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Volume 100 Treatises 53: Military 3

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Military 3 — Horse Administration
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The northwest possessed the finest horses in the realm, and from the Qin and Han dynasties onward this fact is amply documented in the historical records. The Yuan dynasty rose from the northern frontier, where the people excelled at mounted archery; relying on the superiority of bow and horse they conquered the empire—an achievement perhaps without parallel in antiquity. Across deserts ten thousand li wide their herds multiplied without end; the horses under the Imperial Pasturage could hardly be numbered at all—such was the magnificence of that dynasty.
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In the fourth year of the Zhongtong era, Emperor Shizu established the Pasturage Office under the Imperial Treasury Directorate. It was soon elevated to the Superior Pasturage Directorate, then to the Imperial Pasturage Court, and later renamed the Court of Palace Receptions. When that court was abolished, the Imperial Pasturage Temple was founded and placed under the Xuanhui Court. It was later placed under the Secretariat and charged with the horses of the Imperial Presence and the Great Ordo. Its grazing grounds reached east beyond Tamna, north beyond Qoliyutama, west to Gansu, and south into Yunnan—fourteen districts in all. From Shangdu and Dadu to Yuniboya and Jelenchede'er, a circuit of ten thousand li was devoted entirely to pasturage.
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Horse herds ranged from a few dozen to several thousand; the left thigh was branded with the official seal, and these were known as great seal-brand horses. The brands bore such names as Binggu, Biangu, Kuobuchuan, Yuesigu, Woluan, and the like. The herdsmen were called qachi and qarajin; with thousand-household and hundred-household officers who passed their duties from father to son. From summer through winter they followed the seasons, driving their herds after grass and water; in the tenth month each returned to his home pasture. Every year in the ninth and tenth months the court sent temple officials by relay to inspect the herds and compare their numbers. Newborn foals were branded and registered at once, current totals were tallied, and reports were drawn up in Mongol, Uighur, and Chinese script—but the grand total could scarcely be known. If three horses died of illness, the herdsman had to replace them with one adult mare; for two deaths, one two-year-old horse; for one death, one ewe. Herdsmen without horses paid compensation in sheep, camels, or cattle at the prescribed conversion rates.
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For sacrifices at the Imperial Ancestral Temple and for the portrait halls of the various temples that required dairy products, mares were supplied; for the imperial equipage and for palace attendants traveling in and out of the palace, Superior Riding horses were provided. When the emperor traveled to Shangdu, the minister of imperial pasturage and his subordinates accompanied him. Advance herds were driven out beyond Jiande Gate; the fattest mares suitable for milking went with the court, while the lean and unfit were culled back to the main herds. From the emperor down to the princes and officials, each pitched a felt tent lined with tuoluo felt as a milking station. When the emperor returned to the capital, the minister of imperial pasturage sent envoys ahead of time to bring fifty ündür teams of horses to the capital. Ündür was the name given to the milk-collection wagons. Once they arrived, qachi and qarajin who held ministerial rank at court fed the mares personally, fermenting black mare's milk daily for the imperial table—this was called fine milk. Each ündür team comprised forty mares. For each mare the government issued one bundle of fodder and eight sheng of beans. For each foal, one bundle of fodder and five sheng of beans were issued. When beans were expensive, half the ration was supplied in hulled rice instead. Princes and officials likewise received mare's milk; they were allotted the same number of ündür, but with one quarter fewer horses—this reduced supply was called the secondary milk service. Fodder and grain rations were drawn every ten days from the revenue office, and temple officials likewise inspected the spare stables every ten days to check the horses' condition. From Emperor Shizu onward each imperial tomb also maintained ündür teams to supply mare's milk for sacrifices—these were called the Jinling pressing horses. After five years they were turned over entirely to the tomb-guard envoys.
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For all lands under the Imperial Presence, the Principal Palace, and the various semuren attached to the court—from Gansu, Tibet, Tamna, Yunnan, Champa, Luzhou, Hexi, Yixibuxue, Karakorum, the Onon, the Kerulen, Arqumaqi, Qarumughun, Yiqilisi, Yisihunucha, Chenghai, Achatobuhan, Jelenchede'er, and elsewhere—and within Jiangnan and the interior wherever state herds of horses, cattle, camels, mules, and sheep were registered, there were fourteen pasturage circuits. The thousand-household and hundred-household titles for each are listed below:
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The eastern circuit comprised Jelenchede'er and related districts; Yuniboya and the Shangdu region; Qarumughun and related districts; Arqumaqi and related districts; Wojinchuan and related districts; Achatobuhan and related districts; Ganzhou and related districts; the left-hand Yongping circuit; the right-hand Gu'an Prefecture circuit; Yunnan Yixibuxue; Luzhou; Yidu; Qoliyutama; and Goryeo with the kingdom of Tamna.
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1. Under the Imperial Presence in the Jelenchede'er district: qarajin thousand-households at Jelenchede'er—Maimai, Maidi, Satai, Qierbasi, Kuokuolai, Tashitemuer, Qaranaihai, Boyao Jir, Yierdesi, Sademishi, Jiaohua, Tataiemuer, Tadu, Yexian, Muxuefei, Busitaba, Buerdu, Mashibuyantai, and Sadun. Under the qachi thousand-households of Anchi and Huli: the hundred-household Tuotuomuer. At Wuluwuneitu: qachi Abarla Kuokuochu. At Cheche: Salaba. Xueliwen, Nilwen, Wotuohuchi, and Qaratiemuer. At Hasihan: Sengjianu. At Yuniboya, Duantoushan: the hundred-household Hazhi.
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1. Under the Imperial Presence in the Yuniboya district: qarajin hundred-households at Yuniboya—Huerduha, Wuduman, Yantiemuer, Anchuhuer, Yexiantuman, Yulongtiemuer, Yuesige, and Minglibulan.
