According to textbooks, the most important feature of the Fubing system is the integration of soldiers and farmers. Fubing are farmers who cultivate the land in peacetime, train during the off-season, and join the army to fight in wartime.

Looking back at history, before our party came onto the historical stage, the fubing system established by Yuwen Tai was the military system that best inspired the Chinese people's martial spirit.

After the establishment of the Fubing system, the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, and Tang dynasties lasted for more than 200 years, creating the two centuries with the most abundant martial virtues of the Chinese nation. The Tang army, with Fubing as its core, traveled all over the world, successively eliminated the Eastern Turks, Western Turks, Gaochang, Xueyantuo, Baekje, Goguryeo, Tuyuhun and other powerful opponents, established a great empire spanning Central Asia, and opened another peak era of Chinese civilization!

The dream of scholars at that time was to join the army and seek meritorious service in the frontier. For example, Yang Jiong said, "I would rather be a centurion than a scholar."

Wang Wei said, "I forgot my identity and left the Phoenix Palace to serve my country and conquer the Dragon City. How can I learn from the scholars who only read the classics in the window?"

Cen Shen said, "You only seek fame on horseback. You are truly a man of honor and a hero!"

At that time, the romance of men was "Don't laugh at me sleeping drunk on the battlefield, how many men have ever returned from the battles in history?"

The ambition of Chinese men at that time was "to wear golden armor through a hundred battles in the yellow sand, and never return until Loulan is conquered"!

How magnificent! The martial virtues of the Tang Dynasty men are so abundant that even after a thousand years, they are still full of heroic spirit, making the blood of future generations boil!

The Fubing system was abolished during the Tianbao period. Coincidentally, less than ten years later, the Tianbao Rebellion occurred, marking the end of the heyday of the Tang Dynasty...

As a result, all civil officials and military commanders in later generations regarded "Fubing" as a panacea for strengthening the army. Whenever they talked about revitalizing the corrupt border affairs, they would always mention rebuilding the Fubing system. Taizu of this dynasty was even more of a supporter of the Fubing system, and the Weisuo system he established was modeled after the Fubing system.

But the effect was a world of difference. The Ming Dynasty, which relied on the soldiers of the garrisons, became as weak as the Great Meng... Dozens of Japanese pirates could kill all the way from Songjiang to the city of Nanjing, scaring the hundreds of thousands of "dirty soldiers" in the city away from fighting. Fortunately, Hu Zongxian, Tan Lun, Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and other knowledgeable people no longer relied on the garrisons and began to recruit soldiers. Otherwise, the Great Meng might have become a brother in distress with the Great Song.

Then why is there such a huge gap between the fubing system and the weisuo system, even though both systems combine soldiers and farmers?

Because there is an essential difference between the two. The economic basis of the fubing system is the equal-field system.

The equal-field system was a system of allocating land according to population from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty, while the fubing system was a system of selecting soldiers from self-cultivating farmers and small landlords who obtained land. These fubing soldiers could enjoy tax exemption for their entire families, and they had high economic and social status, so they naturally shared weal and woe with the country.

The land cultivated by the garrison soldiers nominally belonged to the garrison, but in reality it belonged to the officers. Moreover, the military households had to serve in the army for generations, so ordinary military households were basically serfs. The garrison soldiers usually had to bear heavy rents and taxes, and they also had to bring their own dry food to the country to fight? Who could bear this?

Therefore, there will inevitably be a large number of desertions. Many of the Coast Guard are soldiers from military households, and they are equally brave and good at fighting. Therefore, the poor performance of the garrison is not a problem of people, but a big problem with the system.

In fact, the demise of the Tang Dynasty's military system was due to the fact that as annexation became increasingly serious, it was no longer possible to distribute land according to population, so the equal-field system had to be abolished. The common people had no cake to share, and only suffered at the border, so the military system naturally could not continue...

But Zhao Hao has plenty of cake to share! On the main island of Luzon alone, there are more than 100 million mu of arable land, and it is basic volcanic ash soil, which is extremely fertile. If we divide the land equally, there will be enough for tens of millions of Chinese people!

And this is just one island of Luzon. There are also Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, New Guinea, and the deserted islands...

Enough to equalize land for two hundred years!

If that's not enough, there's also North America...

Zhao Hao's ambitious century-long immigration plan was based on the idea of ​​"equal distribution of land for two hundred years". At a time when the Ming Dynasty was experiencing serious annexations and the poor had no place to live, he firmly believed that his path was correct and would definitely work!

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Of course, no matter how bright the future is, we still have to eat one bite at a time.

Young Master Zhao wiped away his saliva... oh no, tears, and finally turned his attention to the Spaniard.

The Spanish royal city still stood before us, and the cannons of Fort Santiago were still aimed at the river. What was more troublesome was that the Spanish strongholds were still scattered all over the central plain of Luzon. If we didn't drive all the invaders out of Luzon Island, we couldn't implement the major policies of equal distribution of land, government soldiers, and immigration.

The day after the funeral, he personally presided over a meeting on the next phase of operations, attended by not only marine officers and soldiers but also members of the Luzon Governor's Council.

The Jiangnan Group has accumulated rich experience to properly arrange the power distribution and daily operations of the Luzon Governor-General's Office.

