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Chapter 353: Heroes, Not Saints


Before, Liu Yan was in a state of "high is not low", marrying a wife who wants to marry a high family is looked down upon, and marrying a small family is opposed even if he is willing to be subordinate.

As the territory under Liu Yan's rule became larger and larger, and it was about to be founded, he could not marry a wife purely out of his own preferences.

The so-called king has no family affairs, everything will involve or affect the country, whether it is for political significance or for marriage with other countries, there are too many particulars about what kind of women the king should accept.

The king's wife could blow the pillow wind, and that alone had a profound impact.

Let's talk about the emotional problems that arise from getting along day and night, many times other people may not be able to achieve their goals if they say that they are spitting, but the king's woman may not be able to decide the king's choice of something inadvertently.

Beauty is loved by everyone in the world, after all, everyone has a love for beauty, and it has long been said in the Book of Poetry, my fair lady and gentleman are good, and they are not gentlemen who love beautiful women.

When the identity reaches a certain height, it is very easy to want beautiful women, and a large number of beauties may pounce on them if they hook their fingers.

In the same way, rich people can attract bees and butterflies no matter what they look like, so you can't blame beauties, men like beauty, and there is no shortage of women who like material.

To say that the previous Han Department seemed a little stormy, but after the end of the war with the Qiang army, the Han Department can be regarded as showing its strength to the world.

Under Liu Yan's rule, after learning about the good news on the front line, no matter what kind of mentality they had before, knowing that their side won the victory with outnumbered people, the level of spirit and pride was rising gradually, and with the deliberate propaganda of the official, they immediately had a sense of security as the people of a strong country.

Don't underestimate the sense of security of the people of a country.

In a big way, social stability is conducive to the people's acceptance of rule, and it can also make the people feel a sense of belonging to the country, and the country has more foundation for unity in the face of difficulties.

To put it mildly, if you feel safe, you will have more hope, and if you don't worry about sudden accidents your plan being destroyed, the stable development of people's hearts will naturally come up.

The stability and unity of the country are more important than anything else, and a united country and a scattered country are absolutely in the sky and on the ground.

At present, the perspective of frequent wars in any country cannot be regarded as stable, so the people's confidence in the country is extremely important, which is reflected in the victory or defeat of foreign wars, and the ability to continue to win foreign wars must be full of confidence, and the failure of foreign wars cannot help but make people panic.

On the way to Huang 1 Island 1 District, Liu Yan could find one thing without deliberate observation, the people everywhere had broken free from their previous panic or worry, and in addition to rejoicing in the victory of the war, a kind of fanaticism was spreading.

The people were fanatical about the war, but every family that had relatives involved in the war was looking forward to what reward their loved ones would receive.

Of course, there is no shortage of worries about the death of their loved ones, but in fact, because of the Han army's pension system, the worries are not out of fear that their relatives who died in the war will lose their pillars.

There is not only a kind of anxiety that their relatives may die in battle, but also an inexplicable sense of pride, and each of them can pat their chests and say that their families have done their duty for the king and the country.

Seriously speaking, because of the complex structure of the Han Dynasty, in fact, there are far more people who are singles than people with families, and the reason why public sacrifices, incense and blood food for the fallen soldiers are taken after each war, and the starting point for the recognition of this method is that many fallen soldiers have no relatives.

The news of the founding of the country has spread all over Liu Yan's rule, and it is not a secret that the capital is temporarily set in Linzi.

This has created a phenomenon in which people who are able to move freely have already planned for the future, and they will first go to Huang 1 Island 1 District to participate in the memorial service for the fallen soldiers, and then go to Linzi to see if they have a chance to settle down.

The origin of the population under Liu Yan's rule was destined for one thing, that is, most people would be confined to a certain area, and only those with titles could move freely.

There are actually many ways to get a knighthood, not only to join the army and get meritorious deeds on the battlefield.

As a country, Lao can also get a knighthood if he contributes more, but it is more difficult.

Contributions to the country in certain fields, such as in the field of technology or science, can also be knighted.

