"This is also a solution," said Zhao Zhen.

He has never been interested in the layoffs. He also knows that there are some problems in the army, but he is not anxious. He cannot be extremely anxious because of these problems. That is definitely not the manifestation of a master. On this point, Zhao Zhen likes Zheng Lang very much.

Everyone wants to use talents, including Zhang Liang, Xiao He, Fang, Du Weizheng, Wu, Han Xin, Wei Qing, Li Jing, who doesn’t want to find these talents? So the way to use people is to play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, and use them on the spot. Some problems have occurred across the country, but the focus is on adjusting, rather than looking for talents. The same is true for the army. If there are problems, he is never very interested in solving arbitrary layoffs.

Therefore, Zheng Lang's methods made good and the timing was correct. Many ministers in history called for layoffs, but in the end of Zhao Zhen's lifetime, the army was always maintained at more than 1.2 million people, and they could not attack Zhao Zhen's conservative system and did not intend to make progress. The key was the northwest, and there was no major victory and lack of persuasion. The more they lost, the less they dared to reduce the number of troops. The officers and soldiers of the Central Plains responded to the rebels, fearing that the border would be lost, and the Central Plains would be in trouble. Also, because they could not disarmament and there were no measures to use labor for relief. Disasters continued, the wing army was saturated, and the refugees increased, and the more refugees they increased, the number of imperial guards in the Central Plains and Jiangnan increased.

The reason why Zheng Lang went south was that Wang Lun was not seriously harmed. After being forced to Hezhou by the officers and soldiers, they were all eliminated. However, the troops used were different, with nearly 10,000 people in front and behind, so he went south, with more than 200 people dealing with more than 200 people, and Zhao Zhen used the fact of blood to reflect.

No matter how hard it took to the three yamen, Kaifeng Prefecture investigated the imperial guards in the capital, and brought thousands of people into the palace, allowing Zhao Zhen to witness it with his own eyes, and created the Baojia method to make Zhao Zhen feel at ease. At least it would have an idea in Zhao Zhen's mind. After this move, the army will not only not decrease, but will increase. Only when he has a sense of security will Zhao Zhen agree.

As for this method of baojia in a minimum living allowance, it would waste national money. Zheng Lang has never considered it and would not waste much. It is also exempting the corvee taxes of the poorest people. For the weak-hearted Zhao Zhen, he would definitely agree with it.

The results were achieved, but it was not over. Zheng Lang said again: "Your Majesty, the wing soldiers are less capable of combat, and their main responsibility is to be responsible for some force. The reason why they are bloated was that the court originally intended to support the people. But Your Majesty, there are more and more disasters. Do you dare to use the wing army to accommodate refugees again?"

Zhao Zhen smiled bitterly, that would be a big mess. If he had not been taken in restraint, one million soldiers would not be enough.

"The laws and regulations of the ancestors are not to expand the soldiers, but to save the people. Your Majesty, my husband, are I right?"

"That's right. Can you have good ideas?" Fan Zhongyan said.

"Yes, the wing soldiers have already had serious problems and too many shelters. If they are used for strong labor, they will be treated less than the imperial guards, they will have insufficient motivation and insufficient staff for large-scale engineering. They will participate in the capture of thieves and lack morale and combat effectiveness. Therefore, Wang Lun only has more than 200 people. They have traveled nearly a thousand miles and have a radius of more than a dozen state troops and have no one dared to resist. I came up with a way to replace him."

“What is the method?”

"City defense, water conservancy and roads. At the beginning of the northwest military use, the city defense was mostly damaged. I urgently ordered the people to repair it, regardless of whether the people were engaged in agriculture and production, which affected the lives of the people. There were also various water conservancy. If the construction was carried out in daily life, there was no labor or financial resources, not only the development, but also the construction, after the construction of water conservancy was successful, it would be repaired frequently. As well as the roads were blocked, many places were closed and backward. However, proper use of disasters was an opportunity to organize the victims and use labor for relief.

