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Everyone asked some random questions, and Chen Jian answered them one by one. There are still two or three years for them to get familiar with them, so don't worry too much at this time.

Among the four things of agriculture, learning, military affairs, and engineering, engineering refers to large workshops belonging to the state, and these people do not need to manage them, but Chen Jian still gave a general overview.

After everyone digested it, Chen Jian threw out a plan for military system reform.This military system reform is actually suitable for school education to be combined together.

It is determined that Xiacheng will be set up as a county, and the Lisi system will be used to restrain the semi-collective cooperation. Then we can first form a standing army according to the method of drawing out one out of fifteen households. There are about 400 people, which can be used to maintain the operation of the state's violent organs and authority.

These standing troops are not field troops, but only used as a tool of violence during the transition period.

Lisizhong also organizes military training every year during the slack season, basically training spear and spear phalanxes, just in case the whole people need to be mobilized.

The real main force is divided into two parts.

Starting this year, all young adults aged 15 to [-] will be required to fulfill the obligation to become soldiers and serve for four to five years.They were mainly spearmen and phalanxes, and possibly arquebuses.This is the main force that maintains the front.

The previous four hundred out-of-production black-clothed guards and the cavalry under the Yangguan White Horse will be dismantled and reorganized into three troops.

Habayashi, Black Clothes, Lei Huo.

One hundred black-clothed guards, one hundred riders, and some workshop workers were selected to build a shelf for Habayashi orphans.

Orphan Yubayashi will be Xiacheng's regular cavalry in the future, and Chen Jian is going to distribute the stirrups in March to form a real shock cavalry.

These orphans have received rigorous equestrian training since childhood, and riding a horse is much easier for farming peoples after they have stirrups.

Orphan Habayashi's main weapon in the short term is the spear, which is used to sprint around the enemy's flank, or to charge the enemy's archers.

The black-clothed guards remain unchanged, and the combat methods are still based on chariot attack and armored attack on foot. The training is rigorous, and the personal ability must be strong. The riding skills are not high. You only need to learn how to ride a horse. When necessary, you can maneuver on the battlefield as a mounted infantry.

Lei Huowei is a new professional army, mainly practicing throwing ignition grenades, learning gunpowder knowledge, practicing a whole set of movements with bamboo pipes before the appearance of matchlock guns, and practicing loading methods with wood before the appearance of copper cannons, etc.

This army is basically composed of young people who have completed the enlightenment education. They must first be familiar with the sound of gunpowder explosions and the smoke of the battlefield, so that they can serve as instructors and gunners once new weapons appear.

These three professional troops and the volunteer troops of the Chinese people constitute the future military structure of the Xia Kingdom. It can be seen that there are huge problems in it: if the artillery and matchlock guns fail, the Xia army lacks long-range projection capabilities.

It takes two to three years to make a double-curved bow, and five to seven years to train a qualified archer, which is really terrible.

In Chen Jian's plan, when he goes out for an expedition, he will temporarily use the servant army and the allies of the two cities of Ewei as the long-range projection troops.

As a supplement, a large number of irregular cavalry was needed to threaten the enemy's projectile troops, or to mobilize enough infantry to guard the archers.

This irregular cavalry cannot be full-time, because it cannot be supported, and it needs to be familiar with horses enough for long-term contact.

Therefore, Yangguan in the three counties of Xiajun needs to be a little special.

The lisi system near Yangguan is still implemented. The difference from other counties is that there are fewer cattle and more horses.

In order to embankment the grassland and ensure the win over of small grassland settlements and the war against large settlements, it is also necessary to ensure a large number of irregular cavalry, which can only be obtained from Yangguan.

There are some slaves who escaped from the grassland in Yangguan, and they can ride horses.There are also some barbaric professional slave-hunting clans attached to Xiacheng who have also learned to ride horses in recent years. They have followed white horses to the grasslands to plunder all the year round, and their skills have become increasingly proficient.

Formal shock cavalry can only use new and old Xiacheng people or escaped slave workshop workers who are already familiar with discipline and rules, while informal ones have better equestrian skills, poor discipline, personal bravery but cannot face spears The riders of the phalanx and the regular cavalry had to rely on the self-cultivating farmers in Yangguan who relied on horses for farming.

Blood tax and horses are used to replace normal taxes, corvees, digging ditches and other obligations.

All the registered population living in Yangguan County, each household has a horse that has passed the inspection and does not have to pay any taxes. The state provides part of the weapons and equipment, and the rest is self-provided. When digging canals and serving corvees in other counties, they have to do The most important thing is farming and military training during slack.

Once needed, they can quickly organize a group of irregular cavalry. It is not possible to rush into the battle, but it is possible to harass the enemy's rear flanks and plunder the grassland.

With this change in the military system, it is foreseeable that Xiacheng's combat effectiveness will decline within three years.

The backbone force has been dismantled, and new conscripts have just been trained.In the event of a large-scale war, it is still necessary to mobilize those working people, which is why Chen Jian won three years of recuperation through compromise.

