Qin used merchant soldiers, and what aspects were reflected in the rich country and strong soldiers

Enriching a country and strengthening its military refers to making a country's economy prosperous and rich, and its armed forces strong.

Guanzi", a more systematic discussion of the Guan Zhong school"A rich country and a strong army"Ideologically, a rich country and a strong army are two aspects that complement each other.

A rich country is the foundation of a strong army, and only when a country is rich can national defense have a reliable foundation of human, material, and financial resources.

A rich country and a strong military are two aspects that complement each other. A rich country is the foundation of a strong army, and only when a country is rich can national defense have a reliable foundation of human, material, and financial resources. A strong army is also an important guarantee for a rich country, and without a solid national defense, once a foreign enemy invades, economic construction cannot be carried out; In order to maintain a safe environment for economic construction and living, it is necessary to establish a national defense commensurate with the status of the state.

This is an objective law that has been repeatedly confirmed by the history of social development.

The book "Guanzi" systematically discusses the idea of "enriching the country and strengthening the army" of the Guan Zhong school, which mainly has three aspects:

1. On the premise of enriching the people. "Where the way to govern the country, the people must first enrich the people, and the people are rich and easy to govern" ("Governing the Country"), the people are rich and the country is rich, "the country is rich, the army is strong, the army is strong, and the victor is wide".

2. Based on agriculture. "Civil agriculture is land reclamation, land reclamation is more millet, and more millet is the wealth of the country."

3. Adopt measures that combine politics, economy, and military repentance. "Selling late and rushing in internal affairs and living in military orders", "fixing the people's residence, becoming the people's affairs", "soldiers, farmers, workers, and merchants" each do their own business and do their best; "Participate in it to annihilate the country and disdain it", "listen to the subordinates of the military administration, and listen to the township of the civil administration", so that the people can work in agriculture when they are busy and practice martial arts in their spare time.

The Shang Dynasty reform was the root of the Qin State.

1) Promulgating and implementing the "Book of Laws" of Li Kui of the Wei State, and adding the law of joint sitting.

Heavy punishment for misdemeanors, the six countries all said that the Qin Law was so cool, it was here that it appeared, there were many heavy punishments at that time, what small noses, gouging out eyes, waist beheadings, car cracks, broken hands and feet were even more common;

2) Abolish the old Shiqing Shilu system, reward military merits, prohibit private fighting, and promulgate the system of 20 knighthoods rewarded according to military merits; This is the premise that the Qin State has a sufficient supply of soldiers, and the soldiers are very brave according to the rewards of military merit.

3) Emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, rewarding cultivation and weaving, and especially rewarding land reclamation; It stipulates that those who produce a lot of grain and cloth can be exempted from labor and taxes, and regard agriculture as their "main business" and commerce as their "last business", and the scope of business of merchants is restricted, and the commercial tax is relevant.

These have laid the foundation for the prosperity of the Qin State, the Shang Dynasty changed the law completely changed the production relations, so that the Qin people only knew the cultivation war, which strengthened the rear of the Qin State, the Shang Dynasty Reform Law and the strategy of King Huiwen, reusing the talents of the Six Kingdoms of Shandong, which strengthened the bureaucratic system of the Qin State, so that the society was stable, there should be another point, that is, the economic system, first of all, the Shang Dynasty Reform Law continued to fill the treasury, King Huiwen went south to the Bashu, King Zhaoxiang overhauled water conservancy, and the first emperor opened the Zhengguo Canal, these are all accumulated the cost of farming and warfare, and the economy is good to not be afraid of war.

The Qin State "Fen VI Yu Lie", by the time of Yingzheng, had won over the other six countries, and the Six Song Xun States could only survive. In order to survive, in the case of being unable to fight militarily, the only way to use other strategies is to either bribe Qin or weaken Qin. Among them, South Korea's strategy is to send a water conservancy expert named Zheng Guo to Qin to help Qin develop water canals, called Zhu Qin, which is actually to consume Qin's national strength by repairing canals.

Therefore, the quality of the strategy needs to be tested in practice and long-term observation, for example, this canal repair is a good thing on the surface, but it will actually consume national strength; But the benefits of repairing are even more obvious. Qin's strength in the agricultural era, Dujiangyan and Zhengguoqu, contributed a lot.