Chapter 405: knight fief

Chapter 405: knight fief

  Chapter 405 Knight fief

  The emperor gave Qin Lang, the Shifeng Inspector of Wu'an Prefecture, 3,000 soldiers of the Tutuan, and another 800 soldiers of the guards in the tent and the marriage mansion.

  However, Qin Lang now has a total of 500 tough fighters in these five, but they are not within the upper two ranks.

   These 500 people are playing side-by-side.

  The soldiers in the account and the marriage government can actually be regarded as guards or tooth soldiers organized by the imperial court. Naturally, these soldiers can be regarded as regular ones. Even if there is no fiefdom, princes and princes still have the amount of yamen given by the court according to the system, and each has two houses for marriage and marriage in the tent, but the number is different for different levels.

  For example, in Li Shimin's tent and marriage mansions, each had three soldiers from the commanding mansion, and actually had 6,000 troops.

  These soldiers are paid by the imperial court, which is one of the welfare benefits of the princes, and is the security service provided by the imperial court.

  Of course, princes and princes generally have their own private guards, which are trilogy or servants. These are private soldiers, recruited and supported by the princes themselves, and there are also many restrictions on the number and equipment.

  In Chang'an City, the rules are more restrictive and stricter.

Of course, if it is in a country manor, the quantity limit is less, but the equipment limit is still stricter, but under the secular system that the imperial court is pushing now, the secular land is actually a small feudal state, and the vassals in the territory But it has great power.

   Arming private soldiers is not a problem, as long as it does not exceed the number of teeth soldiers stipulated by the imperial court, it is basically fine.

  So in theory, the number of Qin Lang's pro-army can reach 800, and they can be armed to the teeth. As long as you have money and equipment, you can recruit up to 800. Of course, your 800 private armed forces are fine in your own fief, but when you leave the fief, you have to abide by the court's laws, and you can't be fully armed.

  The imperial court gave Qin Lang 800 marriages, and the two government soldiers in the tent.

  According to the system, the guards of the two mansions of the princes are actually not directly pulling out the soldiers of the mansion, but just like the inner guards of the imperial court, they are selected from the children of officials.

  The emperor's three guards and five mansions are appointed by the children of officials above the fifth rank, while the two mansions in the marriage accounts of princes and dukes are selected by the children of officials from the fifth rank to the seventh rank.

   This is actually a kind of servant. The children of officials serve as attendants to senior officials for a few years, and then they can take the official examination. After passing, they can officially become officials.

   This is also a kind of welfare origin.

  But now Qin Lang is going to fief the land, which is still far away in Wu'an Prefecture.

  So the original marriage accounts are not very willing. After all, they are the sons of noble officials. It’s okay to take turns serving as guards for princes and princes in Chang’an. They can go to Jiaozhou. Who wants to?

  So now Li Shimin has also made some adjustments.

  For princes and dukes like Qin Lang who have been feuded by the world, the original set of marriage tents in the city of Chang'an are kept in the marriage tents of the inner palace. There are actually not many of them, so there is no need to go to the fiefdom.

  And the emperor added quotas to Qin Lang's 800 marriage accounts, which were in the fiefdom. In these marriage accounts, there is no limit to origin, and it is not required to be the children of officials.

  The vassals can recruit themselves, and after the recruitment is full, they can go to the fief. The expenses of these 800 people will be paid by the one-third of the taxes collected in the fief and allocated to the states and counties.

   In this way, it not only took care of the emotions of the children of noble officials, but also safeguarded the interests of the vassals.

  Qin Lang intends to directly recruit 800 relatives in Chang'an to go south. In the future, these people will settle down in Wu'an Prefecture, but because the 800 relatives are not limited to their backgrounds, their treatment is not as good as that of officials' children. The policy given by the imperial court was that vassals could be recruited regardless of their origin, but these people also lost the opportunity to directly participate in the official examination after five to eight years of service, and pass the opportunity to become an official.

  In fact, they are equivalent to finding a salary, and what they enjoy is the treatment of a low-level subordinate, with a salary, and nothing else.

