Since the Ming Dynasty defeated the Tsarist Russian Empire, there have been few large-scale wars, to some of the surrounding expansion are the spontaneous behavior of the frontier troops, they did not apply for much military spending from the Ming Dynasty's household department, just made a record in the Ministry of War, the Ming army's large-scale wars gradually decreased, in order to reduce military expenditure as much as possible, in preparation for the complete abolition of agricultural taxes, Zhu Youxiao began to reduce the size of the army, and build a more elite standing army.

Zhu Youxiao built 10 military regions according to their regions, most of which were established in border areas, with a number ranging from 50,000 to 150,000, and a professional military service system was implemented. Then there was the establishment of an armed police system, in which police stations were set up in each city to maintain local security, and these people would be selected from the army, and the rest of the army would begin to arrange for retirement from active service.

Ordinary retired soldiers dedicated their youth to Daming, Zhu Youxiao naturally will not treat them badly, Daming now has a relatively thick family background, and is not stingy with gold and silver, giving retired soldiers a generous retirement gold, as for the way out for the officers, in addition to the retirement money, they are also responsible for arranging certain positions. But Zhu Youxiao still underestimated these Ming soldiers who had gone through iron-blooded experience, most of them did not go home, they were not interested in farm work or factory work, under the leadership of some officers, they organized dozens of mercenary teams, using their retirement funds as capital, and went overseas to help the Ming Dynasty open up the land again.

In addition to Zhu Youxiao, most of the soldiers went to Zhu Youzhen's South America, and later learned that Zhu Youzhen had already asked his officers to contact him, and as for what the reason, Zhu Youzhen did not say. Zhu Youxiao was afraid that Zhu Youzhen would have an accident, so he used five million silver from his internal money and quietly allocated it to Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Youxiao only wrote back to express his gratitude, but still did not explain the reason, Zhu Youxiao did not ask again, and it is estimated that he will explain himself when the time comes.

After the rectification of the army, the equipment of the Ming soldiers was upgraded again, and the new weapons continued to equip the troops, and in order to test these equipment, Zhu Youxiao allowed each military region to arrange for its own soldiers to conduct training, and even go to different countries to participate in actual combat, so as to improve the actual combat experience of soldiers and grassroots officers.

Zhu Youxiao learned from the United States in later generations, because since the end of World War II, the theme of the peaceful development of the world has been Iraq, but the Americans have launched more than a dozen wars of various sizes, so that their military has gained experience in actual combat. On the other hand, the Chinese army, after experiencing the civil war, has not undergone actual combat training for more than 20 years, and has paid a heavy price in the self-defense counterattack against Annan, so that in the following years, it has not ended the skirmishes on the border, of which training the ranks is the main purpose.

The soldiers in the border areas can continue to participate in the war nearby, but the eastern military region is not very convenient, Zhu Youxiao had to once again aim at the Japanese country, where there is still a constant smoke, Zhu Youxiao has to add a fire, so that the war there is more intense.

"Sima Law" said: Although the country is large, the warlike will perish; Although the world is safe, forgetting the war will be dangerous. "Yi" said: A gentleman uses a weapon to remove the weapon, and he does not quit. Husbands and soldiers can't play, and they can't play; Soldiers cannot be abolished, and if they are abolished, they will be summoned. In the past, the prince of Wu was almost warlike and died, and the king of Xu Yan was also destroyed without martial arts. Therefore, the rule of the Ming King is also, the upper does not play with soldiers, and the lower does not abolish the military. To survive and not to forget death is to protect the country with your life.

The wisdom of governing the country in ancient China was endless, but later after the emergence of Dong Zhongshu's idea of "promoting the Confucian clan and suppressing the hundred schools", especially after the corrupt Confucianism of the Song Dynasty distorted the true meaning of Confucianism, the thinking of the Chinese military was suppressed, resulting in the later thinking of national governance being based on stability and harmony, and losing the positive idea of external development. It has formed a pure farming mentality of civil war insiders and outreach laymen.

In order to temper the tactical thinking of military officers as much as possible and at the same time reduce the casualties of soldiers, Zhu Youxiao adopted the method of arranging for soldiers from one military region to participate in the war on each of the three main islands of the Japanese state, and they took the war on each island as the scope of their operations and were not allowed to participate in the war between the islands.

In addition to the training ground of the Wa Kingdom, Zhu Youxiao also set up the Java training ground, where the climate is very suitable for tropical jungle battles, and the living environment there is much better than other places, and the population is relatively large, those indigenous residents committed unforgivable crimes against the overseas Chinese in later generations, even in this era, they did not help the colonists to massacre the overseas Chinese, Zhu Youxiao's purpose is to minimize the probability of these massacres, and he cannot live forever, It is impossible for future generations to limit the foresight to prevent these times from happening, so the best way is to make these overseas Chinese strong first, so that the natives dare not have bad thoughts in their hearts and remain honest.

The troops sent to the Java training ground were all from the southern military district, and Zhu Youxiao asked them to occupy two islands with relatively rich resources there and divide the areas where they would fight, so as to avoid self-harm. At the same time, let the two islands carry out certain infrastructure construction, form a safe living area, just wage war on the outer islands, and after arriving, this is a normal tropical jungle war school, which can train countless combat experts.

Zhu Youxiao still has to establish a complete militia reserve system, all young men in the Ming realm must participate in a one-month military training every year, which can be completed at one time or divided into two trainings, and there are armed forces departments in each county, and they are responsible for organizing training and assessment, whether it is farming, business, or work, all young people between the ages of 18 and 35 must participate, and these are all recorded.

As for the primary school, it is now divided into two levels, that is, primary school and middle school, and the nine-year compulsory education system is implemented, after all, the current knowledge is very simple, Zhu Youxiao proposed that there is no one day off in seven days, four days to learn cultural knowledge, and two days to participate in military or physical exercise, so that they can have a good body and lay a good foundation for future development.

After arriving at the university, the situation has changed, in addition to normal study, all college students must participate in one day of military training every week, and the other day is work-study, participate in the school's experimental factory or other factory labor, so that they continue to take turns in study and practice, such college students can directly participate in work after graduation, unlike later generations of students, graduation is unemployed, educating countless self-righteous useless youth, wasting the country's resources.

All school-age youths joining the army are the elite among the students, and Zhu Youxiao made a special requirement for this. After graduating from middle school, the military has the priority right to select outstanding students from among them to participate in the national unified higher education examination for that year. Zhu Youxiao's extremely high honor and generous salary for the soldiers were also a major driving force for attracting young students to apply for military academies, and future officers were mainly promoted from military academies, and illiterate people who had no culture did not attend in the future.

The configuration of officers in the Ming army is also very interesting, each level of officers is one and two deputies, but usually only one is a deputy officer in office, and the other person is to lead the team to participate in the actual combat in the various training theaters, the scale of the team participating in the actual combat is not large, but relatively speaking, the number of officers is obviously quite high, and the deputy officers who come back from each rotation can temporarily replace the main officer in charge of the team, and then the next cycle of rotation training operations, so that the officers are always in a state of non-stop war, exercise their combat command ability, In addition, the evaluation system for officers at all levels to participate in the war is perfect, and this is a necessary material for their future promotion.

Zhu Youxiao's way of building the army is based on the military model of the former Soviet Union, once a large-scale world-class war occurs, the deputy post of the Ming army can be immediately promoted to the main post, coupled with the huge reserve militia, the army of the Ming Dynasty can be expanded three times immediately, and the combat effectiveness will not be reduced, and it will truly achieve the point where it can be called upon and can fight.