"Outer towns and tun towns will all go to the Ministry of War, and their salaries will go to the Ministry of Households. Tuanlian will go to the governor, governor, sub-inspection, prefect, county magistrate, and temperance commander."
"Where's the pay?"
In the Prime Minister's Office, ministers discuss matters.
The imperial court could not raise too many soldiers, so in addition to the imperial camp and the capital camp, they had to be organized into outer towns, towns, and even regiment training to protect their bravery. However, how to manage them specifically was also a problem, and a system standard had to be formulated.
Hong Chengchou had relatively rich military experience among the courtiers. He had also stayed with the Tatars for several years, so he knew the enemy well. He said bluntly, "A government has five thousand soldiers and one thousand and eight auxiliary soldiers. If there are standing troops,
It is definitely not enough, but if it is a tun town, if it is usually rotated five times, and it is also located in the border area, the land belongs to Yu Ding. After harvesting, the land rent is paid to the government, and then the land is allocated to the tun town according to the quota to supply the army. It should be enough.
Add to this the tea and horse trade in the border areas, the mining of minerals, the sale of salt and wine, plus the gold, there can still be a surplus."
Ruan Dacheng, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, said directly that the army and taxes must be separated, just as the imperial camp also has officials in charge of food, wages and equipment.
Even if we set up villages and towns in the border areas, we still have to separate the military pay.
The land allocated and leased to the towns and their families must be managed and collected by officials assigned by the court, such as envoys, or directly assigned to the sub-inspection, grain control department, taxation department, prefect, etc.
Officials are managed and collected by them, registered and stored in the treasury, and then transferred to the towns for expenditure according to military needs.
In particular, tea horses, salt and wine, mineral taxes and gold cannot be collected directly in the towns.
If the court delegates power to them, something will definitely happen.
With that said, it’s time to formulate the rates and subsidy standards for the towns, outer towns, group training, etc. How much should be paid? Are the outer towns and the towns the same, or do they have their own standards? Should the towns be paid when they are not on duty?
What standards should be used for these subsidies?
How much is the monthly ration? How much is the salary?
Do you want to eat meat?
Do you need to buy a horse? Do you need to give the horse grass money?
"Since the establishment of outer towns, garrison towns, and regiment training have a purpose, the purpose is to defend the border, protect the country and the people, and fight, and they must be able to fight. Otherwise, what will the establishment do? If there are not enough
As for equipment, is it enough for everyone to have a long gun?
With such soldiers, it would be better if all the people had soldiers, but what would be the use?
The former guardhouse was in such a state of decay, isn’t it a good lesson to learn from the past?”
Xu Shiqi, the Minister of Civil Affairs, proposed that the outer towns should be equipped with weapons and fully trained according to the standards of the previous provincial camps. Each town should be limited to 5,000 combat soldiers and 18 auxiliary soldiers, and they could be retained appropriately according to the scope of the defense area under their jurisdiction.
Some soldiers and horses serve as garrison troops, and they can also lead some regiment training.
But it should be distinguished. The military camps in outer towns must be well equipped, the soldiers must be elite, and they must be trained enough to be able to fight and dare to fight. The food and salary must also be improved. Not only must they have enough food, but they must also be able to eat for two or three days at least.
Meat, another three dou of food per month, and three taels of silver for wages.”
In his opinion, three taels of silver plus three measures of grain is the minimum standard to ensure the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the outer town. If it is less than this amount, it is too different from the imperial camp. It is not even as brave as the soldiers in the imperial camp. How can the combat effectiveness be guaranteed?
and loyalty.
For auxiliary soldiers in other towns, the price can be reduced to three measures of rice plus one tael of silver.
Tun towns include border towns set up by the imperial court, as well as those under the jurisdiction of inland towns. Tun towns should have one-level lower pay than soldiers in outer towns. For example, when on duty, three measures of rice plus two taels of silver per month. If not on duty,
There was none at that time. But in Tunzhen, another town, when on duty, the monthly ration was three measures plus one tael of silver.
During group training, on duty, and training, only three buckets of rice are given.
If there is a war, another reward of silver will be given.
