[usstedu] on Yuan Chonghuan's superintendent Ji Liao's military salary

Let's get straight to the point, starting with volume 15 of the "Chongzhen Long Edition": "There are 55,345 soldiers inside the Guan, and 78,340 soldiers outside the Guan...... This month and March, the silver is sixty-nine hundred thousand six hundred and sixty-three. This is the calculation of Shanhaiguan Town and Liaodong Town in August of the first year of Chongzhen, in which the soldiers in the Guannei are the Shanhaiguan garrison, and the soldiers outside the Guanhai are the Ningjin garrison. Judging from this record, there were 133,685 soldiers in the two towns, and the salary for three months was 693,600 taels, and the average annual salary per person was 20.75 taels, or 207,500 taels per 10,000 people. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the amount of military recruitment stipulated was one tael and five cents of silver per month, that is, 18 taels a year. Why is Guan Ningjun's figure slightly higher? Mao Wenlong's "Five Things for the Unequal" is played, which mentions that Ning Yuan "has a monthly salary of one or two or five yuan, and Neiding has two or four yuan, and eats five buckets of rice", "Chongzhen Long Edition", vol. 2. Neiding is the family Ding, which is also a kind of military system at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the pro-soldiers who are about to receive are slightly higher than the average of ordinary soldiers to all soldiers, and the total salary standard naturally reaches 20.75 taels per person. However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the country's financial resources were exhausted, and the army was generally in arrears, so the military department gave priority to ensuring Guanning's salaries. Even so, in July of the first year of Chongzhen, Ning Yuan still owed money in April, which led to a mutiny, and in August Yuan Chonghuan took office, quelling the rebellion with his personal prestige.

"The Biography of Yuan Chonghuan in the History of the Ming Dynasty" "Chonghuan was in Liao, and led the teaching, Dashou, and Kegang to set the military system, and gradually reached Denglai, Tianjin, and Dingdongjiang military system, and the four towns had 153,000 soldiers, 81,000 horses, more than 4.8 million years of expenses, and more than 1.2 million old ones. Emperor Awards. "The four million ,800,000 here is the total, including the true color (grain) and the folded color (silver). In Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Tang Newspaper, it was also mentioned many times that Dongjiang's annual salary was 400,000 yuan, which included 200,000 yuan and 20 folds. As mentioned earlier, the average annual salary of each soldier is about 20 taels, so the annual salary of 153,000 soldiers is about 3 million, and the remaining 1.8 million should be the true color. The 1.8 million stone grain (or 1.8 million true colors) that is often said on the Internet is likely to come from this. This number is actually included in the total of 4.8 million, but it is often pulled out and counted again.

However, the figure of 1.8 million is actually wrong, because this figure is only a hasty calculation of the total of 4.8 million minus 3 million. According to Mao Wenlong's standard for the Guanning Army, the annual salary of 153,000 troops should be 918,000, and if the total annual salary of 153,000 troops with an annual salary of 20.75 taels per capita is accurately calculated, it should be 3.175 million taels. In this way, the total of 4.8 million, in addition to the 4.1 million rated by the 153,000 army, and the figure of 700,000 seems to be multiple.

What kind of money is this 700,000 yuan? In addition to the normal military salaries at the end of the Ming Dynasty, first of all, there was also the reward silver after winning the battle; for example, when Yuan Chonghuan first arrived in Liaodong to take office, Zu Dashou of Jinzhou led the army to fight a small victory in the yellow mud valley, and this is what should be paid to reward merit; secondly, there were special funds for the purchase of military horses and equipment for supervision; in addition, there was also a temporary increase in the internal funds to stimulate morale (the emperor's private money **** was naturally beneficial to morale), as well as the salaries of generals and officials. In Mao Wenlong's Tang Newspaper, you can see that the list of payments received by Dongjiang in the fifth year of the Apocalypse is " In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Cao Weixin, the preface of Honglu Temple, sent 50,000 taels of silver to the treasury of the household department; the commissioner Wen Tuming and Sun Anguo of 100 households went to the Beijing Treasury to find 10,000 taels of silver, and pulled out 13,3829 coins of silver, and Liao Guanyue went to the Beijing Treasury 8,000 taels of silver; consulted Dengfu to save 8,000 taels of silver; Hao Guoru, a thousand households of Jinwuwei, received 93,977 taels of silver, and first received 6,000 taels of silver from Xu Wuyuan, the capital secretary, who bought silk and cloth and other things in Beijing, and Li Mo, the preface of Honglu Temple, received 50,000 taels of silver from the horses of the Taifu Temple; and the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuchYu Ming, the official of the Jindeng Committee, and others delivered 147,378 stones and four buckets of miscellaneous grain, and 17,894 horses of cloth...... of which "8,000 taels of silver were consulted and decomposed; Hao Guoru, a thousand households of Jinwuwei, received 93,977 taels of silver, and first received 6,022 taels of silver for silk and satin cloth and other goods purchased by Xu Wuyuan, the chief priest of Honglu Temple, and Li Mojie, who borrowed the price of horses from Taifu Temple, and 40,000 taels of silver; These payments are all additional issuances in addition to regular salaries. Dongjiang Town's annual salary is 400,000 yuan, and the additional money received in the five years of the Apocalypse alone is nearly 200,000 yuan, which shows that Yuan Chonghuan's four towns with an annual salary of 4.1 million yuan receive an additional 700,000 yuan a year It is also common sense.

