86_86695 "Industrial life, that's a completely different life. It is completely unimaginable how much industrialization affects people's lives, for people who have not experienced industrial life. ”

——1622, Wang Shuhui, "Industrialization is the Most Just Cause"

In May 1624, Yang Shouye took a boat to the wharf in Songzi County.

Like a person who came to Songzi County for the first time, Yang Shouye was first confused by the white smoke of a self-propelled steamer with no sails on the Yangtze River in the process of taking a boat. After arriving at the Songzi County Wharf, I was shocked by the scale of the Songzi County Wharf with ten stone plank roads.

In the end, when he saw the steam crane emitting white smoke and constantly moving, Yang Shouye didn't know if it was because he had seen too many things that surprised him, but he didn't feel very strange.

Yang Shouye was originally from Hangzhou and was born in a military family. During the Jiajing Dynasty, his grandfather killed a few lone Japanese by mistake in the process of the Japanese invaders in the southeast. Therefore, from then on, their family got out of the serf-like situation of ordinary military households. His grandfather was given a hereditary position of a hundred households.

In this way, the title of Hyakhu was passed to his father after his grandfather's death. After his father's death, it was passed on to him.

What kind of person is Yang Shouye? You can tell from his name. They are all part of the family.

Although the Yang family, which has been passed down for three generations, has been a junior military attache of the Ming Dynasty for three generations, the Yang family, who live in the rich land of Hangzhou, has no ambition to make a fortune. Whether it is his grandfather or his father, they all hope that Yang Shouye can keep to himself and pass on the title of the Yang family's hundred households with the Ming Dynasty for thousands of generations.

As a young man, Yang Shouye was taught by his father to be honest and responsible since he was a child. Whether it was his grandfather or father, they all thought that although they were military attachés, if they had martial arts, they would want to be majestic and good-willed. Therefore, although Yang Shouye is a military attaché, his family did not teach him any martial arts except for polishing his strength and exercising his muscles.

Like his grandfather and his father hoped, Yang Shouye has also become an honest person who wants to inherit his ancestral business.

But that's how strange things are. People who hope to collect their ancestral business with honesty often can't keep their ancestral business. In the late stages of a feudal dynasty that was coming to an end, everything that should have been turned into something that should not have been. All the ideas that could be enshrined as rules can no longer be followed as laws.

Single-mindedly wanting to keep his ancestral business, and wanting to rely on his honest duty and not attract attention, Yang Shouye, who lived a peaceful life, became Hangzhou Weili, a dispensable figure in the eyes of all Shangguan.

In the first month of 1624, a sudden mutiny completely changed Yang Shouye's life.

In fact, in this era, the Ming Dynasty's guard system has completely collapsed. Everyone already knows about this issue. That's because, on the one hand, the military land, which was originally used to supply the needs of the soldiers of the entire guard, has become more and more insufficient because of the natural reason that the number of military households has increased over several generations.

On the other hand, because the big and small military officers and the local squires and landlords wantonly plundered and occupied the military land, the military households became serfs. Therefore, the soldiers of the entire guard post did not have any combat effectiveness.

The status quo of everything is the result of long-term development.

In the seventeenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1384), the Ming Dynasty set up military guards in various military important places across the country.

There are 5,600 troops in the first guard, and there are thousands of households, 100 households, general flags and small banners and other units in order, each guard is subordinate to the governor's office of the five armies, and is also subordinate to the military department.

The implementation of this law must be accompanied by a household registration system that can guarantee the number of troops to maintain the operation of the guard system.

The Ming Dynasty's guard system was actually based on the experience of Chinese history in Tuntian, and it was a kind of army building system that combined soldiers with agriculture and garrison.

The military household is the type of household registration that belongs to the military household, and there are two sources in the early stage, one is the original military household of the Yuan Dynasty, and the other is the household of the active soldier, which was further established after the compilation of the yellow book in the 21st year of Hongwu (1388).

Military households are hereditary and strictly managed, making it difficult to get rid of them. Generally speaking, unless the household is wiped out, someone in the family becomes a high-ranking official, or the emperor is dismissed, it is impossible to remove from the army.

Despite this, the number of military households is decreasing. At that time, Pang Shangpeng, the secretary of the Ministry of War, advocated: "Inventory and hidden occupation, equalize the amount of grain, and reclaim and abandon the land are the most urgent tasks at present."

Therefore, later there was a method of making those who were confiscated for crimes into the army, which was called the Enjun or the Immortal Army.

