The requirements of the sharp pawn are more than 20 and less than 40, the male who is not physically disabled, has high martial arts, is good at fighting, is familiar with the tactics of the army, has rich experience in actual combat, has no history of abduction or other criminal records, and the sharp pawn is paid two taels and five dollars of silver per month, two stones of monthly food and exempts the whole family from the levy and the rent tax of the field.

The draft of the new battalion system of the Ming Dynasty has also come out, and in the new battalion system, the Ming army is divided into three systems, namely the imperial camp, the Beijing camp, the box camp and the regimental training. Among them, the imperial camp and the Beijing camp are "the guards of the Son of Heaven, to guard the Beijing division and prepare for the conquest". The camp is "the town soldiers of the provinces, to guard the place and prepare for the conquest." "Team training" is selected from the household registration, so that it can be united and trained, and it is thought that it is defending. ”

During this period, the imperial court was only responsible for supplying ordnance and food, and those who made meritorious contributions were rewarded with money and food, or incorporated into local battalions as soldiers or officers.

The soldiers of the box battalion are unified as guards, and the monthly silver is one or two, and the monthly grain is eight buckets.

Nanjing's 60,000 registered Beijing battalions will soon be rectified, and their treatment is to be determined.

The soldiers of the imperial camp are unified as soldiers of war, and the monthly silver is actually issued with one or two five coins, and the monthly grain is one stone.

There is no one who can be treated as a brave soldier and a sharp soldier for the time being.

In order to facilitate the recording of meritorious service, promotion, salary, unified orders, command and dispatch, etc., the three-level system is a universal imperial battalion system and a unified battalion establishment.

Specific battalion system: The whole army is divided into divisions, flags, bureaus, departments, battalions, towns, and armies (Note: battalions are the basic combat units set up at this stage. The town is the highest combat unit of the central and local permanent units, and the army is established during the war and disbanded after the war).

The commanders of each battalion from low to high are the commander, the general banner, the general general, the thousand general, the general (guerrilla), the general (deputy general), and the commander.

Generals above the rank of general correspond to generals of the rank of loose ranks; Generals above the guerrilla level correspond to generals; Convert generals above the general level to loose lieutenants; Generals above the rank of chief correspond to the rank of lieutenant.

Military uniforms are divided into two types: court uniforms and war uniforms, with two sets in summer and winter.

The court clothes are divided into nine grades and eighteen grades, with the scattered steps as the standard, with the traditional Hanfu as the style, red as the main tone, the original court clothes are improved, and the scattered step logo is embroidered on the front and back to divide the grades.

The uniforms are subject to the Ming Dynasty standard military uniform mandarin duck battle jacket, all wrapped with iron net, heart guards for protection, and cotton armor, leather armor, iron armor and other armor to protect the body, and the chest is embroidered with a loose step logo to divide the level.

The military flags of each battalion are stipulated: the military flag is owned from the battalion level, and a military flag represents an army. The flag is there, and even if the army is light, it can be rebuilt; The flag is destroyed, and even if the army remains, it must be disbanded.

The military flag is based on fiery red, and in the middle is embroidered a black dragon into a sun circle on the left, and a fire phoenix flying into a half-moon on the right, forming a "Ming" character. It means the Ming Empire, the trapped dragon going to sea, the phoenix nirvana, and the rebirth from the fire. The new army flag is embroidered "the sun and the moon do not set, and the Ming Dynasty will shine forever", and the right side is embroidered with the number of each department.

The original military title system, scattered ranks, town battalion system, guard battalion system, and official positions at all levels of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies were all abolished, and they were correspondingly matched with new titles, scattered ranks, military positions, and battalion systems.

The new ranks, ranks, military ranks, and battalion system were almost formulated in a few days through the brainstorming of many people, and this is a major project involving the Beijing division and seven or eight local provinces, and it is impossible to complete it before the Qing troops move south, and it is only the beginning now, and it is expected that it will take two to three years to complete the restructuring of the battalion and troops in the entire south.

