Why did Qi Jiguang, a famous soldier, go to Yiwu to recruit soldiers in the middle of Ming Dynasty? Mainly because the officers and men of the Ming Dynasty were corrupt and could not fight. Farmers in Baylor Chian, a Buddhist temple in Yiwu, are well-known for their wits and wits with Chuzhou people for protecting mines. On the recommendation of Zhao Dahe, the magistrate of a county, Qi Jiguang asked Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, to leave old soldiers behind and come to Yiwu to recruit farmers for training. This answer is also reasonable, but after reading Qi Jiguang's "Stop the Hall Collection" recently, I feel too general and too simple.

Qi Jiguang said in the article "Sacrificing Guerrilla General Chen Dacheng": "Before Chen Bing, islanders invaded wuyue. Wuyue-IX forgot the military reform, so he can rely on it. To recruit soldiers from all over the world, he was accused of taking part in the military affairs in eastern Zhejiang under the orders of the Emperor Su, and discussed how to train the people of wuyue for defense. Everyone howled and said that it was useless to make meritorious deeds and could not be decided. " As can be seen from this passage, the court had recruited "soldiers of the world" at that time, and he suggested cultivating Wu and Yue people. Most people oppose it, only Ruan Zhongcheng supports it. He said in the article "Award for Sacrificing the King's Ginseng": "Guangdong did not arrive (A.D. 1559), but I joined the Zhejiang Army, and the sea was savage, and the Ministry Sima took the bugle to call up soldiers from various provinces and local barbarian troops to suppress the Japanese, and every late period, thieves were annoyed. Moreover, Miao Yi is far from barren and has been trained by shrewd confidants, so people are unbearable, so there are rumors of thieves combing soldiers. I am very angry. Please practice Vietnamese, and recruit people who crossed the river in Wudu in those days, all of whom crossed the party. When I was in power, I thought it was pedantic and shameful power; He who has the Lord is also strong. Only by practicing Shao people first can you become a military officer. In the end, you are afraid of going into battle with a short knife, so you can make it happen naturally. In the battle for Zhoushan, there were only 700 Japanese soldiers, who gathered all the military and civilian generals in the world. After years of fighting, they failed, so they had to prepare for the victory or defeat of military strategists. After that, Yin of Yiwu gathered a good family in the city and was selected by Sima Ling for training. His former soldiers were all abused and everything was against them, so he became an army. At that time, the generals compiled the people into centurions and used them to destroy the enemies in Zhejiang. It is said that Zhejiang people can fight and grab freedom compared with the past. The natives started here, and the sails avoided Zhejiang. " This shows that the soldiers recruited nationwide at that time not only had poor combat effectiveness, but also had extremely bad military discipline. Robbery, forced abduction of women, murder and arson are even worse than the Japanese, so that there is a folk song of "thieves comb the soldiers' grate" Qi Jiguang thought that it was the Vietnamese who defeated Wu Jun in the Spring and Autumn Period, and suggested that Vietnamese farmers should be trained as soldiers, but he was ridiculed as pedantic. Later, he trained Shaoxing people first, and he could only be a soldier, not daring to fight hand to hand with the enemy. When Zhoushan was attacked, there were only 700 enemies, but after a year of fighting with the elite of the Ming Dynasty, they still couldn't fight.

At this time, Zhao Dahe, the magistrate of Yiwu county, suggested to cultivate children of good families in Yiwu. The article "Sacrificing the King to the General" (that is, Wang Rulong) once again emphasizes the importance of short-term combat. Only by daring to confront the enemy head-on can we win the battle. Legend has it that there is a silver mine in Babaoshan, Beili, Yiwu County. In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty, Yongkang and Chuzhou people coaxed thousands of people to rob Babaoshan. Chen Dacheng, a powerful family, led his people to protect the mine, and a large-scale battle took place. At first, Yiwu fell and several people died. Later, Chi 'an, Maodian Feng, Chen, Yang and Wang all came, gathered more than 3,000 people, defeated the miners, captured more than 200 people, and finally killed more than 1,000 people. Qing Jiaqing's "Yiwu County Records" recorded this matter in detail. It is not worthwhile to gather people to fight, but this incident reflects that Yiwu people have the quality of daring to fight and dare to fight, and are not afraid of death, so they are determined to recruit in Yiwu. Qi Jiguang also made Zhao Dahe, the magistrate of a county, serve as a military supervisor to restrain Yiwu soldiers. Later, it was tried in the battle of Taizhou, and several victories were won in one month, indicating that the training of recruiting Yiwu soldiers was successful.

Later, practice proved that Qi Jiguang's decision to recruit and train in Yiwu was correct. Yiwu soldiers have good quality, are not afraid of hardship and bloodshed, are willing to learn, can obey orders and have good discipline. Chen Dacheng, Wang Rulong, Chen Lu, Jinke, Zhu Jue and many other Yiwu soldiers have become generals who can recruit good fighters. It was with this Qigujun, which was dominated by Yiwu soldiers, that Qi Jiguang completely defeated the enemy of Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, and took them north to Jizhou to build the Great Wall and defend the border. In the fifth year after Qi Jiguang's death, 65,438+/kloc-0,000,000 regular Japanese troops invaded Korea, and Korea was almost annexed by the Japanese army. They turned to Emperor Wanli for help, and the court remembered the Yiwu soldiers again, and ordered Wu Weizhong and others to take 3,000 Yiwu soldiers to train their foot soldiers with Qi Jiguang's "filial piety and comfort" and become the main force to resist US aggression and aid Korea. Because of the reputation of Yiwu soldiers, there are so many recruits coming to Yiwu that Zhou Shiying, the magistrate of Yiwu, asked the court not to recruit any more soldiers in Yiwu, and all the young men in Yiwu confessed. In the 1940s, the relevant parties also organized Yiwu Camp to fight against Japan.

Many books about Qi Jiguang say that he went to Yiwu to recruit miners, which is not accurate. As a matter of fact, there is no silver mine in Babaoshan, Bi Li, and the survey in Zhejiang Construction Monthly also announced that there is no silver mine in Babaoshan, Bi Li, with only a very low content of iron and manganese, which has no mining value. Wanli Yongkang and Chuzhou people came to steal the mine because they mistook Babaoshan for Babaoshan. Where are the miners without silver in Babaoshan? So, Qi Jiguang came to Yiwu to recruit farmers, most of whom participated in the mine protection battle.