After Jingtai, the Beijing army and the border army carried out distribution training, trying to solve the contradiction of the old and the young strong and the weak, but the limited number of troops will inevitably weaken the combat effectiveness of the entire army - during the Jiajing period, the Ming Weisuo army was defeated in ten battles and nine times in the anti-Japanese battle, which is an important reason, and the composition of the soldiers has a significant impact on the combat effectiveness of the army. The composition of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty Weisuo Army is one of the reasons for the low combat effectiveness of the Weisu Army, and in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the army, it is necessary to change the composition of the soldiers and break the world military system.

And the guards have land, and the military households are self-sufficient. This is equivalent to the army feeding itself with its own cantonment income.

First, this system has made the armed forces basically a closed group in society, which is basically independent not only in organization but also in life, and there is very little intersection in the localities. The military households have to hand over a lot of grain grains, and their officers are hereditary, which turns these soldiers into slaves of the officers in disguise. The land of the military households has been encroached on less and less, but the burden has not diminished in the slightest, and this heavy burden will have to be escaped by all means. Second, under the conditions of the productive forces at that time, the self-sufficiency within this group would inevitably increase the exploitation of the cantonment army, and of course reduce the treatment of the defenders, and the life of the soldiers was poor, much worse than that of ordinary people.

When the Ming Dynasty first founded the country, it was a matter of scenery and face, and life was better than that of civilian households. But after a few dynasties, the military families were impoverished and discriminated against. Not to mention that the officials looked down on them, the local people also despised them.

This kind of great contrast, looking at how well others live and how well they live, especially those who live well or are not as good as their own, this kind of psychological gap will naturally make the soldiers restless. And this agitation, if you accumulate more, will turn into action.

The only way for them to get rid of the heavy conscription and live a prosperous life is to break away from the army. At the same time, the corruption of the officers further promoted the flight of the soldiers -- in order to make a fortune, the officers occupied the military camps, and the envoys and soldiers cultivated the land, so that the supply of food and salaries for the guards was insufficient; The officers stripped their soldiers of their food and wages, making them even more miserable; The officers were greedy for bribes and indulged the soldiers to flee; The officers coveted the soldiers' monthly rations, and in order to be more corrupt, the soldiers who fled were not posthumously reported, and of course they would not be reported to the officials.

Because the soldiers fled, it was equivalent to helping them eat empty wages.

As a result, the shortage of guards is becoming more and more serious. In the third year of orthodoxy, that is, 70 years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there were 1,633,664 fugitive officers and soldiers, accounting for more than half of the registered officers and soldiers. In the Jiajing period, the number of fugitive sergeants in some places reached about seventy percent. Taking Guangdong's guards as an example, the shortage of the Seven Guards and Banners in Lianzhou, Guangdong, is 70 percent, while Hai'an's 7 percent is 7 percent and a half, and the lack of Pisces is close to 80 percent, and most of the sergeants who did not flee are old, weak, tired, and unbearable to fight.

The powerful garrison army established by Emperor Hongwu was no longer able to fight at this time, and it could not be defended.

The Ming court had to adopt other methods to replenish the soldiers, which was the conscription system and the conscription system.

The system of sending people to strengthen the people refers to the training of the common people in peacetime, and when there is something to fight, and the matter is calmed down and returned to the people. In the seventh year of Hongzhi, he established the law of strengthening the people, conscripted troops in prefectures and counties, and trained by their own divisions in peacetime, and guarded the city in case of police, although they undertook certain tasks of the regular army to make up for the lack of the regular army, but they were still local troops. During the Zhengde period, when Wang Shouren was the governor of Southern Jiangxi, he transferred capable people from the people to form an army to quell the local peasant uprising, so that this kind of local army had the function of a regular army. During the Jiajing period, some of the people were also incorporated into the border and coastal defense army -- the Zhejiang coastal defense army originally had 39 people, each with about 4,500 people, and six of them were always people. In the fourth year of Longqing, the recruitment of troops was reduced and the people were increased, so that out of the 40 totals, 15 were the people's strength, accounting for almost 40%.

During the Zhengde period, Wang Shouren eliminated the weak and weak people in the fast and fast people, and ordered them to work and eat silver, and the local governments used these food and silver to recruit the people and reward the elite soldiers, which made the people of the people gradually embark on the track of recruiting the people. During the Jiajing period, the people in the coastal defense army on the southeast coast were generally recruited by the workers and food banks of the counties according to how many people were strong. At this time, the people of the Gang had also declined, and were replaced by hired people.

Although Minzhuang was recruited and undertook the tasks of the regular army, he was still different from the regular army. Because it was hired at local expense, it could only be used as a force to guard the locality, and it could not be like the regular army, which could march east and west, and be transferred to various places to fight, but still could not completely replace the previous guard army.

Therefore, the conscription system came naturally.

Conscription began during the Orthodox years. "History of the Ming Dynasty and Military Chronicles" contains: "In the second year of orthodoxy, Shaanxi got 4,200 people who were left behind in the army and the people who were willing to serve themselves. "During the Jiajing period, with the abolition of armaments, the emptiness of guards, and the lack of tranquility in the frontiers, wars were frequent, and conscription was more widely carried out in the north and south. In Zhejiang's coastal areas, conscription accounts for nearly 70 percent -- Zhejiang has 39 total troops at the end of Jiajing and the beginning of Longqing, of which 27 are conscripted, accounting for 70 percent. Later, the number of people and Zhuang increased, and the number of recruited soldiers declined, and by the fourth year of Longqing, it had dropped to a little more than forty percent.

