In the imperial garden and pavilion, Yu Wenwen was examining his daughter's homework. The method was to memorize poetry. The poem he memorized was called "Mulan Poems (Vocabulary)", which is a famous folk song of the Northern Dynasty.

Yu Wen Huiying and Yu Wen Qiongying, who were the same age, took turns reciting, and their tender child voices were paired with "Mulan Poems", demonstrating the style of the heroine Mulan.

"Jiji and Jiji, Mulan is weaving in a family, and she does not hear the sound of the loom, but only hears the sigh of the girl."

"...I saw the military post last night, and the Khan ordered a large army, and the twelve volumes of military books, and the master's name was written in a volume."

"...When you travel thousands of miles to the military, you will fly like a mountain. The north qi spreads to the golden slabs, and the cold light shines on the iron cloak."

"... When I returned, I saw the emperor. The emperor sat in the Mingtang. Ce Xun turned twelve times and rewarded hundreds of thousands of powerful people."

"...When you go out to see your fire companion, you are all shocked: you have been together for twelve years, but you don't know that Mulan is a girl."

The two little girls memorized fluently and got full marks in this exam. After Yuwen Wen gave the reward, he asked his daughter what questions he had to ask.

Yuwen Huiying and Yuwen Qiongying are over seven years old. Children of this age have limited understanding ability, so they only memorize poems, and may not be clear about the meaning of the poems. Therefore, Yuwen Wen sometimes gives answers, which is a way to get close to his children.

Yu Wen Huiying asked with a puzzled look: "Aye, what is the 'Twelve Transformations of Ce Xun'?"

"Ah, that's the twelve-level (transfer), that is, the twelve-level medal position." After Yuwen Wen finished speaking, he found that his explanation was still too difficult for two young girls over seven years old, so he further explained:

"Ce Xun, 'Ce' means record, 'Xun' means merit. The two words are connected together, which means 'recalling merits on the book of Ce'..."

"The meaning of 'Twelve Transformations of Ce Xun' is that Mulan's contribution has reached the highest price, which is the twelfth level. If you start to advance from the lowest level, you will have to go through twelve Transformations, which means that Mulan is really amazing."

"Oh..." Yu Wen Huiying and Yu Wen Qiongying nodded and looked at Aye with anticipation: "Aye! I want to learn from Mulan too!"

"Oh, you, Aye, can't go to the battlefield..." Yuwen Wen smiled, smiling happily: "Your brothers must be too old to go to the battlefield."

"Oh..." Yu Wen Huiying and Yu Wen Qiongying were a little disappointed. There were many things they didn't understand, so they didn't understand that "Mulan joined the army for her father" in reality is difficult to happen.

But this does not prevent the little girls from continuing to ask questions: What is "rewarding hundreds of thousands of strong people".

Yuwen Wen replied: "'Rewards of hundreds of thousands of strong people' means that there are many rewards.''Hundred and thousands' is a metaphor, which describes a large number, and 'Strong' means 'too surplus'."

Yuwen Qiongying asked: "Aye, the official army has won this great victory. Do you want to 'reward hundreds of thousands of strong men'?"

Children don’t understand current affairs, but Yuwen Wen often reads newspapers to them, so he knows many things, such as knowing that the current great victory of the government army.

Yuwen Wen nodded after hearing this: "Yes, the court should clearly reward and punish. If the soldiers make contributions, they will have to reward them."

Yuwen Qiongying asked: "Aye, does the imperial court have so much money reward?"

Yuwen Wen still nodded: "Yes, there must be some."

The little girl always felt that Aye was right and nodded in a vague way. Yuwen Wen accompanied her daughter for a while and asked her to feed the giant panda "Mo Bai".

I sat in the pavilion and asked the eunuchs to use the credit book to look through it.

The merit book records the merits of the soldiers in the army, and is the basis for the court to reward the meritorious soldiers. This time, the army pacified Goguryeo and recovered the former lands of the four counties of Han. The soldiers fought for more than a year and made countless contributions. The court naturally wanted to reward them.

According to the system, the military merits recorded on the merit book must be reviewed layer by layer. After review by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel, they will be presented to the Emperor's Imperial Palace (actually just browsing). If there is no doubt, you must reward as soon as possible.

