On September 25, 2018, the Ming army in Zhejiang Province held a meeting for the first time since its establishment, with representatives of civil servants responsible for administration and judicial affairs in the conference room of the Hou Mansion. The topic of the meeting was the issue of the newly recovered garrisons in Taizhou and Wenzhou.

Unlike the four prefectures of Jinqu Yanchu that were previously recovered, there was only one garrison in Chuzhou and the Thousand Houses of Quzhou Yanzhou and Jinhua. There were also a large number of inland garrisons and coastal Japanese garrisons within the scope of these two prefectures, which were not the same as the management difficulty. Land is the same. According to Ma Xin and Hu Laijin, there are still many military households of garrisons in these inland and coastal Japanese garrisons.

Jinquyan was in charge of the four prefectures, with only one guard and three guards of Thousand Houses. Since it was a guard station in the mainland, the Ming Dynasty had been in the past two hundred years, and it was not like the coastal guard stations that had to participate in assisting in the fight against the Japanese. The land of the guard station had long been occupied. Some were done by military officers in the garrison, while others were done by local gentry. So when Chen Wen first arrived in Jinhua, there was only a yamen in the Jinhua guards of Thousand Houses, and there was no officer inside.

The four governments of Jinquyan have completely changed the system of garrisons improved by Chen Wen. There are only a few military officers left in these four governments, and the military households will be completed as long as they are changed to nationality. However, the newly recovered Taizhou and Wenzhou are completely different.

According to reports from General Ma of Taizhou and General Hu of Wenzhou, there are still a large number of coastal Japanese garrisons in Taizhou and Wenzhou, and there are many military households. As for how many military households there are, it is still difficult to explain clearly. It is not clear whether the land and soil of the garrisons, especially the salt fields, are there.

So what can be figured out now?

Sun Yu was a little unsatisfied with Zhou Jingting's statement. However, among the civil servants here, he was the only one who dared to question Zhou Jingting in person in person. Everyone knew that Zhou Jingting's sister is now Chen Wen's wife, the wife of the Hou Mansion, and this brother-in-law is no longer as simple as the head of the staff.

If you go back to the prefect Sun, the officials only got so many things. The Marquis's Mansion had sent officers and staff to investigate, but the exact answer has not been obtained yet.

The time was too short, and it was already good that the investigation began. The mountains were high and the road was far away, and the garage station had no previous organizational strength. It was the truth to take time. Hearing this, Sun Yu nodded and then looked at Chen Wen.

Today I summoned you all to the issue of the existence and abolition of these garrisons. As we all know, the four prefectures of Jinquyan, which were recovered by the King of Zhejiang, have now improved the previous garrison system of Huangming. However, the situation in the newly recovered Taizhou and Wenzhou is very different. There are also a large number of coastal Japanese garrisons, and there are a large number of military officers and households in the garrisons. Today I will discuss how to manage them.

The military officers and civil servants here all heard about what Chen Wen said, and there were even specialists who had found Ma Xin who had already reported to Zhejiang Martial Arts School to inquire about the specific situation. At this moment, when Chen Wen finished speaking, everyone present looked at each other, Guo Zhigang, who had acted as the prefect of Jinhua during the four provincial capitals, stood up and bowed to Chen Wen.

The officials believed that the system of the Imperial Ming Guard had long been decayed, and the Marquis improved it, and now it has begun to show results and should be expanded in Taizhou and Wenzhou.

Guo Tongzhi's words are reasonable.

The lower official agreed.

In the conference hall, the civil servants brought by Sun Yu all agreed, but the civilian officers from each department kept silent, as if they were still weighing something.

Chen Wen glanced over and knew very well that according to the current improved garrison system, these garrisons would be abolished, military households would be changed to the people, and military fields would also be transformed into civilian fields, which would be under the jurisdiction of the government, rather than garrisons. For civilian officials, these changes were to increase their rights, so they naturally flocked to them. But for civilian officers, should the military camps in these garrisons become civilian fields or be collected into military fields for division of land; should the military households in the garrisons be changed to the people, or should they be used as preparations for military recruitment? How should the original officers in the garrisons deal with these things need to be measured clearly before they can make decisions, so they are not in a hurry to speak out.

The improved garrison system is the basis of our Zhejiang Wangshi's military merits and field teaching system. I also thought it should be implemented as soon as possible in Taizhou and Wenzhou.

Sun Yu spoke, Chen Wen nodded, and said: Military merits are fundamental and cannot be changed. Now this lord needs advice on how the officers and military households of the military field guard station should be dealt with and can speak freely.

Chen Wen directly exposed the difficulties of this matter, and the civil servants and civilian officers present began to discuss in a low voice in their own small groups. Until a long time later, Guo Zhigang spoke out his thoughts to Chen Wen.

The officials thought that before, in Jinquyan, the four prefectures were directly transferred to the people, and the military farming was also owned by the government, and it was possible to transfer it to the garrison office or leave it for other purposes. As for the officers of the garrison office, the Zhejiang Martial Arts School should be trained and assessed, and useful talents should be selected to be given official positions in the military town and garrison office.

