A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 335
For the general's mansion's order, the people all over the East Road generally welcomed the order. Those bandits who killed thousands of knives, murdered, set fire, robbed and raped, the people all hated them deeply.There are some self-proclaimed "righteous bandits" who think that robbing the rich to help the poor and upholding justice are just the admonitions of the people to them in desperation.

There are scum among the poor, and there are heroes among the rich. They smash kilns and kidnap tickets indiscriminately, and hold up the banner of "killing the rich and helping the poor". Can you cover up your various illegal acts?Regardless of "evil bandits" or "righteous bandits", bandits are just bandits after all, and the idea of ​​getting something for nothing is essentially at work.

Heroes invade the country with martial arts, Wang Dou does not need these green forest heroes who "do justice for the sky", and kill all those who dare to disobey orders.

The common people were all excited to talk about the incompetence of officers and soldiers in the past, unable to protect the country and the people, and the arrival of the ever-victorious General Dingguo, the end of the banditry has come.

Regarding Wang Dou's actions, the officials and squires on the East Road privately discussed that Wang Dou was indeed from the bandits, and wherever he went, the bandits suffered.

Of course, Wang Dou's extermination of bandits in the territory is beneficial and harmless to them. Who doesn't want to live a peaceful life and give birth with peace of mind?
As soon as the notice came out, it received rave reviews, not to mention the literati in Wang Dou's system, and publicity agencies such as theatrical troupes and stages behind the scenes quickly praised it.Even the literati from all over the East Road held a positive attitude.No matter how dissatisfied with Wang Dou, Yanqing Zhizhou Wu Zhi and others also expressed some praises against their conscience.

The plan to suppress the bandits was planned by the shogunate's staff department and intelligence department Lian Jue.

The shogunate has not yet been perfected. Originally, the suppression of bandits everywhere was in charge of the four places in charge of the combat section of the staff department.The related intelligence espionage is also in charge of the Seven Sections of the Intelligence Department.However, the integration of various divisions cannot be perfected in a short period of time. The matter of suppressing bandits is temporarily planned jointly by various military officers of the shogunate.

From the seventh year of Chongzhen to the present, the Shun Township Army's experience in suppressing bandits has been extremely rich. After Wang Dou was appointed as the governor of Baoan Prefecture, Yebushou under his command also carried out many years of surveying and mapping of the maps of the surrounding county guards. City, South Road, North Road, West Road, etc., the mountains, rivers and rivers in many places have been learned a lot.

In addition, when Wang Dou took office, he took over the atlases of the various places on the East Road, not to mention the places of the various roads, it can be regarded as clear.

After the establishment of the shogunate, the Chief of Staff was already studying the sand table.Sand tables are no strangers. It is rumored that as early as when Qin Dynasty destroyed the six kingdoms, Qin Shihuang personally made sand tables to study the geographical situation of various countries.

To build a sand table, the most important thing is to have extremely accurate topographical maps of various places, otherwise a series of impressionist tactics will be planned.

On the day when the notice was issued, the Shun Township army sent out everywhere, and the situation of bandits from all over the East Road was continuously collected in front of the staff department, and then transferred to Wang Dou.

It can be seen that the power of the Shunxiang Army, within a few days after the announcement was made, there was an endless stream of bandits who surrendered from all mountains.Or a bandit leader lamented: "With General Dingguo here, there is no place for us to hide in the East Road."

Of course, there are also stubborn people, who either hesitate to wait and see, or don't care.

Once the deadline is over, Wang Dou will let these people understand that there is no medicine for regret in the world.

The matter of suppressing bandits was only part of Wang Dou's plan. After the establishment of the shogunate, each of them performed their duties, and Wang Dou didn't need to spend much effort. Now he mainly focused on farming in various places along the East Road.

Like the various departments of the shogunate, the Department of Civil Affairs has not been perfected after its establishment. There are a lot of plans for the East Road in the future. The most urgent thing is to resettle the refugees and victims first, and set up forts in the fields.

