After the reform, the military service system of the Han Dynasty became a five-year military service system.

What is the five-year military service system?

That is, an ordinary soldier must serve for five consecutive years starting from the day he joins the army.

After five years of service, you can choose to retire and go home.

Although the previous corvee system is still called corvee, to be more precise, it should be that only corvee is left, and the corvee system has been replaced by the new military service system.

In order to increase people's enthusiasm for joining the army, the imperial court also provided a series of guarantee and incentive systems for this purpose.

Military pay increases every year, and you can enjoy two years of tax exemption after retirement, as well as a one-time half-year military pay subsidy.

Although military pay and subsidies are all distributed in the form of food, the Han people are not short of food now.

The biggest advantage of this system is that it can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

At the same time, because of the continuous arrival of new soldiers, it can ensure the activity of the military camp and prevent it from turning into a lifeless stagnant water.

And this kind of system will not make people feel powerless and hopeless.

What does the first year of Jianyuan mean?

This means that by the end of the year, the first batch of soldiers will have reached their five-year service period and it is time for them to retire.

Although the living conditions in the military are good, not everyone wants to stay here for the rest of their lives.

Moreover, the age of this group of people is not too young. Basically, there are young and old in the family, so there will definitely be no shortage of people who choose to retire and go home.

Both the northern cavalry and the southern jungle army are fine. The cavalry is replenished with a large number of new recruits every year, so even if the first batch retires next year, it will not have a big impact on them. After the new recruits arrive, they can regain their combat effectiveness in about half a year.

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The jungle army in the south has added more than 100,000 people this year and has two years to train. After two years, these people will also become veterans and be able to support the important task of the jungle army.

The worst thing was the Shuzhong Military Camp.

The standard level of the Shuzhong barracks is not low, and its status in the imperial court is that of a troika that goes hand in hand with the northern cavalry and the southern jungle army.

However, due to real-time strategy issues, the Shuzhong barracks has never received attention, and also because of external circumstances, it was impossible to focus there.

And what are the consequences of neglect in all aspects?

By the end of next year, all 20,000 veterans in the Shuzhong Barracks will face the embarrassing situation of retirement.

In other words, if the imperial court does not replenish the strength of the Shuzhong military camp next year, then they will face a large national-level military camp with an empty establishment but no soldiers.

In other words, Chen Tieshan's mountain army, which he had spent five years and a lot of energy training in his nest in the middle of Shu, was faced with the embarrassing situation of having no one available to him.

Guan Ying's previous proposal to replenish the Shuzhong barracks with 20,000 new soldiers did not take this issue into consideration.

He was more concerned about the fact that the northern cavalry was 200,000, the southern jungle army was 160,000, and the southwestern mountain army was only 20,000. The imperial court was too partial.

That's why we decided to add 20,000 people to them without too much war pressure, so as to appease the soldiers of the mountain army.

Embarrassing, capital embarrassment.

As the Minister of War, he actually ignored such an important matter.

Moreover, after this group of soldiers retires next year, the increase in the number of troops will not be as violent as the current increase of hundreds of thousands a year.

Counting those who have stayed and those who have retired and the new ones who have joined, the annual growth rate is only around tens of thousands. And as time goes by, at a certain point in time, it is basically just as much as the number of people who have retired is made up.

Although Guan Ying was very anxious, there were such big flaws in his work that he had to retract his report.

You can only go back and make detailed changes later and make a new plan.

Of course, next year's recruits will definitely not all go to the Shuzhong Barracks.

In addition to Yuyang County, there are soldiers who are about to retire in various places, so these places must be considered.

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After the cabinet meeting, Wang Buxian was not in a hurry to handle all official business.

After asking people to sort out the urgent official tasks and deal with them, I plan to leave the other things that are not urgent until tomorrow.

Wang Buxu, on the other hand, put on a new outfit with ease, and then left the palace quietly.

Luoyang City today is no longer the Luoyang City it was a few years ago.

The four new urban areas around it have basically been expanded, and only a small part is still undergoing finishing touches.

Except for a small group of craftsmen who left, most of the craftsmen were moved to the new site of the palace in the north of Luoyang to work.

Construction of the new palace, which has been delayed for two years, finally started in the spring of this year.

The new palace is very large, as big as the entire city of Luoyang before the expansion.

As the center of power of the empire, it was a symbol of rule.

The specifications of the new palace are also very high.

Adopting brand new construction technology and cutting corners?

Doesn't exist.

The palace is four miles long and three and a half miles wide. The palace wall is five feet high (16.65 meters) and three feet wide (9.99 meters). It adopts a brick-concrete structure.

This is a real brick-concrete structure. The entire city wall has a huge frame, which is densely packed with concrete columns every ten meters.

