The theory of the Ming Dynasty was that a thousand households should have one thousand and twelve military households. It is enough to provide 300 to 500 soldiers for a thousand corps, with sufficient weapons and equipment, and can also bear the food and salary of these soldiers.

Thousands of households and hundreds of military households are separated from production, and the task of the children is to temper their combat skills and learn the art of war. In this way, once something happens in the country, the hereditary military family can provide excellent children to serve as the general manager and the general manager.

But over time. Thousands of households, hundreds of households, and other hereditary military families are getting closer and closer to the landlords, and one by one they are full of fat brains, and they are proficient in settling accounts, collecting rent, opening restaurants, and doing business, but they are completely incompetent in leading troops in battle.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were a group of slaves who were completely tied to the land, and their status was probably equivalent to that of serfs in Russia.

In the late Ming Dynasty, even prostitutes were reluctant to marry into military households, except for intermarriage between military households, and at least the children and grandchildren of the peasants still had a hope -- the thrifty and thrifty peasants could rise to become rich peasant landlords, and the children of smart peasant families could become petty officials, and even be admitted to Xiucai to be exempt from paying taxes.

For hundreds of years, the cruelty and hopelessness of life have kept the children of military families on the run, and young people have tried their best to change their surnames and sell themselves as domestic slaves of generals in order to get out of the army. Although the state continued to flood prisoners into military households, a few decades ago, the number of military households in the guards withered to the point that they could not provide soldiers and equipment at all.

Therefore, starting from the famous general Qi Jiguang, the recruited soldiers became the basis of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army. Unfortunately, over the decades, the conscription system also began to deteriorate, with local officials and generals recruiting soldiers from military households, thus doubly embezzling both the state's recruitment fees and the production of the guards. As far as Huang Shi knows, the Quang Ninh Field Army, which adopted the conscription system, had about 100 soldiers with a small number of armed weapons in a 1,000 corps, while the Quang Ninh local troops also adopted the guard system, and an average of only 50 soldiers in a 1,000 corps.

"Ben will give you a thousand taels of silver for the soldier's settling-in allowance first. In the future, I will allocate you three hundred taels of silver every month. But don't make a big fuss, because the average thousand corps can only get one hundred and fifty to two hundred taels a month. At this juncture, Sun Degong obviously has no interest in Xiaoli, and Sun Degong is Wang Huazhen's direct subordinate. There aren't too many people who need to be honored.

"Yes. The salary of our Quang Ninh army is one tael or eight cents per soldier per month. The subordinates will recruit 200 soldiers in full. "Of course, Huangshi has no intention of drinking the blood of soldiers at this time.

"It is completely possible to recruit 300 people, and if you give one or two soldiers a month, they will be grateful. There is no need to give enough at all. Sun Degong said dissatisfied.

"My lord, my subordinates are worried that the soldiers will complain, and they will have to help in an emergency. ”

"Well, if you weren't afraid of being too public, it would be safer for you to accept some people as housekeepers. Sun Degong thought about it and agreed with Huangshi's statement.

"My lord, my subordinates are ignorant. ”

"Yes, just let them change their surname to Huang, so that the court will give half of the military salary, and you will give the rest, generally speaking, the family will definitely get more than ordinary soldiers, and from now on, no matter where you are transferred, any position, the family will follow you, and they will do it with you. ”

Huang Shi was dumbfounded by these words, "My lord, is this okay? Turn the soldiers of the imperial court into domestic slaves?"

"Why not?" Regarding Huangshi, a military blind, Sun Degong could only explain patiently: "Let me explain it to you carefully." ”

In order to save expenses and increase the number of soldiers, the imperial court encouraged the generals who led the troops to contribute their private domestic slaves, and paid half of the military salary to the generals who provided the domestic slaves as soldiers. By the time of Huangshi, the types of soldiers in the Ming army had already changed from the primitive cavalry and infantry to the three categories of cavalry, infantry, and family, and this classification method had appeared in the official documents of the imperial court for decades.

Soon after this policy was introduced, high-ranking generals began to withhold military salaries, and then coerced and induced a large number of ordinary soldiers to buy them as family members. Many ordinary soldiers choose to become domestic slaves in order to get full military salaries, become the private force of generals, and use the national wealth to turn the national army into domestic slaves.

"But you can't, a little Qianzong, I still had to eat a few years ago. How could there be money to buy slaves. Forget it, you'd better recruit two hundred soldiers. "Sun Degong, as a wealthy family in Liaodong, already owns a lot of land, but it is still too ostentatious for Huangshi to accept the buyer from the beginning. Moreover, his current position is still too low, and officers below the guerrilla level are not entitled to enjoy these rules of the game.