At present, it is mainly aimed at the restructuring of the armies on the anti-Qing fronts such as Jiangbei and Huguang. While standardizing the ranks of the army, rectifying military discipline, and eliminating the old and weak, the new system has given full consideration to the interests of front-line generals and non-commissioned officers, and with regard to the three main forces of the Imperial Battalion, the remainder of Huguangzuo Town, and the remainder of the four towns of Jiangbei, the new system needs to ensure that most of the generals will be promoted and promoted, and that the sergeants who remain in the battalion will have a decent income and treatment, plus sufficient room for promotion, so as to enhance their enthusiasm for resisting the Qing Dynasty.

As for the restructuring of the town soldiers in the southern provinces, it is only in the draft for the time being, and it is expected to be completed in two to three years.

In the draft, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces presuppose that there will be one governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, stationed in Hangzhou, and that the pacesetters will be divided into two battalions, with a number of staff generals and guerrillas, and no more than 6,000 men and horses will be assigned to supervise the standard, and the corresponding mules and horses will be equipped.

In addition, there is a single governor of Zhejiang, two battalions of Fubiao, and a number of generals and guerrillas. There was one commander and two battalions. Set up the general army of the two towns of Hai and Quzhou, and the town mark of each has two battalions.

Qiantang, Taizhou, and Quzhou, each set up a general army on the left and right roads of the water division, and a battalion for each of the town markers, and ordered the local officials in Zhejiang to immediately build ships and build large trees for shipbuilding purposes.

Quzhou, Huzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing and other seven cities, each set up a staff general, each led a battalion, peacetime training troops, bullet patrol places.

It is estimated that there will be more than 36,000 soldiers in Zhejiang Province, and all the rest will be given severance pay of 20 taels of silver and 5 stone rice, and they will be dismissed and dismantled. The severance pay was uniformly allocated by the imperial court in a lump sum, and the imperial camp was sent to the provinces to jointly supervise the implementation. Ensure that severance pay can be distributed among non-commissioned officers and that the integration of the ranks is carried out.

In the new system, the governor supervises the standard, the governor supervises the standard, the admiral promotes the standard, and the general army town standard, all of which can be regarded as the mobile force of a province. The generals and guerrillas who were guarding the cities of the sub-prefectures were set up by the soldiers and horses according to the roads, rivers, and sub-cards, and at the same time stationed in the city, and the guards were very strong.

There are bandits, water bandits and other police, sometimes all the way, a message, each stationed commander, leading more than 100 soldiers, can be pressed on the spot. And once they encounter a large group of bandits, or thieves, they will dispatch the co-standard, the town standard, until the governor's supervision. According to the size of the warning signal, officers and soldiers were dispatched at different levels to suppress and suppress the rebellion. Set up police at all levels, report to the enemy, ignore any thief, or deal with it unfavorably, trace it layer by layer, the responsibility is clear, the defense area is demarcated, and there is no shirk.

The purpose of the restructuring of the southern provinces is to disarm and save food and wages, and second, to use the restructuring to restrain and command the military generals of the towns by appointing civil ministers as governors and governors, so as to strengthen the control of the imperial court over the local military generals.

In Zhejiang Province, the local state government originally reported to the military department as many as 100,000 soldiers, but after the reduction of troops, less than 40,000 soldiers, plus auxiliary soldiers, and only 60,000 soldiers, can greatly reduce the financial pressure of the imperial court, and under the full food and salary, the imperial court can also justifiably use military discipline to restrain military generals and non-commissioned soldiers, and there is no longer the embarrassing situation of the previous military discipline was corrupted, and the generals did their own thing and did not obey the command.

It is estimated that there are more than 36,000 soldiers in Zhejiang, more than 34,000 people in Fujian (including 10,000 Zheng Zhilong's soldiers and horses, and the imperial court calculated the meaning of 10,000 soldiers for him), Yunnan and Guizhou, in addition to the Tuntian soldiers and guard soldiers, the total number of soldiers is about 40,000 people, Sichuan has been occupied by Zhang Xianzhong, and there is no way to reform the system for the time being.