On the eighteenth day of the first month of the sixth year of Yongli, although this year's Lantern Festival was due to the military disasters in many places in Jinhua Mansion, for the people of Jinhua Mansion, it has been four years since the defeat of Master Jiang in the first year of the prison country Lu and the New Year, and they were forced to keep the money rat tail that only barbarians can wear, and wear the clothes of Jiannu, so that the vast majority of the people will be ashamed and ashamed when they worship their ancestors.

And this year's New Year, with the Ming army recovering Jinhua Mansion, the people of Jinhua Mansion have cut off the money rat tail on their heads, and replaced them with the Han family clothes that have been hidden at home for many years.

The lanterns of the Lantern Festival had just fallen for a few hours, and the day had just dawned, and a series of orders jointly issued by Chen Wen, the general of the general Dalan Jinhua, and Sun Yu, the prefect of Jinhua appointed by Wang Jiang, the former governor of Zhejiang, were respectively and jointly issued a series of orders with a group of messengers riding out of the city of Jinhua and galloping towards the various county offices and garrison locations of the Ming army in Jinhua Mansion, and the people of Jinhua Mansion City got the news the fastest.

Chen Wen's first order, from now on, Jinhua Town was formally established, all battalions and garrisons under Chen Wen's command were changed to all departments under Jinhua Town, and all flags and documents will no longer use the previous Dalanshan words from now on, but will all be changed to Jinhua Town, except for the battalion flag of Nantang Battalion.

In fact, the preparation of this order within the army has been going on for half a month, the officers have already been in place, and the non-commissioned officers will be dispersed again with the New Year's leave, and it is only officially announced at the moment. Only because of the expansion of the number of troops, the casualties and losses of previous wars, etc., the units that need to be replenished can only be supplemented for a period of time, waiting for the recruitment and training of new recruits to be completed.

At the same time, the internal departments of Jinhua Town were also established. The Jinhua Town General Military Office, headed by Chen Wen, the chief military officer of Jinhua Town, controls the overall situation, and consists of three higher-level departments, namely, the Jinhua Town General Military Law Department, the Jinhua Town General Quartermaster Department, and the Jinhua Town General Staff, as well as several small departments such as the Military Training Department, the Military Medical Department, the Ordnance Department, and the Jinhua Town Martial Arts School.

Both the Military Judge Advocate Department and the Quartermaster Department have a foundation, Gu Shouli and Qi Xiufeng only need to transfer personnel and make appropriate supplements, the system is ready-made, and even several other small departments except for the Martial Arts Academy also have a certain personnel base. Although there are many shortcomings, they can be supplemented as long as they are added.

The General Staff Department needs Lou Jiye to start over, and he has discussed with Chen Wen many times these days, and many systems have been formulated, including Chen Wen, a staff officer below Lou Jiye, has also selected dozens of people from among literate officers and recent military defectors, and the first task they receive after proper training is to survey and map maps.

As for the martial arts academy, Chen Wen still planned to let him and some officers with experience in relevant subjects support it first, at least so that the officers above the sentry level under his command could understand military orders and understand the most basic tactical knowledge. That's all.

The second order was to set up the Jinhuawei Command Department to be responsible for the training of Tuntian and military households, of which the commander Tongzhi was responsible for Tuntian; The commander is responsible for training, and the commander of the palm print is responsible for the overall situation and is directly responsible to Chen Wen.

In the previous battles, although the Ming army won, the number of killed and wounded soldiers was not very small, and some of the wounded died after the battle due to serious injuries or foreign objects in the wounds that were not removed. Most of the other wounded returned to the team after recovering from their injuries, while most of the remaining ones were left disabled. It is no longer possible to go into battle.

In ancient armies, if a disabled soldier was lucky enough to meet a well-meaning general, he might be able to do some chores in the camp for the rest of his life; The general situation is to leave it alone. At most, give some money and food and send people away; If you are unlucky, you don't even have to waste medicinal materials to treat the injury, and you can just throw it away or make up for it.

