Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Compared with the mature and constantly improving five-army system of the Han Dynasty, the three-guard system reformed by Liu Chan is still in the evolution stage.

Therefore, Liu Chan summons the generals, schools and civil officials at all levels of the Three Guards in Chengdu every year to target the content they reported.To adjust the guard system, the key point is to strengthen the central government's personal control over the guards and weaken the guard's control over the guards.

At the beginning of its establishment, Liu Chan adopted the system of promotion to the guard to strengthen control. Those who were promoted to the guard were the soldiers of the emperor, who could take on tasks such as guarding the palace, and at the same time they would be released to serve as non-commissioned officers in the Fifth Army.

Since the guards followed the commander-in-chief to fight for a long time, in order to prevent the situation that only the commander-in-chief was known but the emperor was not known.Liu Chan successively appointed Li Qian, Su Gu, and Xiang Yuwai, the first guard commanders, to serve as generals in the Fifth Army, and implemented a "monthly score" guard commander system among the three guards.

The highest military officer among the three guards is Wei Shuai, and Wei Shuai is appointed by Liu Chan from the (1500 soldiers) Yizhu.In order to strengthen control, Liu Chan asked the town masters to take turns to divide the guards on a monthly basis, and adopted a flatter management.

Different from the flat decentralization in the military, Liu Chan adopted centralized management in politics, setting up three guards and letting Han and Yi literati manage it.Gong Lu, the first chief of the three guards, has been transferred to the prefect, and now Wang Shi, a native of Guanghan, is the chief of the three guards.

Wang Shizi Yiqiang, a native of Qixian County, Guanghan, served as Fujiechang, Yamenjiang, Dangqu Taishou, Nanzhong Xinggu County Taishou, and was transferred to Sanwei by Liu Chan due to his meritorious service.

Now that the Han Dynasty has pacified the Northwest region, the Sanwei system has been established for nearly ten years, and various systems have begun to take shape.Liu Chan decided to further expand the army of the Three Guards in order to satisfy the ever-expanding territory of the Han Dynasty.

So after the court meeting in April, the generals of the three guards and the chiefs of the three guards were convened in Chengdu to discuss the military expansion of the three guards.

Wang Shi, the chief of the three guards, presented the bamboo slips with the household registration, and said: "His Majesty, this is the number of soldiers, men, women, and slaves in the four guards (left and right white armor, red armor, and green armor) this year, and The number of plowed fields, grain of money, horses, cattle, and armor."

As a military group integrating soldiers and farmers, Sanwei has the right to preserve armor, weapons and horses internally, but it needs to be controlled by the inner government led by Zhuge Liang.

Liu Chan spread out the bamboo slips, searched for some important contents and read them.

The four guards currently have a total of 4000 soldiers, and each household represents a household.Each household sends out a soldier to fight in armor, and the father dies and the son succeeds, and the brother dies and the younger brother inherits.There are 45 people in the mouth, more than [-] cattle and horses, and [-] collars in A...

Looking at the data on the bamboo slips, Liu Chan was very satisfied.

We must know that the armored rate of the frontier army and the northern and southern armies of the Western Han Dynasty was 40%, and that of the Eastern Han Dynasty was higher than that of the Western Han Dynasty, but it was only close to 50%.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao said: "Yuan originally had ten thousand collars in armor, but I had twenty collars in great armor; originally there were three hundred horse armors, but I could not have ten." ...' It can be seen that during the war at the end of the Han Dynasty, the armor rate of the princes was pitifully low.

However, as the situation stabilized, during the Battle of Tongguan, Cao Cao used armored riding gear to equip five thousand formations and ten heavy formations, scaring the [-] coalition troops in Kansai to "thieves and terrified".

With the development of smelting technology, the armor rate at the peak of Tang Dynasty was 60%, which is inseparable from the glory of Datang.During the Southern Song Dynasty, the armor rate of the "Four Generals of Zhongxing" was not low, as high as 70%.

Therefore, when the Three Kingdoms stood together, an average of 2.2 households in the three guards had one armor, and the armor rate reached about 1%. In addition, the soldiers of the three guards came from barbarians, who were brave and well-trained in combat.Today's Sanwei can already be regarded as the elite soldiers in the Han army.

