The evolution of the military system in the Ming Dynasty

[If you are lazy, you can directly look below the dividing line]

First of all, let's explain the system of the metropolitan health center.

The capital is the commander of the envoys, which is the highest military leadership organ at the provincial level set up in the provinces of the Ming Dynasty. It is collectively referred to as the three divisions together with the political envoy department for civil affairs and the prosecutorial department for criminal affairs. The Guardian is a subordinate local military organization under the Metropolitan Command Division.

In the early years of Hongwu, the central government set up the Metropolitan Governor's Office, which was the highest military organ in the country, commanding the envoys of all capitals in the country. In the thirteenth year of Hongwu (1380 AD), the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was divided into the Central, Left, Right, Front and Rear Five Army Governor's Mansion.

"History of the Ming Dynasty and Military Chronicles" contains: In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu (1393 AD), the capital of the world was set to guard the office, a total of seven out of ten divisions, one left behind the division, two hundred and twenty-nine internal and external guards, and sixty-five guards of thousands of households. and Chengzu reigned for more than 20 years, with many additions and changes, and then different measures.

According to the establishment of the system of the capital guard, the Ming Dynasty abolished the military official titles such as privy, pingzhang, marshal, chief, and Wanhu that were set up by attacking the old system of the Yuan Dynasty, and set up another official title according to the amount of troops commanded.

All command the envoys, and set up the commanders and other officials. There is no rule for the guard under the jurisdiction of each metropolitan division, and there are generally 5,600 people as a guard, with commanders and envoys and other officials. Each guard has jurisdiction over 5,000 households, with 1,120 people as 1,000 households, and 1,000 households and other officials. Every 1,000 households has jurisdiction over 100 households, with 112 people as a 100 households, and 100 households and other officials. Each hundred households has jurisdiction over two general flags, and a general flag officer is set up. Each general flag and five small flags are set.

There are basically four ways to source the sergeants of the Ming Dynasty. According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty and the Chronicles of the Soldiers": The guards took soldiers from the conscription, attached, and sent out. 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 cannot be traded. 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. 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 Yu Ding of the military household shall be replaced in turn. If the heir of the household is extinct, it must be replaced by the same clan.

Although the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces is the highest military organ in the country, it is only responsible for the management and training of the troops of the various military departments. The dispatch of the army and the appointment and dismissal of officers belong to the Ministry of War. In the event of a war in the country, the Ministry of War adheres to the emperor's will and appoints the governor's office, or the duke, marquis, and uncle as the chief military officer. The imperial court sent him a letter of seal, supporting the army; After the battle, the generals returned to the court to resume their lives, and the army returned to their guard posts. The Ming Dynasty's military system of dividing the power of generals and commanders was aimed at preventing generals from standing on their own feet and endangering the central power of the Zhu family.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, in the northern borderlands where wars were more frequent, the chief military officer sent by the imperial court gradually became a fixed official position of the commander-in-chief of military affairs, and the chief military officer during this period was called the town guard. Those who guard the following and guard the road alone are called sub-guards. The one who guards one city and one fort alone is called a garrison. Those who keep the same path with the Lord are called co-guards. The chief military officer is divided into principal and deputy. There are staff generals, guerrilla generals and other officers. The chief military officer was sent by the imperial court, and he was higher and more powerful than the local governors such as the original commander of the embassy, so later the commander of the envoy gradually became a subordinate of the chief military officer.

After the chief military officer became the highest military commander of the town, because he was worried that his tail would not be lost, he would support the army and respect himself, and when there was a war, the imperial court would send a subordinate to the governor, called the governor. Later, the governor also became a fixed post and was stationed in the local area for a long time. The governor is mostly appointed as the imperial history of the capital or the deputy imperial history of the capital, because he wants to take charge of military affairs, so he also adds the name of the governor of military affairs, or the name of military affairs and counselor. In this way, not only the original commanders and envoys were subject to their control, but even the commander-in-chief was subject to his command.

After Orthodoxy, the situation in the north became increasingly tense, and wars broke out one after another. At that time, the construction of the Great Wall or the deployment of troops involved several towns. In order to regulate and control the towns and facilitate the unified war, the imperial court began to send important ministers to serve as governors or governors and prime ministers. In this way, the governor became the highest military and political governor in the region. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court was above the governor, and sent the military secretary to serve as the strategy, and sent the scholar to supervise the teacher.

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Therefore, if you sit in a row of military leaders in the Ming Dynasty, the first thing to say is that all these positions were originally temporary, so there is no rank, so they should be added to the official rank to reflect the grade.

Supervisor (in charge of the entire war, where to fight, of course, the premise is to be able to manage, the level of a scholar)

"Jingluo = Governor (Jingluo and Governor are roughly the same level, generally at the ministerial level, but the former often refers to specific tasks, such as Jingluo Yuyu, Jingluo Korean military affairs, etc., and the Governor is the meaning of the commander of the military region, such as the Governor of Jiliao, the Governor of the Three Sides, and the like. Governor (Deputy Minister)

"Governor (generally at the deputy ministerial level, responsible for the military and political affairs of a province, but because the governor system was the first in the Ming Dynasty, there is really something to be done, so the governor is established. And it is not like the Qing Dynasty that it must be the head of a province from the second grade, sometimes it is just a few large hot spots, and the governor is set up, and the grade of the governor, because of the different officials, from the fourth grade to the third grade. )

The commander-in-chief, the commander-in-chief of the provinces in general, is only subject to the restraint of the above, and has almost no status in front of them.

"Deputy General Soldier", "General", "Guerrilla", "Garrison", "General". There's not much to say about that. However, like the superintendent, the governor, the governor, and the general soldier, they all came from temporary official positions with no grade and no fixed staff, but they replaced the original Zhu Yuanzhang set up, and the governors of the five armies, the commanders, the thousand households, the hundred households, etc., became the official military official positions of the Ming Dynasty, and those official positions such as the left governor, the right governor, the governor of the capital, the commander of the envoy, the thousand households, and the hundred households were reduced to official titles, which were almost useless except for determining a person's grade.

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