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Under the Great Ordo: Qiliguoluochi Mou and others. At Hariyaer: qachi Bietiemuer. At Bozhila: qachi Alandaer. At Achaboyan: qachi Jiaohua and others. At Talune: yiergechi, taliyachi, and others. At Bozhila: atachi Huerduha. At Taoshan: Grand Preceptor Yuechichaer's detached division—Tiemuer and others. At Boyanzhilugan: atachi Tuhulu and others. At Yuniboya: nutuchi and Huonichi.
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1. Under the Imperial Presence in the Qarumughun district: at Ashiwenhudu, Baduer. At Xichedu: Jier Jir. Qachamudun. At Huoshinaoer: Hata, Yaoluohaiya, and Sade. At Huansalizhen: anchi Hada. At Xuzhihudu: qarajin Bieqi. At Junniaoer: qarajin Huoluosi. Yulong Zhanche. At Yunnei Prefecture: zhuoliyachi Changhan. At Chahannaoer: Qianxisi. At Tangshuer: Anluhan. At Shitoushan: Tuhulu. At Yabuhan, Nilwen: Tuotuomuer. At Kaicheng Circuit, Heishui River: Buhua.
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Under the Great Ordo: Wanzhe.
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1. Under the Imperial Presence in the Arqumaqi district: qarajin hundred-households at Arqumaqi—Anbulian, Qiantiege, Huoshitiemuer, Mochi, Maohan, Bulanxi, and Boluohan. On the Kerulen: qarajin thousand-household Chuangbashi; hundred-households Qierde, Xiaoxuegan, Bietieliebuzuo, Boluo, Chuandu, Yisu, Dianlie, Tandeli, Yelimishi, and Mangwu Jir. On the Onon: Lanzhaner, Weizhe, Hazhibuhua, and others.
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Under the Great Ordo: Arqumaqi Anhui and others. At Kuoku: Kuochijin and others.
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1. Under the Imperial Presence in the Wojinchuan district: qarajin thousand-households at Wojinchuan—Yuelu, Alatiemuer, and Tatatachaer. Zhuoliyachi Woluosun; at Matahaerha, qarajin thousand-households Dangshi, Yanhuli, and Huanchaitainan. At Kuokuo: wunuhuchi Mangwu Jir. At Kerulen Balaha: qachi Baermasi.
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Under the Great Ordo: Matahaerha Qieliankou Zhierhahu.
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1. Under the Imperial Presence in the Achatobuhan district: at Achatobuhan, qachi Shouna. At Wochuanzha: Maxibaochi Manggesaer. At Huoluohan: anchi Tuhuchi. At Chenghai Houhuo: Yihan Taerhan and anchi Yexian. At Huangwuerbula: anchi Moerge and Hulinshi. At Yinglige: anchi Hadan and Hutaimishi. At Yingjiliegu: qarajin Bulu. At Yierhunchaxi: qarajin. At Dalansulu: qarajin Bazhijier. At Haerhasunbula: qarajin Aertu.
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Under the Great Ordo: Kerulen Huonichi Talahai.
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1. Under the Imperial Presence in the Ganzhou district: Kouqianzi Qarabuhua, one establishment. Aoluchi, one establishment. At Alasha and Alanshan: Wuduman. Yibulajin, one establishment. Kuanchegan. At Tataan: Puan. At Shenghui: Supervisor Liu Zi. At Kuokuo: Tataiemuer and others. At Ganzhou and elsewhere: Yang Zhupu. At Bokelian: Saerjisi. At Zhihatuntian: Antong, one establishment. At Qarabanhudu: zhuoliyachi Ermei.
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1. Under the Imperial Presence in the left-hand Yongping circuit: at Yongping, sixty qarajin thousand-households. At Leting: zhuoliyachi, aduchi, dalachi Milimishi, and yiergechi Mou Saerda. At Xianghe: anchi Dingzhu and Yimachi Sugatiemuer. At Hexiwu: Aiyachi Boluo Jir. At Huazhou: qarajin Tuohucha. At Taohuadao: qingshibaochi Chiban and others.
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Under the Great Ordo: at Hexiwu, yutichi hundred-household Mazhaer.
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1. Under the Imperial Presence in the right-hand Gu'an Prefecture circuit, headed by Chief Minister Nayihuai of the four keshik bala qachi: at Gu'an Prefecture, qarajin Tuohucha; qachi Huliqachi and anchi Buduer. At Zhending: xibaochi Tuotuo. Left Guard: qarajin Tabu Jir. At Qingzhou: qarajin Ahabuhua. At Zhuozhou: qarajin Buluhasi.
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1. Yunnan Yixibuxue, headed by Tiemuer Buhua. 1. Luzhou. 1. Yidu: qarajin Hudutiemu. 1. Qoliyutama, headed by Taishenghuer.
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1. Goryeo and Tamna. ○ Garrison Farming
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In antiquity the state quartered troops among the peasantry; from the Han and Wei dynasties onward, garrison colonies were first established to guard the frontiers. States that applied the system effectively thereby sustained their armies while sparing the common people—an essential policy. In the founding campaigns, whenever the army met a formidable walled city or a powerful foe, garrison farming was invariably established to hold the position. After the empire was unified, garrison farms were established within the realm at each guard and in each outer branch secretariat to supply military rations. Some followed ancient precedents and some adapted to local conditions; the planning was exceedingly thorough. In general Shaoqi, Hongze, Gan, Su, Guazhou, and Shazhou followed earlier systems, and their natural advantages were scarcely diminished from former times; Karakorum, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and other regions were first opened according to local conditions, and their benefits were never neglected. Yunnan, the Eight Circuits, Hainan, and Haibei were not classic garrison-farming regions, yet as the heartlands of frontier peoples troops were stationed there by standing practice to hold them in check. Thus throughout the realm there was no region where troops could not be stationed and no land that could not be tilled. The general outline of their establishment and subsequent changes is therefore recorded here, with military and civilian garrison farms under inner and outer jurisdiction each listed in turn.
