For example, it is a corrupt method specifically aimed at training -- "buying leisure" -- the so-called buying leisure, that is to say, you don't want to suffer on the training ground, right, well, you pay a sum of money, you can not practice, there is no need for "autumn soldiers on the battlefield", you can stay in the bed every day to sleep lazy, you can go to play cards and visit the kiln, no one cares about you. You want to be a soldier and get a military salary, and at the same time you want to go into business to make money, right, well, you pay a sum of money, you can go to sell salt, sell cloth, open a hardware store, and you pay another money, then the military horses can also be driven by you to engage in transportation, the price is more than 300 yuan per horse per month.

The division of the imperial court cannot engage in management, and once it is engaged in management, it is "martial artists spare their lives, and martial artists only love money". The military generals of the Ming Dynasty were particularly fond of "business", and their business methods were twofold, one was to act as bodyguards for merchants and engage in smuggling. Since the Han Dynasty had the "Theory of Salt and Iron", salt as the lifeblood of the country's economy has always been monopolized by the state, monopolized and monopolized, and later through the Kaizhong Law to delegate power to the hands of the salt merchants below, it stands to reason that no one is qualified to sell salt except them, and once caught, it will be divided by a felony.

However, the profits from selling salt and selling salt are too high, so in all dynasties, salt dealers are simply unable to catch and catch endlessly. The Ming Dynasty was no exception, with smugglers peeping and sneaking around. In the late Ming Dynasty, the smugglers found a particularly strong umbrella, that is, the army. They spent a sum of money to give to an officer, and then the officer sent the army to "armed escort", although the status of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty was low at this time, and the status of the military attache was low, but that was compared with the civilian officials, where can the ordinary people afford to provoke? Moreover, there was a military flag on the car, which was a military vehicle, and even the magistrate did not dare to stop it for fear of causing trouble.

Basically, they traveled all the way, and after a long time, they tasted the sweetness, and these officers not only "often indulged in money", but also accepted the property of salt apprentices and escorted smugglers out of the country.

The second is that he simply started a "second career". In order to reduce the financial burden of the army, Emperor Taizu set the rules for the implementation of military reclamation and the great development of tuntian. Tuntian was very good in the early years of the dynasty, during the Taizu period, there were more than 32 million yuan of tax grain, rice, wheat, beans, millet, etc., and the sub-grain grain handed over by Juntun was as much as 7 million stones. "The land of an army is enough to support the use of an army", and it is very easy to solve the problem of food supply for the army, so Emperor Hongwu said proudly: "Raising millions of soldiers does not cost the people a grain of rice." ”

However, in the later period, Juntun almost became the "private land" of the military attaché's family, and they encroached on the tuntian, hidden occupation for business, and their ancestors and grandchildren successively entrenched freely. And using the status of military attaché, he doesn't pay a penny of taxes. During the Ming Dynasty, there was a person named Tian Li, who "invaded more than 4,100 hectares of tundi, and did not lose the grain every year." In addition to the military attachés, the internal supervisors and meritorious relatives stationed in various places also came up to join in the fun, Xuande four years, military attaches and town guards and internal and external officials, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi and other departments and directly subordinate to the guards, occupy more fields and cultivate, plant vegetables and fruits, move thousands of acres, all without tax grain.

In the first year of orthodoxy, Wang Gui, the eunuch guarding the town, occupied more than 100 hectares of official land in Shaanxi, invaded the military tun water conservancy, and served 900 soldiers privately. Wang An and Wang Jin occupied a total of more than 600 hectares of land in Gansu. Most of the tuntian fields in various places were occupied by internal supervisors and military officers, and the law was completely bad. In the eighth year of Hongzhi, the eunuchs and the general army were equal to Ganzhou, and most of the people who were fertile in Tuntian were occupied by eunuchs and general soldiers. Fu De, the eunuch of the town, and Zhou Yu, the deputy chief of the army, stole more than 300 hectares of tuntian in Gansu. In the ninth year of Hongzhi, Fu De, the eunuch who guarded the town, occupied more than 270 hectares of military land in Gansu. In the fourth year of Zhengde, the eunuch Song Bin found 112 hectares of Zhuangtian in Gansu and other places. Zhang Zhao, the eunuch of Liangzhou, was in Gansu and other places, covering an area of 33 hectares.

In the first year of Jiajing, the eunuch Li Rui was divided into Yang and Tiancheng, invaded Zhuangtian (suspected to be Tuntian), and served in the army to cultivate. In the eighth year of Jiajing, Bai Huai, the eunuch guarding the town, and Zhang Tai, the young eunuch of the gun, each occupied the land of the army and the people in Liaodong, with more than 250 hectares and less than 10 hectares. In the first year of Longqing, the chief soldier of the lord and the internal officials of the town occupied the land of Xuanfu and the tuntian group, and in the past, the internal officials of the lord were the general soldiers of the town, and each tenant planted dozens of hectares, and the rent was collected for public use. Later, although he was ordered to return, he occupied the land as before. In the third year of Longqing, the house of the internal officials and the princes, the cunning migration, (private generals) Tian surrendered to the ministers and the princes' homes, and the name was called the incense and fire heroes.

This is the embezzlement of tuntian, and as for other means of accumulating wealth, the list is even more numerous.

