Chapter 637: A Good Opportunity

Zhao Yu knew that every change in history would produce a group of upstarts, thereby changing the social pattern, and this would inevitably make the original vested interests dissatisfied, make them resist and undermine the new deal, and then cause social and political turmoil. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and the current is a society dominated by the scholars, and it is also the national policy of the Great Song Dynasty to promote literature and suppress martial arts, restrict and suppress martial artists, and hundreds of years of continuous strengthening has formed an inherent social institution of Shinong industry and commerce.

Now that the country is ruined, if you want to restore the country, you can only rely on the martial arts group, and at the same time, you need to improve their social status, otherwise if you let the horse run and don't give the horse grass, who will work for you, that is to say, there must be enough interests to attract the support of the martial arts group. However, the only way for martial artists to be promoted is to have military exploits, or interest groups formed by nepotism, and it is difficult to form an orderly promotion channel.

To be honest, small groups and the emergence of 'mountainism' have been accompanied by the emergence of self-government, and they cannot be eradicated in modern society. And it is precisely because of this that the corruption of the various military groups in the Great Song Dynasty will be rampant, and the infighting will not stop, so that the combat effectiveness of the army will be low. At present, in order to gain their support, I can't help but reuse them and improve their status, and if I let them develop, one day they will lose their weight and form a new group.

Zhao Hao wanted to run a military academy before, just to simply improve his combat effectiveness, but it was also difficult. First of all, he did not get the support of the Shiren group, and treated his proposal negatively; Moreover, this way of running a school is a new thing, and although the old martial arts and martial arts system has been stagnant, it has not been canceled; The last obstacle actually came from himself, and he had to operate under the maintenance of the existing system, so as to avoid the collapse of the entire regime and the loss of the support of the gentry group.

However, the advantages of running military schools are also obvious, so that we can systematically and organically promote military personnel at all levels, compared with the promotion of military personnel through no system and no organization, there are many advantages, such as nepotism, there is no unified standard for promoting talents, military skills can not have the same interface and many other drawbacks, and can systematically and systematically provide military personnel for the army in an organized and hierarchical manner, and military schools provide the army with not only a single military talent, but a system of military talents.

What is more important is to reshape the values, value orientation, and beliefs of the military through military schools, and to systematically educate military personnel in a series of such as loyalty, patriotism, and heroism. Establish a true military spirit and strengthen the ideal and belief in saving the country and the people and reunifying China. However, under the current situation, when Zhao Yu could not get support, he could only 'save the country by curve', imitate the small station training in his previous life, form a new army by changing new weapons, instill various ideas in them, cultivate basic forces and new military talents, and lay the foundation for the establishment of military academies in the future.

However, Zhao Yu suddenly realized that this class would inevitably rise to become a new class one day, thereby subverting the existing social structure and breaking the power system of the scholarly dominant regime. Of course, this is by no means his imagination, and 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 turmoil.

But Zhao Yu knows that this is not easy, and every change of regime and change is actually the rise of a new class and the elimination of the original interest groups. Liu Bang Group, which founded the Han Empire, most of the heroes and soldiers were born in the lower strata of society, simple and unliterate, upright and realistic, and valued the merits of a knife and a gun, accumulated over time, and pursued the interests of adding officials to the rank of knight and one acre and one house. At the celebration banquet of Luoyang South Palace, Duwu Marquis Gao Qi and Xinping Marquis Wang Ling had a thousand-year-old answer with Liu Bang, which was not only the disclosure of their thoughts, 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 the winner of the world wins, the heroes and soldiers firmly believe that Liu Bang, as the leader of the group, can share the interests of the soldiers and share the world with the heroes, which is the reason why Han won Chu and why Liu Bang was able to defeat Xiang Yu. The smart and clever Liu Bang, for the thoughts and wishes of the heroes and soldiers, is not well known, the reason why he was able to lightly put aside the words of Gao Qi and Wang Ling, smile Yingying and do the answer of the three heroes of the early Han Dynasty, and won the full court of ministers nodded yes, and was convinced, because at this time and now, he has promulgated the five-year edict of Emperor Gao.