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Under the Bureau of Military Affairs
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Left Guard Garrison Farm: In the third month of the third year of Zhongtong, Emperor Shizu transferred two thousand men from the Bureau of Military Affairs to open cultivation on wasteland south of Dong'an Prefecture and east of Yongqing County and on the guard's former pasture lands, establishing left- and right-hand garrison-farming thousand-household offices with two thousand soldiers farming 1,310 qing and 65 mu.
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Right Guard Garrison Farm: In the third month of the third year of Zhongtong, two thousand men of this guard were sent to open cultivation at Yongqing, Yijin, and elsewhere, with left- and right-hand garrison-farming thousand-household offices established. The number of garrison soldiers and field acreage matched the Left Guard.
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Central Guard Garrison Farm: In the fourth year of Zhiyuan, farms were established in Wuqing, Xianghe, and other counties. In the eleventh year, because the garrison plots lay more than a hundred li apart and travel was inconvenient, the farms were relocated to Hexiwu, Huangzhuang, Yangjiakou, Qingtai, Yangjiabai, and other sites. The garrison numbered the same as the Left Guard, with 1,037 qing and 82 mu under cultivation.
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Forward Guard Garrison Farm: In the ninth month of the fifteenth year of Zhiyuan, provincial soldiers serving as palace guards were set to garrison farming on idle lands in Bazhou, Baoding, and Zhuozhou, with left- and right-hand thousand-household offices established. The garrison matched the Left Guard in size, with 1,000 qing of fields.
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Rear Guard Garrison Farm: Established in the same month and year as the Forward Guard. Later, because the fields around Yongqing were poor, the farm was moved to Taipingzhuang in Changping County. In the fifth month of the third year of Taiding, Taipingzhuang was recognized as ground Shizu had traversed and where guard horses were pastured each spring and autumn; Han garrison troops were withdrawn from there, and farming resumed at the original sites. The garrison matched the Left Guard, with 1,428 qing and 14 mu of fields.
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Left-Flank Garrison-Farming Ten-Thousand-Household Office: In the second month of the twenty-sixth year of Zhiyuan, Mongol palace guards were withdrawn from garrison farming and replaced by Han troops from Woduan and Biebashibali, newly attached troops from Daming and Weihui, and eastern-returning soldiers of the Forward and Rear guards, organized under left- and right-flank ten-thousand-household offices. Farms were opened at Bazhou in Dadu Circuit and in Hejian and elsewhere, with Han left- and right-hand two-thousand-household offices and a newly attached six-thousand-household office—2,051 soldiers farming 1,399 qing and 52 mu.
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Loyal Support Palace Guard Garrison Farm: In the eleventh month of the twenty-ninth year of Zhiyuan, four thousand soldiers were selected from Datong, Longxing, Taiyuan, Pingyang, and elsewhere to farm the Yanzhigezhijin tract and lands around Hongcheng, opening two thousand qing of wasteland under the Western Capital pacification commission, later the Datong Garrison-Storage Ten-Thousand-Household Office. In the eleventh year of Dade under Chengzong, it became the Palace Guard Personal-Army Command, which continued to oversee garrison farming. In the fourth year of Zhida under Wuzong, one thousand soldiers from the Huanghualing newly attached garrison farm were merged into this guard under a separate garrison office. That year the Datong guard became the Central Capital Weiguard under the Xuanhui Court: two thousand soldiers formed a crossbow corps, two thousand were divided into left- and right-hand garrison-farming thousand-household offices, and the Huanghualing garrison continued unchanged. In the second year of Yanyou under Renzong, the Hongcheng garrison was relocated to farm at Gubeikou and Taipingzhuang. In the fifth year, eight hundred more Weiguard soldiers were levied for a separate garrison office within the Left Capital Weiguard's jurisdiction. In the twelfth month of the seventh year, farms at the Left Capital Weiguard, Taipingzhuang, Baicaoying, and elsewhere were abolished and farming restored around Hongcheng under the Central Capital Weiguard. In the first year of Zhizhi under Yingzong, the unit was renamed Loyal Support Palace Guard; garrison farming continued with two thousand qing of fields. The garrison sites were later moved; their acreage is unknown.
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Left and Right Qincha Guard Garrison Farms: In the twenty-fourth year of Zhiyuan, 1,512 soldiers of this guard were assigned to left- and right-hand garrison-farming thousand-household offices and a Qincha garrison-farming thousand-household office at Qingzhou and elsewhere. In the second year of Zhizhi under Yingzong, separate left and right Qincha guards were formed, and the left- and right-hand garrison-farming thousand-household offices were divided accordingly. In the second year of Tianli under Wenzong, the newly established Dragon Escort Palace Guard was again placed under their authority. The force comprised 705 soldiers in the left-hand thousand-household office, 437 in the right-hand office, and 800 in the Qincha thousand-household office. Fields totaled 137 qing 50 mu for the left-hand office, 218 qing 50 mu for the right-hand office, and 300 qing for the Qincha office.
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Zongren Guard Garrison Farm: In the eighth month of the second year of Zhizhi, two thousand Han soldiers from the five guards established garrison farming at Daning and elsewhere under two-wing thousand-household offices, with two thousand qing of fields.
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Yongping Garrison-Farming Chief Office: In the eighth month of the twenty-fourth year of Zhiyuan, more than three thousand timber-gathering households of the northern capital were settled for garrison farming at Luanzhou under a supervisory office—3,290 households farming 11,614 qing and 49 mu.
