"In half a year, I must train a strong army!"

"Half a year later, that will be when my Sun Yuanming will move the world."

Standing at the bow of the boat, blowing the river breeze, Sun Yuan looked at the vast world in front of him, and suddenly had a feeling of a wide sea and sky.

Only now did he leave the small world of Rugao and enter another big world.

Although it takes half a year to start from scratch, training a strong army seems undoubtedly a fantasy on the surface. In later generations, after a young man joins the army, he first has to stay in the recruit company for two months, mainly to let the soldiers adapt to the transformation process from civilian to soldier. Get acquainted with the way of life of the army and exercise your physical fitness.

After the end of two months, they were assigned to the troops for tactical training.

Tactical training is a very long time, and it takes one to two years for a recruit to become a qualified veteran.

Therefore, it is said that in half a year, there is no way to train a strong army.

But Sun Yuan was not worried, that was because the end of the Ming Dynasty was a very special era. The army at the end of the Ming Dynasty was also very special compared to any previous era, and if it was described in one word, it would be "rotten." ”

In general, the military system of the Ming Dynasty was implemented by the military household guard system, and by now, this system has been completely eroded. The beginning of the military household guard system was when the Ming Dynasty was founded, because the country was not yet rich and could not support so many standing troops. Therefore, they stationed the army in one place and distributed it to the wasteland, so that the troops could reclaim it for military use. In the beginning, it was to reduce the financial burden on the country. However, the army has been farming for a long time, and all food and consumption must be raised by itself, so it is inevitable that they will neglect training and degenerate into pure farmers.

And because the Ming Dynasty implemented a strict household registration system, soldiers were all incorporated into military households. The descendants of soldiers are still soldiers, and their children and grandchildren will serve as soldiers. The personal property of the military households was attached to the officers, and in the end, it almost became the private property of the officers.

As far as the officers are concerned, instead of subsidizing money to buy equipment for their subordinate military households, train their combat effectiveness, and serve the country, it is better to let them cultivate more land and make benefits for themselves.

Therefore, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, many military households have never touched swords and guns in their lives, and only God knows what use such soldiers can be used for pulling them on the battlefield.

As for Li Chuang's peasant army, don't even mention it. Sun Yuan was a master under Liu Zongmin, and he was very clear about their situation. The peasant army was able to be driven away by the Ming army with inferior combat effectiveness, which was more garbage than the military households.

Of course, with the addition of a large number of border troops of the Ming Dynasty, the peasant army learned war in the war, and its combat effectiveness was greatly improved. However, it will have to wait until the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, after Li Zicheng entered Henan.

If you want to talk about the strongest combat effectiveness in this era, it should be Houjin Jiannu. At that time, there was a saying that "Jin people are less than 10,000, and 10,000 are invincible." ”

As a result, the Jiannu Eight Banners Army was completely mythologized.

The problem is that "Houjin" is not "Jin", it is invincible, it is the Jin soldiers of the Northern Song Dynasty, but it has nothing to do with Houjin.

In fact, although Jiannu's soldiers were strong, they were nothing, and they could deal with the Ming army that was so rotten that it was out of control, and Li Zicheng, who was completely degenerated after entering Beijing.

Later, when he attacked the Southern Ming Dynasty and unified the whole of China, he relied on the Ming Dynasty to surrender his army.

Sun Yuan feels that as a modern person, he is also an enthusiast of military history. After so many years on the forum, he has also come into contact with many friends who have been soldiers on weekdays, and he is still very clear about the training methods of the PLA.

It only takes half a year to transplant the training methods of the later army to the Ming Dynasty, although it is not enough to train an iron army. But as long as discipline can be exercised, and orders and prohibitions can be enforced, it will be enough to wrestle with these three armies.

In fact, the so-called strong army is not as complicated as later generations imagine.

Qi Jiguang, the military god of the Ming Dynasty, said it well: If you go to the battlefield, you have saliva in your mouth, and if you hold a stable weapon, you are considered a strong soldier.

It can be seen how low the quality of soldiers in this era is. After going to the battlefield, he didn't panic, and he was already a first-class good soldier.

Isn't it a simple matter to train such an army?

This is the level of military training in college!

According to the rules before taking office, Sun Yuan needed to meet his immediate boss first.

Ningxiang is just a thousand households, and there is a mother-in-law above, Huai'an Dahewei. However, there is no urgency. Because, the capture of Fengyang by the peasant army shook the entire Ming Dynasty. Today, the entire army between the Yangtze River and the Huai River, including several provinces in the southeast, is under the control of Lu Xiangsheng, the new governor of the five provinces.

The imperial court ordered him to dispatch the entire army of the Jiang and Huai regions, and cooperate with Hong Chengchou to encircle and suppress the peasant army. As soon as the current Lu Inspector took office, he urgently ordered the officials of the entire Dahewei to immediately set off with their troops.

Now, the commander of Dahewei is very busy, and it is said that he has gone to the front line, so he naturally has no time to meet Sun Yuan, a mustard-like little person.

I sent a small official over and said that he would not be allowed to go to Huai'an for the time being, and he could go directly to Ningxiang to take office.

It is said that if Sun Yuan is in office with a thousand households, Dahewei should also send a fellow acquaintance or a servant to send him to take office to show his attention. However, there are too many things to do this year, so I won't come.

