Inside the Chinese army camp.
"From today on, the food supplies received by officers and soldiers of the Chinese Army at all levels will increase by 20%!"
"Frontier soldiers, increase daily rations!"
Cao Mao stood at a high place, and the soldiers read loudly the officially determined new policy.
The army of the Wei Dynasty was divided into two types. Some people think that the army began to receive military pay from the Tang Dynasty. The army before the Tang Dynasty did not have any income. This is wrong.
The military system of each dynasty has changed. In the Qin State, the army was recruited by force. The people had to bring their own food and weapons to fight. However, the Han Dynasty retained this. All the people were soldiers and were forced to serve. Every adult male Ding is going to be a soldier.
In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, two types of armies appeared.
The first is the military system, which is also the composition of the Wei frontier army. These people have been soldiers for generations. If you are a soldier, your children will also be soldiers. Your whole family is a soldier. You don’t have to engage in other professions and you can fight with peace of mind. Yes, Cao Wei used this method to ensure that he had sufficient troops in each war zone, and he did not have to worry about tens of thousands of people dying without anyone available.
These people have no food and salary to earn, but the temple is responsible for feeding them and preventing them from starving to death. They contribute to the temple, and the temple allows them to survive, that's all.
The second type is the recruitment system. Most of Cao Wei's central army is like this. The recruitment system is not a product of the Tang Dynasty. It can be traced back to the Warring States period. The Wei State selected the strongest men to serve as soldiers and gave them high amounts of food and salary. Let them become professional soldiers.
The Later Han Dynasty also had a military recruitment system, usually both the military conscription system and the military recruitment system were adopted at the same time. By the time of Cao Wei, all three military systems existed.
The Chinese army is recruited and needs to be given food and salary. The border army is a worldly soldier, so it is good if they are not allowed to starve. Those who guard the border and open camps are conscripts. They do not give food or weapons, but they are allowed to carry their own things. Complete obligations.
The soldiers gathered in the camp, listening to the announcement of the messenger, their eyes were filled with joy.
The latest regulations are not just about increasing food and salary, but also improving the treatment of soldiers in all aspects.
These include the ability to promote meritorious military households and turn them into farmers, strictly prohibit coveting military food and supplies, not seizing military merit, fair rewards and punishments, etc.
Cao Mao's decree this time is very serious and leaves no room for compromise.
And with the support of many generals, it is not easy for interested people to oppose secretly.
Cao Wei's bureaucrats dare not say it, but the generals are still very capable. Just like the generals in the Chinese army, if the worms in the army dare to give them eye drops, it is simply because they are tired of living.
Cao Mao was not worried about this at all.
In addition to standardizing military discipline and increasing "salary", Cao Mao also has many benefits.
This includes rewarding meritorious deeds with land and houses, improving their food, providing them with winter clothing, and even promising them that after they retire, they can be assigned errands as officials.
The army gathered here, listening to the ordering soldiers shouting one rule after another.
I don’t know who started it first.
The soldiers shouted in unison.
"Long live your Majesty!!!"
"Long live your Majesty!!"
Listening to the roars of the soldiers, Cao Mao stood on the general platform with a smile on his face.
Don’t think that the temple’s improvement in many welfare benefits for soldiers will increase expenditures on the national treasury. In fact, after cleaning up the moths and reducing corruption, the temple even made a profit! !
The current situation in the Wei Dynasty is so outrageous. Most of the ministers in Wei and Jin, whether they are capable ministers or villains, whether they are generals or governors, have one thing in common.
Greedy for money and luxury.
If you look through the entire Jin Dynasty, you will find how difficult it is to find a few honest and simple ministers!
Even the ones at the top of the biographies are so miserable.
A wealthy family that is no longer bound by morality is in such a catastrophe!
The army of the Wei Dynasty was one of the hardest hit areas. In order to prevent local generals from becoming too powerful, Emperor Wen carefully made arrangements. There were two points among them. The food for the local armies was actually the responsibility of the local governor. , the general cannot interfere, and the distribution statistics are carried out by the officials of the temple. The same is true for the Chinese army. The food is distributed directly by the minister, the execution process is carried out by the Yushitai, and the army is responsible for receiving it.
Emperor Wen thought that this would allow the temple to control the local army through logistics, but he did not know that this gave the ministers a good opportunity to exploit and commit corruption in layers.
Because of the complicated and cumbersome food supply in the Wei Dynasty, it became a difficult problem to thoroughly investigate the whereabouts of food.
This led to the fact that the governor ate a batch, the governor ate and the officials ate, and the officials ate and the generals ate. Finally, the food that fell into the hands of the soldiers was seriously lower than the allotment, and they often went hungry to prepare for war.
In fact, this problem is not that difficult to solve, as long as the general can not be greedy and focus on food distribution.
It's just that the generals in the past did not have such ability, nor did they have such thoughts. Anyway, there was no one to supervise them.
But strictly speaking, the generals everywhere today are not morally despicable to this extent.
So far, at least in the Chinese Army, Cao Mao has been very effective in improving the welfare of the army. As for the local area, we can only hope that the local generals can have some morals.