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Camp-Field Intendant's Office: Its founding date is unknown; it stood in Wuqing County, Huazhou, Dadu Circuit—with 253 military households, 1,235 civilians, 480 released bondservants, and other categories totaling 3,502 qing and 93 mu.
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Extensive Relief Office Garrison Farm: In the first month of the twenty-second year of Zhiyuan, the farm at flood-prone Cuihuangkou was relocated to Qing, Cang, and other prefectures. Later 230 former Superior Delicacies Office households were added, with 550 from Jinan and Hejian and over 450 from Pingluan, Zhending, and Baoding—1,230 households farming 12,626 qing and 38 mu.
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Under the Xuanhui Court
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Huaidong-Huaixi Garrison-Farming and Hunting Chief Office: In the sixteenth year of Zhiyuan, commoners were recruited to open wasteland in Lian and Haizhou; the government supplied seed while farmers furnished oxen and tools; harvests were split four-tenths to the state and six-tenths to the cultivators, with corvée remitted; repeated abolition attempts failed. In the twenty-seventh year, nineteen subordinate intendant's offices were consolidated into twelve. Further consolidation left eight sites—11,743 households and 15,193 qing and 39 mu.
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Fengrun Office: Established in the twenty-second year of Zhiyuan at Fengrun County, Jizhou, Dadu Circuit—837 households and 349 qing.
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Baodi Garrison: In the sixteenth year of Zhiyuan, three hundred registered metropolitan households were settled at Baodi County in Dadu—450 qing.
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Superior Delicacies Office: Established in the twenty-third year of Zhiyuan at Yanzhou, Jining Circuit—456 households and 9,719 qing and 72 mu. Military and Civilian Garrison Farms under the Interior
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Datong Garrison-Storage Chief Garrison Farm: In the fourth year of Dade, because lands at Huanghualing near the Western Capital were extensive, more than nine thousand military and civilian personnel were sent to open cultivation. In the sixth year, the Garrison-Storage Military and Civilian Chief Ten-Thousand-Household Office was established. In the eleventh year, Han garrison troops were released to Hongcheng; only civilian laborers remained. Under Renzong the ten-thousand-household office became a chief office—4,020 military households, 5,945 civilians, and 5,000 qing.
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Tiger Guard Personal-Army Command Garrison Farm: In the twelfth month of the seventeenth year of Zhiyuan, Officer Yierlu memorialized: "Relay stations have been re-established at Mienieqietu, Chunachi, Gaozhou, Hulanruoban, and elsewhere; we propose garrison farming at the former relay sites." The proposal was approved. In the twenty-eighth year, two thousand Tiger Guard soldiers were assigned to garrison farming. In the twenty-ninth year, another thousand soldiers were added; thirty-four garrisons were established with an office at Shangdu—3,000 soldiers, 79 tenant households, and 4,202 qing and 79 mu.
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Lingbei Branch Secretariat Garrison Farms
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Garrison Farms under the Liaoyang Branch Secretariat
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Daning Circuit Haiyang Hunting Garrison Office: In the twenty-third year of Zhiyuan, unregistered, released, and Bulanxi households from Daning, Liaoyang, and Pingluan and laicized clergy were settled to open coastal wasteland west of Ruizhou under a hunting-garrison chief office. In the fourth year of Dade it was abolished, leaving only a hunting garrison office—122 households and 230 qing and 50 mu.
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Puyu Circuit Garrison-Farming Ten-Thousand-Household Office: In the tenth month of the twenty-ninth year of Zhiyuan, three hundred Mang soldiers and one hundred ninety Jurchen households were settled to farm at Xianping Prefecture. In the thirtieth year Helugu Jir of this office was appointed to supervise it, with garrisons at Chalahuan and Laling. In the thirty-first year the ten-thousand-household garrison farm was abolished. In the second year of Dade, three hundred Mang soldiers were transferred to the Zhaozhou Mongol Ten-Thousand-Household Office; one hundred ninety Jurchen households remained—400 qing.
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Jinfu Circuit Ten-Thousand-Household Office Garrison Farm: In the fifth month of the twenty-first year of Zhiyuan, 1,281 newly attached households established garrison farming at Xinducha. In the twenty-sixth year, one thousand metropolitan-service newly attached soldiers farmed wasteland east of Hasihan Pass. In the thirtieth year, 1,360 households of the Yulongtiemuer and Tashihaiya ten-thousand-household offices were merged into Jinfu Circuit—3,641 households and 2,523 qing.
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Military and Civilian Garrison Farms under the Henan Branch Secretariat
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Nanyang Prefecture Civilian Garrison: In the first month of the second year of Zhiyuan, an edict directed that idle lands east of Mengzhou, north of the Yellow River, and south to Baliu Tree, the dry riverbed, Xuzhou, and beyond be opened by troops under Achu, Alahan, and others, with Han soldiers from each ten-thousand-household office also assigned. In the sixth year, because supplies for the Xiangyang-Fancheng campaign were insufficient, more than twenty thousand registered households from Nanjing, Henan, Guide, and other circuits were settled at Tang, Deng, Shen, and Yu. In the eighth year the original garrison households were released and various Nanyang households levied instead under a camp-field intendant's office. It was soon abolished and replaced by the Nanyang Garrison-Farming Chief Office. Later abolished again, it fell under local offices only—6,041 households and 10,662 qing and 7 mu.
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Hongze Ten-Thousand-Household Office Garrison Farm: In the twenty-third year of Zhiyuan, three garrisons north and south of Hongze were established under a ten-thousand-household office. Previously the Jianghuai branch secretariat had argued: "State expenditure depends above all on grain; no garrison-farming profit exceeds that of the two Huai regions; Shaoqi and Hongze are both sites where Han and Tang once farmed—if newly attached Han troops garrisoned there, more than 1.5 million shi might be harvested yearly." The proposal was then approved. In the thirty-first year the three garrison ten-thousand-household offices were abolished, leaving only the Hongze Garrison-Farming Ten-Thousand-Household Office. Sites lay at Baitang and Huangjiatuan in Huai'an Circuit—15,994 households and 35,312 qing and 21 mu.
