If Liu Xin planned to halve the commercial tax order, this order was made temporarily by him early this morning. This is the rule Ma Yun said that inspired him. Why the prefects everywhere are getting bolder and daring not to listen to the imperial orders. It is because they are too powerful. They both hold heavy soldiers and control local money and food. Liu Xin's goal is to separate the military and the administration, so that the generals in charge of the army cannot do without the support of local money and food, and the local officials must rely on the protection of the army to restrict each other, and no one can dominate.
Liu Xin smiled and said, "Sit down first, and I will announce the third order. After the New Year, another 20,000 recruits will be recruited from various places, and all regular troops will be organized into five corps. Xu Huang is the commander of the First Army Corps, Zhang Fei was the commander of the Second Army Corps, Zhang Yun was the commander of the Third Army Corps, and Zhao Yun was the commander of the Fourth Army Corps, each commanding 10,000. Huang Zhong was the commander of the Fifth Army Corps, commanding 15,000 troops. Soldiers conscripted Instead of grouping them by region, they will be broken up and reorganized into various legions."
Xu Huang, Zhang Fei, Zhang Yun, and Zhao Yun all stood up and said, "I will obey the order of the big brother!"
Liu Xin waited for them to sit down and continued: "I plan to build a training center on the outskirts of Xiangyang. In the future, the corps will take turns to transfer some soldiers into the center to participate in actual combat training. This training center will be in charge of Wenren."
Wen recruited some time ago to be responsible for the secretly formed special forces training. He did everything in a satisfactory manner. He was finally appreciated by Liu Xin and he was able to stand alone. Hearing this, he hurriedly got up and said, "Finally, I will obey the order!"
Liu Xin looked at Cai Hao again and said, "Next, I will announce the fifth order. The Jingzhou navy has undergone major adjustments, divided into three fleets, stationed in Jiangxia, Jiangling, and Changsha. Except for soldiers from Jiangxia, the rest are all soldiers. They were divided into Jiangling and Changsha naval forces, led by Ganning and Zhang Yun respectively. Cai Hao is still the navy captain, leading Jiangxia soldiers to station in place. Degui, the situation there is more complicated. The burden is not light."
Although Cai Hao was a little reluctant, he had to leaned down and said, "The final will definitely fulfill his mission."
Everyone saw that the navy had already been mentioned, and it was estimated that his order was almost issued, but Liu Xin looked at Kong Wen again and said: "Kong Wen, you are now in charge of the research institute, and the burden is not light. After the Chinese New Year, you Pick some skilled craftsmen and go to Jiangling to investigate the terrain there. If appropriate, build a shipyard there and build a batch of new-style warships. I'll talk about the specific ideas with you later."
Kong Wen also promised again and again. No one thought that at the beginning of the new year, Liu Xin even issued five decrees. Obviously he did not rest at home some time ago, and he couldn't help but respect him, but he didn't know that these were only thought of in the morning.
Seeing that everyone's faces became serious, Liu Xin smiled, and said, "What I just said, after the Spring Festival, everyone will do it separately. Next, let me talk about two more things."
When everyone listened to his instructions, they all "cocked" in their hearts. It seemed that the Spring Festival this year was uneasy.
But Liu Xin slowly said: "I am going to have two happy events on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Tian Feng, Huang Zhong, and Gan Ning can't leave Changsha, so they will organize a wedding for Xu Chu. Yi De, you and Miss Xiahou The wedding will be done on this day too."
Everyone immediately became relaxed and congratulated Zhang Fei in unison.
Liu Xin was busy giving orders in front, and Ma Yun was not idle in the back house. She used all of the maids who had always been in front of Liu Xin some time ago and assigned them to some remote courtyards to do some rough chores. . He transferred the sisters Ling'er and Xiu'er to his side. Around Bian Yu and Zhu Qian, some wives and young ladies from large families were also employed as maids. After all, these people were educated and paid more attention to etiquette.
In the past, Ma Yun didn't pay much attention to the difference between inside and outside, but the scene last night sounded the alarm for her. Today, she especially reiterated that domestic slaves in the front yard are not allowed to enter the inner house without permission, and offenders are killed on the spot. In Liu Xin's study, a few clever little servants were also replaced as book boys, and no longer served by maids.
After Ma Yun made such a big move, the hope of the maids who had their own minds to be in the upper position became even more bleak, but who would dare to say "no"
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the city of Changsha was decorated with lights and festoons. Xu Chu was wearing red and green, riding a tall horse, carrying Huajiao, and going to Song's house to welcome his relatives. Everything needed for the wedding, even the banquet and the banquet, were bought by the Song family. Song Gang spent a lot of money this time. The dowry was equipped with ten carts, and there were as many as twenty dowry maids. Although Liu Xin did not come to congratulate him personally, he also sent someone to send a generous gift and asked Cai Yong to write a congratulatory message by himself. The smile on his face hasn't disappeared since Mr. Xu got up in the morning, and everybody boasted that he had found a good wife.
The fly in the ointment is that Xu Chu was born with a good wine, and he did not refuse anyone who came at the wedding banquet. He was so drunk that he was sent into the bridal chamber by a man. He slept until dawn, causing Song Qi to sit all night. . From then on, the couple wentssiping, Song Qi always used to joke about Xu Chu, and Xu Chu often left her speechless.
