When I woke up in the morning, I opened the door, and it was white again. roof tiles, a thick layer of hoarfrost.
The door opened, and a cold air immediately poured in, and the cold man was excited.
Wei Zheng shuddered, and the person immediately sobered up a lot.
With a sigh, he immediately condensed into a white vapor, rubbed his hands, tightened the clothes on his body, and Wei Zheng stepped out of the house.
It was winter, the weather was getting colder, and the affairs of the House of Lords were getting busier and busier.
At this time, the feudal princes and feudal officials from all over the country, as well as the representatives of the industrial and commercial scholars and farmers, also began to enter Beijing one after another to hold meetings in the court.
Boots with cowhide soles stepped on the frost-stained road, and you could feel the hardness of the ground being frozen.
The two sons had already gotten up and were standing at the door waiting for him.
"Good morning, father."
Wei Zheng nodded to his two sons, Wei Zheng's four sons, the eldest Ren Guangluqing, the second one was released as the Luzhou Assassin Shi, the third was the governor of Shaanxi, and the fourth was the waiter of the Ministry of Rites.
The second and third are all taking up their posts outside, and the second is about to return to Beijing to gather, but the third will not come back this year.
The Wei family is also Xuan He now, with five fathers and sons, all of whom are in high positions.
The eldest married the emperor's sister, and she can be regarded as a princess, but the boss Wei Shuyu's temperament is soft, and the position of Guangluqing is actually very leisurely, although the boss is a person with no ambitions, and Wei Zheng is not reluctant.
The fourth child is quite capable, and now he has become an official to the Ministry of Etiquette, and he is the most promising one in the Wei family.
"Father, I heard that the imperial court is going to issue a militia bill," the fourth uncle Wei asked.
"Yes, Your Majesty means to standardize the militia."
It is also hidden from his son Wei Zheng, and there is no need to hide this matter, and soon the House of Nobles will put forward an official draft, and then the major newspapers and periodicals will follow up and report it.
Wei Zheng was in favor of the standardization of the militia.
He also thinks that the current militia practice of all the people in various places is not good.
First, it will also delay the production and working time of the people, and secondly, there will be some hidden dangers, especially the large number of militias owned by those princes.
Originally, now that Dahua has so many standing armies and such a large population base, there is no need for a militia strategy where all the people are soldiers.
Although Wei Zheng himself is also a prince, even his four sons are all real nobles, each with a fief.
But the number of guards in the five fiefdoms of Wei Zheng's family is very small, even if he himself is a prince and can have 10,000 soldiers, but in fact, Wei Zheng's own county king's territory is managed by the minister of state and generals, and the territory is only 800 guards and 3,000 militiamen in total.
If it weren't for the fact that his fiefdom was at the intersection of Xindu, Bolu, and Green Ridge, the situation was more complicated, and he wouldn't even be willing to raise the eight hundred guards.
"Militia norms, this is mainly for the princes."
"Well, the militia of the princes' fiefs and colonial territories will also be limited in the future, there are two restrictions.
The first is that the number of militias is set at 100 to 1 of the registered population of the fiefdom, and the second is that the upper limit is the number of private soldiers in the fiefdom. ” Wei Shuyu asked, "The amount of private soldiers in my father's fief is 10,000, but now the population of that place is less than 10,000, and although the upper limit of the militia is 10,000, in fact, it can only have 100 militia now."
"That's right, that's what it means."
Wei Shuxuan felt that this matter was a little unreasonable, the princes guarded the frontier, the population was small, and the situation was relatively tense, and the cost of raising the guard was higher, and raising the militia could of course reduce some military expenditure, and could also make up for the problem of insufficient number of guards.
But now if the imperial court restricts the militia in this way, then the number of militias of the princes will be greatly reduced, although the princes can also increase the number of private soldiers, but in this way the military expenditure will inevitably increase greatly.
"I think there are some problems with this condition of the imperial court, the frontier needs the militia more than the Central Plains.
And now the imperial court, regardless of the Central Plains or the frontier, is organizing the militia according to this 100:1, which is really unrealistic. ” Wei Zheng just smiled and walked slowly in front.
Although the draft of the militia bill will be proposed by the House of Nobles, in fact, it was negotiated between the emperor and Ma Zhou, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Fang Xuanling, the president of Hanlin, and even he, the president of the Senate, was only told by the emperor later.
So this matter is essentially the emperor's intention.
The parliament is just a procedure.
Why did the emperor make this bill Regulating the militia and enhancing combat effectiveness are superficial, but the real thing is to guard against the princes and colonial citizens, so as to prevent the princes from breaking through various military restrictions through the militia, lest they become too powerful and threaten the central court.
"It's the Emperor's intention again."
Wei Shuxuan shook his head and smiled, "I have a constitutional monarchy, a cabinet responsibility system, and parliamentary legislation, but now it seems that it is just a surface." ” Wei Zheng did not think that the constitution was false, and the reason for the current situation was fundamentally because Zhang Chao's personal prestige and ability were extremely strong, and the entire court was actually under the control of the emperor.
Therefore, even if there is a constitution, the emperor can easily bypass it.
