eldest son of Ming dynasty

Regarding the guards in Ningxia Town, the emperor adopted Wang Shouren's opinion in the memorial and allowed them to implement it.

That is, Ningxia no longer maintains the size of the seven guards, leaving only Ningxia Wei, Ningxia Qianwei, Ningxia Guard and the original Jingluwei.

Ningxia Guards and Ningxia Qianwei are stationed in Ningxia Town, and Ningxia Backguards are stationed in Lingzhou City. The terrain here is open. Although it is no longer on the front line of border defense due to duplication, this position of military significance still needs to be stationed.

The reason for the abolition of the three guards is very simple. After the resettlement, Ningxia's military status has declined. In addition, years of military occupation have caused the guards to be completely destroyed, and the staff of the seven guards are simply not satisfied.

Since there are no seven guards at ordinary times, they can simply be removed, and the imperial court can still have a certain amount of military pay.

The remaining four guards, a total of 2 people, this is the size of the defenders in Ningxia Town.

Generally speaking, there are 6 to [-] people in a major town. Now that the number has been cut in half, the defense status of Ningxia Town has also begun to decline.

In other words, the officials here are also lower than those in other places.

In this way, it is necessary to choose to place a person equivalent to the rank of deputy commander in Ningxia Town.

Specifically, the original Jiang Han, in fact, his official official position was the governor, the seal of the general of the Western Expedition, and the commander-in-chief to guard Ningxia.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was no rank for the general soldier.

There are four words in front of a high-grade event: Duduqianshi.

This is the rank of military officer of the second rank.

The official position of Deputy Commander Yang Ying is to command the affairs of the capital, which is from the position of a third-rank military officer.

Although the commander-in-chief has no rank, but to hold this position, he basically has to be a military officer of Dudu Tongzhi (from the first rank), Dudu Qianshi (from the second rank), or the military commander of the military commander (from the second rank).

Therefore, although Yang Xing, the original Xuanfu chief soldier, is still the Xuanfu chief soldier, his official position has been promoted from the commander of the capital to the governor of the capital.

Yang Shangyi served as the commander-in-chief of Jizhou. This was the third time he served as the commander-in-chief, but he didn't keep standing still. In fact, the first time he served as the commander-in-chief was the commander of the capital. Later, when he was the commander-in-chief of Ningxia, he was promoted to the governor , and now he is the commander-in-chief of Jizhou, he is already a very high-ranking governor and Tongzhi.

Yang Shangyi has followed the emperor for ten years and is the direct line of the direct line.

Yang Xing had already expressed his heart to the emperor. 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 gates of the capital, and there is absolutely no room for loss.

The commander-in-chief of Datong was appointed by Shi Feng, who performed brilliantly in the Second Year of Zhengde War. He was stationed in Datong as the commander of the capital (from the second rank) military attache.

Shi Feng was born in the military academy and the commander of Shangzhi's personal guard. When he was defeated for the first time, the emperor trusted him again, so he is also the emperor's own person.

Chang Dacheng served as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong.

Chang Dacheng was originally stationed in Datong, he followed Zhou Shangwen all the time, and he was also one of the eight people who made an oath with the emperor.

Chang Dacheng is good at guarding, because the emperor will use troops in the west next step, so he was sent to garrison Liaodong Town in the east.

These are border towns whose defense status has not declined.

And in Ningxia Town, Zhu Houzhao was going to choose Qiu Yue.

Qiu Yue was originally the commander of Shuofang, and he was a military officer of the fourth rank.

With military exploits and normal promotion, he can also be promoted from the third rank to the commander-in-chief, that is, the official position of Yang Ying, the deputy commander-in-chief of Ningxia. Command the four guards of Ningxia.

The same is true for Yulin Town (Yansui Town), which has also declined in status. Next, half of the guards will be abolished.Here Zhu Houzhao plans to transfer Ma Yihuai, the deputy commander-in-chief of Gansu Town, to 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, the "top leaders" in the major military regions from west to east in Bianzhen can be said to be all his trusted generals single-handedly selected.

This is the situation from the 12th year of Hongzhi to the [-]th year of Zhengde.

Next, he will start from Ningxia to gradually clean up the farming affairs of the border towns, and at the same time prepare the army and improve its combat power.

At that time, there will be 50 frontier troops and 20 Beijing battalions. What's the matter of "criming the world and destabilizing the world"?
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in Ningxia.

Zhang Cong had the support of Governor Wang Tingxiang of Shaanxi and Governor of Hetao Wang Shouren. As soon as the counter-insurgency was over, he fully promoted the work of cleaning up the military settlements and redrawing the border.

In any case, there is no better way to farm than to raise soldiers without getting sick from farmers.

"Ming Hui Dian" records: "Each army farms [-] mu for one point, or [-] mu, or [-] mu, or [-] mu, or [-] mu."

The reason for the difference here is because the land is fertile and barren.

