Lord Yuan

Chapter 46 Qin Zu
Following Yuan Shao's comments on Shang Jun's military merit promotion system, the scholar class began to gradually think about the rationale.

After thinking deeply about it, I really found that it is indeed the case.

You are a commoner of the Qin State, and your family originally had no fertile land. After Shang Jun was activated, he started the reform that made the country rich and powerful.

You have a good piece of land.

All that needs to be done every day is to get up early to hoe the fields and return home in the evening.

At this time, Shang Jun promulgated the nobility system for military merit.

You are overjoyed.

I think this is a good opportunity to turn around.

The opportunity to be granted the title of Lord is enough to bring about earth-shaking changes to the whole family.

As for the physical fitness required to join the army, You smiled disdainfully.

These years of hard work have already caused great changes in your body.

Regardless of your family's opposition, you joined the Qin army without hesitation.

From the time you started working as a little soldier, you were given money and food on time every month. You were so overjoyed that you didn't care about your shriveled belly, so you sent home more than half of what the corps commander had given you.

As for you, the food in the military camp is enough to fill your stomach.

You thought that every day would go on like this.

one day.

The team leader is here to start mobilizing your team.

You listened to the corps commander's indignant propaganda and mobilization on a wooden stake that had only a small head left, and you expressed your disdain.

Whoever comes to this military camp is not here for the military merits promulgated by Lord Shang. Once enough military merits are obtained, the title will naturally fall on one's head.

You vowed to be the number one beheader in your team.

The team leader sneered and looked at your childish face, which was stained with darkness that did not belong to your age. His voice suddenly became louder.

The battlefield is not where you imagine the enemy is sticking his head out for you to chop off. The cruelty of war is far beyond your imagination.

The captain looked left and right, and when the eyes of the centurion, who wanted to be a high official, were fixed on him, he hurriedly raised his upper body while he was not prepared, revealing his strong, dark skin.

You froze.

You saw three long and narrow blood marks on the captain's chest, from the neck to the waist. You asked the captain in disbelief, doesn't it hurt?

The captain let go of his hand, walked up to you meaningfully, patted your shoulder heavily, and whispered softly.

This is the honor of being a corps commander that I earned with my life. The reason why my life was not lost to God is because the last corps commander was killed by those hateful soldiers of the Wei Kingdom in order to protect me.

The terror of those Wei soldiers was unimaginable. Just one blow of the sword made the captain who usually showed off his strong physique and practiced martial arts in front of us lose his breath.

We were very timid, but we saw the lifeless captain on the ground.

I am angry.

I picked up the sword in my hand and struck hard at the opponent's Wei Wu soldier who was obviously a head taller than me.

"Chong!"

The sound of metal clashing alternately.

I was dumbfounded as I watched the other party block the sword he had just struck out with hatred just by relying on the wrist guard on his arm.

I know that this battle with enough numbers to crush the opponent five times has been lost.

Wei Wuzu sneered, and I heard it clearly, but because his face was completely covered with solid metal, I couldn't see what that disgusting face looked like.

The opponent just stabbed him randomly with one, two, or three swords.

Three jets of blood began to spurt out from my body.

Wei Wuzu no longer cared about me, who was already destined to die, and devoted himself to dealing with other Qin army formations.

He just stood up straight and left his back to me, undefended.

I thought, maybe he didn't expect me to be alive in this situation, or maybe he didn't think I posed the slightest threat to him.

I squinted my eyes slightly, and the unstoppable blood flow from my head almost obscured everything in front of me.

Taking advantage of the chaos, he picked up a sharp bronze sword that looked like it belonged to the corps commander.

I used all my strength, but in the end I only broke through the outermost layer of armor of Wei Wusu, and the desperate inner armor was not damaged at all.

What kind of monster is Wei Wuzu?

Carrying such heavy armor, he was still able to keep up with the Qin army, and then ended the lives of his companions with one blow.Maybe I didn’t expect that I would be alive again.

Or maybe he accidentally discovered that his outer armor was penetrated.

In short, this Wei soldier was slightly stunned.

I felt cruel and swung the bronze sword in my hand again.

Fortunately, other members of my team also rushed over, and they were very happy when they saw that I had broken through Wei Wuzu's defense.

Not caring about anything else, several companions flew up and fell directly on Wei Wuzu.

At the same time, he repeatedly asked me to hold on and thrust the sword into Wei Wu's body.

Wei Wuzu finally dragged his heavy armor close to the last drop of blood on his body.

As for where the other two members of this three-person team are, I don't know.

All I know is that I seem to have made a great contribution, a military achievement that helped me get rid of my status as an ordinary soldier.

Even if this military achievement comes at the cost of the corps commander risking his life to save others and the sacrifice of his companions.

I rushed forward almost madly, cut off Wei Wusu's head and tied it to my waist.

Because if you don't.

Someone will definitely come to snatch this easily obtained military glory.

I'm afraid someone will pretend to claim it.

He summoned several of his companions who had not yet recovered, and after giving an explanation, they ran straight to the rear.

The rear was guarded by soldiers supervising the battle.

I know.

But we can't just throw away this military achievement.

So I ran over to the surprised eyes of the group of burly soldiers supervising the battle.

After I explained my purpose, the supervising soldier let me go.

Wait until the war is over.

I killed a Wei soldier and lost a captain in my team.

I was originally going to be demoted to a slave status, but because one head of a Wei soldier was worth five military merits.

One advance and one retreat.

I successfully became the captain of my team.

After hearing what the corps commander said, I broke into a cold sweat. Is war really so terrifying?

I originally thought of relying on military merit to get rid of my civilian status, but I instantly calmed down like a head of cold water.

How come this military merit is so rare?

You want to escape.

But you looked at the countless pairs of sincere eyes around you, which were full of longing for the military merit promotion system.

The recruiting soldiers looked enthusiastic.

But no one has ever explained the reason clearly to those Qin people.

Killing one person counts as one achievement.

Losing one person corresponds to losing one merit.

Yuan Shao knew all the details here.

As Guo Tu said.

The rise of an empire always involves the loss of some people's interests.

Just like the old Qin soldiers and civilians in the Qin Empire.

Another example is the Great Ancestor’s White Snake Rebellion, which eliminated the kings of the opposite sex from all ethnic groups when the Han Empire was founded.

Another example is Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's cup of wine to release his military power.

The list goes on and on.

(End of this chapter)