The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 21 Bad Habits
The whole dinner ended up being very difficult for everyone.

Baihu, who was the first to know that he was on the list, got drunk on the table one cup after another, and started crying in front of everyone.

He is the hereditary military officer of this place, and the whole family can't leave if they want to, they can only wait for death, holding Qianhu's hand, making Qianhu very embarrassed.

"This old slave is definitely going to fight Shenyang. Boss, you and I will work together. For the sake of my many years of filial piety, can you think of a way to keep me?"

"Pooh."

Hu Maxuan said contemptuously, "Behind Shenyang is Liaoyang, where the Liaodong capital is located. On the left and right, there are Dongning Wei, Haizhou Wei, Gaizhou Wei, Fuzhou Wei, Jinzhou Wei, Dingliao Wei, and Shenyang Wei. , tens of thousands of people, what are you afraid of?"

"Don't look at the many guards there, they are all fake, can you and I not understand? I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of dying in vain!"

The hundred households looked aggrieved.

"On weekdays, you only know how to commit crimes through corruption. Why did the military households flee? Didn't your family occupy hundreds of acres of land? In addition to the small flags under your hands, and private favors, the military farmland in the military camp was taken by you. How much is divided!
The military land does not support military households, and you rent it out to civilian households to nourish your own family. Now that you have something to do, and you are timid, the country will be destroyed by your hands sooner or later. "

"enough."

What Ma Xuan said was ugly, Qianhu Li Biao looked at it coldly.

"Only you are good, so I send you to the front line, as you wish, you serve the country well, make great contributions as soon as possible, and take my place."

"It should have been this way."

Ma Xuan got up unceremoniously, and left without raising his head, showing no mercy.

"This guy has been an outlier since he was a child. Don't be too fussy with him. It's not worth fighting with him." Chen Kaiwu said with a smile.

He was not included in the list. He had gotten along well with Qianhu in the past, and his filial piety was never short. In addition, he had a little relationship with Beizhen, so no accident happened.

He glanced at Tang Qing'an who was beside him again, secretly admiring him.

According to the special article of Liaodong Dusi, in the first month, military craftsmen will be sent to establish a military station in Donghaibao to manufacture raw cowhide shields, rolling horse cards, sickle rockets, fire bricks, fire slides, fire crows and other utensils.

Order hundreds of households to be stationed here, and the defense army is safe.

As expected of the big background behind him, who could have imagined such a big handwriting.

After this incident, the banquet broke up not long after, and the road was slippery in the middle of the night, so everyone went to the guest room prepared by Qianhu to rest.

Seeing that the light was on in Tang Qing'an's room, Chen Kaiwu came over to chat.

"Actually, that Ma Xuan is one of the few military generals in the guard with a fighting spirit, but his mind is relatively simple and he doesn't understand the current situation."

Tang Qing'an smiled.

Up to the Liaodong capital, down to hundreds of households everywhere, there is no fighting spirit and lifelessness.

Tang Qing'an could understand their fear of war.

The military system of the guards has been in peace for a hundred years, the legal system is slack, and the greed is endless. Now that the local law and order are maintained, it is still possible to arrest some thieves and rioters.

But if you want to fight the barbarians, you are powerless and powerless. If you go there, you will die in vain.

Even if Tang Qing'an was a thousand households, it would be impossible to train an elite army for nothing.

If you want to train an elite soldier, from weapons and equipment to money and food supplies, the most important thing is to let the soldiers have the atmosphere of sacrificing their lives.

The latter is the most important factor.

Soldiers are not afraid of death.

This kind of morale is definitely not something that can be created with a few silver grains.

When the two armies are fighting, the blades of arrows hang above their heads, and the soldiers can ignore the death wailing beside them and march forward neatly without fear. There are too many supporting factors behind them.

If you want to change the situation in the guard, you need to reverse the bad habits in all aspects, and the imperial court has its own system, so how can the military generals rule as they please.

Just like that Qianhu, he is just a mouthpiece, and it is impossible to change the guard at will.