Sun Yu is the leader of the civil servant group occupied by the Ming army in Zhejiang. However, compared with other civil servants, Sun Yu is more comprehensive in view of things and can also consider the situation of the army. Instead, he has no intention of fighting for any rights and interests for civil servants. Although Guo Zhigang is still a co-prime minister, he has actually been under Sun Yu, who has been working as a superior who has been in charge of the prefect of the prefect for a long time. In terms of status, he is no longer comparable to the prefect of the other prefectures. He is naturally speaking here.

Guo Zhigang's meaning is very simple. All the useful garrisons belong to the government and all the military garrisons are like this. The useless garrison officers are left to the army. What kind of training is your business, and civil servants are not interested in it.

As soon as this was said, several civilian officers looked at each other. The officer responsible for coordinating the affairs of the garrison office stood up and signaled, saying: Guo Tongzhi's words are wrong. In the opinion of the general, the military camps of those garrison offices were originally from the Zhejiang Commander-in-Chief under the Left Army Governor's Office, and the same is true for officers and military households. The general improved the garrison office system, but the things of these old garrison offices should have been inherited by the new garrison offices. It is inappropriate to transfer them to prefectures and counties rashly.

After the officer said this, it immediately aroused the echoes of other civilian officers, but at this moment, another civilian official stood up and said: No, is it true, has General Liang not seen the old example of Jin Quyan?

The old example that Zhihuzhe also mentioned was that military households were changed to the people. However, once this was said, an officer next to the officer named Liang turned to the person who was next to him and said: Times changed, and the general also told us that handling official duties should vary according to the situation. Today, Taiwen is different from the garrisons in Jin and Quyan.

The speaker is the officer responsible for the training of the new soldiers and soldiers in the military garrison. Zhejiang Martial Arts School is also under the jurisdiction of this department, so naturally they have to make a fight.

All of Chen Wen’s civilian officers were officers who followed him on Dalan Mountain back then. After several years of study, they were competent in copywriting work, especially trustworthy.

After refuting that Zhihu, the officer immediately turned to Chen Wen and bowed to him and said: As far as the generals knew, Jin Quyan was in charge of these four prefectures, and the military camps were almost invaded, and the military households were almost gone. At that time, the generals led the team to occupy the Jinhua guarding the Thousand Houses, which was so empty that even rats were not running away.

As soon as this was said, a civil servant almost laughed, but then the officer said: For this matter, the general and Chief Liang went to the martial arts lecture hall yesterday to consult General Ma. Most of the garrisons in Taizhou and Wenzhou are prepared for Japanese garrisons, and the deterioration is not as good as those in mainland garrisons, and there are many military farms and military households, so they cannot be generalized at all.

At this moment, Jinhuafu said that the one who knows the most about Taizhou and Wenzhou must be Ma Xin, and he did not think about it at all. When the civil servant heard that the two officers had to lift Ma Xin out first, his face changed immediately.

The preparatory vas garrison was also a vassal. The vassals before the Emperor Ming Dynasty had been corrupted in their system and could not play a role in preparatory vassals at all. It is better to ban them as soon as possible.

It was not said that it would not be banned, but there was always an explanation for how to separate the military officers and military households.

There are old examples to follow and stories to follow, what else should I say?

If the situation is different, can it be followed by the story?

As he was talking, the civil and military officials present quarreled, and Chen Wen's brows couldn't help but frown.

Okay. All of you are officials, how can you argue endlessly like a woman in the market? This is the conference hall of the Marquis’ Mansion. Don’t lose your manners in front of the Marquis!

The person who spoke was Qi Xiufeng, the head of the Military Control Commission. He was a scholar with fame. At first, he was in Chen Wenmu and has been in charge of military law for many years. He was nicknamed the King of Hell in the army. His cold face that almost never smiled drooped, and the conference hall immediately became quiet. Then the civil and military officials present stood up to salute and apologized to Chen Wen.

It seems that there is no discussion about this matter today, so let’s disperse it. Let’s talk about it when the officers and staff in charge of the investigation come back.

The affairs of Wenzhou Vilatory in Taizhou involve administrative and judicial affairs, especially with all the security forces. Chen Wenben planned to attract these related civil and military officials to discuss, but the two sides simply fought for power and profit, which really left him with nothing to say.

It seems that if you don’t investigate clearly, you can’t even listen to a single opinion.

However, compared with these garrisons, the digestion of nearly 10,000 green camp soldiers was the most urgent problem that Chen Wen needed to solve.

Three thousand war soldiers in Taizhou Town, Wenzhou Association, two thousand war soldiers, one thousand war soldiers in Qingtian City, plus the Taoist model soldiers in Wenzhou and Taizhou, and the 3,000 navy soldiers from Taizhou Navy, nearly ten thousand green camp soldiers. If you add the two war barracks in Chun'an, Yushan who are undergoing training, as well as the cavalry battalions and mule army, the word indigestion has appeared in Chen Wen's commonly used dictionary.

However, when it comes to digesting these green camp soldiers, the civil servants had no intention of interfering. The influence of Cao Conglong Rebellion, Sun Yu's self-discipline, and the principle of non-interference in the military affairs of Chen Wen during the Wang Yi and Wang Jiang era have led to the current situation of civil and military affairs in Zhejiang's Ming army returning to the state of special civil and military paths in the early Ming Dynasty.

However, in the matter of the ban on the old garrison, the conflict between the two sides still exists. Both sides want to fight for more rights for the forces they represent, which is bound to happen. Chen Wen's work is to find a way more suitable for the overall development direction from it.
Chapter completed!