Chapter 2: Hatred and Provocation

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, according to the types of troops, there are many types: horse soldiers (further subdivided can also be divided into cavalry and mounted infantry), infantry (infantry soldiers and garrison soldiers), chariot soldiers (car battalions), sailors (the main responsibility is to transport, piggyback feet jumping gang to cut people), crossbowmen, pacesetters and so on. Among them, the pacesetter is the personal guard of the senior commander and the best of all the arms - a term that still retains that meaning today. There are six types of pacesetters, namely: superintendents, subordinate to the governor's guards, fubiao, governor's guards, promotions, admiral's guards, town mark, and chief officer's guards. Except for the governor, who is in charge of civil affairs, the other three positions are all related to the military. Therefore, the members of the guard are all elites who are one in a hundred, well-fed, well-equipped, and well-trained—of course, the governor is in charge of a province, and he does not have to worry about money and food, so the standard will not be bad. The other two are used to make up the numbers: the river mark of the governor of the northern river, and the river mark of the governor of the southern Caoyun. Although these two groups are also called pacesetters, their specialty is extortion and provocation by the common people...... Let's put it this way, except for the war, everything else is almighty! So don't mention it.

According to another division, it can be roughly divided into two parts, the warriors and the auxiliaries.

The soldiers are those soldiers who have been surveyed by the imperial court, who are recorded in the military department and theoretically managed by the imperial court. Auxiliaries don't count - not only don't count, they don't even count people, at best they are talking animals, but they are not as strong as animals! Their only job was to grow grain in the fields under the supervision of the leather whips and sticks of the general's own soldiers, to supply the army, oh wrong, to the army heads. The generals will leave them with just enough food to barely starve to death, and take the rest.

Since it can't be used as cannon fodder, and Tian Shu is not included in the official accounts of the two capitals and thirteen provinces, the imperial court will not care about the specific number of auxiliaries. Because of this reason, every general desperately exaggerated the number of soldiers under his command, if there are 3,000 called Huazi, he dares to report 100,000 male divisions, and then with a face full of grievances, he reaches out to the court to ask for money and food, even if there are 10,000 auxiliary soldiers helping him farm, he will never confide half a word, anyway, after the autumn harvest, he will not take out a grain for his own soldiers to eat - can openly find the court to reach out, which neuropathy will pay out of his own pocket? Moreover, even if one of the guys suddenly loses his mind and goes crazy, Tianliang finds out that he has taken the initiative to declare - what do you ask other colleagues to do? As the saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is like killing one's father and mother! Don't look at everyone's usual "big and small system", everyone is cautious and pits each other, in the face of this kind of principle of right and wrong, everyone will put aside their differences and work together to destroy this guy who broke the rules first!

This system originated from Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.

After carrying a three-foot sword to dominate the mountains and rivers and piggybacking on the heroes to annihilate them, the old student Zhu, who was born in begging, began to ponder an economic problem: the Mongolian Tatars fled far away to the north and southwest, and even the iron armor was no different from the monkeys, and if they wanted to beat them, they could do it at any time, and the rest, there were only some "countries that were not conquered" - well, the cost of the expedition was too high, and there was really nothing to be fished, so it was okay to be a verbal favor...... Why do I still have so many soldiers when I ride a horse? How much does it cost to eat and not work!

can really disband the army, Lao Zhu no matter how rich he is, he doesn't dare to play this really distressing adventure, and finally the smart Lao Zhu finally figured out a good way: the half-soldier and half-peasant guard tuntian system! When you have nothing to do, you farm for me, feed yourself, and if something happens, you put down your hoe and pick up your sword and gun to cut down the hostile forces for me! Haha, "I raise millions of soldiers without a grain of rice"! I have never been so smart since ancient times, hurry up and praise me!

Will this work?

Absolutely.

Oh, no.

said okay, because the chaos was initially decided, and I looked around at a loss: there are really no hostile forces, there is no problem with half-farming and half-fighting, even if there is, it is very easy to let these guys who have just left the battlefield return to their old business, in a word.

I can't say no, because after two or three generations, the guards have completely transformed from professional soldiers back to peasants, and their combat effectiveness has returned to zero. So much so that later, dozens of professional bandits were able to chase down thousands of "mighty and majestic" guard "officers and soldiers" for hundreds of miles!

The "ancestral system" could not be changed, and the "peasant soldiers" did not work, so there was no more chaos to suppress, and a conscription system was gradually formed. The recruited soldiers are naturally responsible for cutting people, but ...... Marching with heavy loads is very physically demanding, how can you still use knives when you are half dead tired, there must always be someone responsible for chopping wood and boiling water for them and carrying weapons, right? Then, there is the natural combination of soldiers and auxiliaries......

In the end, the imperial court added some weight to its already overburdened finances - recruiting troops to win the war, generals were rewarded with the position of commanders, middle-level officers were to be sealed to thousands of households, and petty officers and meritorious veterans were also rewarded with some acres of land; Commanders must have "guards", and thousands of households must have "offices"; If there is a "guard station", there must be a military tun, and if there is a military tun, someone must farm the land...... Who's planting? Auxiliaries!

Perfect transformation: generals become large landowners, mid-level officers become middle landowners, and petty officers and veterans become yeoman farmers. Well, you don't have to pay taxes to the imperial grain.

