Treatise on Military Preparedness, Volume 220

Thirty-five members, each operating a patrol boat within their assigned river jurisdiction. Upstream, twenty li to Tangjiadu, they connect with the patrols of the government forces secretly stationed at Guanyin Port and Xinjiankou in Nanjing. Downstream, twenty li to Xigou, they connect with the government forces of the Longtan Patrol Inspection Office in Jurong County.

The Patrol Assistant and dian-shi Records Clerk supervise thirty-five militia members to guard the county’s storehouses and prison, as well as patrol the land routes of the four city gates to apprehend bandits. The river surface under the office's jurisdiction is a critical and dangerous route. With eighty archers and militia members, along with the patrol inspector and elders coordinating the guard, it seems there are sufficient troops, and no additions are necessary. However, for fear that the patrol inspector, elders, and the soldiers might shift responsibility onto each other, it is now proposed to rotate the eighty soldiers into groups of thirty...