When I woke up in the morning, I opened the door, and it was white again.

On the roof tiles, a thick layer of white frost was opened. The door opened, and a cold air immediately poured in. The cold people were shocked.

Wei Zheng shivered and immediately woke up much more.

Haha, he immediately condensed into a ray of white vapor, rubbed his hands and tightened his clothes, and Wei Zheng stepped out of the house.

It was already winter, and the weather was getting colder and colder, and the affairs of the nobles became busier and busier. At this time, the vassals, officials from all over the country, and representatives of industrial, commercial, sectarians, farmers and congressmen, also began to come to Beijing to celebrate the meeting.

The boots with cowhide soles stepped on the road stained with frost, and you could feel the land being frozen hard.

The two sons had already gotten up and stood at the door waiting for him.

"Good morning, father."

Wei Zheng nodded to his two sons. Wei Zheng's fourth son, the eldest son was Guangluqing, the second son was the governor of Luzhou, the third son was the chief minister of Shaanxi, and the fourth son was the minister of the Ministry of Rites. The second son was the third son, and the third son was the deputy minister of the Ministry of Rites. The second son was the second son, and the second son was about to return to Beijing to Chaoji, but the third son was not able to come back this year.

The Wei family is now awesome, with five fathers and sons all reaching high positions.

The eldest brother married the emperor's sister and was considered to be a princess, but the eldest brother Wei Shuyu is a little soft-hearted. Although the position of Guangluqing is actually high, he is very leisurely. The eldest brother is a person with no ambitions, and Wei Zheng doesn't force him.

The fourth brother is quite capable. He has now become the Minister of Rites and is the most promising member of the Wei family.

"Father, I heard that the court was going to issue a militia bill?" asked the fourth brother Wei Shulin.

"It's because of this. Your Majesty's intention is to standardize the militia." He concealed his son Wei Zheng, and there was no need to hide this matter. The nobles' House will immediately propose a formal draft, and major newspapers will follow up and report it.

Wei Zheng was in favor of the standardization of militia.

He also thinks that the militia practice of all people being soldiers is not good. On the one hand, it is also delaying the production work time of the people, and on the other hand, there are some hidden dangers, especially the number of militias that the princes owned a large number. Originally, Dahua now has so many standing troops and such a large population base, so there is no need for the militia strategy of the militia of the whole people being soldiers.

Although Wei Zheng himself was a prince, and even his four sons were actually nobles, each with a fiefdom. However, the number of guards in the five fiefdoms of the Wei Zheng family was very small. Even if he was a prince, he could have 10,000 troops. In fact, Wei Zheng's own prince territory was managed by the prime minister and general, and the territory was only 800 guards and 3,000 militias.

If his fiefdom was not secretly located in the intersection of trustworthiness, Bolu and Pamir, the situation was relatively complicated, and he would not even want to maintain the eight hundred guards.

"Military regulations are mainly aimed at the princes, right?"

"Well, militias in the fiefs of the princes and colonial territories will also be limited in the future. There are two restrictions. One is that the number of militias is set according to the registered population of the fief, and the other is that the upper limit is the amount of private soldiers in the fief."

Wei Shuyu asked, "The father's fiefdom has a private soldier of 10,000, but the population in that place is less than 10,000. Although the maximum militia is 10,000, it can only have 100 militias now?"

"That's right, that's what it means."

Wei Shulin felt that this matter was a bit unreasonable. The princes guarded the frontier, had a small population, and the situation was relatively tense. The expenses for raising a guard were higher. Raising a militia would certainly reduce some military expenditures and fill the problem of insufficient number of guards.

But if the court now restricts militias such a restriction, the number of militias of each prince will be greatly reduced. Although the princes can also increase the number of private soldiers, the military expenditure will inevitably increase greatly in this way.

"I think there are some problems with the conditions of the court. The frontier needs militias more than the Central Plains. Now, the imperial court organizes militias based on this 100-to-one basis, regardless of the Central Plains or the frontier. It is really unrealistic."

Wei Zheng just smiled and walked slowly in front.

Although the draft of the Militia Act will be proposed by the Aristocratic House, it was actually negotiated by the emperor with the cabinet chief Ma Zhou and Hanlin President Fang Xuanling. Even he, the Speaker 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 militias and enhancing combat effectiveness are all superficial. The real thing is to prevent princes and colonial citizens, so as to prevent princes from breaking through various military restrictions through militias, so as not to be too strong and threaten the central court.

"It's the emperor's intention again." Wei Shulin shook his head and smiled, "I, Dahua Constitutional Monarchy, Cabinet Responsibility System, and Parliamentary Legislation, but now it seems that it's just a superficial one."

Wei Zheng did not think that constitutionalism was false. The reason for this situation is that Zhang Chao had strong personal prestige and ability, and the entire court was actually under the control of the emperor. Therefore, even if there were constitutions, the emperor could easily bypass these.

