1. The distribution of the 40 army corps is as follows, and the three major military divisions of Andong, Anxi, and Anbei are each set up to have five corps, of which the Andong Military Division is to deal with the Song and Liao States in the east, the Anbei Military Division is to deal with the Northern Mobei Tribes and the Liao State, and the Anxi Military Division is to deal with the Rus, Turks, and all bandits from Europe in the west. In addition to the five legions under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Military Division, there are five legions directly under the General's Mansion in the west of Hezhong, the total garrison of the Hezhong side is 50,000 people, and the same is true for Guanzhong, in addition to the five legions directly under the jurisdiction of the Andong Military Division, there are also five legions directly under the General's Mansion, and the total garrison of the Guanzhong side is also 50,000 people, Guanzhong and Hezhong are set to have a population of more than 5 million, and the infantry cavalry army accounts for half of each, and the northern grassland is set to control only 1 million nomadic population in the Xia State because of the weak carrying capacity. Therefore, the establishment of the five legions of the Anbei Military Division is already the limit, all of them are cavalry, and although the Shu land in the rear of the Xia State has a population of more than 5 million, there is no enemy, and the Shu people are not warlike, so there are only five legions, all of which are infantry troops, and the Hexi Longyou Hehuang and the Western Regions are all legions directly under the General's Mansion, with a total of twenty legions, and half of the infantry and cavalry, including the five standing legions directly under the General's Mansion. In addition, there was also the town of Weiyuan, which was established by the General's Palace, located in the Ural Pass, blocking the passage of Europeans into Siberia, next to Zhang Zhongyao's fiefdom, where an infantry corps and cavalry corps were stationed under the General's Palace. In this way, the defense in all aspects is okay. In the future, I will write out the settings of the Song Kingdom, the Liao Kingdom, and the Western States, so that you can probably know the situation of the Xia Kingdom being attacked on all sides, and it should be reasonable.

It's the kind of primitive firearm that is very early, and even Xia Guo himself doesn't dare to popularize the use of the primordial firecracker, the reasonable explanation for the slow development of this century-old technology tree is that in order to check and balance each other, the last traverser Chen De belongs to a three-person team, he is in charge of the military, and the other two people in charge of politics and technology have not crossed over, so Chen De is not good at climbing the technology tree at all, hehe

The Xia State should be committed to the manufacture of very sophisticated long cannons and really practical guns, while the Liao State directly is easy to manufacture and suitable for siege mortars, the Song State has both, and is the first to be equipped with that kind of wood-handled arquebus (or early arquebus), because firearms have not played a decisive role in the cold * replacement period, so the development of firearms in the three countries should have their own merits, and the future of the Xia State is greater, which is the right direction, but the battlefield effect is not to completely overwhelm each other.

However, because the Song State put the firearms in the government-run workshop, there would be some problems in terms of quality, and in order to prevent the explosion of the chamber, there would be the problem of the officers and men of the firearms battalion deliberately reducing the charge in actual combat, resulting in insufficient power, and this would suffer a loss in actual combat.

2. The national bird of the summer country: carrier pigeons

The third emperor once said that it was the sword, the merchants, the Inquisition, and the carrier pigeon that made the Xia Kingdom a unified nation.

The country of Xia is full of carrier pigeon stations, and the military pigeon stations are in charge of the Military Intelligence Department, and the mark of the Military Intelligence Department is the carrier pigeon. The carrier pigeons of the Xia Kingdom were originally used to transmit military information, and later the school captain's meeting and the tribune would begin to use carrier pigeons on a large scale in order to exchange information with scholars from all over the country, and then the merchants transmitted commercial information from Luoyang to Constantinople through the carrier pigeon, and then the breeding and racing of carrier pigeons became one of the most common hobbies of the Xia people, and the country kept more than millions of carrier pigeons. While the wealthy people of the Song Kingdom built gardens and played with singers, the wealthy people of the Xia Kingdom were keen on equestrianism and pigeon racing. Stargazing is the fashion of the Xia Kingdom, and the records of stargazing in the Scholar's Mansion prove the law of gravitation mentioned in the Book of Wonders of the Western Regions.

After more than 100 years of breeding, Xia Guojun pigeons are heat-resistant, and there are special varieties that are good at night sailing and flying over the plateau.

Because of the vast territory of the Xia Kingdom, starting from the founding emperor Chen De, he began to select and breed carrier pigeons on a large scale, and used carrier pigeons for communication. The flight speed of the summer military pigeon reached an astonishing 70 km/h (the speed of modern medium-distance pigeon is 48-95 km/h), the distance between each two pigeon stations is 350 km, and in medium cases, each pigeon flies from the first war to the next station in 5 hours, and there are only 10 pigeon stations from the national capital to the border, ensuring that the information can be transmitted within 10 days and back and forth within 20 days. In the summer with long sunshine hours, ordinary carrier pigeons in the morning and afternoon to a station, information can be delivered within 5 days, 10 days back and forth, special fast pigeons flight speed up to 90 km / h, can also fly at night, pigeon post pigeon flight, from the national capital to the border information can be reached in 2 ~ 3 days at the earliest, 5 ~ 7 days round trip.

