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Just from the state of the grain ledgers alone, it was clear that He Chunhua’s new post in Xia Province would be anything but easy.
Supporting the northern front was a duty the province could not refuse. With the situation at the front so dire, He Chunhua would have to scrape together every last man, horse, and grain sack—no matter what hole he had to dig into.
“Old Master Zhu wrote that the new governor-general will soon need to raise troops?”
“Yes, and quickly,” replied He Chunhua. He had only brought three hundred men from Heishui City, and even after absorbing Wu Shaoyi’s army along the way, they only came out to about six hundred men.
Their current numbers were still far from enough for real warfare. Once they reached Xia Province, they needed to begin recruiting immediately.
When Great Yuan was first founded, local senior officials had no right to raise private troops; all forces were dispatched by the central administration. But times had changed, and the royal court was perpetually entangled in its own troubles, uprisings had become routine, and local officials were now tacitly allowed to recruit and supply their own soldiers.
In Qiansong Commandery, He...
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