But now after listening to Liu Jin's analysis, Zhang Mao has to agree with Liu Jin's point of view, the military household system is indeed rotten, and if the military household system is not abolished, no matter how it is changed, it will be the same in the end, without any result.

However, if the military household system is abolished, it will be tantamount to touching the interests of the military generals and nobles, and this reform will inevitably encounter tremendous resistance.

Zhang Mao pondered, carefully pondering the pros and cons.

"Is there no other way than to abolish the military household system?"

After a long time, Zhang Mao said with an embarrassed face.

"No, the military household system is the foundation of the Ming military system, this root is rotten, if you don't eradicate it, no matter how you change it, there can be no change, and the final result will still be the same."

Liu Jin said with great certainty.

In fact, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the military household system was corrupted, and the main combat units of the Ming Dynasty were actually professional troops, all of which were raised by the imperial court with silver.

It is precisely because it is a professional army, so this military expenditure will soar, but the Ming court has always been in financial difficulties, coupled with the late Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty could not collect taxes, which eventually led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Several reforms in the later period, such as Zhang Juzheng's whip law, in fact, the core point is still around the tax to reform, when Zhang Juzheng was in power, because the reform was quite effective, the court had money, so it was also able to survive for a while.

But when it came to Emperor Chongzhen, Chongzhen and Emperor Hongzhi were almost the same, they were both emperors who were fooled and lame by the civil official group, and naively thought that they could turn the tide and support the building to collapse.

In fact, on the contrary, these civil official groups are the most unreliable, even if the Ming Dynasty is about to perish, it is still not extinguished, Emperor Chongzhen has always focused on arguing with the ministers since he took the throne, and there is no way to make any useful decisions about this empire that is about to perish.

If the military household system is corrupted, sooner or later it will have to be changed, and it will have to be cut off, and it is better to cut it early than to cut it late, and it is the king to abolish the military household system as soon as possible and establish a professional army.

If you want to build a strong army, you must let this army out of production and concentrate on military affairs.

Of course, to take the army out of production, this involves the question of silver.

What do you use to feed the army if you don't have money?

And silver has always been an important thing that plagues the Ming court, and the Ming court is poor.

After listening to Liu Jin's words, Zhang Mao also nodded approvingly, thought about it and said: "If the military household system is abolished, what kind of system should be implemented?" ”

"Compulsory military service system!"

Liu Jin said almost without thinking about it.

"Compulsory military service?"

When Zhang Mao heard this, he immediately frowned, he is also a representative of the military generals and noble group, and he is more or less familiar with history, and he has not read less military books, and all kinds of military systems in history are very clear.

Like the military merit system of the Qin Dynasty, the military system of the Tang Dynasty, etc., he knows that this is the compulsory military service system and what kind of system is it?

I've never heard of it at all.

"The so-called compulsory military service system refers to the responsibility that adult men in my Ming Dynasty are obliged to serve in the military, simply put, it is stipulated that my Ming men, no matter what their background, must sign up for the army when they reach the age of eighteen, and those who are physically qualified must serve in the military."

"There is a time limit for this military service, for example, we assume that the duration of this military service is four years, and when the four years are up, after the military service is completed, you can be disarmed and returned to the field and return to normal life."

Liu Jin thought about it and told the compulsory military service system in later generations.

"It's a good system~"

After listening to Liu Jin's words, Zhang Mao couldn't help but smile and nodded.

"This compulsory military service system must also be combined with the military academy system, and this ordinary soldier is like flowing water, constantly updated in batches of four years and in batches of four years."

"This kind of replacement is very fast, and it is easy to let the strong army that has been built with great difficulty disperse like this, so in the compulsory military service system, we must also combine it with the military academy system to implement it."

"Military academies specialize in training generals and officers in the army, and are the core and backbone of the army, so that as long as the core and backbone remain unchanged, then they will always maintain strong combat effectiveness."

Liu Jin smiled, and then added.

This system has been very mature in later generations, and it is also a system commonly adopted by almost all countries in the world, and the benefits of this system are naturally very many.

The first is that the cost is relatively low, the compulsory military service system, because it is compulsory military service, so the allowance and so on are relatively low, which is very suitable for the situation of the Ming court, and there is not much money to raise soldiers.

The second is the abundance of soldiers, because everyone has the obligation to serve in the military, so they can choose to serve in good physical condition, and the retired soldiers have also undergone a certain amount of military training, and when necessary, they can also be quickly recruited back, and a huge army can be quickly pulled out.

