After watching the exercise, after Chen Zizhuang retreated, Yang Shouchun, the former eunuch of the imperial palace, whispered to Zhu Youlang: "Emperor, you can award a reward." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" Zhu Youlang nodded.

Yang Shouchun immediately let out a pager: "Play music!" …… Reward! ”

In the midst of the music, the chamberlains issued 40,000 taels of silver and 1,000 horses of silk on behalf of the emperor, with an average of one tael per sergeant.

Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Jiao Lian and others saluted and thanked them in the music, and all the soldiers who participated in the martial arts performance knelt down together, and there was another mountain shouting long live.

After the ceremony, the emperor sent a message to the senior generals of the Western Army and the Guards to attend the Imperial Military Council in the Council Hall three days later, saying that they were going to announce important matters, and the generals ordered the soldiers to disperse.

After returning to the palace, Zhu Youlang became a scholar of Wuyingdian University and the first assistant of the cabinet, Zhai Shiyun; Dongge University Scholar, Household Department Shangshu Yan Qiheng, Ministry of Officials Shangshu Zhu Tianlan, and Military Department Shilang Sheriff Shangshu Chen Zizhuang Several powerful officials in Beijing were summoned to the imperial front to discuss the major matters of military reform.

Zhu Tian's scale character is at the beginning of the tour, alias Zhenqing, a native of Kunshan. Chongzhen's first year of Jinshi. Awarded Rao Prefecture to promote officials, there are beneficial policies. Candidates are selected into the capital, and poverty cannot be bribed, and it is proposed to award the ministry Cao. The emperor's feast, the official and the humiliation. And Linxuan personally tested, and if he saw the real talent, he changed the Hanlin editing. In the first month of the seventeenth year, he was ordered to sacrifice to the king of Huai, arrived in Shandong and fell into Beijing. and Nandu Po, go to Fuzhou, Longwu promoted Shao Zhan Shi, and acted as a supervisor of Guozi. In the first year of Yongli, he was called by the Ministry of Rites, and successively served as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites of the Yongli Dynasty, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and the cabinet of scholars.

Zhu Tianlan is also one of the few ministers of the Yongli Dynasty who has real talent and learning, in history, after Zhai Shiyun, he has been running between the local warlords Chen Bangfu and Sun Kewang, and strives to maintain the broken ship of the Yongli ****** until he died of illness, and is a loyal minister.

In this life, he also fought side by side with Yongli, and once secretly discussed the killing of the warlord Chen Bangfu together, which won Zhu Youlang's trust and entrusted him as a confidant.

Yan Qiheng, the word Zhensheng, the word Qiuye, Chongzhen Xin Weicheng Jinshi, Langzhong of the Punishment Department, compassionate punishment in Guangdong, and many rehabilitation. Promoted to Guangzhou Mansion, King Gui ascended the throne of Zhaoqing, knew the name of Heng, promoted to the servant, looked for the Jin household servant, summoned to the line, financial management skills, and promoted to the Ministry of Shangshu.

Yan Qiheng in history was killed by Sun Kewang in retaliation for opposing the title of Sun Kewang as the prince, and he was also a disciplined minister. For such a courtier, Zhu Youlang is also not hesitant to reuse.

Late Ming Dynasty system: the cabinet ministers are full of seven members, and the special situation of thirty or forty cabinet scholars at the same time during the Longwu Dynasty is not included, Longwu is a puppet, and he can only rely on the name to win the hearts of the people, as for whether the name has real power, he can't control it.

Now it is the turn of Yongli Zhu Youlang to govern, there is a lack of talents in the capital, in line with the attitude of preferring shortage to indiscriminate, the current central cabinet has only three cabinet ministers, four vacancies, and the real power of the two departments of officials and soldiers has been very large, and they do not enter the cabinet as usual, in addition to the above two, there are also Dongge scholars who went to Fujian to lobby Zheng Sen, Wu Zhenyu, the imperial history of the left capital.

