Chapter VI The Expanded Military Division

There is also a part of it divided into quasi-solid earth guards, which are located in the frontier, although they are also under the jurisdiction of states and counties, but they also have their own certain independence.

On closer examination, this is also a system that has evolved differently because of the different radiation scopes of the imperial court's ruling ability.

The so-called non-real earth guards are all in the mainland, or Gyeonggi, because this is the core hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no need for too many military control areas, and this kind of guard post is the most declining in combat effectiveness.

Because these garrisons are mixed with ordinary people's villages, many of the garrisons are very civilized, and there is no military character at all.

There is no difference between starting a war and driving the people into battle.

There is still a certain need for the real earth guard on the border and the quasi-real earth guard. But for these guards in the mainland, Zhu Qizhen has long been dissatisfied.

At this moment, let's take action to dismantle Jingwei.

Of course, it is also completely abolished.

Zhu Qizhen lowered the standard for leaving the military household, compared to before, either the official reached the level of the secretary of the military department, or asked the emperor for favor to get out. Or make a difference in fame.

However, if they do not want to leave the guard, they must serve in the army.

Of course, although it is said that the military households in the health center system are bad, it is not absolute.

There are some people in the military household, their ancestors are either old people who followed Taizu to raise troops, or soldiers who followed Taizong's martyrdom, and they may not have made a name for themselves in their lives.

But all the connections of their family are in the army, and the detachment of the army is not necessarily a good thing for them, especially in the Jingwei near Beijing.

Therefore, although Zhu Qizhen vigorously recruited outsiders into the Beijing camp.

Of course, it is not a system, but it is all disrupted. It is impossible for Zhu Qizhen to let the border army be included in the Beijing camp as a system.

However, the 400,000 troops he newly organized, of which more than 200,000 were either the original Beijing camp, or the room for each guard, or the background.

The grain produced by the remaining guards was also directly transferred to the military department and became one of the logistical supports for the Beijing army.

But what is left of the camp in Beijing is not necessarily the essence.

Maybe those corrupt and useless officers, Zhu Qizhen can deal with them, and those soldiers who are disabled and can't go into battle, Zhu Qizhen can pay them every month according to the preferential system, until he dies of old age.

But there are some soldiers who can't go into battle, are old, and can't accept high-intensity training, and Zhu Qizhen also has to give a way out.

After all, many veterans have been in the army all their lives, and once they are driven out, they will die.

Hence the so-called city defense army.

In fact, the city defense army is pro-army 22 guards, plus the various departments are cut down

Composed of warlike veterans.

First of all, the 22 guards of the Beijing army are important men and horses who protect the imperial city and the palace city. There are more than 8,800 soldiers and guards on duty in the imperial city every day.

The guards guarded the gates of the palace city, the city walls, and even the military camps were in the city of Beijing. In the four sides of the imperial city, the imperial city is guarded. The outer city walls are also guarded by pro-guards.

The reason why it is said that Beijing City cannot be defended unless it is 100,000 is because there are 22 pro-soldiers and guards who are responsible for guarding inside and outside Beijing, except for one Tongzhou Guard in Tongzhou, they are all stationed in Beijing City, and the number of people is 100,000.

Some people seem to have a misunderstanding, thinking that the emperor has to rely on the personal guards, must be very capable of fighting?

According to Zhu Qizhen's personal observations, not necessarily.

Maybe there are a lot of troops among them who can fight, but more of them are appearances, and most of them look majestic. Moreover, these guards also suffered heavy losses in the battle of Maoerzhuang.

After all, Cheng Guogong led almost all the cavalry in the capital, and the guards were no exception. Therefore, there was a lot of shortages after the Great War.

These old soldiers were placed among these personal guards, and they were specially asked to guard the city gates, as well as sweep the streets, and get the soldiers' salaries, but they did municipal work.

For this, Zhu Qizhen also wants to change.

Why did the emperor go out on patrol and ask for loess to pad the ground and sprinkle water on the streets? The reason is simple, because if you don't do this, the emperor is likely to step on.

On the streets of Beijing, the smell of livestock manure is indispensable as the background color, just like the smell of automobile exhaust is indispensable in the current Beijing city.

