These special environments in the early years gave the Legion Manor in "Romania" a unique cultural atmosphere.
For example, senior Baihu have a say in legion affairs.
The military theory of Zizhang believes that the state of soldiers has a great influence on combat effectiveness. It is normal for elite soldiers to go without food for several days and be dragged to death by the militiamen on the opposite side who have just had enough to eat. The Art of War says that many victories are decided before the war. Whoever can maintain the best combat effectiveness will have a very high winning rate.
Therefore, before the war, these households need to provide upward feedback on the physical strength, morale and other mental states of the soldiers. They are also responsible for conveying the opinions of the legion command downwards and encouraging the soldiers to respond.
The chief hundred of the legion is theoretically the general's permanent staff. It is his daily job to collect these opinions. Similarly, the distribution of spoils after the war and the payment of pensions are also very important processes and require the intervention of these people.
Various aristocratic families often control the army through this link.
Theoretically, today's purple tent princes do not have hereditary official positions, only ancestral honorary titles. Their actual power comes from the support of the Legion. Sending your children to local areas to serve in hundreds of households is an important way to train your abilities and gain qualifications.
Generally speaking, when a prince family is preparing to elect a new member, it will first greet its supporters.
They do not have fiefdoms in the strict sense, only a rough "high-influence area", usually where the previous generation has been in office for a long time. The fathers and brothers would select a member of the household with relatively high combat effectiveness, let him be the commander, and then send a few close veterans to assist him; or send him to a higher-level military government, and recruit him from the adjutants of his elders and generals. Start with it, wait until you are familiar with the environment, and then become the head of a hundred households on your own.
These selected units can get additional help from the princes and get better opportunities and more loot, so everyone is generally not too resistant to the "airborne" commanders. With these supports, the descendants of the princes can gain military exploits and accumulate prestige faster, which is a tacit understanding between the two parties.
Of course, things always go wrong. When it comes to war command ability, sometimes it really depends on talent. A person like Stan's level is really not good enough and makes everyone unbearable. In fact, he is not an exception.
If you encounter someone like this, you can only either work as a civil servant and make a living; or you can make an exchange with someone else and transfer to another field - the Purple Horde Khanate fights every day, and people will really die. Rather than leading everyone to their deaths, it would be better to retreat early.
Therefore, the spheres of influence of various noble families changed very frequently, and sometimes they even suddenly jumped from one end of the empire to the other. Only the few old princes who founded the country still have the ability and prestige to maintain a relatively stable range. And even then, expansion and contraction are common.
Therefore, this experience of being a member of a hundred households and the reliable team cultivated during the promotion process are one of the most important assets of princes. After being promoted, many people changed their uniforms and seals, but they still carried the cane of Baihu every day to show their resume, to show that they had been cut up from the grassroots with real swords and guns, and to get closer to the soldiers. relation.
Guo Kang has this thing at home, and he often sees it when he goes to Li Xuanying's house - Li Xuanying was often whipped by his father with this thing when he was a child.
On the other hand, these people also bring the cultural atmosphere of hundreds of households at the grassroots level to the top.
For example, charges such as "ignoring discipline", "getting close to the enemy", and "undermining unity" may be a moral issue elsewhere, but in the Legion Manor, they are a very serious crime.
Back then, such criminals would be whipped by hundreds of households, or imprisoned while awaiting trial.
At that time, there was no strict distinction between military law and civil law. The Khan's court regularly dispatched senior judicial officers with "false festivals and yue" to inspect various places and review serious cases. Citizens who have committed extremely serious crimes need to be specially tried by judicial judges. Other people in the manor and hundreds of nearby households will be invited to attend.
At that time, Zi Zhang implemented a very simple and simple ruling method: if it was a normal crime, then the manor where the prisoner was located, plus the eight manors in the surrounding circle, a total of nine hundred households, would form a committee; if it was a war, a committee would be formed. At that time, the crime was composed of ten hundred households in the brigade. If more than six people have no objections to the outcome of the trial by the judicial officer, the crime will be found guilty. Otherwise, it will be reported to the Khan's court for further trial.
The justice will stick the staff in the open space, and the families will drag the criminal under the staff, pick up their own canes, and beat him together to show that the army despises this person. After the beating, the executioner used the magistrate's ax to behead the prisoner and hung it in front of the manor or military camp.
Because the insult was so serious, the head of each household often couldn't stand it, and many resigned afterward. Many times, judicial judges would rather make a sentence of deprivation of citizenship and expulsion from the manor instead of the death penalty. Anyway, in terms of results, in a place like this, the difference between being kicked out to fend for oneself and the death penalty is not very big. .
Later, as the management organization gradually matured, the judiciary of Zizhang also gradually improved. Now that there are special courts in various places, there is no need for such a simple method.
The power of Baihu is also declining. Due to the increasing number of functions, it is almost impossible for one person to bear them all, so today's hundreds of households are often just village chiefs and military leaders.
His judicial power was divided by the superior court, and he could only temporarily arrest and deport prisoners; educating villagers in literacy, promoting planting techniques, and even reviewing accounts and checking land acres became the work of a full-time "manor teacher"; he also assisted hundreds of households It is becoming more and more formal and permanent.
Of course, many traditions can still be seen. Even the teachers at the manor like to call themselves the "Civilian Hundred Households", and they have to collectively submit a letter to the Khan's court every year, requesting that they can also carry grapevine canes. Its influence is evident.
Guo Kang feels that these traditions have indeed made the senior officials of Zizhang relatively simple, and the overall atmosphere is indeed good. But many people also retain the thinking of many middle- and lower-level officers of this era, which seems too...simple. When encountering some situations, you will be at a disadvantage.
But in any case, the impact of the hundred-household system on the purple tent is indeed far-reaching.
In fact, after the high-level provinces and hundreds of households at the grassroots level had roughly figured out a set of operating methods, the Purple Horde Khanate began to fill in the intermediate links.
The reason for this is also very simple. It is simply because the Khanate has become bigger. The estates under the direct jurisdiction of hundreds of households under the Wei Dynasty have become increasingly unmanageable. Therefore, when Li Tiance reached Li Yinglin's time, he began to set up additional military offices under the Wei Dynasty and let them manage hundreds of households in various places.
(End of chapter)
