Chapter 5375 The collapse of Qin was due to the army
Bai Hu said calmly: "Yes, but being an officer leading a team has enough benefits. The gains of the entire team in the battle will be credited to his name. It is much more beneficial than an individual beheading to gain merit.
Therefore, unless you lose the battle or die in battle, otherwise, after the battle, you will most likely be able to keep your position as a village official, or even be promoted, if you can earn more for your other nephews.
If you have a new title, you will have the advantage of going to other places to serve as officials and occupying new places. Therefore, in fact, many of the Qin army officers and soldiers have spread their branches through wars and can go to other places to occupy territory as officials. This is what they are.
The motivation for being keen on war. However, this model requires Qin to constantly engage in foreign wars and occupy new territories."
Having said this, Bai Hu paused and continued: "Furthermore, the Qin State has always had a policy of appointing new local officials, that is, in the captured areas, Qin people are appointed as officials, and all local people must be forcibly relocated to Guanzhong.
The land was distributed to various villages, and many of them even became slaves and became the lowest people in some villages. At the same time, some second sons, third sons and others of the people in Guanzhong were moved to these new lands to become border residents, giving
With preferential treatment of land, taxation, and even the allocation of prisoners of war women as wives to bear children for them, these newly moved people on the border are like border residents, half soldiers and half civilians. While bearing the risks of war, they will also
Get far better conditions than ordinary people in the Qin Dynasty."
Zhuque frowned: "I have heard about the Xindi policy and studied it, but due to the lack of historical data on the Qin State, I didn't know much. Originally, I only thought that the newly conquered people of the Xindi should be moved away, but I thought these places were just
Retaining troops but not retaining civilians is just like an open space or a buffer zone, but I didn’t expect that people from Qin’s mainland would actually have to be moved here.”
Bai Hu smiled slightly: "Actually, just like the powerful families in later generations and the rangers who went to guard the borders, generally speaking, young people who are not the legitimate sons will become a huge factor of instability, and they will not be able to share the land of the legitimate sons.
, officials and titles, but they also have the urge to go out and make contributions, so when there are legitimate sons in the family to inherit the family business, they do not necessarily have to go back to the places where they conquered in the army, but stay in the local areas to take root. Although these
The local area is at risk of counterattack by the enemy, but the local area has mature farmland and various preferential policies provided by the Qin State, especially the distribution of wives and concubines. You must know that it is not easy to marry a wife and have children in your hometown.
Therefore, this aspect was very attractive to the Qin people, so semi-military new villages, settlements, and forts were established in this way."
"The various dock forts in later generations actually evolved from this kind of frontier fort. Because it was a battleground for military strategists, they built long sieges and sentry towers around traditional villages. When the enemy came,
When attacking, they gave up the fields outside and retreated into the garrison to defend themselves. They waited for the local army to come for reinforcements. In the more than a hundred years after Shang Yang's reform, the Qin State used this method to gradually encroach on the territory east of Hedong and the Central Plains.
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Suzaku laughed: "But when you send people to such a border area, a very dangerous battlefield, aren't you afraid that some people will want to defect to the enemy's country?"
Bai Hu shook his head: "Occasionally, there will be defections, but overall, compared to the huge number of immigrants to the new land, they are still very few. Lord Suzaku, think about it, these places were originally used by the Qin State to defeat the enemy and seize them from the enemy.
This in itself proves that Qin is stronger than other countries, so who would be so stupid as not to side with the victorious Qin, but to go to the loser side? What's more, many of the soldiers and civilians of Xindi have been exempted from tax for several years.
In the future, the land output will all belong to us. Even if we go to the enemy's country, we will not have such preferential policies."
Suzaku nodded and let out a sigh of relief: "So it turns out that the purpose of moving the original people is to prevent these people from being disloyal or having contact with the enemy country or relatives and friends, so we simply moved them away and completely
Cut off the possibility of such exchanges. In this way, the people, population, and land of Qin will continue to increase, but the increased people are either slaves or commoners, and it is unlikely that they will get a title, or that they will not get a title immediately.
, this is what you said, the contrast in the number of common people and nobles in the world is getting bigger and bigger."
Bai Hu smiled slightly: "Yes, this is actually a weakness of Qin State, because Qin State's requirements for grassroots officials only need to collect taxes and control households, and they do not need too many
Culture, the only thing that needs to be learned and memorized is the various criminal laws and regulations used to punish the people in the Qin Dynasty, as well as those terrible execution processes, which made Qin a country of tigers and wolves, and the grassroots officials were uneducated or even completely
Without literacy, there was no need for concubines from the gentry to serve as village officials, so it was difficult to implement Qin's laws in Guandong, especially in villages controlled by lower-class gentry and common people landowners."
"In addition, the final unification process of the Qin State was too fast, retaining the power of the common people landowners in Guandong, but these people did not appreciate it. To them and the people of the Six Nations in the village, they did not consider themselves to be Qin people.
However, he still regards Qin as a foreign enemy that destroyed his motherland. What he thinks about every day is the opportunity to restore the country and take revenge. This is the reason why the world suddenly became chaotic after the death of Qin Shihuang, because the Qin army in various parts of Guandong was few in number and could not
To deal with the chaos in the world, the reason is that the number of local Qin people is very small. The people of the first six countries are like foreign enemies. They rebel everywhere in the world. When there is an uprising, they will not stand on the side of Qin to put down the rebellion.
Will join the rebels."
Zhuque said solemnly: "The Qin people in Guanzhong, just like you said before, did not get the benefits they deserved before, so they fled when they heard of the war and did not want to serve the Qin State anymore. In desperation, the Qin State
We can even only mobilize criminals and prisoners, and grant amnesty to the world to let these people join the army and fight. This is the reason for the demise of the Qin State. But I am still very strange, how can this system that has been in place for nearly two hundred years since Shang Yang collapse so easily?
Just because they couldn’t get the land they expected in Guandong, the Qin people didn’t want to contribute to the country? But when they fought against the Xiongnu and South Vietnam, couldn’t they also mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops?”
Baihu said calmly: "This is another problem of the Qin State. Their standing army is insufficient, especially the standing army near the capital Xianyang, which is permanently stationed, drills every day, and is ready to fight at any time. Even during the Qin Shihuang period, the Qin State
, there are only about 50,000 people. This number is acceptable for maintaining law and order in peacetime, but it is seriously insufficient to cope with major wars, because it takes time to recruit and assemble the Qin army." (End of this chapter)