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Chapter 637 Opportunity

Zhao Bing knew that every change in history would produce a group of new nobles, thereby changing the social pattern, which would inevitably lead to dissatisfaction with the original vested interest groups, allowing them to resist and destroy the new policy, and thus trigger social and regime turmoil. At present, a society dominated by the gentry, promoting culture and suppressing military personnel, restricting and suppressing military personnel were also the national policy of the Song Dynasty. Over the years of continuous strengthening, the inherent social institutions of scholars, peasants, industry and commerce have been formed.

Now that the country is destroyed and the family is destroyed, if you want to restore the country, you can only rely on the military group. At the same time, you need to improve their social status. Otherwise, if you let the horse run away without giving it to the horse, who will work hard for you? In other words, you must have enough interests to attract the support of the military group. However, the only way for military people to be promoted is to achieve military achievements or interest groups formed by nepotism, which makes it difficult to form an orderly promotion channel.

To be honest, small groups and "mountainism" have been born together since the emergence of the regime, and they cannot be eradicated in modern society. This is why the corruption of various military groups in the Song Dynasty has continued to fight, which has made the army less combat effectiveness. Strictly speaking, the phenomenon of small groups exists in the personal guards they rely on. However, because they are not yet established, it is difficult to form new power groups. In order to obtain their support, they cannot ignore them and improve their status. If they are allowed to develop, they will eventually become a big one and a new group will be formed.

Zhao Bing had previously been determined to run a military academy, but he wanted to simply improve his combat effectiveness, but there were also many difficulties. First of all, he did not get the support of the scholar group and treated his proposal negatively; furthermore, this way of running schools was a new thing, and although the old martial arts and martial arts system had stagnated, it was not cancelled; the final resistance actually came from himself, and he had to operate under the maintenance of the existing system, which had avoided the collapse of the entire regime and lost the support of the scholar group.

However, the benefits of running a military academy are also obvious. This way, it is possible to promote military talents systematically and in an organized manner. Compared with promoting military talents at all levels without systems and without organizations, there are many advantages, such as avoiding nepotism, lack of unified standards for promoting talents, and the inability to have the same interface for military skills, and can also provide military talents to the army systematically and in an organized manner. What the military academy provides to the army is not only single military talents, but systematic military talents.

What is more important is that the military academy can be used to reshape the values, value orientations and beliefs of the army, and to educate the military system on loyalty to the emperor, patriotism and heroism. Establish a true military spirit and firmly adhere to the ideals and beliefs of saving the country and the people to unify China. However, under the current situation, Zhao Bing could only "save the country in a curve" when he could not get support. He imitated the small station in his previous life to train troops by changing out new weapons to form a new army, instill various ideas into them, cultivate medium-sized forces and new military talents, and lay the foundation for establishing military academies in another day.

However, Zhao Bing suddenly realized that this class would rise again and become a new class, thus subverting the existing social structure and breaking the power system of the scholars' dominant regime. Of course, this is by no means his imagination. There are many examples in history. Although it is difficult to cultivate a new class, it is even more difficult to make a peaceful transition without causing new unrest.

But Zhao Bing knew that this was not easy. Every change of regime and change was actually a rise of a new class, and the original interest groups were destroyed. The Liu Bang group, who founded the Han Empire, was mostly from the lower class of society, was simple and innocent, honest and realistic, and valued every knife and shot, accumulated achievements, and pursued the interests of promotion and promotion of titles and a mu of houses. At the celebration banquet in Nangong, Luoyang, the Duwu Hou Gao Qi and the Wangling Hou of Xinping, had answered Liu Bang's thousands of years of questions. This was not only the disclosure of their ideas, but also the expression of their wishes, and also laid the political foundation of the Han Dynasty.

Compared with Liu Bang's gorgeous answer that those who win others will win the world, the heroes and soldiers firmly believed that as the leader of the group, Liu Bang was able to share the interests of the soldiers and share the world with the heroes. This was the reason why the Han Dynasty defeated Chu and Liu Bang could defeat Xiang Yu. The clever and clever Liu Bang knew the ideas and wishes of the heroes and soldiers. The reason why he could lightly lift Gao Qi and Wang Ling's words and laughed and be the answer to the three heroes of the Han Dynasty. He nodded and was convinced by the ministers in the hall. At this time, he had issued the fifth-year edict of Emperor Gao.

