Why did Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, implement the health station system for the army during his reign?

The military system of the Ming dynasty was the Wei suo system, which was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty. The health system has the color of combining military with agriculture, and it is a garrison system, not a wartime establishment.

Garrison usually carries out military training. In the event of a war, the court ordered them to be the company commanders, and the elite garrison would be sent to participate in the war. After the war, the generals will return the seals of the company commanders and the sergeants will return to their barracks.

As the basic military unit of the Ming Empire, the National Health Center was established in the Ming Dynasty, which governed a certain number of military households and undertook military services. However, the health center is still a geographical unit of military nature to a great extent, involving a series of issues such as the territory of the Ming empire, management system, land, household registration system, population migration and so on.

The health service system is characterized by the establishment of military strongholds "health guards" in important places throughout the country, each with 5600 people. The chief is called the commander-in-chief, who is in charge of five thousand hospitals, each with 1 120 people; There are ten hundred households in a thousand households, one with 1 12 people, and one hundred households with two general flags, each with ten people; The master of a thousand households is called a thousand households, and the master of a hundred households is called a hundred households.

The main obligation of military households is to send a man to the health center as a soldier and call him a regular army, while other children are called Yu Bing or Yu Bing. The regular army exempted all officers, as did the redundant soldiers and former soldiers. Serving in a health center, a regular soldier must take his wife with him to settle down and have children. Every soldier has a house and a field and a fixed salary every month. When marching, he was given rations, clothes and weapons, all of which were produced by the state.

From the government's point of view, the advantage of the health care system is that there is no connection between soldiers and generals. I'm not afraid of the generals going out to rebel. Also, because the soldiers are in the health center with their families, their families have been recorded by the government. When there is no war, married people with children can only work hard to support their family. Once you go out, you should worry about your family, work hard and dare not run away.

Sergeant in the camp, divided into two parts, garrison and wasteland, the proportion is uncertain, take turns on time, wasteland fixed to hand over food, supply garrison troops and officials, that is, to raise troops without consuming national financial resources. It must be said that when the medical system was the most perfect in the early Ming Dynasty, the annual output of national medical sergeants was initially effective, saving a lot of military expenses.