Just like the parliament has legislative power, but the emperor directly proposed a militia bill with him, Wei Zheng, and asked him, Wei Zheng to file this bill in the parliament. Can he refuse?

However, Zhang Chao is a minority after all, and he will definitely not be able to do this in the future when he changes to other emperors. Therefore, there is still no problem with the system itself.

Of course, Wei Zheng was willing to obey the emperor's arrangements because he himself also agreed with the emperor's militia bill.

It is necessary to standardize militias.

After standardizing the militia, the quantity will be controlled, and the equipment will be enhanced, so that the militia will no longer be just the reserve force of the past, but will make the militia a quasi-military force. It will be able to fight when it comes, fight when it comes, and win when it fights, and become the second echelon outside the Dahua permanent army.

When this draft is proposed, there will definitely be some oppositions at that time. But Wei Zheng believes that whether it is in the two houses of parliament or in the court, he will definitely support more than oppose them.

Originally, this was just a conquest of militias.

To be honest, the amount of soldiers the princes now has a very high. A king has 10,000 troops and a prince has 8,000 troops. Even a baron can have 1,000 troops.

But in fact, a baron can obtain a ten-mile fiefdom under normal circumstances. How big is the ten-mile fiefdom? Perhaps the entire population is only a few villages and a thousand-mile population. Even if all the strong men are armed, they cannot afford a thousand soldiers.

Even if some nobles have a slightly larger fiefdom, their population has always been a bottleneck. With territory and population, the military expenditure of raising soldiers is even more severe.

You should know that the imperial court now supports 600,000 permanent troops, and the annual military expenditure has accounted for 70% of the imperial court's annual financial revenue. The annual military expenditure exceeds 100 million.

If the princes raise their troops in full, they will not be able to afford them at all.

Not to mention maintaining a standing guard in full, basically all the princes have only a very small number of standing guards, which may be less than one-tenth of their soldiers.

Not every prince has a fief as big as a prince and has so many people. The prince's fief has not been settled yet, but that is a whole country of Japan. Because it is located in a corner, it has been stable for hundreds of years. Their best advantage is the population.

Tens of millions of people have considerable potential, and this is an extremely high-quality resource.

For example, although the Wei family has a fiefdom of Gushimi Kingdom of hundreds of miles, it is a mountainous area, with few people and remote people at most. At most, they will be self-sufficient and will not receive much money to collect taxes. There is also little potential for development. If enough people immigrate, they can still develop. But now there are generally shortages of people, so how can there be people in the Central Plains to move?

So although Wei Zheng is a dignified King of Gusmi, he has a few hundred miles of land and no population, which means that the title sounds good-looking.

Even if it is like the emperor's brother, Zhang Yue, the King of Hei Water, who assigned him a wide fiefdom, the place is far northeast thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, and the population is even smaller. The population of tens of thousands is still from the Hei Water tribe. If these barbarians are eliminated, the King of Hei Water can only control his own Fuyuan Fort, which is only a few hundred people.

When they went out, the father and son each boarded their own carriage and went to their own yamen.

Wei Zheng went to the noble court, Wei Shuyu went to Guanglu Temple, and Wei Shulin went to the yamen of the Ministry of Rites.

On the way, Wei Zheng also passed the draft in his mind. The emperor just told him the intention, and the specific operation must be completed by him.

The parliament has legislative power, which is stipulated in the Constitution.

The Militia Act is not simple either. It must include all aspects. The militia must be explained in detail, including the organization, number, amount, as well as the method of recruitment, mobilization, as well as their funds, their equipment and other aspects.

This bill is just a patch to plug and check for missing items.

The carriage stopped gently, and the coachman knocked outside to remind him to arrive.

Wei Zheng took back his mind and stood up and got out of the car.

When I entered the yamen, I greeted my colleagues and subordinates I met.

"Send a notice to the senators and hold a meeting this afternoon." Wei Zheng said to the secretary who made tea for himself.

This secretary was a talented student from the Capital University. He passed the layers of examinations and entered the parliament. Because he was good at writing, he was elected as his secretary by Wei Zheng.

Young people are very capable, have ordinary backgrounds, but they are smart and talented, and energetic. This is the young people Wei Zheng likes.

The emperor had told him his intentions that he would convey the emperor's intentions now, and then set out to establish a drafting committee for the militia law, so as to submit a detailed and suitable draft militia law to the emperor as soon as possible.

The young secretary responded and asked what time it was, while holding a pen on the casual notebook, then turned around and went to do business.

Wei Zheng picked up the hot tea that had just been brewed on the table, looked at the young figure who had left, and exclaimed in his heart. From this young man, he seemed to see his former self.

Many years ago, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, he devoted himself to Yuan Baozang's work. How similar was he and he now.
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