Chapter 48 Han Fei's Reform (Part 2)
However, the reward for military merit titles does not include the distribution of land. Otherwise, there may be uneven land distribution or insufficient land distribution due to too many people making meritorious services. At that time, the military merit title system will be useless.
The greatest role of the military merit system is to inspire the fighting spirit of the soldiers and let the soldiers see hope for upward.
The way to improve military merit titles does not necessarily have to kill the enemy's head.
Killing enemy soldiers is the way for soldiers to be promoted.
Generals such as Mulan, Liao Hua and others can gain titles by conquering cities or gaining military merits, and be promoted faster.
In other words, it is difficult for generals to be promoted to marquis or even to be crowned kings at most.
Zhang Hua made two important changes to the military merit system.
First, the titles are allowed to be hereditary, but the hereditary titles will be reduced and reduced by several levels as appropriate, similar to the order of Emperor Wu of Han to give in.
If three generations of people do not make military achievements again, they will almost become civilians.
Secondly, the military merit system is more like a kind of honor and preferential treatment. The official positions of civil servants and military officers are linked to real power.
While implementing the military merit system, private fights and internal strife are prohibited. Those who escape at the battle will be killed without mercy.
In addition to the military merit system, household registration management, household registration is organized, five companies are included, and ten companies are implemented, and circulation is temporarily restricted, or the government has planned to move.
In agriculture, land is owned by state-owned land, and the contract responsibility system is implemented according to households, land purchase and sale are strictly prohibited, and grain circulation is strictly prohibited. However, the government can buy and sell and distribute grain, regulate grain prices, and prevent merchants from storing grain and buying high grain prices.
Food is the most important material in troubled times.
Almost all the surplus grain was accumulated in the granary in Xia Village.
Villagers can rent oxen and farm tools from the government, but they need to hand over 60% of the harvest.
Not only land, but food is controlled by the government, and strategic materials such as salt, iron, gold, silver, copper, weapons, armor, war horses, leather and other strategic materials are nationalized.
In order to limit the powerful families that rose in Xia Village, it is prohibited to raise diners, create armor privately, and even limit the number of servants.
In addition, Zhang Hua also deliberately unified the weights and measures of each dynasty. For example, there will be differences in the units of measurement in the Han Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. The actual area of one acre of land in the Han Dynasty is not the same as that of one acre of land in the Ming Dynasty, and it needs to be reunified.
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There are a lot of laws, and there are about one hundred laws.
Overall, the Daxia Law emphasizes the absolute power of the government, which is somewhat strict.
But in the dark and chaotic world where wars are full of fire, it would be good to survive. Even with the strict laws, the villagers would still accept it.
Sure enough, the villagers whispered, but finally chose to make a default, without objection.
Without the Xia Village established by Zhang Hua, they might have been covered with white bones.
Those who violate the punishment of the "Daxia Law" will either be executed, or impart to mine or pay a fine. Because Xia Village does not have any excess grain and grass to support prisoners, the prisoners will focus on labor reform and ideological education, and can also increase the output of iron ore, timber and other resources.
The "Daxia Law" was promulgated and quickly advanced to seven villages, causing a lot of sensation.
Zhang Hua's power has its own laws and organizational structure, which is clearly different from separatist forces such as the Green Forest Army.
In the future, you can just improve it on the basic framework.
Emperor Li Yu from the Southern Tang Dynasty was amazed by this. He could quickly formulate laws and establish a stable ruling system in the early stage, which had surpassed most large and small forces.
"This person has great ambitions, maybe I can do something."
After Li Yu was resettled, Chen Qiao, the minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, saw Zhang Hua, Han Fei, Chen Gong and others, formulate laws, reclaim wasteland, build water conservancy, and recruit soldiers. Everyone was full of enthusiasm, so Chen Qiao also made up his mind to manage Xia Village well.
Chen Qiao assisted Li Yu, the late ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and struggled hard during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It was quite sad. The Song army marched south in large numbers, and the Southern Tang army was defeated. Li Yu submitted a letter to Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao committed suicide.
Perhaps assisting Zhang Hua can make up for Chen Qiao's regrets.
"In the future, I will trouble you to implement the "Daxia Law"."
Zhang Hua asked Han Fei to manage the judiciary and enhance the status of the Legalists.
Han Fei was grateful for Zhang Hua's attention: "There is a man of the world, and then there will be a thousand-mile horse. How could Han Fei not devote himself to his entire life and die?"
Zhang Hua nodded. Once the Daxia Law was implemented, Xia Village had stronger cohesion, and Zhang Hua had the confidence to compete with the Green Forest Army and the Eight Banners Army.
Sometimes, thoughts are more useful than force.
"Arrange Song Village to build fifty wooden boats and develop canal transportation."
After Zhang Hua promulgated the "Daxia Law", he added labor to the primary shipyard of Songcun Shuizhai to build wooden boats.
"Strange, why is Sun Shangxiang not here?"
Zhang Hua saw Mulan following him, but Sun Shangxiang didn't know where to go.
If Sun Shangxiang is lost, let alone whether they will let him go when they meet Sun Jian, Sun Ce, and Sun Quan in the future, Jiang Qin will be the first to leave Xia Village.
Because of Sun Shangxiang, Jiang Qin devoted himself to serving Xia Village.
Mulan replied: "She said she wanted to go to the horse farm to choose a good war horse. Her war horse was killed and injured when fighting with the Jin soldiers."
"oh."
Zhang Hua knew that a good horse would lose its qualification as a war horse because of injury.
Having said that, Sun Shangxiang is still as always, doing what he wants.
Zhang Hua felt a little helpless about Sun Ce and Sun Quan.
Zhang Hua simply regarded Sun Shangxiang as his sister. As long as she did not rebel, Zhang Hua turned a blind eye to her.
If you raise Sun Shangxiang alone, you can't waste much food. You can still recruit generals of the Eastern Wu lingering everywhere under the banner of Princess of the Eastern Wu.
The four great generals of the Wu State, the twelve tiger ministers in Jiangbiao, are one of the best generals.
Sun Shangxiang's appeal should be second only to Sun Jian, Sun Ce and Sun Quan.
The clerk at the post station hurried over: "Sir, we have received a reward from the scouts we have placed in Lulin Village. A team of Green Forest crossed the river and arrived at the south bank!"
"What are the Green Forest Army going to the south bank? Wait, our ranch is on the south side."
Zhang Hua instantly woke up the intentions of the Green Forest Army.
South of the river bank, there is a pasture established in Xia Village, where a large number of war horses, cattle and sheep are stocked, which is crucial to Xia Village.
"The Green Forest Army wanted to plunder our livestock. Immediately, Fei Ge sent a letter to Jiang Qin, and ordered him to lead the fleet and carry the troops in Xia Village across the river."
Zhang Hua convened Jiang Qin, who was in charge of the canal transport fleet.
Since the Green Forest Army has taken action and is coming to fight for the horse farm, then the soldiers come to block the enemy and the water comes to cover the earth.
"Sun Shangxiang is in the horse farm at this time, I hope nothing happens."
Zhang Hua couldn't imagine that if something happened to Sun Shangxiang and the forces established by Sun Jian and Sun Ce in the future would be unclear.
"The Green Forest Army suddenly sent troops to attack the horse farm. It is very likely that it would be necessary to rescue me if I attacked me. It is a conspiracy to lead the snake out of the cave."
Chen Gong calculated the most likely intention of the Green Forest Army.
Chapter completed!