But where the war, there are always mountain bandits rampant, the Central Plains after decades of war and chaos, many places even gave birth to the "second generation of bandits", if not take advantage of the Ming army is in full swing, completely cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and so on its resurrection, then it will be a big trouble. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Therefore, Li Hongfei was eager to issue the "Suppression of Bandits Order", not only for those opponents who wanted to resist him, but also for the purpose of eliminating hidden dangers in the country and stabilizing the national situation at an early date.

Of course, Li Hongfei's move was also to help Li Dingguo complete the rectification of the army as soon as possible, and a large number of troops gathered together, it was easy to cause chaos, so he sent them to various prefectures and counties, and while suppressing bandits, he continued to help the yamen complete the land reform policy.

When the army has completed these two things, and the military reform of the Ministry of Defense has been completed, even if those feudal officials are unwilling, they can only grit their teeth and accept it...........

Located on the west side of the Forbidden City in Beijing, south of the Aoyu Bridge, there is a palace complex covering an area of about 1,500 acres.

The building complex is divided into Beihai, Zhonghai, South China Sea, also collectively known as "Taiye Pool", Beihai and Zhonghai are bounded by Jinao Yushu Bridge, Zhonghai and South China Sea are bounded by Centipede Bridge, it is a place for the imperial palace and banquet after the Ming Dynasty Chengzu set the capital of Beijing, when the Forbidden City was built from 1406 onwards, it was planned out for the royal palace and banquet.

At the same time, in another time and space in later generations, this place was called "Zhongnanhai", which is the symbol and synonym of the highest administrative power in the whole of China, and it is also a place that makes the world feel more mysterious.

After Li Hongfei became the center of power in the Ming Dynasty, with a stroke of his pen, he divided this area as the office of Zhongshu Province.

Most of Zhu Youjian's power was weakened, and the ministers did not need to go to the imperial palace every day without dawn, and this Nantai (later Yingtai) in Zhongnanhai became the new office of the Korean Chinese military officials.

Li Hongfei never dreamed that he could actually work in Zhongnanhai.

On this day, Li Hongfei was in the Qingyun Hall in Zhongnanhai, flipping through the recitals submitted by the officials below, when a noise suddenly came from outside the door, and then a figure rushed into the hall and quickly came towards Li Hongfei.

"Choke"

A sword shining with cold light came out of its sheath in response, and the person who came quickly rushed to about five meters away from Li Hongfei.

However, the owner of this sword could only rush to this distance, because at least ten breech-loading rifles were aimed at the person who came in an instant.

As long as the other party dares to take a step forward, he will definitely be shot to death.

After seeing the appearance of the person who came clearly, Li Hongfei waved his hand to signal the guards to put down the gun, and couldn't help but smile and said, "I said eldest sister!" What era is it now, you still play cold weapons! ”

However, Li Hongfei was just joking, if the other party really wanted to bring firearms, let alone break into Li Hongfei's five meters, it is estimated that he was caught by the guards without even entering the gate of this Qingyun Palace.

"Phew! Who's your big sister? My aunt and grandmother came to Qingjun's side! The person who came said bluntly.

But in the final analysis, the other party didn't really do it, after all, the guards around Li Hongfei didn't care about the relationship between the two.

At this moment, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and then Li Dingguo, Qi Zhifeng, and Guo Sheng entered the hall one after another.

"Hey General Qi, don't be impulsive!" Guo Sheng saw this tense scene, and hurriedly spoke up to mediate.

"Cousin, put down your weapon and offend the Prime Minister, you think my Qi family will not be able to bear the infamy of the ages!" Qi Zhifeng also hurriedly said.

"Bold Qi Hongying, forcibly break into Qingyun Palace, you are guilty!" Li Dingguo shouted angrily.

Well, this is pure nonsense.........

can be justified and rush into the hall with weapons to find trouble for Li Hongfei, except for Qi Hongying, there is no one else.

Due to the mistake in the first battle of Cangzhou, Qi Hongying was forced to step down from the post of deputy commander-in-chief, and although he continued to serve in the Ministry of Defense after returning to Nanjing, he could only sit on the cold bench.

When Li Hongfei launched the mutiny, he was worried that Qi Hongying would not agree, or something bad would happen, so he did not know the other party, and even on the matter of moving the capital, Li Hongfei repeatedly suggested that Qi Hongying should stay in Nanjing, so as to completely dispel Zhu Youzhen's vigilance.

After all, if Li Hongfei and Qi Hongying are "at odds", then the First and Second Group Armies stationed in the north will definitely restrain each other, making it more convenient for the Praetorian Guards to take over the defense of the Beijing Division.