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Shaoqi Garrison-Farming Ten-Thousand-Household Office: In the second month of the twenty-first year of Zhiyuan, the Jianghuai branch secretariat proposed: "Shaoqi at Anfeng can irrigate more than ten thousand qing; we request thirty thousand men for a garrison." The Secretariat replied: "Send two thousand soldiers for a trial first." Garrison households later reached 14,808.
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De'an Military and Civilian Garrison-Farming Chief Office: In the eighteenth year of Zhiyuan, Han troops drawn from the various wings and hand-brand newly attached troops seized from the circuits were organized into ten garrisons under a Garrison-Farming Ten-Thousand-Household Office. In the thirty-first year it became a chief office—9,375 civilians, 5,965 soldiers, and 8,879 qing and 96 mu.
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Military and Civilian Garrison Farms under the Shaanxi Branch Secretariat
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Shaanxi Garrison-Farming Chief Office: In the first month of the eleventh year of Zhiyuan, two thousand registered households under the Anxi princely establishment were settled for garrison farming at Liyang, Jingyang, Zhongnan, and Weinan. In the eighteenth year a Garrison-Farming Office was established. In the nineteenth year, because relay-station garrison households were seized to fill qaljin household quotas, those released with nowhere to go were registered as garrison households; farms were established at Anxi and Pingliang under a supervisory office. In the twenty-ninth year garrisons were established at Fengxiang, Zhenyuan, and Pengyuan; soldiers levied in the tenth year of Zhiyuan for Chengdu and Yan'an relief were released, civilian garrisons with Garrison-Farming Offices were set up, and soon converted to military garrisons under thousand-household offices. In the thirtieth year they reverted to civilian garrisons—Fengxiang: 1,127 households; Zhenyuan: 913 households; Liyang: 786 households, later reduced to 650; Jingyang: 696 households, later reduced to 658; Pengyuan: 1,238 households; Anxi: 724 households, later reduced to 262; Pingliang: 288 households; Zhongnan: 771 households, later reduced to 713; Weinan: 811 households, later reduced to 766. Fields totaled: Fengxiang, 90 qing and 12 mu; Zhenyuan, 426 qing and 85 mu; Liyang, 1,020 qing and 99 mu; Jingyang, 1,020 qing and 99 mu; Pengyuan, 545 qing and 68 mu; Anxi, 467 qing and 78 mu; Pingliang, 115 qing and 20 mu; Zhongnan, 943 qing and 76 mu; Weinan, 1,222 qing and 31 mu.
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Shaanxi Ten-Thousand-Household Office Garrison Farm: In the second month of the nineteenth year of Zhiyuan, newly submitted troops were sent to open military garrisons at Xiaozilin and Zhangmacun on state wasteland south of Zhouzhi. In the twentieth year, eight hundred households of southern-mountain pass-guard patrol soldiers were settled at Xingyuanzhuang in Zhouzhi and Dachangyuan in Ningzhou. In the twenty-first year, nine hundred Wenzhou garrison troops established the Yabozhen military garrison, and four hundred sixty-three households of newly attached Yanjing garrison troops opened fields at Weirong in Deshun Prefecture. Households: Xiaozilin, 301; Zhangmacun, 313; Xingyuanzhuang, 233; Dachangyuan, 474; Yabozhen, 900; Weirong, 463. Fields: Xiaozilin, 23 qing and 80 mu; Zhangmacun, 73 qing and 80 mu; Xingyuanzhuang, 118 qing and 30 mu; Dachangyuan, 158 qing and 79 mu; Yabozhen, 268 qing and 59 mu; Weirong, 164 qing and 80 mu.
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Keshig Yan'an Chief Office Garrison: In the nineteenth year of Zhiyuan, ransomed, released, Bulanxi, and unregistered households were settled on tamachi pastureland in Yan'an Circuit—2,027 households and 486 qing. Military and Civilian Garrison Farms under the Gansu Branch Secretariat
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Ningxia Newly Attached Troops Ten-Thousand-Household Office Garrison Farm: In the third month of the nineteenth year of Zhiyuan, 1,382 households of far-southern newly attached troops were sent to farm in Ningxia and elsewhere. In the twenty-first year, 958 households under the Tatali thousand-household office were sent to farm—1,498 qing and 33 mu.
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Garrison Troops Ten-Thousand-Household Office Garrison Farm: In the first month of the eighteenth year of Zhiyuan, garrison farming was ordered at Suzhou, Shazhou, and Guazhou. Previously Grand Marshal Liu En had surveyed the Suzhou prefectures for suitable land; on his return he recommended garrison farming, and the court approved. Troops were settled at Heishanzi, Manyu, Quanshuiqu, and Yazichi in Ganzhou—2,290 households and 1,166 qing and 64 mu.
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Ningxia Camp-Field Office Garrison Farm: In the first month of the eighth year of Zhiyuan, 1,117 households of jiwei-year surrenderers from Suizhou and Ezhou were settled at Zhongxing. In the eleventh year they were registered as garrison-farming households—2,400 adult males in all. In the twenty-third year three hundred additional young males were levied—1,800 qing of fields.
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Ningxia Circuit Released-Bondservant Official Garrison Farm: In the eleventh year of Zhiyuan, at the pacification commission's request, 904 released households were gathered to farm—446 qing and 50 mu.
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Yijinai Garrison Farm: In the sixteenth year of Zhiyuan, newly submitted soldiers were transferred to Ganzhou; in the eighteenth year they became garrison-farming troops. In the twenty-second year, two hundred newly attached Ganzhou troops were moved to open fields at the Heji Canal in Yijinai—91 qing and 50 mu.