It's like the parliament has legislative power, but the emperor directly proposed a militia bill to him Wei Zheng, and asked Wei Zheng to raise this bill in the parliament, can he refuse However, Zhang Chao is a minority after all, and if he changes to other emperors in the future, he will definitely not be like this.
Therefore, there is no problem with the system itself.
Of course, he Wei Zheng was willing to obey the emperor's arrangement, and it was also because he himself was in favor of the emperor's militia bill.
It is necessary to standardize the militia.
After the militia is standardized, while controlling the number of people, it will be more refined, and its equipment will also be strengthened, so that the militia will no longer be just the kind of reserve force in the past, but will make the militia a paramilitary force, which can be recruited at any time, can fight when it comes, and can win in battle, and must become the second echelon outside the Dahua standing army.
When this draft is proposed, there will certainly be some opposition at that time.
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But Wei Zheng believes that whether it is in the two houses of parliament or above the court, there must be more support than opposition.
Originally, this was just a conscription of the militia.
Speaking of which, the amount of troops that the princes have now is very high.
A king has 10,000 troops, a county king has 8,000 troops, and even a baron can have 1,000 troops.
But in fact, a baron, under normal circumstances, can only get a ten-mile fief.
It is only possible that the entire population of the ten-mile fief is possible, and there are only a few villages and a population of thousands.
Even if all the strong men are armed, they can't pull a thousand soldiers.
Even if some nobles have a slightly larger fiefdom, the population has always been a bottleneck.
With territory and population, the military expenditure for raising soldiers is a great limitation.
You must know that the imperial court now raises 600,000 standing troops, and the annual military expenditure has accounted for seventy percent of the imperial court's annual revenue.
The annual military expenditure exceeds 100 million yuan.
If the princes raised the army in full, they could not afford to raise it at all.
Not to mention raising a standing guard in full, basically all the princes now have only a small number of standing guards, probably less than one-tenth of their number.
And not every prince has a fief as big as a prince and a population as large.
The prince's fiefdom has not yet been defeated, but it is a whole Wa Kingdom, and this place of Wa Kingdom, because it is located in a corner, can be regarded as stable for hundreds of years, and their best advantage is the number of people.
With a population of tens of millions, but considerable potential, this is an extremely high-quality resource.
For example, although the Wei family has hundreds of miles of fiefdom of the Solid Lost Secret State, it is a mountainous area, and there are few people in the first place, and it is still remote.
At best, it is self-sufficient, and it does not collect much money from taxes.
There is also little potential for development, and if enough people immigrate to the past, it can still develop, but now there is a general shortage of people, and there are still people to move in the Central Plains.
Therefore, Wei Zheng is not a dignified and secret king, but he has only a few hundred miles of land and no population, which means that the title just sounds good.
Even if it was like the emperor's brother Zhang Yue, the king of Heishui, the fief assigned to him by the emperor was extremely wide, but that place was in the far northeast, thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, and the population of that place was even smaller.
With a population of tens of thousands, it is still the Black Water Department of the Indigo Mountain, if these barbarians are eliminated, what the Black Water King can really control is his own Fuyuan Fort, which is only a few hundred people.
When they went out, the father and son each got into their own carriage and went to their own yamen.
Wei Zheng went to the House of Nobles, Wei Shuyu went to Guanglu Temple, and Wei Shuxuan went to the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites.
On the way, Wei Zheng also went through this draft in his mind, and the emperor just told him the intention, and the specific operation still had to be completed by him.
The Parliament has legislative power, which is provided for in the Constitution.
The militia bill is not simple, it has to include all aspects, and it is necessary to do a detailed job of explaining and regulating the militia, including the militia's establishment, number, amount, as well as the way of recruitment, the method of mobilization, as well as their funds, their equipment, and so on.
This bill is a patch, which is to plug the loopholes.
The carriage came to a gentle stop, and the coachman knocked outside to warn of the arrival.
Wei Zheng came back to his senses and got up and got out of the car.
When I entered the yamen, I greeted my colleagues and subordinates.
"Send a notice to the senators to have a meeting this afternoon."
Wei Zheng said to the secretary who made him tea.
This secretary is a highly talented student of Beijing Normal University, and he was selected to enter the parliament through layers of examinations, and because of his good pen, he was elected by Wei Zheng as his secretary.
The young man is very capable, his background is relatively ordinary, but he is smart, talented, and energetic, which is the young man Wei Zheng likes.
The Emperor had told him of his intentions, and he was to convey them to him now, and then proceed to set up a committee for the drafting of the Militia Act, and to try to present a detailed and suitable draft of the Militia Act to the Emperor as soon as possible.
The young secretary answered, asked a few points, took a pen in a small notebook, and then turned to go to work.
Wei Zheng picked up the freshly brewed hot tea on the table, looked at the young figure who left, and sighed in admiration in his heart.
From this young man's body, he seemed to see his former self.
Many years ago, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he once devoted himself to the work of Yuan Baobao, and how similar he was to him at that time was now.
Time flies, and now he Wei Zheng is already a handful of years, and they are all kings of a country. t1706231537: