Chapter Seventy-Four: Conscription

After receiving the recital of He Jian, the assassin of Qingzhou, Liu Xun was once again refreshed by the scholars in the Qilu area, who would have thought that the landlords of Qilu even played the reappearance of the slave social scene.

He Jian's recital arrived in Chang'an, which immediately aroused the indignation of Chang'an, and the imperial historian and the court lieutenant wrote to ask the Son of Heaven to thoroughly and strictly investigate Qilu up and down, and Liu Xun also agreed to their request, and ordered that Zhao Chongguo, the ruling Jinwu, and Wang Ji in the imperial history rushed to Linzi to solve the matter in the southeast.

All the scholars who committed the crime moved to Korea in vain to contribute to the development of Korea, and the heirloom families such as the Confucian family, the Yan family, the Meng family, etc., Liu Xun ordered that their deeds be passed on to the world, and then deprived of the title and distributed to the Western Regions.

After solving the problem of Linzi, Prime Minister Huo Guang reported the number of conscripts for the southeast development to Liu Xun, and Liu Xun immediately frowned when he saw it, but Guanzhong was transferred, and he actually needed 300,000 people.

Conscription includes forced labor, miscellaneous labor, military service, etc., and is unpaid labor forced by successive ruling governments to civilians.

In ancient China, all labor activities carried out by the state to engage in labor activities of people of all strata without compensation were called forced labor, including forced labor and military service, which was another heavy burden imposed on the people by the state.

The origin of conscription is very early, there are provisions on the conscription of conscription in the Zhou Dynasty in the "Book of Rites and the Imperial System", and there is a record of "the conscription of forced labor" in Mencius, and the Qin and Han dynasties have a variety of conscription names, strict methods, and cruel oppression of the people.

Conscription began in the pre-Qin period, and the Zhou Rites stipulated that local officials at all levels had the duty to conscript and serve the people.

Han Cheng Qin system, there are more servants, regular soldiers, soldiers, etc., and can pay money on behalf of the service called more endowment, the conscription is concentrated on the civilians, the Wei and Jin dynasties, there is no certain system for conscription, in order to avoid servitude, the phenomenon of household flight is serious.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the conscription was reduced, but after the middle period, the service increased, and a large number of households fled. In the Song Dynasty, the burden of conscription was still very heavy, and there were forms such as conscription (hiring people to serve), assistant servitude (subsidizing those who enlisted), and volunteer service (buying land for servitude).

In the Yuan Dynasty, the "branch errand" was carried out, and there were various miscellaneous servants, and the Ming Dynasty carried out the "one whip law", which combined the enslavement into two levies of silver, but the implementation of the situation varied from place to place.

In the Qing Dynasty, the land was apportioned into the land, inheriting the principle of a whip law, and the traditional assignment of servants based on household assets was transformed into property tax.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, adult men were required by government law to perform forced and military service for the government. The age at which the service began, that is, the age of Fu, was 17 years old in the Qin period, and 20 years old in the second year of Emperor Xiaojing (155 BC), which was later changed to 23 years old; The age of exemption from forced labor is 56 years.

In the Han Dynasty, there were three types of conscription: the main pawn, the border soldier and the guard pawn. The main death is two years, and one year is served as an officer (infantry), knight (cavalry) or building ship in the county, receiving military training and being responsible for local security; One year he went to Kyoto as a guard, responsible for defending the capital, guarding the imperial palace and mausoleum, or serving the government.

Adult men under the age of 56 are generally exempt from military service after two years of service, but they may still be conscripted for service at any time when the government needs it, and they may not resist.

The Han law stipulates that each person must stay on the border for one year in his life, and if the border defense is urgent, he must continue to stay for six months, and the children of the rich and official can pay to hire people to serve on their behalf, and those who defend the border are provided by the government with food, clothing, and miscellaneous use.

In addition to serving the two types of forced labor, the soldier of Fu nationality must also serve one month of unpaid labor in the county every year, and engage in local civil engineering, building bridges and roads, harnessing rivers and canals, and transferring Caogu to the valley.

Because the servants take turns to serve, they are called "more", and the servants are called "more pawns". Those who are unwilling or unable to serve in person can pay 300 to hire someone to serve on their behalf, or the government does not need them to serve in person and order him to pay for the service. There are also those who are exempted from military service due to special circumstances, and they are called "reinstated".

Those who were exempted from military service included: clans, nobles, bureaucrats with high lords and their relatives, the three elders of counties and townships, and those who were elected as filial piety and power; Doctoral disciples, other people who have passed the scriptures and those who have been specially approved for reinstatement; or those who have given birth to children, those who have mourned, and those who have been temporarily removed due to natural disasters and military disasters; The people of the places through which the emperor passed through were temporarily exempted from military service, and so on.

In addition, it is stipulated that those who have received the title of "no change" in the first to fourth degrees can be exempted from military service for four years in advance; Those who are above the 9th rank of "five doctors" are not subject to forced labor.

Those who have no merit can pay money to buy a knight, and if they buy a knight, they can accept su, money, and slaves, and they can be exempted from military service when they buy a knight to the ninth level or above, so that the obligation of conscription in the Han Dynasty actually fell on the people below the middle class.

In the Han Dynasty, this kind of labor in the form of repayment of debts was still called "residential service".

"Hanshu Zhaodi Era" Yuan Feng four years of Yan Note quoted as Chun's interpretation of the "more fu" saying: ""The law says, those who practice more will live also." In the county, May is also more. The so-called "practice", according to Ruchun, is "the poor want to hire more money, the second straight one pays to hire them, two thousand a month, is said to practice more." This is also known as: "Those who practice the change, live also!" ”

The meaning of "dwelling", then, clearly includes the meaning of being employed and serving a month's service in lieu of one-month service in return. Since the person who compensated for it is a one-month change, it is called "residence change". "Historical Records: The Biography of Wu Wangbi Suoyin" said: "The case of "Han Law", there are more than three, practice more, live more, and pass more," and it is also mentioned here that "Ju Change!" ”