Chapter 2589 Reserve system, hot recruitment scene
Chapter 2586: Reserve system, hot recruitment scene
In fact, Ying Hao had already thought of future military expansion plans in advance before the expansion of the army.
In Ying Hao''s vision, after two years of rest, the Qin Dynasty could expand its army and spend one year to expand its army to 1.4 million, including 950,000 light and heavy infantry, 300,000 light and heavy cavalry, and 150,000 navy.
But compared with the development of the Qin Dynasty, Ying Hao''s plan to expand the army is still too conservative.
In the past two years, the development of Daqin has been much faster in all aspects than Ying Hao expected, especially in the maritime trade, which accounts for almost half of the total fiscal revenue of Daqin in Shenwu in one year.
The countries in the South China Sea seem extremely primitive and backward on the surface, but their resources are extremely rich, and there is a great demand for all kinds of commodities in the advanced civilized Daqin, which has become the largest commodity dumping place for the Qin Dynasty.
In Shenwu year, Ye Qingmei went to the West for the first time, and the value of the wealth brought back accounted for 50% of the total income of Daqin in one year;
In the second year of Shenwu, Zheng He was led by his second voyage to the West.
Because the Qin Dynasty developed rapidly this year, even if the weight of the goods sold on the second trip to the West was 20% higher than the first time, it only accounted for 40% of the total revenue of the Qin Dynasty in one year;
In the third year of Shenwu, as Wu, Chu and Ming joined the ranks of maritime trade, they naturally seized a certain proportion of the market share of the Qin Dynasty.
However, due to Ying Hao''s advance arrangement, Daqin and Nanyang countries signed trade agreements, with fixed transaction quotas every year, and the quality of the products sold is better, so they are not afraid of competing with Wu, Chuming and the three countries.
Even though Wu and Chu used all their means, they only snatched away 20% of the market share, and Daqin still occupied 80% of the profits of the maritime trade.
Seeing that the three kingdoms of Wu, Chuming could not take away the market share of Daqin, they had no choice but to open up new markets and increase the total share by expanding the total transaction volume of maritime trade.
In this regard, the Qin Dynasty not only did not stop it, but was happy to agree. After all, the maritime market was far from saturation, and the markets now expanded by the three kingdoms of Wu, Chu and Ming will naturally belong to the Qin Dynasty after the world is unified.
The third voyage to the West of Daqin was still dominated by Zheng He, with Shen Wansan and Magellan as deputy.
Zheng He has not returned yet. It is estimated that the income from his voyage to the West can account for at least 35% of Daqin''s total revenue this year.
From 50% in the first year to only 35% in the third year.
Daqin''s annual maritime trade revenue is increasing, but its fiscal share is getting lower and lower, which just shows how rapid development of Daqin is.
In the past three years, the construction of the Qin Dynasty''s academic palace, repairing the Chidao, managing the Yellow River, digging the Yinshan Canal, and reclaiming the average annual amount of fertile land of 50 million mu, and other major projects that benefit the country and the people are steadily advancing.
In comparison, although marine trade revenue is also increasing year by year, the growth rate is not as rapid as the country''s development, so the total proportion decreases.
Three years of rapid development have made the current fiscal revenue of Daqin almost double that of three years ago.
This is also the confidence that Ying Hao dared to expand his army of 700,000 at one time and increase his total strength to 1.55 million.
In fact, with the current national strength and total population of the Qin Dynasty, not to mention 1.55 million troops, even 1.8 million can be maintained. If you tighten your belt, you can barely expand your army by two million, but the country''s development will also stagnate.
Ying Hao did not feel that it would take two million troops to destroy the seven kingdoms of Shu, Chu, Wei, Song, Wu, Ming and Sui. It would be more than 1.55 million.
Letting one hundred and fifty thousand troops charge forward and leaving 400,000 troops to defend their homes in the rear is already considered a steady and steady force, and there will definitely be many surrendered troops in the process of unification.
Therefore, expanding the army to 1.55 million is enough, and there is no need to recruit more troops.
Isn’t it good to waste the military expenditure to develop internal affairs?
The total strength of the Qin Dynasty is now 850,000. If it directly expands its army of 700,000, it is equivalent to increasing its own size by 82%. This is a huge project and naturally it cannot be completed in a short period of time.
