Prince of Chaos

Chapter 344 Guards System VS Recruitment System

The most important military system in Ming Dynasty now is the Weisuo system invented by Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not come up with the invention of this Weisuo system. This system is also an "advanced" system that Zhu Yuanzhang summed up by standing on the shoulders of his predecessors.

Of course, from the eyes of today's people, the guard system is simply cheating to death.

However, when the guard system was first established, the system may have been very advanced.

But with the development of the times, any advanced system will gradually become an outdated and backward system when it no longer keeps pace with the times.

Therefore, the decline of the guard system is doomed.

However, even so, the original Weisuo system evolved from Zhu Yuanzhang's continuous practice, combined with the Fubing system of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Fubing system was indeed strong for a while, but the sequelae were also very obvious. When the central dynasty was weak or when the generals under its opponents relaxed their vigilance, the Fubing system became a separatist regime in the Tang Dynasty, making the Tang Dynasty no longer A monster system that cannot centralize power.

Therefore, on the basis of inheriting the Fubing system, Zhu Yuanzhang also made considerable adjustments.The part Zhu Yuanzhang adjusted was the separation of soldiers and generals.Zhu Yuanzhang established the Dudufu of the Five Armies in the central government, which was used to divide the military power of the senior generals in the central government, and set up the command and envoys at the local level to lead the local guards and offices.Formed an advanced military management concept that "soldiers don't know their generals, and generals don't know their soldiers".

Therefore, this system of separation of soldiers and generals is undoubtedly a very advanced and used system both at that time and now.

This kind of system can be said to have fundamentally put an end to the actions of individual generals with ulterior motives who claim credit, support their own self-respect, and undermine unity.It will undoubtedly play a very positive role in the stability and unification of the country.

Therefore, in the early days of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's approach to this adjustment in military management was undoubtedly positive and advanced.

However, the limitations of the times will always bring fatal loopholes to some "perfect" systems at that time.

Although the guard system invented by Zhu Yuanzhang is broader in terms of the source of military power than the Fubing system of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

In addition to the private army led by the generals who originally followed Zhu Yuanzhang, there were also soldiers from the Yuan Dynasty army that was defeated and incorporated at that time and soldiers from other heroes as supplements.

However, these two sources of military strength alone are not enough.Moreover, the question of loyalty from these two sources of troops needs to be verified, as a self-made grassroots emperor.

Naturally, Zhu Yuanzhang would not foolishly think that the generals who followed him and the surrendered soldiers who were recruited were 100% loyal to him. Otherwise, Zhu Yuanzhang would not be able to bear the sword in his hand after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty. The old brothers who used to fight the world together were chopped off.

Obviously, Zhu Yuanzhang did not believe this.

Therefore, in the guard system he discovered, the most important part of the source of troops is the selection of soldiers, that is, the recruitment of soldiers by the stacking method.The rule of conscription in Duo Bingfa is very simple, that is, people are drawn directly from the homes of ordinary people.And these people who were drawn were naturally given military household registration later on. They can only serve as soldiers for generations and have no other way out.

This method of conscription has allowed Zhu Yuanzhang's military strength to develop unprecedentedly. With so many soldiers conscripted, Zhu Yuanzhang will naturally not let them idle, and must find something for them to do.

And this thing is "Tuntian"!
Why do you want to farm?In fact, the reason is also very simple. As long as the grain output in ancient times was not high, if you want a vast empire to support an army of up to one million, there is no other way but to farm.Because the taxes paid by the common people can hardly afford such a huge expenditure.

Therefore, after the implementation of farming, the army in the early Ming Dynasty was almost never provided by the imperial court. The food they used for conquest was almost all the food grown by the military households themselves.

In this regard, Zhu Yuanzhang once said proudly: "I raise millions of soldiers, and I don't cost the common people a grain of rice."

It is conceivable how confident and proud Zhu Yuanzhang was at the beginning.

Unfortunately, the good things in the imagination always backfire.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who has been wrestling with corrupt criminals all his life, has never been able to win against this gang of desperate corrupt people.

The extremely beautiful guard system in Zhu Yuanzhang's vision gradually began to change beyond recognition with the passage of time.The senior military officers began to use their power to squeeze the labor of the low-level military households.

Times have changed, times have changed, and the military households who couldn't stand the squeeze began to flee. According to historical records, in the third year of Zhengtong, the number of military households who fled was as high as 1633664!
What a terrifying number this is!

It was at that time that Daming began to try to use the recruitment system to start recruiting troops.

However, the recruitment system implemented in Ming Dynasty is completely different from the recruitment system we know now.

The current recruitment system is more of a contract recruitment system, and the recruited soldiers will be immediately assigned to serve in various arms of each military region.

However, the recruitment system implemented in the Ming Dynasty was not like this. The imperial court delegated the power of recruitment to the generals who needed to recruit troops.

In the beginning, it was nothing.After all, this recruitment system still created an army with explosive combat power like the "Qi Family Army".

However, even so, this cannot conceal the disadvantages of this recruitment system.

Because the recruited soldiers and promoted officers do not have the same hereditary qualifications as the traditional guard soldiers.

Therefore, in the subsequent development, in order for these recruited soldiers to survive in this relatively stable occupation for a long time, they must be attached to the army leaders who recruited them.

This gradually formed the situation where warlords hid in the late Ming Dynasty.

These generals stretched out their hands to demand military pay from the imperial court, but what they supported were private soldiers who only listened to their own words. Military households in the military town.

Therefore, when the military system of the Ming Dynasty collapsed and the emperor could not even find a soldier who could transfer orders, it was not surprising that the last emperor, Emperor Chongzhen, hanged himself on the crooked neck tree in Meishan behind the palace.

Therefore, now that Jizhen has been shuffled, Zhu Changluo, who is the prince of the Ming Dynasty and the governor of Zhili, will naturally not continue to use the cheating recruitment system.

He wants to establish an army system suitable for his current situation on the basis of the recruitment system.

　Chapter 1 arrives! ! !

　　
　
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