1. The distribution of the forty legions is as follows. It is set that the three military divisions of Anton, Anxi and Anbei each have five legions. Among them, the Andong military division deals with the Song and Liao countries in the east, and the Anbei military division deals with the Mobei tribe.

With the Liao Kingdom, the Anxi Military Division dealt with the Russians, Turks and all bandits from Europe to the west. In the Hezhong area to the west, in addition to the five legions under the Anxi Military Division, there were also five directly under the General's Office.

Legions, the total garrison in Hezhong is 50,000, and the same is true in Guanzhong. In addition to the five legions directly under the Andong Military Division, there are also five legions directly under the General's Mansion. The total garrison in Guanzhong is also 50,000. Guanzhong and Hezhong

They are all set to have a population of more than 5 million, with infantry and cavalry accounting for half each. Due to the weak carrying capacity of the northern grasslands, the Xia Kingdom is set to only control a nomadic population of 1 million, so the establishment of the five legions of the Anbei Military Division is already at its limit.

, all are cavalry, and although the Shu area behind the Xia Kingdom has a population of more than 5 million, there are no enemies, and the Shu people are not warlike, so there are only five legions, all of which are infantry.

They are all legions directly under the General's Mansion. There are twenty legions in total, half of them are infantry and cavalry, including five standing legions directly under the General's Mansion. In addition, there is a Weiyuan Town established by the General's Mansion, which is located at the Ural Pass and is blocked.

The passage for Europeans to enter Siberia is right next to Zhang Zhongyao's fiefdom. Here are stationed one infantry corps and one cavalry corps directly under the general's palace. In this way, all aspects of defense are acceptable. In the future, I will take Song Dynasty,

The settings of the Liao and Western countries are written down, but everyone also roughly knows that Xia is surrounded by enemies on all sides, so it should be reasonable.

It was a very early primitive firecracker that even Xia Guo himself did not dare to use widely. The reasonable explanation for the slow development of the technology tree in these hundred years is that in order to check and balance each other, the previous time traveler Chen De belonged to a group of three people. He was

The one who is responsible for military affairs, and the other two who are responsible for politics and technology have not traveled through time, so Chen De is not good at climbing the technology tree at all, haha

The Xia State should be focusing on the manufacture of very sophisticated long cannons and truly practical guns, while the Liao State directly introduced mortars that were easy to make and suitable for siege. The Song State had both, and was the first to equip them.

Plant wooden-handled fireguns (or early matchlocks) because firearms have not yet played a decisive role in the period of replacement of hot and cold weapons. Therefore, the development of firearms in the three countries should have their own merits. Xia State has a greater future, which is the right direction.

, but the battlefield effect will not completely overwhelm the opponent.

However, because the Song Dynasty made firearms in government-run factories, there were some quality problems. In addition, in order to prevent the chamber from exploding, officers and soldiers of the firearms battalion deliberately reduced the charge during actual combat, resulting in insufficient power. This would suffer in actual combat.

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2. The national bird of Xia Kingdom: homing pigeon

The third emperor once said that it was swords, merchants, the Inquisition and carrier pigeons that made Xia a unified country.

There are carrier pigeon stations all over the Xia Kingdom. The military pigeon stations are under the responsibility of the Military Intelligence Department. The symbol of the Military Intelligence Department is the carrier pigeon. The carrier pigeons of the Xia Kingdom were originally used to convey military information. Later, the School Lieutenant Conference and the Tribunal Conference were used to communicate with scholars from all over the country.

To exchange messages, carrier pigeons began to be used on a large scale. Later, merchants used carrier pigeons to transmit commercial information from Luoyang to Constantinople. Later, raising and racing carrier pigeons became one of the most common hobbies of Xia people. There are more than 100 carrier pigeons in the country.

Millions of heads. While the rich people of the Song Dynasty were building gardens and playing songstress, the wealthy people of the Xia Kingdom were keen on equestrianism and racing pigeons. Stargazing was a fashion in the Xia Kingdom. The record of stargazing in the Bachelor's Mansion proves the wonders of the Western Regions.