"Yes, my subordinates understand. ”

At present, Huangshi can be said to be a half-baked soldier, because he has no subordinates, so the drills and training basically have nothing to do with him, and naturally there is no need to consider the issues that thousands of general officers must consider, such as food and salary. After he had spent a few days getting acquainted with his own soldiers, he led them to the work of selecting soldiers in high spirits.

Several dog-fighting soldiers accompanied Huangshi to inspect a number of guards' barracks, but Huangshi regretted that the soldiers in the guards were in worse health than most of the beggars Huangshi had ever seen. The soldiers went out in the morning, were enslaved by the officers, and in the afternoon struggled for their own lives, and the hard life bent the waists of most of the soldiers.

Many of the so-called prime-age soldiers on the roster, after Huang Shi called them, they were all little old men with yellow faces and thin muscles and wrinkled faces. After running for two days, Huangshi found less than twenty satisfied soldiers.

"Sticking the list, recruiting soldiers, whether they are military or not, the standard is to be able to pull the strong bow twenty times in a row, and march five miles with a weight in half an hour. Huang Shi, who lost his patience, ordered his own soldiers: "The settlement fee is ten taels, and the monthly money is one or eight yuan, go immediately." ”

The soldiers looked at each other a few times, and one of the bold soldiers named Yang Luhuo said to Huang Shi: "My lord, my subordinates think that these soldiers will be satisfied as long as they have seven or eight yuan a month, and it is okay not to pay the settlement fee, it is better to give a few taels casually." But I'm afraid that those who have been recruited are really coming for ten taels of settling-in expenses, and no matter how little the monthly money is, they will be given one tael, and these soldiers who have been recruited may also be rising, please be aware of them. ”

Huang Shi smiled and listened to this passage, no matter what, the soldiers always stood on their own side: "This is very good, you have to put forward your opinions immediately in the future." ”

"My lord said this, it really made my subordinates panic. ”

"But I don't plan to deduct military salaries, I want a group of strong men who can really fight, which is also the task assigned by Lord Sun. ”

"Yes, my lord, my subordinates will do it immediately. Yang Luhuo didn't say much, and he bowed and was about to step back.

"Yang furnace fire. Huang Shi felt that this pro-soldier must have told his fortune, and the five elements lacked fire to give such a name.

"What else do you have to say?"

"I need a personal captain, and those soldiers I found also need an acting commander, what are you willing to do?"

"It's all at your command. ”

"Then the captain of the army. ”

"Lord Xie is promoted, and he will not hesitate to break his bones for the adult!"

Just when Huangshi began to build his own descendant troops, the news of the Battle of Zhenjiang had reached Guangning, Mao Wenlong recovered hundreds of miles, pacified tens of thousands of Liao people, and the entire Liaodong was shaken. Wang Huazhen ordered Huangshi to take the opportunity to go to Liaoyang, Ming Wei sent a letter to Nurhachi, and secretly sent a secret letter to Li Yongfang, and by the way, he investigated the morale of the people in the Houjin territory to see if there was an opportunity.

(End of Section 11)

(End of chapter)

Gaiden

"Records of Taizu in the History of the People's Republic of China"

In the first year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty was captured in Guangning, and Wang Huazhen was the governor of Liaodong. The Ming army was defeated repeatedly, and the officers and soldiers were terrified, and regarded the Liao region as a place of death. Recruit strong men with a lot of money, and want to peek into the reality of Liaoyang, but there is no one who dares to respond.

Taizu took the order angrily, and some people said that Taizu would die in Liaoyang in vain, but Taizu did not listen.

After entering the captive realm, Taizu was full of wisdom, and he went to death and then returned, and he was able to capture the reality of the captivity,

Shi Shi Jing said: The brave man, where the righteousness is, although there is no fear. A wise man, there must be a word, and the temple is not leaky. Thinking back to the time of Taizu, the slight body fought the sword, and laughed about the wind and clouds. Since ancient times, there have been many wise and brave people, and there is no one more than the Taizu of the National Dynasty.

The husband and soldier, know themselves and know the enemy, they will not be defeated in a hundred battles, and the Ming court knows the truth and the truth of the captivity, and the number of victories and defeats is not enough to ask. I don't want the thief to advocate chaos, and the extraneous branches are born, and the whole work is not completed, which is a pity.

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