readx; Under Zhu Youzhen's iron-fisted methods, more than 100,000 refugees who poured into Beijing were quickly resettled. Except for a few relatives and friends, the vast majority of refugees were housed in makeshift tents inside the Tongyuan Gate of the outer city. It's early autumn and the weather isn't cold, so there's no need to worry about keeping out the cold.

There are only three points to pay attention to, one is the problem of eating, the second is fire prevention, and the other is to maintain order. For eating, the household department opened a porridge factory, and Zhu Youzhen appointed the household department Shangshu Wang Zaijin to be in charge, and the grain was first allocated from the household warehouse, and if it was not enough, the strategic reserves of the inner treasury were used. Zhu Youzhen's request is to be full, because refugees, especially those from Tongzhou, are caused by the imperial court to cause them to lose their homes, and the imperial court must of course be responsible for it to the end.

In terms of fire prevention and maintaining order, the refugee area implements strict military management, which is specially responsible for the Beicheng Terracotta Division. Regardless of men, women, young and old, rich or poor, it is strictly forbidden to move around at will during the martial law period in Beijing, including urine and urine are solved in a fixed place, and they have to stay in their tents if they have nothing to do. There is also a certain safety distance between the tents, and it is strictly forbidden to string each other. If you are caught by a patrolling soldier, you will be warned the first time, hit the board the second time, and put in jail the third time. Although these orders are not close to people, they require extraordinary measures in extraordinary situations, and this at least ensures that these refugees do not cause chaos in Beijing.

Not only the refugees, but the entire Jingshi also practiced strict martial law. All the gates of the inner and outer cities are checked by the soldiers and horses of the five cities and the Imperial City Guard Regiment, and a strict curfew is implemented at night. Anyone who wanders around the street for no reason will be regarded as a spy and will be arrested and put into Jinyi Weibei Town for strict interrogation.

Zhu Youzhen also paid special attention to the issue of prices, especially grain prices. He has ordered the Wuzhou Trading Company and the Shaanxi Merchants Gang to sell rice normally at the price before martial law, and if necessary, use strategic reserves to stabilize the price of rice.

After more than half a year of accumulation, there are nearly one million stone of grain stored in the strategic reserve, according to the calculation that an adult eats one pound of grain a day, one stone of grain is enough for one person to eat for four months, and one million stone of grain is enough to support the whole city for more than three months. Then the possibility of the Jin army besieging the city for more than three months is very small, so Zhu Youzhen is not worried about food.

As for the possible profiteers raising the price of rice, Zhu Youzhen has already issued a secret order to Jinyiwei: Whoever dares to do this will make up a reason to arrest him in prison. In fact, according to his original idea, special circumstances such as the siege of the enemy army can be completely implemented in "wartime", and all resources can be allocated in a unified manner; However, considering that the gentry class will definitely resist strongly, which will affect the plan to defend the city, Zhu Youzhen can only adopt this method of "saving the country by curve", in short, as long as the goal of stabilizing grain prices and stabilizing the people's hearts is achieved.

As for the military arrangement, Hao Yongzhong's 3,000 battalion originally had 25,000 men and horses, Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng took 10,000 with them, and another 1,000 were killed or wounded in the battle just now, and now there are only 14,000 left. Their current task is to save themselves, as long as they are not surrounded and annihilated by the Houjin army.

The five military battalions and the Shenji battalion, totaling 30,000 infantry troops, took on the heavy responsibility of defending the city. Xie Sheng divided the 30,000 men into five equal branches, each with 6,000 people. One was to be a reserve, and the other four were to defend a wall.

After the expansion, the outer city of Jingshi is 100 miles long, the average length of a single city wall is 25 li, and 6,000 people are stationed, with an average of less than two soldiers per zhang, which is obviously not enough. Fortunately, more than 60,000 people were eliminated during the reorganization of the three major battalions, and these people still retained their military status. Some time ago, they were responsible for building fortifications, but now they are all transferred to the city, and they are responsible for auxiliary combat tasks such as carrying ammunition, rescuing the wounded, patrolling and watching. Once the war is tight and the main army suffers too many casualties, it will have to select non-commissioned soldiers from these officers and soldiers to top.

Taking advantage of this "opportunity," Zhu Youzhen announced another important measure: the temporary implementation of the compulsory military service system in Beijing. The specific method is to make no distinction between officials and civilians, household registration, as long as it is a Beijing division, each household must be selected to produce a male who is over 15 years old and under 60 years old, to join the newly formed "new military camp" and serve for one year. Unless there are no eligible men in the household, they are exempt from military service.

The compulsory military service system is also a major reform of the Ming military system by Zhu Youzhen. In fact, this kind of military service system has existed since ancient times, called "conscription system", which is a system of raising troops as opposed to the conscription system. The so-called "conscription" is to force eligible citizens to serve in the military; And recruitment, as the name suggests, is to spend money to recruit soldiers, and those who are willing to participate.

Both of these military service systems have their own advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of conscription is that almost all the people are within the scope of conscription, and at least the number of soldiers is sufficient; And the cost is lower, because conscription is mandatory, as long as the soldiers are fed.

The shortcomings of the conscription system are also obvious: First, the quality of the conscription system is uneven, and it is difficult to guarantee combat effectiveness; second, because of the forced entry into the army, the willpower and fighting spirit of the non-commissioned officers are generally poor, and they are basically messing around; Third, when wars are frequent, the common people know that being a soldier means death, and there will be a large number of evasions, and the government has to "pull strong men".

The recruitment system is diametrically opposed, and the advantage is that the quality of the soldiers is high, because the recruiters are generally strong and brave people; The second is to be loyal to the leading generals and dare to fight to the death, because the generals are their "bosses", as long as they fight bravely, they will have a lot of food and salary.

As for the shortcomings, one is the lack of soldiers, especially when the people's living standards are high, they have a good life, who is full of food and willing to give up their lives to become soldiers? Second, the cost of recruiting troops is high, which requires a large amount of real money, which is a heavy burden on the finances; The third is that the recruited soldiers are easy to become the "private soldiers" of the leading generals.

In Chinese history, there is no shortage of precedents for conscription and conscription, such as the Warring States, Qin, and Western Han dynasties. [,！ Han, the middle and late Tang Dynasty, and the Song and Song dynasties all belonged to the conscription system.

The "military household system" of the Ming Dynasty, where non-military households do not need to serve, and military households serve for generations, can be regarded as a limited range of conscription system. But now that the military household system has existed in name only, the militia groups and township warriors in various places are actually recruits, and even the Qin soldiers created by Zhu Youzhen are also recruits. As for the traditional military households, more than half of them fled because they could not survive, and the remaining combat effectiveness was also seriously degraded, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers to be conscripted. After several fiascos such as the Battle of Salhu and the Battle of Quang Ninh, the Ming army consumed a large number of troops, and the source of troops had shown signs of depletion.

In the case of depleted military resources and financial difficulties, Zhu Youzhen knew that he had only one choice, that is, universal conscription, that is, compulsory military service. However, this reform of the system undoubtedly shook the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's household registration system, and he also expected that the will would inevitably be met with fierce opposition.

Sure enough, in the early morning of the next day, hundreds of officials gathered at the Temple of Heaven and jointly played a concert, asking the emperor to revoke the conscription decision!

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