The guard system, which originated from the military system of the Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang dynasties, is a kind of army building system that combines soldiers with agriculture and guarding. As the name suggests, the guard has two functions: garrison and tuntian, among which the military households are transferred to the levy if they have something to do, and they are returned to the tuntian of the guard if they have nothing to do. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, once said: "I raise millions of soldiers, and it does not cost the people a grain of rice." ”

The guard office of the Ming Dynasty was subordinate to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, which was composed of military administrative units such as the Commander of the Metropolitan Mission, the Commander of the Guard, the Thousand Households, and the Hundred Households. These military administrative units are not just barracks, but county-like administrative units that are managed by the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces. For example, Tianjin Sanwei has more than 9,200 hectares under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, which is no different from the state and county; Another example is Xiamen in later generations, at this moment it is called Yongning Weizhong Left Guarding Imperial Thousand Households, which is the base camp of Zheng Chenggong.

Since the establishment of Zhejiang's health center, the most important task has been to prepare for the Japanese. Therefore, most of Zhejiang's health centers are set up in coastal prefectures and counties, and there are as many as 10 and 30 health centers in Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Taizhou, Wenzhou and other coastal provinces, accounting for more than 60% of the total number of health centers in Zhejiang. In contrast, there are few guards in the mainland, and there are only Jinhua guards in Jinhua Prefecture, which is directly under the command of the envoys in Zhejiang.

Jinhua Shouyu Thousand Households was established in Hongwu for three years, the establishment of a thousand households, two deputy thousand households, and ten hundred households, and its hearing of lawsuits was set up to calm down one, all of which were hereditary military positions, and its guard Yamen was near the left of the patrol of the Imperial History Line in Fucheng Jiufang Lane.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, after Li Shixian, the cousin of the loyal king Li Xiucheng, captured Jinhua, he unified the original site of the Imperial History Observatory and the Jinhua Shouyu Thousand Households that had been changed into the Trial Scholar Academy, which was the most complete, the most large-scale, and the most frescoes and other works of art in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom buildings preserved in later generations.

The military town unit belongs to the town system, and in the Ming Dynasty, it began to gradually establish nine-sided and thirteen towns to guard against the Mongols during the Yongle period. Subsequently, especially after the conscription system prevailed, it began to gradually spread throughout the country.

Under the military system of the guard in the early Ming Dynasty. The military attache of the guard station is in charge of the army on weekdays, and when he encounters a conscription, "he leads his subordinates and listens to the commander's dispatch." When the war is over, the soldiers will return to the defense and will return to the court. There was no close connection between the generals and the soldiers. After Yongle, the standing military system -- the suppression system -- came into being, and the generals such as the general army suppressed the border towns for a long time, commanding the battalions, and the ties between the generals and the soldiers, especially after the rise of the family system, gradually became closer.

The Jinhua Town in Chen Wen's mouth originated from the name of the Jinhua General Army granted by Wang Jiang before the departure from Tiantai Mountain, but the system in the Southern Ming Dynasty had been completely corrupted, and he had previously been appointed by Lu Jianguo as the General Soldier of Dalan Mountain, but at that time he and Wang Jiang had already been forced to go south to Tiantai Mountain, let alone garrison troops on Dalan Mountain.

As for Jinhuawei, theoretically, it is an extension of the original Jinhua Shouyu Thousand Households. However, Chen Wen did not intend to build Jinhua Wei according to the Ming Dynasty's guard system, so the original Jinhua Shouyu Thousand Households was bound to be cut and merged.

Hearing Chen Wen's proposal to establish the two military administrative units of Jinhua Town and Jinhuawei, several people present looked at Chen Wen with wide eyes, and Chen Wen's goosebumps jumped like hungry wolves seeing meat, and even the two civilian staff members were only a little more subtle.

Chen Wen can understand their reaction. Whether it is a military town or a health station, the establishment of new military and administrative institutions means the granting of rights. And these high-ranking officers and staff members who have followed Chen Wen for many years and have repeatedly made meritorious contributions are bound to get the biggest piece of the cake.

