Can you live forever

Chapter 330 Sticking to the rules, the framework of meritorious service

The military merit title system in the Qin Dynasty is divided into [-] levels, which are: first-level public official, second-ranked, third-ranked, fourth-not-changed, fifth-level official, sixth-official official, seventh-level official, eighth-level official, and ninth-five official. , ten left elders, eleven right elders, twelve left shifts, thirteenth middle shifts, fourteen right shifts, fifteen young masters, sixteenth grand masters (Da Liang), seventeen four chariot elders, The Eighteenth Chief Shu, the Nineteenth Guanneihou, and the Twenty Chehou.

Among them, the "Five Doctors" at the ninth level is a dividing line, the lower ones are the Minjue, and the higher is the Qingjue.

People's title refers to the title that ordinary soldiers can advance to by relying on beheading. The highest is the eighth rank of public service.

The guru and the noble are not an insurmountable gap, but the difference between the value of personal bravery and the value of generals.

Under the military merit title system, regardless of one's origin, one's merit speaks for everything, even if one is a member of the clan, without enough military merit, one's name will not be recorded on the clan's genealogy...

This is the greatest fairness, and it is the trust that Qin relies on.

The first thing Geng Ju attacked was the letter of the military merit nobility system. He said: "It is said that everything is based on military merit, but in the past, the brothers Ying Fu and Ying Kui of King Qin Zhaoxiang had no military merit at all, but they were conferred the titles of King Jingyang and Gaoling. Jun."

"Lao Ai was granted the title of Marquis of Changxin just because of the love of the Empress Dowager Zhao."

"It should be noted that Bai Qi's outstanding military exploits were only made by Jue Zhi Daliang, and he was granted the title of Lord Wu'an."

"How can the military feudal nobility system that the Great Qin royal family is trampling on be able to establish trust and convince the public? How can Qin die without a second generation?"

"It's unreasonable for Juzi to praise the Qin system."

"The imperial examinations are good enough to select talents, but after the meritorious system is corrupted, even the merits can be fabricated out of thin air."

Geng Ju was not too flustered when he was pointed out about the shortcomings of the imperial examination system. He admitted that there were problems with the current imperial examination system, but he looked down on the Qin Dynasty’s military merit title system. How can the system nearly 2000 years ago compare with today’s?
Mojiao is still too old.

No wonder there is the idiom "stick to the rules".

Juzi glanced at Geng Ju, and said flatly: "You don't read history, so I don't blame you. Since the political reform, the feudal monarch in Qin State is no longer a false name. It can mean honor or reputation."

"But there is no indication of status."

"The title is the only foundation of Daqin."

"Whether it's Lord Jingyang or Lord Gaoling, their wealth was given to them by the King of Qin. They can enjoy the wealth for a while, but they can't pass it on. This is the root cause."

"As for Lai Ai."

"The history of Qin written by Sima Qian can also be regarded as official history? You would rather believe that a state of Qin, which is sweeping the kingdoms and unifying the world after the survivors of Fen VI, will destroy the credibility of the empire because of the adultery of a queen mother, than believe that Lai Ai It was really because of his military exploits that he was conferred a title that made Shi Huangdi so difficult."

"You look at the sporadic stories, you know Jingke's generous tragic song about assassinating King Qin, but do you know why the first emperor hates Fan Yuqi so much?"

"Because Cheng Xun, because... Lao Ai, Lu Buwei."

"They did not hesitate to slander the blood of the first emperor, sent Fan Yuqi to hold Cheng Xun as a fake rebellion, directed and acted to suppress the rebellion, and killed the first emperor's younger brother, Cheng Xun, so that Lai Ai could be promoted to Changxin for his contribution to countering the rebellion. Hou..."

"You don't know how much Lu Buwei and Lao Ai have gone too far. It's not your fault."

"But you are stupid enough to believe the dirty stories made up by Sima Qian, and would rather believe that the empress dowager's adultery can wantonly trample on the reputation of the empire, the fundamental military merit system of the empire, that is... stupidity."

