Chapter 509: The Countryside Is Really Picturesque (3)
In addition to re-adjusting the central institutions, focusing on the power of local governments at all levels, and appointing officials at all levels, Liu Chen also issued several other orders.
The third order: Establish a military rank system.
There is no need to say much about the significance of a military rank. On weekdays, he is the guarantee of honor and treatment for a soldier. Orderly promotion of military rank can effectively break the family's lack of understanding of nothing, and directly parachuted to the positions of various generals based on their identity and blood ties. This gives poor families a channel to make their debut by fighting hard and serving loyally and diligently.
On the battlefield, the significance of military rank is more obvious: after the army fights, there will always be a complete disruption of organization. At this time, who will be the leader of the group of soldiers gathered together to continue fighting? Of course, they are the people with the highest rank in the crowd.
Here, given that illiterate people accounted for this era, and a very small number of people were able to study in Wuzhangyuan Academy. Therefore, Guan Yi did not formulate a system of officers and soldiers separated: that is, the basic system of military academies that came out of later generations was officers and recruited soldiers. Guan Yi did not adopt it.
His military rank system only stipulates different starting points and assessment methods. However, soldiers gradually promoted to officers through long-term service and excellent performance, which is the mainstream of the promotion of Han officers in the future.
To be specific, this is the case.
First of all, the correspondence between military rank and position:
The highest military rank: Marshal. It is generally awarded the Grand Marshal (Grandmaster), as well as the General of the Cavalry, General of the Cavalry, General of the Guard, etc. who have made great achievements or have sufficient qualifications.
Generals: General of the chariots and cavalry, General of the Cavalry, General of the Guard, and General of the Four Territory with outstanding achievements and General of the Four Conquests.
Lieutenant General: Generals from all directions, Generals from four camps, Generals from four towns with outstanding merits and qualifications, Generals from Anhan, Generals from the Supplement of Han.
Major General: General of the Four Towns, Senior General of the Miscellaneous Number.
Brigadier General: an ordinary miscellaneous general, a central general with particularly outstanding performance.
Colonel: General of the Central Army
Lieutenant Colonel: Senior seniority or meritorious school captain
Major: Ordinary Captain, Senior Sima
Captain: Sima, Junhou
Lieutenant: Junhou, Chief Qu
Second Lieutenant: Tun Chief, and another Wuzhangyuan College graduate will immediately obtain the rank of Second Lieutenant once graduated.
In terms of soldiers, from low to high, they are divided into four levels: new soldiers, halberd soldiers, sharp soldiers, and broken formation soldiers.
The above military ranks are tested every three years (soldiers take one exam every year), and they can be promoted if they pass the assessment. In addition to the changes in epaulettes and clothing, they are more likely to be increased in salary and subsequent positions, as well as the improvement of social status and the identification of self-soldiers.
Of course, although there is no absolute gap between the Breaking Army and the Second Lieutenant. However, if you upgrade from a soldier to an officer, you will have the responsibility of command. To be a commander, you are illiterate and cannot understand the commands sent from the peak. You are stupid and can't remember the meaning of the banner no matter how you study... Then you can't do this officer.
However, although you are not well-educated, you are a good soldier who bravely kills the enemy. Although such a soldier cannot be an officer, he can be a soldier king. Therefore, above the defeated formation soldiers, there are also the ranks of sergeants of all levels. In short, the treatment of a first-class sergeant can be compared with the enemy's body of a major general. It is not unfair to treat such special talents.
The fourth order: The order to breed and develop industries.
This is to avoid the situation where the interests of the aristocratic families are too damaged and can't find a new way to grow, and can only fight to the death. This is a special order issued in advance.
The specific content is:
First, the newly established Da Yongzhou was designated as the national handicraft base and the future industrial workshop base. It engages in various industries in this area and has great tax subsidies.
The purpose of this is of course to artificially create a strong economic and industrial center, so as to strengthen the power of the central government and its attractiveness to the surrounding areas, and prevent the subsequent divisions from rising.
To describe the chaotic situation of the Republic of China in later generations, it is: China does not have complete sets of heavy industries, nor does it have a national heavy industry center, so it becomes very easy for warlords to survive independently of the central government.
