Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 621

"Your Majesty!"

After Qingji established the inspection system and got the approval of all the ministers and officials, Wu Zixu, who had been re-elected as the Grand Sima, stood up with a wat in his hand.

Wu Zixu bowed to Qing Ji on the Majesty's platform and said, "In recent years, there have been occasional rebellions in the six counties in the south of the Lingnan and three counties in the southwest, and the military losses have been quite serious."

"Now our country of Wu has destroyed Chu Tunyun, opened up thousands of miles, and set up counties and counties to govern, not to mention officials, the standing soldiers are already stretched..."

"I think that my country of Wu should have 30 armors to supply the demand and defend the four directions."

"Your Majesty, please be careful!"

Armored 30?
As soon as Wu Zixu's words came out, the ministers and officials in the court couldn't help whispering to each other.

With the current national strength of the Wu State, it is not a problem to have 30 armors, or even a million armors.

Eighty-nine Li Shu produced a soldier.

It is equivalent to dividing a soldier from one or two families. It is unreasonable, but it can be done.

It's just that wearing a million armor is no joke.

If it is not the critical moment of national subjugation and extinction, the critical moment of life and death, it is absolutely impossible for the state of Wu to give up everything like this.

Today, the standing army of Wu State is as high as 20, which seems to be a lot, better than that of Jin and Qi.

However, the state of Wu currently has nineteen counties and two or three hundred counties, with a vast territory.

It reaches Yizhou Island and Ryukyu Islands in the east, Wuxia Gorge and Wujiang River in the west, Jiaozhi and Ailao in the south, and Huaisi and the coast of the East China Sea in the north.

The huge territory of Wu State occupies more than half of China...

It's a pity that the land is sparsely populated!

Under such circumstances, even the state of Wu, which has a standing army of 20, will become stretched when encountering accidents and rebellions of all sizes in the country.

"Your Majesty, I think, yes!"

Dazai Jiran, who has always been relatively "stingy", came out and said: "My country of Wu is now full of treasury, rich in warehouses, and it is easy to raise 30 standing soldiers!"

Thirty Li Shu could support one soldier, and the state of Wu could afford it.

Because Wu's military service system is of course a recruiting system, but most of them are not professional soldiers.

According to the rules set by Qingji, all men in the country who are over sixteen and under forty must enlist in the army every three years or every five years.

Every year, the state of Wu will conduct conscription activities, depending on the proportion of Dingkou in the county where it is located.

No matter whether they are the children of nobles or ordinary people, they cannot escape military service.

Because even the son of the King of Wu, the son of Wu, will inevitably enlist in the army at the age of 14. No matter how noble others are, it is impossible to be more noble than the son...

It is precisely because Qingji's princes set an example that Wu's military service system can be implemented without hindrance.

Not only that, every year during the slack season of the country of Wu, the local government, mainly at the county level, organizes a large military training.

The targets are nothing more than retired soldiers of the right age, or teenagers who take the initiative to participate...

The popularity of martial arts in the state of Wu is also due to the fact that the people are fighting hard every year, waiting for death!

"good!"

Qingji nodded slightly, agreeing to Wu Zixu's idea of ​​expanding the army.

In general, Wu's 30 standing army is not too much of a burden.

After all, there was no war on weekdays, and the soldiers of the standing army outside the capital also had to cultivate fields to support themselves.

Unless it is a war, soldiers sacrificed, or made military exploits, otherwise the country does not need to pay for pensions and rewards...

As for the ordinary annual salary (annual salary), that is not the treatment that ordinary soldiers can enjoy.

Wu Guo will give soldiers due treatment according to the salary of the twentieth-level military merit system.

In the army, each meal is different according to the title.

"Zanniao" can have a bucket of polished rice, half a liter of sauce, a plate of vegetable soup, and half a stone of hay.

In terms of annual salary, from the first-level official to the No. 20th-level Chehou, the annual salary ranges from fifty stones to one thousand stones...

"Your Majesty, I think that in the southwestern part of my country of Wu and the six counties in the south of the Lingnan, rebellions often occur, and they are banned repeatedly. Why?"

Wu Zixu said heartbrokenly: "Your Majesty's kindness has benefited all directions, but the people of New Wu don't know how to be grateful, and they will repay their kindness with revenge, and they will not accept Wang Hua!"

"If you use a large army to suppress it, once the army goes away, I'm afraid there will be another rebellion and chaos on the border!"

"That's why, I think that the king should immigrate to guard the border to stabilize the southern border!"

Immigrants guard the border?

In the view of Wu Guojun and ministers, this is indeed a desirable approach.

Throughout the dynasties, there have also been examples of immigrants defending the border, and the results have been remarkable.

As far as Qingji knows, in history, Meng Tian expelled the Huns in the Hetao area under the order of Qin Shihuang, and then set up counties in the local area, and moved Guanzhong immigrants into the Hetao area for reclamation and border defense.

After the victory of the Qin Dynasty's southern conquest of Baiyue, the occupied area was set up as counties. The hundreds of thousands of Qin troops in the southern conquest settled on the spot, and a large number of immigrants from the Central Plains were relocated to the Baiyue area for reclamation and frontier defense, with a number of up to 10.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in order to strengthen the northern frontier defense, more than [-] people immigrated at one time to enrich the northern counties and implement the combination of soldiers and farmers.

In this way, it not only reduces the country's military burden, but also ensures the security of the border.

Due to the measures of immigrating to the border and garrisoning fields to guard the border, the economy and culture along the northwest border of the Han Dynasty developed rapidly.

Every inch of rivers and mountains is every inch of gold, who is in charge of the separation and separatism?
Losing land on the virtual side and emigrating to the real side are two completely different results...

But in the ruling and opposition parties of Wu State, there have always been two different voices.

One is a virtual edge and the other is a solid edge!

Anyway, it is the public who says the public is right, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is right.

As a monarch's celebration, it was not clear whether it was a virtual border or a real border.

Because what Qingji advocates has always been adapting to local conditions, rather than sticking to the rules...

"Your Majesty, I think it's wrong!"

As soon as Wu Zixu's words fell, Shicai also agreed with Wu Zixu's plan to expand the army, and immediately stood up and retorted: "What Da Sima advocates is to immigrate and defend the border?"

"But I don't know, where is Li Shu who wants to move?"

"My Majesty please enlighten me!"

"In the past, my state of Wu had six counties in the south of the Lingnan and three counties in the southwest. We used money, farm tools, cattle, cloth, houses, and even titles to encourage domestic Li and Shu to enter the south to farm and cultivate wasteland, but it had little effect."

"In the past ten years, under the strong advice of the king, all criminals, that is, prisoners, have been exiled to the south of Lingnan and the southwest, so that they can settle there and multiply."

"It's just that, with a few thousand prisoners and criminals, how can they stand in the face of millions of southerners?"

"I'm afraid that before they assimilate the southerners, I have already been integrated by the southerners..."

After a pause, Ji Ran bowed to Qing Ji again, and said generously, "Your Majesty!"

"It's really inappropriate to emigrate to defend the border! I think that the border should be empty to stabilize the country, and the southerners from the four borders should be moved into the interior, registered as households, and properly resettled!"

"In this way, within a few decades, the Zenan people will be naturalized and completely become a part of my country of Wu!"

(End of this chapter)