With a "snap", a roll of bamboo slips was thrown on the table.

The person who threw the bamboo slips was none other than the general of Zhengdong and the history of Qingzhou Thorn, Liu Bei and Liu Xuande.

From September to November, Liu Bei led his men and horses to fight for more than 50 days, breaking the Yellow Turban thieves in the three counties of Jinan, Qi and Le'an in Qingzhou, beheading more than 40,000 people and capturing more than 450,000 men and women.

After winning the battle, it is natural to be rewarded for meritorious deeds, and Liu Bei's reward for the soldiers of his subordinates was implemented in accordance with the 20-level military merit system formulated by Shang Ying.

Originally, Liu Bei wanted to reward Qin Jun's twentieth-level military merits. As a result, there is less support and more opposition. However, everyone said that this is the law of "violent Qin" and must not be treated with caution.

Even, Zhuge Xuan also turned out a treasured "Book of Shang Jun" for Liu Bei to read, saying that it was the law of Shang Jun, not practicing benevolence and righteousness, and using severe punishment to govern people, not the way to long-term peace and stability.

Therefore, Liu Bei took a volume of "The Book of Shang Jun" and read it carefully.

Before crossing, Liu Bei had read "The Book of Shang Jun", of course, he just flipped through it casually, and he didn't read it carefully. When I took a serious look at it this time, I was a little speechless.

"This martingale, it's just, it's just, it's just ......"

After saying it three times, Liu Bei didn't find a suitable word, in fact, what Liu Bei said in his heart was "It's too upright." ”

The whole essence of Shang Ying's reform is actually that the weak people are just the people, and the people should be humiliated, weak, poor, and stupid. Everything else, in fact, is a means to achieve this end.

Shang Ying said that "if you are humiliated, you will be noble, if you are weak, you will be honored, and if you are poor, you will be rewarded." ”

Humiliation, the more humiliated the common people, the more they want to get the title of nobility, so that they can not be humiliated in the future. It's like the North Stick family, whoever doesn't join the stick labor body will be inferior.

Weak, the weaker the common people, the more they want to be officials to get rid of their weak position. It's still the North Stick family, and everyone is proud to be a civil servant of the North Stick.

Poor, the poorer the common people, the easier it is to be tempted by rewards to do dangerous things for the court. It is said that the soldiers of the North Stick are not afraid of death, they are poor, and they can sell their lives for the sake of stuttering.

Stupid, the more uneducated the common people, the easier it is to deceive. You can tell them, "The bloodline of Mt. Paektu will never change, it will never change." ”。

To put it simply, China under the rule of the Qin Dynasty is similar to the northern stick under the rule of the Three Fats. Anyone with an IQ of more than twenty should not want to go to the house of the North Stick, shouting: Warm as the sun, as kind as a father with a great neckline and cuffs, long live the three fats.

Liu Bei knew that what Shang Ying said was right to some extent.

For example: "The people are happy and the people are strong, the people are strong and strong, and the soldiers are weak." The people are happy and the people are strong, the people are strong and weak, and the soldiers are strong. ”

This means that if the people are strong, they are not willing to be soldiers, and the military will be weak. On the contrary, if the people are weak, the military will be strong. The strongest country should be a group of poor ghosts, and when they want to fight, they will respond to every call, and they will not be snubbed by the recruiting department. Thinking about the fact that once the nomads settled in the Central Plains, their combat effectiveness plummeted almost immediately, which is simply a wise saying.

Before the scientific and technological progress of mankind reached the point of developing full-fledged thermal weapons, poverty was actually combat effectiveness. The poorer the soldier, the more he wants to be rewarded for his meritorious service, and this is where the "Tiger and Wolf Army" of the Qin State comes from.

Shang Ying believed that if the country wanted to be strong, it was necessary to make the people poor and weak. For the rich make the people indulgent, which is the source of weakness. Only poverty and weakness can make the people not afraid of death. Because only the poor and weak will value rewards and punishments. And if he is a man of property, there is no need for him to serve the state with his life. This is the so-called "the poor will be rich", and "the rich will be lightly rewarded".

The most typical example is the Song Dynasty, where the big "send" dynasty was rich. raised soldiers with high salaries, and finally raised a group of waste, because the best way to raise soldiers with high salaries is to live a peaceful life and get military salaries. Forget about the war, you can't get a high salary if you die in battle. Therefore, the way to raise elite soldiers is simply to ask for fish from the wood.

