Military management is stricter and more efficient among most management methods, but relatively speaking, military management is more restrictive and goes against the free and loose personality of human beings.
However, this is a feudal society. There is a choice between a full meal and freedom. Of course, the people choose to have a full meal. Freedom cannot be eaten as food. What's more, all freedoms are limited freedoms, so that Chen Xi wanted to The saving grace is of course militarized management.
The Ministry of Industry under Sun Qian's name says it is a state-owned construction group. In fact, it is okay to call it a militia. Everyone has no experience. And the most complete management policy of a large group with reference experience is of course in this era Military camp.
Therefore, at the end of the second century and the beginning of the third century, the large-scale state-owned enterprises operated by Chen Xi were basically reduced according to the militia regulations. Large-scale state-owned construction groups like Sun Qian even had certain queues for drills every day. Otherwise, why would Chen Xi I will feel free to let Sun Qian deal with the local chiefs who are not convinced by the king in the mountainous areas of western Sichuan.
These people can't defeat the regular army, so there is absolutely no problem in changing into a suit of armor to work as a miscellaneous fish.
If all of these are included, let alone two million or five million, these people cannot be deployed at will. These are Chen Xi's core strengths that can truly ensure the stable operation of the industrial chain. If the war is really going to be fought, these people will need to be deployed. When people are planted, the people's livelihood in the country will definitely be in decline.
Huangfusong didn't know this, but Huangfusong knew Chen Xi's collections in treasury after treasury. Huangfusong was not sure about other things, but the collection of standard chain armor definitely exceeded 600,000. Well, this It was calculated by Huangfu Song in his treasury near Yecheng.
In Huangfu Song’s opinion, it’s perfectly fine to arm an army of one million people with 600,000 pieces of armor! With the cooperation of other miscellaneous legions, the Han Dynasty can put together a two million legion.
Therefore, when Huangfu Songpo said this, some emperors used the same perfunctory tone as "yes, yes, yes, yes, yes" when they heard the people say that they used the golden pole.
You guys really underestimate our Han Dynasty. I'm not bragging to you. Chen Zichuan is doing the logistics for me. I can brag about these guys across from you!
"Treasurer, we want to arm an army of two million people..." Severus asked habitually. Pompianus, who was standing, saw his eyes darken and fell down on his seat. His son and The soon-to-be daughter-in-law quickly stretched out her hand to support her. Severus curled his lips in displeasure and said, "I'm just going to ask. You haven't even finished speaking yet, so you pretend to be fainted for me."
"Okay, don't be a embarrassment to the treasurer. It's not easy to maintain the current legion stably." Caesar gave a few words of persuasion. Even he felt that Severus' legion was too large. It's outrageous. The Roman Eagle Banner and the barbarian army total more than 300,000 people. This is a standing army, but they all need food and wages. It's good that Pompianus didn't give you a strike.
"We need to make up two more eagle flags and six auxiliary soldiers." Severus replied habitually. Pompianus, who was pretending to be dead, jumped up. Didn't we agree that we would only make up one eagle? Flag, three barbarian auxiliaries? Why did it double?
"Eighth doesn't count. We still need to grant citizenship to the returning brave men, and then give them the Eagle Flag. So we will create another twenty-three Eagle Flag and three auxiliary soldiers?" Severus was very serious. explained to Pompianus.
Severus was really good to Pompianus, and he still explained it. If it were someone else, I, the first citizen of Rome, would explain it with a hammer and execute it!
But it didn't work for Pompianus, and Severus was not stupid. He just gave the soldiers higher wages because of their background and understood their difficulties. It didn't mean that he didn't know how high the wages he gave were. .
The military expenditures of the Five Wise Emperors were immediately reduced to rubbish by Severus. Without the financial officer's timely allocation, Severus might really have to pay for it out of his own pocket like the official historian.
Incidentally, this is why Severus's era was the pinnacle of Roman military affairs.
As an emperor, when the government was unable to fulfill its promise, he paid for everything out of his own pocket. He would plunder the land from the Battle of Parthia. The part that belonged to the emperor would be used mostly for the construction of new buildings in the next ten years. Yu distributed the rewards to the soldiers.
It doesn't matter whether the Senate supports such an emperor or not. The soldiers and legion commanders really support it. A large part of it is that Caracalla was able to pass on Severus' legacy after having made so many deaths. His father's reputation among the generals and soldiers.
In this life, the food and salary promised by Severus to the soldiers could be carried out smoothly while maintaining the normal operation of the government. A very important point was the listed trade between the Han Dynasty and Rome. This greatly solved the problem of Severus. Lu’s military spending.
