Chapter 1002 Inspection of the Military Mansion

Chapter 1002 Inspection of the Military Mansion

Li Tai didn't know that Northern Qi would seize his ancestral grave, but the Gao family has always had a tradition of causing harm to his wife and children, and implicating the whole family, even to his own people, let alone his enemies. If Xingao's family is moral, they might as well give money to Qin Shihuang.

Therefore, in order to prevent his ancestors from crying to him in their dreams, he also moved the graves of his ancestors to Guanzhong and reburied them in Xianyang on a good and auspicious day. At least it would be convenient to visit the graves in the future.

Compared with Gaoyang's one-man show in Yecheng, Guanzhong, especially Chang'an, has been very lively recently. Since the Buddha’s birthday on the eighth day of April, various Dharma and sutra debates and other activities have been held one after another. For the Buddhist and Taoist believers in Guanzhong, it is no different from an audio-visual feast. Even if they don’t understand, they can’t understand it. Love to hear this excitement.

As the initiator of this matter, Li Tai did not join in the fun. In the final analysis, his original intention was not to hold a religious event, but to make a lot of money through this event.

Among the Buddhist and Taoist scholars who participated in the debate, except for the two eminent monks enshrined by the royal family of the Western Wei Dynasty, who were really difficult to operate, the other eminent monks were all elected with money, food and materials.

The title of eight eminent monks alone brought millions of stones of grain and other considerable material income to Bafu, although Tianshui Guangming Temple and Shaanbei Shifo Temple were both entrusted by Li Tai. However, the other six eminent monks donated genuine materials and were able to enter the finals and appear in the debate.

As for the Taoist priests, Li Tai did not perform such operations. It's not because I have a better impression of Taoism, but because the Taoist priests are a bit poor. The inheritance of Taoism in the Northern Dynasties has been on a downward slope since the reign of Tianshi Dao Kou Qian. It neither received the attention of the rulers at the upper levels, nor was its penetration into the middle and lower levels as powerful as Buddhism.

Li Tai wanted to set up this big forum of Buddhism and Taoism, but fortunately Zhang Shinu found several of his Taoist brothers from Louguan, otherwise he would not even have contacted the local Taoist representatives. However, the theoretical level of these Taoist priests of Louguan Taoism is also quite average, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to achieve an evenly matched situation.

Of course, Li Tai didn't want to make the lie come true just because of this debate, and really let the Samananas dominate the religious circles in Guanzhong. Only when Buddhism and Taoism are evenly matched and check and balance each other can the administrative power of the government have sufficient room to intervene to adjust and restrict religious beliefs.

So he selected many people from Jiangling and asked them to join the debate. When Emperor Xiao Yi of the Liang Dynasty was under attack in Jiangling, he would hold a lecture on "Laozi", and all the officials would listen in uniform. The level of metaphysics theory of these people in the Southern Dynasties was at least a few ranks higher than that of the monks in Guanzhong.

Guanzhong's reputation as a "cultural desert" in this era is not an exaggeration. Not only the Confucian classics, but also the religious theories of Buddhism and Taoism are in a very backward and crude state. Introducing these talents from the Southern Dynasties to join is tantamount to carrying out a dimensionality reduction attack.

Once the supplies were in place, things immediately became much simpler. Soon the various hussar mansions entered the actual establishment phase from the preparatory stage, and the sergeants of the various mansions also entered the countryside for employment one after another.

Xianyang in Weibei is the core and essence area of ​​Guanzhong. Although there are many hills and valleys in the territory, because it is located between Jingwei and Jingwei, the soil is fertile and farming is convenient. Therefore, it is also an important grain-producing area around Gyeonggi.

Xianyang used to have many powerful military-headed garden and villa properties. Because it was close to the capital, it became the first choice for many soldiers of the Liufang Forbidden Army to buy property. However, many of the Liufang Forbidden Forces were involved in chaos before. Even Junior Sima Cai You and General Zhu Wuwei were sanctioned, and other middle and lower-level generals were naturally unavoidable.

Some generals were exiled to Shannan, while some had nothing to atone for their sins. The Xianyang manor properties that were originally concentrated in the hands of the generals of the Forbidden Army were concentrated in the hands of the government, and were now transferred to a group of government soldiers.

Xianyang Hussar Mansion was one of the first military mansions to be established and officially put into operation, so Li Tai also took some time to come and inspect it.

When his ceremonial carriage arrived at Weibei from Wei Bridge, the commander of the Hussar Mansion had already led a group of officers and soldiers to line up to greet him. He crossed his hands and said in salute: "The general will be waiting to welcome you, your Majesty!"

Seeing the high spirits of the soldiers, Li Tai was also deeply pleased. While waving to them on horseback and nodding, he headed towards the Hussar Mansion under the guidance of Shu Feng and others.

