Mercenaries Under the Sky

Among the thousands of emperors in history, the most demanding ability is the emperor who re-emerged in the founding and wars, the latter is particularly high.

Opening up an empire is often a great rule after the great chaos. The founding emperor has two rare advantages in the difficult times: First, the people think about it. After many years of chaos, the people do not talk about life, as long as someone can give them a safe environment and give them a mouthful. After eating, they don't care where the person comes from and how they are. Second, the ruling class of the previous empire has been completely shuffled, and a large number of empty places are waiting for replacement. This is also the core reason for attracting talents.

The emperor of war and resurgence is precisely the weak point in these two points. The imperial war is a harbinger of the decline of the empire. Li Min holds the view of gloating for such a country and hopes it will fall. The original aristocratic class was reluctant to give up its existing interests, and localism prevailed. The princes everywhere were independent to seek greater power. These two points are often the core reason for the rapid collapse of a huge empire in a short time.

In this case, the ability required by the king is often higher. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why the number of founding emperors exceeds that of warring Zhongxing emperors, and the number of emperor Zhongxing is far less than that of kingdom emperors.

Among the few ZTE emperors, Redstone Emperor is one of them.

——The 12th chapter of "The Biography of Redstone Emperor" Long live the King's Magic Calendar. In the late January and winter of 5 years, the imperial capital was completely plunged into a peaceful and festive atmosphere, and residents within a thousand miles around the imperial capital voluntarily came to celebrate the birthday of Redstone.

Needless to say, the Redstone Emperor is a generation of famous monarchs. Among the dozens of generations of emperors in the Amy Empire, although they can't be said to have no ancients and no comers, they are also outstanding.

This is especially true for internal.

The Redstone Emperor has stopped expansion plans for 20 years since he assumed the throne. The imperial soldiers have been compressed from the 1.25 million regular troops on the day of the throne to the 700,000 regular troops in the magic calendar for 5 years. The frequency of military exercises has reduced the scale of military exercises, and military expenditures have been reduced from 2 billion gold coins to only 7.5 million gold coins. While compressing the army, vigorously promote the development of civilian armed forces such as the mercenary regiment. Before the Redstone Emperor took the throne, the empire did not have any A-level mercenary regiments-the headquarters of the Xuanqing Land Dragon Knights is now located in the Holy See Moreover, the imperial soldiers and generals will not allow any civilian military force of more than 400 people to exist. The third command after the Redstone Emperor assumed the throne was to eliminate many restrictions on the mercenary regiment. At that time, the Imperial Military Department was extremely vocal about cutting troops and increasing servants, and three of the four marshals blatantly opposed it. As a last resort, the Redstone Emperor forced the three marshals to retire and abolished the establishment of the 11 brigades directly under the three marshals. In order to better implement his own policies in the army, the young emperor conferred Marshal General Tongchi of the military leader of the moderate army in Tongyunguan defense zone (that is, the Holy Snow Mountain defense zone) to the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Marshal.

After that, Redstone stated on many occasions: Imperial soldiers are not expensive. Just one example of a swordsman battalion soldier, to maintain his equipment and food and training for a year, at least 10 imperial civilians need to feed. Therefore, the empire only needs to maintain an elite invincible army. More maintenance work such as **** and **** is handed over to civil forces such as mercenary corps. These armed forces not only do not need the empire to feed, but in turn can provide the empire with a large amount of tax revenue.

At the same time, Redstone rectified the officials and cultivated interest. In the years when Hongshigang was in power, at least 20 or more high-ranking high-ranking officials were killed and exiled every year because of corruption, bribery and other reasons. The effect of killing chickens for monkeys may not be obvious, but after killing a few tigers, not only the monkeys, but the entire imperial warlord system shuddered. Retreating up and down, groups of young people entered the imperial bureaucracy, rare in Qingming's previous life.

After nearly one million soldiers retired, they were immigrated to the northern federation and dissolved into local life. More residents have moved from poor areas to rich areas along the mainland roads. Redstone has allocated 10 million yuan of military budget to the local economy to develop local economies and encourage childbirth.

As a result of the 20-year cultivation and interest maintenance, although the empire ’s tax revenue decreased from the tithe (1/10) tax of ordinary residents to the tithe (1/15) tax, the total annual tax revenue of the empire increased from 970 thousand years ago. Ten million has grown to 14 million; the population has increased from 28.9 million to 35.32 million two continents 20 years ago. The total population even exceeds the sum of the three empires Hughes, mercenary, and sacred desert empire, and the economic strength is more than the sum of the aforementioned three empires and the two empires of Hami and North Hami.

The wealth of imperial residents is unmatched by other countries. It is not only the nobles who have three wives and four concubines, even ordinary ordinary people can go to other countries to buy mistresses and mistresses. The second milk village has also become a symbol of national prosperity and strength.

The Redstone Emperor encouraged frugality, except for foreign affairs that had to be external, basically simplified. If the only big celebration is the birthday of the Redstone Emperor every five or ten years-originally Redstone did not want to do it, but when Redstone was 28 years old, 500,000 people around the capital surrounded the palace and voluntarily celebrated the birthday for Redstone. Redstone had to come up with a compromise solution, once every 5 years, but it would be waived at other times.

The only difference between this year ’s celebration and previous years is that some official manipulation was incorporated into it. The Redstone Emperor strived to hope that through this celebration, the restlessness over the empire would be filled in the past two years.