Chapter 36 Southern Guard

What Zhu Jianjun just thought was not wrong.

Mao Sheng hoped to use Zhu Jianjun's authority to suppress Xiang Zhong and Wang Yue.

After all, the crown prince is the crown prince.

Even if Zhu Qizhen did not appoint the prince's governor's army, but the prince was born with such power, and no one could really regard the prince as a subordinate, nor could he really treat the prince as nothing.

If Zhu Jianjun insisted on starting a war with Annan and Mao Sheng's insistence, this matter was likely to be carried out, and even if the emperor knew about it, he would not fail to maintain the authority of the crown prince.

Just doing so may not be without sequelae.

Mao Sheng was sick and rushed to the doctor.

Now Zhu Jianjun said that he wanted to ask for a holy judgment, even if he didn't ask for a holy judgment. Naturally, the crowd obeyed this resolution.

Wang Yue saw that Mao Sheng's face was not very good, and after Mao Sheng left, he chased after him and said, "General, Annan will not fight now, and it will not fight in the future." His Majesty is worried about the boycott of the army during the Xuande period, and one day he will ask Annan to blame. ”

"The general is familiar with the situation in the south, and the general sends troops, who can be outside the general?"

When Mao Sheng heard this, he sighed and said, "General Wang, you are very good, the best life is at the right time, not as good as us old people." ”

When Mao Sheng was a teenager, he grew up listening to one victory after another during the Yongle period, but when he grew up and joined the army under the banner of his father's generation, it was the time of Hong Xuan, from the first year of Hong Xi to the early stage of orthodoxy, as long as twenty years of peace, although it cannot be said that there is nothing in the world, but on the whole, there are not too many places for military ministers

When the Ming Dynasty used troops in the north, Mao Sheng was left in Yunnan.

His colleagues at that time had knighthoods one by one, but Mao Sheng had no military exploits.

Now he is old.

Even if the emperor used a large number of troops against Annam a few years later, what about it?

The past few years are nothing to the emperor, and to Wang Yue, it is nothing, but for him, it is extraordinary, that is, the dividing line whether he can continue to fight.

It is precisely because of this that Mao Sheng wanted to fight, even at the expense of offending the prince.

Among them is the veteran who wants to make a difference in the final sunset.

Many times, Lao Ji Fu has ambitions for thousands of miles, and he can only aim for thousands of miles.

Wang Yue listened, and he didn't know how to comfort this veteran for a while.

Because of this unresolved war, it is likely that this veteran general will face the last battle in his military career.

Mao Sheng also ignored Wang Yue, beckoned the soldiers around him and said, "Gather Erlang and follow me to patrol the border." ”

Mao Sheng naturally didn't dare to take care of side affairs, but there was an evil fire in his heart, and he didn't know where to go. And he may not be able to catch up with Annan, his son and grandson are still there.

And the war between Daming and Annan is only in those directions, and Guangxi's side is the main battlefield. Mao Sheng was determined to take advantage of this opportunity to explore the surrounding terrain well, which could be regarded as a preparation for his descendants.

In this way, although the Guangxi army is still in Taipingfu, in fact, it has been somewhat relaxed.

Even Wang Yue has already arranged the order of withdrawal.

After more than ten days, it was in the hands of Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qizhen read the content, compared it with the report of Jinyi Weidong Factory, sighed in his heart, and said secretly: "That's fine." ”

He was a little stunned in his heart, but also a little relaxed.

Suddenly, Annan must fight. After all, this is related to the imperial court's Nanyang strategy. Only by taking Annam, directly bringing the tentacles of the Ming Dynasty to the Mekong Delta, plus the old port, Nanhaiwei, and even building a city in Malacca, in this way, the South China Sea is the inland sea of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty opened up the South China Sea, which is not an enclave.

But Zhu Qizhen is very clear about the priorities.

Ignore the internal and transform the Ming society, even if Annam is laid, what about Nanyang, without the fetters of politics, economy, commerce and so on, the Ming may not be able to hold it.

Therefore, when Zhu Qizhen's reform is successful, it is the best opportunity to attack Annan.

Zhu Qizhen naturally felt a little sorry for the opportunity to miss, but even if he seized the opportunity, Zhu Qizhen might not have the grasp of defeating Annan smoothly. After all, Annan is not North Korea.

