Such a solution is, of course, satisfactory to everyone, especially Yan Siqi, who has all the face. He was full of gratitude to Lu Xiangsheng in his heart, and said: "President Lu is quick to think, and he admires him. ”

Only Man Gui was a little unhappy: "Your Majesty, what should I do with the minister." I get fat in the capital every day, and I really can't lift the knife after two years. ”

As soon as he said this, the other generals also shouted. Zhu Youxiao said helplessly: "The General Staff Headquarters has not yet been formally established, and I still have to carefully discuss with Sun Bingbu, General Lu, Mr. Xiong and the generals to reorganize the Guards Army and divide it into different military regions throughout the country, for example, General Cao's Heilongjiang General is the general of the Heilongjiang Military Region." You will soon have to go to various places, and when you are busy, you are afraid of what flesh will come back to life. ”

Five days later, a meeting of officers of the army at and above the rank of major general was held in the meeting hall of the military department, which was attended by all the generals in Beijing, and the meeting was presided over by Sun Chuanting.

Zhu Youxiao divided the Ming Dynasty into six military regions: the Northern Military Region, which governed Beizhili and Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, and Liaoxi, with Zhou Yuji as the northern general. The Northwest Military Region, which governs Shaanxi, the Duogansi Xuanwei Division, and the Wusizang Xuanwei Division, is headed by Man Gui as the Northwest General. The Southwest Military Region of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou was under the jurisdiction of Lu Qin as the general of the Southwest. He had jurisdiction over the Southern Military Region of Huguang, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Jiangxi, and Yang Guanggao served as the general of the South. Governing the Southeast Military Region of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Fujian, Zhao led the teaching as the Southeast General. It has jurisdiction over the Heilongjiang Oriental Military Region in the Heilongjiang River Basin, including Liaodong, and Cao Wenzhao is the general of the East.

In addition to these six military regions, there are also naval military regions, such as Yan Siqi is the governor of the North Sea and the East China Sea, including Jeju and Sinju, and the entire East China Sea and North Sea are under his jurisdiction. Zheng Zhilong, on the other hand, was the governor of the South China Sea, which included Qiongzhou Island, Luzon Islands, Vietnam and the surrounding seas. As for Zhang Qianfang, he has not been titled for the time being because he has already gone overseas.

The General Staff Headquarters of the Ming Military Department was formally established, Lu Xiang was promoted to chief of staff, and Xiong Tingbi and Yang Guangkui were appointed deputy chiefs. Bai Jiansen and Li Delin are the staff officers of the major generals, leading the staff officers at the following levels.

Each military region allocates a standing army of varying numbers according to its jurisdiction, and the standing army rotates every three years in divisions or brigades, while the general's palace and its sub-offices are fixed, and these are all conscripts.

In addition to the escort army, each military region also has a field army under the direct management of the military department. In peacetime, the generals of the military districts are responsible for the training and logistical supply of the field army, but they do not have the right to command the field army. If there is a war, the General Staff Headquarters will send generals to form a field corps, but the field corps will be disbanded immediately after the war, which makes it impossible for the generals of the major military regions to turn the army into their own private troops.

After Sun Chuanting's announcement, Zhu Youxiao began to speak: "The Jiannu has been destroyed, and many of our officers are worried that there will be no war, so they will enter Kuma and release them into Nanshan. I want to say that we still have a lot of battles to fight, a lot of places to occupy, and a lot of things to grab. The civil officials don't like to hear this, but fortunately, there is only one civilian official in Sun Bing's department here, he has nothing to do with it, he likes to listen to it. ”

The generals laughed and applauded together, and they all felt that the emperor's words were really wonderful, what kind of war did not rob the place or grab the things, and the people who killed us in the place where the slaves were robbed of us in the past, we had to rob back and kill back, so that it would be cool.

Zhu Youxiao and the others stopped applauding for a while, and then continued: "We now have two offensive directions, one is to the northwest and the other is to the southeast. The Mongols no longer have the same vigor as they once had, but the area they occupy is too large, and we can do without the steppes in the north, because we are not good at grazing. However, the land of the Hetao has been our Chinese territory since ancient times, and it must be recovered, and I have informed Lin Dan Khan of this matter, but Lin Dan Khan pushed the Ordos Department not to obey his orders and could not give up the Hetao area. ”

"Since you can't give up the Hetao area, then let's take it ourselves, so the next stage of our focus in the north is to retract. The matter involves the Northern Military Region and the Northwest Military Region, from which the troops involved in the fighting will be selected and will strive to recover the Hetao area within three years. ”

"As for the south-east, it is the recovery of the eastern territories and the development of overseas territories. The Eastern Military District and the Navy as a whole were involved in the matter, with General Cao taking overall responsibility for the Eastern Territory and the North Sea Fleet assisting. In the Southern Overseas, the South China Sea Fleet will act under the orders of the South China Sea Strategy, turning the entire South China Sea into an inland sea of our Ming Dynasty, and all hostile Westerners must be driven out. ”

"I am responsible for making requests, and the General Staff Headquarters is responsible for formulating plans, coordinating troops, organizing troops, and supporting logistics, and the specific battles will be carried out by the generals. It is an iron law that you cannot be knighted without military merit, and I believe that in the near future, there will be many counts, marquis and even dukes among you. ”

All the generals were greatly excited, although the knighthood was not hereditary, but this honor had a fatal attraction for the Ming people. When the eldest husband is alive, he should fight with a sword and gun in his hand to make a wife and a son, so as to live up to this life.

After this meeting, there was a complicated large-scale mobilization of the national army. Needless to say, it goes without saying that the Eastern Military Region is all newly recovered places, and the original military strength of the Southeast Military Region is already incomparably worse, and it is already very good to have one out of ten in the guards. Therefore, the imperial court closed down the various guard posts with an edict, which is equivalent to rebuilding, but other military regions are not so simple.

The first is the problem of the positioning of local soldiers, which involves the southwest, northwest, and south military regions, and the most troublesome of them is the southwest military region. Since the rebellion of Hao'an, the rebellious Tusi in the southwest has been frightened, and under Hong Chengchou's butcher's knife, everyone has also extinguished the rebellion, leaving only a small number of local soldiers for their own power. And Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers have become the most powerful force in the southwest.

Qin Liangyu was named a loyal uncle, and Zhu Youxiao was absolutely assured of her loyalty because of some things he knew in his previous life, but other officials and generals did not have this confidence. The notion that people who are not of my race must have different hearts used to be talked about a lot by civil officials, but now the generals have also been affected. Therefore, Lu Qin specifically raised this question, and asked the emperor and the military department to give a word of advice, how to treat the white pole soldiers.

Zhu Youxiao said: "You can rest assured about this matter, I have already sent a letter to Uncle Zhongzhen to ask for her opinion." She has already replied that she is willing to let the white pole soldiers become the field army in the southwest region, to completely stabilize the southwest region, it is impossible not to fight, and then you will have an invincible elite army in the local area to use. “