Early in the morning of the second day, Zhu Pingan went to find Zhang Jing to implement the promise of yesterday’s wine table, opened a charter Zhejian army recruitment of 1,200 people approved documents.
Getting the approval, Zhu Pingan was excited.
This is also thanks to the Zhejian army is a militia regiment, not the regular army, only so smooth to get permission to raise troops, otherwise, do not even think about it, Zhang Jing does not have the right, the court will not allow a short time.
Daming military system is based on the system of guards, military recruitment is to break the Daming military system, and the entire Daming old official position as an enemy, the equivalent of the six ministries and other government offices from the mouth of the food, is bound to suffer heavy opposition.
Historically, Qi Jiguang’s recruitment of troops can be said to have experienced nine hundred and ninety-one difficulties, from application to permission, it took several years, only difficult to get permission.
If there is no interference, according to the historical process, at least two or three more years, Qi Jiguang to get permission to raise troops.
“My lord, my humble servant will go and recruit troops.”After Zhu Pingan had obtained the approval, he was in a hurry to bid farewell to Zhang Jing.
Being able to recruit troops two or three years in advance was a great benefit to the Japanese suppression, and by recruiting troops one day earlier, the two thousand new troops could be put into the battlefield to fight against the Japanese, which would change the situation of fighting against the Japanese, and put an end to the Japanese plague one day earlier.
Time is precious and cannot be wasted.
“Zi Hou, you can go to any barracks or guard station with this authorisation and select the existing veterans, you don’t necessarily have to go down to recruit new soldiers. If you go down to recruit new soldiers, you will have to start training from scratch, which will take a lot more time. If you select the existing veterans, they have been through training and have a certain foundation, so wouldn’t you get twice the result with half the effort and be able to save you a lot of time.”Seeing that Zhu Pingan was in a hurry to recruit soldiers, Zhang Jing could not help but speak out and remind him.
Zhang Jing’s reminder, how would Zhu Pingan not know, Zhang Jing is now the Jiangnan Governor Minister, Governor of the seven provinces military affairs, his approval is naturally good in any of the guards and barracks. However, Zhu Pingan is really not interested in the guardsmen at all, this end of the year, the guardsmen have poor fighting ability, poor organisation and discipline, do not listen to the command, afraid of war and timid to stand, call them into the zhejiang army, the zhejiang army will all be brought down.
Therefore, Zhu Pingan did not hesitate to reject Zhang Jing’s good intentions, “Thank you, Your Excellency, but my humble servant still wants to go down and recruit new soldiers.”
“Oh, Zi Hou, why are you seeking farther away from your neighbourhood?”Zhang Jing asked.
“Your Excellency, my humble servant thought that training soldiers is the same as educating students in private schools. The young children who have just entered the academy are like a blank sheet of paper, as long as the rules are promulgated, a little education and discipline, you can cultivate their good learning habits and character; on the contrary, those who have been in the academy for many years of old students, like a scribbled paper full of scribbles, even if you always keep an eye on them, supervise them, but also to no avail, and can not cultivate their good learning relationship and character. Recruiting new soldiers, although it takes more time to train them, but you can promulgate the military law and train them to be obedient and forbidding; selecting veterans, although it may seem to save time on training, but they have already been stereotyped, and can’t be trained to be obedient and forbidding even if they are trained again. Therefore, my humble servant would like to go down and recruit recruits as white as paper,”
Zhu Pingan arched his hand and explained.
“Hmm, sounds reasonable to some extent.”Zhang Jing nodded slightly and asked curiously, “Zi Hou, where are you going to recruit soldiers?”
Where to go to raise troops?
Zhu Pingan thought nothing of it and blurted out, “Yiwu.”
Yiwu, that’s right, is Yiwu!
Historically, Qi Jiguang had recruited the famous Qi Family Army from Yiwu, and with the successful experience, Zhu Pingan naturally would not ignore it.
When Qi Jiguang recruiting, also experienced some twists and turns, initially Qi Jiguang Lishui and Shaoxing soldiers as the main force, to raise and train a “new army”. This new army in Taizhou and other places for a number of small battles, have won, Qi Jiguang is very satisfied with this is also very pleased, but in the time of Qi Jiguang complacent, this new army suffered a big battle, a hard battle, and then the Zhejiang army revealed the original shape, retreating, scattered fleeing ……
Qi Jiguang puzzled, why this new army will lose, should not ah. This new army has all the factors to win: (a) excellent generals: this battle is his own personal command in the front line, his own command is not a problem, on the contrary, his command is also very good, to seize the weakness of the Japanese invaders; (b) advantageous strength: his side of the new army of more than 3,000 people, and the opposite side of the Japanese invaders only 1,000, his side occupies the advantage of the strength of the force; (c) excellent equipment: his side of the new army is well equipped, the rate of armour, the rate of firearms are all the same.The rate of armour and firearms is not low, and the weapons are all refined steel, much better than the Japanese; (4) well-trained: the party’s high-intensity rigorous training for more than four months, so it can be said that the training is well-trained. ……
There are so many advantages in, why is still a battle that is defeated, scattered and fled, think for a long time, Qi Jiguang finally figured out, is the source of soldiers.
Lishui soldiers, combat fierce fierce, but like to talk about the conditions, the benefits of fierce, unfavourable or no benefits or feel can not fight, then they are the rabble, will never sell; Shaoxing soldiers, not afraid of hard work, no complaints, but the battlefield can not be relied on, the battlefield, if the enemy retreat, they will pursue; but if the enemy attack, they will retreat, simply summed up is that the enemy run they fight, if the enemy does not run, then they will run.
One side of the water and soil to raise a party of people, one side of the water and soil to raise a party of soldiers, this is thousands of years of local soil and water to raise the nature of the difficult to change through training.
After this setback, Qi Jiguang has been to find the best source of soldiers worry, later, Qi Jiguang business way Yiwu, saw an armed fight in Yiwu, found that the people of the obligation of the people of the tough, courageous and militant, tough and tenacious, and organisational discipline, suddenly overjoyed, shouting that this is the God’s gift to my source of soldiers also.
So, Qi Jiguang in the compulsory recruitment out of the world’s strong army – Qi family army.
Therefore, Zhu Pingan did not even think about it, directly borrowed the experience of Qi Jiguang, speculation Yiwu army recruitment operations.
“Oh, why did Zi Hou choose to go to Yiwu to recruit soldiers?”Zhang Jing asked curiously.
“Ping’an heard, Yiwu mountain more land, and the land is barren, not suitable for planting food, local food production No. Local people to digging for a living, digging for mining often occurs to scramble for mineral resources, in order to survive, year after year there will be more than grabbing the mineral resources, scrambling for both sides of the miners tend to be armed and fighting, short of a few days, long of a few months, the participants of the crowd, killing and injuring countless people. Therefore, Yiwu locals are brave and tough, fearless, in addition, because Yiwu locals to dig mines for a living, the mine on the organisational and disciplinary requirements, Yiwu locals good organisational and disciplinary, is a good seedling when the soldiers fought. My humble servant thought that Yiwu people, with a little training, can become a battle-ready, courageous, and good fighting army.”
Zhu Pingan arched his hand and explained in detail.
“Hehe, Zi Hou understands Yiwu in such detail, it seems that Zi Hou has long chosen a place to recruit soldiers.”Zhang Jing smiled slightly and nodded, “Then go, this official will wait and see.”
