strictlysupreme Chapter 317: The Transformation From Military Aristocrat To Military Aristocrat Will Leave The Milit
Chapter 317: The Transformation From Military Aristocrat To Military Aristocrat Will Leave The Milit
When Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes came to their senses, they found Yan Changqing on the podium looking at them lightly.
Yan Changqing looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, and concluded lightly:
"If the ruler of the Western Zhou Dynasty was the Emperor of Zhou, the ruling class was the blood aristocrats bound by the blood of the Emperor of Zhou."
"So during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was no actual supreme and sole ruler."
"The kings of the vassal states can be said to be rulers, and even the ruling class of the vassal states can also be rulers!"
"Because the ruling class during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods were all military aristocrats who controlled military power!"
"A military noble like this, in terms of military strength, can be said to be far superior to the blood nobles of the Western Zhou Dynasty!"
"There are powerful military aristocrats, and there are even terrifying existences that can penetrate the entire north just by relying on the power of one family!"
"No other ruling class before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, nor any other ruling class after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, had such power!"
"Therefore, it is not difficult for a military aristocrat with such military power to change his identity and directly change from the ruling class of a certain vassal state to the king of a certain vassal state, or to create a new vassal state by himself.
"For example, the promotion of three families is a typical example."
After hearing the example of "three families were divided into Jin" mentioned by Yan Changqing, Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, immediately remembered the allusions behind this example.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, since Duke Wen of Jin (633 B.C.) established the Six Ministers in charge of the three armies, the Six Ministers of Han, Zhao, Wei, Zhi, Fan, and Zhongxing have been firmly holding the military and political power of the Jin State.
By the time of Duke Ping of Jin, the six ministers of Han, Zhao, Wei, Zhi, Fan and Zhongxing were even more at odds with each other.
Later, after the Zhao family destroyed the Fan and Zhongxing families, they then joined forces with Han and Wei to destroy the Zhi family.
At this point, the Tuguo Office existed in name only.
In the 23rd year of King Weilie of Zhou (40317 BC), King Weilie of Zhou made the three families of Zhao, Han and Wei vassals.
The three families of Zhao, Wei, and Han were even more unscrupulous. Finally, in the late Spring and Autumn Period (376 BC), the three families of Han, Zhao, and Wei joined forces to depose Jin Jinggong, move to the Duan family, and divide all the remaining land of Jin Gong.
At this point, the Jin Kingdom no longer existed, and was replaced by the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Wei, and the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Wei were collectively called the "Three Jins."
This is the difference between trusting in blood and trusting in fists.
For example, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was basically impossible for the lower-level officials to carve up a prince, or for the lower-level officials to carve up a minister.
Closeness and distance by blood are the strongest shackles!
Unless someone could overthrow Emperor Zhou who was at the peak of his power at that time, no one would be able to break the hierarchical shackles caused by the closeness and distance of blood.
However, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the boundaries between princes, kings and military nobles were relatively blurred, and the strength gap between the two sides was not as wide as a giant.
Therefore, princes and kings may fall from the position of ruler at any time, and military nobles may rise to the top at any time.
"But when the Qin Emperor swept through the six kingdoms and unified the world, the rulers and ruling classes changed again."
"The ruler, of course, needless to say, is Emperor Qin Ying Zheng."
"But the ruling class is no longer the military aristocracy of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but has become a military aristocracy attached to the military merit system!"
"Military aristocrats and military aristocrats, there is only one word difference between them, but they are worlds apart!"
"This is so different, where is it?!"
Yan Changqing asked as he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, Prince Baobiao, Zhu Ni, Zhu Gang, Zhu Di and other princes.
"Military power!"
Prince Zhu Biao answered almost without hesitation.
Yan Changqing glanced at Zhu Biao approvingly, nodded and said:
"That's right, it's military power. The military aristocrats of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods could say that if they were unhappy, they could directly pull out hundreds or thousands of tanks and start a fight with others on the spot."
"But this was not the case with the military aristocrats during the Qin Dynasty. They did not have independent military power."
"Their identity, status, and power all come from the bestowal from the military merit system, or more essentially from the bestowal from the king of Qin!"
"Under the military merit system, if ordinary people want to become the ruling class at that time."
"Then the only way to change one's origin and improve one's status is by joining the army and killing enemies.
"As long as you kill enough enemies and are strong enough, it is not a delusion to become a prince or a king."