The soldiers serve the country, use their lives and blood to expand their territory, and the contributions they make must be "realized" in a timely manner, and the pensions of the casualties must be distributed in a timely manner, so as to inspire the morale of the army and allow more people to join the army.

Therefore, the review and review of the credit book was very fast and there was no delay. When the Ministry of Personnel submitted the compiled credit book, Yuwen Wen asked the Privy Council of the Secretariat to check it out and then "spot check" it himself.

In order to be responsible to the soldiers, those who have made contributions must reward, and those who have not made contributions cannot take advantage of them. This means that rewards and punishments are clear.

The Zhou Kingdom's medal throne is now twelve-level (transformation), and the highest level is the Shangzhu Kingdom. Unfortunately, no soldiers made extraordinary achievements in this war. Like Mulan, they "turned the twelve-level" and directly changed from an ordinary soldier to the Shangzhu Kingdom.

However, "rewarding hundreds of thousands of strong people" is a must.

The best rewards are the most popular among the real rewards, except for titles, official positions and medals. However, when large-scale foreign wars become more and more frequent, the land must not be divided enough. What should we do?

Use various "preferential policies" to fill the "reward gap" caused by land shortages, such as tax reduction or extra money.

However, now that there is an imperial examination, if you carefully calculate the calculations, go to the battlefield and trade your life for military merits, it seems that it is better to study and take the imperial examination and strive to become an official.

After all, the imperial examination will be once every three years, and if you fail the exam, you will still have a chance to "do it again", but if you go to the battlefield, you will only have one life. If you are not careful, you will die. There will be no chance to "do it again".

Studying and preparing for the imperial examination will not cause people to break their hands and feet, blindness, and deafness, but they will do it in war.

When studying, you can be with your family, but you are in the army but have a dilemma of loyalty and filial piety; if you fail the exam, you can come back well, but it is not necessarily true that you go to the battlefield. Your family must be worried every day.

Therefore, if the world is in peace and the imperial examination system is gradually improved, and people adapt to the imperial examination and enter the officialdom, then the "cost-performance ratio" of joining the army will become lower and lower.

Of course, not everyone can read, but now industry and commerce are developing rapidly. If you can't read, you can work and do small business. You can still live a good life without having to work hard in the army.

Therefore, as this continues, the "martial spirit" trend will gradually decline, and being a soldier is no longer a priority for good families. There will even be situations where "good iron does not make nails, and a good man does not become a soldier."

This is not what Yuwen Wen wants to see, but even in later generations, how to improve the social status of soldiers is still not easy to solve, so he can only make some adjustments based on the current situation.

Taking advantage of the rewards to the soldiers after this war, some new measures were implemented to appropriately improve the status of soldiers on the original basis.

In addition to titles, official positions, medals, money, and various "preferential policies", there are new contents, one of which is the "extraordinary examination bonus points".

A soldier who has made military achievements (with a certain contribution or a certain amount) can add several points to the general or a soldier according to the size of the merits (no distinction between legitimate and illegitimate, no limit on the number of people) when taking the imperial examination (except for the palace examination).

Of course, considering the fairness, the scores added will not be too many, but they are enough to allow his son to gain decent help in the increasingly fierce imperial examination battlefield.

As for other measures, the effect remains to be seen, but they all have the same goal, which is to improve the treatment of soldiers and make it still attractive to people to join the army.

Yuwen Wen looked at several thick books of credit, as if he saw countless soldiers fighting bloody battles on the front line, and saw the soldiers' faces full of expectations and waiting for the imperial court to reward them.

A country cannot be without a powerful army, and such an army cannot be a humble untouchable and must be treated appropriately.

But it cannot be a domineering soldier from the Five Dynasties, so we must grasp the treatment of soldiers.

The principle is to clearly distinguish between rewards and punishments, especially in terms of "reward", you must be willing to spend money.

If you make a contribution, you will have to reward you. If you make a great contribution, you will have to reward you with great rewards. Let the parties and the bystanders feel that they are really "deserved" when they go to the battlefield. Otherwise, who would still join the army and fight, it would be better to study at home and take the imperial examinations or work and earn money to live a small life.

The reason is that the money that can be rewarded must be paid by the finance department. After "rewarding hundreds of thousands of strong people", the financial pressure will be greatly increased.

Thinking of this, Yuwen Wen couldn't help scratching his head.
Chapter completed!