Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 539 Dismissal of Shunying
Li Chixin celebrated his birthday, so Li Laiheng naturally wanted to come to pay his respects.

Although he has now changed his name to Zhu Shengli and is still the admiral of the imperial camp, he is just like the adoption of the folks. The elder brother has no children, but the younger brother has many sons. He adopted a son to his elder brother. Although his biological son will no longer be his own son in name, he can only shout My own uncle, but after all, he is his own flesh and blood.

Zhu Shengli was adopted by Li Chixin when he was a child, so this relationship is naturally not to mention.

He also changed his name to Li Chixin as uncle now, and after receiving his uncle's message, he immediately prepared to leave Yuezhou.

As the adopted son of the emperor, the admiral of the camp who bestowed the surname of the country, he was very busy during this period. The emperor named him the founding marquis of Yueyang. Jiangxi Liangxing Camp.

This is not simply divided into two, but also to absorb the provincial camps of Jiangxi, Huguang and Guangxi provinces and reorganize them. Each of the two towns retains only [-] soldiers.

And there are many soldiers in Jiangxi and Huguang.

In order to reorganize the army, the emperor specially sent an imperial envoy to guide him. When the reorganization is completed, the supervisor Zhu Dadian will also return to the court.

"This time the imperial court divided Huguang into two provinces, Hubei and Hunan, and formally abolished the posts of Fuzhi of Yunyang and Governor of Pianyuan. It seems that the action is not small and the force is very deep."

Governor Zhu Dadian and Governor Du Yinxi were also present in Baling City, the prefecture of Yuezhou. They came from Changsha and Hengyang respectively to discuss the great changes in Huguang.

There are many aspects involved this time, not just the reorganization of the army.

The sub-province of Huguang, the abolition of the two governors, and the abolition of the provincial battalion and the governor's standard battalion are not small problems.

Downstream in Jiangxi, there is Jin Shenghuan, upstream there are Li Chixin, Gao Bizheng and others, plus those chieftains, big and small, who are involved in the whole body, so we must be careful.

Zhu Dadian was about to leave, but he was actually a bit disappointed. When he first came, he was appointed to replace He Tengjiao, and he was still in danger, with great ambitions. It was just that the Battle of Wuchang gave him a blow in the head. The five loyalists betrayed the third loyalist, and the whole world began to scold him. .

Many censors bluntly said that Zhu Dadian should be killed to thank the world.

Fortunately, the emperor still trusted him and let him survive the most difficult time.

He gritted his teeth, endured all kinds of attacks, reorganized the defeated soldiers, rectified the defeated situation, recruited troops, raised money and food, and wanted to prevent the Qing army from going south, but also had to harden his teeth to suppress the rebels.

During that time, due to internal and external troubles, the supervisor was chased by the rebels several times and ran all over the mountain, and even his subordinate battalions mutinied.

Fortunately, I survived.

Ma Jinzhong, Liu Chengyin and other rebels were wiped out one by one. Although Huguang, Jiangxi, Guangxi and other places sent troops to assist in the suppression, these rebels were finally suppressed.

After that, the army will be reorganized, local order and production will be restored, little by little.

Although he still hasn't been able to restore Huguang to this day, at least Hunan has fully recovered, and even in the previous battles of Xing'an and Jingzhou, he also had command merits.

However, Wang Guangen's rebellion dealt him another heavy blow.

Today, the situation in Huguang is not bad. When he was about to fight again, the emperor ordered him to go back and reorganize Huguang's army.

What can he say?
The emperor gave him a lot of trust and gave him a lot of time.

In Zhu Dadian's view, after all, it was because he did not do well enough to recover the entire Huguang, let alone control these soldiers and horses.

If it is difficult, who is not difficult.

Wen Anzhi, a scholar, entered Sichuan alone, and his difficulties were not less than his own, but Wen Anzhi withstood the difficulties, and even insisted on smoothing out a whole bunch of governors, governors, admirals and general soldiers in Bashu. thing.

Not only did he smooth over the big and small military leaders in central Sichuan, he even stroked and beat Zhang Xianzhong, and almost completely recovered Sichuan from Zhang Xianzhong.

I heard that not long ago, Wen Anzhi even made a single transaction with Zhang Xianzhong, using 20 stone grains in exchange for 300 million taels of money to sit in the township.

This news, which sounds like a story, is actually true.

Wen Anzhi actually sold grain to Zhang Xianzhong, but after he inquired about more details, he was speechless. The 20 stone grains not only exchanged for gold and silver goods worth 300 million taels of silver, but Zhang Xianzhong sent another An adopted son led 7 people out of Micang Mountain and went into Hanzhong to fight the Tartars.

