readx; Only two days later, Bi Ziyan received a "big gift": Xie Sheng and Hao Yongzhong, who temporarily took the three major battalions of the Beijing Division, personally escorted 500,000 taels of silver into the city and deposited them directly in Daming Bank. At the same time www.biquge.info a list of depositors is included, which saves the bank a lot of trouble.

In the past, no matter where the officers and soldiers were, they only 'spent' the salaries of the imperial court, and they never returned the money; in particular, the three major battalions were a bottomless 'hole' that was filled with dissatisfaction. This time, he deposited 500,000 taels at once, although it was a deposit, he would have to repay the principal and interest sooner or later, which still made the household department overjoyed.

In fact, how did they know that the three battalions were a difficult bone to gnaw. In order to rectify this "elite" officer and army guarding Gyeonggi, Zhu Youzhen took great pains.

As the saying goes, "one soldier will be a nest of bears", and Zhu Youzhen's first adjustment was the commanders of the three battalions. When the eunuchs rebelled against the 'rebellion', the three major battalions were directly involved under the leadership of the eunuch Wang Chaofeng, so after Zhu Youzhen took control of the situation, the first thing he did was to order Xie Sheng, Li Dingguo, and Hao Yongzhong to lead a battalion each, and temporarily "lay off" all the generals of more than 1,000 households in each battalion, and temporarily replace them with the backbone of the Qin soldiers, so as to firmly control this huge army.

At the same time as examining and approving the "eunuch rebellion case," the screening of generals in the army was also carried out at the same time. Many of the senior generals at the level of general soldiers, deputy general soldiers, and staff generals were attached to Wei Zhongxian by the party, and some of them were even 'inserted' by Wei Zhongxian. There is a saying that "the skin does not exist and the 'hair' will be attached", Wei Zhongxian is finished, of course these people do not end well, the criminal department convicts them according to the law, and the pass of killing is very cleared of several big moths in the army.

The remaining middle and low-level generals such as guerrillas, garrisons, thousands of households, and hundreds of households, Zhu Youzhen did not delve into them further. On the one hand, because their official positions are low, and they are soft-spoken, even if they participate in the rebellion, they are still acting on orders, and the so-called "the first evil must be dealt with, and the coercion is never asked", there is no need to implicate too widely; On the other hand, there are a large number of these officers, and if all of them are punished, the officers and men of the three major battalions will be in danger and will not be conducive to carrying out rectification. As a result of the review, these officers were punished by demotion, and according to the "Da Ming Law", it is completely justified to sentence a decisive decision, so everyone is grateful for the emperor's grace.

The next step is to thoroughly investigate the problem of "vacancies". The widespread phenomenon of "eating empty salaries" in the army not only embezzled a large amount of the imperial court's salaries, but more importantly, the imperial court did not even know how many troops it had, and it did not know either itself nor the enemy, so how could it not be defeated again and again.

In the past, the imperial court was not unaware of the existence of "empty salary", but first of all, the eunuchs in charge of the army were the biggest beneficiaries of empty salary, and the main generals below could also share a lot of benefits; They took out another part of the silver taels and bribed Wei Zhongxian and his henchmen. After the top and bottom have been checked, no one will investigate it deeply, anyway, it is the anger of the country. Occasionally, one or two direct ministers wanted to investigate, and they used the army mutiny to scare the court, and they have been tried repeatedly.

However, this time, under the leadership of the three generals and the eyes of tens of thousands of Qin soldiers, it took less than half a month for the vacancies of the three battalions to be clearly investigated. The new emperor's thunderous means of eradicating the eunuchs, as well as the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Qin soldiers to quell the rebellion, gave the officers and soldiers of the three battalions a great deterrent; Originally, the emperor did not punish them, which made them feel glad, who would dare to mutiny at this juncture?

The results of the inventory are also shocking. Originally, each of the three battalions had jurisdiction over 72 guards, each guard had jurisdiction over 1,000 households, and each 1,000 households had jurisdiction over 100 households, and each 100 households had a capacity of 112 people, and the total number of the three battalions should have been more than 240,000. However, according to the results of the actual inventory, most of the 100 households had less than half of the quota, and some of the 100 households were even empty shells, without even a single soldier. At full capacity, the actual strength of the three battalions was less than 100,000.

Even these 100,000 people, most of them are indiscriminate. The three battalions, like other officers and soldiers, also implement the military household system, and the soldiers are passed down from father to son. Since the "Tumubao Incident" and the defense of the Beijing Division led by Yu Qian, there has basically been no fighting, and there is no decent training, and the combat effectiveness is extremely relaxed.

The 3,000 battalion and the Shenji battalion are slightly better, because the 3,000 battalion is cavalry, and it has a slight advantage against infantry; The Shenji Battalion is mainly based on firearms, and it can still be used when defending the city. However, the five military camps with the largest number of troops were outright "five scum of war", otherwise the Qin soldiers would not have broken through the fortified city of Beijing so easily in the battle of counterinsurgency.

It is clear that the three battalions need to be reorganized. However, Zhu Youzhen thought twice about it, but still did not adopt the 'fine' reduction policy of directly turning military households into civilian households, as in Jizhen and Shanhaiguan. There are two reasons, one is that the number of officers and soldiers of the three battalions and companies with their families is too large, there are hundreds of thousands, and the scale is far greater than that of Jizhen and Shanhaiguan. Many of these family members live in the city of Beijing, and their relationships are intertwined, and the direct 'refinement' of the shock reduction is too great, and it is also easy to be opposed by the ministers in Beijing.

Second, in any case, these people have a stronger foundation than ordinary people. The Beijing division is the most important link in the overall anti-Jin situation constructed by Zhu Youzhen, and a large number of troops are needed to garrison, and the 100,000 people of the three battalions are not enough. Rather than disarming and then expanding the armed forces, it is better to make full use of the existing officers and troops.

Of course, with the existing quality of these people, it is definitely not possible to go into battle directly, and if it is not done well, it will have side effects. Therefore, under the instruction of Zhu Youzhen, the three generals still organized a big competition in the army, and the generals were selected from the nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers, and 30,000 soldiers with some combat effectiveness were barely selected. Then the 15,000 Qin cavalry and the 10,000 Qin infantry and artillery that arrived one after another were merged into the three battalions.

As a result, the original structure of the Qin soldiers was 'disrupted'. Of course, Zhu Youzhen wanted to reorganize all the three major battalions in accordance with the modern establishment method. But the three battalions are different from the Qin soldiers, and now they are not the vassal kings of the Emperor Yuan, but the supreme ruler of the Ming Empire. If the three battalions are reorganized, it will be tantamount to a major reform of the military system of the entire empire, and there will definitely be many resistances, and now is not a good time.

After the reorganization, the three battalions of the Beijing Division had a total of 55,000 officers and troops. Among them, there are 25,000 cavalry in the 3,000 battalions, 10,000 in the Shenji battalion, and 20,000 in the five military battalions. Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng were ordered to pacify the southwest, and the 10,000 'elite' cavalry selected were from the 3,000 battalions.

Although the remaining 60,000 officers and soldiers are still in the military, their quality is too poor to be trained for a while. Of course, Zhu Youzhen will not let them eat rice idlely, his policy is to "disarm and not return to the field"!

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