It has never been an easy task to reform and restructure the armed forces, and there are many things involved in this.

Cultivating qualified middle- and low-level officers is just one of the links, and there are still a lot of things that need to be done in order to really temper an army with a super will.

After the precipitation of time, the Ming army has long lost its original will, in this era of continuous party strife and corruption, no strong army can be guaranteed!

The strange military system is the root of the current situation of the Ming army.

The military household is hereditary, eats empty salaries, drinks the blood of soldiers, arms family members, and uses the public for personal gain......

Zhao Zongwu could almost imagine that in the vast majority of the Ming army system, they could almost occupy the above situation, and this was also the fundamental reason for the serious decline in the army's combat effectiveness.

If Donghai Town wants to be strong, then the army under his command must be different, and other Ming armies have an essential difference, after a long time of inducement, as far as the current situation is concerned, Zhao Zongwu has done a good job.

No faction, clear military exploits, no interception of meritorious deeds, dare to reward, clear rewards and punishments, do not abandon, do not give up, shape the military spirit, excellent general group......

Zhao Zongwu used his practical actions to constantly make the soldiers of Donghai Town understand a truth in their hearts, as long as you dare to fight for your life on the battlefield, then everything you get on the battlefield, no one dares to touch it!

"I called you here today, and there is one more important thing to say." After laughing, Zhao Zongwu's expression was serious.

Laugh when it's time to laugh, and be serious when it's time to be serious.

Seeing that Zhao Zongwu was so serious, Man Gui, Zu Dashou and others put away their jokes, and they all looked serious and listened carefully to what Zhao Zongwu had to say.

"During this period of time, the Department has been committed to perfecting the system of paying salaries to officers and men in the army, and after this period of intense work, relevant military regulations have been formulated."

After glancing at Man Gui and Zu Dashou, Zhao Zongwu continued: "Although I Donghai Town is currently in Donghai Town, the meritorious land awarding mechanism is implemented.

But you also know in your hearts that if you want to ensure that morale lasts for a long time, the distribution of money is a crucial part. ”

Hearing Zhao Zongwu think of this, Man Gui and Zu Dashou nodded sympathetically, in other parts of the Ming army, deducting silver and arrears of silver are all normal things.

Some soldiers have not even seen what the silver looks like for several years, and sometimes in order to survive, they are soldiers during the day and bandits at night, which is also a very common thing in the Ming army.

What's more, stealing weapons from the army and selling them cheaply to those who have money is even more common!

Now that Donghai Town can solve this situation head-on, it is definitely a good thing for the soldiers below.

But since it is the issuance of salaries, some phenomena that exist in the Ming army must be eliminated in the Donghai Town Army!

"What was the situation before, I won't say anything about it here, starting from your army, the phenomenon of eating empty salaries and drinking soldiers' blood will not appear again!

If you let Youji grab the tail and confirm the basic situation, then Ben will not care who he is or how much he has made on the battlefield, and once he is discovered, he will be severely punished! ”

Eating empty salaries and drinking the blood of soldiers, this is the default unspoken rule in the Ming Dynasty, if others eat and you don't eat, it will seem that you are very unsociable, so it is normal to exclude you in private.

Why is Ming corruption serious?

The root cause is this mentality!

When Zhao Zongwu talked about this, his tone was unusually harsh, which also made Man Gui and Zu Dashou understand in their hearts that this is the bottom line of Donghai Town, and it is Zhao Zongwu's bottom line, if anyone touches it, they must have the courage to withstand the wrath of thunder!

"There is another point that Ben will clarify, the army should have the appearance of the army, all soldiers are public, since the salary issued by Donghai Town has been taken, then all military regulations and military discipline must be unconditionally obeyed!

You are all generals on the battlefield who use your strength to clarify your status, and you are also aware of the dangers of both public and private officers in the army.

In the next month, Ben will hope that under the command of Donghai Town, there will be no so-called family guards, and the staff department has already stipulated the standards for the ordered soldiers according to different military ranks!

All service soldiers are selected and equipped by the army to which they belong, and those who exceed them will be dealt with according to disobeying military regulations! ”

Another fundamental reason for the serious attenuation of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is that it appears in the army and only obeys the orders of the generals.

They may have super combat effectiveness, and if they don't make a move, they will definitely turn the world upside down, but the fundamental premise of maintaining this is fineness and few!

Even if they are invincible on the battlefield, it is still difficult to change the general trend in the end, and the victory of a local war will not have a great impact on the overall trend of the war.

What Zhao Zongwu needed was not such an army, what he wanted was to obey the orders of Yu as a whole, and Donghai Town commanded a strong army of the envoys.

If the family system is not eradicated, there will be no strong army at all!

Hearing what Zhao Zongwu said, the expressions on the faces of Man Gui and Zu Dashou changed, especially Zu Dashou's expressions became more.

Eradicating the family under his command will undoubtedly eradicate most of the roots that maintain the glory of the ancestral family!

Why is it said that the ancestral family is in Ningyuan and has a reputation in Liaodong?

The fundamental reason is that the ancestral family has a strong team of family members!

Now you let them eradicate their confidence, when it comes to core interests, who do you say is willing to give up easily?

If this matter were replaced by someone else, it might not be possible to implement it at all, but the person who implemented it was Zhao Zongwu, and this matter was not easy to do!

From the beginning of shaping the Tiger Roar Battalion, Zhao Zongwu has always avoided the group of family members, and through continuous wars, he has constantly instilled his self-will.

The advantage of this is that although the current Donghai Town Army has a large number of generals to join, the basic core is still the original foundation, which also makes the Donghai Town Army still unconditionally obey Zhao Zongwu's military orders!

"Whether you think about this matter clearly, or if you don't understand it, in the army of Donghai Town, the general will never allow any soldiers who do not belong to Donghai Town to appear!

The family system must be eradicated in Donghai Town!

If someone is dissatisfied with this system, let him come directly to the general!

Today, the general will talk about the front, if the time comes, let the staff of the Department and the Department of Propaganda and Pacification find out that there is still a bad habit of family members in the army, then it is not a simple dismissal and investigation, it is such a simple matter! ”

When it comes to fundamental interests, Zhao Zongwu doesn't care who he is, if the family system is not resolved, the army of Donghai Town will never become the foundation of a strong army!

There can be no doubt about this!