Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1995 Statistics of armed servants inside and outside the palace ([-])
Since we want to talk about "Duanshui", we must first talk about what kind of structure the Jinghua armed guard system is in the territory of Ming Dynasty and the sphere of influence mainly in the north.

In general, apart from the southern Xinjiang system and the Liangyang Fleet, Jinghua's armed forces are mainly divided into three parts.

The first part is the "Jinghua Security Team" system, which is mainly in charge of Jinghua Trading Co.

The former is mainly composed of Buding, and its main business in normal times is to escort large-scale domestic merchants, and undertake the entrustment of suppressing bandits, whether government or private.

Of course, sometimes when there is a civil uprising among refugees and disaster victims, they will also choose whether to accept the work entrusted by the local government to suppress it according to the situation.In short, the "security team" of the Buding system is mainly responsible for Daming's domestic business.

In contrast, it is the cavaliers in the vassal state and Jimi area.Cavaliers are also a type of "security team", and their tasks are not fundamentally different from those of domestic Budings. They are also mainly escorting caravans, exterminating horse thieves, and entrusting them to suppress them.

However, because Qi Ding is not in the Ming Dynasty, his style of acting is much stricter, and his methods are often called vicious.For example, sometimes the cavalry of the security team even acted as mercenaries for one of the parties in the vendetta of certain tribes. After they defeated, such things as killing all the strong men and bringing women and children back to their employers were also done.

Gao Wushi was well aware of Qi Ding's behavior, but he never ordered it himself.The actual tasks were at most reported to Cao Gan, the general manager of Jinghua Commercial Company, and when Cao Gan reported to the secretariat, he would use vague language to express, in short, he did not give the truth.

As for why they did this...it was nothing more than imitating the Qing Dynasty's "reduction of Ding" policy.Of course, the policies of the Ming court towards Mongolia and Jurchen were actually much more ruthless than that of Jinghua in the past 200 years. Apart from other things, how about some words such as "preventing autumn and burning waste", "Chenghua Liting" and so on?
Although objectively speaking, the effect of "sweeping holes in the plow court" was actually not as good as that of the Qing dynasty's reduction of the population, there is no doubt that the policy of the Ming Dynasty was tough.As for "anti-autumn burning", in fact, it is directly setting fire to the grassland, and the intention is self-evident.

Now Da Ming doesn’t need to use these two tricks, but under the premise of promoting Lamaism, Da Ming’s security team cavalry of Jinghua Trading Co., Ltd. implemented this small-scale method of eliminating small tribes. In the final analysis, it is due to the limitations of the current era.

What age limit?Restriction of the era of alternating hot and cold weapons.Although firearms are gradually becoming stronger, they have not completely replaced cold weapons, nor have they reached the level of technology that can completely defeat the cavalry with cold weapons on the grasslands. Therefore, in order to maintain the situation of "strong central, weak local", it is still necessary to control Dingkou in Mongolia s method.

Ah, of course, Jurchen too.Unless they fully accepted the overall rule of the imperial court like other ethnic groups in the Ming Dynasty, they would have to wait until hot weapons completely overwhelmed cold weapons before giving up such methods.

Closer to home, the "security team" system of Jinghua Commercial Co., Ltd. is compiled in strict accordance with the high-practical requirement of "minimizing the name". It is divided into three main levels: the provincial-level security column, the government-level security brigade, and the county-level security team. squadron.

However, the organization of the security team is not as strict as that of the garrison. Regardless of whether it is a column, a brigade or a squadron, the number of people in the organization has a certain range of flexibility.Generally speaking, the Buding security team has a larger establishment and more people, while the Cavalry security team has a smaller establishment and fewer people.

In terms of cavalry, take the "Tumed Security Column" as an example. The largest cavalry security team has a total number of about 2000. It has three large-scale horse farms under its jurisdiction, with nearly [-] war horses. Nearly [-] stallions and mares, and nearly [-] experienced herdsmen obtained through various means.

Buding took the "Liaodong Security Column" as an example. This largest Buding security team has a total of more than 2000 people. It is not only scattered throughout Liaodong, but also penetrates into some Jurchen areas.Like the "Changchun station" mentioned many times above, there is a Changchun security brigade with more than [-] people.

In short, the security team system is not a fixed establishment such as the "three-three system". Within the jurisdiction of a column in the northern region, there are as many security brigades as there are prefectures, and as many security squadrons as there are counties.The southern part is much weaker, and it cannot cover the whole area at all. In some provinces, there may be only two or three brigades, or a dozen squadrons.

In summary, the security team system alone currently has a total strength of about 18 troops, distributed throughout the Ming Dynasty and within the sphere of influence on land.Of course, it is certain that the south is weak and the north is strong. After all, the foundation of Jinghua is in the north.

