It is impossible to kneel on the washboard, how can my wife be willing to let herself kneel on the washboard.

Besides, I went to Jiaozhi on the order of Zhu Laosi, and it should really be a business trip, not even a mistake, how could I kneel on the washboard.

After returning to Zhuangzi and peeling two durians for his daughter-in-law, Yang Shaofeng smoothly entered the salted fish mode, except for hiding in the Yang family Zhuangzi to tease cats and dogs, there was basically nothing to do.

But the family surnamed Zhu has been very busy recently.

First of all, Zhu Laosi needs to deal with Xia Yuanji, Jian Yi, Wu Zhong and other bigwigs.

Because Siam perfectly interprets what it means to sit at home, disaster comes from heaven - the field that wants to be smashed is not smashed, and the Jingguan that wants to be built is also preempted by others, Zhu Laosi was angry and smashed Siam on the trumped-up charge of colluding with Si Renfa.

Of course, it's easy to smash the field, Zhu Laosi himself has more than 100,000 killing talents from Daming, plus the 100,000 miscellaneous soldiers attached to Mubang, and it is also an army of 200,000 to make do with it, known as one million plus Zhu Laosi personally led the team, it is still very easy to smash a field.

The problem is that Zhu Laosi just smashed the Siamese field with his front foot, and the messenger of Siam on the back foot committed suicide at the gate of Honglu Temple, intending to protest with his own life.

Of course, the so-called protest is just a protest, the strength is not equal, and the Ming Dynasty, which is used to being a big hooligan, has never cared about such a trivial matter as who dies a few envoys.

In addition, Zhu Laosi, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji were not in the capital, and the Siamese envoys naturally died in vain, and Shuntianfu casually sent a few officials to drag people out and bury them, which would be considered to be closed.

The key lies in the series of problems caused by the smashing of the field.

For example, the Ministry of War and the military government should count military merits, the Ministry of Household should pay for rewards and pensions, the Ministry of Officials should prepare enough officials to take over such a large piece of territory, the Ministry of Industry should plan the river bridges over there, the Ministry of Rites should plan schools, and at the same time, they must also prepare for a series of bad things such as the later imperial examinations.

In short, it is easy to smash the field, but it is very troublesome to manage the field.

Not to mention that this is not a field problem at all, but involves several field problems such as Cochin, Champong, Ailao, Mubang, Burma, Siam and so on.

In addition, Zhu Laosi plans to get another martyr's shrine in the capital, which will make the treasury in charge of Xia Yuanji lose nearly 10 million yuan of silver.

So Xia Yuanji was the first to fry his hair, and the remaining few also unhappy ministers also followed one after another.

Until Zhu Laosi took out the jade cabbage offered by Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Zhanji.

With such a good thing as jade cabbage, especially after knowing that there are a large number of jade mines in Myanmar, the treasury is two percent white, and these people can also take some silver to mix shares, Xia Yuanji and others immediately said that they can continue to shine for Daming, even if they die, they have to die on the way to fight for Daming.

As for Siam?

What Siam? Didn't that product collude with Si Renfa? Smash his yard to look down on him!

Just settled Xia Yuanji and other big trolls, and Zhang Fu, the leader of the military, also expressed his dissatisfaction in a timely manner-

Didn't you say that I should lead my troops to smash the field in Burma?

This has just taken people halfway through, and it hasn't passed Changde yet, but the news that the Myanmar field has been smashed has been completed, and he is leading the army from Shuntianfu to Changde for a while, and there is nothing to do?

Then Zhu Laosi's eyes were attracted to the guard.

Since the thirteenth year of Yongle, when Yang Shaofeng handed in the answer sheet for the examination, Zhu Laosi has been thinking about how to toss the guard.

Zhu Laosi has always seen the two-sided nature of the guard system, and it is the benefits brought by the hoarding of the guard that Zhu Laosi has never been able to make up his mind to completely rectify the guard system.

It was not until this time that Zhu Zhanji and Yang Shaofeng used an army of about 20,000 people to harden the more than 200,000 to more than 300,000 native rebels, which made Zhu Laosi make up his mind.

For Zhu Laosi, the army is used to fight, and if the army can't fight, no matter how many people there are, it will be empty.

While ensuring the hoarding of land reclamation, the system of guards also seriously restricts the combat effectiveness of the army, especially the system involving the retirement age of non-commissioned officers and the requirement that children and grandchildren must join the army, so that the combat effectiveness of the guards cannot be effectively maintained.

……

"20,000 people can suppress 200,000 rebels to fight, even if there are rebel war elephants in the first place, there are also factors of low combat effectiveness of the rebels. As for my Ming army, I'm afraid it may not be much stronger than those rebels. ”

After summoning a group of military leaders, Zhu Laosi put forward his idea straight to the point: "If there is no artillery and firearms, does the British have the confidence to defeat the 20,000 army of those two bastards head-on with 20,000 or 30,000 people?" ”

Zhang Fu felt that with the same troop allocation and without fighting a frontal war, he could make Zhu Zhanji and Yang Crazy and the two of them would not even have scum left, but let him take twenty or thirty thousand ordinary guards and soldiers to harden the elite of the twenty thousand elites on the frontal battlefield, then he would fuck out a ball!

