The World of Yellow Sky

Chen Wu clenched his fists and said: "I have a wife and family members. When I was in the Taihang Mountains, my daughter starved to death in my arms during the famine. In the seventh year of Guanghe, bandits and bandits were rampant in the Taihang Mountains. When the bandits killed my brother, I lay prone in the grass."

"Fu Zhu said that as long as we are willing to fight for Huang Tian, ​​the great virtuous and good teacher will definitely lead Huang Tian to come to the world and establish Huang Tian's world. At that time, no one will have to be frightened, and no one will have to suffer from hunger." If you are hungry, there will not be so many bandits."

Chen Wu looked at Shen An and said solemnly: "Now my wife and my parents live in Shangdang County, they have fields to cultivate and houses to live in, and they don't need to worry about bandits anymore, all this is worth it. "

"I understand."

Shen An bowed slightly, and saluted Chen Wu solemnly.

Chapter 257 Merger

Taiyuan County, Jinyang City Government Office.

Xu An wrote the textbooks used by the military academy on the bamboo slips.

The quality of the officers in the Yellow Turban Army is mostly inferior to that of the Han Army. Except for the elite trilogy such as the Wuzu Battalion and the Ruishi Battalion, the abilities of the middle and upper-level officers in the rest of the army are all worrying.

The Yellow Turban Army is really short of generals who command the troops, and now many generals at the Quchang level are actually unqualified.

Daotang is only a place where people who can read and write, and who can cure diseases and save lives are cultivated. Most of these talismans are cultivated to serve as civil servants in various places.

So Xu An wanted to set up a special military academy to train qualified officers.

However, the plan is only in the preliminary stage, and if it is to be implemented, it may only be realized after Bingzhou settles down.

What Xu An is writing now is the precautions when marching and camping.

There are differences between senior officers and mid-level officers. Originally, Xu An wanted to write regulations and regulations for junior officers, but after thinking about it, he decided to give up. Now under his command, the number of junior officers is indeed too large.

If a military academy is established to recruit these junior officers, not to mention the trouble of dispatching, it will cost a lot of money and food.

It is better to teach those middle and upper-level officers directly, and then let them train the lower-level officers by themselves after returning.

Taoist halls, military academies, and civil affairs are really in vain.

Although Xu An has studied history and knows some good governance in history, he can't follow the scriptures and move here directly.

You must know that if some good governance is implemented rashly without combining reality, it may even turn into tyrannical governance.

It was already late at night, Xu An put down the brush after writing the last note.

Chen Wu's words during the day were deeply remembered in his mind. The Shen An who was wearing a visor in the Yellow Turban camp before was actually Xu An.

It has been nearly four years since Xu An led Liu Pi, Gong Du and his party to escape into Taihang Mountain in the first year of Zhongping, and now in July of the fourth year of Zhongping.

In the past four years, the battles have hardly stopped for a long time, and wars, large and small, have always existed.

Xu An knew that such a high-intensity battle, as well as the large number of casualties caused by the battle between Kuicheng and Hedong County, would affect the psychology of the soldiers under his command.

Although they won more than they lost, since they invaded Shangdang County, they have benefited from the severe situation of the Han Empire. They have made great strides along the way and won successive victories.

Fu Zhu, a subordinate of the Wolf Guard, also reported that the morale of the soldiers had not declined too much, but Xu An was still not at ease, so during the day, after checking the documents at the Eagle Wolf Guard's office, he took a few The eagle wolf guard went to the camp outside the city to investigate in person.

It was there that I met Chen Wu.

Later, Xu An also met different soldiers. The soldiers in the army had different emotions, some were low, some were high, some were sad, but without exception, his soldiers always believed in him.

But it is also true that the successive battles have indeed caused more and more sadness and depression among the soldiers, and it has begun to spread.

Although it was not obvious now, Xu An also saw signs of danger.

Moreover, what Chen Wu said made Xu An understand how much ordinary people value their fields and their families.