Why not myself.

A general who can build an army according to his own will is a warlord.

Then can I become a warlord?
can.

Just learn from Mao Wenlong.

It is the most correct choice to establish a base in the enemy's rear, not to be implicated by the imperial court, but also to be supported by the imperial court.

"Brother Chen is right. When I first took office, I counted the military households under my control, and there were not many left. It's just that it's different now, and I can no longer follow the steps as in the past."

"Do you have any idea?"

"I want to make up for Zhengding."

This is not a simple matter, the military land has already been divided up, resulting in the fact that it is not something that a hundred households can decide to make up for.

"Where does the food come from?" Chen Kaiwu asked sharply.

"I was about to ask Brother Chen for advice."

Military households are different from civilian households. According to the statistics of the Dazhou Yellow Book, ordinary civilian households have an average of six or seven people per household.

But the actual situation is far more than that. For example, according to the Xingxian Dynasty, that is, when the Supreme Emperor was the emperor, the Yellow Book was updated in Dazhou. According to statistics, there are only 1000 million households in the country, with a population of more than [-] million.

This number is about the same as the Ming Dynasty in history, there is not much difference, after all, both are the same system.

Because when the yellow book was built, most of the relevant officials copied the old book, or even filled it out indiscriminately.

For example, Wujiang County near Jinling.

The population of this county in the Yellow Book under the Taizu Dynasty was more than 36 people. After re-statistics during the Xingxian Dynasty, there were only 5000 people.

In the nearly hundred years of peace, the population dropped by [-]%, which shows that the local officials filled it out indiscriminately.

In actual private households, there are more than ten members in many families, and even six or seven generations are not separated from each other.

According to the original history, many historians of later generations have concluded that the population bottomed out at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty at about 1.2 million people. American Princeton scholars pointed out that the population at the peak of the Wanli Dynasty was 3.42 million people. Cambridge University in the United Kingdom In his "Cambridge History of the Ming Dynasty in China", it is believed that the population at the end of the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty was 1.5-1.75 million.

What Tang Qingan saw in Jinling and his observation all the way to Liaodong was more inclined to the latter, with an estimated population of 1.5-1.75 million.

This more accurate number, the whole big week, I guess I know it myself.

And military households

There are less than 80 military households in Donghaibao, and the population is only [-] people, which is more than double the number of ordinary civilian households.

If Zheng Ding is transferred here, these seventy households will not only have to bear the expenses of the guard, but also support more than a hundred people. How can they support them?
This is also the reason why all the hundreds of households in the former village have been silent for a year or two.It's best for the imperial court not to send people here all the time, so that everyone can rest easy.

It's just that the situation has changed too much. No one thought that Liaodong Dusi would draw people from Liaodong Guard.

"There are actually more than 6000 mu of military land in my institute, and [-] mu have been divided up by the General Banner, Xiaoqi, myself, and even thousands of households.

The remaining [-] mu, excluding the handed-in, is only enough for the military households to make ends meet, and another [-] mu was sold to the local government..."

"Don't make such an idea." Before Tang Qing'an could finish speaking, Chen Kaiwu immediately interrupted Tang Qing'an's words with a wave of his hand, admonishing Tang Qing'an earnestly.

"In fact, these fields already belong to others, and they are not considered military fields. If you want to touch this matter, Liaodong will not keep you."

Chen Kaiwu believed that he had to dispel Tang Qing'an's dangerous thoughts both for public and private purposes.

"These landowners are all local squires. There is no family with ten relatives and nine dependents who are officials. They are all local tigers. Well water does not interfere with river water. Don't underestimate others.

What's more, what you have done is outraged by the public. Even if you have connections with the Jia family and can protect you, my brother will tell you with certainty that you will not be able to stay in Liaodong. "

Tang Qing'an understood, so he changed his mind and asked, "What if I take out the fields under my name?"

Chen Kaiwu shook his head, still vetoing it.

(End of this chapter)