Wu Haowen looked at his brother who was "bold" and thought to himself that his brother still didn't know how to fight.

"What?" Han Zhongyan saw that his son-in-law's face was full of doubts and asked with a smile, "Wang said, do you think your elder brother is wrong?"

"Yes," Wu Haowen did not hide it, "My brother doesn't know about the soldiers."

Wu Haogu is a businessman, artist, evil scholar, and military affairs seem to be unreliable, and it is not clear that the military should be the one who does not know that it is the right thing to do.

"Then do you know the soldiers?" Han Zhongyan asked his son-in-law with a smile.

"The son-in-law has learned some military affairs with the teacher recently."

Wu Haowen now respects his "village scholar" teacher Hou Zhongliang, because this village scholar is from Guan Xue after all. In addition to cheating children's "nature and human desires", he also knows a lot of practical knowledge.

"Hou Shisheng still knows the military?" Wu Haogu asked curiously, "How did he teach you?"

"The teacher said: The reason why a country is a country is to choose a general; the reason why a general is a general is to support a soldier. Everyone loves the body, but uses his body as a arrow; everyone loves death and defends the country by death, so they have nowhere to go. Therefore, they say: Treat soldiers as babies, so they can go to the deep stream; treat soldiers as they love their sons, so they can be afraid of death. For a country, you must choose generals, and for generals, you must love soldiers."

It sounds like one set after another...

Han Zhongyan nodded and said, "What is to support a soldier? How can you love soldiers for generals? Is it to take off your clothes and push food?"

The way of untiing clothes and pushing food is useless to the current urban soldiers in the Song Dynasty. It is a trick to fool the simple rural soldiers.

"It is certainly necessary to remove clothes and push food," said Wu Haowen. "But it is not enough to just remove clothes and push food. You must implement the method of military farming and the strategy of the village army to unite the army. Therefore, the eldest brother bought a million mu of land in Cangzhou to resettle hundreds of knights, which is better to resettle 10,000 hometown soldiers."

"I want to raise rural soldiers with one hundred acres of land?" Wu Haogu shook his head with a wry smile, "Now an imperial guard has more than fifty soldiers a year. If it is turned into rent for dry land in Cangzhou, it will cost at least more than two hundred acres? This is still something that can only be received when there is no tax on land and it is good weather.

Moreover, the more than 50 pieces of money earned by the imperial guards were all food, equipment, military uniforms, etc. that they spent. The village soldiers had to bring a lot of things themselves, how could it be enough to only give a hundred acres?"

Wu Haowen thought about it, "Then it's only 200 acres, and 5,000 stores can be placed in this way."

"Two hundred acres can barely support a village soldier," Wu Haogu nodded, "It's just that it can't last for too long. The second brother should know about the example of the Tang Dynasty, right?"

According to the equal-land system in the Tang Dynasty, middle-aged men and men over 18 years old each received 80 mu of land, 20 mu of land for Yongye, and 40 mu of land for old men. In other words, if a family had only one male, they would have 100 mu of land. However, families with only one male were not theoretically drawn. The government system that cooperated with the equal-land system stipulated that six households would draw one child and wealthy households would be drawn first.

In other words, the service family owns at least 200 acres of land, of which 100 acres belong to the Manchu soldiers themselves are theoretically tax-free. If the Manchu soldiers generally own less than 200 acres of land, the Manchu soldiers system will inevitably collapse.

However, 200 acres of land can maintain the situation of the state in the early Tang Dynasty. Industry and commerce in the early Tang Dynasty was underdeveloped, and the manor economy was still the mainstream. The people did not have so many ways to make money like the people of the Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the imperial examination system in the early Tang Dynasty was just a form, and the number of scholars was numerical or double-digit. It could not be compared with the grand occasion of the Song Dynasty's regular title of four or five hundred (and even more than eight hundred in the Huizong Dynasty). Therefore, if the landlords and rich peasants in the folk had to become soldiers and make meritorious service in wars. That is, the children of officials and nobles should become officials, and they usually first become guards of the inner palace (equivalent to the guards).

So at that time, the country could maintain huge military strength at a very low cost, and the quality of the soldiers was pretty good. If the scholars of the Song Dynasty had all practiced martial arts and joined the army, the combat effectiveness of the Song army would naturally increase.

However, in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of rural soldiers who were maintained with 200 acres of dry land would not be too high.

Wu Haogu sighed and said, "Second brother, do you think the 5,000 village soldiers can fight against six or seven hundred iron cavalry now?"

Wu Haowen thought about it and said, "It depends on the general, so the first choice is to use troops..."

This is impossible to argue!

In the era of cold weapons, the combat effectiveness of 5,000 township soldiers was definitely not as good as that of 600 armored cavalry. As for the factors used by generals, there are too many variables, who can explain it clearly?

Han Zhongyan coughed, interrupting his son-in-law's long-term discussion, "The village soldiers are not easy to maintain. If there is no protection of the rich, they are easily invaded by others. If they are used by the gentry, they will form power.

If the village soldiers were easy to maintain, there would be no Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, and there would be no more I dynasty. In contrast, the imperial horse straight knight in front of the palace, which owns 1,500 acres of land, is relatively easy to maintain and control."

If a square kilometer of land is enough, agricultural and pastoral rotation can be carried out, which means dividing the land into three zones and rotating in the order of winter cereals - spring cereals - grass. Moreover, if so much land on the plains needs to be cultivated, horse farming must be used, which will easily maintain the horse herd.

