Bajing's Discipline

The imperial court, who was supposed to main n that all important discipline, had just collectively gotten distracted with other issues closer to home. Discipline had been growing increasingly lax over the first several decades of the sixteenth century. The garrison units grew ever more bold and ever more likely to respond with orders that they didn't like with violence. By the early 15 twenties, therefore, it was widely understood by the border troops that bajing had no political will to intervene in such violent outbursts. In the words of james geise, that knowledge gave rise to a dangerous notion among the troops that they had license to kill.