As expected, the final national vote on military reform was successfully passed with 304 votes in favor, 27 abstentions, and 30 votes against. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At the end of the meeting, a group of military generals left with their own thoughts, and from now on, except for the three main army groups and the two fleets of the Daming Naval Division, the military power in the hands of the remaining generals at or above the army level is not as good as that of a division commander under his command.

"Okay, in fact, there is nothing to complain about, before the thieves appeared, only the border generals in the Ming Dynasty held heavy troops, and now that the domestic war is over, it is understandable for the imperial court to withdraw its military power." One of the generals comforted himself.

Indeed, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the imperial court's ability to control the army was still very strong, but in recent decades, peasant uprisings have continued to break out in various places, and the main force of the imperial court cannot take care of it, so it can only decentralize the military power and let the state capitals recruit troops on their own, which leads to the skyrocketing strength of the total army in various places.

"The only accident now has to look at General Huang Degong in Jiangxi, he has a full 100,000 army in his hands, according to the rectification content of Fang Cai, only half of this 100,000 army can become defenders, scattered in the southern state capitals, and the remaining half will be disbanded on the spot, do you think General Huang Lao will give up?" Someone said.

Everyone will not believe what Li Hongfei said at the parliament, and everyone dares to gather troops, and they may not dare to directly oppose it.

It can be seen from this that Huang Degong's secrecy work is still in place.

"Not only General Huang, but I just took a look, and it seems that there are still a few army commanders who did not participate in the meeting, and none of the local generals who have not been awarded by the Ministry of National Defense have not come. I heard that a military conference is also being held in Jiangxi today, and even if I don't say what it is about, everyone should be clear. Another said

The so-called local generals are in fact local militia and guerrilla generals, and some of them are even recruited by bandits, whose positions and information have not yet been registered with the Ministry of National Defense, and it can be said that even the Ministry of Defense does not know how many troops these people have.

Of course, whether it is the former Dongchang or the current national security, there are relevant information records for these, but they are just ordinary staff officers of the Ministry of National Defense, and they are not qualified to check it.

"That's right, although the First Group Army can fight, but these generals are not vegetarians, even if they are pitted by the imperial court, but everyone can gather nearly 10,000 people more or less, as long as it drags on for three or five months, the generals who are on the sidelines will definitely respond, even if the imperial court is unwilling, it has to compromise, because the military reform is unilaterally announced by the imperial court, as long as he Li Dingguo dares to expand the army to participate in the civil war, it is equivalent to announcing that the military reform is invalid." Some generals analyzed.

In their opinion, the military strength of the imperial court after the reform of the military system can spare up to 100,000 soldiers to deal with the domestic situation while ensuring the stability of the border.

As long as the imperial court has to increase its troops after a long time, and the troops on the border cannot be moved in any case, then the number of national defense forces can only be increased again, and at that time, the military reform of the imperial court can only end without a problem.

"To be honest, if it weren't for the officers under him, they would basically all come out of the Nanjing Military Academy, and the labor and management would not have bothered to come here to listen to them carry out the so-called military reform!" A hot-tempered general directly said what was in his heart.

Until this time, another purpose of Li Hongfei's establishment of the Nanjing Military Academy was finally exposed.

"Brother Ji Tao, fortunately, you didn't go south, with only fifty people, you can go thousands of miles deep into the enemy territory and easily take off Zhu Yousong's head, do you think Jiangxi Huang Degong is so fanfare, will the imperial court really drag it out like this?"

Judging from the means used by the National Defense Forces to deal with Zhu Yousong, anyone who obstructs the reform of the military system will not end well.

At this time, Nanchang Mansion was indeed as the general said, and even the First Army had not even made a move, and it was successfully solved with the cooperation of Huang Degong and the special combat team.

When Huang Degong read out the "secret decree" of the saint and expressed his support for the reform of the military system on the spot, Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, was angry and his face turned green.

The most odious thing is that Huang Degong mobilized 100,000 troops, not to go north to King Qin, but to deter the soldiers and horses brought by the princes from all walks of life, and at the same time, he also arrested Liu Zeqing, Gao Jie and other leading generals for the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason.

Even Zhu Changshu himself had to go to Beijing with him and go to the Zongren Mansion to explain his problems.

Several unconvinced generals were ready to attack on the spot, wanting to lead their subordinates to kill out of Nanchang Mansion, but Yang Xiu took his special combat team members and threw a sack of human heads into the hall, and the scene quickly quieted down.

The heads of the leading generals under his command have moved, and even if they can rush out of the conference room at this time, it will be difficult to gather the army to rush out of Jiangxi in a short time.

As for Stilwell's First Army, which had not yet crossed the Yangtze River on the Yangzhou front, after learning that the Jiangxi issue had been satisfactorily resolved, Stilwell immediately ordered the entire army to be stationed on the spot to supervise the reform of the military system in the provinces south of the Yangtze River.

