New Shun 1730

These rich inheritances can be said to belong to the Xia Dynasty or the Li family.

Since the imperial power is supreme, the latter is naturally more important.

A few days later, Liu Yu officially started his duty and wrote his ideas in a legitimate channel.

He roughly talked about his ideas and said that such things need to be investigated in person before they can be confirmed, otherwise it is likely to be a paper talk. He hoped that the emperor would allow someone to inspect and investigate the situation of the good family children in the old fifth camp.

The emperor also quickly approved it, and the candidate was naturally Liu Yu.

Liu Yu was given a strange official position, the inspection and inspection envoy of the Ji camp in the old fifth camp.

This is not a permanent official position. It is usually filled by Long Jin. The main purpose is to inspect the situation of the hereditary soldiers in the old fifth camp. Including camp school, land, training, etc.

As the spokesperson of the emperor, the inspection and inspection envoy directly communicates with the good family children in the old fifth camp. He has a waist badge and dispatches dozens of elite soldiers of the children's army to follow him.

The so-called old fifth camp is the five camps when Xi'an was established.

Left Camp, Right Camp, Vanguard Camp, Back Camp, Zhongji Camp.

This is the foundation of Dashun's struggle for the world. After the world was pacified, this foundation was about tens of thousands of households, and now it is about 120,000.

The reason why it is called the Old Fifth Camp is that the main force of the Beijing Camp also uses this set of names. But the Beijing Camp is a field organization, while the Old Fifth Camp is a household registration organization, so an old is added in front to distinguish it.

The imperial farms of the previous dynasty, the enclosure of the Qing Dynasty, and the recovery of Liaodong, after the brutal war, there is a lot of land that can be distributed in the north.

Among them, the Right Camp and the Zhongji Camp are distributed in the capital and Inner Mongolia, with a total of about 50,000.

The Vanguard Camp is in Liaodong, with about 20,000.

The Left Camp is in Shaanxi and Hetao, with about 20,000.

The Back Camp is in Jingxiang, with about 20,000.

The Right Camp and the Zhongji Camp defend the capital, relying on the bloody "legacy" of the imperial farms of the previous dynasty and the enclosure of the Qing Dynasty.

The Vanguard Camp is stationed in Liaodong, relying on a large amount of land after the plowing and sweeping.

The left camp was stationed in Tianming Xijing, where Dashun started, and the Hetao area, and cooperated with the vanguard camp to suppress Mongolia from the east and west.

The back camp was stationed in Jingxiang, which was almost a wasteland eighty years ago. It could send troops to the southwest in the west and directly to the south of the Yangtze River in the east, and it was in the center of the world.

These five camps of good families, about 120,000 households, were the real base of the Li family.

It was also a variant of the Tang Dynasty's fubing, tax-free, free from military service, serving in the army, and equal land distribution.

Compared with the "stepmother-raised" fubing on the banks of the Songhua River, these fubing raised by their own mothers had a complete camp-school three-house system, an easier opportunity to enter the Wude Palace, spokespersons and relationships in the court, and money invested in education by the court every year.

The group of stepmother-raised fubing on the banks of the Songhua River were simply not the same.

Maybe the only advantage of the group of soldiers raised by stepmothers on the banks of the Songhua River is that there are plenty of wastelands, which you can open up at will. If you can open up 10,000 acres yourself, it will all be yours...

This is why the Northern Confucianism has been saying "I hope the court will expand the Sanshe School and carry out Fenzhai education" but the Dashun has never agreed: it has already spent too much money to support these 120,000 Han and Tang good families, ensure their status as self-cultivating farmers, and ensure sufficient educational resources, and there is simply no money to carry out Sanshe Law and Fenzhai education throughout the north.

This group of people is the cornerstone of the attack on the city of Muli Jiwei with huge casualties.

If there are too many such good families, it is easy to turn them into military serfs of the previous dynasty.

