With regard to the guards in Ningxia Town, the Emperor adopted Wang Shouren's advice in the Song Shu and allowed them to carry it out.

That is, Ningxia no longer maintains the personnel size of the Seven Guards, leaving only Ningxia Wei, Ningxia Qianwei, Ningxia Rear Guard and the original Jingyu Guard.

Ningxia Wei and Ningxia avant-garde are stationed in Ningxia Zhencheng, and Ningxia Guard is stationed in the area of Lingzhou City, where the terrain is open, although it is no longer in the front line of border defense because of the reset, but this position with military significance still needs to be garrisoned.

The reason for the abolition of the three guards is very simple, after the re-establishment, Ningxia's military status has declined, in addition, years of military occupation has led to the destruction of the guards, and the personnel of the seven guards are not satisfied at all.

Since there are no seven guards at all, they can simply be withdrawn, and the imperial court will still have a military salary left.

The remaining four guards are 22,000 people, which is the size of the garrison of Ningxia Town.

Generally speaking, there are 50,000 or 60,000 people in important towns, and now that the number has been cut in half, the defense status of Ningxia town has also begun to decline.

In other words, the officials here are also a little less expensive than the others.

In this way, it is necessary to choose to place a person equivalent to the rank of deputy chief soldier in Ningxia Town.

Specifically, the original Jiang Han, in fact, his official official position was to supervise the affairs, hang the seal of the general of the Western Expedition, and serve as the chief military officer to guard Ningxia.

The general soldier had no grade in the Ming Dynasty.

The four words in front of the things with grades: all the governors.

This is a military attache position.

The official position of deputy commander-in-chief Yang Ying is to command the affairs, which is from the position of a military officer of the third grade.

Although the chief military officer has no rank, he has to take up this position, basically to become a military attache of the governor Tongzhi (from the first rank), the governor of the affairs (from the second rank), or the commander of the envoy (from the second rank).

Therefore, Yang Xing, the original chief soldier of Xuanfu, although he is still the chief soldier of Xuanfu, his official position has been promoted from the commander of the capital to the governor of the capital.

Yang Shangyi served as the commander-in-chief of Jizhou, this is the third time he has been the commander-in-chief, but he has not been standing still, in fact, his first time as the commander-in-chief was the commander-in-chief, and later when the Ningxia commander-in-chief, he was promoted to the governor of the capital, and now he is the commander-in-chief of Jizhou, and he is already a very big governor.

Yang Shangyi followed the emperor for ten years and was the descendant of the lineage.

Yang Xing had already shown his heart to the emperor, and he did his best in the war against Tatar in the second year of Zhengde.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao handed over Xuanfu and Jizhou to them, these two towns are the gateways of Beijing, and there is absolutely no room for loss.

The general army of Datong was filled by Shi Feng, who performed brilliantly in the two years of the Zhengde war, and he commanded the military attache (from the second grade) to garrison Datong.

Shi Bong was born in the military academy and the commander of the Shangzhi Guard, and when he was defeated for the first time, the emperor trusted him again, so he was also the emperor's own person.

The general army of Liaodong was served by Chang Dacheng.

Chang Dacheng was the one who was originally stationed in Datong, he had been following Zhou Shangwen, and he was also one of the eight people who made an oath with the emperor at the beginning.

Chang Dacheng was good at guarding, because the emperor was going to use troops in the west next, so he was sent to garrison in Liaodong Town in the east.

These are all border towns that have not declined in defense status.

In Ningxia Town, Zhu Houzhao was ready to choose Qiu Yue.

Qiu Yue was originally Shuo Fang as the commander, and this was the military attache of the fourth grade.

If you have military merits and are promoted normally, you can also be promoted to the commander of the three grades, that is, the official position of Yang Ying, the original deputy chief soldier of Ningxia, but the emperor did not want him to be the deputy chief soldier, but wanted Qiu Yue to directly serve as the chief military officer of Ningxia and command the four guards of Ningxia.

The same is true of Yulin Town (Yansui Town), which has also declined in status, and the next step is to eliminate half of the guards. Here, Zhu Houzhao is preparing to transfer Ma Yihuai, deputy chief soldier of Gansu Town, to the chief soldier of Yulin.

Ma Yihuai is Zhou Shangwen's old subordinate and Ma Rong's father, and he has absolutely no position or reason to betray the emperor.

According to Zhu Houzhao's arrangement, the 'top leaders' of the major military regions in the border towns from west to east can be said to be all the military generals he single-handedly promoted.

This is the situation from the twelfth year of Hongzhi to the four years of Zhengde.

Next, he is to gradually clean up the border town of Tuntian from Ningxia, and at the same time prepare the army and improve the combat effectiveness.

When the time comes, 500,000 border troops and 200,000 Beijing battalions, what else will they mention about 'sin the world and instability'?

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in Ningxia.

Zhang Xuan had the support of Wang Tingxiang, the governor of Shaanxi, and Wang Shouren, the governor of Hetao, and as soon as the counterinsurgency was over, he went all out to promote the work of clearing up the military cantonments and redrawing the border.

In any case, raising soldiers without getting sick with the peasants is better than tuntian.

The "Ming Huidian" recorded: "Each army cultivates 50 acres of land for one point, or 100 acres, or 70 acres, or 30 acres, and 20 acres." ”

The reason for this disparity is that the land is fertile and barren to varying degrees.

