Chapter 14: Pacifying the Lujiang River (2)
The conscription order had been sent out early. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the source of soldiers in the Han Dynasty, and recruited more soldiers in the Western Han Dynasty, and recruited more soldiers in the Eastern Han Dynasty, mixed with conscription.
Here is a brief introduction to the military system of the two Han Dynasty. In fact, in the Han Dynasty, serving in the army and serving are the same thing. Because of the ownership of land, the people had a natural vassal relationship with the court. The so-called four seals are not the king's land; The hair that eats the soil is none other than the king's minister. Every year, when the peasants are slack, the imperial court will levy the people to go to the dredging canals, build city defenses, build tombs, build palaces, and serve in the military without compensation.
So when will it enter service? "Hanyi Note" says: The twenty-third year of the Republic of China is positive. One year old for the guard, one year old for the official knight, practice archery, gallop Chen. He also said, "At the age of fifty-six, when you are old, you will be spared from being a commoner, and you will go to the field." There is also Xu Shen's "Five Classics of Different Meanings" that says: Han inherited a hundred kings, and the system of twenty-three and served; Fifty-six is exempt. It can be seen from this that during the Han and Han dynasties, the common people began to serve at the age of twenty-three and were exempted from military service at the age of fifty-six. Why twenty-three? Because the ancient system is twenty percent, and then the fields will be divided for you to cultivate. Three years of plowing has a year's savings, so when you are twenty-three years old, you have planted the land for three years and have a certain amount of savings, and you will be able to afford your due obligations to the imperial court. There are also certain economic factors that are also involved.
There are three kinds of this kind of service, the first is to be a Praetorian Guard, and the three auxiliary regions form the Northern Army and defend the capital; The county came to form the Southern Army and guard the palace gate. The counties of the Western Han Dynasty also had the selection of good family sons as officials and knights, and later Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty was dismissed. The second is the border guards. Everyone in the world has the obligation to defend the border for three days, even if it is the prime minister and the son of the third prince, they are also among them. Of course, you have to feel that the border is bitter cold, and you don't want to go, okay. The imperial court is still very humane, give three hundred money, save you from being on the border, and then the court takes the money, whether it is sent by another person or embezzled by itself, no one knows. The last type is local servitude, and the county recruits you to guard the city gate or dig a river. This servitude is rotated for one month a year. Of course, if you are a big family and can't bear this kind of hardship, it's very simple, you pay, and someone else will go instead of you. Just like the substitute test and driver of later generations. A month, two thousand, and then it's none of your business.
The Janissaries were treated excellently. Of course, this has been the case since ancient times, ace troops. When he went to the imperial court as a guard, he paid for food and clothing, and the round-trip expenses were all provided by the imperial court, and the emperor often received him and rewarded him with wine and food. For example, in later generations, a certain general gave a certain soldier a dish.
And then there is the border guard. Because the border army only had three days per person, they were treated very poorly, and they had to bring their own travel expenses and dry food, and the court didn't care about it at all. Have you noticed that everyone has to go to the frontier to defend, but they only serve for three days. Counting the time and expenses spent on the road, do you think the ancients were stupid and stupid?
Actually, no, because the border was held for three days, it was the system of the pre-Qin dynasty, and the Qin and Han dynasties inherited it. In the pre-Qin period, the vassal states were very small, and it was enough to go to the border to guard for three days, and one back and forth to bring five to six days of dry food, and it didn't take much effort. But after Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms and unified the world, Qin Shi Huang still used the previous border system, maybe he was too busy with things and didn't think about this problem for a while. As a result, the tragedy was over, Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and others wanted to go to Yuyang to defend it, the road was too far, and the Qin law was extremely strict, stipulating that you should arrive when you arrived, and those who did not arrive would be killed. So Chen Sheng and Wu Guang really couldn't stand it, Lao Tzu brought his own money and food to be a soldier, because of the rain, he had to lose his head if he missed the schedule. Does this make sense? So Chen Sheng and Wu pulled the banner and reversed. Later, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, Liu Ji, the head of the Surabaya Pavilion at that time, was also because of escorting prisoners to serve labor, and it was estimated that he would be delayed, and then many people fled in the middle of the night, Liu Ji thought about it, forget it, when I arrived in Lishan, it was estimated that everyone had almost run away, and he was going to lose his head, so he let the rest of the people go, and they embarked on the road of rebellion together.