It's just that Liu Bei can't say this in public. Because, that was the "violent Qin", and before the rise of the modern trend of overturning cases, all dynasties evaluated history on the basis of "morality", not on the basis of "meritorious deeds". Therefore, the "violent Qin" is all verbal and written. Moreover, Geng is as upright as the Qin Dynasty, and after unifying the whole country, it only lasted less than fifteen years before it hung up, which is indeed not the way to long-term peace and stability.

The subsequent dynasties were all more hypocritical, and they all played with external Confucianism and internal law, using the Confucian monarchs, ministers, fathers and sons to govern people's hearts, and using the magic of Legalism to govern the country.

In the end, Liu Bei had no choice but to say: "This Shang Ying is a profiteer at all, no wonder his name is Shang Ying." ”

At this moment, several Wenchen who discussed the reward with Liu Bei, such as Xi Zhicai, Cui Meng, and Zhuge Xuan, who were more educated, wanted to tell Liu Bei that Shang Ying was not surnamed Shang, he was called Gongsun Marting, or Wei Marting, and the reason why he was called Shang Yang was because he was named Shang Jun and his fief was called Shang. But after thinking about it, I still didn't say it in the end, and it wasn't a big deal anyway.

The reason why Liu Bei called Shang Ying a profiteer was because a careful look at the "Book of Shang Jun" subverted some of Liu Bei's previous views.

According to some legends, Shang Ying's 20-level military merit system, beheading a person, can be promoted to a knighthood. coupled with the promotion of some film and television dramas and novels. It makes people feel that the Qin Dynasty is a good era for slings to turn over, no matter how low your background is, as long as you kill the enemy bravely on the battlefield, plus a little luck does not die, you can sit on high-ranking officials and ride horses.

Now Liu Bei took a closer look at Shang Jun's book and found that it was not the case at all.

The 20-level military merit title system is very famous, these 20 levels are one public scholar, two on the building, three hairpins, four not more, five doctors, six official doctors, seven public doctors, eight public doctors, ninety-five doctors, ten left long, eleven right long, twelve left more, thirteen middle watch, fourteen right more, fifteen less on the building, sixteen on the building, seventeen car chiefs, eighteen long marquis, nineteen guan hou hou, twenty Che Hou.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he avoided Liu Che's name and changed the name of Che Hou to Liehou.

If it is really like the legend, when the battle is beheaded, he will be promoted to a knighthood, and give a hectare of land and nine acres of homestead, the Qin State has fought for more than a hundred years, and when it comes to Qin Shi Huang, he has not to go all over the place, and the pass is not as good as a dog. In Guanzhong and Sichuan, the points have not been given long ago.

First of all, the beheading must be a "head of armor", that is, there must be a helmet on the head, probably because of the fear that someone will kill the good and take the merit.

Forget it, once the title is promoted to the level of no more and doctor, when he goes out, he will be a junior officer and a hundred generals, and he will have fifty or one hundred people.

At this time, if you want to be promoted to a knighthood, you have to cut off at least one-third of the heads of your subordinates. A hundred people will be beheaded at the thirty-third level, and the tun chief should be sixteen or seventeen levels, and with the level of profiteers of Shang Ying, it must be seventeen levels.

It's a lot harder, once you climb from the bottom to the bottom, doctor. If you want to go up one level, you have to behead dozens of levels, how difficult it is.

It is no wonder that the Qin army kills prisoners at every turn, and if they don't kill prisoners, where do they get to be beheaded to get promoted and get rich.

This is not something that Bai Qi can control alone, with you Wu Anjun has been promoted to the end, and there is no way to rise, so he will stop the brothers and prevent the brothers from being promoted and making a fortune, if this is really the case, who will work hard in the next war.

The Qin army's military law is strict, and once a mistake is made, it will be demoted, which is convenient, so the possibility of rising from the bottom to the top does not exist at all, or, it can only be said that it exists theoretically.

Therefore, the Qin Dynasty was called "Violent Qin".

According to Liu Bei's guess, Shang Ying, a profiteer, is changing his methods and doesn't want more people to get a high title.

In other words, this method is likely to be a compromise between Shang Yang and the upper nobles when changing the law.

If you are promoted from the bottom, you can rely on your hard work to get promoted to the third, fourth, and fifth levels. Further up, it is not all a game of physical strength and luck, you need to have the ability to command the troops, and the Shang Dynasty does not provide education to the common people, so it can only be promoted from the clan, relatives, big nobles, generals, and scholars, which is about the back door opened by the Shang Dynasty's upper nobles, in exchange for their support for the reform.

However, Liu Bei fully understood that these people did not really oppose the "Qin Law" for the sake of "tyrannical Qin".