A Preliminary Study On The Garrison Of The Province Town Camp Military System In The Ming Dynasty

Garrison,the Ming Dynasty town camp under the town of garrison generals,responsible for the defense of important castles,its establishment has experienced from the temporary sent to the resident set the process.The garrison set up in the early Ming Dynasty was named after the nature of the defense,and the military task was heavier,and then gradually developed into a formal military attache.Along the Qing Dynasty,garrison this official for the Green Camp system reserved.With the formation of the system of the garrison of the garrison,garrison officially became one of the important part of the military defense,social order,immigration,horse market management and other aspects played an important role.The set of garrison is "no capacity" "no official rank":"no capacity" means that there is no uniform provision for the number of garrisons,and the setting principle and distribution are closely related to the strategic defensive status of the area;"no official rank" means that the garrison this office itself does not correspond to any official rank,the level of its official rank depends on its military official in five government,Secretary,and guarding post.Garrison is mostly by the Secretary,guarding post military officers served,and Wuju Examination also in the late Ming Dynasty accounted for a certain proportion The Ming Dynasty garrison of the inspection is five years,the competitor to stay,only incompetent dismissed,because the garrison is mostly from the guarding post in the transfer,so the garrison is still away from the original guarding post.The Ming Dynasty for a long time is civil officials,generals,eunuch,the three-in-one military leadership system,mainly as follows:civil officials military superintendent,military commander fighting,eunuch is responsible for the military,the three systems checks and balances,until the death.Therefore,the power of the garrison is governed by the influence of the governor and the inner minister's supervision,and at the same time by the other town garrison generals.This kind of military leadership system to a certain extent did prevent the generals of the monopoly,to avoid the emergence of similar Tang Dynasty separatist situation,so that military and political power firmly attributed to the central;but the most important is to combat the garrison and other town garrison generals of enthusiasm,and weakened the military power of the Ming Dynasty.In general,garrison as the garrison generals,although the title is not high,but the establishment of a large number of influencing the overall military defense system of the Ming Dynasty;garrison and other town garrison generals co-operation,to a certain extent,resist the pirates and Mongolian ministries of the military invasion,to maintain the ruling order of the Ming Dynasty.