"Meng Tian, ​​how many soldiers in the army have not enfeoffed land?"

As soon as the emperor's words fell, everyone was thinking, guessing that the emperor asked what the emperor meant and what it meant. Could it be that what we were going to discuss today is related to the reward for military merits?

Meng Tian didn't expect that when the emperor opened his mouth, he would ask about such old and old things.

After pondering for a moment, Meng Tian replied: "Go back to Your Majesty, almost all the active army receive salaries and have not been granted military construction fields. If I remember correctly, I, the Qin Dynasty, have not granted military construction fields to soldiers for more than ten years."

Ying Zheng nodded and recalled: "I remember that in the early stages of the great cause of the six countries, all the soldiers who made meritorious deeds had land, and in the later stages of the great cause of the unification, they were replaced by annual salary, right?"

Meng Tian nodded: "Your Majesty has a good memory, it is indeed the case."

"Okay, very good!" Ying Zheng nodded. The active soldiers earned their salaries. In this way, the active army will not be in chaos when undergoing land reform. This is an important guarantee for ensuring the stability of the Qin Dynasty in the next process of land reform.

As long as hundreds of thousands of active troops will not be in chaos, the Qin Dynasty will not be in chaos, and land reform can be carried out with ease!

"Your Majesty asked about this, what are your instructions?" Meng Tian asked actively.

Ying Zheng shook his head and smiled, "Just ask and find out."

Everyone was a little confused. Today, the morning court was held. Shouldn’t there be a rhythm of major events happening? Why, at this moment, the emperor asked some irrelevant things.

Just when everyone was confused, Ying Zheng said again: "The annual salary has been replacing military land for more than ten years. Do you think what are the pros and cons of this matter?"

At this moment, everyone looked at me and I looked at you. No one dared to answer easily, so as not to say the wrong thing. After all, everyone can't guess what the emperor was thinking.

If the emperor wants to cancel the reward of military merit titles with salary instead of military merit and re-enable the military field system, then you are sure that the form of salary rewarding military merit is to be in the wrong team.

However, you cannot deny the form of salary rewards for military merits, because if the emperor asks about the intention of this, just want everyone to praise him, if you deny it, wouldn’t it be an offense to the emperor?

Therefore, it is better to be in the attitude of not leaving the forthcoming than making mistakes.

However, none of the civil and military officials in the entire hall responded, which was not possible.

The officials in charge of other departments did not respond and said that they were just as they were. But Feng Quji and Li Si, who were in charge of the government, could not keep silent, right? And Meng Tian, ​​who is responsible for military affairs, said that he was in charge of military merit rewards, so he had to answer.

However, if you want to say that Li Si is smart, he glanced at Li Yang directly, which means it is like saying: "Old Tie, what does the emperor want to hear? I want to affirm or deny it. You should give me a hint."

Li Yang naturally knew what Li Si wanted to look at him, so he nodded slightly.

Li Si's eyes lit up and immediately understood, and then he said: "Go to Your Majesty, the annual salary replaces military land is a benevolent and righteous policy implemented to ensure that all the people in the world have enough self-cultivated land. Now this policy has been implemented for more than ten years, and the effect is significant. First, the court does not have to squeeze the limited self-cultivated land of the people. Second, soldiers will also receive rewards for money and grain. This can be called a strategy of both worlds. Your Majesty is wise!"

When Li Si flattered, Ying Zheng smiled and nodded slightly, looking very helpful.

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately knew the direction of the wind.

Meng Tian also quickly stepped out and said: "What Li Xiang said is that now the generals have made merits and received the corresponding salary according to the title. Instead, the military field has to be abandoned because of their service in the army, or rented it for tenant farmers to farm. Especially before the light labor force, there was a shortage of private labor and no tenant farmers farming. One cannot get food, but the other has to pay the land tax. This military field has become a burden and a burden."

Ying Zheng nodded again, agreeing with Meng Tian's answer.

At this time, the emperor looked at Feng Quji and asked, "Is there any disadvantage of this strategy to replace military farmland with annual salary? Feng Xiang, tell me."