Yang Hu in Hebei, Deng Ai in the northwest, Guanqiu Jian in Huainan, Wen Qin who is about to succeed Zhuge Dan, and Wang Ji who is preparing to succeed Wang Chang. The moral standards of these people are still relatively high. Anyway, the matter of embezzling military rations is probably done. Not coming out.
After careful consideration, Cao Mao decided to let Wen Qin replace Zhuge Dan and Wang Jilai to replace Wang Chang.
These two people have military talents and high moral standards.
Generals are different from civil servants. Civil servants can have low morals but have talents, like Xun Xu, but generals cannot be like this. Who would dare to use a general who is talented but not moral, like Lu Bu?
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After Cao Mao announced this, Zhuge Dan, who was standing not far away, couldn't help it.
"From now on, I will not forgive anyone who dares to disobey military laws, deprive food, embezzle supplies, seize military honors, promote cronies, and persecute soldiers!!"
The messenger immediately shouted Zhuge Dan's words.
"The captain is wise!!"
"The captain is wise!!"
The soldiers cheered again.
At this moment, Xia Houxian's face turned pale with fright. He looked at Zhuge Dan aside in horror, and then quickly looked at the emperor.
Cao Mao's face was calm, he just looked at this scene and said nothing.
Xia Houxian didn't know why Zhuge Dan did this. This was the emperor trying to win over the military. Do you want to compete with the emperor for military power? ?
Not only Xia Houxian, but also several generals in the Chinese army were shocked at this moment.
The grumpy Wen Yang directly stopped his soldiers from cheering, shut their mouths, and then looked at Zhuge Dan angrily.
Zhuge Dan's behavior seemed to be a demonstration with the emperor, and even a bit of a fight for power in person.
Wen Yang was ready to chop off the old dog's head as soon as the emperor gave the order.
To be honest, Cao Mao was really feeling complicated at the moment.
However, Duke Taiwei's performance during his term of office was still very good. Including the issue of the treatment of soldiers this time, Zhuge Dan was at the forefront and forced the ministers to nod and agree.
Zhuge Dan indeed made great contributions to this restructuring.
However, this person is obviously a little distracted. If he wants fame, Cao Mao can help him get it, but this act of putting eye drops on the emperor
Cao Mao didn't say much.
When he left Zhongjun and returned to Tai Chi Hall, Cheng Ji couldn't bear it anymore.
"Your Majesty!! You should let me chop off that Zhuge Dan's head!"
"Who is he? How dare he compete with His Majesty for fame?!"
Cheng Ji was very angry and his face turned red.
Cao Mao smiled and said, "Isn't it because of Zhuge Taiwei's credit that this was possible? Why should we kill him for this?"
"There will be many times when we need to use him in the future, so don't say such things again."
Cheng Ji was still angry, so Zhang Hua said to him: "Chengjun, the captain has behaved rudely, but he has no thoughts of rebellion. If this will cause misunderstanding, don't say more outside, otherwise it will ruin your majesty's important affairs." !”
Only then did Cheng Ji give up.
Cao Mao and Zhang Hua walked into the west hall. As soon as they walked in, the smile on Zhang Hua's face disappeared.
"Your Majesty, the Lieutenant can no longer indulge here."
"Even if he doesn't have such thoughts, his behavior today is destroying His Majesty's majesty."
"This is categorically unfeasible."
Cao Mao didn't say anything and sat in his seat, "Let's take care of the important matters of the temple first. At this time, I don't want to delay for other things."
Zhang Hua took out the above table and said seriously: "Your Majesty, this is Wang Xiang's confession handed over by the Chancellor."
"The words were sincere and he reprimanded Gao Rou and others with a very humble attitude."
"After Xunyi met Wang Xiang, he met Guo Pei again, and then went to Wang Xiang's mansion again. Guo Pei probably asked him to get this confession."
"This is to protect Wang Xiang for their own use."
"In addition, Xun Yi is also very close to several Jiuqing. Zongzheng Cao Yu has become his guest during these days. The two chatted all day long and were very happy."
"There is also Cao Yan, the Marquis of Pingle Township, and Xun Yi often sends people to greet him."
Cao Mao narrowed his eyes again, "What do they want to do?"
"Your Majesty, I think that they probably thought that Your Majesty summoned everyone to do harm to them, so they formed a group to protect themselves. Xun Yi doesn't have much courage and can't do anything."
Cao Mao looked at the confession in his hand and said, "Xun Yi may be like this, but Wang Xiang is not."
"If Wang Xiang goes out, things will become very troublesome. Among the officials today, he is the only one who is the most troublesome."
Cao Mao put away the confession and said, "Keep looking at Wang Xiang, don't let him come out, just pretend nothing happened."
"Then if Xun Yi and others spread the contents of the confession, they will lead the officials to attack."
"Then let the prince die of illness."
"This person was difficult to deal with in the first place. After experiencing the original failure, he has become more sophisticated. I no longer have the energy to deal with my defeated generals."
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