At this time, the situation of the border army of the Ming Dynasty was already embarrassing, and the military system of the Ming Dynasty was to educate the army in the peasants at the beginning.
Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, implemented the system of separating military and civilian registration, and the peasants who were organized into military households served as soldiers for generations.
The government organized them according to the establishment of the health center and carried out the tuntian.
Defend the city along the border guard post for three points, and plant for seven points; The interior is divided into two to defend the city, and eight is divided into tun.
Each sergeant was given fifty acres of land and cattle and farming tools.
Twelve stone of the harvest was given to the sergeants for their own consumption, and the rest was used as food and storage for the officers of the Guard.
Under this system, the government only supervises the situation in the tuntian, and does not pay salaries.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang once said proudly: I raise millions of soldiers, and it doesn't cost a grain of millet to the people.
However, later, the law was born for a long time, and most of the army's tuntian was seized by officers, Haoyou, and internal supervisors.
Juntun was corrupted in name only, and Shangtun was completely destroyed due to the abolition of the Kaizhong Salt Law, and the imperial court had to allocate silver from the state treasury, which is to say, Lao Zhu's proud boast that he could feed a million army without spending a tael of silver was bragging.
After Wanli, the state finances could not make ends meet, and the situation of arrears of military salaries became more and more serious.
Coupled with the deductions of the officials, the soldiers can receive very little money.
In the late Ming Dynasty, when the famine continued for years and the price of grain rose sharply, the lives of the soldiers were even more desperate.
Take the statistics of Hu Tingyan, the governor of Shaanxi, as an example, at that time, the shortage of military salaries in Lingongbian was five or six years, and the total number reached more than 200,000; Jinglu Bianbao lacked money and grain for two or three years; From the 47th year of Wanli to the 6th year of the Apocalypse, Guzhen and other places have not paid any silver, and they owe more than 159,000 taels of silver in total.
At the beginning, the soldiers could pawn some clothes and furniture, but then there was really nothing to pawn, so they pawned the swords, guns, bows and arrows of the guy who ate out, and later had to give out his wife; and even begging along the streets.
When Lu Xiang was promoted to the governor of Xuanda, he said in a report to the imperial court after inspecting the Shanxi frontier: "The more I pay today, the more hungry and cold I have. borrowed money to make bows, arrows, guns and knives, and still sold them.
Many soldiers lined up in the martial arts, the golden wind was like an arrow, and the sick and stiff servants were told one after another.
Every point of a soldier, there are single clothes, there are no hakama, there are few shoes and socks, the ministers see it and burst into tears. ” The soldiers have all come to this point, so whoever still suppresses the bandits is going to starve to death, they began to play their old profession, their professional force, so Yang He saw that his subordinates were in the flow of Kou, and when Yang He asked him where the idea of loyalty and patriotism went, those soldiers were not ashamed but proudly replied: "You give me military salary, no more, two meals of gruel a day, I will immediately go back to the barracks."
As a result, Yang He couldn't give it because he had no money.
This is the case: there are fewer and fewer officers and soldiers, more and more civilian troops, and when the trained, organized, and disciplined officers and soldiers become the backbone and backbone of the rogue army, the situation becomes more and more untenable.
The situation Yang He is facing is roughly like this, everyone understands it, but he doesn't understand it, so he has what he said above in the court, he talked eloquently there, and came up with a theory of vitality, and when this big mouth understood the huge gap between ideals and reality after taking office, he couldn't run away.
At this time, there were no soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of the rogues increased again, so he could only vigorously promote his theory of appeasement.
Yang He doesn't know the art of war and is not familiar with military affairs, but he has a weapon sincerity that others don't have.
As an out-and-out good man, Yang He was very sincere in looking for the rebels, negotiating with great sincerity, and persuading surrender with great sincerity, and in the end, his sincerity was rewarded.
Facts have proved that the reason why the peasant army rebelled was not because of the righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, and no one had the ambition to become a king or an emperor, and even later Li Zicheng hit Beijing, and discussed with Chongzhen, you make me a king of the northwest, give me Shaanxi as a fief, and then I accepted Zhao'an, and went out of the customs to beat the Jurchens, but I don't know what Chongzhen thought at the time, he actually gave up this best time to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and sent it to the door, and rejected Li Zicheng's kindness, and finally Li Zicheng was desperate, started the final attack, but Chongzhen could only hang himself.
Finally, it shows the spirit of the Ming Dynasty, the most influential dynasty in China.
Since everyone rebelled just because they couldn't eat enough, they were naturally willing to surrender.
After all, the rebellion is not only too risky to run around, especially in the bones, the common people also think that this is a matter of shame for the ancestors without a king and a father.
Analyzing this, Lu Hanqiang summed up bitterly: "But Governor Yang He didn't know that from the first day of appeasement, he had already failed. ” "Why" Zhao Zi was the first to ask the key to Lu Hanqiang's paradox in everyone's opinion.
"Because Yang He didn't understand a question, that is, why did the people rebel" and then without waiting for everyone to ask again, Lu Hanqiang gave the answer: "The answer is, rebellion is because of food, surrender, because Yang He gave them food."
Yang He did not have a steady stream of money and food, remember that it was a steady stream of money and food, so that those people who gave up the rebellion had enough food and opportunities to live, and when the food used for the appeasement was eaten, the people returned to the original situation of sitting and waiting for death, so they could only continue to rebel. ” No one spoke anymore, except for the innocent Ruyun, everyone fell into deep contemplation, shocked by this strange circle uncovered by Lu Hanqiang, and did not know what to do.
At this time, the prince raised his head with fear and asked Lu Hanqiang tremblingly: "Lu Banyu, then we want to extinguish the turmoil in Shanxi with this mere 100,000 silver, isn't it also a wasteless effort, and the major events in the world still can't be changed?"
"Wishful thinking," Lu Hanqiang replied categorically.
Wishful thinking, that is to say, this disaster relief must fail, then Lu Hanqiang and the forces behind Lu Hanqiang will be wiped out because of the disaster relief failure.
A breath of frustration, with Lu Hanqiang's answer, spread in this military tent, and everyone had no hope for the future.
"Therefore, we cannot follow the old path of Yang He, we must find a new path with this vicious circle."
Lu Hanqiang stopped, stretched his shoulders that felt sore, and tried to straighten up, raised his chest, and glanced at the people who had become depressed and decadent because of the reality he had said. "100,000 silver, in the face of the turbulent situation in Shanxi, it is indeed a drop in the bucket, so I can't save the whole of Shanxi, but I have a way to save as many people as possible, and will let them live and work in peace and contentment, at least they can barely survive without rebellion."
As soon as Lu Hanqiang's words came out, he immediately ignited the hope of everyone in the big tent again, and Ruyun patted his little chest and let out a sigh: "I'll just say it, my brother-in-law will have a way, there will definitely be a way." ” t1706231537: