Hand-copied texts of the "Twelve Orders of Honor" were quickly distributed to every official participating in today's discussion.
Some of them have participated in previous discussions and are therefore familiar with the terms above, while others have only heard of them but have never seen them.
The so-called Tiance Twelve Ranks System is actually a road map for meritorious service, land occupation, promotion, and knighthood!
It’s a Song Dynasty version of the military merit system!
In fact, this military merit title is the same as the government military system. It is not a progressive thing at all. No one in the Great Song Dynasty does not know these two things.
Among them, the government military system has been discussed repeatedly, and many famous ministers and officials have agreed. But he didn't dare to do it in a big way, so he could only stop at it and get a camp archer.
As for the reason, of course it involves the land that everyone loves...
The military merit title is a more troublesome thing than the military system. This is a system that changes the rules of official promotion!
The conferring of officials and titles cannot be too "excessive", so the total number of officials and titles must be controlled. Otherwise, once the disadvantages of redundant officials and titles appear, it will consume the country's financial resources and exhaust the available resources. Land - the soldiers of the government received the land assigned by their posts, and the officials also had to be assigned the fields by their posts, and once they were ennobled, they had to add a portion of the land... It is easy to grant the land, but it is difficult to take it back!
Therefore, if there are too many officials and nobles, the military system cannot be maintained for a long time.
Therefore, once this military merit title is implemented, the path to imperial examination and recruitment into official positions will definitely be narrowed!
In Zhao Kai's vision, when the Song Dynasty reopens in the future, it will no longer be able to carry out special examinations to become officials...at least not until it goes straight to Huanglong and sweeps across the grassland!
Only in this way can he become an official through meritorious service.
However, there is still a process from doing meritorious service to becoming an official. Being able to kill people does not mean being able to become an official!
Therefore, after meritorious deeds, honors are awarded first, followed by entry into the government, land grant, admission to school, and official examination.
The so-called "entering the mansion" refers to entering the military mansion. Tiance's armies will have corresponding military mansions in the future, and there will be Zhechong mansion under the military mansion.
The military commanders of the various armies are in charge of the superior soldiers and generals, while the various prefectures and Zhechong Prefecture are in charge of military registration and camp fields.
In other words, the soldiers of Tiance Prefecture were under the jurisdiction of the respective armies when they were on active duty, and were under the jurisdiction of the Military Prefecture and Zhechong Prefecture after returning home.
In this way, the personal control of the military commanders over the soldiers will be greatly weakened, and Zhao Kai himself can more effectively control the soldiers' families and industries through the Tiance government...
Soldiers with field titles and official positions are more valuable. There must be many people who want to do it, so there will be a certain threshold.
To become a government soldier, you must first be recruited into the army, and after passing the assessment, become a servant of the Tiance Army.
Only after a utility man has made meritorious service or served for a certain period of time can he join the government and become a soldier of Tiance Mansion.
The soldiers of Tiance Mansion are divided into twelve levels, which are called the Twelve Honors of Tiance. From bottom to top, they are "lower, middle higher" Yi Cong, "lower middle upper" scholar, "lower middle upper" doctor, and "lower middle upper" Qing. There are higher-ranking knights after Shangqing, but the title has not yet been decided.
Once a utility scholar enters the government, he will be awarded the title of "Xiayi Cong" and will also be granted land. The standard for land grant to "Xiayi Cong" is "one hundred acres of middle field" (if the upper and lower fields are actually awarded, it will be reduced or increased) , one hundred acres will be awarded if you go up one meritorious rank, and one thousand, two hundred acres will be granted to the highest rank.
Of course, these land grants do not grant ownership rights, but the right to use them for a certain period of time. The tentative time limit is one Jiazi, which is sixty years. Unless the person to whom the land was granted is still alive after sixty years, the land must be recovered.
After conferring farmland, of course he becomes an official!
Those who are of the third rank cannot be an official, but when they are promoted to corporal, they are eligible to be a ninth rank official. From corporal to superior, the first-level honors correspond to the first-level officers.
However, being qualified does not mean that you can become an official. There are two routes to becoming an official. One is to enroll in school first and then take the official test; the second is to take the official test.
Enrollment is to first go to a government school run by the Tiance Military Mansion to learn how to be an official (including being an officer). After completing the studies, you will pass the exam and then be awarded an official position.
The examination officer refers to the honorary holder who is qualified to be an official and passes the official examination to obtain the qualifications to be an official.
If you don't have a title, of course you can be an official... The imperial examination must still be retained. A maximum of thirty Jinshi can be selected in one examination, so take the exam based on your ability!
In addition, the official route of Zhengpi and Yinbu cannot be cancelled, but that is not the right path. If you cannot make up for the imperial examination or military merit, the room for improvement is very limited.
The right path in the future will be, firstly, military merit; secondly, only thirty Jinshi can be obtained in one examination.
Finally, the military school will also be open to the children of the soldiers. They can learn literature and martial arts in the school. After they have the skills, it will be much easier to join the army and become officials. This is actually a hidden upward path!
As long as conditions are ripe, these military academies will become military academies or juvenile military academies...but that will be a long time later.