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Garrison Farms under the Jiangxi Branch Secretariat
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Ganzhou Nan'an Stockade Troops Ten-Thousand-Household Office Garrison Farm: In the first month of the second year of Dade, because bandits roamed Xinfeng, Huichang, Longnan, and Anyuan under Ganzhou Circuit, stockade troops, former Song bowmen, and seized unregistered households were settled to farm and guard the region—3,265 households and 524 qing and 68 mu.
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Garrison Farms under the Jiang-Zhe Branch Secretariat
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Ting and Zhang Garrison Farms: In the eighteenth year of Zhiyuan, because Fujian troop deployments strained grain supplies, garrison farming was established on the interior model; Commander Zheng Chu sent one hundred fourteen aged garrison soldiers unfit for battle and recruited 1,825 households from Nan'an and other counties to farm. In the third year of Yuanzhen, garrisons were ordered at Nanzhao, Li, and She; fifteen hundred active garrison soldiers were assigned to each, and remnants of Chen Diaoyan's faction were enrolled to farm with them. Personnel: Tingzhou garrison, 1,525; Zhangzhou garrison, 1,513. Fields: Tingzhou, 225 qing; Zhangzhou, 250 qing.
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Goryeo State Garrison Farms
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Goryeo Garrison Farm: Founded in the seventh year of Zhiyuan during preparations for the eastern expedition against Japan to stock grain for the advance; two thousand Goryeo households under Wang Chuo and Hong Chaqian, two thousand Central Guard soldiers, and one thousand each from Posuo and Xianping prefectures were settled at ten sites including Dongning Prefecture and Fengzhou near the royal capital under a pacification office, with five hundred soldiers per garrison.
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Twenty-nine Military and Civilian Garrison Farms under the Sichuan Branch Secretariat
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Guangyuan Circuit Civilian Garrison: In the thirteenth year of Zhiyuan, at the Lizhou commander's request, because Guangyuan was a vital junction of eastern and western Sichuan with heavy costs, state fields were surveyed yielding 9 qing and 60 mu; unregistered people from Baozhou were paired into ten households to open farming. In the eighteenth year, seventy-seven registered households from Xinde Prefecture were added—eighty-seven households in all.
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Xuzhou Pacification Commission Civilian Garrison: In the eleventh year of Zhiyuan, the Western Sichuan pacification commissioner was ordered to establish garrison farming. In the fifteenth year, four hundred seventy-five registered households from Changning Army and Fushun Prefecture were levied to farm. In the nineteenth year, one hundred sixty more households were levied. In the twentieth year, Xuzhou levied one thousand nine hundred households. In the twenty-fifth year, Fushun Prefecture levied six hundred eight more households for the existing garrison. In the twenty-seventh year, investigation yielded two hundred eighty-four garrison households. In the second year of Yuanzhen, one thousand seventeen relay households were released and returned to garrison farming. In all, 4,444 households.
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Shaoqing Circuit Civilian Garrison: In the nineteenth year of Zhiyuan, twenty-three corvée-exempt households within the circuit were levied for a garrison farm. In the twentieth year, twenty households were selected from Wanzhou dependents registered in Pengshui County. In the twenty-first year, thirty-two corvée-exempt Pengshui households were added. In the twenty-sixth year, because many garrison households were impoverished and in debt, sixteen Pengshui registered households were levied as replacements. Households totaled ninety-one.
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Shunqing Circuit Civilian Garrison: In the twelfth year of Zhiyuan, three thousand four hundred sixty-eight Shunqing households were levied for a garrison farm. In the nineteenth year, one thousand three hundred thirty-six more civilian households were assigned to a civilian garrison. In the twentieth year, two hundred twelve more households were levied. In all, 5,016 households.
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Tongzhou Prefecture Civilian Garrison: In the eleventh year of Zhiyuan, two thousand two hundred twenty-four registered households and volunteer soldiers of the prefecture were levied for a garrison. In the thirteenth year, one hundred forty-two more civilian households were levied. In the twenty-first year, the branch secretariat selected aged, weak, and disabled transport overseers in Suining Prefecture, registering forty-six as garrison households. In all, 2,412 households.
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Kuizhou Circuit Chief Office Civilian Garrison: Established in the eleventh year of Zhiyuan; registered households were repeatedly levied until they reached five thousand twenty-seven, with fifty-six aged and weak newly attached troops added.
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Chongqing Circuit Civilian Garrison: Established in the eleventh year of Zhiyuan; two thousand three hundred eighty-seven registered households were levied at Jiangjin, Baxian, Luzhou, Zhongzhou, and elsewhere, and with recruits totaled three thousand five hundred sixty-six households.
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Chengdu Circuit Civilian Garrison: In the thirteenth year of Zhiyuan, forty yin-yang specialist households were levied to supply garrison grain. In the twenty-second year, ninety-seven Luzhou registered households were added as garrison-farming households. In the thirty-first year, fourteen civilian households under Thousand-Household Gao De were added.
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Baoning Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: In the twenty-sixth year of Zhiyuan, Baoning Prefecture memorialized: "Our soldiers often have two or three adult males per household on duty at once—a truly heavy burden. If they are also moved to farm at Chengdu, they will be far from home and desertions will surely multiply. We ask that this prefecture's camp soldiers and Kuizhou garrison troops farm only along the Baoning riverfront." The request was approved. One thousand two hundred soldiers were levied. In the twenty-seventh year, one hundred twenty-nine garrison soldiers joined Ten-Thousand-Household Yesu Die'er's western campaign; young replacements were levied—1,329 households and 118 qing and 27 mu.
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Xuzhou Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: In the second year of Yuanzhen, the Xuzhou military garrison was reorganized; two hundred thirty-nine Suining garrison soldiers were moved to open wasteland at Yongkou in Xuanhua County, Xuzhou—41 qing and 83 mu.