"Like Wu'an Jun Bai Qi, in the Battle of Yique, he reached the position of the sixteenth-level Daliang Zao and Guowei of the Gong System!!!"
"Even if it weren't for the limitations caused by flaws in the military merit system established by Lord Shang."
"Based on the Battle of Yique alone, Bai Qi's record of destroying 240,000 Han and Wei coalition forces was enough to break through the entire Qin State's twenty-level military merit system!!!"
Speaking of Wu'an Jun Bai Qi, Yan Changqing couldn't help but sigh.
There is a kind of person who is really born for war!!!
There is no doubt that Bai Qi is such a person!!!
It can be said that since ancient times, no matter how the four sages of military strategists are ranked.
However, as the leader of the four famous generals of the Warring States Period, Bai Qi, who alone overshadowed all the famous generals in the entire Warring States Period, has never fallen out.
Once there is no Bai Qi in the ranking of the Four Military Saints, then it doesn't matter who else is among the remaining Four Military Saints.
But this ranking of the Four Military Saints can be said to be unconvincing.
However, even if he is as ferocious as Bai Qi, he will not wait until death!!!
There are only seven marquises recorded in the history books of the Qin State: Chehou Shang Yang, Ranghou Wei Ran, Yinghou Fan Sui, Changxinhou Lai Ai, Wenxinhou Lu Buwei, Wuchenghou Wang Jian, and Tongwuhou Wang Ben.
But if we really want to talk purely from the military merit system, in fact, Shang Yang's military merit is not enough to make him a marquis.
Because during the period of Qin Xiaogong, the title of Chehou was not included in Qin's military merit system.
In addition, in a certain sense, the title of "Marquis" is even higher than Qin Xiaogong's own title.
It's just that Shang Yang had already made great achievements in the reform. In addition, Shang Yang personally led the army in Hexi to severely damage the Wei State, which wiped out a hundred years of humiliation for the Qin State.
Duke Xiao of Qin was unable to reward him, so he raised Shang Yang's title to Chehou as a sign of his favor.
In this way, Shang Yang was granted the title of Marquis of Che.
The Marquis of Wucheng, Wang Jian, and the Marquis of Tongwu, Wang Ben, almost wiped out the six kingdoms of the Central Plains before they reached the twentieth level of marquis.
In this regard, it is also possible that Qin Huangzheng sent some favors to grant the title of marquis to the two of them.
Because when the Qin Emperor was unifying the six kingdoms, after Li Xin failed to lead an army of 200,000 to attack Chu, he reused Wang Jian to lead an army to attack Chu.
Before leaving, Wang Jian said to Qin Huangzheng:
"As a general of the great king, he will not be granted the title of marquis after his meritorious service. Therefore, as for the ministers of the great king's hometown, he will also promptly invite the garden to be the karma of his descendants."
After hearing this, Qin Huangzheng neither agreed nor objected.
However, after this battle, Wang Jian was granted the title of Marquis of Wucheng.
Therefore, from another perspective, the fact that Wang Jian and Wang Ben were granted the title of marquis may not have fully met the criteria for meritorious service.
But Wang Jian made the request before going on the expedition, and Qin Huangzheng acquiesced, so he relaxed some of the standard requirements for them.
In the end, Wang Jian and Wang Ben succeeded in becoming a marquis!!!
As for Wei Ran, he had made great contributions to the civil war in Qin and supported King Qin Zhaoxiang to the throne. He had "the merit of being the first to follow the dragon". In addition, he was the uncle of King Qin Zhaoxiang, so he was named Ranghou.
Fan Ju once assisted King Qin Zhaoxiang to expel the "Four Nobles", completely regained the monarchy, and made great achievements, so he was made a Marquis of Ying by King Qin Zhaoxiang.
Lu Buwei spent all his family wealth on a huge gamble to make "a rare commodity available to live in" and promoted his son Yiren to the position of King of Qin. Later, King Zhuangxiang of Qin directly worshiped him as the Prime Minister of Qin [Marquis Wenwen of Qin].
As for Lao Ai, ahem, I can only say that he has his own specialties.
It can be said that among these seven feudal lords, there are those who truly rely on military merit.
Only two and a half!!!
Wang Jian and Wang Ben are two, Shang Jun is half, and the rest are not military lords.
This makes people think about the issue of the military merit system.
The army of Qin was organized as follows: five men per camp, with one camp commander; hundreds of men, one general, with one general. If a hundred generals kill thirty-three heads or more, all personnel will be promoted to a first-class title.
