When the sunset hung on the horizon, Mi Heng was sitting in a donkey cart preparing to go home.
If we compare the current means of transportation in the Han Dynasty with those of later generations, then individual ownership of horses is equivalent to personal ownership of private vehicles in later generations. Private vehicles in later generations need to pay vehicle and ship taxes, road maintenance fees, annual inspection fees, and constant maintenance. Refueling every now and then would cost a lot of money. The same was true for horses in the Han Dynasty.
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Mi Heng has a great reputation, but he doesn’t have much money and can’t save much money, so he can only take a taxi when he goes out, and it can’t be a high-end taxi, it can only be a donkey cart.
cheapest.
But even in the cheapest donkey cart, Mi Heng sat upright, as if he was sitting in a high-end canopy cart.
In the fields of Sanfu, in addition to the working farmers and women, there are also some captured war criminals. These people are basically shackled, with numb faces. Every step they take, the iron chains under their feet are It made a clattering sound.
Mi Heng does not pity these people. Although Mi Heng does have a lot of sympathy sometimes, it does not mean that Mi Heng's sympathy will be used on these prisoners of war and slaves.
The Han Dynasty still has a partial slavery system. These prisoner-of-war slaves who can farm are relatively lucky. At least they farm in the farmland without any danger to their lives, while those who know nothing and neither know how to farm are relatively lucky. Those who were not good at handicrafts or animal husbandry, but only had strength, would be sent to the mines.
Every year, some of these slaves will die silently, and some slaves will escape from the sea of suffering and become so-called Dahan residents, the kind of residents who hold green cards. If you want to become a real Dahan citizen, you must Only in exchange for military merit.
At least that was the case under the rule of Hussar.
This is the "Prisoner of War Law" issued by the Hussar General a long time ago. Even Mi Heng, who likes to argue, thinks it is very reasonable. These rebellions in the surrounding areas have triggered various wars, making the big man have to pay iron and blood to survive. To calm down, if we just behead these guys, it will undoubtedly be too cheap for these guys. From a Han perspective, as long as the Han Dynasty still has the power to suppress these slaves, such rules must be implemented.
Because the winner is the Han, if on the other hand the winner is these barbarians, then those who become slaves and are used as cattle and sheep will be the Han.
Many times, this world does not exist for fairness.
The sufferings brought by the Xiongnu have been experienced countless times by the Han people before, so Mi Heng has no sympathy for these people. Mi Heng believes that if the Hu people in the desert are the victors, these guys will only It will go even further.
Mi Heng enjoys the current Han Dynasty and Guanzhong very much. At least, he can see the strength of the Han Dynasty instead of only seeing the decay of the Han Dynasty.
This restored some of his originally distorted cognition.
Beside the official road not far away, there was a thick wooden stake standing. On the stake was hanging a person, or rather the shape of a person. The corpse had long since rotted, and the flesh on the body had also been eaten by various kinds of carrion.
The animals were almost eaten and only the bones were left.
When there is oppression, there is resistance. These are runaway slaves. If they are caught, they will be hanged on such a wooden pillar and placed in front of the other slaves.
This method of admonition is more effective than telling these slaves a thousand times.
Mi Heng claims to be a person who is full of compassion for the world, but his compassion is only for the Han people, not including these barbarians, because it is very simple, Mi Heng is a Han. He eats Han people's food and drinks Han people's food.
Shui, wearing Han people's clothes, holding Han people's salary, everything Ni Heng is closely related to the Han people, and then put down the bowl and chopsticks to speak for the Hu people, and then turn around and insult the Han people, Ni Heng can't do it.
Therefore, at the moment, even if Mi Heng is sometimes unwilling to admit it, he cannot ignore the achievements of General Hussar.
Because these achievements are vividly displayed in front of Mi Heng.
The expedition during the Han Dynasty was actually an adventure.
Unknown distances, unknown roads, unknown enemies, and unknown dangers are all testing the endurance of the Han people all the time. But the Cavalry General Fei Qian challenges the Han people again and again.
The key to endurance is that General Fei Qian succeeded!
If you succeed once, you can naturally call it a fluke. Then you stand up and say that the hussar general should not be careless. You cannot ignore the risks just because of one success. Soldiers are the most important thing for the country, and so on.