The forces of the northern units were already scattered, and there were no high-level generals to obstruct them (they were all invited to the capital for a meeting), and the reform of the military system proceeded very quickly.

The speed of the south is also not slow, the south has been carrying out reforms, there is a certain experience and foundation, plus Huang Degong's 100,000 troops took the lead in disarmament as an example, and there are 100,000 soldiers sitting in Yangzhou, and a number of small warlords can only cooperate with the military reform half-push and half-on-the-spot.

From the beginning of May to the end of May, the Ministry of National Defense reduced nearly 300,000 troops in one go, and those who could continue to stay in the troops were basically the elite of the National Defense Force.

Nearly one-third of the army was dismantled, and the combat effectiveness increased instead of decreasing, and it was only then that Li Dingguo truly understood the fundamental reason why Li Hongfei had always adhered to the reform of the military system.

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The expected civil strife in the Ming army did not break out, and there has been no news of Azig and Shunzhi's Manchu Eight Banners, and Zhu Yousong, who died in the Northeast, has also completely died down, so angry that Batur Huntaiji scolded the rice bucket.

After all, in this game, only the Mongols confronted the Han army, and they suffered a big loss.

Now there are no benefits, not to mention, but also offended the Ming court to death, seeing that the border blockade is getting more and more serious, and even the merchants of the Ming Dynasty have begun to spontaneously participate in the boycott, and now even the smuggling road has been completely cut off.

He didn't want to live a life where he could only eat meat for three meals a day, and he didn't even have food and tea, so he could only send an envoy to the Ming Dynasty to negotiate peace, hoping to restore diplomatic relations between the two countries.

In fact, such a blockade is not much good for the Ming Dynasty, without the beef and mutton provided by Mongolia, the people in the northern region are difficult to see meat for three meals a day, and in the long run, there will also be a serious imbalance in nutrition.

Don't ask why you don't eat pork, in the fourteenth year of Zhengde (1519), because the "pig" is the same as the Ming Dynasty emperor Zhu's surname, it was ordered to be banned.

Although the ban on pigs did not last long, and the pig industry was able to develop after Zhengde, but after this incident, the people maintained a cautious attitude towards pig raising, and the south was slightly better, after all, "the sky is high and the emperor is far away", and these residents of the north would rather raise chickens and ducks than pigs.

Coupled with the war in the north for many years, no one wants to raise pork, chickens and ducks, and without the meat provided by Mongolia, the people can really only eat vegetarian meals.

Fortunately, it is precisely because of the war that it is good for ordinary people to have a stutter for three meals a day, so they can barely persevere.

However, when the economy of the north recovers and the people become rich, the meat aspect still needs to be solved, so it is still necessary to restore this mutual market.

However, the country also has the dignity of the country, and now that the war has started, you can't just say that there is a truce, and that you can resume the mutual market.

If you want to stop the war, you can also restore the mutual market, then just like in the past, bow down to the Ming Dynasty, pay 10,000 cattle and sheep every year, and at the same time have to join the ranks of the mutual market, and sell at least 20,000 war horses to the Ming Dynasty every year.

All of the above conditions must be agreed, otherwise Li Hongfei would rather spend a lot of money to engage in aquaculture in the north than carry out the blockade to the end.

Two conditions, the first one is okay, after all, the Junggar Ministry has been paying tribute to the Ming Dynasty before, and later Huang Taiji unified the eastern part of Mongolia and cut off the connection between the Junggar Department and the Ming Dynasty, and the two sides broke off diplomatic relations.

Now that even the Manchu Eight Banners have been driven away, it is understandable that the two sides will return to their former subordination.

But war horses have always been the most important strategic materials for the northern peoples, and Batur Huntaiji himself thinks that war horses are not enough, so he is willing to sell them to the Ming Dynasty?

And the two countries have just been at war, and Batur Huntaiji also knows the strength of the Ming army, if it is allowed to have a huge cavalry force, then the entire Mobei will not become the pasture of the Ming Dynasty?

It's a pity that Batur Huntaiji has to agree if he doesn't agree, and the Ming court has made it clear that if the Junggar Department is unwilling to sell war horses, then the Ming Dynasty will find other Mongolian tribes, and even spend a lot of money to send people to the farther Western Regions, or Dashi to introduce war horses.

Fighting, can't beat others, can't even do restrictions, all Batur Huntaiji can do is compromise.

So far, the problem in the northwest region has been satisfactorily resolved.

The internal and external troubles have been resolved, and the reform of the law has been implemented in Daming for five years, and the provincial officials have accumulated a little experience, and the implementation has been quite smooth.

Today's Li Hongfei, except for reviewing some irrelevant documents every day, has nothing to do, he has been busy for five years, and when he is idle all of a sudden, Li Hongfei's heart is really a little empty.

"By the way, the weapons research institute in Beijing should be ready soon, and when it's okay, you can go there for a walk." Li Hongfei muttered to himself.

