(Thanks to Yueyu Xinlou, the floating cloud rabbit Xiaoyue, the first white in the world, and work hard to make Su Tiancheng more brilliant.) ）

The Ming Dynasty practiced a professional military service system. That is, once a soldier, a lifelong army, the father goes to the son to replace, the succession system that is inherited from generation to generation, the family of the soldier is called the military household, and the household registration of the military household is directly managed by the Ministry of War. According to the rank of officers and sergeants, soldiers receive different salaries and rations, the higher the rank, the higher the salary, and the soldiers retire at the age of 60, according to the military rank, enjoy preferential treatment (retirement benefits), and ordinary soldiers have very few preferential benefits.

The biggest difference between the Ming Dynasty and the previous dynasties is that in the management of the army, the system of military tun was created, the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that all the troops under the jurisdiction of the guard station must be engaged in tun planting, and the land around the guard post is mostly nationalized, called Guantian, which is allocated to the guard station, and the border area, three points of sergeants to defend the city, seven points of sergeants to guard the city, two points to defend the city in the interior, and eight points of the tun species. The soldiers who planted in the field were each given fifty acres of land, which was counted as one share, and was equipped with ploughing cattle and agricultural tools, and was taxed.

The army of the Ming Dynasty has two major parts, the internal guard and the outer guard, the internal guard is divided into the Beijing camp and the pro-army capital guard, the Beijing camp is responsible for the guard of the Beijing division, the pro-army capital is responsible for the guard of the palace, the emperor's escort and other matters, the pro-army capital guard is set up twelve, the first guard is the famous brocade guard. The status of the internal guard is special and there is no need for tuntian.

The army of the outer guard is roughly divided into four types, the garrison army, the garrison army, the transport army and the squad army, the garrison army is responsible for guarding the city, patrolling and coastal defense, the garrison army is engaged in the cultivation of the military cantonment, the transport army is responsible for transportation and communications, and the squad army takes turns to perform duties in the capital or the border.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the total strength of the regular army reached 2 million, plus the local famous regiments, a total of 3.1 million people, such a huge army, relying on the imperial court to feed, the possibility is too small, so Zhu Yuanzhang thought of the way of the military tun, let the army feed itself, the sergeants plant, collect taxes and taxes, and be self-sufficient.

This idea was good, and it worked very well at first, and the guards were basically self-sufficient, and some of the money and grain were used to expand and repair the guards, but as time went by, the military cantonment system slowly collapsed.

The most important reason is that the taxes in the military cantonments are too high, even much higher than the taxes borne by the peasants, and the sergeants cannot afford them, and the army is a place under militarized management, and if they cannot pay the taxes, they will have to enforce the military law, and the peasants cannot afford to pay the taxes, and the government has to take into account the actual situation.

Based on this situation, the sergeants began to flee in large numbers, and the military households became the poorest group among all the registered personnel. It is an open secret that the sergeants began to sell horses, weapons, uniforms, etc.

However, during the Apocalypse and Chongzhen years, the harassment of Houjin forced the imperial court to begin to implement a recruitment system, specifically recruiting sergeants, since the recruitment of sergeants to fight, then it is necessary to pay silver, who will fight for you without silver, the imperial court can not take out the silver, arrears of wages, repeatedly happen, so that the sergeants in some places, a year can not receive silver, can not eat, Chongzhen began the first year, the guards in various places began to mutiny, and gradually became the backbone of the peasant rebel army. As for killing good and risking merit, it's not a big deal at all.

This has to be said to be a tragedy.

Knowing history well is beneficial, and because of this, Su Tiancheng dared to go outside Xiangling City to sell war horses.

The imperial court had very strict control over horses, and a large number of military horses were needed for warfare, resulting in a shortage of horses among the people, and the horse market was very hot. However, the horse market is generally outside the prefecture, state and county seats, on the one hand, to avoid the inspection of the government, to leave the government face, and on the other hand, for the smooth transaction. The health centers and inspection departments in various places know a lot of situations, but they still turn a blind eye, as long as the person in charge of the horse market is filial to the silver, they don't care at all.

At that time, Su Tiancheng and Su Ertong rode horses to the outside of Xiangling City.

