At the foot of Wulong Mountain, on the bank of Tongjiang River.
The Xin'an River and Dongyang River meet at the foot of Wulong Mountain, and were first called Tongjiang River. They pass through Tongcheng to Fuyang, also known as Fuchun River, and the lower reaches are called Qiantang River.
Zhu Yihai rode to Yanzhou Prefecture to govern Jiande. This was the location of the Xin'an River Reservoir in later generations. Zhu Yihai had been here before. The Xin'an River Reservoir is also known as Qiandao Lake. The lake and mountains are very beautiful. The fat-headed fish here is also very delicious. Come here to grow
It's great to rent a room and be able to take a quiet vacation while writing a book.
But when I come back now, there is no Xin'anjiang Reservoir here, and there are still many rice fields here.
The purpose of Zhu Yihai's trip was not to come here for vacation and leisure, but to go to Yanzhou to guard Qianhu. Guards in Zhejiang are basically set up in coastal areas, and Hangzhou only has left and right guards in Fuguo.
There are no guard posts in other places. In the entire Yanzhou Prefecture to the west, there is only one guard post for thousands of households in the city.
This is also related to the military situation in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty. The southeast coast was mainly used to prevent Japanese pirates from the early Ming Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the defense stations focused on the coastal areas and did not have to undertake tasks such as water transportation.
There are very few health centers in the mountainous areas of eastern Zhejiang.
Going up the river, you can see Yanzhou Fucheng in the distance.
"Your Highness, Yanzhou has been established for thousands of years since the establishment of Yanzhou during the Wude period of the Tang Dynasty and the construction of Yanzhou City on the top of Fanjia Mountain. Yanzhou City has also been destroyed several times. The city in front of you was rebuilt in the early years of Hongwu. Wanli
It was rebuilt during the 1960s."
The terrain of Yanzhou is mostly hilly and mountainous, with only a few small basins and plains in the middle. However, because of its convenient transportation, it connects Hangzhou, Quzhou, Huizhou and other places, so it has been very important throughout the ages. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty set up a guard station in Yanzhou.
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The difference between the Qianhu Station and the general Qianhu Station is that it is not affiliated with the guard, but is directly under the command of the capital. It has one person from Qianhu, two deputy Qianhu, and two governors. It has jurisdiction over 100 households.
, there are 1,168 soldiers on the roster.
However, Yanzhou Guards Qianhu Station does not have its own separate castle, but is located directly in the southeast of Jiande City, the capital of Yanzhou, with a separate square wall, which is equivalent to an inner city.
"The Qianhu Guard Station in Yanzhou is similar to other guard stations in the Ming Dynasty. It is dilapidated and many military households have fled, but the number of soldiers on the roster receiving monthly rations has not decreased but increased year by year."
The new commander-in-chief of the Imperial Infantry Warriors Town, Liu Mu, who was stationed in Yanzhou, accompanied Zhu Yihai and introduced to him the situation of guarding Qianhu Station.
"Now Yanzhou's monthly grain arrears are seriously in arrears."
Zhu Yihai came to Yanzhou specifically this time because he wanted to take advantage of the fact that Fang Guoan had just been wiped out and use Yanzhou as a pilot to implement the reform of the garrison. There was only one garrison for thousands of households in Yanzhou, so the garrison could be said to be very weak, and Fang Guoan was weak.
Just after being defeated, the imperial camp moved in. This was a good time.
Before coming, he had collected a lot of information and done a lot of homework.
He had also been mentally prepared for the corruption of Yanzhou's guard against thousands of households, "Let me talk about the specific situation."
After all, Liu Mu used to be a serious deputy commander in chief. He was originally a hereditary military attaché of the Guard. Later, he became the number one scholar in the martial arts examination and started his career. He was familiar with the situation of the Guard.
Under normal circumstances in the Ming Dynasty, the number of guards was divided into three parts to defend the city and seven parts to farm the fields. Of course, depending on the specific situation, depending on the geographical location and situational needs, this number changed, such as 28, 46, etc.
But in most cases, there are fewer soldiers defending the city and more soldiers stationed in the fields.
However, basically, whether it is Jiubian or the southeast inland, the grain grains handed over by the garrison's own farms are actually not enough to supply the monthly rations of the city defenders, let alone what they have to give in case of an expedition.
Food is ready.
