"Can you say it more thoroughly?" Meng Yi held the wine glass tightly and spoke for a long time. Moreover, the blue veins on the back of his hand appeared. It was obvious that the inner struggle was very strong.

"Since my father-in-law wants to know, then my son-in-law will say that after hearing it, I will not want to make any comments. I plan to start reforming from two aspects. The first is the military service law. Nowadays, all men aged 17 to 60 must participate in at least two years of re-service in their lives, and there is still one month of corvee service every year. When the six countries were fighting, this military service law did solve the problem of soldiers, but now the four barbarians are all stalemate for decades. What is the practical significance of this kind of military service? In addition to letting the people run around, it is to let the governments and courts in various places spend a lot of money and grain to maintain the operation of military service. Whether it is re-service or corvee service, it will greatly increase the burden on the people and delay the farming time. It is really a point where it has to be changed."

"The second is that the military system is too old-fashioned. This time, the Western Army resells enamel equipment. It seems that because of the lack of military discipline, it is actually a disaster left by the military title system. When fighting in a war, the purpose of getting titles and rewards is to get titles and rewards. Now that there is no war for several years, where are the military titles and rewards? What do the soldiers rely on to support their families? If the needs of the soldiers cannot be solved, the military morale and military discipline will only become weaker and weaker. Even including generals at all levels, they have no war to fight and are invincible to kill. In this way, they are naturally unwilling to be stationed in the border area where bitter and cold are intertwined..."

"Yes, these two are indeed reasonable. My brother has told me before, especially the military title system is too disadvantageous. Therefore, when he was stationed in the northwest, he kept fighting against the Xiongnu Donghu, allowing the soldiers guarding the border to have the opportunity to kill the enemy and obtain meritorious deeds. After commanding the Western Army this time, he also wrote a letter from his family to discuss the issue of military service with me. His words were exactly the same as what the son-in-law said just now, that is, after large-scale disarmament and streamlining, the pawns were no longer suitable for adopting the system of re-service. He also wanted to write a letter to His Majesty to abolish the re-service, but he always felt that the difficulty was too great to do it!" Meng Yi nodded slightly after hearing this.

"Marquis Jingwu really thinks so?" Chen Xu's eyes lit up.

"My Meng family is a family of military generals. My brother is proficient in military skills and fights all year round. How can he not even see such a simple pros and cons?" Meng Yi glared at Chen Xu slightly, and then said: "But the restructuring of the army is too much involved. The abolition of the current military service law will make the court and governments in various places less income..."

"Why?" Chen Xu was a little confused.

"My son-in-law has forgotten the money for serving the service!" Meng Yi spoke with a twitching face.

I'm paralyzed, I really forgot about this!

Chen Xu's face jumped slightly, and his eyebrows couldn't help but slashed into a line.

Although the military service in the Qin Dynasty was strict, and any man aged 17 to 60 must serve, there was actually another law of service, which was to use money instead of service. That is to say, if you are willing to pay, you can not serve. The government would spend money to hire poor people to serve. Of course, service is very expensive. The labor service is 200 yuan a year, and the labor service is 500 yuan a year. For ordinary poor people, not to mention 200 yuan a year, they can't even get thirty or fifty yuan a year. Therefore, this service service is mainly merchants or some local tyrants with money. The poor can only serve honestly. The court and the government cannot use all this service service to hire people to serve. Except for war, they will not recruit one more person at all. In the end, this service service is actually classified as the imperial taxation and local government offices, and it has become a large amount of money for the imperial court and the local government to solve the operation of military service and maintain daily expenses.

Therefore, the money for servicing is actually a kind of heavy taxes. It is a large amount of income from the central and local finances of the Qin Dynasty today, and it is a mandatory payment. Every adult man cannot escape. The government even encourages money to replace servicing, so that there is no need to worry about the issue of conscription and rotation. After paying money, the court will naturally recruit servicing husbands as needed.

