Li Hongfei, who has always been "resourceful" in solving the army's internal problems, did not provide any useful advice this time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

To put it mildly, he is also one of the warlords who belong to Lashantou, and the Suzhou New Army has an even greater sense of identity with Li Hongfei than with Zhu Youzhen, and many soldiers of the First Group Army also call themselves "Li Jiajun" in private.

Although Li Hongfei has never admitted it, after all, this is towards his own power, and he is not a real saint, how can he not have a little selfishness.

Even if he can be dedicated to the country and selfless, he can't stand the provocation of people with intentions, if he presides over the reform of the military system, the issue of "Li Jiajun" will become Li Hongfei's biggest resistance, so this hot potato is still thrown to Zhu Youzhen to deal with.

Anyway, the one who controls the army the most actively is this Emperor Chongzhen.

Zhu Youzhen is also a ruthless person, he was not the first to move the former Dashun army general like Li Dingguo, but started from his own people, and reorganized the army of Mu Bin, the Duke of Qianguo, into the 13th Army (Mu Bin's army is only 20,000 people), the top general of the army (that is, Mu Bin, the Duke of Qianguo) The position remains unchanged, but the rest of the officers and generals must enter the Nanjing Military Academy to study, and only after passing the final military skills assessment can they go to the 13th Army to serve.

At the same time, the imperial court also issued an order to reduce a large number of old and weak members of the 13th Army, recruit young and strong recruits, and fill the shortage to 30,000.

Some soldiers were eliminated, but Mu Bin's establishment of 10,000 soldiers was supplemented, ostensibly to help Mu Bin expand the army, but in fact, he was gradually grasping the control of this army.

The evaluation system of the Nanjing Military Academy was formulated by Li Hongfei, and the assessment of middle and high-level officers is no less difficult than the scientific examination of martial arts; like those generals who have not received systematic military training, after the examination, they will basically be demoted to leading soldiers, and very few of them are promoted without exception.

In this way, Mu Bin's cronies want to return to the Thirteenth Army as senior generals, which is more suspenseful.

In addition, after the expansion of the army, the number of commanders must be seriously insufficient, and it became logical for Zhu Youzhen to mix his own people into it.

Another point to explain: The reason why the First to Fourth Group Armies are considered to be the armies under Zhu Youzhen's absolute control is because the senior generals among them are all directly appointed by him, Li Hongfei and others only have the right to recommend, not the right to appoint, and fierce generals like Guo Sheng, Zhang Chao, and Shi Dewei, as well as the commanders of several other group armies, have the opportunity to transfer them to the power under their own command through application.

If it weren't for Zhu Youzhen's consideration of the grim situation before, he transferred these commanders-in-chief to unfamiliar armies and could not effectively command them, and Guo Sheng and the others might have been transferred to other group armies.

However, this time the Western Expedition won, anyone with a discerning eye can see the future situation clearly, Li Hongfei wants to keep these people again, it is estimated that there is a lot of resistance, with his face, he can keep one of them, two are a bit hanging, and all three of them are retained, even if Zhu Youzhen is willing, Li Hongfei himself does not dare, it is too easy to attract people's handles.

With the issuance of Zhu Youzhen's order, the 13th Army in Yunnan was quickly formed, and this move "set an example for chickens and monkeys" really shocked all the surrendered troops.

Even the army of Mu Wangfu has been reorganized, do they dare to continue to hold on?

You must know that most of the current commanders of the army here rely on the surrender of the main generals, such generals have become smelly in the mouths of those civil ministers, and it is precisely because of their surrender that they have killed 200,000 Manchus in Haoge, and it is impossible to rebel against the Manchus.

In order to save their lives, they were cut off from retreating, and after all, these subordinates were not their direct troops in the first place.

I have been insisting on it before, not because I can't recognize the situation, but because these generals mistakenly think that the court is "unloading the mill and killing the donkey".

Now that even Mu Wangfu has changed the military system, it turns out that Zhu Youzhen's move is not aimed at them, so as long as there is a life, let alone reform, even if it is to hand over the army, it doesn't matter.

Jiangxi, Hunan and other places, including 30,000 Guanning iron cavalry, all accepted the reorganization, and the imperial court gave the opponent's sixth, seventh, and eighth group armies, with an establishment of 300,000 people, and promised to replenish the personnel-level weapons and equipment within two years, which finally relieved this group of surrendered troops.

