To talk about the cause and effect of this matter, we should start with Qi Jiguang.
Qijiajun was built by Qi Jiguang, a famous anti-Japanese soldier in Ming Dynasty.
The original Qijiajun was mainly composed of young farmers and miners in Yiwu and Jinhua. They have received strict training from Qi Jiguang, strict military discipline and good use of firearms. They have won many battles against Japan on the southeast coast.
After the Japanese chaos in the south was alleviated, Qi Jiguang was transferred to Jiliao to resist the harassment of Tatars and other tribes. Due to the lack of discipline in the northern border guards, Qi Jiguang dispatched 3,000 people from the southern Qijia Army to Yuji Town as pacesetters to train northern soldiers.
Corresponding to the northern soldiers, Qi Jiajun mainly came from Zhejiang, also known as the southern soldiers, also known as the Zhejiang soldiers.
Qi Jiguang was in Jizhou, and the South Army, as a clique, was naturally favored by Qi Jiguang. However, after Zhang's death, Qi Jiguang, who lost his popularity, was quickly dismissed from office and died at home soon. The contradiction between the southern soldiers and the northern soldiers, who have always been favored, has also begun to stand out.
In the 20th year of Wanli (1592), in the fourth year after Qi Jiguang's death, Japan invaded Korea, and the Ming army aided Korea to resist Japan.
Song Yingchang, then assistant minister Zuo and governor of Liaodong, was from Zhejiang, and had befriended Qi Jiguang. In order to boost morale, before he left, he promised Qi Jiajun, who had helped North Korea, that it was not easy for South soldiers to go abroad to fight, and he would give them double salary.
In the battle of Pyongyang, in order to boost morale, head coach Li promised that "the first person to Pyongyang will be rewarded with 2,200 silver". Born in Liaodong, Li thinks that Liao soldiers are very strong. Under four questions, he must board the ship first. However, what Li never expected was that Qi Jiajun was the first to climb Chengtou.
Li also has the same problem as his father Li, that is, he treats honesty like dirt and forgets it in the blink of an eye. Part of the reason should be that Li was not very close to his Confederate soldiers.
In the 21st year of Wanli (1593), the first battle against Japan was successful. Song Yingchang advocated staying in Korea to assist in defense, and the assistant star of the Ministry of War from Shandong advocated withdrawing troops and making peace. As a result, battalion commander Song was recalled, then retired and never asked about military affairs again.
Battalion Commander Song has left, but the double salary he promised to Qi Jiajun has not been fulfilled.
After returning from North Korea, Qi Jiajun continued to station in Jizhou.
At that time, Wang Bao, the company commander of Jiyun Town and a native of Shaanxi, ignored the promise of Song Yingchang to double pay for the South Army, and even began to default on Qi Jiajun's normal salary.
"History of the Ming Dynasty" records that "Xie sent troops to the south, and Qi Jiguang also raised money to attack North Korea, withdrawing it and returning it, in order to increase the monthly salary."
When the soldiers of the Qijia army returned home in triumph, the promise of "going to the bank to get 20 thousand yuan first" was not obtained, and even the military pay began to default. Even, the Ministry of War suggested abolishing the southern soldiers in Jizhou and other places. No rewards, no wages, even layoffs. When Nan Bing heard about it, he was naturally angry, so he made a move of "increasing his monthly salary".
According to the normal handling method, implement appeasement, pay part of the reward first, and calm down the situation. However, Wang Bao "ordered every soldier to collect his weapons" and confiscated all the weapons of Yugoslav soldiers. Then "ordered to go to the martial arts field, hit it and kill hundreds of people", and then wrote a letter to frame Qi Jiajun for rebellion.
If the Confederate army had weapons, it would be difficult to slaughter hundreds of people so easily. This is a naked trap. The soldiers of the Confederate army who fought bravely against the enemy did not die on the battlefield against Japan, but actually died in the hands of their own people, which made people lament.
"A Record of Xuanzu of North Korea" said, "If you leave home for a long time, you will be in trouble if you don't give money or send food. I feel that I have killed more than 3,300 people. " Qi Jiajun killed more than 3,300 people.
"A Record of the Two Dynasties" records that "1,300 people were trapped and killed". This figure is more credible according to the number of 65,438 people+0,785 people recruited by Qi Jiajun before his second entry into the DPRK.
