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"Take the method of training soldiers in the book as an example, saying that when a soldier escapes, the people of the same team will be tied up, divided into half of the prison, half of the guarantee, each for one year, and the work and food will be deducted, and another person will be recruited."

It means: 'Whoever deserts will be punished by a group of men, and each of them will be divided into a year's imprisonment, and their pay will be withheld for another recruitment.' ’

"But since the three levies, the state is not enough, the emperor sent mine supervisors and tax supervisors everywhere, especially in our southwestern provinces, the regular salary is not even, and it is naturally difficult to win back the hearts of the people by relying on fines and salaries."

Most of today's scholars regard themselves as clear streams, and always look down on the eunuchs sent by the emperor to supervise the mining tax. Naturally, it was originally because the treasury was empty, looking for fame and money, and the eunuchs who went out relied on the emperor's prestige to do many prestige in the local area, and did not take the pro-people officials in their eyes. Therefore, it is not a matter of talking about eunuchs and emperors in private, it is really a plus among scholars, as long as they don't shout on the street, it's nothing, and the old man just smiled when he heard it, and he was not embarrassed.

"Guizhou is deserted, Guiyang Mansion is fine here, and the rest of the military towns are passes, although the salary is distributed in the cloud, but the taxes collected locally must be concluded in one place first, and then distributed in batches. Because of the long distance, the more remote guards fort often have to be delayed for a year, and most of them are not able to pay enough, so many of the guards have fled, or find another livelihood, and it is inevitable that there will be a high or low, so they will be tempted by traitors to do some illegal things. ”

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the army consisted of four parts: "conscription, annexation, issuance, and stacking". From the conquest army, he originally followed Zhu Yuanzhang's anti-Yuan people, and most of them were nobles. The subordinate army is the Yuan army, and the army is the so-called benevolent army that has been mismatched for sin. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the so-called "regular army", which accounted for nearly 2 million Dingkou in the country, was half of the military households collected from the battlements.

In the twenty-first year of Hongwu [A.D. 1388], the military department changed the military registration survey, listed in detail the military household from the army, the year and month of the guard, the number of the battalion Dingkou, and the system of military households began.

Even if it is a imperial examination, only one person per household has to be a student, unlike civilian households that have no post restrictions, and the social status of military households is extremely low.

And the military households are all generations to go out to defend, for the flag army. Each household also has to be in charge of Sasuke's army and supply military uniforms. Although the imperial court stipulated that military households could be exempted from miscellaneous service, this article was invariably regarded as not seen by all the officials.

Because there are many disadvantages, so over the years, there are many military households who have fled, even if it is an important border town in the north, the actual number of troops is only 50% of the register, if the actual number can reach 70% of the register, it is a first-class force.

Due to the heavy burden, they often go out to fight one by one, and the whole family or even the army will be affected every mile. If a family has two or three pieces of military service, it is even more heavy. Officials at all levels, and even ordinary students, can serve as military servants at will and deduct their monthly rations.

Xifeng is an exception, one is in front of the avenue, quite a lot of progress, the other is Guizhou here in the local and Han contradictions are quite deep, in comparison, although it is a military household, but has been recruited as a battalion soldier, the local people are also afraid of the natives, so they dare not exploit the local Han military households.

But the more remote cities, Fort Li, although not necessarily deducted, but the road to and from the cost is huge, and the delay is also difficult, some places often have to delay a year to pay, this is still the imperial history of the continuous writing and saying that the result of the powerful, and these in the southeast of the imperial palace is indeed not available.

"Then there are teams gradually passing on the word and order, Guizhou place, ten miles of different winds, and there are returning natives, but they only know a little language, if you learn this, you can't learn it."

Guizhou is a place of immigration, and Han people from all over the country gradually moved in and lived in the Hongwu and Yongle years, and most of them were attached to Guo Jiezhai.

The process of changing the land and returning to the river began to be implemented on a large scale from the time of Xianzong, and after Longqing, it was quite effective in the surrounding areas of Guiyang, and the popularization of the Chinese language was a matter of the last twenty or thirty years, not to mention that the immigrants also came from all over the country, and there were prisoners who were exiled and managed, and the dialects were mixed and not comprehensible.

In order to prevent soldiers from forming gangs, it is necessary to disrupt the reconstruction, but with the local conditions of the people in Guizhou, it is unthinkable to disrupt the rebuilt troops.

"In addition, it is not appropriate to teach the method of bows and arrows in the southwest, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan are full of miasma, and the rainy season is continuous, if you use more bows and arrows, it is not conducive to storage, and it will not last long."

As a long-range weapon, bows and arrows are more reliable than firearms at this time, and they must be practiced in the army, and there are many folk teachings, but the climate here in Guizhou is not suitable, and it is also unpleasant.

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talked about a lot of local situations, but I didn't realize that half an hour had passed, and the old man listened patiently, but Wang Xingping still had to sum it up.

"But fundamentally, it's still in the word money and food."

Speaking the opinions in his heart, Wang Xingping suddenly felt a burst of happiness.

The old man sighed, "It's rare that you can have such insight at a young age." ”

"The gentleman praised it, and the student also heard it on the side of the road."

