Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 545 Zhechong Captain Du Fu
Du Hongjian led the Shuofang army to rest in the camp overnight, and arrived at the ferry the next day, preparing to cross the river and enter Hexi.

At this time, Du Fu, the captain of Wuwei Zhechong, was inspecting the barracks of the recruits outside Wuwei City on the opposite side of the river.

The letter requested the emperor to stop conscription and restore the military system in the early days of the country, and Du Fu was expelled from the court.

Du Fu was relegated to the position of Captain Zhechong of Wuwei County, which is actually a position that is almost disappearing.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Zhechong Mansions were set up in various places, and Captain Zhechong was the person in charge of the Zhechong Mansions. This was a low-level but quite important position, and it was also one of the foundations for the Tang army to be invincible at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhechong Mansion is responsible for the management of the local government soldiers, and is responsible for training the government soldiers on weekdays, but it is necessary to personally send the government soldiers to the designated assembly point during the round of garrison.

There are a large number of Zhechong mansions in the Tang Dynasty, which are the most basic military units in the Tang Dynasty. These mansion soldiers rely on military merits to grant land, and also undertake the combat missions of the court, and they fight quite bravely.

And as the number of acres in the area decreases, soldiers who have made military exploits cannot get enough land grants.

Over time, even in a densely populated area like Guanzhong, the basic grant of land by the soldiers could no longer be guaranteed.

Unable to honor the grant of land after making great achievements, but being arrested as a government soldier, a family will lose an adult labor force, and those government soldiers who have no land fled one after another.

The Fubing system has been corrupted, and the Zhechong Mansion will also soon fall.

Now in Guanzhong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, there is no longer a separate Zhechong Mansion, and Zhechong Captain has also become a local honorary position, or is directly held concurrently by the county magistrate.

Du Fu was appointed as the captain of Wuwei Zhechong. The emperor wanted him to experience what is called the "fubing system".

Du Fu took office generously. On the journey to Wuwei, Du Fu also passed through many areas and saw the people who were destroyed and separated by the war. Du Fu wrote several poems on the way.

It's just that these poems are too miserable, and the officials and ministers in Chang'an don't like Du Fu's bitter chanting.

The literati of this era still prefer Li Bai's beautiful and magnificent fantasies, and the gorgeous and passionate poems of the prosperous Tang poetry school are the most popular.

Du Fu didn't care about other people's opinions, but he was relegated to persuade the emperor, which also made Du Fu, who was full of the thought of being loyal to the emperor and serving the country, very painful.

What made Du Fu even more painful was that along the way, Du Fu found that no one, whether officials or common people, wanted to restore the Fubing system.

The officials were unwilling, and the government soldiers wanted to divide the land when they came back from the war, but all the land available in the county was owned by the owner, and even an official could not change the land.

And these are all soldiers, if there is a quarrel, they will kill people, so the officials can only try their best to delay, and even pay to support them.

Naturally, the common people were even more reluctant. After going out to fight for a few years, they may not be able to grant land when they come back.

At the beginning, the Fubing only needed to serve in their own state, and after going out for half a year and coming back for half a year, they could still get the land. Everyone was enthusiastic about serving as a soldier.

Later, the government soldiers needed to go out of the state to serve, and it took half a year to go back and forth. Except for the rest of the service, they were all on the road, and there was no way to take care of the family.

With the intensification of the Great Tang Frontier War, soldiers still need to go to the northwest, northeast, and southern Xinjiang to serve. It takes three years to come and go, and their wives are pregnant after returning.

Even the military officers don’t like the government military system. Well-trained soldiers will return home after their service period. The imperial court bought you a bunch of new recruits and let you continue training. Who would like to be an officer?

Only then did Du Fu realize that the Fubing system he dreamed of was not so perfect. Even compared to the recruitment system that is currently being implemented in the Tang Dynasty, the Fubing system is a kind of hooliganism.

At any rate, the recruiting system is to clearly mark the price, soldiers eat food, and take money to serve as soldiers.

The Fubing system is to use the country's regulations to force the people to serve as soldiers.

These insights made Du Fu very painful. He really couldn't understand, the Tang Dynasty had such a large territory and such a large population, did it not even have a suitable military system?

Du Fu came to Hexi in such a daze, and when he came to the Governor's Mansion in Wuwei City, Xue Hu, the prefect, received him with a smile.

Du Fu had a good impression of Xue Zhizhou, who was determined to "shelter the world's underprivileged people and have a happy face", and he didn't know why he had a feeling of sympathy with him.

Xue Hu arranged for Du Fu to be the captain of Zhechong, and personally sent Du Fu to Zhechong's mansion outside Wuwei City to take up the post.

Originally, Du Fu thought that the Zhechong Mansion in Wuwei had been abandoned, and he planned to do a lot to restore the Zhechong Mansion, but he did not expect to come to the Zhechong Mansion, which turned out to be a large military camp.

The large barracks is still under construction, but the main building has been completed.

A square building, a row of brick and tile dormitories, a grass field for exercise, an armory for storing weapons, and a granary for storing grain and grass.

