Chapter 36 Jingying (Ask for Recommendation Votes and Collections)

After the British Duke Zhang Weixian and the Duke of Chengguo Zhu Chunchen came in to salute, Zhu Youzhen was not polite, and asked straight to the point: "Two Aiqing, how many soldiers are there in the Beijing camp now?"

Before Zhang Weixian could speak, Zhu Chunchen replied first: "Your Majesty, there are now 300,000 soldiers in the Beijing camp. ”

"Oh!" Zhu Youzhen smiled indifferently: "Then what are the number of people who can fight in the Beijing camp?

Zhu Chunchen was in a cold sweat and didn't dare to reply.

Zhu Youzhen sneered in his heart, if he didn't know history, he might really believe it.

Speaking of which, let's first talk about the military mechanism of the Ming Dynasty:

The military system of the Ming Dynasty was the coexistence of the army and the soldiers, which was a unique military system of the Ming Dynasty.

Gu Yanwu pointed out, "Those who judge soldiers and farmers are guilty of disadvantage for less than three generations. Those who judge the army and the soldier are the same, it starts from the beginning of the dynasty."

Translations:

Sentenced to war with peasants, two people, three generations or less common disease. Those who judge the army and the war and the two, then start from the Ming Dynasty.

There is a common mistake in our understanding of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, that is, they think that soldiers are recruitment.

In this way, the difference between the army and the soldier is whether it is recruited and whether it is hereditary. In fact, the difference in organizational form between the army and the soldier is the fundamental difference between the army and the soldier.

The military subordinate guard is under the jurisdiction of the small banner, the general banner, the hundred households, the thousand households, the commander of the guard, the commander of the capital, and the governor's office of the five armies.

The military and officials of the guard are hereditary, and only the governors of the five armies and the capital are not hereditary, and they are the current officials, and they are selected by the officials of the hereditary guard and the martial arts.

The military and official military registrations of the guards, with their families, live in the same place, and are passed down from generation to generation, basically no longer changing.

The station of each guard post is fixed, the number of sergeants is fixed, and there are also regulations on the establishment of generals.

In short, under the system of guards, power is decentralized, and soldiers and generals are separated. However, after Jingtai, the power of the military department rose, and the military department was the governor of military affairs, seized the power of the five prefectures, and the officials of the five prefectures changed their titles.

Soldiers are generally not hereditary, with the exception of those who have been converted from the guard army to the soldier. There is no regulation on the registration of soldiers, the period of military service is not long, and they generally do not serve for life. The battalion soldiers do not follow their families, and they are closer to the modern military system.

Let's take a look at the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies:

In the thirteenth year of Hongwu (1380), Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the power of the metropolitan governor's office was too great, and while abolishing the prime minister system, he wanted to prevent excessive concentration of military power.

The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was also abolished and changed into the Governor's Mansion of the Center, Left, Right, Front, and Rear Armies, which managed the Beijing Division and the local guards respectively.

The governor's office of the five armies has set up a left and right governor, which is a product; the governor knows the same thing, and the governor is a second product.

However, in the late Ming Dynasty, the Dadu Governor's Mansion was the general name of the Ming Dynasty's Central Military Governor's Office, the Left Army Governor's Office, the Right Army Governor's Office, the former Military Governor's Office, and the Later Military Governor's Office, and the highest military institution leading the national army.

The Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces and the Military Department all obeyed the emperor's orders, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces had the right to command troops but not the right to transfer troops, and the Military Department had the right to transfer troops but not the right to command troops. The Governor's Office and the Military Department of the five armies control each other and do not subordinate each other.

Qi Jiguang, the anti-Japanese hero, and Qin Liangyu, the female marshal, were both outstanding governors of the five armies in the late Ming Dynasty.

The Beijing camp is the army that defends the capital, and its role and status can be imagined.