Some Qi Jiajun soldiers who participated in the "salary-seeking" but were not executed were escorted back to the south.
Shi Xing, the minister in charge of the Ministry of War, stood on the side of Wang Bao, arguing that major issues should be minimized and minor issues should not be pursued. Dai, Wang and Wu, who are in charge of military affairs, think that Qi Jiajun is wronged and should thoroughly investigate Wang Bao.
Finally, Wanli chose to support Shi Xing, the minister of the Ministry of War, and the matter was shelved immediately. The soldiers of the Qijiajun who participated in the "salary" became "a big rebellion". "The Southern soldiers clamored for rebellion against the puppet troops Hu Huaide and Li Wuyi, and their beheadings were pitiful." The Southern soldiers in Zhen Ji Town were immediately reduced by half.
Qi Jiajun's salary is just a representation.
On the surface, this Jizhou mutiny was triggered by Qi Jiajun's "asking for salary". Actually, there are deeper reasons.
For example, battalion commander Song is here, and even if he can't fully fulfill his promise, he will honor part of it first. However, battalion commander Song was excluded.
There is a long-standing contradiction between the southern soldiers stationed in Jilin and Liaoning and the northern soldiers.
When Qi Jiguang and battalion commander Song were still alive, the treatment of the South soldiers was guaranteed. However, after the dignitaries left their posts, the southern soldiers were excluded. Emma Wu Wei Zhong, Shen Mao and other Confederate generals were excluded. The credit of the southern soldiers also belongs to the northern soldiers.
Qi Jiajun's salary is really a bit high.
Qi Jiajun got caught. According to the system at that time, the annual salary of recruits was 18 two silver, and the double salary was 36 two. In addition, there are grain silver 3.6, grain salt vegetable silver, clothing silver, reward silver and so on. Double is 7.2 Liang. Together, the annual salary of a South soldier is as high as 43.2 taels of silver. Thousands of Yugoslav soldiers, that's a lot of money.
However, these southern soldiers came for the pay and generous remuneration, and they promised to cash in.
Emperor Wanli was also able to save the province and muddle along.
Although after Zhang's reform, Daming's treasury is increasingly abundant, and even Wanli's private treasury is full. However, during several expeditions in Wanli period, the consumption of money and food was huge, and Wanli also felt sorry for the money and food he had worked so hard to collect. You can save hundreds of thousands of taels of silver at once, and Wanli naturally enjoys it.
The result of the deepening of the accumulated disadvantages of the Ming dynasty.
A similar dispute between the North and the South occurred as early as Zhu Yuanzhang's period. Because the imperial examination admitted more southern scholars, it aroused the dissatisfaction of northern scholars, and finally led to the occurrence of the North-South List case. Finally, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated the admission quota for the north and the south, which was considered as calming the incident. However, the contradiction between the north and the south was brought into the Ming court by these recognized soldiers.
Soldiers from northern Jilin and northern Liaoning killed not only soldiers from Zhejiang and Qijia, but also soldiers from Sichuan. This contradiction has always existed, which also led to a sharp decline in the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.
In the middle and late Ming dynasty, the military household system was changed to the recruitment system, which improved the combat effectiveness of soldiers to a certain extent, but also greatly increased the financial burden of the court. Moreover, the source of military pay has never formed a fixed system.
Coupled with the commander-in-chief and generals of the Ming army, it is common to eat empty pay, and it is also common to default on pay. There was a mutiny because the salary could not be paid, and it happened many times later. This further affected the fighting capacity of the Ming army.
The long-standing disadvantages and the weak Ming army were also a major reason for the final collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
After the Jizhou mutiny in the 23rd year of Wanli, the Qijiajun stationed in Jizhou Town was seriously short of staff and was rebuilt by Wu Weizhong, who won the Korean War for the second time.
Since then, Qi Jiajun participated in the Battle of Salhu and the Battle of Hunhe. In the battle of Salhu, the Ming army was defeated, and the Zhejiang soldiers who participated in the war were killed in Zhou, and the Qijia army that followed them was wiped out. In the Battle of Hunhe River, at last, 3,000 soldiers of Qijiajun and tens of thousands of soldiers of the Eight Banners stationed in the north were killed in battle, and all of them were spilled with blood.
From then on, there was no Qijia army in history, and the Ming Dynasty was also under the siege of Li Zicheng and the Qing army, and soon went to extinction.