Chapter V: Reform of Beijing and Health

The combat effectiveness of the armed forces is the embodiment of the reform of the military system, not the other way around.

If there is a strong system to support it, even if so many people can be brought together, it is impossible to have combat effectiveness.

And everything must be done step by step, instead of trying to do a good job by dividing five by two, the more you think like this, the more problems will occur.

Today's Zhu Qizhen is no longer the naïve, shallow and impulsive child when he first ascended the throne, nor is he the young son of heaven who was eager to grasp power and prove himself right when he first ascended the throne.

But there are six children, and the eldest son is an adult son of heaven who is eleven years old, and the experience of his past life and future has made him a seasoned politician.

At this moment, he has no trace of innocence and naivety, nor a trace of impulsiveness and urgency. Instead, he enters his own state and brings the advancement of various affairs into his own rhythm.

For all kinds of problems, for all kinds of affairs, the Ming Dynasty faced challenges in all aspects. Financial, military, foreign invasion, internal rebellion, ministerial dictatorship, rampant internal supervision, and even half-heartedness with the following, Piri Yangqiu.

What kind of thing, he has not seen.

At this moment, he really became the qualified captain of the big ship of Daming.

Even the ministers below privately said that today, for any minister, big or small, they are full of laughter, but it makes them feel a feeling of not being angry and threatening, trembling, and not daring to sweat.

Therefore, on the major proposition of military reform, Zhu Qizhen was cautious and cautious step by step, from the 14th year of orthodoxy to the 18th year of orthodoxy.

Although the imperial court is eventful, Zhu Qizhen is more about delegating power to the cabinet and disaster relief, although it is a little difficult, but for so many years, such things are also familiar with it.

As long as there is enough food, it is not difficult for the civil service system of the Ming Dynasty to complete this thing.

The fact is just as Zhu Qizhen thought, although there have been many disasters, most of the governors and ministers below are competent enough, and powerful ministers such as Han Yong and Wang Hong have emerged.

Under the helm of the central Zhou Chen, although the financial collapse of the imperial court was very tight, it did not appear, and the situation of orthodoxy for 14 years, at least the Taicang silver of the household department was more and sometimes less, but there were tens of millions of yuan in the internal transportation warehouse.

It was enough for Zhu Qizhen to breathe a sigh of relief.

In the past four years, Zhu Qizhen has devoted himself to the reform of the military system.

First of all, it is necessary to start with personnel adjustments.

Although the battle of Maoerzhuang was a battle, nearly ten lords led by Cheng Guogong and even a large number of backbones of the Beijing camp were lost, which also cleared a power vacuum for Zhu Qizhen.

So that Zhu Qizhen can let go of his hands and feet to do things.

However, among the middle and lower echelons of the Beijing camp, there are still many generals with relevant interests.

These generals are not large, but they are quite numerous.

For these people, Zhu

Qi Zhen used two hands, on the one hand, he was promoted.

Those who can fight and have the ability to fight have all been promoted, especially Xuanda has suffered heavy losses in the fourteen years of orthodoxy, and several guards have reached the verge of withdrawal.

These capable generals are going to regroup.

The leader is Sun Bo.

Sun Bo, the corruption and bribery reported by the Jinyi Guardian, can't be recorded in one or two books, but on top of the war, he can indeed fight.

So he moved to the northwest. In this way, there are a large number of generals in the Beijing camp, anyway, when Zhu Qizhen was adjusting, the Liaodong Army, the Datong Army, the Xuanfu Army, and even the Fujian Army, the local squad army, and so on were all incorporated into the Beijing camp.

There are enough people to replace them.

As for the rest, they can't be beaten, and some will be corrupted, so if you don't kill them, will you keep them for the New Year?

Headed by Cheng Guogong, the powerful people of the year are no longer there.

Among the old troops of Chengguogong, those who could fight were also transferred, and many troops of the border army were also transferred in.

If these people really had the ability to rebel, Zhu Qizhen would have sent him to be promoted and made a fortune.

So to clean up these people, Zhu Qizhen will not encounter any resistance at all, and this is the time for Jinyiwei to come out. Jinyiwei almost took down all the generals who had done too much in the guards of the Beijing army.