The Han Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, not only affecting high-ranking officials and nobles, but also affecting the selection of officials and officials, promoting filial piety and honesty, and also affecting ordinary ordinary people.

And there is another point, which also makes Xu An vigilant.

Even if the way of peace can win people's hearts, these too ideal and illusory wishes cannot always maintain people's hearts.

Except for a small number of those who are as pious as the Yellow Angels, there are still a few after all. When the danger of death temporarily recedes, and when they can eat and drink enough, more ideas will emerge.

Fortunately, Xu An had also considered that such things might happen, so he had been preaching the threat of the Han army and the threat of the northern nomads in the army.

Let most of the soldiers keep one thought, although they have already occupied a large amount of territory, but they have not yet won the victory, if they abandon Huang Tian and stop fighting for Huang Tian, ​​they may fall into a place of eternal doom again, Back to the time when I was bullied and exploited again.

Although we have to fight the Han army now, at least we can fill our stomachs and have a way to survive. We can not be bullied and exploited, and we will not be treated like pigs and dogs in the city, but this is not a long time after all.

"Boom, boom, boom."

There were a few knocks on the door, and a wolf guard in purple wolf uniform walked in.

This person is Wei Lu, the governor of the Eagle Wolf Guard and the governor of the Wolf Guard.

Wei Lu approached Xu An slowly, and put the bamboo slips in his arms on a desk on the right side of Xu An.

"Ming Gong, the information on the Haoqiang in Hedong has been collected, and they are all on the bamboo slips. In addition to the Lu family in Jiangyi, three other families have been found to be in collusion with the Han army. Now they have been uprooted by our wolf guards. All their shops, fields, and wealth The goods have all been seized."

With a thought in his mind, Xu An turned his head to Wei Lu and asked, "How many lands are owned by Haoqiang in Hedong County? Have you checked them out?"

Wei Lu thought for a moment, then replied: "This has not been investigated yet, but in the areas controlled by our army now, the land occupied by the powerful is definitely more than half of the arable land, and most of them are fertile land."

"more than half."

Xu An read it softly, saying that land annexation was serious in the last years of the dynasty. Unexpectedly, in a place as rich as Hedong County, more than half of the land annexation reached.

Then in those areas where the famine is severe, the powerful landlords can buy land at a low price, and even the sky is so high that the emperor is far away, and no one knows how terrifying the land annexation will be.

Those tyrants and rich merchants are powerful, their houses are located in the prefectures and counties, their fields are connected to Fangguo, and they have tens of thousands of slaves and apprentices.

A large number of small people are struggling on the verge of death. If there is a slight famine, they will go bankrupt and leave the valley. It is common for them to marry wives and sell children.

In the end, most of them will become dependent farmers of powerful landlords. In addition to paying high land rent and serving corvee, their personal freedom is also dominated by powerful landlords.

The Mi family in Xuzhou was a well-known wealthy businessman in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It is recorded in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Mizhu, whose character is Zizhong, is also a native of Qu in the East China Sea.The ancestral family breeds goods, with tens of thousands of children and customers, and a fortune of hundreds of millions.

"Supplements of Relics", although not credible in official history, can also be used as a reference. It is also recorded in Volume [-]: Mi Zhu used Tao Zhu's tricks to gain hundreds of millions of profits, imitating the royal family, and having thousands of treasure houses.

At that time, when the Three Kingdoms clashed, the military used it ten thousand times, but they lost their treasures and car clothes to help the former master: [-] million catties of gold, beautiful embroidered felts piled up like mounds, and thousands of horses.After Shu was broken, there was nothing left, and he died of hatred.

All these are enough to see the wealth of giant businessmen and tyrants.

Just one Mi family has tens of thousands of children, and there are only more than 2 private households in the entire Xihe County of Bingzhou.

Even when Mi Zhu married his sister to Liu Bei, there were 2000 slaves.

"Bingzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and there are thousands of miles of fertile fields and thousands of hectares of fertile land in Hedong County, but they are concentrated in the hands of powerful landlords..."

The candlelight in the house kept dancing in Xu An's eyes.