Chen Xu was responsible for military reform, and the first thing he was to bear is the military service law. If this law of re-service, which is abolished, the money for Serving will naturally be exempted. This money has accumulated over the country. At present, the Qin Dynasty has about 35 million people, and the number of men who rotate in service every year is about 2 million. Even if only 100,000 of them pay Serving money, the amount is as high as 20 million to 50 million, which is equivalent to the tax revenue of the Shaofu at least half a year now. If this money is not available, the court's expenditure on the military will inevitably be under great pressure...

Chen Xu kept whispering his chin, feeling that he did not know enough about Daqin, or that he thought about many things too simply and not comprehensive enough.

He only focused on the emperor and the army, but did not carefully analyze the resistance at the bottom of the army's reform.

In other words, the first thing to do when implementing military reform is that the revenue of the Finance Department will be reduced by tens of millions of yuan, and Feng Quji, who controls the Secretariat, will definitely be dissatisfied. Secondly, local officials in various places will also be dissatisfied, because part of this money was actually used for other purposes or even eaten up by whale.

"I know why my brother didn't write to His Majesty to reform the military service law. In fact, it's not just my brother who knows the disadvantages. Many colleagues know that it's inappropriate, but they can't promote reforms, because this will affect the interests of many people, especially the Ministry of War and local governments!" Meng Yi even smiled with gloating.

Chen Xu:...

There is indeed no fool who can climb to such a high position. Many people should see the drawbacks of the military service and military title system, but no one promotes reforms, and even writes to the emperor. They are like passers-by who are watching the past, and they are all hang up. In the end, they all watch the drawbacks accumulate to the point where the Qin Dynasty cannot bear it, and finally they are completely buried together with the people watching the fun.

Compared to Li Si, Meng Yi, Feng Quji and others are indeed far behind in governing the country and as senior executives of the Qin Dynasty.

If Li Si is still there, he might support it, after all, Li Si is a hard-working disciple of the Legalist, and it is impossible to ignore the disadvantages of the shame of spells.

"My father-in-law is so happy, do you hope that Montessus will be in trouble with him in the end?" Chen Xu curled his lips.

"Why did the virtuous son-in-law say this?" Meng Yi's face, halfway through laughter, instantly frozen.

"I just said that if the army does not reform, it will inevitably be hopelessly corrupt within ten years. If the Qin Dynasty does not have a strong army, how can we ensure the stability of the country? Two years later, Your Majesty will face a life-and-death disaster. The court will be in chaos at that time. If the army is unstable and the people are in turmoil, how can the father-in-law ensure that the Monk can protect himself? Therefore, the reform of the army should be sooner rather than later. Take advantage of Your Majesty's health and strive to complete this matter. If you really wait until Your Majesty's funeral, who else has the courage to complete the reform of the army, let alone..."

Chen Xu sat upright, his face changed extremely calmly: "What's more, the reform of the Military Service Act has received support and support from the people across the country. The New Military Service Act will greatly alleviate the pressure from the people and make the people across the country more at ease farming and working. Some things cannot be done because of difficulties. When Xu was still powerless and powerless, he could fight Li Si in order to relax the Shang rules. Now that he has become the left prime minister, he will naturally not be able to shrink his hands. This time, the Western Army sold equipment on a large scale is my best excuse. There are incidents in the Northern Army and the Western Army. Naturally, your Majesty does not want this to happen again in the future. Although the country is big, the law comes from the monarch and the monarch is arbitrary. Why should Xu take charge of the Ministry of War Monks or the government offices in various places? Xu is as long as the emperor agrees!"

Meng Yi stared at Chen Xu with a trembling face, and nodded slightly after a long time: "Okay, since you have decided, I will wave the flag to cheer for you this time!"

"Hehe, that's great. Thank you in advance!" Chen Xu smiled like a change of face.

"Hmph, please convince Your Majesty first! I will also write a letter to ask my brother for details. Please wait for me to inform you!"

"Natural, son-in-law, don't worry!" Chen Xu nodded repeatedly while holding the teacup.

"Hey, how did Lord Meng and Zuo Xiang sit alone and drink tea? Where did the singer and dance girl go?" Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and Zhao Hai, who was surprised, walked in with the sound.

