The battle with less hits, breaking the city, and breaking the formation is characterized as "heading the formation", the equal strength of both sides is "middle formation", and the more hits are "lower formation". Secondly, according to the killing rate against the enemy, the killing rate reaches more than 40% is "top acquisition", the 20% is "middle acquisition", and the less than 10% is "lower acquisition". In this way, the military merits of "heading the formation" are the greatest, and the military merits of "lower acquisition" are the least. Of course, there are many soldiers participating in a battle. When the "former" and "grabbing" are the same, the military merits must be divided into one, two, and third grades according to the specific contribution of the soldiers. For example, "heading the formation" is the same.

The first level of "upper" can get five turns, the second level gets four turns, and the third level has only three turns. The "turn" here is the unit used to measure the merit at that time. Others such as "get in the upper stage" and "get in the middle stage" are both four turns; the first level of "get in the upper stage", "get in the middle stage", "get in the lower stage" can get three turns; the first level of "get in the middle stage" and "get in the lower stage" can get three turns; the first level of "get in the middle stage" and "get in the lower stage" are two turns, and the second and third levels of each different "former" are reduced by one turns, and the lower stage will no longer be divided, and they are all one turns. At this point, the Tang Dynasty formed a military merit system with a total of 25 levels.

Any 12-turned to the upper pillar state is considered the second rank; one-turned to the pillar state is considered the second rank; one-turned to the upper guard state is considered the third rank; nine-turned to the guard army, regarded as the third rank; eight-turned to the upper light chariot commander, regarded as the fourth rank; seven-turned to the light chariot commander, regarded as the fourth rank; six-turned to the upper cavalry commander, regarded as the fifth rank; five-turned to the cavalry commander, regarded as the fifth rank; four-turned to the cavalry commander, regarded as the sixth rank; three-turned to the flying chariot commander, regarded as the sixth rank; two-turned to the Yunqi commander, regarded as the seventh rank; one-turned to the Wuqi commander, regarded as the seventh rank." The higher the rank of the honorary official, the more revolutions you need.

Here we should pay attention to a keyword: "尽", the so-called "尽" means comparison, which means equivalent, which means that the rank of the honorary officials is just a comparison of the corresponding rank. In the Tang Dynasty, the rank and position of an official were separated, and its sequence was divided into three categories: scattered officials, official officials and official officials. The rank of a single official is equivalent to today's rank, which determines the salary and benefits of an official. The rank of a official is equivalent to today's rank, and is the specific position of an official. An official may not have a position, but must have a "scattered rank", that is, a rank. The system of a great official "is to repay the warriors, but then gradually reaches the court." As an honor to a meritorious person, although the honorary official has a rank, it is not a real position like a scattered official. What is the attractiveness of the honorary official system?

First, there is no restriction on the appointment of a meritorious official. As long as he has military merits, he can be awarded any background. If it is a particularly important military merit, he can also be awarded a meritorious person. For example, in the 19th year of Zhenguan (645), Emperor Taizong of Tang personally conquered Liaodong. In the battle to attack Andicheng, civilian Xue Rengui wore white clothes and killed the thief generals. He was invincible and made extraordinary achievements. After the war, he not only obtained the title of honor, but also was suddenly named a guerrilla general (san rank) from the fifth rank and was appointed as Guoyi of Yunquan Prefecture.

The Duwei (a real position between the fifth rank and the sixth rank). Not only can civilians award medals, but even the "sound and voice people" in Taichang Temple can also be used. The so-called "sound and voice people" are the general term for the musicians of the government in the Tang Dynasty. Their status is lower than that of the civilians. However, the Tang Dynasty stipulated that "Taichang voice people who receive the award of the fifth rank or above will not be eliminated unless they are awarded the merits." This means that if these musicians of the government can obtain the honorary officials of the fifth rank or above through military merits, they can be removed from the musicians of the government and become free people.

