Regarding the guard station in Ningxia Town, the emperor adopted Wang Shouren's opinions in the memorial and approved their implementation.
That is, Ningxia no longer maintains the personnel scale of the Seven Guards, leaving only the Ningxia Guard, Ningxia Vanguard, Ningxia Guard and the original Jinglu Guard.
The Ningxia Guard and Ningxia Vanguard are stationed in Ningxia Town, while the Ningxia Guard is stationed in the Lingzhou City area. The terrain here is open. Although it is no longer on the front line of border defense due to the complex, this position with military significance still needs to be garrisoned.
The reason for abolishing the three guards is simple. After the reintegration, Ningxia's military status has declined. In addition, years of military occupation has caused the guards to be completely destroyed, and the personnel of the seventh guard are simply not satisfied.
Since there are usually no men from the Seventh Guards, they might as well withdraw them, so that the court can still have some military pay left.
The remaining four guards totaled 22,000 people. This was the size of the garrison in Ningxia Town.
Generally speaking, there are fifty or sixty thousand people in important towns. Now that the number has been cut in half, the defense status of Ningxia Town has also begun to decline.
In other words, the number of officials here is lower than elsewhere.
In this way, we must choose to place a person equivalent to the rank of deputy general soldier in Ningxia Town.
Specifically, the original Jiang Han, in fact, his official official position was the governor of Qianshi, the seal of the general of the Western Expedition, and the chief military officer to guard Ningxia.
General soldiers had no rank in the Ming Dynasty.
There are four words in front of things of high grade: Governor Qian Shi.
This is the rank of a second-grade military attaché.
The official position of Deputy Commander-in-Chief Yang Ying is to command the general affairs, which is a third-grade military attache position.
Although the general military officer has no rank, to hold this position, he basically needs to be a military attaché with the title of Commander-in-Chief (First Grade), Commander-in-Chief (Second Grade), or Commander-in-Chief (Second Grade).
Therefore, although Yang Xing, the original commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, is still the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, his official position has been promoted from the commander of the capital to the governor-general.
Yang Shangyi served as the commander-in-chief of Jizhou. This was his third time as commander-in-chief, but he did not stay in place. In fact, the first time he served as commander-in-chief, he was the commander of the capital. Later, when he became the commander-in-chief of Ningxia, he was promoted to the governor-general. , now that he is serving as the commander-in-chief of Jizhou, he is already a very high-ranking governor-general.
Yang Shangyi has followed the emperor for ten years and is a direct descendant of the direct line.
Yang Xing had already expressed his feelings to the emperor, and he also devoted himself to the war against the Tatars in the second year of Zhengde.
That's why Zhu Houzhao handed over Xuanfu and Jizhou to them. These two towns are the gateway to the capital and must not be missed.
The commander-in-chief of Datong was Shi Feng, who performed brilliantly in the war of the second year of Zhengde. He was stationed in Datong as a military attaché (second grade) of the capital commander.
Shi Feng was born in the Military Academy and was a commander of Shanzhi's personal guards. When he was defeated for the first time, the emperor trusted him again, so he was also one of the emperor's own.
Chang Dacheng serves as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong.
Chang Dacheng was originally stationed in Datong. He had been following Zhou Shangwen and was one of the eight people who made an oath to the emperor.
Chang Dacheng was good at guarding. Because the emperor wanted to use troops in the west next, he was stationed in Liaodong Town in the east.
These are border towns whose defense status has not declined.
In Ningxia Town, Zhu Houzhao was preparing to choose Qiu Yue.
Qiu Yue was originally Shuofang's commander, and he was a fourth-grade military attache.
With military exploits, he could be promoted normally, and he could be promoted to the third rank of the capital commander, which was the original official position of Yang Ying, the deputy commander-in-chief of Ningxia. However, the emperor did not want him to be the deputy commander-in-chief, and wanted Qiu Yue to directly serve as the commander-in-chief of Ningxia. He commanded the four guards of Ningxia.
The same is true for Yulin Town (Yansui Town), whose status has also declined. Half of the guards will be abolished next. Here Zhu Houzhao is planning to transfer Ma Yihuai, the deputy commander-in-chief of Gansu Town, as the commander-in-chief of Yulin.
Ma Yihuai is Zhou Shangwen's old subordinate and Ma Rong's father. He has absolutely no position or reason to betray the emperor.
According to Zhu Houzhao's arrangement, it can be said that the "top leaders" of the major military regions in Bian Town from west to east are all his trusted generals.
This is the situation resulting from hard work from the twelfth year of Hongzhi to the fourth year of Zhengde.
Next, he will gradually clear up the border towns and farmland affairs starting from Ningxia, and at the same time prepare the army to increase its combat effectiveness.
When the time comes, there will be 500,000 frontier troops and 200,000 Beijing troops, and what else will they say about "criminalizing the world and destabilizing it"?
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In Ningxia.
Zhang Cong had the support of Shaanxi Governor Wang Tingxiang and Governor of Hetao Wang Shouren. As soon as the counter-insurgency was over, he made every effort to promote the cleanup of military settlements and the re-demarcation of boundaries.
In any case, there is no better way to raise soldiers than to cultivate crops without getting sick from farmers.
"Ming Huidian" records: "Each army farmed fifty acres to one point, or one hundred acres, or seventy acres, or thirty acres, or twenty acres."
The reason for the disparity here is that the land has different levels of fertility and barrenness.
