Yatong Ya, the ancient generals out of the town, such as the construction of the tooth flag, the battle and the line, their official office called the tooth, later as the ya, called the city where they live as the tooth city, the house where they live is the tooth house, called the court to see the commander as the tooth ginseng, said that the pro-will be the tooth general, the guard is the tooth team, and the pro-soldiers are called the tooth soldiers.

This is an ordinary explanation, and the specific concept or something, so I won't get entangled in it.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the tooth soldiers are the personal soldiers of the Jiedu Envoy, and they are also the sharpest minions of the Jiedu Envoy, and they are also the foundation of their lives in troubled times.

The tooth soldier is a special product of the period from the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is closely related to the feudal town. If there is no feudal town, it doesn't matter if there is a tooth soldier, the two are actually a two-sided community.

The feudal town is the territory of the Tooth Soldiers, and the Tooth Soldiers are the protectors of the Domain.

As mentioned in the previous information, the types of feudal towns can be roughly divided into four types: Heshuo secession type, Central Plains defense type, frontier defense type, and southeast fiscal and taxation type, and the purpose of the establishment of each type of feudal town, as well as their respective characteristics, are different.

Correspondingly, there are many types of feudal town festival envoys, such as military generals, literati, family inheritance, tooth soldiers, etc., and there are many divisions of different dimensions.

However, only the Tooth Soldiers, or the armies whose names are not called Tooth Soldiers, but whose nature is no different from the Tooth Soldiers (such as the elite of the Divine Command Army), are surprisingly similar!

Whether it is the tooth soldiers in the three towns of Heshuo, or the tooth soldiers in Fengxiang to defend against Tibet, or the tooth soldiers who suppress the rebellion in the southeast and supervise the tax collection by the way, their behavior is surprisingly consistent!

It even spans the interference of regional, ethnic, cultural and other factors. The tooth soldiers in the southeast made trouble, and they were no milder than the tooth soldiers in the three towns of Heshuo.

Therefore, it is necessary to explain the characteristics of the tooth soldiers here, as well as the ins and outs.

Since Kaiyuan changed from the government to recruit soldiers, the military system of the Tang Dynasty is very complicated, and here we need to use some examples to analyze, do not hang the book bag to put the information, that is all metaphysical self-talk.

As we all know, the government military system did not dissolve in a day. At the same time, the conscription system did not appear before the emergence of the government military system, and the origin of the border army itself was that after the government soldiers captured a certain place, some government soldiers were left on duty, which is also one of the sources of many Tang Dynasty army numbers.

For example, when the Tang army captured Gaochang State, Xizhou was established here. At that time, the Tang army was a government military system, and the numbers were all temporary, so through the southern and northern government systems of Chang'an, generals were sent to lead government soldiers from all over the country to form an army and appoint a marching commander.

At that time, this army was temporarily named the "Tianshan Army" and was led by the marching commander.

After the capture of Gaochang State, the Tang army left a part of the government soldiers to garrison in the local area, and the number of the "Tianshan Army" became the fixed number of the remaining places, which is also the origin of the later border army number.

Of course, there are also some armies that are dependent on the surrounding ethnic minorities, such as the Moli Army, the Doulu Army, and the Han Navy, which only need to be given a number by the imperial court.

Then at the beginning of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, many of these border troops were no longer government soldiers!

It is the "Tuntian soldiers", which can be understood as the soldiers whose home is in the local area, and their treatment has been greatly weakened, but they have retained the power of the land!

These people are not in the "prize pool" of the government soldiers, but they are in the account books of the military department.

Therefore, this is the reason why you can't hang your book bag when reading history books, and you can't generalize, and the devil is often in the details.

In the decades of Kaiyuan, in fact, it was the process of retiring the old government soldiers and recruiting new soldiers, including the Long March athletes (and others), until all the government soldiers were finally retired.

In addition to these "standing armies", there are also "temporary workers" who are not on the books.

For example, many people don't know what a solidarity soldier is.

For example, the common "more than 10,000 Han soldiers" and the like in history books are equivalent to the "veteran recall" system in the frontier. To put it bluntly, the people who can fight in Datang are far more than the more than the more than 500,000 in the account books of the Ministry of War.

In this process, there are many moths, such as the proportion of the population in the frontier army is too high, the defense of the Central Plains is empty, the Guanzhong forbidden army is corrupt, and the financial deficit leads to arrears of salaries and so on.

As a result, many units that should have appeared in policy did not appear, and because they were ugly, they were simplified, and they were full of vitality when they should not appear.