"I just discussed with my son-in-law. I asked them to go out. Marquis Jiancheng doesn't need to be busy, sit down and have tea!" Meng Yi raised the teacup and said with a smile.

Chen Xu frowned slightly and then his face opened and said, "Just heard from his father-in-law that the Marquis wanted Xu to give this Quyuan a name?"

Zhao Hai nodded excitedly: "It's not bad. Although Hai has read some poetry and books, it's half a bucket of water. It feels embarrassing to name children and grandchildren. This Quyuan has not been newly opened for a long time, and he has never thought of a catchy name. Therefore, he begged Brother Meng to invite Zuo Xiang to have a drink and a banquet, and helped Hai decide the name. With the fairy air pressure array of Zuo Xiang, this Quyuan will inevitably come in the future. Of course, the benefit of Zuo Xiang is that Hai is willing to give Zuo Xiang 10% of the shares, so Zuo Xiang has become a shareholder of our Quyuan. This garden is also considered the industry of Zuo Xiang. Naturally, thank you for your favor. Haha!"

"Horse Jiancheng is so polite. Forget about the shares, you can just have a 20% discount on the gold card with me. You must give me a discount when you come to enjoy the dance and listen to music in the future!" Chen Xu shook his head with a smile.

"How can this work..."

"Don't you know how Zuo Xiang makes money? He looks down on your investment!" Meng Yi interrupted Zhao Hai.

"Uh, that's right, Hai's little career left minister really doesn't look down on him!" Zhao Hai bowed to Chen Xu with an awkward expression.

"Who said I look down on you? It's just that I don't like to see these lonely and helpless women making money for me with their skin and laughter. So, let's not talk about these disappointing topics. When I was chatting with my father-in-law, Xu had already thought of two names, Yihongyuan or Chunfangyuan. Which one is better, Jianchenghou thought?"

"Yihongyuan...Chunfangyuan..." Meng Yi and Zhao Hai both lowered their heads and pondered slightly.

"There are begonias in the West Mansion. My daughter is beautiful and beautiful, as beautiful as rouge, and is soft and fragrant. The western Mansion is the hometown of elegant charm and the beginning of my elegant Chinese speech. It is only three hundred miles away from Xianyang. I visited once in the spring of the year. The begonias are blooming and the mountains and the earth are bright red and tender, which is really pleasing to the eye. Therefore, Xu thought of these two names."

"A good name, if it weren't for the Zuo Xiang's explanation, Hai wouldn't know which two words it was!" Zhao Hai's face instantly opened and showed a happy smile.

"That's good. These two names are similar. As for which Xu to use, I won't get involved. Marquis Jiancheng will make his own ideas. It's still early now, so I will go back to the mansion first!"

Chen Xu stood up and prepared to say goodbye, but Zhao Hai was not willing to let him go. He jumped up and hugged Chen Xu's arm. He also called a large group of singers and dancers in to surround Chen Xu firmly in the middle, and also loudly ordered that if Qinghehou was asked to escape, everyone would have to give up their legs.

"Please give me mercy on my life!" A group of women knelt around and looked at Chen Xu with desserts in their hands, holding tea and wine glasses in tears.

"Why are you doing this? Jiancheng Hou... Alas, that's all. You can wait and serve me. If I don't leave, I will just sit down again!" Chen Xu was so amazed and laughed and cried that he had to lift his clothes and sit down again.

"Hehe, the two names of Zuo Xiang alone are worth 100,000 yuan. If you neglect the Zuo Xiang today and leave without a banquet, where will I put my face in the future?" Zhao Hai sat down proudly, stroking his beard.

"Isn't eating wine, listening to music and playing with girls? Isn't it what young people should do? Look at me, I'm so old that I have to go to Quyuan to play several times every ten years. I'm just polite. I should play and touch it, but don't neglect Wan'er at home..." Meng Yi hugged two 15 and 16-year-old girls again and hummed.

Rogue, I shouldn't know you!

Chen Xu sighed to the sky among a group of women. At this time, seven or eight pairs of gentle little hands were touching and pinching him everywhere, comfortably with an indescribable helplessness.
Chapter completed!