Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1173 Preparation for Battle ([-])
"Brother, why do you think I became a soldier? Isn't it because I want to eat and have a family property? I used to be a soldier, Qiu Ba, but now I am a soldier and a blacksmith and bricklayer. They are both serious crafts for eating. Speaking of which, If we have a few hundred acres of land and a few cows and horses, it will be better than being a blacksmith and bricklayer."

"It's great to be a soldier now. It's great to be able to eat enough. In the barracks, you can eat enough to eat and get paid for the army. Then you can be assigned to the land after being a soldier for more than ten years, which is even more amazing." gone."

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

In fact, it is to say that this kind of soldiers can win big battles, and it is not easy to die when they win battles.

For the vast majority of people at this time, owning their own land and being a self-cultivator is a beautiful dream, and it is also the dream that is most likely to be realized in theory.

In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, at the end of the Age of Discovery, a hired worker who did not want to be a farmer must not be a hired worker with ideals.

Being a soldier, especially a soldier who is paid by the army, is also a kind of hired labor at this time.

The emperor was willing to spend the money to raise these elite soldiers, because the emperor counted on these hired workers to create more profits for him in India.

Du Feng didn't want to drink the blood of soldiers, because Du Feng was an egoist.A true egoist must think rationally about how to maximize his own interests. If he can earn ten thousand or three hundred, he is not worthy of being called an egoist.

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

Indeed, Dashun is in Ceylon and has already begun comprehensive preparations for the conquest of India.

However, preparing for a war is not so simple.

Money, food, logistics, army, these are a manifestation of war preparation, but not all, there are more troublesome things.

As Liu Yu commented before when he sent Meng Songlu away, many elites in Dashun are still immersed in the terrifying darkness that Shenzhou almost sank a hundred years ago, and they have been unable to get out for a long time.

But they forgot to plan for a bright future, make some preparations for the reality that the Celestial Dynasty has become the leader of the world, and even for the reality that Dashun has already extended its tentacles to India, compiling new scriptures, and considering that even within five years practical problems.

For example, once the old Bengal Khan died and the son died, Dashun officially intervened in the Indian subcontinent. Once the war started, it would not stop.

Dashun's preparations for war must consider such issues as soldiers, their salaries, placement of soldiers, ownership of soldiers, and so on.

Would the Emperor allow an organization similar to the British East India Company?

Will the emperor allow India to become a feudal town in the future, recruit troops on its own, and seal its borders with all lands?

No, and certainly not.

Then, one can and can only choose one form, that is, by recruiting troops in Dashun, transporting them to serve in India, and passing rotations every few years, to ensure the emperor's control over India and avoid the situation where all the lands seal their borders and become kings on their own.

Once the Indian governor of Dashun is allowed to recruit troops on his own, what will happen next is predictable.

Let the governor, governor, or Jiedu envoy hold the financial power, the right to recruit troops, and the power to appoint and dismiss in their hands. This kind of lesson has appeared too many times in history.

Indeed, Dashun's elite army is very capable of fighting. In Dashun, a standing field force of about 20 is actually enough to maintain stability.

However, only a few thousand people may be able to conquer India, but they cannot rule India.

Du Feng can only be the governor of Ceylon and made great achievements, but it is absolutely impossible to be the governor of India; the field troops of Ceylon can only settle India in three battles, but they cannot rule India, maintain the stability of India, and rule nearly [-] million people. s population.

One hundred thousand, or 20 troops, this is the basis for ruling India.

Moreover, in view of the recruitment and retirement system after the military reform, and the reality that the emperor would definitely not choose to let soldiers serve in India forever to avoid the military becoming a feudal town, it is necessary to consider the system of 20 or even [-] people.

Without a complete set of systems, it cannot be considered that Dashun has completed all-round preparations to conquer India.

The preparations for the war on Ceylon Island are for the sake of tactical victory, the attack must be conquered and the defense must be stable, not for ruling and conquering India.

Besides, the elite field troops trained at a large price will go to India to fight security warfare?In the long period of consumption, the combat effectiveness of the elite field troops was wiped out, and finally reduced to a garrison force that can only sneak around and disrupt places?Then the money was lost.

The foundation of military system reform will always be the economic foundation.

Dashun said that Mu Tang pursued Han, but the economic base was completely different.

Datang’s system of granting land to military soldiers originated from the fact that Datang had enough state-owned land in its hands, and it was even possible to grant land in places in the northwest like Dunhuang, and it left clear records.

Dashun is in the ruling core area, in the Central Plains, how much state-owned land does it have?Can you engage in the military system?
The foundation of the Fubing is a group of self-cultivating farmers and small landlords who can afford weapons, war horses, and leather armor.

Dashun has a gentry landlord with such economic strength, who would be a "Qiu Ba", instead of being inferior in everything but high in education?
Dashun chose to recruit soldiers, but in fact, he could only choose the combination of recruiting soldiers and some soldiers from the world.So, how to recruit soldiers from the disaster area to prevent the situation of redundant soldiers in the Song Dynasty?
After these soldiers retreat, what should they do?
Do you want to ask?Let it die?
Throw it in India, and someone with a heart will take them to do some great things. The master will become the king from Tianzhu, and the princes and generals will be kind to each other. Wouldn't it be happy to eat meat and drink in big bowls?
Ship back to Dashun, and shiploads of soldiers whose service has expired will be thrown into Songsu Port, the economic center of Dashun, and the Beijing-Tianjin area, the political center. I'm afraid that the rebels in the city won't be able to pull out the team?

