267 Samurai Hazard
"Your Majesty, the number of warriors in the French region has now exceeded the number of military households in the imperial government's directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial government. Each warrior has the right to privately accumulate armed forces. Will this cause the empire to be unstable?"
After reading the latest report, Daji, Xiao Yunyang's full-time secretary, asked with concern.
"How could it be unstable? The highest-ranking samurai among the samurai is the superior samurai. Their loyalty targets are always the empire. If they are dispatched by local governments on weekdays, can a group of samurai without a clear leader join forces to cause trouble?
Just choosing the boss is enough to be good for those warriors."
"What if the local government wants to cause trouble..."
Before he finished speaking, Daji found that he had asked a stupid question. The officials in the local government were all Han people. Only when they were brain-sick would they give up their rights to be superiors and create a rebellion for their own empire!
When Daji saw Xiao Yunyang's strange eyes, his face turned red and changed the topic: "Everyone of these warriors can use muskets, and they can recruit private soldiers loyal to him and even recruit subordinate warriors to serve him. Having absolute force in the local area will pose a great threat to ordinary people in the local area.
It has only been implemented for half a year, and hundreds of samurai murders have been reported."
"It's just a group of white untouchables. If you want to manage your territory, you will always encounter some reckless men who are stubborn and fantasize about white equality. Death of a thousand or eight hundred people is nothing.
We give the warriors the right to privately arm the army, don’t we want them to help the empire suppress local mobs?
In recent civil unrest, the military households in the Imperial Territory have not been dispatched several times."
Xiao Yunyang replied indifferently.
This is true. Those white warriors are all veterans on the battlefield. They are very suitable for killing people. Not only are they big blades, but they also hold mesmerized guns. No matter how many ordinary people are, they will be in vain...
The most important thing is that the third-level samurai system gives a clear distinction between samurai, and the loyalty system of retainers and samurai can also allow the nearby samurai to quickly join forces to suppress the civil unrest.
As long as the peasant uprising army does not break through the five-digit number, it is impossible to threaten the rule of the warrior class.
However, the white farmers in the French region were very hard. The warriors had unlimited tax collection rights. The villages and towns under their command were their own fiefs, and they still had the final say in the tax rate?
All the imperial governments wanted was the "blood tax" paid by the warriors, which was to send troops to help the empire fight for free.
No output tax is required in the warrior fief.
Therefore, many unscrupulous warriors harshly exploit the farmers in their fiefdoms, and kill people directly if they are disobedient, which makes people suffer from misfortune...
If it weren't for the warriors, they knew that the white farmers in the fiefdom were an important labor force, otherwise no matter how large the cultivated land was, it would be useless if no one was planted. I'm afraid there would be more civilian farmers who died!
In addition, there are warriors guarding the places, and it is difficult for those bandits and bandits to survive. Many warriors with high military power but not good at managing and managing the bandits in the surrounding areas took wild treasures on the spot, making them so happy...
Every time they break a gangster stronghold, they can make a lot of money. The man directly takes him to his own farmland as a serf, and the woman plays with him and sells it!
The warriors of the Han Empire were somewhat similar to the previous continental fief knights, and had the right to deal with all their own spoils.
Because of this, the imperial government saved even the money to suppress bandits in the areas directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial government, and the scale of military households was also reduced again and again.
Nowadays, it is not only a remote area, but originally directly under the imperial government, but it is difficult to manage and has little fuel and water. It has also been enfeoffed to military households and warriors.
The French region is full of warriors, completely abolishing the original position of white local powers!
If these samurai want to be promoted, they can only rely on their military merits and recruit people to train troops, so they all try their best to squeeze their own territory and go out to brush out the treasures of bandits in the wild...
After the war, the French region was in constant trouble, but it was almost half a year after being calmed down by the warrior class!
The empire's finances in the French region completed a gorgeous deficit reversal for the first time, and a large number of military soldiers were cut into warriors. The stability of the local government made profitable income and expenditure.
It can be said that the pilot in the French region is very successful!
But too many samurai fiefs made Daji very worried. Now the overall strength of samurai in France is far beyond that of the local governments directly under the Han Empire. Once the samurai riots collectively, the French region will fall in minutes.
However, Daji felt that he was worried about nothing. After all, the immediate superiors of those warriors were all directly under the jurisdiction of government officials in various places, and the possibility of rebellion was very low.
Moreover, their fiefs all originated from the empire, and maintaining the empire's rule is the norm.
"Since the pilot in the French region is very successful, the reform of one village and one student must be promoted nationwide.
Now the Swedish war zone is completely reliant on the Russians to support the scene, and the Norwegian Kingdom even fought a deadlock, and the empire continued to go to the tanks.
Those warriors are good.
Warriors with fiefs can marry a large number of little wives at will. The children are born very quickly, so we have to find a way for them to consume the population.
After all, only the eldest son of the samurai family is qualified to inherit the status of a samurai. Other sons can only be servants of the samurai. If you want to become a lower-level samurai, you must join the army to fight and gain military merit.
Now that the first generation of the samurai family has just been born, there is not much pressure yet. When the first samurai second generation grows up, the empire will have thousands of additional samurai second generations who can only kill people!”
After hearing what Xiao Yunyang told me, Daji finally found something that she felt was inappropriate!
It is the reproduction speed of warriors!
Even lower-level warriors who only have land and no fiefdom can marry several women to pass on their family line.
Being a samurai can earn much more than being a military soldier. If this continues, it only takes one generation to go on. I don’t know how many small samurai will reproduce!
No father is willing to watch his son without a stable "cutting job", and it is even more impossible to watch his son starve to death.
Therefore, a large number of sons will only make the wealthy warrior family poorer.
In the end, it was either the warrior who drove his children or brothers out of the house, or a wealthy family that turned from prosperity to decline!
The wealthy warriors were naturally the most loyal warriors in the empire, but what about the poor warriors?
Will they obey the orders of the imperial government?
However, Xiao Yunyang has already given a way to solve future hidden dangers - war!
Chapter completed!