There are 8,000 soldiers in Nanning, which finally made Gao Shishi feel a little relieved, but what he didn't expect was that the surprise was not over, because Ni Zhonghua said again: "These 8,000 people are all Han'er officers and soldiers directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, in addition, if it is needed by Taiwan, we also have wolf soldiers to call." ”

Gao Pragmatic was stunned when he heard it: "Wolf soldiers...... Squad Army? ”

Ni Zhonghua said in his heart: Gao Zhizhi really doesn't know much about our Guangxi, but he doesn't know about the wolf soldiers?

But thinking about it, he said that he would never dare to say this, only to see him say with a smile on his face: "Yes, we in Guangxi, to be honest, the guards have not been very useful for a long time, and generally speaking, the guards are not sent out outside their jurisdictions, usually if there is any war that requires large-scale transfer of troops, in fact, the main transfer is the squad army, and the Guangxi squad army is divided into two categories. ”

Gao asked pragmatically, "What are the two categories?" Han army and wolf soldiers? ”

"Wise on the stage!" Ni Zhonghua is also completely shameless, this can actually be "wise", but he is still serious, and said: "We Guangxi, at the beginning of the country, the Han army had three major sources, namely Huguang, Guizhou and Guangdong, but later Guizhou had a lot of things, and the Xuande period did not send the squad army over, and now the Han army in the Guangxi squad army mainly comes from Huguang and Guangdong. ”

"How many are there?" Gao asked pragmatically.

Ni Zhonghua said: "I don't know what to do, the number of soldiers in the squad is actually uncertain, or it is often adjusted. At the earliest time, there were generally 10,000 people in the Huguang class army who came to Guangxi in turn, and then gradually reduced to 5,000, but since the chaos in Guangxi, the number began to grow again, because Guangxi only put down the Bazhai rebellion last year, so at present, there are more than 8,000 people in the Huguang class army in Guangxi. ”

"Oh...... What about the Guangdong squad army? Gao asked again.

Ni Zhonghua said: "The Guangdong squad has always been composed of ten guards and sixteen institutes, including Guangzhou Siwei, Nanhaiwei, Qingyuanwei, Guanghaiwei, Huizhou Wei, Chaozhou Wei, Jieshiwei and Xiangshan Institute, with two classes at most and a total of more than 10,000 people. In the fifth year of Longqing, there were more than 4,600 officers and soldiers in each squad of the Guangdong Health Center, and this number is basically maintained at present...... Maybe a little less, but maybe eight thousand or so. ”

Very good, two eight thousand, that is 16,000 regular field troops, barely a look.

Gao Pragmatic asked again: "Then what is the situation of the wolf soldier squad?" ”

Ni Zhonghua said: "The situation of the wolf soldier squad is very complicated, mainly because the strength of each Tusi is very different, so the imperial court's requirements for their classes are very different, for example, for big Tusi such as Sicheng Prefecture and Siming Mansion, the imperial court requires them to send out a thousand troops each time, and they will be changed every three years; For some small toasts, the requirements will be lowered as appropriate, such as...... Well, for example, in Xincheng County, there are only 150 people in each class, and there is a round every two years, and there is no shift and a year off. Anyway, this is quite complicated, and I'm afraid I won't be able to explain it for a while. ”

Oh, so it doesn't have to be so clear.

Gao pragmatic said: "Then you can tell me a general situation, how many wolf soldiers are there in Guangxi now?" ”

Ni Zhonghua said with a wry smile: "According to the stage, the lowly position is only Liu Qing's general, if you want to talk about the whole province, I'm afraid it's not very accurate, you can only roughly calculate it...... There should be about seventeen or eight thousand, and there should be at least fifteen thousand permanent shifts. ”

"Regular shifts?" Gao pragmatic asked: "Does that mean that there may still be temporary recruitment?" ”

Ni Zhonghua suddenly raised his head a little, and said proudly: "That's natural, if the imperial court has an edict, they will naturally be ordered to be requisitioned, and this ten thousand five is just a routine." ”

Gao Pragmatic suddenly calculated in his heart: This is not bad, the Han soldiers and the wolf soldiers, there are 30,000 field troops here, although the guards in Guangxi are also corrupt, but according to what Zhang Ren said before, it is estimated that more than 10,000 people or even 20,000 people can be used for one use, which is 40,000 or 50,000 usable soldiers.

