Chongwu Institute, the full name of Chongwu Shouyu Thousand Households, its predecessor is Hui'an County Chongwu Township Xiaodou Inspection Division, was founded in the Northern Song Dynasty Taiping Xingguo six years, Ming Hongwu 20 years Jiangxia Hou Zhou Dexing through Fujian Haiphong, in the original Xiaodou Patrol Inspection Division on the basis of the expansion of the city, in order to prevent the Japanese invaders, Chongwu Shouyu Thousand Households since then established, and under the jurisdiction of Yongning Wei.

This guard of the thousand households can be different from the general thousand households, because it also has the duty of guarding the place, so the general guard of the thousand households have a city, and Chongwu guards the thousand households not only have the city of the thousand households, but also lead the Otter Cave Inspection Division, Xiaoqi Inspection Division, Huangqi Inspection Division, Fengwei Inspection Division and other four inspection divisions, and these four inspection divisions also have a small city within a radius of 100 steps, that is to say, there are a total of five large and small cities under the rule of Chongwu.

This Chongwu can be said to be the largest 1,000 households under the rule of Yongning Wei, and in its heyday, there were more than 800 guards guarding the city, more than 300 guards in Tuntian, more than 400 patrolling guards, and more than 1,600 households in total.

However, since the orthodox years of Yingzong, the escape of the guards of the Ming Dynasty has become more and more serious, and this Chongwu is no exception, and now, the remaining guards are less than half of the heyday.

Yu Dayou sat in the study room in the main hall of the yamen of the Imperial Thousand Households, flipping through the "Yellow Book of Enslavement" on the table, his brows were tightly locked, and he didn't say anything for a long time.

He really didn't expect that the situation in Chongwu Institute would be so bad.

It is recorded in the "Yellow Book of Enlistment" that there are still a total of 772 Tunwei military households left in Chongwu, which seems to be not very outrageous, but if you take a closer look, you will find the horror in it.

Because among these remaining military households, there are too few ordinary guards.

Most of the guards in this Chongwu Institute have escaped, but there are not a single officer at all levels.

Not only are there two deputy thousand households, 15 100 households, 30 general flags, and one 150 small flags, but there are also three hereditary thousand households and 18 hereditary 100 households under the jurisdiction of Chongwu.

In this way, there are more than 200 households in the Chongwu Institute alone, and there are more than 500 ordinary guards left!

He doesn't need to check this situation to know that it is true, because the "Yellow Book of Enlistment" has to be checked every year, and basically no one dares to cheat on the number of guards, and he himself is a hereditary hundred households in Chongwu, and he still knows how many hereditary officers there are in Chongwu.

Chongwu has a total of five large and small cities that need to be guarded, and there are more than 16,000 acres of tuntian under its jurisdiction that need to be cultivated.

You don't have to think about it, it's definitely not enough, it may be barely enough to pull all the farms, and you don't have to think about it if you guard the city.

He also knew that most of the more than 16,000 acres of tuntian land had been privately swallowed by officers at all levels, and although the number of tun guards on the "Yellow Book of Enlistment" was not fake, most of the ownership of these tuntian fields was fake!

He originally thought that this real job Qianhu was a fragrant glutton, but he never thought that what he received was such a mess.

What to do?

If he follows the crowd, like other practical households, he only cares about making money, regardless of the guards of the cities everywhere, and does not care about the life or death of the guards, then this real thousand households is indeed a fragrant bait.

However, he doesn't want to be like this, he is the kind of loyal and honest person, he has never thought of messing around, no matter where he goes, no matter what he does, he wants to do well.

Question, how to clean up this mess?

He was not the only one in the study, Yang Cong, Deng Cheng, Tang Kekuan, and even Wang Xuan were all sitting on the guest seats on both sides, and Li Jianjiang, Li Jianlin and other ordinary military households of the Chongwu Institute were also standing aside.

Of course, the identities of these ordinary military households are not ordinary, they are all Li Liangqin's disciples, Yang Cong's guards, and these are also Yu Dayou's cronies.

Their group is here to take over the Chongwu Institute, Li Xixian has already released the news, this Yu Dayou is his future son-in-law, therefore, the original thousand households of the Chongwu Institute did not dare to let go of one, and after the handover, they took a few cronies to Tong'an obediently, and this Chongwu Institute is now Yu Dayou's final say.

The reason why Yang Cong begged Li Xixian to hand over this Chongwu place to Yu Dayou to take care of was to resist the pirates sent by Chen Wenjie.

After holding it for a while, he finally couldn't help but ask, "Brother Zhifu, what's wrong?" ”

Yu Dayou closed the yellow book, frowned and sighed: "Alas, the shortage of personnel in this Chongwu Institute is too serious, and I don't know what to do for my brother." ”

Serious staff shortage?

Isn't this normal?

It's not normal if there is no shortage of personnel!

Yang Cong had already expected this situation, and he had even thought of a solution.

In these years, there is nothing short of personnel, as long as there is no shortage of money, as long as there is money, there are not a lot of people.

He said with a little smugness: "Brother Zhifu, this is a trivial matter, you say, how many people do you need, junior brother will help you find a way." ”

When Yu Dayou heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned and said: "If this guard escapes, he can't chase it back, what can you do?" ”

Yang Cong said confidently: "This is simple, recruiting people, what kind of guards are needed, farming, guarding the city, or patrolling?" The farmer can directly give them some grain, and the defenders and inspectors will pay two taels of silver a month, and I will recruit you as much as you want. ”

When Yu Dayou heard this, he fainted by mistake, he thought that Yang Cong had a good way, but he didn't expect Yang Cong to think of this bad idea.

Isn't this the recruitment of private soldiers, if the recruitment of private soldiers is not allowed by the imperial court and there is no military department document, it is illegal, and it will be removed from office and investigated, and at worst it will be killed.

This head-killing idea, you can't think of it!

Yu Dayou couldn't help but roll his eyes and said: "Qingfeng, recruiting private soldiers, there is illegality, and if you don't do it, you will be killed." ”

Of course, Yang Cong knew that it was illegal to recruit private soldiers, but there were more private soldiers at this time, and to put it mildly, most of the guards in the Ming Metropolitan Guard Office were private soldiers of those commanders and thousands of households, and most of the leading generals of the Ming Dynasty also had private soldiers.

These days, as long as you have a way, you can afford to raise those private soldiers, and you can find an excuse to prevaricate and recruit private soldiers, it's okay!

Yu Dayou didn't know, but Yang Cong knew very well, when the time came, the court would have to rely on private soldiers, and in the later period of the Ming Dynasty, it was these private soldiers that could be fought the most.

For example, the Liaodong Army under Ning Yuanbo and Li Chengliang, and the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan Army under the loyal Marquis Qin Liangyu, and the Qi Family Army under Qi Jiguang, to put it bluntly, are all private soldiers, did the court say that they were guilty of recruiting private soldiers?

Including this stunned Yu Dayou, didn't he also form the Yu family army later, but he hadn't started recruiting private soldiers at this time.

Of course, these people recruited private soldiers, and they were more or less allowed by the imperial court, but at the beginning, most of their recruitment of private soldiers did not report to the imperial court.

This is actually nothing, as long as you don't rebel, and don't recruit too much, it's basically vague and over, especially these capital guards, as long as the boss is not angry, who cares if you are a guard or a private soldier.