Cheap things are often more expensive.

Or, free things are the most expensive.

Yu Wen Wen has a deep understanding of this principle, but if he wants to explain it to his wife, he cannot use his "blood and tears history" to "show his own words".

How can he explain?

In order to save five yuan on the parking fee, I parked my car on the side of the road. But when I got back after finishing my business, I found that the car had a ticket worth 200 yuan?

This kind of words will only make people think that there is something wrong with his mind.

If it was an outsider, Yuwen Wen was too lazy to share his experience. However, Yuchi Chifan was his official wife, and some things must be understood by the other party, so Yuwen Wen thought for a moment and made a temporary draft.

The topic, from the Liaodong war, is to fight a little broader.

When fighting, the imperial court has an official army, of course, the first choice is to let the official army go to war. Even if the soldiers do not fight, they will still consume food and military pay when staying in the camp, let alone "raising troops for a thousand days and using troops for a while."

Well, if you win the war, should you pay the reward? Should you pay the pensions from the fallen soldiers be paid? This is the expense.

The expenses are not small.

In addition to ordinary money and silk rewards, soldiers who have made great contributions also have to divide their land and even award them titles and fiefs. Is this a big expense?

Cheap? The court must divide the land for soldiers who have made great contributions, so that they can ensure the morale of the army. If wars are fought for years, where can the court squeeze out the land that many soldiers who have made great contributions?

OK, the imperial court tightened his belt and squeezed it out, and that's it? It's not over.

The current military system is mainly based on the government army system (conscription system). The government army has fields, farming on weekdays, practices in leisure, and brings their own armor, weapons, horses, and dry food to fight in wartime. It has both combat effectiveness and saves money.

Such an army is really cheap to use.

However, even if a war is finally won, there will inevitably be casualties. The death of soldiers means that each family has fewer sons and husbands, and a pillar of the pillars, which will strengthen labor.

If the pillars are gone, the home will collapse; if the labor force is gone, the home will slowly collapse.

Large-scale war will inevitably bring a large number of casualties, and the casualties of the government soldiers will increase, leaving orphans, widows, old, young, women and children, and how can they defend the fields? As a result, more and more soldiers and families collapsed and the source of soldiers became tense.

To increase the source of troops, the court had to grant land and let more people turn into government troops. However, where did the court have so much land?

Under the premise of long-term opening of borders, the large number of "cheap" government soldiers will be used, and the consequence is that the government soldiers system will gradually become corrupt and cannot be sustained.

He often uses his troops to fight, saves small money and suffers a big loss. Is this called a cheap?

Similarly, recruiting people to serve labor, such as building a city in Liaodong, seems very cheap to the court, or even close to free, but in fact it is not.

In order to serve one month of labor in Liaodong, the people have to spend two or even three months on the way back and forth. So what should I do if my family’s farm work?

If these people are unacceptable to the environment and death from illness on the way, or drowned in shipwrecks, their families will be defeated and their laborers will be over.

It is indeed very cost-effective to collect labor services on a large scale, but it is likely to delay farm work, resulting in reduced grain production and reduced taxes, which directly affects fiscal revenue. Is this called cheap?

If you lose money, you can make money. If you lose people, it will take more than ten years for the next generation to grow up.

When Yuchi Chifan heard this, he probably understood what Yuwen Wen meant.

The war in Liaodong was long-term, and the imperial court had to deal with the Turks in the west, so it was impossible for it to invest too much manpower, material resources and military forces to go to Liaodong to erode, so it chose to spend money to "hire people to do things".

Yuwen Wen has many ways to make money, so even if hiring people is expensive, he can afford it.

Hiring people to do things will not consume too much people's energy, nor will it allow the officers and soldiers to accumulate a large number of casualties in such long-term harassment operations. However, Beiyang Trading Company "collects money to do things" and finds ways to hire unemployed vagrants to "work".

The unemployed vagrants die and die, and have nothing to do with the court.