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Chongqing Five-Circuit Garrison Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: In the seventh year of Yanyou, one thousand two hundred soldiers were sent to farm at Sandui, Zhongcao, and Zhaoshi in Chongqing Circuit—420 qing.
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Kuizhou Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: In the twenty-first year of Zhiyuan, on the Sichuan branch secretariat's recommendation, aside from border garrisons, ten thousand remaining soldiers were ordered to select fertile land near Chengdu—351 households, 56 qing and 70 mu, fourteen garrisons in all.
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Chengdu Circuits Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: Established at Nanmuyuan, Yixing Township, Chongqing Prefecture—299 households and 42 qing and 70 mu.
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Hedong-Shaanxi Circuits Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: Established at Qingcheng and Taoba in Guanzhou and Dazhaitou in Chongqing Prefecture—1,328 households and 208 qing and 7 mu.
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Guang'an Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: Established at Qibaoba in Chongqing Prefecture—150 households and 26 qing and 25 mu.
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Baoning Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: Established at Jinma in Jinyuan County, Chongqing Prefecture—564 households and 75 qing and 95 mu.
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Xuzhou Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: Established at Qingcheng in Guanzhou—221 households and 38 qing and 67 mu.
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Five-Circuit Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: Established at Dazhai Town, Xiaogan Township, Chongqing Prefecture, and Huairen Township, Qingcheng County, Guanzhou—1,161 households and 203 qing and 17 mu.
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Xingyuan-Jinzhou Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: Established at Xiaogan Township, Jinyuan County, Chongqing Prefecture—344 households and 56 qing.
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Circuit Eight-Banner Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: Established at Qingcheng in Guanzhou and Wenjiang County—832 households and 162 qing and 57 mu.
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Formerly Attached Troops Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: Established at Qingcheng County, Guanzhou, and Chongqing Prefecture—1,002 households and 129 qing and 50 mu.
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Artillerymen Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: Established at Longchi Township, Qingcheng County, Guanzhou—96 households and 16 qing and 80 mu.
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Shunqing Military Garrison: Established at Yixing Township, Jinyuan County, and Jiangqiao, Jiangyuan County—565 households and 98 qing and 87 mu.
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Pingyang Military Garrison: Established at Qingcheng in Guanzhou and Dazhaitou in Chongqing Prefecture—398 households and 69 qing and 65 mu. Suining Prefecture Military Garrison: 2,000 households and 350 qing.
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Jiading Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: In the twenty-first year of Zhiyuan, three hundred sixty Mongol, Han, and newly attached Jiading soldiers were sent to farm at Chongqing Prefecture and Qingcheng. In the twenty-eighth year they were returned to their original wing; only thirteen garrison soldiers remained—2 qing and 27 mu.
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Shunqing Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: In the twenty-sixth year of Zhiyuan, soldiers were sent to farm at Hanchu and other lower-river sites—656 households and 114 qing and 80 mu.
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Guang'an Ten-Thousand-Household Office Military Garrison: In the twenty-seventh year of Zhiyuan, one hundred eighteen formerly attached Han soldiers from Guang'an opened fields at Xinming and elsewhere—20 qing and 65 mu. Twelve Military and Civilian Garrison Farms under the Yunnan Branch Secretariat
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Weichu Intendant's Office Garrison Farm: In the fifteenth year of Zhiyuan, unregistered households seized by the Weichu Salt Intendant's Office were assigned as a civilian garrison supervised by that office itself, unlike the interior system—33 households and 165 shuang.
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Dali Golden Teeth Pacification Commission Grand Marshal's Office Garrison: In the twelfth year of Zhiyuan, unregistered households were rounded up across its prefectures and counties—2,066 households—and garrison farming was established. In the fourteenth year, four hundred registered civilians from this office were conscripted to augment it. In the eighteenth year, another 1,275 registered civilians from Yongchang Prefecture were conscripted and added. In the twenty-sixth year, a Dali military garrison was established with two hundred households drawn from Cuan-Bo troops. In the twenty-seventh year, another 281 Cuan-Bo soldiers were conscripted and added. In the twenty-eighth year, another 119 households were added. In all: 3,741 civilian garrison households and 600 military garrison households; fields for military and civilian own land totaled 22,105 shuang.
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Heqing Circuit Garrison Farm: In the twelfth year of Zhiyuan, one hundred registered civilians from Heqing Circuit were conscripted to establish a civilian garrison. In the twenty-seventh year, 152 Cuan-Bo soldiers were conscripted for a military garrison—608 shuang for the military garrison and 400 shuang for the civilian garrison, all privately held land.
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Wuding Circuit Chief Office Military Garrison: In the twenty-seventh year of Zhiyuan, because Yunnan garrison rations were insufficient, 187 households from Cuan-Bo troops in Hequ and Lujuan were conscripted to farm—748 shuang.
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Weichu Circuit Garrison Farm: In the twelfth year of Zhiyuan, a Weichu civilian garrison was established by rounding up unregistered households—1,100 in all; 866 received 4,330 shuang of ownerless wasteland from the state, and the rest farmed 1,175 shuang of their own land. In the twenty-seventh year, a military garrison was first established with 399 Cuan-Bo soldiers from this circuit—15 received 60 shuang of state-granted wasteland, and the rest farmed 1,536 shuang of their own land.
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Zhongqing Circuit Garrison Farm: In the twelfth year of Zhiyuan, a Zhongqing civilian garrison was established by rounding up unregistered households in its subordinate prefectures and counties—4,197 households, with 17,022 shuang of state-granted fields and 2,602 shuang of privately held land. In the twenty-seventh year, a military garrison was first established with 709 Cuan-Bo soldiers—234 shuang of state-granted fields and 2,601 shuang of privately held land.