I say so much nonsense just to express a point of view, that is, before the Anshi Rebellion, the internal sources and military system of the Tang Army were very complicated, and there were systems for the old, middle-aged and young people.

According to the rule that Datang likes to "do addition" and does not like "to do subtraction", the Datang center generally makes up for what functions are lacking, and creates a: errands, that is, positions such as XX envoys to deal with.

So just because something new has appeared doesn't mean that the old has disappeared.

And where did the tooth soldiers come from?

According to my speculation, the original soldiers of the tooth soldiers should have been united soldiers who were honed in the flames of the Anshi Rebellion. It's a family statement, and it doesn't matter.

Because no matter what the original tooth soldiers were, they will be alienated into standard template tooth soldiers in a very short period of time (probably only a few years), which is the so-called "environmental modifier".

No matter what this Qiu Ba did before, after they reached the social environment after the Anshi Rebellion, they would evolve into standard tooth soldiers.

Strong in force, able to fight well; wasted rice and grain, lawlessness; forming a party for personal gain, forming a faction of its own; Maverick, isolated from the local.

What does this mean?

Well, I can't explain it clearly, it's too simple and it's not interesting, so it's better to explain what a tooth soldier is from a socio-economic basis.

The soldiers of the tooth soldiers are the proletarian class who "join the army if they are poor, and build a festival if they are good". The soldiers and horses left over from before the Anshi Rebellion, or the homeless people who couldn't survive, the bankrupt peasants, and even the children of the families of the declining military generals.

They are proletarians, and even if they have property, even if they receive military salaries and rewards, they will quickly consume them, or even squander them. Because in the era of precariousness, there is no point in saving such a thing as money.

The vast majority of the tooth soldiers have no contact with the local wealthy families, big nobles, big landlords and the like, and even have no normal contacts. If you want to deal with it, most of them are tooth soldiers to rob local big households. In fact, the existence of the tooth soldier class is not conducive to the rule of the local large landlord class.

The big landlords, feudal nobles, they also look forward to a peaceful order that is extremely beneficial to them economically! No one is born a warmonger!

As for the tooth soldiers, their economic interests are only military salaries and rewards for winning in war.

This requires them to be full of martial virtue on the one hand, they can win against anyone, and no matter how strong the enemy is, they dare to send troops to fight!

On the other hand, they do not produce, and have little demand for land, the largest means of production; But he is also very concerned about floating wealth.

The reason is simple, it is too easy to die in war! If you have a stutter, it is king to have fun in time, is it possible to save money to keep it for the yellow hair who explodes his gold coins?

The high demand for wealth and the low possession of land made them lose their reverence for the Jiedu envoys and the imperial court, and they were also full of contempt for the so-called "feudal order".

It doesn't matter if the place where they are is controlled by the imperial court or by the Jiedu envoys. This is the fundamental reason why the tooth soldiers in the south are no different from the tooth soldiers in the three towns of Heshuo.

Whoever can give them the pay they want, they will follow. With the weakening of the Tang court, the moral beliefs of these tooth soldiers fell like a free fall, basically only recognizing money and not people. Even if it is an old boss who has been with him for decades, he can cut off the dog's head with a smile if he doesn't like it.

The final result is that after the tooth soldiers left the town, their combat effectiveness was extremely weak, and they did not have the consciousness of "those who have constant production and perseverance" and fought for their families. But at the same time, they will work extremely hard in the defense of their town, fighting for their own survival!

This is an important reason why since the middle and late Tang Dynasty, it was difficult for feudal towns to annex neighbors before the Zhu Wen era.

The tooth soldiers didn't want to cooperate with the ambitions of the Jiedu envoys at all, and they even looked down on the Jiedu envoys and the imperial court in their hearts. The characteristics of the tooth soldiers made the land circulation extremely fast after the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and no local landlord could be "rich for more than three generations". The trend of land privatization has not changed, but the pace of circulation has become faster and more people have passed it.

Therefore, China did not have the stable inheritance system of "manor-castle-knight-tenant" as in Western Europe.

Objectively, the tooth soldier class is the key variable that really affects the history of the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and it is a special group that has not appeared in other dynasties. They have made some historical contributions to breaking the old feudal order and allowing political power to sink down to the common people.

Therefore, we can't blindly think that the tooth soldiers are damned, that is, they are domineering, that is, they are to be destroyed; Nor can they simply be regarded as the swords used against the imperial court in the hands of the Jiedu envoys.

Ladies and gentlemen, put down your knives, if you have something to say, I'll just say so much......