And here, steel bars are used. Although the strength may not reach the strength of later generations, it is extremely disadvantageous in this era.

The middle is filled with bricks. With this kind of defense, once the door is closed inside, even if you want to attack from the outside, there is nothing you can do.

The entire palace is made of brick-concrete structure, and the columns that originally required huge wood for support have been replaced with reinforced concrete columns.

After adopting new construction methods, a large number of craftsmen were transferred from the expansion of Luoyang.

As well as the experience accumulated in the previous two years of construction, the construction of the new Luoyang Palace was very fast.

All construction will be completed almost before winter this year.

The construction of a royal palace took less than a year, which sounds quite appalling.

In the past, even if the same number of people were used, it would not have been completed in five or eight years.

As for the decoration, it definitely needs to be decorated, but at this level, the most you can do is to paint it with a layer of natural paint, and then use wooden boards to make some necessary decorations inside, so as not to look too shabby.

As for the entire palace, the most domineering one is naturally the palace that Wang Buxu calls the Great Han Palace.

How domineering is it?

The foundation is nine feet high, and the highest point of the palace is nine feet away from the top of the foundation. Standing here, you can have a panoramic view of the entire Luoyang City.

Although it is very unfair, this architectural style was not pioneered by Wang Buxu. Qin Shihuang's Abang Palace also had this layout, and even many palaces in the Warring States Period also had this elevated layout.

This Han Dynasty Hall was mainly used for going to court. It was the face of the Han Dynasty and must be taken seriously.

Wang Buxian just walked around the surrounding area and lost interest.

For Wang Buxu, this is his home anyway, and there will be plenty of opportunities to visit in the future.

But now it is full of busy figures and it is a mess. If I go in, I will only cause chaos for others.

To the west is the administrative area, and the architectural layout has been completed, and the decoration is also being completed now.

The so-called decoration is to plaster the inside and outside with white ash, giving a strong sense of familiarity to a rural family in the early 21st century.

But now, this is still very advanced.

There is nothing interesting to see in the residential area to the east. When it comes to showing off wealth, who can show off more than me?

Wang Buxu went directly to the civilian area east of the old city.

The so-called civilian areas are actually the most realistic portrayal of the Han people.

You can see many, many miniatures here.

Not long after entering Dongcheng, Wang Buxu saw a stall beside the street that aroused his interest.

This is a group of shops set aside by the government for leasing, exclusively for civilian vendors.

"Are you new here? What are you selling here?" Wang Buxian leaned over directly, looking at the steamer that was steaming white, and asked curiously.

"Yes, I just came here at the beginning of the month, selling noodles..." The vendor had an awkward smile on his face. Perhaps it was his short business career that made him a little reluctant. Even when customers came to the door, he didn't know what to do.

How to entertain warmly.

When others ask, he will reply. He will never reply with another word, nor will he take the initiative to introduce his products.

Wang Buxu opened the steamer and took a look, and his eyes instantly let out a bright light.

Good guy, isn’t this just a steamed bun? How come it’s turned into dough?

"How to sell it?" Wang Buxian became interested.

I have never eaten steamed buns since I came to this world, and I miss them very much.

Although the steamed buns in front of me are yellow and don't look that fluffy, and you can even faintly see some wheat skin inside, these are not problems.

These days, all steamed buns are dead noodles, and society has not yet advanced to that point.

"Are you using money or food?" the vendor asked habitually.

"Is there anything different?" Wang Buxuan was a little curious. The promotion of currency has been very strong in recent years, so why is there still a situation of bartering in Luoyang? This made him a little puzzled.

"In terms of money, thirty yuan a penny, and in terms of grain, two pieces of grain weighing one piece of dough are exchanged for one piece of dough." The vendor pointed to a scale-like device next to him. It had no technical difficulty and was made by the government.

So don't worry about having problems with this.

"Thirty pieces for one penny?" Wang Buxu was shocked. This steamed bun looks like it weighs half a catty, right? What kind of fairy price is Te Niang's?

Seeing Wang Buxu's expression, the vendor became anxious for a moment. This is an era where integrity is king. If this makes people question their integrity, it is not a question of whether to do business, but whether they have the dignity to live.

It’s a question of going down.

So he quickly explained: "This noodle piece weighs one and a half kilograms. This stone noodle can only make more than 200 at most. One stone of grain costs four cents. After shelling and grinding into noodles, there will be no more than one stone. Remove the labor, and these

Materials, stall fees, taxes, and all the miscellaneous calculations, I have to sell almost 200 pieces to make a profit. Just do the math. I am alone here, and there are two people at home who help grind the noodles and deliver them.

Come here, this is enough for three people. Besides, I didn’t set the price myself, it was the price set by the government for me..."
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