This edict satisfies the interests of the meritorious soldiers to the greatest extent. The Qin and Han dynasties were a strict identity society. Identity determines everything, including the level of legal status, the amount of property occupied, the size of the official and so on. The status is defined by the title, which has a total of 20 levels. In addition to the twentieth rank of knighthood, below the first-level public servant, there are people who do not have a title, those who are in the civil society are called Shuren, and those who serve in the government and the army are called public servants and soldiers.

Below the Shu people are the semi-free people of the priests and hidden officials. Kou is a fixed-term prisoner, and Yinguan is a person who has completed his sentence, that is, a person who has been released from prison, and they can all set up a household, but they can only enjoy half of the treatment of a common person. Below them are slaves and maids, who belong to the lowest level of society, and cannot establish a household, but can only depend on their masters to survive. Above the twentieth-level princes, there are also princes and kings, whose status is higher than that of the princes and princes, and is the apex emperor of the imperial identity.

It can be said that with the 20th rank of the lord as the backbone, plus the emperor and the princes and kings above, and the lower part plus the concubines, the hidden officials and the slaves, a total of 25 ranks of identities, constituted a hierarchical Qin and Han identity society. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the most basic industry was agriculture, and the most important wealth was land. According to the provisions of the 20th rank system, the people who do not have a title can only occupy one hectare of cultivated land and a homestead of a house, and with the acquisition and promotion of the title, the amount of cultivated land and homestead that can be occupied also increases correspondingly, and the social status and legal treatment also rise.

The twentieth rank system, which originated in Qin, was originally a system formulated to reward military merits, called the military merit system, and later spread to the whole society, becoming the foundation of Qin's state system and the institutional guarantee for defeating the six countries. The founding of the Western Han Dynasty comprehensively inherited the various systems of the Qin Dynasty, including the military merit system. In the Qin Dynasty and the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, joining the army was the obligation and way out for men, and military merit was the only way to obtain a title. And this kind of title system can be said to have influenced China's subsequent history, although there is no such division in modern times, but there are still national, provincial and ministerial levels, department and bureau levels, senior cadres and ordinary cadres!

When the soldiers left home to go to the battlefield, the family came to see them off, the parents told them, and the wives chattered, and the most earnest words were to encourage their sons and husbands to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and obtain military merits as soon as possible. And Zhao Yu also knew that there had been such an army based on peasants in later generations, which also achieved brilliant victories. Why is that? In the end, it is the interests that make it possible for them to gain economic benefits from the war and to improve their status at the same time.

According to Qin's military merit system, the official position is linked to the title, and the title of a certain level corresponds to the official position of a certain level, and the title and the official position are used interchangeably. The notice was immediately sent out by the army and sent to the county where the knight was located. Within three days, all kinds of treatment, mainly for land and homes, must be implemented in the households, otherwise the magistrates will be severely punished. The vigorous and effective governance, the preferential treatment brought by the policy, the complacency of the glorious ancestors, and the motivation generated by the decree have become the driving force for the soldiers to go into battle.

So a knighthood is a hierarchical status; Land and land are economic wealth; Official position is political power, and the sum of the three is almost the sum of social resources at that time. The promulgation of Emperor Gao's Five-Year Edict and related decrees was a redistribution of the total resources of society by the newly established Han government. In this process of distribution, the level of military merit is first determined according to the size of military merit, and then the amount of distribution is determined according to the level of military merit.

As far as the distribution of social status is concerned, the members of Liu Bang's group have obtained different titles among the 20th rank of military merit according to their different military merits, and they have monopolized the social status of the Han Empire. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, almost all government officials, whether from the central to the local, up to the central government cabinet headed by the prime minister, from the county magistrates, to the low-level officials of the township government, were in-service or retired generals with different ranks, and they monopolized almost all political power.

