Chapter 651

Thanks to the impression that the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty were worse than shit, it is an inevitable phenomenon that the Chinese people distrust the civil servants.

Then, the army of a country is to ensure the existence of the country. Even if the military really has some shit, the information about the army is actually closed. It is not known by ordinary people at all, which makes ordinary people have a better impression on the army.

In fact, even if civil servants in a country are greedy or even do things that are angry with people, their harm is not as powerful as the army.

Once the army erodes, the country will enter the stage of having a country without defense. The invasion of foreign enemies will lead to the subjugation of the country. If there is a rebellion in the army, it is not as simple as the people are unable to make a living. It is the country that is caught in the flames of war.

As long as he is a ruler with normal mind, he can tolerate the corruption of civil servants, but he can never see the corruption of the military. Everything is that civil servants have no military power. Only a few yamen servants can easily clean up corrupt civil servants. Once the military is involved, there is no trivial matter.

Although Liu Yan has become a king, the thought he has developed for a long time will not change just because of a few years. What events do he need to encounter to wake up.

The rulers of all dynasties, as long as they were not forced, would not feed their generals too much. What they did was to keep the materials in the hands of the military at a minimum, so that even if there was a rebellion, the army would lack materials and could not fight for a long time.

As a ruler, Liu Yan has not really become a king. It's just that he can't be cold-blooded and ruthless. Because he didn't miss the army before crossing, some actions are really too inclined to the military.

It is not that no one in the Han Dynasty saw the risk of the army mastering a large amount of materials. It should be said that anyone can see it. For the time being, no one advised Liu Yan.

No one stated the reasons for the fierce relationship. As the imperial envoy doctor, sang Yu personally visited all counties and counties. In only three months, he found out a large group of local officials who did all kinds of bad things, which really made the central civil service system blush and hard to speak. Then, the country will enter the stage of internal affairs development. Because the military cannot start a large-scale war, there is fire and no place to start. Anyone who jumps out may be hated and attacked by the military.

In fact, there is another reason that even civil servants can't refute. As long as you are a civil servant, from the above to the three emperors and five emperors, now to modern times, as a civil servant, you know that as long as there is oil and water, there must be people who reach out. It's the necessity that people reach out in most cities no matter how risky. The difference is big greed or small greed.

This is not to say that the military will not reach out. Any group has pests. The problem is that the military has fewer people than civil servants because of its sense of honor and discipline.

Ji Chang defines himself as the loyal dog leg of the king. If others dare not or do not want to speak, he has to speak even if he is tough.

After the meeting, Liu Yan, as usual, went to the back hall to sit for a small meeting, waiting for someone to pay a private audience and talk about some matters that are not easy to say at the meeting. Maybe someone will make a small report.

"Well, what about military corruption?" Liu Yan did not think about this problem. As soon as Ji Chang said it, he had to put it on the table: "materials are managed and dispatched by the military, but they should be supervised by the central and local teams."

"The army keeps a huge amount of materials..." Ji Chang said a little boldly, "I'm afraid something unspeakable will happen."

As I said, no rulers in all dynasties are willing to let the army master materials, even if the materials are too much for the national treasury, but the practice is that the supplies are limited to the available range of three months, so as to block the logistics of the army and make the rebel forces lack supplies, so that they can be better suppressed.

The army of the Han Dynasty was founded by Liu Yan. He has absolute power and respect in the military. He really didn't worry that the army would break out of rebellion. As a result, Ji Chang mentioned that the army might break out of rebellion. The expression on his face was very strange.

Ji Chang was afraid of Liu Yan's complete confidence in the military. He was relieved to see the strange expression on Liu Yan's face. He won't say that some materials should be kept and allocated by the civil service system. Liu Yan has made a decision at the imperial meeting to discuss how to supervise.

To carry out nationwide infrastructure construction, first of all, there should be food reserves. Ji changlai had already found Yu Yi before. As a group to colonize the Indochina Peninsula, Yu's family is the first. At least nominally, all families respect Yu's family. If there is any problem, it's right to find Yu's family.

Even if it's just a nominal leader, Yu Yi is still afraid of becoming a leader. He's afraid that Liu Yan has any bad views. In addition, it's equivalent to erecting a sign of being attacked. From this, he never shirks when he can cooperate with Liu Yan, and never pretends to force when he can keep a low profile for all kinds of things.