But on average, 50 mu of land for each sergeant is not bad. Now that the number of people in Ningxia Town has been reduced, the size of the army is 2 people, which requires 110 million mu of land.

The original Anhua Palace and Qing Palace occupied a total of 28 mu 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 for irrigation.

Therefore, only the land occupied by the palace can meet the needs of a guard.

Speaking of which, the two princes were merciful, but Xu Jie and Xu Ge's old family later occupied more than 20 mu of fertile land.

So when we talk about the gap between the rich and the poor, in fact, the gap between the rich and the poor is even more exaggerated these days, and it has reached an outrageous level. It seems that an unimaginable family owns hundreds of thousands of acres of land, but these actually exist.

Thinking about it this way, it's not too much to pay Jiang Han and Yang Ying's family thousands of acres of land.

After the rebellion in Ningxia Town, it can be said that the original order was greatly destroyed, and many of the original thousands and hundreds of households were implicated and imprisoned. In addition, Zhang Cong, as an imperial envoy, still reiterated that he needed to hand over the military settlements on September 9.
As a result, the number of farmland controlled by the government has soared, especially the two palaces, and the original commander of Ningxia Wei, He Jinyi, has 25 hectares, or 50 mu of land (historical records, not fictional), so at the beginning, Zhang Cong has [-] mu of land that can be divided.

There is nothing to say about the whereabouts of these fields, and they are all assigned to Ningxia Wei, Ningxia Qianwei and Ningxia Defender.

On the one hand, this is the most important job, and on the other hand, dividing the land to the sergeants can quickly calm people's hearts. If the army is stable, the situation will not be chaotic.

Wang Tingxiang has been an official for so many years, and these geniuses are the happiest recently. He has worked tirelessly with Zhang Cong to promote this matter.Giving cattle and farm tools, teaching trees and planting, re-renting taxes, sending officials to persuade them to lose, and punishing violent officials... These are all things that he can directly coordinate and handle as the governor.

And because the army itself has the responsibility of reclamation, so there is no need to bother others to measure the land and divide the border, and directly lead the soldiers in the guard to start.

Wang Tingxiang was settling accounts with Zhang Cong, "From the current point of view, except for the three guards of the Jinglu Guard, this year, more than 100 million acres of farmland will be obtained, and the three guards will be abolished, and the number of troops in Ningxia Town will decrease. Appropriate increase. No matter what, according to the tax of one bucket and two liters per mu set by the imperial court, Ningxia Town can harvest more than 100 million shi of rice next year, and can turn over 12 to 13 shi of grain. No matter how much the imperial court needs to transport food for thousands of miles, there may even be surplus.”

In ancient times, an adult man consumed 600 catties of grain a year, which is 4 shi.The four guards plus some accompanying personnel consume 20 shi of staple food a year.

But this is a theoretical situation. First of all, the harvest depends on the sky. If any regional disaster occurs, the production will be reduced immediately.And people can't just eat rice, they have to eat oil, salt, sugar, and they have to tear some pieces of cloth to make clothes, so they need to change 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 is really rough to eat, coupled with the corruption problem that is difficult to eradicate in the bureaucratic system, basically eating and taking, and it is not bad to have 10 stones left in the end.

As for the rest, there are still people who want to beat it.

"Jingluwei's military colony will also be cleaned up." Zhang Cong added.

Although it is said that Jingluwei was not much affected by the rebellion, Zhang Cong did not come to suppress the rebellion, he came to clean up the army.

Wang Tingxiang naturally understood that there was no decree to kick Jingluwei out. "Jingluwei is a bit special. Although there are nearly 200 acres of land per share, the land is barren, the climate is early and cold, and it is quite open. Those who adjust 10 shi grains and rice supplies, after re-clearing the fields, must at least be self-sufficient."

In other words, Jingluwei actually contributed 10 shi of grain to the fields, so there is no need to adjust the grain.

Ningxia Town is a border land, and after a little rectification, there will be 22 shi of grain in the fields.

Thinking about it carefully, the number of seeds in Daming is only over 100 million a year, and there is only one town in Ningxia, which is one-seventh.

But the land of military settlements set up by the Ming Dynasty is not only seven times the size of Ningxia?

In addition to the rest of the border towns, there are also vast inland guards, and those guards are also farmed!
As long as all these potentials are unearthed, not to mention the restoration of the glory of more than 2000 million shi a year in the fields during the Hongwu period, there is not much pressure for the court to collect 1200 million shi of grain a year at least.

In this way, the annual income can be greatly increased to 4000 million shi.

Growth is on the one hand. After many guards cleared their military bases, they began to be self-sufficient again, and there was no need for the imperial court to allocate food.So less consumption.

At that time, a large amount of grain was stored in the reserve warehouse, and the Ming Dynasty was able to realize the sentence describing the prosperity of the Han Dynasty: the millet in Taicang is full of Chen Chenxiang, and it is full of dew and accumulates outside, until it becomes corrupt and inedible.

And this is the so-called strong national power.