"Jinhua Town consists of three military camps in Nantang, Yiwu and Dongyang. The troops directly under the town and a number of garrison units of different formations were responsible for the military tasks of the royal division's offensive and defense in this newly recovered land. Among them, Jinhua Town has the chief officer of the town guard as the chief commander, the commander of the three battalions as the deputy chief soldier of the assistant guard, the commander of the unit directly under the town will be the rank of staff general, and the responsible officers of each garrison unit will be assigned guerrilla generals, garrison generals, and thousand commanders according to the allocation of troops and the location of the garrison. ”

Jinhua Town, as a military town, is naturally responsible for the overall offensive and defensive matters of the local area. Not to mention the war barracks, the troops directly under the town and the garrison also had precedents in the Ming Dynasty, but the names were slightly different. However, no matter what you call it, its function has not changed, so it is not difficult to understand.

"Before setting off from Tiantai Mountain. Governor Wang has appointed Ben Shuai as the chief military officer of Jinhua. The command of the Nantang battalion was taken over by Vice General Li, and the command of the Yiwu battalion and the command of the Dongyang battalion remained unchanged, and the command of the battalion continued to be in charge of Vice General Wu and Vice General Yin. As for the troops directly under the town, they were in charge of General Chen Guobao. ”

There is no doubt that the ownership of the post of chief military officer of Jinhua is beyond doubt, and even the commanders of the Yiwu battalion and the Dongyang battalion are not unexpected, but everyone did not expect that Li Ruixin took over the command of the Nantang battalion, and Lou Jiye, who was in charge of the Nantang battalion before the battle of Xiaoshun Town, was a staff general, but he did not even get the chief general of the troops directly under the town. For a while, everyone was stunned, even Lou Jiye was no exception.

"The chief officer of the garrison force, the commander thinks that Liu Cheng, the former commander of Yiwu County, has performed well in the battle to defend the city, and can be appointed as a guerrilla general in Dongyang County, responsible for the garrison work of Dongyang County, while other positions will be evaluated according to the merits of previous battles."

Dongyang County was the first county occupied by the Ming army since its march into Jinhua, and it is also the most well-preserved county. Dongyang County in the Ming Dynasty had a vast area, including the entire territory of Dongyang County and most of Pan'an County in later generations.

However, at present, the main enemies of the Ming army are stationed in Hangzhou and Quzhou, and it is naturally impossible to gather heavy troops here, but this place has to face the Qing army in Taizhou and the righteous army of Zhou Qingui's department whose position is not clear, so the task of this guerrilla general in Dongyang County is very heavy, and it can even be said that he has begun to move towards the sequence of senior officers.

"In addition, the Jinhua Town General Military Office and its directly subordinate troops, war barracks and garrison units are unified under the Quartermaster and Military Judges are responsible for assisting the chief officer, of which the quartermaster at all levels is directly responsible to the Jinhua Town Chief Quartermaster, and the military judge is directly subordinate to the military judge at the next higher level, and the commanders of each department shall not interfere with the military quartermaster and military law, and those who violate the order will be punished as exceeding their authority."

"The town's chief quartermaster and chief military judge are the rank of general of the praise painting, and so on for the quartermaster and military judge at the following levels. As for the candidates, they will be replaced by Quartermaster Gu and Judge Qi of the old Nantang Battalion, and the officials at the following levels will discuss again. ”

Gu Shouli and Qi Xiufeng have followed Chen Wen since the formation of the Nantang Battalion, and they can be said to be the two most trusted civilian officials around Chen Wen, so their appointments are still not unexpected. As for not interfering with military supplies and military law, this is a rule that Chen Wen has strictly enforced since the founding of the army, and it is naturally extremely normal.

It's just that the appointment has come to the present, but it still has nothing to do with Lou Jiye, who has already sat in the general, which really makes everyone a little puzzled. Could it be that Chen Wen plans to let Lou Jiye be in charge of Jinhuawei's Tuntian affairs?

The previous appointments had already been completed, and the appointments of subordinate officers still needed to be discussed according to the merit book, so Chen Wen, who had no idea of arousing people's appetite at all, announced the next content.

"From now on, the Wang Division of Jinhua Town will set up a town general staff headquarters, with the chief of the general staff as the main officer, responsible for leading the staff officers to carry out sand table operations according to intelligence, and assisting the commander in formulating plans and commanding operations. As for the candidate for the chief of the general staff, it will be held by General Lou, and at the same time, General Lou will be added to the rank of deputy chief of the army, and the chief of general staff of the town will follow this example in the future. (To be continued.) )