This edict satisfies the interests of the heroes and soldiers to the greatest extent. The Qin and Han dynasties society was a strict identity society. Identity determines everything, including the level of legal status, the amount of property possession, the size of officials, etc. The identity is stipulated by the title, and there are a total of twenty levels of title. Beyond the twenty-two levels of title, there are people without titles under the first-level official. Those who are called common people among the people, and those who serve in the government and the army are called Gongshu and Soldiers.

Below the common people are the semi-free people Si Kou and Yin Guan. Kou is a fixed-term prisoner, and Yin Guan is the person who has served his sentence for the past tenure, and is the person who has been released from prison. They can all establish households, but they can only enjoy half of the treatment of common people. Below are slaves, who belong to the lowest level of society, and cannot establish households, and can only survive with the master. Above the 20th level of title, there are princes and kings, whose identities are higher than those of princes and kings, and they are the pinnacle emperors of the imperial status.

It can be said that the 20th-class title was the foundation, with the emperor and princes and kings on it, and the common people, Si Kou Yin officials and slaves on it, forming a strict hierarchical Qin and Han dynasty society. In the Qin and Han dynasties, the most basic industry was agriculture, and the most important wealth was land. According to the provisions of the twenty-class title system, commoners without titles could only occupy one hectares of cultivated land and one house for homesteads. With the acquisition and upgrading of titles, the arable land and homesteads that could be occupied also increased accordingly, and social status and legal treatment also increased.

The twenty-class title system originated from Qin. It was originally a system formulated to reward military merits. It was called the military merits system. Later it was promoted to the whole society and became the foundation of the Qin national system and the system guarantee for defeating the six countries. The founding of the Western Han Dynasty fully inherited various systems of Qin, including the military merits system. In the Qin Dynasty and the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, joining the army was the obligation and way out of men. Military merits were the only way to obtain titles. Seeking military merits and titles, gaining fame and fortune is the pursuit and dream of soldiers and soldiers in the army. This kind of title system can be said to have influenced China's subsequent history. Although there is no such division in modern times, isn't it still different from the state-level, provincial-level, bureau-level, high-ranking officials and ordinary cadres!

People in the world have long envied the Qin army for their bravery in fighting and were fond of fighting. When the soldiers left home to go to the battlefield, the family came to see them off. The parents reminded them and the wife said that the most earnest words were to encourage their sons and husbands to kill the enemy and make contributions and obtain military titles as soon as possible. Zhao Bing also knew that there was such an army composed of peasants in later generations that also achieved brilliant victory. Why is this? After all, it is the benefit. They can obtain economic benefits from the war and their status can also be improved.

Once the Qin army soldiers were beheaded and made meritorious, they could obtain titles. According to the Qin military merit system, official positions were linked to titles. A certain level of title corresponded to a certain level of official positions, and titles were interconnected and used. The notice was immediately sent out by the army and sent to the county where the winner was located. Within three days, various treatments mainly based on land, land and houses must be implemented to households, otherwise local officials will be severely punished. The vigorous and effective governance, preferential treatment brought by policies, complacency and self-sufficiency in glory, and the motivational motivation generated by laws became the driving force that drove the soldiers to fight.

Therefore, titles are hierarchical status; land, land, land, houses, economic and wealth; official positions are political power. Together, the three are almost the sum of social resources at that time. The promulgation of Emperor Gao's fifth year of imperial edict and related laws was the redistribution of total social resources by the newly established Han government. In this distribution process, the level of military merits is first determined based on the size of military merits, and then the amount of distribution is determined based on the level of military merits.

In terms of social identity distribution, the members of the Liu Bang group obtained different titles of twenty-level military merits based on their different military merits, and monopolized the social identity of the Han Empire. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, almost all government officials, from the central government to the local government, from the prime minister, to the chief officials of various counties and counties, to the low-level minor officials of the township government, were all in-service or retired generals and officials with different levels of titles, and they monopolized almost all political power.

