Abstract： The private troops(Jia bing) at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty were much different from the clan’s militia(Zong wu),although one of them was at some degree related with the other.There were two types of private troops at that time.One was private troops of big landowners and the other private troops of military leaders.Both of them were originated from a special social-economic and political situation.At the beginning there were almost 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers in private troops;anyway,the number boosted a lot along with the military leaders taking country’s troops as their own troops,enlisting newcomers and accepting surrenders.To keep the troops was generally through different ways:the masters’ providing with their own money,or rich families’ supporting.However,it mainly depended on the government’s expenditure or the funds raised on the spot.The system of hereditary military service was formed along with the situation that soldiers attached themselves more and more to their masters and private troops became more and more as a profession.
黄今言. 东汉末季之家兵与世兵制的初步形成[J]. 南昌大学学报(人文社会科学版), 2008, 39(05): 77-84.
HUANG Jin-yan. Private Troops at the End of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Initial Formation of Hereditary Military Service System. , 2008, 39(05): 77-84.
2008, Vol. 39 
