Hearing him ask about this, Zhao Guohua thought to himself: "What does he mean by this?" Does he suspect my intention in buying 2,000 bars of Lumi guns and 50,000 catties of gunpowder? ”

Thinking of this, he glanced up at Chen Sheng, and saw that he was looking at him with burning eyes, so he said calmly, "Lord Chen, there are three thousand people in the joint defense brigade below. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"You didn't lie to me!" Chen Sheng said and smiled.

After laughing, he asked: "Captain Zhao, your joint defense brigade has 3,000 people, and it has attracted the attention of some people. ”

"That'...... Is there any way for adults to help solve this problem? Zhao Guohua asked.

Glancing at Governor Meng's mansion, Chen Sheng said with a smile: "It's not that there is no way, it just depends on whether you are willing or not." ”

"What's the solution? Adults, please speak. Zhao Guohua arched his hand and said. Looking at Chen Sheng, he said in his heart: "It seems that this surname Chen is not a good stubble, it depends on how much money he wants, this Ming official, civil and military attaché are greedy for money." ”

After a few meaningful glances at Zhao Guohua, Chen Sheng said slowly: "These 2,000 bars of Lu Mi Gong and 50,000 catties of gunpowder, although you purchased them yourself, are not right in name and bad words, but if your joint defense brigade is willing to be included in the official and military sequence, there will be no problem......

"Putting the joint defense brigade in the officer-army sequence? ......" Governor Meng said in surprise.

The low status of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty is known to the whole people, the low social status of the military household is almost equivalent to the prostitute, the difficult life of the military household is unimaginable, there is no way to eat food as a soldier, once the joint defense brigade is included in the official and military sequence, then the descendants of all the joint defense members will become military households.

In the mind of Governor Meng, Zhao Guohua would never agree to the inclusion of the joint defense brigade in the official and military sequence.

The military household originated from the military tun system, and the sergeant tuntian was the main measure to solve the logistics supply of the army in ancient China. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, due to the impact of perennial wars, the economy withered, and all kinds of waste were waiting to be revived, and it was necessary to levy thin endowments and rest with the people. It is impossible to expect the people to pay taxes to support a large army, and self-support is the only way.

In order to feed a huge army. The government of the Ming Dynasty inherited the legacy of the military tun of the Yuan Dynasty and expanded it, and carried out tuntian in most of the country's guard centers, striving to achieve self-sufficiency in military food. ”

There are basically four ways to source the sergeants of the Ming Dynasty. There are signs, there are attachments, and there are hairs. From the conscription army, that is, the original peasant rebel army and the fighters of the anti-Yuan Qunxiong divisions. The annexed army, that is, the surrendered Yuan army troops. Officials, soldiers and civilians who have been fined for their crimes. The Grace Army is also known as the Enjun or the Immortal Army.

In addition to the above three, the fourth type is the Battlement Army, that is, the army filled by civilians from all over the country, which is the main source of the guards and sergeants.

Once a civilian is conscripted as a sergeant, he or she is a soldier for generations, and he is not allowed to trade or participate in the imperial examinations.

There was a strict distinction between civilian registration and military registration in the Ming Dynasty, and military registration was also called military households. All military households in the country are under the direct jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces, and are not subject to the constraints of local administrators. All military households are hereditary, and their children and grandchildren are required to serve in the army, and they are not allowed to engage in commerce, handicrafts, or even the imperial examinations.

The main task of the guard sergeant of each military household is to serve as a frontal soldier in a fixed guard station, and is called a regular soldier. The children of Zhengding are the second Ding or Yu Ding, and if the Zheng Ding dies, the second Ding and the remaining Ding of the military corpse must be replaced in turn.

If the heir of the household is extinct, it must be replaced by the same clan.

Military households need to farm their own land, and the Ming government stipulates that the army in the border areas "guards the city in three points and grows in seven points; The interior is divided into two to defend the city, and eight is divided into tun seeds". The tun army had to pay taxes to the government, which were called "tuntian grains". During the Hongwu period, it was stipulated that the military tun "one bucket of tax per mu". The tax grain of Juntun was one of the main revenues of the Ming government.

After the orthodoxy of Yingzong, the system of guards gradually declined, and court officials at all levels occupied tuntian, arbitrarily enlisted the guards and soldiers, and many of them became tenants.

The sergeants were sick and had no medicine and died without coffins, and the number of escapes was increasing, while the officers took advantage of it and embezzled the shortage of monthly rations.

In the last years of orthodoxy, the conscription system began to appear. The recruitment of soldiers is different from the Weisuo army, which is recruited by the imperial court from among the common people in order to cope with the war.

Conscription is still a civilian member, and after enlistment, all food and military supplies are all paid by the state. The state, in turn, passed on this huge military expenditure to the peasants through the means of increasing the number of military expenditures, such as increasing the number of military expenditures. As the number of conscripts increased, the peasants became more and more burdened by taxes and forced labor.

The burden of errand service borne by military households was heavy, and the social status was relatively low, so the Ming people generally took pleasure in leaving the military. ”

"Captain Zhao, this matter is very important, you have to think about it carefully...... If you can't decide for a while, you can also go back and think about it for a few days, after all, this is a big matter related to you and your descendants. It's sloppy! Meng Zhifu reminded in a solemn tone.

