Although Sun Chengzong was knighted as the lord of Ning Chengbo, and he was knighted for his military merits, he can actually be regarded as a member of the noble class, but as a cabinet minister and minister of military aircraft, he still stands in front of Wenban.

The Minister of Military Aircraft, the British Minister of War, Zhang Weixian, also came to attend the court meeting despite his illness.

Because of the emperor's assurance, although Zhang Weixian was still worried that the emperor would listen to the advice of the court Chinese iers and ministers on paper, and abolish the system of the capital guard house established by the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, he did not take any measures to resist after all.

On the one hand, although the British public Zhang Weixian has a high status and prestige among the nobles of Beijing, to this day, he is not a person who can respond with a single call.

Because the circle of the nobles of the capital and even the nobles of the southern capital, after the purge of Emperor Chongzhen before, it has long been no longer monolithic.

Both, the British public Zhang Weixian is old, and he has been sick for a long time, and his time is running out.

At this time, not only were the other noble families not optimistic about the prospect of following him against the emperor, but even he himself did not want to give birth to what was wrong.

As soon as the letters of Niu Juming, Li Mengchen and others were sent to the military aircraft department, the British public Zhang Weixian, who was one of the ministers of military aircraft and had been worried about this matter, quickly saw it.

Since Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, Zhang Weixian has always been an important minister by the emperor's side, so he is very clear about the roles of Niu Juming and Li Mengchen.

These two people are the emperor's own people who were placed in the military department!

If there is no emperor's instruction, how can such a major event, a staff officer, a military department, dare to speak out recklessly!?

At the same time, Jang Weixian, as the Minister of Military Aircraft, also knew the news that the first and second towns of the Guards had returned to Gyeonggi to station.

Thinking of the performance of Ma Shilong and Wang Fu after entering the palace a few days ago, the British public Zhang Weixian knew that he couldn't resist.

Therefore, at this meeting of the Jianji Palace and the Japanese Dynasty, the British Duke Zhang Weixian just quietly listened to the attendants of the Ministry of War and the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and impassionedly stated the reasons for reforming the military system one by one, but he was still silent after all.

Among the hereditary nobles of the Beijing Division, those who held various hereditary positions in the Beijing camp and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and were qualified to participate in the court meeting, Xuancheng Bowei Shitai, Hui'an Bo Zhang Qingzhen, Xinjian Bo Wang Xiantong, as well as Ningyuan Bo Li Zunzu, Qingping Bo Wu Zunzhou, Guangning Bo Liu Sien, Zhangwu Bo Yang Chongyou and others, all looked at the British Duke Zhang Weixian and did not come out, and they all had nothing to say.

These lords and nobles who are now in the high position of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies are almost all the people who were personally promoted and pushed up by Emperor Chongzhen in front of them.

At the beginning, Emperor Chongzhen purged Zhu Chunchen, Duke of Chengguo, Zhu Guobi, Marquis of Funing, Li Guozhen, Bo of Xiangcheng, and other nobles who controlled the Beijing camp and were entrenched in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and promoted them and installed them in their current positions.

On the one hand, it is because in later history, when they faced the thieves entering the city and the Manchu Qing Dynasty entering the customs, they showed their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty.

On the other hand, it is also because they were all nobles who stood aside before, and there was no intertwined interest relationship between the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the Governor's Office of various places.

At the end of the day, it's for this day.

Now that this day has come, Emperor Chongzhen naturally doesn't need to hide it anymore.

On the morning of May 15, Emperor Chongzhen sat on the high throne in the center of the Jianji Palace, thinking about whether there were any loopholes in his arrangement, and at the same time listening to what Mao Yuanyi was talking about in the martial hall sacrifice of the left attendant of the military department and the emperor Ming Zhongyi.

"Those who know change with the times, and those who know make things as they go! In the old system of the ancestors, the border soldiers defended the city in three points, and the soldiers in the interior defended the city in two points and the tun in eight points. In this world, at this time, this system is especially feasible?!

"The so-called Spain and Portugal, commonly known as the Francophiles, were originally in the land of Taixi, thousands of miles away from our dynasty, but now they have come across the ocean by warships and artillery! In terms of its ships, there are only a hundred, and in terms of its people, it is only thousands, but it can destroy countless countries in the South Seas! ”

"There are also Dutch red-haired people, close to the Franco, and far away from me, close to the country narrow and near the sea, agriculture is not prosperous, specializing in sea trade, the population is only 1.5 million, less than my Ming Dynasty a place, and especially can crisscross the ocean!