In all dynasties, the state's appropriation of the army accounted for the majority of the finances, and the capitation funds -- that is, military salaries -- were absolutely budgeted, and the military generals of the Ming Dynasty did not use their brains in this regard. The first method is to carry forward the "old tradition" of corruption, and directly deduct the soldiers' salaries, if the treasury is allocated according to the head of each person and n taels of silver per month, before it reaches him, it goes to 30 percent, and with him, it goes to 30 percent. These three achievements went into their own pockets, and the military attachés of the Ming Dynasty were still not satisfied. How nice it would be if it were all your own? After being half-greedy, they want to be all greedy, and the way they think of it is nothing more than the old way - false registration quotas.

If a soldier dies and doesn't report it, it's not okay, after all, there aren't many soldiers who die naturally, so force the soldiers to flee! Or rather, then indulge the soldiers to run away! Therefore, in many grass-roots units, a small or even half of the soldiers are empty, and the number of people reported is still recorded, and the funds are still allocated according to the roster.

Wei was led by the commander of Wei, and had jurisdiction over 5,000 households, with a total of 5,600 people; The 1000 households are led by 1000 households, with 100 households, with a total of 1,120 people, and the 100 households are led by 100 households, with two general banners, with a total of 112 people; The general flag governs five small flags, with a total of 50 people; Ten people with small flags. In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, the national capital division and health office were determined, with a total of 17 capital divisions, three Xingdu divisions, one left-behind division, 329 internal and external guards, and 65 guards. At its peak, the number of soldiers reached more than 2.7 million, and the number of military households was 7 million! These armies don't have much of a look, they are basically composed of veterans who followed Zhu Yuanzhang as the backbone, and their combat effectiveness is extremely strong.

By the time of the Orthodox years, it had reached more than two million. At that time, the combat effectiveness had already declined very seriously, but at least the 72 guards of the Beijing camp plus the 500,000 troops of the three battalions were still very strong. Until now, in the middle of Emperor Chongzhen, the army is also known as millions, and the water in it is very large. Except for the naïve Emperor Chongzhen who believed that he had a million male masters, not many people probably believed it.

The army of the Ming Dynasty was corrupt more than these tricks, as long as it could be corrupted, there was almost no forbidden area, it could be corrupted, no corruption was not corrupted, and all the paths that could be corrupted were excavated. For example, the logistics support is also fiercely greedy, and the construction of the camp is a piece of fat, so eat the meat of Tang monks. The budget is "six gold per camp price", and the actual money spent on construction -- "not five or six dollars", how big is the profit margin? It seems that there is not much to be greedy for fodder for feeding the horses, but it is also greedy. The heron also scraped the fine meat on the legs, "Horse feed, ten buckles and a half." ”

Armor is the life-saving place of the soldier's battle, and it is also cutting corners, resulting in "not hiding the heart in the middle, not covering the umbilicus under the bottom, the leaves are not strong, and the sleeve length is pressed on the arm, and it is completely out of shape." "In order to be greedy for more money and "boast to others", where does it matter whether the soldiers live or die? As for the weapons of battle, the strength of the bow is only one or two buckets, the length of the arrow is no more than seven or eight, and in the past, it was not possible to shoot far, and the hand could not be raised after wearing armor, and it was only possible to shoot dozens of steps. The knife is especially short and has no edge. What can such a weapon be used for?

After these people have been officers for a few years, they will definitely have a clear idea of how many soldiers they have, how many supplies are in the arsenal, and which of the generals up and down are close and which are estranged, but the problem is that it is possible that in the past few years, they have trained patrol soldiers no more than ten times.

Such officers and generals, up and down in the Ming Dynasty, do not know how many.

In fact, the training system of the Ming Dynasty army has many loopholes, and the regulations are a little lax. Many armies practice every half a month, and a better one every three months is the best, but it is only a five-day exercise, which is already very reasonable. is like the elite that Qi Jiguang trained in Jizhen at the beginning, and he practiced every three days, which shocked the other generals.

To put it bluntly, the current Ming army is still a feudal army.

"The Mandarin Duck Formation is Qi Shaobao's method." Dong Ce glanced at everyone and said slowly: "Qi Shaobao is like a martial god of my Ming Dynasty, and his method is needless to say that it is excellent. Moreover, the army trained by Qi Shaobao, swept the Japanese in the south of the Yangtze River, and confronted the Mongol Tatars in the north, such outstanding achievements are known to the whole world. There are no outsiders in this hall, so I said something disrespectful, if any of my generals in the Ming Dynasty had half of Qi Shaobao's ability, this Jiannu may not be so rampant. ”

"Look at you guys just like this, you know that there is no research on the Mandarin Duck Array." Dong Ce looked a little dissatisfied, and patted the table lightly: "This shouldn't be!" Since he is a subordinate of the official, he wants to follow the official to do great things, how can he be so slack? Especially the two of you, Shi Jin and Zhou Zhong, you will both be officers leading the troops in the future, so you should use some thought yourself. "This is not a light or heavy knock on Shi Jin. Since Dong Ce began to train the Jia Ding team, the two of them have basically been in an idle state, and they have not been officially appointed for a long time. Seeing that everyone else has their own errands, each has its own appointment, and holds authority, they are naturally depressed in their hearts. And now, Dong Ce wants to start selecting soldiers, and more clearly requires everyone to cooperate with this action, pouring most of the resources into it, and making no secret of the importance he attaches to this matter. As the two military commanders who have already been decided, they are very eager and full of enthusiasm at this time.

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