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Qujing Pacification Commission Garrison Farm: In the twelfth year of Zhiyuan, a Qujing civilian garrison was established with 740 unregistered households rounded up from its subordinate prefectures and districts. In the eighteenth year, another 1,500 civilian households were conscripted and added, farming 1,480 shuang of state-granted fields and 3,000 shuang of privately held land. In the twelfth year, a Chengjiang civilian garrison was established with the same conscription arrangement as Qujing—1,260 households in all. In the twenty-sixth year, a military garrison was first established with 169 households conscripted from Cuan-Bo troops. In the twenty-seventh year, another 226 households were conscripted and added. In the twelfth year, a Rende Prefecture civilian garrison was established on the same terms as Chengjiang—80 households with 160 shuang of state-granted fields. In the twenty-sixth year, a military garrison was first established with 44 Cuan-Bo soldiers conscripted. In the twenty-seventh year, another 56 households were conscripted and added, farming 400 shuang—all soldiers' privately held land.
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Wusa Pacification Commission Garrison Farm: In the twenty-seventh year of Zhiyuan, a Wusa military garrison was established with 114 Cuan-Bo households farming. A Dongchuan civilian garrison was also established with 86 Cuan-Bo soldiers as garrison households, all farming their own land.
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Lin'an Pacification Commission Garrison Farm: In the twelfth year of Zhiyuan, two Lin'an civilian garrisons were established, opening fields with unregistered households rounded up from its subordinate prefectures and counties. The pacification commission directly supervised 300 civilian garrison households and 600 shuang of fields. The circuit directly supervised 2,000 civilian garrison households and 3,400 shuang of fields. In the twenty-seventh year, a Cuan-Bo military garrison was added—288 households and 1,152 shuang of fields.
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Liang Thousand-Household Wing Military Garrison: In the thirtieth year of Zhiyuan, the Prince of Liang sent envoys to the Yunnan branch secretariat requesting that 1,000 Han soldiers be assigned to establish garrison farming. In the thirty-first year, 300 men were sent for garrison duty and border patrol, leaving 700 to farm at Wumeng; they were later moved to Xinxing Prefecture—3,789 shuang of fields.
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Luoluo Pacification Commission Garrison Farm: In the twenty-seventh year of Zhiyuan, a Huitong civilian garrison was established with two local Cuan-Bo soldiers as garrison households. In the sixteenth year, a Jianchang civilian garrison was established with 104 registered civilians assigned. In the twenty-third year, 180 Cuan-Bo soldiers were dispatched to establish a military garrison. That same year, a Huichuan civilian garrison was also established with 40 registered civilians dispatched from prefectures and districts under the circuit. In the sixteenth year, a Dechang civilian garrison was established with 21 registered civilians dispatched. In the twentieth year, a military garrison was first established with 120 Cuan-Bo soldiers dispatched.
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Wumeng Garrison Farm Chief Office Military Garrison: In the third year of Yanyou, a Wumeng military garrison was established. Previously the Yunnan branch secretariat had argued: "Wumeng is the strategic throat of Yunnan, yet has no garrison troops; the land is vast and fertile, with traces of ancient garrison farming everywhere. We request Uighur and newly attached Han soldiers for garrison farming to secure the region." The request was then approved. This came to 5,000 soldier households and 1,250 qing of fields.
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Three Garrison Farms under the Huguang Branch Secretariat
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Haibei-Hainan Circuit Pacification Commission Civilian Garrison: In the thirtieth year of Zhiyuan, civilian households were recruited and newly attached soldiers dispatched to establish garrison farms in Hainan, Haibei, and elsewhere. In the first year of Yuanzhen, because the region was heavily malarial, 2,000 garrison soldiers were released to their original wings, leaving 2,000 to farm with recruited civilians. In the third year of Dade, the garrison-farm ten-thousand-household office was abolished and all garrison soldiers returned to regular service; only 8,428 civilian households remained to farm—5,011 in Qiongzhou, 1,566 in Leizhou, 948 in Gaozhou, 843 in Huazhou, and 60 in Lianzhou. Fields totaled 292 qing and 98 mu in Qiongzhou, 165 qing and 51 mu in Leizhou, 45 qing in Gaozhou, 55 qing and 24 mu in Huazhou, and 4 qing and 88 mu in Lianzhou.
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Guangxi Liangjiang Circuit Pacification Commission Zhuang Soldier Garrison Farm: In the second year of Dade, Huang Shengxu rebelled, fled to Annam, and abandoned 545 qing and 7 mu of paddy fields. A subject named Lü Ying proposed recruiting Zhuang and Yao labor from pastoral areas such as Mulan and cave settlements in Rongqing to open garrison farms at Shanglang, Zhongzhou, and elsewhere. In the tenth year, after suppressing the bandits Huang De'ning and others at Daren Cave, an additional Tengzhou garrison farm was established on the abandoned lands. Households totaled 1,282 at Shanglang, 614 at Zhongzhou, 1,919 at Nafu, 187 at Leiliu, and 1,599 at Shuikou. Tengzhou garrison was further expanded by 208 qing and 19 mu.
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Hunan Circuit Pacification Commission Hengzhou Garrison Farm: In the twenty-fifth year of Zhiyuan, 1,467 soldiers from the De'an Garrison-Farm Ten-Thousand-Household Office were redeployed to Qinghua in Hengzhou, Wufu in Yongzhou, and Baicang in Wugang to establish garrison farms. In the twenty-seventh year, nine landless residents of Hengyang County were recruited and added to Qinghua garrison. Households totaled 509 military and civilian households at Qinghua; 500 military and civilian households at Wufu, and the same at Baicang. Fields totaled 120 qing and 19 mu at Qinghua, 103 qing and 50 mu at Wufu, and 86 qing and 92 mu at Baicang.
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