As a modern person, Chen Wen does not intend to learn from the dregs of the ancient Eastern and Western armies, where soldiers fought bravely on the battlefield and were unfortunately wounded and disabled. The army is obliged to feed.

Therefore, he planned to place those who were still able to do things among these disabled soldiers into the departments at all levels of the Jinhuawei Command and Embassy Division, and to work together with the officials who were seconded from the old battalion, and to take charge of the training of the tuntian and military households. Others, like the dead, were given land, houses were built and properly settled, and if there was no one left at home to farm, Jin Huawei could also recruit tenants for them. Collect tenant rent.

In this way, these guards officers from the army and the tuntian officers of the old battalion can form a situation of mutual containment, and for the time being, the possibility and degree of corruption can also be reduced.

It's just that whether it is a military town or a health station, without land, population, money and food, these cannot be carried out. As a result, Chen Wen and Sun Yu jointly ordered the confiscation of all the local property of all the officers and fleeing Manchu officials from the general soldier Ma Jinbao of the standard battalion in Jinhua Town, and at the same time occupied the ownerless wasteland in the area occupied by the Ming army for military use.

Ma Jinbao initially went south from Bolo and participated in the Jinhua Massacre, and was later appointed as the chief soldier in charge of the military affairs of the four prefectures of Jinquyan, and later moved the administrative office to Jinhua. For five years, especially after moving from Quzhou to Jinhua, Ma Jinbao and the standard camp of Jinhua Town forcibly seized the people's wealth on the ground of Jinhua Mansion, expropriated and expropriated violently, and occupied a large number of industries, which can be described as full of complaints, otherwise how could the Ming army develop so rapidly.

And Ma Jinbao and his officers forcibly seized the people's property, a large part of which has been transported in the process of fleeing to Quzhou, and even the families of those officers and soldiers who died in the war are afraid of the Ming army's retaliation and flee with silver, and there are not many left.

However, the Qing army was able to take away movable property such as wealth and antiques, but it could not take away real estate such as land, houses, shops, workshops, and mines, as well as those who were forcibly involved in the property of local merchants, and these were all cheaper than Chen Wen.

It's just that it was not enough to rely on these to feed the Ming army and officials in Jinhua Mansion, so he started the idea of occupying the ownerless wasteland. Jinhua Mansion was slaughtered a few years ago, and there were many massacres even in other places, coupled with the actions of Ma Jinbao and his subordinates, there was a lot of abandoned land in the entire Jinhua Mansion, so much that the officials sent by the old battalion to investigate could not be counted, and it can be said that it is very suitable to raise soldiers.

However, when this plan arrived at Sun Yu, it was opposed for fear of offending the local gentry and the common people too much, and Chen Wen, who was also worried, renegotiated with Sun Yu. decided to deal with this plan, but the revised plan still made Sun Yu worried.

At the same time as announcing the confiscation of property and the occupation of wasteland, Chen Wen ordered to summon the local wealthy to Fucheng to discuss a series of matters such as the subscription of bonds and the return of some of the property forcibly seized by Ma Jinbao and his subordinates.

Surrounded by enemies, Chen Wen had no choice but to make a compromise to unite more of the gentry and the common people, but he did not intend to make the restitution a one-shot deal. Otherwise, the goal of uniting, co-opting, and even luring these gentry and the common people to unite on the same front with the Ming army would not be achieved.

The envoys have been dispatched, and it will not be long before a large number of gentry and common people will arrive in the city. However, the ownerless wasteland Chen Wen has occupied, and if he occupies the land, he must need people to cultivate it in order to harvest grain and other agricultural products, otherwise it is meaningless to occupy it.

As a result, Chen Wen took the first step to repay the pension fields of the fallen soldiers and the disabled soldiers, and these people or their families who had fought under Chen Wen would naturally be allocated the best land. In addition, it is stipulated that if there is no one in the family to farm, tenants can be recruited by the local health office and collect tenant rent on their behalf. You don't even have to pay a handling fee.