Therefore, Guan Yi and Liu Chen explained from the beginning that they were established: Da Yongzhou (southern Shaanxi, most of Henan and the Mineral Concentration Department of Shanxi Inner Mongolia, which was the most elite area of China in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period), and did not enfeoff any princes in Da Yongzhou, and all kinds of industries were concentrated here as much as possible.
Second, the production technology of some people's livelihood products, such as soap, candles, high-quality wine, toothpaste, toothbrushes, etc. We welcome all aristocratic families to invest and build factories in Da Yongzhou.
Third, promote the planting of rapeseed flowers, sugarcane and other cash crops, and provide oil extraction and sugar production technology free of charge - In the future, I will check household taxes and clear hidden populations. The interests of your aristocratic family will definitely be damaged, but you can change to plant cash crops. The aristocratic family has land, talents, knowledge, and sales. If you change to plant cash crops, the income you get is no less than before.
As for the food issue, hey, that is the matter of self-cultivation farmers. With the character of Guanda Sima, after the household tax in the eight prefectures of Kanto in the future, the population of Jihan 11 prefectures must be tens of millions. At that time, some farmers paid the tax on grain. Besides, most of your aristocratic land is used to grow grain, and how many stones can the country receive from you? So when you change to plant cash crops, the country's grain reserves will not be affected too much.
Fourth, modify the commercial tax. The commercial tax is only collected for the two items of transportation tax and landing tax. Depending on the type of goods, the commercial tax is about 20% to 50% of the value of the goods itself. All other road checkpoints will be cancelled - local officials in various places must treat merchants desperately in order to make the local finances more abundant and live a better life.
Fifth, the Iron Control Order. The iron here is a general term, which actually refers to all metals. The main content of this order is that the state controls all metal mining areas, strictly prohibits private mining, and does not allow the mining areas to be controlled: In the future, national policy groups like Fuxing Society must advance to heavy industries after using people's livelihood light industry to complete the accumulation of original capital.
Fifth, the road construction order. The country will organize people from all over the country to repair roads during the slack season. With Chang'an, Luoyang and Chengdu as the center, it will take 30 to 50 years to link the locations of the county and county seats with cement roads as much as possible. In this way, the prosperity of commerce will have basic guarantees.
Of course, the above four imperial edicts are nothing compared to the following ones.
On December 15, 274 AD, Liu Chen, Guan Yi and Li Mi jointly signed and promulgated the epoch-making "Charter of the Great Han Dynasty".
In this national constitution, there are programmatic provisions or guiding opinions on the rights and obligations of the state, nation, emperor, throne inheritance, state institutions, local organizations, and people from the legal meaning.
Among them, the concept of the Han people was clearly proposed for the first time.
The Charter of the Great Han Dynasty detailed that the name of the Han people originated from the Han Dynasty. The name of the Han Dynasty originated from Emperor Gao's title of King of Han. The reason why the Han King was named King of Han was because his fief was in Hanzhong. The name of Hanzhong was because the Han River. The Han River was named because in ancient times, ancient sages noticed that the Yangtze River and the Yellow River flowed east and south, while the Han River flowed north and south and connected to the Yellow River. Therefore, the ancients called this big river flowing north and south Han River, which refers to the vast Milky Way in the sky. (Book of Songs: Zhuo Yun Han, Zhao Huitian, Weitian has Han, and Guan also has light)
Therefore, Han people are vast. Han people are the Milky Way tribe, the vast tribe, the boundless tribe, and the eternal tribe.
Under the Charter of the Emperor Han, there are also the Civil Law of the Han Dynasty, the Criminal Law of the Han Dynasty, the Procedure Law of the Han Dynasty, etc. that draw on the essence of Roman law and Persian law, and combined with the actual situation of the country and ethnic group, with the efforts of scholars from various countries, various laws and regulations that took three years to revise. At this point, Li Mi, the first Supreme Court Supreme Court, became a true name.
After the above epoch-making instructions, there is an imperial edict that seems inconspicuous but makes the Kanto family frightened: Anyone who is selected as Zhongzhong and above in the ninth-rank Zhongzheng system this year, the clan leader of the family where the person is located will gather in Chang'an City on March 5, 2018, on March 5, 2018, 4th year of Guiyuan!
Chapter completed!