Zhou Fengji said again: "The border troops here in Xuanda are quite elite. The young master has never seen soldiers from Henan and Shandong. They are much worse than this."

“Can it be worse?”

Zhang Han felt that his lower limit of his understanding had been shaved. He looked at the battalion soldiers in front of him again. They were tall, short, fat and thin. Even if they were holding a long spear, they were not covered with armor, had ragged clothes, and only a small number of swords and shields stood in the forefront. Such an army was even worse?

"Of course." Zhou Fengji said confidently: "My Datong Army was once a major city in the world. Although it was far inferior to that of a hundred years ago, I am still considered an elite soldier in the country. I have seen all the soldiers from Shandong and Henan. To be honest, after they arrived at the capital, they were still a little worse than beggars in the capital."

Zhang Han was dizzy. What he got was too simple in the books. He had read some books on the military affairs of the officialdom in the late Ming Dynasty, but he still felt that the literati was exaggerating. It was not until he saw him in person that he knew what the so-called huge army between 180 and 2 million in the Ming Dynasty was like.

It turns out that the group of beggar soldiers in front of me are still elite!

Zhang Han's suspicion is unreasonable. Xuan Dabing is indeed elite. Even if Man soldiers entered the country in the second year of Chongzhen, Xuan Dabing's performance was still far above the Liaodong soldiers. Man Gui led thousands of Xuan Dabing's soldiers to fight several bloody battles with the Later Jin soldiers, which was a hundred times stronger than the so-called Liaodong iron cavalry that had been facing the enemy with their butts. From Xuanda to Yansui, the western Ming army on this line, especially the Qin army, were all elite. These northwest border troops were the backbone of the Ming army. Once the backbone was broken, Sun Chuanting's main force of the Qin army was annihilated, and the Ming Dynasty was over.

Although the Ming soldiers in front of them were tattered clothes and still looked like soldiers, and most of them were soldiers of the world. Some veterans with combat experience stood in the queue. Zhang Han observed carefully and felt the murderous aura emitted by these soldiers, which was to express his conviction to Zhou Fengji's statement.

But this Ming Dynasty is really too deductible to defend its army, too thief...

"I can't explain this..."

After hearing Zhang Han's words, Zhou Fengji shook his head. He was just an experienced shopkeeper. He said that what he saw was still successful. In specific summary and analysis, he was not at this level. He had different heights and different perspectives of looking at things. Moreover, the composition and logistics of the Ming Dynasty army, military organization and command, and hundreds of books that talked about these may not be completely said. It would be difficult for Zhang Han to rely on an old shopkeeper of this era to say these.

Thinking of this, Zhang Han smiled and turned his attention to the general.

More than a dozen military forts, including Xinping Fort, belong to Datong Town, and are under the jurisdiction of Yanghe Bing Preparation Road. Under Yanghe Bing Preparation Road, there are two routes of Yanghe Bing Preparation Road and Yanghe East Road. All of these military forts and Tiancheng Wei Town are directly under the Yanghe Bing Preparation Road. Datong Town is a military town, under the general's management. There are also various guards such as Datong Central Guard left and right guards in the town. The command of the guard station is under the jurisdiction of the Five Army Governors Office. The supreme system is civil servants, leading troops to fight is generals, and daily military and civil affairs are military preparations and deputy envoys. The guards and local management are military preparations and civilians, and the commands of various generals and guards are commanded by various generals and guard stations. Civil and military forces are intertwined and restrained, forming a relatively stable political and military ecosystem.

Of course, from Zhang Han's perspective, the Ming Dynasty's control was very rough and poor in management of officials and the civilian defense. There was no need to improve efficiency, let alone improve efficiency.

However, judging from the communication and road conditions of this era, extensive management will surely appear until it is reshuffled and a more stable management system is produced. Of course, it is still not efficient.

Yanghe Xinping Road Governor Lai Tongxin, who had already dismounted at this time, went up the high platform and sat in the middle.

Around the generals are some officers of the Thousand Generals. They may have the identities of the ethics and defensive officers of each fortress, as well as military officers of the commander, assistant officer, or officer of the Thousand Household Officer.

The generals and generals of Qian were both dispatched military positions, without ranks. Each officer would have military positions in the garrison to determine the ranks. Lai Tongxin, the general who should be the commander of the Tongzhi or the assistant, was from the second or third rank military positions, and was already considered a senior military officer in the Ming Dynasty.

The important things about Xinping Fort can also be seen from here that it is not that the thousand ethical officials are stationed in the garrison, but that the generals of the road personally led their troops to guard the battle, with more than 1,600 soldiers guarding, which is far exceeding the normal amount for a military fort.

For some reason, when Zhang Han looked at General Ginseng, he felt that there was also a gaze observing him.

His eyes seemed to be among the crowd of people wearing civil servants and officials' costumes.