  So when Qin Lang sent people to start recruiting, the majestic Duke of Wei couldn't recruit anyone.

  As soon as they heard about the treatment, no one wanted to go to Jiaozhou, especially after hearing that they would settle down there, they were even less willing to go.

  Qin Lang was also a little helpless about this.

  Five thousand miles away, for many people who may not have even been out of the countryside in their lifetime, it is really on the other side of the sky, the end of the world.

  They don't have the concept of five thousand miles in their minds, they only know that it is very far away, and the legend about the scorching heat in Jiaozhou makes them even more afraid of Lingnan as a tiger.

  Qin Lang knew very well in his heart that if a fiefdom far away in Jiaozhou wanted to develop, it had to have many Han people first, and the indigenous barbarians alone would not be able to develop.

   To develop fiefdoms, the most reliable way is actually the method of colonization. First move the Han people there. Only when the Han people reach a certain proportion can Qin Lang truly establish and stabilize his fiefdoms there, and then it is possible to rule those natives.

  But the people in Chang'an are not willing to go to Jiaozhou at all.

  After thinking about it, Qin Lang felt that it was really not easy to attract people.

  What is there in Wu'an Prefecture? In the eyes of the people in Chang'an, there are only remoteness and strangeness, as well as extreme heat and malaria, which are fatal places.

   Besides these, what else?

   "Your Majesty granted me these hundreds of miles of land, which will be inherited and guarded from generation to generation. All my Qin family has now is land!" Qin Lang said.

  Ah Huang shook his head, "But it's a land five thousand miles away, Chang'an people won't be surprised!"

  Although the imperial court’s land equalization system has reached the present, there is no land in the Central Plains to equalize. In the heartlands such as Guanzhong and Henan, most people only have a small amount of land equalized, which is far from the standard.

   But letting the people of Chang'an go to Jiaozhou and giving them fields will not attract them.

   "What if I give land to those who go to Jiaozhou, but not only Yongye Field? Or, what if I give Yongye Field more than a hundred acres?" Qin Lang asked back.

   "Is there no limit to a hundred acres?"

   What Qin Lang thought of was that he needed more than just a group of farmers. Although Wu'an Prefecture was close to the big city of Jiaozhou, it was still in a wild land after all, where the barbarians ruled.

   To gain a foothold there, war must be indispensable. Feng An and his son had already reminded him many times that the natives would definitely not obey him easily, so rebellion and war were inevitable.

   This is his own fief, and he must fight it himself.

"Ah Huang, I have such a preliminary idea, just like the imperial court selecting government soldiers, I also plan to recruit two types of people to Jiaozhou, one is ordinary people, even poor beggars, etc. They have no job or property in the Central Plains Homeless, even hungry, I took them to Jiaozhou, granted them land, and even found barbarian women as wives for them in the future, and gave them a home.”

"Recruiting another type of people requires the same qualifications as government soldiers. They must be brave, strong, or even wealthy. I plan to invite those officials or the **** of the gentry and landlord families to Jiaozhou, and let them bring their own horses and weapons. Their families and servants will go with them."

  Ah Huang is puzzled, the **** sons of officials and landlords who can ride and shoot well, they are even less willing to go to Jiaozhou, right?

   "What attracts them?"

  Qin Lang smiled.

"The **** of the noble family or the official landlord's family basically have no inheritance rights. The wealth and industry of the family have nothing to do with them. Get a good education, study or practice martial arts, and even play a small job with good food and clothing, but when you become an adult, you still have to face an embarrassing situation. The family business has nothing to do with them. They can only find their own way out. At most, the family can give them A small amount of money."

  Qin Lang had an idea. He wanted to recruit these bastards. What he valued was their bravery, good education, and even the good resources of the family.

   "As long as these **** are willing to follow me to Wu'an Prefecture in Lingnan, then I can give them another seal!"

   "Repackage?"

