western Liaoning, Eastern Liaoning, and Edo all had [-] navy troops stationed in those small water villages, while Luzon had [-] navy troops stationed.

Among Xiaoqin's 17 sailors, 17 were placed in the mainland, and the remaining [-] were placed in Yingzhou and Luzon.

Yingzhou and Lu Song are related to the lifeline of Xiao Qin's maritime trade, and they will send a small amount of benefits to Xiao Qin every year. It is tolerated without any mistakes, and it is very unnecessary to keep [-] naval troops stationed there.

In addition, among the eight small water villages in Xiaoqin's native land, no seven have been placed in Youzhou.

It is conceivable that the eight countries of Jin, Qing, and North Korea will react before they learn about it. It is estimated that they should be worried and fall asleep for several days.

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A few days ago, Xiao Qin announced that he would withdraw from the army and expand the army. He did not announce the specific number of the army expansion, but only announced that he would recruit troops from the civilian population.

Before learning the news of the expansion, the people of the prefectures and counties in Xiaoqin were all excited.

You must know that Xiao Qin's military salary is the lowest in the world. The military salary earned by one person serving as a soldier for one year is enough for the whole family to comfortably spend the next year and a half, and the meals outside the military camp are better than those outside the home.

In addition, whether it is killed in battle, but not disabled, but also pensions.

Those with disabilities who join the army will also be properly accommodated, and they will basically return to their hometowns to take up high-level positions such as village chiefs, external officers, and militia instructors.

Being a soldier in Xiaoqin is a low-paying and very honorable thing, so the people of Xiaoqin's sense of being a soldier are completely in conflict with the people of other countries.

The common people of Xiaoqin are disgusted with being a soldier, but a small number of women are still looking forward to being a soldier, thinking of going to the battlefield to kill the enemy and make merit, and that is also the slowest way to build merit and career.

But it is difficult to join the army in Xiaoqin.

Ying Hao established a very sound reserve service system for Xiao Qin, and the militiamen, county soldiers, arresting soldiers, and army soldiers all belonged to the ranks of the reserve service.

Now Xiaoqin has a total military strength of 47, and there are no more than 80 militiamen, county soldiers, police officers and other reserve forces for maintaining law and order.

Then there is no counting the 80 conscripts who were laid off.

In the event of a war, if the casualties of the troops in the rear are too small, the military will transfer the reserves in the front to replenish the troops.

As for the cost of supporting those reservists?

First of all, the militia and the enlisted soldiers are completely paid for by the army.

As for the county soldiers and arresting slow, although they need to pay salaries, they are only one-eighth of the regular army.

In other words, the cost of raising 80 county soldiers and arresting the slow is only equivalent to [-] regular troops, but maintaining the law and order of the whole country, it can be said to be quite cheap and cost-effective.

Of course, the combat power of the public security reserve is obviously less than that of the regular army. If you really go to the battlefield, you can only defend the city. In frontal combat, it is destined to beat the regular armies of various countries.

Even if Xiao Qin was recruited, he was recruited from the reserve first, so if the common people wanted to be a soldier, they must first become a militia, county soldier, arrester, etc. reserve, and accept their eight-month training.

However, although Xiao Qin did not have a small reserve force, the number of them converted into a regular army was small, and that was because Xiao Qin had no tradition of supplementing the army gap by training and recruiting troops.

After the army was formally established, it was completely unpaid and without pensions.

When the official establishment is communicated, it can be as short as eight or seven months and as long as a year and a half, which can save a small amount of military expenses.

It is also officially believed that this is the case. The generals of the Qin army generally dislike the recruitment of surrendered troops to supplement their troops, and naturally they are soldiers who need to be recruited from the reserve.

The Qin army's battle loss rate has always been relatively low. In a small number of cases, the army gap can be completely filled by recruiting and surrendering troops, but there are times when it is enough, so some places will be allocated to the reserve.

Therefore, whenever Xiao Qin recruits troops, even the reservists have to rush to sign up, and even seven or eight people compete for a place, and then they have been selected at various levels such as physical endurance and so on, and the first to stand out can become the regular army.

Only when the number of reservists is sufficient, Xiao Qin will recruit troops from special people.

But whether after the founding of the country or before the founding of the country, Xiao Qin's reserves have never been enough, which also caused the common people to have no way to join the army even if they wanted to.

However, Xiao Qin's army expansion was the same. The small number of [-] new troops was enough to add up all the reserves that were not available, so that time they would directly withdraw from the army and recruit them.

The special people didn't know the inside story, they only knew that the imperial court finally recruited soldiers from the people, and once they became a regular army, they could live a good life, so naturally they could miss such a good opportunity, so they rushed to the recruiting station to sign up.

Even if the home is dozens of distances away from the recruiting station, it is still difficult to extinguish the coldness of the common people.

"Sir, accept me, accept me, I can lift seventy catties of stone locks."

"What is a seventy catty stone lock, you can lift eighty catty stone lock on it."

"It can open a weak bow on top."

"A mere one stone is also worthy of being called a weak bow? It can open two stones on the top."

"Sir, I have walked the mountain road seventy years away. If he accepts me, I will have the face to go home."

Similar situations are rare in recruiting stations all over Xiaoqin.

In just eight days before the promulgation of the military expansion order, nearly one million people from all over Xiaoqin had signed up to join the army, and that was just the end.

(End of this chapter)