Chapter 258 Military Merit Awarded Field

The policies implemented cannot be written according to the script, but must meet the actual needs, and must be suitable for the Yellow Turban Army and the Taiping Road.Thorough consideration must be taken, otherwise good governance may even turn into tyrannical and evil governance if it is implemented rashly.

And now Xu An thought of a policy that was followed during the Warring States Reform Period, flourishing in Qin and extending to Han, but later on, the system of military merits gradually ceased to exist in name only.

And it just fits the development needs of the current Yellow Turban Army - the military merit system.

The military merit system originated from the period of the Warring States Reform, and the reforms of various countries have military merit systems.

The Qin State is the country that implements the military merit system most thoroughly.

Qin's military merit system mainly includes two contents: first, "those who have military merits will receive the title at their own rate."

Anyone with military merits, regardless of family background, class and class, can enjoy Juelu.Military merit is the most necessary condition for accepting Juelu rewards.

Second, "the clan cannot be a member unless it has the theory of military merit."This is the abolition of the hereditary privileges enjoyed by the clan and nobles. They can no longer obtain high-ranking officials and titles and titles just by blood relationship, that is, "belonging" as in the past.

However, the reform of Qin State has a large reserve of talents and strong national power as support. The current Yellow Turban Army is much weaker than that of Qin State before the reform at that time.

There are more than a thousand capable officials in the state of Qin who can be used by the king of Qin, and there are only a few people who can read and write under Xu An's current rule.

Most of the cities even had to retain the original officials of the Han court, use eagle wolf guards to supervise, and implement military control, so that they can be maintained.

Reforms, plots, and governance must proceed from reality, not fantasies. Governing a big country is like cooking small fish.

Although the Yellow Turban Army is not a big country, it cannot use strong medicine.

With strong medicine, the Yellow Turban Army may even face the risk of defeat.

Although the current Yellow Turban Army has won successive battles and advanced all the way, it has controlled the five counties and has tens of thousands of troops, but in fact only Shangdang County and Taihang County are barely counted as the basis, and the rest of the place is still unstable.

Moreover, Xu An can temporarily rely on his personal prestige and the way of peace to control the development of the forces under his command. If the Yellow Turban Army can really unify the world in the future and become a behemoth like the Han Empire, if he wants to change direction at that time, I am afraid that he will have to pay for it. How much effort.

So Xu An is just taking a small step now. Xu An is not going to implement the title, salary, etc., but just link the military merit with the land first.

If the salary is really issued, even the entire Bingzhou will not be able to support the hundreds of thousands of troops under Xu An's command.

It is already an astronomical sum for tens of thousands of troops to eat horse chews every day, and if the salary is issued, then Xu An is really looking for a dead end.

And because it is not linked to the title and salary, Xu An cannot directly copy the military merit system of the Qin Dynasty, and must modify it on the original basis.

Speaking of which, Xu An's reformed military merit system, called the military merit granting system, is more appropriate.

Xu An plans to continue to use the Qin Dynasty's military merit system, which has two points.

One: If the army can kill more than [-] enemies when besieging a city, and if it can kill more than [-] enemies in a field battle, it is considered a complete meritorious service. All troops who have made complete meritorious service will be rewarded to the entire army.

Ordinary soldiers are rewarded with [-] mu of land, [-] mu for a special commander, [-] mu for a team leader, [-] mu for a village chief with [-] mu or more, and [-] mu for a military commander.

Second: Rewards and punishments go hand in hand, meritorious deeds are rewarded, those who fail to perform are punished, and rewards and punishments are clearly defined.

The original military regulations stipulated by Xu An:

Facing the enemy, the sergeant retreats and kills the sergeant. If the whole army retreats, only one of the chief will be beheaded. If the chief does not retreat and dies in battle but the sergeant retreats, resulting in the death of the chief, all the sergeants will be beheaded, and so on, up to the leader of the army. .

If the chief general, army Sima and other high-ranking officers leave their parts and run away privately, beheading themselves, the guards and their relatives, the system of consecutive sittings will be implemented.

