129 Serf policy
Richard directly took out the military rank system of later generations. Starting from the private, each soldier can obtain 5 acres of military merit fields. This military merit field cannot be transferred or sold. Only immediate relatives can inherit it, and only 10% of the rent is required!
Only 10% of the rent. You should know that in this land in the Western Regions, Han tenants need to pay 50% of the rent, while Seme people tenants are even more miserable, and 70% or 80% of the rent starts!
This rent is definitely a work of conscience in the eyes of civilians. The most important thing is that except for rent, there is no need to pay any tax on land acres!
In addition, those who serve in the army do not need to pay a poll tax, and the families of the army only need to pay half of the poll tax.
This is also a policy that encourages soldiers to get married and have more children.
Because the head tax in the government is now large, and the land acres affiliated with the Han gentry class do not have land acres, so Richard cannot exempt the head tax, otherwise it will not take long for the Richard regime's finances to even pay the salaries of officials...
Private is actually an excessive military rank. If you have joined the army for more than one year or participated in a battle once, and go to the front line, you can become a regular soldier.
After becoming a regular soldier, the military merit field can be expanded to ten acres of land!
And so on, above the soldiers are corporal, sergeant, sergeant, sergeant, chief officer, warrant officer, second lieutenant, captain, captain, major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, brigade general, major general, lieutenant general, general, one-star marshal, two-star marshal, three-star marshal, four-star marshal, five-star marshal...
This military rank has a certain relationship with position, but the main difference is the difference between military merit fields. For each level of increase, the area of military merit fields will increase by ten acres!
The main soldiers are ten acres of military merit fields, the corporals are 20 acres of military merit fields, the sergeant is 30 acres of military merit fields, the sergeant is 40 acres of military merit fields, the sergeant is 50 acres of military merit fields, and so on.
In fact, the military ranks that the chief officers and chiefs are all military ranks prepared for soldiers, which are used to give soldiers a space to promote military merits and an incentive to expand their military merit fields.
Only when you become a warrant officer can you be qualified to serve as a partner chief.
And the chief officer can only do what kind of length.
However, the highest military rank announced by Richard was only as high as the colonel, and the general's rank had not been released yet. The rank below the colonel was enough to set up the officer of the First Field Army with more than 10,000 people.
After the seemingly useless military rank was linked to the military merit field, it was immediately taken seriously by the officers and soldiers.
The military merit field is the military pay paid to the soldiers. From then on, Richard was only responsible for the soldiers' food, drink, defecation, weapons and equipment. They didn't have to receive military pay. Of course, excellent performance on the battlefield will be used to get additional rewards.
In this way, Richard successfully used a pile of land to relieve the heavy military spending pressure in the future!
This system is similar to the Yongye Tianfu soldier system in the Tang Dynasty, but it has become more refined because of the addition of the military rank system.
In addition, in order to prevent soldiers who obtained military merit fields from being cheated, Richard asked the soldiers in the First Field Army to select fertile land as military merit fields according to their military ranks from low to high!
The soldiers in the First Field Group had the initial rank of regular soldiers. Who said that they had the strongest combat power?
Therefore, the soldiers of the First Field Team became the first lucky ones to choose military merit fields.
Under Richard's strong interference, the soldiers' behavior of selecting military merit fields was not hindered. Most of the fields selected by the soldiers of the First Field Army were originally confiscated from the Zhaowu family.
Under the reform of giving military merits to the fields, Richard did not move the cake of the Han gentry class, so he did not resist the Han gentry class.
However, Richard's large-scale field land granted wariness from the Han gentry class in the two prefectures. Now Richard's First Field Army has only more than 10,000 people, so it can be satisfied with the land of unlucky gentry, the original official land and the land without a border.
However, this system has been established. If Richard wants to continue to expand his field troops in the future, where can he obtain his military achievements?
Although Richard is likely to acquire large areas of land in foreign wars, in the Western Regions, the official land and the uninhabited land are small, and the large-headed arable land is in the hands of the Han gentry class!
Everyone still understands the principle of losing lips and cold teeth...
Now Richard has used land to win over the morale of the officers and soldiers of the First Field Army. The lower-class people of this era have the idea of treating arable land as the foundation of their families, just like in the civilized society in the 21st century of Richard's previous life, everyone put real estate first.
The soldiers are of course very welcome to the policy of giving land to military merits. Although there are not many lands in 5 mu and 10 mu, they can give priority to the best land. In the future, they can also get more land by promoting military rank. Even if they don’t have to be an officer and become a sergeant chief without a threshold, that is 50 mu of land!
With 50 acres of arable land, it is a wealthy family in this era. If it is a good arable land, it is enough to be a small landlord!
You should know that the promotion of the military rank before the Chief of the Sergeant was not involved in the issue of officer position. As long as you dare to fight and follow the military orders, it is relatively easy to be promoted. As long as you fight enough battles and survive, you can basically become the Chief of the Sergeant!
Of course, there is no reason for the officers and soldiers not to support Richard's military merits and field teaching system, let alone the rent of only 10%!
In this era, 10% of rent is not much different from free gifts...
Only with contrast can you feel superior!
This is just a military merit field for joining the army. However, there is no family planning policy in this era. It is normal for a Han family to have several brothers joining the army together. In other words, a family only needs two males to join the army to obtain double the military merit field!
The rent is low, so don’t worry about forced buying and selling, you can also choose first...
However, for soldiers, as long as their family members are not dead, it is not a problem to hand over the land to their family members to cultivate. However, for officers, the area of this military field is dozens or hundreds of acres, and tenants need to farm.
If the tenant farms, he will have to share some profits...
Therefore, after Richard released the interests of giving away military merits, he issued a policy of becoming a serf as a serf, on the one hand, in order to solve the problem of the officers' military merits being too large and employed people to cultivate, and on the other hand, in order to gain the support of the Han gentry class, he issued a policy of becoming a serf!
Richard died the last layer of window paper in the original government, and demoted all the tenants and tenants to serfs!
If you want not to be a serf, you must have a male man to be an amateur mercenary who has eliminated the green skin!
All Semi-men who did not join the army at home were demoted to serfs!
In addition, the government will also give serfs to those officers and soldiers with more than 50 acres of land and soldiers whose family is scarce and whose family is not enough to take care of the fields!
The beneficiaries of this policy are not only Han officers and soldiers who have given military merits, but the biggest beneficiaries are the Han gentry class!
Chapter completed!