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The news of Shaanxi's abolition of the guard center spread at a rapid pace, and the sensation caused by this matter was far greater than the requirement for the royal family to enter the imperial court as officials.

The guard has existed for hundreds of years, although this regulation has long been out of line with the requirements of the development of the times, although the imperial court has been overwhelmed, although a large number of military households have fled, and even mutinied, but this system has persisted, and the imperial court does not dare to take any action easily, there are deep-seated reasons for this.

The army can never be chaotic, if it is chaotic, the dynasty is facing the danger of collapse, the Ming Dynasty lasted for so many years, full of holes, as early as the edge of the cliff, many things, may become the factor that the dynasty fell to the ground, at this time, no one dared to move the army, on the contrary, it was necessary to spend huge efforts to maintain the army as much as possible.

The guard system and the military household system have lasted for many years, producing a large number of officers, these officers belong to vested interests, and the officers of the Ming Dynasty belong to the hereditary system and the inheritance system, among the sons of the officers, there is one person who can inherit the military position, and the heir is called Sheren before the death of the officer. Under normal circumstances, if there are no special changes in the officer's family, they can become officials for generations, they do not need to pass the examination, and all sentient beings enjoy the preferential payment of Enke, but the military family can only serve as a soldier for generations, and there are very few who have military merits and have been promoted to officers.

The emergence of such a system is also the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, in order to commend those military generals who were born and died in order to establish the Ming Dynasty, thinking that their descendants can enjoy grace and be more loyal to the royal family, plus the Ming Dynasty to feed the army. Relying mainly on the military cantonment, officers and non-commissioned officers were fixed in one place. Therefore, it cannot be said that such a provision is ineffective.

However, any system needs to be tested by the development of time, and once it does not meet the needs of the times, it needs to be changed. It's a pity that the imperial power notice, there are major problems in this regard, the things set by the emperor and the ancestors, the descendants of the future generations have to make changes, it is not a small matter, plus the fate of the imperial rule, basically one generation is not as good as the next, thinking that in the process of the continuation of the dynasty, someone can surpass the founding emperor. There are almost no such cases.

The guard system and the military household system obviously did not meet the requirements, the military camp could not support the army, and the imperial court could not afford to pay so much military salary, which led to the mutiny of the sergeants, or the existence of the guard in name only.

What's worse is that so many years have passed. The officers of the guard were accustomed to greedy ink and drinking the blood of soldiers. They lie about the number of sergeants and get empty salaries, and they exploit them and accumulate personal wealth, and if anyone does not do this, they insist on developing the army. On the contrary, it has become a thorn in the side, and everyone must resist and suppress it.

Under such circumstances, the quality of the Ming Dynasty army can be imagined.

Since the Wanli period, the quality of the army has declined sharply. In addition to having an extraordinary ability to bully ordinary people, it is a joke to pull out the lu to fight.

In the period of the Apocalypse and Chongzhen, a lot of strange things appeared, the imperial court put the soldiers of the guard post and did not use it, spent extra silver, and recruited the sergeants to fight, which was also a helpless move of the imperial court, the sergeants of the guard post could not fight at all, even if they were pulled out, they would be sent to death on the battlefield, and even because of the rout incident, it would affect the morale of the large army.

With the passage of time, the development direction of the guards began to worry the imperial court, and some of the officers of the guards, after trying to collect money, began to control the guards of the guards, so that the army of the imperial court became an army serving individuals.

There are too many internal and external troubles in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen understands the disadvantages of the guard system and the military household system, but he has no ability to reform, he can only watch, if the soldiers of the guard post mutiny in various places, there is no need for the blow of Houjin and Liukou, and the Ming Dynasty immediately fell to the ground.

This time, Su Tiancheng proposed to dismantle the army of the guard post in Shaanxi, Zhu Youzhen couldn't ask for it, and he didn't dare to express his position before, but with the strong Jiangning battalion, Zhu Youzhen was relieved, at least in Shaanxi, even the sergeants of the guard post mutinied, and they were not the opponents of the Jiangning battalion, and the sergeants of the Shaanxi guard station, including the border troops in the border towns, were very famous for their weak combat effectiveness.

Su Tiancheng dared to eat crabs, thanks to his understanding of historical development, and it was precisely because of this understanding that Su Tiancheng was extra careful, he would not act rashly.

Soon, rumors appeared that the reason why the Shaanxi Guard Station was abolished was because Shaanxi was too poor, and it was very difficult to feed the Jiangning Battalion, let alone feed the sergeants of the Guard, in this case, the Shaanxi Governor and the Jiangning Battalion were all in command of Lord Su Tiancheng, and in desperation, he thought of dismantling the army of the Guard, so that the life of the Jiangning Battalion would be better.