This is a bit ruthless, but the truth seems reasonable, but Yuchi Chifan thinks the best way is not to fight.

Without war, there will be no casualties or additional expenses. Just do a good job of border defense, so that it will not save more money?

She thought so, but she didn't dare to say it out.

Yuwen Wen was able to guess what the other party wanted to say, so he asked and answered himself.

The cost of war is huge, so is it good to live your own life without war?

Of course, it’s good, but if you have bad neighbors at home, you can’t just stop if you want to.

When Goguryeo occupied Liaodong, he would think about western Liaoning; the Turks occupied the grasslands and kept thinking about getting a fuck in the Central Plains Flower World. However, the Zhou Kingdom wanted to live a peaceful life. If he didn't take the initiative, he had to strengthen his defense.

Taking the northwest border as an example, in order to prevent the Turks, the Great Wall had to be built on the Wanli border line from Youyan in the east to Longyou and countless fortresses, beacon towers, and troops of varying strength were built along the way.

All of this costs money, and the expenses are much higher than maintaining several strong troops to attack the grassland regularly.

However, even so, because the Turkic army, mainly cavalry, is very mobile, and it is possible to break through one or even count points from this long line of defense at any time, so large troops must be stationed in major areas so as to "block the mouth" and "fight the fire" at any time.

Is this over? Not over.

The Great Wall, as well as fortresses and beacon towers along the way, have to be invested in manpower and financial resources to repair and maintain them every year, otherwise the early investment will be wasted.

In order to maintain a long line of defense and to support the troops garrisoned along the way, food and grass must be transported from the mainland to the frontier, which is inevitable.

Which one is cheaper to maintain a strong army to attack instead of defense than to fully shrink defense?

Defence looks cheap and saves money, but not at all, and is more expensive than taking the initiative.

Yuwen Wen's explanation made Yuchi Chifan understand a lot. On this basis, Yuwen Wen concluded: he believed that the recruitment system was more suitable for the court to frequently launch foreign wars.

A problem that can be solved by spending money is not a problem.

Spending money to recruit soldiers is indeed expensive, but it is much cheaper than recruiting self-cultivated farmers to fight attrition.

If you lose money, you can make money, and if you lose your own farmer, it will be difficult to make up for it.

However, if the recruitment system is implemented, it will cause a very serious problem.

This involves the pros and cons of the conscription system and the recruitment system.

Hearing this, Yuchi Chifan was secretly happy. She successfully induced her husband to talk about this topic. As long as she continued to talk clichés, her son would have an answer.

The pros and cons of the conscription system and the recruitment system are the questions Yuwen Wen gave to Prince Yuwen Weicheng. Yuchi Chifan helped his son to solve the answers, which was considered cheating. Now he is guilty and lacks confidence in speaking.

"Uh...that...that serious...is the problem...is it...is it... recruiting soldiers, um, recruiting soldiers... the recruiting soldiers only listen to the employer's words, right?"

Yuwen Wen glanced at Yuchi Chifan after hearing this, and then replied: "That's right, since you are working hard, whoever buys your life will of course be listened to whoever will."

Yuchi Chifan became more and more guilty when his husband glanced at this glance, but for his son, he still gritted his teeth and asked: "In this way, what if someone uses the opportunity to recruit soldiers, raise dead soldiers on a large scale, hold troops on their own, or privately store soldiers and armor to make a bad plan, and once the time is right, he will rebel, what should he do?"

This question is sharp, and Yuwen Wen really wants to praise it, but when faced with the "cheater" who wants to get the answer, there is certainly no praise.

"Yes, this is the consequence of losing control of recruiting troops. Take the Beiyang Trading Company's 'Hongjun' as an example. These people work hard for the company. If this continues, they will be rebellious and have a high possibility of problems."

Yuwen Wen said, and suddenly laughed: "So, one day, they really want to 'restorm', and the problem will follow..."
Chapter completed!