At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 4: The system of military merit and nobility that was destroyed by the First Emperor
  Chen Lin's home was not big, and Xu Fan was too embarrassed to bother Chen Lin all the time. There was no shortage of vacant houses in the Chen family, so Chen Lin took Xu Ye to find the mayor Chen Gang and got a vacant house for him. Xu Fan.

In return, Xu Fan took out the remaining wolf meat in his hand and asked the young people in the village, including the young people in Chen's family, to help him build walls, pull out weeds, and build houses. With the help of more than a dozen people from the village, young and old, Xu Fan's house had its earthen walls cut away, a new kitchen built, the hall and bedrooms also cleaned, and even the dam in the yard was filled with soil again. The fence was also re-erected, making it smooth and strong, and a chicken pen and cowshed were also built.

A brand new courtyard appeared in Chenjia Village, and many villagers were envious of it. However, thinking that hundreds of kilograms of wolf meat were spent on this courtyard, it was a pity for Xu Fan's money. However, the wolf meat feast these days made the villagers of Chen's family accept Xu Fan as a generous outsider. They also gave Xu Fan some rice noodles, salt, bowls and chopsticks, and Chen Lin gave Xu Fan a tattered bed. bedding, and this is already the most precious gift.

In the evening on the fifth day of the time travel, Xu Fan invited Chen Gang, the village chief, to his home for the first time. Chen Lin also came to accompany him. After a meal and a drink, Chen Lin asked: "Brother, how is the household registration matter going?"

Chen Gang said: "It will cost 500 yuan before the county clerk is willing to help Xu Daxia fall behind."

Chen Lin was surprised: "Why so much? Didn't it only cost 100 yuan a few years ago?"

Chen Gang sighed and said: "Now the scribes are even more greedy, saying that the world is not good. Who knows what thieves will be registered? Their risks are greater, and they naturally need more money to manage things up and down."

Chen Lin snorted coldly: "The world is so chaotic. It's not because of corrupt officials like them. They have endless corvee work. First they fight the South Vietnamese, then the barbarians, and they have to build Chi Road. There are many young and strong people in our village." More than a dozen of them died in South Vietnam. The battle was finally over, and those who survived had made great contributions. Everyone thought they could honor their ancestors, but they didn't expect that the government exiled them in South Vietnam. All military merits and titles were all lies. That's what Zhuzi's father was so angry to death, my mother also went crazy, and a good family was broken up like this."

Xu Fan asked in surprise: "Is Da Qin's military meritorious service a fake?"

The matter of being knighted for military merit was so famous in the history books of later generations. Now that Chen Lin said it was fake, Xu Fan couldn't believe that this was the Qin Dynasty in history.

Chen Gang said with a hint of panic: "Don't dare to talk nonsense, the imperial court has granted a title and divided the land."

Chen Lin said angrily: "I was assigned to wasteland in South Vietnam, and I had to reclaim it bit by bit. Instead, my home land was annexed by corrupt officials. This is nothing but a reward. It is just a disguised exile. Where is the place for people in Lingnan?" .”

The Qin Dynasty's military merits and honors can motivate the soldiers in Guanzhong, because they are annexing the rich land of the Central Plains, and the soldiers of Guanzhong are also willing to get the land of the Central Plains.

But it was different in South Vietnam. There were primitive deep forests everywhere, endless hills and mountains, and not much flat land. It was impossible to gain more land by occupying these territories. At this time, Jiangnan was not a wealthy place for later generations, but A truly wild place, on the edge of civilization.

In order to win over the Central Plains, the First Emperor implemented a policy of "making the capital of Guizhou own its own land". The common people (nobles) reported the land they actually occupied to the government. The government recognized the legality of private land and levied land rent accordingly.

