New Shun 1730

"Brother, why do you think I joined the army? Isn't it to have food to eat and a family property? Soldiers used to be soldiers, but now they are almost the same as blacksmiths and bricklayers, both of which are serious skills to make a living. Speaking of which, if we have a few hundred acres of land and a few cows and horses, we can live a better life than being a blacksmith or a bricklayer."

"It's so good to be a soldier now. You can have enough food, which is amazing. You can have enough food in the barracks and get paid. Then, after serving for ten years, you can get land, which is even more amazing."

Zhao Liben's younger brother used the simplest intuition to tell how great it is to be a soldier and have enough food and get paid on time.

In fact, it means that such soldiers can win big battles and are not likely to die if they win battles.

For most people at this time, having their own land and being a self-employed farmer is a beautiful dream, and it is also the most likely dream to be realized in theory.

In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, at the end of the Age of Exploration, a hired worker who did not want to be a farmer was definitely not an ideal hired worker.

Soldiers, especially those who received military pay, were also hired workers at this time.

The emperor was willing to spend this money to support these elite soldiers because he expected these hired workers to create more profits for him in India.

Du Feng did not want to drink the blood of soldiers because he was an egoist. A true egoist must rationally think clearly about how to maximize his own interests. If he can make 300 out of 10,000, he is not worthy of being called an egoist.

A boss who wants to make more money, a rational egoist department manager, participating in this competition with the British and French East India Company is the most realistic explanation for Dashun's expansion in India.

Indeed, Dashun has begun to make full preparations for conquering India in Ceylon.

However, preparing for a war is not so simple.

Money, food, logistics, and troops are a manifestation of preparation, but not all, there are more troublesome things.

As Liu Yu commented before when he sent Meng Songlu away, many elites of Dashun are still immersed in the terrifying darkness of the near-sinking of China a hundred years ago, and have been unable to come out.

But they have forgotten to plan for a better future, to prepare for the Celestial Empire to become the leader of the world, or even for the reality that Dashun has already extended its tentacles to India, to compile new scriptures, and to consider even the practical problems within five years.

For example, once the old Khan of Bengal dies and the prince commits suicide, Dashun will officially intervene in the Indian subcontinent. Once the war starts, it will not stop.

Dashun's preparations for war must consider issues such as soldiers, soldiers' salaries, soldiers' resettlement, soldiers' belonging, etc.

Will the emperor allow an organization similar to the British East India Company to emerge?

Will the emperor allow India to be vassalized, recruit soldiers on its own, and set up territories in the future?

No, and it will definitely not.

Then, there is only one way to choose, that is, to recruit soldiers in Dashun and transport them to India for service, and to ensure the emperor's control over India through rotation every few years, so as to avoid the situation of self-declared kings.

Once the governor of Dashun's India is allowed to recruit soldiers on his own, it is foreseeable what will happen next.

Let the governor, governor-general, or Jiedushi hold the financial power, the power to recruit soldiers on their own, and the power to appoint and dismiss. Such lessons have appeared too many times in history.

Indeed, Dashun's elite army is very capable. In Dashun, it is actually enough to maintain a standing field force of about 200,000 to maintain stability.

However, with only a few thousand people, India may be conquered, but it cannot be ruled.

Du Feng can only be the governor of Ceylon and make great contributions, but it is absolutely impossible for him to be the governor of India; Ceylon's field troops can only fight three battles to settle India, but it is impossible to rule India, maintain India's stability, and rule nearly 200 million people.

One hundred thousand or two hundred thousand troops are the basis for ruling India.

Moreover, in view of the conscription and retirement system after the military reform, and the fact that the emperor would not choose to let soldiers serve in India forever to avoid the military becoming a vassal state, it is necessary to consider the system of 100,000 or even 200,000 people.

Without a complete set of systems, it cannot be said that Dashun has completed the comprehensive preparations for conquering India.

