Chapter 632: The Demise of the Tribes and the Creation of Guards
Wu Qi adopted a step-by-step training method from individual soldiers to multiple soldiers and detachments to composite units, so that the military soldiers could completely detach themselves from production and concentrate on drills and become "standing soldiers." This is obviously different from the "conscription and dispatch of soldiers" who are too amateur and part-time, and is an unprecedented initiative and a precedent for the recruitment system for future generations.
This "conscription system" has very high selection standards, requiring a full three-layer armor -- that is, "upper body armor", "strand armor", and "shin armor". At that time, there were no trousers, and people wore skirts underneath - for soldiers, it was a skirt-like leather "strand armor". The skirt is bare on the thighs, and there is a half-cut shin shirt on the calf from below the knee - the shin garment is evolved from the leggings of the ancient times, and will continue to expand to the upper part of the trousers in the future (but there are no pants yet, only the shin garment on the calf), and for the military, the shin garment on the calf is the leather "shin armor".
Wear the armor of the upper body, the thigh armor, and the shin armor, and wear the bronze helmet on the head, exercise the crossbow of twelve stones, carry fifty arrows, and carry a sword, wrap three days' food, run with a load, and run from dawn to mid-day, and those who can run a hundred miles can be conscripted. A hundred miles at that time is equivalent to 41 now. 5 kilometers is equal to a full marathon, which requires half a day to run, and these soldiers carry so many armor and weapons, but they are not vests and pants.
Nowadays, the same method is used to select regular army officers and men from the reserves, and in addition, they have to pass the cultural examination, because all reserve soldiers have three intensive training periods of two days each month.
Cultural classes are conducted in the morning, and formal military training is carried out from noon to the afternoon, and it is precisely because of the cultural classes that many ordinary people who were originally disgusted with the reserve military service system have responded enthusiastically.
However, the reserve service stipulated by this prince is only allowed to participate in the reserve between the ages of 18 and 35, and the reserve department is not allowed to participate in other overage or young age.
The conscription system was very popular for a while during the Qin Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty, and then gradually declined. Since the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu implemented the policy of boycotting soldiers, the military service system of the Eastern Han Dynasty has also undergone great changes, and the general conscription system of the Qin and Western Han Dynasty has been gradually abolished and replaced by the prevalence of the conscription system. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, whether it was the central army, or the local temporarily formed army or long-term garrison, most of them recruited soldiers in the form of recruitment, such as Xianglin Battalion, Chang'an Battalion, Yongying Battalion, Yuyang Battalion, etc., and their soldiers were recruited.
The conscription system of the Eastern Han Dynasty was very different from that of the Western Han Dynasty. The Western Han Dynasty conscription system is used as an auxiliary and supplement to the conscription system, and there are a few soldiers recruited, but they are all strictly selected elite and brave people, and they are often one to ten in battle, and their combat effectiveness is extremely strong.
However, the military service system of the Eastern Han Dynasty was based on the conscription system as the main form, and there were no longer any requirements for the recruits, so the composition of the soldiers was complex, mostly idle people in society, unemployed vagrants, and there were also farmers, merchants, minority men, and even death row prisoners, such as the Duliao camp was composed of recruited death row prisoners, and there were also many prisoners in other important places. The army composed of these people is of low quality, poor combat effectiveness, and has poor military discipline.
The main means of recruiting troops in the Eastern Han Dynasty was to lure them with money. The first to use this method was Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu. When Liu Xiuchu raised the army, because of the lack of soldiers, he asked Ren Guang for advice, and Ren Guang suggested: You can recruit and run for your life, go out to attack the county, and if you don't surrender, you will listen to it and plunder it. If people are greedy for money, soldiers can be recruited. This kind of thinking influenced the rulers of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and in order to attract more people to enlist as soldiers, they often supported and connived at the looting of property by soldiers. And many conscripts often intend to plunder other people's property and have no intention of fighting.
In this way, although there are many recruits, the combat effectiveness can also be imagined. Other methods of recruiting soldiers in the Eastern Han Dynasty included recruiting soldiers on the condition of exemption from service. For example, when the warlords were fighting at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Sun Ce first entered Jiangdong, that is, he recruited more than 20,000 soldiers and more than 1,000 horses on the condition that he was happy to join the army and remove the gateway by himself.
In addition to the complex composition, low quality, and corrupt military discipline, the recruitment system is often an emergency temporary recruitment, and the non-commissioned soldiers have no military training on weekdays, do not practice cavalry and archery, and although the long-term soldiers are professional soldiers, they serve in the army for life, and they have been soldiers for a long time.
The most serious drawback of the prevalence of the conscription system in the Eastern Han Dynasty was that it facilitated the armed secession of local warlords. In the early period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the centralization of power was strengthened, and local officials did not have many troops, and the recruitment of troops had to be ordered by the central government.
After the middle period, with the decline of imperial power and the development of the conscription system, military and political governors in various places recruited soldiers on their own to form armies, and by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, these armies became their own private armies, so that they could divide their own power.
