Xinshun 1730

Chapter 138

These rich inheritances can be said to belong to Zhu Xia, or they can also be said to belong to the Li family.

Since the imperial power is supreme, the latter is naturally more important.

A few days later, Liu Yu officially started to be on duty, and put his thoughts on the book through legitimate channels.

I roughly talked about my own thoughts, and said that this kind of thing needs to be investigated before it can be confirmed, otherwise it is likely to be nothing but paper talk. I hope the emperor will allow someone to inspect and investigate the situation of the good family of the old fifth battalion.

The emperor also quickly approved, and the candidate was naturally Liu Yu.

Liu Yu was given a strange position as the inspector of the old fifth battalion Zhongji battalion.

This is not a permanent position, usually with Long Jin, the main purpose is to inspect the situation of the soldiers of the old fifth battalion.Including camps, land, training, etc.

As the spokesperson of the emperor, the checkpoint patrol directly communicated with the Liangjiazi of the old fifth battalion. He had a waist card and sent dozens of elite soldiers from the Boyer Army to follow.

The so-called Old Fifth Battalion refers to the establishment of the Fifth Battalion when Xi'an was established.

Left battalion, right wing battalion, vanguard battalion, stamina battalion, Zhongji battalion.

This is the foundation of Dashun's struggle for the world. After the world was settled, this family foundation was about tens of thousands of households, and now it is about 12.

The reason why it is called the Old Fifth Battalion is that the main force of the Beijing Battalion also used this set of names.However, the Beijing Camp is a field organization, while the Old Fifth Battalion is a household registration organization, so the old is added in front to distinguish it.

The Huangzhuang of the former dynasty, the enclosure of the Qing Dynasty, and the recovery of Liaodong, there is a large amount of land that can be used for distribution in the north after brutal wars.

Among them, the Right Wing Camp and the Zhongji Camp are distributed in Gyeonggi and Inner Mongolia, with a total of about [-].

The forward camp is in Liaodong, with about [-] troops.

The left camp is in Shaanxi and Hetao, about [-].

Stamina camped in Jingxiang, about [-].

The right-wing battalion and the Zhongji battalion defended the capital relying on the bloody "legacy" of the previous dynasty's Huangzhuang and the Manchu enclosure.

The Qianfeng Battalion was stationed in Liaodong, relying on the large amount of land after Li Ting swept the hole.

The Left Battalion was stationed in Tianming Xijing, where Dashun started, and the Hetao area, and cooperated with the Qianfeng Battalion to suppress Mongolia.

The stamina battalion is stationed in Jingxiang, which was almost turned into a blank 80 years ago. It can send troops from the west to the southwest, and from the east to the south of the Yangtze River, ranking among the world.

These approximately 12 Wuying Liangjiazi are the real basic assets of the Li family.

It can also be regarded as a variant of Fubing in the Tang Dynasty, exempt from tax, exempt from service, serve as a soldier, and equalize the land.

Compared with the "stepmother-raised" military soldiers on the banks of the Songhua River, these mother-in-laws have a complete system of camping, learning and three homes, have easier opportunities to enter the Wude Palace, and have spokespersons and connections in the court. There is money that the imperial court invests in education every year.

The group of government soldiers raised by their stepmothers by the Songhua River is completely different.

Perhaps the only advantage of the soldiers raised by the stepmothers on the banks of the Songhua River is that there is plenty of wasteland. You can open it as you please. If you can open [-] acres, it will be yours...

This is why the Northern School of Confucianism has been saying "I hope the imperial court will expand the Sanshe Law School and develop Fenzhai education", but Dashun has never agreed: raise these 12 Han and Tang Liangjiazi, guarantee their status as self-cultivating farmers, and ensure enough Too much money has been spent on educational resources, and there is no way to spend more money on Sanshefa and divided fasting education throughout the north.

This group of people is the cornerstone of being able to attack the city in Mulijiwei with huge casualties without collapse.

