"No, no. The disadvantages of this method are too great, ours is a government soldier, not a twentieth-level military meritorious lord of the Qin State. You can't do that. ”

After Liu Bei thought about it, he said slowly.

As for the drawbacks, Liu Bei didn't say, but everyone didn't ask, anyway, it was just to ask Liu Bei not to easily open the military merit system, just have an excuse.

How did they know that Liu Bei's real thoughts were not that the reward for military merit was too generous, but that it was too light.

In fact, during the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, the military merit system had been broken, the early Western Han Dynasty was fine, and in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, except for the Guannei Marquis and the Liehou, the others were floating clouds. The essential reason for this situation is actually the decline of the military landlord group and the rise of the powerful landlords.

Therefore, by the time of Cao Cao, he simply abolished the military merit system and replaced it with the six-level titles of king, duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male.

Therefore, some people who know little about history think that the Han Dynasty is the same as the Zhou Dynasty, and the titles are also kings, dukes, marquis, uncles, sons, and men, but in fact, this was changed by Cao Cao.

Cao Cao's abolition of the military merit system was actually a concession to Haoqiang. But it also opened a magic box, even if it is a broken military merit system, it is also a military merit system.

When a country does not have a military merit group, its combat effectiveness will naturally decline. And, it's blazing fast.

For example, after World War II, Prussia became a historical term, and the Junkers completely disappeared from Germany. The Germans went from being tigers to sick cats.

For another example, in the Showa era, the Japanese could fly an airplane with a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour, carry a 500-kilogram aviation bomb, and roar into a US warship. In just a few decades, the Showa samurai became a Heisei otaku.

To put it bluntly, Cao Cao's goods were the biggest incentive for the five ethnic minorities to go south later.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, even if the world fell apart and the heroes were divided, it was a state and a county, and the surrounding robbers did not ask for benefits.

Since Cao Cao, there has been no military merit system in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, and the Qin and Han dynasties, and people are encouraged to join the army to fight.

During the Han Dynasty, the system of military merit was pursued, and it was almost impossible to be a marquis without military merit except for relatives. As long as there are military merits, you can definitely be crowned a marquis.

Therefore, everyone in the Han Dynasty was brave and good at fighting. The people of the Han Dynasty worshipped the soldiers, and the eldest husband was the god of war such as Wei Qing and Huo Quzhi.

What did Ban Chao say from Rong, "The big husband has no other ambitions, and he should still follow Fu Jiezi and Zhang Qian's meritorious service in a foreign land, in order to win the title of marquis, and An Neng has been studying for a long time?" ”

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty a hundred years later, Xie Wan called the generals "strong pawns", which would provoke everyone's anger.

Later, outside the Donghua Gate, the one who sang in the name of the champion was a good man.

From the changes in the evaluation criteria for big husbands and good men, it is not difficult to see that it is not for nothing that the Han people have changed from being a Han man to a five-legged sheep to a two-legged sheep.

Although these cannot be said to be Cao Cao's pots, Cao Cao is indeed the pioneer. The so-called Wei and Jin dynasties are the Wei and Jin eras, which pay attention to family reputation and fame, and there is no need to pin your head to the waistband of your trousers to work hard to win a feudal general. So everyone can enjoy the romance, if you still engage in military merit, you won't be able to be romantic.

What the Chinese attach importance to, whether they emphasize literature over military force or emphasize military and light literature, is actually the result of government guidance, military merit, in fact, is the martial man's version of the imperial examination system, which can naturally provoke the heroes of the world and enter my ranks.

Many tragedies in Chinese history after the end of the Han Dynasty were actually caused by the emphasis on literature and light on martial arts, and the origin of emphasizing literature over military force was actually in Cao Cao's abolition of the military merit system.

If you want to change a series of problems in Chinese history, you can use other methods to treat the symptoms rather than the root cause, and completely restore the military merit system.

However, it is not possible to simply restore the Qin method and use the Shang Dynasty to change the law.

The essence of the Shang Dynasty reform is to atomize the social unit and let everyone break away from the clan, and when the man reaches the age of twenty-three, he will not be separated, and he will be fined. Therefore, in the face of the state or the imperial power, there is no ability to resist. The Eastern Han Dynasty was full of scholars, and these scholars could no longer be called scholars, they were more like the feudal lords of the Eastern countries in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the doctors of the Qin State in the era of Qin Xiaogong were different.

More importantly, the Shang Dynasty reform could not create a martial class similar to the Junkers in Germany and the samurai class in Japan. This is not a problem that can be solved by simply killing a Cao Cao.

If you create a martial class similar to the Junkers class in Germany and the samurai class in Japan, such a martial class. Then, unless there is a shocking change like World War II, this class will always exist and rule the country, and this country will always have a martial spirit until the end of the world.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei's path has been cleared, and he also understands the future, his enemies are not only Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Sun Quan, but also the greatest force in the world, ruling the entire world's scholar class.

To deal with this class, the practice of successive emperors was to "close the door and let the eunuchs go." "This is only the lowest means.

Like Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, pulling a group and fighting a faction can only be regarded as an inferior means. For example, Lu Bu and Liu Bei have never been able to deal with the wealthy families in Xuzhou, and even Yuan Shao and Cao Cao are not as good as them, even if they have the military power, they will overthrow you if they say that they will overthrow you.

The best way to deal with this stratum is to transform a group of people into military groups, suppress and get rid of them, and use them to establish their authority.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei said: "The government soldiers are divided into 20 classes, and the names are called first-class government soldiers, second-class government soldiers, until the 20th class government soldiers." ”

"The first-class government soldiers will give 100 acres of land and 9 acres of houses, and the second-class government soldiers will give 200 acres of land and 18 acres of houses, until the 20th class government soldiers, and so on."

Zhuge Jin worked the side to record Liu Bei's orders.

Liu Bei continued: "The first-class government soldiers and the second-class government soldiers are all non-commissioned soldiers, the third-class government soldiers can serve as the army commander, and the fourth-class government soldiers can serve as the chief. The fifth-class government soldiers are the commanders, with a rate of 25 people, the sixth-class government soldiers are the tun commanders, with a rate of 50 people, and the seventh-class government soldiers are 100 generals, with a rate of 100 people. The eighth-class government soldiers are the deputy commanders, the ninth-class government soldiers are the song chiefs, with a rate of 500 people, and the tenth-class government soldiers are the deputy captains, and the tenth-class and above are then discussed. ”

Hearing Liu Bei say this, the big guys were stunned, didn't they say that they didn't need to be a level 20 military meritorious, it didn't seem to make any difference.