As a result, Sun Yuan, a thousand households, seemed to have been forgotten by everyone.

This is exactly what Sun Yuan wants, what he needs now is a peaceful life. Unobtrusive, but at best.

After two days of sailing, they arrived at the boundary of Ningxiang, but they could not sail.

It turns out that this place is located at the junction of Gaoyou, Xinghua and Taizhou, and it can be regarded as the center of Yangzhou Prefecture. However, it is still 100 miles away from the Grand Canal, and the Yuanyan River is more than 200 miles away, and there is no waterway in the territory.

There was no way, Sun Yuan had to take everyone off the boat and set off by car.

In the evening, we finally arrived in Ningxiang.

Ningxiang is a large town, located at the intersection of four official roads, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is necessary to rush from north to south.

As soon as I arrived at the ground, I saw a bustling small city not far ahead. There are no walls, but there are quite a few houses.

Then into the city, the streets of the city are neat, and there are at least thousands of families in the city. This scale, that is, the scale of a village in modern society in later generations, is not even comparable to a large village in the north, but it is also remarkable in the Ming Dynasty.

Stepping on the bluestone street, Sun Yuan felt a burst of joy in his heart, and he really felt like the lord of a city, and said in a loud voice: "Good place, good place!" ”

Seeing Sun Yuan happy like this, Fei Hong and the others also smiled.

However, Guan Tao said cautiously: "The master must have offended someone above, or he was not careful, so he was sent to this place." ”

Sun Yuan: "How do you say this, this place is really good." The north-south transportation artery, the market is also prosperous, and the people are rich, so it is the most suitable for raising soldiers. ”

As a businessman in his previous life, Sun Yuan was born to be more affectionate to Guan Tao. Moreover, this boss has been in business all the year round and is well-informed, and Sun Yuan still attaches great importance to what he means.

Guan Tao said: "Indeed, this place is the main point of north-south traffic, but do you find it, sir, most of the pedestrians on this street are old and weak, women and children, but they rarely see strong men." ”

Listening to his reminder, Sun Yuan looked fixedly, thought about it again, and suddenly took a breath of cold air. Indeed, I have been walking for a long time in the small town, and it seems that I really haven't seen a few men between the ages of twelve and forty: "Where did this young man go?" ”

Guan Tao said: "Ningxing Township has the Grand Canal on the left hand, and the Salt River on the right hand, and the crops in the field are busy for a few months every year. ”

"It turns out that the industry is hollowing out!" Sun Yuan suddenly came to his senses. In fact, this situation is the norm for farmers in modern society. The young people in the village have gone out to work, and they will not return home for a few days until the Chinese New Year, and then leave their hometowns after the Chinese New Year. As a result, only the elderly and children are left in the village. Unexpectedly, the same was true of the Ming Dynasty. Especially in the Jiangnan area, it is particularly prominent.

The last years of the Ming Dynasty were the embryonic period of capitalism, and the progress of handicraft and transportation industry made Caoyun and textile absorb a lot of manpower and material resources.

Sun Yuan wanted to understand this, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I don't recruit troops from the people." "I am a thousand households, and I naturally manage a thousand military households in my hands. And because of the strict household registration system of the Ming Dynasty, military households have been firmly bound to the land, and they are not short of human resources.

"Master, you are wrong, although the master does not lack soldiers on hand, but to feed the army, it takes a lot of financial resources. Generally speaking, the army's income mainly depends on land and business. Farming is too slow. In business, the market in this place is really withered, but it can't support many people. ”

As soon as he said this, Sun Yuan realized and couldn't help frowning. Yes, I only saw that this place was a land transportation artery, but I didn't expect that there were two canals around me, and these two canals had completely absorbed the resources of the entire Ningxiang.

If you're doing business, this place isn't a great choice. If he goes to the Grand Canal to grow his hair or even get involved in salt transportation, Sun Yuan doesn't think that he is so capable now.

It seems that this place is not as beautiful as I thought it would be!

However, the main purpose of my visit to Ningxiang this time is to form an army, not to make a fortune, but it is okay.

It's just that Guan Tao's words are really in a bad mood, and Sun Yuan's mood is a little low.

When he arrived at the Thousand Households in Ningxiang, Sun Yuan was even more surprised.

As Guan Tao analyzed just now, Ningxiang looks good and is in the center of Yangzhou Mansion. But the blood was drained by the two canals next to it. And this place is hundreds of miles away from continuous hills, not high, just a few tens of meters above sea level, and there is not much production in the field. Therefore, most people are reluctant to come here to be officials. The former thousands of households and vice thousands of households have also been transferred away.

Because Sun Yuan didn't know what to do, he was sent to this poor place where no one cared about.

Qianhu is located in a secluded corner in the north of Ningxiang City, and the yamen looks very dilapidated, and a large courtyard is used as the official residence of Qianhu and the residence of his family. Next to the residence are two rows of bungalows.

There were no guards at the door, so Wen Laosan went in and shouted for a long time before he found a small official.

The little official heard that it was the new master of Qianhu who came, so he hurriedly brought a few guards over and knelt down to greet him.

The little official is okay, but the appearance of a few guards is really miserable. How to say it, it can be described with the words "short, thin, small".

The guards looked to be about thirteen or fourteen years old, about one and a half meters tall, as thin as monkeys, and when they kowtowed, their arms were so thin that they seemed to be able to break in two with a little force.