The law of universal gravitation mentioned in the book.

After more than a hundred years of selective breeding, Xiaguo military pigeons are heat-resistant and have special varieties that are good at night flying and flying over plateaus.

Because of the vast territory of the Xia Kingdom, starting from the founding emperor Chen De, he began to carry out large-scale selection and breeding of carrier pigeons, and used carrier pigeons for communication. The flight speed of the carrier pigeons used by the Xia State military reached an astonishing 70 kilometers per hour (the speed of modern medium-distance carrier pigeons

(48-95 km/h), and the distance between each two pigeon stations is 350 kilometers. Under medium circumstances, it takes 5 hours for each homing pigeon to fly from the first station to the next station. There are only 10 pigeon stations from the capital to the border, ensuring that the normal

In winter, information can be delivered within 10 days and round-trip within 20 days. In summer, when the sunshine time is long, ordinary homing pigeons will arrive at one station in the morning and afternoon. Information can be delivered within 5 days, and round-trip within 10 days. Special fast pigeons can fly at a speed of 90

Kilometers per hour, you can also fly at night, and fly from pigeon post to pigeon. Information from the capital to the border can be reached within 2 to 3 days at the fastest, and round trip within 5 to 7 days.

In the beginning, homing pigeons were often hunted by humans and preyed upon by falcons. The Military Intelligence Department adopted a completely different solution. They offered rewards to anyone who could capture military homing pigeons. As a result, in just thirty years, there were many low-flying homing pigeons in the relay.

All pigeon breeds that took a lot of rest and were not wary of humans were eliminated. Once it was discovered that the pigeons were being preyed upon by falcons, the Military Intelligence Department would send personnel to destroy all the eagle nests within a few hundred miles of the pigeon station where the incident occurred. Later, Xia Guohe

When the Kievan Rus' State was developing, good people said that the Xia State, symbolized by the dove, and the Kievan Rus' State, symbolized by the eagle, were natural enemies.

After the Military Intelligence Department established the initial military pigeon post network, Cao Cao, the Prime Minister's Office, was unwilling to borrow the Military Intelligence Department's network and established his own carrier pigeon network. Later, Fuhaixing established a civilian carrier pigeon network, and later many businessmen also

Independent routes were established, and civilian enthusiasts became more popular. The sky in Xia's cities and villages was filled with pigeons. The Military Intelligence Department had a laissez-faire attitude towards this, because the more homing pigeons in the sky, the easier it would be to cover the Military Intelligence Department.

Dedicated homing pigeon.

The pigeon post business gradually became a major industry comparable to the later information industry. After the cost was reduced, literati even carried pigeons to convey popular poems. When Su Shi came out with a noun, five days later, there were chants in the river. This is why.

By the way, under the Xia Kingdom's copyright protection, the author's consent is not required for printing anthologies, but the publisher has to pay royalties to the government based on the number of prints, and the government and the author share a 30-70 share. Therefore, the Liu family and the Su family, where poetry and prose are highly popular,

They are all authors who got rich from publishing.

When eating pigeon meat in the Xia Kingdom, the store must present documents proving the origin of the pigeon, because eating pigeons is illegal, and eating military pigeons is a felony that can be sent to a labor camp.

3. The lieutenants and tribunes who come to the capital in turn to discuss matters, the national treasury, the people's treasury, and the inner treasury

The Xia Kingdom has about 40 states and 400 counties. Each county has a population ranging from 50,000 to 100,000. There are one school captain, one school official, two tribunes, and three priests (in addition to each being responsible for the parish, forming a three-person collegial religious system).

Inquisition), seven magistrates (one, three or seven people's collegiate trial), each tribune has ten subordinates, the priests have two attendants, the academics and the magistrates each have twenty attendants, in addition to

, the county magistrate appointed by the Prime Minister's Office has 200 local subordinates, the state pastor has about 500 subordinate staff, and the number of subordinate staff nationwide is more than 100,000 (county magistrates and state pastors need scholar status, subordinate staff

No need), plus about 200,000 active-duty sergeants, the ratio of officials to civilians is about 1:100.

