Datang New Order

Li Chengzhong wanted to formulate a military law to regulate the behavior and rewards and punishments of soldiers in the front battalion in terms of rules and regulations. However, in this era, there is already a general military law, that is, seventeen bans and 54 beheadings. At present, Lu Longjun implements the seventeen bans and 54 beheadings .It is a serious crime to change the military law without authorization, so Li Chengzhong cannot touch this red line.After thinking about it, he decided to formulate an order for the soldiers of the former battalion to deliberately avoid the concept of "military law" and implement the new military law in the army by stealing the beam.

The reason why he was unwilling to follow the 54th Prohibition and 54 cuts was because Li Chengzhong believed that this kind of military law was completely unrealistic.This military law includes disobeying the army, slowing the army, slack army, constructing the army, underestimating the army, deceiving the army, adultery, slandering the army, treacherous army, stealing the army, scouting the army, rebelling against the army, ruthless army, disorderly army, fraudulent army, and fraudulent army. There are [-] prohibitions, such as ignoring the army and misleading the army, and [-] kinds of prohibitions, such as not being able to hear the drums, not calling people by their names, spreading sly fights at night, complaining more, laughing, flags withering, rumors and deceitful words, etc. Behavior to implement the punishment behavior of "beheading the offender".

With the assistance of Feng Dao, Li Chengzhong carefully studied this military law order, and felt that it was really difficult to implement it.

First of all, the matters stipulated in the military law are confusing. Some are very general, some are very detailed, some are too general, and some are missing. There are many omissions and omissions. constraint.

Secondly, many items stipulated by the military law are vaguely described, which is not conducive to specific operations. In other words, the implementation flexibility is too large. The final result is that it is difficult to determine whether the soldiers' behavior violated the military law.The same behavior can be understood as a violation of the prohibition or as a normal behavior, and it is completely up to the general to decide.

The most important thing is that there is only one punishment method throughout this military law, which is "beheading"!If this military law is strictly enforced, it is estimated that all the soldiers in the front battalion will be "beheaded" in a short time.

Therefore, although Lu Longjun has always claimed to use this military law as the criterion, there are almost no troops that actually implement it.The ministries are actually acting on their own, and the punishment of soldiers is completely determined by the superiors according to their needs.

Since Tianbao, due to a large number of land mergers, countless farmers have lost their fields, and the Fubing system has also lost the basis for its continued existence. The Tang army has changed from the Fubing system to the recruiting system.This kind of recruitment system is not organized and implemented by the central court, but is recruited by the local feudal towns themselves. Therefore, the amount of military power in hand determines the strength of the generals of the feudal towns.For the soldiers under their own hands, the generals have adopted a generous strategy, not only giving them excellent treatment in terms of material and official titles, but also turning a blind eye when soldiers violated military laws.This also led to the near abolishment of the Seventeen Prohibition and 54 cuts.

As far as the latest example is concerned, that day when Lu Long's army marched south to Weibo, the army broke through Beizhou and massacred the city. This behavior directly violated the military law.In the Seventeen Prohibition 54 beheading, there is a clear stipulation on this: "Wherever you go, you will abuse the people and rape women. This is called a treacherous army, and the offender will be beheaded!" If you follow this order, you will enter Beizhou City Thousands of soldiers should be beheaded, which is absolutely impossible.Therefore, Liu Rengong just made a fuss at that time, and how to reward in the end remains the same.If he had really followed the military law, then his position as Jiedushi would have been overthrown by his subordinates long ago.

The military law that Li Chengzhong wanted was one that could be practiced and easily judged.The military law should clearly stipulate the specific behaviors that violate the prohibition, and thus refine the specific punishment methods, so as to avoid artificial subjective judgments as much as possible.This military law also needs to be humanized, and punishment measures ranging from serious to serious should be given according to the degree of violation, so as to avoid the mutiny of the army caused by excessive punishment.Finally, this military law should be as complete as possible, and the problems that soldiers will encounter in daily and wartime should be included as much as possible, so that there are laws to follow. …,

After careful consideration, combined with later generations' understanding of the law, Li Chengzhong and Feng Dao had many long talks all night, and finally decided to formulate a soldier's traffic regulations.The current regulations should include various contents such as the training guidelines of later generations, military internal affairs regulations, and interim military law regulations, so as to be as complete as possible.

This "Soldier Passage Regulations" is a set of systematic regulations, including "General Rules", "Soldier Training Regulations", "Soldier Internal Affairs Regulations", and "Temporary Military Discipline Regulations". Summarize and summarize the various situations encountered, and then clarify whether it is appropriate one by one, and at the same time formulate corresponding punishment measures one by one.

The "General Rules" is a principled constraint on the behavior of soldiers. It ranks first in the "Soldiers' Passing Regulations", that is, all orders must be complied with or not contradicted. The "General Rules" shall prevail.

The "Soldier Training Doctrine" summarizes various situations that arise during soldiers' combat and training, and lists them one by one. The "Soldier's Internal Affairs Regulations" focuses on the daily life of soldiers, explaining military appearance, life style, relationship between superiors and subordinates, and relationship with ordinary people.These two regulations mainly emphasize what soldiers should do and how to do it, while the "Interim Military Discipline Regulations" stipulate what they should not do, and what kind of targeted punishment will be given to soldiers if they do what they should not do.In fact, Li Chengzhong's so-called "military discipline regulations" are military law regulations, but the word "military law" is just avoided.