Afraid that Zhao Guohua would not know the consequences of the joint defense brigade being subsumed into the official and military sequence, Governor Meng also ignored the military preparations, and Chen Sheng was in front of him, and explained the military household system in detail.

Knowing the kindness of the Meng Governor's Mansion, Zhao Guohua said in his heart: "This Meng Governor's Mansion is not bad, and he knows that he will repay the peach, but how does he know that the troubled times have come, whoever has a strong army in his hands, who speaks has weight, and the status of the soldier has begun to gradually change." ”

Thinking of this, he waved at Governor Meng's mansion and said: "Lord Meng, I know what you mean, but as a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, I often can't sleep at night when I see the internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty, and I can't lead the troops to the decisive battle. ”

"Contribute to the country and expel foreign criminals. Good! Well said! Mingyuan is so reasonable, this official will never treat you badly, from today on, your joint defense brigade will be renamed the Ji'an Prefecture Volunteer Brigade, the Volunteer Brigade belongs to the militia formation, you are still the captain of the brigade, leading the army independently, under the dual leadership of me and Meng Zhifu. ”

Hearing that the Volunteer Brigade was a militia formation, Governor Meng also breathed a sigh of relief, afraid that Zhao Guohua would not know the meaning of the militia, so he told him again.

After listening to Governor Meng's narration, Zhao Guohua was also very happy and gave Chen Sheng a long look.

"I'll write you a document to buy 2,000 bars of Lumi guns and 50,000 catties of gunpowder...... Hahahaha......" Chen Sheng laughed happily, it was so happy to bring such an elite of the joint defense brigade under his command.

Chen Sheng wrote the paperwork for the purchase of Lumi guns and gunpowder in a few clicks, handed it to Zhao Guohua with a smile, and said with a smile: "Guohua, except for the two things of money and food, I really can't help you, other things, if you have difficulties, just say it......"

Hearing this, Zhao Guohua said in his heart: "The three of money and food soldiers are the basis of a team, and now since you Chen Sheng can't solve my money and food problem, then I can only ask you to ask for more soldiers, anyway, this is what you said." ”

Thinking of this, he said tentatively: "Lord Chen, now that this joint defense brigade has been renamed the Ji'an Prefecture Volunteer Brigade, then I want to recruit some more people as supplements, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

Chen Sheng asked: "How many more people does Guohua plan to recruit?"

"I want to expand the Volunteer Brigade to 10,000 people." Zhao Guohua said exaggeratedly.

He deliberately said this in order to have room for bargaining with Chen Sheng, and he knew that Chen Sheng would not agree to the expansion of the joint defense brigade to 10,000 troops.

Sure enough, hearing the number he said, Chen Sheng was startled.

He shook his head and said repeatedly: "It's too much, it's too much, the people you recruited are as many as the general soldiers of a town, and this official is just a five-grade soldier, I don't dare to agree to this request, you better subtract some......"

In the Ming Dynasty, the general soldier is a relatively high-level military position, responsible for leading troops to defend one side. Depending on the station, the number of soldiers under his command varies greatly, ranging from three or two thousand to tens of thousands, such as Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong, and Qi Jiguang of Jizhou, both commanding tens of thousands.

In the Ariake generation, the post of chief military officer was from beginning to end. But there have been many changes, and the situation is very complex.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, from the capital to the locality, there were guards. In the event of an expedition, the general is appointed as the chief officer, and the army is transferred to the guard, which is under his command, and after the battle, the seal of the general is returned, and the army is returned to the guard. Therefore, the commander-in-chief is a temporary dispatch, with no rank or fixed number, and most of them are filled by the duke, marquis, uncle, and governor.

From the beginning of Zhu Yuanzhang's army to the Jianwen Dynasty, the chief military officer was awarded to appoint the generals who sent troops to conscript, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu, Li Jinglong, etc.

The establishment of a full-time chief military officer to guard a place began when Cheng Zu, Cheng Zu just gained power in the fourth year of Jianwen and began to send the chief military officer to suppress the party, but at this time, the general military officer of the town guard was not as strict as the later generations, and its jurisdiction was larger than that of later generations, but it was indeed the beginning of the formation of the pattern of the general military officer of the 23 towns later.

Before Yongle, the chief military officer was only a temporary position, but after orthodoxy, the chief military officer gradually became a permanent military official.

The seal is called the general, YN is said to be the general of Zhengnan, Datong is said to be the former general of Zhengxi, Huguang is said to be the general of Pingman, Liangguang is said to be the general of Zhengman, Liaodong is said to be the former general of Zhengfu, Xuanfu is said to be the general of Zhenshuo, GS is said to be the general of Pingqiang, NX is said to be the general of Zhengxi, Jiaozhi is said to be the deputy general, and Yansui is said to be the general of Zhenxi.

However, those who are in Jizhen, GZ Huguang, SC and Huai'an are not allowed to be called generals.

All the key places in the world are set up to command the army. Those who are on one side of the town are called the town guard, and the general town is called the general soldier with or without the seal. ”

According to the records of the "Daming Huidian", the whole territory of the Ming Dynasty is set up in Jizhou, Changping, Liaodong, Baoding, Xuanfu, Datong, SX Tingsui, NXGSSXSCYNGZGX, Huguang, GD Nanzhili, and ZJJXFJHNSD23 Town.