Chapter 23 Family Letters and Nonsense
The heavy rain fell.
The severe drought in Guanzhong did not affect the heavy rain in Badi at all.
As the heavy rain fell, the originally rugged mountain road became slippery and even more difficult to move. As usual, the Minglei tribe sent warriors to transport supplies to sell each month, five people died because of this mountain road.
However, under this difficult road condition, a "family letter" was sent to Ju Zizhou in a hurry.
This is a letter sent by Ying Zheng.
The two brothers and brothers have not seen each other for nearly a year. Just as Ju Zizhou knew that what Ying Zheng said to him, "There is a lie to slaughter in Badi" was a lie, and Ying Zheng also knew that he could not deceive Ju Zizhou.
The two of them maintained a tacit understanding and neither of them mentioned this matter.
There is nothing boring in the family letter like longing that ordinary people would mention.
In this bamboo slip, Ying Zheng first wrote his views on the current situation of the Qin army provided by Wang Jian.
——If you want to have stronger violence, you must pay greater benefits than you are now.
And if this benefit can be paid to the soldiers' needs, then a penny can play a role in tens of money.
Ying Zheng proposed in a targeted manner that the army would be transformed into a professional army like the "Qin officials" with normal salary.
That is, regardless of whether you fight or not, you will receive monthly salary and have a fixed monthly full-time training for a period of time to maintain your loyalty and combat effectiveness.
In addition, during his service, the state will take care of food, accommodation, clothing and shoes.
After death, a certain amount of "pension" will be given to his family.
Of course, the pension was mentioned by Ju Zizhou when he gave Ying Zheng an example in the morning.
Now Ying Zheng has improved this concept and specifically regulated compensation ranging from 20,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan in deaths.
The second is the view on corvee service.
All the people in Qin State had to be corvee service, son-in-law, no marriage, merchants, those who have no permanent property were given priority, and prisoners and slaves were forced to be confiscated.
However, quite a lot of corvee service is unnecessary.
Take people out of their hometown, arrive in the county, or somewhere else, do a month's work, and then put them home. For shorter ones, only five or six days will be spent on the road. For longer ones, the time required for round trips is almost the same as the time of service.
Although there is a real need to concentrate efforts to create large projects as soon as possible, it will still consume a lot of unnecessary money and food during the round trip process.
The relevant procedures need to be streamlined, corresponding to the law, and more specific, and even Qin officials in certain positions need to be laid off or added.
Then there are various specific reward measures.
Finally, some of the things he did with the "three-year period" were successful and some failed.
Some people want to raise bets on him, some are still waiting and watching, and some are showing complete denial of him in front of him, but in private, they lose sincerity to him.
Ju Zizhou looked at the things listed by Ying Zheng one by one, which was both gratifying and a little scared.
But, since you have reached this point, there is no way back.
He can only face all this.
So Ju Zizhou picked up the pen.
[Junior brother, the letter has been read.
Be careful when it comes to military system reform. The system you listed is certainly perfect, but once the soldiers are withdrawn from specific production labor and form a full-time standing army, the first thing you have to face is who will control the army.
Secondly, the specific position of the army in the political system, and then, the issue of supply.
To form an army of tens of thousands of people, the supply required is to maintain at least 100,000 people. This is a huge allocation of power and the transfer of interests. With the current level of administration, the level of government that is known at present may not be enough to fulfill your idea.
As for such absolute violence, every point needs to be carefully considered. If you are not careful, the thunder pool will pour out and the earth will turn over.
Furthermore, as far as I see, we should start to try to change the matter of corvee. We can try more about this matter and find the corresponding relationship that is more suitable for the current productivity. Even if it is a little ahead, it is not a big deal. It is nothing more than spending some money and grain to remedy it. First, it will not harm the specific interests of the civilians too much. Second, the changes in the flow of interests involved and the power cutting are relatively small, and even if there is resistance, they are within a range that can be endured.
Third, we need to treat these people with the power we can control at present, and even the sharpest opponents are only hostile for another year. In terms of time, we have an absolute advantage, so we can appropriately show an inclusive attitude to win more friends.
Fourthly, what I saw in Badi, the Qin State had probably already seen, and the common people needed and the means of reform, so I quickly discovered that I could return to Xianyang within half a year.
In addition, on the way for my brother, he recognized an adopted son and named him Zhengliu.
Wan An.
The third year of the king, October 19th.]
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In October, the Qin people began to fight against the Wei State.
A war of tens of thousands of people broke out, and the 1,000 elite peasant association soldiers led by Wang Jian when he came, had lost 261 people.
Although there were soldiers who were recruited from the peasant association later, the trained soldiers were different from those who had not been trained.
After the war began, Wang Jian was able to escape from Meng Ao's control.
Because the king is here.
The King of Qin was extremely ambitious.
In other words, his ambition was supported by the successive victory of the "300,000 people" led by Meng Ao.
Meng Ao's "300,000 people" defeated Zhou, Zhao, and Han people, and seized thousands of miles of land and obtained more than 30 cities!
Such a smooth situation is beyond imagination for anyone before sending troops.
Because of such a victory, the reputation of the Prince Zheng, who was far away in Xianyang, was almost ruined.
But Wang Jian didn't have any feelings about this.
Fame will become bad, because reputation is just reputation, and it can only change with reality at any time.
Wang Jian also knew that their Qin army was about to be defeated.
"The number of soldiers that the Zhao people can mobilize is far more than the 20,000 people we have seen!" Wang Jian held the "Handan Investigation" and advised Wang Yan: "We should make plans to withdraw from the army early!"
"You stupid guy, our army has won such a great victory, but you said you want to withdraw your troops. Do you think the king may agree with you?" Wang said sarcastically: "What do you think, General Meng, will he treat you when he hears your nonsense?"
Wang Jian shrank his neck: "But, logic is, after this period of time, Zhao, Han, Wei and other countries reacted, and then mobilized troops. For all our 50,000 people at present, they were attacked from three sides and had no chance of winning!"
"Not to mention, the farther countries, Yan, Chu, Qi and other countries may take the opportunity to make some chaos!" Wang laughed coldly: "What you said is right, but what's the use? Do you think the king would be willing to listen to your nonsense before he was truly defeated?"
Chapter completed!