The recruitment of soldiers in the nine northern towns is not as large as that of the coastal areas, but it is said in the "History of the Ming Dynasty and the Chronicles of the Soldiers" that after the Hongzhi Zhengde of Xuanfu Town, there were only 66,900 officers and soldiers, and half of them were recruited and soldiers. He looks at it as such", which seems to be a lot.

There is a clear difference between the conscription and the guards, the conscription is not hereditary, it is conscripted, although the soldier is still under the nationality of the people, and the discharge is still the people. The army composed of conscripts is not a state system like the guards, and it does not change easily, but often expands or shrinks according to the situation. The recruitment of troops is completely a combat unit, unlike the Weisuo Army, some of which are responsible for the task of tuntian. The salaries for conscription came from the state treasury, not mainly from the tuntian, as was the case in the early days of the Weisho Army. The salary of the recruited soldiers is richer than that of the guards, and it is higher than that of the people

There is room for selection in recruitment, and there are completely conditions to select young and middle-aged people. The salary of the recruited soldiers is one or even several times higher than that of the guards, and if it is well managed, it can enable the soldiers to serve with peace of mind, and the army is relatively stable. The recruitment of soldiers is not dragged down by the family members carried by the guards, and it is more suitable for the eastern and western expeditions and mobile operations. Recruitment comes from the people, the source of soldiers is abundant, and the shortage can be recruited at any time to keep the army full; It is not necessary to reduce it at any time to save military spending.

In short, the conscription system is more conducive to building an elite army capable of recruiting and fighting well than the world military system. However, the key to whether or not an elite army can be built through the conscription system lies in the recruiters and the people who lead the troops.

During the Jiajing period, Tan Lun and Qi Jiguang personally recruited troops on the southeast coast, and they were strictly trained after recruitment, so they all became elite soldiers, especially Qi Jiguang's "Qi Family Army" is more famous. And in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, any good system had to collapse. The conscription system is no exception, at this time, it is often not the general who recruits the troops himself, the recruitment is one person, and the leader is the other, and there is no selection when recruiting, no training after recruitment, and no accountability for desertion.

In a few years, the army formed by the conscripts could not fight like the army of the guards.

This old Chu is a native of this ancestral village, and he has been here for three or four generations. Originally, he also had land in his family, but later he was annexed to the Su family, and this old Chu was also an idle man, and he refused to be a tenant like others.

I don't know if the officer in charge of recruiting is blind, but such a thin and shriveled person can be selected.

At the beginning, Lao Chu and Huang Ji were soldiers under Dong Ce's father, and the relationship between the two was not bad at that time, but it was not too fateful. As the so-called Lu Yao knew that the horsepower had been seen for a long time, and later as soon as Dong Ce's father died, Lao Chu fled, and when he ran away, he went to Dong's house to steal something, and he didn't know whether he sold it or hid it privately.

He was a soldier under Dong Ce's father, and he ran away, so naturally no one pursued it, but Huang Ji remembered it.

He knew that Lao Chu lived here, not far from Shilipu, but he had always been obsessed with what happened at the beginning and held a grudge in his heart. If you don't come to the door to beat Lao Chu, even if it's good, where will you come to visit?

Lao Chu is a slippery and lazy person, who refuses to endure hardships, but he is not a person with a hard personality, he knows that he is at a loss, and he is also a little weak when he sees Huang Ji. However, seeing that Huang Ji was kind when he spoke, and he was still carrying food in his hand, the vigilance in his heart suddenly dissipated, besides, as long as there was food, even if he was asked to die, he would do it.

It doesn't matter what Huang Ji has in mind!

Huang Ji came to the door this time, naturally for a reason, in fact, this was exactly from Dong Ce's instructions.

Just when Su Shaoyou's father and son were thinking about how to calculate Dong Ce, who could send him into the eighteenth layer of hell and never turn over, Dong Ce was actually thinking about how to calculate them.

is the so-called intrigue, Dong Ce and Su Yimo, father and son, both understand the truth that if they fight a snake, they will not die but suffer from it, and if they don't kill each other, they will be unlucky sooner or later. It's all about to attack each other.

And the way the two do it is strikingly similar.

Su Yimo's father and son's idea was to make the scholars make trouble, and Dong Ce's plan was to change the people!

Both of them are making trouble, but the main body of the trouble, one is the scholar and the other is the people. That's right, Dong Ce's idea is: to incite the people, cause civil unrest, make things bigger, and roast the Su family's father and son on the fire, or even more vicious - if it is really civil unrest, can the Su Mansion stop the angry people? If Dong Ce instigates support in it, it is also very possible that the chaotic people will rush into Lingyidu and kill all the people in Su Mansion! And it is also a coincidence to say, it is precisely because I want to sleep that someone sends a pillow, Dong Ce is thinking about this, and the father and son of the Su family began to expropriate violently, perversely, and poison the people. Many people in their grain area will not be able to live at all, and they are afraid that they will not be far from the miserable situation of that man eating people.

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