Of course, this has practical significance. The land in the Central Plains has long been occupied by the powerful nobles. The First Emperor can wipe out the upper classes of the Six Kingdoms, but it is impossible to wipe out all the ruling classes of the Six Kingdoms. In order to stabilize the rule of the Central Plains, the Great Qin will definitely turn to the Central Plains. Some nobles compromised. Not to mention the destruction of the system of granting land for military merit, it also left the Central Plains with no land to distribute. Even if the powerful aristocrats of the Central Plains did not make any meritorious contributions, they actually occupied a large amount of land. However, the soldiers who made meritorious deeds were not granted land because there was not enough land in the Central Plains. Isn't this a bit like the Tang Dynasty where the equal land system was destroyed?

When there is no war, the First Emperor's policy of "making the capital of Guizhou itself a reality" can still operate stably. But the First Emperor was a war fanatic, and soon he opened up the South Vietnam battlefield. After fighting for several years, one of the commanders died, and the Qin Dynasty finally conquered the entire Lingnan region.

But at this time, the First Emperor will start to fill the holes he dug before. If the 50 Southern Expeditionary Army who have made great contributions return to the Central Plains and allocate fields according to their contributions, tens or even hundreds of millions of acres will be divided. land.

However, the policy of "letting the heads of Guizhou control their own land" left no land in the entire Central Plains to be allocated to meritorious officials. If the land was forced to be distributed, the entire Central Plains would definitely be in chaos.

The First Emperor and his bureaucrats thought about it for a long time. Thinking that South Vietnam was vast and sparsely populated, they decided to use the wasteland of South Vietnam to resettle the heroes. For the Qin Dynasty, this was a double-edged sword, not only to resettle the heroes, but also to allow them to immigrate to guard the border. The First Emperor promulgated this policy without paying attention to the wishes of the soldiers at the bottom (I thought that after the First Emperor unified the six countries, he was completely separated from the masses, and each policy he formulated was more unrealistic than the last).

So the imperial edict was passed to the Southern Expeditionary Army. You don't have to go back. You can just settle down on the spot. The fields will be cultivated according to your own title. If you want to cultivate that piece of wasteland, you can cultivate that piece of wasteland.

The First Emperor certainly did not expect that his imperial edict to march to the South would be no less than a bolt from the blue for the soldiers who had been staying in South Vietnam for several years and had already packed up and prepared to go home.

South Vietnam is not a wealthy Central Plains. The wasteland here is useless to the soldiers of the Southern Expedition Army. The imperial edict of the First Emperor is a double betrayal to the soldiers of the Southern Expedition Army. They are allowed to continue to stay there without being rewarded for their merits. Exiled to the barbaric land of South Vietnam, the most fundamental pillar of the Qin Dynasty was cut off by the First Emperor himself. The Qin Dynasty's 50-strong army and 300-400 million die-hard base no longer believed in the First Emperor.

The system of military honors and honors was completely destroyed within the Southern Expeditionary Army. No soldier believed it anymore. Instead, these soldiers were full of resentment towards the court. Therefore, when Chen Sheng and Wu Guang revolted, not only were the 50 Southern Expeditionary Army officers unable to be rescued Instead, Da Qin took the initiative to cut off ties with Da Qin and watched the Qin Dynasty's demise.

Xu Fan felt a sense of understanding when he saw Chen Lin with a face full of resentment. No wonder it is said in the history books that after Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising, Qin's million-strong army completely disappeared. Only Zhang Han led hundreds of thousands of prisoners to fight against the rebels.

This is not because the million-strong army of the Qin Dynasty disappeared, but because the First Emperor himself collapsed the system of receiving military honors for military merit. The foundation of Great Qin has been completely destroyed by the First Emperor. The old Qin people do not believe in the system of receiving military honors for military merit. Some kind of To a certain extent, Qin II took the blame for the First Emperor. After the collapse of the system, even though Guanzhong was still in the hands of Da Qin and millions of old Qin people were still there, Ziying could only surrender to Liu Bang.

Doesn't the First Emperor know that such a reward policy will completely destroy the military merit and honor system and credit that Qin spent hundreds of years establishing? He may or may not know it, but now he no longer cares about the voices from the bottom. .

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