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Yang Sichang's arrival in Shaanxi was undoubtedly the encouragement and affirmation of the imperial court to Shaanxi's dismantling of the guards.

Yang Sichang is a doer, after coming to Shaanxi, he immediately went to Ningxia and Yulin to inspect and inspect, and then went to Hanzhong Mansion, Yan'an Mansion and other places to check the matter of dismantling the army of the guard, and he also focused on Anning Fort and Jingbian to experience the liveliness of the mutual market.

Back in Xianyang, Yang Sichang's heart was shocked.

Officials at all levels in the Ming Dynasty have a bad habit, that is, to exaggerate the facts, in the report of what they have done, or when they encounter disasters, they either blow the credit to the sky, or exaggerate the disasters they have encountered.

But this time, the situation he saw was much better than the situation he understood.

In particular, the mutual markets between Anning Fort and Jingbian left a deep impression on him.

At the beginning, Yang Sichang did not attach much importance to the mutual market, but later from Xu Eryi's recital, he learned that the mutual market is actually a preparation for the abolition of the guard's army, everyone knows that the army needs silver, Shaanxi abolished the border army and the guard's army, and distributed a large number of official fields to the people for farming, and the income will naturally decrease, even if the imperial court allocates military salaries, it is insignificant. Each sergeant was given a maximum of ten taels of silver per year, and the rest was maintained by the income from the tuntian.

Shaanxi has abolished an army of 300,000 and formed a border army of 30,000 people, and the annual expenditure needs at least 600,000 taels or more, and the military salary that the imperial court can allocate will not exceed 300,000 taels. The rest of the part is borne by the local government, and if there is no silver, it is impossible to build an army, but the mutual market solves this problem to the greatest extent.

After the abolition of the guard's army, Shaanxi still has more than 100,000 soldiers, of which the Jiangning battalion has more than 70,000 soldiers, which is still a huge expense, but through the mutual market. It's possible to solve such a problem.

It can be seen that in order to dismantle the army of the guard station and stabilize Shaanxi, Su Tiancheng took one step at a time, taking into account many problems, and was by no means reckless.

The construction of the Fuzhou County Inspection Department is also the focus of Yang Sichang's attention.

According to Su Tiancheng and Zhu Xianxuan, the main responsibility of the Fuzhou County Inspection Department is to maintain local law and order. Some of the responsibilities previously undertaken by the officials of the Yamen of Fuzhou County will be transferred to the Inspection Division. In this way, the yamen of Fuzhou County will have to clean up a large number of yamen, in fact, yamen has always been a headache for all places, there is no money, life is difficult, the local income is higher, or there are more rich people. The life of the government officials is better, in a poor place like Shaanxi, the status of the government officials can be imagined, and the members of the government officials are also some gangsters in the market. Being looked down upon.

The hands of Su Tiancheng and Zhu Xianxuan largely solved the burden of the yamen.

The dismantling of the army of the guard post can be said to involve the whole body.

The responsibilities of the Inspection Department have changed, and the focus is on maintaining local law and order, rather than on guarding the city and preventing the invasion of bandits and bandits, which also puts forward higher requirements for the reorganized army.

However, there is no such problem in Shaanxi, with the stationing of the Jiangning battalion, the rogues fled out of Shaanxi, and did not dare to have the idea and action of returning to Shaanxi, some of the bandits in various places were completely defeated, and everything was dispersed, and they returned to their hometowns and lived honestly.

As a result, local law and order have been maintained to the greatest extent, and the people have begun to be able to farm with peace of mind, no longer worrying about any accidents.

Su Tiancheng and Zhu Xianxuan had very high requirements for officials and sergeants, requiring them not to harass the people at will, especially during the spring ploughing and production, in the process of dismantling the army of the guard, Zhu Xianxuan killed more than 100 soldiers of the guard, including some officers, and the impact was huge.

In just two months, Yang Sichang saw these officers, he couldn't believe his eyes, everyone stood straight, and when he met him, he loudly reported his name and the army he was in before, but he did not report his official position, and when he asked the reason, he said that he was a soldier who was participating in training and was waiting for the assessment.

The spiritual outlook of people can be felt, and Yang Sichang felt at that time that these officers had undergone radical changes.

It can be said that this time Shaanxi has made a very good move in dismantling the army of the guard.

Governor's Yamen.

Yang Sichang, who had inspected for more than half a month below, sat in the lobby.

Su Tiancheng, Zhu Xianxuan, Zhu Youxiang, Hong Chengchou, Pu Kaiqiang, Zuo Xiaohu, Tan Zongliang and others were all in the governor's yamen.

Xu Eryi sat next to Yang Sichang.

