The decay of the garrison system is a common ailment throughout Da Rong, and there are many reasons for this problem.
One is the rampant corruption of greedy officials who oppress military households to the point of survival becoming impossible, forcing them to flee the garrisons, becoming vagrants, or going into the mountains to become unregistered dwellers.
Another is because the court had long given up on the garrisons across the land. Apart from a few garrisons with special duties, most of the garrisons receive no support from the court, nor do they have any opportunities for development.
"How many military households does Zhao Wu Guard have? How much is the allocated farmland?" Yang Zhenshan asked.
Zhang Hee replied anxiously, "There are two thousand three hundred military households, and twenty-three thousand acres of allocated farmland."