In other words, only with an average kill rate of about 30% can you have the chance to advance, and there is also a principle of offsetting casualties!
Under such a system of military merit and promotion, small-scale battles with low casualty rates are relatively easy to obtain military merit and promotion.
Once a soldier has passed a small-scale battle with a low casualty rate and raised his title to level ten or above.
Then he has left the level of soldiers and begun to enter the level of generals and divisions.
The existence of the general level is definitely not fighting small-scale wars with low casualty rates, but often fighting large-scale, large-scale wars aimed at destroying the country.
However, in large-scale army operations, almost always thirty to fifty thousand, or even hundreds of thousands of troops are dispatched. The more troops are dispatched, the lower the corresponding kill rate will be.
The lower the kill rate, the more difficult it will be for you to be promoted as the commander of the army.
For example, the reason why Bai Qi marched and fought was always a battle of total annihilation and continuous massacre of enemy troops.
On the one hand, in addition to weakening the enemy's effective strength, on the other hand, there is also the idea of increasing the kill rate to enhance one's own title.
However, even in Bai Qi's most famous battle of Changping, in which more than 400,000 Zhao soldiers were killed in one fell swoop, Bai Qi failed to succeed in being promoted to a noble title.
Because the Qin army suffered a lot of casualties at that time, according to the principle of casualty offset, the final kill rate in the Battle of Changping did not meet the standard requirements for Bai Qi to be promoted to the nobility.
From this we can see how pitiful the military merit system set up by Shang Jun is when it reaches the top!!!
Even the tyrannical military leader of the ages like Bai Qi was trapped and buried tightly.
And it is difficult to say whether the Shang Lord at that time knew that the military merit system he set up had such flaws.
Because defects like this can be said to be left by Shang Jun's poor consideration.
After all, there are inhuman beings like Bai Qi who can truly defeat the entire twenty-level military merit system with his own strength in one battle!
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Mr. Shang probably wouldn't have believed that such a perversion really existed.
Normally speaking, let alone the 20th level of military merit, even the previous 12th and 3rd levels of military merit are almost the end of 080 ordinary people's lifelong struggle.
Because of the military merit title system, in the final analysis, you still have to fight on the battlefield. If you want to reach the twelfth or third level of military merit title, it is not an exaggeration for a normal person to say that it will take a hundred battles for the rest of his life.
On the battlefield, any accident may happen, and anyone may die. Even the commander-in-chief of an army may die unexpectedly due to a flying arrow.
So I want to walk peacefully
It can be said that it is difficult to reach the twelfth and third level military meritorious positions.
Therefore, even if there is such a flaw in the upper level of the military merit system, as long as no one can truly reach the top military merit position, then this flaw can be said to be
does not exist.
But on the other hand, it can be said that the upper-level flaws in the military merit system were deliberately set up by Shang Jun because he was too thoughtful.
Because once the military merit system reaches the upper levels, there is no such flaw.
Then there is no need to wait for the Battle of Changping. The military merit in the Battle of Yique alone is enough for Bai Qi to break through the twenty-level military merit system and stand directly at the top of the military merit system.
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And what happens next?!!
After the Battle of Yique, Bai Qi led his troops to attack Wei and captured sixty-one cities of Wei in one fell swoop.
With such a record, if Bai Qi has passed through the twenty-level military merit system and stood at the top of the military merit system, then what should Bai Qi be rewarded?!!
Afterwards, Bai Qi attacked Chu, the Shangdang battle, the Changping battle, etc., what should Bai Qi be rewarded?!!
As a monarch, once there is no reward, there are only two consequences.
Either he will actively reward his last position as king, or he will passively have it taken away by his ministers as his own reward.
Or he is a minister who is willing to die without reward!!!
It is precisely because of the consideration that in the future there may be inhuman beings like Bai Qi who can defeat the twenty-level military merit system in one fell swoop with their military exploits.
Therefore, Shang Jun deliberately left such a "flaw" that was not a "flaw" to prevent his ministers from reaching the top of the military merit system and facing the end of having great achievements that would overwhelm their master.
At the same time, it also prevents the monarch from facing a situation where he has no reward and has to kill his meritorious officials.
As for the real reason for this flaw in the upper echelon of the military merit system, is it the former or the latter.
Yan Changqing is not Shang Jun, so he cannot be sure. It can only be said that there are two possibilities.
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