In addition, it should also be noted that in August of the first year of Chongzhen, there were more than 133,000 soldiers in the two towns of Shanhaiguan and Liaodong alone, and after Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong in June of the following year, the Dongjiang army was 28,000. If these two figures alone are added up, they already exceed the total of 153,000, could it be that the soldiers stationed in Tianjin and Denglai are negative? In fact, this is because after Yuan Chonghuan took office, in accordance with Chongzhen's will, he carried out the adjustment of the military system in the areas under his jurisdiction. Taking this factor into account, in the first few months of Yuan Chonghuan's tenure, the total number of soldiers who needed to be paid was more than 153,000, so the total amount of food and salary that the four towns were rated to be distributed in this year should also be greater than 4.1 million, that is, the additional amount received was less than 700,000, and this number was even smaller. And in this smaller number, let's count it as 500,000, including various expenses such as buying horses, building cities, supervising equipment, rewarding merits, and salaries of officials and generals. Comparing the 1 million budget required for Wang Zaijin's plan to build a heavy city in Shanhaiguan in the second year of the Apocalypse, it is obvious that Yuan Chonghuan's annual expenses are not too much, so the "History of the Ming Dynasty" records that "more than 1.2 million yuan of old ones have been reduced." Emperor Awards. ”

By the way, to make a slight comparison with another record, in November of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Su Mao, the governor of the Cangchang Household Department, said: "The Beijing army has put more than 300,000 stones, and the rice in Beijing and Tongercang is 1,269,573 stones. There are 753 craftsmen in the Wensi Academy, which is now supplemented, and there are 3,288 people, more than 30,000 stones. (Chongzhen Record)

This record states that the Beijing camp pays more than 300,000 stone military salaries every year. Since the unit of "stone" is used here, it is obviously just food, that is, the true color. Perhaps due to the shortage of silver in the household department, the Beijing camp used grain instead of silver to pay military salaries, and Mao Wenlong also said in the Tang Daily that he paid Lushun's military salaries in this way. But in any case, Jingying's annual salary is at least 3 million or more, which seems to be able to be used as circumstantial evidence.

Regarding Yuan Chonghuan's military salary, there is another well-known figure of 1.2 million yuan. After the Ningyuan mutiny on July 25 of the first year of Chongzhen, although Yuan Chonghuan pacified it by himself, Jinzhou also mutinied on the first day of October. Yuan Chonghuan asked the imperial court to call - 740,000 + horse price silver, 40,000 reward silver plus a total of 1.2 million in August and September, Yuan Chonghuan did invite and asked for "internal money" very abruptly in the eyes of ordinary officials, but the key is that Yuan Chonghuan got 300,000 yuan-- out of the "Chongzhen Long Edition" volume 14 and "Guoyi" volume 89 about Chongzhen's first year in October Jichou's account, and in "Liehuang Xiaozhi" volume 1 Chongzhen still said ruthlessly!

However, there are many people with ulterior motives who confuse "asking for salary" with "getting paid", saying that Yuan Chonghuan received 1.2 million domestic funds in addition to the 4.8 million military salaries - and the real 300,000 domestic funds should be counted in the total of 4.8 million

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