The whole hall was quiet, and even Ouyang Xiu didn't say a word.

The problems Zheng Lang exposed were too heavy, and everyone was breathless.

After a long time, Zhao Zhen asked in a hoarse voice: "Zheng Qing, what are the best strategies?"

"There is a good plan, not what the minister thinks, but what Emperor Taizu taught his ministers."

This sentence came very suddenly, and Zhao Zhen asked, "What's the solution?"

"When Taizu established the country, the capital city was 100,000,000, and the troops in the capital were enough to control all the roads, so there was no external chaos. If the troops in the capital were combined with the troops in the capital, there would be no internal change, internal and external control, and there would be no serious danger. The burden on more than 200,000 soldiers was not difficult, and the national expenditure was also moderate. It was not until Taizu swept the eight deserts and unified the universe that some of the imperial guards were gradually increased. When they were in China, Taizu's hands were only 378,000 troops. Taizong wanted to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, so he increased the army to 666,000. However, the effect has decreased. Wang Yuxi once wrote a letter saying that since the destiny of the treasure, the soldiers they have accumulated were sharp but not numerous, and the generals they used were dedicated but not doubted. However, during the Taizong period, the military power was weak and the country's use became more urgent. How can the righteousness be there? The soldiers were redundant but not sharp, and the generals used were used but not self-centered. The words reached the point. There were many soldiers, and the court's expenses were limited, so they could not provide for them. In addition, some generals and schools were greedy, so soldiers made their wives become military prostitutes to support their families, and they could not fight to the death for the court when fighting. If there were too many soldiers, they could not choose their fierce soldiers. Otherwise, the number will never be satisfied. If there are many elderly, weak, sick and disabled to make up the number, the soldiers will not be able to be sharp. There are many soldiers and generals, but there are so many good generals, so there are mediocre generals to fill the gaps. There are even generals who are illegal and lose their hearts, which intensifies the army. Unfortunately, Taizong did not obey, and then went to the late emperor Zhenzong, trapped in the Khitan, and used troops in the West, which once expanded the army to more than 910,000 people, and the soldiers became more complicated and cowardly. Queen Zhang Xian gradually eliminated the redundant soldiers. The ban on the ban was reduced to more than 700,000, and the national financial situation also followed. It's better. But since the use of troops in the northwest, the number of imperial guards in the court has expanded again and gradually approaching the number of the late emperors. There were no chaos during the late emperors. It was because the late emperor's political wise rule in the early period. Although it was a little worse in the later period, the country was in good weather and the national treasury was saved. However, since Your Majesty ascended the throne, there were many disasters and difficulties. How can you support this huge army? Moreover, the internal affairs of several late emperors have their own beauty and are all wise emperors. However, in terms of martial arts, both Taizong and the late emperor are not as good as Your Majesty Taizu. So the way to use military force is to learn from Taizong and the late emperor, or to learn from Taizu?"

Just like looking for a teacher, should I find a knowledgeable person to be a teacher or a mediocre teacher?

Zheng Lang continued to speak with facts, never talk about it, and everything was cited with facts.

However, Zhao Zhen said hesitantly: "The troops stationed in the north and the west need to defend themselves. Once they are laid off, they may be insufficient."

I don't understand military affairs. I think I'm fighting for the number of people.

It is not to blame Zhao Zhen. Everyone has the limitations of the times. Zhao Zhen’s growth environment is very gentle in his personality. Even if he just ascended the throne, some heroic spirits were lost to Fan Zhongyan, Kong Daofu and other gentlemen, so his personality is a little cowardly and lacks a sense of security.

For this reason, Zheng Lang thought hard for a long time.

He said: "Last winter, in the battle of Jingyuan Road, Fan Zhongyan sent 40,000 troops, Han Qi sent 15,000 troops. Pang Ji sent 10,000 troops. My teacher sent less than 60,000 troops, plus the 3,000 cavalry borrowed from the blind felt train. The total strength was less than 130,000. However, in the decisive battle, the actual strength reached more than 160,000, which was a great victory. Where did these more than 30,000 troops come from? Archers transferred from Jingyuan Road, and the people from all over the country who spontaneously participated in the battle. Not only during the decisive battle, but also tens of thousands of people spontaneously participated in the battle, which led to the 40,000 troops of Xixia outside the city of Weizhou, reducing Yuanhao's troops in Dingchuan Village, and finally allowing me to win more. In fact, the people and archers participated in the battle may reach 70,000."

"I know," Zhao Zhen said. In the end, even Fa Chun, Kongtong Mountain in Weizhou, led a large group of disciples to fight with the Xixia people who came to invade and sweep, guarded the Imperial Academy and defended tens of thousands of old-fashioned Han people near Kongtong Mountain. Zhao Zhen specially gave the title of Huiming, Fahuan, Fashen, Fafen Ziyi, and Fachun was given the title of Master Zhihu.

Although this victory was glorious, it was too tragic, which often made Zhao Zhen sigh in the palace.

