After all, the guard system is still one of the military systems of the Ming Dynasty. However, not to mention that modern people will be surprised by the state of the Ming Dynasty's guards. Even Qi Yuanbiao, a local space-time householder who is well aware of the shortcomings of Jingwei, also feels unbelievable about the erosion of the Huguang Local Health Center.

"Ordering troops and checking salaries" has always been a magic weapon for civilian officials to clean up and control the military general system. Whether it is in the border army, in the Beijing Guard, or in the local guards, eating empty salaries is an important channel for military attaches to make money. This kind of thing is the same as the "floating" of civil officials, and it is an unspoken rule that everyone is following.

Of course, many military attachés are very ugly like many civilian officials. It is said that the military department once "floated" to Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town, reaching about six floors. That is to say, one hundred taels of silver has already become forty taels when it is sent out to the military headquarters. This does not include the "floating" of the household yamen.

Naturally, the military attachés will learn from the actions of the civilian officials. Let's take Jingwei as an example, Jingwei, who is known as three or four hundred thousand, actually has basically no serious soldiers who can be pulled out to fight. The actual soldiers of Jingwei itself, up to 100,000 people. These 100,000 people were also completely reduced to all kinds of servitude and domestic slavery.

In other words, the Jingwei, who was responsible for guarding the heart of the Ming Dynasty, could eat as high as two-thirds. In a thousand-household office, if you can pull out two or three hundred soldiers who have become laborers, that's good. Often, when the officials of the military department came to check the number of troops, military attachés at all levels began to search for beggars and homeless people near the Beijing Division.

For Jingwei's "wonderful", Qi Yuanbiao has already learned enough. But no matter how "wonderful" Jingwei was, when the number of soldiers was checked, those beggars and homeless people who were full of beggars could also put on tattered mandarin duck jackets and take rusty spears. But what Xiangyangwei did was much more out of the ordinary than what Jingwei did.

Not only is the number of soldiers in Xiangyangwei obviously insufficient, but even the soldiers who came to inspect them were all wearing ordinary people's clothes. At least half of them didn't even have a weapon in their hands.

It's the soldiers of Xiangyang Wei Benwei, who look brighter. But that glamour is also fake. Far away, Qi Yuanbiao found that many of the soldiers of the Benwei Thousand Households were holding weapons made of white tin foil used in funerals.

Seeing this mystery, why the iron armor on the commander of Xiangyang Wei looked so strange, Qi Yuanbiao knew it in his heart.

Qi Yuanbiao really had a hard time understanding how these local health offices could fool things like this. You must know that the local guards are also responsible for defending the locality. From time to time, the local health office also has to do some work such as clearing up bandits and bandits.

The beggar soldiers of the Xiangyang Guard, under the leadership of a group of officers with paper-paste weapons and paper-paste armor, had no ability to defend the place at all. Their opponents are never dead.

Xiangyangwei, who was supposed to have 5,600 people, seemed to have wasted a lot of effort to make up about 3,000 people. Even Qi Yuanbiao, a fake and shoddy military attache who can only memorize military documents, also thinks that this group of people is quite unreliable. Anyway, if Qi Yuanbiao was allowed to lead such a group of strange people to fight, Qi Yuanbiao would rather commit suicide than accept the task.

Facing these 3,000 scrawny, tattered clothes, shivering in the cold winter wind of the Xiangyang Guard. Qi Yuanbiao didn't have any interest in selecting elite soldiers at all.

Qi Yuanbiao can cook the rolling melons on his back, and naturally knows that the first sentence of the opening chapter is "the noble choice of soldiers." He believed that "the only way to select soldiers is to be refined", and opposed "people who use the city to travel and slip" and "people who are treacherous", and advocated the use of "honest people in the countryside".

With regard to the specific criteria for selecting soldiers, it is believed that the four articles of "Fengwei", "Wuyi", "Powerful", and "Clever" can neither be abolished nor relied upon. ”

However, such a person is not easy to choose, in contrast, the most important condition is "must have both mental strength and appearance", because martial arts can be taught. For the selected soldiers, they should be given weapons according to their different characteristics, "all of them should be taught differently because of their strength", "for example, rattan cards are suitable for young and strong, wolf cards are suitable for strong and majestic, and long spears and short soldiers are suitable for people who are shrewd and murderous." ”

In Qi Yuanbiao's eyes, the soldiers of Xiangyangwei were a little inferior to the beggars of Jingshi. Choosing these people as soldiers has no point other than wasting time and energy.

Before starting to "point nuclear" the soldiers of Xiangyang Wei, Qi Yuanbiao specifically inquired about a Jinyi guard in the local Jinyi Wei Thousand Households. According to that Jinyiwei, in Huguang Province, Xiangyangwei is the strongest local armed force except for Wuchangwei, who has rebelled.

After seeing the Xiangyang Guards, the second strongest soldiers in Huguang, Qi Yuanbiao completely understood why Marshal Qi Jiguang gave up a large number of Jiangnan Guards and recruited Yiwu miners like his father as soldiers.

After listening to Qi Yuanbiao's report, Yao Zongwen was one happy and the other was afraid. He was pleased that since the military guards in Huguang were so dilapidated, then Wang Shuhui's Jingzhou guards would definitely not be much better. This is a good excuse for him to give Wang Shuhui eye medicine and embarrass Wang Shuhui.

What he was afraid of was that Wei Zhongxian had clearly instructed him before leaving Beijing. After he arrived in Huguang and took office, his military tasks were mainly in two aspects: one was to make trouble for Cheng Shao, a member of the Donglin Party, in all aspects. Obstacles were erected for Cheng Shao's counterinsurgency efforts. The other is that he must sort out the armed forces in Huguang, and after Cheng Shao is unlucky, he must go up and take over the mess of counterinsurgency.

Therefore, Yao Zongwen's joy at thinking that he could rectify Wang Shuhui did not last for more than three seconds. Yao Zongwen's head has already been occupied by the erosion of local military affairs in Huguang. He was not prepared for this situation in the end. For a while, he didn't know how to complete the task given to him by Wei Zhongxian.

Compared with the whole person's anger, Yao Zongwen attaches more importance to Wei Zhongxian's trust. He knows that Wei Zhongxian's concept of employing people is quite practical. Nine thousand years old is very practical and practical. If you can't complete the task, or even complete it beautifully, then you won't be able to sit firmly under your ass.

Yao Zongwen knows very well that Wei Zhongxian is very particular about "the capable and the mediocre" in employing people.

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