Thinking about it seriously, the death of the Second Great Qin Empire seems to have died on this side of the military system. said how ridiculous the second Hu Hai was, said that Zhao Gao was in power, said how Li Si was willing to fall, and said that Fusu should not commit suicide. In fact, it's all superficial. No matter how ridiculous Hu Hai is, Zhao Gao will take power again, it is just political chaos, and there are still fewer mediocre emperors for thousands of years under the Han Dynasty? Before I saw it, I lost my country. Is Yang Guang mediocre? His exploits are world-renowned, but why did he die? In fact, it is too much of a servant. Qin and Sui, it was the people who couldn't get by, so they rebelled. Be a little nicer to the people, save the people's power, and don't be too harsh, maybe history will turn another corner.
The last kind of servitude is also a purely compulsory labor. Just like the Celestial Empire in later generations, farmers were recruited in the countryside to build roads, reservoirs, and so on.
In the Western Han Dynasty, conscription was mostly used, that is, people all over the world were conscripted for compulsory military service, and no military salary was paid. Later, the emperor saw that it was not good, and the normal levy really couldn't meet the needs of the country. For the borders of the country have been greatly expanded, and many have been exempted from military service with money. Later, it was proposed to recruit people to do the same. It is to move the people to the border counties, so that they can farm and defend at the same time. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, this war maniac had reigned for 54 years and fought for more than 40 years, and the country was about to be squeezed dry by him, and the source of soldiers became more and more insufficient. So Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to recruit soldiers, recruiting Han people and ethnic minorities, slaves, sinners, and evil teenagers who were familiar with the border areas as soldiers. There are also seven branches of soldiers, that is, prisoners, outlaws, merchants, and wealthy people. Of course, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also had no money, and he later collapsed the economy of the Han Empire. He gave these people the privileges of being exempt from death, from sin, from military service, and so on, and let them die for him. Of course, good families and ethnic minorities joining the army are indispensable for money and military merit. The conscription system was established from then on.
When he arrived in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu was too complicated because the soldiers in his hands were too complicated, including requisition, recruitment, and incorporation, and there were clans of generals under his command, including Han and Hu. So he simply began to rectify and adapt. First of all, the national soldiers of the counties in the world were dismissed, and the lieutenants were no longer needed, so that the local tail could not be lost.
Then he began to reorganize the Central and Central Armies. The eighth school of the Northern Army was changed to the fifth school, and Liu Xiu's own pro-army was used as the guard, and the two palaces were guarded. These Liu Xiu's personal soldiers were scattered in Yulin and Huben under the command of Guangluxun; As well as among the cavalry and guards under the command of Jin Wu, the father died and the son succeeded, stationed in Luoyang, and if there was something in the world, he was ordered to go on the expedition.
Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu knew the importance of military power, so he dismissed the national soldiers of the county in the world, and then let his cronies garrison the capital and control the palace ban. It not only reduces the financial burden of the country, is conducive to the rapid resumption of production in the country after the war, but also guarantees its own security. Of course, the drawbacks are also obvious: there are no permanent troops in the localities and passes, and local law and order are greatly corrupted. And then once something happens, they will be caught off guard and will have to temporarily recruit soldiers and waste fighters in vain.
Just like this Lujiang rebellion, if the county soldiers were still there, they could have been suppressed by the commander at the beginning of the rebellion, so why let the rebellion sweep all directions and be killed in battle?
Lu Zhi recruits soldiers, and he doesn't accept everyone. He used the method of recruitment. The first is height, don't be too short. Then there is good health and no disease, then there is good courage, and finally there is a skill, such as you can ride, know how to punch and kick swords, know archery and so on. Liu Bei and Lu Min followed by their side, participated in their affairs, and learned a lot of things solidly.