If there are too many such good families, they will easily become serfs from military households in the previous dynasty.

We can only use these basic disks as the backbone and use the recruitment system to ensure the overall number of troops.

The 23rd Company of Zhongjiying in Baoding Prefecture in Beizhili is a typical village like this.

It is also the home of a few unlucky students who Liu Yu found from the list of failed candidates in the Wude Palace entrance examination.

The 23rd company of Zhongjiying, such a strange name, continues the legacy of Li Guo since the founding of the country, taking the old name of "two hundred households compiled by Duke Huan of Qi as a company".

It sounds like an army number, but in fact the 23rd Company of Zhongji Camp is a village community.

There are four hundred households in the village.

In the former dynasty, this was the Huangzhuang of the Zhu family. After the Manchus came, the land was enclosed, and after the Dashun came, it became the official land.

Originally, there were not many tenants surviving here. Before that, they either fled or were captured by the Qing Dynasty as cannon fodder. Those who survived were enriched by Dashun to enrich Liaodong.

When Liu Yu, the inspector, came here, it was October, the autumn harvest was over, and a group of newly grown young people were gathering in the yard of the village commune, preparing to enlist in the army.

Next to the yard is the location of the village's school.

Wude Palace is divided into three houses, and these camps are also three houses.

The camp schools in each village community are out-of-campus dormitories, and about one-fifth of the people can enter the camp-school dormitories.

These fewer people will then compete for the opportunity to enter the Martial Virtue Palace.

The plaque of the camp school is "Zhongjiying 23 Company Camp School" written by Emperor Gaozong's royal pen. There were about 250 companies in the old Wuying Liangjiazi, and all the camp school plaques of the company were written by the emperor.

Although it seems to be engaged in wholesale, this is also an attitude, telling the world that these people are not serfs and military households from the previous dynasty, but the emperor's direct forces.Even if it is a big soldier, it is the lowest nobleman under the [-]th rank in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Where the emperor's imperial pen inscribed, even if he wrote the sentence "come here for a visit", ordinary people would get off their horses passing by.

Just like clothes such as flying fish suits, it stands to reason that as long as you have money, you can wear them, but under the hierarchical system, this cheap reward becomes a kind of nobility.

As a similar and equally cheap "nobility", the old Wuying Liangjiazi can ride horses, fight, and play around in front of the camp school plaques mentioned by the emperors.

Although this does not add two acres of land, nor can he be an official, but the feudal dynasty under the hierarchical system is undoubtedly a kind of favor, which is extremely effective.

In the courtyard of the village community, more than 30 young men lined up, all young, about seventeen or eighteen.

A veteran or officer in uniform was speaking at the front of the team. The young men in the team did not dare to speak and could only listen.

"I joined the army on the 20th and 15th, and I entered the camp for a year of training. When I came back to marry and have children, I officially entered the camp at the age of [-]. I served for [-] years. If there is no war, I will take a rest every two years. This is the rule set by Emperor Taizong."

"Before yesterday, you were still children. You might be naughty and wipe your noses on each other. But from today onwards, you are soldiers."

"The training in the camp is not as good as being at home. It is really beaten."

"You have also been trained since you were young. From the day you entered the camp, you learned to write and do arithmetic, and the rest of the time is spent practicing martial arts."

"Now that I've grown up, if I really have the ability, then I'll be an honorable man, and I'll kill someone to create a Shangzhu Kingdom. Take your fighting in the yard, messing around in the camp, and getting tired of girls in the cornfield. Take them all out."

The officer was still talking there, while Liu Yu and the others got off their horses and watched from the sidelines.

He did not wear official uniforms as a patrol envoy, nor did he bring all the guards with him, but only a few officers from the Boyer Army dispatched by the emperor, as well as his cronies such as Mantou and Kang Bushao.

After watching for a while, he turned his gaze to the village in the distance.