As far as the distribution of economic wealth was concerned, the members of the Liu Bang group occupied the vast majority of the land and houses of the Han Empire in accordance with the principle of merit and the military merit system. As far as the distribution of political power is concerned, Liu Bang, the leader of the group, has the highest military merits, and has the greatest virtue of fairly presiding over the distribution, gaining the greatest power and becoming the emperor. Under the emperor, according to the level of military merit, the members of the group were respectively awarded the positions of princes, princes, ministers, bureaucrats and officials at all levels, and mastered all levels of power in the Han Empire.

After a long war, the Western Han Dynasty seized the political and military group of Liu Bang, which seized the world, and used the political power in its hands to carry out a thorough redistribution of total social resources, thus smoothly transforming into a new ruling class. This new ruling class monopolized all political power, prominent hierarchical status, and most of the economic wealth of the time.

It was not only the solid foundation of the social composition at the beginning of the founding of the Han Empire, but also the personnel foundation for the world's order to shift from war to stability. This new ruling class, transformed from Liu Bang's political and military clique, was guided by the value of respecting military merits and realized the redistribution of power. In fact, the complex historical background of the Han Dynasty has always run through the traces of this new social class, and it has also influenced the direction of the political system in later generations.

Similarly, at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin suppressed the military clique, elevated the status of the scholars, and formed a ruling class with scholars as the main body; Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty eliminated the nouveau riche from the imperial court through one massacre after another, established the authority of the royal family, and re-established the social system of dictatorship; while the Qing Dynasty relied on massacres and appeasement to turn the ruling class of the Central Plains into its own slaves, so as to achieve the goal of its own clan ruling over foreign races. Thenceforth...... Everybody knows......

After being the leader for so many years, Zhao Yu can be regarded as experiencing the hardships of a person in power, he not only has to weigh the interests of various forces, settle the struggle between interest groups, but also maintain his authority and interests. It's not just about stimulating it, it's not about art, it's about mobilizing all the wisdom of people, not hesitating to show the ugliness of humanity, sleeping with your eyes half-open, and always being vigilant, lest you lose power. To be honest, this process is no less than fighting a war with no end, but it is a matter of life and death.

However, Zhao Yujue's insistence on 'military reform' at this time still has loopholes to exploit, and it will not cause greater opposition. On the one hand, Hainan has always been a barbaric place, regarded as a resort for exiled criminals, although Su Shi, Li Guangdi, and people of insight who were exiled here vigorously developed education, but compared with the mainland, it is still in a very backward state, and many of them are losers in the political struggle, so the opposition from the local scholars will be very small.

Secondly, Jiangnan has fallen, in fact, it is already a state of ruin of the country and the collapse of etiquette, coupled with the fact that many 'famous ministers' bureaucrats have surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty, which has greatly affected the reputation of the scholars. In addition, Kublai Khan was wary of the Jiangnan scholars, suppressed them, and abandoned them, causing their prestige to be greatly reduced and in fear.

Moreover, after the Xing Dynasty moved to Qiong, many scholars moved here and occupied important positions in the court, but the grassroots were mostly promoted and used by Zhao Yu and the squires and officials, so that their influence was limited to the scope of Qiongzhou City. Among the hastily established dynasty, there are actually not many people who can be called Hongru masters, and they still need to be attached to their own wings and under the protection of warriors in order to survive. After Chen Yizhong left, Zhang Shijie's martial arts group was able to quickly control the government, but the scholar group headed by Lu Xiufu was unable to do anything, which can be seen to what extent it has declined.

After careful analysis, Zhao Yu thought that taking advantage of the chaotic situation, when the scholars were in decline in the middle of the court, and the restoration of the country required the help of martial artists, the scholars should be able to see the situation clearly and would not resist too fiercely their moderate improvement of the status of the martial artists. Besides, he has also made compromises, strengthened the power of the military department, and reduced the functions of the Privy Council, which can be regarded as a kind of balance. Therefore, now is a rare opportunity to promote military reform, and we must seize the good opportunity of the old and the new.

"Your Majesty, it's time to get up!" Just as Zhao Yu had been thinking for a long time and secretly decided to go his own way, Su Lan had already gotten up and called out at some point......