There are one hill and eight buildings in the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chapter 5388: Barbarians enter the Guan Dynasty as a military household
Chapter 5388: Barbarians enter the Guan Dynasty as a military household
Xuanwu nodded: "We will discuss this later. Let's talk about the military system first. What you mean is that Cao Cao's military household system is actually only a temporary one. It is to collect refugees and distribute them in troubled times.
Give them land, and even wives and concubines, so that they can have children and have enough food and clothing for their families, so that they can work hard to fight for Cao Cao, and their families are equivalent to being used as hostages, so that soldiers fighting on the front line cannot easily defect. After all, with
There are worries about the family. Once you defect, your wife will become someone else's wife and your children will be confiscated and become official slaves. That would be even more uncomfortable than death."
Bai Hu smiled and said: "Master Xuanwu summed up these things very well. Indeed, this kind of allocated family and property will actually become a fetter for the soldiers of the military household. However, Cao Cao does not want to give the military household much room for promotion.
, the land given, the tax-free policy, including wives and children, are just the basic living conditions for the common people. In previous dynasties, they were all given as household registration to the people, and they were tax-free during the period of military service.
Exemption from military service has also been a policy of past dynasties, but in these troubled times, Cao Cao forcibly organized the refugees whose first need was to survive into military households and farm households, and they were still grateful."
"In fact, the vast majority of military households have no chance to get ahead. They just continue to provide the soldiers Cao Wei needs. After my son dies, his son will take over, and after the eldest brother dies, his younger brother will take over. The degree of oppression they receive is far greater than before.
era, but Cao Cao established his power by massacring the city, and by establishing a large area of ​​tranquility in the north and restoring production. Such combination of kindness and power left most people in the world with no other choice but to serve him."
"However, the military household is only a temporary setup after all. Just like Cao Cao did not expect that the war in the world would last for more than a hundred years. He may have thought that the world could be pacified in ten or twenty years at most, so when the feudal princes in Guandong were in chaos,
The establishment of military households and farm households from the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army as the first batch of special household registrations was expected to conquer the world and end the war in just one generation. However, the subsequent wars continued to drag on, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers across the country
A household has become a family that must continue to produce soldiers and provide soldiers."
"During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Lao Qin from Guanzhong and Liangjiazi from the Six Counties were free citizens, and the state allocated fields to them for farming, while the standing Northern and Southern armies and frontier fortress armies were recruited from among their children, which is not strictly considered
The reason is that the military households in Cao Wei have been mainly recruited in these places for a long time, and in these areas there is a habit of joining the army to serve the country and practicing martial arts to strengthen the body. However, the military households in Cao Wei are different. Compared with the old Qin people in Guanzhong during the Qin and Han Dynasties,
What is lacking most is not training in combat skills, but hope."
Qinglong murmured: "Hope? Are you saying that even if they, the children of military families, kill enemies and perform meritorious service on the battlefield, it will be difficult for them to get promoted?"
Bai Hu nodded: "Yes, because in order to be promoted, promotion in the military requires a title. Only civilians can have titles, even if they are civilian titles. However, military households do not have this term. They can only directly press the title in the military.
Those who have achieved military success can be promoted to officers, etc. However, in the Cao Wei army, these people who are generals, their nephews, soldiers, and tribes are often sent down to the grassroots level as officers to control the army. In this way, even if they win,
Later military merits are often awarded to superior officers. Ordinary sergeants are rewarded with some trophies at most, and then go home. If they want to rely on fighting, it is too difficult to be promoted like Liu Yu and finally become a general.
Already."
Zhuque said sternly: "Actually, our military system in the Jin Dynasty is almost the same. After a battle is won, most of the military merits will go to the generals, or to the children of the noble families who accompanied the army. Not many ordinary soldiers can be promoted to officers, so
Liu Yi relied on more spoils and even arranged a way out for these sergeants, so that after they were disarmed and retired, they could work as traders in the city and have a shop or something like that, and then they could bribe a large number of elite veterans to provide services to them.
However, Liu Yu wanted to find some land, houses and official positions for them, so that they could return to their hometowns to cultivate land and work as small officials, which was counterproductive. "
Bai Hu smiled slightly: "In the army, in most cases, ordinary soldiers come as soon as they are recruited and leave after the battle. Those who died in the battle and those who are disabled are given pensions. Like Cao Wei's army, sometimes a few members of a family join the army.
All died in the battle, but they would be relieved of their status as military households and returned to civilian households as a condition for rewards and pensions. This shows that in the later period, when the north was basically stable, military households were no longer in the earliest troubled times of the year, but everyone
The longed-for household registration is a job with low status and great risk of life. Not to mention Cao Cao's harsh criminal law. For military households, let alone surrendering to the enemy on the front line and rebelling, even if they escape home, they will not reach the designated date.
They gathered at the shelter of defeated soldiers. If the family did not report and arrest the deserters immediately, the whole family would suffer death. This kind of tyranny was taken for granted by everyone at the time, and no one dared to violate it. This was also because Cao Cao had
Killing people is like cutting thatch, slaughtering cities and killing people in pits and traps at every turn, and he has established a great and evil reputation."
"So, this kind of military household system is actually difficult to maintain. It was used in troubled times for more than ten or twenty years. It relied on a group of refugees who had just become military households, from teenagers to young adults, for more than ten years.
There was still time for a battle. At this time, the quality of the soldiers was relatively high and they could be invincible. Most of them defeated local warlords who used hungry people and the old and weak as troops. However, after the Three Kingdoms era, military households had been established for more than 20 years, and the earliest
A group of veteran military households are over forty years old and unable to fight anymore. Although their sons and nephews can join the army, they lack the experience to fight in troubled times. Their fighting ability is not the same as that of their fathers. Therefore, in fact, the Cao Wei regime
After the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, or after the Battle of Chibi and Hanzhong, those who really supported Cao Wei's army had slowly changed from military households to tribes of Hu people migrating inland."
Xuanwu's heart moved. He looked at Bai Hu and said in a deep voice: "Is it the five southern Xiongnu tribes that are gradually beginning to play a role in Cao Wei's army?"
Baihu smiled slightly: "Not just the Southern Xiongnu, even the Qiang and Di tribes in Hanzhong were moved into Guanzhong by Cao Cao. Oh, of course, there were also the Qiang tribes in Ganliang. If it hadn't been for such a large-scale migration of foreign tribes
Entering the hinterland of Guanzhong to serve as a source of troops, how could it be possible that by the Western Jin Dynasty, Guanzhong was already half Han and Qiang, leading to the introduction of the Dou Rong theory? In fact, the military households were quietly replaced by Hulu." (