Since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Yuwen Tai of the Western Wei Dynasty began to implement the system of military troops. The country has Zhechong Mansion, which is responsible for selecting and training military soldiers, and the military and farmers are united. In normal times, the military soldiers are farmers who cultivate land, and they train farming, and they join the army in war. They are all equipped with their own weapons and horses, and the military households can be exempted from taxes.

This type of military soldier does not have military pay, and some even pay for it themselves. Only if they make contributions can they receive rewards.

This military system continued until the Great Qi State period when unifying the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

The Great Qi Dynasty was established for more than two hundred years and had always implemented the system of government troops. However, in the late period of the Great Qi Dynasty, land annexation became increasingly heavy, and the land farmers relying on the government troops also lost their economic foundation. In this case, the government troops fled more and more. Before the Great Qi was destroyed, the Great Qi State was short of soldiers, there were no defenders on the border, and the soldiers were not satisfied, so it was difficult to transfer the testimony and defense.

After the fall of the Great Qi Kingdom, the Qing Kingdom, established by the foreign relatives, began to implement the recruitment system, and soldiers and peasants were separated to support the army. The Wei Kingdom and Yan Kingdom also began to implement the recruitment system.

The six counties of Yan State are located in the military service offices under the Ministry of War, which are specially used to select soldiers from various counties. Regardless of their origin, they can join the army.

If you can be selected, you can receive monthly salary from the country, and the weapons and equipment are provided by the country.

Some of the selected soldiers will be organized into the city defenders, and some will be sent to the border to join the Northwest Army. Among them, those with excellent conditions may be organized into the Imperial Guard.

The soldiers who were incorporated into the Imperial Guard were naturally young people with excellent physical fitness, and the Service Office would send people to investigate their background and background. Once they passed the test, they would become enviable objects.

Everyone knows that the Imperial Guard is a noble army of Yan State. It is responsible for maintaining Yanjing and protecting the royal family. Once it is incorporated into the Imperial Guard, the family can reduce the tax by half, and the Imperial Guard's salary is the highest among the various armies of Yan State.

The Ministry of War is assigned to the city guards according to their origins. Usually, the city guards are stationed in different counties, just like the city guards stationed in Donghai County. Generally speaking, the source of troops comes from other counties, and few soldiers from this county are stationed there. This is also to prevent the influence of the aristocratic families of each county on the city guards.

However, the Donghai Pacification Army is an exception in Yan State.

The Donghai Fujun is naturally a navy, and soldiers must be proficient in water. Most of the soldiers in Yan domestic mirrors are landslides and are not familiar with water. In this way, the Donghai Fujun can only recruit in coastal counties.

The Donghai Punishment Army has maintained a large number of naval divisions since the time of the King of Donghai. For a long time, most of the recruitment quotas of the Navy were for fathers to retreat to the top of the sons. Once the sailors are older, if they have children, they will give priority to recruit their sons. Therefore, from a certain perspective, most of the soldiers of the Donghai Punishment Army have been passed down from generation to generation, and they were direct naval troops who have been loyal to the Han family since the time of the King of Donghai Han Tianya.

It is also because of this that the Donghai peace army and the Han family broke the bones and were inseparable from each other.

The King of East China Sea had a long talk with the founding monarch of Yan State, King Wu of Yan, on the coast of the East China Sea, and defected to King Wu of Yan, fighting south and north, making great contributions to the establishment of the Great Yan State.

After the founding of the country, King Wu of Yan was grateful for the achievements of the King of Donghai and ordered him to guard the East China Sea to deter the pirates in the East China Sea, and even prevented the invasion of the Qing Dynasty Navy. The Donghai Punishment Army was naturally a powerful navy under the rule of Yan State. The court paid the money. To this day, the Donghai Punishment Army had been in charge of the East China Sea for nearly a hundred years.

Among the military pay of Yan State, the city guards had the lowest salary. An ordinary soldier had about twenty taels of silver in a year, and the Northwest Army that guarded the border was naturally higher, with three taels of silver a month, and nearly forty taels a year, which was twice as high as the city guards.

But it is undeniable that compared to the city defenders, the soldiers in the northwest live a difficult life, and they are in a border area, the danger is much greater and the money is higher, which is naturally reasonable.

