As soon as he heard what Yang Feng said, Zhou Xian's heart tightened, and he immediately realized that it was a bad dish.

Here I want to talk about the profession of a family.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to the intensification of land annexation, the Ming Dynasty's guard system gradually collapsed, resulting in insufficient military strength and low combat effectiveness, especially the flight of soldiers on the northern border, which made the problem increasingly serious. The army can't fight, it's a terrible thing, in order to save their own lives, the profession of family came into being.

What is Jiading, simply put, Jiading is the general's private army. That's right, it's a private army, all the expenses of this army are paid by the generals out of their own pockets, and the generals either recruit foreign soldiers who surrender or choose brave and brave sergeants from the guards to serve as their own families, who eat the best food, wear the best armor and the best weapons, and also have the best combat effectiveness, and also play the most difficult tasks in the war, and they are also the guarantee of the generals' victory. In the frequent wars in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, it is common to see generals leading Jiading to fight, and Jiading has gradually become the backbone of the army and plays an extremely important role.

It stands to reason that such a private army would not have been allowed in any dynasty, and in fact it was. The Ming Dynasty's family has existed since the Jiajing period, the appearance of the family at the beginning also caused fierce opposition from the civil officials of the imperial court, and the Longqing period was patrolled according to the Zhili supervision of the imperial history Yan Confucian eunuch once wrote to the imperial court: "It is said that the generals of the two towns of Xuanda, each adopted Yi people as the family Ding, and its use is like it. Permission to do so. "Subsequently, there is also Tan Lun, the director of the Military Election Department of the Ministry of War, who plays the side to prepare for the Xingge Seven Wants", and the generals of each town recruit more officials to surrender to fill the family, and their hearts will be different if they are not of our race.

To be fair, the civil servants' fears are well founded. No dynasty would allow generals to have private armies, this is a red line, after all, the lessons of the Tang Dynasty's feudal town disaster are bloody.

It is said that the civil officials are so fiercely opposed to this matter, and according to the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, the military generals should hurry up and stop cooking. But in fact, on the contrary, because this has endangered the lives of the military attachés, this time the military attaches have rarely united, and they openly wrote to the imperial court: "If you insist that we dismiss the family members, then we will resign en masse and let those civil officials guard the border." ”

History tells us that when anything is united, it bursts out with amazing power. In the face of the rare unity of the generals, the civilian officials were dumbfounded, and these people were talking and scolding people, that was their strength, and it was not a joke to let them defend the border? In the face of the generals who did not hesitate to put on a collective strike posture, the civil officials could only pinch their noses and admit it, so the profession of family became an open and legal profession in such a grand manner.

Since the family has become the private army of the generals, if you want them to go out to serve the imperial court, you can't let the generals pay their own money, right? At least their eating, drinking, Lazar, and the silver court are always responsible, right? You'll have to give it to you, right? If you want to fight, you have to give double the salary, right? After all, even the emperor is not a hungry soldier, and as soon as Yang Feng made this request, Zhou Xian was immediately dumbfounded.

In fact, this can't be blamed on Zhou Xian, although for all the military households in the Jiangdong Gate Thousand Households, the changes in the past few months have been earth-shaking, but for the lord of the Nanjing Military Department Yamen and Xu Hongji, these noble relatives are just an insignificant small place, and the most they heard during this time is at most that a few waterwheels have been installed there to take in a few victims, and they didn't expect that this businessman from Nanyang, who was not taken into account by them, would be able to train a group of elite soldiers within a few months.

The reason why Xu Hongji and Liao Yongquan casually sent a chief to read out the order of the military department was the idea of killing two birds with one stone, if Yang Feng did not send troops because he could not draw troops, he would be punished by refusing the order of the military department, and if Yang Feng was willing to send troops, it would be better, just because his few poor military households also delivered food to Zhenjiang Mansion, and just killed him by the hands of the Japanese Kou. But there is a premise here, that is, Yang Feng does not have an army in his hands.

Xu Hongji and Liao Yongquan's wishful thinking played very well, but they selectively forgot one, after the late Ming Dynasty, due to the emergence of the profession of Jiading, the army was to issue the silver before the pull-out, not only that, but also to pay off the salary owed over the years, otherwise the army generals have the right to refuse to pull, and the top can not be because of this crime of the generals, otherwise if the army mutinies, no one can afford this pot, so Zhou Xian was naturally dumbfounded after hearing what Yang Feng said about the silver.

Seeing that Zhou Xian was silent, Yang Feng's face also turned cold: "What? Could it be that Lord Zhou didn't prepare the silver for our army? ”

"This ...... This ......"

Zhou Xian was also confused by this sudden situation, he originally thought that this thousand households would be able to make up dozens of people if they stood up to the sky, as long as this Yang Feng was not stupid, he would definitely do everything possible to push away this drudgery of sending him to death, but he never dreamed that there was such an army in the hands of this guy, is this still the poor Qianhu house?

"Lord Zhou, are you playing tricks on me? Since the Ministry of War asked us to go to Zhenjiang to kill the enemy, but they didn't even prepare for us to draw silver and food, should we let the brothers go hungry to kill the Japanese invaders? Seeing Zhou Xian's overwhelmed look, Yang Feng was also angry, what is this called? Let's go to war, don't we still let Lao Tzu stick upside down?

At this time, Cao Yingmao, who had the most short temper, also spoke: "The military department is too bullying and admitted, since the military order was issued for me to wait to kill the enemy for the country, but I didn't even give us food, this is obviously to let the brothers go to death, and I don't accept my duties!" ”

"Yes, the people in the military department are too bullying, they obviously want us to die!"

The officers behind Yang Feng were also angry, they were born in this era and valued some traditions the most. The opening of the silver is the most important for the soldiers of this era, after all, the army is going to die when the army sets out to fight, this opening silver is actually to let these soldiers use this silver to settle the future affairs of the family, once the soldier dies on the battlefield, then this silver can also make the soldiers' families not immediately fall into the situation of being unlicensed, but now the old men of the military department even have to save this silver, which violates the bottom line of the sergeants.

"Brothers, the adults of the Ministry of War asked us to fight hard with the Japanese Kou, but they didn't give us the money to pull out, nor did they give us the money we owed over the years, this matter must not be tolerated, let's go to the Yamen of the Ministry of War to ask for an understanding!"

"Right...... Go ask and find out! ”

The officers' voices grew louder and louder, and finally converged into one voice.

"Trouble!"

And Zhou Xian and the member Langzhong's faces also turned pale in an instant, and a term popped up in their minds at the same time...... Mutiny!