But on average, 50 acres of land per sergeant is good, and now after the number of people in Ningxia Town is reduced, the size of the army is 22,000 people, which requires 1.1 million acres of land.

The original Anhua Mansion and Qingwang Mansion occupy a total of 288,000 acres of military tun. At least half of the land occupied by the prince is good land, with flat terrain, square plots, and close to water sources for irrigation.

Therefore, only the land occupied by the palace can solve the needs of a guard's tuntian.

Speaking of which, the two princes can be regarded as merciful, and it must be known that the old family of Xu Jie, Xu Ge, and Xu Ge later occupied more than 200,000 acres of fertile land.

So if you want to talk about the gap between the rich and the poor, in fact, the gap between the rich and the poor in this year is even more exaggerated, it has reached an outrageous level, like an unimaginable family occupying hundreds of thousands of acres of land, these are real.

Thinking about it this way, it is not too much to pay attention to the thousands of acres of land of Jiang Han and Yang Ying's family.

After this rebellion in Ningxia Town, it can be said that the original order was greatly damaged, and many of the original thousands and hundreds of households were implicated and imprisoned.

As a result, the number of tuntian fields controlled by the government has soared, especially the two royal mansions, plus the original Ningxia Wei commander He Jinyi has 2,500 hectares, that is, 250,000 mu of land (historical records, not apocryphal), so at the beginning, Zhang Xuan had 500,000 mu of divisible land.

There is nothing to say about the places where these fields go, and they are all divided into Ningxia Wei, Ningxia Qianwei and Ningxia Guard.

First, this is the most important work, and in addition, the division of fields to sergeants can quickly calm people's hearts, and when the army is stabilized, the situation will not be chaotic.

Wang Tingxiang has been an official for so many years, and he is also the happiest among these geniuses recently, and he has always worked tirelessly to promote this matter with Zhang Xuan. Give cattle and farm tools, teach trees and plants, re-rent and pay, send officials to persuade them to lose, and punish officials who invade and violence...... These are all matters that he can directly coordinate as governor.

And since the army itself has the duty of reclamation, it does not have to bother others anymore to measure the land and demarcate the boundaries, and directly leads the soldiers of the guard to start.

Wang Tingxiang is settling accounts with Zhang Xuan, "From the current point of view, in addition to the three guards of Jingyuwei, more than 100,000 mu of tuntian can be obtained this year, and the three guards will be abolished, the soldiers in Ningxia Town will be reduced, and the military tuns obtained by each army can be appropriately increased." In any case, according to the tax of one bucket and two liters per mu set by the imperial court, Ningxia Town can harvest more than 100,000 stone of grain and rice next year, and the number of grains can be handed over 12 to 130,000 stone. It is enough to keep the surplus for one's own use, and there is no longer a need for the imperial court to transport grain thousands of miles after that, and there can even be a surplus. ”

In ancient times, an adult man had to consume 600 catties of grain a year, that is, 4 stones. The four guards plus some military personnel consume 200,000 stone of staple food a year.

But this is a theoretical situation, first of all, the harvest depends on the sky, and if there is any regional disaster, the output will be reduced immediately. And a man can't just eat rice, he has to eat oil, salt, sugar, and he has to tear a few pieces of cloth to make some clothes, so he needs to exchange some silver. In addition to people, horses should also be fed.

It takes enough food to raise a strong horse to feed four or five adults.

So it's really rough to eat, coupled with the corruption problem that is difficult to eradicate in the bureaucracy, basically even eat and take, and in the end it is good to have 100,000 stone left.

For the rest of it, there are still people who want to fight it.

"Jingyuwei's military cantonment will also be cleaned up." Zhang Xuan added.

Although Jing Yuwei was not affected by the rebellion, Zhang Xuan did not come to quell the rebellion, he came to clean up the military camp.

Wang Tingxiang naturally understood, and there was no decree to kick Jing Yuwei out, "Jing Yuwei is a little special, although there are nearly 200 acres of land per penny, but the land is barren, the climate is cold, and quite empty, originally it was to be fed by the imperial court with 100,000 stone grain and rice, and after the field is cleared again, it must at least be self-sufficient." ”

In other words, Jing Yuwei is actually equivalent to contributing 100,000 stone of Tuntian grains, and there is no need to adjust grain.

Ningxia Town is a border place, a little rectification, there are 220,000 stone of Tuntian grains.

Think about it carefully, Daming only has more than one million grains a year, and Ningxia is only a town, which is one-seventh.

But the military cantonment set up by the Ming Dynasty is not only seven times as big as Ningxia?

In addition to the rest of the border towns, there are also vast inland guard houses, and those guard houses are also from Tuntian!

As long as these potentials are excavated, not to mention the restoration of the glory of more than 20 million stone of Tuntian grains a year during the Hongwu period, there is not much pressure on the imperial court to collect 12 million stone of grain in at least one year.

In this way, the annual income can be greatly increased to 40 million stones.

Growth was one thing, and after many guards cleaned up their military cantonments, they began to regain self-sufficiency, and there was no need for the imperial court to allocate food. So the consumption is still less.

At that time, a large amount of grain was stored in the preparation warehouse, and the Ming Dynasty could also realize the sentence that described the strength of the Han Dynasty: the millet of Taicang Chen Chen is full of dew and accumulates outside, so that it is corrupt and inedible.

And this is the so-called strong national strength.