While the improved hereditary military rank system has begun to take root in the hearts of the people, the seven war battalions in Chen Wen's plan and the garrison units in each county have also been formally organized and trained. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In terms of the garrisons in various counties, Jinhua Prefecture and Jinyun County in Chuzhou, these original occupation areas basically maintained their original establishments, and only Lanxi County where Chen Wen decided to increase the establishment of a sentry post, in order to prepare for the fact that it had not fought last year, compared with the Yanzhou Green Battalion, which had recovered its vitality.

In the newly seized part of the occupied area, except for the garrison of the prefecture with 300 troops and the more than 200 defenders of the small fortress nearby, all the other counties were garrisoned by 100 men to maintain the stability of the county; In the direction of Quzhou, because it will be the next march direction in Chen Wen's plan, there are more requirements for guarding the grain road, supervising the people, and reinforcing troops as an emergency, so the establishment is also larger, of which the garrison of Longyou County is 500, and the garrison of Quzhou Fucheng is 800.

In this way, there are more than 1,600 garrisons in Jinhua counties, more than 1,300 troops in Quzhou counties, and more than 1,000 people in Chuzhou. It's just that these 5,000 people are scattered in the vast area of the three provinces, plus almost all of them are infantry, and many of them are from the half of the recruit training camp with relatively average training results, and their combat effectiveness is not strong. If it is only used to defend the city, it should still be enough.

The garrison is only due to the defense of the counties and key points, and if you want to regain the lost territory, you still have to look at the war barracks.

Before the expansion of the army, Chen Wen had three battalions under his command, Nantang, Yiwu and Dongyang, as well as a battalion directly under the town. According to the army expansion plan, the infantry of each of the two battalions in Nantang and Yiwu was transferred to one bureau, but they were only supplemented with new recruits, and were not reorganized; The Dongyang Battalion was divided into two, and the number of the Dongyang Battalion, which followed Chen Wen's march into Quzhou, was retained to complete the establishment, while the other half of the Dongyang Battalion, which had always responded to the Anhua Town Fortress, was more complete with the infantry of the two bureaus and named Pujiang; In addition, there is a war battalion called Yeosu that is purely composed of new recruits, but the officers are still from various departments.

In addition, the battalion directly under the town was supplemented with two bureaus from Nantang and Yiwu and a bureau composed of new recruits and part of the cavalry was drawn to form a new infantry battalion, while the infantry of the four bureaus belonging to the left and right flanks in the battle of Shentangyuan were supplemented as the last battalion.

The former of these two battalions was called the Guards, but the original name of the battalion directly under the town was rewritten; The latter was named the Shentang Battalion to commemorate the bloody battle fought by this battalion before its establishment, as well as the bravery and tenacity they showed against the Qing army's formed Mandarin Duck Formation.

In this way, Chen Wen's Zhejiang Ming Army was expanded from three battalions to seven battalions including Nantang, Yiwu, Dongyang, Pujiang, Lishui, Guard, and Shentang. According to its original establishment, each battalion has four infantry bureaus, a cavalry brigade of 100 cavalry, and artillery, engineers, and other auxiliary personnel attached to the battalion, with an establishment of nearly 2,000 men.

However, compared with the end of last year, the combat effectiveness of a large number of new recruits has inevitably declined.

The three battalions of Nantang, Yiwu, and Guards were only supplemented with infantry from one bureau for scattering and mixing, and the decline in combat effectiveness was relatively low, while the Shentang battalion and the Pujiang battalion only supplemented the cavalry, artillery, and engineering arms, while the other only added two infantry bureaus, and the decline was slightly larger. In contrast, although it was also from the Dongyang battalion, but the number that was retained was increased by more recruits such as artillery, cavalry, and engineers, and the decline was greater than that of the Pujiang battalion.

Of course, this is not the weakest, the newly established Lishui battalion is all recruits, only the officers are more experienced, but the non-commissioned officers have not experienced the war, in other words, they have not seen blood, Chen Wen does not dare to use her to fight any tough battles for the time being, it is better to follow a few veteran battalion leaders to accumulate combat experience.

Although this uneven expansion method has created a unit with a low combat effectiveness full of recruits, the combat effectiveness of the battalions directly under Nantang, Yiwu, and Zhen, which were originally the main force last year, has been preserved. Moreover, the soldiers of this new battalion have also been training for more than a month, and there is no combat mission for the time being, which is better than the second battalion of Yiwu and Dongyang, which were hastily formed when he first entered Jinhua Mansion and were forced to face the Qing army, including the supervision and Fubiao, after only training for more than a month.

After the expansion, the training for the soldiers to integrate into the battle formation continued, but the situation of Sun Yu's collection of taxes last autumn was really not very good.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, the summer tax could not be more than August, and wheat was the mainstay; The autumn tax cannot pass next February, and it is mainly rice.

In the second half of the previous year, when Chen Wen recovered Jinhua, the summer tax had already ended, and the autumn tax was in progress. Due to the devastating damage caused by the Qing army in Jinhua Province, Chen Wen and Sun Yu negotiated a reduction of the autumn tax in most areas, while the army could only rely on seizures, donations, and Chen Wen's loans to survive until the summer tax began to be collected the following year.

However, in April of the following year, Chen Wenshuai's army went to Quzhou, and in June the Cao Conglong Rebellion broke out, resulting in the summer tax and a large amount of reserves originally collected in Yushan Town being burned by the Taizhou Qing army.

Fortunately, when Longyou was recovered, Chen Wen took over Ma Jinbao's eunuch bag, and in the process of quelling the rebellion, he confiscated some of the property of the gentry and wealthy families, which finally relieved him, allowing him to have enough military supplies to fight the Qing army again in September. Next, Chen Wen recovered Quzhou, and collected a large amount of wealth from the frenzied Chen Jin. These two sums of silver were a lot of money, but they soon began to be consumed in the expansion of the army, construction and industrialization.

Due to the continuous war, the summer and autumn taxes of the sixth year of Quzhou Yongli were exempted by Chen Wen, so that the only two prefectures that really needed to collect the autumn tax last year were Jinhua and Chuzhou. But it is these two governments that have not suffered from military disasters, but they seem to be quite unsmooth in the collection of autumn taxes.

At the beginning of Chen Wenguang's recovery of Jinhua, along with the collection of loans, Chen Wen and Sun Yu began to implement in Jinhua the system used by the Ming army in the Simingshan area of Dalanshan - the loss was returned to the public, it was strictly forbidden to increase taxes without permission, and to subsidize officials to maintain integrity.

However, the Ming army fought outside the country all year round, and last summer it broke out in the internal strife initiated by the civilian officials who supervised the army, and the implementation of these three systems was very poor. To be precise, the first two items were very ineffective, while the third item was unanimously supported by the majority of officials, so the implementation was very smooth.

subsidized the family, but did not achieve the effect of maintaining integrity, which made Sun Yu, who still found out that there was a problem with the autumn tax in his busy schedule, was very unhappy, so that even when Wu Dengke got married, he was investigating the problems in various counties. After a recent month's investigation, Sun Yu found that it was not only the local officials who had the problem, but even the gentry families in the counties were also involved in a large number of cases, and the taxes that should be paid by them were showdown on the ordinary people.

This phenomenon was normal in the Ming Dynasty, and there were many ways to use privileges to avoid taxes, and this is just one of them. However, the officials of the counties, especially those who were petty officials, still colluded with them in disregard of the government decree as usual, but they still touched Chen Wen's rebellion. (To be continued.) )