"Lord Su, His Royal Highness the King of Jin, Little Prince, my lords, this official went down to take a look, the situation is indeed gratifying, this official can say for sure, Shaanxi has abolished the army of the guard, and has achieved great success, the sergeants have been well placed, the officers are being trained, and the appearance has completely changed, and the rest of the things, the official does not want to summarize it, Lord Xu wrote it out, the emperor and the cabinet have already known, the official just doesn't understand, how the more than 4,000 officers are trained, how to change so much, Please also ask Lord Su and His Royal Highness King Jin to reveal some tricks. ”

Su Tiancheng looked at Zhu Xianxuan, meaning that Zhu Xianxuan came to answer this question.

Zhu Xianxuan was not polite, this time he was responsible for the dismantling of the army in Shaanxi, he established a high personal prestige, and also greatly improved his self-confidence.

"My lord, in fact, this is not much of a trick, the key is to unify everyone's understanding, let them understand their own responsibilities, tell them that Shaanxi has abolished the hereditary system of officers, everything must be obtained by ability, no hard work and no gain, and at the same time, we must also tell them that soldiers take it as their responsibility to protect their families and defend the country, and they must be loyal to the emperor, and they must become the protectors of the people, and the honor of soldiers is supreme......"

Yang Sichang listened very carefully, although he said these words, there were also them in the folds, but he heard them with his own ears, and combined with the facts he saw with his own eyes, he felt different.

"The meaning of His Royal Highness the King of Jin, the official understands, it seems that the construction of the army is still based on understanding, that is, the unified thought mentioned by Lord Xu in the fold, the official thinks that if this is done, the construction of the army can play a role in getting twice the result with half the effort."

Speaking of which, Yang Sichang finally got to the point.

"The emperor's order to come to Shaanxi, the main purpose is to summarize the experience of Shaanxi's dismantling of the guard's army, and then promote it in my Ming Dynasty, this official looked at the situation in Shaanxi, and felt that the emperor's will was feasible, I don't know what kind of suggestions Lord Lu Daosu, His Royal Highness the King of Jin, the little prince and the adults."

Su Tiancheng's expression became serious.

"My lord, the lower officials think that it is not possible to completely dismantle the army of the guard in the territory of our Ming Dynasty."

"Oh, why did Lord Su say this, you must know that the imperial court is overwhelmed by the allocation of military salaries every year, and the emperor is also deeply worried about this, if the army of the guard can be abolished and the army can be reorganized, firstly, it can save expenses, and secondly, it can improve the combat effectiveness of the army, such a good thing, how can it not be promoted."

"The dismantling of the guard army, lead the whole body, must take into account all aspects, can not be simply for the sake of the reduction and retrenchment, that will inevitably cause the turmoil of my Ming Dynasty, now my Ming is not restless, there are rogue inside, has not been completely wiped out, there are Houjin and Mongolia eyeing the outside, may launch an invasion at any time, damage the interests of my Ming Dynasty, so the biggest task of my Ming Dynasty is still the people's livelihood problem, in fact, Shaanxi dismantling the guard army, the most important thing is to make an attempt in the construction of people's livelihood."

Yang Sichang nodded, he has some understanding in this regard, but to say that the most important thing is in the construction of people's livelihood, he really doesn't understand.

"My lord, the army of the Shaanxi Guard, occupies a large number of official fields, the taxes of these official fields are heavy, but they are not used for the people's livelihood, and the people can not get any benefits from it, because of the harassment of the Liukou, resulting in a large number of official fields being abandoned, and a large number of sergeants have fled and even joined the ranks of the Liukou, Shaanxi has abolished the army of the guard, the first consideration is to distribute a lot of official land to the farmers, so that the cultivators have their fields, so that the farmers can be stabilized to the greatest extent, and the dismissed sergeants are also stabilized, and then the construction of the Fuzhou County Inspection DivisionIt was also considered from the aspect of reducing the burden, and the yamen abolished most of the official servants, and tilted these expenses to the inspection department, and the sergeants of the inspection department were not allowed to extort the people with military salaries, which formed a system so that the people would not be harassed, so that they could farm and pay taxes with peace of mind. ”

"In Shaanxi, the common people are extremely poor, and if you adopt such a approach, you can quickly get their support, and the gentry and rich families can stabilize because they have been harassed by the gangsters, but they are also unwanted.

"But in many other places, this is not the case, if we can't dismantle the guards in a step-by-step manner according to the actual situation in various places, it will inevitably cause turmoil."

Yang Sichang nodded frequently, seeing the situation in Shaanxi, Su Tiancheng's reasoning, he easily understood.

"Master Su thinks that when is the right time to dismantle the army of the guard."

"The lower officials think that after the elimination of the rogues and the common people live and work in peace and contentment, and after the internal stability of my Ming Dynasty, we can begin to dismantle the army of the guard station step by step and reorganize the new army."

"The new army, well, it makes sense, this official will suggest it to the emperor, this official thinks, this reorganized army in Shaanxi will be called the new army." (To be continued......)