So, at this time, it finally evolved into an invincible ultimate pit daddy cycle form: the original guard not only went into the pockets of the military heads, but the imperial court also gave them money and food to support the soldiers - these soldiers still can't fight, and if there is chaos, they can only recruit soldiers who can fight again, and if they lose, you have to continue to recruit, and it is easy to win, and these guys immediately turned into a guard house that will raise serfs all the way to do private work for the military heads, and if there is chaos, they will have to recruit again......

Lu Yong's military tun field has more than 2,000 acres. Theoretically, the output was enough for his battalion's rations, and in practice it was sufficient. Of course, like all other military leaders who were bigger or smaller than him, he would not take out a grain of grain from his fields except to support his own family and pro-soldiers. After being promoted to a general, you can expand the troops, and you will have money and food to take when you expand your recruitment, so he picked out some guys from the auxiliaries who can be considered a person if you carefully identify them - theoretically, the soldiers who have food to eat are all called flowers, and what kind of virtue can the auxiliaries who are not even as good as cattle be? In the Ming Dynasty, there are records of livestock, but there are no auxiliaries at all! He also arranged for Lu Sixiang, Deng Changjiang and others to lead the search team to arrest the homeless people to make up the numbers, and finally spelled out the establishment of two more battalions.

Where there is establishment, there is ration. However, happiness gave birth to sorrow, and Lu Yong's bad luck also began.

The military household is hereditary. As long as you join the military and become a soldier, your children and grandchildren will continue to do it forever and ever. Lu Yong, who was born in a family of martial arts, of course understood that the salaries of the newly expanded two battalions should be filial piety to the commander, which was a rule that he had been exposed to since childhood; He also knows very well in his heart, and even has always respected the "drifting" of civil officials after handling, which is even more justified.

But this time the drifting is a little unusual: it is as high as sixty percent!

The marshals and deputy marshals also felt that the civil officials were too much, and the symbolic hand was over, and the two layers of hands were only left with a total of one percent, even so, less than three percent were sent! You know, these three percent are really converted, but they still have to be halved!

The household department allocated it to the military department, and the salary silver issued by the military department should be more than ninety percent of the official silver, and the rice grain should be white rice and white flour with the fragrance of white flowers and flowers-Lu Yong, the middle and lower-level officers who participated in the tour, received only more than sixty percent of the people's silver and miscellaneous grains mixed with soil! The mystery of this can be understood with your toes......

If these are the only ones, Lu Yong will admit it. How did he come to this "great victory", whether he concealed it or not, everyone had a number in his heart, and added two new battalions of money and food, and it was a big deal to go up with filial piety, as long as those guys didn't starve to death, anyway, it would become a quota in the future, or only make money and not lose money...... However, this time, the civil officials deducted the food and salary of the original battalion together - that is to say, after a big victory, not only did they not earn it, but they also lost their old capital!

Relying on receiving the emperor's reward - the saint was happy, sent a hundred taels of private money, and gave a jar of imperial wine and said that it was "to strengthen the general Huwei", these rewards directly from the top of the empire No one dared to make up his mind, so Lu Yong drank too much, and complained a few words in front of the escort officer, a state judge from the seventh grade, and this stabbed the hornet's nest!

The royal reward was given by a father-in-law.

Eunuch is actually an honorific title, in the Ming Dynasty, not every father-in-law can be called a eunuch! The father-in-law was the house slave of the saint - at that time, the holy son of heaven took the world as his home, and the family law was naturally greater than the national law. In other words, don't look at the civilian clique can clean up the generals without tears, but they can't provoke the fathers-in-law if they are killed. Even if they toss to the point of poking a hole in the sky, the civil officials can only endure it, and then turn around and cry to the saint to complain, if the saint doesn't speak, no one can care about these guys!

Generally speaking, unless you get a privilege, such as a sword or a gold and silver arrow, the report of the generals to the emperor must be forwarded to the emperor through the general administration department - if you say something that the civil officials don't like to hear, hehe, sorry, your report will be rejected at this level: the holy day is full of opportunities, where is the time to listen to you chanting what rice and beans chicken bits and pieces!

But civil officials can't control their father-in-law's mouth. Although the father-in-law who was sent to the bitter cold nine sides to give the emperor a reward to a small new general, most of them were the masters who were not very popular in the palace, such as sweeping the floor...... Those are also the people around the Son of Heaven, and one day these words will reach the ears of the saints!

After a long time, the civil officials not only spit out the fat that they ate in their mouths to their father-in-law, but also seized the opportunity to let go of a handful of blood by this sharp-throated "angel" (that is the word, the messenger of the Son of Heaven) - in fact, the angel himself was also dissatisfied with Lu Yong: Our family doesn't care if you >> you are really poor or not, and send you a grace from afar, so we sealed one hundred and fifty taels to our family and sent those who ask for food? ! When our family goes back, we have to share it with the big and small leaders, and we have worked so hard to make such a trip, is it to give you a piece of silver!

With a humble smile on his face, he sent the angel away, and the civil officials saw the killing intent in each other's eyes: the dog head who didn't know death was so bold that he dared to openly cry out in front of the angel! A small general dares to do this, and in the future, those deputy generals and general soldiers will not have to kick their noses and face and run to Beijing to sue the emperor? If you break the rules, you must pay the price!

A sea of blood feud.

This beam, even if it is finished!