Pompianus's original idea was mainly to develop silk and curb the unlimited appreciation of silk, because in the first century of Rome, the annual expenditure due to smuggling silk from various channels could reach or even exceed 100 million sese. Tes.
In the past, this expenditure was enough to support twelve to fifteen full Eagle Flag regiments. Yes, it used to be the military expenditure for twelve to fifteen full Eagle Flag regiments.
Now you understand why Pliny the Elder cursed your mother in his Roman History. As a digression, you should curse your mother. Pliny the Elder himself also wore silk, which seemed to be red.
This is a problem that all Roman people with lofty ideals have complained about, but no one can solve it. After the rise of Persia in the late official history, the price of silk and gold were inverted. Simply put, one pound of raw silk, one pound of gold, so the Romans also I endured the emotional explosion and continued to buy.
While cursing that anyone who buys silk is a traitor and is swindling the enemy, he continues to buy silk.
Therefore, Pompianus's purpose at the beginning was very simple, which was to negotiate directly with the manufacturers for silk pricing power and get the best production technology if he could. If he couldn't get it, don't let the channels blackmail him.
After pacifying the distributor, Pompianus lowered the price of silk to one-third of the original price. Later, after further negotiation, the price was reduced to one-quarter.
This price made the Romans very satisfied. It could not withstand the collapse of the demand of the Romans. Moreover, the price dropped from the previous price of middle and lower level silk, top and tribute grade. Rome spent more money on this every year than before, because Roman citizens also got into the chopping game.
If Pompianus hadn't quickly found a substitute and paid purely with gold and silver coins, Chen Xi's interest in trade with Rome would have plummeted.
However, this is where the Roman fiscal officer excelled. He learned new operations from national trade and naturally established a trade balance.
This is also an important reason why after Severus's messing around for a year, Rome not only did not go bankrupt, but also had a surplus. The trade balance was beneficial to both parties.
By the way, the items with the largest trade volume between Rome and the Han Dynasty so far are no longer silk and jade. These two items are more equivalent to luxury goods. The main products shipped are sugar, olive oil, wine, vanilla, and nard. , myrrh resin, frankincense, dried fruits, that sort of thing.
It doesn't look like it's very profitable, but in fact the shipment volume of these things is very large, and the nature of the trade is more like a period of transshipment, and both parties are quite satisfied.
However, no matter how satisfied he was, and no matter how much more than 100 million was left on hand every year, Pompianus was still very resistant to Severus's approach.
Even because of his resistance to Severus spending money indiscriminately, Pompianus learned to put money into the industry as soon as he got it.
However, since this hand had been discovered by Severus not long ago and intercepted in advance, so that the Ninth Spanish Legion and the Seventh Loyalist Legion had the money to replace their war horses, Pompianus had been forced to develop it. new skills.
That is, before I get the money, I will first borrow money from others to invest in the industry I need, and then wait for the money to be generated and let him take it away. I don’t believe you can keep it!
To be honest, at this point, Pompianus is really just one step away. Unfortunately, Pompianus’ thinking will never change from this kick, because once he changes, Pompianus will You will find out first that you have become Rome's biggest cancer.
Therefore, the two sides are currently in a stalemate over military spending. Pompianus has begun to borrow money to finance the Roman economy. Since this has happened before, the other senators do not think there is any problem. At most, they feel that they have to be careful not to take too much. , and finally Pompianus and Severus teamed up to cut leeks and so on.
But Severus was thinking that I have approved your daughter-in-law to be the commander of the legion. Wouldn't it be wise for you and your son to come together and raise an eighth legion and three auxiliary soldiers? The extra money for the Eagle and Banner Corps is the military expenditure you allocated to me before.
Pompianus said it was the first time I had seen such a shameless guy. He had broken his understanding of Rome's first citizen time and time again. It was shameless, so shameless.
Huangfusong looked inexplicable and started to curse. Then Caesar crossed his hands and supported his head, as if he didn't know that the market had turned into a vegetable market behind him. He continued to chat with Huangfusong indifferently. The Roman Senate must be careful. Fair and just, isn't it normal to scold someone? Fights happen from time to time.
There is no way. The senators in the Senate now all support Severus, and there is no behavior that is out of line that needs to be dealt with, so the problem can only be solved by voting. Everyone is a citizen and must respect the citizenship law. Take a vote!
Huangfusong looked at the scene in front of him dumbfounded. It's really not easy for your internal affairs to be in such chaos, and you still have such fighting power. There's a fight, there's a fight!
