If you want wealth, beautiful houses, pavilions, wives and concubines, everything is based on a high enough title.
In the Han Empire, nothing is more important than title!
In fact, there are many ways to obtain the title. Planting the field better, innovating some tools or inventing useful new tools, and making outstanding achievements in a certain field of officialdom and civil service are one of the ways to obtain the title, but for the vast majority of people, there is no more convenient way than going to the battlefield.
Achievements in farming? For the vast majority of Han people, farming is a necessary skill, but most people can only farm. They don't understand how to plant a good field.
Nowadays, fewer and fewer Han people are buried in farming.
Who has few slaves in his family? The work of farming was left to slaves. They were more willing to exercise their body and martial arts, so that they could go to the battlefield to win the future when they were called up.
The threshold for innovating or inventing new tools is not low. It takes a long time to accumulate enough experience and knowledge in that field. There are many people who can innovate or invent tools in 100.
Officialdom? Always have the opportunity to enter the officialdom first, and have enough ability to do a good job in the field you are responsible for.
In fact, those who have the ability to be officials will not go to the local officials if they can choose. They are more willing to enter the military system and will try their best to become a member of the military.
After all, being able to manage a place well means that your ability is not poor. You must think you can get better results in the battlefield.
Going to the battlefield is not absolutely safe, but you can choke even if you eat. There is no real security. You have to pay as much as you want, including risks.
"If I hadn't come to the western regions, I might always be a white Ding." Wang Mian is now a shangzao. He earned his title after he went to the western regions: "those people in his hometown who have been waiting for recruitment are always regretting now."
Since the 11th year of Yuanshuo, the Han Empire did not issue conscription orders on a large scale, and even county soldiers were rarely mobilized to the battlefield.
County soldiers are one of the corvees that adult men of the Han family must serve every year. Most of them serve in the county, carry out some exercises and training, and more often emphasize discipline.
Although becoming a county soldier is to lay all aspects of the foundation for becoming a standing soldier, in fact, there are not many people who can really enter the standing soldier.
Ten years before Yuan Shuo, county soldiers would be gathered and dispatched to a battlefield.
Ten years after Yuanshuo, fewer and fewer County soldiers had the opportunity to be transferred to a battlefield. Even in the 12th year of Yuanshuo, there was no record of county soldiers being transferred to the battlefield.
Once you can't go to the battlefield, the way out of the county soldiers will be cut off, and you will really become a simple corvee, with no hope.
The Indochina Peninsula was opened in the early years, and the western regions were opened in the ten years of Yuanshuo. Those who have the courage and dare to fight leave their hometown with packages on their backs. The rest thought those people were stupid before, and now they know who the real fool is.
The people in the village are not from the same place. They come together from all over the world, including Yanmen county people from the north, Liaodong people from the icy land, Cangwu people from the southernmost, and more from the northwest.
In the hinterland of the Central Plains, people from different places will form groups in different regions, and there are not many factions in a small village.
For the western regions, which may be in danger at any time, it doesn't matter where they come from at home.
In the eyes of western people, they all have a common symbol, that is, Han people.
Western talents will not kill someone because he comes from Liaodong, nor will they have varying degrees of hostility because he comes from the northwest.
As long as he is a Han, he can enjoy more convenience or privileges in the western regions than the people in the western regions, but that is based on the premise of exploiting and squeezing the people in the western regions. We can imagine the risks while enjoying convenience and privileges.
The villages where the Han people settled in the western regions faced raids from horse thieves in the early days. Even if the horse thieves were eliminated, there were still many western people in the area. They were often attacked by hostile Western people on weekdays, which triggered a lot of follow-up.
The search for criminals attacking Han villages takes place in the western regions every day. In view of the fact that the Han people are really difficult to provoke and can't be provoked by the western regions, most western regions people don't dare to hide or hide.
If you encounter a situation of hiding and concealing information, usually a village is removed from the list. The people of the western regions in the village either die or become slaves, which becomes the end of that event.
The Han people have never been soft hearted. They have effectively deterred the western people. They have not completely suppressed resistance and hostility, but they do reduce the number of western people who dare to attack the Han people.
As for those western people who still dared to trouble the Han people, depending on their fame, they gradually became the leader or important figure of a Western resistance organization, and United a considerable number of western people who had deep blood feuds with the Han people.
Western people resist? The policy of the Han people's center has not changed for the time being. If you don't resist, you will die later. If you resist, you will die earlier.
Whether the Central Committee of the Empire will change its policies is only for the executors to implement. For example, this time, the western regions' protectors once again recruited people from the people, which is a document from Chang'an. The Ministry of war asked to sort out the western regions again.
The relationship between the protectors of the western regions and the Han people in the western regions is very harmonious. One side exists as an umbrella, and the protected side also tries its best to feed back. They are an absolute minority in the western regions, which is naturally somewhat different from the mainland.
"Those who came later, they are late." Li Bing has taken people to five villages, and the materials that should be sent out, as well as the people and goods that should be brought: "in the earliest times, there were not many warriors in various countries, but at least there are. Now..."
On the other hand, the earlier you come, the more battles you can participate in. Even if you don't have the luck to cut down a rival armour to obtain the title of Duke, you can be promoted by accumulating the battles you win.
At present, the countries that should be destroyed in the western regions no longer exist. The rest simply do not have the courage and courage to disobey the Han Empire. Large-scale wars do not exist at all, even on a scale that can be called medium-sized wars. Some are small-scale encirclement and suppression operations.
The Party headed for Yancheng. First, they met another team in Shache. On the way, new teams kept coming together. Soon, the number of the whole team exceeded 5000.
"To say that the princes in the court are really worthy of being the great wise men who assist the real dragon." Su Ren said with praise, "it's a good way to recruit foreign women as wives and concubines."