In addition to taking on local military and political affairs, the lieutenants and tribunes also assume the functions of the national legislative body. Every year, about half of the lieutenants and tribunes in each state are in the capital. When the lieutenants are in the capital, they are responsible for military affairs.

The appointed centurion acted on his behalf, and local tribune affairs were handled by two tribunes in rotation.

According to the ever-increasing oath to protect the country, under normal circumstances, the National Protectorate Assembly and the People's Protector Assembly located in Dunhuang, the capital of the country, will notify the voting issues six months, three months, and one month in advance respectively, depending on the urgency and importance of the event.

Lieutenants and tribunes in various places can also have ample opportunities to exchange opinions with their respective sergeants and tribunes and consider voting options. Lieutenants and tribunes in the capital can also come to the local level through Pigeon Post to exchange opinions.

You can also discuss it with other colleagues.

In times of extreme emergency, the Xia Emperor could issue an arbitrary decree, which would be implemented with the approval of more than 200 captains and more than 400 tribunes in the capital, and would later be supplemented and corrected by the captains and tribunes still in the local area.

The lieutenants and tribunes in the capital are rotated in installments. Although the term is one year, about one tenth of them will be rotated back to their original station every month. The lieutenants and tribunes can be rotated in the shortest possible time.

During the eight-month stay in Dunhuang to attend the conference, I got to know most of the other captains and tribunes, and they were able to develop good personal relationships with each other.

Whether a vote is secret or public is decided by the captain and tribune themselves.

During their stay in the capital, in addition to discussing affairs, the captains also have to receive training from the military academy. The General Office will arrange high-quality military courses to improve the quality of the captains, and appoint generals through observation and evaluation based on the captains' military exploits. The captain is

The only way to be promoted to a general is that a lieutenant can generally accumulate meritorious service and obtain the title of Marquis Che, the highest level among non-hereditary titles. A general is responsible for the entire army and a certain area of ​​military affairs. Those with respected status among the generals are awarded the title of general, but the general is not

Teach people easily.

The status of a school lieutenant in the Xia Kingdom was already very high. Zhao Xingde was promoted to a school lieutenant five years after he entered Xia. At the age of 27, he was already the youngest person in the school lieutenant meeting at that time. Moreover, he was a school lieutenant of the Chengying Army, one of the guards, and had

The right to cast two votes.

Since the founding of the Xia Kingdom, various statutory taxes have entered the national treasury, and the tribune conference has been carried out for the expenses of the tribune conference itself at the national, state, and county levels, as well as to support some administrative systems that are necessary not to be subordinate to the Prime Minister's Office.

For special projects, a three-level people's bank has been established. If the administrative system is inefficient, the tribune meeting will not agree to the project requests put forward by the Prime Minister's Office and prefecture and county magistrates, and allocate the budget to the people's bank, through the people's bank bidding or

Establish an extraordinary institution to realize the intention. However, the Council of Captains has the power to veto all resolutions of the Tribunal Conference, because force has the final say in this era. The emperor's accession to the throne requires the consent of both the Council of Governors and the Tribunal, but impeachment

The emperor's power lies only in the meeting of captains and not in the meeting of protectors.

The Xia Kingdom's treasury allocates a fixed amount of money to the royal family every year, and the royal families of various countries often give large sums of money to the Xia Kingdom's royal family. Among the royal households, there are those who need to hand over 30% of their annual income, and there are also those who do not need to hand over their income, such as the royal tax collectors.

, depending on habits and traditions. At the same time, starting from the founding emperor Chen De, the royal family has been operating various industries. Chen De has many patents, and apprenticeship money has generated a large amount of funds. These funds have been invested for hundreds of years, forming a business comparable to

The imperial family has a huge inner treasury that floats around the sea, and the royal family also exerts influence on the country through the economic power of the inner treasury. The royal inner treasury accepts gifts from foreign countries and localities must be announced. If one of the Imperial Council and the Guardian Council deems it inappropriate, it will be fully

into the national treasury, but the operation of the imperial treasury is not open to the public, and is in charge of the internal finance minister appointed by the Chen family. Several of the internal ministers and their entourage are paid by the national treasury, and the emperor appoints them without the consent of the parliament.