Such rumors are noisy.

There is no knowledge of the Dao, such rumors are actually made up by Su Tiancheng himself.

He had to do this, rather than have a bad reputation, and not be able to provoke opposition or even mutiny from the soldiers of other local guards, the Jiangning battalion did not have the ability to control all the land of the Ming Dynasty.

In his heart, Su Tiancheng was resolute in his thoughts, and he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to completely change the military status quo in Shaanxi.

Almost all the guard posts had to be abolished, and military regions were set up according to the method that would be given a few hundred years later, and military regions of different sizes were set up according to the degree of criticality of their positions; military regions were completely decoupled from the localities and relied on the imperial court for their support, and the military districts were strictly controlled by the imperial court, and all sergeants were recruited and the military household system was abolished.

As for saying that the army needs to farm to support itself, in Su Tiancheng's view, this is simply a joke, and it is not a militia, what is the purpose of farming, the task of the army is to protect the family and defend the country, that is, to fight.

Although in the imperial court, Su Tiancheng suggested that the Jiangning camp be divided into five and guard five places respectively, but in fact, his idea was that the Jiangning camp should be divided into three, with a part of the border pass, a part of Xi'an Mansion, and a part of Hanzhong Mansion, so that it is enough to guard Shaanxi and protect the tranquility of Shaanxi.

Think about a few hundred years later, China is so large that it is facing threats from all sides, so it has set up seven military regions, and the army is placed in the most critical places.

This is reasonable, the army does not harass the localities, as much as possible to reduce the burden on the localities, for its own development is of great benefit, the army is stationed in the place, generally is a military restricted area, idle people are not allowed to approach, if such a place is set up too much, is not everywhere forbidden areas.

Of course, Su Tiancheng knew that the biggest problem in Shaanxi's abolition of the guard post was the officers.

The status of the officers of the Ming Dynasty is low, and the civil officials can not be compared, there is the idea of the imperial court emphasizing literature and light on military force, but it has a lot to do with the quality of the officers themselves, since the Apocalypse Chongzhen years, the command of every large-scale battle, are civilian officials as commanders, such as Xiong Tingbi, Yuan Chonghuan, Hong Chengchou and others, speaking of which are all scholars from the imperial examination, officers from purely military families, few can come out, people like Wu Sangui, typical wonderful.

The low quality of officers has also become a prominent problem, greedy for life and afraid of death, it is known that the Dao is crazy to accumulate wealth, and in history, the Ming Dynasty army and the Liukou and the Houjin Tartars clashed, and the officers fled everywhere.

Under the constraints of such a situation, Su Tiancheng wanted to change the situation of Daming, and he needed to open a knife on the guard.

Su Tiancheng also lamented his life, first of all, the gentry and rich households, and then the guard, it seems that everywhere is against the rich class, to be honest, Su Tiancheng is not an angry youth, let alone a person who hates the rich and haters officials, his efforts and changes are not to completely overthrow the rich, on the contrary, he knows very well that the Ming Dynasty must rely on these gentry and rich households to support, any society, there is a layer of vested interests, thinking that everyone in the world is the same, everyone is very happy, That's a beautiful myth.

In his previous life, he was originally a civil servant, and he discussed many institutional problems with his colleagues, including capitalist society, which is also an oligarchy, but the rich class, after occupying a large amount of social wealth, knows how to feed back to the society, knows how to meet people's life pursuits, and also pays attention to improving the social environment, and is strict with himself while controlling politics.

The turmoil and problems in society do not mean that there are too many rich people, but that the rich do not know how to give back to the society, do not know how to improve the living environment, and even have the problem of class solidification.

This is the crux of society that Su Tiancheng believes.

Su Tiancheng also made efforts in this regard, the propaganda of equality between people, in his opinion, is unrealistic, born in a rich family and children and poor children, it is impossible to be exactly the same, but the society must create a relatively fair competition opportunity for them.

With such an idea, Su Tiancheng does not hate the rich, but also allows the people around him to become rich, and also wants to establish his own network, his policy against the gentry and wealthy households is relatively benevolent, but when it involves a reason, or when it threatens his own interests, he will show his fangs.

As for a large number of officers in Shaanxi, including many thousands of households, hundreds of households, etc., these people who come out of the mother's womb are officers, Su Tiancheng will not be polite, the army must remain pure, the army is the pillar of the country, if the position of an officer is occupied by a mediocre and incompetent person, and the habits of the army are broken, it is self-digging. (To be continued......)