Militia Training

This precious slack season had become the core capital that made the militia system possible.

Perhaps, at its root, the rise of the Western world's Industrial Revolution in his previous life had benefited from the labor freed from the land by this kind of relationship between people and land.

By contrast, it was precisely because the ancient agricultural civilizations of the East had bound the vast majority of their population to the ridges of meticulously cultivated fields that society lacked labor that could be redirected, missing the opportunity to transition to new modes of production.

At that moment, Carnford was riding the momentum of extensive agriculture and forging a group of farmers clutching farming tools into a sturdy shield protecting their homeland on the training grounds of the Tunbao.

To encourage the militiamen to take their training seriously, Karl had appropriately raised their allowances, setting them at fifty copper coins per month.

However, he had not chosen to pay the allowance in a lump sum. Instead, he stipulated that five copper coins would be paid for each complete training session attended.

Thus, if a militiaman could persist in attending ten training sessions in a month, he would receive the full fifty copper coins.

The advantages of this pay-per-session system were obvious.

On one hand, it directly linked the allowance to actual training attendance and effectiveness, preventing the problems of drawing pay without serving and showing up without putting in effort, while motivating the militiamen to remain enthusiastic about participating.

On the other hand, for the Lord's Residence, this was also a more flexible and controllable financial arrangement. The training frequency could be adjusted according to the financial situation without creating a fixed and burdensome expenditure.

At present, the standard strength of each Militia Camp had been set at three hundred