"Heard on the side of the road?"

"Before, the student's family was killed, fortunately rescued by the officers and soldiers of the Xifeng Institute, and then followed the officers and soldiers to crusade against Hongmiao and bandits, and stayed next to the official road several times, and chatted with Wang Qianzong of the city at night.

"So that's the case, nephew, you're not ashamed to ask."

Wang Mingde said: "But the reason is right, but it is difficult to do, if there is a shortage of money and food, where is not the case in the country, it is not just a Guizhou." ”

"Naturally, money and food are just one thing, and two more are also very important."

"Oh, which two? Tell me about it. The old man was surprised.

"Armament...... Civilize. "Wang Xingping is categorical.

The old man was more interested, "The virtuous nephew can tell me in detail." ”

It was originally a courtesy visit, but it became a general question, among which there was naturally the interest of the guests, and most of them were caused by Wang Xingping himself.

In front of people with higher status, showing their talents and learning is originally a shortcut to their own progress, no matter what the other party's point of view is, at least there is no interest in the beginning, and it will not be wrong to say more, as long as it is a matter of facts, there will be no risk.

"Mr. Rongyu, Qi Shaobao's book has a lot of discussions on armaments, but they are nothing more than knives, guns, sticks and arrows, as well as rattan cards and the like, these skills are not achieved overnight, and they will take time.

"Self-training isn't always like this, how can it be fast?"

"Don't hide it, sir, students don't study on weekdays, they also practice their fists and feet to move their muscles and bones, but if you talk about armaments, based on what I saw and heard in various places last month, now I can't do it even if I do it every three days."

The so-called three-day exercise, that is, training once every three days, the exercise consumes a lot, and if the food and salary are insufficient, it will naturally be even more unable to keep up.

Wang Mingde seemed to be helping Wang Xingping add, "It is true that there is a lot of arrears over the years, and there is no way, Guizhou's grain and straw still have to rely on Huguang and Guangxi to be transported, and the local military households can eat enough to be considered their duty, and if there is any surplus money and grain in the local area, the natural armament will be abolished." ”

Wang Xingping followed: "Take the battle of Nanwang Mountain where Xifeng is located, according to the practice since Jiajing, the beheading skill is thirty taels and the first level, of which the person who kills the enemy gets twenty taels, and the beheading is two taels, and everyone in the team also has one tael of profits. ”

"But now the thirty-two level of the first level of merit is discounted in half, most of them can not be fully handled, the officials at all levels are all goose plucking temperament, my fourth brother Wang of the Xifeng Institute has the greatest credit this time, but the income is very small, so, the soldiers will not be brave, is to once the battle, most of them are taken advantage of by thieves."

"It's funny to say, I haven't seen any of the twenty-one people who caught and rewarded the students, but in order to thank General Wang Jun and others, they made up a lot."

The reward of 20 taels for one person set in "Da Ming Law" is also an empty letter, and it really depends on the mood of Shangguan.

Wang Xingping deliberately only said that the officials did not talk about the officials, this was for fear of offending the person in front of him, after all, with this Jinshi background, he would not be just a small official who was not in the stream, but if he really talked about the ability to knock on the bone and suck the marrow, how could such a small official be compared to an official who has entered the stream.

Although it is impossible to have any saying at this time, 'three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver', the meaning of this is definitely not wrong.

Seeing that the old man's face was solemn, thoughtful, and silent for a while, he slowly sighed, "Those who have constant production have perseverance." ”

This sentence in "Mencius Teng Wen Gong I" is about the simple dialectic of material and spirit, and the constant producer, the trees and animals in the field are all industries that depend on the livelihood of the people. Only good citizens who own the property can maintain the original intention of goodness.

Of course, if you say the other way around, if there is no constant production, there will be no perseverance, as for the following sentence, 'If you have no perseverance, let go of evil and extravagance, you will do nothing.'" It is said that if you lose your heart, do evil, or even fall into the way of adultery, it is inevitable.

"Mr. has learned that now the military households everywhere can be said to have neither permanent property nor perseverance, if there are changes in the future, how can they rely on it, and it is good not to be seduced by traitors to follow the thief."

Easily picked up a sentence in "Mencius", the old man was not surprised, from Fang Cai's words, he had already seen that the nephew of the Wang family in his mouth was by no means a mediocre person, far from the knowledge that he could have at the age of thirteen or fourteen.

"Then, in the opinion of the virtuous nephew, how should we innovate?"

"The student also said the word money and grain, this grain, in ancient times, five grains, rice, millet, millet, wheat, soybean, in my Guizhou, mostly rice, but the yield of one mu is only a few stones, Jiajing and from overseas to the package of grain, since the mountains are more planted, but especially insufficient, Guizhou's military capital still depends on foreign transportation. But ......"

"But what?" The old man knew that Wang Xingping would inevitably have something to say.

"The students once heard that Xu Zanshan in Beijing had opened a canal in Fangshan and Laishui counties on the outskirts of Beijing three years ago, and there was a crop that came from Luzon, called sweet potato, which can get thousands of catties in one season."