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It was quiet in the lobby. Although Zhao Kai allowed everyone to speak freely, for a while, everyone was silent.
To be honest, everyone present had considerable concerns about the implementation of the two basic policies of "dividing farmland and sharing the world" and "relying on military merit for getting rich and promoted".
If these two basic policies were proposed before the Song Dynasty, although they would cause some controversy, they would still be relatively easy for people to accept.
Because at that time, for the majority of members of the poor landlord class, the main way to climb up was military merit. Even for some high-ranking noble families, obtaining military merit is also an important means for them to seize greater power. However, the starting prices of these high-ranking talents are different. They start as generals and do not need to start a team.
However, in the Song Dynasty, especially during the Xuanhe period, which was more than a hundred years after the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, the idea that "everything is inferior, only reading is high" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people... Oh, this is not just an idea. , or a method of distributing social wealth and power that is more beneficial to most people within a certain period of time.
That's right! There are certainly advantages to using the imperial examination as a way to rise for the poor landlord class, compared with using military merit as a way to rise for the poor landlord class.
Because military merit does not necessarily come from killing foreigners and fighting national wars!
You can gain military honors by rebelling, fighting a civil war, or even conducting a coup!
If all the poor landlords in the world are thinking about killing people and doing meritorious service in order to rise, it is not only the people who are emperors above who cannot feel at ease. The working people below also have to live in fear... A good life may be shattered by a burst of Yuyang drums that shake the ground!
Therefore, after this system was established in the Song Dynasty, it was only put into use by Zhu Yuanzhang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. Later, it was magically modified to create a military household system.
But Zhao Kai has no choice now, because the treasures he brought out from Kaifeng Mansion and the treasures he looted in Hebei have now been spent - his army has expanded to 90,000 people!
Just the cost of settling in and purchasing equipment, coupled with the rewards after the previous victories, had already emptied Zhao Kai's treasury!
So starting from May, Zhao Kai's army can only receive half pay.
Even with half pay, Zhao Kai still wanted his subordinates to support him as emperor, and was also preparing to further expand his army to two to three hundred thousand after seizing the Shaanxi and Henan prefectures... He did not engage in government military system or military merit. , how can it be done?
What kind of territory are Shaanxi, Hedong, and Henan Prefecture (Luoyang)? How is it possible to support 200,000 to 300,000 soldiers with the tax revenue from these territories?
"Your Majesty, implement the "Twelve Ranks System"! If you don't implement it... we won't be able to afford military pay!"
The handsome governor Shi Lu Yihao was the first to speak, and he spoke through gritted teeth! As a scholar-bureaucrat with an imperial examination background, he certainly knows what the "Twelve Orders System" means?
But he is the long-time head of Zhao Kai's family, and he knows best how weak Zhao Kai's treasury is! If you don't make the cakes bigger, you don't know if the people below will be willing to help conquer the world! And what he is doing with Zhao Kai now... he can only succeed, not fail!
"Brother, I, Han Er, also think that the "Twelve Ranks System" is very good!" Han Shizhong then expressed his support for the "Twelve Ranks System", "Brother Chen suggested that the "Twelve Ranks System" be announced immediately among all armies. "This way, things will be easier to handle after arriving in Taiyuan!"
What he was talking about was, of course, supporting Zhao Kai as emperor!
"Second brother said it is absolutely true!" Zhang Jun and third brother Zhang immediately followed up and supported, "With this "Twelve Orders System", the generals below are our own. If you don't support eldest brother, who else can you support?"
Zhao Kai nodded to show his appreciation. We don’t have money to distribute, but we still need everyone’s support and help to conquer the world. Of course we can only distribute “shares”! This "Twelve Orders System" is actually a certain type of employee stock ownership.
After Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun finished their speeches, the atmosphere in the lobby became noticeably livelier. A group of generals linked the support of Zhao Kai as emperor to the implementation of the "Twelve Orders System". Of course I have to agree enthusiastically.
Zhao Kai just nodded, but still did not speak. Finally, he turned his attention to Yue Fei and Yue Pengju, who had been silent. What he cared about most was actually the advice of the twelfth brother.
Yue Fei frowned, as if he had been thinking hard, "Brother, speed is more important than long-term...and our strength is not very strong, so is there any way to cheer everyone up?" , just use it!
At this time, you have to use a knife to kill a chicken! "
Zhao Kai understood what Yue Fei was talking about?
Being the emperor is just the beginning of a journey...because he wants to reopen the Great Song Dynasty, so after he ascends the throne, there will be a series of battles!
Moreover, Zhao Kai's army is actually not very strong. There are too many recruits and the sources of veterans are mixed. If the morale is not raised high, I am afraid that it will not be able to achieve an overwhelming momentum. Once this momentum drops, trouble will arise. Big.
"Okay!" Zhao Kai said loudly, "Peng Ju said it well. At this time, all of us must do our best! Gujia will give you three days, no, just two days, and we must make sure that the brothers below are all It’s good to know the “Twelve Orders System”!
Two days later, we enter Taiyuan... and reopen the Great Song Dynasty! "
The people below shouted loudly: "Long live! Long live! Long live!"
