Under normal circumstances, the Huguang Province of the Ming Dynasty only counted as a military unit at the guard level. Thirty-one guards should have about 31x5,600 = 173,600 soldiers. If the thousands of households and the Tusi Xuanfu Division are also counted, the Huguang Province of the Ming Dynasty should have at least more than 200,000 registered soldiers.

Of course, the problem is that all aspects of the current Ming Dynasty have nothing to do with the word "normal".

In fact, from the orthodox years, the guard system of the Ming Dynasty began to collapse. In the year of the Apocalypse, the 200,000 troops that Huguang Province should have in theory were actually able to find three or four thousand qualified soldiers from them, which was not bad.

The three or four thousand qualified soldiers here refer to the soldiers who have basic physical qualities. There are three or four thousand soldiers like this, and they must be the kind of guys who can only farm and not fight.

Yao Zongwen became the governor of Huguang, and as soon as he arrived in Huguang, he ate Wang Shuhui, the commander of Jingzhou Wei. One of his masters clearly introduced to him afterwards the background of Wang Shuhui, the prince of Zhijiang and the county lord.

As soon as I heard that the Zhijiang Mansion and Wang Shuhui had already married the emperor and the inner court bosses of the ceremonial supervisors as early as the Wanli period. The background of a housekeeper in the Zhijiang Palace's being able to chat and laugh with Wei Zhongxian really shocked Yao Zongwen into a cold sweat.

However, as a literati, Yao Zongwen's self-esteem is very strong. Don't look at him as if he is following Wei Zhongxian wholeheartedly. But fundamentally speaking, this is a choice out of political interests, not that Yao Zongwen really thinks that Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch, has something great.

In Yao Zongwen's heart, he was a little disappreciative of Wei Zhongxian. So, how can you let this new governor of Huguang, who is in a state of complacency, swallow the anger that Gu Junen gave him in front of the officials of Huguang.

Therefore, as soon as Yao Zongwen and his entourage settled down in Xiangyang Mansion, he immediately began to perform his duties as the governor of Huguang. He wanted to "pay the soldiers" to the guards in all parts of Huguang Province.

In this regard, others really can't say that Yao Zongwen is making trouble out of nothing, and intends to embarrass Wang Shuhui. After all, the current Huguang is nominally in a mutiny, and Yao Zongwen, as the governor of Huguang, wants to sort out the military affairs of Huguang, which is as reasonable as possible.

Yao Zongwen didn't dare to really directly target Wang Shuhui, he was still more measured in this regard. He started with Xiangyangwei.

Although Yao Zongwen has been in Beijing for a long time, he has been an imperial historian for half his life, and he has done all the work. However, unlike Cheng Shao, who only knows how to put his mouth out, he is still more realistic.

Yao Zongwen knew that when he became a feudal official, he needed to involve all aspects of work. Therefore, through Wei Zhongxian's connections, he recruited several "excellent" military attaches from the Jingwei as his military assistants.

In contact with these military attachés, Yao Zongwen already knew the downfall of the Ming Dynasty army. As for the local health center, he has no hope at all. The reason why he wanted to check the state of the guard in the name of sorting out military affairs was to point his sword at Jingzhou Wei.

Of course, Yao Zongwen is not so simple to fight Wang Shuhui. His move also had the purpose of beating rabbits. As an old governor who was killed and the new governor of the province occupied by the provincial capital, Yao Zongwen naturally had to learn a lesson. He hoped that he would be able to take advantage of this opportunity to recruit some loyal and capable soldiers from the various guard posts in Huguang to form his own directly administered armed forces.

After all, the previous governor of the dead ghost Huguang suffered a loss in the entire Wuchang Mansion's military guards, and he did not have his own lineage strength. Yao Zongwen is a person who is very good at absorbing lessons and lessons. Such an obvious lesson from the past is there, and if he doesn't learn a lesson, he is really looking for death.

Yao Zongwen sent out to carry out tasks in various health centers, mainly one in one article and one in the military. The main job of civil officials and the corresponding staff is to go to various health centers to eat and get cards, find faults and find problems. Their purpose was, on the one hand, to help the governor collect money, and on the other hand, to establish authority for the governor.

The main task of the military attache and the corresponding staff is to recruit talents and select elite soldiers in various guard posts.

Ignoring the civilian side, let's just talk about the military attaché side leading the team. The background of this military attache is incredible, he is from the Qi family's army.

Of course, it has been almost 70 years since the Jiajing period. Generally, the Qi family army back then was already old and dead. This Jingwei military attache from the Qi family army is a second-generation Qi family army. His father was one of Qi Jiguang's personal soldiers. He took over his father's class and borrowed his father's light, so that he could attack the official position of Jingwei's commander at a very young age.

In Jingwei's huge system, the origin of the Qi family army like him is an outlier. After all, the military attaches in the Jingwei are either the disciples of the princes of the Jingshi, or they have the backers of the court bigwigs, or they are protected by the officials in the palace. Like Qi Jiajun, who purely relied on military merit to gain office, among the countless hereditary military attaches in Jingwei, there is really a feeling of "a little red in all kinds of green". Being excluded and left out in the cold is basically an inevitable phenomenon.

What Qi Yuanbiao's original surname was is no longer available. Anyway, his Lao Tzu was born as a volunteer miner, and he followed Qi Jiguang from Jiangnan to Mobei, accumulating a lot of achievements. As a relatively fresh and pink second-generation official, Qi Yuanbiao very much looks down on the Jingwei military attachés who only know how to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he can recite Qi Jiguang's back.

Among the overall sluggish military attachés of the Jingwei, he belongs to the kind of very prominent figure. It was for this reason that he was favored by Yao Zongwen, a member of the eunuch party of the emerging force, and was selected as the head of his military attaché staff. It is said that although the position of the new chief military officer of Huguang is not his turn, Yao Zongwen has already prepared for him the post of commander of the Huguang capital.

Don't look at Qi Yuanbiao with the halo of the Qi family's army on his head. In fact, he had not spent a day in the Qi family's army. His goose feather knife is very beautiful. But Qi Yuanbiao, who is Chinese New Year's Eve one year old today, has never even killed anyone.

Don't look at Qi Yuanbiao's behavior, sitting and lying down seems to have rules. In fact, all of Qi Yuanbiao's military knowledge also came from the book he memorized. In the field of practice, Qi Yuanbiao never even brought a soldier with a small flag.

Otherwise, a pure layman like Yao Zongwen would be optimistic about a "silver-like pewter spear head" like Qi Yuanbiao.

Think about it, too. A tall and powerful man, standing like a loose seat, and completely degenerating into a nerdy straw bag full of quotations and classics, doesn't it just fit the aesthetics of Yao Zongwen's mouth cannon civil official.

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