Anyway, this kind of talk is just a person's mouth, and he can spray it. But after the hussar general succeeded again and again, these mouths clicked twice and closed.
Then even Mi Heng closed his mouth.
Now no one dares to comment on the Hussars' expeditionary behavior.
Just like not many people dare to criticize some of the policies of the Hussars General.
Afraid of being slapped in the face.
It hurts.
Therefore, even if Fei Qian ordered Yun Er to be responsible for the allocation of places related to Qinglong Temple, no one jumped out to object for a while. Then these guys set their sights on Mi Heng, and they wanted to get Mi Heng to intervene.
matter.
But this time, Mi Heng has more or less returned to normal and is not so easily fooled. After all, he suffered a loss in Yecheng before, so he needs to have a longer memory, right?
What's more, Feiqian's straight hook fishing is not just once or twice...
Although Mi Heng also looks down upon Yun Er.
Yunji is a rough guy!
When we meet, we will talk about what we are looking at, fight and eat and drink.
But such a rough man was sent to Qinglong Temple to participate in the so-called discussion system. This is obviously problematic. It took Jiang Taigong fishing for so long before he caught King Wen of Zhou. Fei Qian was similar to a straight hook.
The fishing really does not abide by the Basic Law.
But the question is, is Fei Qian going too far?
There seems to be no problem.
In Qinglong Temple, the site was built by Fei Qian, and all the bricks, stones and wooden beams were paid for by Fei Qian. So is it normal for Fei Qian to charge some usage fees? Who is sent to collect this fee? Is it also Fei Qian's fault?
The final word?
Therefore, after Yun Er arrived, some people immediately speculated on the intention of the Qiusi, and even thought whether this arrangement represented the direction of the next stage...
In fact, Fei Qian's idea is still the same as before. He has the support of the real doers, or in other words, the doers are artificially selected. He cannot be like some officials who rush around for the country, do their best, but get nothing for their efforts.
, there is no gain, all the merits have been appropriated by others, and some officials cannot be allowed to rely on bragging and personal connections to talk a lot but do nothing.
You are very smart in your studies, so you don't say anything.
The rest of the people will not be the first to jump out and openly resist.
Everyone watched, waited, and expected the first person to confront Fei Qian to appear.
Who is the one?
Mi Heng is also considering this issue.
Maybe they are those people who say all day long that they are not generous enough, not benevolent enough, and do not reflect the majesty of a great man?
Sometimes Mi Heng also wonders, is it a bit too much for Qiusi to do this, or does it mean that Qiusi treats these noble children as nothing? But if you think about it the other way around, you can understand that Yunji is not in charge of all the places in Qinglong Temple.
Assignment, he is only responsible for allocating places on issues related to the "Law of Corruption" such as "Holiness", "Charity", "Tolerance".
So even if Fei Qian doesn't use Yun Er to set up obstacles for these guys, is it possible that these guys will say good things to Fei Qian and express their support for Fei Qian's "Law of Corruption"?
Obviously, it won't.
In the past few days, Pang Tong has been leading his men to deal with the officials and local powerful people who have violated the "Law of Corruption" one by one. The lighter ones have to pay fines, the more serious ones have their property confiscated, and the more serious ones are to have their heads killed.
After all, Pang Tong has the title of Si Zhi, so he needs to do this kind of thing. The money stolen has become additional investment in the next wave of public projects such as building roads, expanding docks and bridges, and what is even more excessive is that these additional investments
The investment project is like the newly built manor next to Feixiongxuan, with the name of someone who was fined and confiscated a certain amount of property.
It even made some noble clan members feel like they were choking in their throats, unable to speak or vomit.
In the past, building bridges and paving roads was a great merit and was remembered and commemorated by the villagers. Now, it is very awkward to be trampled by thousands of people.
This is what Mi Heng saw. Qiaoqi’s intention of fishing with a straight hook was too obvious. He didn’t catch anything at all...
In other words, it has already been caught and the strangulation is uncomfortable.
After all, Fei Qian was in control of the military. When all the soldiers yelled "The Hussars will be victorious," they screamed at the top of their lungs and their veins jumped. Every nobleman knew that as long as these soldiers were loyal to the Hussars, they would be loyal.