As for the airborne commanders or senior generals in the future, after everyone understands the reform of the military system, they will no longer be so persistent, and Li Hongfei of the First Group Army will not have any privileges, so why are they better than the First Group Army?

After getting rid of most of the people, in the end Li Dingguo couldn't hold on, the remnants of the Dashun Army, after receiving the establishment of the 14th and 15th armies, and the 13th Army of Mu Bin in Yunnan formed the Fifth Group Army of the National Defense Army, with Mu Bin as the commander-in-chief.

Although Mu Bin is the nominal commander-in-chief of the Fifth Group Army, he will not actually interfere too much in military affairs, and people have a Mu Wangfu to take care of, at most they can control Li Dingguo in peacetime, and the real manager of the Fifth Group Army must be Li Dingguo, the deputy commander.

However, Li Dingguo doesn't care too much about this chief and deputy, some of his henchmen have been cleared out, and then a large group of generals directly appointed by the imperial court have been squeezed in, this army is actually surnamed Zhu, not surnamed Li, so the size of this official position is really nothing.

Nowadays, the chief generals of various armies, the biggest hope may be to enter the Ministry of Defense!

The Ministry of National Defense was reorganized from the former Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces, and the senior generals of the Ministry of National Defense were the final decision-makers in every battle of the Ming Army.

For example, Li Hongfei, Qi Hongying, Huang Degong, Zheng Chenggong, Shi Dewei.......... These people are the high-ranking generals subordinate to the Ministry of National Defense, and the commander-in-chief of the battlefield can only be these people in every big war.

Of course, the commanders of the various group armies are not without the right to go to war, but their greatest authority can only be to defend, keep the enemy out of the country, and have no power to take the initiative to provoke an attack.

But now that the Qing army is scared, no one will be fed and supported, and take the initiative to provoke the Ming army, this battle is ....... I can't fight it.

Now the size of the various group armies has been strangled to death, and the maximum number of people cannot exceed 100,000, plus the generals in the army, all of them have to go to the Nanjing Military Academy to be assessed, which is tantamount to giving the imperial court the opportunity to mix sand, and it is almost impossible to deduct military salaries and raise private soldiers.

The promotion opportunities of the generals under your command are all in the hands of the imperial court, and there is no need to be in the same stream with you.

For a commander like Li Dingguo, leading 100,000 people is the ultimate limit, and if he wants to go further, he can only join the Ministry of National Defense, parachute down from the Ministry of National Defense, and lead a group army, or several group armies, in combat missions.

Therefore, after Li Dingguo arranged the affairs of his subordinates, he soon went to Nanjing Military Academy to report, and relived the days of studying in the academy, even if he was an important minister of the imperial court and wanted to enter the Ministry of National Defense, he had to pass the Nanjing Military Academy.

"It's okay now, a group of generals don't lead troops to fight, but come to Nanjing to study, it's really ridiculous and generous, you must know that the Qing army in the north is still eyeing it!" Some Wenchen said sourly.

In the past, it was just a group of cattle herding babies who were studying, but now a group of big people have started to read, isn't this a cold reading person?

In the long run, where will there still be the status of a civil servant in this court?

How can there be the way of Confucius and Mencius, the words of the sage?

"It's all to blame for this Li Menghui, what kind of military reform, what kind of educational reform? Look at his reforms, what they have changed! The rules of the ancestors are almost finished being changed by him! Someone was indignant.

"That is, a craftsman who doesn't even understand the way of Confucius and Mencius and the words of the sage can become an official, isn't it a joke?"

"I think at the beginning, in order to be promoted in one day, which is not ten years of hard study, he Li Menghui didn't know a few big characters to be an official, and now he has abolished the eight shares, and made some miscellaneous disciplines, which is simply insulting! What we learned at the beginning is not the way to be an official, only by learning his ability to pick up dung as a general can he become an official! ”

When it came to the topic of "picking dung generals", all the Wenchen couldn't help frowning.

At the beginning, Li Hongfei ordered that those colleges with six-year education should open more labor classes, so that those students who study can experience the hard work of farming.

This move has attracted the opposition of countless literati, how can a scholar do such a rough job?

Even if he is a scholar from a poor family, he doesn't listen to things outside the window, and only reads the books of sages.

Not to mention that farming and working delayed studies, it was not of the slightest use to the imperial examination (the imperial examination was also there, but the Baguwen was abolished).

There are even scholars who refute Li Hongfei, which is against the norm and causes chaos to the dynasty!

