Lu Xiangsheng had a smooth time on the North American continent, building ports, establishing bases, attracting natives, surveying mineral deposits, and investigating the enemy's situation, and colonization and immigration were just around the corner.

Zhu Cijiong is in trouble here, because colonization and immigration need people, especially colonization, and ordinary people are not suitable for doing this kind of thing, so it is better to use tunwei.

However, now there are almost no guards in the entire Ming Dynasty that can be deployed.

At this time, the number of guards in the Ming Dynasty is actually not a lot, after the last reorganization, the entire Ming Tunwei system has more than 100 divisions, more than 500 guards, more than 2,500 thousand households, and the number of military households has reached a terrifying more than 2.8 million, which is more than the beginning of the Dynasty.

The problem is that the territory of the Ming Dynasty is now larger than at the beginning of the Dynasty, and it is not half a star, but three or four times larger!

The more than 2.8 million military households seem terrifying, but as soon as they are scattered across an area of 30 or 40 million square kilometers, they will be scattered in one fell swoop.

The place with the most garrisons is the original Siberia, and now the new Kyushu of the Ming Dynasty, because this is a newly occupied territory, and it has to face the threat of the European continental powers at all times, and these places have no population, so Zhu Cijiong according to the advice of Sun Yuanhua, the secretary of the Ministry of War, stationed five capitals in each province.

In total, there are 45 prefectures, 225 health offices, 1,125,000 households, and nearly 1.3 million military households.

Next is the fifteen provinces in South Asia, which the Ming Dynasty has not occupied for a long time, and it is already a minimum for each province to have two capitals.

Fifteen provinces are 30 capital divisions, 150 health offices, 750 thousand households, and more than 800,000 military households.

Like the Western Regions, Beiting, Monan, Mobei, Nuergan, as well as the four provinces of the Southeast Peninsula and the two provinces of Nanyang, these actually did not return to the Ming Dynasty for a long time, and they were originally to be stationed in the two capital guards, but the number of guards was not enough, so they could only send a guard of the capital division to garrison it with the original two capitals and thirteen provinces and two capital divisions.

This is another 28 capital divisions, 140 guard houses, 700 thousand households, and more than 700,000 military households.

In this way, none of the more than 100 capital divisions, more than 500 guard posts, more than 2,500 1,000 households, and more than 2.8 million military households were idle.

And now the North American continent, if you want to colonize, you must at least send a million military households, otherwise it will be difficult to firmly control the huge colony.

and the future Dongsheng Shenzhou, that is, Australia in the future, will at least send millions of military households, otherwise the safety of the royal family will not be guaranteed.

How can such a big gap be filled, is it from New Kyushu and South Asia?

This is obviously unrealistic, the guards in the two places are just barely enough, not more, but less, and if they are transferred again, I am afraid that there will be problems.

For today's plan, the only way to do this is to expand, and Zhu Cijiong decided to expand the tunwei to 5 million households to solve the urgent need!

Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, it seems that the number of guards has been decreasing, only when the Chongzheng Dynasty was reorganized, and the scale of the beginning of the dynasty was restored.

As for the expansion of the tunwei, it only happened once in the Chongzheng Dynasty, and that time it was not to recruit new people, but to turn the eighteen Zhi pirates who joined the Ming Navy, and really expanded the tunwei, which seems to have not happened in the Ming dynasties.

Can it be possible to expand the number of guards, and if you can't recruit people?

Zhu Cijiong believes that the line will definitely be good, and people will definitely be able to recruit some, because now the treatment of Tunwei is the best among all household registrations, but he is really not sure whether he can recruit two million households.

Professional things to find professional people, the matter of the guard is naturally the most reliable to consult with Sun Yuanhua, the secretary of the Ministry of War, because all the guards of the Ming Dynasty are now in charge of the Ministry of War.

Sun Yuanhua was very busy at this time, and finally the emperor was ready to take a break, but he hadn't rested for a few months, and the anti-Habsburg alliance began to stir up trouble again, and his military secretary was even more caught off guard than the emperor.

Moreover, the scale of this war was the largest in the history of the Ming Dynasty, almost all the army and all the navy participated in the war, and more than 2 million people and horses were loaded with weapons, ammunition, food and grass, and he was simply too busy to breathe.

However, although he is busy, he is in a good mood.

Now, neither power nor money is so important to him, because he has already lived in an official residence, and he has a million taels of silver rewarded by the emperor, and if he is not satisfied, he can only rebel!

Will he plot a rebellion?

That's naturally impossible, not everyone has so much greed, he just wants to do his own thing well, ensure the supply of military supplies on the front line, and make his due contribution to the Ming Dynasty to win this key battle, in order to repay the emperor's grace to himself.

He was busy in the yamen of the military department, but the eunuch in the palace came to pass the emperor's edict, ordering him to enter the palace as soon as possible.

The emperor summoned him, it was naturally a top priority, no matter how busy he was, he had to go immediately, he immediately dropped what he was doing and followed the eunuch to the palace.

What will happen if the emperor suddenly summons him urgently?

Along the way, Sun Yuanhua was thinking about this problem, and he believed that it was very likely that the anti-Habsburg coalition powers had something wrong with them, and they had to send troops to deal with it.

If so, then it's a bit of a headache, because the Ming Dynasty has almost no soldiers to send in either the army or the navy, and if it doesn't work, it will have to be the first legion of the Praetorian Guard or the second legion of the Praetorian Guard.

He followed behind the eunuch who sent the decree, and after thinking about it, he had already arrived at the Qianqing Palace before he knew it.

Zhu Cijiong was still waiting for Sun Yuanhua in the small conference room, needless to say about the relationship between the two, after the monarch and the minister greeted him, he pulled Sun Yuanhua to sit down at the conference table, and then said: "Chuyang, Jiandou has led the troops to the Americas, I believe that the colony will be launched over there soon, this colony is more difficult to control than the vassal state, I think that when immigrating, it is better to focus on the tunwei first, and first completely control that side in your hands, what do you think?" “

It turned out to be a colonial matter for a long time, Sun Yuanhua thought about it for a while and then said: "The emperor is wise, and Weichen also thinks that he should first transfer the guards to stabilize the overall situation, and then make other plans." “

Zhu Cijiong nodded at first, and then sighed: "The question is where to transfer the guards, the territory over there is not small." “

Sun Yuanhua was also busy and confused, he only remembered it now, the emperor seemed to have said that the territory over there was even wider than Siberia, so how many guards had to be transferred!

He couldn't help but panic and said: "The emperor forgives the sin, Weichen has been busy and confused these days, and he has forgotten about the vast territory over there." “

Zhu Cijiong waved his hand and said: "I know that you are busy, and it is normal that you can't remember some things, but the transfer of this guard cannot be delayed, and it is estimated that Jiandou will soon have someone." “

Sun Yuanhua hurriedly asked, "I don't know how many guards the emperor wants to transfer?" “

Zhu Cijiong estimated: "At least one million households, it is estimated that there will be additional ones later!" “