This is very important, especially conducive to Liu Jin's next plan, once the Ming Dynasty carries out global colonization, not only does it need a strong army to escort it, but it also needs to become more powerful for ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, how to rob more colonies, and how to occupy them?

Everyone says that Westerners are the descendants of robbers, and there is nothing wrong with this, they are the descendants of robbers, and it is precisely because they are the descendants of robbers that they only look at interests in doing things, so that they will not have the falsehood of Confucianism, and it is precisely by virtue of this fierce bandit spirit.

Therefore, the Europeans were able to colonize the whole world, and the Indians in the Americas were actually quite strong, if the Europeans were not more fierce than them, the Americas would still be the world of the Indians.

In contrast, the Confucian system is clearly not suitable for global colonization.

Etiquette, righteousness and shame are almost the same when applied to their own people, and externally, who would want to listen to you nagging about something that is fundamentally different from your own values.

Externally, the only thing that can make the other side submit is strong force, which is an eternal truth.

In the future, if you want to colonize the whole world, seize the colonies, and kill the aborigines of the colonies, it will definitely not work without strong folk customs, and if the compulsory military service system is implemented, a large number of retired soldiers can be released to the whole world and become the pioneers of global colonization and pioneering.

Of course, the compulsory military service system also has some shortcomings, such as the time of military service is too short, and many technical things are difficult to learn, especially in the case of various high-tech wars in later generations.

In addition, under the compulsory military service system, some people will evade military service and are unwilling to become soldiers, and in many cases, conscription cannot recruit high-quality soldiers.

There is also a problem of resettlement in this compulsory military service system, and how to resettle discharged soldiers is a big problem and a very important issue.

Of course, it is now the Ming Dynasty, and the war is still the era of cold weapons, and it is gradually changing to this hot weapon, and there is still not much technical thing to talk about in war.

"You mean to join the Tianjin Maritime Academy you opened here in Tianjin to run a military academy?"

When Zhang Mao heard this, he immediately came to his senses, thought about it and asked.

"Yes, run a military school according to Tianjin Maritime College."

"The military academy specializes in training generals and officers, and ordinary soldiers are recruited for compulsory military service, so as to form a new Ming army, and the combination of the two will inevitably create a strong army."

Liu Jin nodded very confidently and said.

"Military Academy!"

Zhang Mao pondered carefully, the idea of this military school is really unprecedented, since ancient times, only scholars can go to school, and now they want to run a military academy, which is specially used to train generals.

"Regarding the military academy, the teaching should be divided into three parts, the first and most important part is the education of loyalty and patriotism, just like a scholar, to instill the idea of loyalty and patriotism to every Ming officer, so as to ensure the absolute loyalty of the Ming army to the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty."

"The second part is the education of knowledge, a qualified general and officer, he must be a person with a wealth of knowledge, not to mention the ancient and modern, at least literacy and hyphenation is the most basic requirement."

"The third part is the education of professional military skills and knowledge, and as a general and officer, you must be proficient in a variety of professional military skills and knowledge, and have professional abilities."

Liu Jin also said the founding concept of the military academy.

"Loyal to the monarch and patriotic~"

Zhang Mao's eyes couldn't help but light up when he heard the first thing, why did the control of the army fall into the hands of the civilian clique, and that was because there were too many things about the usurpation of power by the military generals and nobles of previous dynasties.

So slowly, these founding emperors will find ways to weaken the strength and power of the military generals and noble groups, especially in the Song Dynasty, the old Zhao family's own country is not right, and they are naturally afraid that others will learn from the yellow robe, so this military power is also slowly in the hands of civilian officials.

Xiucai's rebellion failed for three years, and the emperor was much more relieved to use civilian officials to take over the military power, and he no longer had to worry about the military generals and nobles coming to take away the country.

But because of this, the whole of China was harmed, the Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Yuan Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by concealment, which is enough to explain this.

The advantage of emphasizing literature over military force, the advantage of civil official Zhang Junquan is indeed that there are no military generals and nobles usurping the throne and seizing power, but the warriors have no status, no famous generals come out, and the Han people's country has become extremely delicate, and they have been dominated by foreign races again and again, and it is becoming more and more difficult in terms of external affairs.

It can no longer regain the majesty of the Han Dynasty.