But on average, 50 acres of land per sergeant is good. Now that the number of people in Ningxia Town has been reduced, the size of the army is 22,000, which requires 1.1 million acres of land.
The original Anhua Prince's Mansion and Qing Prince's Mansion occupied a total of 288,000 acres of military settlements. At least half of the land occupied by the prince is good land, with flat terrain, square plots, and proximity to water sources, which is conducive to irrigation.
Therefore, the land occupied by the palace alone can meet the needs of a guard station.
Speaking of which, the two princes were merciful. It should be noted that the family of Xu Jie and Xu Ge later occupied more than 200,000 acres of fertile land.
So when it comes to the gap between the rich and the poor, in fact, the gap between the rich and the poor these days is even more exaggerated. It has reached an outrageous level. For example, it is unimaginable that one family owns hundreds of thousands of acres of land, and these actually exist.
Thinking about it this way, it is not too much to subsidize the Jiang Han and Yang Ying families' thousands of acres of land.
After this rebellion in Ningxia Town, it can be said that the original order was greatly destroyed. Many original thousands and hundreds of households were implicated and imprisoned. In addition, Zhang Cong, as the imperial envoy, still reiterated the need to hand over the Duochan military settlement on September 20.
As a result, the number of farmland controlled by the government increased sharply, especially the two royal palaces. In addition, He Jinyi, the original commander of the Ningxia Guard, had 2,500 hectares, which is 250,000 acres of farmland (historical records, not fabricated), so just one day At the beginning, Zhang Cong had 500,000 acres of land to divide.
There is nothing to say about the whereabouts of these fields. They are all divided into Ningxia Guard, Ningxia Vanguard and Ningxia Guard.
First of all, this is the most important task. In addition, allocating fields to sergeants can quickly calm people's hearts. Once the army is stabilized, the situation will not be chaotic.
Wang Tingxiang has been an official for so many years, and these geniuses have been enjoying the most recently. He worked tirelessly to follow Zhang Cong to promote this matter. Giving cattle and farm tools, teaching tree planting, re-renting taxes, sending officials to persuade people to lose, and punishing tyrannical officials... these are all matters that he can directly coordinate and handle as the governor.
And since the army itself has the responsibility of farming, there is no need to trouble others to measure the land and divide the boundaries, and just lead the soldiers at the guard station to start.
Wang Tingxiang was settling accounts with Zhang Cong, "Based on the current situation, in addition to the three guardsmen of Jinglu Guards, more than 1 million acres of farmland will be gained this year, and the three guards will be abolished, and the number of soldiers in Ningxia Town will be reduced. An appropriate increase. In any case, according to the tax of one dou and two liters per mu set by the imperial court, Ningxia Town can harvest more than 1 million shi of grain and rice next year, and can turn in 120,000 to 130,000 shi of grain. The remaining amount is enough for personal use, and there will be no If the imperial court needs to transport food thousands of miles, there will even be a surplus."
In ancient times, an adult man consumed 600 kilograms of grain a year, which is 4 shi. The four guards and some accompanying troops consume 200,000 shi of staple food a year.
But this is a theoretical situation. First, the harvest depends on the weather. If there is any regional disaster, production will be reduced immediately. And people can't just eat rice, they also have to eat oil, salt, sugar, and pull out some pieces of cloth to make clothes, so they need to exchange some money. In addition to people, horses also need to be fed.
The food consumed to raise a strong horse can feed four or five adults.
So it tastes really rough, and coupled with the corruption problem that is difficult to eradicate in the bureaucracy, basically eating and taking it, and having 100,000 shi left in the end is pretty good.
There are still people who want to attack the remaining ones.
"The military garrison of Jinglu Guards also needs to be cleaned up." Zhang Cong added.
Although the Jinglu Guards were not greatly affected by the rebellion, Zhang Cong was not here to put down the rebellion, he was here to clean up the military settlement.
Wang Tingxiang naturally understood that there was no decree to kick out the Jinglu Guards. "The Jinglu Guards are a bit special. Although each field has nearly 200 acres, the land is barren, the climate is early cold, and it is quite empty. Originally, the imperial guards were required to Those who have transferred 100,000 stones of grain and rice as supplies must at least be self-sufficient after clearing the fields again."
In other words, Jingluwei actually contributed 100,000 shi of farmland grains, so there was no need to adjust grains anymore.
Ningxia Town is a border land. With a little reorganization, there are 220,000 shi of grain in the fields.
If you think about it carefully, Ming Dynasty only produces more than one million seeds a year, which is only one town in Ningxia, which is one-seventh.
But the military garrison area set up by the Ming Dynasty was not only seven times the size of Ningxia?
In addition to other border towns, there are also vast inland health posts, and those health posts are also farmed!
As long as these potentials are tapped, there will be no great pressure for the court to collect at least 12 million shi of grain a year, not to mention restoring the glory of more than 20 million shi of grain harvested in Hongwu years.
In this way, the annual income can be significantly increased to 40 million stone.
Growth is one aspect. After cleaning up the military camps, many guards began to be self-sufficient again and no longer needed the court to allocate food. So the consumption is less.
At that time, a large amount of grain was stored in reserve warehouses, and the Ming Dynasty was able to realize the sentence that described the prosperity of the Han Dynasty: the grain in Taicang was so old that it was full of dew and accumulated outside, until it became rotten and inedible.
And this is what is called strong national power.
