I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

For Jia Gui's report, Liu Sheng did not react too violently, and only nodded slightly to express his approval.

——The Han Dynasty today, at least in terms of military merit statistics and reward standards, is definitely more complete and sound than most feudal regimes in later generations.

The statistics of military merits are basically based on the real head of the head, and the military supervising censor and the compatriots in the army are required to be witnesses, so it goes without saying.

In terms of the strength of rewards, the Han Dynasty also had a very clear standard line for the awards and rewards of those who had achieved martial arts.

As Jia Gui just said: According to the precedents of Emperor Gao and Emperor Taizong Xiaowen of the Han Dynasty, if a Xiongnu official beheaded, he should be rewarded with [-] yuan, [-] shi for grain, and several other rewards;

For beheading one of the soldiers of the Xiongnu and the servants and tribes, the reward will be three thousand.

In fact, Jia Gui did not say everything, or only mentioned the content within the scope of his duties.

In fact, Jia Gui's phrase "according to the precedents of Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Xiaowen of Taizong" is actually because this matter has never been placed on the edict with legal effect since the beginning of Liu Bang. It is only recorded as a notebook, and it only has the meaning of informal records like memorandums and codes of conduct.

And the entire content of this unofficial record covers almost every kind of credit a soldier can obtain on the battlefield, and the corresponding reward specifications.

There are three main aspects: title, position, and money.

For example, in the process of siege, make the contribution of "climbing first", that is, to be the first to climb the city wall. During the process of siege, the actual foundation is established for the comrades-in-arms to form a "stronghold" on the city wall, which can be used for this battle. Doubtful first.

In this unofficial memorandum compiled by Liu Bang, Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, the standard of reward for the merits of first ascending is that those below the official official (level six) are directly promoted to official official;

Officials and above, Zuo Geng (twelfth grade) and below are promoted to a rank of nobility;
Zuo Geng and above, and Da Shu Chang (level [-]) and below are promoted by half a level, that is to say, they have been promoted to one level twice in total.

This is the title aspect.

In terms of official positions, the promotion standards corresponding to the achievements of the first rank are: below the head of the village, directly promoted to the head of the village, above the head of the village, but below the team leader, promoted to one level, and above the team leader, below the captain, promoted to half a level , that is, to become a deputy to a senior general.

In addition, there are naturally repertoires: money rewards.

——One hundred gold rewards for the merits of being the first to ascend, that is, one hundred gold cakes.

Another example is the feat of capturing the flag, that is, grabbing the enemy's military flag and banner during the battle, causing the enemy's morale to be low and the army's morale to be chaotic, which is also considered a great achievement.

The reward standard for the achievement of capturing the flag is as follows: two accumulative promotions below the Zuo Geng, three accumulative promotions to one rank below the Da Shu Zhang, and a half-level promotion to the rank below the team leader, ten gold rewards.

Climbing first, capturing the flag, falling into battle, and capturing camp are just some of the most representative ones.

In addition to these items, others such as beheading, captives, or discovering the whereabouts of the enemy before the battle, discovering the movement of the enemy during the war, and even the smooth delivery of general reports and letters to the destination, etc., all have corresponding reward standards.

Among them, the most core, but also the most detailed description, is undoubtedly the beheading.

Formulated by Emperor Taizu Gao, and continuously improved by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and Emperor Xiaojing, the reward standard for "beheading" in the Han Dynasty has been refined to the point of astonishing.

For example, at the very beginning, in Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang's version, the reward standard for beheading was only for the number of beheadings. Reward geometry' etc.;

When it came to Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's version, there was an extra category of drama: the identity of the enemy.

When the enemy army is nomads in the north—mainly the Huns, and they are pawns, not servants, slave cannon fodder, the reward standard for beheading follows the standard set by Emperor Taizu Gao;
As for the beheading standard for servants, slaves, cannon fodder, and even captive soldiers, two-thirds were subtracted from the former, and there were only rewards, without the benefits of being promoted to rank.

In short, it is a real head of the Huns. After removing the added value of officials and nobles, the "face value" is equivalent to the heads of three servant tribes, slave cannon fodder, and captives who surrendered to the enemy.

When the enemy army is a rebellious vassal state soldier, the level of rewards will be halved from the standard set by Emperor Taizu Gao, that is, the standard of "beheading the Huns' soldiers".

