Chapter 9 tacit understanding

Guan Shengyun didn't know that Yulinwei had just sent away a big man: Jia Shouren, the director of the staff department of the Ming Army. This matter, the former Shenmu Zhixian and the current Master Luo don't know either.

The military department of the Ming Dynasty has four divisions: the Martial Arts Division, the Arsenal Division, the Staff Division, and the Vehicle Driving Division. The Armed Forces Selection Department is responsible for the appointment and dismissal of generals, which is equivalent to the Personnel Department and the Organization Department; The Arsenal Division is equivalent to the Logistics Department of the Equipment Department, which is responsible for weapons and equipment; The car driving department is responsible for the car driver and honor guard; The staff department is similar to the general staff, responsible for the drawing of maps, the construction of cities, the allocation of food and salaries, and the rewards and punishments of generals.

The Ministry of War, similar to today's Minister of National Defense and Shilang, is the deputy minister; There is one person in each department, that is, the director, one outsider, and the deputy director; Below are the two principals - note that the level is not today's positive - the county is the seventh grade, this can be regarded as the right place, the main thing is the sixth grade, two levels higher than the county: there is a sixth grade in the middle - and, according to the Ming convention, the same product is respected by the Beijing official. In other words, this Jia director, when he arrives at the local level, his identity is more noble than that of the Sipin prefect: the head of the real power department of the central government, who has money, food, materials, and performance in his hands!

Why didn't this Jia Shouren come to Yulin Wei, who traveled thousands of miles to the barren mountains and mountains?

Because Yulinwei is in trouble - the trouble is not small, and the trouble that the news can reach the Jingshi must not be small!

Specifically, it is unpaid wages.

The army's arrears of wages (including food arrears) are a long-standing problem in Daming.

The troops of the Ming Dynasty are divided according to the station, and in general, they are divided into three major parts.

The first is the Beijing camp, the Gongwei Beijing Division. The task is so lofty, the environment is good, the equipment is good, and the treatment is naturally not wrong - another tacit reason is that at the feet of the Holy Son of Heaven, if you don't coax these ignorant and fearless uncles (or read Ershengha) well, because something is going to make a fuss and alarm the Holy Lord, no one can eat and walk around! Even if you don't make trouble, take a chance to give you some eye medicine - for example, when the Holy Suburbs Festival, Jingying will definitely escort you, right? Which uncle is willing to block you, riding a donkey from a distance in the field of vision of the long live lord, long live the lord called over and asked: "Why don't you ride a horse?" The cracked mouth was full of snot and tears: "Long live back, the money is not enough, the horse is starving to death!" This is the donkey raised by the villain's family, and in order to protect it, he is willing to take it out to protect His Majesty...... "What will happen to the saint?" It's hard to say how the old man will die, but it must be ugly and ugly! How powerful is Zuo Zongtang in later generations? Killing people is like hemp, not to mention, when he debuted, he dared to slap the table and scold the chief soldier: "Bastard get out", after recovering the new & Xinjiang, he inspected the Beijing camp and did not pay a reward, and was scolded by the uncles pointing to the back of the back: "Left mule, you bought a watch, super wear-resistant!" Zuo Ye was stunned and pretended not to hear!

Therefore, although the Beijing camp has the easiest task, it generally has to be coaxed, and money, food and materials are absolutely guaranteed.

The second is the army of the key places in the interior, and its responsibility is to appease the localities and suppress bandits and reassure the people. The equipment treatment is not as good as that of the Beijing camp, but it can still live on its own, especially the local army in rich places, and it is not much worse than the Beijing camp.

At that time, there were bandits and bandits everywhere, in addition to cutting the path and robbing, from time to time there would be some big movements, for example, robbing a stockade and setting fire by the way, at this time, the magistrate had to ask the garrison for help. Usually, if the relationship is too stiff, you will definitely not be able to count on them at critical moments. Also, if these guys are so hungry that they steal chickens and dogs, or even rob them - don't forget that many of them are from the army, and they are not good people, and the harm is not necessarily less than that of bandits. You go to the officer to theorize, and the officer who is gnawing on the filial chicken leg of his subordinates is sure to clapped his chest loudly: "My lord, you can search for it, and identify which guy will never be spared!" "To put it lightly, there are hundreds of people in each battalion, and the smell can choke you from afar, and all the unkempt faces are the same faces, can you recognize them? Therefore, although the magistrate has difficulties and deductions, on the whole, these people can still eat their bellies.

The worst was the border army. They have the heaviest responsibilities - guarding the borders, and the greatest danger - whether they are captives, Tatars or barbarians, as long as they come, they will play with you! And yet - the worst treatment, well, it can even be said that sometimes there is no treatment at all!

As the saying goes, a good man is not a soldier, but if there is a little hope, no one will join the army, especially the border army with his head pinned to his trouser belt. Therefore, the source of this is either the exiles who have been arrested, or the criminals who have been confiscated into the army - or the repeat offenders, and the less serious crimes cannot flow so far, and they have all been enriched in the inland guards - most of the real hereditary military households have followed the generals for several generations and become family soldiers or small leaders, but they are not the basic main body of ordinary soldiers in the border army.