To build city defense, water conservancy and roads, the court pays only food and clothing for relief. If you don’t need to work for relief, will the court watch the refugees starve to death? First, it saves people, and second, many destroyed city defenses and some water conservancy and roads will be built one after another in the year of disasters. It is impossible to have a major disaster every year. Once the year gets better, the people can benefit and repay the court. Why not do both worlds and their beauty? In fact, I have used a similar method in Taipingzhou. Please think twice."

“You can try it.”

Although it was ambiguous, Zheng Lang was already very happy. At least in the past year, the gentlemen had the upper hand. No matter what happened in the future, once the army was laid off one after another, would the conservative ministers go against the current and expand their army again regardless of the national finance?

He also said: "Your Majesty, Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan wrote a letter to select ten generals and other low-level generals from the army. In fact, the generals in the army also had problems, most of them were incompetent and cowardly. I was on Jingyuan Road and once put these generals and Ge Congmin away, which caused some controversy. It was really unusable. Your Majesty, just now, witnessed with his own eyes why there were so many empty quotas in the army, deducting and acting as a mighty and blessing incident, all of which were caused by the cowardice and incompetence of generals at all levels. Raising ten generals is equivalent to raising five banished soldiers, raising one commander, and raising more than a dozen banished soldiers. The reason why the country's high salary is to raise integrity and raising soldiers, not to support these group of banished fish. If Your Majesty thinks that these banished fish should be raised, I will not say it."

"Zheng Qing, what do you think you should do?"

"There is a method. The country has more than 800,000 imperial guards, but there are more than 2,300 commanders. I guess that at least 70,000 to 80,000 people are empty. Taking advantage of the opportunity of disarmament, I will join the camp. I will make the infantry campers worth 500 and the horse campers worth 400. There is no need to disarmament, and at least more than 400 generals below instructed."

"I also think it's right," Du Yan said.

In the first battalion, there are not only commanders, but also commanders, and there are also Dutou and Deputy Dutou. The horse army is the military envoy and deputy horse envoy. One hundred people are Yidu, and there are military heads, ten generals, generals, guards, bureaus, and other low-level military positions. If the commander is full, there will be at least nearly 100 people. Their military expenditure is almost the same as the remaining grassroots soldiers. Cutting off a battalion of grassroots generals is equivalent to cutting half of the military expenditure of one battalion.

They are grassroots generals and have little turmoil. If they really have a way out, they can't even lay off even if they want to. Besides, the position of a warrior is low, so there will not be much controversy. This is why Du Yan agreed.

"What should I do about these?" Zhao Zhen pointed to a thick stack of files and said with a headache. This is the Fifty Battalion, or is it a problem found in a hurry. If it was expanded to the entire Song Dynasty army, what would the army be like?

This is good, and the worse it gets. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, nearly 300,000 imperial soldiers in the capital were ate their empty salary and only 30,000 were left. That is...

Zheng Lang didn't say anything, and there was no need for Zheng Lang to say it. Yu Jing stood up and said, "Your Majesty. What else can you do? Does Your Majesty want to ruin the foundation left to you by your ancestors?"

"Your Majesty is based on benevolence and good intentions, but benevolence is based on it, and righteousness is also necessary." Ouyang Xiu never said bad words from the emperor, so he brought out a passage from Zheng Lang and said: "It is a manifestation of benevolence with righteousness. It is called great benevolence, and benevolence and righteousness complement each other. Only then can perfect benevolence be formed. Your Majesty must not regard women as benevolence. When these problems arise, the court should strictly investigate and deal with them as appropriate. In addition, ugly situations such as deducting, greed, eating empty amounts, occupying the property of low-level soldiers, and using soldiers for private service will be severely punished."

Zhao Zhen was still hesitating, and Wang Gongchen shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, can you sit and watch the country perish?"

This sound was as thunderous as the ears.

He was the chief censor and sat very far. Zhao Zhen was trembling when he was drunk, and gritted his teeth and said, "You guys, let me discuss it. I will legislate and severely punish these situations. In addition, the law of deregulation in Shaanxi can be implemented first, and the law of baojia can be implemented in the capital to observe the results."

"Here."

Han Qi, Fan Zhongyan and Zheng Lang looked at each other, and their eyes were a little happy.