Among them, it is also necessary to subdivide the soldiers of the vassals and the soldiers of the non-vassals-the soldiers of the vassals are halved on the basis of the Huns;
Non-vassal state soldiers, that is, those militia Xiangyong who were coerced, or actively or passively joined the rebel army, will be halved on the basis of halving.

And it is the same as the former: the rewards for beheading non-vassal soldiers are also only rewards, not including the promotion of officials and nobles.

In addition, there is also a detailed explanation in this memorandum about "how many heads of what status are needed to upgrade from a certain title to a higher one".

For example, if the first-level official is promoted to the second-level, one needs the head of a Hun soldier, or two heads of rebel princes and soldiers;

Add one from level two to level three, plus one from level three to level four...

Repeatedly, and accumulated in this way, until the sixth level of officials.

From the fifth-level public official to the sixth-level official official, a total of five head-level martial arts are required;

From the official to the top, the accumulative system was no longer adopted, and the "exchange system" was adopted instead.

For example, if a person with the rank of Duke (level [-]) has accumulated five enemy heads in a certain battle, then according to the accumulation system, this person can be directly promoted to rank [-], from a public officer to an official (sixth rank) class).

But after reaching the official position, if this person wants to raise his title again, he needs to start from scratch again.

The previous five heads were cleared, and two heads were needed to be promoted from an official official (level six) to a public official (level seven). This person had to obtain three more enemy heads before they could be exchanged for the title of a public official.

After obtaining the title of Grand Duke, the three heads obtained by this person were also exchanged and consumed, and the cumulative number of heads obtained was reset to zero again;
If you want to upgrade the title from the public official (seventh level) to the public ride (eighth level), you need to win another three heads...
Just add one by one, until the Guanneihou of level [-] is promoted to Chehou of level [-], sixteen heads are needed to exchange.

In total, from a first-level official to a twentieth-level Chehou, a total of 140 enemy heads are needed.

Of course: these 140 heads refer to beheading and harvesting by hand, not the overall income of the officer commanding the battle.

As for the officer commanding the battle, it is counted as floating cuts, that is: the number of gains minus the number of deaths on the side.

In addition, there is another set of reward standards for the overall floating cut commanded by the officer, and the difficulty is much higher than that of individual gains.

If it is said that an individual needs 140 heads——the heads of the Xiongnu’s soldiers to be named a marquis, then if a general wants to be named a marquis by virtue of commanding combat skills, this number may have to be multiplied several times, or even It is ten times.

Of course: starting from the first level of "gongshi" and climbing up step by step, he was already the old Huangli in the reign of Emperor Taizu Gao and later Empress Dowager Lu.

Nowadays, in the Han Dynasty, there are very few people whose titles remain as public servants after they get married and start a business.

Emperor Taizu Gao established Han Guozuo, bestowed land titles on the people of the world, and treated the people at the bottom equally—each household had [-] acres of land, one farm house, and awarded a first-level title: Gongshi.

In other words, as early as the founding of the Han Dynasty, more than [-]% of the people in the Han family had the title of Duke.

In the early days of the founding of the country, the Han family did not actually pacify the world-the rebellion of princes with different surnames in the Kanto region continued until the death of Taizu Liu Bang;
It is even no exaggeration to say: Liu Bang's last lifespan was exhausted by the passing of the short-sighted coin during the Huainan Wang Yingbu's rebellion.

Therefore, at that time, the Han family's regulations on the promotion and demotion of titles almost completely followed the Qin Dynasty's system of [-]th-level military meritorious titles, that is, only those who have made military merits can be promoted, and when committing crimes, they can be punished with the title. It is to reduce or offset the penalty by demotion.

This situation continued until the time of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, until Emperor Xian Xiaojing's teacher, the prince's family order, the former internal historian, the royal doctor, and now Chao Cuo, the Beidi Shou, presented a memorial to Emperor Taizong Xiaowen.

That Feng Zou Shu is called "On Gui Su Shu".

Its content is full of thousands of words, and the core proposition is nothing more than one sentence: lose millet and donate to noble.

What is losing millet and donating nobles?

——Allow everyone in the world to exchange for the title they want by sending food to the border.

If you send a few hundred stones of grain to the border, you can exchange for a sixth-level title that requires five enemy heads: Officials, thus getting rid of the theoretical "ruled" class;
Another example is to send a few thousand shi of grain to the border, and you can get a twelfth-level title that can only be exchanged for dozens of heads: Zuo Geng, thus officially joining the privileged class.

