Weisuo military-household system

Timeline

1. 1370–1383Nanjing · ChinaIn the early Hongwu reign, guards and companies were successively established, organizing late Yuan and surrendered troops into guards and companies, with the prototype of hereditary military households and a three-tenths-garrisoning, seven-tenths-farming arrangement gradually implemented.
2. 1384–1390China · ChinaIn the seventeenth year of Hongwu the weisuo establishment was fixed: 5,600 men per guard and 1,120 per company, with over three hundred guards nationwide; perpetual hereditary service, rotating garrison duty, and self-sustaining military colonies were implemented nationwide and recorded in relevant provisions of the Great Ming Code.
3. 1403–1644China · ChinaAfter the Yongle capital move, recruited troops gradually increased, while desertion, fictitious rosters, and misuse of labor in the weisuo grew ever more serious; by the mid-to-late Ming, weisuo combat power had declined sharply, coexisting with the recruited-battalion system until the fall of the Ming.