The civil officials who accompanied them suddenly felt a little out of place with the scene in front of them, and some of them were even sweaty, and they gently wiped their faces with their sleeves.

At this time, a celebrant eunuch ran to the crowd who were discussing hotly with a bamboo basket, opened the bamboo basket, but found that it was full of hot zongzi.

Wang Chaofu took out one, handed it to Zhu Youxiao first, and said with a smile:

"The goods made according to the seasonal specifications of the Dragon Boat Festival are specially made by the monks in the temple, they are very clean, and they are better than the ones sold on the street on weekdays, Your Majesty try them."

Zhu Youxiao took it into his hand, peeled off the dumpling leaves and chewed them, took out two more from the basket, threw them to Qi Jin and Chen Ce respectively, and said:

"It's very fragrant and sweet, divide it up and let everyone taste it."

The zongzi in everyone's hands were not as delicate as Zhu Youxiao's food, they were all stuffed into their mouths, and Qi Jin continued while eating:

"Your Majesty, there are some things that the minister doesn't know whether to talk about or not."

After getting Zhu Youxiao's approval, he threw the dumpling leaves into the basket prepared by the little eunuch, and then said:

"Some time ago, after Jining, Wuchang and other places, these are important towns, and the armament of the guards is slightly usable compared to some places, but the disadvantages are obvious."

"First of all, as the minister just said, almost all the guards have not been trained for many years, even if Your Majesty makes this southern tour, it is a symptom but not a cure."

"The military rolls in various places, most of them were submitted to the military department in the forty-eighth year of Wanli, and at that time they had concealed and exaggerated the number of people, His Majesty toured the south, and the guards drew strong men to make up for the number, but after a circle, the number of people in most places is still very different from the number stipulated by the imperial court."

After Chen Ce finished eating the zongzi, he also nodded and said in a deep voice:

"One government has a station, and several houses have a guard. There are 5,600 soldiers under the guard, and there are 1,120 soldiers under the guard. There are 100 households under the 1,000 households, and there are 112 soldiers. ”

"Take Kaifeng Xuanwuwei as an example, when His Majesty arrived in Kaifeng, the number of people reported by Xuanwuwei under the command of Chen Guowei was 4,872, but the real number was less than 3,600..."

"This is still an important town in Kaifeng Prefecture, and the real situation in other places must be even more serious!"

Zhu Youxiao's expression was heavy, and he silently put the zongzi aside, and said:

"Okay, it's almost time to rest, give the order to go down, continue the march, and camp on the outskirts of Nanjing, I want to see who is the first to meet the driver!"

When everyone heard this, they quickly put down their work, got up, patted their buttocks, went back to lead their subordinates, and relined the line.

On the thirty-mile road, Zhu Youxiao thought a lot.

From the Ming Dynasty to the present, the health system has indeed existed in name only.

When I look at the locality, I can see that the actual role of the guard post is no longer a military stronghold, and the army of the guard post almost represents a low combat effectiveness.

It is only the early years of the apocalypse, and most of the guards still have a considerable number of young and strong officers and soldiers who can be transformed into elites, which is a good thing.

From now until the time period during the Chongzhen period in history, the speed of corruption and slack of the army of the guard is staggering!

Judging from the peasant rebellion that occurred later, a large part of the elite official and military forces of these imperial courts flowed into the Liukou.

In order to avoid the rapid loss of elite military forces during this period, the abolition of the guard system is imperative in the next three years of the Apocalypse!

But here's the problem, the guard is the basic military system that has continued since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, and if such a military system wants to be abolished, a replacement must be found.

What is this alternative?

Battalion system!

In fact, the guard is not a military camp in the modern sense, not a wartime organization, the guard sergeants live in the same place, and plough and defend, and the imperial court temporarily dispatches troops during wartime.

Zhu Yuanzhang's doing this is indeed very suitable for the situation when the Ming Dynasty was just founded in the early Ming Dynasty, when the Ming Dynasty was surrounded by strong enemies and used troops everywhere, but now, this system has fallen behind.

The battalion system is the closest military system to a modern barracks!

The form of the garrison directly led to the separation of the soldiers and generals.

The consequence of this is that the soldiers do not know the generals, the generals do not know the soldiers, and the generals lose their prestige in the army, so there will be a mutiny in a certain place, and the guerrilla generals will go to appease, but they will be hung up and shot to death by the chaotic soldiers.

The blueprint for this kind of military construction in the early Ming Dynasty was soon changed due to the intensification of border troubles, especially in the areas of the important towns of the Nine Frontiers, and the temporary dispatch of troops was even more commonplace.

During the Xuande period, there began to be tentative reforms in the system of guards, but they were all point-to-point, and few Taiping Emperors were willing to touch this kind of thing.

It was not until the Jiajing period that the health center system received its first impact.

First, the general corps of Shanxi and Shaanxi became permanent, and then the original two general corps of Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Huguang were increased to four general corps, and the deputy general corps of Fujian and Baoding was changed to the general corps.

During the Wanli period, the general army was added to Lintao and Shanhaiguan.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao also added the governor of Denglai to provide material support for Dongjiang Town, and correspondingly, the post of Denglai General also appeared a few months later, which caused changes in the military system by accident.

In fact, up to now, through the efforts of several generations of emperors of Xuande and Jiajing, the military system of the Ming Dynasty has quietly changed.

The chief military officer has replaced the position of the former commander of the capital and has become the highest military official in the locality.

"After Hong Yong, the border troubles became thorny, and the generals were set up, and they became permanent members. The town guards the weight, all the forces are light, the elite of the guard, all from the lottery, so the official set up of the Zhengqi guard and the name of the guard is in vain. ”

Some historical books call this system Zhenshu Town, but Zhu Youxiao feels that this is the battalion system that can replace the guard system after nearly a hundred years of attempts.

It's just a pity in history.

In the Ming Dynasty, the battalion soldiers were often just used and cut off, and the elite battalion soldiers were transferred for self-defense and returned to the defense after the war, which only played a moderating role, and it would not be long before it would still cause the loss of these elite military forces.

What Zhu Youxiao wanted to do was to improve the battalion system that appeared in the Jiajing Dynasty and combine it with the green battalion system of the later Tatar Qing Dynasty to form a completely new military system.

Finally, this kind of battalion should be turned into a permanent military base throughout the country like the current guard station, instead of being laid down at once.

This brand-new battalion system will replace the existing guard system and push the military strength of the Ming Dynasty to the peak.

Of course, now Zhu Youxiao only has an idea, and it has not yet become a reality.

There are too many guards in all parts of the country, and this is a behemoth, and it is necessary to find all kinds of talented civil and military generals to give advice to themselves.

Once you move lightly, you will encounter setbacks, and the consequences will be unimaginable!

This southern tour, firstly, is to break the existing local system and make full preparations for future natural and man-made disasters, and secondly, it is also to build momentum for the next nationwide reform!

Public opinion building!

The emperor personally patrolled, killed corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and reshuffled the local cards, and the resistance to reform would be reduced a lot!

In view of the major reform of the health center system, Zhu Youxiao must do it, of course, this will definitely cause fluctuations across the country, because the abolition of the health center will affect too many people.

It may even cause riots in many places!

But these are nothing, if you don't break the old drawbacks, what is the new life?

To put it bluntly, this southern tour is because Zhu Youxiao has used the eunuch party to "say one thing or another" in the court, and a large number of people shout about the emperor Shengming for everything.

The next thing to do is naturally to shape the character and carry out reforms.