If there are many people in the family who are suitable for military service and are in good health, it is a lifelong compulsory soldier: a child soldier from the age of 20 to a real veteran who is discharged from the army at the age of 60! But I enjoy rent-free mediocrity. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to the southern and northern yaban soldiers, there are also border guards. The border guards are organized as garrisons, towns, guards, and armies. The town and the garrison are divided into three grades: 50 people are the upper town, 30 people are the middle town, and less than 30 people are the lower town, 500 people are the upper town, 300 people are the middle town, and less than 300 people are the lower town. Each town and the town are placed as a town general and a town deputy, and there is one person for the main and one deputy for the war. In addition, in some places, the big ones set up armies, and the small ones set up guards and captures, and each set up envoys and deputy envoys to command, and the number of troops under their command was greater than that of towns and garrisons. These border guards generally serve for three years and provide their own food.

The Tang Dynasty also had local armed forces: unity soldiers, also known as regimental training soldiers, and soil regiments. They were briefly removed from production and were under the control of the state thorns. During the service, grain, oil and pickles were issued. The unity soldiers are also non-staff soldiers, and their duties are generally to defend within their own territory, or to cooperate with the "national army" in emergency situations.

The highest military administrative leadership organ of the state is the military department of Shangshu Province. There is one chief Shangshu, two waiters are deputies, and the four divisions of the military department, the staff, the driving department, and the treasury department are placed in each Lang Zhong and one or two people outside the staff. The duties of the military department are to be in charge of the military and political affairs of the whole country, such as the establishment, quota, and examination and approval of military units, the conscription or increase or decrease of troops and the transfer of troops, the selection and allocation of military attachés, and the management of military materials, weapons, and equipment throughout the country.

However, even the Ministry of War (equivalent to the current Ministry of National Defense), the highest military administrative leadership organ, does not have the right to mobilize and command the armed forces, let alone the commanders and generals below. The mobilization and command of the army are firmly in the hands of the emperor alone! The Tang Dynasty stipulated: Anyone who sends more than 10 troops, except for special emergencies, must have the emperor's "edict" and bronze fish charm issued by Shangshu Province and Menxia Province. The bronze fish talisman is a tiger talisman: a tiger-shaped object cast in copper. Because Tang Gaozu changed into a fish shape to avoid the "tiger" of his ancestor Li Hu, Wu Zetian changed it to a turtle charm after being called the emperor, and it was restored to a fish charm since Tang Zhongzong. The time is divided into two halves, left and right, half of which is stored in the imperial court, and the other half is given to local generals (most of whom are in charge of the Zhichong Prefecture). When it is necessary to mobilize the army of a certain military government, the imperial court appoints someone to hold the "edict" and half of the copper fish charm (the two are indispensable to prevent overkill), go to the military government to proofread with the general who holds the other half of the copper fish symbol, and the assassin or governor of the military government will participate in the proofreading, and with the "edict", and the proofreading is correct, the military government will send troops.

Once the war was over, the soldiers returned to their original units and went home to farm; The generals returned to the imperial court. Since the emperor firmly grasped the military power, in a sense, these generals were usually the commanders of the light poles, and the commanders of the Zhichong Prefecture, who directly managed the government soldiers, were also the directors of the conscription office, which determined that it was basically difficult for them to rebel.

Generally speaking, every adult male in the Tang Dynasty had to become a government soldier, working from the age of 20 until the age of 60 (if physically able) and being discharged from the army. Because the government has already made a one-time advance of "military salary": that is, the eternal field of every adult man.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the government stipulated that men between the ages of 16 and 20 were middle-aged, 21-59 years old, and 60-year-old. Middle-aged men and Ding men over the age of 18 are each given 80 acres of land and 20 acres of Yongye ・・・・・・. Yongye Field, or Shiye Field, is a private land that can not be returned until death! After the death of the owner, the land is to be returned to the state.

Since the government soldier system was built on the basis of the Juntian system, the early Tang Dynasty stipulated that Yongye land could not be bought and sold, so the government soldiers were stable. In the Tianbao period of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, due to the fact that Yongye Tian could enter the trading market, the Juntian system was also destroyed, resulting in a large number of peasants fleeing, and the military system gradually collapsed due to the depletion of military resources, and had to be replaced by a conscription system, that is, the recruitment of "mercenaries".