strictlysupreme Chapter 186: Inconsistent Yan Changqing? ! ! [Please Subscribe, Please Order In Full]
Chapter 186: Inconsistent Yan Changqing? ! ! [Please Subscribe, Please Order In Full]
Maybe it’s because the Ming Dynasty royal clan salary system, Ming Dynasty vassal king system, and Ming Dynasty currency banknote system have all been sprayed before.
So now that he heard that Yan Changqing once again complained about the guard farm system, and even heard words like "the guard farm system will inevitably collapse within a hundred years," Zhu Yuanzhang could look at Yan Changqing calmly and asked:
"I wonder what the big drawbacks and fundamental flaws Mr. Yan mentioned are?!!"
Yan Changqing said calmly:
“Although the garrison farming system integrates soldiers and farmers, all the food harvested in the military camps is supplied to the army, which reduces the burden on the people of the country. This is its advantage.
“But again, I think that’s what it’s all about!!!”
"The integration of soldiers and farmers means that every few years, soldiers need to put aside their military training and become soldiers and farmers for farming.
"Then after a few years, they pick up arms again and conduct training and operations, and the cycle repeats."
"I don't know much about military affairs, but your Majesty's military capabilities, among the emperors throughout the ages, the only one who can compare with your Majesty is the former Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin."
"So I would like to ask Your Majesty about the "170" training method. The training method of sometimes training and sometimes farming, is the training that can truly conquer and win the army's elite?!!"
"Or are they just a group of well-trained militiamen who can fight with the army when necessary?!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang's face was silent. He himself was the emperor who had fought his way out from among the tens of thousands of red scarf rebel soldiers in the troubled times of the late Yuan Dynasty.
When it comes to military capabilities, as Yan Changqing said, among the emperors throughout the ages, perhaps only Emperor Taizong of Tang Li Shimin, who also fought for most of his life and conquered most of the Tang Dynasty, can compare with him.
So he naturally knew that this kind of training method combining soldiers and farmers could not actually train elite soldiers who could truly conquer and win in battle.
Because after a soldier has been familiar with the war for several years, he begins to be regarded as a qualified Ming soldier.
Then he put down the war again, picked up farm tools, and became a soldier and farmer, and he continued to do so for several years.
During this period of military and peasant time, most of the war experience accumulated originally may be forgotten again.
Then he put down his farm tools, took up arms again, and entered the battlefield again to fight the enemy.
Therefore, this kind of training method can actually only be said to be able to train a large number of well-trained militiamen through this method.
And such a well-trained militia actually has a big gap in combat effectiveness compared to the real elite of the army.
If you want to train an elite army that can truly conquer and win every battle.
So the best way is actually to not engage in production at all, and just be a purely professional soldier, either fighting and killing enemies or maintaining high-intensity military training all year round.
However, just as Yan Changqing said before, thirty people pay one tax, and thirty people can support one person.
To really support 1.68 million soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who did not engage in production and existed only as soldiers was really too much pressure for the common people.
After all, the 60 million people of the Ming Dynasty could only support two million people who were not engaged in production.
If the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were to occupy an amount of 1.68 million, then the final result would either increase the burden on the people, or suppress the amount of other people who are not engaged in production.
However, neither the former nor the latter is a good choice for Zhu Yuanzhang.
That's why Zhu Yuanzhang, on Liu Bowen's suggestion, chose a compromise method, which was to combine military and peasantry and use military and peasantry to support the soldiers.
"Although this method can only train most well-trained militiamen, as long as they actually participate in more than ten battles, large and small, they will soon become elite soldiers who are sure to conquer and win every battle! !!"
Zhu Yuanzhang half admitted and half defended.
As the emperor of Ma, he recognized what Yu Changqing said.
But he also has his own ideas about this, although what can only be said to be well-trained militiamen trained through this combination of military and agriculture at the beginning.
But as long as such militiamen take them to participate in more than ten large and small battles, they will soon become the elite of the army.
Yan Changqing nodded and also acknowledged Zhu Yuanzhang's statement.
"Indeed, as long as you participate in more than ten large and small battles, you will soon become the elite of the army."
"It's just that in this battle after battle, how many lives of soldiers need to be sacrificed to become the elite of the Fang army that His Majesty said?!!"
