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Chapter 97 The real hidden danger

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    Han Siwen's words made these military leaders feel like a knife was pressing on their necks. Although these people except Cao Wenzhao were all deputy commander-in-chief, the deputy commander-in-chief also had a lot of oil and water, and he could do the job of deputy commander-in-chief.  In the position of the soldier, it is not impossible to sit down and look straight.

    But it is not easy to take that step. First of all, you must have some military merits that you have seen before, and secondly, the superior management must be appropriate, but these all need money to support!

    If you don¡¯t have money to support your own soldiers, how can you get military glory?

    "If you don't have enough money to serve your superior, who the hell is looking at you?"

    It is precisely this kind of practice that even though military generals were severely suppressed by lieutenants and civilian officials before, that suppression did not affect their ability to make money!

    In order to benefit from these military leaders, many middle and civilian officials even deliberately allowed them to amass money. Over time, the promotion of military generals became more important than merit. This also created a situation where the military generals of the Ming Dynasty fought ten battles and did not compete with each other to make money.  One stinking problem is worth a hundred!

    But the current situation seems to have undergone earth-shaking changes. The little emperor in the capital was so restless that he even personally trained a troop of soldiers and horses to frighten the world!

    If the little emperor just had a whim and was just playing around, judging from the conversation between Han Siwen and Cao Wenzhao, these military leaders were keenly aware that the little emperor was very serious about training his troops.  And what comes out of training should be an elite and strong army!

    "If the Ming Dynasty has such a strong army to shock all parties in the future, it will be very difficult for military leaders like them to make money from the army. If they can't get money from being an official, then what do they do with this bullshit official?

    Is it possible to really sacrifice one's life for the sake of Lao Zhu's family?

    Han Siwen frightened these military leaders and stopped talking. He had a ferocious smile on his face and looked at these military leaders with a pair of eyes, but his eyes showed contempt from time to time!

    Xiong Tingbi was sitting behind the commander's desk, twirling his beard, and thinking about how to deal with the current situation. When he was leading the troops, he also knew how his commander-in-chief and Qianhu led the troops, and he also knew what they were.  How to make money!

    ?? Senior officers such as the general, deputy general, deputy general, staff general, and Qianhu have to support their own soldiers, so taking short quotas and deducting food and salary are common methods!

    The lower-level officers such as the Baihu and the General Banner are not responsible for taking short quotas or deducting food and salary, but they can still use their authority to acquire more farmland.

    Needless to say, there is no need to say more about the quota. For example, the Eight Guards and Seventy-two Forts in Datong Town should have a total of 130,000 soldiers. But if we check carefully now, I am afraid that even 50,000 people are not enough, and the 80,000 quota is not enough.  The military pay was divided among civil and military officials at all levels!

    In fact, in the past, the Ministry of Revenue dared to directly cut 30% of the general's salary, because it knew that the vacancy below was serious, and the subsequent officials deducted it layer by layer without worrying about the army. This is also the reason!

    It's just that officials at all levels only thought that it would be okay if they deducted a little money for themselves, but they never thought that the officials at each level would deduct more and more harshly. In the hands of the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief, there really would not be much money left, and at this level  Officers have to raise soldiers, so they must create more vacancies to ensure that while they are well-fed, they can also support some of the soldiers with combat effectiveness!

    As a result, the shortage of personnel in each army can be imagined. Of course, the army cannot only have a few soldiers. It still needs some different soldiers to support the appearance. But those ordinary soldiers are actually no different from beggars.  , and even some unemployed vagrants who have no choice but to join the army. They just need to make ends meet!

    ¡°As a result, the Ming Dynasty spent millions of taels of silver every year to raise a bunch of useless soldiers. However, the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty was based on the number of soldiers in the hands of senior officers!

    Why could Li Chengliang, Li Rusong and his son overwhelm the Liaodong Jurchens and Duoyan Sanwei who couldn't breathe? Li Rusong even fought in Korea and made the Japanese pirates cry for their fathers and mothers. The reason was that they had 8,000 personal soldiers in their hands!

    But when the two men of the Li family died and there were not many of the eight thousand soldiers left, Li Rubai and his gang of dandy brothers could no longer maintain the Li family's military power in Liaodong. Therefore, the Li family's status in Liaodong plummeted.  It was even defeated miserably in the Battle of Salhu!

    If Zhu Youxiao hadn't been time-traveled, the only remaining figure in the Li family in Liaodong who could still fight would have committed suicide in the first year of Tianqi. However, now he is prosperous and has become the supervisor of the Guards Cavalry.  handsome!

    As for the occupation of farmland, it was a very common thing. The low-level officers in the Ming army had little food and salary to deduct, so they paid attention to the farmland.Of course they can only get a small part!

    The real big ones who invaded and occupied the farmland were the local squires. These people either spent money to communicate with the officers, or relied on the support of someone in their family who was an official. In short, nine out of ten of the Ming Dynasty farmland was occupied by these people!

    It is precisely because of this that the British Duke Zhang Weixian asked the Ministry of Household Affairs for five million taels of silver. It was because he wanted to reorganize the Ming Dynasty border army and had to spend this money!

    Therefore, it is recorded in the history books that the Ming Dynasty sent tens of thousands of troops, but was defeated by the enemy with a few times the number of troops. It can be said that that is a true record, but it is not a true fact!

    Because judging from the situation in the late Ming Dynasty, if the so-called 100,000 troops were sent out, it would be good if only 50,000 could actually be mobilized. And among these 50,000, there were still 30,000 to 40,000 who had basically no training and only knew how to eat.  Ordinary soldiers drinking together!

    There are only tens of thousands of people who can really fight, but these people are the personal soldiers of various senior officers and cannot be organized effectively. It is actually unreasonable for this kind of army to be undefeated in war!

    This situation of combat-effective soldiers being held in the hands of individuals also directly led to the normal historical trajectory of military leaders becoming larger in the late Ming Dynasty. Military leaders such as Zuo Liangyu, because they held a large army in their hands, gradually  Forcing the imperial court to grant him an official and reward him with silver, when it came to Nanming, the entire small imperial court of Nanming was controlled by military leaders like Zheng Zhilong.

    Until these military leaders felt that the Ming Dynasty had no chance to make a comeback and sold the princes and nobles of the Southern Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the descendants of the old Zhu family had no choice but to bow their heads and accept their fate!

    The reason why Zhu Youxiao was so determined to separate the military from the civilian system was to solve this problem from the root, re-establish the military system of the Ming Dynasty, and take this opportunity to create a military force that could control, discipline, and become richer.  An army with an offensive spirit.

    Xiong Tingbi doesn¡¯t know Zhu Youxiao¡¯s grand plan and lofty goals. He is having a headache now. If these military leaders, big and small, are not allowed to make money and raise soldiers, how will they fight in the future?

    Xiong Tingbi even complained in his heart that Zhu Youxiao, the little emperor, did not understand military affairs and commanded blindly, which put him in such an embarrassing situation.

    "Alas!" Xiong Tingbi couldn't help but sigh when he thought of his difficulties.

    But Xiong Tingbi's sigh aroused the thoughts of the nine town military leaders, and the look of sadness on their faces became even heavier!

    At this time, Han Siwen said with a smile: "Do you think that without these incomes, you will not be able to raise soldiers in the future, and this war will not be fought?"

    This is a proposition, and the nine town military leaders have no way to answer it, so they can only turn their attention to Xiong Tingbi!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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