In fact, Lu Zhi's favorite is still Shanman. The Wulingman, Jingzhouman, Jiujiangman, and Lujiangman, who are now to be pacified, are not alien races. They are of the same language and race as us Han people, but for various reasons, they have fled into the mountains and wilderness, disobeying the government's education, not entering the household registration, not to mention paying taxes and serving in the army. And after being in the wild for a long time, we may not be very particular about clothes and hair accessories, so we are not used to it, so we call it: "barbarian".
Because of the perennial work, most of the mountain barbarians are strong. While having a good strength, he also has good archery. I hunt a lot. Later, the Danyang soldiers who followed Liu Bei to fight in the world and the Shanyue soldiers under Sun Quan were all so-called mountain barbarians. It's a pity that Lu Jiangshan rebelled, even if he didn't rebel, he wouldn't defect to Lu Zhi.
In the past few days, Liu Bei and Lu Min have been spending time at the recruitment point every day, and they are too tired to do it. Liu Bei was a little disappointed at the same time, he also wanted to see if he could recruit a famous general in his memory, there was no doubt that there was nothing.
Pick and choose, and get two thousand healthy people. Liu Bei looked at the crowd lined up outside the recruiting point, and asked Lu Zhi suspiciously: "Teacher, why are you not recruiting anymore?" Most of the recruits were homeless, homeless, without food or clothing. It would be better to choose the strong one and recruit him than to starve to death on his way. ”
Lu Zhi looked at Liu Bei's face with unbearable expression, and secretly praised it in his heart, but said: "Wulang, if the people are in chaos under the rule of the teacher, don't I want to save it?" If you don't save it, you can't save it! ”
Liu Bei blurted out and asked, "Why?" ”
Lu Zhi sighed: "The army is not enough! ”
Only then did Liu Bei react that the money and food all relied on the "voluntary donations" of the Lujiang clan, and this recruitment, except for the hot-blooded sons who volunteered to join the army and wanted to win fame in the army, the others were all paid. There are also post-war rewards and pensions, which are all large expenses. Thinking of this, Liu Bei couldn't help but be silent. Although he is kind, he is not pedantic, and recruiting more people when the army is short of food will only cause the whole army to collapse. He can only and will only help people within the scope of his ability, otherwise he is stupid. I figured it out here, but I had to have a faint headache for Lu Zhi again.
Of course, Lu Zhi can also choose to recruit soldiers, but the former Taishou has already been recruited once, and the casualties are not small, and the people are resentful; And then what if people would rather pay than be drafted? Of course, Lu Zhi has a way to deal with it. It's just that the war is urgent, and Lu Zhi doesn't have time to spend here.
The soldiers were fast, and three days later it was an auspicious day, and Lu Zhi beat the drum to gather troops. After the three-way drum, the camp gate was wide open, Lu Zhi was draped all over, Wang Song, Lu Min, Liu Bei, Liu Ke and others followed behind, leading the crowd straight out of the east gate. Originally, Lu Zhi asked Liu Bei and Lu Min to wait in the rear, and learned how to deal with political affairs with Sun Hai, the county prince. But Liu Bei didn't do it, and there was another Liu Ke next to him, who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, so he patted his chest to ensure that Liu Bei's kung fu was good, and with himself, he was foolproof. Left and right don't need them to put on armor and go into battle in person, considering this, Lu Zhi agreed. Lu Min saw that Liu Bei had gone, how dare he not go? Lu Zhi is his own father!
Outside the east gate, the gentry led the troops to send each other here. Before, Lu Zhiyan had few soldiers, and the elite of the Northern Army wanted to destroy the enemy, and the newly recruited people didn't dare to believe it, so that each family sent dozens of elite servants to protect it. The big families were overjoyed, thinking that they would be too shou from then on. So today, I was full of spirits and led the carefully selected parts to meet here.
Lu Zhi dismounted, appeased a few words, then took all the households, and led the army to go straight to the rebels.
Note: The Eighth School of the Northern Army of the Western Han Dynasty: Zhongbase, Tun Cavalry, Infantry, Hu Cavalry, Yue Cavalry, Shooting Sound, Changshui, Tiger Ben; Five schools of the Northern Army of the Eastern Han Dynasty: Tun Cavalry, Yue Cavalry, Infantry, Changshui, and Shooting Sound. Troops: chariots and cavalry; The material officer is a foot pawn; Lou Ship is a sailor.