So before the mutiny, Qi Hongying didn't know about Li Hongfei's plan at all.

Now that the mutiny has spread all over the country, Qi Hongying was also invited to serve in Beijing, so on the first day of arriving in Beijing, he ran to Li Hongfei angrily.

It seems that Li Hongfei really didn't guess wrong, if he had told Qi Hongying his plan, maybe something would have happened!

"Since you dare to start a mutiny, why don't you come to a yellow robe? Or do you only have Cao Cao's treachery, not Zhao Kuangyin's heroism? Qi Hongying knew that she couldn't deal with Li Hongfei, so she could only say something.

Qingjun's side is just an excuse, she came over this time, the key is to ask the other party for an explanation.

Chen Qiao's mutiny, with the addition of yellow robes, is a famous allusion to the military general's seizure of power.

Li Hongfei now controls more than half of the Ming army, and he took great pains to launch the Qingshan Mutiny (the address that controls Zhu Youzhen is in the waters of Qingshan Town on the border between Nanjing and Yangzhou), but he does not dare to ascend the throne as emperor, which makes Qi Hongying very contemptible.

She felt that Li Hongfei had a thief's heart but not a thief's courage, and made the current situation happen, but left a lot of hidden dangers, if the royal family problem is not completely solved, it will cause civil strife in the future, and it will be the common people who will suffer.

Although Cao Cao leaned towards the government and the opposition, he did not have the courage to be the emperor, so he provoked endless wars in the Three Kingdoms, and the people were struggling to make a living, so that after the Han Dynasty, it took five hundred years before the Tang Dynasty appeared.

And Zhao Kuangyin is different, he has enough courage to directly add a yellow robe, so that only fifty-three years after the Tang Dynasty was destroyed, the land of China was restored again.

It can be said that without Zhao Kuangyin's decisiveness, China, which fell into the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, could not stop the Khitan people (later the Liao State) at all.

Li Hongfei had two choices, but he chose the most dangerous one, once the Ming Dynasty was split, the Manchu Halal might make a comeback.

"Don't worry, I will learn Cao Cao's lesson, and Uncle Liu Huang will not appear! As for the Zhu family.......... It's just a name, it doesn't matter if you want it or not. Li Hongfei said.

Not to mention that today's imperial relatives have long been deprived of all military rights by Zhu Youzhen, even if they are given time to recruit troops and buy horses, with those straw bales that even the Manchu Qing Dynasty can't do, Li Hongfei is really not afraid.

What Li Hongfei has to do now is to establish a new system, and when the entire Ming people are accustomed to this system, who is willing to work hard for the imperial power?

Li Hongfei has great confidence in this, and throughout history, only those who have entered the feudal society from the slave society have never heard of the regression from the feudal society to the slave society.

The constitutional monarchy prevailed even in later generations, so this is not accidental.

"Okay, since you know it in your heart, I don't want to say anything, anyway, I'm here today, mainly to resign, not only me, my cousin Qi Zhifeng, including all the Qi family, collectively resign!" Qi Hongying said suddenly.

She had this plan before, no matter whether Li Hongfei chose the yellow robe or coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, Qi Hongying did not plan to let the Qi family participate in this matter, she did not want to discredit the ancestor General Qi Jiguang.

The reason why I have been talking to Li Hongfei for so long is that Qi Hongying still hopes that Li Hongfei can sit firmly in this position today.

A woman's mind is sometimes really hard to guess.

"Cousin, what are you doing here? When did I agree to resign? Qi Zhifeng was dissatisfied with Qi Hongying making decisions for him.

He risked the stench for 10,000 years and agreed to jointly launch a mutiny with Li Hongfei, naturally not just to be a good person, but now when it is time to pick fruits, he will give up if he says that he will give up, which is simply impossible.

"Cousin, do you know what those ordinary people say about our Qi family all the way north? My Qi family's army is an army that resists foreign humiliation, not some people's lackeys and minions! Qi Hongying said loudly.

It seems that Li Hongfei's series of big actions have indeed harmed the interests of many people, and those who hold a grudge know that it is useless to attack Li Hongfei (thick-skinned and not afraid of gossip), so they turned to attack the Qi family's army.

"Don't say it, if you want to resign, I will approve it now, but Qi Zhifeng, or even the rest of the generals of the Qi family, I will not approve any of them!" Li Hongfei said.

Qi Hongying is indeed not suitable for serving in the army, mainly because her military exploits are too strong, and her general position is unreasonable, and her position is too high, and it is easy to cause pressure on the male officers below, so it is a good choice to let the other party take the initiative to resign.

