Although Emperor Chongzhen repeatedly told the people attending the meeting that day not to talk about this matter openly and make a storm in the city before the plan for the reform of the military system was formed, the news that the imperial court might want to reform the military system still spread in some small circles in Beijing. Ｘ

However, after getting the report of Gong Yonggu, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Emperor Chongzhen just sighed and shook his head and smiled bitterly.

It is of course a felony for the unresolved matter of the Cabinet or the Military Aircraft Department to leak out and put it on the people of the Cabinet or the Military Aircraft Department.

But this kind of thing, it comes from the cabinet minister and the minister of military aircraft, and he is a little helpless.

Since the emperor asked them to go back and think seriously, there is a possibility of revealing it.

After all, after the ministers of the Cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department were mixed into this position, a group of people would naturally gather behind them.

For civil servants such as Li Guo, the first assistant of the cabinet, and cabinet ministers Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi, it is a little better, and now they represent different classes in the civil service group.

If you have to put a label and have a position, then today, when the core of the eunuch party and Donglin is all cleared out of the court, Li Guo represents a class that was not Donglin before.

And Sun Chengzong, a fellow traveler of the former Donglin Party, represents a class that prides itself on being a clear stream in the eastern forests of the DPRK today, when the eunuch party bosses are either dead, or have been dismissed from office for various reasons.

Of course, when Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about Fa'erdi, he would either dismiss the rising stars of the East and East Forests of the Dynasty, or demote them, or take up foreign posts, Sun Chengzong was arranged by the emperor to sit outside the fortress and rectify the northern side of the thistle, which was not above the court at all, and he couldn't say anything at all.

By the time he handed over the military affairs outside the Saiwai and returned to Beijing, he had already been crowned the lord of Ning Chengbo, and he seemed to have become a member of the noble class of the Ming Dynasty.

This change in identity, especially the blurring of identity boundaries, let alone other civil officials in the DPRK and China, even Sun Chengzong himself, is not clear about what this means for a while.

Needless to say, Xu Guangqi naturally represents the group of scholars who have been competing to see the world earlier since the late Ming Dynasty.

Although these people each represent different groups of civil officials and have subtle differences on many issues, they basically have the same attitude when facing the noble family.

On the issue of the corruption and uselessness of the Daming Guard's system, these people's understanding is also the same.

Therefore, for Emperor Chongzhen's idea of reforming the military system, whether it is Li Guo, Sun Chengzong, or Xu Guangqi, although from the overall situation, they will persuade the emperor to be cautious, serious, and take his time, but fundamentally speaking, they are not opposed.

As far as they are concerned, the question of reforming the military system is not a question of whether or not to change it, but a question of how to change it.

However, it is Zhang Weixian who has a different attitude from them.

As the only minister of military aircraft in the hereditary noble class of the Ming Dynasty who speaks more weightily in the court, behind Zhang Weixian is the entire noble class in the north and south of Beijing.

Whether it is the governor's office of the five armies in the north and south of Beijing, or the capital guards in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, although by the end of the Ming Dynasty, they have long been less important and have a status than in the early Ming Dynasty, but they are still the foundation of their power.

For these noble families who have been hereditary for two or three hundred years, the chief military officers of the important towns of the nine borders do not have their share, and the chief military officers of the towns and guards in various parts of the Ming Dynasty do not have their share, and now the guards trained by Emperor Chongzhen after his accession to the throne also do not have their share.

And the reason why their status is still extremely noble is only because they hold the hereditary position of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies of the North and South, and they are in charge of the entire Metropolitan Guardhouse and the nominal millions of guards in the Metropolitan Guard.

Once there is no Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and there are not so many guards and military households under the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, their emperor's weight and their status in the Ming Dynasty will be lost.

Since the future is fateful, it is impossible for them not to pay attention to it.

This is also the reason why the British public Zhang Weixian has always been submissive, and this time he uncharacteristically persuaded the emperor not to shake the country's foundation.

However, after Emperor Chongzhen's later words, Zhang Weixian knew that the emperor had made up his mind.

At the same time, with Emperor Chongzhen's assurance, although Zhang Weixian's heart was still up and down, he was finally relieved.

Regardless of their stance and attitude, after coming out of the Forbidden City, these people inevitably had to discuss with the people close to them about how to deal with it.