The city defenders did not farm, but were responsible for guarding the city, training, and fighting. The guards distributed monthly rations. The field soldiers did not need to train to fight. They were only responsible for farming and turning in the grains on time. The court's initial design was quite good. They set up guard posts on the land, set aside fields, set up special military households, part of the fields and part of the defense of the city, and then they were self-sufficient without the need for additional supplies. This is what is called supporting an army of millions without spending food on the people.
However, in fact, most of the health camps cannot provide their own monthly rations, so they usually have to provide part of the monthly rations from nearby prefectures and counties. This ratio is generally 40% for the wards to be self-sufficient and 60% for local supply.
And any system, after nearly three hundred years, has long been out of control and has been exploited by people to find various loopholes.
In the Ming Dynasty, the household registration was divided into three categories: civilian, military, and craftsmen. The civilians had Confucianism, medicine, and yin and yang. The military had school captains, warriors, bowmen, and soldiers. The craftsmen included kitchen servants, tailors, and horsemen.
According to the profession, one can serve according to one's nationality.
A military family is a military household. Military households are responsible for military service. Military status is hereditary. Once you serve in the military, you will stay in the military for life. After the father dies, the son will replace you and the family will be inherited from generation to generation.
Three points are used to defend the city, and seven points are used to cultivate crops.
The Ming Dynasty also invented a system in which soldiers from the south moved to the north and people from the north moved to the south. This resulted in the soldiers being dissatisfied with the climate and intensifying their flight. Later, although many ministers suggested that the soldiers should be cleared out and move closer to each other. But in fact , the situation has not changed much.
The sergeants were stationed in the north and south. The distance between their hometown and the garrison was 8,000 miles. The roads were difficult and they had to take their wives and children with them. The government even did not provide money for buying clothes, which made the escape even more exacerbating.
These foreign soldiers came to the garrison to garrison, but they had to endure exploitation by the military attachés of the garrison. During the Hongwu period, a large number of garrison soldiers starved to death on more than one occasion.
In the early Ming Dynasty, garrison farming was implemented. Each sergeant was given a portion of the farmland, ranging from 30 acres to 50 acres to 100 acres. The army sergeants had to pay grain grains. It was stipulated that they should pay 12 shi for the regular grain and 12 shi for the surplus grain. .The regular rations belong to the sergeants for their own use, and the remaining rations are turned over as salary for the officers of the guard.
However, over the past two hundred years or so, the farmland system has been in a bad state. The nobles, nobles, officials, and military attachés from all over the country have been frantically occupying the farmland and other fields outside the guards. The farmland has been lost in large quantities, and the border town generals have invaded and occupied the farmland. Private army garrison.
Most of the good farmland and fertile land have been occupied, and there is not much barren land left.
Later, the burden on the military households became heavier and heavier. Not only did the farmland decrease, but more importantly, various kinds of labor were allocated more and more. As a result, the flight of military households became more and more serious, and those farmlands became less and less cultivated.
During the Hongzhi period, there were reports that 50% of the 10% of the land was stolen, stolen, and sold by the powerful military officials and civilians. The garrisons were only in name only, and they were not allowed to be bought and sold, but at this time, a large amount of buying and selling had begun.
During the Zhengde period, he attached himself to the Guotun territory and returned to power every time.
By the end of Jiajing's reign, the farmland had already suffered a loss of 70% to 80%.
The garrison army lost its farmland, but it still had to pay grain grains. Then various labor services were heavily levied, and the grain harvest was less than one hundred grains, but the tasks set did not change. As a result, the wives and children suffered from hunger and cold, and the army was unable to make a living.
The garrison army could not survive and fled in large numbers. The grain grains were not paid, and the city defenders were deprived of their monthly rations.
In the later period, the monthly rations paid by the local government were often in arrears, and the city guards were in arrears for many years, so they fled one after another.
So the garrison system collapsed and the garrison soldiers were unable to fight. The most important thing was that the garrison system collapsed, and everything collapsed.
The imperial court purges soldiers every year and arrests fugitive military households, but this is basically treating the symptoms rather than the root cause.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the military households in the guardhouse were living like beggars, with low status and no guarantee of life. Most of them became tenant farmers of their relatives, military attachés, etc. The city guards also fled and were seriously short of personnel, and the officers could only
It can support a small number of servants.
"Now how many military households are there in Yanzhou's garrison of thousands of households? How many city guards are there? How many field soldiers are there? How many fields are there for the guards?"
Liu Mu sighed, "It's a confusing account. The accounts are all fake. Now the actual situation is that the farmland of Qianhusuo is basically gone. There is only a little barren land left. There are not many city guards. As for the farmland soldiers,