In terms of economic and wealth distribution, the members of the Liu Bang group occupied most of the land, land and houses of the Han Empire according to the principle of using merits and the provisions of the military title system. In terms of the distribution of political power, the leader of the group, Liu Bang, had the highest military merits and the most moral virtue of fair presidency, obtained the greatest power, and became the emperor. Under the emperor, according to the level of military merits, the members of the group obtained positions of princes, princes, ministers, bureaucrats and officials at all levels, and controlled the powers of the Han Empire at all levels.

After a long war, the Western Han Dynasty won the political and military group of Liu Bang, which used the political power he had, and implemented a thorough redistribution of the total social resources, thus successfully transforming into a new ruling class. This new ruling class monopolized all the political power, respected hierarchical identity and most of the economic wealth at that time.

Not only was the heavy foundation formed by the society at the beginning of the founding of the Han Empire, but it was also the personnel basis for the order of the world from war to stability. This new ruling class was transformed from Liu Bang's political and military group, and with respect for military merit as its value orientation, realizing the redistribution of power. In fact, there was a trace of this new social class that always ran through it in the complex historical background of the Han Dynasty, which also affected the political trend of later generations.

Similarly, in the early Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin used the plan of "release military power with a cup of wine" to suppress the military group, elevate the status of the gentry, and form a ruling class with scholars as the main body; Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty cleared the upstarts through massacres, established a unique royal authority, and re-established a dictatorial social system; while the Qing Dynasty relied on massacres and pacification to turn the ruling class of the Central Plains into its own slaves, achieving the purpose of its own ruling of foreign races. Later... everyone knew...

After being the leader for several years, Zhao Bing has also experienced the suffering of a person in power. He not only had to weigh the interests of various forces and settle the struggles between interest groups, but also had to safeguard his authority and interests. This is not only stimulation, but also not as elegant as art. Instead, it is to mobilize all the wisdom of people, and he should show his ugly human nature. He should keep his eyes open when he sleeps, keep his vigilance at all times to avoid losing power. To be honest, this process is no less than a war that has no end but is also related to life and death.

However, Zhao Bing felt that he still had loopholes to take advantage of the "military reform" at this time and would not arouse greater opposition. First, Hainan has always been a barbaric land and is regarded as a destination for exiled criminals. Although Su Shi, Li Guangdi and knowledgeable people who were exiled to this point vigorously develop their education, they are still in a very backward state compared with the mainland, and many of them are losers in political struggles, so the opposition from the local gentry will be very small.

Secondly, Jiangnan has fallen, but in fact it is a state of collapse of the country and family, and rituals and music. In addition, many "famous officials" surrendered and surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty, which greatly affected the reputation of the gentry. Instead, those warriors who swear to the death and fight to the end are even more praised by the world. In addition, Kublai Khan was vigilant against the scholars in Jiangnan, suppressed them and abandoned them, which greatly reduced their prestige and was in panic.

In addition, after moving to Qiong, many scholars moved here and occupied important positions in the court. However, most of the grassroots were gentry and clerks promoted by Zhao Bing, so their influence was limited to the scope of Qiongzhou City. In the hasty establishment of the dynasty, there were actually not many people who could be called the great scholars, and they still had to rely on their own wings and be protected by the warriors to survive. After Chen Yizhong, Zhang Shijie's warrior group was able to quickly grasp the government affairs, but the scholar group led by Lu Xiufu was powerless to see how declining it was.

After careful analysis, Zhao Bing thought that taking advantage of the chaos of the situation, the scholars were in decline in the court and the restoration of the country, the military should be able to see the situation clearly and not make too fierce resistance to their moderate improvement of the status of the military. Besides, he also made a compromise, strengthened the power of the Ministry of War, reduced the functions of the Privy Council, and was also considered a balance. Therefore, it is a rare opportunity to promote military reform, and he must seize the opportunity of the old and new relationship.
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