First of all, according to Zhao Hao's consistent principle of separation of military and political affairs, the Governor's Office does not directly govern the soldiers, and its authority lies in internal affairs such as administration and justice.

Secondly, the Governor is only a representative of the Governor's Office and does not directly exercise power. The real administrative power of the Governor's Office is in the hands of the civil service system sent by the Jiangnan Group. The Governor is just a distinguished human seal.

Jiangnan Education Group has now become a prosperous company, with a large number of outstanding talents entering the group every year. After training by the group, some of these interns will be assigned to the city halls of Xingang City, Renmin City, Keelung City, Fengshan City, Hong Kong City, Sanya City, and the Management Committee of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region, to be responsible for specific administrative affairs.

As the size of these administrative staff continued to expand, the group had to set up a Civil Service Management Committee under the Board of Directors to manage the thousands of administrative staff in the six cities in this region, who were also called "civil servants."

The future Luzon Governor's Office will refer to the structure of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region in terms of the civil service system, and the Governor's Office will govern each city to realize the governance of Luzon. As for the highest legislative power, it is in the hands of the group, but it also gives the people the right to supervise and participate in politics.

When the People's City was established, Zhao Hao gave a definition of the people - the legal citizens living in the administrative districts and the cities under its jurisdiction are called the people. The people's right to supervise and participate in politics is realized by the representatives of the Council.

In accordance with the "Charter of the Luzon Governor's Office Council (Provisional)" formulated by the Jiangnan Group, the people of Luzon elect a number of council representatives in accordance with the procedures to comprehensively supervise all matters of the Luzon Governor's Office and the cities under its jurisdiction, and can make suggestions on any matter. The relevant departments must give written replies within a time limit.

If the review representative is not satisfied with the answer, he or she can write to the Nanhai Group Board of Directors. If the issue cannot be resolved, he or she can write to the Jiangnan Group Board of Directors. If the issue cannot be resolved, the Jiangnan Group Board of Directors will provide a written explanation to ensure that the voice of the review representative can be smoothly transmitted to the highest level of the group.

This kind of position where one does not have to do any work but just gives orders is simply the favorite of the gentry.

According to the Regulations, the Council shall be renewed every five years. Only those who have been registered in the Governor's Office or the city under its jurisdiction for more than five years are eligible to be nominated as a Council representative.

Therefore, the first panel of representatives was directly nominated by Tang Baolu, director of the Nanhai Group.

At present, there are only five review representatives, including Liu Xuesheng, Gao Erye, Huang Sanlaozhang's son Huang Song, and Chen Mei's younger brother Chen Jiang... The latter two have taken over the responsibilities of overseas Chinese leaders in place of their sacrificed father and brother.

There is another review representative for the Coast Guard, and Ximen Qing is currently in this position. We are all comrades who have experienced life and death together, so we should be able to cooperate happily.

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At the combat meeting, the commentators spoke enthusiastically and introduced the situation of the Spaniards to Zhao Hao, Jin Ke and others.

They told Zhao Hao and the senior officers of the Coast Guard that three years ago, the Red Demons destroyed the original Sultanate of Luzon and began to wipe out the traces of the original Sultanate and the Muslim Church. Because they killed too many people, in order to prevent the natives from rebelling, they paid special attention to the construction of the royal city.

Not only was the old royal city covering an area of ​​960 acres rebuilt into a stone city wall, but a stone castle was also built in the northwest corner of the city.

Compared with the outer city, the defense of the stone castle is more exaggerated. The castle wall is one zhang thick and four zhang high. There are towers and artillery platforms. There is a moat outside the city. The defense is extremely perfect and almost impenetrable. When the enemy breaks through the outer city, the Spaniards will retreat here to defend and wait for help. There are wells and sufficient supplies inside, so it is no problem to hold out for a year.

"No wonder they closed the city gates and refused to go out to fight. It turns out they have a turtle shell to hide in." Wu Da said in a muffled voice.

If they attacked the city, his three marines would naturally be the main force. The huge casualties that might occur made him clench his teeth.

"What kind of people are there in the city?" Zhao Hao suddenly asked.

"They are all red-haired devils. According to the laws of the red-haired devils, only legal 'blancos'... that is, white people, can live in Wangcheng District." Liu Xuesheng replied.

"What is a white person? My kind?" Pan Jinlian asked confidently. His skin was indeed very white, especially compared to the group of guys who were baked brown by the subtropical sun, it was even whiter than usual.

"White people are identified by their ancestry, not skin color. I've seen many red-haired ghosts with black skin." Liu Xuesheng explained, "According to the laws promulgated by the red-haired ghosts, white people include red-haired ghosts born in Spain, as well as the offspring of red-haired ghost men and foreign women, and the foreign women who gave birth to their children. Only those white people are eligible to live in the Royal City."

"Mexicans are not capable of this?" Zhao Hao asked in shock.

"Sir, are you referring to those New Spaniards?" Liu Xuesheng asked after a pause.

"Yes." Zhao Hao nodded.

"They can only serve as guards in the city. If they want to start a family, they still have to settle down outside the city." Liu Xuesheng said: "Apart from them, only we Han people can enter the royal city to work, but we must return to our homes in the stream at sunset."

"These bastards are using racial discrimination so early in the game." Zhao Hao spat, "Bah, disgusting!"

ps. I had a friend over today and drank a little, so there may be more typos, but I’ll keep writing…