Especially the British Duke Zhang Weixian, after returning to the palace, after thinking about it, he still called the left and right governors of the five military governors' mansions, who were hereditary Hou Bo, to say what the emperor meant, and discuss a countermeasure together.

In this way, of course, the news will spread slowly, and all kinds of discussions between the government and the opposition will naturally not be able to put an end to it.

A few days later, amid all kinds of discussions between the government and the opposition, while the nobles who held hereditary positions in the British government and the governor's office of the five armies were apprehensive, Niu Juming, the head of the military department, and Li Mengchen, the military department, took the lead in writing to the emperor, asking for a change in the military system and a unified military and government order.

The General Political Envoy sent a copy to the Military Aircraft Department, and the Military Aircraft Department copied it to the Minister of Military Aircraft for reading at the same time, and presented it to the Imperial Study of the Qianqing Palace as it was.

However, Emperor Chongzhen did not leave the middle or send a single word of instructions, but only asked the two copies submitted by the General Supervisor to request the change of military system, and all of them were forwarded to the cabinet ministers and the governors of the five armies and above to read them.

Niu Juming and Li Mengchen wrote to ask for a change in the military system, which can be regarded as a major matter that was discussed privately between the government and the opposition.

Subsequently, some yamen officials who had nothing to do with military affairs, such as the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Lifan Yuan, the Hanlin Yuan, and the Zhan Shifu, also saw the signs and wrote to ask for a change in the military system.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty, when they encountered problems such as finance, transportation, and rivers, not everyone dared to speak, because these things involved affairs, and Confucius and Mencius did not say much in the sages and sages, but when they encountered problems such as the military system, everyone dared to point fingers and make irresponsible remarks!

Of course, there are many opinions about this.

Some suggested that the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces and its subordinate Governors should be abolished, the functions of the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces should be transferred to the Ministry of War, and the Governor's Office should be merged into the local town guard general military office, or the guard office should be changed to a prefecture or county, and military households should be turned into civilian households, so as to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, and increase taxes.

Some suggested that the system of the capital guard should be retained, but the military registration should be cleaned up, the military field of the guard should be returned to the army, and the ancestral system should be restored, and so on.

There are also clues found from the will of Emperor Chongzhen to deal with Jibei, Xuanda, Monan and other places, and it is suggested that the guards and border towns should be distinguished from the inland guards, and they should be treated differently according to local conditions.

In just a few days, dozens of petitions asking for a change in the military system of the world were sent to Ouchi through the General Political Envoy, and then under the instruction of Emperor Chongzhen, they were copied to the cabinet and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies for reading.

A few days later, that is, on May 10 of the third year of Chongzhen, the main force of the second town of the Guards Army, more than 10,000 men, under the leadership of Wang Fu, the new Wuxingbo of the capital commander, set out from Datong City, passed through Bauhinia Pass, and returned to the camp of Baoding garrison.

On 12 May, more than 14,000 people of the main force of the first town of the Guards Army, also under the leadership of the newly promoted Wuding Boma Shilong, the commander of the capital, crossed the land of Xuanda from the direction of Shuozhou, passed through the military capital of Shencheng and Juyong Pass, and returned to the camp of Luhewan in Tongzhou.

At noon on 13 May, Sun Chengzong, Minister of Military Aircraft, and Nan Juyi, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, led Ma Shilong, Bo Ma Shilong of Wuding, and Wang Fu, Bo of Wuxing, who had returned from the order of the class, to enter the palace for an audience.

Chongzhen Emperor Wuyingdian summoned the two people, gave a banquet and food, and in the case of the previous reward of the two princes, Ma Shilong was awarded the title of "General Jinwu" again, and Wang Fu was awarded the title of "General Zhenguo", and the house was given in the inner city of Beijing, and the Wuding Bo Mansion and Wuxing Bo Mansion were built.

Ma Shilong and Wang Fu were grateful, went out of the palace to the outside of the Daming Gate, and still turned around and returned again.

Immediately afterwards, on the morning of May 15, at the Jianji Hall Wangri Dynasty Meeting, Mao Yuanyi, Sun Yuanhua, the left and right attendants of the Ministry of War, and Jia Jichun, the right deputy of the Imperial Palace, stood up one after another, asking Emperor Chongzhen to reform the military system of the Ming Dynasty.