The previous time Cai You was responsible for counting the meritorious people of the Han Department, the number was more than 20,000, and more than ninety percent of them obtained the status of meritorious people on the battlefield.

The meritorious people of the Han Dynasty were actually people who had at least the title of duke, which meant that more than 20,000 people became new nobles.

This is not a small number, and the accumulated fields, wealth, and slaves that need to be rewarded are an astronomical number, and fortunately there is no shortage of Han during the expansion period.

"This time, it's time for a rank seven or above."

"Back to the king, it is not yet known."

Liu Yan has already arrived in Huang 1 Island 1 District, which has too many memories of him.

It was so difficult at the beginning, and I was forced to move to overseas islands many times, and I don't know how many times I traveled back and forth.

At one time, Huang 1 Island 1 was thought to be a temporary administrative center, and Valhalla chose this place.

Thanks to his previous considerations, Liu Yan also had a place to stay after arriving in Huang 1 Island 1 District, and he didn't need to live in a tent anymore.

It was a residence that had been built before, and the name was called the East Palace, not the East Palace of the Prince, but it was actually just a manor.

It is built in the northeast of Huang Island 1 District 1, and it can be built on the mountain to see the sea view far away, and the view of the inland is also very wide, the only drawback is that the sea breeze is too strong.

The Han Ministry adopted a twentieth rank system, and each level of knighthood had a threshold.

Capture an enemy head to become a first-class knight.

The threshold for obtaining the first rank of public soldier here is actually lowered, if in the pre-Qin army, you need to kill the enemy's armor officer to obtain the title, but the Han soldier only needs to kill any enemy soldier to obtain this title. will lower the threshold, that is Liu Yan's desperate need for a group of emerging vested interests.

Conversely, because the threshold for obtaining the first level of the Duke title is lowered, the threshold for the second level of the upper title is raised.

After the original soldiers of the pre-Qin army became public soldiers, as long as they participated in enough battles and battles, they could get a promotion in the title and become the second-level master of the twentieth rank.

On the Han side, the Gongshi needed to kill an enemy officer in order to become a superior and then participated in at least one battle-level major battle and five small battles below the battle level.

It can be called a battle level, that is, it must be more than 50,000 troops used by both sides of the enemy, and a battle of more than 100,000 people can be called a battle.

In fact, when it is not a period of great chaos in the world, there will not be too many battles between the two sides with a total of more than 50,000 people, and the number of times when the two sides combined with more than 100,000 people will seem to be even less.

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In normal times, it is normal to have a border friction of dozens or hundreds of people, but it is relatively rare to have a large friction of thousands of people.

Fortunately for those who want to make meritorious contributions, they live in the turbulent times, and they are on this side of the implementation of the twentieth rank system, especially it should be extremely fortunate that Liu Yan's merit statistics here are not necessarily rewarded.

"The chief officers, long histories, and adjutant generals of several local battlefields will inevitably be promoted."

Liu Yan is actually more knowledgeable about who has any credit, he can't know everyone's promotion, and the promotion of some people has been set a long time ago, but he can't say it.

He had to ask: "How is the arrangement of the fiefdom done?"

After the Great War, rewarding meritorious deeds is the cornerstone of a country, and every time we even have to look for one or more typical examples and role models, but we can't find too many people.

What Liu Yan means is that this time, there will be one high-level civil and military at a time, and then look for some people with special merits from the bottom, and launch a propaganda machine to let everyone know what kind of service they have had.

The so-called fiefdom is not a fief, a fief is a reward that only has tax rights, similar to how many households in a certain title in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

After a long and serious reflection, Liu Yan confirmed that he would not take out the land to engage in any "feudalism", at least not until the scope of his rule reached its limit.

Each empire has its own maximum range of actual control, beyond which it will be beyond its reach.

It usually depends on how much time the army can reach where, generally the position that the army can reach within three months is ideal, and even if it arrives in more than three months, the daylily is cold.

The largest area of the empire was called the "Extreme Wall", and the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty adopted the strategy of setting up a capital protectorate in the face of the Imperial Extreme Wall, and the subsequent Sui and Tang dynasties also dealt with it, but the Sui and Tang dynasties created a policy of fettling the state.

