Regarding Jia Gui's report, Liu Sheng did not react too violently, and only nodded slightly in approval.

-- Today's Han Dynasty, at least in terms of military merit statistics and reward standards, is definitely more perfect and sound than the vast majority of feudal regimes in later generations.

The statistics of military merit are basically based on the physical objects of the first level, and it is necessary to supervise the history of the army and compatriots in the army as witnesses, so there is no need to say more.

In terms of rewards, the Han family also has a very clear standard line for the titles and rewards of those who have won martial arts.

As Jia Guifang said: According to the precedent of Emperor Taizu Gao of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, if you behead a Xiongnu pawn, you should be rewarded with 15,000 yuan, 200 stone of grain, and a number of other rewards;

Behead a Hun slave and a servant of the tribe, and reward 3,000 dollars.

In fact, Jia Gui did not say everything, or only mentioned the content within the scope of his own responsibility.

In fact, the sentence in Jia Gui's mouth, 'according to the precedent of Emperor Taizu Gao of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong Xiaowen', is actually because this matter has never fallen on the edict with legal effect since the original Liu Bang, but is only recorded as a thin son, and only has the meaning of informal records such as memos and codes of conduct.

And the entire content of this unofficial record covers almost every kind of credit that a soldier can achieve on the battlefield, and the corresponding reward specifications.

There are three main aspects: titles, positions, and money.

For example, in the process of attacking the city, the first to climb the city wall, in the process of the siege of the city, for the comrades to form a 'stronghold' on the city wall and establish a practical foundation, you can be the undoubted first merit of this battle.

In this informal memorandum compiled by Emperor Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty, the reward standard for the first rank is that those below the rank of official doctor (level 6) are directly promoted to official doctor;

Officials and above, and below the left guard (12th grade) to be promoted to the first level;

Left more and above, and the eldest (eighteenth) or below are promoted to half a level, that is, they have been promoted to one level in total twice.

This is the knighthood aspect.

In terms of official positions, the promotion criteria corresponding to the first rank are: below the commander of the tun, he will be directly promoted to the commander of the tun, the officer above the commander and below the team rate will be promoted to one level, and the officer above the team rate and below the captain will be promoted by half a level, that is, he will become the deputy of the general at the next level.

In addition to this, there is naturally a repertoire: bounty.

- The first to ascend, the reward of 100 gold, that is, 100 gold cakes.

Another example is the merit of capturing the flag, that is, snatching the enemy's military flag in the course of the battle, resulting in the demoralization of the enemy army and the confusion of the army, which can also be regarded as a great achievement.

The reward standard for the meritorious service of capturing the flag is: two times below the left watch, three times below the chief of the eldest to be promoted to the first level, and half a level below the team rate, and ten gold rewards.

Ascending first, capturing the flag, trapping and capturing the camp, etc., are just a few of the most representative.

In addition to these items, there are corresponding reward standards for other items such as beheading, capture, or discovering the whereabouts of enemy troops before the war, discovering enemy troop movements during wartime, and even the smooth delivery of generals' newspapers and letters to their destinations.

The most central, and at the same time the most detailed, is undoubtedly the beheading.

Formulated by Emperor Taizu Gao, and continuously improved by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and Emperor Xiaojing, the Han family's reward standards for 'beheading' have been refined to the point of staggering.

For example, at the beginning, in the version of Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang, the reward standard for beheading was only for the number of beheadings, such as 'beheading several levels can be promoted to a knighthood and an official position, and each level of the enemy's head can get a reward' and so on;

When it came to Emperor Taizong's version of Xiaowen, there was an additional category of scenes: the identity of the enemy army.

When the enemy army is a northern nomadic people, mainly Huns, and is a pawn rather than a servant or slave cannon fodder, the standard of beheading reward follows the standard set by Emperor Taizu Gao;

The standard of beheading of servants, slaves, cannon fodder, and even captives is reduced by two-thirds from the former, and there is only a reward, and there is no benefit of adding an official to a knighthood.

In short, it was a true Hun head, and after removing the added value of officials and lords, the 'face value' was equivalent to the head of three servant tribes, slave cannon fodder, and captives who surrendered to the enemy.

When the enemy army is a rebellious vassal soldier, the reward will be halved on the standard set by Emperor Taizu Gao, that is, the standard of 'beheading the Xiongnu pawn'.

