The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 292 The Perfection of the Military Merit System

At this moment, Liu Tai found Chen Yuanda in Yecheng and said, "Changhong, how is the trial of the new commercial law in Bohai Bay going?"

"It has been studied. At least there were no major problems during the trial trial in Bohai Bay!" Chen Yuanda said to Liu Tai.

"That's good. We should try our best to promote it in Hebei. We don't need to be too good to businessmen, but we don't need to be too bad either.

But the most important thing is to collect taxes on merchant transactions. After all, no matter how complicated merchant transactions are, they can eventually be traced back to the origin and the terminal where they are sold.

As for how to deal with the problem in the middle, it is the businessman's business. We will try to collect taxes from both ends. "

Liu Tai said this and continued, "Of course, the taxes on those grains and cloths will be reduced and exempted when traded, but the silk, silk, gold and silver treasures will be taxed heavily to prevent the people from being greedy for vanity and obsessed with the smell of copper."

"I understand!" For people like Chen Yuanda, who are relatively poor and attach great importance to laws, tax laws are very popular.

In particular, the targets of the attack were businessmen. After studying commercial law, Chen Yuanda began to prepare to formulate commercial taxes.

"By the way, you should talk to Gou Chun about tax matters. After all, there will definitely be criminals who evade taxes in the future, and they are the defenders of your tax laws. No matter how you punish them, it's best to get them out along the way." Liu Tai said very seriously He said to Chen Yuanda,

"In addition, after this thing comes out, just like the original commercial law, it will be thrown into Youjiqing first to test the water, and if it can be gradually promoted."

"Follow the order!" Chen Yuanda nodded after hearing Liu Tai's words, and then chose to leave and return to his place for treatment.

At this time, Chu Hui walked in, holding in his hand the catalog of the military merit and title system that he had compiled, as well as the approximate rewards and responsibilities. After Chu Hui perfected the rewards, they became quite clear.

Because of his experience fighting Liu Tai, the military merit system here is divided into two types, one for soldiers and the other for officers.

The soldier category covers the entire army, while the officer category covers officers at camp commander and above.

Soldier rewards directly describe what rewards and treatments you will get for whatever you do on the battlefield, such as killing generals, seizing flags, and being the first to get there, etc.

Only those in the officer category can obtain corresponding honors and treatment by taking the collective merit of breaking the military category.

It can be as small as giving priority to all soldiers to choose delicious meals, as large as all soldiers can enjoy equipment, basically all groups can enjoy corresponding treatment, etc.

Of course, to create this kind of system, there must be enough room for redundant officials and nobles, and the seventh, eighth, and ninth episodes are quite critical.

Because although the title was promoted on the surface, it is actually still a cow and a horse. It is just that the appearance is glamorous, but in fact it does not hold power. Even if it gets the title, it is still the target of being sucked.

But starting from the seventh level, because this title can already be used to do some seemingly unimportant positions that hold real power in the local area.

For example, the city gate order manages the city gate, the Jin order manages the ferry, the warehouse order manages the granary, etc...

Even though these positions are not even considered ninth grade, for the local government, they already hold power that cannot be ignored.

"Suppress the number of titles on the seventh, eighth, and ninth levels again, and mention the benefits again!" Liu Tai thought,

"Streamline the organization as much as possible, but to increase the value of the owner's position, we have to use one person as two people, instead of recruiting multiple idiots to come in and work hard. Hard work should be reused and the living space for slackers should be reduced!"

To be honest, Liu Tai couldn't help but think of Fang Xuanling at this time. I really don't know how he could directly cut a bureaucracy to one-third of its original size and still maintain the normal operation of the entire organization without losing anything. He was stabbed eight times in the back and committed suicide. He deserved to be the first prime minister of the Tang Dynasty.

After all, it is easy for a bureaucracy to expand. Even if a fool gets involved, the bureaucracy will still expand according to its nature.

But if you want to curb the expansion nature of the bureaucracy and reduce it to one-third of its original size without suffering any backlash, that would be truly astonishing.

Even in modern society, it is extremely difficult to curb the disorderly expansion of capital, let alone the disorderly expansion of rights.

It is normal for one person to work alone and to have seven or eight leaders above his head. Companies also do not often lay off employees to focus on arteries.

This is a common problem in human organizational structures. As long as it is profitable, it will become bloated over time.

Chu Hui nodded when he heard Liu Tai's words, but Chu Hui felt that the biggest problem of the Gong Lord System was not to curb the quantity.

Because this can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

The biggest problem is that in the end there will either be no war or no land distribution.

Only then would Liu Tai have a headache, and at least Chu Hui had nothing to do about it now.

