There are one hill and eight buildings in the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chapter 5385 Military households have been slaves for generations
Chapter 5385 Military households have been slaves for generations
Suzaku said disdainfully: "You have to pay 60% of the tax, which is still very promising. Humph, our wealthy family in Wudi exempted them from the tax on the basis of providing water, seeds, farm tools, and cattle for the villagers.
Serving as a corvee and paying tribute for them only takes about 40% of the income, and these fields still belong to each of our families and do not belong to the country."
Bai Hu said calmly: "At least it is an era of peace now, not the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms. Cao Cao's era had just experienced a terrible war, and there was not even one out of ten. Moreover, Cao Cao himself did not end the troubled times, and was still going on.
During the war, for the people at that time, being alive was the greatest luck. Paying taxes at least meant that there was a big warlord who could protect you. If you were separated from the country and the existence of the political power, you would probably not see the sun tomorrow. Than
As far as military households are concerned, these farming households are actually lucky."
Xuanwu nodded and said in a deep voice: "What is the military household like? Master Baihu can talk about it in detail. It should start with the 300,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army."
Baihu smiled slightly and said: "Yes, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army is the first force that Cao Cao truly developed. Before, from raising troops to attack the Yellow Turbans to becoming an anti-Dong Zhuo alliance, he only used the bankers of his Cao family.
, they were just tenants, but the more than 300,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, plus their millions of family members, women, children, and the elderly, were an extremely huge manpower at that time."
"Other princes and warlords, faced with such a huge number of remnants of the Yellow Turbans who are plundering everywhere like locusts, have no ability to eliminate them head-on, nor do they have the ability to recruit them, so they can only set up defense lines, strengthen the walls and clear the country, in order to eliminate this disaster.
Lead them elsewhere and do not harm their own territory. However, these Qingzhou Yellow Turbans have no ambition to seize the world and overthrow the Han Dynasty like Zhang Jiao, nor have they taken root. They are honest farming organizations and are just running around for survival.
Let's go, blackmail and coerce the county guards in various places to give them a little food, and eat one meal without taking another, just like an animal, looking for food everywhere."
"Cao Cao saw this force keenly. In his territory, there were only a small number of people, enough to accommodate more than one million Yellow Turbans, and the so-called army of more than 300,000, although most of them were just some who picked up wooden sticks, or even
Ordinary farmers who use stone knives and stone axes can, after all, be carefully selected and eliminated, and there will be 40,000 to 50,000 fighting soldiers. After training, they can be replenished into various armies, or temporarily used as an independent camp."
"It's just that the most troublesome thing about recruiting rebels in the past dynasties is that these people have rebelled. They are no longer good people by nature and may rebel at any time. If they cannot be divided, they will be very difficult to manage as a whole. And if they are forced to
After being divided and disintegrated, I'm afraid they are unwilling to surrender and recruit troops again, because they are also worried that the government troops will defeat them one by one, just like other Yellow Turban rebels, using the corpses as a spectacle."
"So Cao Cao geniusly put forward conditions to integrate them into military households, and later further divide them into farming households. These people are managed according to the army's establishment. I have mentioned the farming households above and will not repeat them, but the military households
Thirty households are divided into a village, and are managed by field captains, village chiefs and other officers. In peacetime, these people are gathered into a village, and the land is distributed uniformly and farmed by their families. If they are captured during the war,
The captured prisoners can be incorporated into their own tribes or as domestic slaves, and these domestic slaves can be used to engage in farming. The men in these military households must undergo military training. Each village is equivalent to a small village.
In the military camp, they practiced day and night, and they were very familiar with each other. For the unmarried and single military households, Cao Cao would even collect or buy those widows or women who had lost their families during the war, and betrothed them to the military households.
A wife gives birth to children for a military household, but the price is that these children also have military household registration and will have to join the army in the future."
Qinglong sneered and said: "It's almost the same as the military households and soldiers of later generations. It's just that the military households and soldiers of later generations are looked down upon by others. Even military strategists and generals are cursed. Even today, people over there in Jingkou
, Strictly speaking, they are all military households, but because they are particularly good at fighting, no one dares to look down on them openly. However, it is now a common understanding that the gentry are superior to military households. Even ordinary civilian households are also in the military.
above the status of a household. Was this also the case when Cao Cao first established military households?"
Bai Hu shook his head: "That's not the case. In times of great chaos, military households and soldiers actually have a great advantage. Just like the 300,000 soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, after they were incorporated, tens of thousands of them were the strongest and most capable of fighting.
People become military households, and those who are in good health, have no disabilities, and have the ability to support themselves become rural households, while those who have little strength and have difficulty in farming often become civilian households because they cannot bear too much burden.
For manual labor, you can only pay a light tax and then be recruited by the imperial court to serve in the army. After all, it depends on the length of time and not the specific workload."
"It can be seen that during Cao Cao's period, military households had the highest status, followed by farming households, and civilian households were the worst. Being a military household did not have to pay taxes or perform corvee service, but you had to go to the battlefield to fight. Once you performed meritorious services, you would be rewarded and have slaves.
, once they died in battle, their brothers, nephews, and nephews would succeed them. As Cao Cao always won the battle, the strongest and most capable prisoners among the prisoners were reorganized into military households to replace and eliminate those who died in battle or were
The disabled people and Cao Cao's military households actually had a high status and could attract people. It is not an exaggeration to describe the attitude of his military households towards the war as "happy after hearing the war" at that time."
Zhuque laughed: "But in the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao lost a lot of soldiers, and the myth of invincibility was also shattered. Later, the Three Kingdoms gradually took shape, and the continuous wars gradually disappeared, and instead they were between countries.
With the annual expedition, ordinary civilian households and farming households enjoyed peace and gradually improved their status, while military households faced the prospect of aging. After their children and grandchildren became adults, they were frequently called up to fight, and a large number of people died or became disabled.
Just like in troubled times, there would be a large number of refugees and prisoners to replenish the military households. As a result, the physical fitness of the military households declined rapidly, the fields were usurped by the powerful, and even the quality of the wives distributed plummeted. Gradually, the military households became
The bottom class of society. The so-called military strategist general became a curse word. It probably started to become popular from this period."
Bai Hu said calmly: "Sir Suzaku said it very well, but I would like to add one more point, that is, the military household has completely lost its status. In fact, the fundamental reason is that in terms of political power, the nobles occupied the court." (End of this chapter)