Among them, it is also necessary to subdivide the soldiers of the princely states and the soldiers of the non-princely states - the soldiers of the princes and the state of the princes are halved on the basis of the Huns;

Non-vassal state soldiers, that is, those militia soldiers who have been coerced, actively or passively joining the rebels, will be halved on the basis of halving.

And the same as the former: the reward for beheading non-vassal soldiers is also only a reward, not including the promotion of officials and lords.

In addition, the memorandum also explains in detail how many heads of what status are needed to ascend from a certain title to a higher title.

For example, if the first-class public soldier is promoted to the second-level upper building, one Xiongnu pawn is needed, or two rebel princes and national soldiers are needed;

Add one to level 2 to level 3 and add another one to level 3 to level 4······

The cycle is repeated, and this is accumulated, all the way to the sixth-level official doctor.

From the fifth-level public doctor to the sixth-level official doctor, a total of five first-level martial arts medals are required;

From the official doctor upwards, he began to no longer adopt the accumulation system, but instead adopted the 'exchange system'.

For example, if a person with the title of Duke (1st class) finally wins 5 enemy heads in a certain war, then according to the accumulation system, this person can be directly promoted to 5 ranks, from a public officer to an official doctor (6th grade).

But after reaching the official doctor, if the person wants to be promoted to the knighthood, he needs to start from scratch again.

The previous five heads were cleared, and two heads were needed to promote the official doctor (level six) to the public doctor (level seven), and this person had to get three more enemy heads before they could be exchanged for the title of the public doctor.

After obtaining the title of Doctor, the three heads obtained by this person were also exchanged and consumed, and the cumulative number of heads won was cleared again;

In order to upgrade the title from Gongfu (level 7) to Gongcheng (level 8), you need to earn three more heads······

Just like that, one by one, it was added one by one, until Che Hou, who was promoted from the nineteenth-level Guannai Hou to the twentieth level, required sixteen heads to exchange.

In total, from the first-level Gongshi to the twentieth level of Chehou, a full 140 enemy heads are needed.

Of course: these 140 heads refer to the slaughter and capture by one's own hands, not the overall gain of the officer's command of the operation.

As for officers commanding battles, they are counted as floating slashes, i.e., the number of captures minus the number of casualties on their own side.

In addition, there is also another set of reward standards for the overall floating beheading of the officer's command of the operation, and the difficulty is much higher than that of the individual beheading.

If an individual needs one hundred and forty heads, the heads of the Huns, to be named a marquis, then if a general wants to be named a marquis by virtue of his floating slash in commanding operations, this number will probably have to be doubled several times, or even more than ten times.

Of course: starting from the first-level 'gongshi' and climbing up step by step, he has already been the old yellow calendar in the years of Emperor Taizu Gao and later Empress Dowager Lu.

Nowadays, in the Han family, there are very few people who still have the title of public scholar after starting a family.

Emperor Taizu Gao established the Han Dynasty and gave the people of the world a land lord, treating the people at the bottom equally - each household has 100 acres of land, a farmhouse, and was awarded a first-class title: Gongshi.

That is to say, as early as the founding of the Han Dynasty, more than ninety percent of the people in the Han family were all knighthoods.

In the early days of the founding of the country, the Han family actually did not pacify the world - the rebellion of the princes with different surnames in the eastern part of the country lasted until the death of Taizu Liu Bang;

It is even no exaggeration to say that Liu Bang's last life was exhausted by the passage of the immortal flower during the rebellion of King Yingbu of Huainan.

Therefore, at that time, the Han family's regulations on the promotion and demotion of titles almost completely followed the Qin 20-level military merit lord name field house system, that is, only by making military merits can he be promoted, and when committing a crime, he can use the knight to atone for the crime, that is, to reduce and offset the punishment by demoting the knight.

This situation lasted until the time of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, until Emperor Xiaojing's teacher, the prince's family order, the former internal history and imperial history doctor, and now the northern land shou Chao Cuo, presented a letter to Emperor Taizong Xiaowen.

The letter is called "On Guisu Shu".

Its content is sprinkled with thousands of words, and the core proposition is nothing more than one sentence: donating millet to the lord.

What is a donation?

- Allow everyone in the world to exchange for the title they want by sending food to the border gates.

If you send a few hundred stone of grain to the border pass, you can exchange it for the sixth-level title that requires five enemy heads: Guandafu, so as to get rid of the theoretical 'ruled' class;

For example, if you send a few thousand stone of grain to the border pass, you can get the twelfth-level title that can only be exchanged for dozens of heads: Zuo Geng, so as to officially enter the privileged class.