Originally, there were only punishments and no rewards. At that time, the only reward was to be promoted to a military position by killing the enemy.

At that time, Xu An's promotion system was very simple.

Killing two people on the battlefield, confirming that they are correct, and there is no false report, can be promoted to Shizhang.

A total of five beheaded people will be promoted to the team rate, those who beheaded 15 people will be promoted to the head of the army, those who beheaded 30 people will be promoted to the military marquis immediately, and those who beheaded a hundred people will be promoted to the rank of army commander, and the left ear will be cut off to count. , is more stringent.

Among them, beheading enemy officers and the like is another method of calculation.

In the Yellow Turban Army, quite a few middle- and lower-level officers were promoted to the top in this way. As for killing the enemy, there are no officers who have been promoted to the commander of the army for the time being.

But now in the Yellow Turban Army, most of the generals and schools are still the chief generals of various ministries, who appoint cronies and follow them.

There are also the children of the three families who followed Xu An first, and the team left by Taihang Yellow Turban, as middle and lower rank officers.

Xu An also consciously transferred all these officers who were promoted by virtue of their military exploits to his own subordinates as direct subordinates. This is one of the reasons why Xu An's immediate subordinates are now so powerful in combat effectiveness.

Xu An, who witnessed Xiaquyang and Guangzong, has always been more convinced of the policy of elite soldiers.

Xu An was indeed shocked by the Han army commanded by Huangfusong. The sharp soldiers of the Han army led by Sun Jian, the Luoyang cavalry led by Cao Cao, and the Sanhe knights led by Yan Zhong all left an indelible impression in Xu An's heart.

Now Xu An happened to rely on the establishment of the military merit granting system to perfect this military regulation again.

Qin's military merit system is to set the army to use Wu as the basic combat unit.

According to the "Shang Junshu · Territory", if one member of the army dies in battle, the other four will be convicted; if two or three die in battle, the crimes of the others will be more serious.

The only way to make meritorious deeds is to kill the enemy: for one person to die in battle, one must kill the enemy.Two people died in battle, two enemies must be killed.Therefore, if the soldiers of the Qin Army want to get the reward of "killing one head and one rank", they must deduct the number of their own deaths from the number of enemies killed.

But this does not apply to the Yellow Turban Army. At that time, the Qin Army was very powerful, so this method could be used.

However, although the Yellow Turban Army under Xu An's command had acquired the military equipment of the Han Army in Bingzhou and Hedong County, it was still inferior to the Han Army.

The reason why the Battle of Kuicheng was won was mainly because Hanoi County had recruited some recruits at that time, the military equipment was poor, and the command of the generals was weak.

At that time, Xu An had finished reorganizing the army, concentrated the military equipment of the Yellow Turban Army in the entire Taihang Mountains, and escorted the entire Taihang Mountain elite troops.

There was also Yan Zhong, a counselor who was familiar with Sun Jian's tactics, and at the beginning of the battle, he greatly weakened the cavalry of the Han army, and then killed Han Dang and Zu Mao, dampening the spirit of the Han army.

In the end, with huge casualties, the battle of Kuicheng was won.

But now the Han army has received the threat of the Yellow Turban Army, and the bloated giant of the Han Empire has also begun to act.

Facing the turmoil in Liangzhou and Bingzhou, the motivation for the war of the Han Empire was also aroused.

During the Battle of Fenshui, Xu An noticed that the armor rate of the Han army had increased significantly.

The quality of ordinary Han army soldiers is better than that of ordinary Yellow Turban soldiers, so if you directly follow Qin's military merit regulations, then I am afraid that after the first battle, not only will they have no merit, but they will all have faults, which is not conducive to military spirit.

Therefore, Xu An's tentative decision is:

Ordinary soldiers who kill one enemy will be rewarded with ten acres of land, and those who kill the enemy's leader will be rewarded with twenty acres of land.

Fifty mu at the brigade level, [-] mu at the village head level, [-] mu at the military marquis level, and [-] mu at the army Sima level.