However, the generals of the Qi family, Li Hongfei said that he would not let go of anything, and the commander of the firearms unit is not so easy to cultivate, especially the officers of the Qi family, who were the first to change all firearms and participated in a large number of actual battles.

"You........ Li Hongfei, you're a bastard! Qi Hongying couldn't say anything, so she could only scold.

She was very aggrieved in her heart, why did she just agree to her resignation, could it be that she was the worst of all the Qi family's army?

Well, women are like this, for example, when lovers quarrel, the woman is very firm that she wants to break up, and then the man agrees without thinking about it, which makes the woman think crankily in her heart, thinking that the other party has long wanted to say this.

"Thank you for the compliment, and also, I have never regarded the Qi family army as a lackey or a minion, this world is not the world of his Zhu family, the army not only has to resist external humiliation, but also has to ask for the lives of the people in the world." Li Hongfei said cheekily.

The army is not involved in politics, which has always been advocated by Li Hongfei repeatedly, but in this coup d'état, Li Hongfei mobilized more than half of the army of the Ming Dynasty, and finally came to his mouth, but he was said to be a citizen asking for his life, and his face was indeed thick enough.

But this is also something that can't be helped, if Zhu Youzhen doesn't move his murderous intentions, Li Hongfei really doesn't want to make a fuss.

"Maybe you're right, I hope you can do what you say." After Qi Hongying finished speaking, she turned around and left.

"Prime Minister, my sister's temper is too impulsive, I hope your forgiveness, I will try my best to persuade you to resign, and ask your sister to give her a chance." Seeing Qi Hongying leaving, Qi Zhifeng on the side hurriedly stepped forward to plead.

"No need, she is not suitable to enter the court as an official, besides......... Do you want to watch your sister just stay single for the rest of her life? Li Hongfei said with a smile.

"Uh...... What do you mean? Qi Zhifeng was puzzled.

"Her official rank is too high, her aura is too powerful, who would dare to marry such a woman?" Li Hongfei explained.

Guo Sheng, who was on the side, heard this and deeply agreed with Li Hongfei's explanation.

Some people have a thief's heart but not a thief's guts, and some people purely regard Qi Hongying as a comrade-in-arms and buddy.

"Prime Minister, since the matter is settled, then the lower official will retire first."

Seeing Qi Hongying leaving, and the content of the chat became more and more gossipy, Li Dingguo couldn't stay any longer.

"How many times have I said that in informal occasions, everyone can just call him by his name, why is there so much attention?" Li Hongfei said unhappily.

The greater the power, the more cautious the people below become, this is what Li Hongfei does not want to see, if it is not for the fact that he has just taken over the government now, it is difficult to get out, he is eager to visit all parts of the capital and make a "pro-people" move.

"I know, I dream back to my brother, I'll leave first if there's nothing to do, the Ministry of Defense still has official business to deal with." Li Dingguo changed his tune quite quickly.

"Wait, since you're here, can you tell me about your reorganization of the army, so that I can have a plan in advance." Li Hongfei said.

The reorganization of the armed forces is nothing more than the refinement of the functions of the armed forces and the further drawing up of the number of various branches of the armed forces, so that the Ministry of Defense can apply to the National Assembly for military spending in the future.

According to Li Dingguo's preliminary plan, the standing army of the Ming National Defense Force is about 670,000, including about 300,000 soldiers (field army), about 250,000 defenders (armed police), and about 120,000 naval divisions.

There are no major wars in the Ming Dynasty, and it is completely sufficient to maintain 300,000 field troops.

A group army was stationed in the Gyeonggi Heavy Area, a group army was stationed at the Liaodong Border Pass, and another group army was stationed in the northwest region, just enough to defend the entire Daming Border Pass.

These 300,000 field troops will be equipped with the best weapons and equipment of the entire Ming Dynasty, and all officers are also outstanding cadets of the Nanjing Military Academy, so as to ensure that when the war breaks out, it can play the strongest combat power of the Ming Dynasty

The 250,000 defenders were distributed among the prefectures and counties across the country, with an average of less than 5,000 people per prefecture.

This distribution method allows the imperial court to smoothly cancel the number of more than half of the army, and at that time, those feudal officials who defend one side will not have more than one division in their hands.

This greatly strengthened the centralization of power.

In terms of armament, because the defenders belong to the second-line troops, except for some large and medium-sized cities, they can basically only use the equipment eliminated by the field army.

Such an army may not be as effective as a field army, but it is still more than enough to deal with local bandits.

In terms of the naval division, Li Dingguo completely adopted Li Hongfei's proposal and made it independent and divided it into the Beiyang Naval Division Fleet and the Nanyang Naval Division Fleet..........