Before Ji Chang came, Yu Yi made the greatest psychological preparation. Ji Chang only asked a few questions, and he said that even if all the monkeys in the Indochina Peninsula starved to death, he would ensure that as much food as possible would be collected and returned home.

It has been nearly two years since the Han people entered the Indochina Peninsula. They know how much local production capacity they can achieve. The last time he talked about the food problem, Yu Yi contracted a share of 15 million stones as soon as he opened his mouth.

Fifteen million stone grain sounds a lot. In fact, the quantity is really huge. According to the unit of measurement in the Jin Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, a stone is 160 kilograms of the modern unit of measurement, so it is 2.4 billion kilograms. According to Liu Yan's plan, the unit of measurement is 1.2 million tons.

1.2 million tons of grain is not small, but if more people eat it, it will be shared equally to 17 million people. If it is not suppressed, it will be enough for about three months at most. There are still various supplementary foods. Without supplementary food, the ancients let go of eating, and a young meal can eat up to a kilogram.

There are only 1.2 million tons of grain available for 17 million people. Such a country must be taking pills every minute. Therefore, even if the Indochina Peninsula can provide this amount of grain, it is still a cup of water.

"If there is really no grain in the Central Plains, just calculate the output of the South and settle the tax..." Ji Chang blinked his eyes for a while and said quite difficultly: "about 40 million stones at most?"

Taking the original territory of the small imperial court in the Eastern Jin Dynasty as an example, the official taxable farming in the country ended before the demise of the small imperial court. If there were 20 million stones a year, it would be the top of the sky. The data of Jichang doubled, and many southern aristocratic families were destroyed. The farming land originally concealed by the aristocratic family surfaced.

Liu Yan's calculation was fairly qualified. He calculated silently and got the figure of 4.4 million tons. This time, he kept blinking and startled at the food available all over the country. After a little confusion, he asked, "what's the grain reserve now, big man?"

Ji Chang opened his mouth and gave the number: "the contract is 35 million stones."

There will be this number. First, Huan Wen killed a lot in the South and seized it from the exterminated families; In addition, the annual tax accumulation naturally includes the looting on the other side of the Indochina Peninsula.

"Last year, the man's consumption for statistics totaled 70 million stones, of which 70% was used in war and the rest was supplied to the people." When Ji Chang mentioned this, he felt a severe pain in his crotch. The army has always been a big consumer of food. When war broke out, he opened his mouth and continued to swallow food. He had something to say clearly: "the Han Dynasty expelled the Hu prisoners one after another. The counties in Shandong recovered early and resumed production first. Most of the rest of the Central Plains rely on the central grain transfer supply market."

Liu Yan knows a lot about this psychology. Only a small part of the grain collected or bought can be stored, and more can be directly mobilized to supply all parties. As a result, the grain in his hand is extremely worrying, and he can't store any strategic reserve grain at all.

The Central Plains has been plagued repeatedly by Hu Lu of all ethnic groups. Ding Ruijian is one of them. Hu Lu is really turning the central plains into a pasture. Most of the farmland developed by Zhuxia ancestors is abandoned. It will take time to restore farming. There is a lack of sufficient labor force, almost no irrigation system, and a lack of production tools, which poses a great problem for restoring production.

Over the past three years, the central government has repeatedly stressed the dredging of the original irrigation system. Local people who can move, whether they are corvee or employed, are doing this, and a large number of slaves are also devoted to this work.

Most people work with enthusiasm, thinking about the restoration of the irrigation system should be everywhere, but God doesn't want people to live in peace at all. The Central Plains has ushered in drought, and drought will inevitably lead to the disaster of locusts.

In modern times, there is no good method for drought. Even if drought is detected in advance, it is of little use to store water in the reservoir. If it is not the reservoir, the water will not be absorbed or evaporated by the stratum. The water in the reservoir must have the same subsystem to be transported to the place where it is needed, What can be remedied is to transport the water conservancy in the area without water shortage to the water conservancy system originally built. (this is the purpose of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project)

If you want to build a system to allocate water, it's really not something you can do in the era of no machinery. Think about the manpower and time spent by the first emperor to build Dujiangyan, and then look at the number of deaths and injuries of 2 million people spent by Yang Guang to dig a canal. It is clear that the process must be scalp numbness.