However, these data did not come out of thin air, but an elite team that the big man spent nearly ten years investing a lot of manpower and energy to develop.The point is that these [-] households do not need to pay taxes, they have slaves to work in agriculture, they have their own money to buy weapons, and they only need to send troops to fight in wartime.

Liu Chan nodded slightly, and said with emotion: "It's not easy to have such a tiger after ten years of hard work!"

After a pause, Liu Chan said slowly: "The number of soldiers in the Three Guards has not increased for several years, and the territory of the Han Dynasty is expanding day by day. I want to establish a new town in Sanwei. What do you think?"

Wang Shi pondered for a while, then cupped his hands and said: "My Majesty, the three guards serve farmers as slaves, and go to war in times of war. One soldier should have two slaves to match him. It may be quite difficult to add new soldiers now."

Liu Chan rolled up the bamboo slips and said: "What you said is true, but this time I want to change the three-guard system. The barbarians who newly entered the guard households will divide the land and not the slaves. Exempt from corvee, do not pay taxes, farm in leisure time, and work in wartime. You can just go out, is there any difficulty?"

Gong Lu, the former chief of the three guards, said: "Your Majesty, I am arrogant and lawless. When I first recruited soldiers, the barbarians didn't know my kindness. Only when I am a big man, can I recruit or attack envoys to make the barbarians join me. Later, there will be various households. Match them with slaves to make them rich and specialize in armouring, without having to be busy for their livelihood, and promote their bravery and fighting spirit. This will make them happy and willing to follow them. Now they are not worthy of slaves, they only divide the land, and there may be many barbarians in the early days There are those who do not want to follow."

The Three Guards system is a new thing. In the process of establishment, it is necessary to break their original living pattern and live in the pattern of species and eunuchs. Officials govern and Sinicize them, and military officers practice.If there were no slaves at the beginning, I am afraid that these barbarians would have defected long ago, and they would not obey the big man.

The current policy of exempting slaves means that the barbarians have to bear the burden of farming themselves, and going out in case of war will add a lot of economic pressure to themselves.Coupled with not adapting to the life of Weihu, it is easy to have cases of defection, which is what Gong Lu said.

As the first Chief of the Three Guards, Gong Lu still has a say in this aspect.

Liu Chan waved his hand and explained: "What Gong Qing said is not unreasonable, but today is different from the past. From now on, the new plant and town will be settled in Guanzhong, not in Bashu. The worries you said are still gone."

In the past, the guard households were settled in the Bashu area. If there is a war, they may have to travel from Bashu to the northwest region. It is thousands of miles away and the battle will last for a long time.If there are no slaves in the family, it is easy to neglect farming when encountering spring plowing and summer harvest.

If they are placed in Guanzhong, whether it is defense or expedition in the future, it will save a lot of marching time, and it will not be easy to waste farming.

The purpose of Liu Chan's expansion of the Sanwei is to increase the local garrison in Guanzhong to facilitate the crusade against Cao Wei in the future.It is not easy for Han soldiers to move, but it is much more convenient for barbarians to move.Those who do not follow will be directly incorporated into the guard households.

Gong Lu understood what Liu Chan meant, so he shut up and backed away without saying a word.

"Where is Wang Qing?"

"The minister is here!" Wang Shi responded.

Liu Chan stood up, put his arms behind his waist and said: "The name of the Four Guards has been around for a long time, and now it is to expand the army. The four guards will have two more guards, and the new right green guards will be added, and the right red guards will be added as follows. Analyze the old guards and guard households. Filling added a second guard."

"promise!"

Wang Shi raised his head to look at the emperor, and asked, "Your Majesty, where did the new guards come from?"

Liu Chan put his long sword in his hand and said in a deep voice: "In July, I will lead the three guards of Youbai, Youchi, and Youqing, and divide the troops into three groups to discuss Wenshan and Hanjia in the west. The three guards will be transferred to Nanzhong and Jiangxi respectively. Zhou and Hehuang are under the jurisdiction of the governors and captains of the three places, and the local recruited barbarian households are included in their guards."

"No!" The four guards responded.

The west of Wenshan and Hanjia counties is the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, where there are a large number of barbarians.They come and go from time to time, with vicious temperaments and outdated weapons. In the past, they would invade the rich Shu land, so they are very suitable as soldiers for the new Sanwei family.