This is the root of the problem of granting land in the Southern Ocean that Zhao Liben's younger brother mentioned.

It is also Dashun's preparations for conquering and ruling India.

Of course, all of this is based on the material foundation of "Dashun's method of measuring longitude from the angle of the moon has matured".

Before that, even though Dashun already knew that there was a continent in the Southern Ocean, and even named it Xinkuwu, it would be fanciful to want to immigrate there on a large scale.

As for the front-end technology such as wheat, corn and cotton planting technology, iron plow, ox plowing, columbine cart, ear cutter, etc., it goes without saying. A few of them have been completed recently, and most of them have been pointed out 2000 years ago.

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

If you want to conquer or rule India, and you are worried about the self-recruitment of local soldiers and the self-respect of the generals, you must pay a certain price, bear certain responsibilities, and be able to solve this problem.

It is neither the responsibility nor the obligation of the feudal emperors to let the common people live a good life and make the nation stronger, nor is it an option in their minds.

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

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

The price of emigrating 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, give relief, and take away the young recruits.

For the rest of the relief, the old and the weak should starve to death, starve to death, and die of illness. Let those young and strong fight in India to earn money for the emperor to collect taxes, and then use part of the tax collected to organize them together and train them with guns throw them to a place far away that will not hit the capital and Songsu.

This is not in any way inconsistent with the emperor's willingness to build the Huaihe River, control the Yellow River, relieve disaster victims, pay taxes, suppress mergers in North China, and equalize prices.

It can only show that this is a seasoned feudal emperor, not the kind of emperor who grew up in a honeypot who is not worthy of the position at all, but has a 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 issues. He is full of beautiful visions for the future.

Although Zhao Liben was almost ruined by Liu Yu's policy with a swipe of a pen, but now he just wants to live in peace and stability, and he is also very interested in what he said to his brother.

The only worry is that this is a painted pie.

But the younger brother spoke convincingly, convinced that some of their chiefs had really been to that place, and explained what it means to reverse the seasons.Of course he doesn't know why the four seasons are reversed, but it doesn't prevent him from explaining what the four seasons are reversed, and the place where the four seasons are reversed is not the eighteenth floor of hell.

Zhao Liben can be considered as having been to all the places in the southeast and Southeast Asia, and he is no longer the person who has been active for thirty miles around the village all his life. For distant places, he has long lost the simple fear of distant places.

"San'er, can those of us who are not soldiers go to this place?"

"I can go, don't I say? You have to spend your own money. But if I am a soldier, I don't count me, and there are four places in total without spending money. Why are there four? This is still an ancient method." Mile."

"Ancient method?"

"Oh, our officer said that there used to be a prime minister named Li Kui. It was said that one man took five of his family and managed a hundred mu of land..."

Zhao Liben couldn't help laughing and said: "You officers, you don't have much culture. How can there be a prime minister named Li Kui? However, according to this argument, there is an argument. If I replace him with a name, it's not to occupy Thousands of acres of land?"

The younger brother smiled and said, "Brother, you can't plant thousands of acres of land, and you have to pay taxes, so what's the use of it? Besides, there's no limit to how much land a person can buy. You hired someone to buy the land for you The name of the family is written on the national deed...Brother, think about it for yourself, if someone hires you to buy land instead, can you honestly farm it for others? Or go to court and claim that the land is yours? We have seen a lot about field skin, field bone, permanent tenancy, subtenancy, and return. Besides, why do you plant so much land? It is difficult to sell food in that place, so you can just eat enough for yourself. In the future Leave an inheritance for your children."

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

"It seems that the maximum quota is [-] mu, but our land is granted, and those who are not soldiers have to spend their own money to buy it. If you buy it, you have to cultivate it for five years. You can't say that you can put it there after you buy it. That’s not planted, there’s no contract.”

"Land doesn't seem to be expensive. The imperial court sells a set of things such as farming cattle and farm tools there. They brought all of them when they bought the land. I heard that not long after they discovered the Southern Ocean and Xinkuwu, whoever it was I spent a lot of money to hire people to prepare it there, and I have been preparing for it for many years. But it seems to say that before I went to the ocean, I didn’t know the north and south, but now I have some way to know the north and south, so I started to do it... "

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

The family was almost ruined by someone's one-paper policy. It would be nonsense to say that there was any good impression.

"Well, this person is bad or bad, but he keeps his word. According to what you say, it's really good. Let me figure it out, how many people in my family... I won't take up the quota on your side, and you can't wait to withdraw It’s really not possible to get married later, I’ll go back and arrange a marriage for you. By then, you will have children or something, so those few places will be enough. After you retire, go to the Southern Ocean?”

Speaking of this, the younger brother blushed slightly and said, "Brother, I have a friend here..."

"Fanbang girl?"

"Well... also an honest family. The offspring of the red-haired people who moved here and married the locals are called Bourgeois. After we went to Nanyang, they also wanted to find a backer. Her family agrees. I saved her before, so... There were some troublesome things in it, but it's resolved now."

Zhao Liben didn't mind looking for Fanbang women, and there were many Fanbang women in the story, but he didn't understand what troublesome things his brother was talking about, so he asked.

"Uh... that is, stepping on their god cards, shrines and so on. There are too few girls in our Han family here. Who would let their daughters come here from a good family?"

(End of this chapter)