At the beginning, carrier pigeons were often hunted by people and preyed on by falcons, the Military Intelligence Department adopted a completely different solution, they offered a reward for those who could catch military carrier pigeons, and as a result, in just 30 years, in the carrier pigeon relay there were low flights, more rest in the middle, and the pigeon breeds that were not vigilant enough for humans were all eliminated, and once it was found that the carrier pigeon was preyed on by the eagle falcon, the Military Intelligence Department would send people to destroy all the eagle nests within a radius of hundreds of miles from the pigeon post where the accident occurred. Later, when the Xia and Kievan Rus' kingdoms were launched, the do-gooders said that the Xia kingdom symbolized by the pigeon and the Kievan Rus' kingdom symbolized by the eagle were natural enemies.

After the establishment of the initial military pigeon post network in the Military Intelligence Department, the Prime Minister's Office was unwilling to borrow the network of the Military Intelligence Department, and also established its own carrier pigeon network, and then the floating sea line established a civilian carrier pigeon network, and then many businessmen also established independent routes, and the folk enthusiasts were more popular, the sky in the cities and villages of the Xia Kingdom was full of pigeons, and the Military Intelligence Department had a laissez-faire attitude towards this, because the more carrier pigeons in the sky, the easier it was to cover the carrier pigeons dedicated to the Military Intelligence Division.

The pigeon post industry has gradually become a major industry comparable to the later information industry, after the cost was reduced, the literati even carrier pigeons to deliver popular poems, when Su Shi came out with a noun, five days later, there was a chant in the river, which is for this reason.

By the way, for the copyright protection of Xia Guo, the author's consent is not required for the printing of anthologies, but the publisher must pay royalties to the government according to the amount printed, and the government and the author will divide it into three-sevens. Therefore, the Liu family and the Su family, whose poems are highly popular, are both authors who have become rich because of publishing.

To eat pigeon meat in the summer country, the store must show the certificate of origin of the meat pigeon, because it is illegal to eat carrier pigeons, and eating military carrier pigeons is a felony enough to be sent to a labor camp.

3. The school captains and civil protectors who take turns to discuss matters in the national capital, the national treasury, the civil treasury, and the inner treasury

The Xia state had about 40 states and 400 counties, each with a population of 50,000 to 100,000, and had one lieutenant, one scholar, two tribunes, three clergy (in addition to each of which was in charge of the diocese, which formed a three-member collegial inquisition), seven magistrates (one, three, or seven collegiate trials), each tribune had ten subordinates, the clergy had two retinues, and the chaplain and magistrate each had twenty retinues. The number of officials in the country is more than 100,000 (county commanders and state pastors need the status of scholars, but officials do not need it), plus about 200,000 active soldiers, and the ratio of officials to people is about 1:100.

Every year, about half of the lieutenants and tribunes in each state are in the national capital, and when the lieutenant is in the national capital, the military affairs are signed by the centurion appointed by him, and the local tribunon is undertaken by the two tribunions in turn.

According to the ever-enriching oath of protection, under normal circumstances, the Protector Assembly and the Protector Assembly in Dunhuang, the capital of the country, notified the captains and tribunes of the voting topics six months, three months, and one month in advance, respectively, depending on the urgency and importance of the incident, so that they would have ample opportunity to exchange opinions with their respective sergeants and shades and consider voting options. Captains and tribunes in the capital can also exchange ideas at the local level through the pigeon station, and they can also discuss with other colleagues.

In the event of an extreme emergency, the Emperor of Xia could make an arbitrary decree to be carried out by the more than 200 lieutenants and more than 400 protectors in the capital, and in the future, he would obtain the corrections from the lieutenants and protectors who were still in the locality.

Although the term of office is one year, about one-tenth of the people will rotate back to their original station every month, and the captain and the tribune can get to know most of the other captains and tribunes during their stay in Dunhuang for a minimum of eight months, and they can develop good personal relationships with each other.

Whether a vote is secret or open is up to the Captains and Tribunes themselves.

In addition to deliberations, the generals also have to receive training from the military academy, and the general's office will arrange high-quality military courses to improve the quality of the captains, and appoint generals through observation and evaluation, combined with the captains' military exploits and other conditions. Lieutenant is the only way to be promoted to general, and lieutenant can generally accumulate merit and obtain the highest rank of the hereditary title, the Marquis of Che. The general is in charge of the entire corps and a certain aspect of the military division, and those who honor the rank of the general are awarded the general, but the general does not give people easily.

The status of the captain in the Xia State is already very high, Zhao Xingde was promoted to the captain five years after entering the Xia, and at the age of 27, he was already the youngest person in the school captain meeting at that time, and he was the captain of the Chengying Army, one of the guards corps, and had the right to vote twice.