The preparations on Ceylon Island are for tactical victory, to attack and defend, not for ruling and conquering India.

Moreover, the elite field troops trained at a high price go to India to fight a security war? In the long-term consumption, the combat effectiveness of the elite field troops is wiped out, and finally they are reduced to a garrison force that can only steal and disturb the local area? Then the money is spent.

The foundation of military system reform is always the economic foundation.

Dashun said that it admired Tang and chased Han, but the economic foundation was completely different.

The land grant system of the Tang Dynasty originated from the fact that the Tang Dynasty held enough state-owned land, and even granted land in the northwest like Dunhuang, and left clear records.

How much state-owned land did Dashun have in the core area of ​​its rule, in the Central Plains? Could it implement the Fubing system?

The basis of Fubing was a group of self-cultivating farmers and small landlords who could afford weapons, war horses, and leather armor.

With the economic strength of Dashun, who would become a "soldier" instead of being inferior in everything except reading?

Dashun chose to recruit soldiers, but in fact it could only choose to recruit soldiers and combine some hereditary soldiers with Fubing. So, how to prevent the situation of redundant soldiers in the Song Dynasty by recruiting soldiers from the disaster area?

What should be done after these soldiers retire?

Do you care or not? Let him live or die?

Throw them in India, and there will be thoughtful people to take them and do some big things. I will be king from Tianzhu, the princes and generals will be happy, and they will eat meat in big chunks and drink in big bowls. Wouldn't it be happy?

Transported back to Dashun, shiploads of soldiers who had expired were thrown into the Songsu Port, the economic center, and the Beijing-Tianjin area, the political center of Dashun. Are you afraid that the rebels in the city will not be able to pull out the troops?

This is the root of the problem of land transfer in the Southern Ocean mentioned by Zhao Liben's brother.

It was also Dashun's preparation for conquering and ruling India.

Of course, all this is based on the material basis that "Da Shun's lunar elongation longitude measurement method has matured."

Before that, even though Dashun had known for a long time that there was a continent in the Southern Ocean and even named it a new Kuwu, it would have been fanciful to want to immigrate there on a large scale.

As for the front-end technologies such as wheat, corn, and cotton planting technology, iron plows, oxen plowing, columbines, and ear cutting machines, it goes without saying that a small number of them have been completed recently, and most of them were pointed out two thousand years ago.

In fact, the emperor had a very realistic idea: throw a group of soldiers who had held guns and fought in battles to a distant place, but within the control of Dashun and far away from the Catholic Protestant Shia Sunni.

If you want to conquer or rule India, but you are worried that the local recruitment of additional troops will lead to the self-respect of the generals, then you must pay a certain price, bear certain responsibilities, and be able to solve this problem.

Letting the common people live a good life and allowing the nation to grow stronger is not the responsibility of feudal emperors, nor is it their obligation, nor is it an option they put in their minds.

It was the consideration of the feudal emperor to let a group of people who had served as soldiers, carried guns, and had a strong organizational foundation go to a place where they would not affect the rule and would not merge with the domestic peasant uprising.

There are many refugees, but the price of suppressing a refugee uprising is very low. Especially after the military reform, it really doesn't cost much to suppress an uprising.

The price of immigrating to the Southern Ocean was very high, and the emperor could only guarantee that the limited money would be spent on the most destructive group of people.

When there is a disaster, provide relief and take away the young and strong soldiers.

Relieve the rest. The old and the weak should starve to death or die of illness. Let the young and strong fight in India to earn money for the emperor and collect taxes. Then use part of the collected taxes to organize these people together and train with guns. Throw it to a distant place where it will not hit the capital and Songsu.

This is in no way inconsistent with the emperor's willingness to repair the Huaihe River, control the Yellow River, provide relief to disaster victims, raise taxes, suppress annexation in North China, and level down prices.

