The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

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It can be seen from this that raising soldiers is the most money-consuming existence, and it is a waste of money if you have soldiers in your hands and don't start with money.

Jiannu, who was so poor, relied on uninterrupted raising of troops to attack the rapid development of Ming. support balance.

Huang Han had a clear goal. The first enemies were Jiannu and Tartars, followed by bandits, then pirate groups, and finally local tyrants and evil gentry. He never regarded the Ming army as his opponent.

Therefore, Chongzhen's five-year plan to rob property should not be less than 50 taels in silver, and grain should not be less than [-] shi.

This is done, and the food and salaries given by the Ming court can maintain the balance of the army's income and expenditure. Otherwise, it is not worthwhile to work for Daming and have to pay the money yourself.

No wonder most of the Ming generals had less than half of the actual number of troops. The usual training was completely formal, and they could only rely on a small number of servants to support the battle.

It turned out that they had to do it as a last resort. How could they have money to support their family if they didn't eat the empty quota?Who will be reimbursed for the food and military supplies consumed when the number of training sessions is too high?

Huang Han started recruiting soldiers in early November, and it was still the usual style for recruits to do military service with the army and receive military treatment from the guard.

The basic routine when training newcomers is to quickly push the wheelbarrow array, load the firecrackers, and carry the gun. The physical training is five kilometers off-road every morning, and the two of them cooperate to push the wheelbarrow loaded with six hundred catties of sandbags back and forth for ten miles in the afternoon.

Although the troops are not yet full, all the officers and assistants of the "Red Banner Army" below Huang Han are stepping up their training and practicing diligently every day.

After calculation, more than [-] regular troops were raised, while maintaining the training intensity and nutritional mix of the "Red Banner Army" regulations for leading troops.

Clothing, military supplies, food, military pay, fodder for war horses, weapons and armor equipment, I am afraid that the average annual consumption will not be less than 100 million taels of snowflake silver.

The generals of the Ming Dynasty were not time travelers. How could they predict that only force would survive in the future, and how would they be willing to spend a lot of money to raise and train soldiers.

Besides, the imperial court is insensitive, and the food and salaries that should be given are deducted layer by layer. It is thankful that the generals without backers can get half of them, and they may still be seriously in arrears.

It is ridiculous to expect such a team to fight against Jiannu to make a fool of themselves. No wonder the Ming army is always defeated in one blow.

It’s no wonder that the Ming Dynasty had almost no officials and no corruption. It was difficult for civilian and military generals who seemed not to be corrupt to survive, especially military generals. If they didn’t deduct the court’s food and salaries to support their families, let alone fighting, it would be difficult for them to concentrate on marching.

It stands to reason that Huang Han, the commander-in-chief, can only directly command his own battalion at ordinary times, and only in wartime can he control the surprise battalion of the lieutenant general, the reinforcement battalion of the participating general, and the guerrilla battalion of the guerrilla general.

However, the imperial court has made it clear that the "Red Banner Army" is stationed in Jinzhou and Lushunkou, which created conditions for Huang Han to centralize his military power and strengthen management, because this is the front line, and war will come at any time. Of course, wartime laws must be adopted.

In fact, without the righteousness given by the court, generals such as Hanzi and Song Pengfei would follow Huang Han's lead, and besides, they did not have the ability to make up for the lack of food and salaries for the soldiers.

When Huang Han first started to lead the army, he was ready to grab money, food, weapons, and military supplies. The generals under his command only led the troops, trained them, and wrote comments to judge the combat level and consistent performance of the soldiers.

All the soldiers went to the headquarters to receive their rations, and they did not need to go through the hands of the generals to distribute them directly to the grassroots soldiers.

Gradually, the soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" got used to getting money and food on time every month. Of course, the treatment of the generals was much higher. Twelve months.

The monthly salary of an ordinary musketeer soldier is one tael or five taels of silver per month, and five buckets of wheat for the true color. Seven taels of silver for a hundred households, ten taels of silver for officials of a hundred households, 15 taels of silver for a thousand households, and 20 taels for officials of a thousand households.

Officials with more than a hundred households, the monthly salary of the first-level false title is five taels more. If the real title of the second-rank general is awarded to the general, the monthly salary is 45 taels of silver, which means that the annual income is 540 taels of silver.

Soldiers are also different. For example, if they are also musketeers, the musketeers who have outstanding shooting performance and are allowed to equip the minigun will have the titles of corporal commander, small flag officer, and even deputy general flag and general flag. Musketeers are treated the same as officers of the same rank.

All the soldiers of the cavalry enjoy a monthly subsidy of five taels of silver, which means that ordinary cavalry are paid two taels of silver a month.

early november.Huang Sifang sent over [-] cold weapons. The cavalrymen have been working as bodyguards for more than a year. They have all participated in the extermination of bandits. They have seen blood. To become a cavalryman, you only need to be proficient in the new environment and get used to the new comrades-in-arms for a period of time before you can go to the battlefield. .

These bodyguards not only joined the army for the true nature of the "Red Banner Army" cavalry's monthly salary of two taels of silver plus five buckets of wheat, but they also received more than one tael of monthly money as bodyguards.

Most of them are infected by the exploits of the "Red Banner Army" who have won many battles. They are envious soldiers who can get money for beheading and have the expectation of becoming officials and lords.

Since there are still a large number of wounded cavalry returning to the team, the total number of cold-armed cavalry has finally exceeded 2000 for the first time. More than half of the cavalry returning to the team after recuperation belonged to Dongjiang Town. "The prospect was attractive, and they stayed.

Half of the juvenile cadets have passed the age of 15, and about [-] of them have all turned into full-time soldiers.

At the same time, another 14 to [-]-year-olds were admitted this year, and they were led by juvenile soldiers who had not yet reached the age of service. Basically, a young soldier with a one-year study foundation led two newly admitted juvenile.

There are a total of 800 young cadets in Tiger Cave City who are studying and training, and they have [-] matchlock guns for training. There are also two women's barracks here who are always training.

The first thing Qin Yuyi did after she led the second-rank Shandong Metropolitan Commander and became a guerrilla general was to recruit a general female soldier again. Now the former General Banner and Hundred Generals are all broken up and reorganized in the mode of veterans leading newcomers. One general stays in Tiger Cave City, and one general stays in Wolf's Nest Castle.

Funingwei and Huxue City are destined to be places that cannot be attacked by the enemy within five years. Even if there is an accident, these children and women are enough to defend.

There is basically no possibility of emergencies. Huang Han had set up an intelligence-collecting organization Qiwei early on. Isn't it a joke that tens of thousands of people attacked Funing's border without being able to detect it?

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