Feng Quji nodded, so he quickly said, "When you go back to your Majesty, what Li Xiang and General Meng said is indeed the benefit of the policy of replacing military field with annual salary. However, if you have to say that annual salary replaces military field, its disadvantages are actually there. That is, there are tens of thousands of retired soldiers and hundreds of thousands of soldiers in service, all replacing military field with annual salary. Therefore, this expenditure has caused a heavy burden on the national treasury, and this year it is almost in danger of owing a salary."

Ying Zheng nodded slightly again, without expressing his opinion, but instead asked Li Yang: "Li Yang, tell me your opinion."

Li Yang nodded and smiled, "For me, the annual salary replaces military field. This move is the wisest reform of military merit rewards since the Qin unification of the world. After all, the Qin unified the six countries, and the people of the six countries are all citizens of the Qin Dynasty. It is impossible for the Qin Dynasty to continue to reward all the land of the six countries to the soldiers who have made meritorious contributions in order to reward the soldiers. In this way, the people in the world will have no land to cultivate. The people will have no land, so they can only become tenant farmers. The tenant farmers will be able to feed the food for one year. Whether the food they earn can be fed or not depends on the intention of the landlords. The landlords are more ruthless, and the tenant farmers will starve to death. The landlords are kinder, and the landlords will collect 50% or 60% of the landlords, and the tenant people can live in a slack way. In this way, the people in the world are uneasy, how can the country be safe? Therefore, for the sake of the Qin Dynasty, the strategy of replacing military field with annual salary is the best strategy for Qin!"

Speaking of this, Li Yang glanced at everyone and found that everyone agreed with this sentence. They all nodded and agreed with it.

At this time, Li Yang continued: "However, the burden of the treasury brought by Feng Xiang's annual salary instead of military construction fields is indeed an inevitable result. However, this cannot be regarded as its disadvantage. The reason why the treasury cannot bear the annual salary of the treasury is mainly caused by the imbalance of the treasury income and expenditure. If the treasury taxes can be several times more than before, the annual salary of the sergeant will not be a problem for the court. Moreover, even if the annual salary of the sergeant is under great pressure to the court, compared with the 20 million people in the Qin Dynasty rebelling due to famine, the pros and cons of the two majorities will immediately appear!"

Everyone nodded again, and they talked a lot, praising Li Yang for his thorough analysis of this issue.

Even Feng Quji had to sigh in his heart that Li Yang's vision of the problem was very unique and could see the essence behind the problem at a glance.

At this time, the emperor also smiled with satisfaction: "Yes, Li Yang summarized the pros and cons you mentioned very well. What do you think?"

Everyone nodded and said in unison: "What the Prime Minister said is so true, and we all think so."

"Well, everyone thinks so well, it's very good! It's rare that everyone's opinions are so unified, haha!"

Ying Zheng smiled happily, and then pretended that everyone thought the theme had just passed, Ying Zheng suddenly changed his mind and said, "In theory, in order to ensure that the people have self-cultivated land, the imperial court had implemented the strategy of replacing military land with annual salary as early as the completion of the great cause of unification, but why did famine still occur this year?"

Everyone: "…………”

Suddenly, everyone was stunned.

It turns out that it is not the emperor’s true intention to ask everyone to replace military farmland with annual salary. His original intention is actually to discuss this year’s famine!

Everyone suddenly realized that when it came to the issue of famine that broke out this year, everyone dared not answer casually.

Because of this famine, the most direct reason was that Ying Zheng ignored the suffering of the world and continued to aggravate the labor service.

There is no man farming in the world, so it would be strange if there is no famine.

At this moment, the entire hall suddenly became quiet, and everyone was boasting, and no one dared to reply.

Ying Zheng smiled and said, "Why, no one can answer me? But everyone says it's okay, let's just say it."

However……

No one dares to leave the list and reply.

Not to mention those doctors and congressmen, even Li Si and Feng Quji kept silent.

Say it straight?

You can't kill me!

Once this matter is told, it will be troublesome.

No one wants to be this big fool!

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Chapter completed!