After Wen Anzhi entered Sichuan, he basically didn’t fight any real battles, he didn’t fight Zhang Xianzhong much, and he didn’t fight the Qing army much, but he just stabilized the situation. Confrontation, but he can calmly tidy up the rear of Bashu, reorganize the army and govern the people, without falling behind.

It's not that he has to admire him.

In comparison, in Huguang, he countered the rebellion and counterattacked, and never stopped, but the results were indeed not as good as others.

Although the emperor's envoy gave him the decree, he also specially brought an oral order, saying that the situation in Huguang is now stable, and there is no need for a special supervisor, and he returned to the court after success.

But Zhu Dadian always felt uncomfortable.

On the other hand, he was secretly worried about the big move the emperor was about to make.

Du Yinxi, Governor of Huguang and Governor of Hunan Province, has a lot of gray hair, and he has just been conferred the title of Marquis by the emperor, but this is a lifetime title.

Du Yinxi didn't care much about this, he put all his energy on the Huguang area.

Originally, after the last battle of Yiling, he and Zhu Dadian had planned another battle of Jingzhou to take Jingzhou and advance little by little.

Compared with the original strategy of hitting and leaving, now it is necessary to gradually advance, and not to give up if it is captured.

I didn't have the strength to defend before, but now I have to approach step by step, and finally recover Huguang completely.

The plan has not yet started, but in the end it will usher in a major reorganization.

"We only have 8000 people in one town in Huguang, is that enough?"

With today's situation, 8000 people is definitely not enough.

So the reorganization plan given by the imperial court is actually to station eight thousand soldiers in one town, and then Li Chixin will town another town.

Outside of these two towns, the rest of the army will either be reorganized into the two towns, or reorganized into local regiments, and the guards in the chieftain area will be restored.

But it's not called Weisuo, it's called Tun Town.

In fact, it is equivalent to a military station.

Since the Hongwu Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, many guards such as Shizhou and Changde have been set up in the area adjacent to Huguang Tusi. These guards have a total of more than 8000 rated officers and soldiers, and they are distributed in the guard city and its subordinate passes, passes, and forts. .

Huguang chieftains are basically distributed in the west. In addition to the 45 imperial chieftains, there are also many Muyin chieftains who have not been conferred by the imperial court.

The Ming Dynasty set up many guards around the chieftains of Huguang, implemented military encirclement and deterrence, restricted their development and expansion, and even encroached on the chieftain's territory through guards and immigration.

In general, this policy is still very effective.

It's just that by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the guards next to these chieftains were just like the ones in the interior, which were already rotten.

Emperor Zhu Yihai had already abolished the guards all over the country, and now he has no plans to revive the guards. However, according to the needs of reality, Zhu Yihai planned to re-establish a number of villages and towns.

In the old places where the guards were adjacent to the chieftains, village towns were set up, but instead of using the guard system, a new system was used.

The first batch of garrison towns were Shunying and other troops, as well as some provincial battalion soldiers from Huguang.

Zhu Yihai planned to set up five villages and towns along the chieftain border to the west of Huguang, namely Zhongwu, Zhongzheng, Zhongzhen, Zhongyi, and Zhongkai. These towns were equivalent to the Production and Construction Corps.

Belonging to the quasi-active militia organization, each town has jurisdiction over the Xiebiao battalion sentry team, which is stationed in various places, such as the original guards, pass gates, forts, etc.

The imperial court set aside land and handed it over to them for farming.

The five loyal people, together with their family members, directly became the reclamation personnel of the town, but different from ordinary people, they needed to be the same as the guards. City training, seven-point garrison, and garrison in turn.

The rest of the men in each household, called Yu Ding, also receive regular training.

The land in the town is divided into seven parts for rent by the villagers and three parts for the army.The tenant rent is actually a land tax, but the grain paid is reserved as military grain for the town.

When the third part of the army garrisoned the fields, the garrison men cultivated together, and the harvested food was also returned to the army warehouse in the garrison town.

This looks very similar to the guard, but there are some differences.

First, the identities of military officers and military households in the guards are hereditary. In addition, the soldiers in the guards are not all local, but are dispatched from various places to serve.

But now this town is immigrant, and it is not a hereditary status.

For example, a battalion under the command of Dang Shousu in Zhongwu Town was sent to the former Yongding Wei Dayong Camp next to Yongshun Xuanweisi to establish the Dayong Camp. This battalion, together with their families, were all relocated to the original Dayong Camp City, and the surrounding villages and so on.

According to the division of the battalion sentry team, and then click to select 150 Zhengding, usually 350 people are responsible for guarding the camp city, outpost, etc., and the remaining [-] people are responsible for cultivating the collective farmland.

Except for these 500 people, the rest of the battalion, men, women and children, were given fields to cultivate, and the same amount of food was paid.