"Zi said: hemp crown, etiquette, now also pure, thrifty, I follow the crowd. Therefore, the sage does not deviate from the ancients, and is not biased!

"Yi said that the way of all benefits, go with the time, stop when you stop, do when you do, and move without losing the time, this is also said!"

After Mao Yuanyi said these words impassionedly, there was silence in the Jianji Palace, and Emperor Chongzhen didn't want to waste more time on this issue.

After all, the question of whether to change or not, as long as the emperor makes up his mind, it is useless for others to have opinions.

Because the so-called state affairs of this era, in the final analysis, are still the emperor's family affairs.

After Emperor Jiajing's accession to the throne, the so-called great ceremonial event lasted for many years, and most of the courtiers stood on the opposite side of the emperor, but in the end, they did not choose to give in under the pressure of the court staff and heavy pressure.

And this matter of military reform has nothing to do with the interests of civil ministers at all, and those hereditary nobles in the governor's mansion of the five armies have softened, and others have nothing to say.

Therefore, when Mao Yuanyi's voice fell, Emperor Chongzhen glanced at the hall and saw that no one answered, and immediately said: "Those who know change with the times, and those who know make things as they go!" Mao Aiqing's words are even reasonable! It's very satisfying! ”

As soon as Emperor Chongzhen spoke, the atmosphere in the hall was lifted, and the nobles of the martial arts class pricked up their ears one by one, waiting for the emperor to say the most important thing in the reform of the military system.

Half a month has passed since the emperor proposed the reform of the military system, and there have been many discussions between the government and the opposition, although the emperor, the cabinet, and the military aircraft department have not made a clear statement, but the lack of a clear statement itself shows that this matter is already in the process of being brewed.

At the very beginning of this meeting, this was the topic, and there was only this topic, so everyone knew that the question of whether to change it or not was no longer important, and what really mattered was the question of how to change it.

At this time, the Chinese Wu Minister of the Palace saw that Emperor Chongzhen, who had been quietly listening to the courtiers' discussions, finally spoke, and they were all listening attentively at the moment.

I only heard the emperor say: "The matter of military system innovation has been discussed between the government and the opposition recently, and I have been thinking about it for a long time. The system of the ancestors, when it was also a good law, the reason for the slight change is that the times have changed, and the unchanged is not enough to cope with the current situation!

"However, the so-called changers of mine are neither changing for the sake of change, nor changing course! What I said in the Wuying Hall before me, that is, one official is inevitable, one member is not cut, and one salary is not reduced, and the cabinet secretary and the military aircraft are recorded. I will not change! ”

Hearing Emperor Chongzhen say this, the noble and military ministers who had been standing behind Zhang Weixian nervously, everyone was relieved, but there was an uproar on the side of Wenchen.

Isn't innovation about adjusting personnel, eliminating redundant personnel, reducing salaries, and saving expenses?

Since you talk about the reform of the military system, but you also say that one official is inevitable, no one is cut, and no salary is reduced, then what else can you innovate?

However, without waiting for any other reaction from the ministers in the palace, Emperor Chongzhen immediately said:

"Today, I will clearly tell you what I have been thinking and thinking in the past few days. In the future, the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies will still be the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, but the Five Armies in the future, not the Five Armies of the past! ”

After the emperor said this, the hall quickly returned to quiet, and everyone listened to the emperor with bated breath, only to hear the emperor continue:

"I have decided to change the current Governor's Office of the five armies of the Front Army, the Rear Army, the Left Army, the Right Army, and the Central Army into the Governor's Office of the Border Army, the Internal Guard, the Guard, the Navy, and the Reserve.

"The border army, that is, the governor's office of the border guards, but all the border army battalions and border guards belonging to the towns on the nine borders are under its control and command.

"The internal guard, that is, the governor's office of the internal guard army, but all the general guards of the inland towns, the capital guards and the native soldiers in the southwest are under its control and command.

"The Guards, that is, the Governor's Mansion of the Guards, the new army of the first and second towns of the Guards, after the bloody battles of Juyong Pass and Xuanda against the captives, the results have been verified, and their combat power is twice as good as that of the guards and soldiers!

"However, the new army of the first town and the second town of the Guards Army are neither the soldiers of the guards nor the battalions recruited by ordinary people, and the two are not subordinate to each other, so it is inconvenient to unify the command.

"After the establishment of the Governor's Mansion of the Guards, the first and second towns of the Guards, and even the three towns and four towns in the future, etc., will all be under its control and command!"