Zhu Qizhen didn't do it ruthlessly, but just let them redeem the sentence with money, and then send Haixi.

After all, the black soil of Haixi is short of people.

After this purge, Zhu Qizhen began to make the next plan.

Compared with the local guards where the emperor is far away, the seventy-two Jingwei in Beijing are the deepest controlled by the imperial court and the deepest by the royal family.

And at this moment, because of the battle of Maoerzhuang, when the Jingwei classes were the weakest, Zhu Qizhen made a move, and naturally there was no resistance.

Secondly, the tuntian of the guard was cleaned up.

Of course, this clean-up is just to confirm the reality, the land that disappeared inexplicably before, the land that inexplicably ran from the account books of the guard.

Zhu Qizhen did not pursue it.

After all, many things have taken too long, and it takes too much effort to turn over old accounts, and those who can do such things are all Ming lords or relatives.

It's hard to find anyone.

But it was not without gains.

If the land of the guard is a big cake, different people have different meals, and their hands and eyes are all over the sky, so they naturally cut it down and take it back to eat, but the second thing is just to go up and down their hands and fill their pockets.

The fields are still in the account of the guard, but the annual harvest is enough to make ends meet.

Such means are naturally cleaned up.

Again, it's the source of soldiers.

There are 400,000 people in the Ming Dynasty, and there are quite a few of them.

In the first battle of Maoerzhuang, more than 100,000 people were killed, and about 10,000 or 20,000 were lost in the battle of Montenegro.

Coupled with the miscellaneous casualties, the total is nearly 150,000 or so, and of course not all of them are dead, and some are disabled, and they can no longer go into battle.

As for the remaining 250,000 soldiers and horses, Zhu Qizhen ruthlessly compressed the water, and the elite was probably no more than 100,000, that is, those who followed Meng Ying to fight the Battle of Montenegro.

The shortage of a large number of troops needs to be replenished, and in this matter, Zhu Qizhen first abolished the Qing army system.

It's not that the Qing army system is wrong, but that the Qing army system is not good.

What is the Qing army system, that is, since Hong Xuan, because of the many escapes from the guards, the imperial court sent people from the Qing army to check the guards, one counts the shortage, and the other is to hook the army.

The military household system of the Ming Dynasty is inherited from father to son, from generation to generation, the father dies and the son succeeds, the brother dies and the brother continues.

When there was a shortage in the army, the man fled, and went to his house to find someone from their house to replace him.

The Qing army did such a thing.

This officer is quite difficult to do.

After all, once you go to the guard, it will take a lifetime, and from then on, the bones will not be allowed to return to their hometown, and as for all kinds of dark places in the army, it is even worse than death.

If life in the army is very good, who is willing to drag down the old and young in the family, and never see the light of day, they can only be thieves, or give people the current people, not only themselves, but even their descendants are black households, as for the imperial examination or something, they have nothing to do with it. In the face of such consequences, they still have to flee.

After all, if the imperial court does not stop it, I am afraid that the shortage of the Ming Guard will not only be three, but if it is too strict.

But I can't bear it.

For example, this time the Beijing camp has lost so many casualties, and the secret road practice is to make up for so much, how to make up for it, is to hook the army according to the roster.

Zhu Qizhen officially recruited troops to replace the Gou army, and left part of the troops in Fujian and Liaodong, plus the remaining troops in Beijing, and the remaining troops in Beijing, and reorganized the 400,000 troops in Beijing.

Just one of the big changes is. Except for the seventy-two guards of the Beijing camp, except for the emperor's personal guards, there is no place to control the army.

There are no more soldiers.

Now there is only one guard left in each guard to guard a thousand households.

To do anything, it is to be responsible for the reclamation of the land of the guard. In other words, he is the director of a state farm.

If it weren't for Zhu Qizhen's desire to keep stability and leave room for stability, he wouldn't even want to keep this garrison, and directly allocated the land of these guards to various prefectures and counties.

After all, Jingwei is a non-real earth guard.

The so-called real earth guard station is the area under the jurisdiction of the guard, which is parallel to the prefecture and county, as if it were Liaodong, and the commanders of the guards in Liaodong are grasped by the military and civil affairs.

The land they reclaimed was allocated by the prefecture and county, and the guard was only reclaimed, and there was no local administrative power.