There are managers in Ma City. Generally, civil servants who have experienced such experience as civil servants serving as quarantine officials, responsible for "drawing silver for taxes and rewarding the barbarians". In addition to civil servants with such duties, officials will not come to such occasions.

Zhang Han felt a little surprised, why among those civil servants, there were people who paid attention to him.

After looking at it, it was all short-winged black gauze and green official robe. Their eyes probably also swept away. Zhang Han stared at it for a long time but did not look at the person in the crowd anymore, so he had to do it.

At this time, the third drum sounded, and there were sounds of horse hooves at the gate to the north. Zhang Han looked over there and found that there were no less than a thousand Mongolians standing at the wall in the north. Each of them was holding a horse or several horses, wearing thick sheepskin coats, yellow clothes, and big hats with domes or pointed hats on their heads. From a distance, as the north wind blew, it seemed like a fishy smell came faintly.

These days, Mongolians almost never take a bath, let alone take a coat to wash their bodies. They deal with animal husbandry every day, so there is no need to mention the smell on their bodies. Thousands of people gathered together, and the name of "slutty" was indeed not for nothing.

Liang Hong came over and said, "This is the city supervisor of the Tartars, and he is also the barbarian official."

Before the official opening of the market, not only did a general and more than 500 soldiers come to the Ming Dynasty, but also a Taiji who is responsible for keeping his mouth shut. He also serves as a city supervisor. This is the result of mutual agreement between the two sides, and the interests and security of both sides are taken into account.

The Mongolian city officials only brought about twenty riders, but unlike ordinary shepherds, they were all wearing double-breasted jackets, iron helmets on their heads, and spears in their hands. The leading Tartar officials rode their horses to the opposite side of the platform, bowed to the stage from afar, and bowed Lai Tongxin on the stage to the court. At this time, Zhou Fengji was a little anxious and said, "There are all people here, why haven't they beat the gong to open the market?"

The market was still not opened for a while. The Mongolians and Han merchants were a little anxious. The merchants were anxious to ship goods and make money. The Tartars came from afar and rushed to buy things and go home.

The small market that opens every month is mainly targeted at the poor people of Mongolia. Zhang Han recently collected the dizhuantang newspapers from the past few decades and knew that during the Jiajing period, there were only official markets in the first place, and small markets were not monthly markets, and they may only open once a few months or a year. This made the border smuggling prevalent. Many Mongolian poor people ran to the border to trade, changing a few horses in a pot, and changing a few buckets of rice to another horse. Such things are all problems that arose when the horse market was opened during the Jiajing period. Although the Han merchants made a big profit, the court was worried that they were cheating. The Tartars' horses were not collected from the fields. They were frustrated by the Han merchants and had to come and rob them. The border was not peaceful, so the Yue market appeared and fair trade was under the supervision of both sides.

Such small markets are completely different from official markets. All the people came from herders who were eager to buy things and go home. Each of them brought furs, horses, cattle and sheep, waiting to change cloth, grain and groceries to return. If the market did not open for a long time, the Tartars were also in a stir.

At this time, a person stood up from the stage, seeing that he was wearing a military officer who looked like Mr. Qian. The man stood beside the stage and began to speak loudly.

Many Mongolians knew Chinese. When they heard the Han officials speak, someone immediately translated them, and they were not worried that everyone would not understand them.

"...The day before yesterday, 17 Han merchants were captured and fifteen Tartars bought goods. They did not abide by Chinese rules and violated Altan Khan's instructions. Before the market opened today, the Tartars joined the barbarians to bring them back. Each Han merchants smuggled for twenty years and were shackled for three days!"

Zhang Han didn't hear the first few words clearly, but later he realized that he had caught the smuggling Chinese merchants and the Tartars who bought goods. He made a special decision in the market today. Simply put, it was to kill chickens and scare monkeys.

He looked around and saw that the owners and shopkeepers around him looked normal and were unmoved at all. The young men were whispering and laughing, not taking this matter to heart.

The same is true for the Tartars in the north, without any emotional fluctuations, and the look of expectation and impatience on their faces is still the same.

Zhang Han turned to Zhou Fengji and whispered: "Uncle Zhou, is this the case every time the market opens?"

"Of course not, every time I do this, are you upset?"

Zhou Fengji shook his head with a little disdain on his face: "The smuggling people are all small businessmen, and they make some hard money. From Datong to Xuanfu, and then to Gansu, there is no smuggling? What kind of evil can a small business do? How many smuggling people can be punished every few months? How can they keep them? It's just a matter of making a good explanation to the emperor. If something happens, they can also smuggle Shangguan and the imperial court."

Zhang Han nodded slightly, feeling moved.

As expected, as Zhou Fengji said, thousands of people smuggled to the Mongols apart thousands of miles apart every day. After a few months, they caught more than a dozen unlucky people and tried to get through them. This kind of official skills is actually the same in the future. If nothing happens, all departments will jump out and show it. The truth is actually the same.
Chapter completed!