Yu Feiqian, then what Fei Qian said is exactly what he said, he wanted to chop off someone's head, even if he died, he had to chop it off again.
This is no joke.
When Zhang Jiao died, his corpse was dragged out of the coffin and whipped. Although the Hussars General's subordinates were not so exaggerated, their soldiers were still unscrupulous in executing orders...
Mi Heng heard that there was a guy in Longxi who was involved with the Linjing Zhao family. When he was traced, he didn't know whether he was too old and couldn't stand the shock, or he was originally sick and the result was not there yet.
When he came out, he was frightened to death first, and then he was sentenced to beheading. He was actually dragged out of the body, and his head was still chopped off.
But the problem is, Mi Heng can't figure out how Fei Qian can confirm that the loyalty of these soldiers can be sustained?
The problems that Mi Heng can think of, Fei Qian can also think of.
"Go to the martial arts hall!"
Fei Qian led the guards out of the city and headed to the martial arts hall.
The original Martial Arts Hall was not very big, but as more and more people attended the Martial Arts Hall, it was moved outside the Third Ring Road to the Fifth Ring Road.
The newly built martial arts hall was rebuilt from the original Chang'an old camp. It occupies a very large area. There is also a huge school field next to the martial arts hall, which can be used for ordering troops and practicing martial arts. There are walls around it and above the wall.
There is also a watchtower, which is basically built according to the layout of a military fortress. After entering the gate, there is a large square. Behind the large square are four rows of two-story buildings, which can accommodate 1,200 people.
Behind the four dormitory buildings is the functional area, including the original large and small lecture halls, large and small exhibition halls, as well as the sacrificial wine in the martial arts hall, the doctor's accommodation area and office area, as well as two canteens, one large and one small.
Medical department and other supporting facilities.
The chief of the martial arts hall is naturally Fei Qian, the general of the cavalry.
As for the general's wine offering, it is not fixed. It used to be Xu Huang, but now Xu Huang will go to Sichuan and Sichuan in the next stage, so Fei Qian is planning to transfer Zhang Liao to serve as the general's wine offering for a period of time. Xu Huang said before
Most of it is related to infantry combat, formation arrangement, mutual cooperation, mobilization of flags and drums, etc. In the next stage, Zhang Liao will serve as the wine sacrificer, and he will mainly focus on talking about cavalry tactics, looking for opportunities before the formation, etc.
Anyway, different generals naturally have different priorities.
If it were Wei Yan, it would basically be a mountain battle plus a surprise attack...
As for the instructors in the martial arts hall, in principle, they are middle-aged non-commissioned officers who have retired under various generals. These non-commissioned officers are older, and their fighting strength will inevitably decline due to age, but their battle experience will increase with their age.
The age group is getting richer and richer, so it is actually a very good arrangement to let these middle-aged non-commissioned officers serve as instructors.
Fei Qian checked the students' dormitories, mainly the beds and beddings. The previous batch of students had left, and now they were preparing to welcome the new batch of students, so these things had not been used for a long time, which would naturally cause mold or become moldy.
A paradise for rats and other creatures.
However, overall it looks pretty good.
At least it's not the kind of response under a surprise inspection. It's really clean and maintained by someone on weekdays. There is some dust in some places, which is harmless, but the surroundings don't seem to have improvised in advance because they knew Fei Qian was coming.
Traces left by washing, etc.
In later generations, when superior leaders inspected the companies or institutions below, they always had to do some general cleaning. However, it is obvious that not all cleaning can be dried quickly. It can be done the next day or the third day.
There was no water stain left in the sky, so the question arises. Did the superiors see the temporary cleaning water stain, did they not see it, or did they treat it as if they didn't see it?
Fei Qian walked slowly inside while watching.
Fei Qian once considered the political commissar system of later generations, extending the control hand to the grassroots level of the soldiers, but after careful consideration, Fei Qian gave up this idea. Although this idea is indeed very tempting, it is actually very practical.
Like most measures in history, there are pros and cons.
So it’s better to just use Lecture Hall.
Originally, the military supervision system in the Han Dynasty was also very complicated.
