Steel Dynasty - Chapter 25

[Chapter 25 Production Corps]

“Remember, Your Highness.” Lu Fei clasped his fists. Xiao Ming’s words were definitely not unreasonable. He asked, “Your Highness, do you want to restore the government military system?”

“Exactly, when Dayu was founded, it adopted the government system. The military system placed soldiers on the farm, but today, the people have no land to cultivate, and the government military system has gradually ceased to exist in name only, and has turned into the current recruitment system.” Xiao Ming lightly dusted off the falling snow on his body, “Now the six states are in ruins, and everything is waiting to be revitalized. Everyone should plan for farming. I am going to temporarily implement the government military system. Soldiers from various states will return to the fields when farming is busy and train troops during slack farming. This will reduce financial pressure and speed up the restoration of production in the six states. What do you think?”

Lu Fei pondered. After a long while, he said: “Your Highness, it is not impossible to restore the government army system. Now your highness is the king of the six states. Your orders are the duties of our sergeants. However, most of the people who join the army now are common people who have no land to cultivate. If the government army system is restored, today’s soldiers There is also no land to farm.”

Xiao Ming had already anticipated this problem. He said to Lu Fei, “I have thought about this issue, so the restored military system is somewhat different from the previous one.”

“Please, Your Highness. “Explicitly.”

Xiao

Ming continued: “People with land can naturally return to their hometowns to farm. If soldiers without land can cultivate official fields, all the grain harvested from official fields can be used as supplies for the army. What do you think?”

Xiao Ming couldn’t help but laugh. After doing this for a long time, Xiao Ming had the idea of asking the Qingzhou army to cultivate the land for him. He had always been an upright character and said bluntly: “Huh, when I become your highness, I really consider the people of the fief. It turns out that it is for my own land.”

Xiao Ming was not angry. From everyone’s perspective now, Xiao Ming was doing it for himself.

He laughed loudly, “If Lieutenant Lu thinks of me like this, then he is totally wrong. Not only will I not take a cent of my land, but all the harvest from the land will be handed over to the treasury. As you said, the fiefdom It’s all mine. Do I care about these gains and losses? In my opinion, if the people are rich, the land will be rich, and if the people are strong, the land will be strong. If you don’t believe it, I can give it to Pang Changshi. “How about it?

” Fei was stunned. The royal family of the Chongqing Kingdom and the rich and powerful families all gathered money for their own use. Now Xiao Ming actually wants to confiscate his property. This is simply unprecedented.

“Your Highness, are you really sincere about this?” Lu Fei asked again.

“Yes, a gentleman speaks quickly and whips his horse.” Xiao Ming looked directly at Lu Fei. This thorn was not easy to deal with. “The only thing I am worried about is that the soldiers will not believe me, so I need you to come forward to carry out this matter.

” Xu nodded and Lu Fei said: “General, I will trust His Highness once more. If His Highness fulfills his promise, Lu Fei will swear to serve His Highness to the death, because His Highness is a sage. If His Highness goes against his word, Lu Fei can only take him with him.” “

The soldiers have found another place.”

“I don’t want a group of thieves led by you to be on the land.” Xiao Ming said lightly. Lu Fei has a high prestige in the army. This is not bragging. If he really turns into a bandit, There will definitely be a large number of soldiers following.

“In that case, let me persuade the soldiers.” Lu Fei nodded heavily.

The snow was falling even harder, and the road could no longer be seen clearly from dozens of meters away. Now the location of the property was clear, and the plan to convert the army into a construction and production corps also received support from Lu Fei.

This was a very important step for him. The recruitment system made the army a big drain on finances.

Financial difficulties made it impossible to raise an army, which was why there were less than 5,000 soldiers in a fiefdom with one million households. With insufficient numbers and extremely poor equipment, this is his army, no different from a bunch of bandits.

If we want to change the current poverty-stricken situation, we must implement the military model of building production corps to reduce the military’s financial consumption.

In fact, this model of building and producing corps is also known as garrisoning troops. This model will appear in every era when materials are scarce.

On the way back, Xiao Ming continued to instill in Lu Fei the essence of the production and construction corps. He planned to divide the army into two parts, a production corps and a construction corps. The production corps was responsible for military settlements and border guards.

The Construction Corps is responsible for mining, road and river dam construction.

Lu Fei was a rough man and knew little about the previous military system. After Xiao Ming told him the necessity of building a production corps in such detail, he suddenly realized it.

“Your Highness, Lu Fei has realized his mistake. It turns out that His Highness has worked hard. In this case, we can now announce the recruitment and expand the number of 5,000 people to the normal number of 50,000 people.” Lu Fei said.

Xiao Ming nodded, “Yes, but we can’t expand so many people at once. Our food can’t support it now. How about recruiting 5,000 people first and waiting until the official fields have a good harvest before continuing to expand?”

“I don’t care about this. “Yes.” Lu Fei patted his head and said with a hearty smile, “However, the sergeants who your Highness promised to build the production corps will get ten acres of fertile land each after they are discharged and returned to the fields. They will inherit it for generations. It is estimated that the common people who want to join the army will crowd out the governor’s mansion. “

Hahaha…” Xiao Ming also laughed. This is a benefit of the New Deal, and it is also to encourage people to join the army. “I don’t care about this matter. Let you, Lu Laohu, do it yourself.”

Lu Fei. He was stunned for a moment, then laughed naively. Lu Laohu was his nickname in the military. At this time, Xiao Ming called out, and he immediately felt closer to Xiao Ming.

Over the past month, Xiao Ming has deeply realized that being a vassal king is not easy. You need to be able to use carrots and sticks. In government affairs, bows and horses are also indispensable. You must not only appease your subordinates, but also be able to control the situation.

Now he can be said to be full-time all-around.

Braving the heavy snow, a group of more than thirty people rode towards Qingzhou City.

Halfway through the journey, a group of hazy figures suddenly appeared not far away, and the group of people was galloping towards them.

“Who are you, stop!” Lu Fei suddenly yelled. He was still very sensitive from the last assassination incident.

He couldn’t see faces in the heavy snow, so he had to prepare for accidents.

In an instant, the more than thirty accompanying riders formed a circle to protect Xiao Ming in the middle. They bent their bows and arrows on their horses, ready to shoot at any time.

The pedestrians and horses didn’t seem to hear Lu Fei’s scolding, and still rushed over from behind. Seeing the pedestrians getting closer and closer, Lu Fei raised his hand to order the arrow to be fired.

At this moment, someone in the group suddenly shouted: “Steward Qian, hold on!”

“Wait, it’s Qian Dafu.” Xiao Ming immediately asked the soldiers to put down their bows and arrows, and sure enough, the group of people came close. Qian Dafu and others went out to search for minerals.

But at this time, Qian Dafu was lying on the horse, and a sharp arrow pierced his back.

(End of chapter)