It can only show that this is a sophisticated feudal emperor, not the kind of emperor who grew up in a honey pot and is not worthy of the position but has good blood. Even this kind of feudal emperor is the most difficult group of people to deal with among the reactionaries.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhao Liben's younger brother to think about these problems. He is full of beautiful visions for the future.

Although Zhao Liben was almost ruined by Liu Yu's policies, he still just wanted to live a stable life and was very interested in what his brother said.

The only worry is that this is a painted pie.

But the younger brother spoke with certainty, convinced that some of their officers had actually been to that place, and even explained what the reversal of seasons meant. Of course he didn't know why the seasons were reversed, but that didn't stop him from explaining what the reversed seasons meant, and that the place where the seasons were reversed was not the eighteenth level of hell.

Zhao Liben has been to all of Kanto and Southeast Asia. He is no longer the person who has been living within thirty miles of the village all his life. He has long lost the fear of distant places that he once had.

"San'er, can we non-soldiers also go to this place?"

"Didn't I tell you that you can go? You just have to spend your own money. But if I am a soldier, not counting me, there are still four places in total, and I don't have to spend money. Why four? This is still an ancient method. "

"Ancient method?"

"Oh, our chief said that there used to be a prime minister named Li Kui. He said that one man could take care of five people and manage a hundred acres of land..."

Zhao Liben couldn't help laughing and said: "You officers, you don't have much culture. How can the prime minister be named Li Kui? However, according to this statement, there is an explanation. If I give him a replacement name, it is not to take advantage of it. Thousands of acres of land?”

The younger brother smiled and said: "Brother, you have thousands of acres of land and you can't farm it. You still have to pay taxes. What's the use of it? Besides, there's a limit to how much land a person can buy. You hired someone to buy the land under your name." , the name on the national deed is...Brother, think about it for yourself, if someone hires you to buy the land, can you honestly farm it as a tenant? Or should you go to court and claim that the land is yours? We have seen many things about farm skins, farm bones, sub-tenants, and return crops. Besides, why do you plant so much land? It’s hard to sell the food in that place. You can just feed yourself later. It’s time to leave an inheritance for your children.”

Zhao Liben thought about it, and it seemed that this was the case, so he asked: "Then how many killing lands can I personally buy?"

"It seems that the maximum quota is 300 acres, but our land is granted. Non-soldiers have to spend money to buy it themselves. If you buy it, you must cultivate it for five years. You can't just put it there after buying it. Put it there. That’s not a right, there’s no contract.”

"Land seems to be cheap. The imperial court sells a set of cattle and farm tools there. I brought them all with me when I bought the land. I heard that not long after the discovery of this Southern Ocean and the new Kuwu, who... I spent a lot of money to hire people to prepare there. I have been preparing for it for several years. But it seems that I didn’t know the north, south, east and west when I arrived on the ocean. Now there is no way to know the north, south, east and west, so I started doing this... "

When he said "who", he deliberately lowered his voice.

The whole family was almost destroyed by someone's policy. To say it had a good impression is nonsense.

"Well, this person is bad, but he keeps his word. According to what you said, he is really good. Let me do the math. How many people in the family...I won't take up your quota, and you can't wait to withdraw. If you can’t get married later, I’ll go back and arrange a marriage for you. You’ll have children by then, so those few places will be enough, and then you can go to the Southern Ocean after you retire?”

Speaking of this, my younger brother's face turned slightly red and he said, "Brother, I have a sweetheart here..."

"A foreign woman?"

"Well... they are also an honest family. The descendants of the red-haired people who moved here before and married the locals are called Bourgeois as they are called here. After we went to Nanyang, they also wanted to find a backer. Her family agrees. I have rescued her before, so... there was some trouble here, but it has been resolved now. "

Zhao Liben didn't mind looking for women from foreign countries. There were many women from foreign countries in the story, but he didn't understand what the trouble was that his brother was talking about, so he asked.

"Uh... just step on their magic cards, shrines, etc. There are too few daughters in the Han family here. Who from a good family would let their daughters come here?"