Weapons and equipment are purchased and given by the court, and there is no need to buy them yourself, such as horse and mule soldiers, transport grooms, etc. You can also receive horse materials, etc.
Everyone also agreed with Ruan Dacheng's proposal of separating military pay and that the power of appointment and promotion of military attachés at all levels rested with the imperial court.
Only by controlling money and food can we control our troops and horses. Only by mastering the promotion and removal of military attachés can we not lose control.
In fact, when the outer towns and tun towns were established, they themselves were local troops, even some Shunying, Xiying, local tycoons, bandits, etc. who were recruited and reorganized. The characteristics of these armies were large numbers, mixed composition, and poor military discipline.
, the combat effectiveness is also weak, and the loyalty is not high.
When the situation is going well, they are obedient, but when the situation is not good, many people become helpless and even turn into rioters.
If these soldiers and horses are not properly controlled, not only will the military expenditure be huge, but it will also make it difficult for the place to be stable, and even pose a threat to the central government.
For example, Jin Shenghuan and Geng Zhongming all surrendered anyway. Such people have territory and troops, and occupy a relatively special position. The court cannot forcefully reorganize them at the moment, so as not to provoke a mutiny. They can only plan for it slowly, adding officials to appease them.
While starting slowly, boil the frog in warm water and take back the power bit by bit.
There are also people like Mila Yin and Ding Guodong who were originally local officials who returned to the tribe, revolted against the Qing Dynasty and returned to the Ming Dynasty, and they were far away in Hexi. The court also wanted to be promoted to express commendation and reward to unite them, so they should not be too anxious for a while.
We must treat them differently, proceed from reality, and focus on the overall situation.
The Shunying tribes organized several towns, but only Li Chixin's Zhongzhen was retained as an outer town, and the remaining towns were called Tun towns.
Now, for example, among the Shunying tribes, after Li Chixin captured Yiling, he claimed to have eight thousand armored soldiers. After Gao Bizheng integrated Hao Yaoqi and Liu Tichun, they also claimed to have more than 20,000 soldiers. The remaining Shunying generals each had their own battalion names.
, adding up to hundreds of thousands of armored soldiers.
Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren of Jiangxi, as well as Dongman Zhang An's Longwu New Army, were divided into Nanchang, Jiujiang, Raozhou and other places in northwestern Jiangxi, and together they numbered tens of thousands of troops.
Even Geng Zhongming, who was defeated in Laizhou and retreated to Liaodong last year, in just one year, now guards Dongjiang and farms in Korea, controls a population of hundreds of thousands, and has an army of 30,000 under his command.
These generals like to recruit troops without restraint.
In this regard, the imperial court could only repeatedly emphasize the need to control the number of troops, give them military numbers, quotas, and even control food and salary, and take back the power to collect food and tax.
But they can also raise money to maintain their income by persuading donations, increasing distributions, or even setting up cards to collect taxes.
This was a game between the central and local governments. In the face of the common enemy the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zhu Yihai also had to deal with it carefully and not act too hastily, otherwise he would rebel like Wang Guangen of Yunyang.
As long as it's not too much, Zhu Yihai can tolerate it.
Look to the future and think long-term.
Just like Geng Zhongming, although Zhu Yihai knew exactly what this guy had planned, he still did his best to fight against it, so he didn't care about some things for the time being.
Even after Zhu Yihai had previously known that Geng Zhongming was smuggling trade with the Koreans in Dongjiang and other places, he gave him a special order and sent people to formally set up a border market there for Geng Zhongming to coordinate and manage. He even took the initiative to propose that the tariffs collected would be special.
He provided military pay to Dongjiang Town, and also tacitly allowed Geng Laoer to engage in trade secretly in Dongjiang Town.
As long as you fight the Tatars and don't have any fornication with the Tatars, everything will be easy to talk about.
However, Zhu Yihai still had to give Geng Zhongming a beating for his speed of military expansion.
Now the ministers have also proposed that for the troops and horses in the outer towns, 6,080 soldiers and horses will be allocated to each town. Those who exceed the quota can be classified as garrison towns or regiment training, and will still be commanded by the admirals of the outer towns, but at least in name they are separated and more formal.