In order to make it easier for soldiers to understand, Li Chengzhong divided the content of the "Temporary Military Disciplinary Regulations" into three categories, namely minor violations, moderate violations and serious violations, and summarized three targeted punishment methods.Minor violations of discipline, that is, failure to complete the requirements during training, loose and disorderly life, or military appearance and military appearance are not in compliance with the regulations, etc., the punishment is also lighter, usually public criticism, warning, simple corporal punishment, etc., which are divided according to the situation Three six nine and so on.Moderate violations of discipline, that is, slack on duty, being late for military meetings, destroying utensils, disorderly conduct, extravagance, contradicting superiors, etc., will be punished more severely, usually including confinement, military sticks, salary deductions, and demotions.Serious violations of discipline, that is, poor fighting, disobedience to orders, women, massacre of colleagues, false name, theft and misappropriation of property, etc., are punished more severely, including removal from office, dismissal from the army, beheading and even implicating the family.

This set of "Temporary Military Disciplinary Orders" is very detailed and tireless, for fear of missing those details.At that time, Feng Dao suggested that it is not necessary to formulate such details, and military judges should be allowed to have a certain degree of operational flexibility, but his suggestion was directly rejected by Li Chengzhong.According to Li Chengzhong's words, military law should be detailed and clear, reduce operational flexibility, and minimize the space for military judges to execute at will because of their personal likes and dislikes.

Feng Dao asked, with so many soldiers and so many trivial matters, can the military law list them all?There will always be omissions, so what to do when the time comes?Li Chengzhong replied that if there are no provisions in the military law, no punishment will be imposed!It is better to have fish that slip through the net than to have innocent injustice.Li Chengzhong also explained that the reason why this military law is named "Temporary Military Disciplinary Regulations", and the word "temporary" in it is to leave an opening for making up at any time in the future.Provisions in the ordinance can be added, but human life is irreversible. Therefore, we must be cautious when enacting the law.

Feng Dao also raised objections to the punishment methods in the ordinance. He believed that the punishment was too light, and there were no deterrent laws such as tattooing, castration, and amputation of limbs in these punishment methods, which was not conducive to the formation of strict military discipline in the army.Li Chengzhong believes that the cultivation of strict military discipline does not lie in the intensity of punishment, but in letting soldiers know clearly what consequences they will bear for what they do. As long as the consequences they bear are far higher than the benefits they get, then this Such provisions will be effective.At the same time, allowing soldiers to experience the ubiquitous majesty of military law on a regular basis is much stronger than the display effect of directly executing illegal soldiers, and it is much easier to implement. …,

The two argued about this for a long time, and neither could convince the other. In the end, Li Chengzhong could only helplessly tell Feng Dao that if the soldiers who violated discipline were executed or disabled at every turn, then he would have no soldiers to use.This is also a common practice in this era. Feng Dao was silent for a long time after listening to it, and then stopped insisting.

In addition to the "Soldiers' Passage Regulations", Li Chengzhong also planned to draft the "Officers' Passage Regulations" to regulate the behavior of officers.It's just that he only has so many soldiers now, and there are not many officers, and officers like the captain are actually not officers, so the formulation of this regulation is not urgent.

In Li Chengzhong's plan, officers at the rank of corporal commander and gang commander should be counted as non-commissioned officers of later generations. These talents are the real elite core of an army.From a tactical point of view, whether an army can recruit and win battles depends to a large extent on the quality of non-commissioned officers in the army.He has an immature idea. He wants to train all the soldiers in the current front battalion as non-commissioned officers of later generations. Certain ranks, such as deputy lieutenants and school lieutenants, give better treatment than recruits, and give them better training in peacetime. Once the army expands in the future, it can quickly form a team capable of fighting army.

On December [-]rd of the second year of Guanghua, the "Internal Affairs Regulations for Soldiers in the Front Battalion of the Pingzhou Army" began to be promoted in the Bailangshan Military Village.Because there was not enough paper and silk in the army camp, only six copies of this order were copied in total, one for the commander Li Chengzhong, and one for each of Jiang Miao, Zhang Xingzhong, and Zhou Maidao from Jiadu, Yidu, and Bingdu. Wang Dalang and Zhao Da share one copy, and another copy is kept at Feng Dao's place.

The rules are learned by oral transmission. Firstly, the heads of the capitals, the officers of the teams and the heads of the gangs are required to recite them compulsorily.Under Feng Dao's sentence-by-sentence interpretation and leadership, dozens of officers above the team leader began the painful process of endorsement.After five days, all soldiers under the leadership of the team leader began to repeat the process.Ten days later, the doctrine began to be tried out.During the ten days of the trial, each group, each team, and each made statistics and feedback on the problems that occurred during the trial, and then Li Chengzhong called the officers above the team to study the feedback and suggestions, and based on the actual situation. improved.

On the first day of the first month of the third year of Guanghua, the "Internal Affairs Regulations for Soldiers in the Front Battalion of Pingzhou Army" was officially implemented.

On the first day of February in the third year of Guanghua, the "Pingzhou Army Front Battalion Soldiers Training Regulations" was officially implemented.

On the first day of March in the third year of Guanghua, the "Temporary Military Disciplinary Regulations for Soldiers in the Front Battalion of the Pingzhou Army" was officially implemented.

On the same day, the three major regulations were merged, and the "Pingzhou Army Front Battalion Soldiers Pass Regulations" was completed and officially implemented in the front camp.