If a scholar goes to farm, is it true that the peasants who farm the land will not be able to become officials in the court?

Not to mention, Li Hongfei really dared to do this, and it didn't take long for him to suggest that the imperial court set up an academy of agricultural sciences, hire those farmers with rich experience in farming as officials, and specially teach the students of the academy of agricultural sciences to farm, so angry that the ministers almost vomited blood.

Fortunately, the agriculture is in second place, which is the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and the famine in the north gave Zhu Youzhen enough vigilance, so he agreed with Li Hongfei's heavy agricultural thoughts, and after a period of noisy speeches, he did not dare to continue to refute, after all, the Qing army was pressing step by step, and if he continued to make trouble, Zhu Youzhen would kill a group of people to sacrifice the flag.

Although the scholars were not making noise, the nickname of "General Picking Dung" was a solid one for Li Hongfei.

No matter what Li Hongfei did before, in fact, it did not really affect the status of the Chinese courtiers of the DPRK, after all, those who have gone through six years of compulsory education still belong to the literati.

But now it's good, a group of military generals have also begun to study and study, and when these generals really finish their studies, in the future, in the court, their status as civil servants will not decline sharply?

In the past, the reason why Wenchen ridiculed the military generals was because the military generals did not have much culture, to put it mildly, Wenchen could not only govern the country in peace, but also lead troops to fight and pacify the world, but the military generals only knew how to charge into battle, let them be civil officials to manage the people under their rule, and they must not make the court into a miasma?

If in the past, it was unreasonable for Xiucai to meet soldiers, but it is difficult to say in the future, it is estimated that whether it is force or reason, it is not as good as these generals.........

"Hey! It's a pity that the Holy One was deceived by him and didn't listen to our persuasion at all! "Some ministers are heartbroken.

"Even if this official is inappropriate, we should go straight to the end!" In order to show their loyalty, some newly promoted civil officials were filled with righteous indignation.

However, as soon as he said this, he was treated like a fool.

Threatening to resign, this trick was tried by everyone as early as three years ago, and at the first time of the comprehensive reform, including a cabinet minister, five ministers of the second grade, and more than 60 people below the third grade, collectively submitted their resignations and demanded a resignation. Avoid Hongfei and give up national reforms.

As a result, Zhu Youzhen was furious, and he wanted to give an order on the spot, if it wasn't for Shi Kefa to stop him, more than half of these people present now would have returned to their hometowns.

For this reason, among their civil servants, once again a cabinet elder (the leading cabinet minister was dismissed).

Now that the reform has been effective, Zhu Youzhen's country is more stable, after the implementation of the new imperial examination system, there are more and more poor scholars who have entered the dynasty as officials, coupled with the limited area, many officials who have fled from the north are still idle at home, and there may still be a lack of officers, but Wenchen really doesn't care about a few of them.

It can be said that as long as these people dare to submit their resignations, Zhu Youzhen will definitely approve them on the spot, without even blinking an eye, seeing that they are about to enter the Central Plains north, and the fool will only make a bet on his career at this time!

"Since you can't fight this Li Menghui, why don't you find a way to win him over?" Someone else suggested.

Li Hongfei now belongs to the camp of military generals, they used to know that Li Hongfei had no special background, so they tried their best to suppress it, but they didn't have the slightest way to take others, and their biggest background was Zhu Youzhen, and until now they still have Zhu Youzhen's trust.

It turns out that suppressing this road will not work, it is better to try to win over, after all, the other party has the emperor's connections, and once it is drawn into the ranks of Wenchen, the benefits to them outweigh the disadvantages.

"That's right, Li Menghui was originally a concubine, according to the teachings of the Ming ancestors, he couldn't even lead the troops, and he could only arrange an idle post in the court." Someone instantly thought of a way to deal with Li Hongfei.

"This is a good idea, let's kick this horse master out of the army first, and then find a way to find him a position in the court, the saint will definitely seriously consider our opinions for the sake of balance." Some ministers agreed.

It stands to reason that not only can the horse master not lead the troops to fight, but he can't even have an important position in the court, but Li Hongfei is different, Zhu Youzhen personally ordered the general, if he goes directly to the end, then this matter is really difficult to do, at least Zhu Youzhen can't get by.

But they can first pull the conditions to the minimum, and then give Zhu Youzhen and Li Hongfei a step, and let them take advantage of the situation to play an important position in the court.

As long as Li Hongfei breaks away from the ranks of generals and falls into the category of their civil ministers, it will be a victory.