This kind of discomfort, of course, is not only possessed by ordinary soldiers, Zhao Yunkai, who is currently on the first ship of the transport fleet.

The complexion is also not very good-looking.

Qingdao Port:

A few days in advance, the port management personnel of Qingdao Port already knew the news of the imminent large-scale transfer of the Tianhu Army.

It is expected that the strength of one division will reach Qingdao by sea through the port of Tianjin.

As a result, the port management personnel arranged manpower early and temporarily closed the port a few days in advance.

Except for the deployment of emergency supplies.

All other supplies entered from other civilian docks.

Even if there are merchant ships that cannot be accepted by civilian docks, they are all required to avoid the time slot, or go directly to Tianjin Port.

It's not easy to say anything else, in a word, the Ming military is in charge.

This is the highest directive of the Ming Dynasty today, and it is extremely important for local state and county officials, and no one dares to ignore such a directive today.

After all, once he appears, it means that everything in the local area has to serve him.

Not to mention a short-term emptying of Qingdao port.

The port was clean, except for the occasional seabird flying in the sky, and there was no more to see on the cloudless sea, while on the pier.

Quite a few local troops stationed in the area are on standby.

Waiting to welcome the arrival of the 10th Division of the Heavenly Tiger Army.

As a flame for the sailor's plan..

This infantry division of the Heavenly Tiger Army has begun to gradually break away from the infantry sequence of the Heavenly Tiger Army.

When this army completely completed the training of sailors and was able to board the warships built by the Ming Dynasty himself.

It will be changed from the 10th Division of the Tianhu Army to the 1st Division of the Daming Shandong Water Division.

Complete this metamorphosis.

There are a lot of medicines prepared on the dock to relieve seasickness in advance.

But when a large number of transport ships arrived, the number of soldiers caught in seasickness was much higher than local state and county officials expected.

"This... What the hell is going on, why are there so many soldiers seasick, hurry! Come and find medicinal herbs, hurry up and continue to boil Chinese medicine, there are still many people behind! ”

Therefore, I immediately arranged manpower, and I was eager to pry open the cabinets of all pharmacies in Qingdao immediately, just to find more medicinal materials that could be used to relieve the symptoms of seasickness.

Seeing the soldiers of the Heavenly Tiger Army who were vain in their footsteps and had difficulty walking in a straight line, the local magistrate instantly panicked.

Although Qingdao Port is located in Qingdao Prefecture, Qingdao Port actually retains another set of county-level yamen to serve Qingdao Port.

Of course, the port has also brought unpredictable benefits to this small county...

And Zhao Yunkai stood on the port, his eyebrows were full of sorrow, and he couldn't stop doubting himself in his heart, whether he agreed too quickly.

The task of forming the Shandong Water Division was actually handed over to him.

It was handed over to the 10th Division of the Tianhu Army, where most of the soldiers were from Shanxi.

...

Jingshi, the council hall in the palace was once again full of officials.

However, the atmosphere this time was obviously different from the previous one, because the survey of the current situation of the Daming Guard Institute conducted by the Royal Bureau of Statistics and Dongchang has been completed.

The result was shocking, making Zhu Youzhen almost faint.

In the end, Wang Chengen was quick to see and move, although he came from later generations, but the degree of erosion in the current Daming Guard was far beyond Zhu Youzhen's expectations.

In the Ming Dynasty, since the Hongwu period, the system of guards has been implemented throughout the country, and Lao Zhu's evaluation of this is: "Our Lao Zhu does not need to spend a little food to train millions of elite soldiers for the Ming Dynasty." ”

But the system was of course extremely advanced in the beginning, and it was not only a way to share the expenses of raising a large number of soldiers for the imperial court.

After all, for any dynasty, the military expenses are too large.

The waistband of the court had to be tightened, and sometimes even the emperor's belt had to be tightened for this reason.

The system stipulates that each guard should have 5,600 garrisons, and that there should be 1,100 households and a number of 100 households under or around each guard center, and that there should be 1,120 garrisons among the 1,100 households.

The hundred households are one hundred and twelve people, and they have declined to this day, and there are almost no full numbers of guards in the first year of Chongzhen, and even some of them have already existed in name only.

Because if you follow such an algorithm, it is calculated according to the basic data left by Wei.

Even if Daming is a provincial capital, there are often nearly 100,000 soldiers in the local guard station, and this number will be larger in the northern provincial capital, and the number in the southern provincial capital will not be small.

And there will be certain differences depending on the area and geographical location.

In this way, it was not a joke that it didn't cost a penny to raise more than 100,000 soldiers during the Hongwu period.

However, the actual situation is not only that the loss of personnel is serious, but more importantly, the good and the bad are mixed, and many soldiers are already old men who are already old and frail, but because they cannot escape the military household registration, they can only stay in the guard post for the rest of their lives.

The old, weak, sick and disabled gathered, and the guards, which were already only about 30 percent of the actual strength, should be reduced by more than half in the same place, and the focus of the reform of the military department was precisely to restore the guard post system.

But at that time, he was stopped by Zhu Youzhen and asked to wait for the end of the investigation by the Bureau of Statistics.

Now it seems that the erosion of the Daming Guard's system has reached the point of hopelessness, and Zhu Youzhen has made up his mind not to leave this kind of thing behind.

"I summoned you today, not to listen to the Royal Bureau of Statistics read you data and give you a report, I want to tell you how serious the problems facing the Ming Dynasty are now."

"More than 100,000 guards and soldiers, only less than 30% remain, and these 30% have to be discounted by half to have a useful army.. And the training has been abandoned for a long time, and there are almost no weapons, is such a guard really the one left in the Hongwu period? ”

Zhu Youzhen's words made Huo Weihua of the military department the most unable to raise his head.

The previous local restructuring was originally Huo Weihua's way of trying his best to save face for the local health center, but he did not want to be protected by Zhu Youzhen.

Huo Weihua had no choice but to turn around and investigate the soldiers formed by the local state capital.

That is, the local army.

But I didn't expect that the officials of the Bureau of Statistics could really end the statistics of the National Health Center in such a short period of time, knowing when they left Beijing.

What he is holding in his hand is the bottom book of the guard left over from the Hongwu period!

How many years have passed, and it has long been a matter of fact, but with the help of the previously released map of the Ming Dynasty, they have completely analyzed the current location of each guard.

Relying on the interviews, it was compiled into today's investigation report.

It made all the officials present feel ashamed, and it made Huo Weihua, the secretary of the military department, feel ashamed...

"Minister, Huo Weihua, the secretary of the Ministry of War, beg His Majesty to leave the border guards, they can still be used... Emperor! ”