Chongwu Institute, full name of Chongwu Guarding and Qianhu Institute, was the predecessor of the Xiaoduo Inspection Office in Chongwu Township, Hui'an County. It was founded in the sixth year of Taiping Xingguo in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the 20th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Jiangxiahou Zhou Dexing managed Fujian coastal defense and expanded the city on the basis of the former Xiaoduo Inspection Office to prevent Japanese pirates. Chongwu Guarding and Qianhu Institute was established since then and was under the jurisdiction of Yongning Wei.

This guarding Thousand Houses are different from the general guarding Thousand Houses. Because it also has the position of guarding the local area, it generally guarding Thousand Houses has cities. Chongwu guarding Thousand Houses not only guarding Thousand Houses, but also hosts four inspection departments, including the Ox Cave Inspection Department, the Xiaoli Inspection Department, the Huangqi Inspection Department, and the Fengwei Inspection Department. These four inspection departments also have small cities with a radius of hundreds of steps, which means that there are five cities of all sizes under the rule of Chongwu.

This Chongwu Institute can be said to be the largest thousand-household office under the Yongning Guard. During its heyday, it recorded more than 800 guards in the city, more than 300 guards in the fields, more than 400 guards in patrols, and more than 1,600 guards in various types.

However, since the Zhengtong period of Emperor Yingzong, the military escape of the various capitals of the Ming Dynasty has become increasingly serious, and the Chongwu Institute is no exception. To this day, the remaining military households in the military are less than half of their heyday.

Yu Dayou sat in the study room of the main hall of the yamen of the Qianhu Office, flirting with the "Yellow Book of Fu Services" on the table, frowned and didn't say anything for a long time.

He really didn't expect that the situation at Chongwu Institute was so bad.

The "Yellow Book of Taxes and Services" records that the Chongwu Institute has a total of 772 military households left in the military camp. The number seems to be absurd, but if you look closely, you will find the horror.

Because among these remaining military households, there are too few ordinary guards.

Most of the military households in Chongwu Institute escaped, but there were many officers at all levels.

Not only are there two deputy thousand households, fifteen hundred households, thirty general banners, and one hundred fifteen small banners, but there are also three thousand households and eighteen hereditary 100 households under the jurisdiction of Chongwu.

In this way, there are more than 200 officers in Chongwu Institute alone, and more than 500 households left in ordinary guards!

He knew that this situation was true without checking, because the "Fune and Service Yellow Book" has to be checked every year, and basically no one dared to fake the number of guards in the city. Moreover, he himself is the one with the 100 hereditary households in Chongwu, so he is still quite clear about the number of hereditary officers in Chongwu.

The Chongwu Institute has a total of five cities of all sizes and sizes that need to be guarded, and there are more than 16,000 acres of military farms under its jurisdiction to cultivate. Is these more than 500 ordinary garrisons enough?

It’s not enough to think about it. It’s definitely not enough. It may be enough to take them all to farm. If you guard the city, then you don’t have to think about it.

He also knew that most of the more than 16,000 acres of military farms were embezzled by officers at all levels. Although the number of military farms on the "Tax and Service Yellow Book" was not faked, most of the ownership of these military farms was fake!

He originally thought that this real-time thousand households were a hot commodity, but he never thought that what he received was such a mess.

What to do?

If he followed the crowd, just like other real-time thousand households, he just kept making money, regardless of the guards of cities everywhere, or the life or death of the guards, then this real-time thousand households was indeed a hot commodity.

But he didn't want to do this. He was a kind of honest and upright person. He never thought of living a life of stuttering. No matter where he went or what he did, he wanted to do it well.

Question, how to clean up this mess?

He was not the only one in the study, Yang Cong, Deng Cheng, Tang Kekuan, and even Wang Xuan were all sitting in the guest seats on both sides. Li Jianjiang, Li Jianlin and other ordinary military households in Chongwu Institute also stood aside.

Of course, these ordinary military households have not been ordinary. They are all Li Liangqin's disciples and Yang Cong's guards. These are also considered Yu Dayou's confidants.

Their group came to take over the Chongwu Institute. Li Xixian had already released the news. Yu Dayou was his future son-in-law. Therefore, the former Qianhuyuan did not dare to let go of any of them. After the handover, he took a few confidants to Tong'an obediently. The Chongwu Institute is now Yu Dayou has the final say.

The reason why Yang Cong begged Li Xixian to hand over the Chongwu branch to Yu Dayou for management was to resist the pirates sent by Chen Wenjie. At this moment, he felt a little anxious when he saw Yu Dayou sitting there without saying a word.

After holding it in for a while, he finally couldn't help asking, "Brother Zhifu, what's wrong?"

Yu Dayou closed the yellow book, frowned and sighed, "Oh, the Chongwu Institute is too short of staff, so I don't know what to do if my brother is."

Serious shortage of staff?

Is this abnormal?

It’s abnormal to have no shortage of staff!

Yang Cong had expected this situation, and he had even thought of a solution.

Nowadays, it’s nothing to lack staff, as long as you don’t lack money, as long as you have money, there are not many people.

He said with a slight pride: "Brother Zhifu, this is a trivial matter. You said, how many people do you need, I will help you find a way."

When Yu Dayou heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned and said, "If this Tun Guard escapes, he can't catch him back. What are you going to do?"

Yang Cong said confidently: "This is simple, what kind of guards are needed, what kind of guards, farmers, guards, or patrolers? Just give them some food directly. I will pay two taels of silver a month. I will recruit you as much as you want."

When Yu Dayou heard this, he fainted after a mistake. He thought Yang Cong had any good idea, but he didn't expect that Yang Cong was thinking of this bad idea.

Isn’t this just recruiting private soldiers? If you recruit private soldiers without the permission of the court and without the Ministry of War documents, it is illegal. At the least, you can be dismissed from office and investigated, and at the worst, you can be beheaded.

You can come up with this idea of ​​beheading!

Yu Dayou couldn't help rolling his eyes and said, "Qingfeng, recruiting private soldiers is illegal, and maybe he will be beheaded."

Of course, Yang Cong knew that recruiting private soldiers was illegal, but now there were more private soldiers. To put it bluntly, most of the guards in the Mingdu Guard were commanders and private soldiers of thousands of households, and most of the generals in the Ming Dynasty also had private soldiers.

Nowadays, as long as you have a way to support those private soldiers, you can find an excuse to make excuses and recruit private soldiers. It’s okay!

Yu Dayou didn't know, but Yang Cong knew very well that at that time, the court would still rely on private soldiers. In the late Ming Dynasty, these private soldiers were the ones that could fight the most.

For example, the Liaodong Army under the command of Li Chengliang, the Chuan Army under the command of Qin Liangyu, and the Qi family army under the command of Qi Jiguang. To put it bluntly, they are all private soldiers. Did the court say that they were guilty of recruiting private soldiers?

Including this second-hand man Yu Dayou, he also formed the Yu family army later, but he hasn't started recruiting private soldiers yet.

Of course, these people recruited private soldiers, and later they were more or less allowed by the court. However, at the beginning, most of them recruited private soldiers but did not report to the court.
Chapter completed!