But there is a problem here. Excluding the original people on the East Road, and even the refugees rescued by Wang Dou, the number of victims who have flowed in over the years has reached more than 23.If Wang Dou's original method of farming was followed, all these people would be converted into military households, and each household would be assigned 250 acres of land, which would require more than [-] million acres of land.

It seems that there is not so much arable land and not so many cattle in the entire East Road.

When Zhang Gui, the ambassador of the Department of Civil Affairs, was troubled, on the third day of May, Ye Xizhi, a clerk in the department, offered him a plan for camping fields.

"The lower officials believe that the farms on the East Road can initially establish a system of camping and granting the land collectively. Seeds, farm tools, and cattle are all provided by the government. All the grain collected goes to the officials, and rations are distributed to the village households on a monthly basis. In this way, Concentrated use of human cattle in each village will eliminate the worries of lack of farm tools and increase the efficiency of farming..."

The word "efficiency" was invented by Wang Dou, and it has been widely used among the officials under his command.

What Zhang Gui said about camping fields is not surprising. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang’s military settlements used the method of camping fields. When Sun Kewang ruled Yunnan, he also established the system of camping fields, which is similar to the production teams of later generations.In the early stage, it can indeed increase the efficiency of farming, but...

Wang Dou said slowly: "I'm afraid that in the future, the army and civilians will slack off and don't want to contribute to the government."

Regardless of the Chinese people, or the entire human race, there is a characteristic that they work hard for their own family and work for the public, but they are completely unwilling to put their heart into it.Just like the manufacture of firearms at that time, some literati wrote in notes at that time: "...Otherwise, I have heard of the trade between the East and the West, and the barbarians only bought guns from Guangzhong. Indiscriminate evil. From this point of view, China does not want fine workmanship, but it must be fine workmanship.”

Wang Dou was worried that the system of camping would produce a lot of lazy people in the future, and some so-called "smart people" would try their best to be lazy, which would lead to a bad atmosphere in the whole village.This must be the reason why the land camp system in the early Ming Dynasty was later developed to divide the land according to households.

Zhang Gui said with a chuckle: "The general is wise, he thinks far and wide, he can do what he can't... the lower officials think the same way."

He said: "Therefore, the field system for lower officials has a certain number of years, and there are corresponding supervision regulations. Those who perform outstandingly, the children in the family can be selected into the army. When they retire, they can share [-] acres of land in the center of the village. Cattle and agricultural tools, etc., become the property of the family and passed on to future generations.”

"In this way, in order to join the army and get the land, they must work diligently. They have the advantages of camping the land, but not the disadvantages of camping the land. By analogy, if the civil servants of each castle perform well, they will also be able to share the land in the future. Of course, they want to change their household registration, from civilian households to military households."

Wang Dou got up and paced around, looking at the scorching sun outside the window. It was May, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the time passed so quickly.

Wang Dou sighed with emotion and returned to reality.

What Zhang Gui said is very feasible. Now that the military household registration under his own rule is valuable, many civilian households have secretly changed to military households. This is unimaginable in the other guards of Daming.In particular, Dingkou joined the army, and the whole family became a favorite.

With limited financial resources, Wang Dou only plans to train another 10,000 troops in the future, which is not as short of soldiers as before. Now the new population under his rule has [-]+ people who are suitable for serving as soldiers.There are too many monks and too little porridge. In order to snatch the five thousand troops, there are already undercurrents surging all over the East Road.

Wang Dou is fully qualified to pick and choose. If Zhang Gui's law is implemented, he will work hard and fight hard in order to serve as a soldier in the future and rule the family's future fields.Make the most of the value of these new military households.

With Zhang Gui's mind, he probably couldn't think of such a sophisticated and far-reaching strategy. Ye Xizhi's high-spirited figure flashed in Wang Dou's mind.