However, Zheng Lang was not talking about this. He said: "So I thought of a method, Baojia method."

Later, all the soldiers were Switzerland, and Germany did not dare to provoke them during World War II. However, the Song Dynasty implemented the Baojia Law but did not see any effect. Zheng Lang did not expect it to have any effect when the war came, and used this to comfort Zhao Zhen's heart, so he further improved the original Baojia Law.

"Baojia Method?"

In fact, replacing the conscription system with military recruitment was a major historical progress. However, due to the defense of the Song Dynasty, the military camps were transformed into criminals and martial arts, as well as places to support elderly care, and late retirement time, so the huge financial expenses of seven or eight out of ten in the country were eventually raised by a group of useless unscrupulous soldiers.

After all, it is a product of emphasizing culture over military affairs.

Wang Anshi did not see this and believed that the recruitment system was a historical regression. He wanted to gradually start with the Baojia method and restore the ancient system of unity of soldiers and farmers. Therefore, the Baojia method has a strong military training nature. There are four specific methods: the ten adjacent families are one guarantee, and the talented and capable people among the main households are the chiefs, and the ten small insurance is the one big insurance. Later, it was changed to five households as one small insurance, five small insurance is the one big insurance, and five major insurance is the one capital insurance.

Regardless of the main client, as long as there are two children in the family, one child will be chosen as the guarantor, the elderly, the young, the sick, and the female household (the family with no male child is mainly women) does not arrange the guarantor, but is also included in the adjacent guarantor. In order to collect the number of guarantors, some young and R&F strong guarantors are also assigned as guarantors. In addition to banning weapons, other weapons can be used, such as ordinary knives, guns, sticks, bows and arrows, in order to teach martial arts.

Every night, each major guarantee sends five guaranteed guards to inspect. When a thief beats a drum and calls the police, the guarantors of the same capital come to rescue him. The neighbors of the guarantors help each other. When they catch the thief, they reward according to the rules, and use the property of the perpetrator's property to reward money.

The law of joint position is implemented. If there are criminals in the security room who are not reported, the crime of being in charge of joint position is considered as the crime of being in charge of joint position, and the neighbors do not know about it, and the punishment will be added.

It cannot be said that it has no effect at all, because the Baojia method was implemented, and the thieves were reduced, and the small-scale peasant uprising was quickly strangled. But its significance was entirely to serve the rulers. It was impossible to see any help to the people. It was too busy to be busy and had to train troops for free. Some places even forced the people to pay for their own weapons and patrol the night. They checked thefts with fear, and taught them, which seriously delayed production and affected their daily life. As a result, the people complained, and because of their lack of enthusiasm, the people were not trained properly. The rulers saw that Baoding was low in combat effectiveness and did not dare to use Baoding to the battlefield.

Among Wang Anshi's many decrees, it is considered a relatively bad decree.

But it was also determined by the ultimate goal of Wang Anshi's reform, which benefits the country, not the people. In fact, the people are the country, and the country is the people. Only the people form a complete country. Wang Anshi did not think about this thoroughly, so he introduced laws that had countless disadvantages and confused the people, giving the Conservative Party the biggest excuse. As a result, his goal was not achieved, but instead caused party struggles and harmed the entire Song Dynasty.

Zheng Lang made improvements and said word by word: "One choice of farmers, farmers are simple and available, and there is also winter leisure time. There must be two, single, old, young, sick, and female households in the family must not be accommodated. They must choose poor families and participate voluntarily. No local officials are allowed to force the people to be insured. They are between the ages of 20 and 30, and they must be strong and have no disabilities. Those who do not meet the conditions shall not be insured. Second, once they are insured, the whole family is exempted from any tax service and corvee service. The court issues some weapons outside the ban for teaching. The third time of the teaching period is from the winter month to the twelfth month, but half of the time is allowed to be given a leave of absence within three months. For farming or other miscellaneous work, if it is a major education, you must notify in advance so that the guarantee can arrange family affairs. Fourth, the winter leisure time is taught by soldiers with high martial arts skills.

Art, ten people are guaranteed for one small person, one hundred people are guaranteed for one large person, and one thousand people are guaranteed for one capital. In addition to practicing martial arts, it also assists local governments in arresting thieves. However, each time the value is paid, the time should not exceed ten days to avoid delaying production. If you encounter a bandit like Wang Lun this time, you will be killed in battle or injured in battle and enjoy the treatment of death and injury of the unlawful soldiers. If the state uses troops, select a strong martial arts skill from the army and immediately enjoy the same treatment as the unlawful soldiers. However, after the war is reduced, farming will be re-funded. In addition to giving a small amount of severance payment, the original treatment will be re-funded. Five, if there is a new profession that cannot participate in training during winter leisure, you can propose it and allow it as appropriate. No one can stop the protection of the protection of the insurance for any improper reason."