"If you really do this, how can Da Qin unify the six countries?"

Geng Ju's face changed several times, but he didn't mess around. He understood that he had taken it for granted.

When Sima Qian wrote historical records, the biographical style is not as good as the chronicle style after all. These individual stories actually have a lot of room for maneuvering. If the chronicle style is too much made up, it will be inconsistent and difficult to change. In many cases, it can only be avoided.

The biography can be different.

What is Sima Qian's background?The Sima family was aristocratic scholar-bureaucrats in the Zhou Dynasty...

The Qin Dynasty broke the roots of Shiqing and Shilu. Even if the Han Dynasty had the restoration of the Zhou Dynasty, the Liu family was not allowed to be king, and they would not be able to return to their former glory...

Their descendants read history and didn't think so much, which directly caused him to make mistakes in the debate and even feel a little embarrassed.

Geng Ju adjusted his mentality and launched an offensive again. Even if the credit of the Qin Dynasty's military feudal title system has not been trampled on, this system is still unsustainable!
"Even if the system of military honors is perfectly implemented, it will not last long."

"Only the most junior public servants will be given one hectare (one hundred acres) of land, one house, one servant, and a fifty-year-old tribute! Qin's huge army, just destroying Zhao's country will kill 10 people In the perennial war, how many people have to obtain titles, and how many fields, houses, ministers, and salaries do they need to support them?"

"People simply can't afford it!"

Juzi sighed, and was unwilling to answer. Instead, he pointed at Zhang Zhixiang and asked, "Would you like to tell him?"

Zhang Zhixiang nodded in agreement.

He looked at Geng Ju and said, "If Shang Yang sets up an unsustainable system, he is not worthy of being Shang Yang."

"Do you know Mencius's "The Widow is in the Country"? Mencius said to Liang Huiwang: For a house with five acres, there are mulberry trees, and fifty people can wear silk. Chickens, pigs, dogs, and animals are always at the right time. People in their seventies can eat meat. Don’t seize the time for a field of a hundred mu, and a family of several mouths can live without hunger.”

"what is this?"

"This is the well-off life that people dreamed of during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. A house with five acres, a field with a hundred acres, and a family of several have enough food and clothing without hunger!"

"Qin's military feat nobility system, the level of public servants, corresponds to this."

"And to obtain such a life, the requirement is... in terms of military merits, beheaded one level."

"Is it easy?"

"In the Battle of Changping alone, 40 Zhao troops were killed. Wouldn't this be enough for 40 Qin troops to be promoted to public servants?"

"it's not true."

"The military merit records of the Qin army are not calculated by individuals alone. They need to be calculated in units of ranks. If there are five members in a rank, and you behead one but kill two in battle, this is not only not meritorious, but a crime."

"It's true that Qin is the master of tigers and wolves, but it's not that he was insane for the sake of his leader, disregarding discipline and comrades in arms!"

"The lives of comrades-in-arms are their own lives."

"Only by doing everything possible to reduce the battle damage and expand the results of the battle can they have military merits."

"In the Battle of Changping, Zhao's 45 troops were all wiped out."

"But Qin State dispatched 60 troops, and lost 20!"

"That is to say, the remaining 40 Qin troops can only get the credit of 25 heads. And the rewards for the 25 public servants are just a state that Mencius let King Hui of Liang govern the people... ..."

"Is this a burden?"

"At the time of the Qin Dynasty, what was the population of Huaxia, and how many acres of land? One hundred acres for a family, how much? At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the population was 6000 million, and it was still possible to divide the fields into [-] acres for men and [-] acres for women."

"How many members of Gongshi's family? Is there a lot of land divided into [-] mu?"

"The system of military feats and nobility is itself a system established within the means, and it will not collapse because the war stops and no longer expands. It will not be because there are too many military exploits, there will be no land to divide."

"Notice."

"On the basis of the military merit nobility system, there are also the nobility inheritance system and the life-death sequestration system!"

(End of this chapter)