As for the specific matters of the expansion of the army and the proportion of the three armies of the waterway cavalry, Ying Hao, Prime Minister Wang Meng, the Secretary of the Six Ministry, Guo Jia, Jia Xiu and other first-rank officials discussed it all day long.
In the end, Ying Hao decided to conduct large-scale recruitment nationwide, and in the next year, the army would be expanded by 700,000 and the corresponding training matters would be completed.
However, in order to conceal the specific number of troops expanded, the Qin Dynasty secretly opened and built seventy new military camps in mountainous areas of more than 20 densely populated cities such as Luoyang, Chang''an, Jinyang, Nanyang, Xiangyang, and Yecheng. Each military camp accommodates 10,000 troops for new recruits to conduct secret training.
Among them, there will be fifteen military camps alone, while Chang''an, Xiangyang and Yecheng will be built directly.
As for the distribution of the thirteen cavalry training camps, they are four in Bingzhou and three in Youlianghe.
If this arrangement is made, even if countries find out that the Qin Dynasty will expand its military, since the Qin Dynasty secretly expands its military force, it will not disclose the amount of military expansion, and the new army is divided across the country, so countries will naturally not know how many military troops the Qin Dynasty has expanded.
After the expansion of the army was completed, the division of the 1.55 million troops of the Qin Dynasty was divided into: 1.1 million light and heavy infantry, 300,000 light and heavy cavalry, and 150,000 navy.
Compared with Ying Hao''s previous military expansion plan, the number of two major military troops of the water cavalry has not changed, but the number of infantry has increased by 150,000.
After all, after the war of unification begins, siege war will definitely be indispensable, and infantry is the main force in siege war.
In addition, after the military expansion plan is completed, the Qin army will also have a total of 300,000 cavalry, reaching the highest number of cavalry in all dynasties.
Whether during the period of Qin Shihuang or the period of Emperor Wu of Han, the number of cavalry was far inferior to that of Ying Hao.
With these 300,000 cavalry, after unification, Ying Hao could easily destroy the Yuan Qing Dynasty and expand the territory of the Qin Dynasty to the entire East and Northeast Asia.
As for the navy, the Qin Dynasty had only 50,000 in total, but now it has expanded to 150,000, with a total force of three times that of the previous one, even surpassing the Wu and Chu countries in Jiangnan.
Before the Qin Dynasty, there were only two major water camp bases in Beihai and Tianjin, so they naturally could not accommodate so many naval troops. Now, six new water camp bases in Bohai, Liaodong, Liaoxi, Lelang, Edo and Luzon are to be opened, totaling eight major water camps.
Among them, the six major bases of Beihai, Bohai, Tianjin, western Liaoning, Liaodong and Lelang are all distributed around the Yellow Sea area.
If the Qin Dynasty can take down Donglai again, it will block the entire Yellow Sea area and make the Yellow Sea an inner lake of the Qin Dynasty.
However, if you want to achieve this goal, you must defeat the Ming navy.
Beihai, Tianjin, Liaodong, Bohai, western Liaodong, and Edo, all of these seven major watershed villages stationed 20,000 naval troops, while Luzon stationed 10,000 naval troops. Among the 150,000 naval troops of the Qin Dynasty, 120,000 were placed in the local area, and the remaining 30,000 were placed in Yingzhou and Luzon.
Yingzhou and Luzon are related to the lifeline of the sea trade of the Qin Dynasty. They transport a large amount of benefits to the Qin Dynasty every year, and no mistakes are allowed. It is also very necessary to leave 30,000 naval troops to garrison.
In addition, four of the six major water villages in the Daqin area were placed in Youzhou.
It is conceivable how the reactions will be made in the Jin, Qing and North Korea after learning about it. I guess I will be worried that I will not be able to sleep for several days.
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A few days later, the Qin Dynasty announced the expansion of its military force, but did not announce the specific number of military force expansion, and only announced that it would recruit soldiers from the people this time.
After learning about the expansion, the people of all prefectures and counties in the Qin Dynasty were very excited.