Zhu Qizhen temporarily subordinated them to the so-called city defense army, and in the future, Zhu Qizhen assigned these old soldiers to Shuntian Mansion, after all, Shuntian Mansion had a small income of 100,000 taels a year because of Yu Qian's original foundation, which was difficult to make a rich house, so let them raise these old soldiers, and it was also just right to clean the streets and reduce the burden on the imperial court.

By the way, except for a few guards such as the Jinyi Guard, they are all subordinate to the Ministry of War, not to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies.

This is not formulated by Zhu Qizhen, but the system of the Ming Dynasty is like this. And several guards stationed in the imperial city were directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor.

Now Zhu Qizhen has also inherited this.

Not only did he continue to subordinate the guards of the pro-soldier guards to the Ministry of War, but all the guards in the capital camp were subordinate to the Ministry of War. Although there is only a little bit of tuntian function left in these guards.

The five armies and six battalions were all stationed in the city of Beijing. The Ministry of War was responsible for the supply of food and cloth for these large battalions, while the Shaofu was responsible for the supply of weapons and equipment.

That's right, Zhu Qizhen also brought benefits to Shaofu, that is, Shaofu annexed all the weapons workshops of the military department and the Jingwei.

Became the supplier of weapons to the Ming Jingying.

This is also Liu

The greatest credit to you. Although Shaofu did not bring much profit to the internal transport depot, if the weapons supplied to the Jingying border army were discounted, it would be an astronomical amount.

Under Liu Dingzhi's management, Jiangnan Weaving, as well as Jingdezhen's goods went directly to the sea from Ningbo, with an annual profit of more than two million taels of silver.

And these more than 2 million taels of silver, plus other bits and pieces of silver, such as the output of various mines, were all invested in the Zunhua Iron Works.

In the past four years, under the development, Zunhua Iron Works has built a city that is not inferior to Zunhua City.

It became the largest iron-smelting center in the north, where a large amount of coal and iron ore was turned into iron ingots, and then used to gallop to the workshop in the south of Beijing, all of which were used to build various weapons.

And the southern city of Beijing is also developing rapidly.

Originally, this was the old land of Yuan Dadu, and there were some people at the beginning. Nowadays, there are Shaofu's workshops, water conservancy institutes, and so on.

Especially the Institute of Water Conservancy.

In the past few years, natural disasters have continued, whether it is drought fighting, or flood control is indispensable for water conservancy projects, and everyone in the world is in the water conservancy college.

Zhu Qizhen also came to consult the world many times on water conservancy matters, and Zhu Qizhen alone gave as many as five or six edict officials, who either presided over water conservancy projects or were very proficient in water conservancy theory.

In the past few years, there are many people who have been born in the Water Conservancy Institute and become officials in various prefectures and counties, and even one of them has made it to the main hall, that is, in Xuzhou Zhizhou, without him, the flood in Xuzhou today is too bad. Zhu Qizhen asked the ministry to select a minister who could control the water, and the ministry could only choose from the officials from the Water Conservancy Institute.

As a result, the Water Conservancy College is even more prosperous and prosperous.

Even made Zhu Qizhen want to expand the idea of the outer city for a while, and include the industrial area of the outer city, but it was only because of the Lugou River that he gave up.

Why the workshops are built in the south of the city, is not to borrow the Lugou River water conservancy, but the problem is that the Lugou River can be restless, if the city is built to let the Lugou River pass through the city, I am afraid that when there is a flood, it will not be easy to clean up.

Zhu Qizhen gave face to the Ministry of War in this way, and gave the Ministry of War real power, far more than this, there are more, such as the jurisdiction of all levels of health centers in the world.

This power has been in the Governor's Office of the Five Armies before, and of course, the Ministry of War has the right to manage it in coordination.

However, in terms of formal subordination, the provincial capitals are still subordinate to the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the Five Armies of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies are themselves a kind of administrative division, and the five armies have their own specific jurisdiction.

I won't say much about this.

But now, the five armies of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies re-established by Zhu Qizhen have become the five armies outside the capital, and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, which was originally the commander-in-chief of the world's soldiers and horses, seems to have suddenly become the leading body of the 250,000 troops outside.