Therefore, not doing things that he didn't expect, Zhu Qizhen felt a little relaxed.

"Strike the army, stop the army." Zhu Qizhen said secretly in his heart.

However, this large-scale military transfer, Zhu Qizhen is not ready to waste.

He summoned Yang Hong and Luo Tong and said: "The southern guard has always been unbearable, and the battle of Datengxia has been revealed a lot, after this withdrawal, it is good to streamline the guard station, cut the vacant quota, I am ready to amnesty the world, all deserters are among the pardons, and they can settle on the spot." Therefore, the military headquarters and the governor's office of the five armies should send people to inspect, and if the number of guards is insufficient, they will be abolished on the spot and merged into one. ”

"I'll get it."

After 14 years of orthodoxy, Zhu Qizhen has been rectifying the guards, and now through nearly ten years, most of them have been implemented from the Beijing camp to the interior and from the interior to the border army, under the military victories one after another.

The border troops were each guarded, and most of them migrated.

Every time you move to the same place, you redistribute the land.

Even if an officer wants to annex, it will take decades.

As for the guards in the Central Plains and the south, Zhu Qizhen originally intended to abolish them, but when Zhu Qizhen calculated an account, he had to give up this idea.

In Zhu Qizhen's mind, 400,000 of the various departments of the Beijing camp, including the men and horses of the Beijing camp stationed abroad, were enough to deter the inside and outside, and the total number of the border army units was about 300,000, including Liaodong, Haixi, Haidong, Xuanda, Dongsheng, Kaiping, Daning, Ningxia, Gansu, Xining, Sichuan, Yunnan-Guizhou, Guangxi, and coastal sailors.

Three hundred thousand is already a conservative number.

Even so, the annual military expenditure will exceed 10 million taels.

And 10 million taels of silver is the red line drawn by Zhu Qizhen on military spending.

If there is no structural growth in the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue, it will be maintained for a long time between 30 million stone grain and 15 million taels of silver.

In other words, 10 million taels is almost half of the imperial court's financial revenue.

This is already something that Zhu Qizhen can't afford, and if the mainland sends troops again, it will be a big expense.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen had to take a step back, and every province in the interior should maintain a few combat effectiveness guards and avoid garrisons.

This is also the excessive policy in Zhu Qizhen's heart.

He must find a way to reduce the proportion of military spending in fiscal expenditure, and if he wants to do this, he must find two ways: First, he must find a way to reduce the cost of raising troops. Naturally, it is impossible to forcibly withhold food and salary, so he can only find a way to give him a higher status in politics, or to promote military service, which is one of the projects in Zhu Qizhen's heart.

Another way is to let the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue increase greatly, which is another direction of changing the law, reforming the relations of production.

No matter which direction there is a breakthrough, Zhu Qizhen will be able to continue the unfinished military reform.

Of course, if there is progress in both directions, it means that Daming can feed more soldiers and horses, and has more violent capabilities.

When the time comes, don't talk about Annam, look at this era, that country, raise an army of one or two million under extreme circumstances, and they are all elite people. Professional soldiers.

With such national strength, it is not possible to deal with that country.

This is the victory over the imperial court in Zhu Qizhen's heart.

However, even if it is a temporary policy, Zhu Qizhen will not allow them to slack off. Naturally, I have to tell you carefully.

Luo Tong expressed his stance and said: "Please rest assured, this time the Southern Guard Office will be abolished dozens at once, and it will naturally let the following know the meaning of the imperial court, and dare not have the slightest slackness." ”

Zhu Qizhen nodded and said: "In the battle of Datengxia this time, there are many people who are quite powerful, so I will select some people from them to fill the vacancy in the guard, remember that the imperial court will never force it." Ask them to volunteer. ”

The coercive Qing army could no longer last.

But Zhu Qizhen also knew that the army of the guard also needed to be replenished, otherwise the guards in various places would be scattered, and this situation had appeared many times after the imperial court abolished the Qing army system.

even made Zhu Qizhen have to make additional explanations.

If the army is not cleared, it does not mean that the deserters will not be punished, but if the soldiers do not want to be soldiers, they can explain to the guard, and in order to prevent the guards from covering the sky with one hand, they can also explain to the local local government, and they will come forward to negotiate.