Chapter 1197: Great Reward for the Troops

Chapter 1197: Great Reward for the Troops

In the front hall of Shangyang Palace, all the officials were in place. Long before the arrival of the King of Tang, they had already drawn up several plans to reward meritorious soldiers, waiting for the King of Tang to review and select.

After Li Tai entered the office, he immediately took all the plans and read them one by one.

The rewards for meritorious soldiers in the Western Wei Dynasty have always been very generous, which is one of the important reasons why the combat effectiveness can be maintained. This time the results of the war were also unusually rich, and the rewards for the soldiers should not be stingy.

The various plans drawn up by the officials of the Bafu also fully demonstrated this feature. Drawing on the various measures taken by the King of Tang to reward meritorious soldiers before, under the current financial situation of the court, a prominent feature is the generous rewards.

Even Li Tai, who has always been known for his generosity, couldn't help but sigh after reading all the plans from beginning to end. Do the drafters of these plans have a grudge against money? It's like they want to divide up the national treasury!

Although the various plans have different focuses, some focus on money, some focus on materials, and some focus on land, but their common feature is that they focus more on material rewards.

Although this is also in line with Li Tai's past style, the current situation is still different from before. Before, he had Yuwen Tai's Ba Fu on his head in Shannan. After entering the pass, he just took power and the situation in the court had not yet stabilized, so he needed to focus on material stimulation. Giving physical rewards is the most direct and touching.

But now he is the absolute boss of the Ba Fu, and he has both the artifacts and talismans in his hands. The range of rewards he can make is naturally much larger. It is not necessary to focus only on physical rewards. The promotion of official titles and the granting of honors can actually unite the masses better than simple material rewards. After all, being willing to hold shares for a long time is very different from being eager to cash out and only wanting actual benefits.

When the officials of the Bafu were drawing up the reward plan, they paid too much attention to the reference and quotation of the past, but not enough attention to the actual changes in the situation, so the plan they made was a bit out of date.

Li Tai did not completely deny these plans. Some of the clauses were selected and then further strengthened the proportion of official titles in this reward plan.

People like Yang Zhong performed well in this battle and played a great role, but their official titles had reached an extreme, so they could only be given honorary titles to show respect. The six-official system was abolished before, and now the Western Wei Dynasty has restored the original official positions. The first-rank eight officials are the most respected official positions in the court.

Now in the court, Li Tai is the Grand Master, Yu Jin is the Grand Tutor, and Gao Zhongmi is the Grand Protector. Except for Li Tai, who is in charge of the Bafu, the other two have been honored at home and only pulled out for a walk when encountering grand ceremonies. Below these three people are the Grand Sima, the General, the Grand Commandant, the Minister of the Interior, and the Minister of Works.

For those with such qualifications and merits as Yang Zhong, they can be promoted to Grand Marshal after this battle. When there is nothing to do, they can be honored in the court, and when there is something to do, they can be Li Tai's deputy. They are no longer suitable for local appointments.

In addition to Yang Zhong, Wei Xiaokuan, Gao Le, He Ruo Dun, Yang Yu, and Han Xiong who participated in the battle and served as generals before, can also be promoted to pillars of the country. As for the actual management, except for special circumstances, others do not need to make too much adjustment for the time being.

For example, with the end of the war, the territory of the Western Wei Dynasty expanded greatly. Shaozhou, where Yang Yu was stationed before, is no longer as important as before. It has become an inland area. Therefore, Yang Yu does not need to continue to stay there and can directly lead his troops back to the court.

These upper-level generals, because of their relatively small number, can be considered more carefully in the arrangement of rewards, and they can be increased or decreased according to their respective situations, and they do not need to consume too much energy. The main thing is to increase the official title. Although there are also rewards in kind, they are not increased in proportion to the middle and lower levels, which makes the final total amount extremely exaggerated. In the end, the total is within a reasonable range.

The number of middle-level generals has further increased, and they are also mainly awarded official titles. In the case of no serious faults and punishments, they are generally promoted to one to three levels of official positions, and their titles are also improved.

In the case of important battles and outstanding achievements, the title will become more considerable. There are cases of jumping five or six levels and directly being awarded the title of general. Especially in the key Tongdishui Battle, Han Qinhu, Yuwen Xin and other outstanding generals were directly awarded the title of general. At a young age, they have already achieved a height of power that their fathers could not reach at the same age.

The general promotion of middle and lower-level generals is also of great positive significance to the current Western Wei.

The Western Wei's military system was established after the Battle of Mangshan when a large number of Xianbei soldiers were killed or wounded. Because it was Yuwen Tai's hegemony who led the matter at that time, it was inevitably deeply marked by Yuwen Tai's hegemony.

