For the military reform of the Ming Dynasty, now the Chongzhen Emperor wants to do it in one step, for example, directly set up the offices under the newly established Governor's Office of the Five Armies into the four major departments in the later army that have a clear division of labor and have been popular for many years, namely the Headquarters, the Political Department, the Logistics Department and the Equipment Department, and so on.

However, considering the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty in the third year of Chongzhen, that is, in 1630 AD, in order to smoothly promote this reform, he could only veto this too fanciful idea.

The same is true of the military formation, military establishment, and military rank system, and the system of copying later generations sounds good, but it just sounds good.

Merely changing towns, associations, standards, and battalions into corps, divisions, brigades, and regiments, and changing the commanders of the staff, tours, capitals, guards, or guard posts into division commanders, regiment commanders, brigadier generals, and colonels, will not make the army modernize or modernize all at once.

In doing so, it is very likely to be self-defeating, and then in addition to the Ming Dynasty's guard system (world soldiers), battalion soldiers system (recruitment), and Tusi Tubing system (private soldiers), a nondescript freak will be reborn, which is likely to make the Ming Dynasty's military system even more chaotic.

When the noble generals and civil officials and doctors of this era cannot really understand the essence of a system, if you really take thunderous measures and enforce it compulsively, then you will definitely be deformed and out of shape, and in the end you will not get the results you want.

In particular, with regard to the reform of the military command system, which affects the whole body, it is all the more forbidden to adopt drastic measures that are impatient and rash.

What's more, the military command system itself, which was equipped with four major departments after the administration and administration, was also abandoned in later generations because of such and such problems.

In addition to these historical factors that must be taken into account, now the Chongzhen Emperor also has to seriously consider the status of the Ministry of War, and cannot but take into account the functions and powers of the Ministry of War, as well as the positions and attitudes of a large number of officials such as the secretary of the Ministry of War, the squire, the langzhong, and the director.

Without the cooperation of these people, it would be a joke for you to carry out the reform of the military command system, not to mention that you will not be able to carry it out, and even if you put it forward, you may immediately be unanimously opposed.

In order to get these people to cooperate, in addition to putting some people who have a better view of the overall situation or who are more loyal and obedient in charge of the military department, the most important thing is to take care of the interests of these people.

Therefore, this time Emperor Chongzhen considered not touching the existing authority of the Ministry of War.

For example, the original military selection department of the Ministry of War controlled the evaluation, appointment and dismissal of military attaches in the world, the department in charge of the military intelligence and border affairs of the soldiers and horses garrison, the car driving department in charge of vehicles, ships and horses, the arsenal department in charge of the deployment of ordnance weapons and quartermasters, and the military institute in charge of armaments production that was added later, as well as the world post administration that has always been in charge of the military department, all of which are the authority of the military department of the Ming Dynasty.

None of these powers can be weakened at will, let alone deprived at will, even if you are the emperor, you can't do that.

Therefore, in the process of reorganizing the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces, the personnel, intelligence, and quartermaster functions that are crucial to the Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces are still firmly in the hands of the Ministry of War.

Moreover, at the end of June, at the critical moment when the Military Aircraft Department and the Ministry of War were brewing the reorganization of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, Emperor Chongzhen also personally issued an order, in addition to the existing functions of the Ministry of War, following the example of the Governor of the Household Department Kuraba, and added a post government court for the Ministry of War, and added a member of the Ministry of War to add a squire to take charge of the post affairs of the world.

Emperor Chongzhen also asked Nan Juyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, to nominate the candidate for the post minister.

Fortunately, the military department Shangshu Nan Juyi can be regarded as the minister who succeeded to the throne of Emperor Chongzhen and thought that he was a minister, and the candidate he nominated did not make Emperor Chongzhen too embarrassed, and after being provided to the Ministry of Officials and the Inspectorate for review, he was quickly recognized by the Ministry of Officials and the Inspectorate, so he was soon appointed by Emperor Chongzhen.

This person is Nan Juyi's friend Wang Qia.

Originally, in history, this Wang Qia was a figure who became the secretary of the military department, and he really became the secretary of the military department in the second year of Chongzhen, but it is a pity that the position of the military department secretary has not yet been secured, and Huang Taiji led the army of Jianyu to break through the border and go straight to the city of Beijing.

Jianyu's entry into the customs and his arrival in Beijing were definitely a shocking event for the Ming Dynasty at that time, and Emperor Chongzhen was naturally shocked, frightened and annoyed.

And Wang Qia, who had just taken up the post of secretary of the Ministry of War, was impeached by the courtiers at the time because he happened to sit in this position, saying that he was derelict in his duties, incompetent, and deserving of death.

