The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 569
In the Ming Dynasty, there was no war in western Liaoning, and Liaodong was slightly higher than the first two years, and life was stable.

Hanzi is an honest man. He has never fought for power and profit after becoming the general officer of Shanhaiguan. He respects this old man who is already in his 70s. He trains his troops every day and never slacks off.

More than a year has passed, and the combat effectiveness of the 6000-man army battalion directly led by Hanzi is comparable to that of the "Red Banner Army", except that the Qibing Battalion, the Reinforcement Battalion, the Ranger Battalion and the two garrison battalions under the control of Hanzi are the same. Somewhat unsatisfactory.

Due to his personality, the fool is good at carrying out orders and fighting bravely, but he is not suitable for being an official at all.

If Huang Han served as the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, more than a year would be enough to make the lieutenants, generals, guerrillas, and garrison obey orders, and those who disobeyed would definitely be evacuated or forced to leave.

The idiot doesn't know how to play tricks, he only knows how to train hard and belong to the 6000-strong army battalion directly under his command.

On the contrary, Gaodi tried his best to mobilize the officer team brought by Hanzi to infiltrate other battalions. Although he failed to control all the more than [-] troops stationed in Shanhaiguan, he also improved the combat effectiveness of other battalions.

After all, military attaches from the "Red Banner Army" will distribute military salaries to every grassroots soldier on a monthly basis.

They have the "Sifang Bank" and "Red Flag Grain Bank" to subsidize money and food, and they don't bother and don't bother to deduct soldiers' food and pay for selfishness. It is only natural that they are supported by soldiers and low-level military officers.

For more than a year, the Shanhaiguan deputy generals, generals, and guerrillas, even if only the actual commanders have always come from the "Red Banner Army". This young man has naturally become the most orderly team in the battalion, and it is also the most disciplined and most capable team.

Du Xun, the eunuch of the supervising army, was in charge of Shanhaiguan, and the fool followed Huang Han's instructions and basically did not associate with this eunuch, and lived in the barracks every day.

In the face of a straightforward warrior like Hanzi, even if Du Xun is full of intrigues, it will not help. Besides, he always has to worry about the face of Fang Zhenghua, Cao Huachun, and Wang Chengen, and he can't shame himself to embarrass him openly.

The secret report obtained by the imperial court naturally came from Du Xun, the eunuch of the supervising army. It is an indisputable fact that the overall combat effectiveness of the Shanhaiguan garrison has been improved. Of course, Du Xun will report it truthfully.

Chongzhen was very relieved to learn that Yang Dalang, the general officer of Shanhaiguan, was training hard in the barracks every day, and strictly ordered Du Xun not to shorten the food and salary of this brave man.

Since Chongzhen sent refugees from Henan in succession in the early summer of the sixth year, the population of the West Liao Corridor has increased by hundreds of thousands, and now it is prosperous. The planned reservoirs and ditches have basically been completed, and the harvest this autumn is expected to reach above average There will be problems.

Gaodi's political achievements over the past year are reflected in the restoration of the guards and the realization of the army. Now there are not only the former guards, but also the restoration of the Ningyuan Left Guard, Ningyuan Right Guard and Jinzhou Guard.

Now the commanders, Tongzhi, Qianhuguan, Zhenfuguan, etc. of the Weisuo Army are of course the generals of the "Red Banner Army".

Huang Han is the chief military officer of Ji Town, with lieutenant generals, generals, guerrillas, and water battalion under his command, the number of troops has reached over [-].

His father, Huang Yizhou, is the commander-in-chief of Ningyuan, and he also has nearly [-] soldiers. In addition to the Shanhaiguan main barracks directly led by Hanzi, the imperial court has to pay close to [-] troops.

It stands to reason that 5 horses and horses will get 150 million taels of silver every year. This does not include the cost of armor and weapons, and the cost of repairing and strengthening the city.

Due to the eccentricity of Liaodong's economic strategy, the "Red Banner Army" has already accounted for the bulk of Liao's salary. Last year, after deducting drift, including project funds and equipment funds, they actually received 120 million taels of military expenditure.

The guards are self-sufficient, and it is impossible for the imperial court to provide food and salaries. The current farmland is in the tax-free period.

Including the Funing Guard, Huang Han actually controlled five guards, and the number of guards plus the number of officers and assistants with more than [-] households not counting the number of soldiers was close to [-].

Today's Ming Dynasty does not have a guard that can reach the full quota of [-], but the guard directly managed by Huang Han is an exception. Not only is the guard full, but it is even seriously overstaffed.

Zu Dashou refused to enter the capital for the third time to face the saint. The emperor was already chilled by this person, and many ministers of the court also decided to give up this warlord who might be sentenced to surrender and become a slave at any time. They all drew a line with him to avoid being implicated.

Gao Qiqian, the eunuch of the Jinzhou Supervising Army, wrote memorials many times to ask for food and pay for the ancestral army. His words scorched Jinzhou, Songshan, and Xingshan.

The imperial court refused to admit these untested soldiers and horses, and was only willing to pay half of the salary. The wall was overwhelmed by everyone, and the proportion of Zu Dashou's military salary was more than 50% higher than that of the "Red Banner Army". Last year, it was less than [-] two silver.

This year his life is even more difficult, because Huang Han informed Yang Danian, Song Pengfei and other left-behind generals to strictly prevent the ancestors from rebelling and defecting to the enemy. In order to avoid making the imperial court's food and pay available to the enemy, the "Red Banner Army" withheld all the supplies that should be given to Jinzhou .

At the same time, the Banner Guards started their activities. They would not attempt to instigate rebellion against the ancestral army. In fact, not all those stationed in the front line of Jinzhou were the direct descendants of Zu Dashou, and many of them recognized the imperial court but not Zu Dashou.

Due to the absence of food and payment for several months, apart from the ancestral army stationed in Jinzhou, the Ming army in Songshan, Xingshan, Tashan and other castles were miserable. The fort defense line defected to Ningyuan.

As long as they came from Liaodong to defect to the Ming army, Ningyuan would take them in. After screening, those with outstanding combat skills would become reserve soldiers, and then transferred to the guard army.

In the past two years, tens of thousands of women who had been kidnapped by bandits have been rescued. Now the ratio of men to women in western Liaoning is somewhat out of balance. Many old village households have an economic foundation, and some of them have started to take concubines.

These village households are very smart, and taking concubines actually adds another labor force to the family. Women's physical strength is not as good as that of men, and the role of raising chickens, ducks, and pigs is not inferior to that of men.

There are [-] to [-] troops stationed in Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, and they need so many vegetables, meat, and poultry eggs every day. As long as the households in the western Liaoning Corridor have agricultural and sideline products, they will not worry about selling them.

Therefore, more than half of the women, old people and children in the village households are raising chickens, ducks and geese. These poultry eat insects, and there is a lot of manure as organic fertilizer, which makes the farmland more secure.

Some of the Ming army who returned to Ningyuan from the front line of Jinzhou were Liaodong people with families and families, and most of them were bachelors. Being able to share the good thing of marrying a wife made too many people feel like it was a dream.

Next, the propaganda team found more than a dozen typical veterans of the former Guanning Army to speak and chat with the Ming army stationed in Tashan North Fort.

(End of this chapter)