Regarding the third point of rewards for the guards, the guards are different from the soldiers recruited from various tribes. They are not just paid with money.
This is the regular army of Yunzhou County. The regular army means that the rewards that the soldiers hope to receive will not only be limited to money, but also their desire for promotion of their own positions.
As the saying goes, a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier, and every soldier in the guard army has a positive heart, so for Yunzhou County, the material rewards for these soldiers are very easy, but for them Military career rewards are still a big problem.
There are only so many positions, one carrot and one pitfall, and the channels for advancement are limited.
Therefore, officials of all sizes in Yunzhou County argued for a long time but could not come up with a specific solution.
Some said they would give more money, some said they would give them land, and some said they would give them a name, but none of these can solve the actual problem.
Because the Guards will have to fight a lot of battles in the future. If you use others to fight this time, what about next time? What about next time?
You can't always discount other people's military exploits and let them be the leader forever, right?
The quarrels and quarrels came to no result. In the end, everyone unanimously looked at Zhao Jun, who was sitting at the top.
Feeling the attention of everyone, Zhao Jun sighed helplessly. He didn't know the real problems of these issues. He also knew the real purpose of these people today.
Whether it is the first, third, or fourth issue, there is only one core point involved, and that is the lack of people!
Extremely short of people!
Why can't the army recruit soldiers?
Because there is no one!
Why is it difficult to transport spring taxes and loot?
Or because there is no one!
Why are soldiers not promoted despite their military exploits?
In addition to the upper limit of the escort army, the most important reason is the lack of people!
If there are people, then the escort army can be expanded to 100,000. Then wouldn't all the existing soldiers with meritorious service be promoted as a matter of course?
Address the first and fourth questions directly.
If there is someone, wouldn't it be enough to organize a huge transportation team to transport back the huge spoils of spring tax?
So everything happened because no one was making trouble.
Yunzhou County was short of people, and it had been short of people since the beginning of its development. At that time, Yunzhou County's solution was to plunder Tatars from the grasslands outside the border to work as coolies to make up for the lack of population.
But now, all the tribes within thousands of miles outside Yunzhou County have been emptied. Not to mention that Yunzhou County can no longer replenish troops through this route, even if it can recruit Zhao Jun, it will not unify this action of plundering the population. Continued.
Because the population ratio of Yunzhou County is already on the verge of imbalance.
In Zhao Jun's vision, Yunzhou County should have Song people as the main ethnic group, because he is a Song person and only by using his own ethnic group as the main ethnic group can he, the prince, rule Yunzhou County.
Not to mention that all races should be treated equally. Zhao Jun liked a saying from his previous life that people who are not from my race must have different hearts!
Now that he, the prince, has great power, only the other ethnic groups in Yunzhou County will be honest. If the roles of the two sides are reversed and the strength gap widens, there is no guarantee that those foreign races will not have any inappropriate thoughts.
This has already been shown in the past five years when they plundered the Tatars from the grasslands and gradually strengthened the tribes. After that, they gradually became less obedient than before.
It was not until the escort army expanded to 25,000 people and defeated the Hegel tribe in the previous Battle of Victory Lake that the clan leaders who had some thoughts at first gathered their thoughts and became honest again. This expedition was Only then did Po and the others send out their men as coercive troops.
They couldn't afford it anymore, so sending him as a threat to join the army was just an excuse. They were just showing their loyalty to Zhao Jun, the powerful vassal king.
And now Yunzhou County has a population of 600,000, of which 350,000 are Song people and 250,000 are Yunzhou Tatars. This ratio is very dangerous in Zhao Jun's opinion.
Therefore, after the end of the five-year development period, tribes were prohibited from robbing people on the grasslands.
But the problem of underpopulation always needs to be solved. What should we do?
Knocking on the table, Zhao Jun adjusted the loudspeaker in front of him, and facing the expectant eyes of everyone, he expressed his decision.
"Buy someone!"
Wow!
Everyone was in an uproar?
Buy someone?
how to buy?
Where to buy!
Where can I buy it?
A series of questions appeared in everyone's minds, and before they could ask them, Zhao Jun began to explain: "According to the information obtained by this king, since the severe drought last year, the disaster in the entire Liaobei County has not been contained.
Even though the imperial court dispatched relief teams and provided relief materials, but..."
Having said this, Zhao Jun's eyes scanned the circle of officials present in Yunzhou County.
The others also looked around at the officials of Yunzhou County, big and small, with half-smiling expressions.
This behavior made the officials who were watched feel like a thorn in their backs and made them feel uncomfortable all over.
Zhao Jun paused, then looked back before continuing: "The relief money and materials had already been divided up by the responsible officials before they arrived in Liaobei County.
After a tael of silver is allocated, the victims may end up with only a bowl of rice soup.
Oh no, it's the kind of rice bran water boiled with rice bran. The rice soup also needs to be cooked with rice. They didn't leave that much. "
As soon as Zhao Jun said these words, everyone in the hall except those officials burst into laughter.
Who of you here does not know the virtues of the officials of the Song Dynasty. It is strange that the disaster relief money can be used for disaster relief once it is in their hands. That is to say, the officials of Yunzhou County today have almost been replaced. Otherwise, they will be the same as those in Guan Nei The officials were no different, which was why everyone looked at them with that strange look just now.
The Yunzhou County officials present lowered their heads and did not speak. Although they were not responsible for this matter, as fellow scholars, they felt ashamed!
What these colleagues did was simply contrary to the teachings of the saints, and the books were read into the stomachs of dogs!
Zhao Jun pressed his hand, everyone slowly stopped laughing, and Zhao Jun continued.
So up to now, the entire Liaobei County is still full of disaster victims. Not only Liaobei County, but also the two or three counties surrounding Liaobei County are almost all in this situation.
Now that winter has passed, those people who originally had some food stored in their homes are estimated to have exhausted their food reserves, and the group of refugees is about to expand again.
This is a big trouble for the court, but it is a big opportunity for us!
Aren't they unable to deal with the victims?
Then we all have to come over, and we happen to be short of people.
And we don't want it in vain. For every person who is transported, we will give ten jins of grain to young adults, five jins to children, old people and women, and give it directly to the local officials.
Of course we can provide food, and we need them to help us solve all the problems that these people need to solve when they leave the customs and reach the boundary of our Yunzhou County, such as customs clearance and so on.
I believe that under the temptation of being able to solve the problems of the victims and making money at the same time, those greedy guys will definitely exert one hundred and twenty efforts to complete this transaction.
And we can also use a small amount of food to buy the population we are in urgent need of.
And as long as there are people who can bring back the spring tax from Nanli County, the food we have paid is just a drop in the bucket, not worth mentioning. "
After everyone listened to Zhao Jun's speech, they were silent for a while, then whispered to the people next to them for a while, and then nodded in agreement.
I believe that this plan is the only and best solution to the current situation of Yunzhou County.
Yes, they think there are too many people and we are short of people, so just give us the people, and we also give them food, and they will naturally help us deal with various problems that will arise from the court. This is a win-win situation!
Just do it!
Everyone agreed with the plan.
And this will also be the main task of Yunzhou County for a long time in the future.
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(End of chapter)