So, Emperor Chongzhen was furious, and ordered the Jinyi Guard to arrest and imprison Shangshu Wang Qia of the military department, and at the same time urgently used Sun Chengzong, finally stabilized the situation, and a few months later, repelled Jianyu.

After Jianyu withdrew his troops from the customs, Emperor Chongzhen saw that someone had written to cry out for Wang Qia, so he remembered Wang Qia, who had temporarily acted as a scapegoat, and was ready to order his release.

As a result, I found out that in just a few months, Wang Qia had died of illness in prison under shame and self-blame.

However, in this life, after Emperor Chongzhen overthrew the eunuch party, Cui Chengxiu, the secretary of the eunuch party's military department, immediately committed suicide and died, and the person who replaced Cui Chengxiu's post as the secretary of the military department was neither Wang Yongguang in history, nor Wang Zaijin after Wang Yongguang, but directly used Sun Chengzong.

Because of this, Wang Qia did not have the opportunity to succeed Wang Zaijin as the secretary of the military department in history.

Now, by the time Nan Juyi proposed to use this Wang Qia, this Wang Qia had been idle for six years in his hometown of Linyi, Shandong.

And his position before his dismissal was the governor of Zhejiang.

When Nan Juyi was the governor of Fujian, Wang Qia happened to be the governor of Zhejiang, and the two worked together to encircle and suppress the pirates along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, and they cooperated with each other happily and formed a friendship.

In the same way, shortly after Nan Juyi's resignation, Wang Qia also lost his official position.

The difference is that what happened to the two during the Chongzhen period was completely reversed.

Because Nan Juyi has beaten the red-haired Dutch ghost and is more famous, in this life, after Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to power, he quickly enabled it, and all the way from the governor of Cangchang, to the governor of Beizhili, and then to the military department, the career was very smooth.

But Wang Qia is different, since the appointment of the governor of Zhejiang, he has been living at home for six years.

But this is not a bad thing for Wang Qia.

Because in history, he was reactivated by the imperial court quite early, but he died in prison in April of the third year of Chongzhen.

If he had stayed in the past, he would have been in prison for three months.

And at this time in this life, he is still alive and well, and he still has the opportunity to be reappointed.

Although it is not like in history, he suddenly achieved the high position of the secretary of the military department, but it is also very good to be able to become the post minister of the military department.

After all, the post house of the post house, which is now to be managed by the post house of the world, is no longer what it used to be.

In the past, the post stations in the east, west, north and south of the Ming Dynasty, because of the lack of funding every year, the post guards fled without a trace, and the post stations and post houses could not make ends meet, and the post houses were even more to blame.

Moreover, the post road was in disrepair and was often interrupted, and the post system of the entire imperial court was close to collapse, and the reason why someone wrote a letter proposing to abolish the post station was for this reason.

But now it is different, Emperor Chongzhen restored the "Regulations on the Giving of Posts to the Post" formulated and promulgated during the Hongwu period of Taizu, re-implemented the system of not allowing posts for non-militaristic matters, and ordered the Ministry of War to re-establish the post delivery survey.

At the same time, he also sent two patrols such as Xu Guorong and Jiang Sirui to inspect the world's post government and rectify the world's post affairs.

Nowadays, the post guards and horses of the post stations in various places have been changed from requisitioning to hiring, and the officials, people, merchants, and travelers are not performing military affairs, and those who are not issued by the staff department of the Ministry of Military Affairs have used the manpower, material and animal power of the post station, and all paid silver according to the price.

Therefore, today's post stations are not only no longer a drudgery for everyone to escape, but have also become one of the fat gaps that everyone in many places compete for.

Of course, many of these things, such as the privileges of the noble and military ministers, such as the interception of business income by local post stations, greed for ink, etc., are not something that Emperor Chongzhen or the ministers of the court can completely control, or avoid.

Emperor Chongzhen took advantage of this opportunity to set up a post administration institute and clearly handed over the affairs of the imperial court post administration to the military department to manage, although it was said to greatly increase the power of the military department, but it was also a last resort.

For such an important matter, there is no full-time permanent institution for unified management for a long time in the Ming Dynasty, and it is really not a long-term solution.

Now the new Minister of War, Wang Qia, is still on the way to Beijing to meet His Majesty.

The two deputy envoys personally nominated by Emperor Chongzhen, that is, Xu Guorong and Jiang Sirui, who went out to Beijing to inspect and rectify the post administration of the world before, had already been ordered to meet the emperor in advance, and began to plan the establishment of post administration departments in the yamen of the governors in various places in the places assigned by the imperial court to the post administration court.