The children of large families must learn to ride horses, including the small servants who follow, which is the embodiment of the family's face, just like the children of rich families in modern society can drive, Su Tiancheng feels lucky, fortunately he can ride a horse.

"Ertong, find an inn, you wait at the inn, I ride a horse to the horse market, and the rest of the war horses, you look at it, don't contact anyone, call the innkeeper to help feed them."

After Su Tiancheng finished speaking, he took out a silver ingot and handed it to Su Ertong.

This ingot of silver is about five taels.

"Young master, the small one doesn't need so much silver, one or two is enough."

"Say so much and do what, take this silver, and use it however you want."

Su Ertong hurriedly took over the silver, and his young master had undergone earth-shaking changes.

When the time is not enough, the horse market is very lively, most of the transactions are carried out in the middle of the night, after dawn, the horse market is depressed, everyone has scruples, leading the horses to trade in the daytime, is not blatantly against the government, besides, after the beginning of the year, Pingyang Mansion is full of rogues, the government just find a reason, saying that you are a rogue, confiscated horses, it will make a fuss.

Su Tiancheng had already changed his clothes, but fortunately, when Su Ertong went out, he thought of bringing two sets of clothes. He was still wearing a good robe, brocade robe and satin, which looked different from the ordinary.

For the sake of safety, Su Tiancheng brought a hat and covered his veil, so that no one could see his face.

There are really a lot of people in the horse market, bustling, in the early winter season, the cold is pressing, but in the horse market, you can see a lot of shirtless men, sweating profusely.

Su Tiancheng is very cautious, in such a place, there are three religions and nine streams, dragons and snakes are mixed, if he can't figure out the situation and go to trade rashly, he may be targeted by someone.

The people here are all human spirits, I haven't seen any kind of situation, if you want to fool others, you just wait for the murder and robbery to happen, you have already killed five sergeants, Su Tiancheng doesn't want to continue to kill people.

After a little calm, Su Tiancheng began to slowly digest the information in his head.

The former Su Tiancheng was full of nerdy thinking: learning and excelling, honoring ancestors, and inferiority of men and women, which made him, a person in the 21st century, feel funny and even ridiculous. The most hateful thing is that all day long, I know that I am dead and studying, and I became a student at the age of sixteen, and my own pressure is so great that I go crazy.

Of course, there are some objective reasons for this, including the family's indifference, including the bullying of the eldest wife, including the pressure of real life, but men just have to bear the pressure.

After a while, Su Tiancheng did not search for the price of the horse transaction.

He was a little discouraged, and dying to study was really killing people.

If you don't know the price, you can't trade, you know that you can't fight a hundred battles, no matter what you do, you must have a bottom in your heart, this is Su Tiancheng's principle of doing things, he must listen to the price clearly, and only start the transaction under the condition of ensuring his own safety, otherwise, he would rather not sell the war horse for the time being.

The trading in the horse market is very hot, there are people everywhere with torches, and horses are constantly being led into the horse market, or riding in, and it doesn't take long for someone to ride out of the market, which is obviously a successful transaction.

Su Tiancheng soon found that he had made a mistake, and he took a rough turn in the horse market, and he rarely saw people dressed like this, even if there were, they also bought horses here, and they all brought their subordinates. I led a war horse like this, wandering around the horse market, and people knew what you were doing.

After a while of observation, he found that the transactions in the horse market were very different from the ordinary business situation, and the horses brought in were all in a unified place, and many buyers looked here, and if they had a favorite horse, they directly negotiated the price with the seller, and these negotiations were carried out in private, and others did not know what they were discussing.

Seeing this, Su Tiancheng understood that it was tantamount to a fantasy that he wanted to inquire about the price of horse transactions.

After being a little disappointed, Su Tiancheng quickly adjusted his emotions, it was no big deal, yesterday evening, Yu Lu met the sergeant, and he was able to deal with it, not to mention that he came to the horse market to sell horses, this is not a big deal. It's just that his time is limited, and it is impossible to drag it out too long, after all, he has five war horses in his hand, and he has to trade quickly.

After thinking about it for a while, Su Tiancheng made up his mind and was ready to start trading.