Although it is more than half less than the theoretical number of more than 100,000 guards in Guangxi, but not to mention the book data, as long as these 40,000 or 50,000 field troops are used well, unless it is a rebellion of the Cen and Huang families, it should be enough to solve the internal problems in Guangxi.

Then why do you have to fight in a big way in the Bazhai Rebellion, and you have to gather 100,000 troops to fight? What the hell is the reason for this, is it not enough to have an army of 100,000? That's ridiculous, isn't it?

Anyway, there are only two people at the moment, Jiang Xin and Ni Zhonghua, and Gao Pragmatic is not afraid of "family ugliness", so he directly raised this issue.

Unexpectedly, Ni Zhonghua, who has always been happy to answer highly pragmatic questions, kept silent this time and just looked at Jiang Xin.

Gao Pragmatic was a little surprised, but he still looked at Jiang Xin, Jiang Xin knew the reason why Ni Zhonghua didn't dare to say it, he was a military attaché, and some things were really inconvenient to say, there was no way, Jiang Xin had to open his mouth and replied: "According to the platform, this has to start with the system of the squad army." ”

Gao pragmatically nodded: "You say, I will listen to you." ”

"Although the combat effectiveness of the squad army is good, it is actually ...... Not very easy to use. Jiang Xin set a tone first.

Gao pragmatic didn't speak, just frowned slightly and continued to look at him.

Jiang Xin coughed lightly and said, "That's the case......"

He was really forced to be helpless, so he had to tell the inside story.

It turned out that the squad army system had already caused many disputes between Guangxi and Guizhou, Huguang and Guangdong, and the fundamental reason for this was the conflict between the jurisdiction and use of the Ming army and the army's material supply system.

This must first start with the support of the Ming Dynasty squad army. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang tried to solve the problem of the army's supply through tuntian, stipulating that all banner armies should have a tuntian of different sizes, "where there is an army, there will be tuntian, one paddy field for each army in the south of the Yangtze River ranges from 30 to 50 mu, and one for each army in Jiangbei, with a land of 890 mu and 100 mu, and the guard station is registered, and the army is not allowed to sell it, and the people are not allowed to buy it", and the grain collected is used to support the officers and soldiers and their families.

But in fact, even in the Ming Dynasty, when the grain collection in Tuntian was the highest, the Weisuo army did not achieve self-sufficiency, and if the Biantun is estimated, then the actual role of the military tun in the early Ming Dynasty should be a little smaller than "enough to fill half of the army's food".

In the 29th year of Hongwu, due to the lack of military salaries of the newly established Nandan, Fengyi, Qingyuanwei and Fuchuan Qianhu, the imperial court ordered all the sergeants to be tuntian for military needs, but because the primary task of the army is to protect the family and defend the country, the elite of the flag army is sent to defend the city against the enemy, and the tuntian can only be planted by the army surplus, and with the death or escape of the flag army, the army must be replenished and prepared, the labor required for the tuntian can no longer be guaranteed, the field of the guard is abandoned, or occupied by the powerful and occupied, or allowed to be leased, and the corruption of the tuntian government is inevitable.

The part of the army's insufficient supply had no choice but to be borne by the prefectures and counties. This is not only the case in Guangxi, but also in other metropolitan and political departments.

As early as the tenth year of Xuande, the imperial court stipulated that "the Tianxia Weishou Cang belongs to Fuzhou County, but Liaodong, Gansu, Ningxia, Wanquan, and Coastal Weishu are still in Wuzhou County."

In the early years of Jiajing, the guards were basically incorrigible, and the supply of military supplies for all types of armed forces in the country was basically borne by the administrative organs.

In addition to the wolf soldiers, who are supported locally, the expenses of the Huguang, Guangdong, and Guizhou squads are all borne by themselves.