The Beijing camp is known to the outside world as 300,000 horses, but Zhu Youzhen knows from the later history and Jinyiwei's investigation that the actual soldiers of the Beijing camp are only a little more than 30%.

In other words, as many as 200,000 horses were eaten into their stomachs by the Zhu and Zhang families and their subordinates.

According to the calculation of the salary of seven coins of silver allocated by each person per month by the imperial court, the empty salary of these 200,000 people alone is nearly more than 100,000 spirit stones per month, and it is more than 1.5 million pieces in a year.

Of course, the imperial court is in financial distress and will not be paid on a monthly basis;

If you count other military resources, such as knives, guns, guns, gunpowder, armor, tents, banners, uniforms, salt, rice, sauce and vinegar, etc.

They are all allocated to the army according to the number of people, and after these materials are received, many materials will be resold and re-sold.

At the beginning, Lu Xiangsheng was preparing to build the Tianxiong Army in Hebei, and it was the local gentry who raised silver taels and then bought weapons from the Beijing camp and the military warehouse.

Of the remaining 100,000 or so actual soldiers, the old and weak occupy a considerable part, and there are many natives in the Beijing Division.

These slippery people have lived in the capital for generations, although their families are not rich and noble.

However, he is very familiar with middle and lower-level officials and generals at all levels, and he is idle and lazy on weekdays, so he trusts several layers of relationships, blends into the army, and receives monthly salaries.

Such a soldier, how can there be any combat power, when encountering a real gun and a real battle, the end is only a rush to disperse, Chongzhen eight years to escort Wang Yu to Fengyang to pay tribute to the emperor's mausoleum The Jingying soldier is the best example.

Now let's take a look at the life of Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo:

Zhu Chunchen, the thirty-ninth year of Wanli, the three years of Chongzhen, the nine years of the general Beijing camp, the seventeenth year of March Li Zicheng Bo Jingshi, the emperor of the Chunchen governor of the Chinese and foreign armies, auxiliary prince.

Then Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and Li Guozhen, the commander of Xiangcheng in Jingying, opened the city gate and surrendered to the thieves, and were killed by the thieves.

Translations:

Zhu Chunchen, inherited the title in the thirty-ninth year of Wanli, Chongzhen for three years, added Taifu, commanded the Beijing camp for nine years, and in March of the seventeenth year, Li Zicheng approached the capital, and the emperor personally wrote an order to Zhu Chunchen to supervise the internal and external armies and assist the prince. Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and Li Guozhen, the commander of the Beijing camp, opened the inner city gate and knelt down to the thieves, and were killed by the thieves.

From the above, Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, and Li Guozhen, the Governor of Xiangcheng, were really not loyal ministers and good generals, but belonged to the second minister.

Zhu Youzhen naturally has a strong disgust for these two who have milk and are mothers, who have enjoyed the glory and wealth of the Ming Dynasty for generations, but in the end, they are the nobles who quickly changed their courts.

Although Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng, is not here now, it does not prevent Zhu Youzhen from giving Zhu Chunchen a face.

So, Zhu Youzhen's face quickly turned cold, and he pointed solemnly: "Zhu Chunchen, the 300,000 people you are talking about are only 100,000 soldiers in the Beijing camp, and 20,000 of them are old and weak and unable to fight?"

This is the army you brought to me, the capital camp in charge?"

Zhu Youzhen was already roaring loudly when he said about it.

Zhu Chunchen felt very wronged, he admitted that he was eating empty pay and drinking the blood of soldiers, didn't everyone do this?

But when Zhu Chunchen saw Zhu Youzhen so angry, where did he dare to argue, he could only suffer his scolding.

He didn't know that at this time, Zhu Youzhen knew what he did later, so he deliberately put these things on Zhu Chunchen's body in order to take away his military power!

Sure enough, before Zhu Chunchen pleaded guilty and asked for forgiveness, Zhu Youzhen had already given an order.

After Zhu Chunchen heard this, he sat on the ground with a pale face.

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