Daming Military Empire

Chapter 82
Shanxi Xuancheng Buzhengshisi is located in the north of the central part of the Ming Dynasty, bordering the capital in the east, Shaanxi in the west, Henan in the south, and the Mongolian Tatars in the north.Since the early Ming Dynasty, Shanxi has always been an important border defense town. There are Datong Town and Taiyuan Town in the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty.

There are five prefectures and two prefectures in Shanxi, and the governor's office is located in Taiyuan Prefecture in the middle. After receiving the appointment, Lu Xiangsheng immediately rushed to Taiyuan with a thousand guards personally arranged by the emperor. Since Shanxi is close to the capital, he is a Except for Shi Kefa, this batch of appointed governors was the first to take office.

Lu Xiangsheng can be said to be an outlier among civil servants. Although he is a literati from the south of the Yangtze River, he has been fond of riding and shooting since he was a child. But an all-around talent.

In fact, as early as when he was the magistrate of the Daming Prefecture, he wanted to conscript troops to wipe out the local bandits, but before he could take action, he was recruited to the capital by the emperor and appointed as the deputy general of the capital.

For other literati, this kind of appointment may be a bit difficult to accept, but for Lu Xiangsheng, it is exactly what he wants, because he has had a dream of leading the army since he was a child, and now he has been promoted to the deputy general of the Beijing camp. It can be said that his dream is about to come true.The Jingying is the emperor's pro-army. With the current situation of Ming Dynasty, there will be battles sooner or later. You must know that there are not many emperors in the Ming Dynasty who are not fighting!
Unexpectedly, before the Beijing battalion participated in the war, he was sent to Shanxi, the governor of a province, and was responsible for exterminating the rebels.How can this not make him overjoyed, as long as he recruits an army, his dream will be realized immediately.Therefore, as soon as he received the order, he rushed to Taiyuan Mansion in a hurry, and without even taking a breath, he went to Shanxi to command the envoy to gather all the brains of a group of leaders to discuss the matter of conscription.

Why did he go to the commander of the capital instead of going to the governor's office?Here we will introduce the local official system of the Ming Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, local administrative units were not called provinces, but Xuancheng Buzhengshi, and the highest chief executive of a province was neither called a senior official nor a secretary, but called Zuobuzhengshi and Youbuzhengshi, both of which were second rank. A big official in Xinjiang, in charge of the civil affairs of a province.

At the local level, in addition to the Minister of Proclamation and Prosecution, there is also the Division of Procuratorate and Commander. These three yamen are collectively called the Three Divisions. They are the highest organs in a province. They are at the same level in terms of rank, and they are only in charge of things. no the same.Xuancheng Buzhengshi is in charge of civil affairs, and the procuratorate is in charge of punishment and prison. Both command and envoys are in charge of military affairs.

The governor and the governor are not permanent local officials, but temporary officials set up above the provincial level. ".In other words, the governor and the governor were sent by the imperial court to temporarily handle local military affairs. After the incident, the governor and the governor would not stay in the place, but would return to the court to return to their original posts.

Although Lu Xiangsheng, the governor, has higher authority than the three local divisions, he is mainly in charge of military affairs, so after he arrived in Taiyuan, he went directly to the commander of the capital instead of the minister of political affairs.

The military households in the Ming Dynasty were all hereditary. When there was no war, the military households became Tuntianwei, managed by officials of hundreds of households. There was one thousand households above ten hundred households, and one guard above five thousand households. The station, and above the guard station are all commanders and envoys.

The commanding division of the Ming Dynasty was not actually a combat unit, but a military and political management organization, which was mainly responsible for the management of the native place and daily drills of the garrison guards. When it was actually fighting, the imperial court would send a general soldier or governor or governor to command the troops. At that time It has nothing to do with the commander of the capital.

Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng did not come to Shanxi to command the envoy to directly lead troops to fight from here. It can be said that the command envoy did not have a single soldier, and he only had military households under him.You said how many soldiers and horses you want, just bring the order from the Ministry of War, and I will recruit for you, and you can also get weapons and equipment in the arsenal. As for the food and salaries, I'm sorry, you can ask the court yourself, we will not be responsible for it!
Lu Xiangsheng looked up the household registration book of Shanxi Metropolitan Command and Envoy Division. The number of military households is enough. Shanxi has always been an important military town. The Ming court does not know how many soldiers and horses were stationed here. Naturally, it is inevitable to stay directly to farm. You must know that the founding of the Ming Dynasty At that time, there were 270 million troops. Most of these troops eventually became garrison guards, and more than half of them were stationed on the nine sides of Daming. Each border town had at least more than 30 military households, and Shanxi had two border towns. , Therefore, there are no fewer than [-] military households under the jurisdiction of the Shanxi Metropolitan Command!
Naturally, there is no problem in mobilizing 30 troops from more than 5000 military households. Lu Xiangsheng planned to pull out [-] guard posts far from the border, and asked the Shanxi Metropolitan Commander to directly recruit [-] troops from each guard post. Even if the problem of the source of troops is solved, after the army such as weapons and armors are assembled, they can go directly to the arsenal to get them. The rest is practice. He himself is a fan of the army, so training the army is naturally a no-brainer.

The key is food and payment, not that the emperor did not prepare food and payment for him, the emperor gave it, and the emperor personally handed over the payment to him before the expedition, and the payment was not 300 million taels, but 500 million taels - bank notes!

With the 500 million taels of silver bills in his pocket, Lu Xiangsheng was really a little nervous. Can this large roll of letter paper not like letter paper and straw paper really be exchanged for 500 million taels of silver?Although you are not joking, he does not doubt the emperor's character, but that is 500 million taels!
Lu Xiangsheng led his personal guards to the Rixinglong Shanxi Branch after finishing the conscription in the capital, and he always felt a little uneasy along the way. If he couldn't get the money, he would be in big trouble.

As soon as he entered the Rixinglong branch, an old man who looked like a shopkeeper came up to him and bowed his hands, "Dare to ask, but Governor Lu, Lord Lu?"

Lu Xiangsheng was not curious that the old man could recognize him. It was not a secret operation that he took office. Although there was no fanfare, the situation was there. With so many personal guards, who would it be if it wasn't the newly appointed governor.

He directly took out a bank note from his pocket and handed it to the old man, and asked tentatively, "Are you the shopkeeper here? Can this be exchanged immediately?"

The old man didn't accept the banknote, and didn't answer him right away, but bowed and invited him into a reception room, poured hot tea for him with his own hands, then took the banknote from his hand and carefully identified it. After a while, he replied affirmatively: "There is no problem with the bank note, so it can be exchanged immediately."

The denomination of the bank note was 10 taels, and the shopkeeper was neither blushing nor out of breath. Lu Xiangsheng was impressed by his calmness alone.He simply took out all the bank notes in his arms, and continued to probe: "Then what about these?"

The shopkeeper took over the bank notes, checked them one by one, and replied affirmatively: "Fifty bank notes with a denomination of 10 taels, a total of 500 million taels, need to be transferred, and I can give you all within three days." Exchange it into silver. But this is an exchange in another place, and we will charge half of the handling fee, so we can only exchange you a total of 475 million taels of silver."

Lu Xiangsheng asked in disbelief, "Do you really have so much cash?"

The shopkeeper said proudly after hearing the words: "Our Rixinglong is the largest company in Daming, and the total share capital has grown to [-] million taels. If a semicolon in a province can't even make up several million taels of cash, isn't it necessary? It's a joke."

Fifty million taels!Lu Xiangsheng felt that the amount of money was a bit beyond his cognition. He heard that the big boss behind Xinglong today was a first-rank member of the dynasty, the left governor of the five armies' governor's mansion, and the commander of the Jinyiwei, Luo Yangxing.

Although his governor is a temporary false title, he can be regarded as a first-rank official, but all his family properties add up to less than 5000 taels, and his family is [-] million taels. This guy will not move Daming's treasury to his home Come on!
He didn't know that the Xinglong Company was really Daming's hidden treasury today, and the big boss behind the scenes was not Luo Yangxing, but Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong.

Of course, our little emperor is still very generous to his cronies. As long as Lu Xiangsheng passes this test and wipes out the peasant uprising army, let alone 5000 taels, even if it is 5 taels, Zhu Cijiong may reward him with 50 taels .

(End of this chapter)