Why did Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan only talk about Hebei and Shaanxi? This is also a sloppy attack. Shaanxi has not many troops in Yongxing Army, and it is mainly concentrated on the four routes of the marginal border, but the four routes of the marginal border successively laid off a large number of troops, among which Jingyuan Road was the most severe. Seventy thousand imperial guards and ten thousand soldiers were dispatched. After the layoffs and sacrifices, only more than 48,000 were left. Other routes have also cut many soldiers one after another. To be more important, there is rotation, and some soldiers have been rotated back. A large-scale rotation is about to be carried out. One layoff is nearly double the force. It is Shaanxi Road, and the actual force involved is more than 300,000, which is equivalent to five-point two-point of the total force of the Song Dynasty. If it is included in Hebei Road, it will reach half of it.

Among the four people on the edge, Han Qi was the least interested, but he didn't like the current situation of the Song Dynasty. Even if he had more troops, he would have to increase archers and local foreign soldiers. What is the use of these old, sick, weak and disabled soldiers in the army? Dozens of ministers began to discuss.

Zheng Lang said it in a general direction, but the specific details are still controversial.

Zhao Zhen felt a headache when he heard this, and waved Zheng Lang with his hand, and asked, "Zheng Qing, I'm still a little worried."

"Your Majesty, please don't worry. I am in the capital and guarantee that the northwest will not be a bandit again. Even if it is a bandit, the scale will not be large, because the national strength of Xixia is weaker and the situation is more difficult, unless Yuan Hao does not want to establish a country. In fact, he wants to be Wuzu and the emperor, and will not ignore the country. The soldiers he has laid off are all old, weak, sick, disabled and incompetent people. These people not only cannot increase their combat effectiveness in the army, but on the contrary, it has dragged down the entire army. Your Majesty, think about it again, why the army in our dynasty is getting more and more weak, but the combat effectiveness is getting weaker and weaker in our army. Your Majesty, think about it again, why are there more and more troops in our dynasty, but the combat effectiveness is getting weaker and weaker in our combat effectiveness. Your Majesty, think about it again.

?For this reason, the territory of the Tang Dynasty was almost three times that of our dynasty. It reached the Pamirs in the west, and once reached Persia, to the south of the city, and to the small sea in the north, and to the maximum number of troops was only 300,000 to 400,000. The army had only 300,000 to 400,000 troops. Now the Baojia method is the government soldiers. Moreover, when the war comes, strong people can be drawn from Baoding and the wing soldiers to enter the imperial guards. These people are around 20 to 30 years old, which is in their prime, and are far from being compared with the current imperial guards. Our army's combat power is actually not weak, but has been several times stronger. Let's look at the finances, and then the

Reducing 300,000 to 400,000 elderly, weak, sick and disabled soldiers will reduce the expenses by more than 10 million. If various benefits, weapons and losses are added, it will be 20 million. It may not be earned by the court and the finances are abundant. With Your Majesty's love for the people, it will inevitably be applied to the people and reduce taxes. Then the pressure on the people will be relieved. If the ministers and soldiers are given, the ministers and soldiers will inevitably be given to the court. This is the real hiding wealth among the people. Even if the court only gets one-fourth of them, five million a year and fifty million a year. The treasury has five treasurys.

If there is another military incident, and if ten years of relaxed environment is used to rest and rest, will the court still need to worry about the people? Why was the defeat of the Huns during the Han Dynasty? It was the decades of rest and rest for the two emperors Wen and Jing. Your Majesty, the battle in the northwest exposed many crises, and the crisis deepened, and our court was in danger. So here we borrowed the high voices of the superiors and subordinates. When the people were excited, we should use our court's financial resources to improve it. One year should be the one who should stop the family for several years. Further, life is to take a step back and death. Please think twice."

In fact, Zheng Lang’s thoughts were even more ambitious.

Work-for-relief eliminates the source of redundant soldiers. As long as the peace is carried out for ten years, the Song Dynasty's military strength may drop to more than 900,000. In addition, the Ping An Supervision Bureau can reach nearly 40 million guan whenever it enters and leaves. Forty million guan, it is also an amazing number.

If some benign reforms are carried out, saving 10 million a year is not a dream.