The entire barracks is surrounded by barbed wire and wooden fences, and there is a large area of ​​fertile land beside the barracks.

Du Fu looked at the newly built large building complex, and asked Xue Hu: "Xue Zhizhou, is this Zhechong Duwei's Mansion?"

Along the way, Du Fu also saw the abandoned Zhechong Mansion. Even the Zhechong Mansion at the beginning of the country was nothing more than a small yamen plus a proposed military camp.

The Zhechong Mansion in Wuwei is too exaggerated.

Xue Hu said with a smile: "Benzhi Prefecture is planning to rebuild the Zhechong Mansion system in Wuwei. It happened that the imperial court sent Du Duwei here, which can be regarded as a great help to me. Come, come, let's go in and have a look."

After speaking, Xue Hu dragged Du Fu into the huge Zhechong Mansion.

Xue Hu introduced while walking: "This Zhechong mansion can accommodate a thousand recruits in total. These are recruit dormitories. Ordinary soldiers have bunk beds for eight people, and officers have two bunk beds."

Xue Hu took Du Fu, who was still in a daze, to visit the barracks, and then came to a large courtyard with a roof.

"This is the canteen. In winter, the walls on both sides can be built to keep out the wind. This can accommodate soldiers for meals."

Then Xue Hu took Du Fu to visit the armory and granary, and finally came to the largest building in Zhechong Mansion.

"This is a teaching building and an office building. There are three floors in total. It is also the management agency of Zhechong Mansion."

Du Fu asked suspiciously: "Teaching?"

Xue Hu nodded and said, "It's the place where the soldiers are taught. You don't need to worry about this. The staff will arrange people to come and teach. You only need to be responsible for the operation of Zhechong Mansion."

Du Fu said in surprise, "Do you still teach the soldiers?"

Xue Hu nodded and said, "Of course, only soldiers who can read and write can better execute the tactics of their superiors. Learning can also tame the aggressive spirit of soldiers."

At this time, decoration workers happened to pass by. They held a huge portrait of Li Tan and moved the portrait into the auditorium.

Du Fu had never seen such a realistic painting technique, and this portrait was lifelike. Although he had never seen King Jianning (who had not been canonized as King of Yue at that time), seeing this portrait was like seeing it with his own eyes.

Xue Hu took Du Fu up to the third floor and took him into Captain Zhechong's office.

The office is neither big nor small, with a wooden table, a chair, and a long row of bookshelves.

Xue Hu said with a smile: "From now on, this will be Du Duwei's office."

Du Fu was a little apprehensive, as he had always held insignificant positions.

For example, the Hanlin who drafted the edict with the emperor, such as Zuo Suyi who advised the emperor.

This was the first time he had done specific work, and Xue Hu handed over such a large military camp to him as soon as he came up.

Xue Hu pulled out his chair, sat down with Du Fu and said, "I don't need Captain Du to worry about military training. Someone from the staff will come down naturally, and the management of the barracks doesn't need Captain Du himself to take care of it. You only need to coordinate the overall situation." All right."

"To coordinate the overall situation, what is that for?"

Xue Hu smiled and said: "Coordinating the overall situation is too much work. This Zhechong Mansion not only has a thousand recruits, but also [-] mu of land and a farm, all of which need to be taken care of by the Zhechong Mansion."

Du Fu was startled and said, "Is this a military settlement?"

Xue Hu thought for a while and said, "Actually, it's not considered a military station. This is an attempt to reform the military system in Wuwei."

"Juntun is used for farming by soldiers, leaving only the rest of the rations to be handed over, but the grain and harvest of this Zhechong Mansion belong to the whole Zhechong Mansion and belong to all the soldiers. Zhechong Mansion only needs to hand over one-tenth of it to the state government The land tax is enough."

Du Fu was taken aback, all the products belonged to Zhechong Mansion?There is such a good thing in this world?

Five thousand acres of land sounds like a lot, and an average soldier only has five acres of land.

The fields of some big landlords in Guanzhong can exceed this figure.

However, the five acres of land can be taken care of carefully, and it can support a family of three.

Xue Hu said: "How to develop depends on Captain Du's method. The harvest of these lands and farms is divided equally among the soldiers. They can use it themselves or send it back home."

"For our soldiers in Hexi, ordinary soldiers serve for five years, which can be extended to ten years at most. After being promoted to an officer, there is no limit to the number of years of retirement."

"The soldiers in this period are all new recruits. From now on, the daily management of these soldiers and the management of the farm in Zhechong Mansion will be handed over to Captain Du."

After handing everything over to Du Fu, Xue Hu quickly returned to Wuwei City.

From entering Wuwei in late autumn to the beginning of spring now, Du Fu spent the past three months forgetting to eat and sleep every day, and finally managed to get this Zhechong Mansion running.

This morning, he just inspected the sowing of new crops with a disciple of the "farm family". At noon, he rushed back to Zhechong Mansion to handle the chores in the barracks, and soon another assistant came in to report: "Captain Du, the Shuofang army has crossed the river gone."

(End of this chapter)