The Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely rebellious

Chapter 471: The court was in uproar and the place was boiling
When the imperial edict was issued, the Ming Dynasty court was in an uproar.

Wanli actually gave him military membership in the garrison troops at random!

Anyone who wants to be a garrison guard will be given military status!

This is not a big deal.

The key is that he was given military status in the garrison and fifty acres of land!

This is even more cruel than the "Land Surveying and Land Surveying Regulations".

Because now all the land still needs people to cultivate it.

The fields seized by corrupt officials still need people to cultivate them.

Otherwise, who will farm thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of acres of land?
Do corrupt officials grow their own crops?

That's a joke.

They merged land in order to enjoy wealth and glory, not to farm.

The fields are still cultivated by the farmers, but they have used various methods to annex the farmers' fields, leaving those farmers with no land to cultivate and they have no choice but to give them the land to cultivate.

They don't even have to pay wages. They just need to give some coarse grains to keep the farmers from starving to death.

Wanli actually gave military status to each household and gave them 50 acres of land!

This is simply going to kill them!

The farmers they exploited were all turned into garrison troops and even had their own land. Who would help them farm the land?

The problem is that the officials in the court now have no way to deal with Wanli.

Wanli was not in the capital at the moment, so they couldn't find anyone to persuade him.

Moreover, even if Wanli was in the capital, it would be useless for them to go and persuade him.

This guy holds military power and acts arbitrarily, and doesn't listen to anyone.

The court officials had no choice but to watch the cabinet issue documents to the two capitals and thirteen provinces, ordering each locality to follow the order.

Wanli also wrote a letter specifically asking Li Tingji to publish a special issue of the court bulletin.

Now the court officials were even more helpless. They couldn't even get the local officials to pretend to obey their orders but actually disobey them.

As soon as the official report came out, the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty were in an uproar.

Those landless farmers will be overjoyed.

They thought that there was no hope in this life, and they could only be exploited like this until they died, without enough food to eat, and would starve to death!

Who would have thought that the current emperor would suddenly distribute land to them, and each household would be allocated 50 mu.

As for being a garrison soldier or even guarding the border, it was originally a tough job.

Because in the past, the military households stationed in the garrisons had basically no food or wages, and even if they were recruited to fight, their food and wages would be basically exploited by corrupt officials until there was nothing left.

There is no need to think about military merit rewards, and there is no pension for being injured, disabled or even killed in battle.

Even the military farms could be swallowed up by garrison officers at all levels, and one's own land would become someone else's and have to be cultivated by others.

It can be said that the former garrison troops were much more miserable than the landless farmers.

Therefore, the escape of garrison troops was quite serious in the past. It was considered good if 70% of the inland garrisons survived, and most of the border garrisons only had about 60% left.

It's different now.

The current emperor never withheld food and wages, and the Ming army soldiers were fully paid.

There are also military merit rewards, casualty compensation, etc., which are never delayed and are paid after the war.

Even if you accumulate military merits, you can be granted the title of nobility, fiefdom, cattle, sheep, horses and slaves as rewards, and you can also recruit personal guards.

That's enough to drive people crazy.

Who doesn't want to achieve great things and even be granted a title of nobility?

At this moment, the farmers were very envious of the military households, they were envious to death.

The treatment of the garrison soldiers nowadays is really very good. Even if they fail the training and cannot go to the battlefield, each household still has 50 acres of land. They can buy cloth with the leftovers from food and have endless new clothes to wear.

Therefore, now there is no escape of the garrison guards at all. All those who escaped have returned, even the remaining soldiers have returned.

The Ming Dynasty has become a place where martial spirit prevails, and the status of military households has long surpassed that of farmers.

Some farmers even sent their children to learn martial arts and military tactics in preparation for the military examinations.

The dream of many people is to become a garrison soldier and go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, thereby making achievements and becoming successful, and even being granted a title and bringing honor to the family.

Originally, everyone thought it was just a dream.

After all, the Ming Dynasty still had strict household registration, and unless one passed the military examination, ordinary people would not have the opportunity to fight on the battlefield. Who knew that this dream would suddenly become a reality.

The current emperor has issued an edict. Anyone registered in the Ming Dynasty's tax and service yellow book can apply to become a garrison soldier.

This was a serious matter, and the provincial and county government offices were almost overcrowded.

Even those poor scholars who specialized in writing applications for farmers made a lot of money?
Farmers who have no money and no land have to scrape together enough money even if they have to sell everything they have and borrow money from everywhere, so they can write an application.

Once this application is submitted, you will become a garrison soldier and will have fifty acres of land.

The Five Military Commandery was almost overcrowded.

However, the Five Military Commandery was not crowded with farmers, but with the sons of dukes and nobles.