However, Zhang Gui proposed that if the literati in the village want to share the land, they must change their household registration status.Let Wang Dou realize that his group has formed vitality, began to have his own thinking, actively proposed methods to protect the interests of the group, and repelled various forces outside the group.

Whether this change is good or bad, Wang Dou needs to wait and see.

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On the fifth day of the lunar new year, Wang Dou approved Zhang Gui's copywriting and approved his system of camping fields. On the seventh day of the lunar new year, the vigorous Datuntian on the East Road began.

It is said that the three armies have not moved, food and grass go first, forts are set up, and wasteland is reclaimed... Although Wang Dou no longer builds the walls of each fort, the money and food needed for the garrison are still astronomical.In the initial period of at least one year, hundreds of thousands of people need Wang Dou to support them, and this burden can be said to be very heavy.

There is not much money, grain and rice in stock on the East Road, even if a lot of grain was snatched back, the grain and rice in Wangdou's warehouse are less than 40 shi.It is extremely difficult to say how long the rations needed by the 10,000+ people will last.Not to mention the various expenses required by the rest.

In the eyes of his subordinates and outsiders, Wang Dou is like a boy accumulating wealth, constantly turning out grain and rice. In fact, Wang Dou is suffering.

Fortunately, in the 11th year of Chongzhen, Wang Dou not only took back a large amount of grain and rice, but also took back a lot of silver, as well as a lot of cattle and horses, and thousands of satin horses.

Farming cattle are now enough for the people of the East Road to survey and survey, but a few years ago, Wang Doujing Lai Mancheng reminded him that he understood the truth that cows can give birth to calves.In the past two years, the original 2000 cattle in Baoan Prefecture have given birth to hundreds of calves.

I took back a lot of cattle in this battle, and when they multiplied, I didn't have to worry about the cattle anymore.

Similarly, those who recapture pigs and sheep by themselves will breed piglets and lambs in the future as meat, which can well alleviate the food demand of the soldiers and civilians under their command.It's just that veterinarians are a problem. Although livestock farms have accommodated many talents in various places, there is still a lack of relevant talents.A particularly good cowherd is missing.

After thinking about it, Wang Dou finally decided to sell all the silk, sable, fox, leopard and tiger skins except for some ordinary cloth military uniforms.There are also horses and mules. Except for the stallions, thousands of war horses and some mules and horses, the rest are all sold.

Of course, Wang Dou would not be so stupid as to accept money. Grain, iron materials, cloth, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, wood, cotton and other things can be exchanged at equal value.Horses and mules are sold first to the soldiers and civilians in Baoan Prefecture. Each household has [-] acres of land and pays taxes. After excluding their own rations, every household has some food in storage.

Especially these years, the children of their family have joined the army, and they have received a lot of rewards, and they have quite a lot of savings.They used to buy more food and goods for the silver taels they shared, and accumulated more.It just so happens that these horses are used to exchange food with them, and prices are somewhat stabilized.

Of course, in order to maintain the hard and simple style of the people in the territory, Wang Dou does not plan to sell those silks, mink, fox, leopard and tiger on the East Road.

In addition, Wang Dou has a lot of money in his hands, and he plans to find some reliable merchants to buy food and goods from outside the road on a large scale.

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Old White Bull:
Some book friends mentioned the issue of the rank of guard officials in the Ming Dynasty. Unlike the Qing Dynasty, the generals of the Ming Dynasty were mostly guard officials, so their rank depends on their official position in the guard.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, guard officers were worthless, so they served as guards. A small number were guard commanders (Zheng Sanpin), and most of them were at the level of commanding affairs (Zheng Sanpin).

It is 100% impossible to defend the fifth-rank level. It is just a thousand households.First-class towns, second-class road cities, third-class forts (Acropolis), fourth-class small forts (units of thousands and hundreds of households), and fifth-class Huodun.

In addition, I recommend Xiaoyou Huanyu's work "Cultivating Immortals", ISBN 1140692, interested friends can go to have a look.

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