86_86695 Zhu Yuanzhang said: "I raise millions of soldiers, and it doesn't cost the people a grain of rice." ”

Objectively speaking, the guard system established by the Ming Dynasty is definitely an effective means to eliminate the dictatorship of soldiers and generals. It can even be said that the guard system of the Ming Dynasty is a very advanced system, and the armed forces are directly controlled by the state.

However, under the backward level of productivity and without the support of modern communication technology, it is impossible to ensure the top-down implementation of a system and bottom-up feedback. Since under the backward level of productive forces in feudal society, the management of relevant affairs is mainly based on the rule of man, rather than on the advanced system. Then, no matter how advanced and perfect the system is, under the governance of people who cannot be perfected in any case, problems will inevitably arise.

In fact, since the Hongxi Emperor, since the orthodox years, because of the occupation of the fields of the guards by the officers and the decline of the status of the warriors in the Ming Dynasty, the guard system of the Ming Dynasty has begun to collapse.

The essence of the guard system is actually the military cantonment system. Zhu Yuanzhang's original idea was very good. The soldiers are in a state of military cantonment, and they are self-sufficient in farming without wartime, and they are deployed by the state when they have wartime military rations, military expenses, and weapons.

However, what Zhu Yuanzhang didn't realize was how great the attraction of land as capital to people was in feudal society. For more than 200 years, the officers of the guard station have continued to embezzle the land of the soldiers under their own names, turning the soldiers into their own serfs. Prompted by backward human nature, the entire Ming Dynasty's guard system completely collapsed during the Zhengde period. This is the reason why during the period of Emperor Jiajing, there was a large army in the Jiangnan area, but it was invincible under the attack of several Japanese bandits.

From the Jiajing period, the guard system was no longer the main military system of the Ming Dynasty. From the beginning of Qi Jiguang's establishment of the Qi family's army, the main armed force of the Ming Dynasty was recruitment. At the same time, the armed forces of the Ming Dynasty also began to degenerate from state ownership to a model of military generals.

At present, the Jingzhou Wei command envoy in 1620 is concerned. The commander of Jingzhou Wei said that he was a military general of the Ming Dynasty, and nominally the head of the armed forces of 5,600 soldiers. But in reality, he was nothing more than a large landowner who owned tens of thousands of acres of land near Jingzhou and controlled thousands of serfs.

The five thousand households under Jingzhouwei's name were nominally under his control, but in fact, the five hereditary thousand households below were just big landlords who held a large amount of land and drove the serf soldiers. Moreover, because all the martial arts positions under the Qianhu are hereditary, the Jingzhou Wei commander can't even directly control the Qianhu under Zhan Yu.

As an inland area far from the border, Jingzhou Wei has not really mobilized armed forces for hundreds of years. The most recent mobilization of the armed forces was more than 100 years ago, during the reign of Emperor Zhengde, during the rebellion of King Ning. However, even that time, it was just a mobilization within Jingzhou Wei, and before the soldiers could understand it, King Ning's rebellion was put down.

Although during the reign of Emperor Jiajing, the armed forces in Jingzhou underwent a large-scale transformation, and the old Jingzhou Sanwei was abolished, leaving only one Jingzhou Wei. In reality, however, the situation of Jingzhouwei's armed forces did not improve as a result. On the one hand, the guards have continued to flee, and on the other hand, the guards themselves have completely degenerated from an armed forces group into a tool for officers to collect money. Therefore, the armed level of the entire Jingzhou Wei is extremely low.

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the status of military generals has been declining. Up to now, the commander of Jingzhou Wei has such a third-grade military attaché, and when he sees a fourth-grade civil official like the Jingzhou Governor, he is not even qualified to stand, so he can only kneel down to greet him. On the one hand, there is the low status of military attachés in the entire social environment. On the other hand, it was no longer able to master a strong armed force (a group of serf soldiers were hungry and cold, and there was a force of hair). Therefore, it can be imagined how low the status of the Jingzhou Wei Commander in the Jingzhou Mansion is.

Miao Weichang was originally a domestic slave of the Zhang family of Nanzhili, that is, the Zhang Wenda family. He was originally a follower scholar assigned to Zhang Wenda by Mrs. Zhang. Because of the congenital physical condition, I learned a few hand-held styles from the Jiading Nursing Home in Zhangfu. When Zhang Wenda became the governor of Huguang, he gave him the identity of a martial artist and made him a martial artist in the Qipin Experience Division of the Huguang Metropolitan Division.

Miao Weichang has always been by the young master's side because he was born as a scholar, and under the influence of his ears and eyes, he can actually learn all the three hundred thousand. In the martial arts pile, those who are better than him in martial arts do not know more than him, and those who know more than him do not know as well as his martial arts. What's more, because he took advantage of the power of Zhang Wenda, the governor of Huguang, in just a few years, he was promoted all the way from the Huguang Metropolitan Division of the Zhengqipin, and became the commander of the Zhengsanpindu. Not long ago, with the help of the prestige of Zhang Wenda, who was still in the post of the head of the household department, he was transferred from the command of Huguang to the commander of Jingzhou Wei.