In view of the chaos of the Ming battalion system, the gradual proliferation of military ranks, titles, and ranks, it is imperative to reshape the discipline and reorganize the army.

The traditional guard system of the Ming Dynasty has existed in name only, and the current implementation is the system of recruiting soldiers to fight the soldiers, because of the temporary and random nature of its incident and the withdrawal of nothing, resulting in the next province, the battalion system is not quite the same, and the official rank is not comparable, and it is difficult to distinguish between rights and responsibilities.

Then the rank exists in name only, and all kinds of complex and difficult to understand the general soldier recognize the flag, from the general soldier down, the general flag of each deputy general and staff general is also different.

Not only are there no obvious signs between military schools at all levels, but there is also no distinction between artillery, cavalry, bird-fired soldiers, and other military branches, and even the flags used for command are not quite the same among battalions.

This is still the result of Qi Jiguang's sorting out, and the Ministry of War also improved according to Qi Jiguang's rules, which shows how chaotic the camp system of the Ming Dynasty is, and the green battalion military system of the Qing court is the improved version of the Ming Dynasty's military system, and the military reform has been ahead of the Ming Dynasty.

At present, Huguang is vigorously rectifying and dismantling the soldiers and horses of the 13 towns, reorganizing the army, and the specific battalion system, the military positions of the generals at all levels have not yet been determined, and more than 10,000 units of the Western Army have been attached to the Ming Dynasty in a timely manner, which is an excellent opportunity to reform the military system and seize military power.

Zhu Youlang discussed this matter with the cabinet, officials, and several important ministers in combination with the current situation in Xingdu and Huguang, and finally drafted a plan, which carried out a series of reforms in the titles, ranks, battalion system, military ranks, banners, and orders of the Ming Dynasty.

First of all, the title of the Ming Dynasty, the different surnames of the Ming Dynasty are: Gong, Hou, Uncle, all three ranks, in order to seal the meritorious heroes and relatives, all have a good life. The meritorious heroes will be given iron coupons, and the title will be fourth: Zuo Taizu will set the world, and he will be said to be the founder of the country and the auxiliary luck; From Chengzu to the army, it is said that it is difficult to push sincerity from Fengtianjing; Yu said that Fengtian Yiyun pushed sincerity, and said Fengtian Yiwei pushed sincerity. The military minister said that the military minister of Xuanli was a military minister, and the civil minister said that he was a civil minister.

The new Ming Rank is no longer a simple duke, marquis, and earl, in view of the fact that there are many marquis and earls in the army, so it cannot simply be revoked, and the title is sent out, it cannot be withdrawn casually, otherwise the reputation of the court will not exist, which is not conducive to the stability of the army. It's just that if there are only three titles of dukes and earls and it seems too few, the prince should be more cautious in rewarding, except in special circumstances, not to the living, generally posthumously gifted.

In order to avoid the situation that military generals and heroes will face high merit and shock the lord in the future, and there will be no promotion. Zhu Youlang Junchen divided the title from the three levels of the prince and the marquis, and each level was subdivided into three sub-levels, namely the national duke, the county duke, and the county duke; Princes, county marquises, county marquises; Guobo, Junbo, Countyman; Above the prince of the country, there is a prince and a prince of the county.

The new titles no longer distinguish between clan lords and meritorious lords, and are unified into a title system, all of which are called Ming titles, and the original title is linked to the rank of officials. In the new title system, it is divided into princes, county kings, county princes, county dukes, county dukes, county marquises, county marquises, county marquises, county uncles, county uncles, county uncles, a total of four orders and eleven levels.

Among them, the prince is the exclusive lord of the royal family, and those who have no royal blood shall not be awarded, and the son of the emperor, except for the crown prince, shall be crowned prince. The original county king, Zhenguo general, auxiliary general, Fengguo general, Zhenguo lieutenant, auxiliary lieutenant, and Fengguo lieutenant correspond to the new title of county king, Guogong, county duke, county duke, Guohou, county marquis, and county marquis.