However, the Han family's Donghai Pacifier Army had the same amount as the Northwest Army. From a certain perspective, it indeed put a great pressure on the Yan State treasury.

It should be noted that the Donghai Punishment Army has a lot of organization, and every year it takes one million taels of silver to be paid.

At this moment, the Xiao family suddenly launched a siege against the Donghai Pacifier Army, which naturally shocked many court officials.

Before today's court meeting, the Xiao family had been planning secretly, so naturally few people knew that the Xiao family would suddenly be in trouble today. In fact, if it weren't for the note Ling Lei secretly handed over to Han Mo, the Han brothers would probably have no idea that Master Xiao had the idea of ​​polite the East China Sea.

However, some people also felt a little admiration for the old fox, Mr. Xiao.

There is no other reason, just because the old fox chose the right time.

Now it is in a crisis in the turbulent times, and Wei Qing is facing each other. Whether Yan State participates in this war or not, the Northwest Army must be prepared to respond. At this time, the interests and safety of Yan State must naturally be entrusted to the Northwest Army.

Xiao Huaiyu is a genius, and the Northwest Army is brave and good at fighting, but in the end, it is still incapable of money.

Since the Yan State's independence, it attached great importance to the logistics supply of the Northwest Army. After several generations of emperors came to the northwest Army, they had never been careless about the supply of the Northwest Army.

Although the Yan State court has been fighting continuously, everyone understands one truth: to protect their own interests, they must first protect the Yan State as a big fortress, and to protect the Yan State as a big fortress, strong border forces are needed.

Therefore, all the major families have always cooperated with the Northwest Army. The supply of money and food by the border soldiers has never been neglected at all, and weapons and equipment are also supplied regularly.

Now it is in an extraordinary time, so you naturally have to spare no effort to support the Northwest Army. Any factors that hinder the Northwest Army must be solved with all your strength.

Speaking of which, the flood in Yichun caused the weak treasury, but it gave Mr. Xiao an excellent opportunity.

In this case, to ensure the logistics supply of the Northwest Army, we will naturally have to compress other treasury expenses. At this time, no matter which expenditure is compressed, as long as it is well-founded, it may become a reality.

Moreover, everyone knew that the responsibilities of the Donghai Punishment Army were nothing more than two items.

One is to suppress the pirates in the East China Sea, and the other is to deal with possible violations by the Qing State Navy.

But those with a little bit of knowledge know that the pirates in the East China Sea have put down their butcher knives and become pioneers in the opening of maritime trade.

In other words, the trade of thieves on the sea has been recruited by the Han family.

Eighty percent of the thieves at sea have defected to the Han family and become pioneers of maritime trade, while the remaining 20 percent cannot cause any storm.

As for the Qing State Navy, everyone knows that they are not even a paper tiger. The broken ships floating on the Qing State Water Port Wharf are absolutely impossible to threaten the coastal defense of Yan State.

If the Qing State Navy, which was at its peak in Qing State, could still compete with the Yan State Navy, then the Qing State Navy is not enough to punch the Donghai Punishment Army.

Under such circumstances, Tai Shi Xiao suddenly attacked the Donghai Punishment Army, which was indeed a good opportunity to choose the right one.

Because many people feel in their hearts that the Donghai Punishment Army, which consumes huge treasury expenses every year, maintains a 15,000-person organization, which is really unnecessary for the overall political strategy of Yan State.

If you keep it, the only benefit is the Han family in Donghai.

...

Xiao Tongguang represents the sudden attack of the Xiao clan in the court, and many people looked at the Han Xuandao brothers, but to everyone's expectations, the Han brothers were in a consistent state of calmness and did not show any panic.

This reaction made a trace of sinister look in the eyes of Taishi Xiao, who was sitting in front of the court officials.

The reaction of the Han brothers was naturally beyond Master Xiao’s expectations. In Master Xiao’s expectations, this time it was directly penetrated into the heart of the Han tribe. No matter how calm the Han brothers were and how able to tolerate it, they would show a little panic.

But like Mount Tai, the two brothers of the Han family were calm and composed.

This reaction, except for the Korean officials, was a little calmer, which made all the other officials in the court wonder. Could it be that the Han family was really not afraid of this matter?

The emperor glanced at the Han Xuandao brothers. Although he saw that the two brothers were not different, the emperor was calm and calm, and asked Xiao Tongguang: "Is what Xiao Aiqing said true?"