Moreover, the number of warriors (knights) in front of the temple is not large after all, and they serve in front of the imperial court, so they are prone to obtain official positions and rewards, and the manor they own will not be invaded by powerful people, so it will naturally be easy to maintain.

"Chongdao," Han Zhongyan said again, "The court has allocated 1 million to you and Shi Zhizhou, so it has to be used well. No matter what, it will be necessary to purchase 700,000 acres of land. Also, there are many people in the court watching this matter. Do you know how to do it?"

Wu Haogu’s ancient saying: “Don’t worry, my husband, the lower official understands.”

...

Zeng Bu waved his hand and asked the servant and the female envoy who were serving in the study to leave, leaving only his son Zeng Yu and Ji Yi who came to visit.

"Tell me," Zeng Bu looked at Ji Yi, "What are your good plans?"

"The officials can make Wu Haogu unable to buy enough land in Beicangzhou." Ji Yi replied, "As long as he can't buy land, there is no way to accommodate so many knights. The Royal Horse in front of the hall is also a commander of two or three hundred people, so don't even think about expanding it."

Zeng Bu stroked his beard and looked at Ji Yi with a smile, "If the imperial horse in front of the palace can't be solved, the Military and Education Department of the Privy Council will be closed down. How can Yan Yun fight in the north of the North in the future?"

Zeng Bu, who has been ups and downs in the officialdom for decades, knows that it is easy to disrupt the situation and difficult to do things! If you want to win in political struggles, it is not enough to just disrupt the situation, and you have to give a solution. Otherwise, if you disrupt the old party, but you can't come up with a solution, you will definitely be kicked by the government to Haizhou for retirement.

The old party was so miserable before, isn’t it because he couldn’t give a solution to the problem?

"My husband, in the future, the Northern Expedition will naturally rely on the front army and the Western Army." Ji Yi has a solution, "but you can't build such powerful knights. Such a way is too consuming land. 500 companies will have 750,000 mu, and 5,000 companies will have no 7.5 million mu. Where can I find so much land?"

Of course there is land! There is more than this number of land in the herds prison alone. In addition, Sanyi Huihe also "lost" tens of millions of acres of land, of course, the land will not disappear out of thin air, but it is not in the government's account book.

So if you tap the potential, there are still 10,000 samurai in front of the imperial samurai... But Zeng Bu, An Tao, and Zhang Qing do not agree with this kind of "feudal cavalry". Because if the number of samurai in front of the palace really reaches 10,000, it would not be sucking the blood of the Western Army. How could the Western Army have so many elite soldiers? If you want to gather so many people, you can only feudalize a large number of nobles of Kaifeng generals.

At that time, the armored cavalry of the five thousand generals and noble families would always be located near Kaifeng. Is this still the Song Dynasty that governed the world by civilized rule? Isn’t this the aristocratic children in the early Tang Dynasty acting as guards of the inner palace?

In the early Tang Dynasty... there was no such thing as using literature to control martial arts!

Ji Yi continued: "If you want to improve the strength of the troops in front of the palace, you must restore the method of the ancestors selecting elites from all over the world to enter the troops in front of the palace."

"Select the elites of the world? Is there any?" Zeng Bu shook his head. It was no longer the time to find the country. Heroes of the world have long been "reading the Five Classics to the window". Even the martial arts and Jinshi exams have to ride on the stand and shoot arrows. Where can there be elites for you to choose?

Besides, if there are elite soldiers, you don’t come to Kaifeng Prefecture to serve in the army! What benefits does the Palace Front Office give? Do you give 1,500 acres of land? Do you give the official position? Do you give nothing, just a few ounces of monthly salary. How could the elite come stupidly? Can you not make these ounces of money when you are a local tyrant or a bad gentry? You must know that the few ounces of money in the local area are comparable to banning flowers in Kaifeng Prefecture.

"After a heavy reward, there must be a brave man." Ji Yi said, "According to the salary of the ninth-rank official, 144 yuan a year, plus rewards and miscellaneous items, 200 yuan a year will be given a head office."

"Give so much?" Zeng Bu frowned tightly, "How many squads in front of the palace are raised?"

"We must raise at least 50,000 combat soldiers, plus the 50,000 elite troops of the Western Army, and 100,000 combat soldiers can fight Yan Yun."

Ji Yi calculated, "It's not about the expenses of officials, it's enough to have 10 million yuan in personnel expenses a year."

"10 million?" Zeng Bu shook his head repeatedly, "Where did you get so much money?"

"How come there is no money?" Ji Yi smiled, "Yi Dutingyi sold more than 2 million yuan... Isn't it 10 million yuan to sell 4 yuan of such land a year?"

Is this okay? Zeng Bu pressed his forehead and was so confused that he didn't expect this method.

"In addition," Ji Yi said, "There are now 500,000 imperial guards, and the only one who can really fight is only 50,000 Western troops. The remaining 450,000 is only raising money and food. If 100,000 and 200,000 are cut off, wouldn't there be money to support the squads in front of the palace?"

"Cut off 100,000 to 200,000 imperial guards?" Zeng Bu thought for a while, "How to lay off? Could there be something wrong, right?"

"Is it enough to make up for more vacancies?" Ji Yi smiled, "It is impossible for all the troops in front of the palace to increase to 50,000 in a year, right? It is good to be able to select a few thousand a year. The imperial guards have more than 10,000 a year. What can happen if they cause trouble?"
Chapter completed!