The policy of the state is not difficult to understand, it is nothing more than that a place is nominally part of the territory, but it is actually a state of self-government.

Under normal circumstances, the central government appoints a local strongman as the supreme governor and appoints a certain person to an official position, but the central government is actually unable to control how to govern it.

In fact, the policy of the state is very cunning, and it can be understood that it is necessary to turn a place into a "sacred and inalienable land", retain the right to sovereignty when it is beyond the reach of the whip, and wait for enough ability to talk about what it means to be "since ancient times".

Therefore, the word "since ancient times" is too good, and the addition of "sacred and indivisible land" will appear complete.

The meaning of a paragraph is "Lao Tzu doesn't have the strength to endure it first, no matter how you toss somewhere, that place belongs to Lao Tzu at least nominally."

Not nominally Occupying a pit is a very meaningful invention, just like the stick likes to say that the whole universe is theirs, and one day the stick really rises, maybe the universe is really theirs.

There will be a number of middle lords this time, Xu Zheng will definitely be promoted to the eighth level of the public doctor, Ji Chang will be promoted to the seventh level of the public doctor, Lu Tai, Huan Wen, and Sang Yu will be promoted to the sixth level of the official doctor, and Lu Yi, Xie An, Cai You, Li Tan, Li Kuang, Tian Shuo, Zhang Shi and other twelve people will be promoted to the fifth level of the doctor.

Twenty-rank lords, the first to the third are low-class titles, the fourth to eighth are medium-class titles, the ninth to the fourteenth are high-ranking titles, the fifteenth to the nineteenth are high-ranking titles, and the marquis of Guannei can only be regarded as a lord, so the change of the marquis of the Western Han Dynasty to the liehous can only be regarded as super-grade.

The number of people who received the title of the fourth rank was close to two hundred, and they were all middle-level officers in the army.

The third-class title of hairpin was awarded to more than 700 people, who came from the middle and lower ranks of the army.

The number of people who received this title was even higher, reaching more than 2,000, and they were grassroots officers such as team leaders and chiefs, and some soldiers who were lucky enough to kill the opposing officer.

Ji Chang is already making relevant reward calculations, according to the first-level dukedom title, he can get one hectare of land, one house and one servant, then it is at least more than 20,000 hectares of land, more than 20,000 houses and more than 20,000 official slaves.

The title treatment from the second level to the eighth level increases with each level, and then the value of each level of the title is also reflected in the social status.

For example, after reaching the third level of the title of not changing, some servitude can be exempted, which is why Liu Yan thought about why he couldn't abolish the levy service, after all, what happened to abolish the servitude after the system of the twentieth rank was implemented.

After all, in the vassal states of the Spring and Autumn Period, there were three levels of secretary, doctor and scholar under the monarch, and the doctor was equivalent to a minister of the country at that time, and the doctor of some small vassal states was even the civil or military director of the country, so the title of doctor has obvious political significance.

The rest will not be stated one by one, except that each rank of the twentieth rank has its treatment and social status.

In this way, there is a special group of people in the country, who will also become the cornerstone of the country, and the twentieth rank is the one who can participate in anyone, even a slave, can build merit to change his own destiny.

In addition, the state also has a set of rules of order that are outside the law.

Liu Yan will personally preside over the knighthood ceremony of some people, mainly looking for some people who can serve as models and role models to hold it, not for the group of high-ranking people who have won the highest title this time.

Of course, he did this for the sake of propaganda, and a qualified leader always needs to grasp something that can play a role in the morale of the people of the country, and cultivate the spirit of belonging to the country and the nation by setting an example again and again.

It would not be difficult for a ruler to find a special role model, it is really a great thing to have nature, and it is possible to create such a thing if there is no one.

The truth is that the propaganda of the general state has a certain false and glorifying nature, but don't care about the details, as long as it can play a good role in encouraging, the goal will be achieved.

In fact, heroes with flaws and imperfections are more acceptable, and those who have no flaws at all are called saints.

And saints should not exist in the world, they are too far away from ordinary people, far enough to be prohibitive

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