For example, the eunuchs in the Luoyang Palace were responsible for the provision of grain and grass needed for the army's travels, ordnance, arrows, crossbows, etc., but local prefects could also privately raise a certain amount of military grain and equipment. In other words, during the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty,
If a military general wants to march and fight, if he wants the court to transport grain, grass, and equip equipment, he must go through careful review by eunuchs like Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong before he can transfer and deploy it.
If the local military commanders do not need the imperial court to send grain and grass to fight, and the local county and county warehouses can meet their military needs, then they only need to be reviewed by the local prefect and state governor, and then reported to the imperial court.
This kind of military supervision system looks very good, but in fact it is basically zero.
That's why eighteen princes fought against Dong Zhuo...
The local authorities have too much authority, so they will go against the grain.
Of course, this is also because four hundred years before the Han Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty in China was similar to the system in which the emperor had an inflated position but no real power, and the princes each ruled one side. Therefore, even in the Han Dynasty, although the feudal princes system of the emperor was abandoned, the feudal princes system was adopted.
The county system, however, is limited by historical perspective and its reform path cannot go too far.
Therefore, the issue of military power cannot be solved by just a few words or a few people if you want to control the entire army. Whether it is the military supervision system or the political commissar system, in the era of cold weapons and inconvenient communications,
It directly points to a very thorny issue, which is the army's battlefield command authority.
The supervisory army or political commissar system is to control the army more effectively, but such a system will often have the opposite effect in the later period. In the impression of later generations, those yin and yang eunuchs and supervisory troops will not be mentioned.
The political commissars in China often don’t have a good image.
In history, the supervisory army began in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and then extended to later generations. It has never been discontinued, and has always been inherited and transformed. The eunuch supervisory army is obviously the most notorious, but the other two models of the supervisory army
, and it’s not much better.
Supervising the army is not "monitoring the army and generals" as people generally think. Supervising the army and generals is one of the duties of supervising the military, but the power of supervising the military is not only limited to monitoring the army.
Supervising the army is more important for supervision, inspection, control, etc. As for monitoring alone, it becomes extremely important mostly when the world is in chaos.
So there is no military supervision system in Feiqian now? There is one, and it is a civilian supervision system.
It is not advisable for military attaches to supervise the army. This has been proven in the former Qin Dynasty.
Therefore, most of them are now civilian supervisors.
That is, when each general leads his troops into battle, he appoints a civilian official to be in charge of important military activities such as transportation of supplies, deployment of officials, statistics of meritorious service, etc., and is also responsible for the delivery of documents between the army and the central government. His official rank is generally lower than that of the chief general of each army.
It's like being by Zhao Yun's side, originally it was Sima Yi, but now it's Xin Pi.
Civilian supervision of the army was originally supposed to be a more appropriate method to balance the civil and military forces within the government and to adjust the power between ministers and the emperor. However, this type of supervision was most likely to occur in two situations.
One is internal fighting caused by civil and military discord. Because they belong to two systems, no one can forcefully submit to the other. The final outcome of this kind of internal fighting is often that the two parties hold each other back, fight for power, and even prove each other.
Strategic mistakes, deliberately creating defeat, etc.
There may even be bad incidents of overstepping the rules and planning to kill...
Another disadvantage is that the stage of military commanders is in the border areas, while the core of civilian officials is in the capital. Civil servants are often not only responsible for supervising the army, but also have the mission of political battles in the court. Military behavior is regarded as an important bargaining chip in the internal political battles of the court. Civil servants use supervision
The military system, which controls the military and military power, uses the army in hand to fight against political opponents and even against the emperor. The final outcome of this completely politicized military behavior is even more conceivable. Such cases have been seen in all dynasties, including the two Song Dynasties.
most!
Because civil servants were seen to be unreliable, most of the Ming Dynasty's military supervisors used eunuchs. However, it is obvious that eunuch supervisors caused the most tragedies in the Ming Dynasty...
Why are there supervisors?
That is because since ancient times, there have been very few people who are both good generals and loyal to the country. Therefore, the emperor has no choice but to use those generals who are talented but have some moral problems, in an attempt to use people who are loyal to the country to restrain these generals who are good at fighting, so that
The military does not become an individual's private property, but belongs to the country.
Fei Qian stood in front of the lobby of the martial arts hall, looking up with his hands behind his back.
Why can't we think about the problem from another angle?