Judging from the security team that may be transferred to support the Western Expedition, there are probably about [-] cavalry and [-] or [-] infantry.Of course, it is impossible to transfer all these people. First, the logistics cannot keep up. Second, if they are all transferred, the local business will be ruined and the economic loss will be too great.

According to Gao Yushi's previous thinking, the security team that Xizheng may deploy will not exceed 2 at most, most of whom are cavaliers.

In addition, the high-practical plan is not only to mobilize the cavalry of the security team, the independent army "Helinlang Cavalry" trained in Waikalkha is an elite soldier that he has high hopes for, and he will definitely send it to the west to fight of.

If the security team is the "standing army" of armed servants, then the "factory protection team" system can be regarded as the "reserve".

The "Factory Guard Team" is composed of various armed guards such as the "Factory Guard Team", "Mine Guard Team", and "Bieyuan Guards" of Jinghua in the past, forming a separate system.

But this "independence" is not really independent, it basically copied the security team.However, it is not divided into provinces, prefectures, and counties, but is divided into eight divisions according to regions: Northeast China, North China, East China, South China, Central China, Southwest China, Northwest China, and Mongolia.That is to say, such as "North China Factory Protection Team" and "Mongolian Factory Protection Team".

There is no need to explain the seven domestic factory protection teams, but this Mongolian factory protection team may have to talk about it.Didn’t I say it a long time ago, Gao Pragmatism cooperated with Hannaji to open a lot of mines in Tumote, for example, the core of Hannaji’s West Whistle—the later Baotou City, the main mining area around it was Gao Pragmatically bought most of them.

After the Northwest Rebellion ended, Gao Shishi's influence on Ordos reached its peak. Naturally, Yijin Huoluo, a sacred mine in the world, would not be ignored by Gao Shishi. A large area around it was bought by Jinghua at a low price, and even the Ordos Ministry negotiated. After a while, they were almost ready to move Jinong's Khan Court - of course, this was not forced by Gao Yushi, but it was just that most of the place was bought by Jinghua, and they thought it was a bit strange.

I forgot to introduce, Ejin Huoluo is the Ordos City of the later generations. If it is said that this place is the "God Mine of the World", there should be no objection?
In short, Jinghua has a lot of mining areas in Monan Mongolia. Although the current development level is nothing compared to later generations, if all of them are added together, there are 4 miners alone.

According to Jinghua's system, every ten miners choose one person as the mine protection team, so the "Mongolian factory protection team" has more than 4000 people.As for domestic mines with a higher degree of development and factories with more employees, the number of factory protection teams is even larger.

At present, there are more than 7 people in the eight major factory protection teams, and there are even more than 5000 "female soldiers" among them. Almost all of them come from tussah silk factories and textile factories.

The one with the smallest number of Jinghua armed servants is the "Special Service Team of the Ministry of Internal Affairs", which can be regarded as the military force directly under the Jinghua headquarters.Their tasks mainly include three tasks, the first two of which are to protect Gao Yushi himself and his relatives, guard Nanning Marquis Mansion, Jinghua Headquarters (see Xinzhai Bieyuan, Baiyulou, etc.), Yongning Princess Mansion, etc.

The last item is that it has a special investigation team, which has nothing to do with the surveillance system of the Ministry of the Interior. It is not responsible for intelligence or supervision, but for internal arrests and other tasks.

It can be understood that it is the violent enforcement agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Its main responsibility is that when the Ministry of Internal Affairs finds that someone in Jinghua has seriously violated the rules, and that person has a large armed force, the special investigation team will send people to form Zero enters the target area and makes an arrest suddenly.To a certain extent, it has a certain function of military police, and also has a little shadow of Jinyiwei.

However, the number of this armed force is not large. Although it has three main tasks, its total number is only more than 2000.Although all of the more than 2000 people are selected from the Jinghua system, they are generally not considered as regular combat forces.

In this way, the strength of Jinghua’s domestic armed forces other than the Garrison and the Liangyang Fleet is relatively clear. There are probably more than 25 people, and the main branch is in the northern region, especially near Gyeonggi-after all, Jinghua’s headquarters is in the capital. industrial zone in Kaiping.

Huang Zhiting said that Jinghua has too much power near the capital, even if the husband is a civil servant, it may cause the emperor's uneasiness. This point Gao Pragmatically calculated, and he has to admit that in the capital and surrounding areas alone, he has about [-] cavalry, Buding and the factory guard team are also about [-].

The armed forces with a total of 6 people are within a radius of no more than two hundred miles around the capital, and their strength is basically equal to that of the imperial guards. If you were the emperor, you would be uneasy.