There are too many dukes and nobles being enfeoffed now, and the current military examination is too difficult.

It takes three years to select five hundred military scholars. There are more than two thousand sons of dukes and nobles, not to mention the soldiers and their sons in the capital camp, the soldiers and their sons in the border army, the soldiers and their sons in the navy, etc. There are simply too many people taking part in the military examination.

The military examination nowadays is very fair. The sons of dukes and nobles have no special privileges. It is very difficult for them to pass the military examination.

Under such circumstances, the Five Military Commandery actually recruited experienced people without any limit on the number of people!

Why don't you come quickly? Although your experience is only from the fifth rank, if you do a good job, you can be promoted to the second rank deputy governor.

This is more cost-effective than taking the military examination.

The sons of dukes, marquises, and nobles all flocked to the Five Military Governor's Office, and applications from all over the country were being brought to the capital in trucks and even boats, but Wanli did not go directly to Daning Guard.

He returned along the original route with more than 100,000 cavalrymen from the Shenwu Camp and 20,000 light cavalrymen from the Imperial Guards, passing through Kaiyuan, Tieling and Dingliao Zhongwei.

They had been along this route before and were familiar with it. Moreover, the highway from Liaodong Town had been built to the north of Kaiyuan, making it convenient to travel.

More importantly, Wanli also wanted to take his second son Zhu Changxu to see the situation of the garrison and military farming.

Next year, military farms will be opened in the Songnen Plain. We have a template here, so they naturally want to take a good look.

At this time, the cold winter outside the Great Wall was about to arrive, and the whistling cold wind seemed to follow them all the way from the Songnen Plain to the Liaohe Plain.

They really had a smooth journey. The war horses seemed to run much more lightly. In two or three days, they reached the heart of Liaodong Town.

In the north of Dingliao Zhongwei, where the camp was originally built, the soldiers of the Beijing Camp set up the camp again.

This time, their number of men was less than half of the last time, and their camp was less than 30% of its size.

However, the camp of an army of more than 100,000 is also quite spectacular.

Because they still had to cross the river and go to Daning via Yizhouwei, the navy soldiers built a pontoon bridge for them on the Liao River next to the camp.

The pontoon bridge had been built long ago, but they were not in a hurry to cross the Liao River.

Early in the morning at about noon that day, hundreds of light cavalry suddenly rushed out of the camp, facing the rising sun, and ran wildly along the road between the fields towards the nearest hundred households.

Liaodong Town was originally a border town, and it was supposed to be densely populated with cities and fortresses. The thousand-household units and even the hundred-household units were supposed to have fortresses built and garrisoned.

However, as the Ming Dynasty grew stronger, invasions by the northern barbarians became less likely, so no fortresses were built on either side of the Liao River, and not even a few citadels were built.

The nearby Hundred Households Office was built on a small hill, below which were circles of military residences, which looked quite neat.

When they rode their horses to the main road at the foot of the mountain, the local captain came to greet them.

Wanli did not show up and did not reveal his identity. He and the second son Zhu Changxu were wearing the fish-scale armor of the officers of the Beijing camp, and the centurions here could not recognize them.

He just gave a look and Zhang Yuande, the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Regional Command, came forward to greet him.

Upon seeing this, the captain hurriedly bowed and said, "Your humble servant greets the governor."

This is a respectful title. The commander-in-chief of the Dusi Guard is not the governor of the Five Military Commandery.

Under normal circumstances, he would have enjoyed being called Zhang Yuande by his subordinates.

However, at this moment, his old face turned slightly red as he listened to it.

He raised his hand awkwardly and said, "No need to be polite. Just have someone come and tie up our horses, and then go about your business.

I'll just bring my friends from Beijing to take a look. You don't have to make any arrangements. Everyone should just do what they need to do. Don't worry about us, understand?"

Oh, so you brought your friends from Beijing Camp to play here.

Zhang Yuande is the younger brother of Duke Ying of England Zhang Yuangong, so it is not surprising that he knows the generals of the Beijing camp.

Upon hearing this, the captain hurriedly bowed and took his leave, and called his men to tie up the horses.

Wanli waved his hand and asked everyone to dismount, then he asked everyone to walk towards the nearest garrison compound.

The courtyards of this garrison were very neatly built. All the courtyards were surrounded by a circle of wooden fences, with a bungalow in the middle, a large drying field in the front yard, and several vegetable plots in the backyard. It was enough for a family of five to live on.

Coincidentally, there were exactly five people in this family. The young and strong guards in the family had just been called out to tie up the horses. There was also an elderly couple and a young woman holding a child, standing at the door of the house, looking at them with reserved expressions.

What are these people here for?
(End of this chapter)