You should know that the military pay of the Qin Dynasty is the highest in all countries. The military pay received by one person in one year is enough to make the whole family comfortable for a year and a half, and the food in the military camp is better than at home.
In addition, whether it is death in battle or disability, it is also a pension.
The disabled and discharged from the army will also be properly resettled, and they will basically return to their hometowns to work in low-level positions such as village chiefs, lizhengs, and militia instructors.
Joining the army in Daqin is a high-paid and very honorable matter, so the people of Daqin have completely different feelings about joining the army than the people of various countries.
The people of the Qin Dynasty not only did not dislike joining the army, but most men also wanted to join the army, thinking of going to the battlefield to kill the enemy and make contributions, which is also the fastest way to make achievements.
But it is not easy to join the army in Daqin.
Ying Hao established an extremely sound reserve system for the Qin Dynasty, and militia, county soldiers, constables, veterans and others all belong to the ranks of reserves.
Today, the total number of troops in the Qin Dynasty is 850,000, and there are nearly 300,000 reserves for maintaining public order such as militia, county soldiers, and constables in the country.
This has not included the 300,000 veterans laid off.
Once a war breaks out and the front-line troops suffer too much casualties, the military will transfer the reserves in the rear to replenish their forces.
As for the expenses of supporting these reserves?
First of all, militia and veterans do not need to pay military salaries at all.
As for county soldiers and constables, although they need to pay their salaries, they are only one-third of that of regular soldiers.
In other words, the expense of raising 300,000 county soldiers and constables is only equivalent to 100,000 regular soldiers, but maintaining public order across the country, which can be said to be quite cheap and cost-effective.
Of course, the combat effectiveness of public security reserves is obviously much weaker than that of regular troops. If they really go to the battlefield, they can only defend the city. Head-on combat is destined to be unable to defeat regular troops of all countries.
Even if the Qin Dynasty recruits troops, it will be recruited from the reserves first. Therefore, if ordinary people want to join the army, they must first become reserves such as militia, county soldiers, and constables, and receive three months of training.
But although Daqin has a huge reserve force, the number of people transformed it into regular troops is not large, and this is because Daqin has a tradition of reorganizing training and incorporating surrendered troops to supplement the military gap.
Before the surrendered army was officially established, there was no military pay or pension at all.
And after the formal organization is conveyed, it can be as short as three or four months and as long as one or two years, which can save a lot of military spending.
I also officially thought that this was the case. The generals of the Qin army generally liked to recruit surrendered troops to supplement their troops, so naturally there was no need to recruit soldiers from the reserve.
The Qin army''s combat losses have never been high. In most cases, just by incorporating surrendered troops can completely replenish the military gap, but sometimes it is not enough, so some places will be distributed for the reserve.
Therefore, whenever the Qin Dynasty recruits troops, even the reserves have to rush to register, and even five or six people compete for a place, and then select from physical strength and endurance, and finally stand out to become a regular army.
Only when the number of reserves is insufficient will the Qin Dynasty recruit soldiers from ordinary people.
But whether before or after the founding of the country, the Qin Dynasty had never been insufficient, which caused ordinary people to have no way to join the army.
But the expansion of the Qin Dynasty this time was different. The huge number of 700,000 new troops was not enough to add up all the reserves, so this time the recruitment was directly carried out among the people.
Ordinary people did not know the inside story, but only knew that the court had finally recruited soldiers from the people, and once they became regular soldiers, they could live a good life, so naturally they could not miss such a good opportunity, so they rushed to the recruitment station to register.
Even if the home is dozens of miles away from the recruiting station, it is still difficult to extinguish the enthusiasm of the people. Not far away, you have to register even if you walk for a few days.
"Sir, please accept me, please accept me. I can lift fifty kilograms of stone locks."
"What''s the point of a fifty kilogram stone lock? You can lift 60 kilogram stone locks."
"You can draw a strong bow with one stone."
"A mere stone is worthy of a strong bow? You can dig two stones underneath."
"Sir, I have walked fifty miles of mountain road. If you don''t accept me, I will have no shame to go home."
Such situations are common in recruiting stations in various parts of Daqin.
Within just three days after the military expansion order was issued, nearly one million people were registered in various parts of the Qin Dynasty, and this was just the beginning.
(This chapter ends)