Before Meng Tian went to war, he was just a title of right-winger.

After returning from a war for a few years, he was directly promoted to the position of marquis.

For the old Qin people who are keen on fighting and exchanging military merits, there is no more inspiring story than this.

You should know that even Wang Jian, who was recognized as the strongest after Bai Qi, was able to be granted the title of marquis after fighting so many wars and destroying so many countries.

There has been no big battles these years. The old Qin people who have long been idle to fight in the village have wanted to go to the north and west as if they were on fire.

Not only nobles, but also ordinary people.

Because Wang Xiao could not only reward Meng Tian. If he really did this, Meng Tian would have to be attacked when he went out.

According to the system of military merit awards, everyone from Meng Tian to the grassroots soldiers were rewarded.

Everyone has benefits, that is the real morale of the army.

Slaves like Song Heming who treated soldiers as slaves and asked to give everything and could not even raise their own children to protect the land and property of the emperor and scholars.

People with normal IQs will not expect to succeed in this kind of thing.

The reason why they immediately soared their combat effectiveness after they turned to the barbarians was that they changed from proletarian to proletarian.

The same is true for the old Qin people.

They are not afraid of death when fighting. They will execute any orders issued by the emperor and general. The root cause is that they know to obey orders and fight with the war. If they win, they can share the benefits.

The reason why the six kingdoms were defeated by Qin before was the same.

Qin State was united in fighting for its own benefit.

But the land benefits of the six countries were all nobles, and ordinary people even wanted to join Qin and use their only life to fight for property.

Qin destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world. This is a general trend that cannot be changed.

Not only the old Qin people, but also the entire world, except for the royal nobles, merchants and landlords of the six countries, they all want the Qin people to unify the world.

In recent years, the old Qin people have been recruited, and most of them have worked as county soldiers and guards in various counties. They will go back as soon as the service period is over.

In this case, don’t even think about military merits or anything. Because no one has any, there is nothing.

But as soon as the matter of the Great Wall Legion came out, the flames of years of fighting for military merits were calmed down and burned again.

Countless people are asking, connecting, and pushing.

They only want to do one thing, that is, to gain military merit in war.

When everyone in a country begins to want to fight, the emperor cannot stop it.

Wang Xiao heard the voices of these people and saw their will.

So Wang Xiao arranged a new enemy for them to satisfy their desire to obtain military merits.

In history, Zulong chose Baiyue in the south. He fought for many years and suffered numerous casualties. Finally, he opened up the three counties south of the Five Ridges.

Now, Wang Xiao is still slowly rushing to Baiyue, preparing to spend decades to explore the land of the three counties.

There is no road there, there is miasma everywhere, such as schistosomiasis.

Throwing hundreds of thousands of troops into such places will be crazy unless Wang Xiao goes crazy.

In fact, Zulong said that he was a 500,000 army southward, but in fact, there were not many real troops, most of them were immigrants.

Like a son-in-law in the city, a slave criminal, or something like that.

I migrated so many people to the three counties in order to completely make the land of China.

This is also an important reason why the troops here did not go north when the world was in chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

Not only is the road not smooth, but more importantly, it is difficult for these people to have any sense of identity with Daqin. Their home has long been settled south of the Five Ridges.

This time, Wang Xiao chose the west side and went directly to the Western Regions.

China in history has expanded to the geographical limit suitable for farming.

To the north is a grassland with sand and soil, to the south is a dense jungle that cannot be seen at first sight, to the east is a vast ocean, and to the west, you can only reach the foot of the Tianshan Mountains suitable for cultivation through the narrow Hexi Corridor.

Therefore, the strong Han and prosperous Tang dynasties all the way westward.

However, the Song and Ming dynasties could not touch the Western Regions at all.

From this point of view, you can see clearly which one is stronger and which one is weaker.

Wang Xiao arranged for the old Qin Ruishi to explore the Western Regions, not for the three beauties of the Western Regions. He did it for the fertile land between the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.

As for whether to win or not, Wang Xiao was not worried at all.

The current Daqin has completely entered the era of iron smelting from the copper smelting era.