This is the improved Baoding method. It has a certain meaning and is of military raising nature, but it is very different from Wang Anshi's Baojia method. It is exempted from all taxes and labor service. It has a short training time and has a lot of freedom. There is no forced joint seating method and night patrol method. It is clear that rewards and value subsidies are subsidized. Rather than gathering troops, it is also a disguised care. Many poor people live in difficult life, and just a exemption of all labor levies will attract a large number of poor people to join.

Of course, this requires the court to allocate a sum of finances.

But everyone's eyes lit up.

An excited expression flashed in Zhao Zhen's eyes.

No matter how much subsidies are, it is better than raising bans. Besides, only poor households are absorbed, but there is no baojia law. Isn’t it reasonable for the state to pay some financial subsidies? And the people do not complain, come when they come, go when they want to go. It seems lazy, but it is originally used to prepare troops. It is their job to let them work for farming. If they are lazy and free, the people will not complain, and the country will be stable. This is a benevolent act.

Besides, I just saw all the injunctions, and it was already very terrible. What else can I say?

Han Qi stood up excitedly and said, "Your Majesty, I think this is a good law. The country only needs to pay a small amount of money to get hundreds of thousands of troops, and can also assist local officials in arresting thieves to ensure peace in all directions."

Zhang Dexiang said worriedly: "I'm afraid the cost will not be small. If hundreds of thousands of guaranteed troops are absorbed, the country will reduce the tax income of hundreds of thousands of households."

Zhao Zhen waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay. Zheng Qing's Baojia method was originally selected among poor households. Even if he pays taxes, how much can he pay? Even if he pays one million baoding, it's only two or three million yuan. These poor households pay less taxes, which gives them a chance."

"What if there are rich families participating?" Ouyang Xiu said hesitantly.

"You can issue an edict, and only the five-class households are allowed to be protected." Zhao Zhen continued to say excitedly: "Zheng Qing, this is a wonderful idea."

If the source of troops is needed, these guards will come in handy. Even worse, they will be stronger than the old, weak, sick and disabled in the imperial guards just now.

Zheng Lang felt funny in his heart, and it might not have much effect. The reason why he proposed it was to make Zhao Zhen feel at ease. There was not so many guards to make up the number of people. If Zhao Zhen wanted to lay off his troops, it might not have worked even if he was worn out. But if it was really promoted, it would have a meaning for arresting thieves and holding peace in all directions. Although the officials were doing it at the bottom, and only a little reward would be deducted, the Song Dynasty did not have so many thieves to suppress. Overall, its relief significance outweighed the disadvantages.

Zhao Zhen also said: "It can be promoted near the Gyeonggi to observe the results."

"Your Majesty, this is reasonable. This is just one of my ideas. Whether it is beneficial or disadvantage. Without testing, we will first promote it in the Gyeonggi to see the effectiveness, and then promote it to the whole country." Zheng Lang said. In fact, it is not promotion in the Gyeonggi, but a manifestation of Zhao Zhen's lack of sense of security. No matter whether it is a protection or a soldier, it always has a certain combat power. Only when the power of the Gyeonggi is strengthened can the management of all directions be mobilized, the branches are weak, and it is beneficial to national security.

Yan Shu and others frowned and pondered. This new method was very exciting to them. Finally, Jia Changchao said again: "Although it is beneficial, the country's finances are weak, so it is inappropriate to implement them immediately."

No matter what nature it is, it costs less money. First, it will cost money. If you are equipped with bows and arrows, swords, guns and sticks, you will get a fortune. One bow costs seven or eight cents, one arrow costs fifty cents, and one lifts two cents of swords. This is a simple configuration. If the military configuration costs are higher, a pair of armor costs more than forty cents, one should cost more than five cents of drums, and one should cost more than fifty cents of soldiers, so a battle will be fought, and the arrows are like rain, and the lethality is available, but I don’t know how much it will fly out. Therefore, no matter which side of the enemy and us, as long as we control the battlefield, all people will be sent to clean the battlefield after the war. Even if the sacrificed comrades in the army have to take off the armor from the dead. This is all money!

I don’t know how much baoding will be obtained in the end. One million is impossible. This method of Baojia with a high degree of freedom can never be expected to get one million. Even if it is promoted properly, it is only 500,000, the cost will not be small, and the tax will be reduced by at least one million guan. The war to catch thieves cannot be counted. The cost of mobilizing regular troops is higher. But if you give them weapons, there are some losses. You can’t expect these baoding to pay for their poor income, and you will have at least three guan of money. Also, sending soldiers to guide training and training will also have a certain amount of business trip costs. A large bao sent one soldier to guide him, which will require 5,000 soldiers to travel, which will not be less than 50,000 guan. This is a mess, and it will cost nearly three million guan a year. It is not a small number.

Zheng Lang smiled slightly. This was indeed an increase in expenditure, but the next one was the big plan that Zheng Lang really wanted to achieve.

Whether the Baojia method has any effect does not matter. Waste is just a waste of people because of poverty. It is only used as a relief and disaster relief, and the real savings are the following. The reason why the Baojia method, which is not invisible, is to serve the following reforms.

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