Although the war ended, Li Hongfei's demand for weapons research and development did not stop.

Firearms have appeared for hundreds of years, although the Ming Dynasty has never stopped the study of firearms, but behind closed doors has always been inferior, and even in recent decades, the Ming Dynasty can only rely on the introduction of Western firearms to upgrade and update firearms.

As everyone knows, if you introduce other people's things, people may not be able to learn from you, and people are "home delivery", and what they learn is the most advanced technology, and what is given to you is just second-hand goods that are about to be eliminated.

If you want to save this passive situation, you must take the initiative to go to other people's turf to "squat".

First, you can learn the latest technology of others, learn from each other's strengths, and enhance your comprehensive national strength.

Second, if you can maintain the mystery of Huaxia, you can only see what I want to show you.

Just like the "sun never sets" empire in another time and space, although it has been trading with China for hundreds of years, and when it sent envoys to meet Emperor Qianlong, it still looked humble, but after a few decades, it used giant ships and cannons to break the dream of the Chinese people.

At that time, the Chinese people, no matter how they couldn't figure it out, a small projectile land, had such a powerful strength.

As everyone knows, the colonies owned overseas by people in this small land have already circled the earth.

Therefore, it is far more advantageous to maintain a certain sense of mystery and hold enough hole cards than to be blindly arrogant and let people see through it at a glance.

Only by taking the initiative to expand its influence overseas and divert the world's attention overseas, then China will at least have a buffer room.

Finally, it is for the sake of profit.

Why did Western countries rise rapidly after the Age of Discovery?

The Industrial Revolution is one of them, but in the final analysis, it is not through colonial plunder, enough wealth has been accumulated, and without money, what do you use to develop domestic industry.

The world is so big, the number of colonies is also limited, one more country to grab, other countries will gain a lot less, not only can limit the economic development of Western European countries, but also promote the growth of the economic strength of the Ming Dynasty, such a good thing, how can Li Hongfei not participate?

And to do the above points, force is indispensable.

If even the overseas colonies can't compete for each other, then what qualifications do they have to claim to be the supreme kingdom of the Celestial Empire?

Therefore, even if the Ming Dynasty has no threat of war now, Li Hongfei has not given up the research of weapons and equipment.

He plans to raise the military level of the Ming Dynasty to a higher level again, the army must at least put on the production line of metal bullets and make heavy machine guns, the navy must also have ironclad ships, and the air force ......... At the very least, the hot air balloon had to have a bomb load capacity of more than 500 kilograms.

However, these things are just some of the next plans, and weapon research is not overnight, the main reason why Li Hongfei is unwilling to be idle is that he doesn't know how to face Qi Hongying.

At the beginning, Li Hongfei instructed the Ministry of National Defense to approve Qi Hongying's resignation, but people have made great achievements for the Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible to get to the end and let him be a civilian.

So how to arrange Qi Hongying's position has become a headache for Li Hongfei.

Originally, he wanted to give the other party a vacation and rest for a while, but Li Hongfei also took advantage of this time to straighten out the government team, and then see what suitable positions were available to the other party.

As a result, this holiday was a bit long, and it lasted for half a year.

And Li Hongfei was dizzy as soon as he was busy, and when he remembered that there was still Qi Hongying, the government team had already been set up, and the positions that should be appointed had been properly arranged, with Qi Hongying's qualifications, unless he went to a local province to be an important member, in the central government, even if he did not enter the cabinet, he was at least the chief official of various departments.

However, both the local dignitaries and the heads of the central ministries have only recently been appointed, and it is impossible to say that they will be dismissed.

When Qi Hongying learned that she was forgotten, she immediately quit and stayed at Li Hongfei's house without leaving, so she had to ask Li Hongfei to give an explanation, either allowing him to resign and return to his hometown, or quickly arrange his position.

In fact, Qi Hongying is not worried about a position, the key is that she is actually forgotten, and no one can stand this matter.

What's more, Qi Hongying's resignation was half to prove his innocence, and the other half actually didn't want Li Hongfei to be difficult.

As I said earlier, Qi Hongying has made great military exploits since she became the chief soldier, and with her qualifications, after Li Hongfei entered politics, it would not be Li Dingguo's turn to be the Minister of National Defense.

And a woman is the Minister of National Defense and is in charge of the world's army, what does this make the people think of the cabinet formed by Li Hongfei?

How can the Ministry of Defense implement the reform of the military system so smoothly?

So Qi Hongying had to ask Li Hongfei for an explanation no matter what.

Especially in the past few days, Qi Hongying simply lived in Li Hongfei's house in the name of visiting her sister (Chen Yuanyuan).

A few days ago, Li Hongfei was busy settling the dispute between disarmament and the northwest border, and he was basically busy until late every day, and it was basically difficult to meet Qi Hongying, and Qi Hongying was also very knowledgeable and did not mess around.

Now that he has finally relaxed, Li Hongfei has to think about how to face this female man............