Xiao Tongguang immediately said: "Master, I dare not exaggerate at all!"

"What does Xiao Aiqing mean?" the emperor asked with a faint smile on his lips.

Xiao Tongguang stood up straight and whispered loudly: "Master, as we all know, the governor of the Donghai Punishment Army, Han Xuanling, is a rare tiger general in my Great Yan. Under his leadership, the East China Pirates fled and fled. Now they are all recruited by the Donghai Punishment Army, and they are doing business in the East China Sea...!" Speaking of this, many people suddenly laughed among the court officials.

"The Qing Dynasty Navy is even more vulnerable and no longer the mighty of the past." Xiao Tongguang stood in the court and said jokingly: "Now my Donghai Punishment Army is indeed unparalleled, and... the sea disasters on the front line of the East China Sea have disappeared..." Speaking of this, Xiao Tongguang deliberately coughed and said slowly: "But it is undeniable that the money spent by the Punishment Army every year really burdened me with a heavy burden. In the past, the sea disasters were not clear, so my Dayan naturally had to do his best to support the Punishment Army in guarding the East China Sea, but... the situation is different now. I think that the Donghai Punishment Army should reduce the treasury expenditure!"

The emperor said calmly: "Will Xiao Aiqing come up with a proper way?"

Xiao Tongguang did not hesitate and immediately said, "If you can reduce the military pay, it can reduce a lot of burden on the national treasury." He glanced at Han Xuandao and said, "The salary of the soldiers of the Punishment Army is no different from that of the soldiers of the Northwest Army. The soldiers of the Northwest Army guarded the border and were in bloody battlefields, and the military pay was abundant, which is naturally the business that our Dayan court should do our best. But now the Punishment Army is invincible to suppress... Can this military pay be reduced? I think that the Ministry of Revenue can barely support the expenses of fifteen taels of silver per year for each soldier. In addition, the Punishment Army can go to sea every month to inspect, and even once a quarter or even six months. In this way, the cost of going to sea will be greatly reduced...!"

As soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately stood up and said, "Master, you must not."

Everyone looked at it and said that it was Han Xince, the Minister of Personnel. He was a very important official in the court. In addition to the Han brothers, Han Xince was the most powerful at hand.

"Master, you can cut military pay, but you can't cut it like this." Han Xince said seriously: "There are tens of thousands of soldiers in the tutoring army. If the soldiers of the tutor Xiao said, each person can only receive 15 taels of silver in each year, which is not even one tael or five coins a month, and it is five taels less than the city guards every year. In this way, I am afraid that the soldiers will have complaints in their hearts. War is a powerful weapon of the country, so how can they be treated so lightly?"

At this moment, officials from Han sent to echo.

"If you are unwilling to cut military pay, you can only be dismissed!" Xiao Tongguang said without hesitation: "Now that the coastal defense is not in danger and the national treasury is in a tight position. Could it be that you have to spend millions of taels of silver to support the military army every year? What else do those who are in the army do not fight?" He bowed to the emperor: "Master, I am so proud to consider the national treasury and ask the emperor to issue an order to abolish the military army!"

Xiao Tongguang finally revealed his thoughts, and the Xiao party officials immediately understood what was going on. For a moment, several censors came out of the ministers and discussed Xiao Tongguang's proposal.

There was also a censor who looked generous, claiming that Da Yan was now an extraordinary time, and reducing military expenditure was imminent, which was a major event related to the revival of Da Yan. He said that tone, it was like if the army was not abolished, the country of Da Yan would be destroyed.

For a time, the Xiao Party officials came out one after another and knelt all over the court in black.

At this moment, Su Guanya and the Su sect officials watched coldly, calmly, and stood honestly in the court without saying a word.

The Dali Temple Minister Hu Xuexin and the Minister of War Fan Yunao looked at each other. There was a strange light in their eyes. They stood in the court without making any moves.

When the Korean officials saw that the Xiao Party was in great power, they couldn't help but frown, and many people were a little panicked.

After all, the Donghai Punishment Army is the foundation of the entire Han family. If the Donghai Punishment Army is really laid off, the Korean clan would suffer a major blow, which would cost most of the Korean clan’s life.
Chapter completed!