The basic living materials of the Weisho Banner Army are solved by the military family themselves, which is uniformly stipulated in the Ming Dynasty, such as "Guangxi is wide, Kou Fa has no time, in case of a sentry, the horsepower is insufficient, please choose all Ding Li Yin Banner Army as the old Xuanwei...... in case of call, and exempt the rest of the two men from service, so as to help the regular army." In other words, the imperial court actually only gave some "preferential treatment" in other aspects.

Ten years of orthodoxy, "Guizhou, Huguang Division, in the nearby Guangxi Health Center, picked up Fu Shi and Ding Guanjun to go **".

Huguang's annual 10,000 squad troops need to be provided by the Huguang Political Division, "Huguang's subordinate guards allocate 10,000 officers and soldiers, and they will be stationed in Guangxi.

Guangdong is even more miserable, not only to solve the military needs of its own garrison army, but also to "help" Guangxi every year. For example, last year, "the grain of Wuzhen Town, Xieji, Guangdong, was relieved of Wuzhou Mansion." Since the governor's mansion moved to Guangdong, the annual solution of Wu's salary to the nearest Zhaoqing Mansion, Guangxi should be relieved of the annual routine of the soldiers and food officials to Zhaoqing Guanzhi, the governor Liu Yaozhi thought that it was inconvenient to use, it was the Guangdong political secretary, where the Wuzhen salary was paid, and the Wuzhou Mansion was relieved to prepare for the solution. forever as a rule".

In this way, since Guangxi's recurrent financial expenditure is still mostly dependent on Guangdong, the so-called "100,000 yuan of Guangxi's regular supply is out of the eastern province every year", not to mention the travel and monthly rations of the squad army.

In the face of this serious imbalance in the relationship between responsibilities and powers, officials in Guizhou, Huguang, and Guangdong are all unwilling. In addition, due to the harsh environment in Guangxi, the squad army was not accustomed to the water and soil, and there were many fugitives, and the central center repeatedly stressed that the squad army should "do its job in full capacity," which brought tremendous difficulties to the work of clearing up the squad troops in Huguang and Guangdong.

Therefore, on the one hand, officials in both places hope to reduce or withdraw their shifts on the grounds that the number of guards has been greatly reduced and it is difficult to make up shifts.

On the other hand, when the squad army was in Guangxi, they were not very willing to obey the orders of local civil and military officials in Guangxi, and although they did not dare to openly disobey orders, it was commonplace to disobey and procrastinate or something.

As soon as Jiang Xin said this, Gao Pragmatic understood a lot of things at once. For example, why is it that the governor of Guangxi can't handle a rebellion in Bazhai by himself, so he has to work the governor of Liangguang to go out - first of all, the Guangdong squad army is unwilling to obey, plus Guangxi has no money, and the governor of Guangxi and Guangxi does not come over with a reward, and that army is willing to make real efforts?

Say a thousand things and ten thousand, there is still no money to harm!

Gao Pragmatic sighed and said secretly: Zhu Yuanzhang, an old farmer, what kind of broken system did he make......

Looking at the problem of this squad from a pragmatic point of view, in fact, as long as the financial system is changed, there will be no trouble at all.

For example, if there is a war in Guangxi, the military salaries and other expenses of the squad army are directly handed over to Guangxi itself to be responsible, although Guangxi has no money, but the center can allocate funds, the center directly allocates funds to Guangxi, and Guangxi takes this money to deal with the rebellion, isn't there nothing to do?

As for where did the center get the money...... Huguang and Guangdong can be handed over to the center.

What, you say this hasn't changed at all? Huguang and Guangdong still contribute to work and strength?

Of course, but the problem is that there will be no such contradictions in the local area, and as for whether Huguang and Guangdong will be dissatisfied with the center...... What can you do if you are dissatisfied?

The reason why the center is the center is that it should have financial jurisdiction over the local government, and it should have the power to distribute the finance at any time, which is a symbol of the authority of the center, and it is also a guarantee!

As a result, according to Zhu Yuanzhang's method, the center actually took himself out and let the provinces below rip it off.

You're going to be hell off if you can improve your administrative efficiency!

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The promised 8,000 will be done first, and I will try to make up the remaining 2,000 today...... I don't like to owe money.