Most of the copper is used as copper coins. Even so, it is still not enough. The copper mines all over the world consume a large number of barbarian miners every year, but the output is still not enough.

Wang Xiao has even begun to prepare to put precious metals such as gold and silver into the market to increase the value and liquidity of the currency.

In the pre-Qin era, copper smelting technology had reached its peak.

With the help of Wang Xiao, the iron smelting technology that had just started to sprout directly skipped the early exploration stage and entered the practical stage.

At this time, the barbarians on the northern grasslands were still polishing the teeth of wild wolves and making arrows.

In the Western Regions, there are not many people who know how to smel copper.

When the Qin army, wearing iron armor, holding iron weapons, and riding three-piece war horses, arrived in the Western Regions through the Hexi Corridor, the locals were probably scared to death.

Wang Xiao once again revised the military merit award system, further weakened the existence of slaves, and consolidated the principle of rewards being close to each other.

There were slaves in Qin State. When they received military titles on the battlefield, they received not only the fields and houses, but also the distributed slaves.

In addition, Qin State has low status, and they are all the criminals who are in the forefront of the war.

Those who are above the standard peasants are called Chinese people, while those who are poor are savages.

It is not the kind of savage living in the forests and mountains, but refers to the poor and proletarians.

In a narrow sense, Chinese people refer to people in the city. Because in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, many countries were a city. Those who live in the city naturally became Chinese people.

In a broad sense, Chinese people refer to those who have property and land, who can gain benefits from the country and are willing to fight for the country.

In short, rich people.

In a narrow sense, savages are people who live outside the city during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

In a broad sense, savage refers to all the poor and lowly people.

In short, poor people.

An important reason why Qin State can fight is that even the savages with low status have the opportunity to gain wealth on the battlefield with their own lives.

Among the Kanto countries, this opportunity belongs to the class above the scholars.

Wang Xiao has always wanted to eliminate these things, so every time he wins a battle, he will make some modifications to the military merit award system.

When fighting, we should give those with low status as much as possible a chance to fight.

Just like when we attacked Henan and set up Jiuyuan counties, most of the soldiers were the lowest-level people.

Through this war, they obtained a large amount of land, land and houses in Jiuyuan County, and many people left their hometowns and lived a life of middle peasants or above there.

Wang Xiao also took this opportunity to modify the military merit system and set the argument that the rewards of beautiful houses are mainly based on new land occupation.

In Jiuyuan County, the Hexi Corridor, basically there are soldiers who have made contributions to settle down.

Wang Xiao recruited the poor people from Qin and began his first Western Expedition.

These people will make contributions during the journey of the Western Expedition, and then they will be assigned to fertile lands in rich places north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and will settle there from then.

Over the years, Wang Xiao seems to have lived in the palace of Xianyang City, but in fact he has done many useful things.

Through war, we can break our identities, completely cancel our humble family, promote iron smelting instead of copper smelting and promote it quickly, and give civilians all over the world the opportunity to obtain surnames.

The civilians in the Warring States Period had only names but no surnames.

In other words, their name is as one word.

Only when you reach a certain level, such as a scholar or above, can you have a surname if you are an official or an official.

In other words, only those whose ancestors were nobles and who had surnames were qualified to inherit.

Just like Liu Bang, because his ancestors were a junior doctor in Jin hundreds of years ago, even though they had become civilians, they still had surnames.

The reason why Confucius' surname was Kong was because his family was a small noble family.

Giving civilians the right to obtain surnames seems like an ordinary little thing. In essence, it breaks the barriers between classes.

This barrier was not destroyed in eight hundred years of the Zhou Dynasty.

If Wang Xiao had not been the King of Qin whose prestige reached its peak, he would have been besieged by the nobles long ago.

He was constantly digging out the foundations of the nobles and transforming the entire Qin Dynasty bit by bit.

Wang Xiao, who kept weakening the nobles, treated the civilians one after another, and gave benefits.

Tax reduction and tax exemption are common. In the event of famine, not only will it be fully exempted, but disaster relief pensions will be even issued so that ordinary people can survive.

The continuous revision of Qin's laws is also in a direction that favors civilians.
To be continued...