After the province gradually matured, the prefectures and counties under it also gradually spread out, and like the various guards in Nanya, they gradually merged with the military government.
The Military Mansion was originally a recruitment and training institution under each guard. Since the Purple Horde Khanate did not have professional administrative agencies in its early years, the Military Mansion, like the guards, managed both the army and the people.
At the earliest, the Nanya soldiers of the Purple Horde Khanate were actually the farm guards. The Khan ordered the residents of each farm to register as "military households" on a proportional basis. In some places, there are eight families, and in some places, there are ten families, organized into groups, and each group supports a military household.
The first batch of weapons for the Khan's court was bought from profiteers in Venice; the first batch of armor was bought by Boyan Timur when he went to the Golden Horde and asked Yue Jibie Khan for help. As the scale of the settlement expanded and the number of people defected increased, these weapons and equipment were simply not enough, and everyone had to think of their own solutions.
Military households need to provide their own weapons, so in theory the richest person in the group should serve. Like his European counterpart, the knight was responsible for providing his own weapons and horses, while the villagers provided taxes to support him.
The problem is that at that time in Zi Zhang, everyone was basically poor. The "rich" people in the group actually had the same conditions and still had to rely on the help of the villagers. Everyone, you can put together a breastplate, and I can put together an axe, and try to pile them up as much as possible. Therefore, sometimes, instead of choosing a rich man at all, it is better to choose the best player in the group, and then everyone will provide him with equipment according to the conditions.
At that time, there was not even an iron mine in the Zizhang-controlled area. They had to buy all kinds of metal objects, but they had little money. It was the Beitang herdsmen at that time, led by the bold Grand Master Ye Xianfuhua, who pretended to be the Golden Horde army, deceived a Genoese merchant fleet, and stole several shiploads of iron, so that they had the supplies to start.
It is also because of this that during the "Civil War", although there was serious opposition between the nobles, many grassroots officers and soldiers talked about the friendship of the "first ship of iron" every day and demanded that the ordinary people who were kidnapped on the other side should not be held accountable. After all, they did fight side by side many times.
After the Khan's court won a few battles, annexed some surrounding small nobles, and had sufficient supplies, this system between the military households of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties and the peasants and soldiers of the Eastern Roman Empire became insufficient.
The Khan's court hopes to organize more soldiers to join the war, or at least receive training to be able to protect themselves after the elite soldiers go off to war. Therefore, brothers Li Tianying and Li Tiance were ordered to carry out reforms, imitating the ancient system, and gradually abolished the distinction between military households and peasant households, replacing them with the universal identity of "nationals", which the Greeks called "citizens". Later, as most of the soldiers were locals, the latter became the official title.
These citizen-soldiers usually work on the manor, but they are organized during wartime and dispatch personnel to fight as needed, while the rest are responsible for defending and taking care of the farm. Theoretically, one hundred households form a manor and elect a head of the hundred households, which can generally be referred to as the "hundred households".
The personnel arrangement in wartime, the distribution of spoils of war, and peacetime labor cooperation are all arranged by the manor citizens themselves, based on this hundred households, under the auspices of the head of the household. Due to frequent battles, there would often be an assistant Baihu who would take turns maintaining the management of the manor when the other party was away.
The military pressure of the Purple Horde Khanate is very high, and the labor intensity of reclamation and farming is also high. Therefore, the residents of the manor must work together.
If someone doesn't take good care of other people's fields when others go to war, it will be difficult to find people to go to war next time; if someone doesn't trust his companions who stay behind when he is recruiting, it will be difficult to maintain military morale. And such a result will obviously affect the combat effectiveness of the army.
If it fails, not only will the manor and fields not be saved, but the lives of everyone will be in danger. The best result is to be captured as slaves by the hostile neighboring nobles. Therefore, the spirit of unity, justice and collective collaboration has always been extremely emphasized within the manor. Over time, this also formed a culture that may be quite unique in Europe.
According to this tradition, citizens should work hard and contribute, and hundreds of households must maintain justice and ensure that military service arrangements and the distribution of spoils satisfy everyone, otherwise they will be easily removed from office.
On the other hand, because he has to personally arrange defense and even be recruited to fight, Baihu is often the most capable person in the village - the advantage is that he can get more spoils and give everyone more benefits; while for Baihu For me, this is not only an honor, but also helps to maintain one's authority: a good warrior is more likely to be recognized by citizens, and his rulings are more likely to be respected by citizens.
Due to the important role of hundreds of households, the upper echelons of the Khan's court also valued these people and showed respect for them everywhere in order to gain recognition from citizens and grassroots officers.
At the beginning, in order to obtain more funds, the Khan's court planned several manors, and the first Great Khan Boyan Timur personally went to try to grow grapes. After many efforts, I finally got the qualified fruit and successfully sold it.
Boyan Timur was very happy and summoned the first batch of hundreds of households appointed by the Khan's court after Li Tiance adjusted the farm establishment.
He said that in Europe, everyone likes to hold something like a stick as a symbol of power. Even the Polish nobles next door have to grab a hammer every day and command others. He also wanted to do as the Romans do and send something to everyone that at least other Europeans could understand. I just thought about it for a long time, but I don't know what to do - you can't add a handle to the official seal and just wave it in your hand every day, right?
So, he decided to give away these vines, which represented the harvest. The one who holds it can distribute the harvest of the fields and battlefields and supervise others to fulfill their duties.
After that, it became a routine. Hundreds of households in the Khan's court would accept such a cane when they took office.
The responsibilities of a hundred households are very heavy. They need to train soldiers, organize production, and even mediate all kinds of trivial matters. Later, as the system was improved, we had to discuss education, assessment and other tasks with Assistant Baihu and others.
In addition, these people are even responsible for ethics supervision and counterintelligence duties. In the early days of the Purple Horde Khanate, they believed in the promises of other surrounding forces and led them as insiders. This led to the destruction of the entire manor in more than one case.
At that time, the Khan's court really couldn't afford much money. As long as you believe that these country nobles who are part-time bandits will honor the price they offer, the income will definitely be much higher than working on the farm.
The spy is generally only useful in one manor, and disappears after the fight. It is said that he has received a huge bonus and lived a good life. As for whether it is true...no one else can verify it anyway.
(End of chapter)
