The political situation in the Mongolian Yuan was still unstable, but it was actually money. The new king of Tiemur ascended the throne, of course, he had to reward the world, especially those sect kings and close ministers who had the merit of dragons, which consumed not much savings from the Mongolian Yuan court. In order to demonstrate the new king's Wuwei's battle to establish his authority, it was to operate in debt. The solution was to issue new banknotes, which caused a new round of economic crisis.

Although several ministers of the regents tried their best to maintain the situation, the shortage of money was still like a nightmare. Fortunately, the income from the Sang Ge family was not enough to make the inner court unable to expose the blame. However, the strategy of governing the country left by real gold made Tiemur dare not change it. The original intention was to curb those kings who entered the Wei Zong through the economy, but the court's income was not enough to cover their needs, so things became embarrassing.

Those men from the grasslands could not farm, so the military farms distributed to them either became pastures or were handed over to farming, or simply rented to refugees, and they collected rent. However, these incomes and the military expenses provided by the court were not enough to maintain their consumption, so they had to be solved by the local government offices, but the local fiscal revenue adopted a tax-packing system, which was collected by special tax officials, and they could do nothing.

As a result, the shortcomings of the real gold policy were fully exposed and it was difficult to implement. Local governments had to increase taxes from civilians and exploit local merchants and powerful people, which triggered new conflicts. In order to make up for the shortcomings, the sect and king army set up customs customs and collected taxes in their jurisdiction, or used the army to do business and smuggle, and even sold war horses to the Southern Dynasty.

In this way, the local government of the Mongolian Yuan became a burden of suffering. They could not meet the requirements of the court. They could not afford to rely on the increasingly weak army to attack the sect kings who had military power. In desperation, some officials chose to just live a life of sect kings, and some simply colluded with the sect kings and colluded with each other for personal interests.

The local tyrants also had a hard time living. They had to pay the offerings to their masters and deal with the extortions of local officials and sects. Most of these people were marquis who had been demoted, with mixed forces in the court and huge wealth obtained by years of levying and levying. They were originally a force that should not be ignored. In addition to increasing the exploitation of the people, they also tried to strengthen their strength in order to protect themselves.

The most unlucky ones were still the people at the bottom. They were bullied by the court, local, sect kings and local tyrants, and many families went bankrupt, leaving them with little way out. In addition to selling themselves as slaves, they also took risks to gather in the mountains and forests. For a time, the turmoil was endless everywhere, especially the deepest exploitation of Henan, Shandong, Shanxi and other places. They not only attacked the prefectures and plundered the governments and harassed the places, but also caused chaos in the Jingji area of ​​the Zhongshu region.

Faced with the increasingly decayed situation, Tiemur also had a headache. He also hoped to purify the administration and restore the imperial power. However, the empress dowager who had been in trouble and interfered in politics felt powerless. Several important officials tried to change the status quo, but in the face of the complex political situation and the embarrassing financial situation, An Tong and several ministers of life also understood that this strategy of treating headaches and treating head and feet is difficult to change the current situation, and only thorough reforms are the way out.

But in the face of the increasingly depressed New Khan, the powerful empress dowager, what can they do? And they also know that the years of accumulated problems have been deeply rooted, and that if they want to change, they will definitely touch the interests of all parties. Outside, there is an ambitious Southern Dynasty outside. If you are not careful, it will not only make the court more chaotic, but not only hurt yourself, but also the danger of national destruction. Therefore, they can only support the left and right and strive to support the crisis, and it is difficult to change the trend of the increasingly weak authority of the court...

Zhao Bing knew the current situation in the Mongolian Yuan, and as he had thought before, it had become a situation where the kings were divided and thieves competed for heroism. Although the army of the clan kings and guards who were ordered to enter the Central Plains became the pillars of defense against the attack of the Song Dynasty, they also became the foundation of turmoil. In just a few years, they had grown bigger and it was difficult for the court to curb them. The local area was afraid of it like a tiger, and the powerful hated it to the core. The kings were also full of conflicts, and there were constant conflicts for their own interests.

In this political chaos, the local government could not hold on to it in a series of military crises, and the Zong Wangjun and others had no right to mobilize and could not afford it. The local town army was already in ruins, had no combat power, and had no power to suppress the bandits. So they had to find another way and set their sights on the village soldiers who were established by the Zhenjin Power.

The village soldiers are actually militia organizations that are both soldiers and people. They train during the slack farming period, farm when they are busy, and provide their own equipment and weapons to protect their homes from bandits. The country does not provide military expenditure. However, these village soldiers were already private soldiers of the powerful and wealthy families in various places at this time. In the past, Kublai Khan was worried about the rebellion of Shihou, so he dismembered their troops through division and dismantling their military power.

Now that the court is in decline, it is reorganized in order to curb the army of the king. Those former marquises who were rich and experienced, recruited fugitive organizations to train in the name of establishing village soldiers, and provided food, pay and land, so that they became their own private armed forces. The local government found that these village soldiers had far better combat effectiveness than the town soldiers, and they were afraid of death when fighting, and they did not dare to plunder their edges, and they were easy to manage.

