Yesterday, Fang Nan agreed to the Ming court to seek peace, but today Fang Nan encountered another amazing thing, which was sent by a MIIS agent from the Ming Dynasty ruled area.

The Ming court actually allowed the gentry and merchants under their rule to establish guards!

The Ming court ordered the establishment of gentry and merchants from all over the country to form a guard team almost all together with the "grant of kings", but the "grant of kings" was sent directly to Jiande County, while the establishment of gentry and merchants from all over the capital was spread all the way south.

Moreover, the gentry and merchants do not form the escort teams just by forming them. They need to apply to the local governor first. After the application is approved, they can only formally recruit people to form escort teams in a certain area. The amount of deposit is related to the upper limit of the number of people in the escort team. The minimum number of people in the escort team is 100,000, and each hundred people is one level.

When some gentry and merchants formally recruited people to form a guard team, the agents who were in the Ming Dynasty ruled the situation were determined and sent the information to the People's Army ruled the area. The speed of intelligence transmission along the way was not so fast that the intelligence was sent to Fang Nan by the Military Intelligence Service today.

Fang Nan carefully read the Investigation Report of the Military Intelligence Department on "The Ming court allowed the gentry and merchants to form a guard team." Although there were various conditions and restrictions on the formation of a guard team, it was ultimately allocated part of the military power to the gentry and merchants. If it were at other times, the Ming court might not be far from destruction.

A guard team formed by a gentry and merchants can reach up to 1,000 people. If ten gentry and merchants unite, there will be 10,000 people. One hundred gentry and merchants unite will be 100,000 people and 100,000 people. Even if they are farmers who have just put down their farm tools, they will have a great impact on the Ming court. They may not be able to occupy a province, but there is no problem in occupying several prefectures.

The control of various places under the Han Dynasty was greatly weakened at the end of the Han Dynasty, and the great families could form troops at will to gain self-respect. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, there were also aristocratic families who controlled the military power and destroyed the Sui Dynasty.

Now the Ming court has given military power to gentry and merchants, and even a guard team of up to 1,000 people will have endless troubles.

Fang Nan felt that the Ming court also knew the consequences of releasing military power to the gentry and merchants, but the most important reason for the Ming court to do so was that the Ming court had the People's Army, the great enemy, and the most important task of the Ming court was to block the People's Army. If the People's Army could not be stopped, the Ming court would be destroyed. What consequences would be useless to releasing military power to the gentry and merchants?

The gentry and merchants under the Ming court were one and the Ming court. Once the Ming court was destroyed, they would not be able to have a good time. The People's Army's methods of dealing with gentry and merchants have gradually spread, and most gentry and merchants are unwilling to perish the Ming court.

With the enemy in front of the Ming Dynasty, the gentry and merchants under the Ming Dynasty would not only not rebel, but would honestly obey the orders of the Ming Dynasty and work together to stop the People's Army.

When the People's Army was almost wiped out, at this time, the gentry and merchants would rebel if they wanted to, and it would be great to establish themselves as kings. Maybe they could replace the Ming court.

The Ming court did not rely on the guards formed by the gentry and merchants. The Ming court continued to train new recruits. Only by fully controlling the army in its own hands can the Ming court maintain its territory.

Fang Nan was not concerned about the combat effectiveness of the gentry and merchants under the Ming court's rule. The total number of all the guards might be as many as millions, but in Fang Nan's view, even if all the guards gathered together, they could not stop the progress of the People's Army.

The People's Army is already expanding its army. In the next three years, the People's Army will expand its army to one million.

As the absolute main force of the People's Army, before the war started this year, the proportion of musketeers in the People's Army exceeded one eighth. When the army was expanded to one million, the proportion of musketeers would not be much different. There are at least 100,000 musketeers in the one million people's army. With these 100,000 musketeers in hand, no matter how many enemies there are, it is useless.

However, there is also a very important issue here. If the total number of guards reaches millions and the war breaks out, the People's Army must kill millions of enemies before they can win the war. This is not a good thing.

One million enemies are one million young and strong laborers, and will be one of the foundations of future agricultural, commerce and industrial development. It will take more time to make up for the reduction of one million young and strong people in China.

Fang Nan did not want the People's Army to kill one million enemies before destroying the Ming court. Even if hundreds of thousands of people were killed or injured, it was enough to make people feel distressed. Fang Nan's mind quickly turned to think about how to reduce casualties and injuries in future wars.

After thinking for a while, several ideas appeared in Fang Nan's mind.

We can increase our efforts to publicize the strength of the People's Army in the Ming Dynasty ruling region. No one in the Ming Dynasty is the opponent of the People's Army, and millions of farmers who have just put down their farm tools are not the opponent of the People's Army. The efforts of the gentry and merchants are redundant, and the outcome of the war has long been decided.

After promoting the strong strength of the People's Army, the People's Army can send people to contact the rich and gentry merchants and give the rich and gentry merchants a promise that as long as you surrender to the People's Army and do not blame the mistakes you made in the past, the whole family can save their lives and retain all their wealth.

With the previous achievements of the People's Army, there must be many gentry and merchants who are willing to surrender to the People's Army. The gentry and merchants are not very loyal to the Ming court.

Of course, if you surrender, the People's Army will search the house and the gentry and merchants mainly use the wealth of the gentry and merchants to develop the People's Army. These gentry and merchants who surrender will be the key targets for inspection in the future, and they will be severely punished if they violate the law.

Moreover, in the Ming Dynasty, although the Ming court allowed all gentry and merchants to form guards, there were more than one of the five gentry and merchants who would actually form guards. The one who surrendered the gentry and merchants would not blame him. As long as the other four gentry and merchants were evil, they would be severely punished in accordance with the laws of the People's Army.

The People's Army will not get much wealth from the gentry and merchants in the future, and it will be almost enough for the People's Army to develop temporarily, so that the country established by the People's Army will be on track.

The matter of "The Ming court gave military power to the gentry and merchants" is very important to the People's Army, no less than the ongoing armistice negotiations. After thinking through the incident, Fang Nan immediately asked Dong Zhenye to convene the main personnel of the MIIS to prepare for a meeting. Fang Nan personally formulated a countermeasure plan with the MIIS to the Ming court.

Half an hour later, at a meeting at the location of the People's Army's central government, Li Zhen, director of the Military Information Department, Qin Wenle, deputy director, and others gathered here.

Fang Nan walked into the conference room, and everyone in the MIIS stood up.

"Grandmaster!"

Fang Nan walked to the main seat and took everyone in the Military Intelligence Department's eyes, then said: "Sit down, the Ming court has already handed over some of the military power to the gentry and merchants. I need the Military Intelligence Department to take action..."
Chapter completed!