"Yes, in the Zhou Dynasty, the fifth-class titles were entrusted, the land was granted, and the princes established the country. And the princes also had retainers such as nobles and officials, and they also divided them into fiefdoms. I also want to learn from it. If those noble officials and concubines follow me south, Prepare your own equipment, bring your family, slaves, etc., and I can seal a piece of land for them, build a manor fief for them, and confer them knights as my retainers and knights in the fiefdom of Wu'an Prefecture of the Qin family."

   "My request to them is that these people must prepare their own equipment, respond to the call of the Qin family at any time, take up weapons and follow the Qin family to fight against rebellions in the fief."

"The fiefs of the knights can be hereditary, and the knights can establish manors, markets, and workshops on their fiefs. I allow them to manage the fiefs according to the laws of the court and the regulations of the fiefdom. Two taxes are collected, three points of the income tax, one point goes to the knights, and two points go to the lord. The lord then pays three points of this tax, one to stay in the state and county, one to the lord, and one to the treasury."

   Ah Huang's eyes lit up when he heard it.

   "Can the imperial court allow it? Will anyone be willing to apply? Is it worthwhile?"

   "There are not many people who can ride and shoot well, right?"

Qin Lang said, "My plan is to recruit such knights for both the tent and the marriage government of 800 people, but it is not easy to recruit 800 cavalry and archers who can prepare their own excellent equipment, so they can be divided into Second class, the Marriage Mansion recruits 300 knights, and the tent mansion can lower the recruitment standards a little, such as being strong and martial, proficient in bows, arrows and spears, etc. They are not required to be able to ride horses, to be able to buy war horses, etc."

"There are five hundred recruits in the tent. Those without horses can be called warriors. The warrior manor granted to them has slightly less land than the knight manor, but it is the same as the knight manor in other respects. They also have the obligation and responsibility to fight for the king. !"

   Three hundred knights and five hundred warriors.

"Doesn't that mean that at least 800 fiefs and manors need to be subdivided? Do we have so many fiefdoms? Can it be allocated?" Ah Huang did the math. Even if a fief is a village, it also means that there are eight Hundreds of villages.

  Get rid of these 800 village benefactors, how much is left of the Qin family?

"Eight hundred feudal fiefs will be fully sealed. Compared with the Wu'an Prefecture that His Majesty entrusted to me, it is actually not too much. Don't forget that Wu'an Prefecture is 160 miles from east to west, and more than 300 miles from north to south. In addition, There are several archipelagos in the sea, the place is huge, and eight hundred fiefs are not a problem at all."

  The most important thing is whether you can recruit these 800 knights and warriors. If you can recruit them, then you can enfeoff 800 village fiefs, Qin Lang thinks it is a good deal.

  After all, even if the fief is sealed off, Qin Lang can still get a lot of taxes from it. It's just that the land is sealed to knights and warriors, and Qin Lang, as the lord, still enjoys the tax.

   There is undoubtedly a huge difference between a hundred acres of land and enfeoffment of a village.

  The fiefdom of this village must have thousands of acres of land, and even the mountains, forests, rivers and marshes are distributed to them, and they can enjoy another third of the tax.

  Qin Lang felt that if he was a **** with an awkward position, he would really be willing to go for it.

   "Maybe you can try it!" Ah Huang said.

"Then let the people in the mansion change the recruitment conditions. In addition to recruiting knights and samurai, we will continue to recruit poor people and beggars. As long as they are in good health, I promise that when we arrive in Wu'an Prefecture, the land will be divided by person. Ding each gets 100 mu of land, and each woman and child gets 50 mu of land. There is no limit to how many people there are.”

   "We also undertake the food, clothing, housing and transportation along the way. When we arrive at the place, we also help build houses and resettle them, and provide farm tools, cattle, seeds, etc. for land reclamation. I also exempt land rent and tax for the first three years."

   "Sanlang, this condition is too good, so let's recruit people, and we will lose a lot of money in the early stage."

"A loss is a loss. As long as people can be recruited, it is worth it. Without people, no matter how big the fiefdom of Wu'an Prefecture is, it is a piece of waste land. Only with people can it develop and become a treasure land!" Qin Lang is looking at the long term.

  (end of this chapter)