It turned out that when he was an official in the Huguang Metropolitan Division, although there was a lot of oil and water, because there were too many mothers-in-law on his head, Miao Weichang, who was in charge of the affairs of the Huguang Metropolitan Division, always felt that he had not made enough money and his position was not fat enough. Therefore, in the few months after he was transferred to the command of Jingzhou Wei with the help of the power of the old master's family, his main work was only two. One is the wholehearted flattery of the little master, that is, Zhang Wenda's nephew Zhang Tianlu. The other, naturally, is to do his best to make money.

Speaking of which, Miao Weichang and Wang Shuhui still have some intersections. The second batch of more than 1,000 miners that Sima Feng bought for Wang Shuhui were bought from Miao Weichang. The more than 1,000 miners were the military households under Miao Weichang. They dug coal in several coal mines near Jingzhou Mansion under Miao Weichang's name.

Originally, there were several coal mines in Jingzhouwei. However, the successive commanders of Jingzhou Wei did not think that those coal mines were of any use. It was also because of the popularity of the steam engine promoted by Wang Shuhui in the Huguang area and the establishment of several steel factories under the Industrial Committee of the Fuxing Society that the price of coal in the entire Huguang area began to rise.

Miao Wei is often sparse in martial arts, and his culture is only at the level of literacy and Mengtong, but he has a pair of eyes that can detect business opportunities. After he saw the trend of rising coal prices in the market, he immediately organized the serf soldiers under Jingzhou Wei and began to dig coal mines. It was for this reason that Sima Feng found an opportunity to cooperate with him. Sima Feng not only purchased a large amount of coal from Miao Weichang, but also bought more than 1,000 guards from Miao Weichang who were both serfs and mine slaves using cloth as a means of payment.

Modern people may think that it is unimaginable for a person born as a domestic slave to become a commander of a guard post and a military attache of the third grade. However, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, most of the more famous military generals did not have too noble backgrounds. Most of them are hereditary military attachés. However, the hereditary military attache is not necessarily more advanced than the servant of the family. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the famous monks Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were born as miners in Liaodong. Speaking of which, their background is not as good as Miao Weichang.

As for a semi-literate person who can rise to the top. And there's nothing surprising about that. Isn't there such a thing in modern society? Not necessarily.

After Miao Wei often heard Young Master Zhang's order, he still felt a little disappreciative in his heart. Unlike Ma Songhua and Sima Feng, who were in the middle and lower classes of Ming Dynasty society, Miao Wei often said that he was also a military attache of the third grade. He had a clearer and deeper view of the power system of the entire Ming Dynasty.

In Miao Weichang's view, the only thing that could compete with the civil power in the Ming Dynasty was the eunuch system under the direct command of the emperor. The vassal royal clans, unless they are the emperor's immediate family, and they have to be the kind of immediate family members that the emperor likes, will make Miao Weichang, who is backed by the current official department Shangshu, feel a little jealous. Zhu Youzi, the king of Zhijiang County, is just a distant county king, and he has just been reinstated. Even the emperors of the previous two generations favored him, and after the new emperor came to power, he may not be able to continue this incense affection.

And Miao Wei, who is well-informed, often knows that the reigning Son of the Apocalypse is a character with a soft personality. He is an old man who is not an opponent of civil officials.

But even so, Zhang Tianlu's order was not something he could take lightly. Miao Wei often allocated half of the manpower from the more than 200 personal servants under his command and handed it over to Zhang Wangcai, the steward of Zhang Tianlu's mansion, to command.

In this way, more than 100 family members, under the command of Zhang Wangcai, led by Xiao Wenlong, drove to Zhijiang County.

Xiao Wenlong is a doctor and a well-known doctor in the Huguang area. If you talk to him about poetry and songs, Xiao Wenlong is likely to talk about Taoism, after all, he is a scholar. If you talk to him about medical Taoism, Xiao Wenlong will definitely be able to say that it is a big deal, after all, this is his profession. However, if you ask him to talk about marching and fighting, he will have to memorize thirty-six tricks and say some words from books. After all, he's a complete layman when it comes to it.

But even so, he didn't expect that the more than 100 commanders of the Jingzhou Guard, who seemed to be strong, would be easily defeated by a group of people who were obviously smaller than them, probably only a few dozen people.

Xiao Wenlong's team was attacked in a village called Liujiahu. Liujiahu Village is located next to the official road from Jingzhou Mansion to Zhijiang County. Originally, Zhang Wangcai just sent a few soldiers to the village to collect some rations, water and rice. Unexpectedly, a few people who were sent out had just snatched a few chickens from a farmer's house, and on the way back, they heard the sound of ringing the bell in the village. Before they could leave the village, they were arrested by the militia of their own village.

Under interrogation by the Liujiahu Village Working Group, several of the arrested people confessed their identities. As soon as they heard that these people were going to Zhijiang County to trouble Wang Shizun, the two militia teams in Liujiahu Village went out under the command of the working group.

After that, the situation is simple. First there was a flurry of crossbow bolts, and then a line of spears came forward. More than a hundred family members who were originally just the commanders of the Jingzhou Guard, who were born in the rivers and lakes, were captured except for one place where they died