The city of Xiangyang was a different scene. Zhang Fei and Xia Houjuan had already lived together, and neither of them had their parents or elders in front of them, which naturally saved a lot of trouble. The wedding banquet did not expand, only Liu Xin brought a group of cronies to the door to congratulate him.
Cai Yong sat at the wine table with mixed flavors in his heart. At this time last year, he gave a ceremony for his daughter in Xinye, because Cai Yan proposed to return the marriage with Wei's family. In his anger, he almost burned the Xinye county government office. A year has passed in a blink of an eye, and so many things have happened during this period. Now the marriage with Wei's family has also been retired, and her daughter is one year older, but her life is lost.
Knowing a daughter is not like a father, Cai Yan thought about something, Cai Yong said in his heart. When she retired last year, she compared Wei Zhongdao with Liu Xin. Recently, this girl ran to Liu Xin's house more frequently. Although he had misunderstood Liu Xin, Cai Yong now has a good impression of him. Not to mention anything else, the five decrees were issued on the first day of the Lunar New Year alone. This professionalism is unique among officials, especially young people, that Cai Yong has met.
But for Cai Yong to marry his daughter to Liu Xin, he is in a dilemma. Regardless of whether Liu Xin himself meant it or not, it would be difficult for Cai Yong to let him go if Cai Yan married her. If my daughter wanted to retire, it would be fine to give her to Liu Xin. After all, Liu Xin had only Ma Yun as a wife at the time. Now Liu Xin not only has Bian Yu and Zhu Qian, but even the girl named Qiao'er next to Ma Yun on New Year's Day has also changed into a woman's attire. It's fine for his Cai Yong's daughter to be a concubine, and she has to line up behind a girl to tell him how to meet people.
Cai Yan, this girl, obviously has a strong opinion now. If she marries an ordinary person, she will never look down on her, but where can she find someone who can match Liu Xin
Cai Yong sat at the wedding banquet, full of thoughts. He is the principal of the academy. Everyone will have three or two children who are going to study. The people attending the wedding banquet all respect him very much. Everyone will come and offer him a glass or two of wine. Cai Yong did not refuse to come, and no one noticed that this old gentleman, who had always been reserved, was already drunk unknowingly.
After the first month, the spirit of the new year gradually disappeared, and everyone started to get busy in full accordance with Liu Xin's arrangement.
Xu Huang and Zhang Xi have completed the handover of the county affairs, and started recruiting new recruits together with Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun. Liu Xin paid special attention to the recruitment of new recruits. He knew that the cost of training a farmer into a qualified soldier was very great.
Due to the difference in the living environment, the nomads in the north have grown up on horseback, and as long as they can pick up bows and arrows, they are qualified fighters. The peasants are different. Many of them don't even say horseback archery, or even use swords and guns. This can be seen from the battle between the Yellow Turban Army and the elite soldiers of the imperial court.
What Liu Xin wants to take is the elite military route, and he hopes to cultivate a group of professional soldiers. Therefore, in the selection of the source of troops, he first emphasized that the age must be between 18 and 20 years old, so that the army can be trained for a long time and can maintain combat effectiveness for at least 15 years.
Since he is a professional soldier, Liu Xin's salary is relatively high, even so high that an ordinary soldier can support his wife and children with the military salary alone. Since the new army is no longer divided according to their native place, but the recruits from various places are scattered and reorganized, many people will inevitably be far away from their hometowns. Liu Xin stipulated that each soldier may enjoy two vacations a year to visit relatives, and each vacation lasts as long as one month. On the other hand, in order to stabilize the military’s spirit, Liu Xin also stipulated that anyone who dared to rape or commit adultery with military corps shall be sentenced to death, and he also charged a crime of sabotage of military marriage.
This series of regulations were issued at the same time as the conscription, so this year’s recruitment of new recruits is progressing very smoothly. The vacancies of nearly 30,000 soldiers were filled in only five or six days, and the conscripts who came to sign up Still in an endless stream.
After a month of intense construction, the training center in charge of Wenxin has also begun to take shape. The training center is also located in the mountains of Xianshan in the southwest of Xiangyang City, not far from the training base of the special forces he is in charge of, so that he can take care of it both.
Kong Wen also took his selected craftsmen to Jiangling several times. Although he did not know the techniques of shipbuilding, he had experience in developing various paper products. Kong Wen still showed some of his talents in overall planning. Liu Xin currently has no such talents available. Liu Xin is also ignorant of shipbuilding, but he still has some knowledge from later generations, such as laying keels, sealing cabins, and rods used in ancient water battles. As for how these things can be realized, it depends on these craftsmen. The wisdom of it.
Liu Xin had a vague impression that it lasted nearly a hundred years from Dong Zhuo’s rebellion to the return of the Three Kingdoms to Shanxi. During this one hundred years, the population of Dahan dropped sharply from 56 million to 16 million. , Forty million people were lost. Liu Xin doesn't want history to repeat itself before his eyes. What he has to do is to end the coming troubled times as soon as possible. As a result, Liu Xin had a preliminary long-term plan.