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Dongjiang Town is organized into a foreign town, and then the Tun Town is under the jurisdiction of the town. Group training can be arranged for 30,000 people.
At least it was under the supervision of the imperial court.
"This matter is as discussed by the ministers. A formal system must be drawn up for outer towns, villages, regiment training, and bravery. From now on, things will be done according to the rules. Local civil affairs, justice, finance and taxation will all be sent by the imperial court.
Local officials are responsible, and the generals are only responsible for guarding, training, and fighting, and there is no need to worry about the rest."
"In view of the loyalty, bravery and hard work of the soldiers from other towns, I have decided to give each town a special reward of 100,000 silver dollars."
One hundred thousand per town is not much.
Now in the Imperial Camp, each battle barracks costs 3,000 yuan for a moonlight soldier. There are five armies in the Imperial Camp headquarters, plus ten marching camps. Each of the five armies in the headquarters has four towns, and one town has ten battalions.
There are 200 battle camps in the headquarters, and another 100 battle camps in the camp. These 300 battle camps alone cost 900,000 per month. If the auxiliary battalions are included, the minimum is 1 million, not counting.
Officers and public silver.
The royal camp is a monthly expense, and there is even a pension.
The outer towns do not have this kind of treatment, and even the equipment. Now the imperial camp equipment is getting better and better, especially the professional navy, cavalry, artillery, and the infantry are also equipped with a large number of firearms, and the use of firearms is constantly improving. This is all because of the outer towns.
They are incomparable.
Their equipment is still relatively old, and their supply is slow and infrequent.
The longer time passes, the greater the equipment gap will be.
Especially when the camp is complete, they will be surrounded by the imperial camp.
The one hundred thousand per town this time is only equivalent to three months of military pay for a town in the imperial camp, but it can have a good appeasing and motivating effect.
After giving this money, the court asked them to regulate their balance and pay taxes, but they could no longer refuse.
Even with this amount of money, the allocation of cotton armor, muskets, artillery and other equipment was small, so it was hard to say much.
After all, giving priority to the imperial camp is completely politically correct.
At present, the equipment of the imperial camp headquarters is not yet complete.
Up to now, the emperor's idea of building the imperial army has basically been established, which is the central five armies, plus ten local camps. In the future, there may be thirteen towns, fifteen towns, or even eighteen towns, which will probably be one province.
Camp in one town.
Five more armies were stationed in key places in the capital.
In the border areas, there are villages and towns, while in the interior, group training is the main focus.
In the future, the outer towns will definitely be gradually reorganized into the imperial camp or converted into a garrison town.
The royal camp group that can fight will have better treatment.
The garrison troops in the mainland, which have no combat missions, will definitely be treated worse.
Among the armies in the imperial camp, the five armies of the headquarters must be the trump card. One army has four towns, one water, one cavalry and two steps. The infantry also needs to establish a special artillery unit.
A large number of muskets will be equipped, forming a force dominated by firearms.
Although the road is long, just set the direction and move forward steadily.
With this eucalyptus of establishing an army, there is then the financial cooperation, the construction and guarantee of the military logistics system, and even the training and selection of military attaches, the selection of soldiers, etc.
"I plan to establish several military academies, including the Royal Naval Academy in Qingdao and the Royal Army Academy in Fengtian. A royal martial arts hall will also be established outside Penglai Palace.
In addition, I will follow the Tang Dynasty system and establish the four guards of Qinxunyiwu."
"Children of the royal family and clan, who are over 18 years old, can be selected to be recruited into two battalions of personal guards and personal guards, with a quota of 1,000.
The empress, the imperial concubine, the nine concubines, the nine concubines, the descendants of the noble ministers, and the virtuous descendants, who are over eighteen years old, can be selected to be recruited as the honorary guards. There are two camps of honorary guards, with a quota of one thousand.
The children of civil and military officials of the fifth rank and above, who are over 18 years old, can be selected to be recruited into two battalions of Yiwei and Yiwei, with a quota of 1,000 people.