Second, honorary officials enjoy many preferential conditions. First, honorary officials can get a certain amount of private land. In the Tang Dynasty, it was stipulated that "all officials and honors are awarded eternal land". If their descendants are hereditary, they will be exempted from class and become private land for officials. Second, honorary officials can request the Ministry of Personnel to participate in the official sequence of officials and officially enter the official career, but they must be demoted to the rank and assigned to the official position. The highest-ranking honorary officials - Shangzhuguo (the second rank) can only be appointed to the sixth rank and the lower part will be reduced in turn. Third, even if the honorary officials cannot enter the official sequence of officials, they will still have the opportunity to get a scattered rank. According to regulations, honorary officials without actual positions must take turns to the Ministry of War and other states to complete the position of guards. If the upper rank and cavalry lieutenant is over four years, and the cavalry lieutenant is over five years, they can participate in the selection of the Ministry of War. Those who pass can get corresponding

The rank of the rank. Those who fail to choose can participate in the selection again after the second guard cycle expires. Fourth, the children of high-rank honorary officials have the opportunity to enter the Central Official School to study. The Central Official School of the Tang Dynasty was the Imperial College, which is under the jurisdiction of six schools, including the Imperial College, the Imperial College, the Four-School, the Law, the Calligraphy and the Correspondence School, each with a fixed source and post. Among them, the second-rank honorary officials, the county magistrate, and the fourth-rank honorary officials, the third-rank honorary officials, the third-rank honorary officials, the sons of the Imperial College can enter the Imperial College; the sons of the Imperial College above the third-rank honorary officials cannot enter the Imperial College; the sons of the Imperial College above the third-rank honorary officials cannot enter the Imperial College; the sons of the Imperial College above the third-rank cannot enter the Imperial College. Fifth, the children of the Imperial College are qualified to enter the Imperial College by relying on their family members, although the official rank when they entered the officialdom was only the lowest from the ninth rank. The excess honorary college can also be transferred to the family. The Tang Dynasty clearly stipulated that "the honorary officials are at the highest level of the state, and if there is no title, the relatives above the Zhou Dynasty will be granted."

Third, the award of honorary officials was very formal. In the early Tang Dynasty, special personnel were usually sent to the army to record military merits after the war, and then the censors of the Censorate reviewed the authenticity of military merits. The Si Xunlangzhong of the Ministry of Personnel reviewed whether the award of honor was consistent with the military merits. After the review of military merits, the Ministry of War issued a formal "report" by the Ministry of War. In terms of "report", starting from the prime minister, officials who were reviewed step by step and even the copying personnel must sign and seal, and stamped with a special "Secret of the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel", which seems particularly solemn and formal.

Because of this, in the early Tang Dynasty, it was an attractive way for civilians to be awarded a merit through military merit. In a letter unearthed from Tomb No. 24 of Astana, TLF, it was recorded that a man named Zhao Yishen in Luoyang wrote a letter to a grandmother far away in Xizhou in the 20th year of Zhenguan of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty (646). The letter mentioned that the Yunqiwei, who learned that his elder brother in Xizhou was awarded the seventh rank of honorary official Yunqiwei, was "unspeakable" for the whole family. The Yunqiwei was only ranked second to the last in the entire sequence of honorary officials, which shows that it was a very decent honor to be awarded a meritorious official at that time. Not only civilians valued the award of honorary officials, but also the literati and officials at that time regarded military merit and honorary officials as a shortcut to enter the officialdom. Therefore, the Tang people's martial arts actually had a lot to do with the implementation of the merit system.

However, since Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Wu Zetian, "the one who awarded merits has a lot of money." After the establishment of the Jiedu system, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang asked the Jieduan to organize a record of military merits by himself. In order to win over the morale of the army, the generals often falsely reported their military merits, and the status of the honorary officials was not as good as before. After the Anshi Rebellion, the national treasury was empty, the soldiers were meritorious, and the court could not reward money, so they had to use the honorary officials to reward merits. The middle-level envoys or generals often carried a lot of blanks with them when they went to war, so that they could fill in and distribute them at any time. The flood of honorary officials was not only without any sense of honor, but also more difficult to fulfill the preferential policies. The honorary officials system completely lost its appeal, and the glory of the Tang Dynasty's army also became a passing cloud.
Chapter completed!