Only with these basic groups as the backbone, the overall number of the army can be guaranteed by the recruitment system.

The 23rd Company of Zhongjiying in Baoding Prefecture, Northern Zhili, is a typical village community of this kind.

It is also the home of several unlucky students who failed the entrance examination of Wude Palace that Liu Yu found.

The 23rd Company of Zhongji Camp, such a strange name, continued from the legacy of Li Guo at the beginning of the founding of the country, and took the old name of "Duke Huan of Qi organized 200 households into one company".

It sounds like a military number, but in fact, the 23rd Company of Zhongji Camp is a village community.

There are a total of 400 households in the village community.

In the previous dynasty, this was the imperial farm of the Zhu family. After the Qing Dynasty came, the land was enclosed. After the Dashun came, this place became an official farm.

There were not many tenants who survived here. Before, they either fled or were captured by the Qing Dynasty as cannon fodder. Those who survived were enriched by the Dashun in Liaodong.

When Liu Yu, the inspector, came here, it was October. The autumn harvest had been completed, and a group of newly grown young people were gathering in the courtyard of the village community, preparing to join the army.

Next to the courtyard is the location of the camp school of this village community.

Wude Palace is divided into three houses, and these camp schools are also three houses.

The camp schools in each village community are all outer camp schools. About one in a few people can enter the inner camp school. However, after further assessment, even fewer people can finally enter the upper camp school.

These fewer people will compete for the opportunity to enter the Wude Palace.

The plaque of the camp school is "Zhongji Camp 23rd Company Camp School" written by Emperor Gaozong. There were about 250 companies in the old fifth camp of good families at that time, and the plaques of the camp schools of all companies were written by the emperor.

Although it seems like wholesale, it is also an attitude, telling the world that these people are not serfs and soldiers of the previous dynasty, but the direct power of the emperor. Even if it is a big soldier, it is the lowest noble under the twenty ranks of nobility in the Qin and Han dynasties.

Where the emperor wrote with his own handwriting, even if he wrote "I have been here", ordinary people would have to dismount when passing by.

Just like clothes like Feiyufu, it is reasonable to wear them as long as you have money, but under the hierarchy system, this cheap reward has become a kind of nobility.

As a similar and equally cheap "noble", the old Wuying Liangjiazi could ride horses, fight, and play in front of the plaques of the camps mentioned by the emperors everywhere.

Although this does not provide two more acres of land, nor can one become an official, in the feudal dynasty under the hierarchical system, it is undoubtedly a kind of favor and extremely effective.

In the courtyard of the village community, more than thirty young men lined up. They were all young, about seventeen or eighteen.

A veteran or officer wearing a decorated uniform was speaking at the front of the team. The young men in the team did not dare to speak and could only listen.

"Enlisted in the army at the age of 16 or 7, and trained in the camp for one year. After returning to get married and have children, he officially entered the camp at the age of twenty and served for fifteen years. If there is no war, he would take two years off and one year off. This is the rule set by Emperor Taizong."

"Before yesterday, you were still children. You might have been naughty and wiped each other's noses on each other. But from today on, you are serious soldiers."

"Training in the camp is not like doing it at home, where you'll really get beaten."

"You have all been trained since you were young. From the day you entered the camp, you learned writing and arithmetic. The rest of the time was spent practicing and performing martial arts."

"Now that you have grown up, if you really have the ability, then you can become a hero and chop people off to create the Shangzhu Kingdom. You will fight in the courtyard, fool around in the camp school, and get tired of the girls in the valley. Take them all out.”

The officer was still talking there, while Liu Yu and others got off their horses and watched from the sidelines.

He did not wear official uniforms as the inspection patrol, and he did not bring all the guards with him. He only brought a few officers of the Boy's Army assigned by the emperor, as well as his cronies such as Mantou and Kang Buyao.

After watching it for a while, he turned his attention to the village in the distance.