This kind of conscription system is naturally, and it is despised by Ben Gongzi, and the recruitment of troops can only be done by the state, and no one is allowed to privately raise troops, otherwise, they will be punished as treason. Yes, after this son came to power, extremely strict regulations were made.
And Qu Tutong and the others also very understood and handed over their parts to the prince, or to the court. And this son naturally knows how to invest in Li and repay him, and stipulates officials at all levels.
For example, a military officer of the rank of General Qu Tutong will have a guard team, and each team will have a hundred people. Ninety percent of the guards were selected by Praetorian Guards, and the other 10 were selected from special forces.
And if it is a civilian official, like Dean Wei, it is a guard squadron, that is, fifty people. In addition, officials may be allowed to use their own household bodies or servants as their personal guards, but the number may not exceed twenty.
In addition, all guards are rotated every two years. And only officials above the fourth rank can have guards. And below the fourth grade, naturally there will be no such benefits. In this way, the safety of the important ministers of the court has been fully guaranteed, and more importantly, these soldiers are the court and the state, and are no longer private.
As a result, these important ministers of the court no longer have a strong military force, so that they cannot use their military power to deal with the court or do any bad things. A hidden danger has been fundamentally solved.
You must know that in the past, as a dignified Duke of Qi, this son had hundreds of trilogies at home, which is a very normal thing, and even in the eyes of other noble lords, hundreds of trilogies are pitiful, take Guande King Yang Xiong as an example, just Guande Wang, there are three thousand, this is not counting the nursing home, Zhuang Ding.
And Yang Xuangan's product is even more amazing, with nearly 8,000 private placement parts, and these 8,000 parts are his fundamental strength. Just like when Yang Xuangan invaded Luoyang, the number of private troops raised by the nobles in Luoyang City alone reached tens of thousands, accounting for more than half of the defenders.
In other words, if someone really has the prestige and the heart to unite all these private troops together, there is even a possibility that when Yang Guangbei conquers Goguryeo, he can organize a powerful army to take Luoyang City from the inside.
It was precisely because I saw this scene at that time that my son paid attention to it. Therefore, regulations were set at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and many old family lords, regardless of whether they have family members serving in the court, must also abide by this regulation.
Of course, if you don't want to disband, you can do it, but you can't call it a trilogy anymore, at most you can only call it a bodyguard or a nursing home. And there is also a strict limit on the number of people, and I don't want to think that the general of the dynasty is only one guard, can you still be better than the general?
Therefore, the number of guards and private soldiers in the Xungui family's guard yard must not exceed fifty, and they must report and register with the Chang'an Garrison Headquarters.
In addition, under the rule of this son, weapons screening activities were carried out as early as the end of last year, and the target was naturally those family gate valves. There will be certain penalties for those who possess crossbows and armor, but this is not the case for family heirloom armor.
After all, Ben Gongzi is very fond of ancient armor, and in later generations, China can hardly find a piece of armor made in ancient times, because in ancient times, there was no too strict control over swords, but for crossbows, long weapons, and armor were extremely strictly controlled.
In my eyes, after the musket is studied, the armor of the ox fork will gradually withdraw from the stage of history, in this case, it is better to let those people be kept as family heirlooms, so that people can admire the ancient military culture and art in future generations.
From the very beginning, I was in charge of the military administration in Hanseong. All military personnel are recruited into military service, of course, the reserve is mandatory, but only local training is carried out, and if you want to become a professional soldier, you are naturally selected from the reserve.
Fortunately, this son will make money, so that the financial resources of the treasury have been greatly improved, and he can afford to raise so many soldiers and horses, and the military salary given to these soldiers is 500 yuan per month, although it is not much, not even as good as some skilled workers or big guys in shops, but it is enough for a family to live for half a month.
In addition, when each soldier retires, he will also receive a large amount of retirement allowance, the lowest is only two years into the army before retiring from the army, can also get ten yuan of retirement allowance, although ten times does not seem to be much, but it is enough to buy more than ten acres of thin land.
The most important thing is that the privileges that soldiers get after leaving the army are equal to those of parliamentarians and nobles, which makes many people eager to become a member of the Chinese Imperial Army.
"The army is the backbone of the country, and it is also the guarantee of China's peace, and the purity and seriousness of the team must be maintained, and any violation of military discipline must not be tolerated." I furrowed my brow and said coldly.
A large number of civil and military ministers in front of him didn't dare to say anything, well, the main reason is that I just made a big fire, not for anything else, just because the soldiers of the newly formed 30th Army actually ran to Chang'an at night to play.
Forget about playing, anyway, Chang'an has lifted the curfew. But the problem is that nearly twenty soldiers of the newly formed army, along with a captain, did not come to their day off, but slipped in quietly.
And where I went, I went to a brothel, because I was jealous of others, I made a big fuss in the brothel, and was finally captured by the garrison who patrolled the night last night. And five people saw the opportunity quickly and sneaked away.