"By the way, starting from the level of Guannei Hou, only the relevant Neihou and the above titles can be used as guarantees to allow companies or enterprises to be listed on the stock market." Liu Tai raised his head and said to Chu Hui.

"Stock market? What stock market?!" Chu Hui was a little confused when he heard Liu Tai's words.

"Let's add this first. Things like the stock market can only be implemented after we return to the old capital.

As for now, when others ask, you are the policy I plan to implement after returning to the old capital, but I have no plans to implement it yet! "

Liu Tai said to Chu Hui, "In short, we just won't let our old brothers suffer!"

"No!" Chu Hui nodded repeatedly when he heard Liu Tai's words.

To be honest, Liu Tai has been thinking about what to do if the military merit system comes to an end and the land is not enough.

He can only come up with new profit points to satisfy the military merit system. What Liu Tai wants to try is the stock market.

In contrast, in later generations of markets where the short-selling mechanism has been innovated, at least now, the listing license is linked to military merit. This is a quite large threshold in itself, and it is not like just anyone can enter the stock market through fraud.

Because he wants to be at least a Marquis of Guannei. Even if he doesn't have a city, he is still a Marquis of military merit.

This eliminates the possibility of cats and dogs entering the stock market by transferring funds back and forth.

Secondly, what I implement is a military merit system, and the end of the military merit system is either that the enemy is gone or the land is not enough.

To be honest with the enemy, Liu Tai is really not worried, because the barbarians are like leeks. Even if he tries his best to assimilate them, they will still appear.

When the Xiongnu is gone, there is Xianbei, and when Xianbei is gone, there is Rouran. When Rouran is solved, maybe the Turks will emerge again.

As long as the country is corrupt, there will definitely be enemies. Liu Taizhen is not worried.

What I do is just to provide future dynasties with a way to continue the military merit-based nobility system through other methods after the military merit-based nobility system has come to an end, but will not dampen the enthusiasm of military commanders. The stock market license is a solution to the problem. Give this license to the general, and then the general will let his subordinates do business, or lend it to other businessmen for backdoor listing. In short, it will at least be a channel for the general to cash out.

This is also in line with the ultimate ownership of military commanders that Chinese kings have always given since Wang Jian, either giving death or giving wealth.

After all, the wealth an emperor can bestow through rewards is limited, but the wealth bestowed upon generals through common people is unlimited.

Of course, the most important point is that if a stock market crash really happens, it won't matter.

However, when fraud and fraud occurred, causing public anger and resentment, which affected their descendants, the emperor could use the public resentment to take back these conferred marquises, thus completing the restoration of the title quietly.

After all, since ancient times, when the Han Dynasty encountered any natural or man-made disaster, the first thing to do was to get the Three Dukes to take action. But now it is just to focus the public resentment on a specific marquis.

Of course, this system must not be introduced now. It must wait until after we return to the old capital, that is, after we capture Chang'an and Luoyang.

After all, by then, the first batch of guys who followed him in the crusade might force him to ascend to the throne of God to consolidate their status. But proclaiming himself emperor is definitely not something Liu Tai wants to see!

Because if I become emperor, I will grant various titles to my subordinates, which will not be conducive to their continued struggle!

After all, what kind of place was Jiangnan in this era? It was just a remote and remote area. Even though it had been developed with the Yi Guannan crossing, the land in Jiangnan was not as good as the developed land in the Central Plains.

Not to mention that Jingzhou and Yangzhou are now more famous for their humidity and heat. Northern soldiers are unwilling to go south, and even fewer want to develop the land in the south of the Yangtze River, so they need to think long-term.

No matter what, for Liu Tai, businessmen do want to be suppressed, but reducing warriors with military power to rich men is another operation.

After all, no matter what, he has his eyes on the land, and there is no way that they will not even have a place to make a fortune, which will inevitably suffer backlash from the entire military group.

Since ancient times, the way to govern is to have a carrot in one hand and a stick in the other. Otherwise, how to deal with these arrogant and powerful generals.

Liu Tai said to Chu Hui: "Let's optimize the details and release it officially.

At the same time, in order to prevent the soldiers from being confused, within one month of the announcement, you and Xi joined the army to arrange for people to go to the military camp to analyze the military merit system, so that the soldiers knew clearly how to be promoted, how to be demoted, and what to obtain. Land, how can one become the Marquis of Guannei?

Only when all these are explained clearly to every soldier will the soldiers be willing to fight.

Another month later, I will arrange time to go to the military camp to select officers and ask them. If they don't know how to be promoted and how to get land, then the military merit system will have to be redone.