Those garrisons, who take turns to work, go to on-duty training, etc., are all paid for food, and there are also travel food for war.

They farm and fight, they are soldiers and not soldiers.

Their descendants can choose to continue to sign up for Diantunding, or not to sign up.

It can even be said that this kind of garrison town is actually closer to the Fubing of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. First of all, except for the conversion of the five loyalists to the garrison town at the beginning, the garrison town will be selected in the way of selection, that is, recruitment.

The second is that after clicking, the family can take over the farmland. This field cannot be bought or sold, but it has the right to farm.

Their more important task is to focus on farming, and then undertake some of the guarding tasks, but they do not need to bring their own weapons and equipment. They also have rations for duty, rations for war, and rewards for meritorious service. They can also be awarded officials. and many more.

But they are not the official army.

It's not the same as group training.

Regiment training is actually a pure local militia. After the militia is selected, it will receive training in its spare time. Generally, it will not undertake any tasks and will only be recruited when needed.

Compared with the regiments, Tunzhen has a certain task, which is to guard the land adjacent to the chieftain, and has the intention of immigration and reclamation. Usually, they have the task of guarding the pass of the Tunzhen and deterring the chieftain.

There are official military officers in Tun Town, but no official soldiers.

The transfer of Wuzhong to Tunzhen is actually a disguised dismissal, which means resettlement on the spot, and it is necessary to use the remaining heat to reclaim the frontier wasteland and shock the chieftain.

However, the ranks and ranks of these officers were retained, but the soldiers were actually gone.

The right to release soldiers in disguise.

Du Yinxi felt that the emperor's move was a little too hasty, and that something might happen.

But judging from the situation in Huguang in the past two years, it is indeed unaffordable to maintain too many soldiers and horses for a long time.Especially Li Chixin and other Shunying generals and some local generals, they sometimes did not obey the orders of the court, and the number of soldiers and horses under them arbitrarily exceeded the number.

These miscellaneous troops have indeed always been a hidden danger, which not only drags down the local finances, increases the burden, but also increases the factors of anxiety. Now the solution is to remove the hidden danger, and at the same time it can be regarded as a formal arrangement for the Shunying and others.

Settle down and divide the land, and farm with peace of mind.

"In my opinion, we still have to go to Yiling in person, have a good chat with Duke Xingguo and Duke An in person, and explain His Majesty's will to them, so as not to cause misunderstandings," Zhu Dadian said.

Li Chixin was about to celebrate his 45th birthday, and the generals from all walks of life were rushing to Yiling. In fact, Zhu Dadian was very clear about the signal behind this.

This is a very dangerous signal, and if it is not done well, it is easy to cause accidents.

Du Yinxi also had the same attitude, "Duke Xingguo's birthday, we have to celebrate in person."

"If the five loyalists are changed to a town, it will be better than regiment training. The regiment training is a militia. You can train in your spare time. There are police in the local area. There is no other benefit in gathering and recruiting for defense.

But Tun Town is for immigrants to settle down, divide the land and grant land, and settle down. The imperial court will give them money to settle down, and give them preferential treatment in policies. They can not only allocate their own land, cultivate the land to support their families, but also take turns to earn food. not bad. "

"Of course, the military ranks of the five loyal officers will be retained, and they can be transferred in the same way in the future. Everyone is tired after traveling around all these years. It is a good thing to have the opportunity to formally settle down now." Zhu Dadian said to Zhu Victory said.

Zhu Shengli smiled.

He knew in his heart that this matter would definitely cause some suspicion among the generals in the Shunying camp, and some people might even be very dissatisfied, but he trusted the emperor very much, and this would not be an opportunity to seize military power.

But it might not be easy to convince them.

This trip to celebrate the birthday, I'm afraid it may not be peaceful.

But this time he had to go, and even he couldn't refuse Zhu Dadian and Du Yinxi, the two great officials who accompanied him.

He just hoped that his uncle and the others could understand the emperor's intentions and accept these arrangements calmly.

"The Tartars will be able to jump around in a few days. The situation is very good. The revival of the Ming Dynasty is imminent. The Zhongzhenying Camp and others are all heroes of the revival of the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Dadian said slowly.

Zhu Shengli knew that this was a reminder to him that the strength of the imperial court was not what it used to be, and it was no longer the situation when the Huguang Wuzhong fought in Wuchang more than a year ago.

If anyone is confused about the situation like Li Zijing, Tian Jianxiu and other Shunying generals, and dares to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, the result will definitely be disastrous. Today's these are all bestowed by the Son of Heaven, and they are hard-won. Don't When the peace of the world came, they still buried all of these.

"I will explain the details to my uncle and the others." Zhu Shengli said.

(End of this chapter)