At the end of the sentence, Yan Changqing sighed deeply.
And Zhu Yuanzhang also bowed his head and remained silent again. He naturally knew that this process required a lot of lives of soldiers in order to get the elite army he wanted.
But for him, there was nothing he could do about it.
The Ming Dynasty could not afford to support the 1.68 million soldiers who were completely idle, so it could only sacrifice part of the combat effectiveness and survivability of the soldiers in exchange for maintaining this huge Ming army.
After being silent for a long time, seeing that Yan Changqing had no intention of continuing to speak, Zhu Yuanzhang looked up at Yan Changqing again and asked:
"Then what are the fundamental flaws of the guard farm system?!!"
He was very concerned about this. After all, in his opinion, except for weakening the combat effectiveness of some Ming soldiers, the guard station system was almost perfect in other aspects.
So he really couldn't think of a reason why the Ming Dynasty's farming system would collapse in less than a hundred years.
After all, Liu Bowen had promised him back then that the garrison system was absolutely a foolproof system for raising troops!
After more than ten years of implementation, we have indeed not seen any major problems, let alone any fundamental flaws.
“Let’s talk about the fundamental flaws of the Ming Dynasty’s farming system later.”
"Because it has nothing to do with the content of "Dragon Slaying Technique" that I talked about today. It has to do with another core of "Dragon Slaying Technique". I will leave it to explain that core in the future.
"Of course, you can also think about it yourself and see if you can figure it out...
Yan Changqing waved his hand and had no intention of continuing to talk about the fundamental flaws of the Ming Dynasty's farming system.
I have been talking from noon to now in the afternoon. If I don’t seize the time, I won’t be able to finish talking about "Dragon Slaying Skills·Second Core: [Money and Profit] Chapter 2 Ten Ten National Financial System Budget Revenue and Expenditure Planning" today.
After hearing Yan Changqing's perfunctory reply, Zhu Yuanzhang, Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes all felt as if they had eaten a dead fly.
This feeling of half-talking and being distracted by others is really uncomfortable.
But if Yan Changqing doesn't plan to say it now, they can't force Yan Changqing to say it.
After all, they have known and gotten along with Yan Changqing for a while, and now they have a rough understanding of Yan Changqing's character. He is a person who takes soft things but not hard words.
Tough tactics will not work against Yan Changqing, and they do not dare to use tough tactics against Yan Changqing.
"Talking back to the previous taxonomy, agriculture, industry, and business, now that we know the essence of focusing on agriculture and suppressing business is to suppress the number of people who are not engaged in production."
"Then we should vigorously develop industry and commerce now, restore the monetary tax collection method, and use monetary units to manage and collect statistics on the national fiscal revenue and expenditure details."
“Only in this way can we take a big step towards establishing a complete, reasonable and effective financial system and implementing the Ming Dynasty’s currency system.
Yan Changqing abruptly brought the topic back to the previous financial system.
Whether it was Zhu Yuanzhang, Empress Ma, or Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes [I couldn't help but roll my eyes when I heard Yan Changqing's abrupt way of deflecting the topic.
Then Zhu Biao came to his senses and asked with a puzzled look:
"Sir, didn't you just say that the essence of focusing on agriculture and suppressing business is to suppress the number of people who are not engaged in production?!!"
"And the number of people who are not engaged in production that can be supported by the nearly 60 million people of the Ming Dynasty today is approximately 4.72 million."
"Even among the 1.68 million soldiers of the Ming Dynasty today, the number of non-productive Ming soldiers who really need support is only about 500,000.'
"But coupled with other people who are not engaged in production, the number of people who are not engaged in production in Ming Dynasty is about 1.1 million to 1.5 million.
"Although there is still a long way to go before the number of two million people who will not be in production in the end, shouldn't we start taking precautions now to prevent the number of people who are really not in production in Ming Dynasty from reaching two million?!!"
"Why should we vigorously develop industry and commerce and continue to increase the number of people who are not engaged in production on a large scale?!!"
After all, the essential reason for focusing on agriculture and suppressing business has just been explained clearly by Yan Changqing.
As a result, Yan Changqing still says that he will vigorously develop industry and commerce. Isn’t this inconsistent?!!
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