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Chapter 210 Abolition of the family system

Zhao Ming brought a large number of people to Jintang Island, and a large number of people gathered, making the island's internal organs chaotic and prone to diseases.

On the fifth day of September, Zhao Ming ordered the military households across the island to carry out a major cleaning of villages and shanty towns.

Each family sweeps their own houses, streets, ditches, etc. to clean them. Everyone also needs to clean themselves and defecate them at designated locations.

Zhao Ming originally thought this was something that could be done easily, but he didn't expect that he would have ruined a lot of talk in the end.

This made Zhao Ming decide to set up a training department to promote various affairs, and to supervise it, and cooperate with the peace department, one to prevent and mobilize, and the other to be responsible for punishment.

It took a day to clean the island, clean the garbage, incinerate the fields, and have a new environment.

In fact, in the Jiangnan area, the people are already very particular about their living environment. People often clean up the streets of each city, and some people collect and dispose of the garbage in the city. However, after escaping to the island, survival is still difficult, and with the mixed personnel, everyone doesn’t care much.

Now that I cleaned up, everyone felt a refreshing feeling, and everyone's temperament and mental outlook were different.

Chen Mingyu and others walked on the street and saw the clean road surface. They felt like they were gradually treating Jintang Island as home, as if they were back to the small town in Jiangnan.

At this time, Chen Mingyu, Ma Shiao and others came to the mansion of the commander in charge and were led into Zhao Ming's study by soldiers.

During the city cleaning, both of them changed into clean clothes and wore square scarves on their heads. When they entered the room, they smiled and said, "Meet the Grand Marshal!"

Zhao Ming was thinking about the military organization and training of the horse army, navy and artillery team. He raised his head and asked, "Is the military household registration statistics completed?"

Chen Mingyu bowed to Zhao Ming, then took out a document from his sleeve and presented it to him: "Master, the new population has been counted. 6,700 military households are registered and 300 craft households are registered! There are 10,000 strong men, elderly, weak women and children, and more than 50,000!"

Zhao Ming said oh, took the booklet and looked at it, and then asked, "Will the population control of the commander's commander be nearly 700,000?"

Chen Mingyu said: "There are not that many, only more than 650,000 people!"

Zhao Ming frowned and said, "I remember that the previous statistics have exceeded 600,000, so why not?"

Chen Mingyu said: "It is because there are a group of military households who cannot stand the harsh conditions of Ryukyu, and are dissatisfied with the general's annexation of Zhoushan, fled to Fujian. In addition, the military households are not adapted to the climate and died of illness, so some people are lost!"

Zhao Ming annexed Huang Binqing's subordinates and purged and exiled Huang Binqing's confidant. Many of them lost their original status and were sent to Taiwan to open up wasteland. He was resentful, so he left the Zhejiang Commander and fled to Fujian.

Zhao Ming said in a deep voice: "Taiwan has just developed, and the conditions are indeed not good, but I don't want military households to escape again!"

Zhao Ming looked down and looked at it a few more times, feeling that there was no problem, and then said to Ma Shiao: "Since the statistics have been completed, the teacher will select the soldiers and then ask them to participate in the training."

In the Zhejiang Commander Command, soldiers were divided into two categories: one was combat soldiers and the other was stationed troops.

The war soldiers are divided into nine levels and belong to full-time troops. They have money to get money. The garrison army is the original military household and is considered a reserve service. The main responsibility is to farm farms. Generally, military pay is not paid. Only in wartime can some money be given.

This time, with Zhao Ming coming to Zhoushan, the rebels were both old, weak, sick and disabled. Zhao Ming hoped to screen and organize the elite into the war soldiers and the old and weak into the garrison army.

Ma Shiao saluted and said, "The generals and the rebels are numerous. What if they are unwilling to accept the reorganization?"

Zhao Ming frowned and said, "Then let them get out!"

The system of family members was prevalent in the Ming Dynasty army. In order to maintain their own status, the generals sent most of the money and food they received to support family members, which caused the food and salary of ordinary soldiers to be deducted, and the soldiers felt resentful and unwilling to fight and train, which caused the army to be low in combat.

Although the servants have strong combat power, some people are not even inferior to the Manchu soldiers, but the number of people is too small, and it will be useless to be able to fight.

In addition, family servants rely on their generals to obtain treatment far superior to ordinary soldiers, while generals use their servants to maintain their own status, threaten the court, and not be controlled by others.

The court gave money and grain and distributed military fields to raise an army that could be used by the court, but in the end, it helped the generals adopt a group of private soldiers. The soldiers were not loyal to the court, and the generals were too big to lose their heads and did not obey the court's orders.

If a servant depends on the general, and the money and food are paid by the general, he will naturally only be loyal to the general. The court will be ashamed of both people and money.

Zhao Ming was not prepared to re-take the old path of the Ming army, so the servant system must be abolished.

However, the family servant system was deeply rooted in the Ming army, and it was related to the vital interests of the generals and family servants, but it was not so easy to abolish.

The general relies on the servants to earn empty wages and occupy land, while the servants rely on the generals to obtain more money and grain. Once the interests of both parties arrive, they form small interest groups, which is not so easy to break.

When Ma Shiao heard the words, he did not respond because he knew that this was obviously an angry word.

The most powerful force of the Ming army was the servants, how could they let them get out?

After Zhao Ming finished speaking, he was silent for a while. After a while, he looked at Ma Shiao and pondered: "Now those generals should have no money in their hands to support these servants. When reorganizing, they should have skills and not let people with ulterior motives incite many servants. After reorganizing, servants are like ordinary soldiers, and their treatment is the same as those of ordinary soldiers. However, the soldiers are at level nine. If they are really capable and are really elite, they can pass the assessment and become top-level soldiers, and their treatment is far superior to those of the lower-level servants. The general believes that as long as they do not owe wages, the reorganization will not touch the interests of most servants. The key is that the generals will lose the opportunity to eat the vacancy and drink the blood of soldiers!"

The servants and generals are an interest group with many servants and few generals. Zhao Ming decided to keep the interests of the vast majority of servants in exchange for at least they did not oppose reorganization. If the generals were barely alone, they would not be able to take on any storm.

Zhao Ming decided to unite the majority, defeat a small amount of people, make more people on his side and fewer people in opposition. This reorganization can be carried out.

Zhao Ming paused and said with a calm face: "If there is a general, I really cannot accept the reorganization. I will not keep him. I will not leave anyone in my army who wants to eat empty salary and drink soldiers' blood!"

When Ma Shiao heard the words, he bowed his fists and said solemnly: "I understand the humble vocation!"

Zhao Ming nodded, "Then let's do it. After the soldiers complete the screening and level assessment, they will also train the horse army to train the artillery team, and adjust the organization and other matters are waiting for the teacher to do it!"
Chapter completed!
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