"Hahaha!" Wang Wenzuo laughed: "Hongdu, you only know one but not the other! Let me ask you, are there more honest gentlemen or villains in the world?"
"Of course there are many villains, but there are very few honest gentlemen!" Cui Hongdu said with a smile: "But Sanlang, you said that if you have money, you can make them obey orders. Although there are few honest gentlemen, at least there are still some!"
"Then if I use money to bribe villains to besiege a gentleman who doesn't obey my orders, what will happen to that gentleman?"
"This -" Cui Hongdu suddenly became speechless. After a while, he lowered his head and said, "Then the gentleman will end badly, but why do you do this?"
"If he doesn't obey my orders, he is naturally an enemy. Between us and the enemy, we will naturally use all possible means. What does it mean to bribe villains with money to besiege him? During the Warring States Period, if Qin did not use Guo Kai to slander and kill Li Mu, could Qin destroy Zhao?"
The Guo Kai mentioned by Wang Wenzuo was a famous treacherous minister of the Zhao State in the late Warring States Period. Qin Shihuang sent strategists to bribe Guo Kai with a large sum of money to kill Zhao's famous general Li Mu, which ultimately led to Qin's destruction of Zhao. This is a story that will become a household name in later generations. Cui Hongdu naturally knows it. He sighed: "What you said, Sanlang, makes sense. I will assume that the first half of your sentence is reasonable, but what about the second half?"
"Spread wealth and recruit troops, win if you can, run away if you can't, and have your own territory outside the world. Isn't it a hundred times better than hanging hands and waiting to die?"
"Recruiting soldiers?" Cui Hongdu laughed: "Sanlang, you are joking again. What is the use of the rabble raised with money? They will just collapse in front of the imperial army!"
"It's because they were not trained rigorously after being recruited, rather than because soldiers raised with money cannot fight!" Wang Wenzuo retorted: "Even if the imperial court takes as little as ten years and as many as twenty or thirty years, it can only use Money raises troops!”
"What?" Cui Hongdu's face changed drastically. He looked at no one outside and then lowered his voice and said, "Sanlang, this is not a joke!"
"What's the joke!" Wang Wenzuo sneered: "In recent years, the imperial court has become more and more frequent. The country is vast, and the east and west are thousands of miles away. If we still use government soldiers, it will take a year to travel back and forth, and there is no salary. At home, How can we take care of the farm work? How can the military household bear it after so many times? It would be strange if the family is not destroyed!"
"But if it's like you said, if you recruit soldiers, how much money will it cost?" Cui Hongdu whispered: "I'm afraid the imperial army from the east to the west will not number five to six million. Calculating one person's salary per month, it will cost a year." Six to seven million dollars! There are also armor, horses, rations, and clothing gifts. How can this, the tax from the imperial court be enough?"
"Then increase the tax!" Wang Wenzuo sneered: "In addition to the mediocrity of rent, commercial tax, salt tax, tea tax, etc. are also included. Of course it will be enough!"
Cui Hongdu is also a smart man. After hearing this, he already understood the implication of Wang Wenzuo's words. Since the government soldiers are to be replaced by recruited soldiers, the original tax-free and exempt privileges of the small military nobles under the government military system will naturally no longer exist. Not only that, the court also Will find ways to collect wealth from other channels to make up for the cost of raising soldiers. Since they are all recruiting soldiers, then naturally whoever gives more money will have stronger combat effectiveness. The second half of what Wang Wenzuo said just now is very reasonable.
"I understand!" Cui Hongdu said in a deep voice: "Sanlang, please rest assured, I will do my best on this matter. Please feel free to go to Chang'an!"
The first roll of grass is burned out.
Miscellaneous remarks at the end of the volume
Unknowingly, "The Song of Colorful Iron Clothes" has been updated with more than 500,000 words. To use an analogy, this book has passed the prologue and begun to enter the main scene. Smart readers should be able to guess from the last sentence of the Cao Ran volume that the next volume opens in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty, or on the way to Chang'an to be precise. Yes, how can a history of the Tang Dynasty not include Chang'an? It was the heart of power and the center of the empire. Great poets sang here. Baqiao, Daming Palace, Lishan Mountain, and Daci'en Temple. These names are familiar to every Chinese.
But if "The Song of Colorful Clothes and Iron Clothes" only contains these, Weber would no longer be Weber. Under the gorgeous neon clothes is hard iron armor. Yes, the characters in this book include monks, scholar-bureaucrats, emperors, princesses, and peasants, but in the end It is a samurai book. Those people who wore strong armor, rode tall horses, opened up new territories, and planted the flag of the Tang Dynasty wherever they could see it. They are the center of the future world in this book. They are weak at first, like sparks falling into a haystack, but as the hay burns and the flames stand, the whole world will become their world.
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You may feel that this book is not progressive enough, not capitalist enough, not industrialized enough, or left-wing enough. Weber only wanted to say that each generation has its own issues. No one can transcend the limitations of the times. In layman's terms, if you take too big a step, you will get hurt. Historically, the progress of the times is not achieved by changing people's thinking, but by the death of old people and the birth of new people. The protagonist's lifespan is limited, and it is impossible to achieve such great progress in his limited life.
Yes, one day the descendants of these resolute warriors will become corrupt and weak, unable to do anything but ride on the heads of the people and suck the blood and sweat. Does this erase everything their ancestors have done? It is absurd to use the achievements of the fathers to justify the privileges of the descendants, but is it reasonable to use the corruption of the descendants to obliterate the heroic achievements of the ancestors? Everything in the world is born and destroyed. Nothing can last forever. Even the planet inhabited by humans will one day fall into death, but this cannot erase the fact that humans have existed. All I can do is tell the story as well as possible. As for the rest, this is not my responsibility and it should not be my responsibility.
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