After pondering in his heart for a long time, Zhang Fu could only bow down helplessly and replied: "The only way is not to fight them head-on, relying on terrain or guerrilla fights and other methods to defeat them."

If it was against the 20,000 soldiers on the frontal battlefield with ordinary guards, even if Xiang and Li Fusheng were killed, they would not be able to do it. But ......"

Zhang Fu hesitated for a while, and finally said what he thought in his heart: "Even if you pick the entire Ming Dynasty, you can't pick out the second army like that, unless you choose the best among the border troops." ”

Turning his head and glancing at Xu Jingchang, Zhang Fu simply kicked the ball to Xu Jingchang: "The Dinggong is rushing through the battle with them, if you are asked to lead troops to attack them head-on, how many troops do you need?" ”

Imagining the scene of himself leading his troops straight to the more than 20,000 soldiers, Xu Jingchang couldn't help but shudder: "With the same equipment, it takes at least forty or fifty thousand or even more soldiers to defeat them head-on."

After all, ordinary guards still know pain and fear, but their more than 20,000 soldiers have been trained into outright war machines, and they don't have normal people's thinking and feelings at all, and they don't know the concept of fear and pain.

Let's put it this way, if you give an order to the ordinary guards that there will be no chickens and dogs, they will only kill all the people, but if you give the order to the 20,000 soldiers not to leave the chickens and dogs, they will be able to do the real chickens and dogs. ”

After Xu Jingchang finished speaking, Zhu Laosi hummed and said, "What if all the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are like this?" ”

Zhang Fu shook his head and replied, "It's basically unlikely.

They are not the same thing as ordinary guards at all, whether it is training, equipment, including logistics, they are independent of the normal guards.

Not to mention anything else, the source of troops alone is a big problem, and other guards simply cannot do the best of the best like them, let alone train almost every day for 365 days a year.

Taking a step back, even if all the guards quit hoarding and concentrate on training, they would not be able to reach their level, because there are all the old and weak in the guards, and the training intensity cannot be as high as theirs.

The most important thing is that the logistics can't keep up, from equipment to food, their consumption of one soldier can almost withstand five or more ordinary soldiers, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are piled up with silver. ”

Zhu Laosi couldn't help but curl his fingers and knocked on the table.

The foundation of the emperor lies in the people, but the foundation of imperial power lies in the soldiers.

The military power is in hand, the military strength is strong enough, and the rest is basically scum, and whoever doesn't like it will be killed directly, and there is no need to think about any compromise and fighting or anything like that.

It's like Siam, because of a trumped-up crime, it can be completely cooled and become the Siamese political envoy of the Ming Dynasty.

And the emperor has no military power in his hands, and no matter how awesome the emperor's mental tricks are, they are just a castle in the air, and as long as they are gently pushed, they will be completely finished.

It is precisely because he can see clearly that Zhu Laosi will pay special attention to the 20,000 strong soldiers.

It's not a surprise attack, it's not an ambush, but a tough two or three hundred thousand rebels on the frontal battlefield, as long as an emperor has hundreds of thousands of such troops in his hands, the sense of security is simply not too much.

In other words, if most of the more than 20,000 troops were not in the hands of Zhu Zhanji and Yang Shaofeng, even if it was in the hands of Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Laosi would feel that he would not be able to sleep well.

But then again, what Zhang Fu said is indeed the truth, the appearance of these 20,000 strong soldiers is too accidental, and it does not have the conditions for the promotion of all the guards of the entire Ming Dynasty.

The main thing is a little bit of the military household system.

The system of passing from father to son, son to grandson, and from generation to generation ensures the source of soldiers, but it is precisely for this reason that the age of the guards is from fifty to fifteen, and there are all kinds of old and weak.

What's more, it is much easier to abolish the military household system while he is still in power than to abolish it after the boss ascends the throne, at least not many people dare to oppose the ancestral system.

After pondering for a long time, Zhu Laosi spoke: "I want to abolish the military household system, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Fu and the others were suddenly silent.

Can the system of abolishing military households be abolished?

Of course, after abolishing the military household system, it was changed to recruit young and strong people to join the army, and the combat effectiveness of the guard center was at least much stronger than it is now.

But!

I'm afraid of any problem, but—

Let's not mention the question of whether the emperor can't sleep if the army is too strong, just marrying a wife and having children during or before joining the army is a big problem.

What's even more painful is that which good young man is willing to join the army?

Is it bad for wives and children to have hot kang heads? Or is it better to be paid more money and pay more when you are a soldier?

If you have more money and are well treated, you must first pass the pass of Xia Lao, and then you have to pass the pass of the emperor.

Zhu Laosi was not worried about this problem at all: "Aren't the many righteous societies among the people the best source of soldiers?" The Zhao family doesn't know how to use the Righteous Society, so don't I know how to use it? ”

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