Relying on the huge and frightening population base and the prestige of winning the previous sneak attack to ensure that the rest of the people can't see through the weakness of Xia's military strength in three years.Three years later, the first batch of conscripts have been trained, and the follow-up force will be replenished, so that normal labor production will not be affected.

Integrating with the reform of the military system is the reform of education.

Within three years, we must tighten our belts and suck blood hard to ensure the enlightenment education of minors, so that schools will gradually be formalized.

Before the age of 14, minors must complete enlightenment education: in addition to recognizing characters and counting, they also need to be trained in queues, discipline, listening to whistles, and holding spears from an early age.

After enlightenment, there are three ways to go.

Establish Taixue.Those who are particularly outstanding can call Chen Jian Mr. and set up a special school to learn some more profound and complex knowledge.

Establish a school.Those who are slightly worse, as junior college students, such as farmers, soldiers, doctors, etc., do not need to know why, they only need to know why, become specialized technical bureaucrats, and then pass the assessment to become official officials or choose outstanding ones to continue their studies.

Only those who have completed the enlightenment education will directly serve as soldiers.After serving, the Department of Planning and Statistics will decide whether to work or go to Lisi to become a farmer, a professional soldier, or a grassroots officer according to the arrangement of the Lord of Merit.

And the vast majority of grassroots officers are young people from the military squad. The population of the city is not too large, and the cost of supervision and management is not high, which can ensure smooth implementation.

To curb the blood inheritance of the military aristocrats, try to ensure that the ascending channel will not be blocked before the reunification, and turn how to fight into the knowledge in the textbook instead of the secret of the family.

These problems became easier with the advent of paper and the study of printing.

All kinds of low-level officials above Lisi who guide farming seasons, collect taxes, enforce learning, train soldiers, teach children, etc., need at least 300 to [-] people in Xiacheng, which is the minimum.

The school education in the past few years can guarantee the most basic needs. After waiting two years until the largest group of school children have completed their studies and used paper, they can breathe a sigh of relief in terms of the talent system.

Chapter 88 Country (ten)

The widespread dissemination of knowledge and the talent assessment and selection system are the mortal enemies and gravediggers of the aristocratic hereditary enfeoffment system, as well as the foundational pillar of power ambitions, as well as the reserve army and organizers of rebellions in later generations: often with the power of one state, one county, and one county The management team of a unified government can be built, and the war will not become a succession game among the nobles.

In the final analysis, the rights of this era are actually what you do.The same is true in the era when the nobles monopolized knowledge and political means. It is said that it is blood but knowledge.Others can't, so others can't do it well. Over time, it has become a truth that princes and generals do have kindness.

For those people who were sitting in the meeting hall with frowning and holding wooden slips, most of them didn't have the confidence and strength to do it, even if they were just to be an official with a jurisdiction over a hundred people.

Before that, they just learned to read and count, and worked in the fields.At that time, the city was very small, and Chen Jian was in charge of everything. Later, when it was a little bigger, the Department of Planning and Statistics was responsible for the food and drink expenses of thousands of people.

Now that the city is big and the population is increasing, it is necessary to establish a country and develop, and it will not work as before. The top-down management method directly specific to each person will exhaust Chen Jian to death.

The current priority in his mind is neither unification nor war, but paper, printing, tubular firearms and basic education, using these things as the best tombstone in his life, paving the way for the ethnic group.For at least three years, it is impossible for him to devote his mind to careful management so that the city and country will have no sorrow but only joy.

For people like Shi Quan who are about to become low-level officials, the first task in their minds is to do a good job in the arrangements. If they have the opportunity, they can be promoted to rank and rank, and become high-level officials in the country in the future.Managing 100 people was a grand dream in the clan era, that is the chief; but for a country with more than 7 slaves, the dream of more than [-] people can be considered grand.

After explaining the plan for the next two or three years for two consecutive days, Shi Quan and other members of the agronomy class each distributed a set of wooden slips, which were the various rules copied before.

Chen Jian picked up the wooden slips again, and spent a few days interpreting them for them from beginning to end.They have come into contact with most of the techniques and practiced them in person. It is not difficult to learn, it is a review.

In fact, everyone's arrangements have been made. Shi Quan knew that he would be assigned to Xia Dong. In view of his excellent performance before and the conversation in the dining room that reached Chen Jian's ears, he was asked to manage four miles, which is [-] yuan. For men and women.

Basically, students in all subjects were forced to end their part-time studies early, and after a little polishing, they were thrown to the grassroots as officials.

The only ones who continued to study without moving were the children in the original education class. They continued to study various textbooks in the spacious and bright room as future teachers.

Many people complained about this, although Shi Quan didn't take it seriously, he was sure that Ji Xia, the leader he trusted, must have his purpose.

But this time, unlike before, Chen Jian did not give any explanation, but enforced it because the explanation was unclear.