All in all, your goal is that even if you are a fool, as long as you become a soldier, you must know how to obtain military merit! "

"Follow the order!" Chu Hui made such a request to Liu Tai. Que did not feel any surprise and responded immediately.

To be honest, Chu Hui has been following Liu Tai for so long, and he also understands Liu Tai's character in leading troops.

Compared with other generals, they paid more attention to the rewards of gold, silver, treasures and various materials to their soldiers, or they used the destiny to encourage their soldiers, or they used strict military discipline to ensure that their soldiers obeyed the orders and prohibitions, but the King of Han was not like this.

The King of Han's ability to ensure the material consumption of his soldiers was indeed very strong, but what was even stronger was that although the King of Han valued material security, he also valued the will of the soldiers more.

From the time he first joined the army of the King of Han, he began to read the Book of Han, and now it has become the supreme magic weapon for the King of Han to command his troops. Even so, the King of Han has been trying to find ways to increase the internal driving force of his soldiers.

More importantly, he truly realized the revival of the Han Dynasty, and the soldiers who followed him along the way were also sharing the dividends.

This dividend was so big that all the generals and the common people who only provided taxes could feel the stability under the rule of the Han Dynasty. This feeling even made them suspect that the Eight Kings Rebellion and Yongjia Rebellion a few years ago seemed to be fake. Same.

Chu Hui looked at the military merit and title system in his hands. No matter how he said it, he had a great sense of accomplishment in perfecting and promulgating this system from his own hands.

Just when Liu Tai promulgated the military merit system, the reward and punishment system was deeply rooted in the hearts of his soldiers, and he was gradually preparing for the southern expedition to the Central Plains, the ships of Wang Xizhi and Wang Du had also arrived at Jinkou and entered the Yongji Canal by boat.

At this time, Wang Du looked blankly in the direction of his hometown, with a bit of reluctance and helplessness in his heart.

"Zi Qi misses his family!" Wang Xizhi looked at Wang Du and said.

When Wang Du heard Wang Xizhi's words, he couldn't help showing some calmness on his face and said:

"Zhuo Jing is pregnant with Liujia, so it is inconvenient for her to travel far away with me. Now that we are separated and we don't know when we will see each other again, I naturally feel a little uneasy. You won't understand, Mr. Yi!"

When Wang Xizhi heard Wang Du's words, he said calmly, "If you are worried about your wife, you can buy a house in Yecheng first, and then you can take over your wife and take care of things. Why bother acting like a daughter now? I, a common man like me, should have the ambition to win the title bravely." Three armies and ten thousand households!"

"Okay!" Wang Du heard Wang Xizhi's words, but he also said to Wang Xizhi, "What Mr. Yi said is true!"

The two continued to drink and watch the lively scene of Qianfan passing by.

However, as the river gradually moved towards the south, Wang Xizhi suddenly reacted and said:

"This waterway must be the Yongji Canal built by the King of Han. I didn't expect so many ships heading towards Yecheng!"

"Yeah, I didn't expect that this section of the Yongji Canal has just been opened to navigation, but there are already so many merchant ships. You are truly a businessman who lives for profit and never gets tired!" Wang Du couldn't help but sigh.

To be honest, because Wang Du was born into a poor family, he has a small field of vision. This has always been Wang Du's own problem. Even if he wants to correct it, I'm afraid it will take time to refine it slowly.

But Wang Xizhi was different. Whether it was his father or his family, they stood at the top of the world and guided the country.

Therefore, before the Yongji Canal was opened, Wang Xizhi felt that Liu Tai was crazy for advocating the construction of the Yongji Canal.

But now that the Yongji Canal was actually being built, and watching the merchant ships from Youzhou and Qingzhou heading towards Yecheng through the Yongji Canal, Wang Xizhi suddenly discovered that the logistics resources where Liu Tai was located were operating at a terrifyingly high efficiency!

You must know that whether it is Youzhou or the eastern part of Qingzhou, even if it is not a bitter cold place, it is still a vast land with sparsely populated areas.

But now that Yongji Canal has connected them with Yecheng, especially when Liu Tai's warships are protecting the Bohai Bay, the entire Northland seems to be completely revitalized at this moment.

Wang Xizhi finally understood that Liu Tai had been digging the Yongji Canal in the past two years in order not to waste the Jizhou and Qingzhou he had developed with great difficulty, because the two places that had been developed could continuously transport resources to Yecheng. Without too high a price.

Because the land transporters were chewing horses, they wanted to prepare for the conquest of the Jin Dynasty, but they were afraid that it would cost more.

But now, Wang Xizhi's heart tightened, and he always felt that if the construction of the Yongji Canal was completed, the war would be imminent.

(End of this chapter)