Originally, according to the guard system of the Ming Dynasty, the main obligation of the military household was to send a man to the guard post as a soldier, called the regular army, and the other children were called Yu Ding or military surplus. When the regular army goes to the guard station, at least one surplus soldier must accompany them to help them live.

Due to the heavy burden on military households, most of them were given land, and the regular army was exempted from all errand service, and the surplus soldiers and the one ding under their original place of origin were also exempted from errand service, so as to ensure their livelihood and provide for the livelihood of the regular army.

For example, Luo Sifu, the founder of Luojiao, who influenced all folk secret religions. He was originally a guard soldier, but he escaped from the guard post after finding someone to replace him.

The distribution of soldiers is often carried out in a way that is remote and scattered from their places of origin to prevent desertion. However, the long journey and the lack of adaptation to the soil and water brought a lot of pain to the soldiers.

The regular army served in the guard station, and must bring his wife with him to live a stable life and have children, and every soldier has a house, a field, and a fixed monthly ration.

In practice, however, it was often underdistributed, rations were given on the march, clothing had to be provided, and weapons were produced by the state by artisans.

The sergeant was in the battalion, which was divided into two parts: garrison and tuntian. The proportions are indefinite, and they take turns on time. Tuntian regularly handed over grain to supply the garrison and officials, and its goal was to raise soldiers without consuming the country's financial resources.

However, after Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, the occupation of military fields by guards and cultivation by private soldiers has often occurred. This goal is progressively elusive.

Generally, when the regular army dies, it is supplemented by strong men in the household, but due to the hardship of the soldiers' lives, there are many deserters. In the early years of Hongwu, there were deserters. By November of the third year of Hongwu, there were 47,986 fugitives, so there were methods such as "root supplement" and "hook supplement".

The root supplement was to arrest the deserters, and the compensation was made up by their households, but this move disturbed both the people and the officials, and some officers also used this to embezzle, persecute the people, and make the countryside miserable. And deserters are on the rise.

In the third year of orthodoxy (1438), the number of fleeing officers and soldiers reached 1,633,664, and from then on, the Ming Dynasty began to recruit soldiers.

In the fourteenth year of Zhengde, Wang Qiong, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, was sparse: "There are no less than 16,700 officers in the world's guards every year. There are people who have been on a mission since the Hongwu and Yongle years, and for more than 30 years now, they have married wives and children abroad, lived in a family business, and have been with military households, and they have not returned. ”

In the eighth year of Jiajing, Gui Cao announced the world's military registration, and there were only 970,000 soldiers.

In addition to the factors of life, the escape of a sergeant is also directly related to his low social status.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, due to the need for force, more attention was paid to soldiers. After that, the Ming Dynasty was peaceful for a long time, and the force was no longer important, and the status of the military was greatly reduced. In addition, the use of criminals in the army makes the image of soldiers even lower.

During the Jiajing period, the number of deserted sergeants in some guard stations reached about 70 percent of the registered sergeants. By the beginning of the 16th century, 80 percent of the total number of fugitive sergeants had been found in some of the garrisons, and only half of the garrisons in many frontier areas remained.

In fact, by the time of the Jiajing period, the entire Ming Dynasty was no longer able to assume its own military functions. Officers of all ranks became landlords, and all the soldiers became serfs.

From this period onwards, conscription became a norm. Since then, the conscription system has become the regular military system of the Ming Dynasty.

Even in this case, on the one hand, because the imperial court kept allocating military salaries to guards at all levels. On the one hand, because the cultivation of military fields does not have to bear the national tax. So, on the whole, the life of the soldiers (serfs) of the guard post was basically passable. They don't have enough to eat, but most of them don't starve to death.

However, this situation has completely changed since the Wanli period. The main reason is that the Xiaoice climate began to erupt on a large scale in China.

A careful study of the historical materials of the Ming Dynasty after Wanli shows that from the beginning of the Wanli period, not only did peasant uprisings begin to rise and fall on the land of China, but also the mutinies in various local guard posts gradually became a norm.

The number of military households is constantly growing. Not only did the total amount of land in the garrison not increase, but it became less and less under the engulfment and plundering of the officers and gentry. Coupled with the continuous outbreak of various floods and droughts, and the large-scale decline in grain production, this led to the mutiny of the entire Ming Dynasty, becoming more and more numerous.

Let's take Yang Shouye's grandfather as an example, as a hereditary hundred households and a soldier under the name of the Yang family, there should be a hundred people under normal circumstances. However, in fact, there are only more than forty real soldiers under the name of the Yang family. Originally, the military land under the name of a hundred households could have hundreds of acres. In fact, the total amount of land allocated by the Yang family is only more than 30 acres.

