Starting from the Qin Dynasty, military merits were mainly based on head-level merits. After all, miraculous feats such as beheading generals, capturing flags, and ascending the city first were not available to everyone. For ordinary soldiers, the most innocent way was to surrender their heads after the battle.

A very important point in Qin's sweep of Liuhe is this head-level military merit system: as long as you hand over an enemy's head, regardless of origin, you can be awarded a first-level title (a title is a wine cup, and you have to go through "drinking to give a title" to get the reward)

(hence the name "noble title"). After obtaining the title, you can be exempted from land tax and labor service. Those with high titles can also obtain fields, slaves, and even be able to pay for their crimes! The Tyrannical Qin Dynasty, which is known for its harsh punishments, also has

According to the regulations, for example, if one person in the "First Team" (the most basic combat unit, composed of five soldiers) is killed in battle, the remaining four will each be considered guilty and killed! Unless... well, you can hand over a stone

The enemy's head - that's fine. Of course, there will be rewards for over-fulfilling the target! So when the peasant soldiers recruited from the six countries saw a group of ferocious men with bloody heads tied around their waists coming towards them, most of them were frightened.

Their souls were shattered. According to records, some Qin soldiers had four or five heads tied to their waists and were still charging with bared teeth... That scene, let alone a head-on collision, was terrifying just thinking about it.

Later, when the Qin army conquered the world, the military merit of the head-level system was not enough, so stricter regulations were made: only the head of an "armored soldier" was considered a head, and migrant workers who participated in the war as auxiliary soldiers did not count.

Well, the other is to carry forward the continuous sitting system: It’s true that you chopped off a dozen heads and got a knighthood, but your brother-in-law got food poisoning and had diarrhea in the street... This is "abandoning the market" (that is, beheading. Daqin's environmental protection is really good -

-The owner of the oxen and horses pulling the cart urinating in the street is also guilty of having their heads chopped off. Stop talking nonsense. You have been fined!

A few days later, your neighbor made irresponsible remarks about the court in the middle of the night, and was reported by another household. Don't tell me that you were so sleepy that you didn't report it, right? So you are also guilty! What, using a noble title to compensate for the crime? Have you forgotten?

Your brother-in-law has lost your title! Pack your bags and go to Mount Li to build the tomb of the First Emperor. From now on, you will be a glorious member of the 700,000 prisoners!

Don’t want to go? Well, pick up a knife and join the army again, and cut off a few more heads to exchange for free labor coupons. Oh, by the way, remember that only the heads of “armored men” count this time.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were three types of officials. One was called casual officials, which is today's job level, such as county and regiment level, department and bureau level, etc., which determines your salary but has no specific position. The other is called official

, also called civil servants, they have specific positions, such as county magistrate, magistrate, etc. There is also a kind of honorary officer, which is similar to casual officials, but honorary titles often need to be obtained through military merit, regardless of origin. For example, Xue Rengui in the storytelling drama,

He was originally a small soldier. He followed Taizong to conquer Goguryeo. He rode alone and killed the enemy generals, and then he won the honorary title. After receiving the honorary title, he got "Yongye Field", and his descendants were hereditary and exempted from school service. Later, Xuanzong was busy having a mandarin duck bath with Concubine Yang.

, no longer personally participated in such trivial matters as narrating merits, and left it to the local Jiedu to retaliate, so the latter took advantage of this loophole to promote and cultivate their own power, and soon the prosperous Tang Dynasty was reduced to a fleeting thing.

The wise Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately emphasized civility and suppressed military force in order to prevent his army from becoming bigger. His ideal military commander was best to be an illiterate barbarian who only knew how to go into battle and kill people and knew nothing else. This was best and would not endanger future generations.

Civil servants, you are responsible for guarding the territory. If you lose the place, don't behead your head. If you are a military general, regaining the lost territory does not count. It is only based on victory and defeat. The specific bonus is based on the head. You can use your head in one hand and cash in the other.

The head had to be handed over to the Ministry of War for inspection before a reward was given. Naturally, the gentlemen in the Ministry of War tried to make things difficult. Those who served as soldiers in those days were often not good citizens. Many of them were criminals who had violated the king's laws and were sent to the army. Therefore, many people

If you can get through, you will make a profit, but if you don't, you will not lose, and you will kill the good and take the merit. The heads handed over are of both men and women's sizes. Of course, the court is not easy to fool, and the final rule is: it must be a complete head, and more

To prove that he is a mature male - the head must have an Adam's apple (there have been high-tech identification methods in the past: throwing it into a bucket, the one with the face up is a man and the one with the face down is a woman, but this method can always cause disputes.

(Abandoned), those who don’t carry them don’t count! Even when fighting the Manchus, in order to prove that you are not killing the Han people who surrendered, whether your hair was shaved after death or shaved first and then chopped off, you have to verify your identity

Just give money.
Chapter completed!