The five ministers looked at each other, and finally focused on Zhan Hui, the Minister of Personnel.

Who knows that among all the ministers, only Zhan Hui is closest to His Majesty and is the most favored.

Zhan Hui could only walk half way up the road: "I think this matter must be taken seriously. There are currently more than 7,000 people in the left guard of Datong and 40,000 military households. It is impossible to hide such a big event. It only takes a little investigation to find out." You know the situation clearly."

"This secret report must have been written by those sergeants. The reason why they bypassed the Fifth Army Commander's Office is probably because they were afraid of being suppressed by killing the superior officer."

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's expression became more and more unhappy.

The military household system was what Zhu Yuanzhang was most proud of, and this secret report was obviously a slap in the face.

Datong Zuowei is located in the border army, close to the grassland, and has made many achievements.

What was written in this secret report was that the sergeants of the left guard of Datong united and commanded Li Lin to exterminate the family.

Just like this, forget it, it can be regarded as a rebellion at most.

But the description here truly exposes the shortcomings of the current health clinic system.

The garrison system means that the soldiers distribute the land, serve as soldiers during war, and farm in their spare time.

A sergeant serves in the garrison and takes his wife with him to live a stable life and have children. Each sergeant has a house, a field, and monthly rations.

During the march, they were given rations, provided their own clothing and weapons, and were provided with weapons.

The sergeants were in the camp, divided into garrison and field fields. The proportions were variable and rotated on time. The fields were divided into grains and handed over to the garrison and officials, so as to support the troops without consuming the court's financial resources.

It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone.

The Ming Dynasty had nearly two million soldiers stationed in the fields to guard the world and stabilize the Ming Dynasty.

The sergeants are regular soldiers, and the other disciples are called Yu Ding or Yu Yu.

When the main army goes to the garrison, at least one Yu Ding must accompany him to help him survive.

Due to the heavy burden on military households, they were given more land and were exempted from all military service. The remainder of the camp and the one under the original place were also exempted from military service, so as to ensure their livelihood and provide for the life of the regular army.

When a regular soldier dies, he will be replaced by strong men from the household.

However, the life of the sergeants in the guard station is difficult. As the saying goes: a good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail.

Under such circumstances, even in the early Ming Dynasty, there were still a large number of deserters.

Therefore, there are methods such as "root bu" and "gou bu". Root bu means recapturing the deserted soldiers, and gou bu means patching up the soldiers with ding from their households.

It is these two methods that make military officers corrupt.

They often concealed deserters, occupied military garrison fields, and cultivated them as private soldiers, thus obtaining large amounts of illegal money and food.

This time, Li Lin, the commander of Datong's left guard, was the one who did the most ruthless work.

Generally speaking, many commanders would at best collect more grain when harvesting.

The Qiu Ba below are all illiterate. The army is no better than the common people in the city. The chiefs rule everything. Life and death are determined at will. Moreover, the news is blocked and even external reports are impossible.

If any thorn appears, he will be beaten to death directly to establish the military power and kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.

After more than twenty years of this, there is no reason to resist.

As the old saying goes, rabbits bite when they are in a hurry.

Datong Left Guard, because it is separated by other guard posts, is not directly adjacent to the grassland, but is closer to Datong Prefecture.

Moreover, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the grasslands have been severely damaged, so there have not been many wars.

This also gave Li Lin enough time.

Over the past twenty years, 80% of Datong Zuowei's land has been successively owned by Li Lin and other officials.

You must know that under Li Lin, the commander-in-chief of the capital, there are thousands and hundreds of households who are also collaborating with each other.

The other sergeants seemed to have become the personal slaves of their superiors.

The left guard of Datong had a total of 7,000 soldiers, but more than 5,000 of them became farming serfs.

Even for general banners and small banners, most of them are like this, and even some hundreds of households cannot escape.

The reason why Li Lin dared to be so arrogant was because he once followed Chang Yuchun, King of Kaiping, and later made great contributions to Lan Yu, Duke of Liang.

With a strong background in the military, there is no way these little sergeants can resist.

The cause of the matter is somewhat simple to say.

A member of the household who had objections to this was also demoted to serfdom.

Another former enemy of this household raped his wife to death while she was out farming while she was several months pregnant.

Then his only son and two daughters were killed together.

The hundred households who were demoted to serfs came back and were tied, humiliated, and whipped for their crimes.

He endured it.

He understood that there was no way to fight now.

Then secretly, he contacted his former subordinates and worked together.

After waiting for many days, high-yielding crops happened to be distributed among households. Li Lin hosted a banquet for thousands of households and hundreds of close relatives.

After being drunk, the night is dark and windy, and the sound of birds is trumpeting.

Hundreds of people armed with worn-out spears and spears worked tirelessly to kill all the generals who attended the banquet.

Then the crowd roared, like a hungry tiger coming out of its cage, and more and more oppressed soldiers joined the team.

At night, the ground is stained with blood.

When the morning light came on, the area was desolate and messy, and all the people standing there were covered in blood.

Those who survived felt as if they woke up from a dream, looking at the blood on their hands and feeling confused.

"Brother, let's escape."

"Where to escape?"

"Escape to the grassland, escape to the mountains, even if you gather people to become bandits, so what, you will just live like a bird."

"How can we go to the grasslands or the deep mountains when we look like this? How can we pass through all the passes? Once word of such a big event spreads, and the surrounding guards gather all the troops, there will be no way to survive."

"Then, should we just sit back and wait for death?"

Hearing this, hundreds of households remained silent for a long time, looking towards the rising sun with a trace of hope in their eyes.
Chapter completed!