Therefore, the Yang family, who is named Liupin Military Attaché, handed over the military rations that should be handed over to their superiors (although they do not pay national taxes, they also have to pay grain), and the remaining grain is not enough to feed the soldiers of the hundred households.

Of the more than 40 soldiers under the command of the entire Yang family, only a dozen people were responsible for cultivating the land in the Yang family. Everyone else works in the city of Hangzhou for a living.

Don't look at the Yang family, it seems that it is quite miserable, the life of a six-grade military attaché should not be so down. But in fact, the situation of the Yang family is still relatively good. After all, in the rich land of Hangzhou, the escape of military households is not strict.

In fact, during the reign of Tianqi Chongzhen, the proportion of military households in the Ming Dynasty who fled could basically reach about 80%.

Take the fundamental place of the Ming Dynasty, Beijing, for example. On paper, there are at least 200,000 soldiers in Beijing. However, during the Jiajing period, there were no soldiers in Beijing who could fight.

During the Jiajing period, when the Mongol soldiers besieged the city of Beijing, the important ministers under Emperor Daojun had no way to get a soldier from the city of Beijing who could go out of the city to fight.

The Mongol soldiers still couldn't help the walls of Beijing, the weather was getting warmer and warmer, and all kinds of reinforcements were rushing to Beijing, so they took the initiative to evacuate Beijing and return to the grassland.

It can be seen that in the year of the Apocalypse, the life of the guards in the climate of the Xiaoice River will be miserable.

Even in a rich place like Hangzhou City, the soldiers of Hangzhou Wei were hungry and full, and many old and frail military households often starved to death.

The life of the guards is not easy, and the life of the common people is very difficult. However, as the scholars of Hangzhou who are the landlords and gentry, life is very fast. And so, in the first month of 1624. Because a group of people who read books lit the lamp and hid all night, there was a fire.

You can imagine that it was also during the Chinese New Year, on the one hand, the scholars feasted and drank all night to guide the fire, and on the other hand, the serf soldiers in the guard were hungry and cold, and they were poorly clothed. His wife and children, his father and mother, are dying of hunger and cold. It would be a strange thing that the serfs of the guard did not rise up to make a rebellion.

In normal times, when the guards were honestly exploited as serfs, the officers in the guards could be powerful and majestic. However, by this time, the officers who had grown a little brain knew that if they really had to face the angry serf soldiers, they would only be torn to pieces.

At this time, the officers in the guard station took a look around and found Yang Shouye, a dispensable and silent figure. For them, he is really the best choice to be cannon fodder and carry the black pot.

In the face of the rebellion, this group of officers who had completely transformed into landlords were a minority who could not live in fear. But when facing Yang Shouye, this group of bastards is the majority.

For Yang Shouye, if he goes out to persuade the rebels, he may die. But if he didn't go out to persuade the soldiers, the officers who were now holding the handle of the knife would immediately cut him down. So, he plucked up his courage and went out to persuade the soldiers.

Because Yang Shouye has always been honest and kind, he does not bully or abuse soldiers. Plus his grandfather and his father are also like this. The positive image accumulated over three generations has really made a difference. However, although he was not killed, Yang Shouye was also hung up by the angry soldiers and beaten.

The history books record the mutiny in Hangzhou as follows: "In the first month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse (1624), there were all living families in Hangzhou who put up lanterns, accidentally caught fire, and burned the houses. At that time, there was Yang General, restraining the battalion soldiers not to be chaotic, and was tied back to the camp by the soldiers, hanging a high pole, wanting to shoot it with a bow and arrow, and the two guerrilla words comforted it. Mr. Yang was dismissed. ”

It's also really funny to say. In fact, in any way, Yang Shouye should not be dismissed. What's more, he is not a general who really controls the army and has real power, but an ordinary hundred households in charge of Tuntian.

However, this world is such a strange world. In this way, Yang Baihu, the military attache of the sixth grade, became Yang Shouye, an ordinary person.

Yang Shouye has no other survival skills except for his strength. There are not too many people in Hangzhou who can work hard. If this world were a world in which you can survive with all your might, there would not be so many people starving to death.

Yang Shouye also happened by chance to meet a military family who had been under his father in the past and returned to his hometown. Because his father was very kind to that military household in the past, he let him leave Hangzhou to make a living. Therefore, this military household introduced Yang Shouye to a way to live and go to Songzi County in Huguang to make a living.

In this way, he carried the only twenty taels of silver left in the Yang family. Yang Shouye boarded a cargo ship to Chengdu and came to Songzi County to make a living