In the second step, Chen Wen announced that he would grant each of his soldiers ten acres of military land to settle their families. This area of land is definitely not enough if the family population is large, so he is also planning to set up some workshops and workshops to absorb the surplus labor force to ensure that the officers and men in the army have no worries. At the same time, Chen Wen announced that from this year onwards, military salaries will be paid as usual, and military merit rewards will be changed to silver and land. It was completely converted from a reward of silver taels to a field of military merit.

In the third step, Jin Huawei commanded the envoys to recruit troops in various villages and towns in Jinhua Prefecture. Those who meet the conditions can enter the recruit camp to participate in training, and those with excellent training results can be added to the war barracks and garrison troops in Jinhua Town to become soldiers. while others are included in the reserve soldier sequence, granted 20 acres of military leased land, agricultural training in their spare time, and added to the battle sequence when the conscription order is issued.

The last step was the people who followed the Ming army to Jinhua from Tiantai Mountain. These people are still living in the camp in Dongyang County. Doing some of the work assigned by the old camp. Since Chen Wen brought them to increase the population and balance the power of the natives, he needed to solve their livelihood, and his initial plan was to convert them into military households and grant them military leased land like a reserve army. When he frees up his hands to meddle in other businesses, these people will be used at that time.

Those who have constant property and permanent industry have perseverance, this is the theory once preached by Mencius, and the military merit is essentially to try to bind the soldiers to the land, and to inspire them to fight bravely with the land that the Chinese value most.

According to the system set by Chen Wen, the pension field is a permanent field, which belongs to him and does not need to pay taxes for 20 years; The military land is granted to soldiers, and there is no need to pay taxes, but it is only used to temporarily settle the families of soldiers, so it still belongs to the military and will be recovered when they retire; On the other hand, the land rewarded for military merit is the same as the pension field, and there is no need to pay taxes for 20 years, but it is not officially returned to the rewarded person until after retirement, and if there is a serious violation of military law such as defection, it will be recovered. As for the military leased land, it is naturally impossible for the reserve soldiers to enjoy the treatment of war soldiers, and it is inevitable that they will be taxed, but because they are obliged to undertake military service, they will be exempted from military service in the same way as soldiers, military dependents, martyrs' families, and disabled soldiers.

The soldiers and their families were Chen's biggest and staunchest supporters, and giving them the land they occupied would also strengthen cohesion and attract more people to join the Ming army. Newcomers, whether they become soldiers or reserve soldiers, can enjoy the privilege of being exempted from conscription, and this right comes from the guard system itself, so Chen Wen can justifiably implement it.

The military households of the Ming Dynasty needed to do a lot of things, such as tuntian, drills, transportation, preparation, patrolling, outposting, entering the guard, garrison, military weapons and other matters had to be involved, coupled with the oppression of the officers of the guard and the narrowness of the rising channel, the military households continued to flee in the Ming Dynasty, even if those who stayed were completely reduced to serfs, and later they had to implement the recruitment system to deal with foreign enemies.

Chen Wen established a system in the name of the guard, in which one soldier and the reserve soldier were soldiers, and the whole family was a military household, and the military family did not have to work every day to support the regular soldiers in the imperial court like Yu Ding, a former military household, as long as their registered family members performed military service in the battalion or participated in training in the township and waited for conscription, they could enjoy the treatment of exemption from conscription. As long as the children of their families serve in the army in accordance with the regulations, the family can be transferred to the people after retiring from the army, and there is no need to worry about serving in the army for generations.

With the birth of the Ming Dynasty's guard system in Zhejiang, the last days of the Ming Dynasty, based on an improved version of the modern military service system, Chen Wen believed that in the face of tangible interests, more and more people would join it and become an integral part of the Ming army under his command. (To be continued.) )