In order to prevent the clan from dragging down the central finances, the privileges were used to harm the localities, and the hereditary right to replace the title was abolished, and it was reduced from generation to generation. For example, the eldest son of the prince is the prince of the county, and the rest are the princes of the country, and the eldest son of the prince of the county is the prince of the country, and the rest are the princes of the county, etc.

There are two kinds of titles: the title of the lord and the hereditary replacement, the rogue is reduced from generation to generation, and the hereditary revocation can be passed on from generation to generation, and the country is retired. The title is the nature of honor, there is no real power to govern the people, according to the different levels, there are some corresponding privileges, there are also some public privileges, such as the title in the body, the entrance examination can be given priority, the commander does not kneel to the minister, can face the Emperor Chen, etc., there are different amounts of land, and the reward is not to split the soil, not to divide the grass is the principle, and the meritorious civil and military officials can be rewarded, which is different from the ancestral system of conferring military and not awarding literature. The reform of this system was a great benefit to the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, so the emperor's proposal was unanimously approved by the cabinet ministers almost without the slightest resistance.

The marquis who has been sealed out is automatically listed as a county marquis, and the earl is automatically listed as a county earl, and the original noble family of the Ming Dynasty has fallen with the northern capital and the southern capital.

After the Hongguang Dynasty, a new batch of nobles was awarded, such as the four towns of Jiangbei, also died, and descended, fortunately, the Ming Dynasty was cautious about the reward of the title, even if it was the Longwu Dynasty, the official position was flooded, the title was still not flooded, and there were still not many military ministers with titles in the Ming provinces, and most of them were earls, and only Li Guo, Gao Yigong of the loyal battalion, and Zheng Zhilong of Fujian and a few other people who got the title of marquis.

Among them, Zheng Zhilong was also imprisoned by the Qing court and went to Beijing. In history, the title of Daming began to flood to the late Yongli period, at that time, not to mention that the Duke of the Kingdom was all over the street, and even the prince of one word was sealed out of several, that was also forced to be really helpless, but unfortunately no matter how high the title is, it is just a dying struggle, and it cannot save the gradually losing national fortune.

Following the title, the military generals of the Ming Dynasty have also been readjusted, linked to the rank, as a sustenance, the rank is the embodiment of seniority and merit, similar to the modern military rank. The purpose of rebuilding the scattered rank system is to determine the specific levels of the battalions and schools in Huguang and Liangguang provinces, to clarify the dignity and inferiority, and to facilitate command and dispatch. At the same time, in order to facilitate the rectification of the army and reduce resistance, the middle and high-level generals and colonels who have been dismissed from their military posts will be given the corresponding rank of loose ranks.

The new Ming Sanjie is divided into three ranks: general, captain, and captain, of which the first to third rank is the general, the fourth to the sixth rank is the captain, and the seventh to ninth rank is the captain.

Specifically, it is the general of Zhengyipin Zhenguo and the general of the auxiliary country from Yipin; is the second rank of the general Wuwei, from the second rank of the general Zhenwei; General Zhaowu of the third grade, General Xuanwu from the third grade;

is the fourth product Dingyuan captain, from the fourth product Huaiyuan captain; Captain Ningyuan of Zhengwupin, Captain Zhiyuan from Wupin; is the sixth grade of the Ming Yuan lieutenant, from the six products of the Guangyuan captain;

is the seventh rank of loyalty, from the seven products of loyalty and faithfulness; is the eighth rank of the loyal and brave captain, from the eighth rank of the loyal and brave captain; is the captain of the nine pins of loyalty, from the nine pins of loyalty and righteousness;

The military academy has a total of nine grades and eighteen levels, among which the general of the Zhengyi Town National University is not awarded to the living person unless it is a special case, and it can be posthumously sealed after death, and the highest military rank is from the first rank of the auxiliary general of the country.

Sergeants are divided into four levels, from high to low, they are sharp soldiers, war soldiers, guards, and auxiliary soldiers. (To be continued.) )