Since the founding of the Xia State, all kinds of statutory taxes have entered the treasury, and the Council of Protectors has established a three-level treasury for the expenses of the Protector Council at the national, state, and county levels, as well as to support some special projects that need to be carried out by the administrative system under the Prime Minister's Office. However, the Council of Captains has the right to veto all decisions of the Council of Protectors, because force has the final say in this era. The Emperor's ascension to the throne required the mutual consent of both the Council of Captains and the Council of Protectors, but the power to impeach the Emperor was limited to the Council of Captains and not to the Council of Protectors.

The treasury of the Xia State regularly allocates a sum of money to the royal family every year, and the royal families often give large sums of money to the royal family of the Xia Kingdom. At the same time, starting with the founding emperor Chen De, the royal family has operated various industries, Chen De has many patents, and the apprenticeship money has generated a large amount of money, which has been invested for hundreds of years, forming a huge inner treasury comparable to the floating sea bank, and the royal family also exerts influence on the state through the economic power of the inner treasury. The Imperial Treasury received gifts from foreign countries and localities to be announced, and if one of the Captains and Protectors of the Council deemed it inappropriate, it was deposited into the National Treasury, but the operation of the Imperial Treasury was not made public, and the Minister of Finance appointed by the Chan Imperial Family was responsible. Several of the ministers of the Inner Court and their retinues were paid by the treasury, while the ministers appointed by the emperor and recruited retinues without the consent of the Diet had to pay their own salaries.

Fourth, the military education and aristocracy of the Xia Kingdom

Zhao Xingde, who was a student of Song Weitai, would experience the reforging of a complete military education after entering the summer.

The military education of the Xia State began with tutoring and private schooling. The high status of the sergeant makes the people of the whole country martial arts, boys will be taught horsemanship, swordsmanship, spearmanship, bow and arrow and other battle skills from an early age, good tutors and military private schools will be targeted training according to the characteristics of boys, so that he has a greater certainty to be able to surpass his peers and become a sergeant, among the twenty men of the Xia Kingdom, only one person can successfully pass the sergeant way to become a sergeant, due to the competitive selection relationship, the standard of recruiting sergeants has been repeatedly raised, the successful one is of course the elite choice, Most of the eliminated people also have a certain military quality, men who do not receive military education are looked down upon in the Xia Kingdom, everyone's concept is that even if they can't become a sergeant, but the education received by this generation will have a certain impact on the quality of their children, and there is no shortage of successful examples of three generations of martial arts to produce a sergeant.

Whether or not to become a sergeant is of course due to the education of the family, but under such a high-intensity competition among the sergeants of the Xia Kingdom, personal talent and diligence also play an extremely important role. If a wealthy family does not have children with such talents, he can carefully discover a boy who is expected to become a sergeant, give him favors from an early age, and then become his shadow after he becomes a sergeant, and if not, find a sergeant's son-in-law, which will be much less troublesome.

Private military education is the foundation of the Xia people's military quality, and the training after joining the army is more strict, the sergeants must compete for the position of the ten-captain with the same excellent peers, but also learn to strictly discipline, learn to live the political life of citizens, and finally this is very important for the ten-master to climb up to the centurion and even the captain. The Xia army believes that courage, discipline, and tactics are the magic weapons of the army, and the importance of discipline, tactics and courage is in order, and strategy belongs to the higher level of issues. Discipline can make up for the lack of courage and tactics, and the latter two are difficult to replace the former, so the sergeant education of the Xia army is the first discipline, and the second is tactics. Those who don't have the courage to face the battle can't mix in the Xia army at all.

After the sergeant is promoted to the commander of the tenth and the centurion, he will receive courses arranged by the regiment and the military department to improve their comprehensive quality and understanding of tactics, and the education and assessment of the lieutenant is responsible for the general's office in conjunction with the bachelor's office, and the general and the university sergeant will teach in person.

The Xia State was mainly a society in which scholars were in power, and the Captain's Council and the Protector Council were wary of the nobles' participation in the distribution of power, so the hereditary nobility of the Xia Kingdom was still dominated by the founding nobles. The main body of the nobles of the Xia Kingdom is the military aristocracy, and if you hear someone call another person a lord in the Xia Kingdom, he is likely to be a marquis. On the contrary, among the hereditary nobles, except for the real founding princes, they are generally reluctant to be called titles, and many princes even choose to give up the shadow lords.

However, the aristocracy still has the influence accumulated from generation to generation, the most obvious is the founding princes who have fiefs ranging from tens of thousands of acres to 100,000 acres, and they use the method of providing additional land grants to attract subordinates and tenants. The connections accumulated in the army, the huge fiefdoms and wealth, the Chen royal family's remuneration for meritorious heroes, and the extremely strict militarized education in the hereditary nobles of the Xia Kingdom have made many of the founding meritorious families endure. Successive emperors and parliaments created a large number of frontier families in the process of expanding their territory, although these people did not have noble titles, but they were local families and large landowners. The nobles of the Xia kingdom were often also big merchants, such as the Xin clan, the Duke of Qin, who ran the country's leading Mobei horse farm, and the neighboring Yu Fu family, who dominated the mink trade between the Xia and Song states.