Accepting Western women in the western regions is not just for beauty or for the continuation of incense. In fact, it is tantamount to making the western people behind the Western women a natural group close to the Han people.
Among the 5000 people, more than 3500 are from the western regions. Their daughters or sisters have married Han people and become relatives of the Han family.
In the western regions, don't underestimate the identity of Han family relatives. It can not only prevent Han people from burning, killing and looting, but also get some preferential policies in related taxes. More importantly, it can be selected to go with the army.
With the status of Han family relatives, the rest of the western region people will not be counselled in any aspect. If they are bullied, they can find Han people to come to the platform. If the Han people are threatened, they will lead to the western region capital guard behind them.
Now that's the case. Maybe they are also western people, but because a woman in her family married a Han, she can sing two voices: we are different, different... Different
It can't be said that the people of the western regions followed the Han army. The correct statement is that they followed the Han people. As an almost omnipotent role, he blocked the knife for the Han people when needed, served the daily life of the Han people, and rushed up to fight someone when ordered.
People in the western regions can't get the title, but they have the opportunity to become naturalized. If they can become naturalized, it's a matter of smoke from their ancestral graves. Not only he, but also his descendants can proudly shout "I'm a Han", become a member of a powerful empire, and become a wrist that can bully other nations while being protected!
Of course, it's not easy to become a naturalized nationality. After two or three years, few western people have obtained the naturalized nationality status, but there are so many western people who have obtained the good citizen certificate.
The most practical advantage for western people to go out with their Han relatives is that they can obtain wealth and goods. They can plunder freely in the process of war, which is also western people, or get rewards from their relatives later.
In the western regions where there is no national concept, even if the Han people are so obvious, those who are aware that their nation will die are still a minority.
For example, western people who choose to marry their daughter to the Han people have a very simple concept. If they marry their daughter, they can become a second-class privileged class and will no longer be harassed and looted by the Han people. On the one hand, the taxes to be paid will be appropriately reduced.
They saw the most obvious benefits. When they had benefits, they were willing to be lackeys for the Han people. As for what would happen in a few years or decades, they couldn't think so far.
Yancheng used to be the King City of kuci. Now it is the main residence of the western region capital guard. Another residence valued by the western region capital guard is bailongdui.
Pu Changhai has been regarded as a place that must be controlled since the Han people came to the western regions, not only because bailongdui is the transportation hub of the western regions, but also because that place is an important salt producing area in the western regions.
Controlling salt well can control the life and death of the surrounding people, which the Han people have long mastered. The Western Han Dynasty also completed the suzerainty over the western countries step by step by virtue of its control over salt in the western regions. Unfortunately, there was not enough time to complete the "integration".
The Eastern Han Dynasty re controlled the western regions by learning from the Western Han Dynasty. The Cao Wei and the Western Jin dynasties also used the same means, that is, they did not really integrate the western regions.
The Han Empire of this generation will use fierce means in the western regions. The great reason is that it has seen the limited results of the means used in the western regions from the Western Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty, but it has been inspired by some actions of Zhang Liangguo.
Zhang Liangguo did not expand eastward, but adopted the strategy of expanding westward. Every time they captured a place in the western regions, they either killed or drove away (or captured as slaves) the people in the western regions. Indeed, they effectively controlled that land in their hands.
The Han Empire established by Liu Yan was nothing more than treating the western regions according to the policy of Zhang Liangguo. That is, the Han Empire recovered the whole western regions at once. It still needs to take several steps. It's not good to take too much steps at once.
The main residence of the western region capital guard will be located in Yancheng, which has a very important strategic position for the western region capital guard at this stage.
Yancheng is located in the south of Beishan (Tianshan) and the east of Congling. To the east of Khotan river is a basin.
That basin is a rare area suitable for farming in the western regions. In modern times, it has become a swamp, but now the landform is very good and has been developed on a large scale by the Han people.
"We will assemble here." Su Ren settled the garrison of Fang Lun's team and gave the necessary explanation: "you have seen the people who have come here. You should understand that the scale of this action will not be small. Restrain the western people you bring and don't make any mistakes."
The recruited Han people have a very good sense of Su Ren, the military Marquis of the western regions. At the same time, they know that the next step is to work under Su Ren's command. Naturally, they respond respectfully.
"Don't look at the name of Su junhou is Ren..." Wang Mian looked around and told his hearsay news: "he is a role in Yanqi that can stop children from crying."
People who came to the western regions know Yanqi and have heard about what happened in Yanqi.
The Han people encountered the most fierce resistance when they entered the western regions. As a result, the Yanqi people also suffered an almost devastating blow. The treatment of Yanqi people is almost close to the Capricorn people. You can imagine what a rolling scene is.
"Strange!" Fang Lun thought he was not a person who had never seen a big scene. Looking at such a large station, he combined what he saw and heard: "it doesn't look like a simple encirclement and suppression. Shule people can't afford such treatment. It's enough to deal with Shujie, but..."
"There are two divisions in the camp next to us." Wang Mian said mysteriously, "I guess there is a big movement."
One division of the standing army is five thousand, and two divisions are ten thousand.
A place like the western regions can send 10000 Han troops, plus about 20000 Han warriors recruited, as well as 80000 western region followers and auxiliary soldiers. They don't just want to destroy those guys.
"Is it hunit?" Fang Lun was suddenly excited: "I heard that the Shujie people ran to the hunit people. They must deal with the hunit people!"
Wang Mian was stunned and then became excited.
Today's Han people are afraid that there is no place to obtain military merit. If there are too few enemies, there will be less military merit that can be obtained. Everyone wants to be able to enter a certain war!