Zhongshan State, Warring States Military System

In the Warring States Period, Kingdom ZhongShan was built by the BaiDi nationality. It was a small country with a territory of 500 square kilometres, but its status was very important in history. It lied among some strong Kingdoms of the same age for 70-80 years. Kingdom ZhongShan was once glorious in history, which had very indomitable life. It became so strong in military that it won the war against Kingdom Zhao and Kingdom Yan from both north and south at the same time. Therefore, there must be something special about the military system of Kingdom ZhongShan that worth a rigorous study. So, after made an extensive collection of the concerned ancient reference materials, the writer writes this paper with the aid of archeological findings and the research achievements of both the past and the present.The preface of paper serves as the first part, which present situation of the research, emphasizes the essentiality and the importance of the topic, and summarizes the hard history of Kingdom ZhongShan. The paper consists of six parts, dealing with the military system of Kingdom ZhongShan .The first part, analysis the military lead system of Kingdom ZhongShan. It had built concentrate right of emperor, and the army was lead by the Xiang.The second part, statement the sort and the organization of army of Kingdom ZhongShan . It had sort of soldiers. These soldiers are the same as other emperors.The third part, makes it an emphasis that the arms system of Kingdom ZhongShan. There are press and draft system in Kingdom ZhongShan.The forth part, says Kingdom ZhongShan had military promote and punish system. It is special point that had award titles for his merit of military.The fifth part, statement country defenses Kingdom ZhongShan. It emphasis cities and the Great Wall.The sixth part, introduce where the weapons stored. The stores had formed a system.The last part is the epilogue of the paper. In this part we come to the conclusion of how the military system of Kingdom ZhongShan formed and what are the characteristics that inherited from the BaiDi nationality.