As soon as Zhu Cihong walked like this, Ma Shiying immediately sat down on the ground.

After a long time, Ma Shiying sighed helplessly, slowly stood up, and walked towards the outside of the Jinluan Palace.

"Shousuke-sama go slowly!" But it was Huang Daozhou who stopped Ma Shiying.

"Elder Huang Ge, please be cautious, the old man is no longer the first assistant, and now he is just an ordinary commoner." Ma Shiying said with a little decadence, he did feel a little tired, and now he doesn't want to care about anything.

Huang Daozhou looked at Ma Shiying's appearance at the moment, and was speechless all of a sudden, what could he say, originally he and Ma Shiying said goodbye together, but the emperor only agreed that Ma Shiying ignored him, one of them was once from the Donglin Party, and the other was once the sworn enemy of the Donglin Party, there was already a gap, and now the gap is even bigger.

"Ma Shoufu's words are serious, although you are old, you have also retired from the position of first assistant, and it is not wrong to call you the first assistant." Zodiac Zhou said solemnly.

Indeed, every courtier who sues the old man can retain the honorific title of the position they were in before the old man, generally to people like Ma Shiying, even if he returns to his hometown, the local parents will give him up, and he will not dare to have any neglect, this is a kind of default rule of everyone, no one wants to retire after the old man retires, and he really becomes a commoner.

"Ma Shoufu rest assured, although the emperor did not let the old man also tell the old man, but the old man will not compromise on this, even if he gives up this old life, he is bound to persuade the emperor to take back his life!" Huang Daozhou said very firmly.

Ma Shiying naturally did not doubt the firmness of Huang Daozhou, as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, in fact, Huang Daozhou was even more stubborn than him.

"Hey, the old man will go back to the countryside in a few days, take care of Huang Ge!" Ma Shiying wanted to say something to Huang Daozhou, but he only sighed for a moment and didn't say those words.

After Ma Shiying finished speaking, he turned around and walked directly in the direction of the palace gate.

Huang Daozhou frowned, feeling that Ma Shiying's attitude seemed to be a little, in short, Huang Daozhou couldn't think of a reason for it on Monday, and immediately, Huang Daozhou didn't think much about it, he just cleaned up his mood and walked in the direction of the imperial study, wanting to chase Zhu Cihong and persuade again.

In fact, Ma Shiying seemed to have figured it out all of a sudden, and felt that the emperor's reform of the ancestral system was not necessarily wrong, he wanted to persuade Huang Daozhou not to fight against the emperor anymore, and it didn't hurt to see the effectiveness of the emperor's innovation, but he was just an official who resigned because he prevented the emperor from changing the ancestral system, how could he say that kind of words, so it turned into a helpless sigh.

Ma Shiying doesn't want to care about anything, he does feel a little tired, anyway, he has also been the first assistant, the current queen is still his righteous daughter in name, and the eldest prince born to the queen is naturally his grandson in name, there are these two layers of relationship, Ma Shiying suddenly felt that it didn't matter if he was the first assistant or not.

Of course, Zhu Cihong couldn't see Huang Daozhou, so he let Huang Daozhou kneel outside the imperial study.

The next day, Zhu Cihong issued several holy decrees.

Because Ma Shiying resigned from the old man, the post of secretary of the military department was vacant, and Zhu Cihong's first holy decree was to appoint Li Yan as the secretary of the military department.

In the second holy decree, Zhu Cihong appointed Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the ministry, as the new first assistant.

Zhu Cihong asked Li Yan to take the lead, with Liu Zongzhou and Qian Qianyi assisting to jointly implement the reform.

Zhu Cihong's holy decrees all have their own considerations, and the most important thing in the reform of the military system is the military department, and if you want to implement it, you must fully cooperate with the military department, and Li Yan is the most suitable candidate.

As for the promotion of Qian Qianyi as the first assistant, it is because Zhu Cihong considered the balance, the Manchu Dynasty was civil and military, and half of the people opposed the reform of the military system, if these people are really united, they are also a force that cannot be ignored, and it will bring great resistance to innovation, Qian Qianyi is a rat that divides them, because Qian Qianyi is one of the three elders who oppose innovation with Ma Shiying and Huang Daozhou, but the position is not so firm, and now Ma Shiying is old, and the only one who opposes innovation is Qian Qianyi and Huang Daozhou, And because Qian Qianyi became the first assistant, it is naturally impossible for Huang Daozhou to take the lead, with Qian Qianyi's unfirm position and some procrastination, Huang Daozhou will inevitably be lonely and difficult to achieve.

Sure enough, because of Qian Qianyi's unfirm position, although the innovation encountered some resistance, it was still able to be carried out in an orderly manner.

There is no turning back from the bow, once the innovation is carried out to a certain extent, even if Huang Daozhou and others are opposing, it is useless, and they will have to helplessly cooperate in order to stabilize the situation.

In all dynasties, any reform will inevitably cause a certain amount of chaos, and Zhu Cihong's military reform this time is no exception.

The most important thing in the guard system is the military tun, the military households have their own land, but all these lands belong to the imperial court, once the guard is canceled, the military households are no longer military households, theoretically they can not cultivate the land of the imperial court, so it caused some chaos, but then Zhu Cihong ordered that all the land of the former military households be distributed to the military households free of charge, and the chaos was immediately suppressed.

The other chaos comes from the military households that have military positions in the hundreds of households, the flag and the like, this part of the people is very large, the Ming army is not every hundred under the hundred generals have a hundred, and even many hundred generals have only a dozen people, some of the banners are even more bare, but it does not prevent them from having a military position, and Zhu Cihong's standing army and garrison once established, it is impossible to accommodate so many grassroots generals such as the hundred general banners in the original guard, and the stay of these people will immediately become a problem, if the arrangement is not appropriate, The chaos caused is also difficult to quell.

After Zhu Cihong discussed with Li Yan and others, he decided to appease these people with more land and compensation for some silver taels.

After these matters were resolved, Zhu Cihong finally used up all the nearly two million taels of silver that he had stolen from his home in the last pension, and the treasury was once again empty enough to starve rats to death, but fortunately, the reform of the military system was finally carried out smoothly.

A month later, 12 standing armies and 18 garrisons were formally established as the main military forces of the Ming Dynasty. The title of general is based on the Ying Long Army, and basic leadership positions such as army commander, staff general, thousand general, hundred general, flag general, and chief are set up in turn.

Among the twelve standing armies, six Ying Long Army, the first army was sent to Xuzhou to guard against the Qing army, the second army was sent to Wuchang, Hubei Province to respond to Qin Liangyu in Sichuan and the Red Lady in Henan at any time, and the other four Ying Long Army and six ordinary Ming troops with cold weapons as the main configuration were all gathered around Nanjing City and stood by at any time.

After this innovation, the flexibility of the Ming army's dispatch has been greatly increased. At the same time, in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the ordinary Ming army, Zhu Cihong ordered to send a lot of Ying Longjun to teach the basic training methods of Ying Longjun, and finally let those Ying Longjun soldiers who were transferred directly stay in place to set up a law enforcement team to implement military law.

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