Several houses in the village did not post last year's Chinese New Year couplets on their doors. Obviously, someone died in the family within three years, possibly in the siege battle on the banks of the Songhua River.

There was a sound of Lang Lang reading in the camp school, it sounded like he was reciting the nine-nine multiplication table.

A group of thirteen and fourteen-year-old children outside the courtyard, who are past the age of the camp school in the foreign dormitory and have not been admitted to the camp school in the middle dormitory, are gathering there to watch the fun.

Two children were wrestling there, and a few little girls followed, cheering and chirping.

There are a few old men squatting on the head of the village, looking at the queue of these young people.

It seems that these old men are also in their 60s and [-]s. I don't know how many groups of children from the village community have been sent away, and I don't know how many people have come back alive.

After reading it with relish for a while, Kang Bushao whispered in Liu Yu's ear: "My lord, have you seen these camps? I checked the classics, and the camps of the old five camps of good families cost more than 50 yuan a year. Ten thousand taels of silver. You know why the Northern School of Confucianism wants to spread these methods and the imperial court has been unable to agree, right?"

Liu Yu mentally calculated the astonishing number of this promotion, and said with a smile: "It's easy to understand. But the 50 taels a year is not a waste of money, it's a big profit."

Kang Buxio replied: "Young master is very true. The main reason is that it is only money for schooling. If there are too many people, the immigration will give priority to the fifth son from a good family, and the good family is the easiest to make meritorious service. No land is given. Money is given every year, which is another sum of money. Paper, pen and ink, and teachers in the camp; annual rewards and rewards for meritorious service; immigration costs; Emperor Taizong’s last words, if you can’t afford meat, you have to eat tofu, which is transported from Liaodong every year Soybean Rewards... This year, the various expenditures alone are around 150 million taels."

"My son, don't forget that as long as a good family member joins the army, he will not pay taxes or perform hard labor. The entry and exit of these millions of acres of land is a lot of money. In the capital, a family of Yongye has 25 acres of land; Liaodong One family has [-] mu; one family in Jingxiang has [-] mu, and Hetao Mongolia does not count. Because of the previous dynasty’s Huangzhuang, the enclosure of the Tartars, and the bloody battle in Jingxiang, the imperial court can only take out so much official land gone."

"Although there are not many pensions for those who died in battle, in places like the Southwest and Northwest, every village will die a few in bloody battles. These pensions also cost a fortune."

"The imperial court can support so many. If there are more, they will only become military households of the former dynasty. Emperor Taizong also said that expensive essence is not expensive."

Liu Yu nodded. The 15-year service period is full, and the imperial court only has [-] to [-] elite soldiers.

Part of it is filled in the northwest, part of it is stationed in Liaodong Inner Mongolia all the year round, and the other part is filled in the southwest, which is used as the trump card in battles like the siege of Mulijiwei.

Needless to say, those stationed in Xijing, Hetao, Liaodong, and Mongolia, even the stamina battalion stationed in Jingxiang, are also going to fight in the southwest.

It seems that when they served in the army, they only had one or two taels of silver a month, which was not much different from those recruited by recruits.

But in fact, the previous investment was huge. When it was calculated, it was not calculated like one or two taels of silver a month, but at least two or three times. If the land was not taxed and labor was included, it would be even more.

Dashun controls the whole of China, but he can only support this few elite soldiers, and he really can't afford to support any more.

It's just... Liu Yu felt that it was still a bit of a waste.

Dashun's military system has obviously gone the wrong way, and it's crooked to the sky.

Such a solid foundation can completely become a grassroots officer.

But Dashun regarded them as elite soldiers and organized them independently...

It is really a waste of money to organize a group of non-commissioned officers and lieutenants with a little training and train them together as private soldiers.

At this time, the queue in the courtyard not far away dispersed, and several people came over.

Looking at the height and fatness of the horse that Liu Yu was leading, he asked politely, "Why are you here?"

(End of this chapter)