If you are willing to spend the money and donate tens of thousands or even 10,000+ stone grain, the [-]th-level title: Daliang Zao will immediately wave to you.

Through this method, the common people—mainly those who have spare money, and at the same time pursue and yearn for the title of title—can get the title they have longed for;

The court could also rely on the worthless title to transport enough military rations to the border without spending even a single copper coin, so as to link up the stretched military ration reserves at that time.

Liu Sheng is not sure whether this method is good or not, and whether this method is a good idea.

Liu Sheng only knows that Chao Cuo's "Lun Gui Su Shu" has become a thorn in Qin's twentieth-level military merit system, in addition to the "gifting nobility" by the previous emperors of the Han family. The most deadly knife.

Since then, the Han Dynasty has seldom seen middle-aged men with the titles of duke (first-level) and Shangzao (second-level).

Unless they are the bastards and remaining sons who have just grown up, have just separated from their families, and inherited two ranks of titles from their fathers, any adult male who has been married for three to five years will often have a title of no change (fourth rank) or above .

(Law of the Han Dynasty: upon the death of the head of household, the eldest son will be degraded by one level to inherit the title; the youngest son and the concubine will be lowered by another level to inherit the title)
——cheap!

Level 100 does not change, you need three heads in the army to exchange it, but you only need to transport more than [-] stones of grain to exchange it, and the discount is only a few thousand!

Even a sixth-level official would only need three to five hundred shi of grain, and the discount would only be ten or twenty thousand!

Gritting his teeth to save some food, walking to the border, or even asking someone to deliver it for him, he can exchange for such a title, and use this to push his corvee and military service back a little bit. Said that it can also be used as atonement.

Maybe when he accidentally committed a crime, wouldn't this title come in handy?

Although it may not be able to offset some major crimes, at least the punishment can be mitigated on the basis of the law, such as death with a reprieve, deferred reform with no, no reform with a penalty, etc., it is still possible to fight for it.

These are still those Qianshou farmers who have no money—at least no spare money to 'buy' titles.

If you really want to talk about big dogs, you have to be those wealthy businessmen and rich merchants.

Let’s just say that in Chang’an today, which well-known wealthy businessman doesn’t have a nobleman named Shaoshangzao ([-]th grade) or Daliangzao ([-]th grade) on his head?
——In today's Han Dynasty, the titles of merchant groups are likely to be even higher than those of middle and high-level generals in the army!

Take the just-concluded Battle of Mayi as an example: Zhidu, the majestic chariot general, is now the highest general of the Han Dynasty military, and he is no more than the title of a chariot general (level [-]), which is only inferior to that of the rich merchants in Chang'an. the ceiling is one level higher;
Even for this, Emperor Xiaojing repeatedly made exceptions and tried to find excuses, so Zhidu was promoted one after another.

Even Zhang Xu, the 'old man' in the army, Captain Feihu, is only one level higher than Zhidu, and the Great Shuzhang, who is stuck at level [-], has been stuck for more than ten years.

As for the ignorance of the former general's career, there is only Xiao Xiami in Zhonggeng (level [-]). If he really wants to compare his title with the merchants in Chang'an, he may not be able to find a few who are "equal" to him.

For such a situation, Liu Sheng certainly has the intention to change;

But because this is the ancestral law, and it is not a certain emperor, but a system that has been perfected by the emperors of the past dynasties.

At least for now, Liu Sheng is far from having the energy to change these systems.

But the inability to change the system does not mean that the corner of the system cannot be poached...

"I have heard it: a martial artist, a minister of the country."

"In the past, because of their benevolence, the emperors of all dynasties bestowed nobles on the occasion of festivals, celebrations or grand ceremonies."

"—Although the country is based on agriculture, it is also inseparable from loyal ministers and righteous men who fight for the country."

"The people of the world can be awarded nobles on happy days. Shouldn't the officials of the country who have won battles be awarded nobles on days of universal celebration?"

After some words in secret, Liu Sheng said such words abruptly, causing everyone in the hall to be stunned!
After he reacted, he was about to test Liu Sheng's intentions when he saw the young emperor stand up and let out a long and joyful breath.

"At the beginning of spring this year, I will be crowned as a pro-government."

"—For my coronation ceremony, the soldiers have prepared a gift that I have longed for, and even the emperors of all dynasties have waited for a lifetime."

"Such a heavy gift, should I accept it calmly without expressing it?"

"After going down, let's discuss it with the officials of the court."

"I'm also going to Changle to find out what the empress dowager thinks."