"This is forcing people to take military merits to exonerate crimes." Hearing this, Han Baohu raised his sword eyebrows and looked at her lightly and said.

"That's right." Hong Lianshuo looked at him calmly and said.

"We are lazy and lazy, cheating and cheating, although we will not break the law, but we will be despised." Jiang Shuisheng said without thinking about it when he heard this.

"See?" Hong Lianshuo looked at them with surprise in his eyes and said, "This is the difference, there is punishment, but there is no harsh punishment. ”

"Where there are two sides of the same coin, with such a harsh punishment, the whole people are unified and efficient." Hong Lianshuo's deep and translucent eyes looked at them and said, "In the face of absolute rules, there is no freedom. Of course, no one in this world can do whatever they want, we are all constrained. ”

"That's right, they all say that when you become an emperor, you can do whatever you want?" Jiang Shuisheng nodded when he heard this, "But I don't see that the emperor is getting better." Snorted coldly, "Hmph! If you don't make decisions for the people, you deserve it. ”

"So! Freedom is relative. Hong Lianshuo looked at them with thick black ink eyes that could not be dissolved, and said, "All people have to be bound by ethics and laws. ”

"I now understand that Qin's law is strict, if I don't do this, I would have been swallowed up by the Six Kingdoms a long time ago." Han Baohu's ginger brown eyes looked at her and said.

"So sometimes you can't judge good or bad just from your point of view." Hong Lianshuo's glass-colored Tong Ren looked at them and said, "In the final analysis, it is still appropriate, echoing the situation of the Qin State at that time." ”

"If you break the law, you are encouraged to redeem it with military merit." Lin Nanzheng's phoenix eyes turned to look at her lightly and said, "Only military merit!" ”

"Yes!" Hong Lianshuo's bright eyes looked at them and said, "This system allows people to use the military knighthood system of military merits to create a strong army for the Qin State that swept through the six countries!" ”

This king often confers titles on nobles and meritorious persons, and uses titles of different ranks to indicate the status and status of nobles or meritorious persons. Jue was originally just a wine vessel, and the ancients had a sequence of dignity and humility when they drank, so that the lord had the function of dividing the rank, and the title gradually evolved into a distinction of identity. Hong Lianshuo's bright eyes looked at them and said, "The feudal system in the pre-Qin period and the hereditary clan system, the sub-feudal system and other systems are mutually exclusive. For example, the princes and marquis of the Western Zhou Dynasty were the monarchs of the feudal country, and the taxes in the feudal country, that is, the money bags, belonged to them. Later, the feudal lords also had a certain amount of food, but they were not levied by themselves, but allocated by the dynasty. During this period, the recipients were only royal nobles, and the rewards were based on the distance of the lineage. ”

"But this blood relationship is not strong." Hong Lianshuo looked at them sneering and said, "They are all the emperor's sons, why can't I!" As soon as this old emperor dies, why should my children and grandchildren kneel to the new emperor! It's all royal blood, and that's not fair. ”

Hong Lianshuo's clear eyes looked at them and said, "Therefore, the inheritance system of the eldest son ensures the smooth transition of power to the greatest extent, even if the eldest son is a mediocre talent." ”

"This chief and virtuous are arguing endlessly, and it is not good for the soldiers to meet each other, which is a big loss to the empire." Lin Nanzheng looked at them with deep eyes and said, "Now many of these kings and hegemons in the Central Plains are heirs who have not been selected well, and brothers are in trouble. ”

"Our emperor, who was cut off by the third duke, was dedicated to Yidi, who robbed his brother of the throne." Han Baohu took a deep breath and said.

"During the Warring States Period, the world was in turmoil, and wars broke out everywhere. If the vassal states do not want to be destroyed, they must enrich their countries and strengthen their armies in order to win the brutal war of annexation. The needs of war forced the vassal states to carry out legal reforms, and adopted a new system of knighthood based on military merit and meritorious service, giving titles to talented and meritorious people, and motivating them to serve themselves. This way of rewarding merit is fundamentally different from the old system of 'Shiqing Shilu'. It no longer rewards on the basis of kinship and therefore merit. Hong Lianshuo looked at them with waveless black eyes and continued, "Due to the implementation of the military merit system, all countries have received the benefits of enriching countries and strengthening their armies to varying degrees. Moreover, whichever country's military merit system is more perfect and reasonable, the combat effectiveness of the country's army will be higher. ”

"And the Qin State is the most combative." Jiang Shuisheng looked at them with sparkling eyes and said, "Because he executed it the most thoroughly." ”

"That's right! The military merit system established by the Qin State is the most typical, perfect, and the most thorough. Hong Lianshuo nodded happily, looked at them with gentle eyes and said, "Guess which country's first military meritorious?" ”

"Does that need to be said? Of course it's Qin, it's the winner! Jiang Shuisheng said without thinking.

"Not really." Lin Nanzheng looked at him with a smile and said, "Wei was the first country among the countries to change the law, and it was also the first to implement the military merit system, so in the early years of the Warring States period, Wei was strong in force and dominated for a while. After the state of Chu changed the law and implemented the military merit system in Wu, within a few years, it was 'Baiyue in the south, Chen Cai in the north, but three Jins, and Qin in the west', and the country was greatly revitalized. Yan State also has a military merit system of 'the prince should not be sealed if he has no merit', and 'he who does not use Lu for personal reasons, and those who have more merit will be awarded'. ”

"Then why didn't they succeed?" Jiang Shuisheng asked curiously.

"Because I can't carry it out!" Hong Lianshuo said simply, "Do you remember Bai Qi's attack on the Chu State? Why did the people of Chu help Bai Qi. ”

"I remember." Jiang Shuisheng's dark eyes shook lightly and said, "There is no strict implementation from top to bottom. ”

"The relocation of the official is commensurate with the decapitation. The number of enemies killed is the standard for rewarding knights. Hong Lianshuo's deep dark eyes looked at them and said, "Those with high titles are rewarded heavily, those with low titles are rewarded lightly, and the rewards for soldiers are lower than those for officers." ”

Han Baohu's brown Tong Ren danced in flames, "It is recorded in the Book of Shang Jun that the army can behead the first 8,000 enemies in siege and 2,000 in field battles, which is a complete achievement. Officers of all levels of the army who have received full merit can be rewarded. He said with a little excitement, "The specific rewards are: from Gongshi to Daliangzao, they are all given the first level, and the generals, the staff and the royal knights are all given the first level." The newly elected lords are five doctors, and the tax is three hundred; Therefore, the lord is the five doctors, and there are 600 tax towns, and they receive guests. The high lords above the eldest lord have 300 towns and 300 taxes. ”

Nunu said again, "It is not difficult to see that the knight has strict hierarchical boundaries. Among them, the five doctors are a watershed, and the five doctors are rewarded with more than the big and the lower ones are light. Taxes, taxes, gifts, and guest gifts can only be enjoyed by the titles of five doctors or more. ”

"What about the untitled?" Jiang Shuisheng asked curiously.