The advance of the census aroused strong resistance from the gentry in various places, but fortunately, Zhu Youxiao was fully mentally prepared, in addition to letting Dongchang and Jinyiwei monitor it, he also mobilized the royal army to maintain stability in individual state capitals. Looking at the bitter appeal of the book case, Zhu Youxiao suddenly thought of the scene where Emperor Chongzhen raised donations from the ministers back then, and they were more honest than Hai Rui, but after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he confiscated their homes, and there were tens of millions of taels of silver in the clear account alone.

Fortunately, Zhu Youxiao didn't want to raid their homes at this time, and didn't take their selfish words and deeds to heart. Whenever he leaned back in his chair to rest, he closed his eyes as if he saw the waves of the ocean, and the cold sea cannons and greedy smiles of the Europeans. Sadly, the bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty were arguing over the gains and losses of their own one-third of an acre of land, and in the future, foreign devils would definitely be traitors to seek glory.

At present, the territory of the Ming Dynasty stretches from the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea in the west, the Erbuz Mountains in the southwest, the Arctic Ocean in the north, and the old port of Sumatra in the south. Although many places were nominally unified, with the Mongolian steppe, northern Xinjiang, and Japanese vassal states numerous, the Ming Dynasty began to carry out large-scale population migrations as the population of the Central Plains increased dramatically, relieving social pressure in the interior and consolidating rule in the frontier regions on the other. Under this new situation, Zhu Youxiao decided to re-set up the theater of operations to prepare for the next step of external expansion.

The Northern Theater of Operations is centered on Shenyang, and the frontier is Yakusk, Vladivostok, Ziqingcheng, and the Yenisei River Sanwei. Internally, Shangjing was renamed Harbin as the capital of the political envoys of Heilongjiang. Change the Huanglong Mansion (which is the Huanglong in Yue Fei's "go straight to the Huanglong Mansion and drink with the army") to Changchun, as the capital of the political envoy of Jilin, and at the same time merge Tamuwei, Yidong Hewei, and Mugu Hewei. The Horqin Division, the Han Division, the Ordos Division, and the grasslands of 400 miles north of the Great Wall were merged into the Inner Mongolia Xuanwei Division, with the capital at Ulabaatar. As the jurisdiction of the Northern Theater of Operations, the main task of the above areas was to maintain internal order, fight against rebellious nomadic tribes, and protect the safety of Han Chinese migrating to the territory.

The Western Theater is centered on Chengdu, and in addition to Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Qinghai, it also includes Hami in Turpan, Urumqi in southern Xinjiang, and the Uszangdu Division and the Duogandu Division. In order to strengthen the administration of Tibet, immediately after the establishment of the theater, troops were dispatched to Lhasa and Nyingchi to take back the military command of the Tibetan Khan. Liuguan was dispatched to Lhasa, Nyingchi and other places to put an end to the backward situation on the plateau that had long been separated from the civilization of the interior.

The main task of the Western Theater was to unite with Tsarist Russia and Persia to maintain the smooth flow of the Silk Road and prevent the Ottoman Empire from infiltrating east of the Caspian Sea. Internally, the influence of the imperial court in Central Asia was strengthened, and the population migrated to Lhasa, Nyingchi, Xining, Hami, Urumqi and other places, and at the same time began to survey the terrain of Yili, Almaty and the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, preparing to restore the old system of the Beiting and Anxi Protectorates during the Tang Dynasty.

The Southern Theater was centered on Guangzhou, including Yunnan, Guizhou, Liangguang, Hunan, Luzon, and Jiugang Propaganda Divisions, and the Hainan Political Department and the South Vietnam Propaganda Division. Since Nan Juyi and Hong Chengchou had already begun to build Lingbao in Xingang and Malacca, controlling this important strategic sea area, the imperial court officially incorporated the Strait of Malacca into its territory, and sent Wang Jinghong's eighth grandson Wang Yanzuo as the governor of Malacca, and Shi Daxuan, the descendant of Shi Erjie, was appointed as the chief soldier of Malacca.

The main tasks of the Southern Theater of Operations were to contain the Strait of Malacca, combat passing smuggling ships, and strengthen the imperial court's control and dominance over overseas trade. Maintain stable vassal relations with Siam, Laos, and Khmer, collect information on the Lê Dynasty, Champa and Burma in South Vietnam, and clear the way for the next step of a comprehensive southward movement.

The Eastern Theater was centered on Nanjing, and governed Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Anhui, and added the Taiwan Propaganda Division and the Ryukyu Propaganda Division, which were subordinate to Fujian Province, and also included the Dongying Propaganda Division and the Jeju Propaganda Division. Its main task was to block the communication between the Japanese countries and the outside world, and to continuously transport local Japanese people to the Yakusk and Yenisei River valleys, and to continue to weaken Japan's national strength.

With Beijing as the center, the Central Theater is under the jurisdiction of Beizhili, Shandong, Henan, and Shanxi, and is responsible for the protection and security of the Beijing Division. The armies in the area under the direct command of the emperor prevented the governors of other theaters from holding their own troops.

The five major war zones broke the original situation in which each guard and toast was the king, and because of the wide range of interests involved, it once again aroused the dissatisfaction of the nobles. Although the combat effectiveness of the guard and its subordinate squad army, Minzhuang, and township soldiers is not high, the number is huge, and compulsory professionalism will inevitably affect local public security, and even a ruthless person like Li Zicheng, a post soldier, will appear among them.

In the face of difficulties and obstacles, Zhu Youxiao chose to soar in the wind. He first abolished the military household system of the Ming Dynasty and changed it to a compulsory military service system, and then selected those soldiers and military academy graduates who had made military merits to serve in the army, not only to train traditional military skills, but also to introduce political examination for the first time and strengthen the ideological education of the army.

In the event of war, the governors of each theater need to report to the military aircraft department in advance, and after the emperor's approval, issue a combat order, which will be handed over to the military department to be responsible for transmission, and the specific battle will be commanded by the theater itself. This not only solved the situation of the governor's self-respect in the army, but also improved the flexibility of the operation.

This reform is also a reshuffle of power, the tradition of civilian administration of the army has been broken, and the professional soldiers who have poured out of the military academies and the soldiers who have experienced the baptism of the battlefield have become the backbone of the army. While the equipment and tactics of the Ming army are infinitely close to modernization, Zhu Youxiao also expects that the style and thinking of the soldiers will also keep pace with the times and raise their combat effectiveness to a new height.

In order to ensure a smooth transition in the reorganization of the theater, the Ming Dynasty completely stopped using troops from the end of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and even adopted a tacit attitude towards the invasion of the Lê clan in South Vietnam, which surprised the government and the opposition. You must know that Zhu Youxiao has been riding on horseback since he ascended the throne, and martial arts and worship have become the atmosphere of the Han people, and now he can tolerate the provocation of the Li family, it can be said that there must be a demon when things go wrong.

In fact, South Vietnam had long been Zhu Youxiao's next combat target, so after he placed Tusipu Fame in Amisuizhou, Wuding Tusi Wubikui, and Wang Nong Tusi Shadingzhou in southern Yunnan under house arrest, he sent a large number of Jinyi guards south to spy on intelligence, map the local mountains and rivers, and count the distribution of the population. After Yuan Chonghuan arrived in Guangxi, Zhu Youxiao set up the South Vietnamese Propaganda Department in southern Yunnan, and moved a large number of people into the interior in the form of a construction corps, constantly broadening the truth in the local area and building bridges, which aroused the vigilance of the Li clan in South Vietnam, and constantly sent small forces to harass them, hoping to test the strategic intentions of the Ming Dynasty.