If the emperor had been more careful, he might have suspected another thing: Gao Wu's influence in the Imperial Guard was very, very, very huge.Although the Imperial Guard's military discipline is strict, it is reasonable to say that it should not be able to make them turn against each other with a single call of high pragmatism, but if people get into the horns, how can this not be regarded as a huge threat?
At this time, Gao Wushi even realized that Gao Luo's name had caused such a big reaction from Zhu Yijun.

That's right, under the double superimposition of Gao Wuzhen's prestige and strength, he suddenly named the son who is half of the Tian family's blood "Luo", which is indeed unavoidable to make people suspicious.

It can't even be said that Zhu Yijun is suspicious. If he is Gao Pragmatic and is the emperor, he may have a bigger reaction than Zhu Yijun this time, and if he does, he will rush to arrange some defensive measures in advance.

Speaking of it, Zhu Yijun can be said to be very confident - of course, there may be reasons for his belief in high practical character.

In short, Huang Zhiting's worry was definitely not unfounded, and he should really pay attention to it, and make some adjustments to show the emperor, so that the emperor can feel at ease.

Huang Zhiting's worries are justified, but Liu Xin's views are also based on this line of thought - she said that the Western Expedition will definitely mobilize Jinghua's armed forces, which will naturally dilute the Jinghua troops in the Gyeonggi area.This is also in line with the highly pragmatic plan.

The problem now is that one of them thinks that half of the armed servants and the garrison should be transferred to Japan, and the other thinks that since the armed servants will be transferred to the northwest in the near future, it is not enough to account for the "Japanese dispatch army". half.

In the final analysis, this is a question of troop allocation, and behind it is the question of whether to focus on the southern border or the imperial court. The little selfishness of the two of them is also hidden under the choice of these two centers of gravity.

Transferring about 3000 to [-] cavaliers to go to the west is basically determined on a high level of pragmatism, so the current problem is actually how many people will be transferred to Japan.

If you want to satisfy both of her ideas at the same time, it means that it is best not to mobilize too many troops to Japan, otherwise the garrison may still be able to mobilize, but the armed servants may not be enough—it is not that there are absolutely not enough people, but Might not be enough to stay in business.

"The military strength of the Western Expedition has been planned for a long time, and you all know that the problem is not the lack of troops, but the difficulty of logistical support. I intend to mobilize [-] cavalry, including He Linlang cavalry, to ensure combat effectiveness and Because the two Mongolian cavalry of Tumed and Ordos can attack together, the pressure on logistics has dropped sharply, which is the best policy.

As for the number of garrison and security teams sending troops to Japan in half...it is not impossible, but then it must be ensured that the total number of troops cannot exceed [-] at most, and the garrison and security teams each send about [-]. "

Huang Zhiting asked: "Is there any significance to the 'one hundred thousand' that the master said?" This sentence is actually asking "Why is it just one hundred thousand?"

Gao Wushi said: "Because I have roughly calculated that the two factions in Japan at present, that is, the Arbitrary faction who may be on the side of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the Puritan faction who may be on the side of the Gohoshin, the strength of the two sides is basically the same.

Considering that they each need to leave some of their troops to look after their homes, the number of troops that can be dispatched to fight outside the territory may be around [-].Although our army has superior equipment, organization and training may also be more advanced, but to form a strong deterrent to them, the force must at least be able to overwhelm any of them.

Now we have some elite soldiers in Japan, but since we want to stabilize one side, shouldn't we still need about [-] troops? "

Huang Zhiting silently estimated that the Western Expedition would transfer more than 2 cavalry, which accounted for slightly more than one-third of the total cavalry force, and at least half of the reason why Japan fears Ming Dynasty lies in the cavalry. That is to say, it is best for the security team transferred to Japan to be mainly cavalry.

why?Because there are very few cavalry in southern Xinjiang, and it is indeed not a place suitable for large-scale use of cavalry. Even if the garrison is willing to transfer, there are not many cavalry to transfer.So in other words, this cavalry was originally expected to be drawn from the cavalry of the security team.

This is troublesome, the cavalry of the security team can't all be transferred away, can they?
Sure enough, Gao Wushi had already spoken at this time, saying: "The number of cavalry that the security team transfers to Japan can only be around [-] at most. If there are more, it will be inconvenient to maintain the safety of the trade outside the customs."

Liu Xin thought for a while, then said: "Since the cavalry is limited, let's rely on artillery as a deterrent. My concubine suggests temporarily increasing the artillery establishment in the army sent to Japan, and may even consider temporarily adding an independent artillery formation to each ministry."

Huh, that's a good idea.Gao Wushi and Huang Zhiting looked at each other, and both felt that this suggestion seemed feasible...
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