If you are willing to donate tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of stone grain, the sixteenth-level title: Daliangzao will immediately beckon to you.

In this way, the common people, mainly those who have spare money, and at the same time have a desire and aspire to a title, can get the title they have been dreaming of;

The court could also rely on the worthless title to transport enough military rations to the border without spending even a single copper coin, so as to link the military ration reserves that were stretched at that time.

Liu Sheng wasn't sure if this approach was good or not, and whether it was a clever idea.

Liu Sheng only knew: Chao Cuo's "On Gui Su Shu" became the most fatal knife stabbed in the Qin 20-level military merit lord famous field house system after the previous emperors of the Han family.

Since then, it has been rare for the Han family to see men in the prime of life with titles of Gongshi (first class) and Shangzao (second class).

Unless they are concubines and remnants who have just come of age, have just separated from their families, and have inherited two titles from their fathers, any adult male who has been married for three or five years will often have a title of no more (fourth) or higher.

(Han Law: When the head of the household dies, the eldest son is demoted to one level of succession; The youngest son and the concubine were each demoted by one level and became a knight)

- Cheap!

The fourth-level is not more, and it takes three heads to get it in the army, but it only needs to transport more than 100 stones of grain to get it, and the discount is only a few thousand!

Even if it is a sixth-level official doctor, what is needed is only three or five hundred stone of grain, and the discount is only one or two hundred thousand!

Grit your teeth and save some food, go to the border to make such a trip, or even ask someone to send it for you, you can change such a title, and use this to put your own conscription and military service order back a little, and it can also be used to atone for crimes.

Maybe when you accidentally commit a crime, won't this title come in handy?

Although it may not be possible to compensate for any serious crimes, at least on the basis of the provisions of the law, the punishment can be reduced, such as death to death with a reprieve, a reprieve from none, and no reform, etc., which can still be barely sought.

These are still the Qianshou farmers who don't have much money, at least no spare money to 'buy' a knighthood.

If you really want to talk about big dogs, you have to be those wealthy businessmen.

Let's just say that in Chang'an today, which wealthy businessman with a name and surname doesn't have a young Shangzao (fifteenth) and Daliangzao (sixteenth) on his head?

——In today's Han Dynasty, the titles of the merchant group are even higher than those of the middle and high-ranking generals in the army!

Let's take the battle of Mayi that just ended: the dignified chariot and cavalry general Zhidu, now the highest general of the Han military, is only the title of a chariot chief (seventeenth level), only one level higher than the ceiling of the wealthy merchants in Chang'an;

Even this, Emperor Xianxiaojing repeatedly made exceptions, trying to break his head to find a reason, and gave Zhi Du to rise one after another.

Even the 'old man' in the army, Flying Fox Captain Zhang Xu, is only one level higher than Zhidu, and the eldest of the eighteenth level has been stuck for more than ten years.

As for the former general Cheng Buzhi, he is even more of a small shrimp who only has a middle guard (thirteenth level), and he really wants to compare his title with the merchants of Chang'an, but I am afraid that he may not be able to find a few who are 'comparable' with him.

For such a situation, Liu Sheng certainly has the heart to change;

But because this is the ancestral law, it is not a certain emperor, but a system that has been perfected by successive emperors.

For now, at least, Liu Sheng is far from having the energy to change these systems.

However, the fact that we cannot change the system does not mean that we cannot dig into the corners of the system......

"I have tasted and heard: a martial artist, a cadre of the country."

"In the past, the emperors of the past dynasties gave the people of the world on festivals, celebrations or ceremonies because of their benevolence."

"——Although the country is based on agriculture, it is also inseparable from loyal ministers and righteous men who fight for the country."

"The people of the world can be knighted on a day of joy, but shouldn't the ministers of the country who have won a war be knighted on a day when the whole world celebrates?"

After secretly wording it, Liu Sheng said it coldly, causing everyone in the hall to be stunned!

When he reacted, he was just about to test Liu Sheng's intentions, when he saw the young man get up freely and take a long breath of joy.

"At the beginning of spring this year, I will be crowned pro-government."

"——The soldiers prepared a great gift for my coronation ceremony, and even the great gifts that the previous emperors had been waiting for for a lifetime."

"Should I accept such a heavy gift without expressing it?"

"After going down, the princes will discuss it with the hundred officials in the court."

"I also went to Changle to find out what the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother meant."