Several houses in the village did not have last year's New Year's couplets posted on their doorways. It was obvious that someone in the family had died within the past three years, possibly during the siege on the banks of the Songhua River.

There was a sound of reading in the camp, and it sounded like he was reciting the multiplication table.

Outside the courtyard, a group of 13 or 14-year-old children, who had passed the age to study in the outer dormitory camp and had not been admitted to the middle dormitory camp, were gathering there to watch the fun.

Two children were wrestling there, with several little girls cheering and chirping next to them.

A few old men squatted on the head of the village commune, watching the queue of these young people.

It seems that these old men are all in their fifties or sixties. They have sent away dozens of children from the village community, and they have seen how many people come back alive.

After watching it with relish for a while, Kang Buyao whispered in Liu Yu's ear: "Master, have you seen these camps? I checked the classics and found that fifty yuan is allocated every year for the camps of Liangjiazi in the fifth camp. More than ten thousand taels of silver. Do you know why the Northern Confucianists want to promote these methods but the court has been unable to agree? "

Liu Yu mentally calculated the astonishing figures for this promotion and said with a smile: "It's easy to understand. But these five hundred thousand taels of silver every year are not in vain, they are a huge profit."

Kang Buluo responded: "What the young master said is true. The main reason is that this is just money for running a school. When there are more people, immigrants will also give priority to the children of good families in the fifth camp, and the children of good families are the easiest to make meritorious services and be awarded honors. If they are not given land, Money is given every year, which is another sum of money. Paper, pen and ink, teachers in the camp; annual gifts and rewards for meritorious service; expenses for immigration; Emperor Taizong's instructions to eat tofu even if you can't afford meat, are shipped from Liaodong every year. The soybean reward... this year, the various expenditures alone are about 1.5 million taels. "

"Young master, don't forget that as long as a good family member joins the army, he will not pay taxes or perform labor service. The millions of acres of land coming in and out will be a lot of money. In Gyeonggi, one household has 40 acres of Yongye land; in Liaodong One household had sixty acres; one household in Jingxiang had twenty-five acres, not including Hetao Mongolia. Due to the former imperial village, the enclosure of the Tartars, and the bloody battles in Jingxiang, the imperial court could only afford so much. It’s official land.”

"Although the pension for those killed in battle is not much, in places like the southwest and northwest, in every bloody battle, several people will die in every village. These pensions also cost a sum of money."

"The imperial court can only support so many. If there are more, they will only become military households of the previous dynasty. Emperor Taizong also said that the more valuable the essence is, the more valuable it is."

Liu Yu nodded. After fifteen years of service, the imperial court would only have 40,000 to 50,000 elite soldiers.

Part of it is filled in the northwest, part of it is stationed in Inner Mongolia, Liaodong all year round, and part of it is filled in the southwest, used as a trump card in battles like the siege of Mulijwei.

Not to mention those stationed in Xijing, Hetao, Liaodong, and Mongolia, even the Houjin Battalion stationed in Jingxiang is also going to fight in the southwest.

It seems that when they serve, they only get one or two taels of silver a month, which is not much different from what they get from recruiting soldiers.

But in fact, the previous investment was huge. When calculated, it was not just one or two taels of silver per month. It had to be at least two or three times more. Taking into account the land without taxes and labor service, I'm afraid it would be even more.

Dashun controls the whole of China, but he can only afford this few elite soldiers, and he really can't afford any more.

But...Liu Yu felt that it was still a bit wasteful.

Dashun's military system was obviously on the wrong track, crooked to the extreme.

With such a solid foundation, he can become a grassroots officer.

Dashun regarded them as elite soldiers and organized them independently...

It is a real waste of resources to group together a group of people who can become non-commissioned officers or lieutenants with a little training and use them as private soldiers.

At this time, the queue in the courtyard not far away dispersed, and a few people came over.

After looking at the height and fatness of the horse led by Liu Yu, he asked politely: "What are you doing here?"