Fu Bing is the army's soldiers. It is a kind of secular military system that follows the Xianbei military system. Yu Wentai's so-called Fu Bing reform is to expand the scope of soldiers to include powerful tribes of Han people, but other changes are not not much.

Because of their long-term military service, the government soldiers are basically out of work. For them, the only way to earn income is to participate in wars and earn income and maintain their lives through war seizures and rewards.

There is no doubt that this way of survival is full of dangers and lacks basic guarantees. If you lose a battle, you may go bankrupt or even lose your life. Those former military officers and soldiers could not play like this.

But now that Li Tai has reorganized the system, established the Hussar Prefecture, and awarded land based on military merit, this has given the sergeants of the various military prefectures a stable economic foundation and no worries. Even if you lose the battle, you can still obtain survival materials through the land. Moreover, the land can be passed down to children and grandchildren, and it is no longer just a military certificate with nothing that can be passed down to the family.

Li Tai dismounted his horse and walked slowly in the fields. While listening to Shuofeng and other military officials describing the status of the fields, he watched the farmers in the fields working hard. It's midsummer now, and crops are growing luxuriantly in the fields. It's foreseeable that this year will be another good year.

Working in the fields were not only the military sergeants themselves and their wives, children, and family members, but also the servants and slaves assigned by the government. The labor force was mainly composed of the latter.

After the land is granted to the government soldiers, military tasks such as recruiting and guarding and daily training are also unavoidable. Moreover, now that the land has just been awarded to each household, everything still needs a running-in period. The proportion of agricultural production and military tasks requires a long-term observation. to allocate. Therefore, labor shortage is also a situation that these first batch of government soldiers need to face.

"How much labor is needed to keep the farming season on this piece of land?"

Li Tai stood in the field and looked at a sergeant wearing a hakama military uniform bending over to weed. He stopped and asked with a smile.

"Lord, please forgive me, Lord. There is really no one to use the house, so I didn't go out to greet the Lord today..."

The sergeant looked shy and nervous. When he saw that Tang Gong had no intention of blaming him, he began to calculate in a low voice: "I have three merits for my humble position, and I will get one hundred and twenty acres of land, one cow and one horse, and sixty acres of land." Acres are harvested according to the farming season, and three people are needed, but the only ones in the household are the old wife and the young man..."

Having fields but no one to cultivate them is also a problem. After listening to the sergeant's story, Li Tai asked again: "Why not rent slaves from the mansion?"

This problem had been encountered as early as Xiangyang, so now the military government, in addition to three thousand sergeants and their families, is also equipped with an almost equal number of official slaves. After hearing this question, the sergeant shook his head and said: "The slaves given by the government are all Hu slaves who are not good at farming. They are stupid and gluttonous. They don't have much labor and a lot of rent..."

As soon as he complained here, he saw that the faces of the generals and the commander of the rear military mansion became a little ugly, and then they shut up after realizing it.

"The soldiers in the mansion are not good at farming and weaving, and the sergeants are not happy to rent envoys. This is really a problem. I have no choice but to create people out of thin air..."

When it comes to this issue, Shuofeng is also a little helpless. It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. It's not that he doesn't know the demands of the sergeants, but he just doesn't have the corresponding human resources to allocate them.

Li Tai nodded slightly after hearing this. Many times, situations change and the rules must be adjusted accordingly. The transition of the government soldiers from retired soldiers to military landlords was indispensable with the acquisition and distribution of labor force.

Historically, after the Battle of Jiangling, all the people and things in Jiangling were taken captive into Guanzhong, and many Jiangling people were reduced to slaves and maidservants, thus fattening the government soldiers. However, not many people from Jiangling have moved into Guanzhong today, and most of them have been resettled in Shannan. Although the vitality of Shannan has been preserved, it has also caused the development of soldiers and peasants in Guanzhong to lag behind.

The only way to improve this situation is to obtain a large number of population resources and allocate them to the soldiers to undertake production work. The most effective way to gain population is war. As long as Northern Qi can be defeated, all these problems will be solved.

But now the Western Wei Dynasty's military reform has just entered a new beginning, and the national power is far from strong enough to support a large-scale war of annihilation. This makes the situation seem to be trapped in a helpless cycle, which seems to have become somewhat unsolvable.

But there is nothing unsolvable in this world. After all, you can still ask the Buddha if you are not sure. There are a large number of hidden people in Buddhist temples. After all, the money donated by the Buddhas does not appear out of thin air by praying to gods and worshiping Buddha. Many temple slaves and monks work hard to make the offerings to the Buddhas fat and in vain.

Don't worry about the two masters. While the eminent monks have not dispersed in Chang'an City, it is only right to take some time to discuss how to properly solve this problem.

Li Tai first kept these things in mind, and then continued to move forward. When he arrived at the military mansion, he began to review the daily affairs of the military mansion.