It is also specially intended that the children of martyrs who sacrificed their lives in the military to protect their families and the country, and who are over 18 years old, will be selected and recruited into the Military Guard, the Fourth Battalion of the Military Guard, with a quota of 2,000."
The emperor will build four new guards, but unlike the original Jin Yiwei and others, these people are not exactly the three inner guards and five palaces of the Tang Dynasty.
There are special criteria for their selection. They are relatives of the royal family, descendants of honorary relatives, descendants of high-ranking officials, or orphans of martyrs. There are five thousand of them in total. After being selected, they go to Beijing to serve.
They took turns guarding the palace city and guarding the palace gates. Some of them accompanied the emperor and also served as a guard of honor during court meetings.
When not on duty, they stayed outside the palace to train and practice battles. There were military commanders who taught them how to fight, and even the emperor gave them lectures.
So this is a very special soldier, different from ordinary imperial camps and towns.
It is even said to be somewhat similar to the previous Fu Qianwei. After all, Fu Qianwei also had a name before, Xuejun.
It's just that this time there are restrictions on the selection of the four guards, and they are not always working as four guards.
Regular assessments will be conducted, and based on the results, they will be assigned to positions in various towns in batches, or promoted in their own guards. The fourth guards are actually ordinary soldiers when they are first selected. Unlike the third guard in the Tang Dynasty, who were directly awarded seventh or eighth grades, they started as soldiers, but If they perform well, they can graduate and be promoted to other towns.
This is not only a kind of preferential treatment for the royal family, foreign relatives and ministers, officials and even the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country, but it is also another group of students of the emperor.
These young men served the emperor in Beijing for several years and were even taught by the emperor himself. They were then released as low-level military attachés and were gradually promoted based on their merits in battle.
Sending out batches of young guardsmen will surely be able to better protect the imperial power.
Among them, such as personal guards, only the royal clan, clans in the fifth server and royal relatives outside the fifth server are each given 500 places. These Zhu family disciples are constantly recruited for training, and they will continue to move to various command positions in the army.
This ensures a certain proportion and status of the royal family in the army.
The military guards are quite special. Only the children of martyrs are selected, regardless of family background. This also reflects the emperor's gratitude and kindness to ordinary soldiers.
For the four guards with a quota of 5,000, one person will be selected and another person will be selected to fill in, which will remain unchanged.
This will become a royal military academy, providing the army with a steady stream of loyal and reliable young junior military attachés.
The ministers had long been accustomed to the emperor throwing out new things from time to time, and they were also used to the emperor always making decisions before acting. After the emperor carefully explained the situation of the four guards, not many objected.
Except for this military guard, in fact, although the names of the three guards of Qinxunyi are different in the past dynasties, they all have a similar kind of family benefits. No matter what they are called, they are essentially the same.
How can those officials, especially the relatives of honorable ministers, not have special benefits?
Just like in the past, the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to knighthoods. Unlike the Tang and Song dynasties, which had light or even empty titles, the Ming Dynasty did not grant knighthoods for non-communist military merits. Foreign relatives were generally granted knighthoods, which could only be passed down to one or two generations at most.
Those disciples of Spyker's noble ministers are treated extremely well.
For example, the Xunchen directly served as the general military officer, or the Duke of Wei guarded Nanjing for generations.
There are many ways for the children of some high-ranking officials to become officials, and they do not necessarily have to take the imperial examination route.
Nowadays, the emperor has reformed the title system and has almost reset the clan titles, which has been severely reduced. Many honorary titles that have been handed down for nearly three hundred years have also been taken away.
The newly granted clan titles and titles of meritorious officials are not as good as before, and there are even many lifelong titles that are false titles.
Therefore, the new establishment of the Four Guards now can be regarded as an additional way for these descendants of the Xunqi clan and other clans to become officials. It is still a very important way. Starting from being a bodyguard for the emperor, after staying in the capital for a few years, you can start from
The team's chief sentry deputy and others started to work.
Good thing.
Who would object?
Compared with the system of directly pressing the door to the official position, this is not conflicting. It is equivalent to an additional benefit and is very practical. Of course, everyone is happy to support it.