When Li Tai entered Guanzhong, although it was at a time when the hegemony army itself suffered a great defeat and Yuwen Tai's son rebelled, and a series of changes, although Li Tai brought order from chaos, he did not carry out a deep and thorough cleansing of the military system.

The victory of this Eastern Expedition led to the promotion of a large number of middle and lower-level generals and soldiers, who became the absolute backbone of the army, so that the generals of Li Tai's faction did not need to disrupt the original military structure to replace the original personnel organization.

At the same time, the further expansion of the Western Wei territory also means that the construction of the military system must be further strengthened. Li Tai had previously established the Cavalry House in the Heluo area, and similar operations were also required in other expanded territories.

The Fubing system is not just a simple military system. Its development is closely linked to the expansion and growth of the regime itself. It not only reduces the cost of raising troops, but also provides a new management method for the newly occupied areas.

Years of war have enabled local armed forces to develop fully. If these local armed forces are all defined as objects that need to be conquered and eliminated, they can even be called enemies of the whole world, which is something that no powerful regime can do. How to unite and manage these local armed forces is an important factor in whether a regime can exist and become strong.

At this point in the development of history, the emergence of the Fubing system is the answer to the version. This is not to infer the cause from the result. The Fubing system itself not only guarantees the regime's need for centralized military management, but also guarantees the interests of local tyrants. Wherever the rule of the Western Wei regime advances, the Fubing system will advance.

Although Northern Qi and Southern Chen relied on and used the power of local tyrants to maintain their own rule to varying degrees, only Western Wei was able to carry out institutionalized management.

The advantage of institutionalization does not lie in how formal it is, but in the fact that it can be improved through iteration, such as the granting of land to fubing that Li Tai further developed from the original fubing system. Even if it is just a very simple and rough thing, after having the ability to iterate and evolve, the future is limitless.

Li Tai needs to establish a new fubing organization in the newly occupied areas, which not only needs to be used to unite and manage the local tyrants' armed forces, but also needs to establish a reliable military force. This group of generals who have been promoted by military merit can be assigned to various parties to establish a personnel framework for the development of fubing.

For ordinary soldiers, of course, the rewards are mainly in kind. Many of them have been on the expedition for several months, and their families may have been so poor that they can't even afford to eat. At this time, if you talk about official titles, honors, etc., it's a bit like eating meat porridge.

Of course, this is not a question of choosing one or the other, but it can actually be taken into account. The honorary system was implemented in the Western Wei army before. Taking advantage of this time to reward meritorious men, Li Tai formalized and institutionalized the twelve merit transfers and established a new honorary officer system.

In addition to a whole set of new honorary titles, honorary officers are also equipped with various privileges. The previous reward for granting land to the soldiers of the government was also integrated into it. After becoming a meritorious officer, Wuqiwei, he automatically obtained the qualification for granting land. The transfer of merits can successively obtain relevant privileges such as exemption from conscription and military service, and training for generals.

In particular, the opening of the promotion channel has made it no longer only possible for soldiers and generals to be converted through some special opportunities. Accumulating merit transfers can obtain the qualification for further study in the military academy, and then pass the martial arts test to join the three guards and two camps or other night guards. After the full term, relevant civil and military official positions can be added.

As for this military academy, although it has not been established yet, the government soldiers have the tradition of military lectures in their spare time and monthly training. On the basis of these traditions, it is also a natural thing to establish a special military lecture institution and conduct more systematic professional training for officers and soldiers.

"Rebuild the Xuanwu Hall of Jiying Hall in the north of Shangyang Palace. After the military training in October, recruit the first batch of Xuanwu apprentices to learn military strategies, and conduct military selection examinations in early summer next year!"

With an idea in mind, Li Tai made relevant arrangements, and drafted the names and titles casually, and then handed the matter over to Lu Teng of the Ministry of War, instructing him to execute it as soon as possible.

At the same time, after summarizing the reward plans submitted by his subordinates and combining them with his own ideas, the plan for the conferment of titles for this Eastern Expedition was finalized. Li Tai ordered it to be announced to the troops and then handed over to the officials for execution, so as to ensure that various rewards were in place as soon as possible and not to delay the return of the soldiers to their families.

As for himself, when he returned to Bafu to rest in the middle of the war, his title was promoted from the original Duke of Tang to the King of Tang. After that, apart from turning his family into a country, there was no substantial progress.

However, after a war, the King of Tang, as the boss of the society, was not praised, and the heroes were inevitably a little uneasy.

So after his subordinates' advice, Li Tai accepted the titles bestowed upon the "Le" children in his family. Except for Jiangling Le who had been granted the title of Duke of Nanjun earlier, Xiangyang Le was granted the title of Duke of Taiyuan, Tongzhou Le was granted the title of Duke of Dunhuang, and even the newly born Luoyang Le was granted the title of Duke of Longxi.