People often think that Temujin is a military genius. As we all know, Temujin is first and foremost an outstanding reformer and management scientist. His greatest advantage is not directing a battle, but promoting a system reform on the grassland, thus laying a competitive advantage.
Before Temujin, the tribes on the grassland were basically in the stage of slavery society. A few nobles, a few civilians and a large number of slaves constitute the personnel structure of each tribe. When the nobles wage war abroad, once they win, the war will basically turn into robbery. There are two main ways of distribution: smaller tribes, that is, each grabs its own, whoever grabs it will be counted, and people often give up fighting because they are eager to grab it; In larger tribes, all the spoils must be given to the aristocratic leaders. Then, the nobles occupy the majority, and a few will be distributed to the civilians. The slaves got nothing, so they had to make ends meet. People's fighting enthusiasm is not high, and infighting often occurs because of uneven distribution of spoils.
Temujin changed this situation. He set a strict distribution ratio to ensure that everyone can benefit from the battle. In this distribution scheme, the most striking thing is that Temujin, as Khan, only distributes 10% of the spoils; Second, children of slaves also have the right to inherit property.
This distribution model has greatly released the potential productivity. Because the interests of actual combat participants will even exceed Khan, an excellent soldier can often change the fate of the whole family through a big war. As a result, everyone changed from fighting for Temujin to fighting for themselves, creating an unprecedented army that fought for the family, all soldiers and took the initiative to fight.
At the same time, the enemies they face, such as Song and Jin, implement the salary system. Once the troops fighting for "salary" and the tigers fighting for "life" confront each other, it is tantamount to throwing eggs at stones. At this point, Temujin had nothing, but conquered people's hearts with brand-new rules of the game, and the elites of other tribes defected to him one after another.
At the same time, Temujin carried out a far-reaching "management change" and made an adjustment close to the organizational structure within the company. Tribes on the grassland have different factions, such as white bones, black bones, Mongols, Semu people and so on. Temujin established a system of "thousands of households". With a wave of his hand, all the people were mixed in this structure, and the original factions were cancelled. Thousands of households, 100 households and 10 households are combat units under unified command, and dismounting is a production unit for reclamation and grazing. Through the enfeoffment of 95,000 households, it was ensured that "all Mongolians, freemen, warriors, Mongolian subalterns and domestic servants have private livestock that can engage in nomadism".
This structure, combined with the above-mentioned distribution system, is equivalent to allocating production resources at one time to the end and accounting independently according to the basic unit of "ten households". So all the men in Temujin's army started to join the army at the age of 15. They brought their own horses, weapons and rations. Coupled with the special eating habits of Mongolians, the army does not need the so-called logistics system of "food and grass first", which is extremely mobile and offensive. Therefore, it became the first army in the world that can play "blitzkrieg". Originated from network sharing. . . . . .