Zheng Lang's pace did not stop, and there was still some later, but he considered all kinds of things and did not release them. Once released, each item, either increased the source or reduced the expenditure, was calculated in millions or even tens of millions.

Then fifteen years later, the Song Dynasty's finances will become a terrible number. If there is a surplus of 100 million yuan or even 200 million yuan in the treasury, would you still worry about lack of military spending if you recover the Xixia?

But you can't say it out.

There is another opportunity right away to force Zhao Zhen to agree with his policy.

Yan Shu pricked up his ears and listened, but he didn't listen to anything else. He only heard 20 million. His eyes lit up and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Zheng Lang's words are extremely true. The country raises troops to prepare for war, not a place for retirement."

"What Mr. Yan said is the fundamental point. If Your Majesty loves the people and practices benevolent politics in daily life, then he will truly love the people. The army is a violent machine in the country, suppressing thieves internally and defending invasion externally. However, there are Khitan in the north and Xixia in the west. The court has more than one million troops, but it is not to eliminate external aggression and internal troubles internally. If this army continues like this, there will definitely be serious problems." Zheng Lang said. He secretly called luck in his heart, and he did not make things difficult for Yan Shu in his peace talks with Xixia. Otherwise, Yan Shu would not necessarily cooperate at this time.

Don’t think that his lyrics are written very elegantly, and even his son-in-law dares to play like that, it is not a good thing to mess with.

So he praised Yan Shu.

Wang Yaochen also said: "Your Majesty, you can't hesitate anymore. Zheng Lang said that life and death are the autumn of life and death. I think it's just a praising."

The most painful thing is not the East Mansion, but the Three Sessions.

The most painful thing about the Sansi Envoy was this money, so Yan Shu was the envoy of the Sansi Envoy and asked Zheng Lang how to make money. When Wang Yaochen was the envoy of the Sansi Envoy, he was also thinking about how to make money. Until the war in the Northwest, the national finance did not improve. This made Zheng Lang laugh and cry. With Ping An Supervisory and the income from sugar sugar workshops, there were still more than 10 million yuan a year. Moreover, there were grain and taxes in Jiangdong. Where did the extra money be used? It has to be admitted that the ability of the Song Dynasty to spend money and the ability to create wealth were unparalleled in the world. He could make money, but the speed of spending money was even more awesome than the speed of making money.

Originally, Zhao Zhen saw the light, but hesitated, which also affected the minister's judgment.

"I didn't say anything," Zhao Zhen said weakly.

It was getting darker, which was something that the capital had never had before. But Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, Ouyang Xiu and others were anxious and afraid, what should I do if the emperor regretted it tomorrow. So after giving in to the details, he finally discussed it.

Finally, Fan Zhongyan said: "Please issue an edict."

He yelled at Zhao Zhen to make the decision.

The ministers withdrew from the edict.

Fu Bi asked suspiciously: "Xingzhi, have you thought about this day in Jiangnan?"

In fact, what Zheng Lang said today was that Zheng Lang had been doing it one after another, and gave the ministers some reference experience, so Fu Bi was very suspicious.

Zheng Lang called out and said, "Brother Yan Guo, why did you say this? I was still young at that time, so I didn't think so long. I was doing it at that time, just intuition, and it was not perfect."

Not everyone agreed. The edict was issued, which shocked the government and the people. However, Lu Yijian called Zheng Lang home again and said, "Xingzhi, why don't you listen to me?"

Although there are all kinds of benefits, as long as it is implemented, some bad things will inevitably happen. Moreover, Lu Yijian believes that Zheng Lang is wrapped up with the gentleman, and he intuitively judged that the gentleman cannot make a big difference. It is nothing else, thinking about problems too naively, being very resentful, and talking big. Maybe Your Majesty will use it when he sees the country is in danger, but it will not take long.

Zheng Lang sighed and said, "Mr. Lu, I know you are for my own good, but as a political affairs officer, how can I see the situation of the country so numb and insensitive? Actually, what did I do? The Horse Law and the Exemption Law push Fan and Han into the front. Either the warehouse law with little controversy, and this military strategy that has little to do with the powerful. In my heart, these are the tip of the iceberg."!~!

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