Ministers and recruited followers need to pay their own salaries.

4. Military education and nobility of Xia Kingdom

Zhao Xingde, who was a student in the Song Dynasty, would undergo a complete reforging of military education after entering the Xia Dynasty.

Military education in the Xia Kingdom began with tutoring and private schooling. The lofty status of sergeants made the people of the country embrace martial arts. Boys would be taught riding, swordsmanship, spearmanship, archery and other battle skills from an early age. Good tutoring and military private schools would be based on

According to the boy's characteristics, targeted training is carried out so that he has a greater chance of surpassing his peers and becoming a sergeant. Among the twenty men of the Xia Kingdom, only one can successfully become a sergeant through the sergeant method. Due to the competitive nature

Due to the relationship between selection and recruitment, the standards for recruiting sergeants have been continuously improved. The successful ones are certainly selected by the elite, and most of the eliminated ones also have certain military qualities. Men who do not receive military education are looked down upon in the Xia Kingdom. Everyone's concept

Yes, even if you cannot become a sergeant, the education received by this generation will have a certain impact on the quality of your children. There are many successful examples of three generations of martial arts training producing a sergeant.

Whether one becomes a sergeant is certainly due to family background and education, but in such a high-intensity competition among sergeants in the Xia Kingdom, personal talent and diligence also play an extremely important role. If a wealthy family does not have an heir with such a talent, he can carefully explore it.

A boy who is expected to become a sergeant should be given favors from a young age, and then become his shelter after he is promoted to a sergeant. If not, find a sergeant son-in-law, which will save a lot of trouble.

Private military education is the foundation of the Xia people's military quality, and the training after joining the army is even more rigorous. The sergeants have to compete with their equally outstanding peers for the position of ten-commander, and they also have to learn to strictly enforce discipline and learn to live the political life of citizens. Finally, these

It is very important for a captain to climb up to become a centurion or even a captain. The Xia army believes that courage, discipline, and tactics are the magic weapons for the army to win. The order of importance is discipline, tactics and courage, and strategy is more important.

A problem at the top. Discipline can make up for the lack of courage and tactics, but the latter two can hardly replace the former. Therefore, the sergeants of the Xia army are taught discipline first, followed by tactics. Those who do not have the courage to face battles will not be able to succeed in Xia.

Mix it up in the national army.

After sergeants are promoted to captains of ten and centurions, they will receive courses arranged by the regiment and the military commander to improve their overall quality and understanding of tactics. The education and assessment of captains are jointly conducted by the general's office and the sergeant's office. The general

With the Grand Master personally giving lectures, a Xia captain can lead troops in battles, propose proposals that are very targeted at current problems, and can also sit down and discuss natural history with you.

The Xia Kingdom was mainly a society in which scholars were in power. Both the School Lieutenant Conference and the Tribune Conference were wary of nobles participating in the distribution of power. Therefore, the hereditary nobility of the Xia Kingdom were still dominated by the founding nobles. The main body of the Xia Kingdom's aristocrats

He is a military aristocrat. If you hear someone calling another person a lord in the Xia Kingdom, he is probably a Chehou. On the contrary, among the hereditary nobles, except for the true founding prince, they generally do not want to be called by a title.

, many princes even chose to give up Yin Jue.

However, the nobility still has influence accumulated over generations. The most obvious one is the founding princes who own fiefs ranging from tens of thousands to 100,000 acres. They use the method of providing additional land grants to attract subordinates and tenants. The founding emperor Chen De

To reward the meritorious officials, many ways to make money also attracted them to become shares, making many of the founding princes rich. The connections accumulated in the army, the huge fiefdoms and wealth, the Chen royal family's rewards for the meritorious officials, and the extreme strictness among the hereditary nobles of the Xia Kingdom

The military education of many founding heroes has made many families of the founding heroes endure for a long time. Emperors and parliaments of the past dynasties have created a large number of frontier families in the process of opening up territories. Although these people do not have noble titles, they are local aristocratic families and big landowners.
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