Theoretically, of course, the imperial court was responsible for providing food and salary to the border army, and everyone understood the truth that they could not fight when they were hungry. However, only in theory - the old men who work for the country in the Ministry of Household and Military Affairs and the Ministry of Industry should live more comfortably, there is nothing to say about relying on the mountains and eating the mountains, the border plugs are usually poor mountains and bad waters, and the local civil officials and adults have little opportunity to do too much in taxes, if the bad life affects the work, it is also greatly detrimental to the benefit of the people, of course, you have to rub some oil, the generals risk their lives to protect the family and defend the country, although there are a few acres of land, but it is the private property of the people, you can't say too much about getting some subsidies, right? Moreover, the Ming Dynasty is so big, and the country also has its own difficulties, so everyone should be fully considerate, right? The imperial court, magistrates, and generals of all sizes have passed through each other, and the silver and rice beans in their hands are a little less, well, for example, ninety percent, normal, right? As we all know, the transportation environment is harsh, the weather conditions are also complicated, and sometimes the food is delivered a little later, for example, a year or two...... It's all inevitable! If it's difficult, just endure it and it will pass. What? Defy? Yo he, you are obviously a spy sent by the Tartars, where are you going...... Look at the knives!

In the sixth year of Yongle, Yulin Village was built, and the name of Yulin began to be seen in history. It is named because the local soil is particularly suitable for growing elm trees.

The Wushen Department opposite Yulinwei is scattered in the Hetao Plain, where the water and grass are abundant, and there is a piece of Mu Us sandy land in the middle which is a natural barrier, so although it is located at the border pass, it has not been through war for many years.

Therefore, no one pays much attention to such trivial matters as what the border army here relies on to survive on weekdays - otherwise, Shenmu County, which is close at hand, will not be like that.

Because there is no war, there is naturally no opportunity to kill the good and risk the beggar's head to cheat the reward of silver, so the magistrates and generals will inevitably be a little more ruthless when they pass - no matter whether the imperial court has issued it or not, and how much it has been paid, anyway, the soldiers of Yulinwei have not received their salaries for more than three years, and the grain and grass are also coming and going, and the accumulated shortage, even according to the greatly reduced number of the military department, is owed for more than a year. Finally, under the clamor of several unstable elements, the flower soldiers made a fuss.

When the guerrilla general Lu Youde heard the news, he brought the garrison Jin Qing and more than a dozen guards to suppress it. I thought that if I cut off the leader on the spot, I would be able to scare a few more words, but I didn't think that as soon as I showed my knife, I didn't know which one in the crowd shouted: "The court wants to kill us", and the situation suddenly got out of control. Lu Youde ran fast and rushed out of the camp under the desperate escort of his own soldiers, while Jin Qing was not so lucky and was cut into many pieces by a random knife.

The rebels were already in the camp surrounded by a ditch and a wall in front of them, and now they are guarding the danger, and the officials all know in their hearts that although they kill the officials of the imperial court, unless they have to, they must not transfer troops to attack - the other guys who did not bomb the camp are in exactly the same situation, and now they don't know what they can endure for a while, if they are pulled over to fight, there is a chance that they will fight with these guys!

can only "know with righteousness" and consolation.

So the Yulin Mansion reported to the imperial court to prevent the situation from expanding out of control, and at the same time, the left and right hands of Xiao Changhua, the prefect of Yulin, sentenced Zhou Zhizheng to volunteer and bring an old family member into the camp with two horses.

The rebels were just trying to have something to eat, and they all knew that they couldn't last long, and Zhou Tongju was even more courageous and eloquent, so he stayed in the camp as a hostage, and sent his old family back to the city to scrape together some silver taels, and finally suppressed the matter temporarily......

This matter was reported to Jingshi, and he did not go through the official channels of the political secretary, but privately reported it to Yuan Shijie, the head of the household department, who was Xiao Changhua's teacher.

Lord Yuan went to court earlier than usual the next day, and when he saw Wang Yucao, the secretary of the military department, he changed his indifference with a straight face and turned a blind eye, and smiled and greeted a few words. After the court was dispersed, Wang Shangshu took a few steps and grabbed Lord Yuan, and he had to go to the mansion to taste the skills of the new chef. Lord Yuan shirked for a while, but he couldn't resist the hospitality, and the two sedan chairs left one after the other.

Lord Yuan is a native of Binzhou, Shandong, and does not eat spicy, and Lord Wang is a native of Bazhou, Chongqing, and is not spicy or happy. Although Lord Yuan basically didn't move a few chopsticks to most of the red and full dogwood dishes on the table - at that time, the chili peppers had not yet come from Nanyang, and the spicy ones used dogwood to cook, that is, "the remote knowledge brother ascended to the heights, and there was one less person in the dogwood" - but he still issued a heartfelt sigh for the craftsmanship of the chef of the palace, "This taste should only be in the sky". During the banquet, the guests and hosts had a superficial discussion on the write-off of the military expenses of the former Khan in the previous two years. Mr. Yuan said that there are few people, and the backlog should be too pragmatic, and strive to urge it, and the efficiency of the household department should be higher. Lord Wang said that he fully understood, not in a hurry, and that such a trivial matter should be personally remembered by Lord Yuan, and he was really grateful for it...... After that, the two adults talked about the recent anecdotes of Jingshi, and ended this cordial and friendly exchange with laughter.

Lord Wang personally sent Lord Yuan out of the mansion. When he got on the sedan chair, Lord Yuan sighed lightly: "Although it is not easy for us to wait, the brothers who want to come to the border should work harder." Shengshangde is the world, and Haiqing Heyan has this quiet time. Lord Wang immediately agreed, spoke highly of Lord Yuan's compassion for the soldiers in addition to his hard work, and said that the military department would never disappoint the ardent hopes of the Holy Lord and all the adults......

Seeing Lord Yuan's sedan chair go away, Wang Shangshu turned around and returned to the mansion, and immediately sent Lang Zhong and Wai Lang of the Wuxuan Division, holding the accounts of the materials allocated in recent years, pulling the abacus, and accounting in detail for the Shaanxi Metropolitan Mansion, Shaanxi Xingdu Division and other places.

So the next day, Jia Shouren, the director of the Ministry of Staff, rushed to Yulin with a quick car......