So the court opened a channel to recruit soldiers, allowing local prefectures to recruit non-military households to participate in military operations, eliminate bandits, and protect the country and the people. In this way, a special group called "Fur Gourd" was born. He was employed by the court to fight and became the pillar of local force for a while. Even the sects and kings dared not provoke them easily.

As early as the Northern Expedition, Zhao Bing began to arrange the Affairs Bureau to recruit Korean bandits and bandits, and was engaged in activities in the Jingdong area, responsible for collecting intelligence and creating chaos, and providing support for the war in the future. These organizations then took advantage of the chaos in the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties to grow rapidly. They occupied dangerous places to build camps and defend themselves, attacked the government troops, plundered merchants, and continued to grow.

However, these armed forces have recently encountered opponents and were attacked by the "Mao Hulu" army. Many of the parishes were captured and suffered heavy losses. Zhao Bing was very surprised at first. He knew that such an armed force had indeed emerged in history, but they originated in the chaotic times of the late Yuan Dynasty and in the Ming Dynasty. Now they appeared in advance. But it is not surprising that he has been tossing the Mongol Yuan so hard that his end of the world has arrived early.

As Zhao Bing knew, the Maohulu soldiers were actually mercenaries of the Yuan Dynasty, and the reason why they obtained such a strange title was due to their weapons. Today's people say that the container for arrows was called arrow pouches, or quivering boots, or quivering bags, and they were always called arrows. The ancients called the container for arrows "Hu Lu".

There are many types of arrow pouches, some are straight-tube-shaped, similar to modern painted tubes; some are only as big as women's small leather bags, namely, extruded arrow pouches. This extruded arrow pouch is folded inside, and the arrow is squeezed with this fur, and then most of the arrow sticks are exposed to facilitate the arrow picking. The fur-gour means a squeeze arrow pouch with hair, which has become the common name for these soldiers.

At the beginning, Mao Hulu was just an armed force like a militia spontaneously organized by the villagers. The government could use real money to reward them, and the righteous soldiers supporting the government naturally emerged. Moreover, there were many miners. "Inside, there were many mine disciples, including guns and Lu family, with long spears and arrows, and their feet were wrapped around their heads. They specialized in chiseling mountains for their careers, killing people for a living, and calling Mao Hulu."

These desperate desperadoes were mainly distributed in areas where riots occurred in western Henan and Jingdong. Western Henan connected to Sichuan, Shaanxi and Hubei provinces, with complex terrain structure, vast mountainous areas, relatively loose control of the government, and the mountain people were brave and fierce. The court first recruited Mao Hulu army in Jin, Shang and other places, and was initially organized as "seven people united themselves". After the imperial court recruited the scale continuously, "there are thousands of people in groups", and was restrained by Jiao Nao, which was the nickname of the leader.

The armed forces rewarded with real money and silver were only used to ensure local safety? Zhao Bing thought that it might not be the case. The Yuan Dynasty was not that rich. As he knew, until the 14th year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan government established the Maohulu Wanhu Mansion in Nanyang and other places, "recruiting local people as soldiers, exempting their servants from their servants, and allowing the fight against the thieves to serve themselves."

At that time, Zhang Shicheng, a salt peddler in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, led people to resist the Yuan Dynasty in Gaoyou area. The Yuan court sent troops to attack, and the Maohulu army was the vanguard. "When they arrived at the city, the Maohulu army had already climbed the city." In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Da made a northern expedition and entered Henan. The Maohulu in the Lu family area resisted stubbornly, and the Ming army was defeated. Since then, the remaining Maohulu was incorporated by the Ming court, and he was silent for a long time and became a local militia.

Because the Maohulu soldiers were very convenient to use, the Maohulu soldiers rose again in the second half of the Ming Dynasty. They participated in a series of wars in the Ming Dynasty and were frequently recruited to various places. They played a huge role in relieving the country's internal and external troubles, greatly making up for the shortcomings of the government army. Although they were not the main force, they were never absent and became the well-deserved firefighting team in the second half of the Ming Dynasty.

But can we become the savior who is currently hindering our regaining the Central Plains and helping the Mongol Yuan to prosper? Zhao Bing believes that it will definitely cause some trouble for him, but it cannot stop his Northern Expedition.

Because from a military perspective, the first thing is the limitation of the combat capability of the Maohulu soldiers. Looking at the Maohulu soldiers' resumes, we can see that this armed force, born in western Henan, is good at crossing mountains and ridges to search for guerrillas, but is not good at plain arrays. It has no advantage in fighting in dense water networks in the south. Moreover, the imperial court mobilized various local troops to act together, in addition to tactical considerations, to prevent the phenomenon of aging caused by a single army to quell the chaos.

Secondly, the war space span is extremely large, and as local armed forces, it is difficult to coordinate the organization and dispatch of Maohulu soldiers. If the army is strong in autonomy, allowing them to develop will pose a threat to the court, and it is difficult to establish a long-term and effective mutual trust mechanism. Therefore, in the process of its development, the court will first reward and win over, then strictly prevent it, restrict the Maohulu army, and reduce the number of troops. After recruiting other places, it will also be dispatched by the corresponding superior commander, and the supervisor will strictly monitor it and will not allow it to grow.
Chapter completed!