If he could make preparations in advance, Liu Yan would do it. The big deal is to be prepared to die hundreds of thousands of slaves. The problem is that when he had that time, the Central Plains was not under his rule. It was not enough time to wait for him to occupy the Central Plains. In the face of a large-scale drought, he could only take some minor remedial measures. Later investigations also proved that those measures were useless.

"There is no tax in the Central Plains this year. It's only calculated in the South... I'm afraid it's difficult to guarantee what we need." Ji Chang didn't say that the South wanted to increase taxes. The South was only under rule for two years. It was a critical moment to clean up the hearts of the people. The tax increase would make the southerners separated from each other, which was obviously unfavorable to the rule of the South: "fortunately, the Han Dynasty didn't have a large-scale war. It can remove most of the army's grain consumption and put more grain into the big project of work for relief."

Liu Yanzheng wanted to speak. Cui zonglai reported that Xu Zheng, ran min and Huan Wen asked for an audience.

The large-scale war being carried out by the military has basically stopped, and most of the serious high-ranking generals have to return to the center. If they do not have the responsibility of supervising work for relief, they must be free to walk around and fight chickens and dogs.

The three of them just attended the Grand Court meeting and were wearing a martial man's corset dress, not a military uniform. They walked into the back hall, lined up, respectfully saluted Liu Yan, and then stared at Ji Chang.

"The prime minister is talking about the custody of materials?" Without waiting for Jichang to give a response, ran Min said carelessly: "we had a little discussion and thought that it was inappropriate for the military to keep and allocate materials, which should still belong to the prime minister's office."

Xu Zheng nodded constantly, a little bright and said, "that's right, that's right. We martial artists can only kill people in the wild. How can we do such a fine job."

Ji Changgang was staring at him inexplicably and slightly annoyed. After listening to Xu Zheng and ran min's words, he was a little stunned and complained: "Chang discussed with the king about the Han's reserve of food and did not talk about it."

The response of the three military leaders to Ji Chang was a burst of "ha ha......" looking at the expression on his face, it was clear that he didn't believe it.

The original thing is that the military is really engaged in murder, arson and killing people everywhere. The management and deployment of herdsmen and materials are the work of civil servants. The speed of the Han Army's recovery is fast enough. At present, the Han country has a large number of military control areas. Even if it is a last resort in troubled times, it has stepped across the border anyway.

A large-scale natural disaster is about to occur. Kings should be prepared for disaster relief. Since ancient times, as long as they have a relationship with the people, they seem to be run by the civil service system, and the military will be allowed to enter under the extremely special premise. It must be said that the civil service system is generally screwed up. Disaster relief makes local people unable to live. There is chaos. The military comes out to kill people.

"Whoever does the work, who will do it." Ran min just wants to carry out rough to the end, regardless of whether his words are good or not and whether he should say: "don't worry about mastering so many materials, but if we don't worry about ourselves, please take back his life. We thought carefully and thought that only relying on the output of the big man, the food is not enough. We should kill and rob, and how much we can rob is how much."

Liu Yan understood that the three military leaders could not calm down, and the military was unwilling to use only two standing military forces to fight. What he wanted was to make achievements and do not stop.

Ji Chang said weakly, "Indochina Peninsula is a colony of families..."

"We don't go there to get involved." Ran min looked at Liu Yan pleasantly. The thief said, "what Liang family and Chen family, don't they still have a large number of countries in the north? The king also said that the Ganges River Basin over ah San is a large grain producing area. Now the big man is short of food and his family doesn't have enough food, so we think we should rob ah San."

Ah San is also the place designated by Liu Yan to give fun to the domestic people, that is, now I eat some support on the Indochina Peninsula. I can't stretch out my hand before I digest it. I'm expected to wait for a few years or even decades.

"What channel has not been found?" Xu Zheng also looked like a thief: "officials think that if they are not familiar with cross-sea operations, they will not destroy the country and the nation. It is very appropriate to rob with appropriate forces."

At this moment, Liu Yan looked at Ji Chang and thought it was time to take a good look.